By Kacey Deamer A train that doesn't run on physical tracks and that has no driver could soon carry commuters in China, according to news reports. The new Autonomous Rail Transit (ART) combines bus and train transportation systems, reported Xinhua News. Like a subway train but on the street, the ART uses sensors to detect road dimensions and is guided by autonomous driving technology developed by Chinese rail-maker CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive. This technology enables the vehicle to follow routes without needing rails Feng Jianghua, chief engineer for the project, told Xinhua. CRRC unveiled the ART on June 2 in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province. The transit system is intended to speed up the city's public transportation. A three-carriage ART is more than 30 meters long and can carry up to 307 passengers, reported People's Daily. The transit system can reach a top speed of 70 km/h and can travel more than 25 km after just 10 minutes of charging. The ART has been in development since 2013, and CRRC plans to deploy the system in 2018.
GEDAGTE VIR DIE NAWEEK VOLG…. Ons het huis toe gehardloop om vir Mamma en Darlene te gaan wys. Ons het nog nooit voorheen soveel geld gehad nie. Daardie nag kon ons byna nie slaap nie, so opgewonde was ons. Dit het ons nie gehinder dat ons nie nuwe klere vir Paasfees kon kry nie, want ons het R70 vir die spesiale offergawe gehad. Ons kon nie wag om kerk toe te gaan nie. Daardie Sondag het die behoorlik gereën. Ons het nie 'n sambreel besit nie, maar het ook nie omgegee hoe nat ons word nie. Selfs Darlene se voete het papnat geword omdat haar skoene al stukkend was. Ons het trots in die kerk gesit. Ek het gehoor dat van die ander tieners iets fluister oor die Smithdogters wat weer hul ou rokke aan het. Ek het na hulle in hulle nuwe rokke gekyk en baie ryk gevoel. Toe die kollekte opgeneem word, het Mamma die R10-noot ingegooi en ons kinders elkeen R20. Op pad huis toe het ons gesing. Middagete het Mamma ons verras. Sy het 'n dosyn eiers gekoop en ons kon Paaseiers saam met ons aartappels eet. Laat daardie middag het die dominee voor ons huis gestop. Mamma het die deur oopgemaak, 'n oomblik met hom gepraat en toe teruggekom met 'n koevert in haar hand. Ons het gevra wat dit was, maar sy het niks gesê nie. Sy het die koevert oopgemaak. Toe val daar 'n klomp geld uit… drie nuwe R20-note, een R10 en sewentien R1’e. Mamma het die geld teruggesit in die koevert en niemand het 'n woord gesê nie. Ons het almal net na die vloer gesit en staar. Waar ons 'n oomblik gelede nog soos miljoeners gevoel het, het ons nou arm en waardeloos gevoel. Ons het so 'n gelukkige lewe gehad dat ons almal jammer gekry het wat nie ‘n pa en ma gehad het nie, of 'n huis vol boeties, sussies en vriende wat gedurig kom kuier het nie. Ons het gedink dit is pret om eetgerei te deel en altyd te wonder wat jy vanaand gaan kry: die vurk of die lepel? Ons het twee messe gehad wat ons rondgestuur het vir wie dit ook al nodig gehad het. Ons het geweet dat ons baie van dit wat ander mense het, nie het nie, maar ons het nooit gedink ons is arm nie.
