Caryn Fenner completed her undergraduate studies in Biochemistry and Microbiology, followed by an Honours degree in Biotechnology at Rhodes University. Following this she sought to broaden her research expertise in bioprocess engineering at UCT, where she completed her PhD in 2009. She is currently a Research Officer at the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research (CeBER) where her work is focused on both new product and new process development using microbial and enzyme technology with a view towards the production of affordable fine chemicals and commodity bioproducts. Within the Paraffin Activation Programme of c*change, she is involved in the bioprocess optimisation of the cytochrome P450 monooxygenase-mediated activation of linear alkanes for the production of valuable oxygenates such as alcohols, aldehydes, dioic acids, etc. As part of the Chemical Engineering academic staff, she also supervises postgraduate students and is part of the team lecturing Bioprocess Engineering electives. She resides in Rondebosch with her husband, Tim and two young children, Zachery and Lydia.


INA was founded on January 1, 1964 through the merger of Naftaplin Zagreb, the Rijeka Oil Refinery and the Sisak Oil Refinery. Initially, the company was called "Oil and Gas Conglomerate"; but at the end of that year its name was changed to the one it has today.
Late in 1964, the Retail Services became part of INA and in 1966 so did Lendava Refinery. The process continued and INA eventually grew to include Zagreb Oil Refinery, Kutina Fertilizer Plant, Petronafta Solin, the Opatovac – Bosanski Brod oil pipeline, Zagreb Inženjering, OKI Zagreb and DINA Omišalj Petrochemical Plants.
From the initial 2.2 million tonnes of refining capacity, in 1979, the capacity of INA Refineries increased to 15 million tonnes, owing to the inauguration of the Urinj plant pertaining to the Rijeka Oil Refinery in 1965, increasing the capacity of Sisak Refinery and construction of the Zagreb Refinery plant at Žitnjak in 1971.
In 1980, Naftaplin recovered three million tonnes of black gold from oil wells. In 1966, INA had 195 petrol stations. In the following ten years their number grew to over 500. In 1979, an oil pipeline was put into operation connecting Omišalj and Sisak and other consumers in the continental part of the country (Bosanski Brod, Pančevo, Novi Sad). INA was one of the main investors in its construction.
From 1980 until 1990 INA was the biggest company in SFRJ. It was employer to 32.000 workers and in 1990 its total revenue amounted 10% of overall Croatian economy. The biggest oil equivalent production in INA's history was in 1988 and amounted 5.1 million tons: 3.04 million tons of oil and 2.1 billion cubic meters of gas.
When Homeland War started, INA very soon adjusted to new working conditions, crisis units were established and many employees participated in defense of the country. Regular production didn't stop, neither did development projects. Restructuring continued, as well as cooperation with foreign partners.
Besides business concept changes, ownership structure also changed. From 1990 INA is state owned company, and from 1993 public limited company. First privatization phase, in which MOL became INA's strategic partner by buying 25 percent plus one share, ended in 2003 and from 2006 INA's shares are published at Zagreb Stock Exchange.
INA in 2000s continues intense exploration and production activities in Croatia and abroad and investments in business modernization. From 2008 until 2014 HRK 16.5 billion was invested in all three main lines of INA's business (more than HRK 10 billion in exploration and production and more than HRK 5 billion in refineries system development).
Nowadays INA is a medium-sized European oil company with the leading role in oil business in Croatia and a significant role in oil and gas exploration and production, refining and oil and petroleum products distribution in region. It manages two refineries, in Rijeka and Sisak, and has a network of 439 retail stations. INA has a clear vision of the future and its role, proudly continuing half a century long tradition.


