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BANGKOK — The world has birth surrogates, those moms who bear children on behalf of others. At the other end, when life ends in grief and loss, imagine if those left behind had “death surrogates” to offer a chance for final farewells — to thank, apologize to or say goodbye. In “Stick Figures,” Molly is a daughter to one family and wife to another. Filling the roles of those absent, she dresses in their clothes, listens to their favorite music and speaks like them until her bereaved clients are ready to process the reality of the situation and grief. Given cultural differences between the American source material and Thailand, the play, now a week into its Bangkok run, is being staged in two languages by two distinct casts — five actors for the English version and five performing in Thai. The script for the Thai-language version was modified to better fit Thailand. It also avoided the need for surtitles, according to Director Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadhon, who said they would be a distraction. These changes are both practical and cultural, such as changed names, substituting burning for burial and some more emotionally restrained family relations. Those who’ve seen both versions recommend the English for being truer to the source material. “I actually was inspired by birth surrogacy,” Brooklyn-based playwright Josh Ginsburg wrote. “There was a special on the news about a family hiring a birth surrogate, and I began to think of the opposite. It is very common to hire someone to help bring life into the world, but what would happen if we hire someone to help [another] leave?” Josh denied the play’s characters are based on anyone in particular, but elements of each were drawn from people in his life, including himself. “I took each character and based them on different ways in which we grieve: becoming combative, ignoring it entirely, desperately trying to hold it together, et cetera.” Pattarasuda said she heard about “Stick Figures” nearly two years ago and read it in a day. “It’s a great play,” Pattarasuda said. “The original play is witty, illustrative and concise … and the rounded characters really portray how everyone has different ways to cope with death.” Filled with moments to make audiences gasp, laugh, sob or cry, “Stick Figures” is being staged in both languages on alternate days through the end of June at Thong Lor Art Space. Tickets are 550 baht at the door and can also be purchased online for 450 baht and 400 baht for students. Thong Lor Art Space is located on Soi Sukhumvit 55. The studio-gallery-shophouse can be reached on foot from BTS Thong Lo exit No. 3. Photos: Tatisara Changmanee and Thitiporn Kaikaew / Courtesy
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Humiliation about small penises – at least I got your attention, especially if you have a small penis. And if you don’t, at least you get a good laugh about it! Do You Have a Small Penis? So this morning, I talked to a guy with a 3.23 inches size penis. Yes. He actually said 3.23 inches. What I have noticed is, the guys with the small penis latch on to their size number like it’s their life-blood. And you can’t say just “3 inches”, or they correct you. “No, it’s 3 point TWO THREE”. This, of course, makes me laugh. Humiliation is What You Need When you start actually trying to impress me with the .23 on the size of your penis, you seriously need to be set straight by being so humiliated, you learn your lesson for good! But, 3.23 came with his own material – he said he was called “grapes” back in the day due to the size of his balls. Great. He knows how to impress a lady. No, I’m Not into Small Ones I’ll be honest, I’ve never had sex with a small penis. Because why would I want to? I have already had a big one (many, many times), and I already know that I would not be satisfied, so why waste my time? I find that small ones are really great for entertainment and laughing at. Which is what I do frequently! So if you have a small penis and you think it’s the bees knees (probably as small as a bee’s knee…. ), then I will set you straight and let you know exactly what I think of it. And no, not even 5 inches is big…. just saying… I am back from my trip, and yes, I had a great time with my guy (big cock, ahem). So, I am back for full blow humiliation if you so need the therapy!
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Amid the many challenges faced by visa applicants over the past year, there is some good news regarding employment-based petitions: 2018 data shows that approximately 88% of decisions on O-1 nonimmigrant visa petitions were favorable. The not-so-good news for O-1 hopefuls is that once United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) denies a case, the unfavorable decision tends to stand. Of the 28 AAO decisions published in 2018, there were no sustained or remanded appeals. The lesson to be learned from these figures is clear: getting it right the first time and avoiding a Request for Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny is both achievable and critical to long-term success. Despite unequivocally upholding denials from USCIS, AAO decisions on O-1 Extraordinary Ability petitions offer valuable insights that can inform and improve the planning and presentation of an O-1 petition. These published decisions not only identify the whys of an appeal denial, but they often provide discussion of the specific scrutiny, comparisons, and standards applied by USCIS adjudicators who make the initial determination on whether a case is approved, is issued a Request for Evidence, or is denied. Analysis of these decisions can thus be leveraged to create an outcomes-based roadmap that allows a broad spectrum of petitions to steer clear of the pitfalls and presumptions that produce unwanted results. Some of our most notable conclusions and observations from the past year’s batch of AAO O-1 decisions are as follows. Supporting Evidence Matters Analysis of 2018 AAO decisions shows that one of the most common reasons for O-1 denial is a failure to show through evidence that a petitioner’s accomplishments and distinctions reach a level indicative of extraordinary ability and national acclaim. Multiple AAO decisions included language like: “The Petitioner, however, did not present any supporting evidence, such as substantial media coverage, showing the national or international significance of the awards or prizes.” “… while on appeal, the Petitioner maintains that its organization has a distinguished reputation, it does not provide documentation supporting that claim.” This consistent criticism confirms that it is not enough to merely tell USCIS that an accomplishment is significant, these claims must be supported by documentary or testimonial evidence. There are many ways to accomplish this strategically, but the main lesson to be learned is that failing to provide evidence to confirm the significance of an achievement is a sure route to a negative outcome. This July 2018 decision shows starkly how a seemingly straightforward case will still face denial if USCIS is not persuaded by evidence that confirms the claims made within. One of the most intuitive criteria to meet when seeking an O-1 is employment in a critical or essential capacity for an organization with a distinguished reputation. Few companies employ individuals who are not essential to the aims of the establishment, and it stands to reason that an individual potentially qualified for O-1 Extraordinary Ability classification would provide critical value to their employer. AAO decisions from 2018 frequently include the following language, though, reflecting the frequency with which this is denied due to a lack of specifics: “The record includes a letter from the Petitioner stating that the Beneficiary performs her duties in an excellent manner and that she has helped her patients examine and improve their lives. In addition, the Petitioner submitted a letter from indicating that the Beneficiary worked there from 2003 until 2010, performed quality work, and demonstrated responsibility and commitment to the center. The aforementioned statements, however, are not sufficient to demonstrate that the Beneficiary has been employed in a critical or essential capacity for the aforementioned organizations.” “The record includes a letter from the Petitioner stating that the Beneficiary will serve as its stage manager of its productions ‘for the next three years.’ While this letter lists the responsibilities associated with the Beneficiary’s position, it does not identify specific upcoming productions or events in which he will participate.” The frequency with which such criticism is levelled makes a clear statement about what USCIS expects from a petitioner asking for this criterion. - For prior employment, it is necessary to show specifically why the role was vital to the employing establishment. This can be done by showing both the benefits the individual has provided to the employer, and by providing detailed context to elucidate the specific problems or obstacles that the individual was hired to overcome. - For upcoming events it is essential to be as specific as possible. It is further necessary to provide as much documentation as possible to show that upcoming leading roles are pending but in no way prospective. The bigger picture here is that, in order to avoid scrutiny, it is essential to turn off presumptive knowledge when discussing an essential role and assume a beginner’s mind. It is not enough to merely say, for example, that the conductor is a critical member of a symphony orchestra – however obvious that may seem. The petition must articulate why this role is critical and essential through testimonial evidence provided specifically for the petition in question, or through existing literature discussing the essential nature of the role. As an example, this January 2018 decision shows how a reliance on presumption and a failure to provide specifics will result in USCIS rejecting qualitative claims about the essential nature of a seemingly vital role. It Matters How You Say It Testimonial evidence is very often the framework that ties a petition together. Although published material about the beneficiary can help establish acclaim in the field, rarely is such material authored in a way that directly connects an individual’s accomplishment to regulatory requirements. Signed letters from experts in the field can thus play an essential role in framing the discussion to confirm that documentary evidence specifically satisfies the criteria it is alleged to evidence. The AAO record shows that, no matter how prestigious the signatory of a letter, USCIS has consistently demonstrated an unwillingness to grant full weight of evidence to testimonials that lack details or do not focus on the regulatory criteria. In fact, nearly every AAO O-1 denial from 2018 includes language along the lines of: “While this letter… it does not.” or in a specific case: “These letters discuss the Beneficiary’s talent as a psychotherapist, writing and presentations skills, job responsibilities, and expertise in her field… The record, however, does not show that the Beneficiary’s work has affected psychotherapy practices in the field or has otherwise risen to the level of an original scientific contribution of major significance in the field.” These recent AAO decisions reveal that even testimonials provided by government officials or luminaries in the field are not sufficient for evidentiary purposes if the language in them does not specifically explain how the beneficiary meets the regulatory criteria. Although some statements in USCIS denials may seem intentionally obtuse, the burden of proof is on the petitioner. Ultimately, the published AAO decisions from 2018 show consistently that neither AAO judges nor USCIS adjudicators are obligated to draw common-sense conclusions that are not explicitly asserted and proven by the petitioner. In this context, it is important to view testimonial evidence as a valuable resource, but to recognize that such evidence is only effective if targeted directly at the regulatory language USCIS adjudicators are trained to look for. Documentary evidence is the critical foundation of a petition; bespoke, effective testimonial evidence is the mortar that holds the bricks together to create an effective structure. Down the Road… As part of a wholistic and adaptive case preparation approach, AAO decisions are a valuable resource for crafting an informed, outcomes–based strategy. Through analysis and comparison, these decisions present an invaluable opportunity to learn from the mistakes of past petitions and to identify and address potential criticisms of the case before USCIS issues a Request for Evidence, Notice of Intent to Deny, or denial. Because O-1 petitions are frequently processed in a shorter time span than I-140-based extraordinary ability petitions, decisions in this visa category offer a particularly valuable look at the contemporary adjudication environment. Further, because the criteria for the O-1 visa closely match those of EB-1/Extraordinary Ability, EB-1/Outstanding Researcher, and P visas, these O-1 decisions offer additional guidance for a broad range of artists, scientists, and business professionals seeking appropriate immigration classifications. Do you have what it takes to pursue an EB-1 or an O-1 petition? Schedule a consultation to discuss with the EB-1 team. This article is part of a series analyzing AAO decisions on various employment-based visa classifications in 2018. Alexander Magalli is a Technical Writer on the Klasko Immigration Law Partners EB-1/O-1/NIW Writing and Research Team. Feige Grundman is a Senior Associate at the firm with expertise in all areas of employment-based immigration law, and specializing in EB-1/O-1/NIW cases. The material contained in this article does not constitute direct legal advice and is for informational purposes only. An attorney-client relationship is not presumed or intended by receipt or review of this presentation. The information provided should never replace informed counsel when specific immigration-related guidance is needed. © 2019 Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP. All rights reserved. Information may not be reproduced, displayed, modified or distributed without the express prior written permission of Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP. For permission, contact [email protected].
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Afghanistan-Taliban Talks Begin In Attempt To End 19 Years Of Bloodshed Afghanistan's warring factions have officially begun what is likely to be a long and arduous process of negotiating a peaceful and prosperous future after nearly two decades of war. Representatives for the Afghan government and the Taliban met in the capital of Qatar on Saturday to discuss their aspirations and decide on a framework for a lasting peace. The Trump administration paved the way for the negotiations — the first direct talks between the two sides — when it inked a peace agreement with the Taliban in February. The talks in the city of Doha come 19 years after al-Qaida killed nearly 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks. The attack was the deadliest act of terror in U.S. history and sparked war in Afghanistan, as the U.S. and its allies overthrew the Taliban regime for harboring the terrorists. But in the years since, Taliban militants have reclaimed control of much of the country. Several concessions were made to reach today's peace talks. In exchange for a Taliban promise to renounce al-Qaida and prevent terrorist attacks, the U.S. and its allies have promised a complete troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by next spring. When it signed the peace deal with the Taliban in February, the U.S. had approximately 12,000 military personnel in the country. Officials say the U.S. is on track to reduce its presence to 4,500 troops by the end of November. At its peak, the U.S. had 100,000 troops in the country. For its part, the Afghan government has promised to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for Taliban release of 1,000 Afghan security forces. Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the Taliban's founders, said he envisions an Islamic system that embraces all Afghans. At the opening ceremony, he urged patience on both sides. "The negotiation process may have problems, but the request is that the negotiations move forward with a lot of patience, with a lot of attention, and it should be continued with such kind of attention," he said. "With full honesty, we continue the Afghan peace negotiation, and we try for peace and tranquility, we will pave the ground in Afghanistan." Abdullah Abdullah, who heads Kabul's High Council for National Reconciliation, said that even if all sides can't agree on every detail, they will be "peace heroes" if they can create a political system based on Islamic principles that preserves the rights of all people. In a video message to open the negotiations, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said the talks present a "major opportunity to achieve the long-held aspirations of the people of Afghanistan for peace." "Afghans themselves must determine the content and nature of the negotiations," Guterres said. "An inclusive peace process, in which women, youth and victims of conflict are meaningfully represented, offers the best hope of a sustainable solution." The negotiations will endeavor to establish a framework for a peaceful postwar society after American troops return home. Gender equality and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities will be front and center, as the two sides confront a history of oppression by the Taliban. The U.S. won't be directly involved in the peace talks. But the U.S. is still willing to offer suggestions for what a postwar Afghanistan could look like. In remarks at Saturday morning's opening ceremony, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the two sides to consider adopting a democratic form of government. "In the United States, we have found that democracy — notably, the principle of the peaceful rotation of political power — works best," Pompeo said, according to prepared remarks. "Democratic systems reflect the choices of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. This model has yielded great peace and prosperity for us and other democratic nations." The two sides are under heavy pressure from the people of Afghanistan to come to an agreement as quickly as possible. U.S. special adviser Zalmay Khalilzad, who helped facilitate the talks, acknowledged that won't be easy. "There's a lot of mistrust," he told reporters Saturday. "This war has been going on for a long time, and compromise has not been easy historically in Afghanistan." Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
Albuquerque police investigating homicide near Embudo Trailhead ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police officers were called to a shooting at 13921 Indian School Road NE near the Embudo Trailhead Thursday evening. Police said someone called 911 and said one person was shot and critically injured. In an update, an APD spokesman said the victim died from their wounds. Homicide detectives are taking over the investigation. Information is limited at this time. This is a developing story. Stay with KOB 4 Eyewitness News and KOB.com for updates.
Who will get it right? Broadcasters turn to AI, upgraded prediction systems for election night coverageBy Lee Yoon-seo Published : April 3, 2024 - 14:47 South Korean broadcasters will be leveraging advanced artificial intelligence technology, upgraded election outcome prediction systems and personalized services in their coverage of the general election on April 10. SBS will introduce an AI character as a commentator for its general election broadcasts, a first in Korean broadcasting history. Named "Toopyoro" and taking the form of a teddy bear, the AI character will provide real-time commentary on the general election using generative AI chatbot technology and AI virtual voice technology. A generative AI chatbot is a conversational AI system that employs deep learning and natural language processing methods to produce real-time text responses that mimic human language. SBS said it also plans on broadcasting old videos of key party representatives using the "AI Person Search" technology developed independently by the broadcaster's research institute. According to SBS, the technology enables the identification of videos featuring the subject's face from archives, using just one facial photograph. SBS' election-specific graphic broadcasting system, the Vote Information Processing Online Network, will produce graphics of candidates parodying SBS' hit drama "Stairway to Heaven" and the Hollywood film "Mission Impossible." KBS said it has upgraded its election winner prediction system, "DecisionK+," for its 2024 general election coverage. According to KBS, "DecisionK+" will divide each electoral district into smaller units at the town or village level and analyze real-time voting data from these areas. "DecisionK+" will predict the election outcomes of key candidates in the focal electoral districts based on data collected from villages and towns well before the vote count is finalized. Election coverage at KBS could prove entertaining. KBS said a segment of its election broadcast will feature avatars of major candidates created using AI engaging in a rap battle. The avatars will sing and dance to music composed based on their election pledges. Characters from KBS' 32-part historical drama, "Korea-Khitan War," will also be utilized in graphics displaying the results for each candidate. On KBS' official YouTube channel, a virtual YouTube character will host a political quiz show and interact with viewers in real time. Election coverage at MBC will be more conventional with its star anchors such as Kim Dae-ho providing commentary rather than artificial intelligence characters, as commentators. MBC added that MBC Election 2024 is providing a personalized service, which allows viewers to designate their electoral districts and candidates of interest on the website and swiftly check the outcomes on election day. Medical standoff enters 2nd stage after election, failed dialogue BOK holds rate, wary of inflation's ‘last mile’ South Korea, US plan exercises against North Korea nuclear use scenario
15 DIY Christmas Ornaments My girls and I love to go nuts decorating for the holidays. You can never have enough ornaments! Growing up we would always make ornaments as crafts with my mother and she saved every single one to hang on the tree each year. Our tree never lacked in ornaments. My girls make them in school every year too! I love putting those on the tree. Make some of your ornaments and memories with these DIY christmas ornaments! 15 DIY Christmas Ornaments Button Wreath Ornament \| Domestic Mommyhood – Gather some old buttons or buy new ones and get together as a family and make these adorable button ornaments! Our First Ornament \| Views from the Ville – If you’re a new couple, put those leftover invitations to good use and make an ornament to remember your special day and first Christmas together! Felt Christmas Ornaments \| The DIY Dreamer – Grab up some felt from the dollar store and make these adorable and easy ornaments! Twine Wrapped Monogrammed Ornament \| Becoming Martha – Make an ornament for everyone in the family by using twine and making monogrammed ornaments! Popsicle Stick Snowman \| Divine Lifestyle – Get the kids around and put together these adorable snowman ornaments using popsicle sticks! Peppermint Candy Ornament \| Hello Homebody – Use peppermint candy to melt yourself some cute ornaments into any shape you like! Bottle Cap Snowman Ornament \| KidsoMania – Put those bottle caps to good use and make some adorable snowmen ornaments for the tree! Simple Filled and Painted Ornaments \| Little Gray Fox – Get some clear ornaments and fill them with whatever floats your boat! Minion Christmas Ornaments \| Crazy Little Projects – Paint your ornaments to look like your favorite cartoon characters! No Cook Cinnamon Ornaments \| Growing a Jeweled Rose – Make your house smell delightful with these handmade cinnamon ornaments! Wooden Clothespin Snowflake Ornament \| By Stephanie Lynn – Clothespins are easy to find at the dollar store. Grab some and make these gorgeous ornaments. I didn’t know clothespins could look so pretty! Photo Transfer Ornaments \| The Homesteady – If you have a picture you really like, turn it in to an ornament with this neat DIY tutorial! Reindeer Thumbprint Ornament \| Little Bit Funky – Have the kids help you make these easy and cute reindeer ornaments using thumbprints! Paint by Number Ornaments \| Country Living – What a cute concept! Use some of your paint by number art and cut it out for some ornament fun! Sheet Music Ornament \| Pop Sugar – Take some old sheet music which is usually easy to come by, and fill and ornament with it! Maybe you can find some Christmas sheet music and make the words visible! Which one of these DIY Christmas Ornaments will you add to your tree?
Like many sectors of the economy, the healthcare industry regularly suffers data breaches. Healthcare analytics company Protenus has found that nearly 32 million patient records were breached between January and June 2019 alone. Alarmed? You should be. However, there are steps you can take to reduce the risk that thieves will obtain your medical records and use them for nefarious purposes. Why they are valuable Unlike other types of personal data, healthcare records command a hefty premium on the black market. That is at least partly because criminals can potentially use information about an individual’s health to blackmail him or her. Also, stolen medical records include valuable details about people’s identities. In fact, there is usually enough information in medical files to facilitate extensive identity theft. These schemes can involve health insurance-related fraud as well as financial account and tax fraud schemes. What you can do The following four steps can help you protect your personal medical and other data: - Be careful what you share with providers. Healthcare providers typically ask for a lot of personal information, including your Social Security number. But you are not obligated to provide it. If in doubt regarding whether a piece of data is critical to receiving care, ask your provider. If the provider says the information is necessary, learn how it plans to use the data —and protect it from thieves. - Read the small print. Apply the same caution to healthcare apps. Only provide access to data that is critical for the service. Read the service provider’s terms and conditions and its privacy notice so that you understand how and where your data might be used. - Closely review insurance statements. Sometimes the first sign of identity theft is an insurance company statement detailing medical services you did not receive. Go over every insurance document and contact your insurer and the medical provider immediately if you spot any discrepancies. - Do not assume privacy online. Revealing personal details online (for example, with a large group of ‘friends’ on social media) may provide criminals with enough information to steal your identity. Keep in mind that a dedicated criminal could piece together a detailed profile of you simply by visiting multiple sites where you are active. If your data is compromised If you fear your healthcare information was included in a data breach or has otherwise been compromised, consider contacting the three major credit bureaus to freeze your credit file. This prevents the unauthorized creation of new accounts. Also step up your monitoring of insurance statements to make sure no one is filling prescriptions or making office visits in your name.