Deur Gretha Wiid Die ryk familie in ons gemeente Ek sal 1946 se Paastyd nie vergeet nie. Ek was 14, Ocy 12 en Darlene 16. Ons drie het saam met Mamma gebly en het geweet wat dit beteken om sonder baie dinge klaar te kom. My pa is vyf jaar tevore dood en het my ma met sewe kinders, sonder enige geld, agtergelaat. Teen 1946 was die oudste vier kinders reeds uit die huis. 'n Maand voor Paasfees het die dominees aangekondig dat daar op Paasfees 'n spesiale kollekte opgeneem sou word om 'n arm gesin te help. Hy het almal gevra om geld te spaar, werklik 'n offer te bring en ruim by te dra. Terug by die huis het ons dadelik gesels oor wat ons kan doen. Ons het besluit om 50 pond (ongeveer 23kg) aartappels te koop en vir die hele maand daarop te lewe. Op die manier kon ons R20 op ons kruideniersbegroting spaar om by te dra. Ons het ook besluit om so min as moonlik elektrisiteit te gebruik om nog meer te spaar. Ons het mense se huise en agterplase skoongemaak en elke geleentheid om kinders op te pas, aangegryp. Met elke 15 sent wat ons gekry het, het ons genoeg wol gekoop om drie vatlappe te brei wat ons dan weer vir R1 verkoop het. Op die manier het ons nóg R20 bymekaar gemaak. Die maand was een van die bestes in ons lewe. Ons het elke dag die geld getel om te sien hoeveel ons al gespaar het. Saans het ons in die donker gesit en gesels oor hoe die arm gesin die geld wat die kerk aan hulle gaan gee, sal geniet. Aangesien daar ongeveer 80 mense in die kerk was, het ons uitgewerk dat die gemeente ten minste 20 keer meer kan gee as wat ons eie bydrae is. Na alles het die dominee die gemeente elke Sondag aan die spesiale bydrae herinner. Die dag voor Paasfees het ek en my sussie na die kruidenierswinkel gegaan en al ons kleingeld omgeruil vir drie nuwe R20-note en een R10 noot.
Maar daardie Paasfees het ons uitgevind dat ons wel arm is. Die dominee het immers die geld wat vir die arm gesin ingesamel is, vir ons gebring. So, ons moet dan arm wees! Ek het niks daarvan gehou om arm te wees nie. Ek het na my rok en verslete skoene gekyk en was so skaam dat ek nie weer kerk toe wou gaan nie. Almal het blykbaar lankal geweet dat ons arm is. Op skool was ek in graad 9 en het eerste gestaan uit meer as 'n 100 kinders. Ek het gewonder of dié kinders ook weet dat ons arm is. Ek het besluit om skool te los, aangesien ek reeds graad 8 geslaag het en dit was al wat die wet destyds vereis het. Ons het lank in stilte gesit. Later het ons gaan slaap. Gedurende die week het ons min gepraat. Saterdag het Mamma die stilte verbreek en gevra wat ons met die geld wil doen. Ons het gewonder. Wat doen arm mense met geld? Ons het nie geweet nie, want ons het nie geweet dat ons arm is nie. Ons wou nie Sondag teruggaan kerk toe nie, maar Mamma het gese ons moet. Al was dit 'n lekker sonskyndag, het niemand op pad kerk toe gepraat nie. Mamma het 'n lied begin sing, maar niemand het saamgesing nie. By die kerk het 'n sendeling gepraat. Hy het vertel hoe mense in Afrika kerke bou met songedroogde kleistene, maar dat hulle geld benodig om die dakke op te sit. Hy het gesê dat R100 genoeg is vir een kerk se dak. Die dominee het gevra: Kan ons nie almal 'n offer bring om die arm mense te help nie? Ons het na mekaar gekyk en vir die eerste keer daardie week geglimlag. Mamma het haar hand in haar handsak gesteek en die koevert uitgehaal. Ons het dit aangestuur na Ocy en sy het dit in die kollektebordjie gegooi. Nadat die geld getel is, het die dominee aangekondig dat die bydrae net oor die R100 was. Die sendeling was baie opgewonde. Hy het nie so 'n ruim bydrae van ons klein gemeentetjie verwag nie. Hy het gesê: Julle moet beslis ryk mense in julle gemeente hê. Toe tref dit ons. Ons het R87 van die net meer as R100 gegee… so ons is die ryk familie in die gemeente. Het die sendeling nie self so gesê nie? Van daardie dag af was ek nooit weer arm nie… en ek onthou altyd hoe ryk ek is omdat ek Jesus het!
