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Report Questions Insurer Readiness, Attitudes on Climate Change
By Don Jergler | March 7, 2013
A report out Thursday that details responses to a climate change survey from insurers doing business in California, Washington and New York shows many insurers are prepared to deal with today's extreme weather events, but not longer-term "baseline changes" driven by climate change that may lead to more potent catastrophes like Superstorm Sandy.
The report draws on responses required on surveys issued to insurers with more than $300 million in direct written premiums doing business in the three states to disclose their climate risks. Those responses were submitted in May, 2012.
A large insurance association took exception with the findings in the report, saying the industry has made great efforts to deal with extreme weather events by calling for smater building, stronger zoning codes and pushing green programs.
Commissioned by Ceres, a nonprofit that advocates for environmental leadership, the report is designed to give a picture of how well prepared the industry is to deal with new risks associated to climate change.
Ceres has issued several reports in the past addressing the industry's activity and stance on climate change. A report from Ceres in September last year urged the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change and called for more efforts made to calculate climate change into risk management.
The results of the report, "Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey: 2012 Findings & Recommendations," were discussed on Thursday on a conference call held by Ceres that included a representative for the California Insurance Department, Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler and the head of California's teacher's retirement system.
"Climate really does have the potential to be a game changer for the insurance industry and we want to be sure it stays on their radar," Kreidler said.
Kreidler, who said "the clock is clearly ticking" on the time to act on climate change, lauded the report as a good indicator of who is working to be prepared and take action on climate change and who is not.
"I think the report shows there are some strong standouts in the insurance industry, but there is room for improvement," Kreidler said.
Jack Ehnes, CEO of California State Teachers' Retirement System and a former insurance regulator in Colorado, noted that CalSTRS has $153 billion in investment holdings, including extensive insurance company holdings.
"The insurance industry response is well short of what we need," Ehnes said. "As a matter of fact you can say it's tepid."
Geoff Margolis, deputy commissioner and special counsel in the California Department of Insurance, spoke on behalf of Jones, who he said "applauds Ceres" for undertaking the report.
Margolis, who noted CDI has the responses posted on its website, said "climate risk is something that insurers and regulators need to be thinking about."
The survey on climate risk, which was developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, generated 184 responses, and Ceres' framework for assessing the responses is as follows: How the companies manage climate change issues, what drivers shape their strategies, what actions they take in their core functions or operations and how they interact with external stakeholders.
"The implications are profound, for the insurance industry is a key driver of the national and global economies," the report's authors state. "If climate change undermines the financial viability of the insurance industry, it will have a devastating impact on the economy, as well."
The report notes that 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states and the second most extreme weather year in U.S. history, calling such extreme weather, including stronger, more damaging storms and flooding in some areas, and drought and heat in others "the predictable consequences of rising global temperatures."
Eleven extreme weather events each caused at least a billion dollars in losses last year in the United States, while Superstorm Sandy caused more than $50 billion in economic losses, according to the report.
The report covers life and annuity, health and property/casualty insurers, but zeros in on the latter.
"By far, the industry segment with the most climate risk management activities underway is property and casualty—unsurprising as weather events are a major driver of losses to these companies," the report states. "In general, the current view of Life & Annuity companies is an absence of current risk exposure to climate change on their underwriting business, but nearly a quarter describe some active management of invested assets to manage climate change risks. Despite predictions of more pronounced heat waves, expansion of insect-borne disease and poorer air and water quality, few health companies describe climate change as a factor relevant to their risk assessment."
The report draws a distinction between climate variability and the long-term impact of climate change.
"While most insurers in the P&C segment have policies in place to manage climate variability, the annual and decadal variance inherent to the global climate system, few have explicit policies to identify or manage the trends of global climate change," the report states. "Some insurers do not seem to understand the difference between climate variability and climate change."
Climate change is global, it's related to a growing amount of carbon in atmosphere and the increased capacity for heat to be stored in the ocean, rising sea levels, stronger storms, and longer droughts that can leave more tender for massive wildfires, according to the report's lead author, Sharlene Leurig, senior manager of the insurance program at Ceres.
"Those are baseline changes," Leurig said.
Especially within the health and L&A segments, but even among some P/C insurers, many companies view climate change as an environmental issue immaterial to their business, with many of the remaining companies regarding climate change as a risk that will inherently be captured in their enterprise risk management strategies, the report shows.
According to the report, only 23 of the 184 companies have "comprehensive climate change strategies," and of those 13 are foreign-owned, while eight are property/casualty companies.
"Yet even among those companies with comprehensive climate strategies, the view of climate science is remarkably diverse," the report states.
The report also shows larger companies may be better prepared for the impacts of climate change. For the purpose of the report, companies were categorized by size: small (between $300 million and $1 billion annual premiums); medium ($1 and $5 billion); large ($5 billion-plus).
Insurer responses vary, with some companies seemingly more enthusiastic about dealing with the topic than others.
There are companies like The ACE Group that are funding climate change research, while companies like Swiss Re actively lend their brand to efforts at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global cooperative to synthesize the state of climate change science, the report shows.
"Some of the world's largest insurers have concluded that climate change is already driving extreme events to diverge significantly from historic trends," the report states. "Among them is Munich Re, which includes climate change among the set of factors amplifying decadal weather-related losses in North America, particularly for heat waves, droughts and thunderstorms. The increasing unpredictability of extreme events, and the potential for climate change to undermine the industry's diversification models, threatens the industry's long-term financial viability along with the very concept of insurability itself in some parts of the world."
Leurig said that while the industry today may well be capable of dealing with extreme weather events, the findings in the report reflect a lack of forethought about the future impacts of climate change.
"Obviously the last couple of years, while they've been very challenging for the industry, profits have taken a hit, the industry is still very well capitalized to deal with that," Leurig said, adding that the report's goal is to try to get insurers to think about the longer term and "Where is the industry going?"
According to the report, most insurers regard climate change as a risk that will inherently be captured in their enterprise risk management strategies, and many of the responses imply that simply having an ERM framework is sufficient to identify and manage climate change risks.
But Leurig called the impacts of climate change "a fundamentally different challenge" that is being posed than a typical ERM strategy is geared to handle.
"What it takes to be resilient to extremes is different, the baseline is changing," she said.
Common strategies for risk management include catastrophe modeling, reinsurance, higher deductibles or broader exclusions in risk-prone areas, particularly coastal zones, and a tight control of aggregate exposure, including rebalancing property with other lines of business, the report states.
"The most frequent challenge to risk management cited by insurers is regulatory pricing controls in which prices are not permitted to rise as quickly to higher risk levels in regulated markets," the report states.
In fact, risk modeling was specified by 40 insurers in the report as an important technique in order to explore their capital adequacy, using realistic disaster scenarios and catastrophe models in the case of P/C insurers.
Twenty underwriters, mainly P/C insurers, mentioned accumulation control in which the insurer limits the amount of risk it will accept in high-hazard regions.
For example, Mercury Casualty stated in its response: "Because of the predicted increase in hurricane frequency, Mercury is taking numerous steps to monitor, control or even reduce exposure to catastrophic losses caused by hurricanes. Mercury is also exiting the homeowners insurance market in Florida."
David Snyder, vice president of international policy for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, took exception with assertions in the report that insurers are relying on standard risk strategies.
"That's not, by a long shot, all of what the industry is doing," Snyder said.
He noted that insurers have rolled out usage-based auto insurance, which helps decrease carbon emissions, insurers are increasing the effectiveness of catastrophe modeling, they are pricing for changing weather patterns, and are pushing building codes and smarter development so that stronger buildings are constructed in safer areas and existing buildings are made more weather resistant.
"Across the board we think the industry is responding to the needs of its policyholders," Snyder said, adding that "the industry responds to risks as proven though actuarial means that have to meet a very high test of credibility."
David Kodama, PCI's senior director of research, noted that after Superstorm Sandy "the vast majority of claims were handled in a quicker timeframe than ever before," meaning information is being shared in a more efficient manner.
"We are working in an extremely dynamic environment in terms of the risk landscape that this industry operates in," Kodama said. "The industry continues to show its meeting those challenges. We believe we have a very strong track record in meeting the needs of our main stakeholder, which is our policyholder. And we continue to follow the latest science and the modeling techniques and exercise our best underwriting strategies possible to maintain the risk to the best of our abilities."
Snyder, who said he doesn't think a "one size fits all" strategy should be adopted for all insurers, suggested better reporting is not the answer.
"Future actions shouldn't be more reporting, but rather be focused on joint action to actually reduce risk," he said.
Despite the proactive stance by some, there were several P/C insurers with relatively strong strategies for dealing with extreme natural disasters that were ambivalent about acknowledging the scientific reality of climate change, according to the report.
For example, Travelers qualified its reply to the survey by stating: "This survey, and its responses contained herein, do not endorse, reject or otherwise express an opinion on the existence or absence of, or causes of, climate change." Allstate took a similar position, stating: " Allstate is not endorsing, rejecting or expressing any opinion with respect to any particular scientific pronouncement about climate change/global warming."
Both Travelers and Allstate had good disclosure about risks related to climate change, Leurig said, noting the responses from Travelers and Allstate "are heavily hedged comments."
Representatives for Travelers were not immediately avaialable for comment.
Kyle Donash, a spokesman for Allstate, issued the following statement:
"It is clear to Allstate that weather events have driven a much higher amount of insured losses. The recent increase in severe weather all across the country and the continued increase in frequency and severity of storms are real. As a company in the business of helping people managing risk and protect their property, we have focused on helping our customers protect themselves from more extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. We are not ambivalent about climate change, as suggested or stated in the Ceres report, but instead are focused on helping our customers."
Ambivalence about climate change science was not the norm among the responses, Leurig said.
"Generally, among the industry overall, there was a pretty strong agreement among companies that extremes are becoming more extreme, that something is changing," she said.
One change the report highlights is the changing attitudes in other business sectors. Investment advisor Mercer treats climate change as a systemic risk, estimating it could introduce as much as 10 percent portfolio risk for institutional investors, including those with diversified holdings in sovereign fixed income, equity, credit and agricultural assets.