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Is Brad Pitt about to retire from acting?
In a recent interview, the actor says he is in the final stages of his career
G-Club June 23rd, 2022
Author Kettj Talon
"I consider myself on my last leg. This last semester or trimester. What is this section gonna be? And how do I wanna design that?"
In a lengthy interview for the latest issue of GQ, Brad Pitt reflects on his own future, on the path he wants to chart now that he feels he has reached the final stages of a 30-year career that has led him to be one of the most influential and iconic stars in cinema. Reading these sentences makes one wonder if Pitt is really that close to retiring from the stage, and in doing so, the names of Johnny Depp and Bruce Willis, equally iconic actors who shared a common fate, albeit for different reasons, the one because of the grotesque lawsuit against Amber Heard, the other because of an illness, immediately come to mind. If De Niro, Pacino, Nicholson, though much older, continue to act and, most likely, will ring up one film after another until the end of their days, the next generation seems "broken." It stops early and makes way for the next one, the Tom Hollands and the Robert Pattinsons.
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His story begins more than three decades ago when, with two exams to go, he dropped out of the University of Missouri and his journalism studies, exchanging a future as an art director for many different identities: from the sexy cowboy of Thelma & Louise to the thief of Ocean's Eleven, from the detective of Seven to the Tyler Durden of Fight Club, from the Death in Love of Meet Joe Black to the stuntman of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It seems light years away from the days when he went around dressed as a chicken to make ends meet. Quentin Tarantino said of him:
"He's one of the last remaining big-screen movie stars. It's just a different breed of man. And frankly, I don't think you can describe exactly what that is because it's like describing starshine. I noticed it when we were doing Inglourious Basterds."
By now Pitt has entered film history and, despite recent claims, will continue to appear on screen for a while longer. For example, he will play Ladybug in David Leitch's Bullet Train. She will be "an assassin on a train from Tokyo to Kyoto who's just recovered from a case of burnout, returning to his high-stakes job with a somewhat misguided sense of confidence about his fitness for duty"; while she will star again alongside Margot Robbie in Damien Chazelle's Babylon. Presumably, Brad will increasingly thin out his performances and invest time and resources in a career as a producer. With his company Plan B Entertainment, he took on Andrew Dominik's Blonde and is currently working on an adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel, "as profound a film as anything made this decade" about Mennonite women who band together against their rapists.
"I'm one of those creatures that speaks through art. I just want to always make. If I'm not making, I'm dying in some way."
The actor explains to author Ottessa Moshfegh, alluding to his many interests, which, in addition to film, include architecture, poetry, and sculpture. Sitting in the living room of his Craftsman-style home in the Hollywood Hills, he reveals to his interviewer that he managed to quit smoking during the pandemic and spent a year and a half attending Alcoholics Anonymous. After his troubled divorce from Angelina Jolie he said stop alcohol:
"I had a really cool men's group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe. Because I'd seen things of other people, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, who had been recorded while they were spilling their guts, and that's just atrocious to me."
He went on to confess that he often felt lonely:
"I always felt very alone in my life, alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here, and it's really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family. What's that line, it was either Rilke or Einstein, believe it or not, but it was something about when you can walk with the paradox, when you carry real pain and real joy simultaneously, this is maturity, this is growth."
He then mentions his health problems. Although he has not yet received an official diagnosis of prosopagnosia, Pitt has difficulty remembering new people, recognizing their faces, and fears that this gives him a certain distant and detached impression of himself. The same as the typical inaccessible, self-centered star.
Moshfegh, however, describes him in the opposite way, as "affable and charming," "a man who seems deeply committed to forging meaningful connections, to probing life's existential quandaries and hearing your personal stories. He's the opposite of a guy who'd snub you at a party. He's the guy who wants to see your soul." And we have no trouble believing her.
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RBSE Class 9 Science Notes Chapter 9 Force and Motion
Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 9 Science Notes Chapter 9 Force and Motion
The physical quantities which have only magnitude and need no idea of direction are called scalar quantities. For example: Speed, mass, time, length, area, volume, density, work, energy etc. are scalar quantities.
Vector quantities:
There are certain quantities which require magnitude as well as direction to express them clearly. That is, the physical quantities which have magnitude as well as direction are called Vector quantities.
Unit Vector:
Unit vector of any \(\vec{A}\) is a vector whose magnitude is unit and direction is the direction of vector \(\vec{A}\) Unit vector's denoted as \(\hat{\mathrm{A}}\) and is read as A cap
\(\hat{A}=|\overline{A}| \hat{A} \Rightarrow \frac{\overline{A}}{|\overline{A}|}\)
An object is said to be in motion, if its position from the reference point, changes with time. We require two measurements, to describe the position of an object.
The distance of the object from a fixed reference point called origin.
The angle which the line joining the origin and object makes with a reference axis.
Relative nature of motion:
We take an example to explain the nature of motion . A person with his companions is sitting inside a compartment of a running train. The person is at rest relative to other passengers but the person is in motion with respect to the trees and telegraph poles.
This example shows that the same object may be at rest with respect to one reference point and in motion with respect to another at the same time. So, we can say that motion is actually a relative term.
Distance and displacement:
The distance traveled by an object is actual length of the path, traced by it. Distance is a scalar quantity.
The minimum straight line distance between the first position and the last position of an object, in a particular direction
is called displacement. Displacement is a vector quantity.
Distance traveled by a body in unit time is called speed of body. Unit of speed is meter per second. Speed is a scalar quantity because it gives idea of magnitude only and not of direction.
Speed = \(\frac{\text { Distance travelledby the body }}{\text { Time interval }}, \text { i.e., } \mathrm{S}=\frac{d}{t}(\mathrm{m} / \mathrm{sec})\)
Velocity:
• The displacement of a moving body per unit time in a definite direction is called its velocity. Its unit is also meter per second. It is a vector quantity.
Velocity \(=\frac{\text { Displacement Vector }}{\text { Time Interval }} \text { or } \overline{v}=\frac{\overline{d}}{t}\)
Difference between Speed and Velocity:
Speed Velocity
1. The distance covered by a moving body per unit time is called speed.
2. Speed is scalar quantity. It has magnitude only, direction is not required. 1. The distance covered by a moving body per unit time, in a definite direction is called velocity.
2. Velocity is a vector quantity. It has a meaning both with magnitude and direction.
Uniform acceleration:
When the change in the velocity of a moving body is the same per unit interval of time, then its acceleration is said to be uniform. Such motion is said to be a uniformly accelerated motion.
Non-Uniform acceleration:
When the change in velocity of a moving body is not the same per unit interval of time, then its acceleration is said to be non uniform acceleration and the moving body is said to be moving with non-uniform acceleration.
Graphical representation of motion:
Velocity time graph:
When a body moves with a constant velocity in a straight line:
Let us consider a body moving with a constant velocity, v. Since velocity remain constant with time, therefore, velocity-time graph is obtained as a straight line parallel to x axis. Let distance covered by the body moving with constant velocity v in time t is s. then the s = v × t.
In the adjoining-figure, let OC represents time t, on x-axis and OA represents velocity v, on y-axis. Therefore, Area of rectangle (OABC) = OC× OA = v × t. This area called the area under the velocity-time graph, represents the total distance traveled by the body in time t.
When a body is moving with uniform acceleration. How to derive the three equations of motion from velocity time graph?:
The velocity time graph for a body under uniform acceleration is shown in figure.
Let initial velocity of the body = u
Final velocity of the body = v
Time taken by the body = t
Acceleration of the body = a
Derivation of the first equation of motion:
According to definition:
Acceleration of a body = Rate of change of velocity, i.e., slope of velocity time graph.
The velocity time graph for a uniformly accelerated body is given by the straight line AB. So, accelerated of the body is equal to the slope of the line AB.
Acceleration = Slope of line
\(A B=\frac{B D}{A D}=\frac{B C-D C}{A D}\)
From the velocity time graph
BC = v, DC = OA = u, AD = OC = t
\(a=\frac{v-u}{t} \Rightarrow a t=v-u \Rightarrow v=u+a t\) This is the first equation of motion
Derivation of the second equation of motion:
Under uniform acceleration, from figure, one can write
Distance travelled (s) = Area of trapezium OABC
s = Area of the triangle ABD + Area of rectangle OADC
\(\frac{1}{2} \times \mathrm{AD} \times \mathrm{BD}+\mathrm{OC} \times \mathrm{OA}\)
Here, AD = OC = t and BD = BC – DC = v – u
BD = u + at – u = at and OA = u
\(s=\frac{1}{2} \times t \times a t+t \times u \Rightarrow s=u t+\frac{1}{2} a t^{2}\) This is the second equation of motion
Derivation of the third equation of motion:
Distance travelled, s = Area of the trapezium OABC
\(s=\frac{1}{2}(\text { sum of the parallel sides }) \times\) perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides
\(s=\frac{1}{2} \times(\mathrm{OA}+\mathrm{BC}) \times \mathrm{OC} \quad s=\frac{1}{2}(u+v) \times t\)
But, \(a=\frac{v-u}{t} \Rightarrow t=\frac{v-u}{a} \Rightarrow s=\frac{1}{2}(v+u) \times \frac{v-u}{a}=\frac{v^{2}-u^{2}}{2 a}\) = \(s=\frac{v^{2}-u^{2}}{2 a} \Rightarrow v^{2}-u^{2}=2 \mathrm{as}\) This is the third equation of motion.
When a body is moving with non-uniform acceleration:
In case of non-uniform motion, the velocity-time graph is shown in figures (i) and (ii).
In figure (i), in time f; velocity increases from zero to v. Here, graph AB shows the body is moving with the positive acceleration, whereas BC shows the body in negative acceleration.
In figure (ii) the body is moving with positive acceleration in first 2 seconds and in between 2 to 6 seconds the body is moving with constant velocity, i.e., acceleration is zero and from 6 to 8 seconds the body is moving with negative acceleration, i.e., retardation. After 8 seconds, the velocity will become zero.
Force and its units:
In simple words, we can say push or pull is called force.
On applying force, a stationary body sets in motion and the velocity of the moving body or its direction of motion or both can change.Hence, force is an agent which sets a stationary body in motion or can change the velocity of a moving body. Force is a vector quantity.
Units of Force:
In M.K.S system, the unit of force is Newton. In C.G.S system, the unit of force is dyne. In F.P.S system, the unit of force is poundal.
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces:
In the game of tug of war when the two teams pull with equal effort, the position of the rope is not changed at all. The forces exerted by two teams in this case are balanced. Only when one of the team pulls harder, it is able to pull the weaker team towards it. In this case, forces are unbalanced. Unbalanced forces acting on an object can changes its speed or direction of motion.
Newton's laws of motion:
Scientist Newton propounded three laws of motion:
First law of motion: According to this law, a body remains at rest or in the state of continuous uniform motion, until and unless it is compelled by an external force to change its state of rest or uniform motion.
Second Law of motion: The acceleration produced in the body by the action of force acting on it is directly proportional to the force and inversely proportional to the mass of the body. In other words, Newton's second law of motion can be stated as: The rate of change of momentum is equal to the force applied to the body and the change in momentum always takes place in the direction of force.
Third Law of Motion: According to this law, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" (Law of action and reaction).
Inertia: Inertia is the property of a body due to which it resists a change in its state of rest or of uniform motion.
Momentum:
The vector product of mass and velocity of a moving body is called momentum.
Momentum = Mass of body x Velocity
\(\vec{p}=m \vec{v}\)
Law of conservation of momentum:
The law states that, in absence of external forces the momentum of the system is conserved. It means that total momentum before the collision is equal to the total momentum after the collision.
Suppose two bodies A and B of masses m1 and m2 are moving in a straight line in the same direction with velocities u1 and u2, velocity of the body A is more than that of B. So, both the bodies will collide, after sometime. Let velocity of the bodies A and B after collision become v1 and v2, respectively. Let the time of collision equal to t.
If during the collision, the force exerted by body A on body B is F1 and force exerted by body B on body A is F2. From second law of motion.
For the body A, \(F_{1} t=m_{1}\left(v_{1}-u_{1}\right)\) …. (i)
For the body B, \(\mathrm{F}_{2} t=m_{2}\left(v_{2}-u_{2}\right)\) …..(ii)
From the third law of motion, F1and F2are equal, but their direction will be opposite. Hence
\(F_{1}=-F_{2}\) …….(iii)
From equation (i), (ii) and (iii), we have \(m_{1}\left(v_{1}-u_{1}\right)=-m_{2}\left(v_{2}-u_{2}\right)\)
Or \(m_{1} v_{1}-m_{1} u_{1}=-m_{2} v_{2}+m_{2} u_{2} \text { or } m_{1} u_{1}+m_{2} u_{2}=m_{1} v_{1}+m_{2} v_{2}\)
i.e. Total momentum before collision = Total momentum after the collision This is what we call the law of conservation of momentum
Friction:
When a body slides or rolls over any surface, a force will develop between the surfaces in contact, which tends to oppose the motion. This force is known as force of friction. The effect of frictional force is more on rough, uneven surfaces than on smooth, even surfaces.
Bodies moving in air or in liquids also feel the force of friction (though less than that on solid surfaces).
Initially, when we try to push a body on a surface, it does not move, so long as the force is small, because the frictional force developed is more than the applied force. On gradually increasing the force, a stage will come, when the body begins to move. The maximum force opposing the motion of a body on a surface, when it is just on the verge of moving (by overcoming the frictional force) is called limiting friction. When a body moves sliding on the surface, the force of friction between them is called Sliding Friction. When the body moves on the surface rolling on it (like a ball or wheels) the friction between their surfaces in contact is called rolling friction. Rolling friction is much less than sliding friction.
Frictional force is a necessary evil. It has many advantages as well as disadvantages. We use methods to increase or decrease the frictional force according to necessity.
Thrust and Pressure:
Thrust: Thrust is the total force acting perpendicular to the surface of a body.
S.l. unit of thrust: Since thrust is a force. Its S.l. unit is same as that of force, i.e., Newton (N). It is a vector quantity.
Pressure: Pressure is defined as the force acting perpendicular per unit area of the surface or in other words, we can say that, thrust per unit area is called pressure.
Pressure \(\propto \frac{1}{\text { area }}\) ……(i)
Pressure (P) ∝ Force (F) ……..(ii)
From (i) and (ii), we have
\(P=K \cdot \frac{F}{A}\) ,where K is proportionality constant
When K = 1, F = 1N, A = 1m2, and P = 1 Pascal, then Force (Thrust) = Pressure × Area
Unit of pressure = \(=\frac{N}{m^{2}}, \text { i.e., } N m^{-2}\)
1 N m-2 is also known as 1 Pascal (Pa)
1 N m-2 = 1 Pascal
i.e., Unit of pressure is also pascal (Pa).
Buoyant Force:
The upward force extended by a liquid on the body which is immersed in the liquid is known as buoyant force.
The tendency of a fluid to exert an upward force on an object placed in it is called buoyancy.
Factors on which buoyand force depends:
The size or volume of the body immersed in a fluid.
The density of the fluid in which the body is immersed.
Archimedes' Principle:
When a body is wholly or partially immersed in a liquid at rest, it experiences an upthrust (or an apparent loss in weight), is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the body. This is the statement of Archimedes principle.
Applications of Archimedes principle:
Designing of ships and submarines.
Designing lactometers, to test the purity of milk.
Designing hydrometer, to find the densities of liquid.
Mass per unit volume of a body is known as density.
density \(=\frac{\text { Mass }}{\text { Volume }}\)
\(D=\frac{M}{V}=\frac{k g}{m^{3}}\)
∴ Unit of density is kg.m-3
RBSE Class 9 Science Notes
Filed Under: Class 9