Consider your spirits lifted after you take one look at these precious photos. BY MARISSA LALIBERTE Back in 2005, Derrick Campana was making prosthetics for humans when a unique customer came in: A vet asked the team to make a device for her dog. Campana’s boss was supposed to take on the furry client, but he happened to quit that day. Campana had never made an animal prosthetic before but was up for the challenge. The procedure was successful, and the vet mentioned there were tons of other dogs out there in need of prosthetics, but no one was filling that need. “A lightbulb went off and I thought of the business,” says Campana, who some call a “modern Dr. Dolittle.” Since then, he’s been building prosthetics for all kinds of furry and feathered friends for Animal Orthocare. Just one of six to ten people in the world devoted to making prosthetics for animals, Campana’s also a go-to for animals all around the world. He often won’t see his patients face to face. Instead, a vet or pet owner will make a cast to send to Campana’s team in Virginia, which uses it as a mold to fit the device. About a week later, Animal Orthocare sends it to its owner. Because the animals don’t come in to get fitted, Campana makes the prosthetics out of durable medical-grade plastics with help from Plastics Make it Possible instead of the carbon fibers used for humans. “Carbon fibers are very expensive and you can’t really adjust them,” says Campana. If the device doesn’t fit perfectly when they send it to the animal, the team can adjust it easily. And because most insurance won’t cover pet prosthetics, Campana tries to keep costs as low as possible. The braces and prosthetics run from $500 to $12,000, depending on the device type and animal. The devices can also save money over getting surgery. About 80 percent of what Campana creates are knee braces, he says, which cost about $500 to $700, compared to $3,000 to $5,000 for knee surgery. “We can help their pet without surgical intervention and save people money,” he says. “We can save its joints and extend the life of a dog.” If your pet wasn’t so lucky, find out how to cope with the loss of a dog. Most of Campana’s clients are dogs, but he’s also treated a gazelle, llama, deer, and horses, among other animals. He’s even traveled to Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital in Thailand to get a cast for an elephant. “I took the mold personally and brought it back to the States,” says Campana. He helped fundraise money for the group to build a first-of-its-kind “limb factory” for elephants. Campana doesn’t just treat four-legged animals either. He’s built prosthetics for birds like a crane, owl, and eagle. For their tiny feet, he uses a different process. “When we get to those small legs and small circumferences…getting a good mold proves difficult,” he says. Instead of a cast, he uses a 3-D printer to scan the legs and create the prosthetic. When the animals first get their prosthetics, they usually try to kick it off. But pretty soon, most start walking as well as ever. “They realize, ‘It’s actually helping me walk better’ and quickly adapt,” he says. “The best part is people that call and say the dog loves it so much they bring the device to their feet because they know that they have to put it on in the morning to get their walk. It’s part of daily life once they get used to it.”
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Assorted colours of cardstock (Not too thick)) Green construction paper (It needs to be thin) Scissors Ruler Pencil Glue Stick Knitting Needle (optional) Cut out a strip of cardstock paper approximately 8.5″ x 2″. If your paper is only 8″ wide, a strip 8″ x 2″ wide will work too. Mark 3/8″ from both edges of the paper and use a pencil to lightly draw a line across the paper. Using scissors, carefully snip the paper into strips that are about 1/4″ wide, cutting up to the pencil line. Continue cutting 1/4″ strips until you’ve made it across the entire strip of paper. Try to keep your cuts as straight and parallel as possible, but don’t panic if they aren’t perfect. It won’t really matter once you’ve swirled them up. Using a knitting needle or wooden skewer, carefully roll each strip. Make sure the pencil line is on the BACK of the strip. You want to roll the strips away from the pencil line so it’s not visible when you’re done the flower. Roll each strip as far as it will go. And continue rolling until you’ve rolled each piece along the entire length of the paper. MAKING THE STEM: Next, you’ll need to make the stem. Make sure you’re using construction paper or another type of thin paper or you won’t be able to roll it. Or if you want to save time, just use green straws as the stems. Cut out a strip 2″ x 8″. Start rolling one of the corners diagonally. Once you’ve gotten it started, add some glue to the paper to help keep it together. Keep rolling the green paper diagonally around itself to make a thin, stem-like tube. ADDING THE FLOWER TO THE STEM: Add some glue to the back of the swirled up paper. Then place it over the thinner end of the stem with the swirls pointing up and towards the outside. Start wrapping the swirled up paper around the stem so that it overlaps itself as you go. Try to get it as tight as you can around the stem until you reach the end of your swirled up paper strip. If you need to, add a bit of extra glue to the end to help keep it in place. MAKING THE LEAVES: Next, you’re going to need some leaves. Cut out a piece of paper, about 2″ x 3″. Fold it accordion style along the long edge in roughly 1/4″ sections. Using sharp scissors, cut out a leaf shape, leaving about 1/2″ at the bottom to give you room to glue it later. Next, add some glue to the bottom of the leaves, and place one corner about 2″ below the flower, at an angle. Wrap it tightly around the stem as you press down the glue to keep it in place. Repeat the process in different colours to make yourself a beautiful bouquet!
