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These last two weeks have been about far more than determining the chancellor's fate. They have been a bitter struggle over the fundamental direction of European refugee policy. And the forces that have been backing closure of the borders have won. These are politicians who want to prevent people from making the life-threatening journey across the Mediterranean in the first place.
This should be achieved through reinforced border protection, but also by building camps in North Africa. In future, refugees will have to wait until it is certain whether they are desirable in Europe. This may be because they have a right to asylum, or because their labor is needed. The situation within Europe will also be governed more heavy-handedly and in future refugees will, theoretically, be accommodated quickly in centers or camps, cases will be dealt with swiftly and unwanted visitors will be returned speedily.
Domestic political farce
These are the major plans that Angela Merkel negotiated with her European colleagues last week and with which she is rejecting her previous open border policy. These are the plans that finally led Interior Minister Horst Seehofer to relent and ended the sad German domestic political farce of the past few days — and thus saved the German government from breaking apart for the time being.
That's the good news. Not only for Germany, but also for Europe. Only populist agitators have an interest in Europe's largest economy sliding into an open-ended governmental crisis in this phase of general uncertainty. The stabilizing power of the country is too important. This is one of the reasons why Merkel so quickly succeeded in setting up a European summit where the broad guidelines of this new European migration and asylum policy were agreed upon. Europe knows what Angela Merkel has to offer in these times.
No real solution
This puts an end to the acute crisis. However, no real answer to the challenges has been found — let's not kid ourselves. After all, in which North African countries should the reception camps be built? The reactions so far have been predominantly hostile. And with which countries can you do business if you want to preserve human rights at the very minimum? And who will take care of refugees if they are prevented from moving on? The latest pictures from Algeria show what can happen. Thousands were literally sent to the desert, including children and pregnant women, where at almost 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in the shade they died miserably, of thirst and starvation. Countries like Lebanon are already taking in more refugees than the whole of Europe put together. This is also part of the truth of a European policy of isolation.
More questions than answers
There are also currently more questions than answers within Europe. Here, too, it is uncertain in which country camps are to be built. Which governments are really prepared, in the end, to lighten the burden carried by Italy and Greece, those countries with the longest external borders and, correspondingly, the highest number of refugee arrivals? This quick agreement between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) was only possible because everything remained vague. The only thing that can be implemented quickly is to strengthen border management. There are lucrative times ahead for the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, and for fence-building companies.
Angela Merkel has been fighting for a humane refugee policy for three years. And she has also made mistakes. Communication was often poor, there were technical glitches. But now she has been forced to adopt a new policy of harshness by the mood in her own country, the new political party landscape, the conditions in Europe, not least her own government partner, CSU.
Her deep yet simple conviction that we must help those in need is unlikely to have changed. It will be even more important to her now to make sure that not only fences are built, but also that the government works hard on implementing proper immigration laws, on entering into new partnerships with African states and on supporting, much more significantly than before, the forces there that are fighting to ensure that people can stay in their countries of origin.
Fences and border guards may protect European governments for the moment. But they are by no means a permanent solution.


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For 101 years, this impressive country house in an ideal setting has looked out over Lake Constance, the Appenzell Alps and the Canton of Thurgau. The cantonal authority responsible for the preservation of historical monuments deemed the Mammertsberg a “valuable” property and provided the establishment with constructive assistance during the two-year renovation period from 2011 to 2013.
Tilla Theus, the Swiss architect responsible for the renovation work who, among other things, designed the new FIFA headquarters in Zurich and was responsible for the reconstruction of the five-star Hotel Castello del Sole in Ascona, wanted to return the house to its original form and aesthetics following the various alterations of previous decades. Using old photos and postcards, the painted roof and facades were restored to their former glory while the roof tower, destroyed by fire, was also rebuilt.
The old character of the original building is heightened by the entirely different form and persona of the new Monolith building. In the shade of bamboo canes, the passageway between the old and new buildings also houses the establishment’s award-winning open kitchen.

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Should The Federal Department Of Health Or The New E-Health Commission Be The Key Input And Determinant Of Australian E-Health Policy?The Federal Department Of Health 23% (21)
The Aust. Commission For E-Health (ACeH) 38% (35)
Neither 29% (27)
I Have No Idea 11% (10)
Total votes: 93
Clearly the Department of Health is not seen as the ideal source of E-Health policy! Interesting nearly 30% want neither.
Good to see such a great number of responses!
Again, many, many thanks to all those that voted!


text: Since Declan was born, his kokum has shared her love of Buffalo through stories and art. But Declan longs to see real Buffalo. Then one magical night, herds of the majestic creatures stampede down from the sky. That’s when things really get wild! Azby Whitecalf’s, Plains Cree, playful illustrations add to the joy and reverence in Deidre Havrelock’s, a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada, picture book debut. A reprinting of the Buffalo Treaty and an author’s note describe the importance of Buffalo to Indigenous Peoples.

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ARN has extended its sales representation to include Canberra’s FM 104.7 nationally, alongside its existing representation of the other ARN/Austereo joint venture station – Mix 106.3.
The appointment brings the two commercial FM stations in Canberra under one representation and means that media buyers can now access the town’s FM audience with one phone call.
ARN Chief Executive Officer Bob Longwell, said “the addition of FM 104.7 further strengthens ARN’s strategy to be the dominant network reaching 25-54 year olds in Australia”.
FM 104.7 was previously represented by Austereo which, like ARN, has recently undergone significant restructuring of its agency sales operations to provide greater focus on core demographics and enhance service levels to advertising agencies and their clients.
Both Austereo and the Australian Radio Network have simplified the buying process enabling them to buy any combination of network stations from a single account manager. At the same time, both organisations have increased sales support to lift service levels.
ARN General Sales Manager – Agency Brian Blacklock, told AMT: “The new structures reflect the changing needs of the market and were developed in consultation with key agency personnel. We believe our new focus and structure provides the best customer service in the radio industry, reflecting the changing requirements of agencies and media buyers.”

