Ge Range Stove Oven Troubleshooting

Ge Range Stove Oven Troubleshooting. We know that the GE oven is a popular brand. Both electric and gas models are available, as well as ones with induction technology and warming drawers.

In general, their ovens work really well but there are common problems that we will outline below.

We think it’s also important for you to understand these issues so we’ve included a short troubleshooting area towards the end of this article where you can read about common fixes too.

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Looking for tips on how to fix your GE range? Check out our easy-to-understand guide which will take you through common issues and provide insights.

GE oven won’t start

If the thermal fuse blows, your oven immediately turns off. To determine if the thermal fuse is at fault, test it for continuity with a multimeter.

If your thermal fuse does not have continuity and blows a fuse when tested with a multi-meter, replace it immediately. There is no reset mechanism for this component—if the fuse has blown, you must replace it.

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When one’s oven fails to heat up, the cause is usually a defective igniter. The igniter draws electrical current through the valve which opens it.

Then, it’s hot enough to glow and ignite the gas in the burner.

The igniter may also be defective if its glowing does not last for more than 90 seconds without lighting up the burner.

If an inspection reveals that the igniter is indeed faulty, only then should a replacement be installed otherwise this will keep happening over and over again.

Alternatively, if your igniter isn’t glowing at all even when the burner has been lit, test it with a multimeter for continuity.

The temperature on GE ovens is inaccurate

Oven sensors work in collaboration with the oven control board to regulate the temperature. They accomplish this by varying their resistance to electrical current as the oven’s temperature rises and falls.

As there is a rise in temperature, the oven sensor creates greater resistance. If it were to give an incorrect amount of resistance, then your oven may not heat or bake your food evenly.

Some brands allow you to accurately calibrate your oven control up to 35 degrees Fahrenheit higher or lower than what is indicated on the display panel so long as you refer to your owner’s manual for instructions on how to do so properly.

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The oven control board sends electrical current to the bake, broil, and fan circuits based on various triggers such as how you set the controls and what type of food you’ve placed in the oven.

If any of these relays are damaged, they may send power to the fan circuit continuously. However, this is generally not the case.

Before replacing the control board, it would be best first to check some key components inside the machine for irregularities such as thermostats. If one of these thermostats is faulty, it might cause continuous operation of your oven fan.

The GE Range surface element will not turn off

To troubleshoot a faulty surface element switch on an electric range, find the source of the problem. If it is the switch, replace it.

You can also try correcting your problem by resetting the circuit breaker that runs to your oven and range because if you don’t fix this, you may end up damaging other parts in the heating system when attempting to heat up your surface elements again.

GE ovens aren’t evenly baking

If the bake element is burned or faulty, the oven will only heat using the broil element (see below). This will cause the oven to heat unevenly. Baking is a slower form of heating than broiling and can take longer to do its job.

When the bake element has burnt out it will have noticeable burn marks or blackened areas.

In order to ensure that your bake element has not been damaged as a result of overheating during use, either unplug your appliance completely or test it with a multimeter set at 400 volts AC and then test with the appliance unplugged if it fails this test then you must replace this part immediately.

The GE ovens broiler doesn’t work

The broil element glows red hot if it is heating properly. It indicates that it is not heating if the element does not glow red.

Check for holes or blisters on the broil element if this is the case. Make sure that the broil element has continuity with a multimeter; if it does not, replace it.

GE Range burners spark constantly

The spark igniters could be sticking out of their slots. Whenever the ignition key is turned to the ON position, a voltage runs through each of the spark pipes when the engine is cranked in order to ignite fuel trapped in a cylinder.

If the spark igniter sticks out too far, it may be struck by the voltage that travels down the pipe instead of being pushed back into its seat, allowing voltage to continue running down the pipe and potentially causing a car fire.

To fix this potential defect, check each igniter’s bolts on either side of its slot with a bolt wrench and tighten them as necessary if they appear loose or worn.

Ge Range Stove Oven Troubleshooting

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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Clearing the Plains: Apology doesn't Cut it.

My knowledge of Canadian-Indigenous history was limited largely to school textbooks where the settlers “conquered” the land and made treaties with the Indians. Social relationships across the racial boundary were limited. There were no Indigenous kids in my primary school. My aunt and uncle hired their neighbours, a poverty-stricken Metis family for house work and animal/field work. She said that the man was hardworking and that the woman tanned hides. Their children rode on our school bus and mostly kept to themselves.

When we entered grade eight, the residential school kids came into our schools. Mostly they seemed a lot like us; every summer we became “drug-store Indians” so our skin colour was close to theirs. There was a boy whose first name was “Doctor” who was on the track team and always won the regionals. I developed a limited friendship with Amabelle Bear in grade nine, limited because the residential school forbade contact except in school!

Grade nine was the year that our father discovered that his hired hands (who were Cree from Camperville) had to cash their cheques through the Indian agent, who claimed 20%. He told us that he didn’t know of “a good Indian agent – they were all cheats and drunks.”
(He "banked" for them after that.)

That was the 1950’s.

Colonialism became a topic of conversation in the 1960’s; we settler kids recognized the role that our ancestors had played – “claiming the land” that was not ours. The prairies were the “commons” of aboriginal people just as the highlands had been the “commons” of Scotland.  Our ancestors, having been ousted from the commons in the British Isles (UK) came to North America did not recognize that they were repeating the abuse.

The Dewar family were sheep herders in the 1700’s when the industrial age began. The lords of the land claimed the commons for their private use and shut out the peasants in a series of events referred collectively as the “closures”.  The Dewars immigrated to Eastern Ontario but discovered that the land, the soil and the climate forced them to spread out – the lower farm productivity meant that each person needed more land than in Scotland. My grandfather was drawn west to claim a quarter-section (160 acres) near Dauphin, Manitoba in 1885 and work it as a homestead. He lived in a sod house in summer and a dirt hole in the winter. The second summer he went back to Ontario and eloped with his sweetheart – she spent the first winter of her married life in a 12 x 8 hole in the ground with her husband and her bachelor brother-in-law.

The Dewars worked for their survival in those days – they really did have to raise their own food and go hungry if they were unsuccessful – but most of the skills they needed were adaptable from their European peasant traditions. Little did they know that as they struggled to adapt old world skills to the prairies the First Nations peoples were forced into an agricultural model and starved onto the worst available land with no previous survival skills for an agrarian lifestyle. They had been successful nomads, hunters and gatherers for centuries.

About the same time that he discovered the Indian Agent cheque-cashing scam, dad discovered the Peasantry Act of the 1890’s. The Peasantry Act confiscated machinery that was more progressive on the theory that the Indians (sic) needed to progress through each step of agrarian development – they needed to start as peasants with only hand tools. Somehow Dad conveyed his indignation over the Metis and Cree along the Red River in Manitoba being forced to surrender their tools.

None of these egregious incidents prepared me for “Clearing the Plains”.

“Clearing the Plains” is not for the faint-hearted person, white, Indigenous or immigrant. It describes almost two centuries of crass disregard for the very people who helped settlers survive; it describes deliberate policies of starvation promulgated by the federal government under John A. MacDonald. It describes horrendous suffering – and, at times, great empathy. This is a tale of a planned and enacted genocide over more than a century.

I say to Prime Minister Harper in his “apology” to First Nations peoples: “Mr Harper, 'Sorry' doesn’t cut it!”

Remember D-Day: It is Russia and US this time

And learn from our past. Could the terrible loss of life and environmental destruction that was World War II been prevented? If we don‘t learn from our past, we are bound to repeat our mistakes; honouring the battle of D-Day and the men who lost their lives should include  answering the question, “how could it have been prevented?”

My aunt lost two sons in the war; she spent almost a decade in mourning. She spoke resentfully of people who got rich during the war while she lost her children.

So as the US and Russia face off over the Ukraine, what could we learn from World War II?

When someone, a leader or a country says that it wants world domination or implies that it is somehow “above the law”, they mean it! Hitler said it. Now the US says it.

US exceptionalism was recognized as fact in the eighteenth century; unfortunately the more recent US leadership have mistaken exceptionalism for superiority. Paul Bolt, on taking his position as US representative to the UN said (and I paraphrase) that there wasn’t really a United Nations, the world was governed by one super-power and everyone else had to go along. In fact, the failure to understand the nature of US exceptionalism has lead to universal blindness about the invasions and bombings of more than seven different countries in the last century, the building of military bases in more than 25 countries, the surrounding of China, Russia and the Korean Peninsula – and acceptance of US hegemony at the security counsel. Finally, the United States does believe that it is above the law; it does not accept the existence of the International Criminal Court.

The US wealthy need to keep having wars. They even support the use of drones so the sales of arms will continue but US citizens don’t actually have to get killed. Obama has made threats to Iran, Syria and now Russia – none of which have threatened the US. So the US is on a war path.

