I attended a Biting Workshop at Health Department last night, and it was beyond fabulous!!!!!!
In a nutshell, what they've found is that kids who bite are having trouble with sensory integration.
To help with that, they have discovered that if they pass out toothbrushes and have the children brush their teeth after breakfast, snacks, and lunch, they can reduce the biting by 85%!!!!! And for the children who are in that other 15%, if they are encouraged to brush every hour, they have a 98% success rate!!!!!
I talked to The Wild Child's teacher after my seminar (she was on her way into the provider version of the class) and this is definitely something we can try in her classroom. From what I understand, WC is not the only biter in the room.
Other suggestions from the seminar are to discontinue spill-proof cups and give more crunchy food to encourage the use of the back teeth. Basically, children who bite will benefit further development of their oral skills.
I am sure I said some of this wrong, cause I'm just an accountant, you know, and not a child development professional.
But I am so excited to have something to try and also to have confirmation that it's nothing that we've done (or haven't done) that is causing WC to have this behavior. Yay for me being a good mom after all!!!!!
I never doubted you were a good mom!! I'll cross some more fingers that this works!
Great! It seems like you got some answers! I would have never thought of brushing teeth to reduce biting!! By 85%! That's crazy! Good Luck!
Wow! This is really interesting! Finn's biting has calmed down a lot but I will definitely file this tip away for future use.
good for you for finding the right resource and fingers crossed for you that it works!
Sash, that is awesome! It totally makes sense to me. Bring on the cheetos and the toothbrush!
We ALL knew you were an AWESOME mom! Thanks for sharing your great info!


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Spooling Efficiency
By NovarcMarch 18, 2022Media
By: Noelle Stapinsky
Published by Shop Metalworking Technology, Feb 2022
Red Deer, Alta-based RoboFab, an automated manufacturing division of ONSITE3D, specializes in technology services for the oil and gas industry and pharmaceutical and industrial plant applications where process piping is required. Over the years, the company has invested heavily in its manufacturing process and downstream services. But when Wade Eno, CEO of RoboFab, started looking into how the company could improve quality control with welding consistency and provide the most transparent value to clients – two very critical aspects when fabricating high-pressure process piping – he began researching welding automation technologies for pipe spooling welding operations.
He was searching for a technology that would align with the workflow his company has developed in the engineering, procurement and construction industry. "If I hire 10 welders, I'll get 10 different welds different levels of quality," says Eno. "It's more about the consistency of the welds that I'm interested in. I've been studying robotics for quite a while and when I was looking for ways to streamline our pipe spool fabrication, that's when I found Novarc Technologies."
Novarc checked all of the boxes and it is a Canadian company, which meant that support would be readily available, an aspect that Eno finds to be critical when adopting and implementing new technology.
"We now have two Novarc Spool Welding Robot (SWR) machines. They offer a controlled environment with an automated process, consistency, efficiency, and ultimately lower costs once the machines are paid off," says Eno. Read more…

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Favela On Blast (Mad Decent)
Diplo's documentary, Favela On Blast (Mad Decent) reviewed for Venus Zine:
Favela On Blast
Documentary Review: Favela on Blast (Mad Decent)
Diplo's story of the music and culture thriving in Brazilian slums
By Lily Moayeri
Published: August 10th, 2010 | 3:10pm
This 75-minute, wholly subtitled documentary has been five years in the making focuses on the music, culture, and personalities in the slums outside of Rio de Janeiro, locally known as favelas. Inspired by a DJ gig that extended to a vacation in Brazil, DJ Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz) has put himself at great personal risk to see this film to fruition, involving local co-director and co-producer Leandro HBL and enlisting the help of revolving insiders.
"People that helped me before, some of them went missing. Drug dealers that were letting us into the parties are dead now," said Diplo during one of our early conversations about the project. "Every time I [went] to Brazil, I [had] to start all over again because the culture is like Children of the Corn."