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Q: Transforming a image to a shape defined by image corners in earth coordinates - Python I have a source satellite image. It is a rectangular shape x by y. I also have the stored lon/lat coordinates of the corners and the center point in the xml meta file. Is there a way with the gdal or rasterio library in Python, to transform (scale, rotate, affine transform) the image to the shape defined in lon/lat coordinates of the corner points?

A: In other words, you want to create a World file from the coordinates of the 4 corners  and the width and height of the image

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*You get the width and height of the image with osgeo.gdal, rasterio or any other libraries to open image files as Pillow and others.
dataset = rasterio.open('satel.tif')
rasterx = dataset.width
rastery = dataset.height

*you need to extract the x and y values of the corners from the XML file (I don't know the structure of the XML file)
My corners:
upper left  (162013.302, 138172.271)
lower left  (162013.302, 128171.074)
upper right (170015.863, 138172.271)
lower right (170015.863, 128171.074)

*create a World file with a simple script (without gdal or rasterio) with only 2 corners points
x1,y1 = [162013.302,  138172.271] # upper left corner
x2,y2 = [170015.863,  128171.074  # lower right corner
rasterx  = 7988
rastery =  9983
# pixel size
#x-component of the pixel width (x scale)
ppx = (x2-x1)/rasterx
# y-component of the pixel height (y scale)
ppy = (y2-y1)/rastery
print(ppx, ppy)
(1.0018228592889353, -1.0018227987578898)
# x-coordinate of the center of the original image's upper left pixel transformed to the map
xcenter = x1 + (ppx * .5)
# y-coordinate of the center of the original image's upper left pixel transformed to the map
ycenter = y1 + (ppy * .5)
print(xcenter,ycenter)
(162013.80291142964, 138171.77008860064)
# write the worldfile
with open('satel.tfw', "w") as worldfile:
    worldfile.write(str(ppx)+"\n")
    worldfile.write(str(0)+"\n") # y-component of the pixel width (y-skew), generaly = 0
    worldfile.write(str(0)+"\n") # y-component of the pixel width (y-skew), generaly = 0
    worldfile.write(str(ppy)+"\n")
    worldfile.write(str(xcenter)+"\n")
    worldfile.write(str(ycenter)+"\n")

*with gdal and the 4 corners points as ground control points.
from osgeo import gdal
fp= [[0,rasterx,rasterx,0],[0,0,rastery,rastery]]
tp= [[162013.302, 170015.863, 170015.863, 162013.302], [ 128171.074,128171.074,   138172.271,   138172.271]]
pix = list(zip(fp[0],fp[1]))
coor= list(zip(tp[0],tp[1]))
# compute the gdal.GCP parameters
gcps = []
for index, txt in enumerate(pix):
    gcps.append(gdal.GCP())
    gcps[index].GCPPixel = pix[index][0]
    gcps[index].GCPLine = rastery-int(pix[index][1])
    gcps[index].GCPX = coor[index][0]
    gcps[index].GCPY = coor[index][1]
    geotransform = gdal.GCPsToGeoTransform( gcps )
    print(geotransform)
    (162013.302, 1.0018228592889353, 0.0, 138172.271, 0.0, -1.0018227987578898)
    xcenter = geotransform[0] + (geotransform[1] * .5)
    ycenter = geotransform[3] + (geotransform[5] * .5)
    print(xcenter,ycenter)
    (162013.80291142964, 138171.77008860064)
    # write the worldfile
    ...

