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About the BookNow considered possibly Illinois' greatest poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) saw himself as a bard of the working class. Chicago Poems brought him to national attention and is one of the few Chicago classics that can also be termed an American classic. It includes such famous poems as "Chicago" and "Fog," as well as many others whose subjects range from the lives of ordinary citizens to city scenes and World War I. Written in powerful free verse, the poems are notable for their realistic portrayal of the struggle of working people and their focus on the lyric beauty of the urban environment.
About the AuthorCarl Sandburg,
born in Galesburg, Illinois, won the Pulitzer Prize for Complete Poems
(1950). John E. Hallwas,
professor of English at Western Illinois University, is the editor of Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century.
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Sien Peeters - Magnus Physiotherapist Leuven
Sien graduated in 2018 as a Master in physiotherapy and rehabilitation sciences at KU Leuven. In 2019 she completed the course Dry Needling and is now enrolled in the postgraduate training of Manual Therapy at the Univeristy of Ghent.
As a physiotherapist, Sien adopts an individualized approach that focuses on an active approach of the patient. At the same time, Sien strives to continuously improve her competences and skills via specialized training programmes. One of her key therapautic domains of expertise is the treatment of temporomandibular disorder.
MSc in physiotherapy and rehabilitation sciences - musculoskeletal rehabilitation | KU Leuven
Postgraduate manual therapy | University Ghent

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A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's use of warrantless surveillance is illegal. US District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Wednesday in a case based in Oregon that the NSA illegally eavesdropped on two lawyers and an Islamic Charity in 2004. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, states that the government must obtain a search warrant before monitoring domestic calls and electronic communication. But Obama has continued the Bush Administration's argument that key documents in surveillance cases should not be released due to state secret privilege.
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A 55-year-old employee whose job was eliminated in a company restructuring recently lost his age-discrimination case before the 6th Circuit Court. Reason: He had signed a separation agreement waiving all claims against the company.
After his termination, the employee responded to numerous openings at the company but wasn’t rehired. He threatened to sue for age discrimination, noting that the company was rehiring younger workers, some to fulfill the duties of his former job.
But the company went to court armed with the employee’s signed contract and asked it to interpret the terms. The court ruled that an employee who agrees in writing to release his employer from any liability for age discrimination can’t turn around and apply for a new job, then raise age discrimination when he’s not rehired.
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Integrative Pet Vet column: The allergic cat
Integrative Pet Vet
Cats with allergies can scratch and chew themselves to the point of creating open wounds in the skin. They can be miserable, along with their human companions, who are striving to alleviate the itching.
Allergies are a trigger for itching in the cat just as they are in the dog. However, some cats with allergies have coughing and sneezing but are not itchy. Itching is not always caused by allergies. The presence of skin infections from bacteria, yeast or fungal infections like ringworm can cause itching. Some cats that are not itchy can lick and groom excessively because they have a psychogenic drive created by stress.
Allergies in cats are not as well understood as allergies in dogs. Since the signs can mimic other diseases, it can be challenging to diagnose and to manage allergies. The most common skin disease in cats in the U.S. is a flea allergic dermatitis (skin inflammation). Cats with a flea infestation are generally scratching and chewing. While elimination of the fleas is the most effective treatment, elimination of fleas is not always easy.
The relative difficulty depends on the part of the country you reside in and how severe the flea problem is there. Fortunately, fleas are very uncommon in our area, which reduces the likelihood that cats here are itchy because of fleas.
The second most common allergy problem in cats is an inhalant allergy resulting in feline asthma. These cats exhibit allergic reactions to inhaled allergens. This results in coughing, wheezing, gagging and breathing difficulty that can become an emergency.
An estimated 5 percent of cats are affected with an average age of onset of 4-5 years. When these cats inhale an allergen to which they are sensitive, the immune system reacts resulting in allergic reactions that can cause swelling of the airway. This reduces the cat’s ability to breath. Mucus accumulation can make the problem worse.
Diagnosis is based on the health history, physical examination and chest X-rays. Blood tests, allergy testing and evaluation of the airway secretions may also be needed. It is important to rule out other causes of breathing issues such as chronic bronchitis, parasite problems and infections leading to pneumonia because treatments for asthma may make these problems worse. Unfortunately feline asthma is a progressive problem that can have occasional flare-ups. It is not considered a curable problem, so it has to be managed with the goal of reducing the frequency and the severity of flare-ups.
Allergy to food ingredients is the third most common allergy problem in cats. Food allergies can result in itching, chewing and scratching, but it can take other forms. Some cats have sores in the lip or along the back of the hind leg. There may be problems with gingivitis and severe oral issues. Other cats have a poor hair coat, hair loss, skin lesions, food avoidance and weight loss.
Generally, the food allergy problem evolves over an extended time. Only 10-15 percent of cats with food allergies have signs of stomach or intestine reactions like vomiting and diarrhea. Cats of any age can be affected. Ideally, the offending food ingredient would be eliminated from the diet, and the allergy signs resolve. It can be challenging to identify the offending ingredient, and it has been reported that use of foods with limited antigens can give unclear results.
Some advocate a home-prepared diet so that all ingredients are known. Feeding trials are done for 8–12 weeks to assess the response. The offending ingredient is reintroduced to see if the allergy signs recur. This gives proof that a food allergy is the cause of the allergy signs.
From an integrative management perspective, allergies represent a dysregulated immune reaction. Steps should be taken to avoid the allergen, such as careful food changes or eliminating offending inhaled allergens like dust from cat litter.
The lining of the respiratory tract and intestinal tract should be supported in an effort to limit allergen entrance into the tissues and contact with the immune cells. Probiotics can be helpful for immune regulation. Addressing the allergic inflammation can also be helpful. In some situations like a severe asthmatic episode, emergency medications are necessary and can be used along with the long-term supportive approaches.
If you have questions about allergies in cats, contact your veterinarian.
Ron Carsten, DVM, PhD, CVA, CCRT was one of the first veterinarians in Colorado to use the integrative approach, has lectured widely to veterinarians, and has been a pioneer in the therapeutic use of food concentrates to manage clinical problems. He is also the founder of Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE). In addition to his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he holds a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology and is a Certified Veterinary Acupuncturist and Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist. He practices integrative veterinary medicine in Glenwood Springs.
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Blockchain is bringing about a major transformation in the financial sector. It is a global phenomenon — in fact banks and fintech companies in India are applying a test and scale approach to blockchain technology in a controlled environment. According to a Deloitte report, banks such as Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and Yes Bank are rolling out POCs to further explore blockchain use cases for KYC applications and fraud detection. When compared to other centralised technologies, blockchain technology makes operations safer, faster and more transparent.
While the impact is felt in the financial sector, blockchain can also play a major role in the development of artificial intelligence:
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Here Are Some Use Cases:
- According to industry experts blockchain and merger of AI into mainstream products and services can create plenty of opportunities for enterprises. The convergence of AI and blockchain can create a foolproof and reliable technology-enabled decision-making systems.
- Besides building tamper-proof systems, blockchain can play a crucial role in the regulation of machine learning and AI technologies. The essential application of blockchain is seen in a distributed system where the nodes are not foolproof while AI works by finding out patterns and predicting eventual outcomes. One of the best use cases of AI and blockchain merger is distributing the data a blockchain needs to contain.
- According to a cryptocurrency publication the CoinTelegraph, blockchain can also provide a mechanism for regulation of autonomous AI entities.
- The cryptocurrency news portal further emphasises a future where standards are defined around what AI has to write to the Blockchain
- AI also facilitates smart contract testing. For example, AI marketplace SingularityNET, a decentralised protocol for accessing a network of AI algorithms and agents is an open-source protocol. According to the SingularityNET team, the blockchain technology works well for its transactional and bookkeeping advantages.