This scary condition could be seriously affecting your health. BY BROOKE NELSON Do you walk into the office every Monday with the words “I’m so tired” on the tip of your tongue? You may want to start rethinking those evening happy hours, because it could be a sign that you have social jet lag—and it can seriously affect your health. If you’ve never heard of it, you should! Like the jet lag you feel when traveling, social jet lag refers to the disruption of your snooze cycle by staying out late on weekends and sleeping in the next morning. (That also explains why you can’t fall asleep on Sunday nights.) Sure, it’s no surprise that short-changing your weekend shuteye can throw off the week’s sleep schedule. But new research suggests that its consequences are way worse than initially thought. According to a recent study published in the journal Sleep, adults suffering from social jet lag are 11 percent more likely to develop heart disease than their wellrested counterparts. On top of that, researchers linked the condition to increased moodiness, sleepiness, and fatigue. Each hour of lost sleep due to social jet lag decreases a person’s health, researchers say. “These results indicate that sleep regularity, beyond sleep duration alone, plays a significant role in our health,” Sierra B. Forbrush, the study’s lead researcher, said. “This suggests that a regular sleep schedule may be an effective, relatively simple, and inexpensive preventative treatment for heart disease as well as many other health problems.” To avoid becoming socially jet-lagged (on weekends or weekdays), the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends getting at least seven hours of shuteye each night. And if you still find yourself tossing and turning, this magical tip from sleep doctors could have you catching those Zzz’s in no time.
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Time to stock up! BY ALYSSA JUNG Moms-to-be should start adding chewing gum to their pre-packed hospital bags. It’s especially helpful after giving birth via cesarean section, which nearly one in three women do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A bizarre, double-bodied airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world just rolled out of its hangar for the first time. The Stratolaunch aircraft is designed to carry satellites into low-Earth orbit. The aircraft will carry satellites and their launch vehicles to a cruising altitude of 11,000 meters or so, according to Paul G. Allen, the founder of Stratolaunch. From there, the aircraft becomes something like a mobile launch pad, releasing the satellites and their launchers into orbit before returning to the runway. The advantage, according to Allen, is that getting satellites into orbit would become easier and faster. No longer would scientists or governments have to wait for a rocket launch from the ground; the Stratolaunch plane could take off from many runways and fly for hundreds of miles to find good weather conditions. The strange dual fuselages of the craft each have a role. The right fuselage is for the flight crew, according to the company, and the left fuselage houses flight data systems. The payload will be carried underneath the conjoined center wing. Six 747 engines will lift the craft off the ground, and 28 wheels will allow for runway-style takeoffs and landings. Now, construction of this mobile satellite launcher has advanced enough to move the Stratolaunch craft out of the hangar for its first round of testing. Today (May 31) marks the first time the plane has left the hangar, and also the first time the aircraft has held its own weight, according to a company statement — Until now, the aircraft has been partially supported by scaffolding and other infrastructure used for constructing the giant plane. The craft's wingspan measures 118 m across, 8 m longer than a professional football field. That makes the Stratolaunch plane the largest in the world by wingspan. From nose to tail, the plane is 76 m long. It's taller than a four-story building from the ground to the tallest point of its tail, which towers 15 m high. The Airlander 10, a helium-filled airship, is considered the world's longest aircraft currently flying, extending 92 m long. The craft weighs in at nearly 227,000 kilograms and is designed to carry payloads of another nearly 250,000 kg. The first planned launch will be a single Orbital ATK Pegasus XL vehicle, a pre-existing rocket that can launch from carrier aircrafts. The company hopes to demonstrate such a launch in early 2019. For now, the Stratolaunch team is conducting fueling tests, after which the craft will go through engine runs, ground testing and taxi testing before the first flight test.