Inside these destitute, dangerous, and drug-ridden shantytowns there is a vibrant and thriving music scene known as funk carioca. The result of infusing American electronic funk into a myriad of Brazilian music styles, funk carioca—referred to simply as "funk"—is identified by its "huge drum." If the name isn't familiar, the sound certainly is. The bass heavy, ghetto bottom-shaking rhythms are what drives M.I.A.'s music, not to mention Buraka Som Sistema, and any number of tracks that are storming dancefloors worldwide.
The camera and microphone are turned on the "stars" of this thriving scene. Part vacation camcorder, part rave YouTube clip, part City Of God (which took place in this locale 20 years earlier), Favela has an intimate connection with its subjects. In some cases it is like they aren't aware of being filmed—a much closer and more genuine representation. In other cases, they are hamming it up—slightly tedious and tiring.
There is a disconnection to the film's narrative as it moves between various (and almost too many) musicians without one voice pulling it all together. Among the personalities/narrators are DJ Marlboro, MC Colibri, DJ Grandmaster Rafael, DJ Sany Pitbull, and Dieze Tigrona—the last being one of many female MCs populating the favelas. To quote a classic from a group of these ladies, "We don't want husbands. We want several idiots to back us."
This message is representative of the straightforwardness of funk carioca lyrics. Overtly sexual—as are the borderline offensive dance moves witnessed on Favela—there is a lot of skin on display. This scenery, much like that of the whole film, is a combination of picturesque and impoverished: broken down one-story shacks are set against majestic green mountains.
Favela immerses the viewer into the surroundings that define the characters that define the music. From scenes that show the setting up of a wall of bass-shattering speakers in the ghetto, to witnessing live electronic music being produced instantly at a packed event, to video makers who took five months to make one clip, to numerous half-naked children including ones in the Formiga community who rap/sing to handclaps—one definitely gets a taste for the favelas and all they encompass, even if at times the point is overly stated with repetitive party scenes.
"I [wanted] to make something that's authentic and shows what's going on with these kids," said Diplo. "The real roots of the movement."
This entry was posted on August 10, 2010 by Lily Moayeri in Reviews and tagged dj diplo, documentary, favela on blast, film reviews, lily moayeri, mad decent, reviews, venus zine.
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Perceptions may well change when the global illusions of solvency and "growth" collapse in a heap.
The list of pundits jostling for air time to add their two cents to discussions of hot-button issues such as immigration is endless. The airwaves and social media are overflowing with people wanting to comment on hot-button social issues, but when it comes to the the one truly critical dynamic that will shape the future--everyone's strangely silent.
The reason nobody dares address this problem is that it has no solution within the current mode of production, i.e. the status quo. The problem is an oversupply of labor.
One of the key takeaways from historian Peter Turchin's new book Ages of Discord is that real wages stagnate or decline in periods of labor oversupply and rise in periods of labor shortages.
This is common sense: the price/value of everything is ultimately set by the dynamics of supply and demand: the price/value of anything that is overly abundant drops. Or put another way: if demand is outstripped by supply, prices decline as long as there is surplus supply.
If supply continues to exceed demand by a wide margin, price can drop to near-zero. Consider the cost of telephony bandwidth. With the advent of fiber optics, the quantity of bandwidth available globally for telephony far exceeded demand, and the cost of bandwidth fell to pennies.
What generates an oversupply of labor? David Hackett Fischer discussed the core demographic dynamic in The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History: as labor productivity/land under production increases, food supplies increase. This increase supports a higher birth rate /population, and eventually the population of workers swells to the point that the supply of labor exceeds the demand for labor by employers.
Once the available productive land is under cultivation, the surplus population is pushed onto marginal lands that cannot reliably sustain high yields. The net results are famines and food shortages as crop failures on marginal lands are inevitable.
With labor in permanent surplus, wages stagnate or decline, and the result is a generalized immiseration of the laboring class that eventually leads to instability/upheaval.