Why do we (the rest of the world) stand silent?

1. Denial:  We can’t believe that the world would go to war. Chamberlain so wanted to believe Hitler that he called the “Munich Agreement” of 1938 which “gave” Czechoslovakia to Hitler, a “Peace agreement”.

We can’t believe that there would be unscrupulous people in the arms industry who would lobby for war for their own profit – of course, that’s not what they say.  They say that the war is for “education for the woman”, saving “babies from being thrown out of their incubators” or “to establish democracy”.

We can’t believe that the sales of arms is ethical; we can’t conceive that people have no responsibility for arming terrorists, underground militia, or despotic governments – or for the people killed by the arms from which they profited.

2. Personal Gain: This played a role in the delay with which the US entered WWII. It plays a role among nations currently allied with the US; disagreeing with the US might mean imposition of some new sanctions, some passport hassle or trade issue. Additionally, of course, other countries may have arms industries equally eager to see a war break out. Canada could become very wealthy if a major war occurred in Eastern Europe.

3. Bad-mouthing the US: No one wants to be labeled as “anti-American” partly because the term “American” is equally applicable to Mexicans, Central and South Americans and partly because mostly we like the citizens of the United States even as their government doesn’t represent them on the world stage.

Even so, the United States is behaving like a big bully; it must accept the same rules as everyone else. Why is it in the Ukraine in the first place? Why is it leading the inflammatory remarks towards Russia? Become civilized and behaviour as civilized adults and start negotiating a peace process.

The fact that Russia and the United States both have nuclear weapons means that no one will be left unaffected if war occurs - we cannot afford to just watch the process - we need to be vocal.

Sunday, 1 June 2014

West Coast Friends - Again

The West Coast is rich with remarkable vistas – mountain tops from below and above. Ever changing ocean views. So rich with flowers, vegetable gardens – Mary Louise was right, I didn’t really want to know that they were still picking carrots fresh from the garden at Christmas time!

Years ago friends Joyce and Herb retired to this Eden – setting down roots on Vancouver Island. She said that, after struggling with prairie gardens all her life, she was in gardening heaven! Grapes hanging over her doorway!

Friends have left the prairies for Salt Spring Island, the Sunshine Coast and even Vancouver itself! Bill’s Uncle and Aunt have a backyard verdant with blossoms – rhodendrons and clematis to knock your eyes out - and I know that his tomato plants in the slit between the house and the wall will over-produce again this year.

Gordon Lightfoot sang of his friends leaving for California - well, some do come back but there is something to be said for places where "the living is easy".

While here on the prairies, the fields are either black or still beige with the death of last years’ crops. The trees are just starting to leaf, the chokecherries and saskatoons beginning to bloom and the morel mushrooms didn’t even come this year.

The mosquitoes started – and seemed to have had a slump in population – but the ticks are out in full force! I found seven on my body yesterday and two more in the bathwater! Fortunately, the type of woodticks in the Touchwood Hills carry no weird diseases. Yet.

So, what do we have? Open skies – and lots of space. Mercury beside the waning moon out the morning window. Finches, hummingbirds and robins – and one silly song sparrow trying to feed at the finch feeder. Chickens in the pen, eggs in the nests. A dog at my side – or racing around the field, or barking his territory late at night to keep the coyotes away! Cats – four working animals in this mouse-infested place. A garden in the planting phase – crabapples and plum trees in bloom.

Machines that don’t work – need more expertise than we have. A house that needs work. The never-ending mending basket.

A room of my own. Friends and neighbours – four kids and one man on a raft in the pond. Bill. And home. Home is really where the heart is.

And then there are other issues - Fukushima pollution will reach the Coast first, rising sea levels will affect the coast while changing weather patterns will affect us too. What does the future hold?


Ways to promote Language development

Your child’s language is best developed during meaningful interactions with people and through day to day routines. Sometimes, children with hearing loss can become familiar with common words or phrases used in certain situations, and use these without actually listening to what is being communicated. It’s important to ensure your child is actively listening in your interactions together.

You can purposefully create a problem or a difficult situation which can be used as an opportunity to learn about communication, as you are creating a need or reason to talk. Essentially, we are providing an opportunity for one communication partner to tell the other partner about the problem at hand, or ask for their help to solve it.

Five Ways to Promote language:

1. Set up a coloring activity at the table with your child. Have the paper ready, but hide the crayons or pens out of sight, such as in the cupboard. Encourage your child to begin coloring in. Wait for your child to indicate to you that they can’t color in the paper, as there are no tools to do this.

2. Lock a cupboard or drawer at home that has your child’s various toys inside it. When it’s time to get the toys from the cupboard, allow your child a chance to try to open the door. When they are unsuccessful, pretend to not know what is happening, and ask them in a positive way to get the toys from the cupboard. Wait for them to indicate to you that they have tried, but the cupboard is locked. Ask them what you should do to solve the situation together, and use this opportunity to practice problem solving language together.

3. When your child asks for a drink or some food, give them an empty cup or plate, and pretend that you have satisfied their request. Wait for your child to indicate to you that there is no drink or food, and have them ask you specifically what they would like.

4. Place an object in an unpredictable place for your child to find. For example, a toy in the refrigerator, a shoe in the bathtub before bath time, or a sticker on your face. Wait for your child to notice the strange thing or behavior, and encourage them to talk with you about it. Ask your child where the object would typically belong. Also talk about reasons for it not belonging in the location they found it in and why this is illogical, or silly!

5. When your child would like something from a tightly-closed bottle, jar, or packet, hold back from opening it for them. Wait for your child to indicate to you that they need help in order to open the desired object. Encourage your child to use the language that is acceptable for requesting help, for example “Help please”, “More water”, “It’s stuck!” or “Can you help me?”

Be mindful that there can be a fine line between providing a learning moment  and creating a stressful situation for your child. If your child is having difficulty indicating to you what the problem is and/or a way to resolve it, then turn the situation  into a teaching moment. That is, demonstrate to your child the language that could be used in that situation to help solve the problem, and support them by solving it together! The teaching moment will help them to develop the skills in order to do this effectively independently when they have the language skills.


New discoveries about an old disease

The best treatment for Parkinson's disease is still a medicine that goes several decades back, but otherwise a lot is new in the field. Among other things, it has been shown that Parkinson's is one of few diseases where smoking, coffee and juicy, rare steaks are seen as protective factors.

Text: Fredrik Hedlund. Published in Medicinsk Vetenskap 3/2013.

Parkinson's disease is not new. It is described as early as the Ayurvedic scriptures from India, dating from between 2000 and 4000 BC. There the disease was called Kampavata where kampa means shaking or tremor and vata means slowness of movement. Around 1000 years before Christ, the Indian scriptures also describe a complete treatment for the disease.

The treatment mainly consisted of seeds from a plant called Mucuna pruriens. The active substance in the plant was not known at that time. It was only in the 1930s that researchers isolated the substance L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, or L-DOPA, which is exactly the same substance that remains the primary treatment for Parkinson's disease. Today, it is taken in tablet form.

Today's treatment

However, despite this, today's treatment is not a result of the Indian texts, but is to be attributed to the Swedish pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson, who in the late 1950s was able to demonstrate that dopamine was a neurotransmitter in the brain affecting movement. In pioneering animal experiments, he showed that L-DOPA, a precursor of dopamine that can be absorbed in the brain, counteracted drug-induced Parkinsonism.

A few years later, neurologists showed that it was possible to treat Parkinson's patients with L-DOPA. For his discoveries concerning the neurotransmitter dopamine Arvid Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000.

The most common scenario is that Parkinson's patients are diagnosed at 55 to 65 years of age. But there are also examples of patients being affected considerably earlier. Perhaps the most famous Parkinson's patient in the world is the Canadian actor Michael J. Fox, who was diagnosed when he was 29. This is unusually early, but not unique.

Per Svenningsson. Photo: Ulf Sirborn

"I have several patients who were born in the 1970s. In the Stockholm area, there are about 50 patients diagnosed with Parkinson's before the age of 40," says Per Svenningsson, Professor of Neurology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge.

What causes or triggers Parkinson's disease is still unknown. For a very long time, until into the 1990s, the prevailing view was that there were no genetic causes of the disease. At that time, the focus was entirely on environmental factors such as pesticides and various heavy metals. For example, water from private wells containing high levels of heavy metals is considered to increase the risk of being affected.

"People who live in the country have a slightly higher incidence of Parkinson's than those who live in cities," says Per Svenningsson.

But in recent years, knowledge about the genetic links to Parkinson's has increased greatly, and this has set old truths on their heads. We now know that a smaller proportion of all Parkinson's cases is entirely caused by hereditary factors and that there are many risk genes (see separate article).