According to an analysis of 17 studies that was published in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, new mothers who chewed gum soon after delivering via cesarean section started experiencing recovery, particularly of bowel function, sooner than those who didn’t. For the study, a team of researchers from Italy and Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia analyzed data involving more than 3,000 women who delivered their baby by Csection. Those who chewed gum right after delivery and then again in 30-minute increments three times a day until they passed gas (a sign of normal gastrointestinal functioning), experienced normal bowel movements, and regained their appetite sooner than their non-gum chewing counterparts. They also reported less nausea or vomiting. “As a simple, generally inexpensive intervention, providers should consider implementing cesarean postoperative care with gum chewing,” wrote researchers in the study. Gastrointestinal issues are one of the potential recovery symptoms. In a cesarean, the infant is removed from the mother’s body through a surgical incision in her abdomen and uterus; this is sometimes a planned delivery method based on the mother’s health and pre-existing medical conditions, or is done as an emergency method if problems arise during labor.
This phenomenon could explain why myths like “vaccines cause autism” and “fat in food is bad” stick around. BY MARISSA LALIBERTE Even if we used to know the truth, our brains can start repeating false information that contradicts the facts. Our brains are wired to believe information automatically—even if it’s false—because it helps us learn efficiently. “We’re not learning inaccurate information because we’re poor learners or dumb or not working hard,” says David Rapp, PhD, a psychology and education professor at Northwestern University. “In many instances it’s a useful skill for us to accept what people tell us, because often what people tell us is true.” When we hear new information, those fresh facts don’t override what we already knew before. Instead, both the new and old information live together in our minds. A few factors determine which one we’ll draw on when the situation comes up. Oftentimes, we’ll quote the information you heard most recently—even if it’s wrong. Because they’re fresher in our minds, short-term memories are easier for our brains to access than facts we heard longer ago. We’d have to think back further to remember previous knowledge, so people will often ignore those facts in favor of new inaccurate information, says Rapp, who recently published an article on recalling inaccurate information in the journal Current Directions in Popular Science. “It’s what we’re currently thinking about or has been recently presented to us,” he says. “Prior knowledge isn’t difficult to retrieve, but it isn’t as readily available.” We are also inclined to buy into the facts that seem more plausible. Often, this means they fit better with what we want to believe, which could explain why people quote such different facts in political debates. “Both candidates said something that was objectively true or not, but people would ignore that information and go with their hopes, wishes, biases, preferences, or gut responses because it aligns with what they hope to be true,” says Dr. Rapp. Things get even trickier when the information is a mix of true and false. For instance, it’s easy to write off anything in the fictional world of Game of Thrones as total baloney, but our brains aren’t sure whether to believe the descriptions of London in Harry Potter. “Don’t look for that terminal to Hogwarts, but there might be streets mentioned that are real,” says Dr. Rapp. “That adds another complication, which is that we encode information that is a mixture of true and false.” Our brains can keep track of what’s true or false in those situations by compartmentalizing what we hear or read as total fiction, or mentally tagging individual facts as either true or false. The problem is, sorting all that information takes time. “The mind is good at encoding, but it takes more time to compartmentalize and tag,” says Dr. Rapp. “Often it’s not worth doing all that extra work.” You’re especially unlikely to bother critically thinking about information when you’re reading for pleasure, like with a novel or a Facebook status, because your brain is in the mindset of relaxing, not keeping an eye out for falsehood, says Dr. Rapp. You might forget which friend posted what, or which articles they were quoting. With all that (potentially false) information overload, it’s worth putting in the extra effort to double check information that strikes you as fishy. Seek out reliable sources that back up what they say with data, quotes, and other evidence, says Dr. Rapp. “With the ease that we can look things up on the Internet, there’s no reason not to,” he says.
PEANUT BUTTER PUDDING DESSERT
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. Bake: 25 min. + chilling MAKES: 12-16 servings TOTAL TIME: Prep: 25 min. Bake: 25 min. + chilling MAKES: 12-16 servings
Turns out that none of the ingredients in our favorite dessert are native to the United States. Yet history made it ours. How?
INGREDIENTS:
The grill glows hot, the beer is on ice, and the fireworks are ready to burst. There are burgers, potato salad, and, of course, apple pie. But this all-American dessert isn’t as homegrown as you’d think. “Not one ingredient in apple pie originates from what we call the United States,” says Libby O’Connell, author of The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites. So what’s the lineage of this seemingly domestic delight? Chew on this:
1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed 1-1/2 cups chopped cashews, divided 1 package cream cheese, softened 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter 1 cup confectioners' sugar 1 carton frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided 2-2/3 cups cold milk 1 package instant chocolate pudding mix 1 package instant vanilla pudding mix 1 milk chocolate candy bar, coarsely chopped DIRECTIIONS:
Place flour and butter in a food processor; cover and process until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add 1 cup cashews; pulse a few times until combined. Press into a greased 30 x 20cm baking dish. Bake at 180° for 25-28 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping. Spoon over crust. In another bowl, whisk milk and both pudding mixes for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Spread over cream cheese layer. Top with remaining whipped topping. Sprinkle with chopped candy bar and remaining cashews. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.