"A growing number of institutional investors outside the insurance industry are already taking affirmative steps to manage climate-related risks in their portfolios," the report states.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) now requires such risks to be built into portfolio construction decisions across all asset classes, and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is taking similar steps, the report notes.
"The ability of the industry to survive and remain viable in the future really depends on policymakers and businesses to be able to understand that climate change is real, it is happening," Leurig said.
The report also dispels notions held by insurers about the industry's ability to deal with the long-term impacts of climate change.
"Often insurers argue that they issue annual policies, and as a result are protected from climate risks because they view climate change as a trend that will evolve gradually, allowing them time to adapt," the report states. "This is a problematic argument, for several reasons. First, it is the extreme weather events that matter most to the industry, and while data suggest that their probability is changing due to climate change, the infrequency of these events means that this phenomenon is largely unseen by insurers who only look out one year at a time. Secondly, there may not be freedom of underwriting action, due to regulatory restrictions. Thirdly, social factors that create insurance risk may move faster than the climate itself, so for example climate-related litigation may impose significant costs on insurers indemnifying historic carbon emitters."
Beside revealing attitudes about climate change, the report highlights how insurers view the impacts of climate change affecting the industry.
Some insurers believe climate change could potentially affect the availability and cost of risk transfer options, reinsurance, catastrophe bonds, and catastrophe swaps, according to the report.
In its response, Progressive Insurance Group says: "Extreme global weather volatility could increase risk financing costs. Risk financing is the process by which a company secures the appropriate funds to cover unexpected financial losses arising from a risk that the company has deliberately retained. Both capacity in the reinsurance market and availability of capital from the catastrophe bond market could, theoretically, become constrained after the occurrence of extreme weather events."
Reputation was another motivating factor for insurers embracing climate change policies and attitudes, according to the report.
One such company is The Hartford Insurance Group: "We believe that companies that themselves demonstrate a strong, comprehensive and sustained approach to environmental stewardship and offer appropriate products at the appropriate price can build a green insurance brand. Also, in the war for talent, companies that can demonstrate to their employees that they have a serious commitment to environmental stewardship will be better positioned to attract and engage talented employees."
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Rift, Vive, and Virtual Reality
Discussion in 'VR and AR' started by idsn6, May 8, 2013.
Silent_Buddha
ToTTenTranz said: ↑
I'm not blaming this on Valve, I'm blaming it on Crytek.
Regardless, having to keep a tabs on either you have the correct VR headset or not is quite bothersome. One should assume a brand new $800 VR headset purchased on Steam should be compatible with all VR games available on Steam.
Blame the VR market. The VR market isn't large enough to support VR game development on its own. It requires heavy subsidizing by companies willing to take a loss on investment in order to grow the market.
Sony and Oculus realize this and are pumping money into developers to try to get games made for VR. They understand that they're going to be losing money until the market grows large enough to start generation profits. However, to minimize losses (30% of game revenue just by being sold in their respective stores), they require some level of exclusivity (timed exclusivity in the case of Oculus) if a developer wishes to use their investment dollars.
Valve until relatively recently didn't give a rats arse about the game development aspect and how it was difficult for developers to pump money into developing a game that they were extremely likely to lose a lot of money on. That's not an environment conducive to development of anything other than shovelware and very basic games. And hence that's predominantly what you see developed and sold on Steam.
Steam is by far the worse place to get a VR game just because Valve were unwilling to foot a large part of the development bill for companies willing to take a shot at making a VR game. All the people crying about Oculus or Sony buying exclusivity, well yeah. Because if they didn't those game would never get made in the first place. It sucks, but that's the reality of the situation.
Luckily for VR gamers, Valve finally realized that developers need monetary help if they want to make a more full featured game. They still aren't pumping as much money into game development as Oculus or Sony, but it's a start.
You can't compare this to development of 3D accelerated games which require hardware 3D acceleration. The market for those games is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the market for VR games. A developer can invest a lot of money into make a traditional game knowing that if the game is good, they're quite likely to make a profit. A developer investing even a fraction of that money into a VR game would basically be committing business suicide as even if it was a really good game it wouldn't sell enough to make back their investment.
If you go back in time to when 3D accelerated hardware was in its infancy like the current VR market, you'll find a 3D accelerated versions of games that were exclusive to S3 hardware, ATI hardware, etc. because those companies paid the developers to make a 3D accelerated version of the game because it wouldn't have been profitable to the developer to make a 3D accelerated version and attempt to sell it. The NVidia NV1 in particular had a lot of exclusive games just due to how it went about 3D rendering.
#1581 Silent_Buddha, Feb 12, 2017
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Silent_Buddha said: ↑
Sony and Oculus realize this and are pumping money into developers to try to get games made for VR.
From what I gather, there's no pumping and plenty of trickling. Facebook's investment is something like 50 million a year, which is 'back of the sofa' change to FB and not much to create new content. Sony have a few first party creations but aren't offering any bonuses to indies AFAIK.
#1582 Shifty Geezer, Feb 12, 2017
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Guess...
Sales are a mess. For Oculus specifically popularity is a mess.
Low sales do not equate to "a mess". They're just low sales. VR is incredibly easy to use on PC if you have a Rift (easily the match of any console), and only slightly less easy if you have a Vive. And there's certainly no shortage of content.
Of course sales of PSVR are much higher - as expected - due to the cost of both the headset and the base hardware, but that's always been the case for high end PC hardware so hardly constitutes a mess.
Incidentally there doesn't seem to be that much difference between Vive and Oculus sales for last year. Specifically 500k for Vive and 400K for Rift (vs 800K for PSVR).
https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/media-alert-over-2-million-vr-headsets-ship-2016
#1583 pjbliverpool, Feb 13, 2017
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These are analyst numbers, so unreliable without decent evidence that this analyst is accurate. We can't compare device sales at all at this point as they could be anything - no-one's talking!
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Shifty Geezer said: ↑
Someone is talking, though:
Multiple "Oculus Ambassador" workers BI spoke with said that, at most, they would sell a few Oculus headsets per week during the holiday season, and that foot traffic to their pop-ups decreased drastically after Christmas.
"There'd be some days where I wouldn't give a demo at all because people didn't want to," said one worker at a Best Buy in Texas who asked to remain anonymous. Another worker from California said that Oculus software bugs would often render his demo headsets unusable.
"They didn't press on selling," the worker from Texas said of Oculus. "Their main thing was to have us do demonstrations and get people talking about Oculus."
#1585 ToTTenTranz, Feb 13, 2017
It's all anecdotal. None of the 3 VR providers is talking numbers. Neither are any sales aggregators. Thus we have literally no data to compare sales of the devices. We only have the vaguest of numbers and a few anecdotes and uncorroborated analysts figures which isn't enough for a meaningful conversation (and only enough for fanboys in other fora to make juvenile arguments in favour of the preferred brand).
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We don't have numbers but we can tell from those testimonies that the Rift isn't exactly flying off the shelves. We also have Mark Zuckberg telling investors that VR's acquisition won't be profitable for a while, meaning Oculus' hardware + software sales minus production minus distribution minus developer rewards isn't being profitable right now.
They just aren't selling any meaningful number of units. It isn't that hard to reach that conclusion.
And the problem is that VR can only get so much hype from social media. Come late 2017 and we're probably going to see a shift in attention to something else.
They won't have the engadgets + theverges + pcgamers et al talking about VR indefinitely. Eventually, people will get tired of hearing about VR and those sites will shift their focus onto something else that will bring them more clicks.
Their window of opportunity is fading and it's due to mismanagement IMO.
HTC+Valve releasing the Vive without anyone ever hearing of those 3 full Valve games for a full year was a mistake. Oculus coming up at almost twice the price that had previously been suggested was a mistake. Consumer Oculus Rift coming out without VR controllers/wands was a mistake. Oculus engaging in software platform exclusivity was a mistake, as that's not how the PC ecosystem works at all.
IMO Sony did the best approach by far (half the price + lots of VR titles on day one, even if some of those were overpriced). Microsoft seems to be following suit with their $300 headsets.
You've asserted sales are a mess. How many Vive have been sold? How many Rifts? How many PSVRs?
We also have Mark Zuckberg telling investors that VR's acquisition won't be profitable for a while, meaning Oculus' hardware + software sales minus production minus distribution minus developer rewards isn't being profitable right now.
If you read between the lines with one's personal bias, it's easy to reach conclusions. Another interpretation is that it'll be a while before the $2+ billion investment is recovered. Well at (numbers from my arse) $300 profit per sale, plus $200 from software fees, that'd require 4 million units to break even.
We have no way of knowing how to interpret that statement. Nor Sony's 'we're happy with PSVR sales' comment. About the only thing we can really conclude is VR isn't doing gangbusters. Relative performance is very much an unknown.
That's basically the state of VR analysis these days. Too little information combined with rampant internet biases means that anything goes WRT virtually all information regarding VR sales and uptake at the moment.
The analysts likely have access to the most "accurate" information, but there's no way of knowing just how accurate or more importantly how complete their information is. They might have 100% accurate information from X number of retailers, for example, but that may not accurately correlate to the market as a whole. Especially when you consider the relatively low volumes of hardware being moved by all 3 major players.
We only know that in Japan apparently Sony can't keep up with demand. But how on purpose that is I don't know. I think you can walk into most European stores and find plenty, so there at least it does not seem to be a supply issue.
#1590 Arwin, Feb 14, 2017
Bethesda update on project's they are working on. The intent is still to bring full fallout4 into vr
"It's interface work, it's other things," he said. "There are issues with locomotion, how you traverse that much space, and we're hoping to support as many modes as possible... It's not done yet, there's work to do, but the parts that are there, I'm biased but it's pretty incredible."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02...te-on-bethesda-games-studios-current-projects
#1591 manux, Feb 20, 2017
swaaye Entirely Suboptimal
I finally tried a Rift. My local Best Buy is running a demo now. I was surprised how low resolution the displays appeared. Even my non-techie girlfriend immediately commented on the lines in the helmet displays. We did some dreamscene things (alien, then on top of a building, then dino museum) and the Crytek-powered climbing demo. Interesting.
I think it would be really fun if you could do the full room setup (Vive right?) so you can wander fairly freely. Otherwise it seems pretty gimmicky. And looking at the software selection on Steam is a rather sad experience.
PS4 has some interesting exclusives.
#1592 swaaye, Feb 20, 2017
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Rift can do roomscale with 3 sensors. The play area is somewhat smaller than vive but still good enough.
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VR golf in early access. Requires roomscale, works both on vive and rift
The Golf Club VR is built off the foundation laid by HB Studios' original award winning game released in 2014, The Golf Club, taking advantage of the original game's stunning visual presentation and over 130,000, two kilometer² procedurally and user-generated courses
http://store.steampowered.com/app/489600/
and another vr golf game
Mechanically, it's a forgiving game. Since you're not holding an actual club hitting an actual ball, there is some flexibility given to the accuracy and power of your swing. It's not quite Wii Sports Golf levels of leeway, but it doesn't require you to be a professional to have fun either.