*There are other solutions like tab2tfw.py of Michael Kalbermatten (this is exactly the same problem as MapInfo tab file) or using affine6p, nudged-py or Affine_Fit to estimate the affine transformation parameters between two sets of 2D points but but be careful that raster data, coming from its image processing origins, uses a different referencing system to access pixels (see Python affine transforms)
Example with Numpy  and the 4 corners points (Affine transformation) ( 0,0 origin in the upper left )
import numpy as np
fp = np.matrix([[0,rasterx,rasterx,0],[0,0,rastery,rastery]])
newline = [1,1,1,1]
fp  = np.vstack([fp,newline])
tp = np.matrix([[162013.302, 170015.863, 170015.863, 162013.302], [ 128171.074,128171.074,   138172.271,   138172.271]])
M = tp * fp.I
print(M)
matrix([[     1.00182286,      0.        , 162013.302     ],
        [     0.        ,      1.0018228 , 128171.074     ]])

Example of result with nugged ( 0,0 origin in the upper left )
import nudged
from_pt = [(0, 0), (rasterx, 0), (rasterx, rastery), (0, rastery)]
to_pt = [(162013.302, 128171.074), (170015.863, 128171.074), (170015.863, 138172.271), (162013.302, 138172.271)]
trans = nudged.estimate(from_pt, to_pt)
print(trans.get_matrix())
[[1.0018228223855314,0, 162013.3021473922],
[0, 1.0018228223855314,   128171.0738820626],
[0, 0, 1]]