Interplay of heredity and environment

For the vast majority of cases, it is today believed that the cause is an interplay between the genetic risk genes and environmental load. Just as there are environmental factors that increase the risk, there are factors that appear to provide protection against the disease. But for Parkinson's disease, it is not the usual lifestyle factors of more vegetables and exercise that gives protection. It could be said to be almost the reverse.

"Epidemiological studies have revealed three factors that reduce the risk of Parkinson's. These are nicotine, caffeine and high urate values," says Per Svenningsson.

"This means that it often feels unfair when someone is affected by Parkinson's where the person is frequently a clean-living person who neither smokes nor drinks a lot of coffee nor eats juicy, rare steaks," he says.

When a patient is diagnosed with Parkinson's, he or she has already had the disease for many years, perhaps as long as 5-10 years.

"When the symptoms begin to show, the patients have already lost more than 50 per cent of their dopamine-producing cells in the brain," says Per Svenningsson.

In recent years, new research has shown that there are much earlier symptoms of the disease. Such things as a reduced sense of smell, constipation, depression or a sleep disorder that involves not lying still in dream sleep, but moving vigorously, are now being linked with Parkinson's disease.

"It may be that people are looking for these symptoms, and then they know that they have an increased risk of developing Parkinson's. In our research, we now follow such patients in order to ascertain how great that risk is," says Per Svenningsson.

One idea would of course be to use these early symptoms to discover the patients earlier, but besides the symptoms being a little too common to work well as markers for the disease, there is another concern.

"We do not have a disease-modifying drug. The major breakthrough would be to find a disease-modifying drug, like for MS," says Per Svenningsson.

Dopamine-producing brain cells

What causes Parkinson's typical motor symptoms, which eventually lead to the diagnosis, is that the dopamine-producing brain cells are broken down and destroyed. The symptoms are due to a lack of dopamine in the brain and this is also the reason why substances that stimulate the dopamine system work.

But the dopamine-stimulating treatment only relieves symptoms, it does not affect disease progression and, in time, the remaining dopamine-producing cells also die. This is why the effect of the treatment gradually diminishes and may need to be supplemented with additional therapies.

Relatively recently, researchers have also been able to demonstrate that it is not only the dopamine-producing cells that are destroyed by the disease, but also other signalling systems in the brain are affected, resulting in reduced levels of neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine, serotonin and norepinephrine. This results in non-motor symptoms such as a fall in blood pressure after getting up, disturbed sleep, worry/anxiety, depression and dementia problems.

"Parkinson's disease is classified as a motor disorder, but many patients themselves experience that they have more problems with the other symptoms. This is something that has drawn more attention in recent years," says Per Svenningsson.

Clearly undertreated

Previously, these symptoms were clearly undertreated, and there is still a risk that the healthcare system misses them. This is something Per Svenningsson thinks is a shame because they can often be treated with relative success.

"As a doctor, you have to actively ask about them because patients do not always volunteer this information. They do not always make the connection to depression and memory failure," he says.

Ever since Arvid Carlsson's discovery in the late 1950s, L-DOPA, or levodopa, has been the first choice for treating dopamine deficiency in Parkinson's disease.

It is the treatment that has the best effect, but this effect lasts for quite a short time, and the medication needs to be taken frequently, three to four times a day. Even so, wearing off can occur, where the disease breaks through. For this reason, levodopa treatment is often combined with drugs that slow the breakdown of dopamine in the brain in order to prolong the effect. Alternatively, levodopa can be administered on a more continuous basis through surgically implanted tubes directly into the duodenum using what is known as a Duodopa pump, a technique that was developed in Uppsala in the 1990s.

There are also drugs that affect the dopamine receptors in a similar way to dopamine, but with a longer active effect. These agents can be an alternative to levodopa, especially in a little younger patients.

A somewhat strange side effect of these drugs, affecting between one in seven and one in ten patients, is what doctors call impulse control disorder. This is because dopamine is not only involved in motor control, but also plays an important role in the human reward system. So drug treatment may, in some individuals, result in an excessive behaviour that might among other things lead to eating disorders, addictive gambling or hypersexuality.

Devastating consequences

"It can have devastating consequences. It might lead to the patient gambling away a lot of money, getting a strange collecting behaviour, becoming hypersexual or the like," says Per Svenningsson.

The only solution to an impulse control disorder is to change treatment. As the disease progresses, patients become increasingly worse, the effect of medication diminishes and more troublesome side effects arise. Sometimes these side effects can be suppressed by older drugs such as anticholinergics and amantadine, which may on the other hand have other troublesome side effects.

For severe cases where the patient is still under the age of 70, there is sometimes the opportunity for DBS or Deep Brain Stimulation. This means that doctors implant an electrode in the brain driven by a pacemaker that electrically stimulates the brain and suppresses tremor and rigidity.

Worldwide, about 100,000 patients have undergone surgery. In Sweden, approximately 300 patients have received this treatment and, according to Per Svenningsson, this is probably too few.

"The treatment is more effective than the best medicine and you can cut down significantly on medication after surgery," he says.

The procedure is relatively spectacular because the patient is mostly awake when brain surgeons implant the electrode. The brain has no pain cells, so it does not need any anaesthetic. This helps the surgeon to find the right place.

"The area to be stimulated is about the size of a grain of rice. That's why it's important for the patient to be awake so that you know the right place is being stimulated. When the patient stops shaking, you know you've come to the right spot," says Per Svenningsson.

Facts: Parkinson's disease

  • Parkinson's disease is named after the English doctor, James Parkinson (1755-1824), who compiled the symptoms typical of the disease in his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.
  • It is the second most common neurological disorder after Alzheimer's, affecting around 0.3 per cent of the population. Men are affected more often than women. There are approximately 24,000 patients diagnosed in Sweden, about 2,000 new diagnoses yearly.
  • There are no samples or other tests by which to indicate whether a patient has Parkinson's disease. The diagnosis is instead made by means of clinical symptoms and how well the patient responds to dopamine treatment.


What is the order of instruments in an orchestral score?

What is the order of instruments in an orchestral score?

So, in orchestral scores, the groupings are by instrumental ‘family’: woodwinds on top of the page, and below them, in descending order, brass, percussion, harp and keyboards, soloists (instrumental or vocal), voices, and strings.

What is the wind section of a band?

What is the band score Order?

Score Order: the order in which the multiple instruments of an ensemble are laid out on a piece of music.

What is orchestral score?

How do you read full score music?

Therefore, depending on the part of the world the cartographer is writing music for, scores can be found that are meant to be read from left to right, from right to left, or in vertical columns. However, the European standard of musical notation, is always read from left to right, just like a piece of writing.

How many wind instruments are in an orchestra?

Each woodwind has a unique and distinct timbre. HOW MANY: There are four members: flute, clarinet, oboe, and bassoon. Eight to twelve are used in full symphony. The woodwind family sits together in the middle of the orchestra, behind the violins and violas.

How do you layout an orchestra?

The 1st VIOLINS sit next to the harp, and the 2nd VIOLINS sit next to the 1st Violins. The VIOLAS sit in the middle of the front row and the CELLOS sit to the right of them. The DOUBLE BASSES sit behind the cellos. The PICCOLO AND FLUTES sit behind the violas, to the left and the OBOES sit beside them.

What is the correct orchestral score order for each instrument?

Briefly, orchestral score order should be as follows: 1 Flute 2 Oboe 3 Clarinet 4 Bassoon 5 Horns 6 Trumpets 7 Trombones 8 Tuba 9 Timpani 10 Percussion

What is a traditional wind ensemble or wind orchestra?

When most people think about a traditional wind ensemble, wind orchestra, or symphonic band, the first thought that comes to mind is usually a military band. But, the difference between a wind ensemble, wind orchestra, and symphonic band is a little more complicated than simply saying they are variations on the military band.

What instruments are in the woodwind section of an orchestra?

A casual observer to a wind orchestra rehearsal may notice that the conductor asks the ensemble to play a piece with an up-bow or down-bow type of sound to get the right feel in specific sections. The woodwind section consists of piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, saxophones, and bassoons.

What is the correct order of the brass instruments on staff?

Brass next, in this order: horns, trumpets, trombones, euphonium (if there is one), tuba. It may seem strange to have the horns first, instead of in order of range like the woodwinds, but that is the convention, and we are sticking to it. Group horns 1+2 on one staff, 3+4 on another.

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9-1-1: Lone Star Season 3 Episode 7 : When a dust-up between Owen and an obnoxious police sergeant goes viral, the existing tensions between police and fire rescue mount, leading Owen to decide they will settle the score on the softball field. Meanwhile, Grace competes against a hot shot call center night-shift operator when he moves over to the day shift.

Episode Title: Red vs. Blue

Air Date: 2022-02-21

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Yawning at Anger

How important is your mental wellness?