https://uploadvr.com/vr-golf-online-game-review/
You do realize steam is fairly open in its nature on purpose? The requirements for games in steam are clearly presented. If you try to buy something you don't have hardware for you will get a popup saying that hey, you need x&z to use this title, are you sure you want to proceed buying? There is no way to accidentally buy a game you don't have hardware for, at least not anymore than trying to load xbox game on ps4 from disc and complaining that game doesn't work even though the disc fits.
Oculus store is not open. That is a big negative to me and a reason why I don't buy anything from oculus store that I can get now or possibly later from steam.
In what way is the occlusion store less open than Steam?
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#1595 tuna, Feb 21, 2017
tuna said: ↑
Oculus store only sells content for Oculus products. Steam does not sell only products for vive.
Oculus purchase often does give you steam key but why bother ewhen one can avoid hassle by going straight to steam.
Based on your description it would seem like the occlusion store is more specific and more open* compared to Steam.
*Because you can buy Steam content.
This is really bringing the discussion forward.
What you claim is like saying like closed source is more open than open source because owner of closed source codebase can use both open and closed source. I'm not going to start to debate sillyness along those lines further.
Steam is much more open and friendly if one ever intends to own something other than oculus vr headset.
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Ganglioside Treatment and Improved Axonal Regeneration Capacity in Experimental Diabetic Neuropathy
Chiara Triban,
Diego Guidolin,
Michele Fabris,
Paolo Marini,
Antonella Schiavinato,
Massimo Donà,
Maria Cristina Bortolami,
Luigi Di Giamberardino and
Mario G Fiori
Fidia Research Laboratories Abano Terme, Italy Biology Department, Commission for Atomic Energy, Frederic Joliot Hospital Orsay, France
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Chiara Triban, Department of Peripheral Nervous System Research, Fidia Research Laboratories, Via Ponte della Fabbrica 3/A, 35031 Abano Terme (PD), Italy.
Diabetes 1989 Aug; 38(8): 1012-1022. https://doi.org/10.2337/diab.38.8.1012
The efficacy of gangliosides in enhancing axonal regeneration and maturation in the early stages of diabetic neuropathy was assessed by quantitative analysis of immunostained serial sections of the sciatic nerve. Sprague-Dawley rats were made diabetic with a single injection of alloxan (100 mg/kg). One week later they were injected daily intraperitoneally with either a highly purified ganglioside mixture (10 mg/kg) or sterile saline for 4 wk. At the end of the treatment, sciatic nerves were crushed and allowed to regenerate for 1 wk without ganglioside treatment. The animals were then killed, and the nerves were frozen and processed for immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. The number of regrowing axons was counted with a computerized image-analysis system on cross sections taken at predefined distances along the regenerating stump and stained with monoclonal antibody iC8 specific for the 145,000-M subunit of the neurofilaments. In untreated diabetic animals the number of axons able to regenerate and sustain elongation for ≥13 mm from the crush point was reduced by 40% with respect to control rats. Ganglioside treatment was effective in compensating almost completely for this dramatic reduction. Electron microscopy confirmed that the immunofluorescence counts corresponded to regenerating axons containing neurofilaments. These results suggest that gangliosides are able to compensate for the derangements of axonal transport of cytoskeletal proteins reported in experimental diabetic neuropathy.
Received December 12, 1988.
Revision received March 16, 1989.
Accepted March 16, 1989.
Copyright © 1989 by the American Diabetes Association
August 1989, 38(8)
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Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer of a system of prayer-based healing that led her to found the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. She was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which has sold more than ten million copies. She is also the founder of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, founder of a publishing house, and founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper The Christian Science Monitor.
Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle to make an indelible mark on American society. She made her discovery of Christian Science at a time when women could not vote and were generally barred from pulpits, seminaries, and the medical profession.
1 Life and Family
1.1 Marriages
2 Her spiritual journey
2.1 Founding the Church
2.2 Church beliefs
2.3 Publishing arms of church
3 Later life
4.1 The Longyear Museum
In 1995 Eddy was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame and in 1998 she was named one of the 25 "most significant religious figures for Americans in the 20th Century" by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
Mary Baker Eddy was born Mary Ann Morse Baker, the youngest of the six children of Abigail Ambrose and Mark Baker on July 16, 1821, near Concord, New Hampshire in the town of Bow. Named Mary Ann Morse after her grandmother, she never used her full name Mary Ann, but signed herself Mary (Cather and Milmine 1909). She spent most of her childhood suffering from a variety of childhood diseases. Her poor health was reportedly related to a spinal weakness that caused spasmodic seizures, followed by prostration, which resulted in a complete nervous collapse. It is referred to as chronic invalidism.
Both her parents were descendants of members of the Congregational Church. Raised with Puritan values, daily Bible reading, and talk of God's healing power, she spent many years looking for healing.
One of Mary Baker's brothers was Albert Baker, a graduate of Dartmouth College, who studied law with Franklin Pierce (who later became President of the United States), and was admitted to the bar in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Albert helped home-school her in moral science, natural philosophy, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew grammar.
The Baker family moved to Tilton when Mary was fifteen and she then attended the private school of Professor H. Dyer Sanborn. Under his instruction and the guidance of the Rev. Enoch Corser, pastor of the Tilton Congregational Church, she began to develop her intellectual and spiritual maturity.
In 1843 Mary Baker married George Washington Glover, her thirty-three-year-old brother-in-law. She was twenty-two. George Glover's sister had married Mary's eldest brother, Samuel, in 1831. Originally from Concord, New Hampshire, Glover had established a business in Charleston, South Carolina.
About a year after their marriage, while on a business trip to Wilmington, North Carolina, her husband contracted yellow fever and died in about nine days. Mrs. Glover returned to her father's home. She gave birth to a boy not long after her return, and she named him after her husband, George Washington Glover.
Mary Baker Glover suffered a prolonged illness following childbirth. Her son's custody become a major issue when her mother died in 1849. In 1850 her father married Elizabeth Patterson Duncan. Her father made it clear that the boy wasn't welcome and he stayed with a series of different relatives. Later her sister, Abigail Tilton, offered her a home, but with the stipulation that her son George was not welcome. She felt she couldn't take care of her ill sister and the young boy. As a result George W. Glover was sent to live in North Groton, New Hampshire, forty miles away from his mother. He lived with the family's former servant, Mahala, who had married a farmer, Russell Cheney. She wrote the poem "The Mother at Parting with her Child" soon afterward.
In 1853, Mary married Daniel Patterson, a relative of her father's second wife. Mary's father warned Patterson about his daughter's invalidism, but he chose not to heed the advice. She had hoped Patterson would take her son in, but he also decided he wanted no part of him. Although the couple lived near the Cheneys in North Groton in 1855, George Glover's adopted family took the boy with them when they moved to Minnesota in 1856. George Glover did not see his mother again for twenty-three years.
The marriage to Patterson proved unhappy, and the couple separated after 13 years, when Daniel deserted her. Seven years later, she sought and obtained a divorce on the grounds of his adultery.
In 1877 Mary Baker Glover was married for the third time to Mr. Asa G. Eddy, who had been sent to her for treatment. She had healed him, had taken him through one of her classes, and placed many of her affairs in his charge. He died in 1882, reportedly of heart disease.
Her spiritual journey
From the age of eight Eddy began having spiritual experiences when she heard her name being called by an unseen voice. In her teens she boldly rebelled against Calvinist doctrines like predestination as she was being admitted as a member of her parents' Congregationalist church.
Poor health began to afflict her during her adolescence and as she became an adult and married she experimented with allopathic medicine and alternative therapies, particularly with homeopathy. Following her first husband's sudden death she developed an interest in mesmerism (hypnosis), animal magnetism, spiritualism, and clairvoyance. She also continued her study of the Bible with an intense focus on the healing powers of Jesus.
In 1862 Eddy received treatment from mental healer, Phineas P. Quimby in Portland, Maine, and was cured quickly. Though her health tended to fluctuate, she maintained a devoted relationship with him and his ideas until he died in 1866. His influence would shape her belief of Christian Science as she integrated her own Christian faith with Quimby's ideas.
A crucial turning point in Eddy's life occurred one month after Quimby died. A severe fall on an icy sidewalk left her in critical condition. Unable to call on Quimby she asked for her Bible and, while reading an account of Jesus' healing, found herself suddenly well.
She spent the next nine years in intensive scriptural study, healing activity, and teaching. In 1875 she published Science and Health. In this book she stated her belief in the "science" behind Jesus' healing method.
Founding the Church
When the existing Christian churches did not embrace her beliefs, Eddy decided to start her own church. In 1879 she secured a charter for the Church of Christ, Scientist, established "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Two years later, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught her classes until 1889, when she closed the institution to focus on a major revision of Science and Health, which became Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Eddy proved effective at teaching hundreds of students, most of them women, to go out across the nation as Christian Science practitioners, organizing societies and recruiting more practitioners. She retained her charter to the College and reopened it in 1899.
In 1884 Eddy spent a month in Chicago, initiating the westward expansion of her church. In 1888 she again visited Chicago, this time to attend the National Christian Scientist Association where she made an address at the Central Music Hall before an audience of about four thousand. A year later she addressed an audience in Steinway Hall, New York, but thereafter withdrew more and more from public appearances.
In 1888, a reading room for her writings and other publications opened in Boston. In 1894, Boston-area Christian Scientists moved into the first church building (The Mother Church), built under Mrs. Eddy's direction. In 1895 she published a church manual, establishing guidelines that are followed to this day.
During the formative stages the church saw many rivalries, scandals, and dissident movements. One such example was the dispute between Mary Baker Eddy and Edward J. Arens, her former student, and Julius Dresser, who along with his wife and son, disputed Eddy's originality. The main accusation against Eddy was that she plagiarized Quimby's works. Eddy also found herself the subject of severe criticism from such notables as Mark Twain and Willa Cather. She would later explain that the phenomena of self-will used by Quimby to heal was distinct from the understanding of spiritual principles she used for healing.
Church beliefs
A central tenet of the Church of Christ, Scientist founded by Mary Baker Eddy is spiritual healing of disease
Christian Science agrees with mainstream Christianity with regards to the existence of an all-powerful God and the authority and inspiration of the Bible. Christian Scientists also believe the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus to be essential to human redemption.
A fundamental difference between Christian Science and traditional Christianity lies in its belief that creation is entirely spiritual and perfect and matter does not exist. Sin, sickness and death also do not exist; we only think they do. "The only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise" (Science and Health, 472:27-29).
A central tenet of the Church of Christ, Scientist is spiritual healing of disease, for its own sake as well as for its evidence of redemption from the flesh. The church's most controversial practice is refusal of medical help for disease. Modern Christian Scientists, however, offer the caveat that healthcare decisions are always a matter of individual choice.
Their core teachings are read at every church service in the "Scientific Statement of Being":
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.
All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.
Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error.
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness.
Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
Publishing arms of church