A return flow from the south ahead of a Pacific cold front arriving Thanksgiving night will result in much warmer temperatures ahead of the front. Sunshine will also return in a big way beginning Friday afternoon. Tonight will be cloudy damp and milder with a low of 53. Wednesday expect lots of clouds less wind and not near as chilly with a warmer high near 70. Wednesday night expect low clouds and fog damp and continued milder with a low of 62. Thanksgiving, mostly cloudy to cloudy with scattered thundershowers developing during the afternoon and a high of 76. A Pacific cold front arrives shortly after midnight with some early morning showers then wind and much less humid and cooler into Friday night.
A prison art show at Lincoln's Cottage critiques presidents' penal law past Caddell Kivett was watching the inauguration of President Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, when the thread of an idea began to form. He was inspired by Amanda Gorman, who took the podium and read her poem The Hill We Climb, which says, in part: "We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and notions of what 'just' is isn't always justice. ..." It was then that he really started thinking, Kivett told NPR. "Some of the words of that poem just really touched how I feel about our country," he said. And those feelings are complicated, to say the least. Kivett, 53, is serving an 80-year prison sentence for assault-related charges. He's spent about 14 years incarcerated in North Carolina at the mercy of the U.S. criminal justice system and policies established by U.S. presidents, including Biden. When the inauguration ceremony concluded, Kivett returned to his cell at Nash Correctional Institution in Nashville, N.C., where he's been for the past eight years. He began to mull over a "kind of improbable idea" as the words of Gorman's poem, "The norms and notions of what 'just' is isn't always justice," cycled through his mind. He said he considered: What if there was a way to harness the voices of the incarcerated to critique this so-called justice system and to challenge the idea of what true justice in America could look like? "Most people on the outside don't know what is going on in here," Kivett said. "And so, we just accept that this is how things are to be done and the correct response to people who commit harms or violence is to just lock them away." He is surrounded by artists at Nash Correctional and considered ways to take that talent and use it to push forward these questions and ideas, he said. These thoughts that started as just a flicker in his mind in 2021 took years and complex coordination with advocates from Justice Arts Coalition, such as founder and director Wendy Jason and programs assistant Janie Ritter, to come to fruition. But this month Kivett's brainchild, an exhibit titled Prison Reimagined: Presidential Portrait Project, was revealed to the public at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C. The exhibit of 46 pieces of art and writing was curated by the Committee of Incarcerated Writers and Artists, whose members all currently live within the carceral system across the U.S. In addition to Justice Arts Coalition, a group that supports imprisoned artists, the exhibit was coordinated by staff at Lincoln's Cottage. The exhibit, which costs visitors between $4 and $10, will continue through Feb. 19. It may later head to a few more venues but that's yet to be confirmed. The pieces, however, can be bought once the current exhibit has finished with all proceeds going directly to the artists. The art pieces include different takes on portraits of U.S. presidents, among them Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and put these leaders' records on criminal justice under the microscope. The difficulties of coordinating the exhibit from behind bars From the moment Kivett reached out to the Justice Arts Coalition in early 2021, the wheels started turning, even if slowly, and not without some hurdles. Ritter, nonetheless, worked to ensure that Kivett kept agency over the project. "It was his idea. I wanted him to make the decisions," she said. "And, of course, a lot of the decisions couldn't be made from inside. They had to be facilitated outside." Discussing the framework of the project with one another was among the challenges because Kivett has limited ability to call or email from his cell. And the artists whom Ritter and Jason contacted to contribute to the project are located in prisons throughout the country and rely heavily on snail mail to correspond. Gradually, the artists began sending in their work to the group's headquarters in Takoma Park, Md. To get these works to Kivett and his Committee of Incarcerated Artists and Writers at Nash, who were selecting the best pieces to exhibit, Ritter had to send 8-and-a-half-by-11 sized photos of all of each piece and copies of the written submissions. "At the same time, our mail system here was going under a transformation from paper to digital, which created a whole new slew of hurdles for us to get past," Kivett said. Later on, Callie Hawkins, the executive director of Lincoln's Cottage, sent a copy of their floor plan to guide the committee in choosing where to display each piece. "It's a massive space," Hawkins said. "I was blown away by their ideas for placement and groupings. And literally all our team did was place it on the wall where they directed us to." Kivett said it was hard not to feel discouraged during the process. But, he said, "This project is a testament to what can be accomplished if you don't let discouragement stop your momentum." Kivett hopes as visitors come to view the exhibit that they leave with a deeper understanding of the direct impacts of mass incarceration to critique the idea of whether incarceration is the true path to justice and that they're motivated to take concerns directly to their politicians to make change. "I hope everyone realizes that they're all stakeholders. And I want them to realize what their individual part is in this process. And I hope they leave our show charged to do their part," Kivett said. "Continuing to just cage people for harms committed in our country is not making us safer and not making us better as a nation," he said. He recommends rerouting money that is being put into prisons and jails into communities that need it the most rather than continuing to invest in the carceral system as it is now. President Lincoln's Cottage offers a poignant venue Watercolor paintings, mixed media collages and colored pencil portraits are now hanging in Lincoln's Cottage in what was the president's former library, dining room and bedroom some 160 years ago. Some of the pieces are of Lincoln himself. A mixed media collage created by Robert Spence incorporates photos of Black Lives Matters protests surrounding a portrait of Lincoln. Spence writes of this piece, "There are so many hidden (and not so hidden) racial biases and struggles that still exist in America. I wonder what President Lincoln would say if he was alive today. 'What happened to America?' " Other pieces target Lincoln's more recent successors. The works reflect on how each administration and the policies they signed into law have impacted prisoners and contributed to the current state of the U.S. criminal justice system, which has locked up almost 2 million people— a disproportionate number of whom are Black Americans. Like former President Bill Clinton and his signing of the 1994 Crime Bill. Critics of this billhave said it is responsible for this mass incarceration of Black Americans. Artist Mike Tran used this event to inspire his painting on Clinton. Tran writes, "The 3 Strikes Law (the 1994 Crime Bill), designed as a crime deterrent, serves to prove how inadequate the 'rehabilitation' system is. Rehabilitation is not putting a person in a box for life. It is helping that person realize why they did what they did, who they harmed with their actions, and replacing those behaviors with prosocial thoughts and beliefs." Tran painted a skewed version of Clinton's presidential portrait, writing: "I wanted to weave these ideas into President Clinton's portrait, as he was instrumental in the passing of this law. I wanted the symbolism in the piece to be subtle, hence the three small cigars on his collar and intentional blurring of the American Flag, but once you realize them, you can't look away." Not all pieces put the presidents in a seemingly negative light. In a portrait by Brian Hindson, he contemplates on his complex feelings about Trump, who signed the First Step Act into law in 2018. This law, among many other things, lowered prison sentences for certain nonviolent offenders. Hindson, who at the time of finishing his painting spent 15 years in the federal prison system, writes after that law passed he saw that "people were leaving in droves" and that overcrowding in the federal prison system "was actually being addressed." That leaves Hindson with contradictory feelings about Trump. He painted Trump's face split and divided into different pieces, each painted a different color. "As controversial, polarizing, and divisive as Trump was and can be, he's the only President that did something that benefitted every federal inmate. The style I picked was my fractured art. All the pieces make him up. All the bad stuff too. Much like all of us, it's pieces of us. All the pieces make the whole," Hindson wrote. The exhibit's largest piece is a 72-by-40-inch, six-panel installation that hangs in the center of the cottage's sitting room wall. It's an eye-catching portrait with an even more striking story. The subject of the piece is obvious: former President Obama. Except his face is distorted with puzzle pieces missing from his face. It reflects the three artists' broken hopes of Obama reforming the criminal justice system and granting clemency to men on death row — a dream of the three men who painted it, they wrote. The artists, Yuri Kadamov, Aquilla Barnette, and Lezmond Mitchell, managed to work together on this piece without ever sharing the same space. The three men slid canvases under the steel doors of their cells and handed it off to a fellow inmate who would pass the work on to the next collaborator. The piece, however, was never fully finished. Mitchell, who was the only Native American on federal death row, was executed on Aug. 26, 2020, at the age of 38 for first-degree murder. It's significant given that this incomplete portrait sits in a building that represents what Hawkins calls "that unfinished work" of Lincoln's legacy. "[Lincoln] recognized in his own lifetime, that his role was just to push the boulder a little further up the hill, and there he was going to fall short, that others who came after him were going to fall short," she said. "And then it was going to take everyone to continue this ideal, this promise." The site of the cottage is at the highest point of Washington, D.C. It was the seasonal home of the 16th president and his family. While at the cottage in 1862 (then called the Soldiers Home), Lincoln developed the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in an upstairs bedroom, Hawkins said. This was "legally supposed to free slaves in America," Ritter said. "Mass incarceration in the U.S. has been referred to as the New Jim Crow. I think it's such an interesting tension to have artwork created by folks who are still inside, who do slave labor, in the room where Lincoln quite literally wrote out his thoughts for freeing those people in America," she said. The Proclamation was enshrinedin the 13th Amendmentby 1865. It says that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Kivett said this amendment provides this "loophole" for those convicted of a crime. He said involuntary servitude is still legal for convicted felons, who when incarcerated, are forced into work that pays little to nothing in prisons across the country. Hawkins said it was important for the cottage to be a part of this exhibit as it offered an important point to hold important conversations around rectifying injustice — a goal of the museum. "It's really important to [Lincoln's Cottage] to not put Lincoln on a pedestal. To take him down, to interrogate him, his policies, and to really be honest about where that leaves us today," she said. For Kivett, the project and its themes are the embodiment of years of focus and passion on social justice issues while in prison. It's part of what gives him purpose and goals for the future while inside, he said. "The big picture of the project is to let people on the outside know that we are still people, and that we are still connected somehow in our humanity." Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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SAN ANTONIO – Now that the next phase of the Loop 1604 construction project is underway, some neighbors report being jolted awake in the middle of the night by the road work. Crews are excavating and using controlled explosions to clear material at the Blanco Road intersection. “Our experience was that the blasting was very alarming. We heard a very loud noise and then our house vibrated. The walls shook, the windows vibrated and the wood in the house creaked,” said David Black, who lives south of Loop 1604. “Since we are not experts, we weren’t really sure what to make of it and were concerned. The blasts were about 30 minutes to 1 hour apart, so there was no sleeping for us between 11:30 (p.m.) and 2:30 (a.m.) or so.” The road work is part of a massive expansion of the highway from a four-lane highway to a 10-lane highway. Late Friday, TxDOT provided more specifics about the need to use controlled explosions for the work. “Part of the improvements for the Loop 1604 North Expansion project includes the widening of main lanes through the existing rock wall between Blanco Road and Northwest Military Highway. The rock wall requires excavation to accommodate the construction of the additional lanes, ramp improvements and safety zones,” the agency told KSAT 12. “The excavation technique utilized on this project is a controlled method known as “rock fragmentation blasting”. Each blast is closely monitored in order to stay within the City of San Antonio Ordinance vibration and noise guidelines.” The blasts are expected to continue over the next few months. The work is being doing overnight to minimize the impact on traffic. People who live in the area can get updates on the project by subscribing for updates at www.Loop1604North.com. TxDOT projects that once completed, the overall project will reduce travel times in the Loop 1604 corridor by 76%. The periodic overnight closures of the intersection are scheduled from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. this week. The section of the project between Highway 281 and I-10 is expected to be completed in 2025. Have questions about transportation or traffic? Let us know, and your answer may be our next story. Find past answers on our traffic page.
Volcanic activity on Venus spotted in radar images, scientists say AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: In Greek and Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love and beauty. But the planet Venus is, well, a hellscape. Thinking crushing pressures, a toxic atmosphere, surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. The forces that shape the planet, which is in some ways similar to our own, have largely remained a mystery. And now new research offers a new volcanic insight. Science reporter Ari Daniel has more. ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Despite all its hostility, Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, is pretty similar to Earth, so much so that University of Alaska Fairbanks planetary scientist Robert Herrick calls it our true sibling in the solar system. ROBERT HERRICK: Aside from Earth, it's the only one that has sort of true mountain ranges and huge variety of volcanic features. DANIEL: Features like lava fields, canals carved by molten rock and hundreds, if not thousands, of volcanoes. So it's clear that Venus is volcanically active, but it's not clear exactly how active. HERRICK: The time between eruptions could be months, years or tens of thousands of years. DANIEL: Herrick set out to try to narrow down that time window by searching for evidence of recent volcanic activity. He pored over radar surface imagery collected by the Magellan spacecraft in the early '90s. HERRICK: It's a needle-in-a-haystack search without any guarantee that there's a needle, right? DANIEL: He focused his search around the highest volcano on Venus, Maat Mons, named after the Egyptian goddess of truth and justice. And after a couple months of looking, he found something. HERRICK: So can you see that? You're looking at PowerPoint, hopefully. DANIEL: Herrick fires up a slide with two side-by-side black-and-white images taken eight months apart of the same spot on the north side of the volcano, each one some 15, 20 miles across. Herrick points out a pockmark. It's a vent, the area where a volcano erupts, discharging its lava, ash and rock. But the shape of that vent differs between the two images. HERRICK: The outline has changed, and the thing's actually gotten larger and looks shallower as well. DANIEL: That is, sometime during 1991, Herrick speculates the volcano erupted, forming a lava lake within the vent. HERRICK: Of course, I could have been very lucky and seen the only thing that happened in the last million years on Venus. But I think the reasonable interpretation suggests that Venus is relatively Earth-like in the frequency of volcanic eruptions. DANIEL: Around places like Hawaii and Iceland. Herrick and his colleague published their findings in the journal Science. They hope it'll help researchers understand how Venus has evolved geologically over the last 4 1/2 billion years and where it might be headed. CLARA SOUSA-SILVA: It is nice to have a visual confirmation of the volcanic activity on Venus, but given that this was something we had speculated, it's not shocking to have this paper come out. DANIEL: Clara Sousa-Silva is a quantum astrochemist at Bard College and wasn't involved in the research. Still, she says this confirmation helps us understand what to expect in Venus's atmosphere. SOUSA-SILVA: A planet that has a lot of volcanic activity has access to these extreme pressures and temperatures below the surface that can produce molecules that are really unusual and otherwise really hard to make. DANIEL: NASA's currently got two missions to Venus in the works, missions that will now be informed by these new findings. HERRICK: We don't just think it's an active planet. We know it's an active planet right now. DANIEL: Herrick's working to develop an instrument for those upcoming missions to monitor volcanic activity on Venus. He's pretty confident now it'll see something once it's deployed. It just has to survive the infernal planet long enough to make its measurements. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Stealing Candy From Your Kids? It's A Halloween Tradition We've rounded up some Halloween-related news. Think of this as our treat bag: -- Bad Moms And Dads. "Eighty-one percent of parents surveyed say that they take candy from their children's Halloween candy haul for their own enjoyment (with 26 percent admitting that they sneak treats after the children go to bed or school)." National Confectioners Association -- But The Kids Will Do All Right. "Almost every child in the USA will have candy on Halloween." USA Today -- Cyrus, Heisenberg & KimYe. This year's "au courant costumes," include nearly naked Myley Cyrus, very scary Heisenberg (Walter White) from Breaking Bad and that trendy couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. New York Magazine -- But Not Stein, Franzen & Slothrop. Want to make everyone guess who you are? Try "implausible literary costumers no one will recognize." Maybe: Gertrude Stein, Jonathan Franzen or Tyrone Slothrop from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Vice.com -- 53 Percent Of Americans Are Weird. Adults actually have opinions about how to eat candy corn. "Forty-seven percent think it's popping the whole piece at once, followed by forty three percent who believe starting with the narrow white end is best. Only ten percent prefer to start with the wider yellow end." National Confectioners Association -- There's A Witch Head Up There. NASA is using Halloween to show off another photo from way "out there." As the agency writes: "A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors. "The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee." Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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-- / -- Part 1 of: "Globalization": the UN's "Safe Haven" for the World's Marginalized (2001) It is important to recall that the United Nations has a long history of taking a strong position on multinational corporations or transnational corporations (in the terminology formerly preferred by the UN). Throughout the 1970s, and well into the 1980s, such corporations were viewed with extreme suspicion both by the Eastern bloc and by developing countries. The UN, through UNCTAD, was instrumental in articulating through many documents the abusive practices and ill-effects consequent upon the action of such corporations. This lead to numerous resolutions questioning the role of such corporations. A Center for Transnational Corporations was created by the UN to monitor their activity. There was however a subtle shift during the 1980s. Developing countries realized that the assistance available to them through intergovernmental organizations and bilateral government aid was not necessarily as helpful as the bodies concerned had tended to claim - nor was it sufficient. The questionable practices of corporations could be forgotten where funds were directly forthcoming - especially if decision makers were appropriately "rewarded" and the effects on citizens could be ignored or portrayed as "temporary." Multinational corporations got tired of the bad press they repeatedly received and seem to have used their considerable influence to seek ways to out-manoeuver their critics. A number of bodies representing business indirectly emerged to assist in this process. Criticism within the United Nations was muted and the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations was encouraged to adopt a much more conciliatory position. The role of UNCTAD was severely diminished, and its continued existence was threatened. Academic critics were encouraged through appropriate funding to recognize the positive role of corporations in development. The UN ceased to be a channel for the articulation of questions concerning the role of such corporations - rather such criticism was transposed into analyses of the movement of capital and investment funds, detached from explicit association with multinational corporations. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the role of such fora as the annual Davos Symposium provided an increasingly attractive environment in which CEOs of the largest multinationals could rub shoulders with government leaders from many countries - notably developing countries. As a "nongovernmental" meeting, those attending could do so without having to indulge in the degree of posturing typical of more formal intergovernmental gatherings - in which there exists no arrangement for the presence of "nongovernmental" bodies, other than the NGOs recognized through the consultative status arrangements. Such fora were successful because of the way their exclusiveness was managed to flatter those who participated - as well as offering the prospect of lucrative contracts. It became "OK" for government leaders of developing countries to be seen to be closeted with CEOs of the previously stigmatized multinationals. The fact that the success of multinationals in expanding their operations into developing countries could result in significant earnings for the host country helped considerably to ensure the complicity of governments of industrialized countries. UN officials and associated diplomats could also be found at such gatherings - even prepared to play a role less prominent than was their wont. From the late 1980s, the inability of intergovernmental organizations to deliver on their "development decade" promises of "health for all", "jobs for all", "education for all", "justice for all", "housing for all", etc became increasingly apparent - and was more widely recognized through the development of global media. The credibility of the United Nations was increasingly called into question, culminating in widespread acknowledgment of its complete dishonour following its betrayal of a promise of "safe haven" to citizens of Srbrenica - leading to the death of some 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. This was followed by the shambles of Rwanda in which, yet again, the UN played a key part in supervising a massacre. The current Secretary-General unwittingly played a key role in the mismanagement of both occasions, and notably in the second -- as acknowledged in subsequent reports (http://www.eucom.mil/europe/bosnia/usis/99nov16.htm; http://www.eucom.mil/africa/rwanda/usis/99dec16.htm). It is important to recall that according to Article 58 of the UN Charter, the General Assembly was to coordinate macro-economic policies. Moreover, according to Article 63, ECOSOC should also coordinate their implementation by the specialized UN agencies. In fact, following an agreement by the General Assembly without a vote in 1947, the UN effectively gave up control of these policies to the World Bank and the IMF. According to Victor Menotti: "The practical result of their self-declared autonomy is that the BWIs now restrict the participation of the UN's specialized agencies at BWI functions and meetings. Meanwhile, the BWIs actively participate not only in the meetings of ECOSOC, but also the meetings of the UN's specialized agencies. This massive bureaucratic dysfunction has produced today's international system that institutionalizes corporate rights (as enforced by the BWIs) over the universal citizens rights (as embodied by the UN)". (http://www.e-terra.net/stories/storyReader$129). It is important to recall that the term "NGO" derives from Article 71 of the UN Charter. The social phenomenon recognized through this negative category is a consequence of what the UN has been willing to recognize through its political processes and related administrative procedures -- highly influenced by Cold War game-playing. The UN was, in the light of its Charter, unable to recognize or establish relationships with any other form of organization now characterized as part of civil society. Efforts to do so were traditionally framed as part of "public relations". Until the Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations had been remarkably successful in managing its relationship with such recognized NGOs through layers of privileged access, studied indifference (wherever possible), and the adoption of a highly critical NGO review procedure -- according to standards to which the UN itself only paid lipservice. This arrangement was periodically oiled by remarkable eulogies of cosmetic appreciation from the highest intergovernmental level - whose content, promises and minimal follow up had changed little over the decades. At Rio somehow the floodgates were opened and "NGOs" of every kind suddenly sought some form of relationship with the United Nations system - overwhelming the administrative procedures of the past. Many of these groups were new to the international scene but were quick to distance themselves from traditional "international NGOs" -- whether by wielding comparatively large financial resources or by according significance only to "peoples movements" uncluttered by decision-making structures and secretariats. This process was aided and abetted by the UNDP -- which had previously sought(and found) means of bypassing any international nongovernmental structures in order to develop its own direct relations with field level NGOs in developing countries through UNDP Resident Representatives. The process was further complicated by the sudden recognition of the role of "civil society" organizations in countries of the former Soviet Union -- following the chaos of official intergovernmental efforts to manage the transition to western capitalism. These three tendencies raised a multitude of coordination and funding issues for which solutions are still to be found - as admirably illustrated by the chaotic operation of any humanitarian disaster relief. With the cessation of the Cold War, it became possible to recognize the level of corruption through which the international system was operating -- whereas previously it had been considered prudent to deny such matters. Attention was given to the existence of international crime rings and questionable decision making processes. It became apparent the extent to which international business contracts were dependent on "facilitated" tendering processes. The nepotism and other questionable practices of intergovernmental agencies could now be discussed openly without fear of sanction. Whereas espionage had been a legitimate tool of Cold War processes to protect "national security", its redefinition as economic espionage towards the same end became a new strategic peacetime weapon. The existence and function of the Echelon system was finally acknowledged (now the subject of deep concern in the European Parliament, see: http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/166499/execsum.htm). The academic world was very slow to respond to these developments. They completely upset a tidy world of international relations, macroeconomics, international law and community-level sociology that had empowered a world view of development theories and policies. These were recognizably threadbare in the light of the cumulative failure of a succession of "development decades" and the shambles of the economic transition of eastern bloc countries during the early 1990s (under the guidance of western expertise). Following the fall of the Soviet Union, and the critical role of actors and phenomena that had long been systematically ignored - including organized criminal networks and systemic corruption -- academics found themselves quickly obliged to provide a post facto rationalization for realities with which others had been obliged to deal for some time. Foundations have been happy to support recognition of this new reality by traditional centers of excellence after reinforcing their preoccupation with the previous reality for such a lengthy period. However, although slow on the uptake, academics have proven quick learners and have successfully redefined the field of discourse to position themselves as the discoverers of phenomena with which others have been engaged whilst they were preoccupied with the earlier social reality. But unfortunately they have not been fast enough. Despite desperate attempts by governments and international institutions to reframe the emerging reality to minimize any disruption to business as usual, it has become increasingly clear that the ability of institutions to cope with daily challenges and emerging crises is now totally problematic - a disaster thinly disguised by spin. The scholars claiming relevance have few credible recommendations and none on which they themselves are prepared to stake their livelihoods. In its years of vain effort to redefine itself, with the aid of those who ensured its previous inadequacy, the United Nations is itself in search of new myths through which to regain credibility and respect. The 1990s saw the explosion of the Internet and the Web -- unpredicted, unfacilitated and unexplored by the UN system, even though electronic mail had been available since the 1970s. This gave new meaning to "global" and the power of local groups employing it -- "Think globally; Act locally". "Globalization" has now been hyped as the panacea through which the specific ills of everyone will be healed - a form of conceptual "snake-oil". As before, it is only necessary to make some regrettable "adjustments", mediated by the World Trade Organization (IMF, etc), and everyone will achieve a better quality of life -- some time in the future (but without any tangible guarantees). This myth was catastrophically called into question by the Asian financial crisis and the destruction of the livelihoods of many -- whilst the high priests of globalization looked on in innocent bemusement from the armchairs of their centres of excellence. That financial crisis then drifted into the past, the vulnerabilities of the financial system were minimized or denied. Then came Seattle and an extraordinary self-organizing conglomeration of "civil society" protesters that viewed the purveyors of globalization with the deepest suspicion, and managed to attract more support and media attention than their detractors had imagined possible -- and then followed up this success with others. To consider options, the Group of Seven (or Eight) met in Okinawa in 2000 at an estimated cost of one billion dollars - the most expensive gathering in the history of mankind - and with virtually undetectable consequences (at a remarkable cost of over $100 million per delegate!). It is from these different threads and trends that the UN's Global Compact with multinationals has now emerged. For further updates on this site, subscribe here
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GIS technology is critical when mapping well sites for drilling operations. The cost of drilling a dry well can quickly eat into an operation’s budget. However, a professional land surveyor can use GIS mapping to leverage central geological and physical datasets to help analyze, summarize, and make determinations more effective planning. Finding the Right Location Geologists typically analyze the prospective well drilling area by checking rock and soils types, land terrain, as well as the gravitational and magnetic area fields. Geologists perform seismic surveys and test for hydrocarbons in and around the site. Seismic surveys are not fool proof as they may find what appears to be an excellent reserve trap but which may turn out to be dry when drilled. Dry holes are the lack of charging or breaching of previously charged reservoirs where the hydrocarbons have escaped. Geochemical soil gas surveys used in conjunction with seismic surveys can significantly improve successful hydrocarbon exploration ratios and reduce “dry hole” risk. Once geologists select the prospective well drilling location, surveyors are called to stake the well site. It is the job of professional land surveyors to prepare 2D and 3D mappings. A plat map, stamped and signed by one of the licensed land surveyors, showing the staked well location is required by various states prior to drilling. This provides insurance of the correct location, to the best of the geologist and land surveyor’s knowledge. Erroneous information may result in the drilling company losing the ability to hydraulically fracture all segments of the downhole well lateral, or encounter a dry well. It is not uncommon for a well to be relocated several times on the surface before drilling. Accurate documentation is vital. Prior to Drilling The drilling site must be prepared and free from hazards. The professional land surveyors should conduct a line location survey in preparation to level the drill site as well as for the excavation of the reserve and settling pits. Access roads and the drill pad must be staked and prepared prior to commencing drilling operations. Cost and Consequences of Dry Drilling Drilling risks may be moderate to high depending on the proximity of drilling to existing producing wells. Wildcat or high risk drilling occurs greater than 1.5 miles from the nearest producing oil well or 3 miles from the nearest producing gas well. Conversely, low risk, developmental drilling operations, are within half a mile of oil or within one mile of gas wells already drilled and producing. Geochemistry is not as critical, but is useful in determining where blind compartments of stratigraphic traps lie. Outpost drilling offers moderate risk. Drilling is located within 0.5 – 1.5 miles of the nearest producing oil well or 1-3 miles to the nearest active gas well. Geochemistry is a cost efficient means of locating the extreme limits of newly-discovered fields. When GIS tools are not used during analysis, dry drilling can occur. Dry drilling is loss of circulation and fluid. Although the well is bored, the fluid does not rise to the top. Operation losses may be as little as a broken drill bit or as major as a damaged wellbore, drill string, snapped pipe, or damaged rig. In terms of barrels per day and revenue, a “minor loss” is considered to upto 470 barrels in a 48 hour period. Severe losses exceed 470 barrels or occur when fluid gushes to the surface and is wasted or lost. To learn more about how experienced professional land surveyors can help with oil and gas projects, download our free ebook about modern land surveying technologies.
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is looking for impactful youth leaders across the U.S. and Canada. Applications for the prestigious 2023 award is open through April 15, and winners will be announced in September. Established in 2001 by author T. A. Barron, the Barron Prize annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant positive difference to people and the environment. Fifteen top winners each receive $10,000 to support their service work or higher education. Over the past two decades, the Barron Prize has honored more than 500 young leaders. Those students have helped the hungry and the homeless, invented life-saving technologies, worked to protect our oceans and endangered species and addressed climate change and other issues. Students have raised more than $26 million for their causes and have inspired countless people by their example. “Nothing is more inspiring than stories about heroic people who have truly made a difference to the world,” Barron says. “And we need our heroes today more than ever. Not celebrities, but true heroes — people whose character can inspire us all. That is the purpose of the Barron Prize: to share positive examples of heroism with as many young people as possible.” Since its inception, the Barron Prize has awarded more than half a million dollars to young leaders and has won the support of organizations such as Girl Scouts of the USA, Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots and Youth Service America. Learn more and apply online at barronprize.org.
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Why Publish Public Domain book? Just like other genres of voice over, when you are new to audio books, you need to build your street credit. The more titles you have under your built, the more experience you gain. It is hard, however, to book work without titles to your name. A great way to do this is to narrate books that are already in the “Public Domain.” That means that these books have been published more than 100 years ago and are free for anyone to work with. The other good news is that every January more books become part of the public domain! I had gone to Karen Commins’ site Narrator’s Roadmap, which can be found here https://www.narratorsroadmap.com/ and found a wealth of information. I have actually paid for access to her videos and am so thankful for that information. If you, like me, are new to audiobooks you may also find this site to be a blessing! Find Content On Gutenberg The easiest place to find public domain content is at https://gutenberg.org/. There you can search and download titles. I used this site myself to create a master spreadsheet of many titles I am interested in narrating. Then when I have downtime in between actual VO bookings, these are projects I can turn to to fill my audiobook goals. Keep this spreadsheet in a place you can easily access. You can have a lot of fun finding works in different genres. For instance, this week I recorded both a History title and a Poetry book. Publishing on Kindle You will want to upload your public domain book for kindle. In order to do this you need to do a few important things!! First, you need to create a separate and unique email address, different that the other address you use as a narrator on acx. Make sure that it is something that you can remember. The other important step is that you need to make your version of the public domain book different than the existing versions in order to claim it on Kindle. For instance, for the books that I have done, I researched and wrote forewards that I found interesting. For the poetry book I just did, I wrote and article about why it is important for children to read poetry. Once you do this, merge the PDFs to create one version. Then, upload that version in a format that kindle takes, like epub. I use zamzar to do this. The link is in the list below. Note, you will need to create your own cover art! I also create mine at this stage, prior to beginning the upload process. I like to make my cover art both on canva or on an app called word swag. I make it in a square shape and I tend to make two versions, one for the kindle and one for ACX. I love creating content for social media, so I actually find this step fun. You can be creative and really make this your own. Again, this is another way that differentiates your public domain version, so you might as well make it something that stands out to you. I very much enjoyed having a chance to create the two that I worked on this month. Once you have completed these steps, as the rights holder you can go to https://kdp.amazon.com/ and publish your version of the public domain book on kindle. Once the book is live, which takes about 72 hours, you can then create the audio book. Publishing Your Audio Book Once Kindle has approved your ebook, you can go into ACX and upload the audio. You still need to meet all of the ACX standards and have the audio divided properly (opening credits, closing credits, body to match table of contents, retail sample, etc….) I have to say, having just completed my second project, I was elated to have finally figured it out. In a seven week period, I booked three titles on ACX and published two of my own. It honestly feels great! To Make sure this is easy for you to follow, here is a breakdown of the steps that I took: List of steps: - Find public domain source to narrate using https://gutenberg.org/ - Download and save your version. - Write a foreward or do something to make your version unique. Save that additional copy. - Merge the two pieces of copy into one PDF. - Save this as an “epub” file using https://www.zamzar.com/. You’ll need that format to upload. - Create cover art. You can do this using canva or an app like Word Swag. You can save the file as a jpeg. Note that A CX has different file size requirements than kindle for this file and you can create one image and use something like preview if you are on a Mac to change the file size. - Log in using your “Rights Holder” account. Publish your ebook at https://kdp.amazon.com/. - Once the ebook is live, go to acx.com to upload the audio. - Record your audio per ACX standards. Lessons Learned Since Initial Blog Posting Well, it turns out sometimes there are some snags in the road of public domain audio books! When choosing your book, if possible, try to also look for a book that has not been done or has not been done often. I was approached in March at the APAC conference by fellow voice actor, audiobook narrator, and industry friend Steve Corona and he shared with me that he had done a public domain book recently. Steve spent a good bit of time on this project, as these manuscripts can be quite long, and he was prevented from posting it as Audible said there were already too many titles like his in existence. Steve and I got together to discuss this and you can find our chat here. Believe it or not, after Steve and I had this chat, I had the same experience! I recorded Mother Goose. I was super excited about my version, which bizarrely is still alive and well on Kindle, and just four days after going live on Audible, I received a message through ACX that they were taking it down! I was flabbergasted because they let it go live in the first place. I spent days working on this and it felt like such a loss. I have another project in limbo write now, that Kindle does not seem to want to let me upload, and I am not sure what will come of that. So, you might be wondering what we can do? I have turned to Spoken Realms. I did learn about this on Narrator’s Roadmap as well. Now that I have more than a dozen titles under my belt, I felt more confident in reaching out to them. I am delighted to say I was accepted to their site and they have approved my first project which is in process now. Here are a few notes about getting started on Spoken Realms in case you, like me, decide to try that: - I was advised to wait until I had done upwards of 6 or 7 books. - Their recording specs are quite different than ACX, so I actually think that having a bit of experience will help you better meet the requirements of Spoken Realms. - The project I submitted has no other versions at present on Audible. I have no idea if that impacted their decision to accept it or not, and I will let you know via blog what my experience is like going forward!
I'm currently 13 years old, but when I was 12. I would tell my grandmother "I don't believe in God" deliberately because I wanted to make her angry, since I was angry. I didn't know it was bad to say that. I actually regret it so much that I'm about to cry writing this. But my question is: Am I going to hell for doing this, even though I asked God to forgive me? And would Matthew 10:33 refer to me? Let's be reasonable. You did know it was a bad thing to say, that is why you said it to make your grandmother angry. However, there are two things you don't understand. Sins will keep you out of heaven if you stay in them. Being a Christian is about changing into a better person. You're going to make a lot of mistakes in life, but if you reject the mistakes and work to become a better person, God is willing to forgive you. See: Are You Unforgivable? The second thing is that Jesus is talking about people who say they are Christians, but will not admit it in front of other people -- particularly people who are pressuring them to deny Christ. What Jesus is saying is that we have to be committed to him no matter what happens.
The term “music industry” is an oxymoron if you understand that it's comprised of suits unsustainably leeching off the creative people behind new sounds. Attempts to monetize self-expression eventually implode when enough money is thrown around, so the “industry” has to constantly replenish itself with what’s true, authentic and ripe for profiteering. EDM is the latest flavor of the 21st-century music biz, and critics at Cuepoint, Pitchfork and Forbes have taken to calling its meteoric rise an “EDM bubble” that was sugary sweet in recent years but is fermenting into something bitter and ready to burst in 2016. It is a fascinating discussion between the EDM deniers, who want to delegitimize all digitally produced music as inauthentic, and career dance-music enthusiasts. As the talks continue, we’re closing in on the realization that the bubble won’t burst because of faltering interest in EDM, but because the industry driving the bubble will get so big that it has to fail. A short explanation of the bubble is as follows: Las Vegas, the epicenter for extravagant entertainment and celebrity performances, never had a problem selling out theater shows but needed a way to parallel the success in nightclubs. It started throwing exorbitant amounts of money at the DJs and advertised them as celebrity performers until the audience believed it. The hype spilled out of Vegas and careened into every American market. Now, you’re no longer paying a cover charge to get into the club; you’re paying for a ticket to see a very expensive human jukebox for an hour and a half. “Vegas stepped in in a way that nobody really predicted,” says BBC Radio 1 host, veteran live DJ and producer Pete Tong, speaking with L.A. Weekly at the recent International Music Summit in Hollywood. Tong founded the IMS as an EDM industry conference in Ibiza in 2007; the L.A. version, called IMS Engage, began in 2012. “There’s an acute professionalism that is attached to Vegas. It goes against everything artistic in my nature … everything is so calculated.” Tong gives a specific example. “I remember a conversation four or five years ago with a particular club and a particular club booker that will go nameless, but they were booking DJs based on their table take. And based on how many bottles got served during the guy’s set. They could tell if the guy did anything wrong or stepped off the tightrope, and tables started clearing out and bottles stopped being consumed. There were so many metrics tied to the business side of it. I was just like, ‘This is so uncool, un-techno and un-underground.” With no shortage of affluent weekend warriors looking to escape the monotony of their vanilla lives, EDM grew to be a $6.9 billion industry in 2015. It surpassed nightclubs and took weekend nights away from rock and hip-hop at America’s biggest concert halls. It claimed No. 1 hits and commandeered prime slots at award shows. It received its fair share of airtime on mainstream radio and infiltrated pop music. Bottom line: EDM has been legitimized by co-existing next to America’s most beloved genres that have no fear of deflating. If the EDM bubble is to endure, it needs to hold strong in all of these arenas. But its persistence is contingent on the music industry’s ability to self-regulate and not overplay its winning hand — and historically, the industry is notoriously untrustworthy when it comes to self-regulating. “I’m not interested in working with people where it starts with the money,” Lee Anderson, VP (East Coast) of AM Only, preached to a choir of EDM believers at IMS. “I’m about people that are doing it for the art and the creativity and the experience of the fan.” At IMS, Anderson, the booking agent for superstar acts such as Skrillex, Zedd and Disclosure, discussed the music business ecosystem with James Barton, president of electronic music at Live Nation. Both gentlemen concluded that it would behoove managers, agents and event promoters to practice conservative buying and spending, but when it's people with their job titles that are perpetuating the insane booking fees set by Vegas, it's hard not to call bullshit on such sentiments. The worry now is that EDM will cannibalize itself through greed and drive consumers out of the market. This should sound familiar to any avid raver who has seen festival prices increase year after year. “The most popular 10 percent [of artists] receive 90 percent of the pie. Of course, they make music and do it well. But it must remain in balance, which is now gone.” said Duncan Stutterheim, founder of ID&T, the event promoter behind Atlanta’s TomorrowWorld and New York’s Mysteryland, in an interview with Quote. There is something wrong when it takes an average millennial several months to save enough money to attend a few festivals (with an average ticket price of around $400 per three-day pass) yet an hour and a half for a headlining DJ to make almost half a million dollars. The artistic ecosystem becomes unbalanced when industry recklessly overspends on the top and the celebrity-obsessed mainstream audience floods the bottom. And while many at IMS Engage seem to recognize the problem, their response so far has consisted of platitudes rather than solutions. “It’s called the music business,” James Barton said at IMS Engage, “so there needs to be more business attached to what we do.“ And there it is: the oxymoron. When business gets ahold of art, it ceases to be artistic. Art is routinely suffocated by business. It’s not a commodity. It’s not a product. It’s an idea. It’s an experience. Commerce has tarnished creative subcultures numerous times in the past, but the cycle persists. Punk rock turned into Hot Topic. Hip-hop turned into whatever you want to call this Auto-Tuned rap we have nowadays. Street art became a sales rack at Urban Outfitters. EDM's security lies in humans’ primitive urge to dance. But unfortunately for Vegas accountants, the business side of things has likely plateaued. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers.
