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https://www.jamescarterpriebelaw.com/blog/government-siding-with-workers-seeking-to-unionize-local-mcdonalds-locations/ | 2020-09-21T10:13:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400201601.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921081428-20200921111428-00012.warc.gz | 0.974604 | 507 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__119964214 | en | Government Siding with Workers Seeking to Unionize Local McDonald’s Locations
In December of 2014, an employee was fired from a McDonald’s restaurant in Little Rock, allegedly because he was trying to organize the franchise’s employees into a union. This type of firing is generally not allowed under federal law. Many other actions aimed at preventing employees from organizing are also prohibited. The National Labor Relations Board has stepped in on behalf of the workers at this franchise and other location with the same owner, seeking to have the employee rehired and to stop the franchise owners from taking actions which would prevent union organization.
The two McDonald’s locations in question are franchises run by The Retzer Group Inc., which owns 47 such businesses in three states. One of these restaurants was the site of a protest against low wages and poor treatment in September of 2014, during which 11 people were arrested. These protests were part of a larger, nationwide campaign seeking a $15/hr. wage for fast food workers.
The Retzer Group, Inc. is accused of threatening termination of any employees who discussed unions or organizing. Allegedly, employees were prevented from gathering outside during breaks or from participating in organizing activity that is protected under federal law.
On June 19, 2015, M. Kathleen McKinney sought an injunction against the owners of the franchise. The injunction was temporarily granted. McKinney is the director of the National Labor Relations Board’s Region 15 (NLRB), which includes Arkansas. The NLRB is tasked with protecting the rights of employees to organize and preventing unfair labor practices. The temporary injunction, which was ordered by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Miller on June 24th and extended on July 6th, prohibits interference with employees as they attempt to organize. Workers may not be fired for discussing unionization.
Judge Brian Miller is awaiting testimony from the employer. Labor lawyers on both sides will argue as to whether the temporary injunction should be made permanent. At issue will also be the fate of Kevin “Jay” Harris, the terminated employee. Until then, the employer will be required to post notices informing employees of their rights and will be forbidden from threatening employees who discuss unions.
If you believe your own rights have been violated at work, the law firm of James & Carter PLC may be able to help. Our firm serves Northwest Arkansas as well as the Little Rock area. Contact us online or call us today at 866.716.3242 to learn more. | news |
https://destinationyellowstone.com/yellowstone-ski-festival-a-november-tradition/ | 2024-04-18T12:57:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00090.warc.gz | 0.947002 | 1,113 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__72746881 | en | For more than 30 years, Nordic skiers from across the country and around the world have descended on West Yellowstone, Montana in November to take part in the Yellowstone Ski Festival. The Thanksgiving tradition has grown from a fall training camp for the U.S. Nordic Ski Team to a full-on celebration featuring ski clinics, races, on-snow demonstrations, an indoor expo, and presentations from renowned Olympic athletes and international competitors. West Yellowstone’s early-season snow makes the town’s expansive system of Nordic ski trails the ultimate destination to kick off the ski season.
Nordic skiers haven’t always converged on West Yellowstone in November. Tourists originally flocked to the area to explore Yellowstone National Park during the summer months. Once the winter snow paralyzed train travel and shut down the mountain passes, only the hardy locals remained to ride out the winter season.
The invention of the modern snowmobile in the 1960s breathed new life into the area’s winter tourism and West Yellowstone became a premier snowmobile destination. During the 1970s, Neal Swanson and his sons Kent and Carl, owners of the town’s Rendezvous Ski Shop, set out to attract Nordic skiers to West Yellowstone as well. The Swanson family worked with the U.S. Forest Service to create the Rendezvous Ski Trails on old logging roads near the south side of town—packing down the trails by pulling bed springs behind a snowmobile. Carl later won the 1978 Junior Nationals and the Swanson family helped to convince the U.S. Nordic Ski Team to hold its month-long November training camp in West Yellowstone.
In the years that followed, more ski enthusiasts began to discover West Yellowstone’s excellent early-season snow. In the 1980s, a group of locals led by Drew Barney and Doug Edgerton established Fall Camp, the predecessor to the Yellowstone Ski Festival. Barney began holding clinics for Nordic skiers of different levels and recruited coaches from around the country to join. Meanwhile, Edgerton developed a new tracksetter in 1983 that could be pulled behind a snowmobile or Pisten Bully and groom trails varying snow conditions. Edgerton’s improved technology revolutionized trail maintenance and quickly spread around the world. In 1985, a joint effort between Edgerton, the Montana National Guard, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Biathlon Association, and the West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce established a firing range adjacent to the Rendezvous Ski Trails. As word spread about the new early-season biathlon offerings in West Yellowstone, Fall Camp attendance eventually tripled.
By the 1990s, between 300-400 skiers attended the annual Fall Camp. As the number of skiers increased, manufacturers began to show up and highlight their new equipment. The West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce took note of the growing November tourism and saw the opportunity to market West Yellowstone as a Nordic ski destination. The Chamber aimed to boost the area’s economy by hosting an event during a typically slow season for the town’s business owners—between the end of Yellowstone National Park’s summer season in October and before the beginning of the park’s winter season in December.
