There is something to an educational leader with a vision for the institution along with engaged faculty, staff and students. Penley on Education and Energy made the case that Leadership Matters in K-12 education in an earlier blog. It matters as well in higher education where I have spent most of my career.
Diana Natalicio has transformed higher education in El Paso, Texas. Ms. Natalicio became president of the University of Texas at El Paso not quite 30 years ago. UTEP is a better place today as a result of her leadership. She has sought increased research support, based on UTEP's historic science and engineering role; UTEP began as the School of Mining and Metallurgy. She has raised UTEP's enrollment of Hispanics; it is more representative of the El Paso community now. She has increased graduation rates, including those of Hispanic students, in technical fields like healthcare, engineering and mathematics. UTEP has received national recognition as a Hispanic-serving institution.
Leadership matters, of course, in every organization. One day in Denver an airline CEO and I awaited a panel discussion. We talked about what we really did – he as CEO of an airline and I as president of Colorado State University. It quickly became evident that the leader of an airline and the leader of a university had much in common. Both of us saw our prime responsibility as building hope through vision.
That combination of vision and hope builds employee engagement. Earlier in my career, a colleague and I developed a measure of employee engagement that was published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. In that article, we labeled one type of engagement, moral commitment, a kind of engagement that mattered most for employees' performance. Those individuals with moral commitment see their future aligned with that of the organization. With personal hopes' being achieved via the organization's success, performance rises.
A good leader encourages engagement. That is exactly what Ms. Natalicio has done at UTEP as its leader. Upon becoming president, she saw what some considered the isolated, border location of UTEP as an opportunity. She viewed the often less-well-prepared, first generation college students as hard working with great potential. She took the substantially Hispanic community of El Paso as a bridge to more Hispanic graduates. She built hope from what many perceived as challenge. She did so by offering a glimpse of the possible in her vision that leapt beyond felt inferiority to hope and engagement. Leadership matters, and Ms. Natalicio demonstrates it.
Years ago, the Brookings Institution published a report on what mattered for the success of students and learning outcomes in high school. After many years, I still recall that one of the two significant variables was leadership of the school principal. Perhaps that research was no surprise; leadership matters.
Those of us close to education know how critical good leadership really is to K-12 and higher education. If we are to improve education, one of the most obvious, but occasionally overlooked, areas to do so is to appoint good leaders and give them the authority and responsibility to lead their schools. While this inherently means less operational interference from the district, board, and others, the benefits of good leadership mean a great deal.
We need leaders who are committed to making a real difference in their schools. We need transformative educational leaders. If the primary focus of a school's leader is on self-advancement or self-protection it is tough to be a transformative leader. Self-protection is very easy to understand. Leaders are always in vulnerable positions. We admire those who do succeed. That is why we look back to people like Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. They faced challenges, took risks, and the world – and this country – are different and better because of their leadership.
That is why I admire Tim Ham, the retired Superintendent of Madison School District in Arizona. A 2013 study of superintendents by the Brookings Institution concluded that it is quite rare for a superintendent to make a difference in student achievement. In 2012 in Penley on Education and Energy, I had written about how Mr. Ham made a difference. He led with a strategic choice – commitment to a school's cultural changes in the face new digital learning tools. Mr. Ham took risks; he made strategic choices. He led. His schools were better for it.
We too often see the alternative – a school or college leader whose interest is in the next career step, a more prestigious school to head, or a higher salary. Such individuals may achieve what they want for themselves, but they are not good leaders. The school or college they leave behind is little changed by their time as its leader. Few strategic choices were pursued that would have made a real difference in the school. The superficial was their modus operandi; publicity and self-promotion were their rewards. That is not good leadership.
Good leaders, the kind who are recognized by the Rodel Foundation and make a difference in a school, face many barriers. External constraints inhibit changes and learning innovations. Long-time stability in the education industry presents a leader with a culture of steadiness rather than innovation. School leaders' own career goals make risk-taking on behalf of the school questionable for them. Tenure, unions and the absence of valid, effective internal performance evaluation of teachers or professors limit them. It is much easier to be an administrator or a cheerleader than it is to be a good leader.
Good leaders make strategic choices that transform their schools. But strategic choices bring risk. We understand that from business. What we need to see are changes that result in the selection and encouragement of more good leaders of schools. This means changes to the selection process of school leaders. It means limits to the external constraints that we place on schools, especially K-12 but also the legislative constraints on public colleges and universities. It means changes to the boards with a focus on governance rather than operational management.
Realizing the goal of school and college improvement is not entirely a matter of good leadership, but that long-remembered Brookings study made it clear. Leadership does matter.


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James Beard-winning chef Joachim Splichal has his own special way of catering for over 9,000 people at the Emmy Awards. This consists of dinosaur plums, mission figs, filet mignon and over 20 gallons of red wine sauce with whole-grain mustard. It looks like the stars are in for a treat.
One thing that many don't know is that the Emmy's actually has three separate awards ceremonies. However, each one has the same menu provided bu Splichal. Between the three events, over 9,000 people attend them and so that means there's a lot of mouths to feed!
The L.A. Convention Center was the venue for the awards dinner, where harpists played "Don't Stop Believing". In the background stood chef Splichal, ensuring that 2,500 filet mignons were presented identically. In under 12 hours, Splichal's team of cooks set up a gourmet kitchen in the hall.
But this type of labor isn't new for Splichal. The seasoned chef has been doing these sort of gigs for over two decades. "The first five years were pretty crazy until we got all the problems worked out," he said.
Nowadays, Splichal is winning Michelin stars through his flagship restaurant, Patina. This is just a small part of his company, the Patina Restaurant Group, which owns a variety of restaurants and also caters to award ceremonies such as the Emmy's AND the Grammy's.
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I'm sitting here, trying to decide if I want to make Atlantis: TVC Volume #1 exclusive to Amazon for 90 days.
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I mean, I'm grateful for whatever sales I get, but I feel like I'm not doing enough for it. Another plus for going exclusive is that Volume #1 will get more eyes on it, and that will get people interested in Volume #2, which is due out at the end of this summer. [Provided I can keep to my timeline.] That's just past the 90 day period it would be exclusive for.