NUTRITIONAL FACTS: 1 piece: 408 calories, 25g fat (13g saturated fat), 37mg cholesterol, 416mg sodium, 39g carbohydrate (24g sugars, 1g fiber), 7g protein.
BY SIMRAN SETHI
THE RECIPE The British used animal fat, wheat, and water to create airtight pastry shells with the un-appetizing name of “coffyns.” These savories were usually stuffed with beef or venison. In America, the shells became flakier (like the strudels made by German immigrants) and the meat fillings were replaced with apples, a way to use up imperfect fruit. APPLES The sweet, juicy fruit we use in pie isn’t native to North America, which specializes in crab apples. It originated in Kazakhstan. The Romans then crossed it with astringent apples used for making -cider. (True tidbit: Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman really did plant orchards around the United States.) WHEAT First cultivated more than 9,000 years ago, ancient wheat has been found in Iraq, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. The “king of grains” spread through Europe and then to the New World, where it failed miserably, which is why colonists relied on a Native American staple for baking: corn. In the late 1800s, Russian immigrants brought a wheat variety known as Turkey Red, which was better suited to our climate. LARD AND BUTTER Wild boars (the ancestors of lard-producing pigs) are native to Asia, Europe, and Africa. It was actually Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, who brought pigs and cattle, the source of all things dairy. SUGAR AND SPICES Columbus also played deliveryman for sugar, which originated about 4,000 years ago in Indonesia, India, China, and what is now Papua New Guinea. Cinnamon comes from an evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka. (The prophet Moses and Rome’s emperor Nero are believed to have eaten it.) The variety most commonly found on super-market shelves today is cassia cinnamon, which originated in southern China. Cloves and nutmeg, indigenous to the Banda Islands of Indonesia, were considered so precious that Ferdinand Magellan brought 50 tons of them back to Spain after he sailed around the world in 1522. BECOMING AN AMERICAN “ORIGINAL” Once all the ingredients were in place, putting them together was as easy as—Well, it wasn’t so easy after all. Although the earliest apple pie recipes date to the 1300s, it took nearly 500 years for the dessert to hit it big in the United States. “During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate troops scavenged for apples and commandeered the hearths—and flour bins—of white farmers and black tenants to bake pies,” writes John T. Edge in Apple Pie: An American Story. “Wartime adversity fixed the taste of apple pie on the palate of generations to come.” By 1902, an editorial in the New York Times proclaimed that pie had become “the American synonym for prosperity.” In the 1920s, the phrase as American as apple pie started to appear in print, and by World War II, soldiers declared that they were fighting “for mom and apple pie.” Apple pie—wholesome and comforting—had woven itself into the way we see our country.
DIE Pretorianer Gervan Lubbe was ’n Telkom-tegnikus van Pretoria toe hy die sogenaamde APS-terapie vir die verligting van chroniese en akute pyn ontwerp het. Sy elektriese toestel het in 1998 ’n goue medalje op die Internasionale Uitvindingskou in Genève, Switserland, verwerf en geniet vandag wêreldwye erkenning. Dit was ’n artikel oor pynverligting in ’n Amerikaanse tydskrif wat Lubbe aan die dink gesit het. Hy het gewonder of dit nie moontlik sou wees om die liggaam se natuurlike senu-impulse elektronies te stimuleer om pyn te verlig nie. Omdat hy nie ’n dokter was nie, moes hy in sy vrye tyd die menslike anatomie en fisiologie bestudeer totdat hy gereken het hy genoeg van die oorsake van artitiese pyn weet. Daarna het hy die masjientjie ontwerp wat die probleem kon verlig. Lubbe het in 1993 die Amerikaanse mark met sy sogenaamde Action Potential Stimulation-toestel (APS) betree en vandag word dit in 41 lande, waaronder lande in Europa en die Midde-Ooste, verkoop. Net in Suid-Afrika word dit deur meer as 40 000 mense gebruik om pyn te verlig.