- The SingularityNET platform enables AI developers and programmers to add an AI service for use by the network and receive network payment tokens in exchange.
- According to AI advisor and tech investor Francesco Corea, blockchain can also help tackle AI’s black box problem by giving a clear audit trail and improving the trustworthiness of the data
- Another key point by Corea is that blockchain can also help fuel the creation of secure data marketplaces. Given how blockchain technologies can secure the data, it would help lower the entry for data storage and allow for the emergence of AI marketplaces (for eg. SingularityNET) and models marketplaces.
- It can also provide a route that traces back the machine decision process. It can also help improve the AI effectiveness by providing a secure means for sharing data.
- There is also a use case where blockchain can benefit from AI. According to this paper from University of Johannesburg, the Bitcoin blockchain system is uses elliptic curves based private and public key generation. But there has been any development of a public-key algorithm which is tamper-proof. According to the researchers, intelligent search algorithms can be used to search the bits of a secret key.
Earlier this year we saw a lot of development in the AI-blockchain space with the emergence of decentralised intelligence companies such as Effect.ai, Synapse.ai, Dopamine.ai, AI Blockchain and the OpenMined project among others. Corea also cites ethical implications that lie at the intersection of AI and blockchain — the key difference being the latter fosters centralised intelligence on close data platforms while AI helps decentralised applications in an open-data environment.
An important question in blockchain-AI merger posed by Corea is whether the data can ever be edited and secondly this will further push companies of all sizes to become data hoarders. However, there is another side to the data hoarding argument. The confluence of blockchain-AI will make data accessible to everyone on the open distributed network, thereby bringing an end to the data hoarding trend led by big tech web companies.
According to AI expert Ronald Van Loon, merger of blockchain and AI can lead to greater security to trust by creating reliable systems. According to the AI expert, the future of AI development lies on a network that allows free flow of information between connected users and operators. The decentralised nature of Blockchain technology means that this could be the platform where we see the most breakthroughs on AI, he emphasised in his blog.


That’s one large rock, one momentous shift in our relationship with space. On Wednesday, Nasa will launch a mission to deliberately slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to alter its orbit – the first time humanity has tried to interfere in the gravitational dance of the solar system. The aim is to test drive a planetary defence system that could prevent us from going the same way as the dinosaurs, providing the first real data about what it would take to deflect an Armageddon-inducing asteroid away from Earth.
Our planet is constantly being bombarded with small pieces of debris, but these are usually burned or broken up long before they hit the ground. Once in a while, however, something large enough to do significant damage hits the ground. About 66m years ago, one such collision is thought to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs, ejecting vast amounts of dust and debris into the upper atmosphere, which obscured the sun and caused food chains to collapse. Someday, something similar could call time on humanity’s reign – unless we can find a way to deflect it.
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) mission is the first attempt to test if such asteroid deflection is a realistic strategy: investigating whether a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and intentionally collide with it, as well as measuring the amount of deflection.
“This is the first step to actually trial a way of preventing near-Earth object impact,” said Jay Tate, the director of the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre in Knighton in Powys, Wales. “If it works, it would be a big deal, because it would prove that we have the technical capability of protecting ourselves.”
The 610kg Dart spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at about 6.21am UK time on Wednesday. Its target is the Didymos system – a harmless pair of asteroids consisting of a 163-metre “moonlet” asteroid called Dimorphos that orbits a larger 780-metre asteroid called Didymos – after the Greek for “twin”).
As they orbit the sun, these asteroids occasionally pass relatively close to Earth. The plan is to crash the spacecraft into Dimorphos when the asteroid system is at its closest – about 6.8m miles away – some time between 26 September and 1 October 2022.
About 10 days before impact, a miniaturised satellite called the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube), will separate from the main spacecraft, enabling images of the impact to be relayed back to Earth. Combined with observations from ground-based telescopes, and an onboard camera that will capture the final moments before collision, these recordings should enable scientists to calculate the degree to which the impact has altered Dimorphos’s orbit.
The expectation is that it will change the speed of the smaller asteroid by a fraction of 1% and alter its orbital period around the larger asteroid by several minutes.
Then, in November 2024, the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft will visit the Didymos system and conduct a further close-up analysis of the consequences of this celestial snooker game, capturing details such as the precise mass, makeup and internal structure of Dimorphos, and the size and shape of the crater left by Dart. Such details are vital for transforming asteroid deflection into a scalable and repeatable technique, that could be deployed should an apocalyptic asteroid ever be detected heading towards Earth.
Even then, it is unlikely that any single deflection strategy would be enough. “Assuming it works, [this mission] will provide us with real time ground truths on the effects of a small impactor on a small asteroid,” said Tate. “The problem is that no two asteroids or comets are alike, and how you deflect one depends on a huge number of variables: what’s the thing’s made of, how it’s put together, how fast it’s spinning, and of course how much time you’ve got.
“There is no silver bullet in this game. What you need is a whole folder of different deflection methods for different types of target.”
So while this may be one small step towards planetary protection, many more are likely to be necessary to avoid Armageddon.


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Ubisoft: GTA V Had No Impact on Watch Dogs’ Delay
The delay of Watch Dogs has been cause for many assumptions made by gamers, namely that it may have been affected by Grand Theft Auto V's record breaking release. For the sake of preventing too much misinformation from spreading, Ubisoft have commented on the matter.
Communications Manager Gary Steinman posted the following comment on the Ubi Blog:
We respect GTAV quite a bit. It’s an incredible game. But this decision doesn’t have anything to do with any other game. The Watch Dogs team started work a few years ago with the vision to build the first truly next-gen new IP, which is a huge undertaking.
Steinman would precede this comment by stating that the game has been in development for five years and has huge ambitions, the kind of ambitions that Ubisoft hope will make it a new major franchise similar to Assassin's Creed.
While GTA V's influence has been denied, it likely had some form of impact. Watch Dogs clearly isn't ready for showtime this year, and would have looked a bit silly standing toe-to-toe with this generation's juggernaut if it had bugs or lacked polish.
Many consumers are still left wondering what will happen with their Watch Dogs PS4 bundle pre-order. The answer that concern is still unknown, but stay tuned for the verdict.

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TITLE: ADVOCACY/OUTREACH COORDINATOR
REPORTS TO: Executive Director
Center for Independent Living of Northwest Florida, Inc. dba CIL of Northwest Florida (CILNWF) is searching for an experienced Advocacy/Outreach Coordinator to lead and develop advocacy activities in the four-county area of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton Counties. The main office is located in Pensacola, Florida.
The purpose of this position is to assist people with disabilities in both system and individual advocacy issues covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and provide Peer Counseling to consumers. The incumbent develops strategies and alliances with State and Federal elected officials, city/county government agencies and others to promote all titles of the ADA. This position requires considerable judgment, and independent decision-making. The incumbent will survey buildings, parking spaces, offices and any other structure using the ADA and Florida Building Codes. Meet with consumers and establish goals and objectives to live independently. Must be able to provide own transportation and travel extensively, with or without accommodation to perform essential functions, throughout Northwest Florida.
CILNWF is a consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential private non-profit agency that is designed and operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities. Fifty-one percent (51%) of the Board of Directors, staff and decision- making/management staff are persons with significant disabilities.
CILNWF provides 5 core services: individual and systems advocacy; information and referral; independent living skills training; peer counseling; and transition services.
Five years of disability experience and/or a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in an Independent Living (IL)-related field is preferred.
Competitive salary and benefits commensurate with experience. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Candidates must submit a letter of interest, three professional references, resume and salary expectations by email to firstname.lastname@example.org with subject “Resume for Advocacy/Outreach Coordinator” to be considered for this position. Rolling interviews will begin upon receipt of qualified applicants. No phone calls please.