The negative is that I wouldn't be able to sell the book on other platforms while it is exclusive. I have actually moved the most books through iTunes, but Amazon is not far behind. I also don't have any reviews on Amazon, but I do have one on iTunes.
I am really on the fence about this, but I am definitely leaning towards the exclusive period, which means I'd have to remove the book from other retailers during that time frame. The only thing holding me back is the lack of reviews on Amazon–positive OR negative.
The thing about reviews [and this is something corporations and CSRs who depend on surveys hate as well] is that if people hate something, they'll immediately go post something about it. If they love something, it's a 50/50 split on whether they'll rave about it or not. But those people in the middle, the ones who think something is just "okay", or is "pretty decent", they don't typically post what they think. What they don't know is that on average, people trust those reviews the most when looking for info on a product, so it's a vicious cycle of… silence.
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Speedster Kagiso Rabada led a clinical bowling display with a four-wicket haul as Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 39 runs under dramatic conditions in their IPL match here on Sunday.
Pacer Keemo Paul (3/17) ran through the Sunrisers top-order before his pace colleagues Rabada (4/22) and Chris Morris (3/22) triggered mayhem in the middle and lower order as the home side suffered a batting collapse after 15 overs while chasing 157 for a win.
The Sunrisers were 101 for 3 in 15.2 overs when Ricky Bhui fell to Paul but after that they lost seven wickets for the addition of just 15 runs. Morris took three wickets in the space of five balls in the 18th over as the stunned home crowd watched their side's batsmen capitulating without much fight as the innings folded at 116 in 18.5 overs.
David Warner, who top-scored with a 47-ball 51, was out in the 17th over off Rabada to trigger a procession of Sunrisers batsmen towards the dressing room. Rabada and Morris took all these six wickets as Sunrisers surrenderd tamely.
With the win, the Delhi Capitals jumped to second spot with 10 points from eight matches while the Sunrisers are at the sixth spot after their third consecutive loss.
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We have to assume this was Jared's idea.
1) Fire James Comey – the Democrats will love it!
2) Hire Anthony Scaramucci – we need to bring professionalism to the communications department!
3) Back Luther Strange in the Alabama Senate primary and diss Mo Brooks, the MAGA candidate – don't worry, this won't lead, like night into day, to a primary victory by Roy Moore and a Democratic pickup in the most conservative state in the union.
4) Hire more Goldman Sachs bankers than George W. Bush and Barack Obama combined – that's just what your industrial Midwest base wants!
6) Defend bone saw-killer Mohammed bin Salman to the hilt – I'm sure he's not manipulating me at all!
Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga – aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves.
By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect.
Now we know the truth: The FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. Whether Karenga was a willing FBI dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.
In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot two Black Panthers to death on the UCLA campus: Al "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as the chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University at Long Beach.
Back to the esteemed Cal State professor: Karenga's invented holiday is a nutty blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another invention of The Worst Generation.
Kwanzaa praises collectivism in every possible area of life. It takes a village to raise a police snitch. When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially said that, under Kawaida, we also hate whites.
Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto the black community by the founder of a murderous black nationalist cult with the FBI's seal of approval.


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When Noble Wray left his native Milwaukee to join the Madison police force in 1984, he may not have imagined how the topic of racial equity in policing would dominate his career.
Yet, here he is — at 58 and the grandfather of two — reflecting not only on his decade as Madison's police chief until 2014, but today as one of the nation's most prominent African-Americans training police on racial bias.
"I've done training in South America; I've done training in Canada," he told me in a recent interview in my office. "There are only four states, I believe, that I have not done training in: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho and Montana."
Wray and I reconnected at a Martin Luther King Day event in the state Capitol last month. He and his wife, Michelle, split time between homes in Madison and Washington, D.C.
These days, his primary focus is implicit bias — the unintentional kind — in policing. In moments of stress, officers who lack facts may rely on racial stereotypes, potentially leading to tragic outcomes.
In his long career, Wray has worn many hats. He was hired in Madison under former Chief David Couper, who shepherded in the modern era of community policing — the notion of police partnering with residents. While on the Madison force, Wray was part of a cadre of national community policing trainers during the Clinton administration.
After leaving the police department here five years ago, Wray served briefly as interim head of the Urban League of Dane County. "I had never stood in front of a group of people at a meeting without a gun on," he recalled with a smile.
In the years since, Wray has often found himself on the front lines when policing intersects with issues of race. He was part of the independent police monitoring team in Cleveland, brought in as part of a settlement between that city and the U.S. Department of Justice after they identified a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force there.
Wray left that role to join a task force created by the Obama administration in the wake of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York. In that role, Wray said he worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Loretta Lynch among others.
Wray found the sight of President Obama to be inspiring even as he felt worn down by the constant travel to trouble spots across the country. "But I would go to the White House and he would come out, and I would be tired because of travel, but to see that guy ... at roughly my age, I was uplifted again. I was like 'OK, where do you want me to go?' "
After Obama left office, Wray returned to a Florida-based consulting company, Fair & Impartial Policing. When he started a decade ago, Wray was one of two people in the company. Now there are 22, he said.
Wray spent much of last year in New York City, helping train about 3,000 police supervisors — the total police force numbers some 36,000 — in implicit bias awareness. The city had contracted with his firm as part of a police-reform agenda by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Wray told the New York Times last year that race remains the most powerful bias in policing. "Yeah, there are other biases," he said. "But the 800-pound gorilla in the room is racial bias."
Wray, typically training about 40 officers per session, said he tries to overcome the suspicion that the training is only "for the white guys in the room" by sharing his own biases.
He said he explains how we all make assumptions about people when we lack knowledge about them. "If you don't know someone, you start to fill things in with what are called ambiguous stimuli. ... It's like filling a cup. The challenge with policing is that we typically are operating in a rapid environment. We're doing everything fast."
Wray added, "The goal is to slow things down when you can, and that's a culture of ours, of not slowing things down. The more you slow things down the more you reduce the ambiguous stimuli and then human beings emerge in front of your face."
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New York police supervisors received eight hours of such training. Wray said it was imperative to demonstrate why it mattered. "Critics say that if everybody's got implicit biases, it's just the way we're wired" and therefore there's not much to be done about it.