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The Thai stock market on Wednesday saw an end to the three-day winning streak in which it gained more than 12 points or 3 percent on its way to a three-month closing high. The Stock Exchange of Thailand is clinging to support at 460 points, although investors expect the market to hand over that level at the opening of trade on Thursday.
The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed with a touch of downside, thanks to a series of disappointing quarterly reports. Financials are expected to remain under pressure, although some of the bigger exporters and technology stocks may provide support. The European stock markets finished sharply higher and the U.S. markets ended mostly lower - and the Asian markets are predicted to see equal dichotomy.
The SET finished sharply lower on Wednesday, as the energy stocks and financials were generally lower. For the day, the index lost 5.76 points or 1.24 percent to close at 460.62 after trading between 459.31 and 470.46. Volume was 3.508 billion shares worth 18.276 billion baht.
Among the actives, energy giant PTT was off 1.70 percent, while PTT Exploration and Production fell 3.25 percent, PTT Aromatic lost 2.24 percent, coal producer Banpu surged 5.53 percent, Siam Commercial Bank dropped 1.79 percent and Bangkok Bank shed 1.3 percent.
The lead from Wall Street is modest pessimism as stocks experienced considerable volatility over the course of the trading day on Wednesday, with the major averages unable to sustain any significant moves. The choppy trading came as investors continued to digest mixed earnings news.
Early on in the session, traders reacted negatively to quarterly results from Morgan Stanley (MS), which became one of the few major financial companies to report weaker than expected first quarter results. Morgan Stanley reported a much wider than expected first quarter loss of $0.57 per share and revealed that it has slashed its quarterly dividend by 80 percent to $0.05 a share.
Separately, Boeing (BA) reported first quarter net income of $610 million, down 50 percent from last year quarter's $1.21 billion. Revenues for the quarter rose 3 percent to $16.5 billion from last year's $15.99 billion. Looking forward, the aerospace giant reaffirmed its full year revenue guidance but lowered its earnings guidance due to lower earnings at its commercial airplanes business.
Meanwhile, fast food giant McDonald's (MCD) reported first quarter net income of $0.87 per share, compared to $0.81 per share in the same quarter of last year, while analysts expected the company to report earnings of $0.82 per share.
In other news, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke to the Economics Club of Washington earlier in the day, hinting that policymakers might be forced to alter their recovery strategies as the global financial crisis drags on. He explained that the revised estimate from the International Monetary Fund for global growth could spark a change in policy. The IMF lowered its 2009 outlook, now predicating a contraction of 1.3 percent for the year compared to its previous estimate of 0.5 percent growth.
The major averages pulled back sharply going into the close, with the Dow and the S&P 500 falling firmly into negative territory. While the NASDAQ managed to hold onto a modest gain, closing up 2.27 points or 0.1 percent at 1,646.12, the Dow closed down 82.99 points or 1.0 percent at 7,886.57 and the S&P 500 closed down 6.53 points or 0.8 percent at 843.55.
In economic news, the Bank of Thailand said on Wednesday that the country's GDP could shrink by between 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent in the current year, reversing from its earlier forecast of economic growth of between zero and 2 percent for the year.
Meanwhile, the central bank expects consumer prices to increase either by up to 1 percent or fall by a maximum of 1 percent in the current year. In its previous report, it estimated consumer prices to rise by almost 0.5 percent or fall by a maximum of 1.5 percent in 2009.
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All private and public sector banks Saturday remained open for full day in the wake of RBI directive that banks shall operate for full day every 1st and 3rd Saturday and remain closed on every 2nd and 4th Saturday.
Earlier the banks operated for half day on every Saturday.
The customers said that this was a new experience for them as they could visit the banks in the afternoon and carry out their financial transactions.
Most of the bank branches this reporter visited on Saturday were abuzz with customer presence.
Muhammad Ayub, Branch Manager, C D Hospital Branch, J&K Bank said that they had texted to the customers informing them that the bank henceforth shall remain open on every first and third Saturday.
"An increase in the overall transactions was seen as business hours have extended till 4pm while the bank remained open till 5pm," Ayub said.
SajjadBazaz, Incharge, Corporate Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, J&K Bank said the closure of banks on two Saturdays every month "will provide boost to banking through alternate delivery channels at home."
He said electronic banking and internet banking will also become more widely used as people who intend to carry out banking operations on closed Saturdays will opt for 'modern methods of banking'.
Bank customers have welcomed RBI decision of alternate working Saturdays.
Muhammad Javed , a J&K Bank depositor hailing from Kargil said he withdrew cash from CD Hospital Branch at 3 PM despite it being Saturday.
He called it a welcome move. "I had to pay my son's college fee for which I made a transaction in the afternoon today. This is a sensible move by RBI to let banks work full day on Saturday," Javed said.

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|MYERS, SCOTT - Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
|DOMINGUE, MICHAEL - Kansas State University
Submitted to: Agronomy
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2020
Publication Date: 6/9/2020
Citation: Scheff, D.S., Arthur, F.H., Myers, S.W., Domingue, M.J. 2020. Efficacy determination of commercial deltamethrin treated storage bags on Trogoderma granarium Everts adults and larvae. Agronomy. 10:814. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10060814.
Interpretive Summary: The khapra beetle is a highly destructive stored product insect that can feed on >100 different products worldwide and is a major threat to global food security. In many countries around the world, grain is often stored in large bags in warehouses, where it is susceptible to infestation by the khapra beetle. Long-lasting deltamethrin treated storage bags are a resource that could be used to limit infestations during storage of grain in bags, but its efficacy on khapra beetle adults and larvae have not been determined. Adult khapra beetles were knocked down on their backs and unable to move after less than 60 minutes of exposure on the treated packaging material. Khapra beetle larvae were highly susceptible to the deltamethrin treated packaging as well. A short 8 h exposure to the packaging resulted in 15% of exposed larvae dying and for larvae that were continually held on the treated bags there was ~97% mortality. The commercial deltamethrin treated packaging material was highly effective against adults and larvae of the khapra beetle suggesting it could be used as a part of an insect management program for bagged grain during storage and transport. This packaging could aid in preventing the transportation of khapra beetles and help prevent this invasive species of insect from spreading globally.
Technical Abstract: Trogoderma granarium Everts, khapra beetle, is a serious stored product pest known to feed on >100 different products worldwide and is a major threat to global food security. Deltamethrin treated storage bags are a resource that could be used to limit infestations during storage of grain in bags. We investigated the efficacy of the treated bags against T. granarium adults and larvae. Deltamethrin treated and untreated packaging material were affixed into the bottom of a plastic Petri dishes (62 or 137 cm2) to create a bioassay arena. Adult T. granarium were exposed and observed to determine time to knockdown and the subsequent mortality rate within 24 hr. Adult T. granarium were knocked down in < 60 min and 100% of adults were knocked down or dead after 24 h. Trogoderma granarium larvae were exposed for 0.33, 1, 2, 3, 4 d or continually exposed and monitored for larval death and adult emergence. Larvae exposed for 4 d had 50% mortality versus 97% if continually exposed. Utilizing this treated packaging could cause disruptions in natural populations of T. granarium found in storage facilities and is an effective tool that could be implemented into an integrated pest management program for bagged grain.

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After meeting Community Safety Minister Roseanna Cunningham, who is piloting the Bill, the Right Reverend David Arnott, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: “The speed at which it is being rushed through means it appears to lack scrutiny and clarity. The Government is rightly asking for support from across civic Scotland, but is not giving civic Scotland much time to make sure they are happy with the content.”
Catholic Church spokesman Peter Kearney said the “truncated timescale” reinforced the need for close scrutiny. He added: “Equally, however, the timetable does suggest that urgent political attention is being given to a high-profile problem. Tackling incidents of football-related intolerance in this way will allow a wider and longer debate to take place on sectarianism and its underlying causes, without the constant distraction of football-related incidents, which statistically account for less than 15% of sectarian offences in Scotland.”
The Law Society has also urged caution.
However, the Law Society of Scotland said the Bill is being pushed through Parliament too quickly and that the resulting lack of scrutiny may create legislation that is open to successful challenge.
Bill McVicar, convener of the society's criminal law committee, said: "We understand the importance of tackling sectarianism. This is a very serious issue and one that needs both attention and action from our political leaders. However, it is because of the importance of this issue that the Scottish Government needs to allow adequate time to ensure the legislation can be properly scrutinised.
It's good that there are now some prominent naysayers in this debate.
The actual text of the proposed bill has now been published here. Looking at it, it does seem less worrying that I feared it might be. I still don't agree with the restrictions on free speech, but it looks as though it won't have much effect on criticisms of Islam. First, the part of the bill that requires physical presence is specifically limited to "in relation to a regulated football match". Second, the part that relates to communications rather than physical presence requires an element of threat to be present and includes a reasonableness defence. Either Condition A or Condition B below must be fulfilled for the act to constitute an offence.
Condition A is that—
(a) the material consists of, contains or implies a threat, or an incitement, to carry out
a seriously violent act against a person or against persons of a particular
(b) the material or the communication of it would be likely to cause a reasonable
person to suffer fear or alarm, and
(c) the person communicating the material—
(i) intends by doing so to cause fear or alarm, or
(ii) is reckless as to
Condition B is that—
(a) the material is threatening, and
(b) the person communicating it intends by doing so to stir up religious hatred.
(6) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) to show that the communication of the material was, in the particular circumstances, reasonable.
The official press release about the bill also says this:
The offence will NOT:
Stop peaceful preaching or proselytising
Restrict freedom of speech including the right to criticise or comment on religion or non-religious beliefs, even in harsh terms
Criminalise jokes and satire about religion or non-religious belief
I still wish the bill would go away but it at least seems to be not as bad as I expected.