In the current era, Turchin identifies three sources of surplus labor: the increase in population from birth rates above replacement levels; immigration and the mass movement of women into the work force after 1970.
Each of these demographic sources added tens of millions of laborers to the work force.
If we set aside the many emotions generated by immigration and just consider statistics, we find that the U.S. added almost 14 million new immigrants in the decade 2000-2010. A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010.
In periods of strong job growth, demand from employers is high enough to absorb the added supply of labor from native population growth and immigration. In periods of stagnant job growth, immigration adds to the oversupply of native labor from population expansion.
Common sense suggests high immigration becomes an economic issue when job growth no longer absorbs net native population expansion and the influx of immigrants.
The fourth dynamic generating labor supply/demand imbalances is automation.Though automation has been a dynamic force reducing the demand for human labor for hundreds of years, the pace has increased as software and robotics are now increasingly replacing higher-skill workers.
The widespread quasi-religious faith that technology "always creates more jobs than it destroys" is misplaced. As I explain in my books Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform and A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology & Creating Jobs for All, this was true in the first three industrial revolutions but not in the current Fourth Industrial Revolution.
As software eats the world, it eats higher-level skills that were once immune to automation. This means that the strategy that worked for 200 years--moving up the skill-value chain to tasks that could not be profitably automated--no longer works.
Few conventional economists/pundits understand this, or are willing to confess that the problem of permanent labor surplus cannot be solved by status quo policy tweaks. As I explain in my book, guaranteed minimum income is no solution--humans need the purpose, meaning and goals provided by meaningful work.
This why my book is subtitled The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful.
If you still doubt labor is in permanent oversupply, please glance at these charts of the labor participation rate and the civilian employment/population ratio.
Over 90 million adults (out of a total population of 317 million) are counted as "not in the labor force," i.e. not working or seeking work due to disability, being in school, domestic duties, early retirement, etc.
The percentage of the population working or seeking work has fallen significantly.
There is a basic structural problem with supporting 100+ million non-employed adults. The economy has to be productive and profitable enough to support this vast populace without relying on debt, which is as we all know borrowing from future workers and taxpayers to fund consumption today.
Given the vast expansion of public and private debt since 2008, it's clear that we are not supporting the populace out of cash flow, so to speak; we're borrowing trillions of dollars from future workers/ taxpayers to generate the temporary illusion of solvency.
We need a new mode of production to generate meaningful work for all, and I've done my best to lay out a systemic solution. Right now this solution seems "crazy" to the conventional mindset, but perceptions may well change when the global illusions of solvency and "growth" collapse in a heap.
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David Blanchette - Governor Pat Quinn Project
In March, 2013 David Blanchette, who had worked at the IL Historic Preservation Agency for nearly fourteen years, joined the Governor Pat Quinn administration as an assistant press secretary. He was brought on board to maximize the positive publicity the governor received in the lead-up to Quinn's run for reelection in 2014. David proved to be very successful in promoting the governor's 'Illinois Jobs Now' program, where he targeted the initiative's successes in local communities, but it was not enough to defeat Quinn's opponent, wealthy businessman Bruce Rauner, in what proved to be a strong Republican year.
Wing Tips Coming Down The Hallway
Interview Session 01 (Audio)
Joining Gov. Pat Quinn's press team and early experiences on his staff
More on Gov. Quinn and the 2014 election against Bruce Rauner
Media chase. The Chicago Tribune's Ray Long pushed his way past Dave Blanchette and the security detail intent on asking Governor Quinn a question immediately after his final budget message in early 2014.
Dave Blanchette, on Governor Quinn's left, was on hand during a news conference during the dedication of the Ray LaHood Highway in Peoria in July, 2014.
Pat Quinn holds a staff meeting over dinner during one of his 'infamous' late night meetings at the Governor's Mansion. Dave is in the middle, the Governor on the left and Chief of Staff Ryan Croke is on the right. A game was often on during meetings.