TITLE: INDEPENDENT LIVING/INTAKE/ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
Reports to: Executive Director
This position is located at the Center for Independent Living (CIL) of Northwest Florida, Inc. This position has two roles.
The first role is Independent Living (IL)/Intake Specialist to assist people with disabilities by providing information about community resources and facilitate the intake process for CILNWF services. The IL/Intake Specialist will answer telephones and/or greet walk-in consumers and provide needs assessments to determine whether CILNWF services or referrals to outside agencies is the most appropriate option. The incumbent will seek out and attend community fairs and interagency meetings in our service area to develop relationships and build community resource alliances, and to facilitate maintenance of a referral database.
The second role Assistant Technology Specialist position to assess consumer needs as it relates to Assistive Technology aimed at enhancing the quality of life for users of this technology, through improving awareness, access and advocacy.
Infrequent overnight travel may be required for either role of this position. Five years of disability experience and/or a Bachelor’s in an Independent Living (IL)-related field is preferred.
APPLY: Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Candidates must submit a letter of interest, three professional references, resume and salary expectations by email to email@example.com with the subject line “Resume Independent Living/Intake/Assistive Technology Specialist (Full-Time)” to be considered for this position. Position will remain open until filled. Appropriate candidates will be contacted on a rolling basis. No phone calls please.
The James Patrick Memorial Work Incentive – Personal Attendant Services & Employment Assistance Program (JP-PAS
The James Patrick Memorial Work Incentive – Personal Attendant Services & Employment Assistance Program (JP-PAS) was created by the Florida Legislature to help working adults with significant disabilities obtain and maintain competitive and integrated employment. The program provides a monthly reimbursement to eligible individuals to help offset the cost of the personal care assistance they rely upon to help with daily activities.JP-PAS Flyer (PDF)
The JP-PAS Program is administered by the Florida Association of Centers for Independent Living.


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The reporting on Battlefield 2042 continues its negative trend. After the sales had disappointed the Publisher Electronic Arts, the next update was postponed to March and collected in a petition to reimburse the recent 200,000 signatures, there are other negative headlines today. Battlefield 2042 now reached a new negative record on the game numbers on Steam. Thus, with 1721 players today significantly under 2000 players of SteamDB were measured. For an AAA shooter and battlefield as one of the most famous gaminghen a devastating fact number of players. As it looks like on the consoles, it can not be measured. But even there, the trend is likely to go down to the game numbers.
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Those of you who have been following this website for a while will know that I am always raving on about my Meater wireless meat thermometer. Well, I thought it was about time I wrote a proper review for you guys, so here it is, my official Meater thermometer review after owning it for over two years!
(Spoiler alert: I really like it, in case you didn’t guess)
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Review of the Meater wireless meat thermometer (after 2 years of use)
There are a few of these wireless meat probes on the market these days, and to be totally honest my initial purchase was swayed by the awesome pun name, but after two years of usage I am confident that I made the right purchase (as backed up by the hundreds of positive reviews on Amazon).
I have the Original Meater (up to 33 feet/ 10 metre distance). I bought it in mid-2019, I use it every week, and it is still going strong.
What is the Meater?
The Meater thermometer is a smart wireless meat thermometer that you use with a smartphone.
(And just to be clear, this one is actually totally wireless, not like those other ones that call themselves wireless, but the probe still has wires going to a transmitter unit).
It is a probe used to monitor the internal; meat temperature during cooking so that you can get perfectly cooked meat every time.
It is a sleek stainless steel probe around 5 inches long and ¼ inch thick, similar to a short thick metal skewer.
- 100% wireless probe thermometer
- Simple to use
- Smart meat thermometer with guided cook system
How do you use the Meater?
1. Set Up Meater
To get started with your Meater the first time you use it, you need to download the Meater app from the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store, and register your thermometer to your phone.
This is very straightforward to do, just make sure you have Bluetooth switched on on your phone. Once you are signed in and set up it stores all your cooks in the Meater cloud so you can refer back to them if you are cooking the same dish again.
Note: before starting any cooks the Meater needs to be charged for 4 hours to make sure it has enough battery life.
2. Set up cook
Once you have to app set up you stick the Meater into the meat you want to cook, open the app and select “set up cook”.
You want to position the probe so that it is in the center of the thickest part of the meat, and not touching a bone.
Then it is as simple as selecting the type of meat you are cooking and the desired temperature.
If you are not sure what temperature you want to cook it to, the Meater app lists the temperatures for different doneness (if applicable), tells you the USDA recommended temperature for what you are cooking, and makes a recommendation.
The Meater probe then monitors the temperature of your food and the ambient temperature during the cooking process, and calculates the cooking time required for your meat to reach the selected temperature.
You can watch the temperature increasing on the app on your phone, or just leave it until it alerts you.
You can customize what alerts you want to receive. I just use the default ones which are an alarm at 5 minutes before cook time finished, and another one at the end of the recommended cook time.
4. Rest your meat
Cooking times are calculated to include the resting time, so the Meater should alert you to remove your meat a few degrees under the target temperature.
At this point you remove your meat from the pan to a plate or board and cover it with aluminum foil to rest. It then continues to monitor the internal temperature while the meat rests, and alerts you when your meat is ready to eat.
My Thoughts on the Meater
I use my Meater all the time, and frankly don’t know how I cooked anything larger than a steak correctly before I got it (tbh we probably had overcooked meat a lot back then).
Here are some of my favorite recipes to use it with:
I have found it to be relatively accurate. I like that it accounts for the temperature rise during the resting time as that can be tricky to get right if you are not an expert at cooking meat. .
Sometimes I have found it takes a while to calculate the cooking time. For smaller cuts of meat (like a thin steak) this can result in the cook time being up before it has calculated the cook time.
It is best for thick steaks, chicken breast, whole chicken, and roasting joints of meat.
When I first started using the Meater I had the app installed on my main phone, and I often found myself wandering off with my phone or off range of the thermometer.
You do get an alert if you do this, and it is easy enough just to move back into range and it reconnects and started monitoring again. However, if you don’t notice that you have moved the phone out of range it is easy to accidentally overcook your food as it is no longer being monitored and you wont get alerts when it is done.
I solved this issue by using an old phone as my Meater monitoring phone. But, if I was going to buy a new one I would definitely buy the long range version so I didn’t need to worry about it.
Before starting any new cooks it is recommended that the Meater be charged for 4 hours to ensure it has the battery life to last the whole cook time.
Luckily this is easy, because the Meater probe storage block is also its charger. The storage block takes a single AAA battery which charges the probe any time it is not in use and being stored in its block. This is such neat design, you don’t even have to think about charging it up.
You can check the status of the AAA battery (to make sure it is still charging) by pressing a tiny button on the block. If you get a green LED light then you are all good, it still has power. If the light does not come on it is time to change the AAA battery.
Note: a blinking red light on the Meater+ means that it has lost its Bluetooth connection to its probe.
The Meater has to be the meat thermometer with the best support ever. Just check out the Meater website*.
They have a support wizard, heaps of easy-to-follow video tutorials on many aspects of using the probe, and you can email the customer support team if you can’t solve your query yourself (though TBH I have never had any need to contact them so I can’t really comment on how good their response is).
People are always interested in it when we have friends over for a backyard barbecue. I guess people are always interested in a new smart device, and though the Meater has been around for a few years it is still new to many people (ie anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet).
I also love that the charging block looks stylish (its made of bamboo) and has an integrated magnet so you can stick it to your grill or other appliance to keep it handy (I have mine stuck to the edge of the range hood):
Is the Meater thermometer worth it?
The question of whether the Meater thermometer is worth it depends on how you would use it. For me, yes it it very worth it. For you, maybe.