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Ill-advised hypnosis. Casual racism. Overt racism. T-S-motherfucking-A.
2017’s Get Out is one of most refreshing horror movies in years. Nodding to horror’s past while moving the genre forward, aping iconic films but setting trends in its own right and finally getting the Academy to nominate a horror movie for Best Picture – Get Out is truly an instant classic. Starting a huge run for horror releases in 2017, Get Out released in February with moderate fanfare and turned into one of the most profitable movies of all time, making over $250 million dollars worldwide on a budget of $5 million.
To top it all off, this massive hit was the directorial debut of well-known comedian Jordan Peele. Peele was best known for being one half of the sketch comedy duo Key & Peele (big up Children’s Hospital too!), but now is an extremely sought after director and producer. Peele is lending his talents to a Twilight Zone tv revial, another TV show with ‘Lovecraft’ literally in its title and numerous rumored movies.
Join the TPM crew as they literally podcast from the suburbs for the first time. After regaling each other with terrible in-law stories the crew roots on Get Out for its 4 Oscar nominations (suck it Phantom Thread).
- Debate Question (02:46): Worst meeting the parents scenario
- Movie Review (14:42): Get Out (2017)
- What Would You Do Differently? (49:22)
- Awards (53:29)
- Final Cut (57:24): Movie review scores from hosts and guests
Texas Podcast Massacre is labor of love for us as longtime horror fans. If you love horror too you can connect with us at texaspodcastmassacre.com, tweet us @TXPodMassacre, like us on Facebook or watch us on YouTube.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the messages we’re sending our children. Us as parents, of course, but also society as a whole.
Even at 2, I know my daughter is encountering societal messages every single day. Messages about what’s expected of her because she’s a girl, what’s okay for her to do because of her gender and what isn’t, what clothes she should and shouldn’t be wearing, what types of toys should and shouldn’t be playing with.
So when I came across a funny, sarcastic graphic about how to figure out what toys are for boys and which are for girls, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to reflect about gender roles, expectations, and how we handle both in our household.I started out in Photoshop, as I so often do for this project. I created 6×8 canvas, and then pasted the image at the top. At the bottom, I typed my journaling, where I reflected at length about what Kaylee likes to play with (tools, cars, trains) and what she doesn’t (princess dresses, dolls, stuffed animals). I talked about her favourite color (blue) and her favourite activity (splashing in mud puddles). I talked about her request to cut her hair short, and her indifference toward having her nails painted. It was such a great opportunity for me to reflect on who she is, and how we’re supporting her in finding her identity, even at such a young age.
Then, I printed the final design out on cardstock and decided to embellish it a little more. I added a die-cut tree and small borders on either side of the page. And lastly, I went around the circles with Frosted Lace Stickles, and added some of those same Stickles to the ornaments in the die cut tree.
I wanted to keep the right side of my page fairly simple. I had a 3×8 page protector set up as part of my foundation pages, so that’s what I chose to use. I printed a cute photo of Kaylee on her last trip to Walmart with her dad, where she was enamoured with a tin of Minions-themed toys. The specific toy wasn’t as important here, so I added that gift sticker over the top. I also added a chipboard “7” and stamped the word “day” using Ali Edwards’ December Daily class stamp set, then trimmed it out and glued it on top of the chipboard piece.
Simple, thoughtful, meaningful, and most importantly: done!
Onward to day 8!

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February 8, 2008 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
1155 E. 60th St.
Nick Rabkin presents a preview of his forthcoming NEA report.
The Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts since 1982, document both serious declines in attendance nationwide at ‘benchmark’ arts events — mostly the program offerings of non-profit arts organizations — and declining levels of arts education. What’s the relationship between the two declines, and what do they mean for the future of the arts, and what are the implications for the future of education in America? Rabkin’s talk will be based on a monograph he prepared for the NEA on these questions that will be published in February.
Nick Rabkin is a Research Affiliate in the Cultural Policy Center and a Senior Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph “Arts Education in America: What the declines mean for arts participation,” written for the National Endowment for the Arts, and of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Nick directed the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, and was a senior program officer for arts and culture at the MacArthur Foundation, as well as serving as Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the city of Chicago.


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Ep.7: A Play for Voices
When you look at the books on a shelf of mountaineering literature one thing is quickly apparent: the vast majority are written by men.
The same is true with the episodes I've produced for Factor Two. The simple fact is that there have historically been more men engaged in the kind of adventures that we choose to tell those high profile stories about. The kind of stories I've sought out have often fitted a similar mould.
I came into this episode with a simplistic question. Would those stories be different if the protagonists were women?
Back in 1987 Dave Cook addressed the International Festival of Mountaineering Literature with his keynote speech, Running on Empty. He argued that climbing writing was becoming stale and insular and needed to be prepared to "push the hyperspace button". He wanted to see writing which embraced wider topics in the world and became more inclusive of ideas and people. Writing should talk about people as lovers, workers, genders and we should see the mountains not just as a playground, but as the ecosystem of which we are a part. Sound familiar?
We often forget the fact that most of what we deem to be success or progress in climbing is socially defined. Our stories are important because they become the unifier - they help us understand community expectations and goals. Of course, there's a good dose of vicarious glory to be wallowed in as well, but we often overlook that what we want to celebrate isn't some objective reality - it's the subjectivity of good stories.
To explore this I sought the help of Helen Mort and Anna Fleming, both writers and climbers. I wanted to understand whether they'd been inspired by the same stories in the same ways that I had. Are we meeting the challenge that Dave Cook laid down more than 30 years ago?