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Referencing software enables you to create a personal database of references which can then be automatically formatted for use in a bibliography. Mendeley is the referencing software that Loughborough University recommends and supports. Loughborough University has an Institutional subscription that gives staff and students extra benefits. What can Mendeley do? Mendeley allows you to download bibliographic references from databases, files or PDFs. These references can be sorted into folders, helping you to organise your research more efficiently. Within Word or LibreOffice you can import your references directly from Mendeley into your work. The references will be automatically formatted into the referencing style of your choise and a bibliography created, saving you time. Our Institutional subscription gives users 100GB of storage space, plenty for your research needs. Who might use it? Mendeley is open to everyone but is particularly useful for researchers, final year students or those doing dissertations. A Mendeley account is created on the web in conjunction with desktop software on your own personal PC or laptop. The desktop software is available on all University computers. This software is upgraded on a yearly basis, though there may be newer, updated versions available for installation on personal devices. New Mendeley users will automatically download the new Mendeley Reference Manager desktop software which has replaced the previous version of Mendeley known as "Mendeley Desktop". "Mendeley Desktop" is no longer being updated and although it has not yet been withdrawn, the software provider has indicated that they are "not allocating resources to improve Mendeley Desktop" and "cannot ensure its compatibility with upcoming operating systems without encountering significant issues". Creating a Mendeley account Before you can use Mendeley you will need to create an account. Do this on the web at www.mendeley.com using your Loughborough e-mail address but creating a different password than the University one. Ignore the prompt to download the desktop software unless you are working on a personal machine. Do not attempt to "Sign in via institution". This creates a separate account and can affect the functionality of the software. Read the "Creating a Mendeley Account" guide for further advice. The Library provides a wide range of online support in getting started and using Mendeley. A range of guides and videos are available via the Learn module - Managing References with Mendeley. If you have any enquiries or need help in using Mendeley, please contact your Academic Librarian.
Page 2 of 4 Hoshi tells Archer that she’s comfortable with the idea. Reed suggests that they could stay in orbit for a few days but Hoshi argues that they don’t have the time for this. She tells Archer she can take care of herself and that it is worth the risk. They return to Tarquin’s castle and bring part of the Xindi weapon that was used before to attack Earth. Hoshi asks for a few minutes with Archer and tells him she will keep her phase pistol under her pillow as a precaution. The alien has prepared a dinner made up of Hoshi’s favorite foods. He tells her that he knows she and he both understand solitude as she grew up with private tutors and as such was alone for much of her childhood. He says that 1 in 50 million of his species have telepathic abilities and that those that do must live their lives in exile as they are considered a threat. Hoshi wants to go rest as she is tired so the alien takes her to her room. There he gives her a book written in a dead language, the culture having died out. He tells her not to go outside as “the winds can be threacherous” but that she is free to explore the manor. Back on the ship, anomalies start to occur as they are nearing the second sphere. They are so severe that Archer orders a full stop and tells Trip to line a shuttlepod with Trellium-D so they can use it to get the scans they need of the sphere. Next day, Hoshi visits the alien while he is working. He tells her he will need more time to find where the weapon is being built. He uses what looks like an oval crystal ball that enhances his telepathic abilities. He offers to let Hoshi use it. She tries it and sees a jumble of images with one being a reptilian Xindi. She stops and he offers her another try. She refuses and tells him to go on with his work. She then goes about the castle and wanders outside where she comes across some graves. Tarquin shows up and tells her to go inside. She asks about the graves. He tells her they are of former companions. She asks how they died and he tells her he is 400 years old and outlived them. He tells her he’d like her to be his companion. She tells him no and goes back inside. He changes back to a human male and tries to reason with her. She makes it clear that she is not interested in being his companion. Archer and Trip take the modified shuttlepod to the sphere but must pass through the cloaking barrier. They make it to the sphere but the sensor relays get damaged. Trip wants to go back to the ship for repairs but Archer decides they could land on the sphere and do repairs there using EV suits. While doing the repairs, the port truster ignites and the pod starts to rise up. They phaser the truster, destroy it and the pod falls back down on the sphere. Archer contacts T’Pol to tell her they have the scans and they return to the ship. T’Pol analyses the data while the ship is on course to pick up Hoshi. Tarquin visits Hoshi in her room and tells her Enterprise is on its way. He tells her he will brief Captain Archer and then send him to her. He again asks her to stay but she refuses once again. He tells her to keep the book as a “reminder of your time here”. Later Archer comes into her room. He asks Hoshi if she would stay with Tarquin for a while longer as the alien has promised to continue to get more information on the Xindi if she will stay and that they’ll be
1. True or False Nephi, being led by the Spirit, knew exactly what to do to obtain the Brass plates when he and his brothers tried for the third time? 2. Fill in the Blank “And it came to pass that I was _______by the Spirit that I should kill Laban.” 3. Multiple Choice What does it mean to come out in “open rebellion against God”? A. To be excommunicated B. To be convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison. C. To dwindle in unbelief and stop attending church. D. To withdraw yourself from the Spirit of the Lord. The Book of Mormon uses three methods to keep track of the passage of time. Can you recall all three methods? 5. True or False The Book of Mormon supports the Biblical account of the flood.
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LED Liquor Displays If drinking were a less popular pastime, we wouldn’t see bars on nearly every corner. However, since bars crowd the landscape, you need to set yours apart from the run-of-the-mill competition. Of the many creative ways you can distinguish your drinking establishment from all the others, adding LED liquor displays may bring the most return on investment. What Do LED Liquor Displays Bring to the Party? Illuminating your liquor bottles enhances their appeal. Even plain old bottles with no crafty styling enchant the eye when light shines through the liquid. Of course, the fancier the bottle, the better the display. You might say, “I already have florescent tubes lighting up my shelves.” But, do they change color? Can they generate a kaleidoscope of hues to fascinate your patrons and keep them placing orders? Do your tubes light from under and behind the bottles, or do they just throw light on the front of your liquor bottles and call it a day? Won’t They Cost Too Much to Operate? Because LED light merely sips electricity compared to florescent and incandescent bulbs, you actually save money while displaying your liquor. Plus, when you consider the fact that you can set your wares aglow for pennies on the dollar compared to the other methods, you can set up larger displays and eliminate some of your other lighting fixtures while you’re at it. You get savings on top of savings. Go Wild with Your Remote Programmer To really turn up the heat on your bar’s appeal, you can tie the pulse of the music to your LED’s with your easy-to-use remote programmer. You’ll impress your patrons with the high energy in your business by syncing your mood lighting and music for total sensory stimulation. You know that a stimulated crowd is a spending crowd. As word spreads that you operate a boss bar, you’ll be glad you invested in LED liquor displays.
By Lara Kathleen Kelley \| MTV.com House hitmaker riding high after awards nods, epic Lollapalooza set and working with Tiësto and Will.I.Am. Is electro-house producer Wolfgang Gartner up next for a Deadmau5-like surge in popularity? Well, consider this: Gartner's newest single with British house-music producer Mark Knight, "Conscindo," held the #1 spot on Beatport's dance-music charts for two weeks in July, and in the past two years, he's had eight other tracks make it to the top, including Beatport's best-selling track of 2009, "Wolfgang's 5th Symphony." Then there's his awards nominations: He was nominated in the DJ Awards' Best Newcomer category and also made the top-100 list for America's Best DJ. Voting is under way for both. Gartner has remixed everyone from Britney Spears to Timbaland and Black Eyed Peas and is currently working with Tiësto, Will.I.Am and Kaskade on separate forthcoming releases. His most recent accolade is his conquering of the dance stage at Lollapalooza last weekend, where he also rocked the Undocumented afterparty at Vision Nightclub in Chicago. "In one word: amazing," Gartner told MTV News on Wednesday (August 11) of his Lollapalooza experience. "And, to be honest, the most fun I've ever had playing in Chicago. [The afterparty] with Felix Cartal and JFK from MSTRKRFT, who are both under the same management as me, was kinda like a family-type vibe. A lot of friends were there, and I also love hearing those guys play, so it was cool in so many ways." When describing his newest #1 single, "Conscindo," Gartner said the collaboration was fun, but not easy. "It was a bit of a pain in the ass for Mark Knight, because he had to fly out to my studio in Austin [Texas] to work on it a multiple of times, so I felt bad for him!" he said. "Collaborations are a weird thing for me. I never really realize what we have until a couple weeks after it's over, the track has been sitting around for a while, and then it's like I suddenly have perspective on it and hear it for what it really is. When that moment came for 'Conscindo,' I knew exactly what we had on our hands. It sat at #1 on Beatport for about two weeks, so now we're kicking around the idea of turning it into a vocal track and going for round two with it." At age 11, Gartner was inspired to begin making music after hearing a mixtape by Detroit techno producer Kevin Saunderson. Gartner said he would lock himself in his room and produce songs on drum machines and keyboards. A few years later, he got decks and a mixer and began spinning at underground parties and nightclubs. Earlier this summer, Gartner told MTV News about his musical style and how he got started. "It's basically electro-house," he said about the type of dance music he produces. "But I kind of go through all different forms of house music, because that's what I was brought up on. Beyond that, I've got influences from rock and disco and all over the place put together in a dance format. I'm just trying to push boundaries and be forward-thinking. "When I [first] got into it, I was more on the production end of things," he added. "I just wanted to make this music and listen to it. But then I started realizing this whole other side to it — the DJ side — and I wanted to be a part of that too and learn how to DJ. It kind of organically happened that way." His newest release, "Undertaker," is a dark and sinister house anthem that sounds like an homage to Deamau5's hit "Ghosts n' Stuff," so it's only fitting that Gartner had some exciting news to share with us: "I just did a track with Deadmau5 that should be out in the next couple of months, which I'm really happy with. It was a really fun one. And there are a couple other collaborations that aren't done yet, so I shouldn't mention them just in case, ya know, they never get finished!" Wolfgang Gartner is headlining Control at Avalon Nightclub in Hollywood on Friday and is scheduled to play the Electric Zoo festival in New York on Labor Day weekend. L.E.D. presents WOLFGANG GARTNER at the Wavehouse in San Diego on Sunday, August 29th. More info here.
Biobank Data Genetics Analysis Combining genomics data and electronic health records, Biobank emerges as an important resource for precision health. However, the size and structure of the data pose challenges to analyze them. We have developed numerous methods for GWAS and rare variant tests for biobank size data, including SAIGE and SAIGE-GENE+. These methods combine scalable mixed-effect model computation and saddlepoint approximation for accurate inference while adjusting for sample relatedness. We are also actively analyzing biobank data, including UK-Biobank and Korean Biobank (KoGES) Genome-based Risk Prediction With large-scale genetics/genomics data, genome-based disease risk prediction, polygenic risk score (PRS), is becoming an important tool for precision health. We are working on improving PRS, including the cross-ancestry adaptation, functional annotation incorporation, and better interpretation. Drug effect estimation Drug effect and side effect estimation are of great importance. By linking prescription records, genetics/genomics, and OMICs, biobanks provide an excellent opportunity to estimate drug effects and side effects at the molecular level in real-world data. We are working on causal-inference techniques and pharmaco-genomics for this purpose. Medical records include unstructured data such as medical images and clinical notes. Our research includes this domain to better utilize medical data We are grateful to the National Research Foundation of Korea (BP+ program) and Ministry of Food and Drug Safty for supporting our research.
Design, develop, deploy, and handle purposes within the cloud Cloud native represents a shift in how organizations design, develop, deploy, and handle purposes within the cloud. Builders construct cloud-native purposes from the bottom as much as absolutely make the most of the distinctive options of cloud platforms, quite than retrofitting present purposes to work within the cloud as an afterthought. The method will increase agility, scalability, and reliability for companies. Nonetheless, it additionally brings new challenges and calls for for builders and DevOps engineers, together with a reimagined understanding of safety, containerization, and multi-cloud observability. Whether or not you’re attending CLUS 2023 in particular person or following alongside on-line, when you’re enthusiastic about sharpening your cloud native expertise, this studying map is for you! Discover cloud native at Cisco Stay The Getting Began with Cloud Native studying map is a sequenced session path of Cisco Stay 2023 classroom, workshop, and theater periods that can jumpstart you in direction of efficiently working with cloud-native purposes. Uncover new methods to make use of applied sciences like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ThousandEyes, and Panoptica to handle cloud-native environments. I’m personally excited to steer some foundational periods designed to assist any of you which can be simply getting began working with cloud-native purposes. Watch Jeff Bull’s quick video beneath to begin exploring which periods you’re enthusiastic about. Then head over to the studying map session builder and decide your customized schedule. Don’t miss these periods – Register now to safe your spot! Get extra Cisco Stay inspiration - Discover the opposite Cisco Stay studying maps, and study session sorts in this weblog submit. - Discover all DevNet periods, get pleasure from dwell occasion broadcasts June 6-8, and discover new sandboxes, studying labs, and lightning talks on the DevNet Zone occasion web page . - In the event you’re attending in particular person, keep in mind to cease by the DevNet Zone for much more enjoyable and studying. We’re wanting ahead to assembly you! - Observe alongside on social: Discover the most recent occasion highlights on LinkedIn and Twitter. Expertise the most effective of Cisco Stay, nearly! In the event you can not be a part of Cisco Stay in particular person, please test the each day DevNet readout/takeaways with our dwell broadcast. We’re recording many periods and organizing the highlights to deliver the occasion to you. You may additionally be enthusiastic about: We’d love to listen to what you suppose. Ask a query or go away a remark beneath. And keep linked with Cisco DevNet on social!
Women can often feel quite intimidated in the gym. Even with the rise of female fitness influencers, the gym can still feel like a male-dominated space for some - but two young women from Leicester have decided to shift that narrative. “I wanna see women comfortable, lifting heavy weights and feeling confident”, said 24-year-old Fatima Rafik. Fatima is one half of the dynamic duo, along with fellow co-owner and friend, Samaha Zakariya, also 24, who have just opened The Fitness Maison - the latest gym in the city catering to an all-female clientele. Samaha is a drug safety specialist and Fatima is an architecture student - as well as being successful entrepreneurs - but their talents also extend to working as trainers at The Fitness Maison. They met at college, and after briefly losing touch during university, the pandemic brought the two back together. Samaha said: “We’ve both been into fitness for a while, but during the pandemic gyms were closed, so we started working out together in a car park. We’d each gained a bit of weight, so we wanted to motivate each other. “When the gyms opened again, we did give them a go, but they’d be really busy or we’d just feel intimidated and that's when we decided we wanted to start our own thing.” Despite their young age, the two women made the decision to invest their savings in the business after strategically conducting market research to find out what local women would want out of a gym space. With the support of their families, the two embarked on the journey to create what is now known as The Fitness Maison. Samaha said: “We always wanted our gym to be for women only. We've often seen BAME women or women from the same cultural backgrounds saying that they don't feel like the gym is for them - especially the older generation. “When people come into the gym, a lot of them don’t know what to do or how to properly use equipment, especially if you’re going by yourself, you tend to feel demotivated. Our sole purpose is to motivate these people. “We are always there to help and push our members. People often think that they can’t do something, or can’t lift a certain weight - but we are all so much stronger than we think we are. “Also being from BAME communities ourselves, we knew that when members see us, they’d also feel more comfortable. We aren’t perfect but we are on our fitness journey too, and so it's like we are all in this together.” Fatima said: “When we started looking for locations, we wanted somewhere that was well-lit, where you can physically see, especially as a woman, you don’t want to find yourself in dingy areas.” Once they found the perfect location in Belgrave, they started setting up The Fitness Maison, but it came with its challenges. “We underestimated how difficult it was gonna be, to build the gym from scratch. We thought it would be a bit of paint, and the job would be done - but it was a long and tiring process.” “Because we’d put a lot of the money into the actual equipment and the meal prep service, we had to do a lot of the handiwork ourselves." The two women described the experience as a learning curve, saying that they had helped the electricians, painters and even the plumbers put everything together - and despite their lack of experience in these areas. Fatima and Samaha were honest about the fact that mid-way through the building process they started to lose motivation as the physical involvement in the build started taking a toll. However, social media app TikTok ended up being their saving grace. Fatima said: “Most of our members are from TikTok, and using the app to document our journey has been one of the biggest motivations for us in times where we felt like giving up." They have raked in over 4 million views and over 400,000 likes and have nearly 10,000 followers. Commenters have expressed their excitement and anticipation over The Fitness Maison's opening. One user wrote: "THIS NEEDS TO BE EVERYWHERE". Another commenter said: "YAYYYY never see anything good being posted about Leicester! You go girlies." The gym has a multifunctional space with equipment such as treadmills, exercise bikes, free weights and a Smith machine. They also have a separate room for classes - including a pole dancing class that takes place weekly. There is also a café and communal area, where the owners said they are going to start serving meals, with the help of a professional nutritionist. Fatima and Samaha have also said that members will soon be able to bring their children with them to the gym - in hopes of inspiring the younger generation to take fitness seriously. Fatima said: "We understand that childcare can be a barrier to working out - so we are going to have a designated area for them to play in. Also, we thought that if these young children can see their mums exercising, it will encourage them to do it too." In regards to the future, the two want to take their business worldwide, but they confess that it's got nothing to do with money. Fatima said: “This isn’t about making profit for us, we are there with our members from the the very beginning of their journeys. "One of the best parts has been seeing people come in initially and looking a bit nervous, but within a week they’re so confident and knowing exactly what to do.” Samaha said: “We want people to have fun and to continue to build a community. The body you have now doesn’t need to fit any beauty standard - we just want people to have a good time getting stronger.”