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Al sou ek die mooiste huis in die buurt hê en met die duurste BMW ry, maar my vrou en kinders geniet nie die weelde van my teenwoordigheid nie, dan is ek so waardeloos soos 'n bankkrediet met 'n nulbalans. Al het ek die gawe van woorde sodat ek 'n direksie met my argumente kan swaai, of skares na my preke kan laat stroom, en ek het nie die liefde om na my kinders te luister nie, doen ek meer kwaad as goed. Al ken ek die geheimenisse van die Beurs en die Reserwebank, en al besit ek al die kennis van rugby- en krieketreëls, en al het ek al die geloof dat ons hierdie land met gebed kan verander, maar ek het nie die liefde om my kinders die gevare van baie geld te leer, langs die baan te staan as hulle speel of hulle te leer bid nie, dan het ek niks bereik nie. Al gee ek 'n dubbele tiende vir die armes, en al beroem ek my dat ek in elke liefdadigheidsraad op my dorp dien en vakansies my gesondheid opoffer om in malariagebiede sendingwerk te doen, en ek is te moeg om saans vir my kinders boeke te lees of naweke in die veld te gaan stap, baat dit my alles absoluut niks. 'n Pa wat lief het, is geduldig met kinders wat sukkel met wiskunde, 'n Pa se liefde is vriendelik met 'n kind wat nie wil rugby speel nie, hy is nie afgunstig op pa's met slimmer en mooier kinders nie, hy is nie grootpraterig en verwaand oor sy kinders se prestasies nie, 'n Pa se liefde handel nie onwelvoeglik met die ma van sy kinders nie, soek nie sy eie belang sodat sy huismense laaste kom nie, is nie liggeraak en nukkerig as 'n kind bietjie ekstra aandag soek nie. 'n Pa wat sy kinders lief het, hou nie boek van hulle foute en peper hulle nie met verwyte nie. 'n Pa verbly hom nie oor 'n kind se foute met: "Ek het jou gewaarsku maar jy wou nie luister nie" Hy is verheug as hy sy kinders die waarheid hoor praat - selfs tot hulle eie nadeel. Daarom wil ek my kinders se skandes met liefde bedek, in hulle glo, die beste vir hulle hoop, en hulle kleredrag, klaery en kritiek verdra. 'n Opregte drukkie en 'n intieme gesprek van 'n ouer bly lank in 'n kinderhart. Maar die preek of toespraak wat ek liewer in die tyd wou skryf sal oormôre weer vergeet wees. Vandag se noterings op die aandelemark is volgende week niks werd nie. In die lig van die Volmaakte wat kom, word al my kennis en besittings gerelativeer. Toe ek 'n jong man was, was ek gesteld op my voorkoms, my motor en my geleerdheid, maar noudat ek 'n pa geword het, wil ek graag my kinders met liefde, balans en geloof grootmaak. Nou kyk ek nog vas teen rebelse tienergesigte, maar eendag as hulle groot is, sal hulle verstaan wat ons hulle wou leer, en wat God ons almal leer. En nou: Geduld, aanmoediging en liefde bly, Maar die waardevolste hiervan is onvoorwaardelike liefde!
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FINALLY: A SIMPLE TRICK THAT WILL KEEP YOU FROM KILLING YOUR HOUSEPLANTS YOU’LL WONDER WHY YOU’VE HAVEN’T TRIED THIS SHORTCUT BEFORE! BY MORGAN CUTOLO Are you one of those people that loves the look of decorating your house with plants but can never seem to keep them alive? Well, the solution for turning your black thumb into a green thumb is hiding in your freezer. The main reason that so many people kill their houseplants is because they overwater them. A simple trick that will keep you from doing that is watering them with ice cubes. Put two large ice cubes, or a few small ones, at the base of your plant once a week. Not only will this keep the overflow of messy water to a minimum, but it will also give the dirt and roots enough time to absorb the water. This will help to give your plants the exact level of hydration they need, keeping them alive. Drenching your plants in water can lead to all of the water pooling at the bottom of the pot and not allowing for the roots of the plant to be properly hydrated. This method works especially well on hard-to-reach plants, such as ones that are hanging. It also works great for orchids, because they need their roots to be well drained and keeping water pooled at the bottom could kill them.
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