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I can think rationally and intelligently
Why am I doing my best?
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I honor my own life path
Why do I open my heart to the universal love around?
Why am I so grateful for my life of abundance?
I am an artist
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Cinnamon Nut Cake Recipe
"This moist bundt cake is an easy-to-assemble treat for brunch or dessert," assures Margaret Wilson of Hemet, California. "Top with a dollop of whipped cream and you're ready to enjoy."
- 1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
- 3 eggs
- 1-1/3 cups water
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1-1/4 cups finely chopped walnuts
- 7-1/2 teaspoons sugar
- 4-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, water and oil. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Combine walnuts, sugar and cinnamon.
- 2. Sprinkle a third of the nut mixture into a greased 10-in. fluted tube pan. Top with half of the batter and another third of the nut mixture. Repeat layers.
- 3. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 12-14 servings.
1 serving (1 slice) equals 283 calories, 15 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 46 mg cholesterol, 246 mg sodium, 34 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 6 g protein.
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Container shipper Maersk Line has introduced two new services for its Far East/Southeast India network: the Chennai Express (CHX) and the Chennai Express 2 (CHX2). From January 2016, the shipper will introduce two new services, a vessel sharing agreement on the Chennai Express (CHX) and slot charter agreement on the Chennai Express 2 (CHX2). The revamped network will include a Northern China direct call, headhaul new direct port calls including Singapore, Hong Kong, Yantian and Port Klang, and backhaul new direct port calls including Busan, Singapore and Port Klang. The rotations for these new services will be as follows: CHX Busan > Qingdao – Xingang – Busan – Shanghai – Nansha New Port – Singapore – Tanjung Pelepas – Chennai – Krishnapatnam / Kattupalli (biweekly) – Visakhapatnam – Tanjung Pelepas – Singapore CHX2 Busan – Shanghai – Hong Kong – Yantian – Singapore – Port Klang – Chennai – Port Klang – Singapore - Shanghai
MOL (America) Inc. announced the expansion of its Americas service profile. In May 2004, MOL will be adding a new service, the Americas Container Express (ACE), which will call the U.S. East Coast, Northern Caribbean, and the East Coast of South America. MOL has operated an extensive, South America service network for nearly 90 years. However, this is the first time the company has offered a direct service link between the East Coasts of North and South America.
The Japanese global shipping company, K Line, and the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) announced a new partnership with the arrival of the new K Line vessel, Delaware Bridge, at the Port of Savannah. The arrival of the vessel establishes the beginning of a new service/consortium between the GPA and the Far East, further cementing the Port of Savannah's reputation as one of the Nation's leading containerports. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd
Maersk has been welcomed to the Port of Liverpool with a formal reception for its feeder vessel Antwerp. The event on April 27 was attended by Seago and Maersk representatives along with customers, and was followed by a port tour, including a trip to the top of the 90m Grain Tower. The 1,100 TEU Antwerp made its first call last week. Operator Seago is the latest carrier to introduce a new service via Liverpool and will provide a new cargo route between Algeciras-Liverpool-Dublin
CMA CGM improves its FEMEX service between North Europe and Turkey, adding the ports of Felixstowe, Valencia and Piraeus CMA CGM announced the extension of its port coverage and its competiveness in the Mediterranean, CMA CGM will consolidate its own FEMEX service jointly with SEAGO and Hamburg Süd. This improvement increases the service offering for customers on the important link between North Europe and the Marmara Region in Turkey.
Hamburg Süd will offer a new service from South Africa to Argentina and Brazil (SABR Service) in cooperation with Nile Dutch. The new fixed-day fortnightly service will provide shippers with a regular and reliable westbound link from South Africa to South America with connections to Europe and North America. The new service rotation will be: Durban – Port Elizabeth – Buenos Aires – Rio Grande – Itajai – Santos – Rio de Janeiro.
NileDutch, the container carrier specializing in West Africa, is setto introduce a new service to link the East Coast of the U.S. with West Africa and Europe. The rotation will start in New York and the service will run every nine days. The first vessel, the MV Cafer Dede will sail on February 16, 2016. According to the shipper, the new development aims to meet the growing demand from exporters in the East Coast of the U.S. for better access to their markets in West Africa
Troy Container Line Ltd., an American-owned NVOCC, announced the appointment of Paul Keany as sales representative. Based in the company’s Red Bank, N.J. office, Keany has been charged with expanding Troy Container Line’s long-standing tradition of personalized service and care in New Jersey, Philadelphia and the Baltimore region. In this position, he will work closely with the company’s current clients while also establishing new relationships in the Northeast and beyond.
UASC has introduced its new Asia – Europe Network with three new services (AEC1, AEC3, AEC4), and two enhanced services (AEC8, AEC9). These services will broaden UASC’s market coverage providing direct services to additional Asian and North European ports whereby UASC will provide more efficient and high quality services to its existing and new customers. This new setup is developed through a Vessel Sharing Agreement with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL)
Effective from 5 January 2011, Hamburg Süd will expand its presence in the trade between Asia and India/Pakistan by joining the new service operated in cooperation with Evergreen and Simatech. The new service (ASIP 2) will deploy 6 x 2,700 TEU (nominal) vessels and has the following port rotation: Xingang – – – – Hong Kong – – Tanjung Pelepas – Port Kelang – Nhava Sheva – – – Port Kelang – Tanjung Pelepas
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. has announced the launch of a new service center in Rostock, Germany that will serve all German Baltic Sea ports and Southern Scandinavian ports. The operations at Rostock will be managed by the existing team at OBAST Bunkering &
APM Terminals Mumbai, India’s busiest container terminal, has embraced ‘Direct Port Delivery’ (DPD)service initiated by the Indian government as part of its “Ease of Doing Business Program” to enhance India’s access to the global logistics chain.
Taiwan's Wan Hai Lines Ltd will expand further on its already extensive south-east Asia network by joining Thailand-Belawan Service (also known as TBS) on 7th of January 2017, to provide a direct service from Thailand to Belawan.
France-based CMA CGM today announced a new direct weekly container service to Asia from the Port of New Orleans Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. Part of the company’s PEX3 service, the inaugural vessel is scheduled to arrive on January 31 for service by terminal operator Ports
In order to improve its services and provide better solutions to market needs, ZIM is announcing a restructuring of its main services on major trades. The new, enhanced structure provides first-class services in the select trades the company is pursuing.
The European Commission said on Monday it had approved two Italian public support schemes designed to shift freight transport from roads to cut congestion and pollution. The first measure, with a budget of 255 million euros, aims to shift freight traffic to rail by granting subsidies to rail
Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has renewed its planned maintenance agreement with MacGregor, part of Cargotec. Stena Line has held MacGregor Onboard Care (MOC) agreements since 2008 and its latest contract takes the number of RoRo vessels covered to 39.
CMA CGM upgrades its offer between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean Sea with the new MARMARA EXPRESS line. "We are pleased to announce the new service offer MARMARA EXPRESS which directly links Turkey, Spain, France, Greece and Italy," says a company statement.
AAL, one of the world’s leading breakbulk, project cargo and heavy lift shipping operators, has been awarded the prize for ‘Excellence in Project Cargo, Breakbulk / Heavy Lift’ at the 21st Annual Australian Shipping & Maritime Industry Awards.
CMA CGM, a leading worldwide shipping group, has announced the new service offer Adrimed Express which directly links the ports of the Adriatic Sea and Egypt. This innovative, fast and reliable service links Egypt, Malta, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) made its first port call in Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT) in Batumi, Georgia, marking the launch of Gioia-Ukraine & Georgia feeder service, says International Container Terminal Services, Inc.(ICTSI).
BMT Design & Technology (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has announced a collaboration with Lester Franks, to provide a new service which will support ship owners in their response to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) ballast water management regulations which come
APL has announced the launch of the Colombia Bridge Express (CBX) Service – a weekly feeder service which connects the major markets of Colombia and Kingston in Jamaica. Via APL global linehaul services at the key transshipment hubs of Cartagena and Kingston
APL is expanding its Intra-Asia service network with the launch of a new Japan Taiwan 6 (JT6) Service and an upgraded Japan Thailand 2 (JT2) Service. The new JT6 Service links the markets of Japan, Taiwan, South China with the Philippines.
CMA CGM debuts its new service EUROSAL XL there by offering the best service offer which directly connects the West Coast of South America and Northern Europe. The new EUROSAL XL is a result of the fusion of the Group’s services EUROSAL1 and EUROSAL2