Wray said he tries to counter that argument. "We have a mantra, and we go over it again and again, and it is that having biases is unsafe, and that's what the officers always clue in on. It's unsafe, unjust and simply not good policing," Wray said.
"We're not telling them not to make split-second decisions; we know that they will," Wray said. The training is about "when you have time for reflection, and you ask yourself: 'But for this person being a young Latino male would I be doing this?' "
As with so many things that make sense and appear pragmatic that have been harmed by the election of Donald Trump, so too has any national focus on racial awareness training in policing.
When I asked Wray where things stand, he said: "So, what's happening now is that we are in a standstill. There were some (local police officials) who just didn't want to do it," referring to the work on racial issues in policing. "So when the Trump administration gets in — being very frank — there was a group that said: "'Thank God. We don't want to do this, and Washington is not pushing it.'"
"Policing does need something like Washington every once in awhile," Wray added. "So, if you ask the question right now, the answer is it's at a standstill."
In a nationwide Pew Research Center poll from 2016, some 84 percent of black respondents said they believe police treat them less fairly than white people.
Apparently, in his promise to make America "great" again, Trump sees no urgency to address that perception.
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Features: Person of Interest
The Greens have done the right thing
by Josie Pagani
The greens are right to back down on QE. Their critics on the left are wrong to make QE a symbol of progressive orthodoxy.
I argued against the Greens policy because they proposed removing the independence of the Reserve Bank and linked monetary policy decisions to fiscal decisions about what we spend our money on, and because QE isn't right for New Zealand's economy right now.
QE is a useful tool for the Bank to have in its armory, but it is not one to use when we have higher interest rates than the so-called 'zero-bound' (the point at which interest rates can't be reduced further). If it wanted to do more to encourage spending and stimulate the economy, the Reserve Bank could still lower interest rates before it has to think about printing money.
The problem with our Reserve Bank settings at the moment is that it's illegal for the Bank to look at stimulating the economy; or even to look at wider monetary policy stability such as flows of capital from overseas and the level of the exchange rate. It is solely concerned with achieving 'price stability', although it has to achieve this objective with some regard to 'output'.
Commentators Chris Trotter and Bryce Edwards have attacked the Greens for abandoning the QE proposal. The mistake they make is to see QE as a socialist policy to facilitate more state spending on things like health and education. But that is not what QE is for.
The point of QE is to stimulate demand when the economy is in a liquidity trap where households and businesses stop borrowing because times are tight and their reduced spending further keeps the screws on the economy. Government is the only player big enough to get out of this trap.
The New Zealand economy is slow, but it is not in a liquidity trap. Monetary policy changes could help to speed up the economy: Changing the loan to value ratio, for example, would help redirect investment out of speculation on the existing housing stock and into more productive parts of the economy. Lowering the OCR would help to influence our dollar lower, creating more exports and easing pressure on our job-rich export substitution industries - at the expense of higher prices.
Because of the potentially inflationary consequences of using monetary policy to promote growth, the Trotter-Edwards attacks on the Greens seem to assume that there is something intrinsically progressive about inflating the economy and reducing the value of money. This is misguided. Advocating for QE isn't the same as fighting against inequality. The latter is a principle (no compromise), the former is a tool. Indeed, asset price inflation in the absence of growth can make inequality rapidly worse - ask families who can't hope to buy a first home. This is why these tools need to be deployed with care and not as if they were always right all the time.
Chris Trotter wrote in his latest column that the best kind of politician (he means not those like Russel Norman who changed policies after public criticism) win by 'calmly explaining (controversial policies) over and over again, finally convincing the voting public of their worth.' This is plain snobbery. It says to voters - 'we're right, you're wrong. And rather than listen to you, we'll keep explaining until you realise how stupid you are and how enlightened we are.'
Russel Norman did something much more interesting: He knows there is wide public support for a sustainable and fair economy, and so if the public are rejecting his policy it's not because they reject his principles, but because his policies don't adequately implement the principles. A politicians who knows the difference between principle and policy deserves credit.
The sanctimony of those parts of the left attacking the Greens for ditching QE puts them on the side of 'we know better than you' privilege. If the parliamentary left adopted their arguments, it would effectively concede that economic management is unimportant to the left, that symbolic tools were more important than the outcome achieved by misuse of them. That is no way to try to help New Zealanders who need jobs, better incomes and a fairer share of the nation's production.
by mikesh on June 24, 2013
I doubt whether Russel's "QE" would increase the money supply as the RBNZ would probably respond by curbing bank lending. It would therefore reduce the availability of housing loan monies, and provide interest free money for useful projects like the Christchurch rebuild.
by stuart munro on June 24, 2013
There are some problems with QE overall, as against direct government printing, but the important point is to get the consistently non-performing neo-liberal hacks at Treasury to show their working. Their results to date have been pitiful, discrediting the whole idea of an independent Treasury by failing to respond to serious long-term issues like the housing bubble and our significantly overvalued currency.
The whole idea of an independent Treasury is predicated on a stable economic situation in which the separation of powers can dilute factional interests by dampening volatility. The capture of Treasury by lethargic and obtuse neo-liberals has not smoothed out volatility, they are inflating the Auckland property market like the most shameless hucksters that ever drew breath. Like the GCSB they need to be burnt to the ground, and it is by no means clear that they should be rebuilt afterwards.
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Small Business Admin leader tours Wilmington shops amid 'trajectory of uncertainty' caused by delta variant rise
SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman (center) tours downtown Wilmington businesses alongside U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Monday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
U.S. Small Business Administrator Isabell Casillas Guzman on Monday got a first-hand look at how businesses in downtown Wilmington have managed to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic with help from the SBA and federal loan programs.
Across Delaware, about 50,000 businesses received some $2 billion in assistance from the SBA.
Guzman met with some of those business owners, stopping in at the Brew Haha café on Delaware Avenue before walking a few blocks over to Stitch House Brewery on Market Street.
While visiting with business owners, she heard familiar concerns about what could happen if COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise.
"They still see a trajectory of uncertainty over the next few months as they try to get their workforce back and they try to reopen their doors to a full house," Guzman said.
