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Delta Dental of Tennessee Teams Up with Special Olympics and Pro Athletes to Encourage Kids to Wear Mouthguards
Tennessee-based coaches and youth sports league officials can order free mouthguards online through April 30
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (April 11, 2022) – Delta Dental of Tennessee (Delta Dental) today launched a statewide initiative to encourage young athletes to wear mouthguards while playing sports at every age and ability level. Mouthguards help protect your teeth and stabilize your jaw, minimizing the risk of injuries to the face, yet 84% of children do not wear them while playing organized sports, according to a survey commissioned by the American Association of Orthodontists.
To make mouthguards more accessible for kids, Delta Dental is giving away free boil and bite mouthguards to coaches and youth sports league officials, which can be ordered for athletes ages 10 and under participating in organized sports leagues in Tennessee.
"As a dentist, I saw many accidents involving the mouth that could have been prevented with a mouthguard, from cuts in the mouth to tooth loss," said Phil Wenk, CEO of Delta Dental. "A mouthguard should be as essential as the uniform."
Delta Dental has partnered with the Special Olympics Tennessee to ensure the athletes representing Team Tennessee at the 2022 USA Games in Orlando in June train and compete with a properly fitted mouthguard.
"Special Olympics Tennessee Healthy Athletes believes that oral health care and injury prevention is critical in allowing our athletes to compete at their best level. Delta Dental of Tennessee has empowered our athletes with oral healthcare education and provided an opportunity for them to receive preventative oral hygiene kits and sports mouthguard supplies." said Dr. Natalee Kamau, Manager of Health and Fitness at Special Olympics Tennessee. "Our local and state programs are beyond thankful for this partnership with Delta Dental of Tennessee, and their role as our Gold Sponsor for the 2022 USA Games Orlando and a continued partner in our Healthy Initiatives when it comes to dental health for individuals with intellectual disabilities."
More than three million teeth are knocked out each year in youth sporting events. Multiple studies have found that the highest number of dental injuries occur in basketball, where mouthguards are not required. Contact sports like football and hockey where mouthguards are required offer compelling evidence that wearing one can substantially lower a player's risk of dental injury. Since mouth and face guard requirements were implemented in high school and college football in the 1960s, the incidence of oral-facial injuries has dropped from approximately 50% to 0.5%.
"I've always worn a mouthpiece ever since I've played football since little league days," said Tennessee Titans free safety Kevin Byard. "When you talk about concussions in football, when you have a mouthpiece and you have something to bite down on when you're making a tackle or you're making a block, it decreases the chance of you having a concussion. It's very important, so I would encourage everybody to wear a mouthpiece."
Former NHL defenseman Hal Gill played professional hockey for 17 years, including for the Predators from 2011-2013, and currently serves as the color analyst for the team's radio broadcasts. Gill encourages kids to make wearing a mouthguard part of their routine at a young age, noting how much his mouthguard protected him. "After 17 years in the NHL, people always ask me, 'how many teeth have you lost?" Gill says. "I've only lost one, that was early on in my career. Ever since then I've worn a mouthguard, and I haven't lost a tooth since. I also have never had a concussion because it became part of my routine."
The free boil and bite mouthguards are recommended for use by youth 10 and under. The mouthguards come in two varieties: one with a strap that can be attached to a helmet, recommended for use in football and ice hockey, and one without the strap, ideal for sports like basketball, martial arts, and soccer. Coaches and league commissioners should submit a request online by here by April 30. Orders will arrive in time for fall sports seasons.
"Whether your child is starting on the varsity team or playing in their first rec league game, making sure they are wearing a mouthguard is an easy but often-forgotten way to lower their risk of getting hurt," said Wenk. "And if your child does get a tooth knocked out, don't panic – but do try to get to a dentist as soon as possible for evaluation."
To read more about the different varieties of mouthguards, cleaning and care guidelines, and tips for what to do if your child does get a tooth knocked out, visit www.DeltaDentalTN.com/mouthguards to learn more about Delta Dental's philanthropic work across Tennessee, visit the Smile180 Foundation website.
Delta Dental of Tennessee is the state's largest independent dental benefits carrier with nearly 1.4 million lives covered. As part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, Delta Dental of Tennessee members have access to the largest dental network in the nation with more than 154,000 providers serving more than 437,000 locations. With the simple mission of ensuring healthy smiles, Delta Dental of Tennessee works hard to help members of the communities it serves. Along with its corporate foundation, Smile180, Delta Dental of Tennessee donated more than $5.4 million in funding and in-kind services to over 130 organizations in 2021.


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Mayor Johnson assaulted with pie at Sacramento dinner event
Police: Johnson defended himself against Sean Thompson
Updated: 7:04 AM PDT Sep 22, 2016
Sacramento Police Department
Sean Thomas (Sept. 22, 2016)
SOURCE: Sacramento Police Department
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson got physical with a man who hit him in the face with a pie Wednesday night during a charity dinner event, Johnson's Chief of Staff Crystal Strait said.Sean Thompson, 32, was arrested after Johnson's security detail moved in and restrained him, Sacramento police said.Strait called the incident a shocking assault."The mayor was assaulted. I was standing right there and I'm still pretty shaken up," Strait said about three hours after it happened.Johnson gave a speech at the Seeds of HOPE dinner at Sacramento Charter High School about 6:40 p.m. before the man came up, pulled the pie from a bag and shoved it in Johnson's face, officials said.Strait said Johnson defended himself against the man. Officer Bryce Heinlein said Johnson hit Thompson, and there are multiple reports that Johnson took multiple strikes on Thompson.UFC fighter and Sacramento native Urijah Faber was at the event and posted a video on Snapchat describing what he saw."Roll up to the charity event, and the Mayor KJ got attacked by some guy from the side, and he took him out, bloodied him up, put him down," Faber said.Multiple people then took Thompson to the ground, Heinlein said.Thompson had a cut on his head after the incident and was taken to a hospital for treatment of the minor injury. Heinlein said is it unknown if Thompson was cut after being hit by Johnson or when he was taken down.Johnson was not hurt in the incident."Appreciate everyone. I'm doing fine," Johnson tweeted. "Thank you to Sac PD for being there. Be safe everyone."After he cleaned up, Johnson spoke again to the audience to calm nerves at the event, which was held in the school's garden and featured many of the city's top restaurateurs.Thompson was arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and a misdemeanor of battery on school or park property, jail records show. He was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on $100,000 bail.There is no word on what prompted Thompson to attack Johnson.Both police and Strait said Thompson was previously unknown to Johnson and his staff.However, that was not the first time Thompson had a run-in with law enforcement. On Dec. 8, 2011, he and dozens of others were arrested at Ceasar Chavez Park in Sacramento when they refused to obey the curfew that was put in place.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson got physical with a man who hit him in the face with a pie Wednesday night during a charity dinner event, Johnson's Chief of Staff Crystal Strait said.
Sean Thompson, 32, was arrested after Johnson's security detail moved in and restrained him, Sacramento police said.
Strait called the incident a shocking assault.
"The mayor was assaulted. I was standing right there and I'm still pretty shaken up," Strait said about three hours after it happened.
Johnson gave a speech at the Seeds of HOPE dinner at Sacramento Charter High School about 6:40 p.m. before the man came up, pulled the pie from a bag and shoved it in Johnson's face, officials said.
Strait said Johnson defended himself against the man. Officer Bryce Heinlein said Johnson hit Thompson, and there are multiple reports that Johnson took multiple strikes on Thompson.
UFC fighter and Sacramento native Urijah Faber was at the event and posted a video on Snapchat describing what he saw.
"Roll up to the charity event, and the Mayor KJ got attacked by some guy from the side, and he took him out, bloodied him up, put him down," Faber said.
Multiple people then took Thompson to the ground, Heinlein said.
Thompson had a cut on his head after the incident and was taken to a hospital for treatment of the minor injury. Heinlein said is it unknown if Thompson was cut after being hit by Johnson or when he was taken down.
Johnson was not hurt in the incident.
"Appreciate everyone. I'm doing fine," Johnson tweeted. "Thank you to Sac PD for being there. Be safe everyone."
After he cleaned up, Johnson spoke again to the audience to calm nerves at the event, which was held in the school's garden and featured many of the city's top restaurateurs.
Thompson was arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and a misdemeanor of battery on school or park property, jail records show. He was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on $100,000 bail.
There is no word on what prompted Thompson to attack Johnson.
Both police and Strait said Thompson was previously unknown to Johnson and his staff.
However, that was not the first time Thompson had a run-in with law enforcement. On Dec. 8, 2011, he and dozens of others were arrested at Ceasar Chavez Park in Sacramento when they refused to obey the curfew that was put in place.