When we view the word anger, it is part of the human scene. The emotion is only a feeling backed by fear.

All of us are exposed daily to the temptation to engage in this feeling.

Here are some alternatives to express this emotion;

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms: Noun

Synonyms: Verb

enrage, incense, inflame (also enflame), infuriate, ire, mad, madden, outrage, rankle, rile, roil, steam up, tick off

Antonyms: Noun

delight, pleasure

Antonyms: Verb

delight, gratify, please

“Winners never quit.”

“A quitter never wins.

“Don’t be a quitter.”

What about deciding to quit excessive anger?

Anger irritates the soul. If prolonged, it eats away at the soul-body generating progressive resentment or illness.

Anger can adversely affect your health and relationships. It has been known to eat away at organ tissue, cause heart attacks, disrupt blood flow and corrode the psyche.

How do we get to the point of anger?

It seems that a personalized rules violation has occurred. Beliefs!

Something that suddenly gets your attention triggers in an instant reaction. When we understand ourselves, we can better understand others.

What’s the difference between responding and reacting?

Do you recognize that when you are hungry, tired or feel alone, the emotion labeled anger can be triggered?

What about the fact that people who are hurting like to hurt others?

If we simplified that emotions are either a call for love or a cry for help, what would that do to your mindset?

The pleasure – pain principle is evolutionarily wired into the brain even though there is an alternative.

The option is to live in a contemplative state in which you understand that underneath the perceptional mind world is 98% silence. We are the ones creating all the noise in our perception with the 2%.

It is one of nature’s tricks, little understood, that each day we awaken with moods that have changed from yesterday.

When we recognize and identify the mystery of moods in all mankind, and in us, we become prepared to control whatever personality awakes in us each day.

The aim is to become master of my moods through positive action [thinking] and when I master my moods, I will control my destiny.

Remember that to “sin” means missing the mark. Where is your aim?

Can you see how describing the feeling with a word captures the emotion into a fixed crystallized state of mind?

When we label our emotions with language, we are identifying and becoming the emotion instead of just feeling them.

Language is the building block of reality.

What if we just allow the emotion? Witness it. Release it. Or better still, adjust our rules of engagement into understanding that everyone sees and interprets the world differently.

What if I told you that watching the news or engaging in social media is geared to stir the emotions of anger.

So, why are you choosing to watch it for continual periods of time?

The answer to this human dilemma is neither in abandoning caution or accepting conformity.

It is in recognizing the importance of re-learning [understanding]. The most important idea I have been able to embrace that resulted in personal growth and new found liberty is in two simple, though amazingly profound statements: “Not everything is right the way I first learned it!” and “This too shall pass.”

I must disavow what I ascertain is wrong. Then it is true. I am most alive when I exercise my own will.

Understanding that anger is a corrosive emotion which destroys in the present and transmits into the future can lead to awareness.

The present moment can be used for learning and understanding past wrongs, not to fuel resentment.

Anger can be likened to holding a smoldering coal in your hand to throw at another; all that accomplished is burning your own hand in the process.

When angered, blow by the emotion—Express it and shift quickly into a settled mind quickly. Forgive yourself for feeling it and forgive the circumstance or person instigating the emotion.

There are no wrong feelings only actions.

If possible, “vent” in private and express it. But don’t live in it and explode in front of others.

You will look back regretfully and say, “Was it really worth it?” In two weeks you might say, “was it that important?”

Understand that anger is a call to action for a new approach in perspective.

Therefore the individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of anger, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost of self knowledge, that is, the utmost possible knowledge of his own wholeness. He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what anger he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as real and the other as illusion. Both are elements within his nature, and both are bound to come to light in him, should he wish — as he ought — to live without self deception or self-delusion.

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung

Most of us are busier than we ought to be. At least our lives are crowded in such a way that frustration is becoming a normal and accepted mode of human experience and behavior.

Some time ago I found a new “translation” of the 23rd Psalm, called the Japanese Version, by Toki Miyashina. It helps me…and I want it to help you.

Japanese Version 23rd Psalm

“The Lord is my Pace setter, I shall not rush;

He makes me stop and rest for quiet intervals.

And His guidance is peace.

I will not fret, for His presence is here,

His all importance, will keep me in balance,

He prepares refreshments and renewal in the midst of my activity

By anointing my mind with His oils of tranquility.

My cup of joyous energy overflows,

Surely harmony and effectiveness shall be the fruit of my hours, for I shall walk in the pace of my Lord and dwell in His house forever.”

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Thought and Character

Silence is the cornerstone of Character. From the silence springs the thoughts that manifest.

The aphorism, “ As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,” not only embraces the whole of a man’s being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out into every circumstance of his or her life.  A man is literally what he thinks, the character being the complete sum of the thoughts contained.

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of thought, man holds the key to every situation or circumstance of life and contains the transforming and regenerative agency by which he or she can make of herself what she wills.

Given this truth, character is the fluid process of molding one’s individuality.  Personality is what others perceive, individuality is what you are.  We have dominion of our thoughts and therefore dominion on how we choose to think and behave.  Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state.  But then, he or she is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

James Allen

When we begin to reflect on our condition, and to search diligently for the Law upon which our being is established, we then become the wise master, directing our energy with intelligence, and fashioning the thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.  Only by much searching and mining can we become the maker of character, the molder of our life, and the builder of our destiny.

We may unerringly prove, if we will watch, control, and alter our thoughts, tracing their effects upon ourself, upon others, and upon our life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing every experience, even to the most trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of ourself, which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power.

In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute that, “He that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened;” for only by patience, practice, and careless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.

The reality is is that character and competence drive everything in human behavior.  To nurture character and competence is the most high-leverage thing we can do to create empowerment.  But competence without character doesn’t inspire trust either.  Both character and competence are necessary to inspire trust.  And both are completely within our Circle of Influence.

Character includes:

  • Integrity—the ability to walk your talk, a thorough interestedness of public, private and deep inner life around a balanced set of principles.
  • Maturity—the balance of courage and consideration that enables you to say what needs to be said, to give honest feedback, to address issues in a straightforward way, but with consideration and respect for the feelings, thoughts, and opinions of others.
  • Abundance Mentality—the paradigm that life is ever expanding, that there are an infinite number of third alternatives (in contrast to the paradigm  that life is a zero sum game, that the pie is only so large and if anyone else gets a piece, that means less for me).

Competence includes:

  • Technical Competence—the knowledge and skill to achieve the agreed-upon results, the ability to think through problems and look for new alternatives.
  • Conceptual Competence—the ability to see the big picture, to examine assumptions and shift perspectives.
  • Interdependent Competence—the ability to interact effectively with others, including the ability to listen, communicate, get to third alternatives, create win-win agreements, and work toward synergistic solutions, the ability to see and operate effectively and cooperatively in complete organizations and systems.

Character and competence are high-leverage areas of focus that make each of the other conditions possible.  The foundation is based in trust and one must be trustworthy and develop the attitudes and behaviors that instill trust in oneself and others.

Remain teachable.  Be so disciplined that the emotions of being alive, alert, awake, joyful, and enthusiastic are so evident, that we begin to demonstrate regardless of circumstances, situations, or moods.

In short, live a standard of excellence and commit to excellence.  Progress not perfection is the aim. Take responsibility for your character.

Sculptor, God, I am the stone.

Viktor Frankl

Referenced by James Allen, “As A Man Thinketh,” pages. 11-14. Stephen Covey, “First Things First,” pages, 241-242.


What is domestic violence B?

What is domestic violence B?

Domestic violence, or intimate partner violence (IPV) as it is sometimes called, is a worldwide problem. Domestic abuse includes physical, emotional and sexual violence of any form. In India, the PWDVA also includes economic abuse under the definition of domestic violence.

What is domestic violence and its examples?

direct assault on the body (choking, strangulation, shaking, eye injuries, biting, slapping, pushing, spitting, burning, punching, kicking, pulling hair) use of weapons including objects. hurting the children. locking the victim in or out of the house or rooms. forcing the victim to take drugs.

Which country has the worst domestic violence rate?

What are the statistics on domestic violence in America?

America has some pretty alarming statistics concerning intimate partner domestic violence. Here are some of those facts. Every day, there are almost 20 people a minute that are physically abused by someone close to them. That comes to about 10 million women and men a year that are victims of domestic violence.

What are the statistics on intimate partner violence?

1 Victims of intimate partner violence lose a total of 8.0 million days of paid work each year. 2 The cost of intimate partner violence exceeds $8.3 billion per year. 3 Between 21-60% of victims of intimate partner violence lose their jobs due to reasons stemming from the abuse.

When was the last update on domestic violence?

Last Update: April 19, 2021. Continuing Education Activity. Family and domestic violence is a common problem in the United States, affecting an estimated 10 million people every year; as many as one in four women and one in nine men are victims of domestic violence.