"We're hearing from businesses across the country that they want to make sure that their revenues can continue to increase, and they want to see those vaccination rates increase so that our businesses can reopen and they can come back to business as normal."
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At Stitch House, co-owner Rob Snowberger says about 25 workers are back on the payroll now after nearly everyone was laid off last year. That's close to their maximum staffing level of 30 people.
"We slowly worked our way back and now we're just about at full strength, we're praying that the delta variant stays away," he said.
Stitch House opened on St. Patrick's Day in 2018 and was contemplating how to celebrate the start of its third year when the pandemic squashed those plans.
SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman (second from right) talks with Stitch House Brewery co-owner Rob Snowberger during a tour of Wilmington businesses with U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Monday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
"One minute you're looking at your growth and you're looking at, 'Hey, [we] should do a three-year anniversary party or something,'" Snowberger said. "Then the next, it's like, 'Oh well, everyone has to be fired because the state literally says you cannot open for business and there's no money to pay for anyone. So, it was a very shocking moment."
He credits a quick response from the SBA and federal Paycheck Protection Program loans with helping the brewery stay afloat for the past year.
"We're just happy that they listened to the restaurants and came out with so much, so much help. And we really do pray Congress pulls through with enough to make sure that everybody who can apply can get some," he said.
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By polypompholyx in Botanic gardens
When we went to the Berlin Botanischer Garten in 2005, we saw some pretty cool stuff, including a flowering Welwitschia and some fantastic tree ferns. However, like every other botanical garden I've ever visited, mosses , hornworts and liverworts were effectively ignored, or – worse – treated as dreary also-rans at the start of one of those 'evolution houses' so beloved of curators without the wit to find something accurate to do with their cycads.
Most large glasshouses will have a crop of the liverworts Conocephalum conicum (above) or Marchantia polymorpha in them somewhere. Of course, glasshouse curators all think these are weeds; however, I like to think of them as a middle-finger to every so-called botanist who thinks plants are only plants if they're wafting their genitals at some poor insect or other.
Imagine my wet-gusseted delight when I heard that Berlin was building a proper home for these overlooked beauties. Judge me harshly for waiting a decade before actually visiting.
The main problem with displaying mosses is that they're mostly quite small, so you need to be up close to appreciate them. Berlin have solved this by creating a reverse sunken-garden: you walk down some steps into a basin, around the edge of which are arrayed the mosses. It's a lovely idea, spoilt only a little by the netting they have put over the planted area at ground level to stop clumpy-footed numpties from trudging over them in their slack-jawed pursuit of angiosperms. For my long-suffering companion this was too much: "It looks like the backyard of an abandoned bungalow". Tsk. Sticks and stones… are all just substrates for them to grow on.
Racomitrum canescens, the hoary fringe-moss
Although most mosses are quite small, a few conduct water sufficiently efficiently up their stems to grow much larger. Some of the mosses in the order Polytrichales can grow to almost a metre tall, but even the smaller ones from this order, like the smoothcap below, are still rather chunky and striking:
Atrichum undulatum, the common smoothcap
The leafy green bit of a moss that mostly attracts your attention is haploid – that is, it contains only one copy of each of its chromosomes in each of its cells. This is unlike most of the cells in your body (and those of most other plants), which are diploid, with two copies of each chromosome. The only part of a moss that is diploid are the little stalked capsules that you can see growing out of the leafy mass in the photo above. Those diploid capsules make spores through the specialised cell division process that reduces diploid cells to haploid cells. This process – meiosis – is the same one that occurs in your ovaries or testicles. The result is a mature capsule full of haploid spores, which drift away on the wind and eventually germinate into the leafy green body of the moss. It's the leafy green part that then makes the eggs and sperm. The sperm swim to another moss plant, fertilise its eggs, and the diploid cell from that fertilisation then grows up to make the capsule.
This life-cycle is inside-out from the way humans reproduce. The only cells in your body that are haploid are your eggs and sperm, and they never have an independent existence. So that whole section of a moss's life – from spore to leafy plant to eggs and sperm – is condensed into just the eggs and sperm of a human life-cycle. If we reproduced like mosses or liverworts, we would all start as a kind-of unfertilised 'egg' that grew directly into a big mass of haploid cells. That blob would then sprout vaginas and ejaculating penises all over its surface. The penises would fertilise nearby vaginas, and then a diploid baby would grow directly out of each one. That baby would have a gigantically long neck, and when it hit puberty, its head would explode in a shower of eggs to restart the cycle.
Biology is simply disgusting.
Hypnum cupressiforme, the cypress-leaved plaitmoss
At the Moosgarten in Berlin there is a vending machine where you can hire a small magnifying glass to appreciate the details of this sexy cycle.
Tortula ruralis, star-moss
Tragically, there was one promised – but missing – bit of phylodiversity. The moss mugshot guide promised a hornwort, but there was no Anthoceros or Phaeoceros to be seen. These plants aren't technically mosses (or liverworts), but something slightly more closely related to ferns and flowering plants. My search continues.
Another overlooked part of the vegetable empire that Berlin showcases brilliantly are the spikemosses and clubmosses. Despite the name, these are not mosses at all, but are sister to the huge group of plants that contains all the ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Clubmosses are no longer a major player in the world's ecosystems, but during the Carboniferous (300 million years ago) their relatives were a dominant part of the forests that formed the coal we seem so keen on burning.
Sigillaria sp. – the trunk of a giant clubmoss: this is at the new main hall of the Natural History Museum in London, rather than in Berlin
The true clubmosses include Lycopodium, whose spores once found use as fingerprint powder, but which is now mostly used (if at all) as a pyrotechnic flash-powder in magic acts.
Lycopodium hippuris
Their relatives the spikemosses may be a little more familiar: the genus Selaginella includes one of those resurrection plants you can occasionally buy whilst exiting through the gift shop, and Krauss's spikemoss, a plant from the Canary Islands that is becoming an option for outdoor ground-cover in the UK because of climate change: it's hardy down to 5°C (and has the RHS Award of Garden Merit, lah-dee-dah) but I've managed to overwinter it in a sheltered spot in London despite it getting covered in snow this year.
I get to appreciate spikemosses in my garden only because the liberated remains of their fossilised relatives are hastening us on the way to extinction. There's probably some lesson to be learnt here.