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There is lots of local food news around KAXE this week!
Scott Hall and I talked with Kent Lorentzen of Jacobson this morning. Kent is a local farmer and manager of the Grand Rapids Farmers’ Market. The Grand Rapids market is open Wednesdays and Fridays through the summer. This year, they’re moving to a new location, across the road from the Central Square Mall (on Highway 2). They’re also opening earlier this year (the first Saturday in May) to sell bedding plants and other items like jams and maple syrup. Kent specializes in beets, potatoes and onions. His garden is about 100’ x 120’, and he has a potato patch that is between half an acre and an acre in size. Kent said several members of the market specialize in certain foods that they can grow best on their land. Market members pay annual dues and a daily fee. For more information, and pictures of last year’s market, visit their website: http://www.grfarmersmarket.org/.
About ten people attended KAXE’s book club meeting last night, to discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable, Miracle. It was a lively discussion that encompassed recipes, apple tree pruning, and raising calves. It was also a yummy discussion. Participants brought a variety of local food—beets, potato salad, cheese, venison sausage, salsa, blueberry muffins, and black current wine.
Jane Grimsbo Jewett, volunteer producer for many of KAXE’s local food segments and staff member for MISA (the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture) has offered 5 hogs for sale (they are sold by the half). The cost is approximately $234 for a half hog (that’s about 80# of meat net), including slaughtering and butchering by Beier’s Country Meats. The hogs will be butchered in late March or early April. Those ordering hogs would be paying the grower (Jane) $1.60/# for the animal. Beier’s charges $45 to slaughter and $.50/# to cut and wrap the meat to your specifications. The staff at KAXE has purchased two halves. That leaves 8 remaining. If you eat meat and are interested in some sustainably raised pork—email firstname.lastname@example.org (Stephanie Rose). You can sign up for an entire half or, if other people go in with you, you can split up a half.
Finally, KAXE staffer Linda Johnson is organizing a seed exchange, for those who save seeds or wish to procure some. If you’re interested in participating, email her: email@example.com. She’d like to set up a day for the exchange!
If you are a local food producer, or if you know someone we should interview about local food, please let us know. Also, we’re interested in your local food recipes. We made local crepes in the KAXE kitchen this morning (with a dash of non-local Cognac in the batter, courtesy of KAXE historian and gourmet club member Don Boese). Do you have a favorite local food breakfast?
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Catholic church in Kenya attacked; Al Shabaab suspected
September 26, 2013
A Catholic church in northern Kenya was attacked with grenades on September 25, in what is believed to be another action by the Somalian terrorist group Al Shabaab.
Assailants threw two grenades at the church in Wajir, then shot at police before making their escape, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports. Gunmen opened fire on police in another town nearby, killing two officers and wounding three others.
Al Shabaab, an Islamic group fighting for control of Somalia, has opened an offensive in Kenya, aimed at persuading the Kenyan government to pull peacemaking troops out of Somalia, paving the way for Al Shabaab to extend its control over a larger portion of the country. The terrorist group's most dramatic action to date has been the massacre at the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
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Everyone knows that Peruvian food is one of a kind. When one goes to Peru, it is more likely than not that by the end of their trip they will be talking about the food. Maybe it’s because the country has such a variety of dishes and there are so many favorites. To understand the variety of Peruvian food, it is important to first understand that Peru is divided into three regions: one is the coast, the other the jungle and finally the highlands. The three of them are completely different as they are home to very distinctive cultures.
Most of the typical dishes of the coast are well-known around the world. One example is ceviche, an amazing dish made of fresh fish, onions, sweet potato and “cancha”. It is delicious and it has won the Chowzter – World´s Tastiest Fast Feasts – in London in 2014 as the best dish in the world. Another typical dish is Lomo Saltado, made with fries, potatoes, sirloin steak, onions and tomatoes. However, most Peruvian dishes are made of fish, as the fishing industry is well developed in the north coast of the country. Some dishes that you should look out for are: Choritos a la Chalaca, Chilcano and Chupe a la Limeña.
For an incredible gastronomical tour, check out this excellent activity for a delicious day out in Lima here.
If you go to the jungle, you will find a completely different set of available dishes. There you can find typical dishes of the area such as the Juane (a mixture of rixe, meat, hard-boiled egg, and spices warpped in macaw-flower leaves and boiled), an acquired taste which some find wonderful and others deem extremely peculiar. This dish is very famous in the jungle and is widely consumed in the Christian feast of San Juan, on June 24th of each year. Another dish known in the jungle is Tacacho con Cecina, made of green bananas that are either fried or broiled and then crushed and mixed with lard and accompanied by cured meat (smoked beef and dried pork) and chorizo. It is unique and different from the coast and the highlands.
Thirdly, in the highlands, people eat different dishes, some of which are very rare, such as the Cuy. It is an animal that experts say contains more protein than any other meat. But there are other tasteful dishes such as Pachamanca tres sabores.
The preparation of this dish is a ritual, where the steak, potatoes, corn, and other ingredients are placed inside a hole in the ground with pre-heated stones that are used to cover the dish. Finally, a glass of pisco is poured over as an offering to La Pachamama, a goddess revered by the people of the Andes. After this, the meal takes about an hour before it is ready – prepare yourself to try something truly unique!
There are plenty of dishes in Peru, but the best restaurants are in the capital, as the best chefs locate their restaurants there. However, if you are looking to try the traditional dishes of the jungle and the highlands, you should make the trip to the area as only the people there know how to make them. Peru has such an enormous range of dishes that even local Peruvians have not tried them all. At least you now know which three regions you need to check out if you are looking to taste the range of cuisines, so it is up to you which you want to try first. All of them are good and will not disappoint you.
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point and OS Grid reference:
Reservoir – Car park on north side of reservoir (NZ 047939)
42 – Keilder Water Bellingham and Simonside Hills.
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Distance: 6.2 miles
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view route as a dynamic Ordnance Survey map click here.
The Fontburn Reservoir walk is a
mixture of pretty waterside walking and wide open spaces. The going is
straightforward but can be muddy in places during/after wet weather. There
are attractive views for most of the walk not least towards the Simonside
Hills. There is a chance of seeing some interesting birdlife including pied
flycatcher, redstart and lapwing. I was fortunate to see a vole.
is in the valley of the River Font and was completed in 1908 to provide
water for the Morpeth and Bedlington areas. It also provides a pleasant
trout fishing opportunity (licences available at the shop).This walk starts
from the free car park by the reservoir and makes use of the waymarked
footpath by its southern shore, created by Northumbrian Water.
You will see the term “Bastle” on the OS
map. Bastles were fortified farmhouses built in the late 16th and
early 17th centuries to protect local people from raiders. This
walk passes two such sites but to be honest, they were something of a
disappointment and have largely been “redeployed” into the existing
farmhouses. According to the Northumbrian Water information board at
Fontburn Reservoir, there is a cup and ring marked rock en route. I
identified a rock which had what might have been “cups” on its top
(though saw no rings) but whether these were man made or natural erosion, I
leave to you!
There were a couple of “interesting”
stream crossings which I go into in more detail below.
To get to Fontburn Reservoir, turn west off
the B6342 at a sharp bend, about 6¼ miles south of Rothbury. It is
signposted by a brown tourist sign from the road “Fontburn 2 miles”.
There are two car parks and I started this walk from the one reached by
turning right over the reservoir dam then left.
Cross the dam and turn right along the southern shore of the reservoir. When
you are well along it, the path diverts away from the water to avoid a
nature reserve. The diversion is clearly signposted.
You pass a large rock which may or may not be
a cup and ring rock, the path bends to the right, then left towards a marker
post on the horizon (NZ 031935).
From the marker post turn right and follow
the path along the bank top as it curves rounds to the left. It crosses a
ladder stile which you wall see ahead.
Once over the stile, the path bends left to
another marker post and is an obvious track. The next turn is a little
difficult to spot (NZ 023936). You will see Fallowlees Farm over to the
right which is your destination and you need to look out for a marker post
over to the right marking a different route to the yellow topped posts you
are following. Turn right here. The track to the farm is obvious. It swings
left then over a footbridge across a pretty stream. Once over this, go up
the hill to the right.
At the farm (NZ 019943), turn right to walk
in front of the farmhouse. Here is the first “Bastle” marked and next to
the farm you can just spot some large stones comprising the remnants of the
corner of a wall which look to be all that remains.
The exit from the farm is in the right hand
corner after passing the barns. As you then enter a large field, the route
is via a gate about half way along the opposite wall.
You enter a plantation area where the trees
are in various stages from recently felled to more mature. The path is
reasonably easy to follow. Cross a stony track where a footpath marker at
the other side confirms the route.
After negotiating the plantation, you arrive
at a stream, which the path crosses and there is no bridge. However, when I
did this walk, the stream was in serious spate and I had to go upstream
(left) for a couple of hundred yards, to find a feasible crossing. The rocks
are very slippery so take care if you have to do this.
It was then necessary to re-cross the stream.
It is clear where the bridge had been but no more. To the right was a rough,
ford, spot and I paddled quickly across relying on my gaiters to keep me
dry. Again, take care on slippery rocks under the water.
The next crossing mercifully had a
functioning footbridge. Cross here and turn right. Look out for the
bridleway up to the farm (Newbiggin Farm) on the left after about 200 yards
NZ 035940). Turn right at the farm.
Follow the farm drive, ignoring the path on
the left signposted for Blueburn Farm. After crossing a cattle grid turn
left where indicated by a fingerpost for “B6342” and “Coldrife 2
miles” (NZ 040942). Alternatively, if you want to shorten the walk, you
can follow this tarmac drive back to the reservoir.
Assuming you continue to follow my walk, head
for the centre of the two power poles ahead. After the poles, the evidence
of a walked route is a little clearer but if in doubt head towards the fence
Keep to the left at the corner and follow the
fenceline. Ignore the path off to the right just past a group of rocks. The
fence turns sharp right. Cross the stile at the next corner (NZ 049947) and
follow the left hand field boundary. You come to a walkers' gate on the left
(NZ 049946). Go through this and follow the path up to Ritton White Farm.
Here is the site of the second Bastle. There looks to be clear evidence of
older components of the farm but again, positive identification of anything
in particular was determined. There are good views however back towards
Follow the bridleway alongside the west of
the farm then after going through a gate, look out for a stile on the right
(NZ 055944). Over this, walk downhill heading for the base of the roundish
hill ahead at its centre.
Turn left to follow the old railway track (NZ
051943) and you soon come to a five bar gate on the right. Go through this
and turn left. At the children’s’ play area, turn right past the water
treatment centre and the houses, back to the car park – turn right at the
dam. This last section is not designated as public footpaths or Access Land
but the old railway line looks well walked.
If you need to buy any
hiking equipment/clothing before your trip see the Hiking
All information on this
site is given in good faith and no liability is accepted in respect of any
damage, loss or injury which might result from acting on it.