Who is the Meater good for?
If you are the kind of person who cooks lots of larger cuts of meat, thick steaks, roasts, whole chicken, and use your grill, smoker air fryer, oven, or rotisserie to cook them, then it is a good option for you.
If you like smart technology and want a fuss-free way to cook your meat to perfection.
Who is the Meater not so good for?
If you are looking for an all-round meat thermometer to use for everyday cooking, including smaller cuts of meat like thin cut steaks, meatballs or chicken thighs, then the Meater may not be for you.
If you want a meat thermometer to use with a pressure cooker or submerged in a liquid during cooking then the Meater is not for you.
If you want a thermometer for this type of cooking I would recommend getting an instant read thermometer instead. Thermopro* is a quality digital meat thermometer brand with a range of thermometers to suit most budgets.
Meater Pros and Cons
Having used the Meater meat thermometer for a few years now, here are the major pros and cons that I have noticed.
- Good quality, robust
- Best meat thermometer to use with an air fryer
- Dishwasher safe
- Simple to use
- Easily cook meat to its optimal temperature
- Impress your guests (who doesn’t love smart tech?)
- Expensive compared to an instant-read thermometer
- Too slow for really short cook times
- Original Meater has a short-range (hint: buy the long-range model)
- Can’t use it with a pressure cooker
Where can I buy the Meater?
You can buy the Meater direct from the MEATER website here:
- Meater US Store*
- Meater International Store* (will redirect to your local store)
I would recommend signing up to the mailing list as they sometimes have special discounts.
You can also buy the Meater through Amazon here: Meater Amazon Store*. (Check out some of their bundles for discounts).
So there you have, I have finally got around to writing up my experience with using the Meater thermometer.
Is it the best wireless meat thermometer out there?
Honestly, I don’t know, because I haven’t tried them all, but it is certainly the best that I have tried!
I have the original 33ft (10m) model, which I have used frequently for over two years with no issues. As I mentioned above I find the distance limit of the Original 33ft model a little limiting. So if I was to buy one again, I would go for the Meater Plus, which is the long-range model which works at a distance of 165ft (50m).
Actually, I would probably buy the MEATER Block (which contains four Meater probes, a screen to monitor them, and a wifi extender up to 165ft/50m), since every member of my family likes their steak cooked to a different doneness 🙄.
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Robust Regional Preparedness
Regional policy or policies for municipalities can play a key role in enhancing civil preparedness. They are part of implementing efficient solutions for sustainable green transitions, as well as ensuring the provision of food, raw materials, energy, and access to services to citizens, both in stable times and during crises. This project explores how regional policy can best contribute to ensuring civil preparedness and resilience in the Nordic regions. To achieve robust and resilient Nordic regions, structured collaboration between national authorities, regions, municipalities, businesses, and civil society is needed. Cooperation across local, regional – and sometimes also national – borders is essential to ensure security and good living conditions in Nordic cities, towns and sparsely populated rural areas. Analysing and understanding how Nordic countries address civil preparedness within subnational policies can also foster Nordic learning. The project aims to investigate how Nordic regional policy can best contribute to ensuring civil preparedness and robustness in Nordic regions during crisis periods. It will focus especially on policies and good practices addressing food security, energy provision, raw materials, and access to public services. As the regional policies and governance structures in the Nordic countries differ regarding roles and responsibilities, the study will also explore interactions between different governance levels and stakeholders in the managing crisis preparedness. Structured around three key stages, the project will: The findings and insights from the project will be summarised in a policy brief and a collection of local and regional good practices to enhance civil preparedness and resilience across the Nordic regions.
- March, 2024 - December, 2024
ILLUQ – The impacts of permafrost thaw in the Arctic
ILLUQ is the Inuvialuktun word for partner and cuts to the heart of this interdisciplinary project. Through a wide partnership it provides an holistic assessment of the impacts of permafrost thaw on the health of humans, animals and ecosystems. Accelerating permafrost thaw in the Arctic drastically changes the ecosystem as a whole, which, in turn, impacts the everyday life of local communities and Indigenous populations. Yet many of the phenomena reported in the scientific literature and media are treated in isolation from other social, economic or cultural processes. ILLUQ specifically focuses on the impact of climate change on populations living on permafrost in the Arctic. It targets the missing link between studies performed by scientists, engineers and consultants in local communities and solutions with local stake- and rightsholders. It focusing on the long-term implications of decision-making in the context of permafrost thaw, a time frame generally overlooked in existing governance frameworks. As such, ILLUQ will provide the first stake- and rightsholder driven assessment of the impacts of permafrost thaw on pollution, health and ecosystem services in the Arctic. Work Packages Activities will be articulated around nine interlinked work packages with the first five covering the provisioning, regulating, and cultural elements of ecosystem services, and another summarising and synthesising the knowledge gained. In each of these five first work packages, the work starts with stakeholder engagement to set the stage for participatory research. Each of these work packages concludes with a task focused on One Health impacts related to the specific ecosystem services. Another work package synthesizes the knowledge gained on One Health in the earlier work packages and makes it available to local and European stakeholders. A further one synthesizes the results from participatory research and devises solutions (including nature-based solutions) together with local stake- and rightsholders. The final work…
Green Energy Meets Blue Food
Nordic countries have set up ambitious climate and energy targets and offshore renewable energy will play a key role in enabling the green transition in the Nordic Region. The European Green Deal underscores at the same time the importance of minimal harm to the environment and the contribution to nature conservation, with for example the EU Biodiversity strategy 2030 including more ambitious targets for protecting marine areas. Furthermore, our seas in the Nordic Region are also an increasingly important resource for food supply. Offshore renewable energy, not least wind energy, is crucial for the green transition in the Nordic Region but its expansion poses challenges such as conflicts over space. Hence, there is an increasing need for enabling enhanced coexistence with other sectors, not least with blue food sectors such as fishing and aquaculture. Governance frameworks, in particular marine spatial planning, are crucial for managing conflicts, promoting collaboration, and for enabling possibilities for sustainable coexistence at sea. The Nordic Council of Ministers have initiated several projects to address sustainable marine economy and coexistence issues. The “Green Meets Blue project”, financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers for Fisheries, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry (NCM FJLS) and running for two years (2024-2025), aims to contribute to a common knowledge base for the Nordic countries, by contributing with an increased understanding of sustainable coexistence between renewable energy (focusing on offshore wind energy) and marine food sectors (focusing on fisheries and aquaculture). The project will give better insights on how Nordic countries and self-governing territories in the Nordic Region can effectively tackle potential conflicts between the green and blue sectors, promote synergies and better enable cooperation and collaboration. The project seeks to investigate existing conditions on how trade-offs, conflicts and synergies are managed between these sectors within marine spatial planning frameworks from a governance…
Young Nordic Food Producers – Growing Food(ies)
This project focuses on addressing the declining interest among young people in pursuing careers in the whole food value chain, including agriculture, livestock farming, fisheries, and forestry from farm and sea to fork, including related fields like processing, foraging, and hunting across the Nordic Region. Food production constitutes a significant value chain in all Nordic countries, with favourable conditions for agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, and further processing. Despite relatively high self-sufficiency influenced by climate conditions, access to marine areas, and suitable agricultural land, the sector faces challenges. There is a noticeable decline in youth interest in pursuing a career in those sectors, leading to fewer producers and an increased average age of 55.3 years in a predominantly male workforce. The project aims to identify innovative solutions to generate interest in careers within food production, covering agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry, and other relevant parts of the value chain, from land and sea to table, including veterinary studies, butchery, and fish processing. The research questions focus on the challenges faced when choosing food production as a career path, how to best support existing and upcoming food producers, and what support mechanisms are necessary for fostering innovation and new thinking among new food producers, as well as improving existing support mechanisms. The project will involve a comprehensive approach, including forming a reference group of young people from relevant organisations to ensure youth involvement and validate the project’s findings. The results will be relevant for educational institutions, interest organisations, and policymakers within food production in the Nordic countries, contributing to understanding and addressing the challenges faced by the food production sector, thereby paving the way for new opportunities and inspiring the next generation of food producers.