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Umbrella-maker's grandson from Derby who made his mark in meteorology
Nicola Rippon explains the role of Derby's George Clarke Simpson in Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole
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George Clarke Simpson established, in 1926, what would be called the Simpson windforce scale when investigating the causes of lightning
In 1912 Britain's newspapers were full of the exploits of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's quest to reach the South Pole. In Derby, however, there was even greater reason to follow the explorer's progress, for the town's own George Clarke Simpson was the expedition's meteorologist.
Simpson was born at 44 Bag Lane, now East Street, on September 2, 1878. The Simpsons were a well-regarded local family with successful businesses within the town. Henry Simpson, George's grandfather, was an umbrella manufacturer, while his father, Arthur, was, according to the census of 1881, a toy dealer.
Three years later, an advertisement in the Derby Telegraph declared: "H Simpson, umbrella maker at the Umbrella Works, 45 Bag Lane, begs to announce that he has provided for the Season a Splendid Assortment of Silks, Union Silks, Dagmars, and other Durable and Elegant Materials for New Covering Your Good Frames.
An advert George Clarke Simpson's grandfather, Henry Simpson, placed in the Derby Telegraph, circa 1884
"An Umbrella Cover made and completed in half-an-hour. Also has New Stock of UMBRELLAS [and] is replete in variety at unprecedentedly low prices. Repairs promptly done. Charges strictly moderate. The trade supplied."
The Simpsons were indeed stalwarts of local society. Arthur would later become a town councillor, an alderman and would serve as Derby's mayor in 1907-8. When he died in 1917, his funeral was attended by all the great and the good of the town. Arthur was also an active church worker and a popular teacher of young men at Sunday school.
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Little wonder, then, that young George's studies at the Diocesan School in Friar Gate proved so successful, although when he left school he initially took up work with his family business. But his thirst for knowledge was not sated and he began to read popular science journals and to attend evening classes. So keen a scholar was he that, some three years later, his father decided to send him to Owen's College, Manchester, which was then part of Victoria University (now the University of Manchester). Although he was advised to study for an ordinary degree, the determined George chose an honours course in physics.
By 1901 he had become a tutor at Owens. Although he earned no salary, he did receive board and lodgings and was able to continue his research into the "resistance of metallic bismuth to an alternating current in a strong magnetic field". George appears in the census of 1901, living alongside fellow students and tutors at Dalton Hall – the first purpose-built halls of residence in an English university and which continues to serve that purpose to this day.
In 1902, he was awarded a three-year scholarship to attend Gottingen University's Geophysikalisches Institut. There, in Germany, he began his serious studies into the Earth's atmosphere, and furthered his research by living in Lapland for a year and taking weather readings several times a day. In 1905, he volunteered to be a scientific assistant in the Meteorological Office, before returning to Manchester, where he became the first ever lecturer in meteorology at a British university.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
In 1906, he took a position with the Indian Meteorological Service. He quickly became one of the most prominent scientists in his field and it was no surprise that explorer and adventurer Captain Scott called upon Simpson's talent when he formed his team to attempt to reach the South Pole. Scott knew that if he were to succeed, careful monitoring of the weather conditions in Antarctica would be vital.
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In Simpson – "admirable as a worker, admirable as a scientist and admirable as a lecturer" – he also knew that he had the right man. Naturally, Simpson was quick to accept the unique scientific opportunity offered by Scott's invitation. The whole expedition created great excitement across Britain, and not least in Derby where financial donations were raised to purchase several state-of-the-art meteorological devices.
The expedition ship Terra Nova left New Zealand in November 1910. It reached Antarctica in the first week of January 1911 and the party established its base at Cape Evans on Ross Island. Simpson was to spend most of his time there, where he installed and maintained a weather station and produced reports on the weather and atmospheric physics using the most sophisticated recording apparatus ever taken there.
The five men from the 1912 Scott Expedition to the South Pole. From left, Dr E. A. Wilson, Lt. H. R. Bowers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans and Capt. L. E.G. Oates
He proved a popular member of the team, known as "Sunny Jim" because his colleagues thought he resembled a character used to advertise Force breakfast cereal. Captain Scott was highly impressed with Simpson, declaring: "He is a master of his craft, untiringly attentive to the working of his numerous self-recording instruments, observing all changes with scientific acumen, doing the work of two observers at least and yet ever seeking to correlate an expanded scope. So the current meteorological and magnetic observations are taken as never before by Polar expeditions."
In preparation for the final push to the Pole, Scott and Simpson analysed masses of data. By the time the 12-man exploration party left in early November 1911, they were confident in their predictions of what to expect. There were caveats though, as Simpson wrote: "It appears that with all our resources, there is little margin, and a few accidents or a spell of bad weather would not only bring failure, but very likely disaster."
How prophetic his words would prove. Modern scientists believe that in virtually any other year, Simpson and Scott's climate predictions would have been accurate. But a freakish spell of extraordinarily cold weather trapped the party with limited provisions. Those left at Cape Evans, under Simpson's command, did not expect to hear anything from their colleagues for several months. All they could do was wait and continue their scientific research. Simpson later revealed that he had fully intended to stay with Scott's group for a second year but that his chief in India had taken ill and he had been required to return to his duties in Simla.
Railwaymen pose for historic photo at Derby Loco Works in 1947
In June 1912, before returning to India, Simpson visited his parents in Derby. He was able to give an interview to the Derby Telegraph, although it seemed "like other members of the expedition, he is bound by written agreement not to divulge certain information."
However, he could speak of the camaraderie: "We lived a very happy life together and I should think it was one of the most happy expeditions that ever went out. Everyone pulled together splendidly, and we got through our work well. The plans we made for the expedition were carried out with very little alteration, but of course, they had to be altered a little to meet unforeseen difficulties."
A Blue Plaque was unveiled in 2014 in East Street in honour of Sir George Clarke Simpson
Simpson told his interviewer that he should like to "say a few words about the specific works for which I was responsible because I feel that Derby people, who subscribed to the expedition fund, are entitled to hear a little about it." He told readers that conditions in the Antarctic, even some 400 miles from the South Pole, were "a succession of blizzards and driving snow, which made outdoor life quite impossible".
Reassuringly he reported: "The instruments which were purchased out of the Derby fund all behaved splendidly, and were thoroughly used. In consequence, a large amount of data has been amassed, which has never been obtained by other expeditions. By the aid of small balloons, I was able to investigate the upper atmosphere, and find how the temperature varied during the year. These small balloons were sent up and they had attached to them little instruments that were liberated by means of a time fuse, and fell upon the ice.
"They had silk threads attached to them, so that we might trace them. The thread was wound off a reel as the balloons ascended." Three months before Simpson spoke with his local newspaper, unbeknown to him, the final members of the party – Scott, Edward Wilson and "Birdie" Bowers, a close friend of Simpson, had perished. It would be several months before those waiting at base camp set out to find the missing men, by which point it was already clear that they could not have survived.
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Late in 1912, the search party spotted the tip of a tent peeking out from several feet of snow. Inside were three bodies, several farewell letters and Scott's diary, which would reveal that they had reached the South Pole, but been beaten there by Norwegian Roald Amundsen, and that Oates and Evans had already died. Several months later the survivors reached New Zealand and cabled Britain with what the Derby Telegraph would say, in January 1913, was the "tragic news".
Sir George Clarke Simpson in later life
Although Simpson is probably best known for his work with Scott, his most important work and greatest achievements really came in the years that followed. In 1914 he was, like many of his Indian Meteorological Office colleagues, drafted into the military. From March to May 1916 he was called to work as meteorological advisor to the British Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia. He then joined the Board of Munitions as Assistant Secretary.
In 1915 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. The following year he became Director of the Meteorological Office in London, going on to become its longest-serving director. During his tenure he led research into atmospheric electricity, ionization, radioactivity and solar radiation. He made investigations into the causes of lightning and, in 1926, established what would be called the Simpson windforce scale, a modification of the Beaufort scale.
In 1935 he was knighted and retired from the Met Office in 1938, but was recalled to active service during World War Two and placed in charge of Kew Observatory. Simpson, and his wife, Dorothy, appear on a 1939 passenger manifest of the Christiaan Huygens as it docked at Southampton, from Batavia in Indonesia.
Simpson continued his research until 1947 – into the electrical structure of thunderstorms, the reflective effects of the snow and the effect of radiation on polar ice – which would become important to our modern understanding of global warming. One of Derby's most remarkable sons died in Bristol on January 1, 1965.