Delightful and highly decorated little front doors have appeared everywhere in Buckshaw Wood in the village, to the delight of children taking their daily exercise there. The fairies have been busy during lockdown in Buckshaw Village, it seems.. Lockdown isn't downtime for the fairies of Buckshaw Village. By Iain Lynn Published 20th Apr 2020, 15:11 BST Updated 20th Apr 2020, 15:12 BST 6 / 6
Share this Post Most of us are now aware of the devastating impact of excessive global plastic consumption on our oceans. We’ve seen shocking images of albatross chicks with plastic in their stomachs and turtles eating plastic bags, or we’ve noticed the increase in plastic pollution on our local patch – in our streets, parks, rivers and beaches. We’re all responsible for this mess on some level because we’ve all used and disposed of too much plastic; and that plastic has made it’s way from our overflowing landfills and inadequate recycling systems into our natural environment, where it wreaks havoc on wildlife and eco-systems. As individuals we have the power to make a difference to the plastic crisis through our everyday choices, by changing some key habits to reduce the amount of plastic we purchase and throw away, particularly by boycotting single-use plastic. However, the impact of individuals is often limited by decisions made further up the supply chain to include excessive or unnecessary disposable plastic on the products we buy and use in our everyday lives. If you work in a business, or attend a school or university, you’re in the privileged position of being able to make changes with far-reaching and long-lasting impact, because of the scale of your organisation. Whilst most organisations currently generate excessive plastic waste, this represents an amazing opportunity for positive change, starting straight away. You can become a Plastic Game Changer – by taking action to cut the plastic waste generated by your organisation and creating a ripple effect of positive change among your suppliers, colleagues, customers, students, partners, competitors and wider community. For too long plastic been seen as a cheap, easy, quick-fix ‘solution’ that we’ve come to rely on due to habit and not necessity. To become a Plastic Game Changer you simply need to challenge yourself and your colleagues to think more creatively and re-learn how to do business without producing tonnes of plastic waste. And the good news is, it’s not rocket science. Being a Plastic Game Changer means: - Taking responsibility for the plastic waste you generate - Innovating, re-thinking how you do things & discovering creative ways to significantly slash your plastic use - Creating a ripple effect of positive change among employees, suppliers, students, customers & your industry or community Anyone in business can be a Plastic Game Changer, at any level and in any role – there’s a place for everyone to make significant changes. There will be something that YOU are exactly the right person for. Does something come to mind straight away? I’ve developed a 5-step framework to help you accelerate plastic reduction efforts in your business, breaking it down, so the task doesn’t overwhelm you – enabling you to get started straight away. I’ve called this approach ‘the Plastic Game Changer 5 Ps’. The 5 Ps are: Picture, Plot, Pledge, Plan and Promote. The best place to start is to engage your colleagues & educate them on why your business needs to cut plastic use. Open their eyes to the current plastic crisis, create a shared vision & PICTURE your organisation as part of the solution. One way to frame the issue for your colleagues is to hold a talk about ocean plastic in your workplace. You could either get someone internal who is passionate about the problem to share their concerns or invite an external expert to come and inspire your team and share insights and practical strategies to use less plastic in your personal lives and professional roles. You can also use resources such as our eye-catching infographics that raise awareness of the issues with plastic pollution and visually convey the steps we can take to tackle it. Another suggestion is to organise a team clean-up of a local park, river or beach to highlight the scale of the plastic crisis on your doorstep. Nothing beats first-hand experience – seeing and taking on board that the plastic we use in our everyday lives spills out into our environment, even when we’ve disposed of it responsibly, due to widespread inappropriate and excessive plastic use. A team clean-up is also a great way to bond by doing something meaningful together and it will help focus your plastic reduction efforts. You’re likely to pick up lots of single-use and disposable plastic and polystyrene during your clean up. Make these your top priorities when it comes to thinking creatively about alternatives later on in the process. The next stage of the process is to PLOT your current plastic usage – capturing it in spreadsheets – so you’re clear on the biggest sources of plastic waste within your business and can identify what needs to change. If this sounds off-putting don’t worry. I thought this would be the hardest part too, but when I interviewed the Head of Sustainability at online retailer Surfdome as part of my research for my book – he said this was one of the quickest steps. Every business is unique, but for them they were able to track the volume, cost and weight of the plastic packaging they used by accessing ‘business consumables’ spreadsheets which detailed the last 12 months of purchases, including all plastic and disposable plastic items. Taking a note of benchmark figures at the start of the project is extremely important to create realistic yet challenging targets and also to be able to highlight the cost and plastic savings you achieve. Plot the weight, volume and cost of key plastic items purchased by the business – from packaging to marketing & promotional materials, to stationery to kitchen/canteen/cleaning items. It’s important to capture cost in order to track cost efficiencies of the project further down the line. Also plot current business waste by volume/weight and cost. As your project progresses and you succeed in persuading suppliers to reduce plastic packaging too, you’ll inevitably see your business waste costs plummet. Another tip from Surfdome is to ring-fence the cost savings achieved by your plastic reduction efforts to allow for some additional investment that may be required in other areas – e.g. reusable/returnable packaging solutions that may need an initial outlay or recycled and recyclable disposables rather than non recyclable ones. Now you’re clear on how much plastic waste the organisation currently generates, and where the hot spots are, it’s time to PLEDGE your commitment publicly to specific plastic reduction targets. Making your pledge public will maximise the positive PR value of your efforts and keep the business focussed and accountable. Some recent high-profile examples include: - BBC’s pledge to eliminate single-use plastic by 2020 - Iceland’s #TooCoolForPlastic pledge to make its own label range plastic-free by 2023 - Boston Tea Party’s pledge to ban disposable coffee cups in 2018 - The UK Plastics Pact led by WRAP with over 40 companies pledging that 100% of their plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025 The list is ever-growing. You will be in good company! The fourth stage is to encourage creative ideas from your team, form a PLAN then implement it, to achieve your plastic reduction goals. First, address the obvious quick-wins to gain early momentum for the project. As part of plotting your current plastic use you will have identified some key areas of your business that produce the most plastic waste. Focus on these first. Some examples could be, asking a particular supplier to change their packaging or getting rid of disposable plastic cups at the water cooler. With each change made, calculate the plastic savings and share them with the business to create a positive feedback loop. Then make time to look at all the areas of the business where you use plastic and brainstorm ideas with the relevant employees on how to reduce or eliminate disposable plastic. People doing the roles are the ones most likely to come up with workable alternatives that reduce plastic use. Some useful questions to ask: - Do you really need it or do you just use it because you always have? - Can you cut it out altogether? (saving time & money spent re-ordering, as well as plastic) - Is there a more sustainable/reusable alternative? - Are the alternatives truly more eco-friendly? (be careful to avoid ‘green-washing’ – many ‘biodegradable’ alternatives are no better than normal plastic) - Can you change what you buy, where you buy it from, or speak to your suppliers about being more eco with their packaging, to cut plastic waste? - Can you & your suppliers switch to returnable/refillable/reusable packaging? You can also take inspiration from best practice examples from businesses that are ahead of yours on this journey. It won’t take you long to find them as they are likely to be promoting what they do for maximum exposure. (I am also collating a resource of Plastic Game Changer businesses that have useful lessons to share – so check back here soon.) Compile lists for every department as an output from the brainstorm sessions – capturing what plastic is currently used and ideas for alternative ways of doing things to make plastic savings. For example, you might have a list for marketing and promotions – with bullet points listing the current use of plastic in this area, and another column for ideas of more sustainable alternatives – e.g. instead of branded balloons you could use reusable bunting; instead of plastic wrapped brochures you could send them in recycled paper envelopes or switch to electronic versions. Another good tactic is to incentivise employees to continuously look for ways to reduce plastic in their roles. For example you could run regular fun competitions between teams & reward those who make the biggest plastic savings. The most important thing is to quickly formulate a plan following the team brainstorms, and commit to implementing it – backed by ample people, budget, time. As part of the process you will need to: - Decide which actions are a priority and which ones will make the biggest impact - Identify any new skills or processes that need to be adopted to make it happen - Decide how long the transition period will be to give time to embed new practices - Always measure plastic savings made against where you started from and against the targets in your pledge The final step is to share best practice & PROMOTE your successes to inspire others to act too. This will maximise the brilliant PR opportunities, impress your customers and attract top talent to your organisation. You’ll also amplify the impact of the changes you’ve made by inspiring clients, suppliers and competitors to take action too – creating a ripple effect of positive change! You might think this all sounds like a lot of work, but I can assure you it is worth it. The business case for being a Plastic Game Changer is compelling, and includes… - Being a leader in your industry Lead the way by adopting sustainable practices that work for your business without costing the earth - Saving money Many of the disposable items you currently invest in can be replaced with reusable items that will save you from frequently buying and replacing stock\| - Reducing your waste disposal costs Businesses face high costs for disposing of plastic and other materials, whether for recycling or landfill. Reducing the waste you generate will save you money as well as improving your green credentials - Attracting & keeping eco-friendly customers (and employees!) Once a fringe movement, Green consumers are now a growing tribe of passionate, vocal customers whose loyalty is worth earning. If you actively show you are trying to do the right thing for the planet, they are very likely to become your most loyal advocates. The best employees are also attracted to sustainable businesses. We heard from Surfdome Head of HR that he uses their plastic project as one of the key selling points to secure top talent! - Winning recognition for your Green practices Sustainable practices will help you receive recognition and awards from independent bodies, which gives you great positive social media and PR stories to share with customers and suppliers alike, and raise your profile among new audiences So how do you think you could get started on this project? Well you’re already part way there. Just by reading this article you’ve started the PICTURE part of the process – hopefully you’re beginning to envision yourself as a Plastic Game Changer within your business, industry and community. You need to believe it is possible, to have the best chance of making it happen. Another great step would be to actually DO something, to get some early momentum, by thinking of some quick-wins or no-brainers – some easy changes you can make to reduce plastic in your role. Can you think of one thing you can change to reduce plastic… - this week? - this month? - this year? (Hopefully you will be excited to change more than one thing this year!) Here are 9 ways to reduce plastic in your workplace to help get you started. Good luck and please get in touch if you’d like any support from to help you be a #PlasticGameChanger. (C) Less Plastic 2018 Share this Post
So all is set and you are going to meet the guy, you have been texting for a while. The online dating game excites everyone, you can virtually connect to someone from any corner of the world and if your tuning gets matched with his, you can take this conversation to the next level by meeting him as a person. But be prepared before you move ahead because there is no guarantee that it is going to be safe date and he would be the same funny guy who makes you laugh every time. 1. Keep a check on his on-line activities Yes, you read it right. Go to the person’s profile on social media and it will give you a lot of information about him, you can check in his photographs that he is the same person who has been texting you or if the privacy settings allow, you can also check his recent posts and updates to understand his point of view about things. 2. Always inform a friend before going out Safety comes first. No matter for how sweet he is online, you never know someone’s hidden intentions so it is always a good idea to inform a few of your friends before heading out for a date. 3. Choose a public place When you are going on your first date, it is the best advice, you choose a public place that you have been to before. Rather than going to his place, his friend’s apartment or any far-away coffee shops that you have never heard about. 4. Don’t overdo of things It is your first date, don’t be overzealous. Be calm and composed and try to figure out him. Don’t use your phone too much while talking to him and never ever announce it on social media 0that you are going on a date. 5. Have an escape plan on mind You never know the negative outcomes of online dating, it takes few seconds to turn your funny and sweet guy into a creep. So, if he shows any such signs either make an excuse that sounds real or have a friend on standby who can come to pick you up if the situation demands.
It’s war you can watch on video, much like a movie, except the victims really die and the killers really murder. If you watch and listen to the entire recording of the July 12, 2007 helicopter attack on a group of Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters employees, you will hear the repeated use of military call signs, but towards the end, you hear an exasperated voice sharing an aside with "Kyle." It’s Grand Theft Auto meets Reno 911 — except it isn’t. One is entertained by GTA and the antics of incompetent policepeople. One is simply floored by what our soldiers are doing, and how they are doing it. In their defense, they say, "This is war." Except, of course, it isn’t war at all. It’s an occupation, and a partial occupation at that. In July 2007, the Iraq mission had been accomplished for over four years. We are allies with Eurasia; we have always been at war with Eastasia. How could you have possibly missed it? Reuters had a longstanding FOIA request for this record of how their unarmed employees died that day. The military delayed, refused, and by some reports, lost the videotape. WikiLeaks apparently received an anonymous donation of the evidence Reuters had asked for, and they posted it. The military has confirmed the authenticity and is downplaying what happened, with the help of major American media. So far, views on YouTube are over 4 million and rising. If you watch what American soldiers and their commanders did on that day, and presumably on many such days, you will be struck by the laughter. Laughing when they shoot, after they shoot, in viewing the dead and near dead, and even laughing as they drive over the bodies in a hurry to record mission success. For the most part, this isn’t nervous laughter; instead, it is the laughter of thugs, the laughter of bullies. You may also be struck by the obsession with personal safety and the reliance on technology to murder and maim from afar — a disturbing trend that air operations have known for decades. From a distance, the men and a few children appear to be scurrying insects. Except, of course, they are not. The conditioning of our soldiers in occupation operations is clear, and complete. Listen to the recording. The people are the enemy, and if they or their children die, it’s their own fault for being in a war zone. As some have noted, when these guys leave the military they often join local police and security forces. Can they turn off the hatred and brutality and self-justification when it is Americans who are congregating and scurrying? WikiLeaks has worried the Pentagon for some time. The website recently posted a two-year-old Army intelligence product entitled, "An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? The report indicates that the Army considers WikiLeaks a threat, observes approvingly that allies China, Israel and Russia block such sites and prosecute the leakers, and suggests that "The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using WikiLeaks.org to make such information public." Suspicion confirmed. American official defense strategy is "shoot the messenger." The problem for the state, as Gary North explained so clearly, is that we are all messengers. For the first time, it is clear that the problem for the people is, er, well, we are all messengers. As the American public discovers the record of this one slaughter conducted by American troops on this one day in July four years ago, and they will, it will become far more important than the leak of the torture photographs at Abu Ghraib. Just as this July 2007 slaughter is a typical and mundane operation, the torture at Abu Ghraib wasn’t the worst, or only case of American torture of the incarcerated under the auspices of the War on Terror. General Miller and many others had developed these techniques and cultured the attitudes, the standing orders and practices at Guantanamo, and at the American gulag of secret holding facilities across Europe and Asia. The release of the pictures did not signify the end of the torture or the occupations, but over time, the images did have a powerful social impact on Americans. Americans were forced to think about torture as legal policy, they were forced to talk about it because the media inundated us with it, and they were forced take sides. Many supported torture as politically necessary and expedient, but many more were repulsed, and felt betrayed and discredited by the state and the military. Specifically, Abu Ghraib marked the beginning of the end of blind unquestioning fundamentalist Christian support for George W. Bush. However, the Abu Ghraib revelations did not seriously change politics. It was a big media topic throughout most of 2004, yet George W. Bush and his cohorts in crime, the Republican and Democratic Parties, maintained power as before. That’s mainly because those tortured were not humanized, and the guilty parties, as we were told by the brass and the media, were a bunch of low-ranking redneck losers. Meaning, it can’t happen here. The New Baghdad Massacre, however, is going to have quite a different effect. The murderers are pilots and army aircrew, and of course, their higher-ranking bosses back at HQ. The mainstream state media is not talking about the video, showing only sanitized versions of it, back paging and burying the story. But like a quiet insistent melody in the back of our minds, average Americans hear their voices. They sound remarkably like voices we know. The political class in this country doesn’t come out of trailer parks and put dog collars on prisoners. The political class in this country, supported by and supporting the mainstream media, could rest easy watching the bad apples in Abu Ghraib go to jail, and they did. This class of people, however, senses that something has changed. The tenor has shifted, a certain shrill coolness is now in the air. These casual acts of inhumanity were conducted by people with whom they are identified. The political class smells blood, and it may be their own. As I reel, and millions of other Americans are reeling, from this sadistic yet oddly routinized Iraq occupation activity, I read that in Afghanistan, special forces soldiers actually dug bullets out of dead Afghan women killed in a raid, in order to avoid accountability. We do not yet know if they were laughing and joking as they cut and sawed the flesh of the freshly murdered. State wars are advertised and sold as wars of honor and justice. The Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, occupations, and rigged elections of our political lackeys have followed that playbook very closely. This New Baghdad video brings home the naked reality of what the state has done, what the state is doing, and what it can do in the name of force protection — and absolutely nothing else. It’s not war at all. But it is the wake-up call to immediately end the extravagant spending on offense that most Americans have been waiting for. For the political class, the state and its parasites, the other shoe is now falling.
The 24-year-old, whose Anfield career was disrupted by injuries, is excited about his imminent move to Selhurst Park and thanks Reds fans for all of their support Liverpool defender Martin Kelly’s move to Crystal Palace has been confirmed by his new club. The 24-year-old, who came through the Reds’ youth system, has signed a three-year contract at Selhurst Park and could be in contention to play at Arsenal on Saturday. Earlier on Thursday, Kelly took to Twitter to thank Liverpool and announce his departure from Anfield. “I would like to thank all the managers at [Liverpool] for making my wish from the age of seven come true playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world,” he wrote. “Most of all [I] would like to thank the fans for supporting me since my home debut against Lyon in October 2009, even through injuries, always by my side. “Now to start a new chapter of my football career at Crystal Palace, a great club with unbelievable fans excited already for the weekend.” Kelly made 33 Premier League appearances at Liverpool and also spent a spell on loan at Huddersfield Town in 2009.
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Established in 1892, the West Side Tennis Club (WSTC) is synonymous with tennis and music history. You may soon be adding the growing sport of pickleball to that legacy. A new beginner and advanced pickleball camp, customized based on skill level, will take place at WSTC on August 12-13. “It is amazing that a tennis club with the prestige and history is looking to open its doors to a newer sport like pickleball,” said Frank Milillo, a pickleball enthusiast from Rockville Centre. “This is a great chance to bring more attention to the sport and provide support to the players who want to improve. “This is the first private tennis club in New York that’s ready to provide pickleball memberships to prospective members,” he added. Pickleball combines elements of tennis, ping-pong and badminton, and is played with a paddle and a plastic ball with holes. “Most tennis players become very good and competitive very quickly,” said Milillo. “Pickleball is a very social sport.” Pickleball was invented in a backyard on Bainbridge Island in Washington by former congressmen Joel Pritchard, William Bell, and Barney McCallum after they returned from a golf outing to children complaining about being bored. “Everyone who is playing it for the first time is amazed when I tell them this sport is over 50 years old,” Milillo said. Milillo plays on average five times a week. “A short court and the quick points makes this sport exciting,” he said. “With lots of movement in short bursts, pickleball is an extremely healthy sport. You burn as many calories playing pickleball as you do playing tennis.” Camp attendees will begin with the essentials, such as learning dink shots, footwork and ball striking, as well as serve, return, and drop shots. The training will be followed by games and matches with expert analysis by pros and an emphasis on strategy and shot selection. Participants will also have an opportunity to work with WSTC director of Racquet Sports Jason Weir-Smith and Ken Henderson, founder and director of Traveling Pickleball Pros and an IPTPA Level II certified pickleball teaching professional and national medalist. “I ran a few clinics and we kept the dialog going,” said Milillo. “Then I mentioned the camp and Jason was right on board. Milillo is confident pickleball has a bright future at WSTC. “WSTC is the perfect venue for clinics, camps, and tournaments, the options are limitless,” he said. “Ken and Jason have the foresight to embrace the new players, new game, and its popularity.” Milillo played tennis for most of my life, but took up pickleball after a shoulder injury made tennis a bit of a challenge. His website at longislandnypickleballpros.com promotes clinics, leagues, and open play opportunities. “I have over 200 people playing pickleball in Rockville Centre and it’s growing,” he said. “I had over 15 leagues each season.” Fees for the camp are $395, or $350 if you sign up by July 31. For WSTC members, the cost is $200. For more information, call (718) 268-2300.
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Antiva Biosciences is exploring a local and global opportunity with a topically administered HPV treatment. A novel small molecule developer aims to shake up the solid tumor treatment landscape. Founded in late 2019, KeifeRx is repurposing oncology drugs for neurodegenerative disorders. Freya Biosciences is enlivening the long-time lonely space of reproductive health, starting with a new focus on the vaginal microbiome. Spruce Biosciences is currently in mid-to-late stage clinical development of new agents to treat rare endocrine disorders. See why Nido Biosciences is developing small molecule drugs for rare neurodegenerative diseases. Why Ventoux Biosciences is pursuing drug treatments for all sufferers of Dupuytren’s and other fibroproliferative diseases. Kinaset Therapeutics is moving fast in the respiratory space to advance a potential first-time therapy. Orca Bio is creating a new cell therapy aimed at bringing rebirth to stem-cell transplantation. Sonoma Biotherapeutics is bioengineering T cells to create potential cures for autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. Get the latest articles from Life Science Leader delivered to your inbox.
Selecting the right light bulbs for your home may seem like a straightforward, simple task, but the world of lighting has evolved significantly. Today, light bulbs come in a variety of options, impacting energy efficiency, ambience, and even your mood. So, in order to make choices that align seamlessly with your preferences and the unique needs of your space, this guide will shed light on the different types of bulbs available in the market. Understanding Bulb Types Let’s start by exploring the diverse range of light bulbs. Traditional incandescent bulbs, once the standard choice for homes, have given way to more energy-efficient options. Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have become the go-to choices for environmentally conscious homeowners. CFLs are affordable and energy-saving, making them a great choice for general lighting. LED lights in Singapore, on the other hand, although initially a bit pricier, last significantly longer and consume minimal energy, making them ideal for both ambient and task lighting. When it boils down to choosing the absolute best, consider factors such as lifespan, energy consumption, and colour temperature. CFLs and LED lighting offer extended lifespans and consume less energy when compared to conventional bulbs, helping you to achieve long-term savings on your electricity bills. Demystifying Colour Temperature Colour temperature is a crucial aspect of lighting that often goes unnoticed. Warm, neutral, and cool tones can significantly impact the atmosphere of a room. Warm tones, with their yellowish hue, create a cosy and inviting ambience, perfect for bedrooms and living rooms. Neutral tones are more balanced and versatile, suitable for high-traffic areas like kitchens and hallways. Cool tones, resembling daylight, are ideal for task-oriented spaces like offices and reading nooks as they create a refreshing and peaceful environment in a room. Understanding the impact of colour temperature allows you to create the desired mood and functionality in the different spaces of your home. Calculating Lumens for Brightness In the past, the wattage of a light bulb was our go-to metric for estimating its brightness. A 60-watt bulb was assumed to be a certain level of illumination. However, the introduction of energy-efficient lighting options has changed the game entirely. Now, the true measure of a bulb’s brightness lies in lumens as it accurately quantifies the amount of visible light emitted by a bulb, offering a more precise indicator of its brightness. When you opt for lumens instead of wattage, you ensure that you’re getting the appropriate level of brightness without unnecessary energy consumption. Knowing this helps you strike the perfect balance between functionality and comfort, ensuring your rooms are adequately lit. Embracing Energy Efficiency In today’s eco-conscious world, energy efficiency is paramount. Energy-efficient bulbs not only cut down on your electricity expenses but also play a part in reducing your carbon footprint. These bulbs are designed to consume less energy while providing the same or even better illumination. Many energy-efficient bulbs are also compatible with dimmer switches and various fixtures, enabling you to customise the lighting in your home according to your preferences. When it comes to lighting, your choices can shape the ambience of your space, impact your electricity bills and reflect your commitment to a greener planet. With these tips for choosing the right bulbs, you can design spaces that are tailored to your unique lifestyle! Ready to transform your home with the perfect lighting solutions? Look no further than Light Avenue, Singapore’s premier lighting store. Discover a vast array of exquisite lighting fixtures, from energy-efficient LEDs to ambient-enhancing warm tones. Visit our store or contact us today and let our experts guide you towards illuminating your space in style and sustainability.