Education and young adults in Nordic rural areas (EDYNORA)
The “Education and young adults in Nordic rural areas” (EDYNORA) project addresses the crucial role of education in retaining and attracting young people in Nordic rural areas. Although education is vital for rural development, highly skilled individuals frequently migrate to urban areas in pursuit of better opportunities. Urbanization introduces imbalances such as population decline and economic disparities between urban and rural regions. This highlights the need to customize educational opportunities in rural areas to align with the needs of young people and local communities. The educational opportunities in regional centres are crucial for strengthening ties between young adults, regional labour markets, and local communities, potentially influencing young people’s decisions to stay or return to rural areas. EDYNORA investigates the impact of education, particularly higher education and vocational training, on the mobility decisions of youth and young adults. The goal is to enhance understanding and identify innovative approaches that align education with the needs and motivations of rural youth, ultimately strengthening their ties to local labour markets. The research aims to address three key questions: The project implementation involves surveys, gathering statistics, and exploring innovative approaches through focus group interviews and case studies across the Nordic countries and Åland.
ESPON TERRES aims to unpack territorial resilience to support spatial planning and urban development, strengthening the absorptive, adaptive and transformational governance capacities of European regions in the context of long-term multi-crisis trajectories. The project aims to guide the future generation of EU Cohesion and sectoral policies by providing a conceptual and analytical framework for characterising “territorial resilience” as a multi-dimensional and dynamic concept. The notion of territorial resilience developed in ESPON TERRES overcomes current policy paradigms to emphasize a lasting shift towards learning capacities, institutional innovation, cultural norms, and community values. Regional resilience is understood as a capacity not just to absorb and adapt to external shocks (‘bouncing back’ perspective) but also to address the transformational capabilities to deal with and be ready for both present and impending crises (‘bouncing forwards’ approach). These principles contribute to improving the understanding and to unlocking the opportunities implicit in the concept of territorial resilience, overcoming policy and research siloes through fruitful dialogue among researchers (the scientific level), policy-makers (the normative level) and practitioners (the operational level). The specific activities in the ESPON TERRES project are as follows:
Cross-border cooperation between Sweden and Norway
The study aims to provide knowledge on how cross-border cooperation issues have been addressed in the regional development policy in Sweden and Norway, highlighting some key opportunities and challenges. The study is based on a review of key steering documents and qualitative interviews. It will result in recommendations on how cross-border cooperation between Sweden and Norway can be further strengthened. Cross-border cooperation provides important development opportunities for Sweden and Norway. Region Värmland has for a long time prioritized cooperation with Norway. Bilateral cooperation agreements have been signed with the Norwegian neighbouring counties and joint projects have been implemented. Region Värmland and its Norwegian neighbours contribute to maintaining trust and cohesion in the Nordic region by promoting common values such as culture, democracy, equality, inclusion, non-discrimination, and freedom of expression. The study is based on a review of the national steering documents for regional development, as well as qualitative interviews with representatives of relevant actors at the national and regional levels, academia, regional networks and organizations.
A common Nordic labour market 70 years and beyond (70 ys and beyond)
The aim of the project is to produce a report which will consist of three parts: one chapter looking back at the role of the common Nordic labour market agreement from 1954 for Nordic labour market integration, one chapter looking forward on the Nordic labour market integration and a final chapter containing an analysis and conclusions for a more integrated Nordic labour market. In the first chapter the role of the agreement for the overall Nordic cooperation will be analysed, as well as its role for the Nordic countries’ international competitiveness. Data on migration and commuting between the Nordic countries over the period will be examined, including characteristics of the mobile labour force (e.g. gender, age, citizenship, education, profession, business sector). The effects of the pandemic to maintain the common labour market, as well as expected long-term effects on labour market mobility across the Nordic national borders will be explored. The second chapter of the study will be more looking into future. We will start by giving an overview and status of supply and demand in the Nordic labour market. We will then explore in which sectors and regions we find the largest potentials for a more integrated Nordic labour market. The current lack of labour and skills mis-match that is found in many sectors and regions and whether a more integrated Nordic labour market can contribute to solving those problems will be explored. The third and final part of the report will focus on how cornerstones of the common Nordic labour market can contribute to the fulfilment of the vision that the Nordic Region will be the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030. This part will be developed in dialogue with stakeholders from the EK-A, employers’ organisations and trade unions (Council of Nordic Trade Unions), labour authorities…
Employers’ role and responsibility in the integration of refugees and migrants
The overall aim of the project is to give a Nordic knowledge base on the role of employers in the process of integrating refugees and migrants in the labour market. The project will further highlight some promising examples of when the integration process has been successful. Labour market participation is central in the integration process of refugees and migrants. Research shows that it is difficult for refugees and migrants to find jobs, especially for low-skilled, non-EU born and women. The labour market integration of people born outside the EU is on average about 17 percentage points lower than that of people born in the EU. The recent crises, the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have not improved the situation. At the same time, the Nordic countries are suffering from labour shortages and are trying to attract hands and brains from abroad. Successful integration of migrants in the labour market presents an opportunity for our societies. Employers have an important role to play in integration. This project examines the status of this role in the Nordic countries, addressing the following questions: To what extent have companies, organisations and other employers hired people with an immigrant background? What are their experiences of the benefits and obstacles? To what extent is discrimination against immigrants widespread in the labour market and workplace? What can the governments and municipalities do to support companies in employing migrants? To provide a reply to these questions, the project will be articulated in three main steps. A thorough literature review will explore benefits and challenges experienced by employers in the Nordic region in the integration process of migrants and refugees. Then, based on interviews with employers and competent authorities, the project will also present concrete examples of promising practices and policies to increase labour market integration. Finally,…
Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union (PREMIUM_EU)
How can the individual benefits of migration translate into societal benefits for the regions people leave behind? PREMIUM_EU will use original research to find out why and offer tailor-made policies that counter the migration patterns which harm remote regions. Migration is a contentious issue in many parts of Europe, and policies that are seen as too favorable to migrants often face opposition from local communities. Shifts in labour sectors, housing shortages, integration tensions. These are some of many concerns receiving countries have about migrant flows. On the other hand, many remote regions face the opposite reality. People are moving and no migrants are arriving to replace them. When highly skilled workers migrate out of a region this can have negative impacts on the economy and social fabric of the region. Loss of talent and expertise combined with an aging population leaves communities in crisis. What will PREMIUM_EU do? PREMIUM_EU is built on the premise that spatial mobility, or the ability of people to move freely between different regions, can offer new opportunities to both sending and receiving regions. Europe’s population would shrink dramatically without migration. This project seeks to identify the positive effects of migration that are often overlooked.The lengthy acronym outlines the goal concisely: “Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union”. There are three research milestones that come together to achieve the main goal, which is a Regional Policy Dashboard. A palette of concrete policy actions that European regions can choose from. Project milestones Nordregio is leading the policy analysis and AI-generated policy dashboard during the third milestone, as well as leading communications throughout the entire project, including publications, events/conferences, stakeholder engagement, press, research newsletters etc. How does PREMIUM_EU work? Led by Leo Van Wissen, Senior Researcher and former director…
- April, 2023 - April, 2026
Sustainable Nordic Remote Labour Markets (SUNREM)