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Hello! Sorry for skipping last week's update; I was overwhelmed at work and didn't spend enough time working on my game to justify posting an update.
Fireballs leave pools of fire on the ground. NPCs will catch on fire if they walk on the tile, affecting a status effect that deals 4-8 fire damage for a few turns. Fire will extinguish after a few turns.
Spiders are able to throw webs that makes NPCs unable to move, but able to take actions.
The Poison Field ability creates a pool of poison on a tile nearby the caster. Any NPC walking on the tile will get poisoned.
Wizards can use the Energy Field ability to create walls to protect themselves from creatures.
Thieves can leave deadly traps that can deal massive damage, debuffs or defensive.
NPCs have unique dialogues upon seeing or walking over tile effects, and also when getting status effects. These dialogues differ for each type of effect, so they will comment on being on fire, frozen, getting stuck, being stunned and so on.
I have to adjust the AI so that intelligent creatures do not step into traps, fire or other effects unless they don't have a choice (such as when they are fleeing). They also tend to use abilities that create effects that are too close to them, making them vulnerable. Flying monsters (such as beholders) should not be affected by most tile effects as they don't touch the ground.
Once you start testing a new game system, it becomes obvious how each little detail affects the game world. Suddenly you have a never ending list of things to take care of!
In the future, I also want to create tiles that are able to react to certain effects such as fire spreading through vegetation, lightning spreading through water, and so on. I want to bring some ideas that Nintendo brought in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to create emergent gameplay.
I also released the fourth version of the game to private testers; the focus of this version was to make it easier for new players to get into the game. I got great feedback from this version; it reminds me that I still have tons of work to do to make the game easier to pickup for the first time.
I am still working on the sewers dungeon; I will share more about them very soon once I made sufficient progress.


An investigation of patients with diabetes who were hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) suggests that few undergo glucose therapy intensification (GTI) at discharge. The research team added that long-term glucose control appears to be poor among patients with diabetes who suffer an AMI. Only about 31% of patients in the study underwent GTI, which occurred most frequently among those in whom clinical A1C was measured.
Abstract: Diabetes Care, March 12, 2012 (online).


The targeted therapy Adcetris™ (brentuximab vedotin) has received accelerated approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of two types of lymphoma: Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL).
Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system. It typically begins in the lymph nodes in one region of the body and then spreads throughout the lymph system. It may spread outside the lymph system to other organs, such as the lungs, liver, bone, and bone marrow. Treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma often involves chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. If the cancer returns after treatment, patients may be treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant.
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a rare but aggressive type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Patients with ALCL that has recurred following prior therapies are unlikely to be cured with further chemotherapy or an autologous stem cell transplant. Some patients may respond to an allogeneic stem cell transplant, but this approach is not feasible in elderly patients, those with significant other health problems, or those who fail to respond to therapy prior to transplant.
Adcetris targets a protein known as CD30, which is present on Hodgkin lymphoma cells as well as cells from other cancers, including ALCL. Once Adcetris enters CD30-positive cells, it releases the potent chemotherapy drug monomethyl auristatin E.
For Hodgkin lymphoma, Adcetris was approved for patients whose cancer has progressed after autologous stem cell transplant, or for patients who cannot receive a transplant but have received at least two prior chemotherapy regimens. The study that led to this approval involved 102 patients, all of whom were treated with Adcetris. Roughly three-quarters of the patients experienced a partial or complete response to treatment.
For systemic ALCL, Adcetris was approved for patients whose cancer has progressed after at least one prior chemotherapy regimen. The study that led to this approval involved 58 patients with CD30-positive systemic ALCL, all of whom were treated with Adcetris. Eighty-six percent of patients had a partial or complete response to treatment.
The most common side effects of Adcetris in both studies were low levels of white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets; nerve damage (peripheral sensory neuropathy); fatigue; nausea; upper respiratory tract infection; diarrhea; fever; rash; cough; and vomiting.
Adcetris is the first new drug approved for Hodgkin lymphoma since 1977 and the first drug approved specifically for ALCL.
Approval under the FDA's accelerated approval program allows patients to have early access to promising drugs. The company that manufactures the drug will be required to submit additional clinical information to confirm the drug's benefit.
Reference: US Food and Drug Administration Press Release. FDA approves Adcetris to treat two types of lymphoma. August 19, 2011.


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The Australian National Security Hotline was established on 27 December 2002 to receive information from the public about threats to national security and to refer them to policing and intelligence agencies. The hotline was established following the 2002 Bali bombings, in which 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians.

The Hotline was launched with a public information campaign that provided information about the heightened security environment. The campaign began with television advertising asking Australians to look out for a booklet that would be posted to every Australian home—'let's look out for Australia'.

The National Security Hotline can be contacted on 1800 1234 00 and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

See also
 Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

References
http://www.asio.gov.au/ASIO-and-National-Security/Report-a-Threat.html

External links
Australian National Security

National security of Australia
Communications in Australia
2002 establishments in Australia

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We shared our Top 5 Kitchen Tools before, but there are many more helpful ones out there. Here are a few more that I use daily, especially during the summer months.
This is key for prepping healthy dishes like smoothies, dipping sauces, homemade marinades and salad dressings (which are better for you than the bottled ones). It chops and emulsifies to make thick and creamy frozen cocktails and sauces, too. Blenders come in all shapes and sizes; my favorite is the classic Waring brand. I've had mine for years, and it works as well as the day I bought it.
There's nothing more frustrating than hacking through food with a dull knife. Every kitchen should have at least one good knife, and an 8-inch chef's knife should cover all your slicing and chopping needs. I chop up and store fresh fruit and vegetables in the fridge for cooking and snacking -- to get the job done, I use this vegetable knife. These knives may seem a bit pricey, but take good care of them and they'll last forever and are worth the investment.
Never used a professional-grade knife? Watch those fingers! Check out this Bobby Flay video, where he walks you through the basics.
This is my newest favorite! Easier to clean and store than traditional mandolines, this handy version slices fruits and veggies for salads, stir-fries, or desserts easily. You can adjust the blade for the perfect slice thickness -- and you get even pieces every time. I love it for paper-thin pieces of onion or thicker slices of radishes, carrots, cucumbers and potatoes.
I always tell my clients to have some sort of salad with dinner to up their fresh veggies. It's really important to wash lettuces and greens well (even the pre-washed, bagged kinds). Unfortunately, that can leave your greens wet and soggy. Instead of wasting paper towels, try a salad spinner, which spins all that water out in seconds.
Roasting gives veggies a totally different flavor than boiling or steaming. With all the fresh vegetables in season, I've been roasting broccoli, fennel, cauliflower, beets and summer squash. These pans are also terrific for baking double batches of cookies and brownies, too. Half sheet pans are 13 by 18 -- a few inches larger than a basic cookie sheet -- but should still be small enough to fit in your oven.
What do nutrition experts stock their kitchens with? Blenders, lemon zesters, ice cream scoops and crockpots -- find out what they use them for.
Can the key to healthy cooking be found in an aerosol can? There are pluses and minuses to using cooking spray.
While healthy home cooking doesn't require special equipment, Melissa shares five of the most-used tools in her kitchen – all of which help her create easy, tasty and healthy meals.


What often separates the highest-performing organizations from the rest is culture.
April 9, 2018 What often separates the highest-performing organizations from the rest is culture. We view culture as the cumulative effect of what people do and how they do it – and it determines an organization's performance.
If culture is so vital, then how do you make an organization's culture as high-performing as possible? No one-size-fits-all formula exists, but our research and experience point to six elements that help organizations do just that.
Define behavior changes that unlock business performance: Communicate these behaviors clearly so everyone understands what they look like in practice. This delivers a shared vocabulary to mobilize for change and provides a way to monitor progress in shifting the culture. These behaviors should be tailored to your business needs and context since no two organizations are the same.
Uncover root cause mindsets and reframe them: Mindsets people have about what they can and should do drive workplace behaviors. While those attitudes often originate away from work, the workplace has a profound effect on shaping the beliefs and values that underpin how people approach their work. Every cue from how performance reviews are conducted to how meetings are run sends a signal about the "right way" to think and behave. To shift to a new set of behaviors, organizations need to grasp the cues they send and the root cause mindsets they create. Then they can reframe and address those underlying mindsets to achieve new behaviors.
Engineer major business initiatives to role model and reinforce the desired culture: People take their cues about organizational values from their leaders' signals. For a culture shift to take hold, spotlight the behaviors and mindsets that deliver the most business value. This becomes self-reinforcing. If the desired behaviors and attitudes deliver value, they generate a magnetic pull within the organization, ensnaring leaders seeking to accelerate the momentum of what's succeeding.
Adjust work to create a coherent employee experience: Four levers shift mindsets and behaviors: articulating a compelling change story; leadership role modeling; skill building; and formal changes to processes, systems, and incentives. Executing a program where each lever works in harmony forms a coherent experience for employees that minimizes confusion and accelerates the transition to a new culture.
Produce opportunities for individuals to overcome personal barriers to change: For organizations to change, people must change. But that isn't easy, since everyone possesses a different level of willingness and ability to change. Design an approach that lets individuals dive deep to recognize what propels their behaviors so they can make conscious choices about how to change them.
Lead the journey in rigorous and employee-centric ways: Too often, a call for culture change only moves from the top of an organization down through the ranks. Instead, take an "employee-back" view when designing change efforts.
We frequently see culture treated as a side project, without the rigor commensurate with a major business initiative. Our research shows that organizations with higher performing cultures create a 3x return to shareholders. That's why we urge organizations to treat culture as a top priority. It is one of the most essential drivers of business performance.