The Chamber’s Cross Country Ski Committee worked to maximize the Fall Camp experience by formalizing a Thanksgiving-week celebration to ring in the ski season. The number of vendors in attendance continued to grow and the Indoor Expo was eventually created as a venue to showcase new equipment to festival-goers. During the years that followed, manufacturers began highlighting new gear through on-snow demonstrations, new races were organized during Thanksgiving week, world-class coaches began offering clinics and trainings, and the annual gathering was officially renamed the Yellowstone Ski Festival.
A variety of ski teams ranging from junior athletes to national competitors attend the festival each year, but citizen skiers and families have also created new traditions around the Thanksgiving event. Encompassing roughly one square mile, West Yellowstone is a safe and convenient family destination that visitors can navigate on foot to easily access ski trails, restaurants, and hotels. The festival has also grown to include evening events and entertainment for skiers of all levels and ages. Visitors can attend inspiring presentations from Olympic athletes, view one-of-a-kind films, or unwind with friends during the Apres Ski & S’mores. Unique sessions, such as “Women, Wine, and Wax” and “Whiskers, Whiskey, and Wax,” aim to improve attendees’ skill sets while making the festival a truly memorable experience.
Between 3,000 to 5,000 attendees have descend on West Yellowstone to attend the festival in recent years, including 300-400 racers. The festival is currently organized by the Chamber in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and the West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation. Together, these groups also work to manage the Rendezvous Ski Trails. Revenue from the festival supports the management of the trail system, provides matching funds for grants, compensates the festival’s director, and helps to market West Yellowstone for the remainder of the season.
The Yellowstone Ski Festival has become a Thanksgiving tradition for competitive athletes, novice skiers, and families from around the world. Come join us this year and make West Yellowstone your Nordic ski destination!
For a full schedule of events visit SkiRunBikeMT.com
AUTHOR: CAITLIN STYRSKY | news |
http://dodowars.blogspot.com/2011/09/counting-cost-of-bad-politics-published.html | 2018-05-21T00:49:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863901.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521004325-20180521024325-00080.warc.gz | 0.967153 | 767 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__185524958 | en | The Netherlands have been a byword for tolerant and realistic drug policies for years. It took some courage to do that because it provokes some pretty rough criticism from its partners in Europe and around the world.
The Dutch system effectively suspends its own drug law (drugs remain technically illiegal) and tolerates both drug use and the sale of cannabis in a regulated way through the "coffeeshops". These are regulated, legal (and taxed). Their supply is not. When the system started decades ago the "back door" was supplied by green-fingered "hippy" types and other amateurs. Now that cannabis has become a mainstream consumer product in much of the world - although production remains illegale - organised crime has stepped in.
It is a good illustration of the point I made in my post of 4 April (Power sharing with the Mafia). There is no easy option for weak politicians: all-out prohibition doesn't work (anywhere in the world) nor does the half-hearted tolerance policy of the Dutch (and, incidentally, quite a few other European countries).
As demand for cannabis grew in Holland - boosted by drugs tourism from neighboring countries - the volume of the cannabis trade overtook heroin and cocaine somewhere around 1995 and is still expanding. The police has responded by creating special teams, sentencing is now tougher, but the profits to be made are totally irrisistable and the business plan of a serious canabis producer includes prison as a calculated risk and lethal violence as an essential management technique. Take a look at the fundamentals: a 1000-plant cannabis plantation with grow lights and automatic irrigation yields up to five harvests a year worth 700.000 EURO. The electricity and water are free because they are illegally tapped from the public networks.
What does this lead to? An unprecedented growth in organised violent crime in a country that has a firmly non-violent tradition. Drive-by shootings, public assassinations in bars and people's homes. Although much of this is gang warfare, the degree of intimidation of private citizens who are "pursuaded" to make a room, garage or cellar available to the growers is such that they rarely go to the police to complain. One mayor of a Dutch town is in hiding under police protection. Dutch police claim they destroy 6000 plantations a year or 2,5 million plants (one plant produces app. 40 grams). And yet, cannabis production is not thought to have decreased significantly.The market however is becoming more violent every year.
The problem has now spread over the border into Belgium, which has a weaker police system than Holland and less experience with the drugs trade. Belgian police recently claimed that more tha, 90% of plantations discovered were linked to Dutch organised crime. A Belgian criminologist, Prof. Decorte, describes the (Dutch) police tactics as "hit and run" raids on plantations, but which do no significant harm to the organisations behind the trade itself. Going for the top criminals would take resources that are simply not available and are likely to remain so for years to come. Meanwhile, others are moving into the business. Turkish, Bulgarian and Moroccan networks are increasingly active, to say nothing of the Vietnamese, already dominating the Canadian market and expanding rapidly in the UK.