SUNREM explores how local labour markets in remote areas of the Nordic Region are impacted by global megatrends like demographic changes, growing tech needs, climate change, and globalisation There is already a shortage of workers and a mismatch between supply and demand in many remotely located job sectors. Facing an aging population and fewer young people entering the workforce, a loss of skilled workers to urbanisation, lacking infrastructure to support tech-changes, remote regions will struggle to survive without answers to the growing pile of difficult questions about the future. To add to this, climate change may have a disproportionate impact on remote areas. These places are often hit by more frequent and severe weather events that can disrupt economic activities and infrastructure. This in turn affects the security, safety and health of local communities. These global megatrends present new challenges but also new opportunities for remote labour markets, particularly in terms of transitioning to more sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices. What is SUNREM? This project specifically focuses on the green transition. Our aim is to expand knowledge about the correlated opportunities and challenges facing remote local labour markets in the region, as climate change continues to shake up otherwise stable sectors. The project takes its point of departure from case studies in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Åland, using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. The project’s findings will be circulated through various outputs, including research reports, scientific articles, stakeholder engagement, and policy recommendations to promote sustainable labour market participation in remote areas. How SUNREM works? A collaboration of researchers from Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Åland come together to compare case studies, identify best practices and facilitate joint discussions on sustainable labour market participation in remote areas. Researchers are responsible for coordinating different work packages, ensuring close cooperation and integration throughout…
- March, 2023 - March, 2027
Nordic Cycle Power Network
Globally, more and more people are opening their eyes to the role of the bicycle in the fight for a green and healthy future. A new UN resolution has proclaimed the bicycle as a tool to combat the climate crisis. Knowledge sharing across countries is an essential element in using the bicycle to strengthen the green transition for the transport sector in the Nordic countries. Planners across the Nordic Region have begun to share knowledge in informal networks, which currently rely on personal relationships and voluntary resources, but a formal network has yet to be established. The purpose of the Nordic Cycle Power Network is to activate a knowledge-sharing network among municipal and regional planners working to improve conditions for cycling. The network will identify measures that can be implemented in the Nordic Region to facilitate and enable a significant increase in biking trips to replace car use and drive down CO2 emissions from land-based transport. Through several thematic workshops and study visits, the network will exchange knowledge that can strengthen municipal and regional bicycle strategies. The project will also produce a Nordic Cycling Agenda to summarise findings from the workshops and share good practices beyond the network. The project cooperates with the European Cyclist Federation in Belgium to facilitate network activities and disseminate results throughout Europe and beyond.
- February, 2023 - January, 2025
Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions (DUST)
The HORIZON EUROPE project Democratising jUst Sustainability Transitions (DUST) aims to develop new participatory instruments in sustainability transitions that enhance citizen participation and trust in democratic governance. It aims to recognise the voices of least-engaged communities by focusing on regions dependent on energy-intensive industries which will be affected by sustainability transitions. We will conduct research using mixed methods in 8 case study regions in Europe, including Region Gotland and Region Norrbotten in Sweden, to investigate the factors enhancing or hindering citizen participation. Participatory experiments will also be conducted in 4 of the case study regions where just sustainability transitions pose great challenges. In these experiments the project will test the potential of innovative design-led territorial and digital tools for citizen participation. The project outputs will be a collection of evidence-based instruments, methods, good practices, and knowledge packages for a comprehensive and just transformation. Nordregio is responsible for the implementation of the UNESCO futures literacy lab, an innovative participatory tool that give citizens the opportunity to reframe future developments via new anticipatory assumptions and questions on just sustainability transitions. Participants discuss alternative future scenarios for transitions, which will then inform regional designs and forecast the impact of ongoing and upcoming sustainability transition measures. The case of Norrbotten will be developed in close collaboration with the partner Hela Sverige Ska Leva Norrbotten as well as national, regional and local governance bodies and other civil society organisations.
Strategies to address rural labour shortage
The Nordic region faces a significant labour shortage challenge in many countries and places. Recruiting skilled workers to fill vacant jobs has become a common regional development issue for rural and cross-border areas. The project aims to fill knowledge gaps about strategies to address rural labour shortage, regional variations, and sectors that are particularly affected. The post-pandemic labour shortage situation in Nordic rural areas can be attributed to several reasons, such as decreasing rural population numbers and the retirement of ageing permanent rural populations. Moreover, rapid social transformations, including the green transition, automation, and digitalization, have led to structural changes that impact the Nordic rural labour markets. To ensure sustainable rural areas where men, women, and youth thrive, it is crucial to match the necessary occupational groups with their competencies. There is a lack of understanding about the common challenges of labour shortage in Nordic rural areas, as well as the strategies and solutions currently in use. This project aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the situation by collecting statistical data, producing visualizations, and facilitating discussions to fill these knowledge gaps. A cross-Nordic workshop will be arranged to discuss nuances, strategies, and solutions to the issue. National experts will also contribute with country-specific knowledge about rural labour shortage strategies and regional variations. The results will be summarized and published in a report. The project will address the following questions: The project is expected to promote Nordic knowledge exchange and to have a positive impact on development strategies that ensure robust regions and labour markets in the Nordic region.
Smart Adaptation to Rural Realities: Approaches and practices in Nordic municipalities and regions
The project’s starting point is the current out-migration and population decline facing many rural municipalities. Smart adaptation refers to approaches that public authorities take to adapt their activities to changes in population. The project aims first to identify and describe smart adaptation strategies in rural governance across the Nordic region, both regarding written documents and concrete policy decisions. Secondly, the project facilitates Nordic learning and knowledge sharing between municipalities and other actors working with rural governance. The research questions addressed include: The project may also reflect on smart adaptation strategies to manage other demographic changes, such as spatially concentrated population fluctuations or shocks. The project will develop a working paper around smart adaptation, including how it is defined and how it has been addressed in previous studies. The research team will also identify Nordic municipalities working with smart adaptation strategies to manage long-term population shrinkage. These shall serve as cases to study smart adaptation from a Nordic lens. The selected municipalities will then participate in and contribute to five workshops arranged (one) in each Nordic country to discuss how they work with smart adaptation, their experiences, and what others can learn. Experts such as researchers, local and regional authorities associations, and policy officials at the national level will also be recruited to the workshops. Representatives from Nordic municipalities and regions will also be invited to a Nordic workshop to learn about smart adaptation strategies and practices and participate in discussions about smart adaptation. The project will publish a policy brief with policy recommendations to local and national-level politicians. A scientific article will also be submitted to a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal. The academic article is to share the results with an academic audience and ensure that the project results can inspire future studies and interact with the international research audience to add to the…
Socially sustainable rural tourism
Recent Nordregio studies show that all Nordic countries aim for sustainable tourism development in their national strategies. Many ongoing Nordic tourism studies focus especially on economic and environmental aspects of sustainable tourism. This research however aims to look further into the concept of sustainable tourism development from a sociocultural perspective. The project will examine what the Nordic countries consider social and cultural effects in tourism development to be, and look into which possible indicators are used to measure the social dimension of sustainability in the ongoing quest of the Nordic countries for sustainable tourism development. This will include for example analysing tourism contributions and costs for regions and more rural areas, effects on employment, working conditions, provision of services, culture and arts, preservation of heritage, perception and preservation of nature, transport, housing and general tolerance towards tourism. This project will therefore produce a knowledge overview of how social and cultural aspects are considered in Nordic tourism development, both on a national level as well as regional and local levels. This will include a policy overview to pinpoint in which ways the social dimension of sustainable tourism development is being considered, and if and how, indicators are used to illustrate positive and negative impacts on the social and cultural dimensions of sustainable tourism. Also, how social and cultural identities are used to support sustainable tourism will be explored in the project. The in-depth qualitative part of the study would focus on social aspects of tourism such as the value creation of the tourism industry, the insecurity of the often very seasonality of tourism work, the role of tourism jobs as entry-level work and the lower-educated, employment of migrant workers in tourism-related industries and benefits and costs of tourism for societies beyond economic and environmental aspects.