Selaginella umbrosa
As you can see above, the leaves of spike-mosses look rather fern-like, but what you are probably identifying as leaves are actually whole boughs of tiny scale-leaves attached to a much-branched stem. The resemblance to ferns is not coincidental though: the leaves of ferns (and of conifers and flowering plants) are probably derived from a much-branched stem – but with fused webbing rather than individual overlapping scales.
Some of the spikemosses are really extremely pretty: this sumptuous specimen is a William Morris wet-dream.
Selaginella erythropus
Botanerd highlights (as if more were needed)
This picture isn't going to win any awards because the plant was trapped in a locked-off area of the glasshouse so I had to take the photo from a looong way away, but – drumroll, please! – here is an actual Amborella trichopoda, in the flesh, as it were. This plant is in the sister group of all the other flowering plants – indeed, is the sister group, as there's only this one species in it. If you don't think this is the most exciting thing you can experience on a holiday to Berlin in early September, then I pity you.
Amborella trichopoda. Don't bother clicking – this is about the maximum size the resolution can manage!
Amborella, Berlin, clubmoss, liverwort, Lycopodium, moss, Selaginella, spikemoss
Nerd of this parish.
Simon Leather on 22/01/2018 at 14:31
Great post Steve, you need a share button or two
polypompholyx on 22/01/2018 at 15:25
Tah dah.


Part of the Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach has been attracting families seeking accessible beach vacations for years. In fact, it's the go-to family beach getaway on the East Coast, boasting more than 15 million visitors each year. But behind the high-rise condos, mega souvenir shops and kitsch lies a quality destination with an impressive array of activities to suit every taste and budget.
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Located near the town of Walhalla are two of Oconee County's top attractions, Stumphouse Tunnel and Issaqueena Falls. Stumphouse Tunnel maintains a near constant 56 degree temperature and is a welcome respite on a hot summer day. Nearby at Issaqueena Falls visitors can enjoy the waterfall and have a picnic at the shady retreat. This article was published by ourupstateinfo.info and at See the South.
Want to go on a safari and see movie stars this summer without breaking the bank? Well you can do both at Hollywild Animal Park in Inman, South Carolina. Upon arriving at the park, you'll soon realize this isn't your typical zoo. If the dirt parking lot and no-frills exterior doesn't give it away, the prompt attention by one of the many roaming animals will. Chickens, peacocks, ducks and other tame animals greet visitors as they enter the park.
This article was published in the July/August 2012 edition of Foothills Spotlight Magazine.
The Dark Corner of South Carolina has been shrouded in mystery for over 175 years. Loosely defined, it's the towns of Landrum, Gowensville and Glassy Mountain that make up the Dark Corner. The area was named not from its reputation for moonshining as most people believe, but because in 1832 it was the only area that voted against the nullification act which gave South Carolina the right to ignore federal mandates. A local politician said in one of his speeches that this was a dark corner where the light of Nullification could never shine. Thus the name the Dark Corner caught on. This article was published by ourupstateinfo.info and at See the South.
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1 What technology makes cloud computing work?
2 What is cloud technology in simple terms?
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5 Is Google Drive a cloud?
6 Who controls the cloud?
7 Why is it called the cloud?
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10 Is the cloud really just someone else's computer?
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What technology makes cloud computing work?
Via an Internet service connection, cloud storage works by enabling users access and to download data on any chosen device, such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone. Cloud storage users can also edit documents simultaneously with other users as well, making it easier to work away from the office.
What is cloud technology in simple terms?
Cloud computing is the delivery of different services through the Internet. These resources include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and software. As long as an electronic device has access to the web, it has access to the data and the software programs to run it.
How does the cloud work for dummies?
Cloud storage involves stashing data on hardware in a remote physical location, which can be accessed from any device via the internet. Clients send files to a data server maintained by a cloud provider instead of (or as well as) storing it on their own hard drives.
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What are the 3 types of cloud computing?
Well, there are 3 types of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Is Google Drive a cloud?
Google Drive is a cloud -based storage solution that allows you to save files online and access them anywhere from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. Drive also makes it easy for others to edit and collaborate on files.
Who controls the cloud?
The cloud is simply a collection of servers housed in massive, acre-filling complexes and owned by some of the world's largest corporations. This essentially means that our data sits on computers we don't have access to. Microsoft, Amazon and Apple have all invested huge sums in creating homes for our personal data.
Why is it called the cloud?
3 Answers. From wikipedia: The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network, and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents.
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The best cloud storage providers on the market
Google Drive.
Nextcloud.
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Mega. Beefed up security offering.
6. Box. Business-oriented storage from a long-standing service.
Microsoft OneDrive. Windows-first option.
iCloud. Apple's solution for iOS and macOS users.
SpiderOak. 'Zero knowledge' storage for privacy-minded users.
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Disadvantages of Cloud Storage
Internet Connection. Cloud based storage is dependent on having an internet connection.
Costs. There are additional costs for uploading and downloading files from the cloud.
Hard Drives. Cloud storage is supposed to eliminate our dependency on hard drives right?
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'The cloud is just someone else's computer ', runs the joke. But if you're saying that, the joke is on you, because it means you don't understand what the cloud actually is. So many people misuse the word ' cloud ' that you can be forgiven for thinking 'in the cloud ' means 'over an internet connection'. It doesn't.
Do you have to pay to use the cloud?
The cloud is full of free storage, if you know where to look. From Box to DropBox, Google to Apple, there's plenty of free storage to be had in the cloud. Many companies use free cloud storage as a way to entice users into their clouds in hopes that they will pay more for additional storage.
There are 4 main types of cloud computing: private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, and multiclouds. There are also 3 main types of cloud computing services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
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If you need to landscape a garden in a small yard, then you just need a bit of creativity. Here are 3 ways to landscape a garden in a small yard without taking up a lot of space.
First, consider doing a trellis garden in which you build the garden along a wall. To start, you will need a trellis that can go against your fence or your home. Lock the trellis securely in place with nails or with hooks that attach to the grooves of the vertical material.
Next, you need to hang light weight planters along the trellis and spread them apart a couple of feet if the plants are going to grow large. You can do rows of the planters so that they move vertically, or you can place the planters staggered along the wall so that there is less rhyme and reason.