How often does a survivor of domestic violence get assaulted?

National statistics show that at least 45% of domestic violence survivors report being sexually assaulted by their abuser. When a person leaves an abusive relationship, they often have nowhere to go.


6 Leadership Best Practices to Empower Your Workforce

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Leadership is an active, continual process. While […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Leadership is an active, continual process. While certain people may be innately better at empowering and motivating others, leadership is a skill that can be developed — and one that needs thoughtful practice.

At its most fundamental level, leadership is the ability to make situations and people better. The best leaders nurture and inspire their to perform better and reach their greatest potential. They encourage everyone on their team to exercise their own voice and ideas, regardless of authority, title or position, and to become leaders themselves. If you look at the best teams across industries, they share a common attribute: The best teams are teams of leaders.

Every human is unique, with each of us having our own motivations, biases and neuroses. So it’s no surprise that people who study leadership focus on the space between those differences. They understand behavior and . The way leaders want to lead may not always work for everyone, so nuance and adaptability are key.

Here are six leadership strategies that are universal — regardless of industry or team size.

1. Lead yourself first

The first step to leadership is to first understand how you naturally lead. Are you an upbeat, outgoing that enjoys giving to keep morale high? Or are you a stoic leader who commands quality and believes praise is to be earned?

When consciously developing your leadership style, the goal should be to understand who you are and what makes you thrive. Once you understand your leadership preferences, you can correct course as needed when speaking with individuals on your team.

2. Be curious about your team

The best leaders I’ve ever known have an insatiable curiosity about the people who help grow their business. Taking a genuine interest in our staff members allows us to understand what makes them tick. How was their upbringing? What do they enjoy doing when they are not on the clock? What are some of their personal goals outside of your organization?

Try to get to know them as much as they are open to sharing. Understanding your team’s motivations allows you to adapt and flex your approach toward those motivations and give them work that helps them shine.

3. Maximize feedback to get the best results

If the goal of leadership is to make situations and people better, the tool you use is not criticism but constructive feedback. The way to deploy these tools is a critical function of motivating individuals.

Motivating others is hard to do, especially on an everyday basis. Feedback should be given through the framework of enhancing or changing behavior. If a member of a sales team soared past quarterly goals, don’t just proclaim a job well done. Provide feedback that highlights tact and expertise of craft, so they feel empowered to continue the quality output. Additionally, if a project continues to be delayed, provide direct and tangible examples of what needs work and what you’re looking for — that way there’s no discrepancy in your messaging.

4. Address dysfunction head-on

Transparency is key. Every relationship thrives with transparency, so leave nothing unspoken. Addressing workplace problems immediately and directly will show that you are committed to fostering a unified team. It’s also important to not make a team member feel like they have to defend themselves.

Remember, tact and nuance to your approach will be different from person to person, and there’s a fine line between direct and upfront and being rude. If fractured relationships don’t get mended, it can have long-term business consequences. So when an internal issue inevitably arises, address it and move on.

5. Set priorities efficiently

Focus on the long term and distribute the short-term priorities effectively. You have to continually recalibrate priorities and check in on the focus of your team. What are they spending their time on, and what are the most important tasks this week — or today? If a team member doesn’t have their priorities right, it’s our job as leaders to explain the project thoroughly and confirm that they understand the deliverables.

When reviewing priorities, start by explaining what the long-term goals are, so they can connect the dots as to why they’re doing what they’re doing. Constantly calibrate and recalibrate to ensure everyone’s on the same page.

6. Create a high-performing culture

Sustained organizational excellence is based on the habitual pattern of everyone embodying a shared and common goal. During team wide meetings, everything should point back to the mission. As , author and educator (1909–2005) once allegedly said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Yes, talent matters, but a company culture that celebrates excellence together, wins together (and stays together.) A common message will inspire everyone to row in the same direction.

Striving for excellence in any field has a set of foundational routines and behaviors, and leadership is no different. Being the best leader for your team takes conscious intention and habitual practice.

Leadership in 2021 looks very different than it did at the beginning of 2020. As much as we are still responsible for business results, we are now more than ever also responsible for the mental and physical well-being of the people we employ — and rightfully so.

The original article can be found at: Entrepreneur.com


What does plain sailing mean?

What is the meaning of plane sailing?

1 : the navigation or conducting of a ship by neglecting the earth’s curvature and considering the earth or a part of it as a plane.

What is plain sail?

: the ordinary working canvas of a sailing ship usually including topgallant sails, royals, and a flying jib.

How do you use plain sailing?

If you say that a task was not all plain sailing, you mean that it was not very easy. Pregnancy wasn’t all plain sailing and once again there were problems. We know it won’t be plain sailing because there are no easy games at this level.

Should plains be sailing?

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be plain sailingto be very easy to do or achieve If you can answer the first question, the rest of the test should be plain sailing.

What is middle latitude sailing?

[′mid·əl ¦lad·ə‚tüd ‚sāl·iŋ] (navigation) A method of converting departure into difference of longitude, or vice versa, when the true course is not 090° or 270° by assuming that such a course is steered at the middle latitude.

What do you mean by painless?

1 : not experiencing pain. 2 : not causing pain : not accompanied by pain : not painful painless surgery. Other Words from painless. painlessly adverb.

What does rock your boat mean?

See synonyms for rock the boat on Thesaurus.com. Disturb a stable situation, as in An easygoing manager, he won’t rock the boat unless it’s absolutely necessary. This idiom alludes to capsizing a small vessel, such as a canoe, by moving about in it too violently. [

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What are meridional parts?

: the linear length of one minute of longitude on a Mercator chart.


The 19.628 Law: Chile's Take on Personal Data Protection

Our last stop in our data protection laws series takes us south to uncover a key law in one of the capitals of innovation of the southern hemisphere: Chile. See how it compares to the likes of GDPR, and how to comply with it properly.

May 16, 2019

To crown the series of articles covering data legislations, we had to take it back to our home country, Chile! As one of the summits of innovation in the southern hemisphere, it's no wonder the Latin American country has an active data treatment law: The 19.628 Law.

This legislation covers the treatment of personal data in registries or data banks. By that we mean any procedure or array of operations -automatized or not- that collect, store, write, organize, elaborate, select, extract, confront, connect, communicate, loan, transfer, transmit, OR cancel personal data in any way.

The 19.628 Law at its Core

When it comes to the treatment of personal data, this law demands that it is approved by law, or by written and explicit consent of the rightful owner of the data. Like we've seen in GDPR, the 19.628 law also requires full disclosure of the data's purpose and disclosure prior to the collection.

However, there are still some considerations to be taken. For example, data that comes from public access resources doesn't demand consent. Furthermore, the law also considers that when the data and its usage 'expires', it should be eliminated, modified, or blocked without consent.

What Rights Do the People Have?

People, or the data's rightful owners, have the right to request all information related to them, as well as the origin of the collection, and the purpose or destination of the data.

As well as:

  • Requesting de modification of data that isn't accurate.
  • Demanding the deletion of the data when there its storage isn't legally bound or has expired.
  • Taking their consent back and soliciting the deletion or blocking of data provided previously.

Overall, they are quite similar to the standard set by GDPR and followed by the likes of CalOPPA. These requests should be free for the person requesting them and should come with a copy of the changed registry.

This is a right and it can't be limited by convention, unless it interferes the proper functioning of a public organization's audit procedures, or signifies the disclosure of legally established secrets, as well as any conflict it could generate with the State's security/interests.

The Data Regulator's Responsibilities

The organization in charge of these data banks has a two-day time frame to deliver any request demanded by users. Once that time expires, the user can take legal actions through its assigned judge. This right also applies to a negative by the regulator due to national security concerns.

If the judge does fail in favor of the person related to the data, he or she will set a fixed time-frame of delivery and, if applicable, can impose a fine that varies between 1 to 10 UTM, or 10 to 50 UTM (or Monthly Tax Unit) when commercial, economic, or financial information is disclosed without legal approval.

What's more, the law considers that the data regulator must compensate the user for the moral or patrimonial harms it could have caused when disclosing any personal information.

How Does it Apply to Public Organisms?

Finally, when it comes to public organisms, the Chilean law establishes that these institutions can only process personal data that's directly related to their trade. In this case, no consent is required.

The Identification and Civil Registration Service is in charge of regulating and having registry of all data banks in public organizations of a public manner. In it, they must detail its legal purpose and basis of existence, type of data, and the type of people it includes.

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If you’ve realized that your AV software is blocking specified websites, you may want to look into disabling this feature or changing your settings. You are able to unblock a website through the settings menu of Avast, which you can gain access to from the Programs and Features menu. For anyone who is www.virusstar.net/vpn-360-review/ uncertain which setting to change, examine the Troubleshoot tabs to see if Avast is obstructing specific websites.