After spending a short afternoon with Joe and James of Wonder Vision, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of admiration for their artistic passion and innate sense of confidence – it wasn’t a case of ‘if’ they were to be successful all those years ago, but when. Joe and James met as fresh-faced students studying Product Design at Loughborough University; both ambitious to do more than graduate and work at an agency creating someone else’s vision – they wanted to create their own. Whilst on placement during their third year, Joe and James envisioned a plan to launch their own CGI production studio offering high-end photoreal services. Their ambitious seeds were officially sown in 2010 and Wonder Vision was born. Wonder Vision developed in the most organic way possible – an ambition of two friends with no financial resources or real business knowledge, just sheer determination and passion to create the best renders possible. This seemingly naive view of business has allowed Joe and James to grow, learn and develop an agency from the ground up in a way that is unique to them. During Wonder Vision’s rapid growth, they have both had to tackle a variety of challenges often synonymous with running and owning a business, including marketing, finance and web development which they managed single-handily. Their versatility, independence and desire to learn not only enhanced their understanding of running a business but crucially, how to make it a success. ”After graduation, rather than accepting positions at respectable businesses within the industry, myself and Joe offered to work alongside these companies on behalf of Wonder Vision in order to build a strong portfolio, client base, and income stream. Our early success allowed us to purchase the necessary infrastructure required, including servers and 3D software to further enhance Wonder Vision’s offering.”
Lot Size10,890 sqft Home Size1,660 sqft Days on Market3 Simple Tips on How to Boost Your Curb Appeal - Real Estate Tips - July 13, 2016 Curb appeal is extremely important when attempting to sell a home. You want a potential buyer to drive up to the house and automatically feel at home even before they step inside. There is no chance of this happening if the paint on the front door is faded or peeling and there is no clear walkway up to the front door in sight. I found a great article that gives some very simple tips on how to improve your curb appeal exponentially. These tips are so simple that you can get started on them right now and get them done quickly if you are crunched for time. First tip: Try getting a new door. A new panel design can do wonders for the look of the front of the house. You can also try a new color. Bold colors can draw the eye in and set your home apart from all the surrounding ones on your street. If you choose to stick to the color you have now still give it a fresh coat of paint because that simple step can make all the difference. Second tip: Try updating all the hardware surround your entrance area such as door knockers and handles. Get a new mailbox along with new house numbers to match the rest of the improvements so there is a consistent style throughout. Replace all the damaged or broken items such as flickering or broken light bulbs. Maybe even replace the light fixtures themselves and add some eye catching decorations that are seasonally themed. Third tip: Lay an entirely new walkway/path up to your front door. Use some of the sleek new options such as flagstone or smooth gravel. Also, illuminate the walkway with some solar lights. They are inexpensive since they use solar power and we have no shortage of that here in California. Fourth tip: If you are tight on time or on budget then just do a bit of light landscaping yourself. Trim the bushes and keep the grass uniform. Plant a few flowers for color here and there. Additional tip straight from me: Don’t stop at painting or replacing your front door. Do the same for your garage door. I cannot put into words how big of a difference a freshly painted garage door can make. Click here to see the original article which also includes some Pinterest links to help you visualize what your front yard can look like:
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In psychology, hypnosis is sometimes referred to as hypnotherapy and has been used for a number of purposes including the reduction and treatment of pain. Hypnosis is usually performed by a trained therapist who utilizes visualization and verbal repetition to induce a hypnotic state. Hypnosis teaches us to recognize cravings, and reprograms the subconscious to be more supportive in helping to overcome urges to overeat. Finally, some people call themselves sugar addicts or carb addicts. Their cravings are for a particular food, and they can’t seem to kick their cravings for these unhealthy options. Quitting smoking can be a real challenge. But it’s one of the best things you can do for your health. … If nicotine lozenges, patches, chewing gum, counseling, and other smoking cessation methods haven’t helped you kick the habit, don’t give up. Ask your doctor if hypnosis is an option for you. The short answer is yes. Some compelling research has found that hypnosis can be an effective tool for helping you quit – with quit rates that easily beat more traditional methods. Yet, the consensus seems to be that, like with any smoking cessation program, you have to want the results. Hypnotherapy should be used as a complementary treatment to cognitive behavioral therapy. However, if you only use hypnosis to treat your anxiety, it could have effects similar to those of meditation. … You can then use this state to address anxieties and phobias. Hypnosis can be used for stress management in two ways. First, you can use hypnosis to get into a deeply relaxed state, fighting tension and triggering your relaxation response. This will help to prevent health problems due to chronic stress. Tracey has lost 16.5″s in her first 6 Weeks using Hypnosis! Weight Loss made easy using Hypnosis, Tracey has found the tools fit into her every day life and that it also helps all areas of her life! Ready to Make Your Own Positive Fitness Changes? Call to Book Your FREE Screening to See if Hypnosis is Right for You! NOTE: ListowelHypnosis offers training in self-hypnosis for self-help. We are not a medical facility and do not diagnose or treat medical conditions. The service we provide is for educational purposes only. It is not therapy and is not meant as a replacement for any other intervention. Endorsements produced by clinics using the Master Hypnotist Society Method of Hypnosis Training.*
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Central Minnesota is a great place to escape the hustle and bustle of your daily life with a cabin rental. It’s not just the peace, but there are many attractions too. Because this is such a peaceful location, you will find many different ways to enjoy the region. We suggest settling into a cozy cabin at Little Norway Resort. We have a variety of cabin rentals for large groups in Central Minnesota that will suit you and your family’s needs. Please take a look at some of the best cabin rentals for large groups in Central Minnesota that we have to offer. A three-bedroom and two-bathroom cabin is the perfect size for a family vacation. We have a variety of available cabins. These cabins tend to go quickly, so plan and act fast. Take a look below! For smaller families, a two-bedroom and two-bathroom are fantastic. Everyone has a bathroom and enough space to lounge and relax. Moose and Pintail are placed well for privacy while Loon is perfect for the family looking to be close to the beach and playground. Here is a preview of what we have to offer: Our most extensive selection of cabins is the three bedrooms and one bath. These cabins offer high ceilings and beautiful views of the surrounding nature. All have been remodeled within the last couple of years. These are great for family groups looking for multiple cabins close together. Have a look yourself! It’s easy to find great cabin rentals for large groups and single families in Central Minnesota at Little Norway Resort for you and your family. Enjoy your room to the fullest at Little Norway Resort. Our cabins are within a few feet of Little Mantrap Lake and provide phenomenal views. To plan your stay at the Little Norway Resort today, check our availability online or call us at 218-732-5480.
People come in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. Fashion trends may or may not always fit your color profile. Knowing what colors go with my skin tone helps to prevent the unintentional clashing of colors. The color wheel provides a good foundation for how to pair colors together, but skin tones can be tricky. As you may have noticed, skin tone doesn’t really count as a neutral, especially for very fair skin. There is no true right or wrong way for pairing colors with your skin tone. It does help a lot if you have some sense of theme or balance that compliments your skin. Certain colors can also make your face look more vibrant and youthful. The first thing you need to do is learn which colors flatter your skin tone the most. Let’s take a look at some ways to test out your skin tone and then figure out the wardrobe. Testing Skin Tones Judging a person’s actual skin tone is tough for amateurs. Professional make-up artists know that skin tone goes beyond the surface. Skin tone can even vary from day to day based on sun exposure. What you actually need to look at is the skin’s undertones. These are more consistent and allow you to choose the best types of foundation, lipsticks, and clothes. To find the most accurate undertone, strip all makeup and lotion from the face. Next, take a black sheet of paper and hold it up to your face. This stark contrast is what will give you a semblance of where your skin tone lies. Look for warm or cool colors in contrast to the paper. You should see greens, yellows, and browns for warm undertones. Pinks, blues, and grays fall into the cold undertone category. There is no good or bad skin tone here, we’re just trying to find what our foundation is so that we can compliment our colors. After we have a general idea of what our skin tone’s main undertones are, we can really get creative. People are really going to be impressed with the subtle highlighting of your undertones. When your wardrobe starts to compliment and bring out your skin tones, you’re on a new level of fashion. Veins, Imperfections, Sun Burns Because nobody’s skin is flawless (underneath that foundation), we have to account for these features. Veins are often overlooked when pairing colors with skin. Some people have more prominent veins, showing through blue, green, or purple. These are like little accent lines and should be embraced, not feared. The same goes for people with cellulite, stretch marks, moles, or scars. All of these variables provide an opportunity for expression. Freckles and sun splotches are also just fine, you can still find your ideal color range. Some people’s undertones vary, others are predictable. There’s no wrong or “safe” method for knowing what colors go with my skin tone. You just have to go with your gut. Our skin tone tests are meant to find the most accurate matching without anything on. We aren’t expecting you to suddenly stop using makeup, but it is worth noting how much your makeup impacts your look. It’s important to choose a foundation that compliments your skin tone, not hide it. For more information on how to match your makeup with your outfit, read our complete guide here. Darker Skin Tones Whether you have warm or cool highlights, dark skin tones can compliment many different colors. The most obvious pairings for darker skin tones will be pastels and neons. These stark contrasts make rich, ebony skin tones look infinite and luxurious. For warmer undertones, try going with violets, mahogany, or even the vintage mauve. These bring a very sexy and mysterious look to darker skin tones. If you’re looking for brighter shades, pink and yellow are two colors that never grow old. We can’t go anywhere without mentioning the colors of true magic: gold, silver, and bronze. Silver and bronze are especially intense choices for cooler undertones. These colors of fine jewelry demand reverence and steal attention when wrapped around dark skin. Now, for colors that can be pulled off, but are much more difficult to pair: solid blacks, dark brown, dark blues, and grays. Not to be confused with silver, most neutral grays are just going to come off as unremarkable on black skin. Black and dark brown dresses are the same thing. Tan/Medium Skin Tones Most women see themselves as “medium” skin tone, but it’s important to know your spectrum. Are you a darker tan? Caramel complexion? Is your undertone leaning towards the cooler side of medium skin tone? For some women, they can play in a bit from each category or dark brown or light olive levels. The sun can change what is defined as “medium” a lot. It’s hard to figure out what color matches your skin tone when it can change so easily. Fear not, medium skin tones do have some structure along with the flexibility. For starters, don’t weird too much beige, light brown, or orange. Gold may not be the greatest choice, either, despite being such a beautiful material. There are lots of great alternatives to gold, though. Silver and platinum are amazing, along with some common crystals and gemstones for energy. Medium skin tones are actually lucky in this regard, they can display a multitude of colors without it getting lost. Medium skin works perfectly with every primary color. In contrast, fair skin tones have to moderate the number of colors. Enjoy outfitting your wardrobe with a little bit of everything under the rainbow. Light Tans and Olive Skin Now we’re getting into the skin tones that can really start to enrich those in-between shades and neutrals. These skin tones lean more towards yellows and browns. Greens are your friends, obviously. Orange is a color that will not only look flattering but will enhance your skin’s glow, too. Try looking for clothes that combine gray with a bright pastel or bright primary color. Reds and pinks can do wonders for olive skin tones. It can almost make the skin more flush, just by nature of how our eyes process colors. We like going to places like Morning Lavender for vibrant pieces. Blue colors can definitely work, try to shoot for navy blue, aquamarine, and even denim materials. It’s one of our favorite clothing trends this year. Blue colors can bring out hair and eye colors a lot. Yellow would probably rank the lowest for our olive skin tone pairing. It’s not that yellow cannot work, it’s just difficult to make pop. Too bright and it will overshadow the beautiful skin undertones, too dark and it can look muddy. Fairer Skin Tones Contrary to popular belief, those with pale skin aren’t the easiest to dress for. Again, it’s the undertones that are so often overlooked that matter most. Pale skin can have a cool, blueish etherial character. It can also have a pinkish, reddish undertone that is further pronounced in the sun. So, if your skin is very sensitive to the sun, you’ll want to compliment this with reds, browns, and oranges. Olive and yellow-greens also work nicely for hugging warm undertones. Shop for summer clothing, even if it’s not technically in season. Having warm undertones on fair skin is like glowing all year round. For pale blue skin, lean more towards purple, dark green, and gray. Black is also a nice color for all fair skin tones, of course. In fact, black should be a staple for highlighting undertones with accent colors. For example, a black scarf to go with your primary color. Black belts, shoes, bags, bows, and lingerie are amazing against pale skin. Use this to your advantage if you feel like there’s too much of one color in your outfit. Don’t go too wild with black colors, unless you’re trying to go for a goth look. Finding What Colors Go with My Skin Tone Knowing what works and what doesn’t for your skin tone is a lot of trial and error. Some outfits look totally different in person, as opposed to the pictures online. It’s difficult to get an accurate representation of color through pictures. That’s why it’s a good idea to always have a range of what colors go with my skin tone. Never feel like you are adhering to a strict set of rules because fashion is always evolving. Skin changes hues and darkness frequently, especially if you’re outside a lot. Remember, skin care is key to maintaining a consistent range of skin tone. Take a look at our skin care archives to improve your skin care regimen. Achieve a healthy balance of prevention and treatment for the best results.
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L-functions of classical, Hilbert, and Bianchi modular forms in the database have been precomputed using rigorous precision bounds and interval arithmetic ensure that zeros and special values are accurate to the displayed precision (up to an error in the last digit displayed), and that the list of zeros is complete (within the region covered by the list, including the lowest zero). Each zero is known to lie within a disc whose radius is determined by the displayed precision, but note that this is not sufficient to prove that the lie on the critical line. The displayed analytic rank $r$ is an upper bound on the true analytic rank that is believed to be tight; it is known that there are $r$ (but not $r+1$) zeros within a region of $s=1/2$ (in the analytic normalization) of radius equal to the error implied by the displayed precision of the zeros). In particular, any displayed analytic rank $r=0$ must be correct. For self-dual L-functions the parity of the analytic rank is determined by the sign $\varepsilon=\pm 1$ of the functional equation that all modular L-functions are known to satisfy. The parity of the displayed analytic rank is always consistent with the sign, thus for self-dual modular L-functions any displayed analytic rank $r\le 1$ must be correct. For classical modular form L-functions the displayed analytic rank has been rigorously verified in all cases (even when it is greater than one or the L-function is not self-dual). For Bianchi modular form L-functions, all results are conditional on the assumption that the elliptic curve whose isogeny class has the same label as the Bianchi modular form actually has the same L-function; this is known if the elliptic curve is modular, but the modularity of the elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields is not known in general and has been explicitly verified for only a subset of the elliptic curves in the database.
American Craft Beer Week falls in May, and we look forward to it every year—pairing great beers and great food together is a favorite pastime. As butchers who have practiced and honed our craft for five generations, we can appreciate the expertise, skill, and care that go into making a fine craft brew. We are passionate about cutting meat, sourcing the very best meat, and providing our customers with a sumptuous dining experience. We feel that craft brewers are just as passionate about providing a delicious, high-quality, refreshing brew with every frothy glass. Also, as cookbook authors and devoted home-cooks, we also love a great entrée and beverage pairing. We know how a fantastic meal can be elevated to new heights by a perfect pairing with a delicious microbrew—and vice versa. So in honor of America’s craft brewers, grilling season, and great cuts of meat, we’ve taste-tested some great craft brews that are perfect for the season and put them together with some tantalizing pairings for American Craft Beer Week 2017!
It was on this day—494 years ago—a 34-year-old professor and Doctor of Theology nailed ninety-five revolutionary opinions to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. The Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (95 Theses) was not, as it has often been portrayed, an act of defiance or challenge to religious authorities. Luther intended his theses to provide an opportunity for academic debate and discussion regarding the issue of the Catholic Church’s sale of indulgences—an issue of unrest for Luther. Indulgences were promises sold by the church in the form of certificates for a full or partial release from the temporary punishment for absolved sins—whether in this life or in purgatory. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had forbidden the sale of indulgences in Wittenberg, many of the devout were travelling great distances to purchase them. To Luther’s great frustration and sorrow, many of his congregants were presenting their indulgences to him claiming they no longer had to repent of their sins. Luther wrote his 95 Theses with the intention of inviting scholars into a discussion on indulgences. The subtitle of his theses read, “Out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following theses will be publicly discussed at Wittenberg under the chairmanship of the reverend father Martin Lutther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology and regularly appointed Lecturer on these subjects at that place. He requests that those who cannot be present to debate orally with us will do so by letter. In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.” These theses were nailed to the door of Castle Church facing Wittenberg’s main thoroughfare. Operating as a bulletin board of sorts, the door of Castle Church was a fairly common place to post important notices. With this posting, Luther also sent out a few handwritten comments to select clergy. It was scarcely two weeks before copies made their way throughout Germany—and they spread throughout Europe in less than two months! Just as the largest flames are started from the smallest of sparks, the dissemination of these theses is known as the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. Many churches and communities throughout the world celebrate October 31 as Reformation Day. Check Out Logos’ Reformation Resources In recognition of Reformation Day, Logos is offering a guide of featured books and collections relating to the Protestant Reformation. The Reformation Product Guide has been split into four sections: - The Reformers—including Luther’s Works (55 vols.) - The Reformation—including History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin (8 vols.) - The Reformed Tradition (16th–19th Centuries)—including Louis Berkhof Collection (15 vols.) - The Reformed Tradition (20th–21st Centuries)—including Selected Works of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (10 vols.) The Reformation Product Guide offers something for anyone who wishes to study the Reformation, including dozens of collections and books by some of the most renowned Reformed theologians as well as detailed histories and biographies about the Reformation and its leaders. Don’t miss out on these great works!
Thirty-one subjects are addressed in this book, as unique as “How to Be a Refuge for Your Children,” “How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God,” and “Embracing the Pain of Shame.” Some are longer, some shorter, like the real-world conversations they so closely resemble, and each comes from the fertile mind of John Piper and is written in his own inimitable style. Together, the readings will lead to a deeper understanding of God and a cleaner, clearer relationship with Him. Most of all, Piper’s approach shows how meditating on God’s powerful Word can affect every aspect of our lives. Whether you’re steeped in the Word of God or newly acquainted with it, these thirty-one meditations will penetrate to the deepest reaches of your soul. With a contagious passion, John Piper awakens us to violent prayer, piercing pleasure, and fearless faith. “May these meditations become in your life the living embodiment of God’s Word and penetrate to the deep places of your soul. God has a good work to do there.”—John Piper. Wait! You could get a better deal by purchasing this resource in the John Piper Collection. John Piper, pastor for preaching and vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 1980, is a widely respected theologian and bestselling author. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Piper attended Wheaton College where he majored in literature and minored in philosophy. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied under Dr. Daniel Fuller. Piper received his Doctorate in Theology from the University of Munich and taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College. His preaching and teaching is featured daily on the radio program, Desiring God. His books include The Passion of Jesus Christ, Desiring God, The Pleasures of God, Life as a Vapor, and the Gold Medallion Award-wining Pierced by the Word. “‘Soul’ is that invisible dimension of our life that we are by nature. ‘Spirit’ is what we are by supernatural rebirth.” (Page 23) “The saving motive for wanting eternal life is given in John 17:3: ‘This is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.’ If we do not want eternal life because it means joy in God, then we won’t have eternal life. We simply kid ourselves that we are Christians if we use the glorious gospel of Christ to get what we love more than Christ. The ‘good news’ will not prove good to any for whom God is not the chief good.” (Page 18) “The mark of a child of God is not perfection, but hunger for Christ.” (Page 58) “Humility does not feel it has a right to better treatment than Jesus got” (Page 37) “But when humans forsake their Maker and love other things more, they become like the things they love—small, insignificant, weightless, inconsequential, and God-diminishing.” (Page 26) John Piper (b. 1946) is a widely respected theologian and bestselling author who serves as founder and lead teacher at Desiring God and is chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, Piper served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has authored more than 50 books, and more than 30 years of his preaching and writing are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. Piper resides in the Minneapolis area with his wife of 51 years, and has five children and 14 grandchildren. Piper attended Wheaton College where he majored in literature and minored in philosophy. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied under Dr. Daniel Fuller. Piper received his Doctorate in Theology from the University of Munich and taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College. In 1994, Piper founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides Piper’s sermons, articles, and information on titles he has authored. One of his bestsellers, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, prompted the name of the ministry. Several of Piper’s books have been Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian book award winners including What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God’s Passion for His Glory. The Crossway John Piper Collection (39 vols.) includes 39 titles from Piper, including Love Your Enemies and A Hunger for God. His preaching ministry of more than 30 years is available in the John Piper Sermon Archive (1980–2014). Hear how Piper uses Logos for his Bible Study.