How long will it take for our feeble and election-hungry politicians to take their eyes off the economy and to recognise that the bells are tolling for traditional prohibition of drugs and for the UN Conventions on drugs, at least in their present form. If they persist in "fighting" rather than regulating and reducing the side effects, we should expect a gradual slide into a form of society in which organised crime plays a major part in mainstream politics and in ordinary people's lives. Try to explain that to your children. | news |
https://rapaces.lpo.fr/aigle-royal/oxford-university-conservation-biologist-concerned-impact-wind-farms-birds-and-bats | 2023-02-02T23:24:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500041.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202232251-20230203022251-00732.warc.gz | 0.957544 | 439 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__123575284 | en | Says Clive Hambler, Lecturer in Biological and Human Sciences, Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK:
"I think wind farms are potentially the biggest disaster for birds of prey since the days of persecution by gamekeepers, and I think wind farms are one of the biggest threats to European and North American bats since large scale deforestation. The impacts are already becoming serious for white-tailed eagles in Europe, as is abundantly clear in Norway. A wind farm – built despite opposition from ornithologists – has decimated an important population, killing 40 white-tailed eagles in about 5 years and 11 of them in 2010. The last great bustard in the Spanish province of Cadiz was killed by a wind development. In my experience, some “greens” are in complete denial of these impacts, or hopefully imagine that these bats and birds can take big losses: they can’t because they breed very slowly.
"Birds of prey often soar where wind farms are best-sited, and may be attracted to their deaths by the vegetation and prey around the turbines. A similar deadly ecological trap has been proposed for bats, with some species attracted by insect prey or noise around the turbines.
"There are very serious suggestions of a cover-up of the scale of the problem, by some operatives hiding the corpses of birds, but you only have to look at the Save the Eagles website to see the evidence accumulating despite scavengers or deception.
"To my mind one of the worst problems is that wind farms will prevent the recovery of birds of prey, other threatened birds, and bats – denying them great swathes of the European and North American continent where they once dwelt. This flies in the face of the legally binding Convention on Biological Diversity, which encourages restoration of habitat and species whenever practicable. It makes a nonsense of the idea that wind is ‘sustainable’ energy – except in that it sustains and renews ecological damage."
Clive Hambler may be contacted here: +44 (0)1865 271124
or here: [email protected] | news |
https://water4.org/2020/10/where-can-you-get-this-living-water/ | 2022-09-25T14:39:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334579.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925132046-20220925162046-00318.warc.gz | 0.970032 | 762 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__147156639 | en | “Where can you get this Living water?” – John 4:11
COVID-19 has slowed the pace of our lives to a trickle. Amidst the uncertainty, we are forced to live differently. Closer to home. Focused less on things and more on people. In this new normal, sometimes we struggle to find peace and perspective, to navigate new waters.
But there is unity in the struggle. We are all thirsting for something more. With shops shuttered, churches closed, and offices off limits, people are re-defining their purpose in life. And sharing a common plight is making the world feel a bit smaller and more connected than it used to be.
At Grace Church in Roseville, Minnesota, the community wanted to find new ways to make a difference. When they heard about the outdoor Walk4Water in OKC this year, to support the rural poor in Africa through a faith-based charity – Water4 – they jumped on the opportunity to make one of their own.
Grace operates under the premise that in times like these, we can still act out our faith, gather safely in community, and step boldly into living God’s plan for our lives. And on October 3rd, they did just that. Grace held the very first Walk4Water outside of OKC, raising $2,700 to bring safe water to a rural village for the first time.
The event brought together 30 church and community members to learn about the global water crisis. Kids and adults alike learned about the challenges of living in a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where ethnic conflict has created 3.8 million refugees and millions of people have to walk an average of 3.7 miles per day just to fetch water.
The conditions were not quite the same as those faced by women and children in DRC. The chilly Minnesota morning; fetching water in 5-gallon buckets from a baby pool (mixed with dirt and rocks); walking 3 miles in a church parking lot; all followed by a warm, East African meal.
But it was a teachable moment. Families worked together to share the load, struggling to balance the weight of water on their bodies. Tope, who left Nigeria as a teenager, shared her story of making the walk three times per day – before school, after school to prepare dinner, and sometimes before bed to fetch water for washing and cleaning. But despite this heavy chore, she was never late for school. The walk gave her kids a taste of her childhood reality. Now that’s some perspective.
Darla Benjamin, Pastor of Outreach at Grace, summarized the lessons, “We can no longer take water for granted. We have walked in the steps of those forced to use ponds and streams for drinking water. Walking for them, and giving to this great cause to bring safe and Living water to all, is a step in the right direction.”
This group also met their goal of funding a well that will bring safe water to 300 people in conflict-affected Bunia, DRC. They also took home a prayer card as a reminder to ask God for more water to flow as a source of peace in the region, and that more disciples would be made through Water4’s MULTIPY program.
The Grace community is proof that COVID-19 is making the world smaller, more patient, and more loving: you can partner with a charity 800 miles away, to benefit a community 8,000 miles away. But they say the giver is also blessed. Through the practice of fetching dirty water, these graceful walkers were also filled with the Living Water that quenches our deepest thirst. | news |
https://newsletter.tabs3.com/announcements/2017/01/announcement-tabs3-version-18-ranks-among-the-best-products-of-2016/ | 2023-05-29T22:09:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644913.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529205037-20230529235037-00014.warc.gz | 0.957165 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__120188276 | en | We’re excited to announce that Version 18 was among the TL NewsWire Top 25 Products of 2016. Products are selected based on the popularity of their TL NewsWire article by the nearly 12,000 subscribers of TL NewsWire.