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Native American Tribes & the Indian History in Wilmot, South Dakota
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Ages before the terms Native American or Indian were necessary, the tribes were spread throughout the Americas. Before any white man set foot on this territory, it was settled by the forefathers of bands we now call Sioux, or Cherokee, or Iroquois.
For thousands of years, the American Indian developed its traditions and heritage without interference. And that history is captivating.
From Mayan and Incan ruins, from the mounds left in the central and southern parts of what's today the U.S. we have learned quite a bit. It's a tale of beautiful craft work and deep spirituality. Archaeologists have unearthed remarkably advanced structures and public works.
While there was inescapable tribal conflict, that was simply a slight blemish in the experience of our ancestors. They were at peace with this beautiful continent and deeply connected to nature.
When European leaders dispatched the first ships in our direction, the plan was to explore new resources – but the quality of environment and the bounty of everything from wood to wildlife subsequently changed their tune. As those leaders heard back from their explorers, the motivation to colonize spread like wildfire.
The English, French and Spanish rushed to carve up the "New World" by sending over inadequately prepared colonists as fast as possible. At first, they skirmished with the surprised Indians of America's eastern seaboard. But that soon gave way to trade, since the Europeans who arrived here knew their survival was doubtful without Indian help.
Thus followed decades of comparative peace as the settlers got themselves established on American land. But the pressure to push inland followed soon after. Kings and queens from thousands of miles away were impatient to find even more resources, and some colonists came for freedom and opportunity.
It took the form of cash arrangements, barter, and notoriously, treaties that were nearly uniformly neglected once the Indians were pushed away from the land in question.
The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were determined by the desire to expand westward into regions occupied by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s nearly all Native American tribes, roughly 360,000 in number, were living to the west of the Mississippi River. These American Indians, some from the Northwestern and Southeastern territories, were confined to Indian Territory located in contemporary Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche Native American tribes shared the land of the Southern Plains.
The Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet dominated the Northern Plains. These Native American groups experienced adversity as the continuous flow of European immigrants into northeastern American cities pushed a stream of immigrants into the western lands already occupied by these various groups of Indians.
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The early nineteenth century in the United States was marked by its continual expansion to the Mississippi River. However, due to the Gadsden purchase, that lead to U.S. control of the borderlands of southern New Mexico and Arizona along with the authority over Oregon country, Texas and California; America's expansion wouldn't end there. Between 1830 and 1860 the United States pretty much doubled the amount of territory under its control.
These territorial gains coincided with the arrival of hordes of European and Asian immigrants who wanted to join the surge of American settlers heading west. This, combined with the discovery of gold in 1849, presented attractive opportunities for those ready to make the extended journey westward. Consequently, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers set about establishing their homesteads in the Great Plains and other areas of the Native American tribe-inhabited West.
Native American Policy can be defined as the regulations and operations made and adapted in the United States to summarize the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government. When the United States initially became a sovereign country, it adopted the European policies towards these native peoples, but throughout two centuries the U.S. tailored its very own widely varying regulations regarding the evolving perspectives and requirements of Native American regulation.
In 1824, in order to administer the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress created a new agency inside the War Department called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked closely with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. At times the federal government recognized the Indians as self-governing, separate political communities with different cultural identities; however, at other times the government attempted to compel the Native American tribes to give up their cultural identity, let go of their land and assimilate into the American customs.
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With the steady stream of settlers in to Indian controlled land, Eastern newspapers printed sensationalized reports of cruel native tribes carrying out widespread massacres of hundreds of white travelers. Although some settlers lost their lives to American Indian attacks, this was certainly not the norm; in fact, Native American tribes frequently helped settlers cross over the Plains. Not only did the American Indians offer wild game and other supplies to travelers, but they acted as guides and messengers between wagon trains as well. Despite the good natures of the American Indians, settlers still feared the likelihood of an attack.
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To calm these worries, in 1851 the U.S. government held a conference with several local Indian tribes and established the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Within this treaty, each Native American tribe accepted a bounded territory, allowed the government to construct roads and forts in this territory and pledged not to ever assault settlers; in return the federal government agreed to honor the boundaries of each tribe's territory and make total payments to the Indians. The Native American tribes responded quietly to the treaty; in fact the Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, Assinibione, Mandan, Gros Ventre and Arikara tribes, who signed the treaty, even agreed to end the hostilities amidst their tribes in order to accept the conditions of the treaty.
This peaceful agreement between the U.S. government and the Native American tribes didn't hold very long. After hearing reports of fertile land and tremendous mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their promises established in the Treat of Fort Laramie by allowing thousands of non-Indians to flood into the area. With so many newcomers moving west, the federal government established a policy of restricting Native Americans to reservations, limited swaths of acreage within a group's territory that was earmarked exclusively for their use, to be able to grant more land for "" non-Indian settlers.
In a series of new treaties the U.S. government commanded Native Americans to surrender their land and move to reservations in exchange for protection from attacks by white settlers. In addition, the Indians were offered a yearly payment that would include cash in addition to foodstuffs, animals, household goods and agricultural equipment. These reservations were established in an attempt to pave the way for increased U.S. growth and administration in the West, as well as to keep the Native Americans isolated from the whites in order to reduce the chance for conflict.
These deals had many complications. Most importantly many of the native people didn't completely understand the document that they were signing or the conditions within it; further, the treaties did not consider the cultural practices of the Native Americans. In addition to this, the government institutions responsible for administering these policies were overwhelmed with poor management and corruption. In fact most treaty conditions were never carried out.
The U.S. government rarely fulfilled their side of the deals even when the Native Americans relocated quietly to their reservations. Dishonest bureau agents repeatedly sold off the supplies that were intended for the Indians on reservations to non-Indians. Additionally, as settlers needed more land in the West, the government continually reduced the size of the reservations. By this time, many of the Native American peoples were dissatisfied with the treaties and angered by the settlers' persistent demands for land.
Angered by the government's dishonest and unjust policies, several Native American tribes, including bands of Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches and Sioux, battled back. As they struggled to maintain their lands and their tribes' survival, over a thousand skirmishes and battles broke out in the West between 1861 and 1891. In an attempt to coerce Native Americans onto the reservations and to end the violence, the U.S. government responded to these hostilities with significant military campaigns. Clearly the U.S. government's Indian regulations required an adjustment.
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Native American policy changed radically after the Civil War. Reformers believed that the policy of driving Native Americans on to reservations was far too severe even while industrialists, who were concerned about their property and resources, considered assimilation, the cultural absorption of the American Indians into "white America" as the singular long-term means of guaranteeing Native American survival. In 1871 the government approved a critical law stating that the United States would no longer deal with Native American tribes as autonomous nations.
This law signaled a major shift in the government's working relationship with the native peoples – Congress now deemed the Native Americans, not as nations outside of its jurisdictional control, but as wards of the government. By making Native Americans wards of the U.S. government, Congress concluded that it would be easier to make the policy of assimilation a broadly recognised part of the cultural mainstream of America.
Many U.S. government administrators considered assimilation as the most effective answer to what they viewed as "the Indian problem," and the single permanent method of protecting U.S. interests in the West and the survival of the American Indians. In order to accomplish this, the government pressed Native Americans to move out of their customary dwellings, move into wooden dwellings and become farmers.
The federal government enacted laws that pressed Native Americans to quit their established appearance and lifestyle. Some laws banned traditional religious practices while others ordered Indian males to cut their long hair. Agents on more than two-thirds of American Indian reservations established courts to implement federal polices that often restricted traditional cultural and religious practices.
To speed up the assimilation course, the government started Indian training centers that tried to quickly and vigorously Americanize Indian youth. According to the director of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the schools were designed to "kill the Indian and save the man." To be able to accomplish this goal, the schools compelled students to speak only English, wear proper American fashion and to replace their Indian names with more "American" ones. These new policies brought Native Americans nearer to the end of their traditional tribal identity and the beginning of their life as citizens under the full control of the U.S. administration.
In 1887, Congress approved the General Allotment Act, the most important element of the U.S. government's assimilation platform, which was created to "civilize" American Indians by teaching them to become farmers. In order to achieve this, Congress planned to establish non-public title of Indian property by dividing reservations, which were collectively held, and allowing each family their own plot of land.
In addition to this, by forcing the Native Americans onto small plots of land, western developers and settlers could purchase the left over land. The General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act, required that the Indian lands be surveyed and each family be provided with an allotment of between 80 and 160 acres, while unmarried adults received between 40 to 80 acres; the residual land was to be sold. Congress wished that the Dawes Act would divide Indian tribes and increase individual enterprise, while cutting down the cost of Indian supervision and producing prime land to be purchased by white settlers.
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The Dawes Act proved to be catastrophic for the American Indians; over the next generations they existed under policies that outlawed their traditional way of life but didn't supply the vital resources to support their businesses and families. Dividing the reservations into smaller parcels of land brought about the significant decrease of Indian-owned land. Inside three decades, the people had lost over two-thirds of the territory that they had controlled before the Dawes Act was enacted in 1887; the majority of the remaining land was sold to white settlers.
Commonly, Native Americans were duped out of their allotments or were required to sell their land in order pay bills and feed their own families. As a result, the Indians were not "Americanized" and were generally unable to become self-supporting farmers or ranchers, like the makers of the policy had anticipated. Further, it generated anger among Indians toward the U.S. government, as the allotment process sometimes destroyed land that was the spiritual and social center of their activities.
Between 1850 and 1900, life for Native Americans changed tremendously. Due to U.S. government regulations, American Indians were forced from their living spaces as their native lands were parceled out. The Plains, which they had previously roamed without restriction, were now filled up with white settlers.
Over these years the Indians have been cheated out of their property, food and way of living, as the federal government's Indian plans coerced them into reservations and attempted to "Americanize" them. Many American Indian bands didn't endure relocation, assimilation and military defeat; by 1890 the Native American population was decreased to less than 250,000 people. Thanks to generations of discriminatory and dodgy policies instituted by the United States government between 1850 and 1900, life for the American Indians was altered permanently.
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The Presbyterian Church is considering withdrawal from Australia's Marriage Act if same-sex marriage is given the go ahead.
The New South Wales branch of the Presbyterian Church, the fourth largest religious group in Australia, last week took the decision of asking its national branch to withdraw from the Marriage Act entirely if same-sex marriage is approved in the country.
John McClean, the convenor of the Gospel, Society and Culture Committee of the NSW Presbyterian Church, said that there is a growing gap between the Christian view of marriage and the views of the Australian society.
McClean was asked why it was same-sex marriage and not no-fault divorce or pre-marital sex that had prompted the church to consider refusing to take part in marriage laws.
He said he was not around in 1975 when no-fault divorce was introduced.
"Most people do not think that sex is only for marriage and the vast majority of couples in Australia who marry live together first." He wrote in an opinion piece for Fairfax Media.
"Many Australians are not convinced that marriage should be for life." He continued.
McClean also said: "I do think there are a lot of Christian people who see the same-sex marriage issue as the big issue."
However, he said that if the law changed regarding gay marriage, it would not have any effect on Presbyterians due to them following the teaching of Jesus on marriage rather than secular laws.
He added: "but we would think that leaving the marriage act is a way to make that position as clear as possible."
If the Presbyterian Church did choose to abandon the Marriage Act, McClean said that it would still continue to celebrate marriage, but only in a way that isn't recognised by the Australian law.
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# local-exec Provisioner

The `local-exec` provisioner invokes a local executable after a resource
is created. This invokes a process on the machine running Terraform, not on
the resource. See the `remote-exec` [provisioner](/docs/provisioners/remote-exec.html)
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## Example usage