In 1883 the Journal of Christian Science was first published. It later became The Christian Science Journal with Eddy as the editor and publisher. It was also published in German as Der Herold der Christian Science. She also founded the Christian Science Sentinel; The Christian Science Quarterly (which contained the weekly Christian Science Lesson-Sermons); and The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper that went on to win seven Pulitzer Prizes, including three for International Reporting (1950, 1967 and 1996).
In 1908, just two years before her death, Eddy started The Christian Science Monitor because she felt that the "yellow journalism" of the American press was unfairly prejudicial against her faith. Its object and journalistic ethic established by her was "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." The Monitor provides an independent voice in journalism, and, though published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, it is not a religious periodical. The newspaper reports national and international news, with related features and commentary.
From 1892 to 1908 Eddy resided at Pleasant View, a house situated on the outskirts of Concord, New Hampshire. It was here that Eddy spent her time fine-tuning the organization of the Christian Science church and in clarifying and deepening her own understanding of Christian Science.
In her final years she began withdrawing more and more and discouraged any personal adulation which the beneficiaries of Christian Science might be inclined to place upon her. By the time she died in 1910 her church was growing nationally and internationally (80 different countries), and her best-selling book was in the process of being translated for the first time (into German). Hundreds of tributes appeared in newspapers around the world. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge in a tomb at Halcyon Lake,
The church texts were frozen at Eddy's death and remain the authoritative documents for the Church. After Eddy died leadership in the Church passed to the five-person Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts. They oversee the production of standard editions of all Eddy's writings.
In 1921 on the 100th anniversary of her birth, a 100-ton, 11-foot high granite pyramid was dedicated on the site of her birthplace in Bow, Massachusetts. A gift from the Freemasons (the only other religious society church members are permitted to join), it was later dynamited by order of the Mother Church Board of Directors. They also ordered her home in Pleasant View to be demolished as it was becoming a place of pilgrimage.
Today, almost 1,700 Christian Science churches are active in 76 countries throughout the world. People from all walks of life continue to practice this religion and use the system of health that Eddy codified almost 150 years ago.
Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was a best seller for decades, and was selected as one of the "75 Books By Women Whose Words Have Changed The World," by the Women's National Book Association. In 1995, Eddy was inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame and in 1998 she was named one of the 25 "most significant religious figures for Americans in the 20th Century" by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. In 2002, The Mary Baker Eddy Library opened its doors, giving the public access to one of the largest collections about an American woman.
For more than a century, The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel have been publishing accounts of restored health based on the system of care that Eddy taught. The Christian Science Monitor newspaper has won several Pulitzer Prizes.
The Longyear Museum
Mrs. Mary Beecher Longyear was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1851, the daughter of Samuel Peck and Caroline (Walker) Beecher. Her father was a member of the well-known Beecher family of New England. Mrs. Longyear and her husband John were very helpful to Eddy and the early Christian Science church in providing the funds to purchase land for the church and for the Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill.
Mrs. Longyear was a pioneer in the field of historic preservation. She searched the back roads of Massachusetts and New Hampshire to locate and purchase four houses in which Eddy once lived. She had portraits painted of Mrs. Eddy and Mrs. Eddy's early students and had reminiscences written by many of those who knew her.
For over three-quarters of a century the Longyear Museum has provided exhibits and resources about the life and achievements of Mary Baker Eddy. The Museum moved into its new building in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1999.
"True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection."
"Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven."
"The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity."
"Whatever enslaves man is opposed to the divine government. Truth makes man free."
"To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most harm."
"Moral conditions will be found always harmonious and health-giving."
"We should master fear, instead of cultivating it."
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No and Yes ISBN 0879522372
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Where to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Omaha | Events, Irish Pubs + More
March 6, 2018|Add a Comment|Posted By NP Dodge
Looking for events to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in 2019? Check out our most up-to-date guide 7 Essential St. Patrick's Day Events in the Omaha Area.
We hope you're wearing your green! St. Patrick's Day is upon us once again, bringing a day of camaraderie, Irish celebrations, dancing, and corned beef. We love embracing our city's St. Patty's Day traditions, so we rounded up the best events in Omaha!
Lucky for you, you'll be able to celebrate all week. The festivities kick off on March 10 with the highly anticipated St. Patrick's Day parade through Old Market, and conclude with a day full of green beer, concerts and fun on March 17. Have fun out there!
St. Patrick's Day Parade
When: Saturday, March 10, 10 am
Where: Old Market
Photo courtesy of the AOH Father Flanagan Division
The most anticipated St. Patrick's Day event in Omaha actually takes place a week before March 17! The AOH Father Flanagan Division hosts the event in the streets of downtown, so wear your green (costumes are encouraged) and join in the fun from the sidelines. You can also watch from one of the designated viewing spots at the Old Chicago and O'Connor's Irish Pub.
The Post Parade Party
When: Saturday, March 10, 11 am-4 pm
Where: The Matt Bar & Grill
Price: $5 for adults over 21, free for all under $21
If you didn't get enough celebrating in at the parade itself, you can always catch up at the after party. The party will take place at the Old Mattress Factory directly following the parade, and will include live Irish music from Conor Dowling, Dowd's Irish Dancers and Bradley's Bastards. We're particularly looking forward to the homemade corned beef sliders!
When: Wednesday and Thursday, March 14-15, 7 pm
Where: The Orpheum Theater
Price: Starting at $41
You've heard people rave about Riverdance — the international Irish Dance sensation has been a hit for years. Now, you'll have the chance to catch the show on the 20th Anniversary World Tour at the Orpheum Theater. This tour will feature new costumes, new lighting, new projections and a new number, but the same Irish spirit that made the act famous.
The Killigans St. Patrick's Day Kick Off
When: Saturday, March 16, 8 pm
Where: Maloney's Irish Pub
Price: $5 cover charge
Photo courtesy of Maloney's Irish Pub
Who says you have to wait until Saturday to celebrate? Come on down to Maloney's Irish Pub on the eve of St. Patty's Day for a festive Irish concert! The Killigans, a punk-rock band based in Lincoln, will perform in a heated tent for your enjoyment. After the concert is over, get some rest and prepare yourself for some early-morning green pancakes at the same venue.
The General John O' Neill Wreath Laying Ceremony
When: Saturday, March 17, 9:30 am
Where: The Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Come pay respects to General John O' Neill, a prominent member of the local Irish community who loved Nebraska until his dying day. The AOH hosts a wreath-laying event at his grave at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery each year, complete with an Irish choir performance, a memorial and the singing of the Irish National Anthem.
St. Patrick's Day Luncheon at the Lauritzen Gardens
Where: Lauritzen Gardens
Price: $5 for children, $10 for adults
What better place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than the greenest place in Omaha? Come join the Lauritzen Gardens for a traditional Irish lunch, including corned beef and cabbage, boiled potatoes, and Irish soda bread. After eating, you'll be able to enjoy live entertainment and wander the gardens at your leisure. Reservations are required! Make yours by calling Merri at 402-346-4002.
St. Patrick's Day at O'Connor's Irish Pub
When: All day on Saturday, March 17
Where: O'Connors Irish Pub
Price: Free entry
Where better to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than at our area's favorite Irish bar? O'Connor's Pub will be joining in the festivities during the parade on March 10, but make sure to come back on the day itself. The bar will be opening early for a grand celebration!
The St. Patty's Day Celebration at Maloney's Irish Pub
When: All day, Saturday, March 17
Price: No cover charge
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Maloney's Irish Pub! The bar will open at 6 am, and green pancakes will be served at 7 am. Beef and cabbage will also be available starting at 11 am, and live entertainment starts at noon! Dance along to the music from Stephen Monroe, Omaha Pipes and Drums and Connor Dowling.
St. Patty's Day at the Dubliner Pub
Where: The Dubliner Pub
If you can't get to Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, this little Old Market pub is the second best thing. The underground space feels just like Ireland, and features nearly 100 different beers from all over the world. On St. Patty's Day, the bar will open at 6 am, and features live music (including Connor Dowling and Dicey Riley) throughout the day.
Shamrocked, Featuring String Theory
When: Saturday, March 17, 10 pm
Where: Bar 415
Bar 415 is already one of our favorite destinations for a fun night out in Omaha, but on St. Patrick's Day, the bar will light up with live music from String Theory! The electrifying duo is known for their experimental, heavy hitting, electronic music, including bass and dubstep — and their stage performance is always a sight worth seeing.
Happy St. Patty's Day!
How are you planning to celebrate the Irish holiday? Let us know in the comments.
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It's a good occasion to remember that scripts are nothing but software and it's important to keep them up to date.. let it be a lesson learned!
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Granted, this is not much blabber.. it's a lifestyle issue!
I've become really addicted to Capoeira and obsessed with health to some extent ( not to the extent of quitting cigarettes though).
So, I started Capoeira about 2 years ago now, on and off depending on injuries and other distractions… still, what started as a new mean of exercise to stay in shape and keep the diabetes demons away is slowly turning into one hell of an important part of my life: I love the dancing and martial arts aspect but what I love even more is the spirit behind Capoeira: that sense of community i was actually missing when I played football with my teams between '06 and '09.
This past weekend, my relationship with Capoeira took yet another turn after our group organized and hosted a fantastic set of workshops with world renowned Ido Portal… This guy was an amazing Capoeirista in his own right until he threw it all out the window and started again from scratch learning about the basics of the body.
I was kinda of afraid that his workshop would be a bit too intense for me but i left it craving more and wanting more…. the guy can teach and has charisma! If u get a chance to attend any of his workshops, do go for it.
It's been a while folsk.. that's a recurring theme but it will get better!
Things are changing quite fast here in Beijing as far as life goes, both personally and professionally. I've decided to take the plunge and head back to school with all its implications!!
color me impressed and try it out for yourselves.
It was waiting to happen…. find a new distraction to concentrate on or just something new to get hooked on! And photography got me by the balls. Through the two years I've been running BeijingDaze, I've taken close to 100,000 pictures of food and music, not to mention the tons of pictures during various trips.
I'm not implying that I've developed an eye for it but i've definitely become more interested in the topic! I'm juggling terms like exposure, aperture, shutter speed and what not in trying to get a certain look and feel.
To help me achieve that, after a year of research, I've settled on Sony's NEX5 as my tool of choice! and it was love at first touch!
The first criteria pretty much cancelled out most SLR type cameras as I didn't want to lug them around shows in my backpack. I've seen people do that and can't imagine being stuck in the middle of a moshpit trying to protect one of those monsters… I was gonna wait and feel it out, but it was a long shot getting anything too heavy! Still, Micro 3/4 cameras were on the radar with the EPL-2 and NEX5 leading the way. Nikon's D3100 had a shot i felt.
ISO is beyond important considering how often i find myself in dark dark places shooting musicians in weird light situations… simple and important! most cameras i was considering would be an upgrade from my Lumix FX48.
Considering how far i could be form stage sometimes and my fascination with taking pictures of musicians' faces, I just had to get something that would allow me to zoom in. Simple enough.
I've been shooting it for over a month now and couldn't be happier. My shots have improved and I'm getting pickier as time goes by. look for more pictures to come up on wondering mind in the future.