“We are very pleased to be among the TechnoLawyer NewsWire Top 25,” said Dan Berlin, President of Software Technology, Inc. “Version 18 truly helps back-office staff work even more efficiently. In fact, for over 35 years, we have worked hard to develop reliable, quality software for law firms to help our clients improve their firm’s productivity and profitability, and Version 18 is no exception.”
“It was our subscribers’ clicks to the Tabs3 website from our article about Tabs3 Version 18 that resulted in this victory,” said Neil Squillante, founder of TechnoLawyer. “This passive voting makes the award more meaningful – our subscribers were genuinely interested in Tabs3 Version 18.”
To view the TL NewsWire on Version 18, visit http://blog.technolawyer.com/2016/01/tabs3-version-18.html.
Comments are closed. | news |
https://esraeurope.org/newsletter/article-posts/report-from-the-opening-ceremony/ | 2022-12-10T08:04:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710421.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20221210074242-20221210104242-00707.warc.gz | 0.937728 | 944 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__231711195 | en | The Aristotle University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
A tremendous sense of anticipation filled the air as delegates assembled in the beautiful setting of the Concert Hall in Thessaloniki for the opening ceremony of the first face-to-face ESRA Congress since the start of the pandemic. This would be the first time the ESRA community had been together in three years. The orchestra assembled and took their seats, and soon, the first bars of The Ode to Joy filled the hall. The choice of music was fitting and poignant for its profound symbolism within Europe. The Council of Europe adopted The Ode to Joy as its anthem in 1972, and in 1985, it became the official anthem of the European Community and its successor, the European Union. Coming from Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, it symbolises hope, unity and fellowship. These words underpinned Prof. Thomas Volk’s heartfelt greeting to the ESRA community as he officially opened the Congress.
During the opening ceremony, Thomas welcomed to the stage the ESRA officers responsible for delivering the Congress, Dr Alain Delbos, Dr Clara Lobo and Dr Eleni Moka. An inspiring team who, despite uncertainty and difficulties, ensured a hugely successful congress and a triumphant and welcome return to face-to-face meetings. Special mention must go to Eleni, whose drive and determination leading the Local Organizing team were vital in bringing the Congress to Thessaloniki. The team recognised the ESRA Office team who worked so hard behind the scenes, Kalliopi Platsi, Jeremy Ryckebush, Beatrice Torri, Despina Manola, Vivien Penning-Titze and Aline Christen.
ESRA President Thomas Volk
ESRA’s reach and international collaborative efforts were demonstrated with messages of support delivered by international partners, Prof Samer Narouze (ASRA), Dr Ezzat Aziz (AFSRA), Dr Juan Carlos de la Cuadra (LASRA) and Dr Jagannathan Balavenkatsubramanian (AOSRA).
Highlights of the opening ceremony included the presentation of awards to Prof Jose De Andres and Dr José Aguirre. Prof. De Andres received the Carl Koller Award for his outstanding contributions to pain management and the community of ESRA. Dr Aguirre received the Recognition of Education in Regional Anaesthesia Award, reflecting his contribution to the promotion of teaching and education in regional anaesthesia. Dr Aurore Latragne and Dr Alba Sabaté received awards for their excellent manuscripts on chronic pain. It was wonderful to hear a welcome from Professor Athina Vadalouca, a founding member and president of ESRA from 1997-2000, reinforcing the feeling that ESRA is a family within a scientific community!
In the 14th century Nikephoros Choumnos, the Byzantine scholar and statesman of Thessaloniki, wrote ‘’no man will be without a homeland, as long as Thessaloniki exists.’’ This comment has been described as capturing the essence of a city located midway between the East and West, at the intersection of cultures and one of the few European cities with an uninterrupted urban population across 2,500 years. So it felt appropriate at one of the first international medical conferences since the start of the pandemic to hear from our hosts in Thessaloniki. Mr Stavros Kalafatis, the Minister of Internal Affairs for Macedonia and Thrace, and the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Mr Konstantinos Zervas, welcomed the ESRA community warmly to their city.
To close the opening ceremony, the Aristotle University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus continued their recital with a fabulous selection of music from composers and musicians across Europe. An incredible performance from a group of highly talented people and a great end to an opening ceremony that embodied hope, unity and fellowship. For those wishing to relive the evening, check out the recordings on Spotify from Dvorak Slavonic Dance no 8 op4, Bizet Farandole-Intermezzeo-Toreador, Gounod Dance de Phyrne, and Verdi il Trovatore.
Finally, the evening concluded with a drinks reception in the sunshine, where the music and dancing continued! The whole event was an excellent start to a fabulous Congress!
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https://www.lawp.it/en/contributions-in-onerous-trusts-still-at-risk-of-taxation/ | 2023-03-25T08:19:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945317.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325064253-20230325094253-00699.warc.gz | 0.952592 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__161378366 | en | Contributions in onerous trusts still at risk of taxation
With the draft circular published on 11.8.2021, the Revenue Agency took note of the most recent orientation of the Supreme Court, according to which the contribution of the settlor in the trust does not constitute a taxable transfer, as long as there is no actual increase in the beneficiary’s assets.