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Exploring Arduino makes electrical engineering and embedded software accessible. Learn step by step everything you need to know about electrical engineering, programming, and human-computer interaction through a series of increasingly complex projects. Arduino guru Jeremy Blum walks you through each build, providing code snippets and schematics that will remain useful for future projects. Projects are accompanied by downloadable source code, tips and tricks, and video tutorials to help you understand Arduino. You'll gain the skills you need to develop your own microcontroller projects!
This new 2nd edition has been updated to cover the rapidly-expanding Arduino ecosystem, and includes new full-color graphics for easier reference. Servo motors and stepper motors are covered in richer detail, and you'll find more excerpts about technical details behind the topics covered in the book. Wireless connectivity and the Internet-of-Things are now more prominently featured in the advanced projects to reflect Arduino's growing capabilities. You'll learn how Arduino compares to its competition, and how to determine which board is right for your project. If you're ready to start creating, this book is your ultimate guide!
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Whether you're a first-timer just starting out in electronics, or a pro looking to mock-up more complex builds, Arduino is a fantastic tool for building a variety of devices. This book offers a comprehensive tour of the hardware itself, plus in-depth introduction to the various peripherals, tools, and techniques used to turn your little Arduino device into something useful, artistic, and educational. Exploring Arduino is your roadmap to adventure—start your journey today!
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Adafruit METRO 328 Fully Assembled - Arduino IDE compatible - ATmega328
Adafruit MetroX Classic Kit - Experimentation Kit for Metro 328
Adafruit Metro 328 Starter Pack
Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest M. Mims III
Ladyada's Electronics Toolkit
Circuit Playground Express
Budget Pack for Metro 328 - with Assembled Metro ATmega328P
Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket
Digi-Key Electronics
" Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."


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Les buñuelos, également appelés bimuelos, birmuelos, bermuelos, burmuelos, bunyols, bonuelos et bougnettes sont des beignets généralement farcis ou garnis. Ils proviennent vraisemblablement de la cuisine maure ou séfarade et se sont répandus dans d'autres pays à la suite de l'expulsion des Juifs et des Morisques d'Espagne.

Goûter populaire dans nombre de pays d'Amérique latine (en particulier au Mexique), des Philippines, de Turquie, de Grèce et du Maroc, les buñuelos sont un plat traditionnel de Noël, du Ramadan et de Hanoucca.

Plat et variations
Les buñuelos consistent typiquement en une pâte à base de blé levé, parfumée à l'anis, finement roulée ou aplatie, découpée en plusieurs pièces, frite et assaisonnée. Ils peuvent être farcis avec une variété d'ingrédients, depuis la marmelade au fromage.

Notes et références

Cuisine espagnole
Cuisine juive
Cuisine séfarade


So here I am, week 1, giving Kate's Life Circle a go. Have a look here to see the background. Am sure over the coming weeks I'll get more confident in what I am doing, writing and sharing, so apologise now if this first post feels a bit stilted. I know I need to do more things like this, more things to examine me, my life and everything around it. Knowing and doing though are two very different things!
And what is worse, I work in Talent & Development and have done for the past eight years. But I think its a bit like a builders house which always needs loads doing to it, my house needs some work too!
So onto the first task which was to look at the Wheel of Life, score myself in each major area and then blog the results.
A bit....I think the technical term is .......wonky!
May seem an odd score, after the last few months, but that's exactly why I gave it that number! Anyone who reads my blog can see I am working hard on improving my diet and fitness levels. I've lost 4 stones, successfully undertaken a 13 mile sponsored walk and joined a gym. Things are good in this area of my life!
Don't get me wrong, we could always do with more of the green stuff, who can't? But we manage to do pretty much what we want to do. Okay, there are no luxury foreign holidays (actually very few holidays) and the car is over eight years old and won't be replaced for a couple more. But no-one goes hungry, no-one is cold or dirty and we get a few treats every so often. I'm happy!
But its these things which make it a home! It's no point complaining about them, they'll be fixed when they can and when money allows. There are no leaks, things are reasonably clean and tidy and the house is warm. But most of all its home and I feel safe.
I am blessed with my family, we all get on! My brother has emigrated to New Zealand and although I don't speak to him very often, facebook is good for catching up and he is never far from my thoughts.
My sister, my best friend, lives in Kent with her family, a good five hour drive from each other. But that's what telephone's were invented for! And I get to see my parents at least once a week, they live 10 minutes away! What more could a girl wish for?
Friends? I don't get to see them as often as I would like, but they are always there for me and visa versa.
I've been married for nearly 19 years. I'm not saying all those years have been happy, but we are in a good phase at the moment! (come on ladies, you know what I mean!) Marriage needs to be worked at, it needs to be nurtured and cherished. There will always be rough patches, its how you ride through them which makes the difference.
I've gotten into a bit of a rut. I enjoy my life, I do the things I would like to do but I'm not necessarily trying new things. I don't go out to party's or evenings out like I used to, but do I really need to? I don't know, maybe something to work on.
I've got a job I love, with a company I love. I'm good at it, but sometimes don't feel appreciated.
I live by the adage, if you don't like it, its up to you to do something about it. Whenever a job hasn't given me what I need, I've either changed it or done everything in my power to get what I needed whether that was volunteering for extra responsibility or going for promotions! You spend too much time at work to be doing stuff you don't enjoy. I think I 'm getting nearer to the point I need to something about it.
Now this is an area I need to work at! Last year I said I was going to join a evening class and learn to do something new. Did I? I want to learn how to use photoshop. Have I? I want to take up my CIPD again. Have I?
What's stopping me? I could say it was time, I could say it was money, but they wouldn't be the real reason. The real reason is me. I need a kick start (literally!) a something....... I've just not worked out what that something will be yet!
And like all good things, we've come full circle and back to why I'm eager to be part of Kate's Life Circle. I want to join things up, smooth out the bumps! Only I can do that, sometimes though you need a little help from your friends, especially if they are virtual ones.
of the relationship, but it is still included to this day on most Gibson guitar cases guitar centers.
[A previous version of this famous song by Bon Jovi, who is currently supporting the band. 77- x 0 71- x 1. The hands of the baker and the candlestick maker Are those of a skillful man. Make use of digital tuners to check the video below," Play in a Day" was reprinted many times, with many workers disappearing after months or even weeks.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [163] "For You Blue"
While "For You Blue" appears on both Let it Be and Let it Be ... Naked, their formal structures are identical and their timings are 3 seconds off (the first 3 seconds of silence from the track on Let it Be is omitted on Naked) - close enough not to need both spelled out here.
Formal structure of [163] "For You Blue": Simple Verse (12 bar blues)
Introduction	0:00-0:13 musically independent from the rest of the song
Verse 1	0:13-0:35
Solo 1 0:57-1:20
Comments: "For You Blue" is another that uses contiguous verses. While it's very common to find other Beatles songs that follow verse 1 immediately with verse 2 ([1] "Love Me Do", [7] "Do You Want to Know a Secret", [8] "Misery", [9b] "Anna (Go To Him)", [9c] "Boys", [9d] "Chains", [9f] Twist and Shout, [10] "From Me To You", [13e] "Till There Was You", [17] "Little Child", [19] "Not a Second Time", [23] "Can't Buy Me Love", [25] "And I Love Her", [26] "I Should Have Known Better", [28] "If I Fell'', [29] "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You", [31] "A Hard Day's Night", [31b] "Matchbox", [32] "I'll Cry Instead", [35] "Things We Said Today", [40] "I Don't Want To Spoil the Party", [41] "What You're Doing", [42] "No Reply", [43] "Eight Days a Week", [44] "She's a Woman", [44b] "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey", [46d] "Words of Love", [47] "Ticket to Ride", [49] "I Need You", [50] "Yes It Is", [51] "The Night Before", [52] "You Like Me Too Much", [54] "Tell Me What You See", 56b] "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", [56c] "Bad Boy", [57] "I've Just Seen a Face", [59] "Yesterday", [66] "If I Needed Someone", [68] "We Can Work it Out", [71] "Michelle", [77] "Tomorrow Never Knows", [80] "Paperback Writer", [82] "Doctor Robert", [84] "Taxman", [88] "Yellow Submarine", [89] "I Want To Tell You", [92] "She Said She Said", [95] "Penny Lane", [96] "A Day in the Life", [99] "Fixing a Hole", [100] "Only a Northern Song", [101] "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", [105] "Within You Without You", [111] "All Together Now", [114] "All You Need Is Love", [116] "I Am the Walrus", [122] "Lady Madonna", [126] "Don't Pass Me By", [128] "Blackbird", [129] "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey", [135] "Sexy Sadie", [138] "Mother Nature's Son", [139] "Yer Blues", [140] "Rocky Raccoon", [143] "Dear Prudence", [144] "Glass Onion", [145] "I Will", [149] "Honey Pie", and [152] "Long Long Long" are all examples), it is somewhat uncommon to find contiguous verses other than verses 1 and 2. In fact, "For You Blue" is just the 13th to do so, behind [19] "Not a Second Time" (in which verses 1 and 2 are contiguous, as are verses 3 and 4), [31b] "Matchbox" (in which the first three and last two verses are contiguous), [56b] "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (in which verses 1-2 are contiguous, as are verses 4-5), [77] "Tomorrow Never Knows" (in which verses 1-3 are contiguous, as are verses 4-7), [80] "Paperback Writer" (in which verses 1-2 are contiguous, as are verses 3-4), [84] "Taxman" (in which verses 1-2 are contiguous, as are verses 3-4), [95] "Penny Lane" (in which verses 1-2 are contiguous, as are verses 4-5), [96] "A Day in the Life" (in which verses 1-3 are contiguous), [129] "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" (in which all three verses are contiguous), [135] "Sexy Sadie" (in which verses 1 and 2 are contiguous, as are verses 3 and 4), [140] "Rocky Raccoon" (in which verses 1-5 are contiguous, as are verses 6-7), [143] "Dear Prudence" (in which verses 1 and 2 are contiguous, as are verses 3 and 4), and [157] "Dig a Pony" (in which verses 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 are contiguous).
In addition to contiguous verses, there are also contiguous solos. While a handful of Beatles songs to date have featured multiples solos ([29b] "Long Tall Sally", [38] "I'm a Loser", [46b] "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", [46e] "Honey Don't", [58] "I'm Down", and [119] "The Fool on the Hill", and [160] "Get Back"), the only one to use contiguous solos was [38] "I'm a Loser".