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May 2019 Issue
Yoga & Mindfulness Therapies for Eating Disorders
By Caroline L. Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT
Vol. 21, No. 5, P. 40
An Overview of the Current Research Plus Counseling Strategies for Dietitians
Whether you encounter clients or patients with binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa (BN), or orthorexia, it’s important for dietitians to keep in mind that an eating disorder is a mental illness that affects all aspects of the individual—mind, body, and spirit. While highly destructive and sometimes deadly, eating disorders are used as coping mechanisms and ways to avoid or suppress uncomfortable or painful thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
As a result, regardless of a person’s eating disorder diagnosis, he or she experiences extreme mental, physical, and emotional imbalances, and an overall disconnection from the body and its needs.1
According to Susanne Draper, MS, LPC, a yoga nidra instructor and clinical manager at the Denver-based Eating Recovery Center (ERC), embodiment is “when you’re able to connect to your experience within your body.” Discomfort in one’s own skin and lack of embodiment are both present in patients with eating disorders.
Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Yoga Therapy
Dating back more than 5,000 years in India, yoga is a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual practice that aims to heal the whole person. There are a variety of physical yoga practices, from gentle and restorative, requiring little movement and more rest, to power and heated yoga, involving more energy and exertion—comparable to a workout.
Benefits of physical yoga range from reduced stress, depression, and anxiety to improved physical strength, balance, and bone density—all of which can aid in one’s mental and physical recovery from an eating disorder.2,3
“I always thought something was missing in eating disorder treatment,” says Beverly Price, MA, RD, E-RYT 200, C-IAYT, CEDRD-S, who now leads mindfulness-based trainings for eating disorder professionals. “I realized yoga was the missing link.”
Yoga emphasizes mindfulness, defined as “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences, on a moment-to-moment basis.”4 In the eating disorder population, cultivating awareness of and space from the distorted thoughts around food and body, and being able to identify emotions and be present in the body, are important in the recovery process.
Yoga nidra, a form of yoga also known as “sleep with awareness,” is another ancient practice intended to cause full-body relaxation and deep meditative states.5 At ERC, Draper guides patients with eating disorders through yoga nidra practices regularly. As she teaches, she begins with body scans, where she has patients bring awareness to different body parts and then leads them into deeper layers of consciousness, using their breath and guided imagery. “It reduces anxiety,” Draper says. “They have a very difficult time being still and being quiet … it gives them the experience of allowing their bodies to fully relax.”
While yoga and yoga nidra practices typically take place in studios or group settings, yoga therapy usually is conducted in one-on-one sessions with focus on healing the client’s specific condition. Yoga therapists create practices personalized for their clients, which works well for those who need extra attention, as long as the yoga therapist is trained and informed in working with this population.6
Other Mindfulness Techniques
Aside from physical postures, there are several facets of yoga, including meditation and breathing, both of which are mindfulness practices beneficial to the eating disorder population.
In fact, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which ERC and many eating disorder therapists and RDs implement in their counseling work, is a mindfulness-based therapy. One facet of ACT is cognitive defusion, which involves observing thoughts and feelings and where they’re felt in the body, separating oneself from irrational thoughts, and eventually becoming less reactive to them. Mindfulness tools such as meditation and breathing exercises can help patients practice cognitive defusion by grounding them in reality and creating space between themselves and their thoughts.7
Why Are Complementary Treatments Effective?
These techniques are healthful coping skills that support the reconnection to mind and body necessary in eating disorder recovery. “They may not need the [eating disorder] anymore if they start welcoming their body back into their life. … Yoga helps them to reconnect the head back to the body,” says Sandee Nebel, MS, LMHC, CEDS-S, E-RYT 200, who counsels and teaches yoga to the eating disorder population. Nebel places an emphasis on body image in her classes and believes yoga also can help improve body acceptance and body appreciation. “It’s really about reconnecting people to their bodies in a way that’s joyful, pleasant, and full of compassion.”
Yoga and mindfulness techniques also help reduce anxiety and obsessive thinking, which are ever-present in those with eating disorders. “Yoga wants you to slow down thought processes, and the eating disorder thought process is just constant. Yoga teaches us to just be still and to find some sort of peace and quiet,” says Megan Kniskern, MS, RD, CEDRD-S, LD/N, who has worked with the eating disorder population for more than 10 years and incorporates yoga and mindfulness into her work. “[Eating disorders] have a focus on the external body, and yoga shows us how to connect internally. It helps you to just close your eyes and ask what your body is telling you right now.”
Price says yoga and mindfulness tools can be especially helpful for patients who resonate less with talk therapy. “It gives individuals an experience. They can tap into areas they may not be able to tap into just talking. It gives people access to healing in different ways.”
For example, Price says she had a patient who was resistant to feeling any emotion. However, once she guided her through some yoga postures, her patient began to cry. “From there, she was able to start feeling and go deeper.”
What Current Research Says
Evidence continues to emerge around the efficacy and benefits of yoga and mindfulness therapies in eating disorder treatment.
In one single-blinded, randomized controlled trial of 30 females diagnosed with BN or eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) published in the International Journal of Yoga, each participant in the intervention group was randomly assigned to an 11-week yoga intervention group. The yoga classes consisted of two 90-minute classes per week. The classes were nonheated physical practices that also integrated mindfulness techniques such as meditation and breathing practices. The control group participants were offered two classes on nutrition, exercise, and eating disorders and were instructed not to participate in yoga for the 11-week intervention and the study’s six-month follow-up period.
The study’s results showed reduced eating disorder psychopathology after the yoga intervention and at the six-month follow-up. Specifically, the results showed a larger decline over time in Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) Questionnaire scores, including the global score and subscores of eating restraint and eating concerns in the intervention group compared with the control group.
Despite the study’s strengths as a randomized trial using a gold standard assessment (ie, the EDE), the study had its limitations in that it had a small sample size and relatively high dropout rate at the postintervention test and six-month follow-up period.8
Another randomized controlled trial, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, assessed the effects of individualized yoga treatment in 50 girls and four boys between the ages of 11 and 21 in outpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa, BN, or EDNOS. The intervention group received eight-week standard eating disorder care with yoga, and the control group received eight-week standard eating disorder care without yoga. The results showed the yoga group had a greater decrease in eating disorder symptoms than the control group. Food preoccupation also was measured before and after yoga sessions, and it dropped significantly over time. The study also showed yoga therapy didn’t negatively affect participants’ BMIs. While the study was a randomized trial using the EDE, it had the limitation of using a relatively small sample size.9
More research is necessary in the area of yoga and mindfulness therapies as treatments for eating disorders.
Areas of Caution
While yoga has shown itself to be an effective adjunct to eating disorder therapy in some research, dietitians need to be mindful of the following caveats:
• Intensity level: Intensity levels of yoga practices depend on a patient’s level of care (eg, inpatient, partial hospitalization, or outpatient) and where they are in the recovery process. However, for the majority of the eating disorder population, slow and gentle practices in unheated rooms often are the best choice. “Everyone should start out with gentle or restorative yoga regardless of their [eating disorder] diagnosis, and [the practice] should really emphasize connection to body and slowing of the mind,” Kniskern says. “It’s more about this connection than it is about the movement.” She says that stronger practices may be appropriate later in a person’s recovery to start rebuilding strength and balance.
• Osteoporosis and osteopenia: Physical practices in the eating disorder population should be osteoporosis and osteopenia friendly, which means there should be no flexion of the spine or hunching over, says Nebel, who recommends patients with eating disorders get bone density tests before participating in yoga. Typical transitions between yoga poses should be limited or eliminated. “Rolling down, rolling up, and some twisting should be restricted, and dropping the chin toward the chest,” she says. In addition, balancing poses should be limited for anyone with a high fall risk.
• Past trauma: Yoga teachers and therapists must be aware of clients’ and patients’ trauma histories, as it’s common for those with EDs to also have history of sexual, physical, and/or emotional trauma, and certain postures can be triggering. For example, some poses on the back, such as happy baby, can feel too vulnerable for someone with a sexual trauma history.
Draper advises against hands-on adjustments in yoga with patients, as it can bring more attention to the body and make patients more self-conscious.
• Exercise obsession: Clients with eating disorders often have an unhealthful relationship with exercise and can use yoga as a compensatory mechanism. RDs can help clients set exercise boundaries and separate their yoga practice from the eating disorder to help them approach it in a nondisordered and nourishing way. “Until clients can use inner wisdom, we have to help them with setting those boundaries,” Nebel says.
Tools RDs Can Integrate
If dietitians don’t have experience providing nutrition counseling to patients with eating disorders, they can implement the following mindfulness tools simply and safely:
• Encourage engagement of the senses at the beginning of sessions and during meals and snacks. Kniskern suggests having clients close their eyes and take a “mindful moment” before meals. “The slowing and connecting piece [of mindfulness] integrates easily into the nutrition aspect of eating disorder care.”
• Practice deep breathing and/or basic stretching with clients and patients to help them be more present and at ease during sessions and provide them with tools to use outside of sessions.