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he will bring the House-passed bill to the floor this week.
The controversial bill would create special offices within the government to investigate and monitor so-called domestic terrorism, according to The Hill.
Many in the GOP compared it to the recently suspended disinformation board set up by the Biden administration.
"It's like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens," Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said.
Other Senate conservatives are concerned the offices would quickly shift to federal policing of political speech that would disproportionately target anti-government and anti-immigration activists than extremist left-wing groups.
Hawley noted the Department of Homeland Security has taken a "very different tone" against leftist groups that threatened violence against the Supreme Court.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) said he's "wary of the political motivation" behind such legislation.
"I get a little concerned when people want to pass new laws to supplement laws that are already in place that would be used to charge people with crimes. I don't necessarily believe we need a new law to convict people who have committed other crimes," he said of the bill.
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Montano moved his queen forward a square. To this, Jack moved an entire row
      of pieces forward.    "Can you–wait. Can you do that?" asked
      Montano.    "Do what?"    "That move."    "I don't remember what the move was."    "Did you write
      it down? OH- I haven't been writing mine down either!"    "Oh
      shoot."    They struggled over the board, not knowing what had
      happened.    Later, Montano followed Don onto the midnight grass.    "Do you play chyess?" he asked. Don gave him a confused look. "How about
      chyeckers?" Still nothing. "Because I was playing with this guy, but we have a question about
      the rules-"    "Get over here!" shouted Kane from in front of the garage
      where she was waiting with another girl. Don and Montano complied. "So tonight we're going to
      a strip club. Is everyone in?" Montano flashed a look of discontent. "What's the matter? You
      don't want to go? You just want to stay home and masturbate? Is that it?" Montano tried to
      protest. "No," she said. "Look: it's either your pole, or the club's pole."    En route, everyone became somebody else.    The club was a sparse
      modernist room consisting of three sections with three couches each that formed open squares.
      Strobe lights flashed on and off. Chad and the two girls sat down. Immediately, the blond
      turned and pressed her lips violently against his. "I want you. I want you now."    Chad looked over to the bathroom to see a man walk out. "That should take
      care of the smell," he said as he paused to sniff the air. "No! OH NO!" He pressed a button on
      the wall and ran back into the bathroom.    Chad ran out into the fields,
      pursued by the blond.    "Why? Why won't you have me?" she asked.    "I'm not going to talk about this." He turned to look at her. Fields of
      flowers stretched endlessly behind her. ("The symbolism!" thought Erasmus.) "Does this change
      anything?" she asked, sunflowers standing defensively beside her.    Montano sat among a crowd, watching the chennis match. Next to him he heard a small boy
      wet his pants. Montano shot him a look out of the corner of his eye.    "Should I have done that?" he asked.    "Sure," said SAM, leaning in.
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HBO Max and HBO end 2021 with 73.8 million subscribers globally
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It has added 4.4 million subscribers in the fourth quarter beating its July 2021 forecast to end the year with 70-73 million subscribers. In October 2019, at an investor day event, the company was projected to reach 75-90 million subscribers by the end of 2025. However, it achieved that goal almost four years early, noted Kilar.
"To say that this is a remarkable result would be an understatement," said Kilar. "This performance is beyond what had been our best laid plans at the start of 2021."
After the service launched in the US in 2020, it was launched in 45 more countries in 2021. HBO Max is expected to arrive in India in 2022. HBO Max is distributed as an app across devices such as Apple TV, Amazon Firestick, Google Chromecast, Roku and a host of smart TVs. WarnerMedia has also launched an ad-supported version of HBO Max which offers the service to consumers at a lower price.
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Teenager in Punjab spends whopping Rs 16 lakh on PUBG Mobile to make in-app purchases and upgrades: Report
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A minor boy in Punjab lost nearly Rs 16 lakh in the massively popular and addictive game PUBG Mobile, as he spent the amount in making in-app purchases.
PUBG has drawn a lot of flak for a long time
The 17-year-old had access to three bank accounts from which he used the money
The teenager said that he was using the mobile phone extensively to study
In a shocking incident, a teenager in Punjab lost nearly Rs 16 lakh in the massively popular and addictive game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG Mobile, as he spent the amount in making in-app purchases and upgrading while playing the game, the media has reported. The 17-year-old had access to three bank accounts and he used them to spend money on the super-addictive PUBG Mobile game.
The teenager told his parents that he was using the mobile phone extensively to study whereas he would spend hours playing PUB Mobile. In addition to making in-app purchases for himself while playing the game, he would also purchase upgrades for his teammates as well, said a report in the Tribune.
The incident came to light when the teenager's parents accessed the bank accounts and realised that he had spent almost Rs 16 lakh. The teenager, according to media reports, would extensively use his mother's mobile phone to play PUBG Mobile and after completing the bank transactions, would erase all the messages from her device. According to his father, he had saved the money for his son's future and medical needs.
The teenager's father is a government employee and was posted somewhere else when his teenage son spent the money on PUBG Mobile game. The minor also used to shuffle the money from one bank account to another to avoid being caught. The cops did not help the minor's parents as he had deliberately spent the whopping amount on the game, the report added.
Even though it is immensely popular, but PUBG has drawn a lot of flak for a long time and the hue and cry over the addictive game does not seem to stop any time soon. The game has been embroiled in controversy India as well as in China.
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Bill Conlin | BAGGAGE CLAIMS
Phillies aim low, looking at pitchers with health issues
Published Dec 7, 2007
"Give us your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free agents . . . "
From Phillies 2008 Game Plan
GENERAL MANAGERS have been beating the offseason bushes for more pitching since Connie Mack was
a minor league catcher. A key acronym
is ERA.
Phillies GM Pat Gillick has a new
acronym: MRI.
These days, you like to find a starter
durable enough to work every fifth day and produce around 200 innings.
Gillick and the EMS Rapid Response team that accompanied him to baseball's winter meetings in Nashville lowered their standards somewhat. The Phillies searched for pitchers capable of making five starts between surgeries. As my grandmother used to say, "No sense crying over frayed labrums."
It used to be that the road to the big leagues for a Phillies pitcher included stops in Clearwater, Reading and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (soon to be Allentown).
Now, the stops are more likely to include Lourdes, the Mayo Clinic and the
repair shops of several famed orthopedic surgeons.
While clubs with an insane desire to win and an even more manic willingness to spend recklessly to do so targeted pitchers such as Dontrelle Willis, Francisco Cordero and the big first prize in the Wretched Excess Sweepstakes, Johan Santana, the Phillies decided to aim low. All you need to make the list of Gillick's
Illicks is have a surgical scar that is not too pink and a doctor's note certifying that the rehabbing pitcher's next injury will not be career-ending.
How will we be able to tell the new pitchers when they report to spring training in February? They'll be the guys with the medical records pinned to their hospital gowns. Or the ones excused from throwing the first 2 weeks. The Phillies have ordered another dozen stationary bikes for the running impaired.
I mean, these people actually went to Nashville with a list ranking pitchers
coming off injuries who might be available. They had Randy Wolf holding
Numero Uno, the Freddy Garcia Model wheelchair. I'll try to understand this: Wolfie breaks down midway through the 2005 season and has Tommy John ligament surgery on his left elbow. He
returns to action in time for the 2006 stretch run and goes 4-0 with a 5.56 ERA. Randy then rewards the Phillies for their commitment to him by signing as a free agent with the Dodgers, who fly under the Phillies' substantial offer.
Wolfie was 9-6 with a 4.57 ERA when he broke down again just past the 100-inning mark. His season was ended by
exploratory left-shoulder surgery
described as "minor repairs." With a
career record of 78-66, Randy has earned $31,232,969 to date. The Dodgers declined to pick up his $9 million option.
The man at the top of Gillick's reclamation list - the baseball equivalent of a
$2 million knockdown property at the Jersey Shore - signed a 1-year contract with the San Diego Padres, keeping him within an easy run up I-5 to the offices of Dr. Frank Jobe. Randy implied the Ken Doll-dimensions of the Money Pit deterred him from taking a better Gillick offer.
The guys waiting for their epidurals in pre-op behind Wolfie include former uber-prospect Kris Benson. Manager Charlie Manuel no-wayed Bartolo Colon off the list. The ex-Indian was a physical train wreck during a 6-8, 6.34 ERA season
with the Angels. I think Kerry Wood's name came up somewhere in there. The Cubs veteran used to go 100 innings between DL stints. Now, he's lucky to last 100 pitches.
The horrid 2006 season of Cubs mediocrity Glendon Rusch stood at 3-8, 7.46, when the lefthander was disabled by a blood clot in his lung. It could have killed him. Rusch didn't pitch last season.
Gillick said he might be willing to invite Rusch to spring training as a non-roster player. Deeply insulted, Glendon countered by saying that unless he was guaranteed a rotation spot he wasn't interested. I had a vision of Michael Corleone in "Godfather II" telling Sen. Pat Geary, "My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up
personally."
In the context of being financially unwilling or unable to compete with teams committed to winning at any cost - no matter how outrageous - it is no surprise that Gillick went heavy in yesterday's Rule 5 draft for a pair of Triple A pitchers. Healthy ones, as well, it would appear.
The Red Sox had no problem releasing J.C. Romero last season and yesterday
exposed 6-5, 245-pound righthanded
reliever Lincoln Holdzkom to a process where the claiming team must carry the player on the 25-man roster or offer him back at half the $50,000 cost. Ditto 6-3 Aussie lefthanded starter Travis Blackley, unprotected by the Giants after going 10-8 at Fresno with a 4.66 ERA. He has a career record of 1-3 for the Giants, including two no-decision starts last season.
Some talent haul, eh?
Hopefully, this was Gillick's loud cry for help to Dave Montgomery and the Teflonics. The clear message: "I can't compete for the players who could help put us over the top with what I have to spend."
Maybe the people sitting on the money will stop celebrating 2007 long enough to realize that the 89 victories that won the National League East left the Phils seven victories short of the pennant and 11 short of a World Series title.
Right now, they are not even close to the 100 victories Jimmy Rollins has tossed out there as the 2008 goal. *
Published Dec. 7, 2007