Are you a news enthusiast that's itching to know the latest news before the reports splash? Chances are that you are looking for a scanner, right? If yes, then this post is for you – we are going to review Uniden's BC365CRS 500 Channel radio scanner. As you may already know a radio scanner can unlock a whole new world of news and gossip – you may want to listen to the emergencies, communications or news coverage to stay abreast. You can read all about the best police scanners on our homepage so let's dive straight into to looking closely at this particular scanner.
Elegant black finish – most base scanners come with an old worn-out look, Uniden have made this scanner with an elegant black sleek finish.
Has a sturdy body – this may sound stupid but my old base scanner cracked when a shelf fell down leaving its components exposed, I think this particular scanner would of took the punch a little better.
Comes with a weather alert – always great for tuning into weather broadcasts and being the top conversational starter when it comes to knowing what weather warnings your town is facing.
Is compliant with narrowband – very important for a scanner these days! I won't go into details because I assume you know your stuff about radio scanners.
FM broadcasting stations – great for tuning into FM frequencies on your time off.
It can scan 90 channels in 1 second – absolutely amazing speed on this scanner allowed me to scan 90 channels in just 1 second, gone are the days of waiting and missing that all important news.
Its analog model makes it secured – a secured scanner is a safe scanner.
Can scan memory availability as well – being able to store frequencies is a must for me so that feature really helps to switch between channels easily.
It can also limit its frequency searching – great for if you want to drill down to a specific frequency range.
This beast has a loud audio – as I am getting older I start to appreciate a louder scanner, also some frequencies can have very poor reception making the broadcast quite so this feature really helps.
It was easy to install however could have been easier – if you know what you are doing then you are good to go but it could be a little bit of a learning curve for a newbie.
From looking at the pros you can possible recognize some cons. Remember this is an analog scanner so if you are seeking digital system to pick up digital broadcasts then it will not work for you. By reading other reviews you can tell the type of people that buy this scanner are looking for something simple and not too fancy. Some users have complained that they cannot tune into many frequencies and honestly, you need to know how to operate this scanner to unlock its full potential. Again, some have found this to be noisy, but you can always turn down the volume so it's not a real problem.
If your local area still runs on analog and you are looking for a easy to use base police scanner then this scanner could be the one for you – saying that if you are new to radio scanning you may want to seek an easier handheld scanner first. As we have already mentioned, it also features FM broadcasting which will keep you entertained all evening. That suggests with this gadget by your side, you will hardly feel the need for any company. It is a complete package in itself and it can go beyond your expectations as a base radio scanner.


Join Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, along with local business leaders Howard Eng, President and Chief Executive Officer of Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and Mohamad Fakih, Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Fine Foods to hear how they define success and how they went from Canadian inspirations to internationally recognized business experts in a competitive and ever-changing market.
What was their drive? Who inspired them? What challenges lay on the road ahead?
As part of the experience, the City of Mississauga will be launching its new interactive business activation booth. Visitors can learn how to take their business to the next level, whether it be to start-up, expand or locate to Mississauga to be among other Fortune 500 companies.
Mississauga is home to more than 90,000 thriving businesses. From various key sectors including advanced manufacturing, life sciences, financial services as well as information and communications technology, this is what makes Mississauga one of the most robust and diverse business communities in Canada.
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Using Simple Omnibus Format in Text (SOFT), researchers can readily upload and download data. The resource is text-based so can be compatible with simple spreadsheets and data applications. A SOFT file can simultaneously contain both tabulated data as well as descriptive information for a chain of related Platforms, Samples, and/or Series records.
How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: SOFT; Simple Omnibus Format in Text; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.3gxr9b; Last edited: Jan. 8, 2019, 1:27 p.m.; Last accessed: Apr 21 2019 7:54 p.m.
Record updated: Sept. 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.
Before: Simple Omnibus Format in Text (SOFT) is designed for rapid batch submission (and download) of data. SOFT is a simple line-based, plain text format, meaning that SOFT files may be readily generated from common spreadsheet and database applications. A single SOFT file can hold both data tables and accompanying descriptive information for multiple, concatenated Platforms, Samples, and/or Series records.
NCBI GEO: mining tens of millions of expression profiles--database and tools update.
NCBI GEO: mining millions of expression profiles--database and tools.
Gene Expression Omnibus: NCBI gene expression and hybridization array data repository.
The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a public repository that archives and freely distributes microarray, next-generation sequencing, and other forms of high-throughput functional genomic data submitted by the scientific community. In addition to data storage, a collection of web-based interfaces and applications are available to help users query and download the studies and gene expression patterns stored in GEO.
ACLAME is a database dedicated to the collection and classification of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) from various sources, comprising all known phage genomes, plasmids and transposons.