• Guide clients and patients through short meditations, and/or recommend meditation apps, such as Insight Timer or Headspace. “Anything to help more and more with relaxation and coming back to body can only help an RD’s work be easier,” Nebel says.
• Research and visit local yoga studios and teachers to find the most appropriate yoga classes for your clients and patients. “Look for key words like ‘gentle’ or ‘restorative’ or ‘yoga nidra,’” Kniskern says. “Create your own reference list.”
If dietitians are interested in integrating yoga and mindfulness tools further into their work, visit Price’s Professionals page (https://beverlysprice.com/index.php/mindfulness-based-yoga-therapy-training). And to learn more about yoga therapy, visit the International Association of Yoga Therapists (www.iayt.org/page/Publications_of_IAYT) and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (https://pryt.com).
— Caroline L. Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT, specializes in eating disorders and disordered eating and counsels clients virtually and in an outpatient private practice in the Atlanta area. She co-leads weekly groups and weekend retreats with the goal of helping people develop nourishing relationships with food and their bodies. Young writes nutrition-focused articles on a freelance basis and blogs at TheWholeYogiRD.com.
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The life expectancy of people living in South China's Guangdong Province will climb from the current 74.52 years to 75.5 years by 2005, thanks to the improving health care services in the area.
The 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05) of Public Health Work of Guangdong Province issued by the Bureau of Public Health of Guangdong, offers a more comprehensive health care system, according to officials from the bureau.
More conveniences and better medical services will benefit the public, according to the blueprint's goal that by 2005, basic community medical care services will cover 60 percent of city dwellers, with 90 percent to be covered by 2015. Treatment will be provided for the treatment of common illnesses, and frequently used medicines and vaccinations will be available within half an hour's walk or ride in 2005.
Another goal is to keep the infant death rate from rising above 1.6 per thousand, while the mortality of children under the age of 5 will be kept under 2 per thousand.
Local people have already enjoyed reasonable prices for medical services in recent years.
In 1999 and 2000, the cost of public health measures was controlled at 5 to 6 percent of the local gross domestic product (GDP). Medical revenues have grown by 10.4 percent, lower than the 15 percent growth in prescriptions in the past two years, according to Huang Qingdao, director general of the Bureau of Public Health of Guangdong. Local people have saved a total of 1.73 billion yuan (US$208 million) thanks to the effective cost control measures, said Huang.
But, due to uneven economic development in the province, the medical network is underdeveloped in some poor rural areas.
In this regard, medical equipment, hospital buildings and medical talents have been allocated to those areas. Figures from the bureau show that in the past five years, 4.20 billion yuan (US$506 million) has been poured into medical construction projects for poverty-stricken areas. Free medical education is also available to those areas, helping to improve the quality of medical care.
Huang also predicted that within 15 years, the province will see a modernization of the medical care system, including a rational allocation of medical resources, better medical service, legalized administration and Internet-based medical services.
Fields like nursing care for the elderly, and services for the dying will be expanded.
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Located near the border of present day Guatemala, is the ancient Maya city of Copán. A relatively small Mayan site, it dates back nearly 2,000 years and was once the easternmost city-state in the Maya World. Over the course of 400 years, Copán was shaped from a small valley in western Honduras into a great city with pyramids, temples and statues painted with a range of colors: dark red being the most prevalent of all.
It is considered to be the most “artistic” of the Maya cities and is famous for its carved stone sculptures that decorated plazas and temples as well an impressive staircase with the entire history of Copán written on it in Mayan hieroglyphs.
Copán’s Rulers: 16 Kings, One Dynasty
Copán began as an agricultural settlement around 1000 BC. As it grew, the site functioned as the political, civil and religious centre of the Copán Valley as well as the center of a larger territory that covered the southeast portion of the Maya area. From the early 400s to 820 AD, a series of 16 kings ruled Copán, all of them belonging to a single dynasty (family).
The Maya leader Yax Kuk Mo, came from the area of Tikal (Petén) and arrived in the Copán Valley in 427 AD. He started the dynasty that transformed Copán into one of the great Maya cities. The greatest period of Copán, paralleled that of other major Mayan cities and occurred during the Classical period from 300-900 AD.
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During the 8th century, the 13th king of Copán, lost a battle against a neighboring kingdom and was beheaded. Thereafter the kingdom gradually declined and eventually disappeared. The decline may have been caused in part by internal revolts, war and disease. At its peak, it is estimated that Copán was home to as many as 20,000 people.
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No Time for "Slacktivism," Here on the Hudson
There's a lot of talk lately about the comfort-of-your-own-home brand of advocacy known as slacktivism, but grassroots environmentalists on the Hudson River aren't paying much attention to it. They're too busy doing cleanups, taking water quality samples and occupying government agencies until officials pony up the resources needed to restore our river.
Riverkeeper is doing everything it can to support these volunteer water warriors because, as Margaret Mead famously told us, they are the ones who make change happen. For example, on March 13, New York City announced a historic 2.4 billion dollar investment in pollution-fighting green infrastructure, which Riverkeeper has sought since 2006. The community muscle needed to push the plan over the top came from a 70-organization collective called the SWIM Coalition. Days earlier, the dedicated activists who make up the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition earned national headlines by bringing together Americans and Japanese to commemorate the first anniversary of Fukushima and fight for closure of Indian Point—America's most dangerous nuke plant. In January, after just a year of citizen water-quality testing, the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance convinced local officials to fix a key pump station that had been failing for decades.
Water contamination from failing infrastructure is a significant public health risk in New York. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers swim, fish and boat on the Hudson, and they assume that government has taken the necessary steps to keep the water clean. Riverkeeper's water quality testing reveals the truth—bacteria levels in the river exceed federal safe swimming guidelines over 20 percent of the time. After it rains, that number can be as high as 56 percent.
These numbers are dismal—far worse than the national average. But they've also sparked a cry for change. People up and down the Hudson have downloaded our sampling results and asked: what can we do to improve conditions where we live? Riverkeeper's reply: collect more data, take it to your local officials and demand action.
When Riverkeeper gathers the tribes in June for a Day of Activism on the Hudson, stories about change will be everywhere. Nearly a dozen local groups now sample for water quality and lobby for investment in our crumbling infrastructure. These groups are savvy and they're not afraid to mix it up, giving them leverage with local officials (many of whom are themselves environmentalists, just waiting for the citizen backing they feel they need before taking action).
This growing partnership between volunteer activists, NGOs and progressive public officials in NYC and the Hudson Valley bucks the national trend of declining support for the environment, and it couldn't come at a better time. Forty years after the Clean Water Act promised America swimmable, drinkable, fishable waters, over a third of America's rivers still don't meet federal standards, 117 million Americans get at least a portion of their drinking water from contaminated sources and a staggering 30 percent of New York's wastewater treatment plants are 20 or even 30 years beyond their intended retirement dates. It's a national embarrassment and a crime against public health, how we've let our water treatment infrastructure slide for so long.
Clean water is one of the few things we can't live without. Here on the Hudson, it seems like more volunteer environmentalists converge on government offices to deliver that message every day. Organizations like Riverkeeper, Clearwater, and Scenic Hudson are there to back them up, and that's just how it should be—with citizens leading the way. As former Environmental Grantmakers Association director Sarah Hansen wisely warns in her new study, Cultivating the Grass Roots, the environmental movement will never regain lost ground if it doesn't provide better support for boots-on-the-ground activism.
Strengthening ties between environmental professionals and grassroots volunteers won't solve all our problems but it's a good place to start. After all, when the movement was young, NGOs and local activists vowed to love, honor and cherish one another. We'd do well to renew those vows, this Earth Day —preferably on some nice stretch of riverbank.
Oh, and don't forget to tell the guests to come dressed for a cleanup after the ceremony. That river's not going to restore itself, now, is it?
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Transitioning to renewable energy can help reduce global warming, and Jennie Stephens of Northeastern University says it can also drive social change.
For example, she says that locally owned businesses can lead the local clean energy economy and create new jobs in underserved communities.
"We really need to think about … connecting climate and energy with other issues that people wake up every day really worried about," she says, "whether it be jobs, housing, transportation, health and well-being."
To maximize that potential, she says the energy sector must have more women and people of color in positions of influence. Research shows that leadership in the solar industry, for example, is currently dominated by white men.
"I think that a more inclusive, diverse leadership is essential to be able to effectively make these connections," Stephens says. "Diversity is not just about who people are and their identity, but the ideas and the priorities and the approaches and the lens that they bring to the world."
So she says by elevating diverse voices, organizations can better connect the climate benefits of clean energy with social and economic transformation.
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If weather is your mood, climate is your personality. That's an analogy some scientists use to help explain the difference between two words people often get mixed up.
Size Matters
Climates are a bit like woven tapestries. The big picture is important, no question. But so are all the seemingly minor details found inside the larger whole.