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New Zealand's rising alt rock band is more serious than their name suggests. They play tonight at the Pabst.
And if they don't, the week also features Tony Bennett, Holy Wave and Sandra Bernhard.
Grammy winning, New Zealand singer songwriter will make her Milwaukee debut.
The versatile rocker and classic song writer never stops touring. His band is at Linneman's tonight.
Ever-busy Conor Oberst, the Safes and the Monkees come to town.
Failure, revived after 17 years, is the latest success and heads top concerts of the week.
The rediscovered rock star's Riverside concert was a love fest with philosophical asides.
Wye Oak is one of several hot indie bands from Charm City. They play tomorrow at Turner Hall.
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Faced with joining a desperately long NHS waiting list, Betterhelp Velma…Joe Rackham went with online counselling rather. "I just felt that I could not wait any longer– I was inspired and prepared to deal with my concerns and quite liked the concept of doing so in the comfort of my own house," stated the 29-year-old, who lives in London. After an online search, he discovered a therapist whose profile matched his requirements and reserved a chat session for the next day.
Remote, text-based counselling is growing in appeal in the UK. The doctor app Babylon uses therapy to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. The US-based service BetterHelp also has actually 150,000 signed up UK users (though not all are active). Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has 500,000 registered users worldwide, with many in the United States.
Online training recommends therapists on whatever from using emojis to avoiding misinterpretations. They also need to secure patients' individual information– a problem that has actually triggered debate in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have actually come under the spotlight.
Buckley said clients must inspect services' personal privacy policies before registering. "Not all online counselling websites utilize expertly trained therapists or abide by a principles policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the first instance. Just like all sort of services and support, what works for one person might not work for somebody else," he said.
Marc Bush, primary policy advisor at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are important, "they shouldn't change face-to-face treatment with a trained professional. If a young person is having a hard time, we would encourage them to talk with their GP in the very first instance, or to get in touch with a recognized service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.".
For Rackham, who has actually generalised anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the best fit. "I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to truly get a sense of the concerns I was handling, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I think I understood after that online session how crucial interpersonal interaction was.
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The business explains BetterHelp as the "biggest online therapy platform worldwide," geared towards assisting individuals dealing with issues "such as tension, anxiety, relationships, parenting, depression, dependencies, consuming, sleeping, trauma, anger, family disputes, LGBT matters, sorrow, faith [or] self-confidence." The business's FAQ section on its site clearly states BetterHelp's app and therapists should not be utilized for people dealing with a severe mental disorder (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder) or for individuals considering self-harm. Instead, the app prides itself on having accredited therapists and mental health experts readily available to help individuals by means of text, telephone call or video chat. That's what lots of YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company often state in their own videos, where they speak on the tensions in their individual lives and sensations bordering on anxiety or depression. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all creators who have Betterhelp Velma sponsors now.
A lot of these creators have discussed mental health issues in the past, however as burnout ends up being a larger topic within the neighborhood– and mainstream world– sponsorships involving BetterHelp have actually increased, in spite of the app not being precisely what the creators are promoting.
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Lunch Made Easy: Oh Spinach Tree, Oh Spinach Tree!
Thursday also marks 17 days left on our Advent Countdown!
Her salad is spinach leaves for the tree, matchstick carrots for the garland, circular cheese cutouts for the ornaments that I colored with my Betty Crocker Food Writer pens, and a provalone cheese star at the top noting our countdown number "17".
Top right are her favorite - Mandarin oranges.
Bottom right there's a container with a small amount of Zesty Italian Dressing and a York for dessert.
All packed inside a wonderful Easy Lunch Box.
SHUT UP! This is adorable! What a great idea for a tree :) That is so awesome that she like spinach :) LOVE!
Wait. A salad tree??! BRILLIANT!
Litle Miss was singing "Oh Spinach Tree, Oh Spinach Tree" all morning, lol. She loved it.
Amazing! I NEVER would have thought of making a spinach tree. And the carrot garland, too cute! I will most likely borrow (steal) this idea for Boogs' lunch.