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Ghosts!
Ghosts walking the streets of Dan Sai during Phi Ta Khon. "Phi" is Thai for ghost and "khon" means mask. So technically they're ghosts with masks.
I went up to Dan Sai with Gavin Gough to photograph the annual Phi Ta Khon, or ghost festival. Like the Wat Bang Phra tattoo festival, it's one of the uniquely Thai celebrations of the supernatural.
The Ghost Festival has its roots in Buddhism. According to the legend, Vessantara Jataka, a prince in one of the Buddha's past lives, was thought to have died during a long journey. When he returned from the journey alive, a party was thrown in his honor. It was so loud it woke the ghosts in the forest. To honor the spirit of Prince's return, locals dress as ghosts and come into town.
A "ghost" strolls through Dan Sai.
These are not Casper like ghosts though. No low profile simple white bedsheet with eyeholes. These are high profile ornate outfits with intricate masks that virtually scream, "Check me out!" The ghosts walk through town drinking the local rice wine and whiskey and poking people with large phallic sticks.
A Phi Ta Khon mask.
The crowd favorites are probably the mud men. A group of men, fueled up on rice whiskey, cover themselves in mud from the Mun River (which runs through Dan Sai) and shuffle through town. The mud men channel the town's guardian spirit, Phra U-pakut, who lives in the river.
Mud men shuffle through Dan Sai.
If ghosts aren't your thing there's still plenty to do at the festival. It has become big business. There are stages with entertainment and cultural shows and a market of local crafts and artisan products. And of course there's food. Lots and lots of food, most of it fiery Isan style food.
One of the cultural shows at the Phi Ta Khon.
The second day of the festival ends with a rocket launching party. People gather near a bamboo scaffolding in the temple cemetery and watch as folks launch large (6 - 10 feet long) rockets into the sky. The rocket launches are a Thai Isan tradition to ensure a good rainy season.
Lift off! A homemade rocket blasts into the sky.
The festival is officially three days but the first two days are the best for visitors. That's when the ghosts and other colorful characters come into town for a raucous good time. The last day is reserved for merit making at the local temple and is much more low key.
Ghosts sit on the porch of the local temple towards the end of the ghostly part of the festival.
There are more photos of the Phi Ta Khon in my archive or available from ZUMA Press.
Phi Ta Khon in Loei - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Buddhism, Festivals, Thailand
Knowing the Rules
A portrait of a tuk-tuk driver in the Bangkok flower market. The pose, the light, the direct look into the camera all serve to tell the reader that this is a portrait.
Thomas Edison is reported to have said, "Hell, there are no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something," when a lab assistant asked him about rules in the lab. There are a lot of rules in photojournalism - we don't set up or fake photos, we don't use software (or, in the old days, the enlarger) to change the truth of what we're photographing. Our captions, like our photos, have to be truthful.
But understanding the rules, and how to work within them, is the mark of an experienced photojournalist.
The cardinal rule, for example, is that we don't set up or fake a photo. But sometimes when we're working for a newspaper or a magazine we get sent to assignments where there is no photo to be made.
For example, we might get assigned to photograph a citizen who saved a baby from a burning building. The baby is in the hospital and the fire was three days ago but it's still your job to come back with a picture.
Under these circumstances it's appropriate to make a portrait of the citizen, at the scene of the fire if possible, in some other setting if not.
The difference between setting up a fake photo and making a portrait of the citizen hero is intent. To pose the citizen in front of a burning building, running to the camera holding aloft the saved infant would be to mislead the reader into believing the photo is "real."
A portrait, with the citizen hero in front of the building, lit with strobes created in such a way that the photo is clearly not a found moment is still truthful and accomplishes your assignment of making a photo of the hero citizen.
W. Eugene Smith was one of the pioneers of photojournalism. He produced an amazing body of work throughout his career that inspired thousands of photographers (including me). His essay on the Spanish village of Deleitosa is just one of his standouts. He also regularly violated basic tenets of photojournalism. I doubt that he would be employable in today's world.
Around 1956 (the exact date is unknown), Philippe Halsmann, the great portrait and fashion photographer, interviewed Smith. Their rambling conversation visited many of the milestones in Smith's career including a discussion of staging photos.
Halsman asked Smith, "Why do you break this basic rule of candid photography?" (In reference to staging photos.)
Smith replied, "I didn't write the rules — why should I follow them? Since I put a great deal of time and research to know what I am about? I ask and arrange if I feel it is legitimate. The honesty lies in my — the photographer's — ability to understand."
Today staging documentary photos is strictly prohibited. Most news organizations have a written policy against it. But that was then and this is now.
Labels: Bangkok, Tech Notes
The main map window in Lightroom. Dragging a photo from the filmstrip at the bottom onto the map will embed the location data. In this case it's reporting that I have 72 photos in my catalog made at the traffic circle in Poipet, Cambodia.
Lightroom has a mapping component built into it that can make it easy to figure out where you were when you made that once in a lifetime photo.
There are a couple of way to embed the data. The easiest and most reliable way to do it is to use a camera that has built in GPS, like the Canon 6D. If you turn on the GPS function (consult the camera manual for specifics) the camera will log your location as you photograph and embed your GPS data in the metadata.
When you import the photos into your Lightroom catalog, they will automatically show up on the map.
(Cameras that record GPS data are not available in all markets, depending on local laws. If you're buying a camera in a place that prohibits the GPS function, that function will be disabled and you won't be able to access it. This is why there are two models of the Canon 6D, one with GPS and wifi enabled and one without.)
If you don't have a 6D, or one of the other cameras that embeds GPS data, you have to work a little harder to get the location data into your file.
In my case, I use an iPhone and the camera in my iPhone to tell me where I am. I usually have location services turned on. When I'm photographing in a new place, or a place where I'm not sure of where I am, I take a couple of pictures with my iPhone. I import the "real" pictures (those made with my 5D Mark III) into my LR catalog then I import the photos from my iPhone into the same folder in my LR catalog. I keep the clocks in my cameras and iPhone in synch, so if I have a picture made at 6:20AM with my iPhone, and pictures made at 6:19AM and 6:21AM made with my Canons, it's a safe bet that the pictures were made at the same location. I then copy the location data from my iPhone over to the pictures made with my Canons.
Finally, if you don't have an iPhone or GPS enabled camera but you do know where you were when you made a picture, you can embed the location manually.
Click on the Map module in Lightroom. This will take you into the map mode. Turn on the "Filmstrip" view at the bottom of the LR screen. Back in the map, zoom into the specific location where your photo was made. How far into the map you have to zoom depends on how specific you want to be. If all you care about is the city and province, you can work at low magnifications. If the actual GPS coordinates or specific street address are important you should zoom in until you can see your specific location. Select the photos in the filmstrip view and drop them onto your location on the map. Lightroom will fill in the location data in your IPTC, including the GPS coordinates.
That's how I got the location data into the pictures at the top of this post. I didn't actually make 72 pictures at the traffic circle. I made them in the vicinity of the traffic circle, all within a hundred meters of the circle, but dropping them on the traffic circle was close enough for my needs (which was just the town and province in Cambodia where I made the photos).
It's easy to tell at a glance if your photos have location data embedded in them.
The icons in the bottom of the LR thumbnail tell you a lot about the photo.
When you're in the grid view in Lightroom you'll see a series of icons in the bottom right corner of the photo (circled in red in the photo above). The icons mean (left to right): keyworded (the tag), location data embedded (the pushpin), cropped (the rectangle) and developed (the +/- on the far right).
Lightroom makes it easy to remember where you were when you made your photos. Don't be afraid to go into the Map module and do some exploring.
Labels: Bangkok, Border, Cambodia, Tech Notes
Not a Club You Want To Be In
Cambodian construction workers relax on a pile of water mains on a job site in central Bangkok.
It's been a rough couple of months for Thailand.
Violence inspired by the anti-government protests grabbed headlines and sullied the reputation of the "Land of Smiles."
Then the army staged a coup.
The final straw was Thailand's being demoted to Tier 3 status on the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) for allowing human trafficking, slavery and gross human rights abuses of immigrants. Tier 3 status is reserved for the worst offenders - Zimbabwe, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan are some of the other Tier 3 countries. (Neighboring Malaysia's status was also downgraded from Tier 2 - Watchlist to the Tier 3. Like Thailand's downgrade, Malaysia's was automatic based on four years on the Watchlist.)
Thai officials are outraged at being on the Tier 3 list. At a press conference Saturday morning, Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, said Thailand did not belong on Tier 3 status. He pointed out that Thailand has prosecuted nearly 400 people in the last year for human trafficking and secured more than 200 convictions. He added that, "Tier 3 is for countries doing nothing. We have made an earnest effort. I would ask the US to go back and reconsider."
Immigration in Thailand, like the United States, is complicated.
Just as the American economy largely relies on an unseen immigrant army to fuel its growth, so does the Thai economy rely on low paid immigrant labor. While undocumented immigrants in the US tend to come from Latin America, undocumented immigrants in Thailand tend to come from neighboring Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos.
Immigrants work the construction sites that dominate the Bangkok skyline. They crew the fishing boats that sail the region's waters. Migrant farm workers tend the fields that feed the world.
Working class Thais complain that the immigrants bring crime and disease and take their jobs, just like working class Americans complain about immigrants from Latin America. Employers in Thailand, like employers in the US, say they hire immigrants because they can't find Thais (in Thailand) or Americans (in the US) to take the jobs they have.
I've had more than one Thai employer tell me they couldn't find Thais willing to work in the fields or crew the ships or scramble across the scaffolding. One said "Thais just want to work in air conditioned malls in Bangkok." Close your eyes and it's easy to imagine you're talking to an American farm manager talk about hiring field hands or factory owner talking about hiring line workers.
Burmese crew on a Thai fishing trawler in port in Samut Sakhon.
Thailand's immigration woes grabbed the headlines two weeks ago, before the TIP report was released, when the UK newspaper the Guardian published a scathing report on slavery in the Thai fishing industry. Reports of slavery in the Thai fishing industry are not new, but the Guardian piece alleged that slavery was systemic and wide spread and connected large US and European retailers like Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour and Costco to the slave trade through the shrimp they sold. (I encourage you to follow the link and read the Guardian piece.)
Last week, the immigration issue in Thailand blew up again when nearly 200,000 Cambodian immigrants fled Thailand, en masse, and returned to Cambodia. It was a mass migration not seen in Southeast Asia since the dark days on the Killing Fields.
Cambodians get off a bus from Thailand after fleeing a feared crackdown.
The exodus went on for nearly a week.
By some counts more than half of all Cambodians living in Thailand have left. There are two construction sites on our street in Bangkok that have been quiet since the Cambodian exodus. Construction trade groups in Thailand are saying they can't find workers to replace the Cambodians and their sites are idle. The Thai junta has promised to help match workers up with vacancies but it takes time to get the system up and running. (Interestingly, Gen Prayuth-Chanocha, commander of the junta and effectively Thailand's head of government, wrote a dissertation in 2008 that identified migrant workers and undocumented persons as one of four urgent and immediate threats to Thai society.)
I've been photographing immigration related stories in Thailand since 2009. I was drawn to the issue because of the similarity between immigration here and in the US. Here in Thailand and in the US immigration is an issue that won't go away - there are a lot more similarities than there are differences.
Thailand Accused of Abusing Immigrants - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Burma, Cambodia, Civil Rights, Immigration
You Can Go Home Again
A Cambodian woman hands her child to a soldier while they get out of the truck that brought them back to Cambodia from Thailand.
There's a mass migration going on in Aranyaprathet, a Thai town on the border with Cambodia. Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers, many without immigration papers or work permits, are fleeing Thailand and going back to Cambodia.
Poipet, the town on the Cambodian side of the border, is inundated with returning migrants. The traffic roundabout in "downtown" Poipet (a tiny town of about 60,000 people) has been turned into a welcome center. Buses and trucks full of Cambodian migrants arrive in town and volunteers direct them to military trucks that take them back to their home villages.
Cambodian women in a Thai police truck look at the cage in the back of the truck as they arrive in Poipet.
The exodus started last week, and its cause is a mystery. Cambodians, apparently fearing a crackdown by the junta that unseated the elected government, started going home. What started as a trickle became a flood and by Monday more than 120,000 Cambodians had fled Thailand. On Monday another 40,000 crossed the border back to Cambodia. By most estimates there about 200,000 Cambodian migrants in Thailand. If this continues, soon there will be no Cambodians left in Thailand.
Migrants rest in the back of a Cambodian army truck while they wait to be taken back to their home village.
I went to Aranyaprathet and Poipet Monday.
Poipet was a beehive of activity. Hundreds of Cambodian military trucks were parked throughout downtown. NGOs Samaritan's Purse and World Vision setup a welcome center with health screenings, food and water. Local volunteers came to town to help in whatever way they could while the Cambodian military provided transportation. Buses and trucks, packed to overflowing, crossed the border, came into town and unloaded migrants who grabbed some food, were directed to waiting trucks and then, as the trucks filled, were on their way home. It was as smooth as a forced relocation could be.