Before I started reading Shadow and Bone, so many people told me that I simply had to read it. So many, in fact, that I almost didn't want to. What if I disliked it? How disappointed would I feel? Bute, eventually I pushed my fears aside and decided to crack open my paperback copy of this gorgeous story. And, I am very pleased to report that I was the oppopsite of disappointed. I loved this book. I fell straight into the story, got truly addicted, and quite simply fell in love with Leigh Bardugo, Alina, Mal, and the Darkling. This story was absolutely brilliant and I am very glad I read it.
It is incredibly difficult to choose just one thing about this book that I adored above all else because everything was so inspiring. The plot was detailed, heart-wrenching, and complicated. The characters were all three-dimensional, interesting and truly loveable. The world-building was also fantastic and written in a way that you could really imagine. I guess, if I had to choose, I really enjoyed the magical aspect. I loved the Grisha and all their powers and how unique they are to different characters. I also adore how they use it and the idea of the amplifiers. It definitely helped to make this book more enjoyable and entertaining.
Yet another difficult choice as all the characters were really easy to love but I think that my favourite character has to be Alina. I love that she isn't this all powerful, all knowing character. She has flaws, weaknesses, and insecurities that her truly human and relatable. Yes she is strong, powerful and incredibly caring and protective but we are also able to see that she is so much more than that. Alina is a character that everyone can empathize with. Second favourite is definitely Mal, but I did, surprisingly, also like the Darkling. Looking forward to seeing what they get up to next!
Absolutely! I am certain that lovers of fantasy stories would devour this story. It is set in a unique world with amazing world-building and characters that could easily walk off the page and exist in this world. If you're someone who loves books that are gripping, intense, stunning, and full of magic then you should read this book. It is also a book that is likely to really make you feel so if you like books that you can really connect with, then you must read this book. If fantasy isn't your favourite thing, this may be a difficult book to start with but I'm certain you'd grow to love it eventually!
Shadow and Bone is an adventurous story that is compelling, emotional, and has all the best qualities that make a brilliant fantasy.
I thought there was a lot to take in at the benigning too in terms of the world – I know I kept getting confused by the colours of the Grisha and what they meant – but it just all came together eventually and I ended up falling in love with this one. I can't wait to read Siege and Storm either!