On November 9, 2020, Logos President Helio Fred Garcia spoke with on his podcast, Ethical Voices, about when and where to draw the ethical line. The podcast was released on the second anniversary of Ethical Voices. During their conversation, Garcia discussed how structures and clear protocols make courage less necessary in ethical dilemmas, what can we learn from Bernays’ definition of public relations, and three key elements in determining the “right” thing to do. Garcia noted, “From a communication ethics point of view, what I teach my students is to ask, “What is the outcome we seek?” Not the process, but the outcome. Then ask what are the options available to you that could get you closer or farther from that outcome? And then which choice is the less bad choice? Because when you face a moral dilemma or an ethical dilemma, you’re going to make a choice that still violates some principle. What is the less bad choice that gets you closer or at least, least far from that desired outcome? You need the discipline to make the choices based on the outcome and not based on the short-term strains that put you in that situation… The more we can make decisions based on desired outcomes and using agreed upon standards as the way to calibrate whether we’re likely to get to that desired outcome, we’re more likely to live to fight another day.” Listen to the full conversation here: Read the full transcript here.
Human rights have been a concern for some companies since the anti-Apartheid divestment campaigns of the 1980s, but there has been no broad-based uptake of human rights as a business discipline. Relatively few companies have human rights in their corporate vocabulary. This may be the year human rights go mainstream, thanks, largely, to the work of John Ruggie, serving for the past six years as the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Business and Human Rights. Ruggie has forged a working consensus among companies, governments and advocates that human rights are not just a business concern, but that both governments and companies have human rights responsibilities. The Ruggie, or UN, Framework – “Protect, Respect and Remedy” – asserts that governments must protect against abuses by companies; companies must respect human rights; and victims must have access to remedies. “Protect, respect and remedy” is a phrase that many executives will hear and be asked to explain over the next twelve months. This Spring, the UN Human Rights Council is expected to endorse Guiding Principles for both governments and companies to meet their responsibilities under the Framework. For the first time, companies have a clear roadmap for making human rights part of their compliance and corporate responsibility efforts. If you are, or advise, one of those executives, there are ten things you need to know (and do) about human rights: Read more
Proof that Fakebook is filtering information The images below are proof that Fakebook, as we like to refer to it now, is using algorithmic filtering to restrict the flow of sensitive information. By sensitive we mean anything the government don’t want you to see obviously. We had posted about this before and of course the trolls piped up and declared we were stupid because we had our settings on Top Comments in the single image we posted, so above we have a series of images with all 3 of the settings options selected and still our comment about the newly released film of ours has been filtered so other accounts simply can’t see it. We try to spread our information on important and relevant web pages but nobody ever sees it. The example above was a link to our new documentary about the Climate Engineering Symposium 2015, which sheds light on the emergency framing that the clique of corporate-backed, globalist scientists at the core of the Climate Engineering movement are trying to promote. Its a powerful film with a crucial message. When we share it, like our other films, nobody sees it. Now we know why. Even if we had done this we still feel that Fakebook’s policy of defaulting to Top Comments, or the fact that that option even exists is tantamount to filtering in itself. One will always find that anything ‘sensitive’ does not appear in top comments in favour of banality and comments that agree with the article or are non-confrontational. There is no valid reason for this so we can reasonably conclude that Fakebook is allowing sensitive information to be filtered to most if not all viewers to those pages. It is common knowledge that Fakebook has allowed Microsoft access to its coding by selling part of the company to them, so as to implement the algorithmic filtering that we see. It is common knowledge that Fakebook has allowed UK secret services, via the British Army, access and special privileges. 77th Brigade is a dedicated 1500-strong newly created army unit, set up at the specific bequest of David Cameron. Its role is very specific; to troll Fakebook, manipulating people’s views and restricting the flow of information. The government publicly announced this program so it is very real. The only reason they used the army instead of MI5 was to keep the operational details behind the official secrets act so we could never know the real truth about what it gets up to, but any truther or activist will confirm that it is extremely difficult to share anything sensitive on social media because we are repeatedly targeted and filtered by this unit. So next time someone says… look how few people have liked our posts or seen our information, it is not because people are not interested, it is because virtually nobody has seen it. We also know that when we promoted posts on Fakebook our money has been completely wasted. We spent many thousands of pounds promoting important posts and were confused why we got no response at all. We hired a small firm of tech-geeks who analysed the behaviour of the posts and their reach, and also the accounts that Fakebook said we had reached. Their report concluded that not only were the figures being manipulated but that most of the accounts we were told we had reached were not genuine people, and were accounts set up by people simply so as to be used for that purpose. We were initially shocked by this but it seems perfectly obvious now we have had time to dwell on this information. Needless to say a court case is pending to re-claim the money we wasted. Please don’t fall victim to the establishment’s attempts to brand anyone who discovers something like this as a paranoid conspiracy theorist. This stuff does go on and is even admitted to by government, so indeed we must accept hat we already live in an Orwellian society. The simple fact of the matter is that is government were doing nothing wrong or bad they would not have to know everything we say and do and control the flow of information. We refer the jury to our previous comments about Fred The Tramp. Fred the tramp used to sit on the bench in London and drop painkillers in his super strength lager. He would tell us stories about how he used to be a scientist and discovered cures for things, but was discredited and bankrupted. None of us believed a word he said, but we smiled and occasionally joked with him and about him afterwards. As a far as I remember nobody set up websites to discredit him, made spurious accusations about him on Facebook, called him names or tried to discredit him seriously to others. Nobody would bother investing large amounts of time or money into trying to prove what he said was lies, because there seemed no point. So when you look at highly-organised and well-presented website that deal simply with the process of trying to debunk evidence that shows illegal activity, one should question their motives and indeed, their very existence. Why bother? If we really were mad and paranoid one would expect them to simply laugh and ignore us. Please use your brain. We are being lied to. Our information is being filtered. The establishment is trying very hard to prevent the truth coming out about what it is up to because it is up to no good, in fact much worse…
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In this case, an employee was granted EUR 250 for immaterial damages suffered, due to the unlawful sharing of her prior illness records by the UWV (the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency) with her new employer. The employee in question had been reported ill with the UWV by her former employer, but during her second year of illness, the employee entered into employment with a new employer on the basis of a one year contract. However, the UWV was never notified of the fact that the employee ceased being ill, as a result whereof an automatically generated letter was sent to the employee’s new employer after 88 weeks’ of sickness, informing the new employer (unaware of the employee’s previous illness) that the employee would almost become eligible to the WIA social benefit. Although the letter did not explicitly state the nature of the employee’s illness, the information provided therein was considered by the court to be of a sensitive nature as it disclosed information regarding the employee’s (former) health status. Pursuant to Dutch employment and data protection laws, employees are generally not required to disclose any health or medical information with their (new) employers. The letter therefore resulted in a data breach as her personal data was unlawfully made available to the new employer, while having a potential adverse effect vis-à-vis the employee. The new employer received the letter around the time that it had to decide on prolonging the employee’s term of employment, resulting in increased stress and anxiety for the employee. Although her employment agreement was continued by her new employer, the court considered that the employee had suffered real immaterial damages by this course of events and consequently awarded her a EUR 250 compensation, based on the following: - The data breach occurred by fault of the UWV, as the letter was sent through an automated system without any (substantive) checks on whether the sending thereof was legitimate or opportune; - The employee’s personal data was compromised due to this data breach caused by the UWV, as her personal data was made available to her new employer without the employee’s intent or consent thereto; - The data breach materialized a realistic risk for the employee, as the exposed personal data could adversely affect the employer’s decision on continuing her employment; - The employee suffered real damages to the mental well-being from the moment that the data breach occurred until the moment the decision was made by the new employer to continue the her employment; - Although the employee petitioned the court for EUR 500 in damages, but was granted only half thereof by the court, because the court considered that, although a substantial risk materialized for the employee due to the data breach, this risk was not realized as the employment agreement was continued and therefore, the damages suffered were limited. Although EUR 250 might not seem substantial, the implications of this judgment might be far reaching. First, because the court is continuing the previously rendered view that a breach with data protection laws, can indeed be considered a breach of a fundament law which may result in the granting of compensation for non-material damages. Second, this case may have additional implications for the UWV, since the UWV is already subject to an order imposed by the Dutch Data Protection Authority to improve its security measures regarding health data. The issue addressed in this case is very near to the data protection issues that have already been identified within the UWV and might fuel additional enforcement measures from the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Finally, this judgment might just give an opening and serve as precedent for further claims, or possibly, collective actions in the future. We will continue to closely monitor the development in this field, stay tuned! For more information on claims under data protection laws or data protection in general please contact Nina Orlić or Kim Lucassen of Loyens & Loeff’s Privacy & Data Protection Team.
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OpManager provides an intuitive configuration wizard to help you configure all the IPSLA parameters for monitoring the WAN health. For WAN performance monitoring, OpManager polls the routers periodically and collects and persists the data. The monitored router sends IPSLA traps for events triggered due to a connection loss, threshold violation for RTT and average payload, timeout etc. When any such failure occurs, OpManager switches from a regular Echo to a Path Echo, tracing the fault to the exact hop. This enables you to troubleshoot and get to the root of the problem much quicker, resulting in very less downtime. Besides this intelligent monitoring of the links across each hop, OpManager also supports bulk configuration of the monitoring parameters for the links to be monitored. You will simply need to configure all the IPSLA parameters once and select all the devices (the target IPs) and apply it. Managing WAN performance has never been this easy. You can bulk-configure the links from OpManager for monitoring. When adding WAN Monitors, you can select multiple links, i.e., the target IP addresses and add them at one go to create monitors for each of the links. The intuitive SLA dashboards show the link-wise availability and over-all performance of your WAN. Following are the steps to enable WAN monitoring in OpManager: To configure OpManager machine as the SNMP Server receiving traps for the routers, telnet the router and use the following command: snmp-server host <opmanager server IP> traps <host community string> rtr For instance, if the OpManager host IP Address is 192.168.18.128, and the community string is private, the command would be: snmp-server host <opmanager server IP> traps private rtr If you know the target IP addresses, click the Quick Add option to add the IPs one by one. Click the Advanced button in the General Attributes section to configure the following two parameters. Request Payload: You can configure to send test packets, UDP jitters, of specific size to determine the average RTT. QoS: You can also enable QoS (Quality of Service) for the Payload by selecting the required QoS level. Configuring thresholds for various IPSLA parameters enables pro-active monitoring of your WAN. Rising Threshold: Specify the value in milli-seconds for the rising threshold. If the RTT (Round Trip Time) goes over the specified threshold, you will be alerted. Falling Threshold: Specify the falling threshold too for you to be notified when the RTT falls below the specified threshold value. Threshold Alert Options: As mentioned above, OpManager alerts you when there is a threshold violation. The alert conditions can be specified as below: Select the option 'Immediately' to be notified as soon as a threshold violation occurs. Select 'Every ______ of _______ times' to be notified when a threshold is violated the specified number of times in a specified number of polls. For instance, you can configure to be notified when the threshold fails every 4 times out of 5 polls. You can also be notified to be alerted when a threshold fails for a consequetive number of times by selecting 'Every __ th time'. Or, select to be notified by specifying the average number of times a when a threshold violation occurs. For instance, an average of 10 threshold violations can trigger an alarm. Path Echo Configuration: As advanced configuration criteria, you can also configure the number of network paths and hops for the Payload. So, whenever there is a failure, OpManager switches to Path Echo for the next 3 hours. The paths, and the hop where the failure occurs is clearly indicated. The option of switching to Path Echo only in the event of a failure not only helps in narrowing down the problem, but also proves to be a less costly operation on your network. The configured profiles are listed. From the list of profiles, select the notification profile to be triggered when a fault occurs. Based on the monitoring configuration and the profile selected, you will be alerted when there is a failure. With OpManager, you can now drill down the reports to see where the actual failure is. The following steps help in troubleshooting a WAN problem and identify exactly where the failure has occurred. 1. Create a WAN Dashboard for easy monitoring and add all SLA widgets. 2. This dashboard would indicate the status of WAN. Locate the WAN Links Average Availability Report to identify the downtime that has occurred in that particular hour. 3. These indicate the top and least available links including the availability percentage. 4. You can view the availability for the past 24 hours in the WAN Links Availability Distribution Widget. 5. 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- The Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle is used across NHS England. - 2.5 million women were reached through Tommy's #sleeponside and #movementsmatter campaigns. - 28 Rainbow Clinics now operate with two in development. Gaps in addressing the risk factors associated with stillbirths In 2010, stillbirth rates in the UK were higher than most other high-income countries. There were gaps in antenatal care and variability in the services available for bereaved parents across the country. As a result, NHS England declared its aim to halve stillbirths in the UK by 2025. In 2014, NHS England launched the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle, an action plan to identify and manage risk factors for stillbirth and save lives. The bundle was published in 2016 and updated in 2019 when the implementation of it became mandatory for all NHS maternity units in England. Two of the four elements in the bundle were based on research led by Professors Alexander Heazell and Ed Johnstone at The University of Manchester. Identifying and managing stillbirth risk factors The team at Manchester investigated a range of factors influencing stillbirth risk: - focused on understanding pregnancy complications where the baby does not get the oxygen and nutrients it needs from the placenta; - identified risk factors such as fetal growth restriction (FGR), when the baby is smaller than expected or the baby’s growth slows or stops during pregnancy, and perceived reduction in fetal movements (in general, feeling the baby move is a sign that they are well); - investigated the impact of better screening and care in these areas; - demonstrated an association between maternal sleep position and late stillbirth. The findings on FGR and reduced fetal movements were used in the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle; between 2015 and 2017 the number of stillbirths reduced by 20% in the 19 NHS Trusts where the care bundle was adopted. Raising awareness and informing “…we wouldn’t have been able to develop the Safer Baby Bundle without the resources and insights from Saving Babies' Lives care bundle, generously shared by Professors Heazell and Johnstone.” Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services Researchers worked with NHS England and Tommy’s Baby Charity to improve both parental awareness and the clinical care required to prevent stillbirths. Since 2018, the team has worked with Tommy’s to raise awareness among mothers that sleeping on their side in later pregnancy (after 28 weeks) reduces the risk of stillbirth. The campaigns #sleeponside and #movementsmatter reached an estimated 2.5 million women globally and sleep position was included as a recommendation in NICE’s antenatal guidelines, published in August 2021. The guidelines also recommend the use of the care bundle when carrying out a risk assessment for FGR. The care bundle is now used across NHS Trusts in England. As the NHS moves towards digital delivery of care, a project to provide an online version of the FGR element was developed in partnership between Tommy’s, The University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and the Greater Manchester Strategic Clinical Network. The online version called ‘Tommy’s Toolkit’ was launched into clinical service across all three MFT maternity sites in January 2022 and will be freely available across the NHS the same year. Changing international care The University’s work was also critical to the development of the Australian Safer Baby Bundle, launched in 2019. Euan Wallace, Victoria’s Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services explained: “We would not have been able to develop the Safer Baby Bundle without the resources and insights from Saving Babies Lives care bundle, generously shared by Professors Heazell and Johnstone.” Initial evaluation showed that the bundle was associated with a 27% reduction in stillbirth in 21 of the state’s maternity services. Creating a care centre for families Following the researchers’ review of women and families’ needs in pregnancies after a previous stillbirth, they set up the Rainbow Clinic in Manchester in 2013 to provide care for these families. By 2021, the centre had treated more than 900 families. A 2016 review showed that Rainbow Clinic care helped to reduce preterm birth by 11% and low birth weight by 9%. There are now 28 satellite Rainbow Clinics in the UK delivering this model of care, with a further two in development. The team are also working with care providers in Australia, Canada and the US to adopt the model. Connect with our experts Get access to research you need from experts who shape lives and improve health outcomes globally. Professor Alexander Heazell Professor of Obstetrics Professor Edward Johnstone Professor of Obstetrics
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Maritime Days Geocaching Series Fun for the whole family! Our geocaching series will take you to various points in downtown Marine City, and we'd love to have you join our virtual treasure hunt! Print and fold the "passport," which contains the GPS coordinates for each of our caches... then hunt them out and stamp you passport! Once you've found all of the caches, and collected all of the stamps, stop by the Maritime Days HQ (in front of GT Graphics) and collect your prize sticker. HINT: It's best to do the caches in the early morning, before the carnival begins, to avoid running into muggles. Please note: this geocaching series WILL BE posted on geocaching.com, but not for at least a week after the end of Maritime Days. Feel free to log in at geocaching.com and log your find once the postings are live at their site.
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WARREN, Mich. — On Monday (03/05), the Mustangs visited Warren Cousino High School to sign a pair of seniors to their 2012-13 class. The signing reunites current Mustang, Kevin Dunaj, with his younger brother Corey Dunaj and former teammate Ben Stull. Follow us on facebook (twice: here and here) and twitter! Corey Dunaj, a 6’6″ senior forward/center, was the first to sign a 2012-13 Letter of Intent to play at Marygrove College next season. Dunaj will now reunite with his brother Kevin as the pair look to bring a championship to Marygrove after succeeding together at the high school level. In 2010, the Dunaj brothers helped lead the Patriots to a Macomb Area Conference (MAC) White Championship. The Patriot senior has enjoyed a successful season-to-date on the hardwood this year. Recently, Dunaj was named First Team All-Conference (MAC White) and Second Team All-County (Macomb) for his outstanding play this season. An all-around athlete, Dunaj also received college offers in football after finishing a solid career as a tight end for the Patriots. This spring, Dunaj will hit the diamond as the projected right fielder and as one of the top pitchers in the Patriots rotation. Coach Sichterman on Dunaj: Corey is an extremely versatile player that will give us a lot of options offensively. He is athletic at his size (6’6″) and should fit well into our system. We feel we got a very high quality player for our level today when we signed Corey. He and his brother (Kevin) give our team the character we are seeking to build a championship program at Marygrove. I look forward to coaching Corey next season. Ben Stull, a 6’8″ center, also signed a 2012-13 Letter of Intent to join friend Corey Dunaj and his brother Kevin. Stull will head to Marygrove with two years varsity experience at Cousino. In his first year on varsity, Stull teamed up with the Dunaj brothers to help lead the Patriots to a 2010 MAC-White Championship. Last year, Stull was named the Patriots’ Sixth Man of the Year after he posted stellar numbers throughout the campaign. Currently, Stull is readying for his senior season of baseball. The multi-sport athlete will hit the diamond this spring as a first baseman and pitcher for the Patriots. Stull’s 6’8″ frame also allowed him to excel on the gridiron during his days playing football for Cousino. Coach Sichterman on Stull: Ben is an excellent young man that will represent our program the right way on and off the court. Ben immediately helps our frontcourt due to the fact that nobody has come to us with his size in the history of our program. Ideally, Ben will be able to contribute early in his career if he works hard to get into basketball shape once again. Ben is a natural athlete for his size and I believe he will have a successful collegiate career as a Mustang. Category: Men's Basketball
Chemence Medical Products is on the hook for the 2.3% medical device tax on the medical adhesives it makes for distributor Medline Industries, a federal judge ruled this week. Chemence and Medline inked a supply contract in August 2010. After Chemence said in late 2012 that it planned to pass the tax along to Medline, Medline objected and said it viewed the move as a breach of contract, according to court documents. Chemence sued Medline in the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in February, seeking a ruling from Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. that Medline is obligated to pay the medtech tax, a 2.3% levy on all U.S. sales of prescribed medical devices. But Thrash shot down the Chemence bid, ruling that the terms of provisions of the tax statute, enacted as part of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, plainly state that manufacturers are on the hook for the lev, according to the documents. "The court concludes that, based on the plain terms of the statute and its regulations, the device tax is to be borne by manufacturers when, as here, the manufacturers are taxable," Thrash wrote. "Here, the ACA ‘imposed on the sale of any taxable medical device by the manufacturer, producer, or importer a tax equal to 2.3 percent of the price for which so sold.’ The language of the statute itself imposes a tax on the ‘manufacturer, producer, or importer,’ not on a distributor, like Medline, or a retailer or a consumer. … The statute itself and its regulations plainly place the burden of the device tax on the manufacturer."