Back in Aranyaprathet, on the Thai side, migrants came in by bus and train. When the train from Bangkok arrived, it was packed, every seat taken, no space left in the aisles. When the train stopped in the Aranyaprathet station, people tossed their belongings out the window and then jumped out of the windows. Unarmed Thai soldiers and police surrounded the train and prevented the migrants from disappearing into town.
A young woman perched in a window gets ready to jump out of the train.
Police guided the migrants to the front of the station and told them to sit in the street. They closed the roads between the station and police station (about a kilometer) and marched the Cambodians to an events building across the street from the police station.
Police provided a meal (and ice cream) at the events center than processed the migrants at the police station before putting them into trucks and taking them back to Cambodia.
Migrants wait in front of the train station before walking down to the police station for their eventual repatriation to Cambodia.
The real mystery in the exodus is why? Who started the rumors that authorities were going to crack down on migrants? And what do they have to gain?
I talked to Cambodians in both Poipet and Aranyaprathet. None of them told me they had directly been threatened by Thai authorities. Their stories were consistent: they left because their friends, neighbors or family members had left. One said he left because his boss told him to leave, that the army might be coming.
I talked to the police commander in Aranyaprathet and he told me his officers were not rounding up migrants and that the police operation was more focused on providing help than making arrests.
The migrants weren't really under arrest but they certainly weren't free to go. Police and soldiers met the train. They stopped migrants who tried to leave the train station from doing so and took them all into town and provided a hot meal before putting them on trucks and sending them back to Cambodia.
The use of trucks to haul people in this part of the world is not at all unusual. Construction companies haul their workers to and from job sites in the dump trucks they use to haul sand and gravel during the shift. The cheapest local buses are trucks some with seats, some without, so it's not fair to make a judgement about the use of trucks for hauling people around.
A woman carries her son through the train station in Aranyaprathet.
And the situation with migrant laborers is extremely complicated. Thailand has the most diverse economy and best infrastructure in the region. Migrant workers, most undocumented, come to Thailand from neighboring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. They work here and send money home.
Working class Thais resent the foreign workers, who they say take jobs and bring crime and disease. Thai employers say they have no choice but to hire the foreign workers because Thais won't do the work. Employers argue that Thais want to work in air conditioned offices and malls in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
Discussions about undocumented workers in Thailand are just like the discussions we have in the US about undocumented workers.
This exodus of workers has reached a critical phase. Soon there will not be many Cambodians left in Thailand. That means no one to work in the construction industry or farm fields; as maids or gardeners. Already a construction industry trade group is calling for the return of the workers.
There are more photos of the exodus in my archive or available from ZUMA Press.
Cambodian Migrants Flee Thailand - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Border, Cambodia, Immigration, Thailand
Restoring Happiness the Thai Way
A dancer performs at a "Happiness for Thais" party in Lumpini Park Sunday.
Since the coup the junta has been on a tear to restore happiness to the Thai people. It sounds silly, but the country has been riven by the recent political impasse. The situation had come close to open civil war between Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts (and the organizations the Yellows have morphed into). Shootings and grenade attacks were commonplace and both sides used vitriol against the other.
There was a real need for a nationwide time-out and General Prayuth, while suspending free speech and rounding up opponents of the coup, has also tried to provide the time-out.
The junta has organized a series of events straight out of the "Winning Hearts and Minds" (WHAM) manual. Free food, entertainment, health checks, haircuts all provided by the army or army approved organizations. Sunday there was a "restore happiness" party in Lumpini Park, the site of large protests against the elected government before the coup.
A Thai bagpipe band, complete with kilts, marches through Lumpini Park.
A couple of thousand people showed up for the afternoon's entertainment. They partook of the food and scored free tee shirts, posed for "selfies" with soldiers (which has turned into a very popular past time in Thailand post coup) and generally had a good time.
"Selfies" with the Royal Thai Police mounted unit.
There are more photos of the Happiness party in my archive or available from ZUMA Press.
Junta Brings Happiness Party to Lumpini Park - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Bangkok, Coup
Dawn in the Delta
Sunrise in the Ayeyarwady Delta.
We drove out to Pathein in the Ayeyarwady Delta, southwest of Yangon, during our week in Myanmar. The Delta is the rice bowl of Myanmar. From the time you leave Yangon until you reach the Pathein river front you drive through a seemingly limitless vista of rice fields broken up only by occasional corn fields.
This is agriculture the way it's been practiced for a millennia or more. The fields are plowed by teams of oxen or water buffalo. Weeding is done by hand, by workers with hoes.
Workers break ground in a tiny paddy.
The rainy season is just starting, in a month this will all be rice and underwater.
I did the same drive last year when I was in Myanmar. Last year I made the trip a little later in June and the rainy season had come a little earlier. There was more activity in the fields last year - this year it felt like people were just getting started.
The other thing that struck me was how quickly change is coming to the Delta. There are gas stations and restaurants being built along the highway the whole way down to Pathein.
People on a motorcycle pass a natural gas exploration well.
We also passed a natural gas exploration well. A local person told us the well was owned by Chinese interests and that other exploration wells were planned in the area.
There are more photos of the Delta in my archive and available from ZUMA Press.
Ayeyarwady Delta Dawn - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Agriculture, Burma, Myanmar, Poverty
A Nod and a Smile
I photographed this young man while I was leaning out of the door on the train as we rolled through the Burmese countryside.
When I'm photographing on the street I sometimes ask permission to photograph and sometimes don't depending on the scene I'm working.
In the photo above for example, I was riding the Yangon Circular Train and I saw the man looking out the window. I leaned out the door of the rail car and made a couple of frames of him while the train chugged down the tracks. After the first couple of pictures, while I was still leaning out the door, I put my camera down and thanked him. Then I brought the camera back up to photograph some more and he smiled and nodded okay.
Moments later, after brief eye contact and a little nod (because I don't speak Burmese and it was too noisy to talk even if I did), a much nicer photo.
That's when I made this photo. He knew I was there (he also knew I was there in the first photo) but the few seconds I took to engage him made all the difference. I prefer the latter photo. I like his smile and body English. To me, the second photo feels more natural and less confrontational.
Sometimes it's more disruptive to ask permission before photographing, this is especially true when it's a moment, like the photo below.
A man prays at Botataung Pagoda in Yangon.
I was at Botataung Pagoda in Yangon. I was watching people make offerings and praying at a small chapel in the pagoda. People would make offerings of fruit, say a prayer then touch their foreheads to the statue's finger. I slipped into position during a break in the line of people praying. I waited for prayers to resume and made this picture when this man came up to the statue to pray.
In a similar situation at Shwedagon Pagoda I asked a couple of monks if it would be okay to photograph them.
Monks at Shwedagon Pagoda. I don't speak Burmese, so I couldn't ask them outright if I could photograph them. I showed them my camera and they nodded yes.
I saw the monks sitting together in front of the Buddha statue. I walked up to them, showed them my camera and asked if I could photograph them. They nodded yes, I made five or six frames and then showed them the photos (using the LCD on the back of my camera).
The hardest part of photographing strangers is just doing it. I don't have a hard and fast rule about when I will or will not ask permission before making a photo. In general, if asking permission is more disruptive than not asking permission, I won't ask first I'll simply photograph. Even then though, I almost always try to preposition myself in a way that I can work without being disruptive and so people know I'm there. In the photo from Botataung, I was standing about a meter from the statue. I got into position at the statue before people started praying and I didn't leave until after people finished. People knew I was there photographing and I tried to be as discrete as I could under the circumstances.
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Labels: Burma, Myanmar, Tech Notes, Train
Yangon's Heritage
The Strand Hotel in Yangon is one of the city's architectural gems. It opened in 1901.
Yangon used to be known as Rangoon. Before World War II, when Burma (now Myanmar) was a British colony, the city rivaled Singapore as a commercial center. The city streets were lined with stately colonial buildings.
Myanmar was politically and economically isolated for much of its post independence history, ruled by a series of autocratic, xenophobic military dictators. There was little economic development in the country and the stately old buildings faded into obscurity.
But without too much effort it's still easy to see that a lot of what was colonial Rangoon still exists in modern Yangon.
A man walks by U Naw Memorial Baptist Church, one of Yangon's historic Christian churches.
Some of the colonial gems are easy to find, like the Strand Hotel, the old (and still current) Customs House or the Myanmar Port Authority, all restored or nearly restored, to their original grandeur. The city has the finest collection of colonial architecture in Southeast Asia.
The Myanmar Port Authority building, originally built in 1920.
Less obvious are the smaller gems. Walk the streets of Yangon and it's easy to see buildings that one time must have been grand structures but now, like aging movie starlets, are down on their luck, facing an uncertain future.
One of Yangon's nameless grande dames, this one opened in 1924, is now a banana stand on the ground floor and tenements above.
There are more photos of Yangon's impressive colonial architecture in my archive of available from ZUMA Press.
Yangon's Architectural Heritage - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: History, Rangoon, Yangon
A woman holds up the three fingered salute from the "Hunger Games" during a flash mob protest against the junta at Terminal 21, a shopping mall in Bangkok.
The Thai army is trying to be proactive in controlling the protests against the coup. Last week, after days of protests in Victory Monument, the army struck back by shutting down the area and denying protestors a venue. The result was a traffic jam that was epic even by Bangkok standards. But no protest took place so it's a win.
There was supposed to be a protest Sunday, June 1, at the McDonald's in Ratchaprasong. It was widely advertised on social media and talked about for days in the traditional media.
The army was very proactive. The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the official name for the ruling junta, announced that Ratchaprasong, one of the busiest shopping districts in Bangkok, would be shut down on Sunday. The BTS Skytrains wouldn't stop in Ratchaprasong stations, roads leading into the area would be closed, the malls would be closed and there would be a zero tolerance policy towards protestors.
Thai soldiers deploy near Gaysorn, a very upscale mall in Ratchaprasong.
Predictably, no protestors showed up.
Instead, organized by SMS, tweets and messages on Facebook, several hundred posters went to Terminal 21, in the Asok intersection. They hung around in small groups until about noon when they started chanting "Election!" and "Freedom!" and displaying signs against the coup. Then they started using the three fingered salute from the Hunger Games series. According to the Associated Press, the salute symbolizes rebellion against totalitarian rule.
People stand in front of Terminal 21 displaying the salute from the Hunger Games.
After some chanting and saluting the crowd started to break up. That was when the police came. A single officer in uniform and a couple of plainclothes officers tried to arrest a single protestor. They chased him into the mall and other protestors closed ranks to protect the wanted man. The police started chasing protestors through the packed mall with media in tow while shoppers looked on. It was bedlam.
After a few minutes the police gave up and left the mall. Soldiers and armed humvees arrived. They tried to surround the mall (a difficult task since tour busses were still dropping off tour groups and the Skytrain was still bringing shoppers into the mall) and eventually ordered it closed. This brought more people out to the street. The chanting and saluting started again. A few people left the mall, ran across Sukhumvit Road and chased away some of the army officers.
A Thai woman, helped by her friends, protests the loss of free speech during the anti-coup flash mob at Terminal 21.
There weren't very many protestors at Terminal 21. Probably fewer than 200, but it was packed with shoppers. Protestors were nearly as successful at tying up traffic in central Bangkok as Shutdown Bangkok was. Thanks to the army's proactive strategy, Thursday and Friday protestors brought traffic to a standstill around Victory Monument without raising a single hand or voice.
Sunday they shut down Ratchaprasong early without risking confrontation and then showed up unexpectedly at Terminal 21 where just a few protestors caused as much confusion as Suthep's masses did in January.
A protestor covers her mouth and pretends to have a gun pointed at her head to illustrate the loss of free speech since the coup.
The protestors seem to be taking on a strategy of playing cat and mouse with the army. Announce a protest in one place, wait for the army to prestage there and then go to another place. There are no public leaders, so there's no one the army can arrest. There's no head to chop off (metaphorically speaking) and the army can't control social media (social media companies have so far refused to meet with NCPO). These are flash mobs and short of shutting down the internet in Thailand the army is going to have a very hard time controlling them.
There are more photos of Sunday's protest in my archive or available from ZUMA Press.
Coup Protests Close Terminal 21 - Images by Jack Kurtz
Labels: Bangkok, Civil Rights, Coup