Soreness does not make you stronger. Soreness does not make you bigger. You should not LiveSore, because not only is it counterproductive to your strength progress and your health, it feeds the wrong psychology – penance is Religion, not training.
When you are sore, you have done muscular work with an eccentric component to which you are not adapted. For example, cycling has no eccentric component, and although cyclists new to barbell training may be fairly strong, they get incredibly sore the first time they squat due to the eccentric component of the movement. And pushing the prowler doesn't make you sore, no matter how hard you work, because pushing a sled lacks an eccentric component.
Since productive barbell exercises include an eccentric phase in their movement patterns, some soreness is always the result of productive training. But the soreness itself is not the aspect of the training that makes you stronger – the programmed increase in the load over time does that. The soreness is merely an unfortunate but necessary side-effect of having done barbell exercise.
Training specifically for soreness is foolish, since it indicates nothing more than unadapted-to eccentric work. The best illustration of this is 100 bodyweight ("air") squats done as a single set. Anyone who is actually capable of doing this will get both excruciatingly sore and absolutely no stronger as a result. The soreness will be the product of the negative phase of 100 continuous reps, despite the fact that the load is only your bodyweight. And because the load is only your bodyweight – and because you're already strong enough to do it 100 times – you cannot increase your force production capacity by doing 100 bodyweight squats. You can only get sore.
And being sore all the time is also foolish, because broadly-distributed DOMS is system-wide inflammation. Just like having the flu. Neither the flu nor 100 air squats makes you stronger, and in fact the catabolic effects of massive inflammation actually detrains strength. And doing this to yourself voluntarily – over and over again, week after week, month after month, for years at a time – takes its toll on your health.
People who do this habitually have either learned the wrong facts about exercise and its benefits, or they are trying to pay off a debt they think they owe, usually to themselves. This type of OCD is outside my experience, so I'll leave it to the psychologists.
Productive training entails some soreness, and everybody that trains gets used to the idea that getting stronger over time is accompanied by soreness – not the debilitating, crippling kind that makes normal movement difficult, but the mild soreness that accompanies a PR squat. To the extent that PRs are enjoyable, this soreness is welcome. It is possible to train for months and double your squat without being terribly sore at any point in the process.
But doing stupid workouts that cannot make you stronger and have not made you anything but sore indicates that you either don't know what you're doing, or that your priorities are other than getting stronger. If I were you, I'd reevaluate my priorities.