In this view, for such enrichment to be taxable, it is not sufficient that the trust beneficiary has a vested interest in the trust, but that the property is transferred to him, as stated by the Supreme Court (judgment 22568/2021).
However, it is not clear whether these conclusions, which can now be regarded as self-evident for liberal trusts, can also be extended to non-liberal trusts, where the grant to the beneficiary does not constitute a gift, but is the performance of an obligation.
Paolo Giovannini and Dario Augello reported on this issue on Eutekne in the article “Contributions in onerous trusts still at risk of taxation”.
Family assets and succession planning | news |
http://www.laraferroni.com/2021/04/08/china-peru-free-trade-agreement/ | 2021-04-19T01:02:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038862159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418224306-20210419014306-00577.warc.gz | 0.961343 | 749 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__172327190 | en | San Isidro, Peru. I Round of Free Trade Negotiations In October 2019, the Peruvian government concluded the fourth round of negotiations aimed at “optimizing” the free trade agreement signed with China in April 2009. At Peru`s request, a chapter entitled “Global Supply Supply Chain” was registered. This is an innovation in the bilateral trade agreements of the Peruvian agreements, recognizing for the first time the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in global value chains. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR) is to be commended for its welcome, which is a testament to the excellent negotiating capacity of the Peruvian team. This free trade agreement is the most comprehensive agreement of its kind that China has negotiated with another developing country to date. On November 17, 2018, Peru and China signed a memorandum for the opening of negotiations to optimize their free trade agreement. In April 2019, Peru and China will begin a series of bilateral meetings aimed at optimizing their free trade agreement. On April 4, 2019, Peru and China held the first round of negotiations in Beijing to optimize their free trade agreement. The second round of negotiations took place from 17 to 19 June 2019 in Lima, Peru. The third round of negotiations for the optimization of the agreement ended on August 17, 2019 in Beijing, China.
The fourth round of negotiations took place in Lima, Peru, and ended on 6 October 2019. We are aware that, to date, China is conducting virtual trade negotiations with some countries, although there is no information that can tell us how many rounds of negotiations are still going on. We believe that there is still time to put a chapter on the environment on the negotiating table. It seems that the negotiating team can impose issues that are important to our country. No more excuses. It`s the right thing to do. The most sought-after Peruvian products in China are minerals, copper cathodes, fishmeal, iron minerals and silver minerals. At the China International Import Expo, Rogers Valencia, Peru`s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, announced the importance of China as a trading partner. While most of Peru`s exports are related to minerals, there are other potentials, such as agricultural products, fish and seafood and textiles. In recent years, China and Peru have made efforts to strengthen relations, boost trade and encourage investment. This has led to significant Chinese investments and projects in Peru, particularly in the areas of logistics, transport, telecommunications and mining.
Parties negotiating an “optimized” free trade agreement between China and Peru should consider three key elements: the creation of a space for the full and ongoing participation of non-governmental organizations in future rounds of negotiations; an independent and comprehensive assessment of the impact of trade and investment with China, particularly in the mining and fisheries sectors; and the inclusion of specific chapters on the environment and human rights. So far, formal negotiations on optimizing the free trade agreement between China and Peru have focused on trade in services, investments, procedures, rules of origin, intellectual property and e-commerce. There was no analysis of the serious environmental and social impact of the two main financial and commercial activities carried out by the two countries: mining and fishing. Agreements have been concluded between the two countries in the following areas: trade in goods, rules of origin, trade aid, services, investment, temporary market entry for entrepreneurs, health and plant health measures, technical barriers to trade, dispute resolution, customs procedures, intellectual property rights, cooperation and institutional issues. In addition, a customs cooperation agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding for labour and social security cooperation were successfully negotiated as separate instruments for the free trade agreement. | news |
https://transitionmqt.org/2019/04/repair-cafe-open-april-20/ | 2020-07-04T23:51:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886802.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704232817-20200705022817-00007.warc.gz | 0.927346 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__15429972 | en | The Transition Marquette County Repair Cafe will be open again on Saturday, April 20, in the Marquette Arts and Culture Center, on the lower level of the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. From noon to 4pm on that day, the public is invited to bring in small household items in need of repair. Volunteer repair talent will be on hand to work on computers and electronics, sewing machines, small appliances, clothing, lamps, and other household items. The focus is on helping people learn to repair their own items, thus saving money and keeping material out of landfills. There is no charge for this service; a $5 donation is suggested to support the program. The next Repair Cafe is scheduled for May 25. For more information call Tom at 573-300-1341 or email [email protected]. | news |
https://gearlabpaddles.com/blogs/news/alex-martin-completes-first-solo-circumnavigation-of-lake-winnipeg-in-record-time | 2024-04-18T04:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817187.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418030928-20240418060928-00651.warc.gz | 0.949376 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__102206724 | en | Alex Martin Completes First Solo Circumnavigation of Lake Winnipeg in Record Time
Taipei, Taiwan, August 23, 2018. - Eighteen-year-old GEARLAB athlete Alex Martin finished his Lake Winnipeg sea kayaking journey without a hitch and ahead of schedule. Martin embarked on a first-of-its-kind solo expedition to circumnavigate Lake Winnipeg on June 27. The goal during the audacious expedition was to raise awareness about the critical need for sustainable watershed management in the region.