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To me, one of the most perplexing aspects of this election is why people, other than far-left and true-believer Dems, are planning to vote for Joe Biden. What is their motivation? Despite all his faults, gaffes and lackluster campaigning, he is still leading in all the polls both nationally and in most of the battleground states. So, the question I keep asking myself is, why?
Normally, one votes for the candidate whose political, economic and social view of the world is in accord with theirs or who is a member of the same political party. They vote for the candidate who has or is expected to improve their lives. Some people vote for a candidate simply because they like him, and for others the key factor is the candidate's gender, religion or color. Those attributes should not matter, but there is no denying that for some, they do. Finally, some don't vote for a candidate; they vote against the other candidate.
Ironically, many of those who are voting for Biden are doing so against their own self-interest, in many cases, without even being aware of it. That is sad and unfortunate. Below please find some of the reasons as I see it:
They despise President Trump so much they are blind to everything else. They have bought into the false narrative that anything Mr. Trump says or does is wrong – period. They would rather hurt themselves and/or the country than see him win re-election. They would rather vote for a candidate with a Socialist agenda who would raise their taxes, eliminate their jobs, and take away their first and second amendments than for a man they hate. (Hence the term, "Trump derangement syndrome".) More on this later. According to most polls almost half of the electorate falls into this category. I have discussed this TDS at great length in previous blogs, and there is no need to repeat it here.
They get their news from "fake news" sources, such as twitter, Facebook, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times or the Washington Post. Unfortunately, many Biden supporters fall into this category. I have discussed the election with some of them. They're not bad people, just misinformed. For example, they believe that Mr. Trump is a Russian spy, that he colluded with Russia to "steal" the 2016 election, that he committed impeachable acts, and that he is a racist, a white supremacist, and a misogynist despite the lack of a shred of credible evidence. In fact, I maintain that there is plenty of evidence in Biden's past that indicates he is the racist, based on certain comments and his past associations with known racists and segregationists.
They are unaware of or have an incorrect view of the collusion, influence peddling, kickbacks, quid pro quo and other crimes committed by Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe's role in them. They are unaware of or don't believe that Facebook, twitter and google have been conspiring to bury that story to protect the Biden family. Despite the best efforts of the Dems and their allies in the media to dismiss this story as "Russian disinformation," it is gaining traction. Multiple investigations have been launched; the FBI and DOJ have both rejected the Russian disinformation claim; and President Trump is likely to raise the issue in tomorrow night's debate. Biden better have a good explanation, or it could damage his campaign.
They are unaware of or don't care that he plans to "pack" the Supreme Court, end the Senate filibuster, and push for statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. Those actions would assure the Dems of permanent control of the SC and Congress and make it very unlikely that a GOP candidate could ever win the presidency.
Most puzzling of all, they are willing or maybe are not aware that they would be voting against their and their family's own wellbeing. Biden has made it clear he plans to eliminate the "Trump tax cuts." He claims it will only affect those with incomes in excess of $400,000, but that statement is most definitely false. He is omitting the fact that this action would also eliminate various tax deductions and credits that benefit the middle class and small business owners, raise medical insurance costs for everyone, and eliminate millions of jobs. Goodbye recovery. Hello Venezuela. Either he is too stupid to realize that or he thinks the voters are.
Many voters in PA, MI, OH and other states are unaware that he plans to eliminate fracking. He has waffled on this issue depending on the audience, but the Dem platform and website is quite clear on this issue. It is part of the Green New Deal, which Biden has endorsed whether he knows it or not. Why would anyone whose livelihood is dependent on fracking, or the fossil fuel industries even think about voting for him? I don't know, but based on the polls there must be many who are.
There is strong evidence that Biden is and will be controlled by the radical left wing of the Dem Party. Most of his advisors and staff are Sanders-AOC supporters. He has received millions in donations from them.
As I said, I have discussed all of the above in previous blogs if you care to delve into the details. Anyone planning to vote for Biden should know he has adopted the radical left's platform because he knows he cannot win without their support. He is trying to hide this from the voters by staying in his basement and answering as few questions as possible. The media is covering for him. You should notice that the few times in which he appears in public they ask him softball questions or none at all.
Moderate Dems who are supporting Biden are voting for a memory. The moderate Joe from the 1980s and 1990s is gone. He has been replaced by an empty shell who is out of touch and cognitively challenged. If he were to be elected it is very unlikely that he would be able to complete his term. Say hello to President Harris, the most liberal Senator, who would present a whole different set of issues and problems.
Beware; be informed. Your livelihood and the country's wellbeing depends on it.
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This week, however, I was fully introduced to Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come during a dress rehearsal at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle.
Opening Sunday and running through Dec. 28, ACT's production of the holiday classic is a fast-paced, 90-minute performance that unfolds from the round stage of the Allen Theatre, one of just a few of its kind in the country. Actors enter the scene from the bleachers, from side tunnels and through the floor.
The play at ACT is in its 39th consecutive season and now that I've seen it and sketched it, I can see the reason for its success. Actor Peter Crook, one of two who alternate in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, said it's a timeless story of forgiveness and redemption that never gets old.
Here are more sketches I drew during the rehearsal and colored later.
Do they bring back memories from watching the play?


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Kilburn boy becomes Derbyshire's youngest fundraiser for heart charity
Kilburn resident Jak Austin raised �160 for the British Heart Foundation to mark his eighth birthday.
Ed Dingwall
Published: 15:55 Sunday 07 April 2019
A Kilburn boy has become Derbyshire's youngest ever British Heart Foundation fundraiser after doing something special for his birthday.
Jak Austin decided to spend the month before he turned eight running a 'pindrop on the donkey' competition among his family and friends, eventually raking in £160.
Jak and great uncle Shane Falconbridge, who has now made a full recovery from his heart attack.
The Horsley Primary School pupil was inspired to start fundraising after his great uncle Shane suffered a heart attack last year.
Great aunt Jackie Falconbridge said: "His uncle was quite poorly, and Jak came to see him in hospital, so he understood a little bit then.
"Now we get the Heart Matters magazine delivered to our house, and Jak has picked it up to read a few times. I thinkthat made him realised that babies can have heart problems too, and he started thinking about it differently."
She added: "I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, and he said he didn't need anything, so we should give the money to charity. My heart could have burst."
Jak and Jackie ordered a fundraising pack from the British Heart Foundation, including a poster which showed the donkey in a field, and some stickers which people could use to mark its location.
Jackie said: "We went all over Amber Valley visiting people we know, and everyone was happy to pay £2 to have a go. Belper folk are very good like that, they always come together to help.
"Jak would put a blindfold on them, and spin them round – three times if they were old, five times if they were young."
The youngster also insisted on buying Easter eggs for the three players who got closest to the donkey.
Jackie said: "He's never done anything like this before, but we do try to do a lot of charity events as a family. He'll be coming on a sponsored walk with us later this year.
"He's a very caring little chap, who will always call if he knows you're not well. He doesn't think what he done is out of the ordinary, it's very matter of fact."
When the British Heart Foundation heard about what Jak was doing, one of their representatives travelled to meet him to say thank you.
Derbyshire grandfather was killed after he was stabbed three times in the legs
Jackie said: "Jak had planned to raise £140, which he knew would pay for a cardiology nurse on a ward for one day – but he wanted to know where the other £20 would go."
In 2017-18, the foundation spent £128 million on life-saving research and support for heart patients. Learn more about its work and how you can help at bhf.org.uk.


A free school, which is supported by actress Dame Helen Mirren, is due to open in one of the East End's most under-privileged areas, next September.
A parent-led campaign for a new school in Wapping is the latest of 55 such schools given approval by education secretary, Michael Gove.
The first 24 free schools – including primaries, secondaries and all-through establishments for 3-18 year olds – opened last month.
Wapping High School is expected to support around 400 families from the Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse areas of Tower Hamlets.
The Oscar-winning actress who resides in the borough and whose mother is from West Ham, offered her "full support" for the campaign in east London and urged the Government and business leaders to do the same.
Almost half the pupils at the Wapping High School will be entitled to free school meals – a measure of child poverty.
Under this scheme, parents groups, charities, faith organizations and entrepreneurs are given grants to open their own state school, free of local authority interference. They get almost complete control over admissions, the curriculum, staff appointments, and length of the school day and shape of the academic year.
The Wapping school, an 11-16 secondary, will have an extended day with compulsory afterschool activities, including setting up a newspaper, playing football and polo classes.
As well as the national curriculum, the school would offer two fields: new media and enterprise and innovation.
In further move, the London Academy of Excellence, a new sixth-form college supported by several leading private schools, is being established in Newham. To be accepted, pupils must score at least five A grades at GSCE.
Mossbourne Academy will open another academy in south Hackney in 2014 for 800 pupils.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, Principal of Mossbourne Academy is "delighted and proud" about the news.
Detailed plans will be submitted to Tower Hamlets council this month.
We have excellent schools in Tower Hamlets. We don't need schools to be 'free from local authority interference' since our local authority does a very good job of looking after schools. It's very disappointing that you would support a project the aim of which is to undermine a cooperative educational ethos and replace it with competition, selection, and ultimately privitisation. Making money out of education is the ultimate goal of the deregulation of schools.