In addition to the planters, consider planting some Ivy or another vine plant that will climb the wall. This will make the garden area look fuller without adding as many flowers.
Second, consider adding a tower garden that is also built upward. The difference between a tower and a trellis is that a tower is still going to take up some yard space but not nearly as much as a regular garden.
Tiered towers work best when you are trying to create a full garden. Look for ones that have large bases on the bottom, and then the remaining tiers should get smaller on each level.
If you want an easy tower, get one that has grooves on each tier so that you can fill them with flowers and soil. Otherwise, you will have to buy planters and pay more for your tower. Also, the flowers will not blend and grow together if they have to be in separate planters, so it just depends on what type of look you are going for.
Lastly, you can add a retaining wall garden. For this project, it is best to hire a landscaper because retaining walls are heavy, you need to be able to landscape the dirt upward, and it takes a lot of manpower.
If you add a retaining wall garden, then you can keep each level relatively shallow, and the retaining walls can move up one or two tiers. Just have a plan drawn out so that you know how much of the yard the garden will take up, and then you can decide how many level to add.
These three options will all work well if you have a small yard and want a garden. Just remember to seek professional, such as Master Landscape, help if the project is going to require heavy duty equipment and manpower.


Zolo Media is television in Central Oregon, operating two broadcast television stations located in the outdoor paradise of Bend, OR: KOHD-TV ABC and KBNZ-TV CBS.
The Bend market is one of the most desirable markets to live, work and play; voted #1 Small Cities for Business and Careers (Forbes, 2016), #1 Best Performing City in the US (Milken Institute, 2016 & 2017) and the Top Multi-sport Town according to Outdoor Magazine, 2017. It's also one of the fastest growing markets in the country with highly rated schools and higher than state averages for adults 35-44 & 55-74 and school-aged children 5-14. Along with a 15 minute average commute time, 300 days of sunshine and friendly people, it's no wonder highly skilled people chose to live, raise their children and retire in Central Oregon.
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Tell us about the whole concept behind a "community culinary hub".
I need to say cooking school so people will understand that there are classes. I prefer to use the term "Culinary Hub" because Food Lab is more than that; it is a place to gather and learn and have parties. Besides the basic classes, we will have demonstration dinners, where people will sit around the chefs table and have a four course meal prepared in front of them and paired with wine or beer, and they will be learning the whole time too.
We will have wine and cheese pairing events (being next to Cured, I cannot wait to be able to showcase what is in their store!). I want to get into very seasonal classes like pickling and jarring. I'm currently searching for really unique cultural feasts and menus that chefs can bring into our kitchen. When you have a party hosted here, the chef will be chatting about the food. Basically, when you are here, whether for a class or a party, we want you to leave having learned at least something about food or wine that you did not know before!
How many chefs are currently part of the Food Lab teaching staff? Are you still accepting applications from Boulder-based chefs who are interested in joining your team?
So far, there is just me! I am knee deep in build-out and paper work and a lot of the non-creative side of the project. I cannot wait to start seriously looking for chefs. The plan is to have a team of about 3 eclectic alternating chefs with different strengths, plus "guest" chefs if you will, from some of our awesome local restaurants for demo nights (the non-hands-on cooking classes, think cooking show style). I have some people who are interested, and I am definitely still interested in hiring chefs!
Your website states that your classes will be technique-based. What are some of the cooking techniques that will be taught by your chefs?
Everybody ALWAYS asks about knife skills. I have a feeling that class will be a good one. During the hands on classes, people will learn the techniques that go along with their menu, yet the can use in other recipes. For example, in a New Mexican class you would learn about roasting and peeling peppers, soaking and cooking beans, roasting up some pork. We will also be stressing the importance of timing and pre-prepping to help people find success in their kitchen on a daily basis.
No requirements. The classes are great for beginners, although I am thinking about instilling a rating system, just so people will know what to expect. (I.e.: Telling people this class is very beginner-based, so if you have some skills in the kitchen already, still come, but just expect a good review or telling people that it is a knife heavy class, so they may want to take knife skills first).
I have been teaching classes for 6 years and visited tons of schools around the country, so I see the one thing that people want to know is what to expect from the class they are going to. The cost will be starting at $65 depending on class and everyone gets the class, the recipes and to eat their food at the end!
I'm so excited to start building. It will have a very natural and comfortable feel, something that when people walk in they want to have this as their own kitchen. It will be like a blown up residential kitchen. Ill have all residential Dacor appliances, which I find important in these recreational classes, so people won't be intimidated by huge industrial machinery and think they can't recreate these meals at home because of that. It will be designed to be able to sit around a cooktop and watch and also have a space for the classes for people to prep and cook. I'll also have a sit down area for more formal meals. I have a great designer and architect, Michael Moore of Tres Birds. I love his style! It's a mix of natural and industrial themes, and I am really excited to see what he comes up with.
It sounds like Food Lab will be a great venue for group activities. If someone is interested in booking a private event, where should they start?
Yes! I believe that we will wind up utilizing this part a lot. We will be able to accommodate up to 50 people. To book, they will need to reach out to me, and we'll come up with a stylized menu for their occasion.
I am creating all of that right now. My kids are 4 and 7, so they are great guinea pigs. I'm thinking 8 week (once a week) courses that allow them to learn and cook different food groups each time. The kids will get to invite their parents to the last class for dinner! It will probably be for ages 6 and up, and they will separated by age group in the kitchen, as well.
We understand that Food Lab has scheduled its official opening on April 1, 2015. Will you be hosting any pre-opening events before that time?
We will definitely have a private launch party and a grand opening.
When should we look for your schedule of classes to be posted? Will we have the opportunity to pre-register?
The site is being built and I hope to have the classes listed by February so people can start signing up!
How can people contact you if they have any additional questions?
My email address, Casey@foodlabboulder.com , is a great way to connect with me.


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Robert French
Born in London, England, Robert graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in Business Administration and subsequently moved to the United States. Raised modern Orthodox, he spent nearly 20 years working in progressive Judaism at Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles, CA, where he began as an educator, then created and ran many successful programs, and left having attained the position of Associate Executive Director during his his last 6 years.