Avast’s hindering feature can often be the cause of this problem. You can turn it off by un-checking every boxes under World wide web shield. This will stop the program from preventing any websites it sees suspicious or harmful. Some other solution to disable this feature is to create your PC’s desktop firewall to block access to all websites. This will stop unauthorized use of your personal information. While you’re for it, you should also turn off Web face shield to protect your privacy.

When you have tried the prior steps without success, the first thing you should try is to reboot your computer your computer. Occasionally Avast obstructions trusted websites but permits other websites to load. In case the issue remains, you should personally access these websites and test them. You may need to reboot your computer if Avast is hindering them. If you’ve tried out all these guidelines and still cannot access the website, try a several web browser.

In the event the site prevent is consistent, you may want to turn off the web face shield for a while. This can be done by navigating to the AV-protection menu in the top correct corner of the screen. Click the « Configuration » menu. After that, in the « Exceptions » section, choose « Add Different.  » After that, you can visit the blocked internet site and continue your browsing. It’s that simple!

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Cybersecurity is a component of information security, cybersecurity deals with the protection of digital assets and cybersecurity should align with enterprise information security objectives.

One of the best cybersecurity solutions to implement to reduce the risk of web-based attacks is a web filter. There should be a process to formally consider and estimate potential expenses associated with cybersecurity incidents as part of the budgeting process. And also, forensic analysis means the practice of gathering, retaining, and analyzing computer-related data for investigative purposes in a manner that maintains the integrity of the data.

Advanced Services

Employees in your organization interact with third-party websites and services all the time. With the core cybersecurity architecture strategies of speed, integration, and automation, enabled by risk-based decision engines, and advanced analytics, you can achieve intent-based cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity will also seek to ensure timely access to – and use of -reliable data for decision making and give users more mobile solutions that can be accessed anywhere and anytime. When a cybersecurity incident occurs, your organization is required to take action immediately to mitigate threats to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information assets.

Critical Systems

To keep critical systems running and protect the financial results and reputation of your organization, it is essential to also improve industrial cybersecurity and operational visibilit. Conduct a thorough inventory of your enterprise data and systems to understand where all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) resides, as well as how it flows throughout your entire organization.

In a comprehensive cybersecurity plan, the attack radius extends to any system with sensitive data as well as the people who could access those systems.

Digital Twin

Digital twin refers to a digital replica of potential and actual physical assets, processes, people, places, systems and devices that can be used for various purposes. Cybersecurity solutions provide efficient and timely security insights by utilizing AI, machine learning and skilled professionals for efficient and effective responses to cyber incidents. Through machine learning, with each plan executed, your tool should grow smarter, making future suggestions even more accurate and highly attuned to team preferences.

You need to bring innovation, intelligence and deep industry experience together with leading technologies from your ecosystem partners to help you reinvent your business as an intelligent enterprise – and innovate at scale, across your organization.

Difficult Technology

It may be difficult to figure out where and how artificial intelligence (AI) and the various sub-types (machine learning, deep learning, etc.) fit into your world. As you move into the future, the vision must express a clear view as to the direction relevant digital technology is trending and how it can elevate what the organization does best – the differentiating core competencies that deliver unique customer experiences.


Where is Netflix’s Junior Baking Show Filmed?

The surge in baking or cooking competitions has been quite significant throughout the last few years. One such popular show that has been long-running is Netflix’s ‘Junior Baking Show’ (originally titled ‘Junior Bake Off’). The spin-off of ‘The Great British Bake Off‘ is a British baking competition that brings together several young bakers between the ages of 9 to 15 years who must compete against one another in different challenges. To win the competition and become the ‘Junior Bake Off’ champion, the contestants are to go through some baking challenges such as baking cakes, biscuits, pastries, and bread.

The young bakers are sometimes provided with recipes but can also be asked to bake something entirely original. The competitive format of the show is bound to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats and root for their favorite young baker. In addition, what makes one curious is the picturesque and open locations where the contestants indulge in baking throughout the competition. Well, if you are one such curious soul, we have got you covered!

Junior Baking Show Filming Locations

‘Junior Baking Show’ is filmed in England, particularly in Kent. Unlike the original series, certain things must be kept in mind for the production of this baking show as school-going kids are involved. Thus, to ensure the contestants don’t miss out on their school, filming for the series usually takes place for 2-3 weeks over the summer holidays, specifically between June and September.

However, this changed for the shooting of season 7 as, for the first time, it took place over six weeks, from July 2021 to August of the same year. England is home to many picturesque halls and palaces with numerous open spaces and gardens, making it an ideal lensing site for reality shows such as ‘Junior Baking Show.’ Now, let’s take a look at all the specific locations where the young bakers create culinary delights, shall we?

Kent, England

Most of the pivotal scenes for ‘Junior Baking Show’ are recorded across Kent, a county in South East England and one of the home counties. Several seasons of the cooking show are taped on location on the campus of Cobham Hall School. Located on Brewers Road, Gravesend in Kent, the production team sets up camp outside the main building and builds a tent where the contestants bake off. Established in 1962, it is a private boarding school for girls spread across 150 acres of the ancient estate.

Interestingly, things changed quite drastically during the production of the seventh season of ‘Junior Baking Show.’ Apart from the extended filming period, as mentioned above, there was a change in scenery, too, as the cast and crew utilized the campus of Benenden School for shooting purposes. Located in Hemsted Park in Benenden, between Cranbrook and Tenterden, it is an independent boarding school for girls that occupies a Victorian country house, stretching over 250 acres of gardens and woodland.

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Immigrants & Mental Health

This newsletter is made possible with the support of the American Diversity Group (ADG), based in Maryland. ADG is organized to bring together a diverse group of people to build and sustain a healthy community and enrich lives. Contact the ADG by visiting their website.

I am an immigrant to the United States. I legally immigrated here in my late teens. Despite my legal status and U.S. citizenship, I have experienced many negative stressors that new and established immigrants face in society. In their Resolution on Immigrant Children, Youth, and Their Families (2008), the American Psychological Association (APA) informs us that immigrants to the United States experience unique stresses, prejudice, and poverty and can be considered at-risk subpopulations for health-related, emotional, and behavioral problems.

The concept of immigration can be divided into before, during, and after migration steps. The good and bad experiences at each stage of the immigration process contribute to their mental health status. I shall break down concepts and elaborate on their actual implications in future newsletters. However, for now, here are some of my broad findings on the topic. The main points for us to consider in this introductory newsletter are as follows:

Cultural Considerations

Most immigrants face linguistic and cultural differences in their new homeland. Regardless of their education levels or how well they might speak English, problems with usage differences, accents, and slang hinder communication. If the immigrant does not speak English, the issues are exponentially magnified as they become entirely dependent on strangers' assistance and ability to react to the immigrants' articulated needs. The culture of the erstwhile home country, societal mores, and taboos inform the immigrant's behaviors, attitudes, differences in dress codes, attitudes toward others, and the ability to establish trust with the local population. An outward lack of assimilation accentuates immigrants' anxieties about finding jobs, relationships, friendships, jobs, and general societal acceptance. The amount of flexibility the immigrant demonstrates in dealing with these problems affects their mental state:

  • Suppose the immigrant is too lax and accepting of the new society. In that case, they might feel guilty about estranging everything they held dear before.

  • Supposing the immigrant is too traditional, they might feel highly stressed when faced with events they observe daily and might deem inappropriate, immoral, or even illegal.

Support Structures

Regardless of the immigrants' cultural adherence, if they have dedicated support upon their arrival into the country and beyond, it would make a significant difference in their lives. They would have someone dedicated to guiding them through their new reality to lessen the shocks they experience adjusting to a new life in a new country. Depending on the pre-immigration circumstances, the ideal support structure may consist of extended family, friends, or community organizations such as the American Diversity Group (ADG). The critical factors in the type of support structure best suited for the immigrant are this:

  • Are the people involved genuinely concerned for the immigrant's well-being?

  • Are they capable of providing the various kinds of assistance the immigrant might need, including mental and physical health, food, shelter, societal integration, etc.?

Racism & Radicalization

There always has been an intense dislike of non-White immigrants simmering deep within the local communities in the United States. Racism (individual and institutional), nationalism, intolerance, and religious mandates focused on non-Christian immigrants have been routine if somewhat hidden in the societal configurations. I have repeatedly experienced most of these personally in my stay here in the United States. Since around 2015, these retrograde forces have emerged and started radicalizing society very publicly.