The 1,750-km sea-kayak journey was planned to take two months, but Martin took the sea kayak community by surprise when he landed on August 3, at Grand Beach Provincial Park. Most lengthy open-water expeditions are fortunate to complete 50 km a day on average; Martin sometimes covered a mind-boggling 100 km a day. Could his gear have played a part? He reported the Nukilik and the new test paddle Kalleq were highly efficient, clog free, lightweight, and reliable.
Along the way, Martin stopped in communities around the lake to share stories, promote the campaign, and photograph the lake in its dynamic state along the coast. His tales from the expedition included 10-foot waves, a determined stalking bear, rogue storms, and teaching kids along the way about the sport of sea kayaking. (Martin's stories can be found in his recap interview.)
He paddled the shoreline of a number of areas recognized for their importance in the lake's ecology, including the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pimachiowin Aki, Fisher Bay Provincial Park, and Kinwow Bay Provincial Park. Sadly, he had to report on large algae blooms due to warm waters, shallow waters, erosion-caused mudflats, the invasive zebra mussels, and littered coast lines.
In addition to visiting 12 local schools to speak about water conservation and stewardship, Martin has partnered with Lake Winnipeg Foundation, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society: Manitoba Chapter, and the First Nations group Pimachiowin Aki.
For updates on the trip, visit the Lake Winnipeg Circumnavigation Campaign on Facebook.
- The original article is released on SNEWS. | news |
https://www.eastburymanorhouse.org.uk/history-current-exhibitions | 2023-12-11T08:31:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103810.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211080606-20231211110606-00777.warc.gz | 0.957932 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__223748756 | en | 'Eastbury Saved', opened in October 2018, as part of our 100th anniversary partnership project ‘We Love Eastbury’. This project commemorated the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’ (SPAB) involvement in saving the house from demolition as well as its successful fundraising campaign that helped the National Trust acquire it for the Nation in 1918. It tells the story of the house from 1883 to 1918, and explores the building’s place in the wider social and industrial changes happening during that time.
The project was made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, supported through the Heritage Fund, as well as money from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, the Friends of Eastbury Manor House and the Barnet National Trust Association.
'Eastbury Makers', is a new display of costumes that launched alongside the reopening of Eastbury Manor House after two years closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in April 2022. It explores the lives of the people who used to live and work at the house at the turn of the 20th century. Designed and made by students from University Centre at South Essex College, these historically accurate costumes, have been creatively reimagined with clues to each character woven into the fabric of each garment.
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, through the Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme. | news |
http://globalwomenartisans.com/social-entrepreneurs/897-2/ | 2017-12-11T11:06:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948513478.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211105804-20171211125804-00496.warc.gz | 0.983179 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__17060994 | en | Carmel set out to find her way to serve and founded Rising International. She had read about women being locked up in Afghanistan for five years while living under the Taliban’s rule. She was appalled and angry and she decided to take action. In an effort to help Afghanistan women support themselves and their children in a country that disallowed them to leave their homes to find work, Carmel reached out to artisans who sold highly individual dolls constructed with skill and found scraps of cloth. The dolls are traditional toys made by Afghan mothers for their daughters. The Nadera Doll Project was born and since its inception Carmel has extended a hand up to women artisans in over 19 countries.
Rising International is being noticed by the best and brightest of the social entrepreneur sector. Read about a grant awarded by Bill Drayton, the very man who coined the phrase “social entrepreneur” here. | news |
https://kse.formstack.com/press/formstack-appoints-tammy-polk-to-chief-human-resources-officer-amid-rapid-growth | 2024-04-15T09:56:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00262.warc.gz | 0.960521 | 709 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29248535 | en | No-code workflow automation provider hires experienced HR leader to enhance commitment to employee experience
FISHERS, IND.—April 13, 2022—Formstack, a workplace productivity platform that empowers anyone to digitize what matters, automate workflows and fix processes—all without code—today announced the appointment of Tammy Polk to Chief Human Resources Officer.
“Formstack is in such a state of growth right now as we expand into new markets and new product categories, and with that growth, it’s imperative that we bring in the right people with the right experience to help us continue on that journey,” said Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack. “We have put so much intentional effort into creating an exceptional employee-first culture, so bringing in a proven HR leader like Tammy, with more than 26 years of experience, to help us continue to foster and cultivate our award-winning culture was an easy decision. Tammy’s expertise will be an integral piece of our growth plans at Formstack and we’re looking forward to seeing her take our company culture to the next level.”
Polk will lead the acquisition, growth and retention of Formstack employees. Before joining Formstack, Polk spent more than 26 years growing talent at organizations of all sizes both public and private. Throughout her career, she has earned results by balancing strategic planning and operational execution and has a track record of scaling productive teams quickly and building lasting relationships. She will also be responsible for continuing to expand on Formstack’s already unique employee benefit offerings, such as step-up bonuses, wellness and technology stipends, free weekly lunches among many more.