Validates levy already collected at the rate of 8 cents per head in respect of the export of lambs valued at more than $75, for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 May 2003.
Validates levy already collected in respect of lambs with a sale price of more than $75, at the rate of 4 cents per head for the period 1 July 2000 to 16 November 2001 and for the period 16 November 2001 to 30 May 2003.
to insert the current operative levy rate of 0.3 cent per kilogram and increase the maximum levy rate to 0.6 cent per kilogram for honey produced in Australia.
to restate the operative and maximum rates of national residue survey customs levy on apples and pears from a per box rate to a per kilogram rate.
to restate the operative and maximum rates of national residue survey excise levy on apples and pears from a per box rate to a per kilogram rate.
to insert the current operative levy rate of 0.3 cent and increase the maximum levy rate to 0.6 cent per kilogram for honey exported from Australia.
to enable the National Gallery of Australia to gift works of art with saleable value, subject to approval by the Gallery Council and the Minister.


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This article looks at advance directives, especially as they concern medical care for military veterans.
Talking about end-of-life care can be difficult, yet most people would like to decide for themselves the kind of care and treatment they receive. Advance directives, such as living wills and health care powers of attorney, allow individuals to make their own health care decisions in advance or appoint someone to make those decisions on their behalf. These advance directives are an important part of estate planning as they help ensure family members respect a loved one's wishes while also helping to avoid potentially painful disputes. For military veterans, especially those who are disabled, advance directives are especially important.
Advance directives refer to two important documents: living wills and powers of attorney. While many advance directive forms combine living wills and powers of attorney into one form, these are still two very different types of documents. A living will allows an individual to specify what type of medical care he or she will receive in certain situations. For example, it can specify that the individual not receive mechanical ventilation in order to prolong his or her life.
A power of attorney (or, to be more specific, a health care power of attorney) on the other hand appoints another individual to make medical decisions on a person's behalf. The appointed agent makes those decisions on the individual's behalf when that individual is no longer able to communicate his or her decisions himself, such as if they are in a vegetative state.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has an advance directive form that combines a living will and a durable power of attorney. This form is accepted at all VA health care facilities and at most non-VA facilities as well (although rules on their enforceability may vary from state to state). The VA Advance Directive (Form 10-0137) also has the benefit of being more detailed than most other advance directives and covers potential medical scenarios that may not be covered in other advance directives or that are more likely to be encountered by disabled veterans .
However, while most advance directives will be followed by medical professionals, there are instances where a medical professional will have little choice but to violate an advance directive. Some advance directives, for example, may contain conflicting instructions, while others may include directions that are illegal. A doctor cannot provide care or treatment that violates the law, even if the patient includes directions for such care in an advance directive.
To help avoid situations where one's wishes may not be followed by a medical professional, it is a good idea to fill out an advance directive with the assistance of an estate planning attorney. An attorney can help ensure that advance directives are comprehensive and legally enforceable, thus ensuring that their clients' wishes are respected and that painful family disputes over medical care are avoided.