Early career mobility in the Nordic region
Recent Nordregio studies show a difference in migration intensities and patterns between adults in their 20s and 30s. The aim of the project is to understand the migration drivers from the university towns and urban areas in the Nordic region, targeting adults in their early careers. The project will put an emphasis on urban-to-rural migration, addressing cross-cutting themes such as gender and the green transition. It is no surprise that the net migration to university towns and urban areas is positive for people in their 20s while the migration patterns of people in their 30s are much more diverse. But where do young people migrate to after their studies? Data shows that people in their „early career“ leave capitals and university towns and move to rural and intermediate municipalities that are close to larger urban municipalities, but also some more peripheral How could migration trends be supported and enhanced through regional development policy? By understanding the migration drivers of young people, regional actors could better prepare and respond to potential opportunities of positive migration flow to rural and remote areas. To support these opportunities for Nordic regional development, the project will explore the determinants of migration in the Nordic region and seek to identify the motives and drivers of early-career urban-to-rural migration. This research project builds on and contributes to several currently running Thematic Group projects examining migration and mobility in the Nordic countries, including the projects Re-Start Competence Mobility in the Nordic Region (Lundgren et al, 2021-2024), and Remote Work and Multilocality (Linda Randall et al, 2021-2024). The project is funded by the Nordic Thematic Group for Green, Innovative and Resilient Regions (2021-2024).
Youth for Sustainable Living
This project will increase awareness about the sustainable development goals among youth in the Nordic countries. The project collaborates closely with existing organisations encouraging youth to take climate action and inspire peers to live more sustainably. The project is expected to have public impact through information, inspiration, and demonstration of necessary behavioural and cultural changes. The Nordic Region will be the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030 according to the Nordic Council of Ministers’ vision for Nordic co-operation. The Nordic countries are at the forefront of work on sustainable development and progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, we have to address several challenges, in particular, associated with ecological sustainability. The Nordic countries have unsustainable production and consumption patterns, and this project will focus on working towards SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. The project Youth for Sustainable Living collaborates with established organisations working with youth and sustainability. Through cooperation, events, campaigns and other activities, the project aims to increase knowledge of SDG 12 and encourage youth to take concrete climate actions. The project shall also provide youth with a platform to discuss and disseminate knowledge about sustainable development and promote networking with like-minded peers. During 2023 the project will participate in the following events: Sustainable living in the Nordic Region The project is part of the programme Sustainable living in the Nordic Region. The programme consists of six projects that will make it easier to live in a climate-friendly way in the Nordic Region. It is a cross-sectoral Nordic collaboration between the Nordic councils of ministers for gender equality and LGBTI (MR-JÄM), environment and climate (MR-MK), fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, food and forestry (MR-FJLS), education and research (MR-U), culture (MR-K), and Nordic co-operation (MR-SAM), as well as NORDBUK and the Expert Group…
Small Town Attractiveness
The aim of this project is to explore current Nordic planning practices and strategies to enhance small town attractiveness. Urban attractiveness is a highly subjective value. As Hidman (2018) points out: “[Attractiveness?] What is the term intended to mean? How is the term understood in local contexts? How is the term transformed into buildings, parks, squares, streets, homes and other built environments?” In this project, we examine smaller Nordic towns that are considered attractive places to live and work in by the many. However, attractiveness has been studied from many angles in the Nordic countries over the years. In smaller town studies, employment opportunities are often in focus. Here, we explore a different emphasis, focusing on town characteristics that attract and retain population outside of work hours, which can be influenced through urban planning. More precisely, we explore the nexus Public space – Housing – Connectivity. Public space concerns the outline of urban space and architecture, services and living town centers, leisure and culture as well as blue-green infrastructure. When it comes to housing, a diverse and qualitative housing supply that fits present and future populations and its strategic localization is in focus. Digital and physical connectivity is important both within the town and with other towns and rural areas. Tying it all together, the connections between housing, public space and workplaces/schools that makes the urban structure are important. The project will explore current discussions on attractivity in the five Nordic countries and illustrate these with case studies of five towns.
- January, 2023 - December, 2024
Nordic Climate Neutral Cities
Nordic Climate Neutral Cities investigates how municipalities in the Nordic Region seek to become climate neutral, with a focus on spatial planning tools and practices. The project will consider how climate plans shape urban fields such as the built environment, transport and mobility, and energy production/consumption and look at the intersection of densification and carbon emissions. The project adopts a holistic approach to climate neutrality, placing environmental issues in dialogue with economic and social issues, and seeks to understand how to achieve climate-neutral goals alongside financial needs and social equity. Additional questions that will be pursued in the project include: How is climate change affecting Nordic cities in the short and long term? What are the key problems regarding carbon emissions, and how have they been defined/measured? How can urban leaders make decisions when environmental, economic, and social issues are at odds? To provide a reply to these questions, a thorough review of the literature will bring clarity to what climate-neutral cities entail. Attention will be given to methodologies and indicators to measure climate neutrality and the performance of urban form regarding emissions. This will allow a critical discussion about the social, economic and environmental synergies and trade-offs of compact cities in delivering climate neutrality as well as on the different perspectives (production 0r consumption) to account for urban emissions. The review also will scrutinise tools and strategies to address climate neutrality through spatial planning, governance models and policy pathways (e.g., circular economy, nature-based solutions) and instruments to encourage carbon-neutral cities. This knowledge is fundamental to defining what climate-neutral city mean in the Nordic context and to provide a framework for examining plans, initiatives and actions aiming at climate neutrality in nine cities across five Nordic countries. These case studies will open opportunities to compare and contrast different tools and…
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A delegation from La Baie will participate in the review of the state of the winter groundfish recreational fishery in the Saguenay Fjord, which will take place at the Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Mont-Joli on November 21, 2018. Marc-André Galbrand Rémi Aubin, Guy Girard and Claudia Carascal-Lean will be the people who will participate. The objectives are to provide scientific advice on the status of populations of redfish, Greenland halibut, Atlantic cod and Ogac cod in the Fjord. Discussions will also be held on Atlantic halibut and the opening period of the recreational groundfish fishery.
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Ian Elder - Jobs to Move America
Maurice Muia - Muia Materials
Evan Belser - Office of General Counsel, Ford Motor Company
Zora Chung - ReJoule
As electric vehicle battery production quickly scales up, it has highlighted the need to build a cleaner, healthier, more equitable battery supply chain - and one that is more centered in the United States. Clearly, battery recycling will also become increasingly important. All of these issues are now receiving dramatically more attention and investment. This panel will highlight key recent developments and plans underway, as well as the work that remains ahead of us.


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Carol Caton, PhD
Carol L.M. Caton, Ph.D. (B.S. Columbia; Ph.D., Medical Sociology, Yale) has held faculty appointments at Yale University School of Medicine, SUNY-Downstate Medical School, and the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University. Dr. Caton is currently Professor of Clinical Public Health (Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Caton has served as Principal Investigator and Director of a NIMH-funded P30 ACISIR, the Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CHPS), a mental health services research center focused on the development of interventions to prevent chronic homelessness. (www.columbia-chps.org). Scholars from various departments and schools at the NYSPI/Columbia campus and at other research centers in the region have been involved in this multidisciplinary effort, which also included providers, consumers, and policy makers in the areas of homeless services, housing, and mental health care.