Recruited to New York as the Executive Director of Temple Israel of the City of New York, NY, Robert spent 10 years helping to reinvigorate and restructure this hidden gem, building infrastructure, creating programs, raising funds and helping to launch its capital campaign. Robert served on the Board and Executive Committee of NATA (National Association for Temple Administration) and founded and led MetroASE (Metropolitan Association of Synagogue Executives), a non-denominational professional development group in New York City. As a result of his leadership, he was invited to serve on the Jewish Federation of New York City's Synergy Council.
An ardent supporter of Israel, Robert co-chaired StandWithUs' (SWU) Northeast Region's Board from 2009-2018 and was its co-honoree at its first annual gala dinner. He currently serves on the Board of Nirim USA. Robert brings a wealth of experience to his role and enjoys networking, meeting people, creating community and is passionate about Jewish peoplehood and Israel.
Robert can be reached at rfrench@jfedelpaso.org or by phone at (915) 842-9554.


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Why dream scarf: interpretation of the dream
A handkerchief is a multi-valued symbol that reflects the emotional state of the dreamer. Such a dream protects him from making mistakes. It is important to pay attention to who wore the accessory in the dream.
To see a scarf, beautifully tied around the neck, is a symbol of constant work on oneself. To achieve success and realize their dreams, the dreamer must constantly improve skills and never stop there.
The mourning handkerchief on Mom's head is an auspicious sign foretelling sincere happiness and joy that nothing can darken. A young girl is a man in a headscarf dreaming of finding family happiness in marriage with a man destined for her by Destiny.
If the dreamer saw a shawl, the dream book indicates his inattention to details and the inability to appreciate the really important things. Sleeping pays too much attention to little things, neglecting the true values in life. He must realize that, besides material wealth, there are many other goals to be pursued.
The dreamer will feel the fullness and joy of life if, in addition to his work, he is engaged in self-development and begins to spend more time with his loved ones.
A warm cozy woolen shawl or shawl is a hint to the subconscious that the dreamer should take care of his health, as his body is now particularly susceptible to ailments.
Light silk scarf personifies bright romantic feelings. In the near future, the sleeper will fall in love and forget about all his problems and worries.
His life will be painted with bright colors, and he will feel an unprecedented surge of strength and inspiration.
Black — to sadness, which will quickly pass, and a good mood will replace it.
White foreshadows receiving good news and the onset of positive change.
Color — a symbol of vivid impressions, unforgettable emotions and exciting adventures.
Red indicates that an interesting event will soon happen in the dreamer's life.
Blue — a symbol of something unidentified, not amenable to logic. Something unusual will happen that will greatly affect the sleeper's worldview and make him look at his life in a different way.
Green personifies the beginning of a new stage in life, the rejection of all that is unnecessary and old.
The interpretation of the dream of a handkerchief depends on the details of the dream:
Pure silk product personifies the harmonious relationship of the dreamer with a loved one. Alternative interpretation: decent behavior of the sleeper and the ability to make informed decisions will soon bring him good luck.
Dirty shawl foreshadows insult and frustration. Perhaps the dreamer will betray a close friend or he will become a victim of deception. In the future, before you trust a person and let him in your social circle, you should make sure of his loyalty.
If in a dream a person sees a pile of clean handkerchiefs, then in reality he will have to go through a difficult ordeal. The sleeper will adequately manifest itself and bring to the future a valuable lesson from this situation.
The blood on the product warns the dreamer against borrowing money. If he ignores the advice, he will fall into a dependent position on his creditor.
The table provides the interpretation of the dream, depending on the actions of the sleeper:
Act Interpretation
Wearing a shawl on your shoulders is a sign that the dreamer is forced to seek protection from detractors. He lacks in life the support of his family and friends.
To see a white handkerchief on one's head — to the appearance of an influential patron. Also, the dream book indicates that the dreamer should not neglect the advice of wise people who are trying to help him
Put on / try on
To wear a beautiful black scarf on someone is a sign that in a difficult moment the dreamer will come to the aid of a person whose head he carefully covered with a scarf.
Try on a white scarf — a reflection of the independence of the sleeper. He realizes that he is responsible for his life, and does not seek to shift it onto the shoulders of close people.
The dreamer has to curb his temper and sacrifice some principles in order to maintain calm in his family and avoid problems at work. Such a sacrifice will be hard for a person, but in the near future he will realize that he made the right decision and will stop reproaching himself because of what happened.
Remove from his shoulders a warm shawl and give it to a beggar — to receive good news that does not directly touch the dreamer. He can find out the news about someone from his friends or relatives
Get a gift
If a sleeper is presented with a handkerchief in a night vision, then soon he will experience disappointment in his personal life. Also, such a dream indicates possible difficulties in the family, which can be overcome if the relatives make joint efforts to solve the problem.
A gift to a comfortable kerchief is a sign that in real life the dreamer can fully trust the person who gave him the gift
Holding in hand a handkerchief of a deceased grandmother is an auspicious sign. In the life of the dreamer came the bright streak. He can proceed to the implementation of plans that had to be postponed for a long time for various reasons.
If in a dream the dreamer bought a scarf around his neck, then in reality he would face difficulties and be forced to turn to someone for help.
Buying a handkerchief at the store — a harbinger of an unexpected event
The dreamer lives in his dreams and takes no action to realize his aspirations and achieve success in life. Dream interpretation indicates that a person should stop hoping only for good luck
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WhatsApp: What does the broken heart emoji mean?
Has your heart been broken? This emoji can mean much more on WhatsApp
Thanks to the great diversity of emojis, users can express feelings and all kinds of expressions without writing a single word on WhatsApp, however, sometimes these icons can be subject to user interpretation, which is why it is important to know its meaning, especially in love affairs.
Nobody wants to send an incorrect message in the middle of an important conversation, whether for living or working, although it is a bit complicated in front of the wide catalog of emojis on WhatsApp, and the hearts section is no exception.
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The broken heart is a clear example of emojis that can be interpreted with the naked eye, since it does not require much effort or a large context to understand that it speaks of heartbreak, although in the most extreme cases it can border on hate.