“Over the course of my HR career, I’ve seen a variety of strategic approaches to creating company culture, and I can honestly say that what Formstack has built, in terms of putting their employees first, has been impressive,” said Polk. “The exceptional culture at Formstack was in place long before it became a necessity to retain employees and it’s obvious that this is a culture that truly listens to what its employees need instead of just checking a box. I can’t wait to join the team and use my experience and passion in HR to continue building upon Formstack’s already strong foundation.”
The executive announcement follows the company’s recognition in the Financial Times ranking of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies, nominations for two TechPoint MIRA Awards, and inclusion in 2022’s Best Places to Work in Indiana. Formstack has seen huge growth following a $425M investment at the end of 2021 and plans to grow more than 160% in the next three years, with expansion into new verticals and international markets. The company also increased employee headcount by 66% in the past three years, with sights set on adding another 30% over the next three years. In addition to Polk’s executive appointment, Formstack recently appointed two other members to the executive team, Liza Smyth as senior vice president of customer experience and Kristine Camron as senior vice president and general counsel.
Formstack is currently hiring for positions across the company. To learn more or to apply, visit www.formstack.com/careers and check out #WeBuildWhatMatters on LinkedIn and Instagram to hear directly from employees on why they love working at Formstack. To learn more about Formstack, visit www.formstack.com. | news |
https://medisupplywarehouse.com/kids-physical-distancing-schools/ | 2023-09-24T08:28:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506623.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924055210-20230924085210-00544.warc.gz | 0.958777 | 889 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__304453728 | en | Whether you’re still homeschooling, or your kids are back already, or if you’re somewhere in between, what’s certain is that COVID-19 restrictions are hitting kids pretty hard. With a spike in suicide rates nationally attributed to isolation, and a lack of physical and social contact, many in the educational community are worried about the impact restrictions are having on the younger generation.
The restrictions are clearly not just affecting their education, but having a significant impact on their happiness and mental health. So what exactly is causing the issue, and how can we best protect the mental health of our kids during restrictions? The exact answer of course will be manifold, but it is worth paying attention to the science regarding the effects isolation and a lack of physical contact can have on people, to better understand how we can work around this part of the problem.
With the correct use of personal protective equipment, even simple measures like surgical masks and using latex surgical gloves, it is actually very easy to imagine a school set up where kids can interact and indeed touch one another safely. If you add frequent testing to the equation, you can even imagine a scenario where even these health and safety measures like using nitrile medical gloves need be used sparingly, for example by teachers during certain activities. Perhaps isolating kids may not be a necessity in such a scenario.
Of course, problems relating to isolation and lockdown aren’t specific to kids: over the period from March to now, over 1200 suicides were recorded across all age groups. Compared to 200 deaths directly related to COVID-19, that’s a staggering figure. (1)
But young people seem to be suffering more than most: one report published on the 7th August shows that cases of children presenting to hospital with self-harm injuries rose by 33% over the preceding 6 weeks. Lifeline also recorded a 25% increase in calls to their hotline over a similar period. (2)
It is well known that isolation can profoundly and negatively affect mental health, but coupled with the uncertainty surrounding the future, it appears this is creating a particularly toxic combination. And it runs deeper than the social aspect: many believe that the lack of actual physical touch and tactile interaction is playing a part. Touch is an important part of human relation, provides comfort and is central to how we relate. We all suffer without it, as we benefit from it. Touch has been shown to lower stress hormone levels, alleviate anxiety and can even lessen the clinical symptoms of some diseases. Crucially, for younger kids especially, touch is crucial to development. (3)
So all of this leads you to wonder if physically separating our kids in school might actually do more harm than it does good. With the death rate for people under 45 nearly zero % (4) it could certainly be argued that separating kids in school has a negligible effect on their health, or their chances of getting seriously ill. Of course, the transmission of the disease needs to be managed, but we must factor in the negative effects of the measures in place alongside this. For example, Spain banned children from going outdoors.
Bearing in mind the positive impact that continuing to go to school could have on their mental health and development, and the worrying statistics around self-harm and suicide, it seems that continuing to allow kids to attend school, as long as the proper safety measures are in place, is a more sensitive and empathetic approach than many of those currently in use. | news |
http://createatsalford.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-24T02:18:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132729/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00083-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.976034 | 576 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__147510890 | en | The School of Arts & Media certainly had a lot to cheer about at our annual Students’ Union Teaching Awards last week. Receiving the highest number of staff nominations, the School was the proud winner of the all-important Best Overall School award. Commenting on the award, Head of School Professor Allan Walker said: “I am delighted that our School, which has only been in business since September, has been able to win this award and I would like to thank everyone for their commitment to enhancing the quality of our students’ experience through a period of considerable change.”
While this was in itself an outstanding testament to the excellence of our entire staff, Photography Technical Demonstrator, John Boothe deserves special recognition for scooping the Best Academic Support Staff award. John was described by his students as helpful, friendly and always willing to go above and beyond his role to provide that extra bit of support. Praising John for his superb efforts, Allan Walker said: “Support staff are a key and often undersung element of our practice based disciplines and it is especially pleasing for John to have been acknowledged in this way.” Well done everyone!