Governor's Mansion
Dave holds a model of the state plane (a King Air) while shaking Gov. Quinn's hand at a staff going away party at the mansion in January, 2015. Blanchette had criss-crossed the state with Governor Quinn during his time as assistant press secretary.
The final photo of Governor Quinn's press team. Left to right: Nick Desideri; Katie Hickey; Grant Klinzman; Press Secretary Brooke Anderson; Governor Quinn; Springfield spokesman David Blanchette; Billy Morgan; Jeff Tolman; and Kyle Ann Sebastian.


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Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice
Details inside and out of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. Information provided largely from "The Basilica of St. Mark in Venice," by Ettore Vio.
Palazzo San Marco in Venice, Italy.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana on Piazza San Marco.
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Outside detail of St. Mark with his Gospel on the west facade, top of the central pediment. The work of Niccolo di Pietro Lamberti (c. 1420).
Below the saint's feet is a gilded stone lion, set against a blue mosaic background with gold stars.
Outside sculpture detail above the Resurrection and Ascension mosaics, west facade, upper level.
Outside detail of St. Mark's Basilica, west facade in Venice.
West facade of St. Mark's Basilica with the vaulted mosaic Placing the Saint's Body in the Basilica 13th century.
Placing the Saint's Body in the Basilica mosaic, west facade, Door of St. Alyplus detail, 13th century.
Upper detail of the lead domes and four horses on the Placing of the Saints Body in the Basilica mosaic.
Left side detail of the Placing the Saint's Body in the Basilica mosaic.
Outside detail of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy.
Outside detail of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Last Judgement mosaic done by Liborio Salndri to cartoons by Lattanzio Querena (1836-38) in the bowl-shaped vault of the central portal, lower level.
I am intrigued by the central figurine at the bottom of a women sitting crossed leg and holding two personifications in her hands.
Detail of the Last Judgment mosaic in the bowl-shaped vault of the central portal, lower level, by mosaicst Liborio Salandri, to cartoons by Lattanzio Querena, (1836-38).
Left side detail of the Last Judgement moasic.
Right side detail of the Last Judgement mosaic.
Retrieva of St. Mark's Body from Alexandria mosaic, west facade, lower level, first lunette and vault on the right, 17th century. Designed by Pietro Veccha (c. 1660).
Note figure holding his nose. The saint's body was placed in a basket under pork meat to escape detection by Muslim sentries.
Sculpture and drain gutters on St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Detail of Arrival in Venice, Scenes of the Retrieval of St. Mark's Body mosaic, west facade, lower level, second lunette and vault from the right, 17th centure. Design by Pietro Vecchia (c. 1660).
Left side detail of Arrival in Venice mosaic.
Mosaic detail adorning St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Inside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Inside St. Mark's Basilica.
Ceiling inside St. Mark's Basilica.


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Dogs In Bali Need Help
"We cannot have peace among men whose hearts
delight in killing any living creature. By every act that
glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in
killing we set back the progress of humanity."
-- Rachel Carson
by Margaret West
WSPA Oceania
I've recently returned from Bali, where every dog is in terrible danger. In fact, their lives are in our hands.
Rabies has spread across the entire island of Bali. And with no experience in controlling this deadly disease, the Balinese government felt that they had no other option than to begin a mass cull of all dogs. They sent teams, armed with strychnine-poisoned darts, to villages and towns to cull any unconfined dog.
Thousands are already dead. Many were just innocent puppies. And all died in great pain and fear.Let me tell you rabies is a terrible way for a dog to die, but being killed by strychnine poison is horrific. Thankfully, after months of negotiation WSPA, and our partners the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA), have been given the Balinese Government's approval to stop mass culling and run an island-wide emergency vaccination program instead.