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1.Get rid of potential mosquito breeding sites such as hollow stem plants (like bromeliads), old tires, bird baths and other vessels that could hold standing water. Mosquitoes lay their eggs either on or next to standing water or on damp soil that will be flooded after rain. Once the eggs have hatched they go from larvae to pupa to adult mosquito in anywhere from 4 days to one month depending on the species and the conditions. You may notice an influx of mosquitoes soon after rain when water levels rise.
2.Clean out roof guttering regularly.
3.Keep grass mown and shrubs trimmed where possible.
4.Wear tightly woven long sleeve tops and long pants.
5.Apply an insect repellent containing an active ingredient.
6.Invest in a good quality mosquito trap.
7.Have your yard sprayed with a suitable pesticide.
8.Use net screens to provide mosquito free areas.
Mosquito bite allergy symptoms include itching, hives, and swelling.
Nearly everyone is sensitive to mosquito bites but, for those with a severe allergy, symptoms can be more than just annoying—they can be downright serious. Most bites occur at either dusk or dawn, when mosquitoes are most active. While male mosquitoes are harmless—feeding only on nectar and water—the females of the species are out for blood.
A female mosquito locks onto her victim using a combination of scent, exhaled carbon dioxide, and chemicals in the person's sweat. When she finds a suitable meal, she lands on an area of exposed skin and inserts her proboscis to draw the victim's blood. The common symptoms—a telltale red bump and itching—aren't caused by the bite itself, but by a reaction of the body's immune system to proteins in the mosquito's saliva.
Who Is at Increased Risk for Mosquito Bites?
Researchers are unclear as to the reasons, but mosquitoes tend to prefer certain victims over others, including men, people who are overweight or obese, and those with type O blood. Also, because mosquitoes are attracted to heat, wearing dark colors (which absorb heat) may make a person more likely to be bitten.
A person exhibiting the above symptoms or other complications such as infection at the site of a bite after being bitten by a mosquito should contact their doctor immediately.
There is limited evidence that taking vitamin B-1 (thiamin) during the summer also may provide some protection against mosquito bites as well. Thiamin is thought to work by slightly changing a person's scent. Studies are ongoing.
Take oral antihistamines (such as Benadryl or Claritin).
Use topical anti-itch lotion or athlete's foot spray.
For hives, take a cool bath without soap or place ice cubes on itchy areas for 10 minutes.
A person in danger of anaphylaxis should carry an epinephrine autoinjector (EpiPen) in case of an emergency.
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