Dr. Caton has had a long-standing interest in homelessness and mental illness, and has received considerable external funding for research in this area. She recently completed a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among homeless women housed in New York City shelters. Dr. Caton is currently collaborating on a NIMH-funded R34 grant to develop a primary care based intervention for depressed homeless mothers, and a NIMH R21 grant to develop a cognitive remediation intervention for homeless youth, designed to improve their employability. Dr. Caton is the author of Homeless in America (Oxford University Press) and she has published extensively on schizophrenia, homelessness, and dual disorders. She participated in the development of Uniting for Solutions Beyond Shelter, the New York City plan to end chronic homelessness. Dr. Caton has presented her work at numerous national and international forums, including the United Nations. She currently serves on the research advisory boards of the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
- Professor of Clinical Public Health (Social Sciences) (in Psychiatry)
Research interests include studies of community adjustment in schizophrenia, epidemiological and treatment studies of psychosis and substance use comorbidity,and strategies for preventing homelessness among people with severe mental illness.
Dr. Caton is currently collaborating on two NIMH-funded studies; one focused on the development of a primary care based intervention for depressed homeless mothers, and the other designed to develop a cognitive remediation intervention for homeless youth. Dr. Caton has recently completed a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among homeless women housed in New York City shelters.
- Drake RE, Caton, CLM, Xie H, Hsu E,Gorroochurn P,Samet S, Hasin D, : A prospective two-year follow-up of emergency department admissions with early phase primary psychosis or substance-induced psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry 2011;168: 742-748
- Caton CLM, Hasin DS, Shrout PE, Drake RE, Dominguez B, First MB, Samet S, Schanzer B: Stability of early-phase primary psychotic disorders with concurrent substance use and substance-induced psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007;190: 105-111
- Caton CLM, Hasin DS, Shrout PE, Drake RE, Dominguez B, Samet S, Schanzer B: Predictors of Psychosis Remission in Psychotic Disorders that Co-occur with Substance Use. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006;32: 618-625
- Caton CLM, Drake RE, Hasin DS, Dominguez B, Shrout PE, Samet S, Schanzer B: Differences Between Early-Phase Primary Psychotic Disorders with Concurrent Substance Use and Substance-Induced Psychosis. Archives of General Psychaitry 2005;62: 137-145
- Caton CLM, Xie H, Drake RE, McHugo G : Gender Differences ins Psychotic Disorders with Concurrent Substance Use . Journal of Dual Disorders 2014;10: 177-186

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Hello my friends!
We are all doing fine. We started the year well and thank you very much for every contribution and donations you made during December. I am thankful I was able to buy a few mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, some seedlings for the garden and toys for the kids. Not forgetting the goat we slaughtered during Christmas.
Home of Grace has a vision of empowering itself and to be self sufficient. To achieve this we have started a poultry farming Project. We still have lots of projects in mind. We are aiming to have a dairy cow. With this, the children can get milk and the rest we could sell to the community to cover our other expenses. Other projects we have in mind for the future are perhaps fish farming, bee keeping, having a health facility, or a nursery school for the kids – all ways for us to serve in the community.
During Christmas, you sent us money to help some of the poorest families in our community. The population of poor families is very high. I was able to give out the small gifts to a few needy families. During weekends we serve the community children a lunch time meal as a way of showing them love and that we are together.
Our Pastor has really helped me a lot in strengthening the children. He always comes during the weekends to share a word of God with the children, to counsel them and encourage them. We all enjoy his sermons in the church. Can I say I have Radical Kids, because they are very active in Sunday school. They lead the other children in songs, memory verses and even reading a verse from the bible.
The population of orphans keeps on increasing daily and our community is very affected. Food and shelter is the big problem. Please keep them in your daily prayers.
Lastly keep the team of adults who work here with me in your prayers.
GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIENDS.
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Biodiversity & Healthy Ecosystems in the Garden, 3-Part Series
Part 2 - Designing for Biodiversity Join Reeves-Reed Arboretum's Lead Horticulturist Laura Gilkey to explore planting design ideas and methodologies that encourage biodiversity. Bring your design questions, and we will consider some options together. Union County Master Gardeners can receive Continuing Education Credits (CEU) for this course and member pricing. Please contact Marilyn Foehrenbach, Office Manager, at email@example.com or 908-273-8787 x1010.

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Child Magazine contacted me create illustrations for them, this turned into a regular gig that went on for a few years. Some of my contributions won awards in the US publishing industry.
Here are a few selected images from that time.
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For a short story of a father’s account on how he discovered how the trivial thing really mattered in improving his relationship with his daughter.
If you are interested in commissioning Gregory to illustrate your next children’s book or magazine, he would be delighted to hear from you. Contact details
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PERSIAN AND LURISTAN DAGGERS
1st Millennium B. C.
"Swords are a weapon form tending to exhibit a slower, more conservative evolution. Although earlier, these are all types that Alexander would have readily recognized in the hands of his adversaries."
The first with hilt of waisted form, open cast with a pattern of triangles, inlays missing, domed pommel decorated with openwork cruciform pattern, (26.5 cm) long; another similar, the long blade with pronounced mid-rib, openwork hilt and crescentic guard, (40.7) long; a Bronze blade with short pierced tang, the blade cast with multiple grooves, early 1st millennium B. C., (45.8 cm) long; and two Luristan bronze daggers with flanged hilts, early 1st millennium B. C., (45 cm) long max. Provenance: Acquired in 1987, Frankfurt.


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Background: Doubts have been expressed about the performance of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) clinical classification criteria for osteoarthritis when applied in the general population.
Objective: To investigate whether the distribution of population subgroups and underlying disease severity might explain the performance of these criteria in the population setting.
Methods: Population-based cross-sectional study. 819 adults aged ⩾50 years reporting knee pain in the last 12 months were clinically assessed by research therapists using standardised protocols and blinded to radiographic status. All participants underwent plain radiography of the knees, scored by a single reader blinded to clinical status. The relationship between fulfilling the ACR clinical classification criteria for knee osteoarthritis and the presence of symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis was summarised for the sample as a whole and within subgroups.
Results: Radiographic osteoarthritis was present in 539 participants (68%) and symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis in 259 (33%). 238 participants (30%) fulfilled the ACR clinical criteria for knee osteoarthritis. Agreement between the ACR clinical criteria and symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis was low (sensitivity 41%; specificity 75%; positive predictive value 44%; negative predictive value 72%). Sensitivity and specificity did not vary markedly between population subgroups, although they were influenced by the underlying severity of radiographic osteoarthritis.
Conclusion: The ACR clinical criteria seem to reflect later signs in advanced disease. Other approaches may be needed to identify early, mild osteoarthritis in the general population and primary care.
- ACR, American College of Rheumatology
- BMI, body mass index
- CAS(K), clinical assessment study of the knee
- K&L, Kellgren and Lawrence
- NPV, negative predictive value
- PPV, positive predictive value
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Created as a collaboration between the Game Innovation Lab and the American video artist Bill Viola, The Night Journey is an experimental art game that uses both game and video techniques to tell the story of an individual’s journey towards enlightenment.
AUDINT is a European artist collective working across animation, installation, and publishing. Drawing on excerpts from an extended conversation with the group, we unpack their vision of the dystopian future-present and the nether zones that can be conjured through sound and vibration.
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Our sixth episode honors the great film score composer Jóhann Jóhannsson who passed away in February and left a terrible void in the world of film music. The team from Mandy, his final film, discuss working with the brilliant and sorely missed composer legend. Recorded at the 4th Annual GMS 'State of Music in Media' Conference at USC on September 15th, 2018.
In our fifth episode, Music Supervisor Dave Jordan and composer Ludwig Göransson discuss bringing Ryan Coogler’s Marvel Blockbuster Black Panther to life. Recorded at the 4th Annual GMS 'State of Music in Media' Conference in Bovard Auditorium, USC on September 15th, 2018.