Tommaso Jucker is an environmental scientist at the University of Bristol. In an email, Jucker says he'd define the term microclimate as "the suite of climatic conditions (temperature, rainfall, humidity, solar radiation) measured in localized areas, typically near the ground and at spatial scales that are directly relevant to ecological processes."

We'll talk about that last bit in a minute. But first, there's another criteria to discuss. According to some researchers, a microclimate — by definition — must differ from the larger area that surrounds it.

Forests provide us with some great examples. "The climate near the ground in a tropical rainforest is dramatically different from the climate in the canopy 50 meters [164 feet] above," says University of Montana ecologist Solomon Dobrowski in an email. "This vertical gradient among other factors allows for the staggering biodiversity we see in the tropics."

Likewise, scientists observed that a 2015 partial solar eclipse caused the air temperature of an Eastern European meadow to change more dramatically than it did in a nearby forest. That's because trees provide not only shade, but their leaves also reflect solar radiation. At the same time, forests tend to reduce wind speeds.

All those factors add up. A 2019 review of 98 wooded places — spread out across five continents — found that forests are 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) cooler on average than the areas outside them.

Now if you hate the cold, don't worry; there's a cozy exception to the rule. According to that same study, forests are usually 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) warmer than the external environment during the wintertime. Pretty cool.

A Bug's Life
When does a microclimate stop being, well, micro? In other words, is there a maximum size we should be aware of when discussing them?

Depends on who you ask. "In terms of horizontal scale, some have defined 'microclimate' as anything that is less than 100 meters [328 feet] in range," Jucker says. "I'm personally less prescriptive about this."

Instead, he says the "scale at which we want to measure [a particular] microclimate" ought to be "dictated" by the questions we're trying to answer.

"If I want to know how temperature affects the photosynthesis of a leaf, I should be measuring temperature at centimeter scale," Jucker explains. "If I want to know if and how temperature affects the habitat preference of a large, mobile mammal, it's probably more relevant to capture temperature variation across [tens to hundreds] of meters."

For instance, solitary plants have the power to generate itty-bitty microclimates. Just ask Peter Blanken, a geography professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the co-author of the 2016 book, "Microclimate and Local Climate."

The urban heat island effect is a good example of how microclimates work. NOAA
Microclimates on a Grand Scale
It's no secret that our planet is going through some rough times at the macro level. The global temperature is climbing; nine out of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 2005. And by one recent estimate, roughly 1 million species around the world are facing extinction due to human activities.

"One of the big questions that ecologists and environmental scientists are trying to answer right now is how will individual species and whole ecosystems respond to rapid climate change and habitat loss," says Jucker. "...To me, [microclimates are] a key component of this research — if we don't measure and understand climate at the appropriate scale, then predicting how things will change in the future becomes a lot harder."

Developers have long understood the impact small-scale climates have on our daily lives. Urban heat islands are cities that have higher temperatures than neighboring rural areas.

Plants release vapors that can moderate local climates. But in cities, natural greenery is often scarce. To make matters worse, plenty of our roads and buildings have a bad habit of absorbing or re-emitting heat from the sun. Vehicle emissions don't exactly help the situation.

Still, it's not like Boston or Beijing are thermal monoliths. Sometimes, the documented temperatures within a single city vary by 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit (8.3 to 11.1 degrees Celsius).

That's where metro parks and city trees come in. They have nice cooling effects on nearby neighborhoods. "Several cities around the world have developed programs to increase urban green spaces," says Blanken. "Tree planting programs and green roof programs, have been shown to lower surface temperatures, decrease air pollution and decrease surface water runoff (urban flash-flooding) in urban areas."

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If asked to recall a hurricane, odds are you'd immediately invoke memorable names like Sandy, Katrina or Harvey. You'd probably even remember something specific about the impact of the storm. But if asked to recall a heat wave, a vague recollection that it was hot during your last summer vacation may be about as specific as you can get.

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