Today, the push-back we face as immigrants who cannot blend in with the majority population due to our skin color and culture is even worse. As recently as some months to a few years ago, I have been told to "go back to my country" by my students, scolded for entering my own office building, not by the security guards, mind you, but by someone who worked in my office, and yelled at for not being Christian by total strangers. The APA states that "the experience of immigration has immediate implications for the psychological and social well-being of individuals and families which are especially intense for children, people of color," and all other categories that differentiate them from the population. This radicalization has affected individuals and entire institutions in education, law enforcement, medicine, etc. The constant stress of living with this burden is a critical contributor to the rise in mental health problems among immigrants, people of color, and other minorities.

As immigrants, we face unique circumstances that make safeguarding our mental well-being more complicated. Therefore, we must mitigate all possible mental health risk factors to the best of our abilities. We must acknowledge the problem, accept any treatment if necessary, and establish a strong foundation for our families and children to prosper. Our incredible cultures, the advice of our respected elders, and even our instincts sometimes tell us to hide our mental problems from society to appear "normal" and continue to suffer in silence. We should remember, however, that times have changed. It is not considered shameful to ask for mental health help here in the United States. Groups such as ADG stand ready to assist in ensuring a better future for you and your loved ones.

We need to recognize that the best way to maintain our proud cultural and family traditions here in a new country is by being fully contributing members of society. Proudly represent yourself in the community without feeling shame about being different. Remember that these differences are not a curse... they allow us to maintain our individuality proudly. Finally, let us be thankful that, as immigrant brothers and sisters, we are fortunate to celebrate our differences together in the great United States of America.

The author, Ruchir Bakshi, is a combat veteran. He maintains a personal newsletter about his own mental health struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Please read and subscribe.

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Humanizing digital channels is all about empathy

The key is putting the customer first: Know what they need, what they are trying to achieve and how you can best help them.

Customer experience in banking has changed. While digital capabilities and new apps have made banking more accessible, visiting branches remains important for many customers. With these dynamics, understanding today’s customer has become complex and requires banks to rethink their operating model.

While some may see this as more work, it’s really more of a change in priorities—an opportunity to differentiate the bank’s brand. The best way to do this is to put the customer first: Know what customers need, what they are trying to achieve and how you can best help them.

It’s about empathy.

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Putting the customer first doesn’t mean your bank needs to dramatically change or compromise current operations. You can strike a successful, profitable balance. Financial services organizations can maintain their emotional connections with customers and deepen their customer relationships. Empathetic customer service in both human and digital channels is a critical differentiator in a time of growing faceless automation and commoditization in the banking industry.

While personalized empathetic customer service has traditionally been delivered face to face, digital transformation has accelerated the opportunity for banks and financial institutions to deliver empathy in digital channels as well. Advanced technologies like the cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning help deliver a sensitive and seamless customer experience across all channels.

Enabling fluid customer conversations across channels allows bankers to anticipate customer needs and desires. Regardless of channel, customer-centric banking translates to trust, a financial services organization’s most valuable asset.

Here are four steps to create empathy through your digital channel:

Listen: To stay competitive, financial services organizations must capture and analyze their customer interactions to gain a 360-degree view of the customer. Collecting and collating data across all interaction channels will help banks understand who customers are, where they’ve been and what’s happening to them now. AI captures data across all channels, so banks can pick up cues and intents in real time. This results in better self-service experiences, reduced handling times, increased outbound connection rates and higher customer satisfaction.

Understand and predict: Banks can transform the data collated and collected across their organizations into meaningful information. These insights from customer care, marketing and sales departments can be used to segment and cluster customer data and enrich it with AI to understand intent, predict outcomes and recommend next steps. Banks must leverage data to deliver seamless experiences, breaking down silos among ATMs, branches, mobile apps and online banking.

Act: Banks need to engage at the moment of truth, in the right way, with the right context. They need to be able to route engagements across any channel to the best resource for the situation—whether that is a self-service tool, a bot or an employee. When it comes to branch and remote bankers, this means surfacing dynamic knowledge as the conversation unfolds to help employees confidently guide customers to a resolution.

Learn: The last step is to capture and monitor the outcomes of interactions for continuous improvement. Understand where customer service is failing to add business value and determine how to correct course to deliver authentic experiences. This is done by capturing customer sentiment and feedback at varying levels, both during interactions and after. Banks can stay in control of processes such as customer onboarding, mortgage applications and account opening.

With a sense of empathy and purpose at each step in the customer’s preferred channel, a bank is more efficient, and the customer is more satisfied. The benefits of operational efficiency and customer satisfaction accrue to the bottom line.

Financial services organizations that seamlessly connect the dots along the customer journey and communicate with customers in a consistent and compassionate voice across channels will have a significant competitive business advantage.

Benoit Malherbe is an industry executive with the banking practice at Genesys.

Find valuable insights for banks and credit unions as they adapt their customer-service strategy across ever-evolving channels in the BAI Executive Report, “Changing priorities in bank customer service”


The Goal Of College Professors

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The goal of college professors is to prepare students for life after college. Teachers commonly rely on presentations to teach students communication skills, but that is not enough because it only teaches an individual to speak in front of a group. Interpersonal skills are a required skill set to have an effective conversation with another individual, which makes interpersonal skills extremely important in the Business community. Interpersonal skills are important in the business community because an individual must be able to communicate effectively with their colleagues, and the ability to actively listen to clients. Teachers fail to teach interpersonal skills because it is taught by doing, not seeing. The only way students are able to…show more content…
Chris Cotter says that active listening is a complicated skill to learn because it requires an individual to be mentally engaged to the speaker’s tone of voice, and body language (Cotter). In other words, students need to be aware of both verbal and non-verbal messages. Louise Rehling says an effective means to start actively listening to focus on a what a group member is communicating, instead of thinking of a response at the same time. When a disagreement occurs in the group, members are expected to watch for body language and other cues to fully understand their group member thought process, instead of deeming them unhelpful for the group (482). When individuals feel that their voice is being heard then a trust among group members is strengthened and the quality of assignment is improved, thus listening skills is an important skill taught in group work. In the present day, a majority of companies want to create a relationship with their consumer. Employees that are able to actively listen to clients are better adept to understand the client and change the way they are communicating with the client.
Verbal communication skills are an important part of cooperative learning because it creates a sense of trust among group members. A typical response by students when the announcement of a group project is to occur a moan, whether it be internal or external, is let out. According to Daniel Levi, the reason
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Briteney was recommended to me by a mutual friend when I was arrested for a DUI. She made time for me right away for a consultation where I found her empathetic, understanding and incredibly helpful when it came to letting me know my options. She gave me all of the facts, gave advice when she could and answered my millions of questions as this was my first offense.

After leaving her office, I felt a lot better having her by my legal side. She provided me with a clear list of action items and dates to get them done. When I sent emails with questions or updates during the process, Briteney always responded in a timely manner.

Once the court proceedings began, I was nervous and out of my element. Briteney was as soothing as possible for those surroundings and would find moments to lighten the mood when it was just us yet she was always a true professional. She interacted very well with the judge and other lawyers in the courtroom.

At my hearing Briteney truly showed up and showed all her potential in the courtroom. She was a force to be reckoned with! She was knowledgeable, she was quick to make arguments in response to the prosecution and she went in there with a focused determination. Her preparation for the hearing, her performance and her demeanor was superb and I really can't recommend her enough to anyone unlucky enough to find themselves in this situation. I ended up with a favorable deal and I know that wouldn't have happened without Briteney's help. Do yourself a favor and hire Briteney, she's worth every penny. Thank you again Briteney!

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"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama.
This is the post that made me think about putting this book together. It adorned my classroom door, whiteboard and any other space I could place it. The message is simple but so, so powerful for me. Wise words indeed by the Dalai Lama. This then got me thinking, if I could write a letter to myself in my teens what would I put in it? What would I tell my former self to do and what to avoid?


No, thank you

Fridge-size asteroid snuck up on Earth by hiding behind the sun

It posed no danger, but was the third-closest fly-by of our planet.

The inner solar system is filled with space boulders that probably broke off of bigger bodies at some point.

A sneaky space rock sped by Antarctica on Sunday without any advance warning and narrowly avoided being fully incinerated by Earth's atmosphere.

Asteroid 2021 UA1 goes down as the third-closest fly-by of our planet by a near-Earth object that didn't end in an impact. The cosmic boulder is estimated to be about two meters (6.6 feet) in diameter, the size of a large appliance or a golf cart. Had it actually hit our planet, the vast majority of it would almost certainly have burned up in the atmosphere.

For comparison, the bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013, blowing out thousands of windows in the city of Chelyabinsk, was probably at least 20 times bigger, and only a small boulder survived to impact the surface in that instance.

Instead, 2021 UA1 passed over Antarctica on Sunday evening Pacific time at an altitude of about 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers). That's higher than where the International Space Station orbits but significantly closer than the ring of large communications satellites in geostationary orbit. Asteroid 2020 QG passed just a little bit closer in August 2020, but the closest approach ever recorded in which the asteroid escaped unscathed came last November when 2020 VT4 flew overhead at nearly the same altitude as the ISS (around 250 miles or 400 kilometers up).