The medical device industry is bracing for a potential multi-million-dollar fallout from a proposed tariff on all products coming into the United States from Mexico. The StarTribune of Minneapolis reports that the cost of these devices could skyrocket and that the effects would be widespread within the industry, costing tens of millions of dollars a month. The U.S. imports more medtech and device components from Mexico than from any other foreign country, according to an article in the newspaper. The tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump are set to begin at 5% on Monday and rise to 25% by October, failing a diplomatic breakthrough. The two countries are still negotiating, with the Trump administration demanding that Mexico stem the flow of migrants through its borders into the U.S. The United States imported $8.6 billion worth of medical devices and components from Mexico in 2018, accounting for 16.7% of the total in medtech imports, according to research group Fitch Solutions. Mexico led the pack, followed closely by Ireland, Germany and China, with Mexican-made goods including syringes, needles, catheters, therapeutic appliances, electrodiagnostic apparatus, orthopedics and prosthetics and portable aids. Individual medtech manufacturers will have to decide who should cover the costs of the tariffs, Medical Alley Association CEO Shaye Mandle told MassDevice in an email. “Increasing the cost of manufacturing medical devices leads to two possible pathways for the industry: shifting the costs to consumers and insurers, or absorbing the costs, forcing cuts in research and personnel,” Mandle said. Medical Alley is a medtech trade association in Minnesota. National medtech trade group AdvaMed “strongly opposes” any tariffs on medtech products, according to Ralph Ives, the organization’s executive vice president of global strategy and analysis. “AdvaMed is engaged with (the Office of the United States Trade Representative) regarding the proposed tariff increases on products from Mexico to make sure our views are known,” Ives said in an email. “We remain hopeful that alternatives can be found that will not impact patient access to innovative treatments and cures from the medical technology industry.”
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Companies spend a large amount of time and money creating valuable benefits plans for employees. But after all that work, they often get low participation. Good benefit choices require an effort from employers to ensure that employees have help in understanding their benefits options. To make things even more complex, employers are having to consider options for a span of 4 generations in the workplace which can look very different. Providing benefits for a multigenerational workplace can be challenging but it is important for employers to simplify the process by delivering education through the right channels while avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Understanding your audience and how to effectively communicate with them is the first step in creating your benefits messaging. For example, what are the demographics of your workplace? Do you need to provide multiple messages across various channels? Does your workplace speak English, or will you need bilingual messaging? A recent survey indicates that 83% of employers believe that communication, employee education and engagement are key for employee participation. Here are 5 tips on educating your employees about their benefits to encourage benefits participation: - Break Down Health Insurance Options - Distribute a simple guide that explains the key things employees should know about their health insurance and basic terminology - Explain in simple terms about provider network, covered prescriptions, monthly premiums, deductibles, and additional plan benefits, if applicable - Have an efficient way for employees to manage benefits and ask questions - Automate the Process - Use an automated benefits administration system to keep your employees informed - Provide the option for employees to ask questions prior to choosing a benefits plan - Make Plans Customizable - Provide plenty of benefits options including medical, dental and vision from leading carriers - Offer a lifestyle benefits program that allows employees to personalize their plan according to their needs - Consider offering perks like commuter benefits or health club memberships to reduce financial burdens and encourage a healthy lifestyle - Provide Multiple Communication Strategies - Offer educational tools and channels preferred by employees so they can stay informed year-round to make better purchasing decisions - Utilize effective benefits education tools that include in-person and virtual meetings, digital communication or print media - You can utilize a short video to explain key concepts; use graphs and images or create short quizzes for employees to ensure they have read and understand the material - Make it Easy to Sign-Up - Invest in updated HR and Benefits technology that includes easy message capabilities such as email, text message alerts, video support, and live chat integration - Provide a Benefits mobile app - Offer a benefits website which houses benefit information, HR information, and enrollment material such as “BenefitsEasy“ Although you may use one or more of the tips above, it is vital to keep the information flowing throughout the year. A fun way to do this is to pose a monthly trivia question to your staff related to the benefits and wellness programs you offer and award a prize to the person who submits the correct answer. Highlighting different features of your benefits or wellness programs each month will keep your employees engaged and informed!
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GEORGE LUNDBERG, MD: Hello and welcome. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor-at-Large for MedPage Today, and we are having a conversation today with Dr. Kevin Whaley, who is a medical examiner for the state of Virginia, in the city of Richmond. We are in Las Vegas, Nev., however, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pathology. Thank you so much for being with us today Dr. Whaley, I appreciate it. KEVIN WHALEY, MD: Thanks for having me. LUNDBERG: You're a medical examiner in a state that has them. How many states have medical examiners and how many have the coroner system, or is it two -- do you have to break it down by county or city and you can't really answer the question? WHALEY: Right. You can't really answer the question, you have to break it down. Some are statewide systems, there's very few of those, but we're one that's a statewide system. LUNDBERG: Five or six? WHALEY: Five or six would be about right. LUNDBERG: Maryland is another one? WHALEY: And then a number of states such as, say, Texas is a good example, they're a mixture. Some counties have a medical examiner, others have a coroner system, and they actually work pretty well together. And then others, Florida is an outlier, they have just district medical examiners. So pretty much any combination you can think of, you can find a state with that. LUNDBERG: And, by and large, is a medical examiner a board-certified pathologist? WHALEY: Yes. All medical examiners would be board-certified pathologists. LUNDBERG: But a coroner might be almost anything and could even be elected. WHALEY: Exactly. In fact, a lot of them are elected. A lot of the places I'm familiar with, the coroner is often a funeral home director, because that goes well hand-in-hand, and sometimes it's even passed down through families; the father was the coroner who ran the funeral home, and then it's passed down to the son. LUNDBERG: Without pinning you down particularly, name a good coroner system in the United States, one that you think would work as well as a medical examiner system, pretty much. WHALEY: Sure. Texas is one. I'm from Arkansas originally, and Arkansas has some coroners, as well, but the Texas system I'm familiar with, and they have sort of a symbiotic relationship, so they work well. The coroners will have to hire a forensic pathologist in order to do their autopsies for them, because they're not a physician. LUNDBERG: And would hire one on a case-by-case basis? LUNDBERG: If the coroner decides it's necessary. LUNDBERG: I'm afraid there might be some problems with that, like maybe the coroner may not know. LUNDBERG: But then there are some blended systems, as you indicated. I think that the chief medical examiner for L.A. County is also called the coroner. The Chief Medical Examiner and Coroner for L.A. County. LUNDBERG: It probably has to do with legal aspects. WHALEY: Right, the way their code is worded. LUNDBERG: OK. Your field, of course, is a very popular one, and all of those -- CSI here, CSI there. I don't think there's a CSI in Little Rock. And I don't know if there is one in Richmond, but there are so many of them. My belief is, it's a mixed blessing. Obviously, the public becomes very enamored of the role of forensic pathologist, but perhaps expectations are raised a bit over where they should be? WHALEY: They are. Particularly when I testify in court, I have to be sure to explain to the jury, because they'll put a lot of weight on whatever is in vogue at that time, like DNA evidence came through and then gunshot residue analysis, where we test the hands to see if someone has come in contact with a gun. But there's a lot of reasons why someone could be positive and not have fired a weapon, and it could be negative and they could have fired a weapon. So you have to know the nuances; it's not so much as oh if it's there, it means they did it kind of thing. LUNDBERG: So mostly this comes down to educating the jury as part of the testimony system in court, which has always been the case. LUNDBERG: I mean the jury has always been there to be educated. WHALEY: Right. And that's the fun part for me, being able to explain it. Like I said, I'm from a small town in Arkansas, so I try to do it like I'm back home at a fish fry or something, and explaining it to my family. I'm the only person who went to med school in my family. The lumber mill didn't look good when I was a kid, so med school looked good. LUNDBERG: So probably with Arkansas talk, that probably works pretty good in Virginia. WHALEY: Oh, it works very well, very well. LUNDBERG: Well I don't sound like it, but I'm from Alabama. L A, lower Alabama. WHALEY: Lower Alabama. LUNDBERG: OK. So, budgets. I mean the federal budget is a mess, state budgets are a mess, county budgets are a mess. That has to have a real effect on the funding of forensic investigations. WHALEY: It does, it does. We're always battling a fine line with the state budget. We want to stay within the budget, but we don't want to cut any corners where we could potentially miss a homicide, you know, by ruling it as an accident. Because there are three things we can do when someone has called in: There could be a turndown, it's a natural death, we don't need to investigate it; but then the other two are a view, which is an external examination with tox, or a full autopsy. And so you have to watch the budget. You don't want to over-utilize the autopsies, because that costs a lot, but then you don't want to miss something either. LUNDBERG: Is it currently a practice in Virginia for the autopsies that are done in the M.E. system to be utilized for medical student teaching and for pathology resident teaching, since the hospital autopsy seems to be so rare these days? WHALEY: Yes. We have med students come through. In fact, I'm responsible for the medical student rotation. They'll come and I try to tailor it for them. If they're interested in forensic pathology, sure then we tailor it and send them the scenes and stuff. But a lot of times they're interested in cardiology, so then I spend a lot of time showing them hearts, make sure they see all the hearts and going over that, or pulmonology or anesthesiology even, looking at vocal cords and even practice. We have the instrumentation to intubate in the office. So I try to tailor it for the med student. LUNDBERG: When I first went into pathology, the hospital autopsy rates were 50, 60, 70%. Now many hospitals don't do any autopsies. LUNDBERG: So your role becomes an ever more important one, not just in the legal system, but also in the medical education system. Well, thank you very much, Dr. Kevin Whaley from Richmond, Va., for being with us today. WHALEY: Sure. Thanks for having me. LUNDBERG: And thank you for being with us. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, Editor-at-Large for MedPage Today, signing off.
Name: Maulik Nanavaty New title: CEO, Anumana Previous title: senior vice president and president of neuromodulation, Boston Scientific Anumana has identified Maulik Nanavaty to lead the company through a key period in which it will start to deploy and commercialize its ECG-AI technology. Massachusetts-based Anumana, which was founded by nference and Mayo Clinic, is developing algorithms for analyzing cardiovascular data. The Food and Drug Administration recently granted 510(k) clearance to an algorithm developed by the company to detect low-ejection fraction using data from a routine 12-lead electrocardiogram. Having secured the clearance, Murali Aravamudan, co-founder of Anumana, has transitioned to the executive chairman position, freeing up the CEO post. Nanavaty has taken up the job after spending 18 years at Boston Scientific, where he held senior roles in interventional cardiology and neuromodulation. Aravamudan sees the experience as a good fit for Anumana. “Maulik’s decades of experience developing and bringing to market innovative medical products globally is exactly what is needed to build Anumana into a best-in-class multimodal cardiovascular AI enterprise,” the executive chairman said in a statement. Nanavaty and Aravamudan will work together to establish the algorithm to detect low-ejection fraction as part of the process for assessing patients at risk of heart failure, while also advancing a pipeline that features three more algorithms with FDA breakthrough designation. Aravamudan will continue as CEO of nference, one of the founders of Anumana. Nanavaty, who spent 16 years at Baxter early in his career, is joining nference as president of ventures.
A known epidemic plaguing America is the overuse of and addiction to opiate medications. Opiate drugs are technically not tranquilizors which are in fact another set of addicting drugs. Tranquilizers, somewhat like alcohol (also a drug), are designed to reduce anxiety and nervousness whereas opiates are primarily designed to reduce pain. Both classes of drugs can cross over and have a certain amount of effect on both fronts but the cross over effect for the drug is much smaller than the primary effect. That is to say, a pain drug will have some calming properties but the main effect will be always for pain. The same idea is true for the tranquilizors. However, when used together the two drugs are synergistic where one and one equals three. The combined effect of using two drugs is much more potent and dangerous than using either alone. The purpose of this article is to explain one aspect of addiction treatment which is the use of drugs. To many people it does at first seem counter intuitive to treat an addiction to one drug by switching to another. Two commonly used drugs for opiate addiction these days are Suboxone and Methadone. If these drugs are prescribed by trained physicians and used properly they can and do help treat the addiction. Let me explain how. In essence, our brains make millions of chemical neurotransmitters which signal one nerve to another in the brain. This is what controls brain function. One of these transmitters is a chemical called Dopamine. When it is produced it produces a good feeling in your system. It makes you have the drive to live, move and be happy. Without it, life itself becomes an insurmountable problem. One simply has no will to move or do anything. It is a miserable state. Opiates tend to mimic Dopamine and other endorphines making a person feel good. This then leads the brain to want more and a viscious cycle is set up where the user takes opiates all the time to get the good feeling. As this occurs the brain makes less Dopamine because it senses that you have enough (as it doesn't understand that you're taking it in pill form). The brain's feedback system then is telling it to make less because it has enough. This is like a thermostat on your heater. If your house has extra heat because the gas range is on high the thermostat will not know, or care, why the house is warm enough it will just signal the furnace to stop. Over too long a time the brain tends to lose the chemicals needed to make Dopamine because they're just not needed if one keeps taking pills. The person thus becomes addicted to the drug and starved of brain Dopamine. It is very difficult to then break the addiction because if one stops taking the pills then there is literally no motivational effect on the brain at all. Moreover, many people can and do suffer seizures, shaking, loss of appetite, heart irregularities and other conditions of ill being when the brain is not working right. This person then is really stuck in a bad place. The horrible feelings they experience are real and they truly need help. There are many forms of assistence but with respect to drug assisted care Suboxone and Methadone work by attaching to the same signal sensors as do the opiates. Thy tend to causes a much less powerful effect on the brain so that the patient doesn't feel as bad as with nothing but not as euphoric as with opiates. This tends then to signal to the brain that Dopamine is low and that it (the brain) needs to redevelop the biochemical systems to produce Dopamine again. This does take time but it does work. A third drug known as Narcan (Naloxone) is also used in the setting of opiate use but it is not an anti-addiction drug. Narcan is a drug which rapidly reverses respiratory insufficiency and arrest in patients taking opiates. Opiates tend to be attracted to and bind tightly with inhibitory receptors in the brain respiratory control center which causes one to stop breathing. Narcan, which can be given by injection or inhalation, immediately bumps the opiates off the respiratory center resulting in the ability to breathe right away. Medically assisted treatments (MAT's) then are one legitimate part of a multi-pronged approach to the treatment of opiate addiction.
Marie-Eve Levasseur’s body of work in The Therapeutic Promise and the Potential of Proximity offers a point of departure for an epistemological discussion on prosthetics, identity and compression. Across printed media, video and installation, Levasseur interrogates what the adoption of techno-capitalism means for the body. The flesh is taken as a node in a mesh that questions topology – there is an element of the digital skin graft that attempts to assess where the prosthetic self exists between embeddedness and the entanglement. Skin becomes data repository, but more than that, a mutually beneficial symbiosis occurs allowing for genetic enhancement and neural-feedback: a deeply mutational living structure. These works function as machines in that they operate through levers, pulleys, mass and communication. They question the reflexivity and control of our own transmission networks – is it our feedback or something else’s? Disregarding fetishisms for critical theorisations for a moment, the rule of law – that which manifestation of governance in the social network – suggests the emergence of very clear control tactics of what Gilles Châtelet calls ‘the tertiary state’. That is the mediating of our main regulatory technologies by the state, media and capital – something Levasseur is undeniably aware of. What she inquires is once we internalise these deeply mutational structures, who is responsible for these agencies and where does the sovereignty fall? In her Entanglements series 3-D modelling is rendered into a 2-D medium, flattening field of vision where black digits emerge from uncanny materials that seem both analogous to a crater of a foreign planet and to the surface of digitally rendered skin. The viewer is presented with an entrenchment of the corporeal and the binary, where both otherness and familiarity flex each other in the nexus of cybernetics. Even text as I type it is a kind of hacking, a bifurcation between human and machine that realigns in the form of pixels or print. Its genesis is possible through a network that is biological, technological, economic and political. The concept of bio-politics as something involuntarily patched into us is defeatist as it assumes a viable lack of alternative. It also negates the fact that most of us are willing. Nevertheless, it would be hard to argue against the opinion that we are living in an age of colonisation of the body and time through cybernetics. Planetary-scale computation plays a fundamental role in the merging of the eye, the hand and the object. Biology is a network phenomenon. In between bodies and clouds (my desired incomputable algorithm and the predictable operator) – we encounter the transplanting of information in the form of python poetry in two separate algorithms. Separated by an ocean of blue skies a sense of the infinite is communicated. In this installation the artist communicates what technology means for the translation of information across the human \| machine dialectic, constantly being expanded and reiterated. While the twentieth century questioned where and when art is, the first two decades of the twenty-first century seem to question where and when the sovereign is – does it lie with the algorithm or the content? What does prosthesis mean for citizenship and its identity politics?
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Facebook groups are a fantastic way of cultivating a community of like-minded people, all interested in a particular topic, product or problem. It's little wonder, then, that running such a group can be a highly effective strategy for membership site owners, for a wide variety of reasons. In this episode of The Membership Guys Podcast, I'm joined by Jill Stanton from Screw The Nine to Five, who shares her insight into not only running a popular, highly successful free Facebook group; but also how she leverages this to benefit her paid membership community. (Warning: this one gets a little bit sweary, so those of a sensitive disposition may want to give it a miss!) In this episode, Jill Stanton and I discuss: - Running a free Facebook group vs using a group for your paid membership - Advice on how to get people engaged and active in your group - Tips and techniques for attracting new members to your Facebook group - The specific strategy that Jill uses to get people from her Facebook group to join her membership website - How Jill manages her time keeping on top of a 10,000 person strong free group as well as her paid community - …and loads more! This was such a fun discussion, with Jill dropping almost as many f-bombs as there were value-bombs! We've already implemented a bunch of Jill Stanton's tips for our own free Facebook group, so if you already have a group that you're not getting the most from, or you were on the fence about starting your own Facebook group; then hopefully this episode has given you some food for thought. Thank You For Listening We really appreciate you chosing to listen to us and for supporting the podcast. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. We would also be eternally grateful if you would consider taking a minute or two to leave an honest review and rating for the show in iTunes. They're extremely helpful when it comes to reaching our audience and we read each and every one personally! Finally, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes to make sure that you never miss an episode
The public are today invited to share their views over how the overarching mental health law influencing both England and Wales should change. An initial three month period of consultation has begun and there is plenty that is up for debate through the review of the Mental Health Act, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister in October. As well as inappropriate detentions and inconsistent responses to the treatment of BAME individuals, the review will also look at the mental capacity act, compulsory treatment orders, the balance over risks, protection and rights, and the issue of whether the nearest blood relative currently has too much or too little responsibility in law. Some changes will be "implemented pretty quickly" whereas other recommendations will establish the "direction that we should be going in over the next ten years,” Professor Simmon Wessely, who is leading the review, told Mental Health Today. Anyone can submit evidence through writing to [email protected]. Other means of contributing can be found online at this dedicated website or you can express your views through our Twitter polls on the Act - check our Twitter feed for details. You can read the full interview with Professor Wessely, in which he describes the scope of making mental healthcare "less coercive", here.

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