The broken heart emoji is the image of a classic heart, which appears in red or pink depending on the platform, with a crack in the middle, splitting it in two.
Usually the broken heart is sent to represent the pain that a person feels when they miss a loved one, either because she has ended a relationship or because some situation broke her heart. In these cases, the emoji can be applied to emphasize issues that cause disgust or rejection, so it transcends the sphere of couples, to apply to any other type of conversation, and not merely a couple.
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Sure, there are other meanings that don't relate much to suffering and sadness, but rather to a form of sarcasm, but here it's important to supplement with other appropriate emojis to avoid confusion.
Broken Heart or Broken Heart was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and some years later it was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Success! Navy from Cambodia raised $211 to fund cataract surgery.
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Navy's treatment was fully funded on August 10, 2019.
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Navy underwent cataract surgery.
Navy has returned home after a quick and successful surgery. Navy's visual acuity has improved, which will greatly improve her quality of life. She looks forward to being able to go places independently and see her grandchildren's faces.
Navy has returned home after a quick and successful surgery. Navy's visual acuity has improved, which will greatly improve her quality of li...
Navy is a 71 year old grandmother from Cambodia. She has one daughter, two grandchildren, and enjoys reading books in her free time.
One year ago, Navy developed a cataract in her right eye, causing her blurring vision and irritation. She has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, and going anywhere outside.
When Navy learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, she traveled for three and a half hours seeking treatment. On June 10, doctors will perform a small incision cataract surgery and an intraocular lens implant in her right eye. After recovery, she will be able to see clearly. Now, she needs help to fund this $211 procedure.
She says, "I hope that I will be able to see clearly and can go anywhere I want, such as to the pagoda, by myself."
Navy is a 71 year old grandmother from Cambodia. She has one daughter, two grandchildren, and enjoys reading books in her free time. One ...
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Navy was submitted by Lindsay Bownik, Stakeholder Relations Officer at Children's Surgical Centre, our medical partner in Cambodia.
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Navy received treatment at Kien Khleang National Rehabilitation Centre. Medical partners often provide care to patients accepted by Watsi before those patients are fully funded, operating under the guarantee that the cost of care will be paid for by donors.
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What kinds of symptoms do patients experience before receiving treatment?
Patients with cataracts experience decreased vision, discomfort, and irritation. Cataracts occur when the lens inside the eye becomes cloudy, causing functional blindness. These changes in the lens commonly occur with increasing age and therefore affect elderly people. Cataracts can also be congenital or traumatic.
What is the impact on patients' lives of living with these conditions?
The decreased vision from cataracts can cause functional blindness. This makes it difficult for the patient to conduct daily activities. Patients often need a family member to help guide and care for them. If the patient is elderly, this often affects a young child in the family. When a grandmother needs help getting around, a young child is often assigned to help with her daily tasks. That child cannot go to school.
What cultural or regional factors affect the treatment of these conditions?
In many countries in the developing world, surgical services are inadequate. Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness globally. Even where surgical services are available, barriers to surgery remain, including cost, shortage of human resources, poor infrastructure, and limited awareness about access to available services.
Risks and side-effects
What does the treatment process look like?
Cataract surgery is the most common surgery performed worldwide. Surgeons remove the cloudy lens and place a clear lens implant in its place.
What is the impact of this treatment on the patient's life?
A patient's vision can improve to 20/20 within one day after the surgery.
What potential side effects or risks come with this treatment?
Cataract surgery is highly effective and carries a low risk.
How accessible is treatment in the area? What is the typical journey like for a patient to receive care?
Cataract surgery is available in most areas of Cambodia. However, free surgery is not as widely available.
What are the alternatives to this treatment?
Some debilitating effects of cataracts can be improved with glasses. When the cataract becomes mature, however, the only definitive treatment is surgical.
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Tun is a 61-year-old man from Burma. He works as a day labourer at a parking lot and supports his family. He loves listening to music when he has free time. About 18 years ago, Tun's right foot was injured in a road accident. He just self-treated the wound because he could not afford to go to any clinics or hospitals. Although the wound did not cause him any pain or any other problems, it never was healed properly. About 3 months ago, Tun started to experience intermittent pain, especially at night. The pain worsened over time until he could no longer hide it and screamed whenever the pain struck. When his neighbors and co-workers found out about it, they advised him to go to Mawlamyine Christian Leprosy Hospital (MCLH). Once at the hospital, the doctor examined him and said that his leg is in a bad condition. The doctor also explained that, with the failed joint and non-healing ulcer, the best treatment for him is to have a below-knee amputation. Tun said, "I can't work daily because of my ulcer. That's why I have no money to seek treatment. My children are not able to work as they are still young. I'm not happy. I am in debt and it's increasing daily."
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Kyin is a farmer from Burma. She grows vegetable with her husband and her son on her husband's relatives' land for free. Their relatives own land that is available for half of the year after the rice is harvested. By selling the vegetables they grow, they earn a living. Kyin has been diagnosed with cataract and glaucoma in her right eye. She is sensitive to the light and her vision has deteriorated. She can only make out shapes and colors. Our medical partner, Burma Children Medical Fund, is requesting $1,500 to fund lens replacement surgery for Kyin. On January 21st, doctors will perform a lens replacement, during which they will remove Kyin's natural lenses and replace them with an intraocular lens implant in each eye. After recovery, she will be able to see clearly. Now, she needs help to fund this $1,500 procedure. "In the future after I recover, I would like to continue growing vegetables," said Kyin.
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Srey Pov is a 28-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. She has one daughter, and enjoys watching television in her free time. When she was fourteen years old, Srey Pov had an ear infection. This infection caused the tympanic membrane, or the ear drum, in her right ear to perforate. For this reason, Srey Pov experiences discharge, pain, hearing loss, and tinnitus. She cannot communicate clearly with others and she often experiences discomfort. Srey Pov traveled to our medical partner's care center to receive treatment. On November 19, she will undergo a myringoplasty procedure in her right ear. During this procedure, surgeons will close the perforation. Our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, is requesting $423 to fund this procedure. This covers medications, supplies, and inpatient care. "I hope that after surgery, my wife will be able to hear clearly again and I will not have to worry about her ears being infected." -Srey Pov's Husband
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