2021 UA approached us from the direction of the sun -- just like the Chelyabinsk bolide, which was undetected before impact -- making it impossible for astronomers to spot ahead of time. Upcoming missions like NASA's NEO Surveyor are designed to eliminate this blind spot

The fact that the three closest passes ever observed have all come in the last 18 months isn't anything to lose sleep over. It doesn't mean asteroids are swarming Earth; actually, it reflects improvements in sky surveying technology and astronomers' ability to spot and track more near-Earth objects. If anything, more known asteroids should allow us to rest easier at night.


A California Court of Appeal panel recently issued a lengthy decision in Sarti v. Salt Creek Ltd. (2008 WL 5006537)  reversing a trial court’s grant of judgment notwithstanding the verdict  (JNOV) in a food-borne illness case involving campylobacter. Sarti is alarming. The California court substantially lightened the plaintiff’s burden of proof by requiring her to come forth with only enough evidence to “infer” a causational nexus between her illness and the defendant’s food. Close examination of the facts in Sarti reveals that the plaintiff in that case may not have proven anything to establish a causational nexus.

Sarti involves a woman who allegedly became ill with campylobacter the morning after she consumed a raw ahi tuna appetizer at the defendant’s restaurant. According to the Cleveland Clinic, campylobacter has a two- to five-day incubation period. The court does not explain in its decision what, if any, expert testimony was introduced to explain how the incubation period was compatible with the plaintiff’s allegations. Without expert testimony explaining away the apparent insurmountable problem of the incubation period, plaintiff’s case should fail as a matter of law. In other words, the plaintiff’s case should never have survived summary judgment.

Not only does the incubation period make the plaintiff’s claim problematic, but other sources of contamination were identified. For example, the court explained that “Sarti herself worked as a supermarket checker the day she became ill, and could, at least in theory, have picked up campylobacter from a leaking bag of raw chicken she might have scanned.”

The plaintiff’s expert offered some theories about how the tuna dish could have become cross-contaminated. According to the health department, “Wipe down rags were not being sanitized between in wiping down surfaces. There was also an insufficient amount of sanitizer in the dishwasher. Chicken tongs were sometimes uses for other food. Raw vegetables were stored under ‘raw meat.’”

The Sarti decision does not indicate whether the plaintiff’s expert could identify any of these theories as more or less likely than sources having nothing to do with the defendant’s restaurant (and, in fact, given the incompatibility of the incubation period, one would think that the defendant’s restaurant should be discounted as the cause). The court does not explain how a reasonable jury could conclude that the plaintiff’s cross-contamination theories were any more likely than the alternative theories for the plaintiff’s illness.

Instead of citing evidence or expert testimony, the Sarti court relies upon a series of food-borne illness cases in California going back nearly a century that address issues of causation. All of the cases relied upon predate DNA serotyping of bacteria, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, modern techniques of epidemiology, microbiology and medicine. Sarti is seemingly a reversion to the dark ages of food science when it was reasonable to believe that the last thing a person ate is what made the person sick. The Sarti court ignores the science and believes that a jury should be able to do the same.


.270 Winchester vs .30 M1 Carbine Ammo Comparison - Ballistics Info & – Foundry Outdoors
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.270 Winchester vs .30 M1 Carbine Ammo Comparison - Ballistics Info & Chart

The following ammunition cartridge ballistics information and chart can be used to approximately compare .270 Winchester vs .30 M1 Carbine ammo rounds. Please note, the following information reflects the estimated average ballistics for each caliber and does not pertain to a particular manufacturer, bullet weight, or jacketing type. As such, the following is for comparative information purposes only and should not be used to make precise predictions of the trajectory, performance, or true ballistics of any particular .270 Winchester or .30 M1 Carbine rounds for hunting, target shooting, plinking, or any other usage. The decision for which round is better for a given application should be made with complete information, and this article simply serves as a comparative guide, not the final say.

For more detailed ballistics information please refer to the exact round in question or contact the manufacturer for the pertinent information. True .270 Winchester and .30 M1 Carbine ballistics information can vary widely from the displayed information, and it is important to understand that the particular characteristics of a given round can make a substantive difference in its true performance.

Caliber Type Velocity
.270 Winchester Rifle 3060 2700
.30 M1 Carbine Rifle 1990 960

As illustrated in the chart, .270 Winchester rounds - on average - achieve a velocity of about 3060 feet per second (fps) while .30 M1 Carbine rounds travel at a velocity of 1990 fps. To put this into perspective, a Boeing 737 commercial airliner travels at a cruising speed of 600 mph, or 880 fps. That is to say, .270 Winchester bullets travel 3.5 times the speed of a 737 airplane at cruising speed, while .30 M1 Carbine bullets travel 2.3 times that same speed.

Various calibers

Furthermore, the muzzle energy of a .270 Winchester round averages out to 3780 ft-lb, while a .30 M1 Carbine round averages out to about 960 ft-lb. One way to think about this is as such: a foot-pound is a unit of energy equal to the amount of energy required to raise a weight of one pound a distance of one foot. So a .270 Winchester round exits the barrel with kinetic energy equal to the energy required for linear vertical displacement of 2700 pounds through a one foot distance, while a .30 M1 Carbine round exiting the barrel has energy equal to the amount required to displace 960 pounds over the same one foot distance. As a rule of thumb, when it comes to hunting, muzzle energy is what many hunters look at when deciding on what caliber of firearm / ammunition to select. Generally speaking, the higher the muzzle energy, the higher the stopping power.

Again, the above is for comparative information purposes only, and you should consult the exact ballistics for the particular .270 Winchester or .30 M1 Carbine cartridge you're looking at purchasing.

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If you’ve been following academic and media discussion of medtech innovation over the past year, you’ll likely have detected mounting excitement about the concept of theragnosis.  A portmanteau of the words ‘therapy’ and ‘diagnosis’, theragnosis is a recently-emerged field focusing on the combined execution of diagnostic tests and targeted therapy on a patient.

Theragnosis is typically carried out through some sort of wearable device that is able to diagnose a condition in the patient, monitor the state of that condition, and automatically dispense medication at the required dosage in real time.  For instance, advances in theragnostic research have led to the development of a contact lens-style wearable device that can measure an individual’s blood sugar levels and dispense insulin as required.  Such a hybrid approach allows the condition of a patient to be monitored and autonomously remedied, eliminating the need for a doctor or nurse to carry out these tasks.

For patent attorneys, these ‘theragnostic’ techniques are particularly interesting because they bridge two technical fields which are constrained by certain patentability limitations under the European Patent Convention.  In particular, the EPC excludes the possibility of securing patent protection for “methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body” (Article 53 EPC).

This exclusion was written into the law so as to ensure that medical and veterinary practitioners are not inhibited in their diagnosis or treatment of patients by fears that their actions may put them in breach of somebody else’s intellectual property rights.  In respect of diagnostic methods in particular, the European Patent Office’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has stated that the aim is for medical and veterinary practitioners to be “free to take the actions they consider suited to diagnose illness by means of investigative methods”.

So how are theragnosis innovators to protect their work? Luckily, Article 53 EPC does clarify that the exclusion of patents for methods of diagnosis or therapy does not extend to the devices used to execute those methods – “this provision shall not apply to products, in particular substances or compositions, for use in any of these methods”.  Theragnostic devices are therefore protectable under the EPC and we are likely to see a rise in numbers of patent applications for such devices.

However, a literal application of Article 53 EPC would exclude patentability of theragnostic methods.  A patent directed to a device is not necessarily as valuable if the hardware is all that can be protected and a third party can use the same method to the same effect using a different device.  This does point to a possible need to revisit Article 53 EPC and the motives for the legal exclusion if innovators are to be encouraged to patent – and therefore disclose – their theragnosis inventions, rather than keeping them secret.

As noted above, Article 53 EPC was drafted with human practitioners in mind, not computers or algorithms.  But as more and more processes become automated through the use of autonomous devices such as theragnosis devices, it’s quite possible that the need to ensure that human practitioners are not inhibited by patents and remain free to take the course of action they deem best will become outdated, and that much less consideration of the state of mind of that human practitioner will need to be given in the drafting of future patent frameworks.  And it’s not just theragnosis innovators who would stand to benefit from changes to the patent framework in light of the increasingly widespread automation of medical processes.  As my colleague Mark Aldred has written, machine learning is set to be at the heart of much medtech innovation in the future.  With the medical technology sector transforming so rapidly, could we see in the near future a revised framework for the subject-matter exclusions?

If you have any questions on this article, get in touch with Alan Murphy, via alan.murphy@gje.com.