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Ezequiel Zamora cuya capital es la población de Santa Bárbara, ocupa el extremo sur-oeste del estado Barinas, Venezuela. Tiene una superficie de 4.042 km² y cuenta con una población de 62.000 habitantes según el censo 2011. Según el INE, para el año 2010 el Municipio contaba con una población de 62.000 habitantes, arrojando una densidad poblacional de 13,26 hab/km².

Historia

Toponimia
El municipio toma el nombre de Zamora, en honor a Ezequiel Zamora.

Geografía

Organización parroquial
La jurisdicción se encuentra dividida en 4 parroquias:

Economía
Predomina el sector ganadero, de agricultura y maderero, de comercio y servicio. En la parroquia Pedro Briceño Méndez hay una importante producción piscícola, de ganado vacuno, porcino y aves de corral además de la floreciente industria agro industrial.

Transporte
El municipio es atravesado por la carretera que une a la Ciudad de Barinas con San Cristóbal, vía importante principalmente para las poblaciones al norte de la entidad.

Turismo
El ente encargado de este aspecto es la Fundación Zamorana de Turismo y por Rancho Criollo, la mayoría de sus habitantes hacen turismo bebiendo en las calles.

Política y gobierno

Alcaldes

Concejo municipal

Período 1989 - 1992

Período 1992 - 1995

Período 1995 - 2000

Período 2013 - 2018

Período 2018 - 2021

Período 2021 - 2025

Referencias

Véase también
 Municipios de Venezuela
 Venezuela

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de FUNZATUR
 Página oficial de la Alcaldía
 Blog dedicado a Santa Bárbara de Barinas

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Educator and Researcher applies biotech for solving local agri problems
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With a billion-plus mouths to feed, and counting, the increase in food demand has augmented pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. Biotechnology, in agriculture, has emerged as one of the most powerful and immensely useful tool to meet our food and nutritional security. With increasing knowledge of genetics, researchers have accelerated the improvement of crops for enhanced yield and quality. Meet one such leading researcher Dr. Ravi Ranjan Kumar who works as Assistant Professor-cum-Junior Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour. He is a recipient of Young Scientist in Plant Molecular Biology - 2017 Award of Venus International Foundation for his contribution, research excellence and accomplishments in the area of Plant Molecular Biology.
Educator on a mission to boost Floriculture in India
March 3, 2018	Agriculture 988
Floriculture has been identified as a sunrise industry in India and accorded a 100% export oriented status. It has been found that commercial floriculture has higher potential per unit area than most of the field crops and is therefore a lucrative business. India is second only to China in terms of area under flower cultivation. But India's share in world floriculture trade is only 0.61% in year 2014 and 0.89% in 2015 according to ASSOCHAM report. Researchers are relentlessly working on developing innovative solutions to overcome production and post-production challenges of floriculture in India. Meet an educator and researcher who stands out - Dr Alka Singh, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture at ACHF, Navsari Agricultural University (NAU), Navsari. She has recently received Honourable Mention at EET-CRS Academic Awards 2017 for her extensive research in the field of floriculture.
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Roquefort is one of the world's best-known blue cheeses and is believed to have been discovered purely by chance. According to the story, a young shepherd from Roquefort-sur-Soulzon caught sight of a beautiful girl while grazing his sheep. Stowing away his provisions of bread and sheep's cheese in a cool cave, he ran after her. When he returned a few days later, hungry and looking forward to the food he had hidden earlier, he found the bread and cheese covered in mould. Driven by hunger, he ate the mouldy cheese. To his amazement, the sheep's cheese had taken on a delicious new flavour – and this is how Roquefort is said to have come into being.
In 1925, Roquefort was the first French cheese to receive AOC certification (controlled designation of origin). The cheese is thus protected against unauthorized reproduction and may only be manufactured in certain regions. Owing to the high demand for this cheese, the sheep's milk is now also sourced from the nearby Pyrenees and the island of Corsica. Nevertheless, the pre-produced cheese always spends its final three weeks ripening in the Roquefort caves.
Roquefort tastes delicious on a slice of rye bread, but it is also a perfect choice for salads and gratins as it melts very easily.
This traditional raw sheep's milk cheese with blue mould has a ripening period of 90 days. After this time, this full-fat semi-hard cheese develops an intense, pleasantly tangy and slightly salty flavour. The cheese has a soft texture and is predominantly white with lots of blue holes and veins.
Roquefort Société is also ready for consumption after 90 days. This cheese has an ivory-coloured paste with greenish holes and veins caused by mould. The distinctive sheep's milk aroma combined with the mild mouldy taste create a unique balance. This full-fat semi-hard cheese has a soft texture that melts slowly in the mouth.


Journey back to the 1880's and experience homesteading in Washington state. Pioneer Farm is a "hands-on" homestead built in 1887 with a multitude of activities for adults and children, including overnight programs. Take a farm tour where children can do the chores that pioneer children would have done in the log activity cabin including grinding grains, churning cream, scrubbing laundry, and carding wool. They can dress up like pioneers; have their hair curled with an antique curling iron or shave with an old-fashioned dulled straight razor. Located just north of Eatonville, Pioneer Farm is open on weekends from mid-March through mid-June, and after Labor Day to the day before Thanksgiving. During summer it's open all week.