A mass vaccination is not only feasible, but is the only effective way to respond to a rabies outbreak. The Balinese government don't currently have the resources or budget to run the vaccination program themselves, so WSPA and BAWA must work together to reach dogs before the rabies spreads even further and the government resort to culling again - this is why we need your help.
We have been given just six months to vaccinate over 70% of 460,000 of Bali's dogs against rabies, or the culling could begin again.To run this vital program - and save these dogs lives - we need extra resources right now. I urgently need your help with a donation today:
$30 could provide 18 dogs with a chance of survival against the culling teams.
$60 could save the lives of 38 dogs, by providing a rabies vaccination.
$125 could help ensure that 78 dogs are safe from being inhumanely culled.
$500 could help save the lives of over 314 dogs from rabies and mass culling
Fast action is not only vital for Bali's dogs. The eyes of the world are watching Bali's treatment of this outbreak - and this is our best chance to show world governments there is a cruelty-free alternative to culling.
Once the nation-wide vaccination program has been conducted, WSPA and BAWA will work with government teams, training them to stop rabies outbreaks from happening again. Plus, we'll continue to focus on humane dog population management in Bali, in partnership with local communities and other organizations.
There's more at stake than the lives of the 460,000 dogs in Bali. All round the world, as many as 200 million dogs live in countries using inhumane mass culls to try and control dog populations. Right now, we have a chance to make a difference for these dogs too.
Your donation today could help ensure that we can deliver this life-saving program to save dogs and other animals from a cruel and needless death.If you love animals like we do, and can't sit by while dogs die alone and in pain, then please make an urgent donation today to save Bali's dogs, and other animals around the world.
Margaret West
P.S. Please give today to help stop dogs being painfully poisoned to death. The lives of Bali's 460,000 dogs - and other animals around the world - are in our hands.


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Humanities Research Fellow Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA St. Olaf College; MA Indiana University; MA University of Chicago; PhD University of Chicago
nam10023@nyu.edu
Research Areas: Medieval Arabic Poetry
Nathaniel Miller is from Rhode Island and has a BA (St. Olaf, 2002) and an MA (Indiana, 2005) in English literature, with a focus on British Romanticism. He lived in Cairo and Alexandria from 2007 to 2010, studying Arabic from 2009 to 2010 as a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the American University in Cairo. He returned to the US where he completed his PhD in Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Chicago (2016). He was a visiting University Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Cambridge until 2020. His first book project, To See Canopus: Early Islamic Group Identities and the Genesis of Early Arabic Poetry (550-661) examines early Arabic poetry as an artefact of social history, analysing imagery of material culture and migration in order to better understand the construction of early Muslim tribal and other group identities. Drawing on a recent scholarly understanding of the heterogeneity of early Arabian cultures, he argues on the poetic evidence that both rural and urban Hijazi group identities in the region where Islam emerged differed starkly from other areas of the Arabian peninsula.
His second project, "The Poetics of Sunnism," forms the basis for his current research at NYUAD. This project focuses on the 10-manuscript-volume poetry anthology of ʿImād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (d. 1201), entitled Pearl of the Palace and Annal of the Age. ʿImād al-Dīn was the principal secretary of Saladin, the hero of the counter-Crusade who in 1187 retook Jerusalem, which had been in primarily French hands since 1099, back from the Christians. The Pearl of the Palace, a compendium of thousands of Arabophone poets from Spain to Iran, on the one hand documents the "soft power" side of the counter-Crusade, and includes praise of Saladin and his family and their military exploits. On the other, it records the quasi-indifference of Muslims to the Christian presence in the holy land, documenting ongoing internal developments in traditions of wine, love, and even obscene verse. By departing from previous assessments of the period as "post-classical" and decadent, or which mined ʿImād al-Dīn's work exclusively for Crusades-related historical nuggets, "The Poetics of Sunnism" will include several case studies and a monograph arguing that The Pearl of the Palace represents the increasing incorporation of "secular" literature (adab) in the comportment of Sunni scholarly elites.