After being dubbed the best in their category by a panel of industry professionals, two of our second year BA (Hons) Graphic Design students received the gold award for Best Overall Student Work at the prestigious Roses Creative Awards last week. Despite stiff competition from over 400 UK-wide designers, Salford students Peter Quirke and Andrew Goodison clinched the top prize securing a special feature in The Drum, a work placement with Modern-English Digital agency, plus a whole host of bragging rights!
This year, competition hopefuls were asked to answer one of 10 briefs, which ranged from re-branding Harry Ramsden’s chippy to promoting the benefits of dental appointments. Peter and Andrew chose to apply their creative touch to a record label brief which called for a digital campaign to spread the word about four newly signed acts.
Reflecting back on what has turned out to be an incredible past few weeks, Andrew said: “We’re really grateful to the University for the opportunity to enter the competition and to our tutors for giving us feedback and helping us to improve while we were working on our project”. Peter went on to explain: “Participating in competitions is such a great way to get noticed in this industry. A couple of months ago we didn’t have a clue what the industry was like and now we’re just starting to scratch the surface”. Both Peter and Andrew are keeping a winning mentality and are already making plans to defend their title next year. “It’s great to win it once but we want to be here next year and the year after!” declared Peter. | news |
https://www.roalddahlcharity.org/articles/detail/seriously-ill-children-and-nurses-visit-clarence-house-to-meet-her-majesty-the-queen/f8f4fd05-99c0-11ee-a33a-86a5eece33bc/ | 2024-02-27T10:53:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00710.warc.gz | 0.959293 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__90637386 | en | Yasir, aged four, Oscar-Ray, aged six, Cai, aged eight, Grace, aged five and Maisie, aged thirteen, were delighted to attend the very special festive gathering with their Roald Dahl Nurse and parents. The visit was arranged through Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, of which Her Majesty The Queen is the Royal Patron. The children, all living with complex, lifelong health conditions, also enjoyed a surprise visit from Father Christmas and his reindeer, and there was a wonderful performance by The Band and Bugles of The Rifles.
The annual visit to Clarence House is an absolute highlight of the year and a special memory for everyone involved. Louise Griew, Chief Executive at Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity says, “We are so grateful to Her Majesty The Queen for inviting our charity to again be part of such a magical event. Being diagnosed with a serious and complex illness is immensely difficult for a child and their whole family, bringing significant stress and worry. This day provides such a special memory for some of the heroic and brave children we support. It also recognises our marvellous Roald Dahl Nurses who provide vital specialist care to thousands of seriously ill children across the UK.”
We would also like to thank the generous businesses, hotels, venues, and our marvellous corporate partners, who helped us in planning the most magical event for seriously ill children and Roald Dahl Nurses, who deserve it so much. Thank you to hoteliers JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, One Aldwych, The Stafford London, St Ermin’s and The Guardsman, who hosted the families and Roald Dahl Nurses ahead of their special day. Thanks to the hospitality of Frameless and Mark Mason’s Hall, families enjoyed a visit to Frameless on Tuesday night and teas and coffees at Mark Mason's Hall before they visited Clarence House. Travel throughout the day was kindly provided by Stagecoach buses, ensuring the families could relax and enjoy their day to the full. The families also enjoyed a tour to see the festive London lights. If you would like to support more seriously ill children, please help fund a Roald Dahl Nurse this Christmas at www.roalddahlcharity.org/donate. | news |
https://2018.landminefree.org/minesweepers-2018-regional-rounds-latin-america/ | 2023-01-30T17:28:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499826.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130165437-20230130195437-00466.warc.gz | 0.94001 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__230556363 | en | Minesweepers 2018 Regional Rounds | Latin America is here!
Latin American countries have been suffering from landmines long time ago although most of them have signed the Mine Ban Treaty. Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Cuba, these countries are still contaminated by landmines and their government are struggling now to eliminate all landmines. Colombia ranks the second on the 2015 list of countries with the most landmines, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
Over 7 years Minesweepers have been making more than a regional round in Egypt and Latin American countries.
Continuing its efforts, Minesweepers 2018 is making a regional round for Latin American countries for the 3rd year to raise awareness about Landmines.
During the preparation for Latin America Regional Round, the first Bolivian Local Round of Minesweepers was held at La Salle University, Bolivia, to classify the first three places to participate in the regional competition of Ecuador.
In this Local competition, 11 teams participated in total, one in the Junior category, another in the Industrial category and 9 in the Academy category.
The Latin American regional round takes place at University of the Armed Forces ESPE Extension Latacunga, Ecuador, during July 24 – 27, 2018. The top winners will be qualified to compete again towards a landmines-free world at the international finals at IROS 2018, in Madrid, Spain, during October 1 – 5, 2018.
It is your chance to take part of our journey Towards a Landmine-free World! | news |
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National School Nurse Day marks 50th year of celebration
National School Nurse Day was first celebrated 50 years ago, in 1972. It is recognized alongside National Nurses Week as a way to raise awareness about the critical role nurses have in schools across the nation. At Gilbert Public Schools, nurses and health assistants work together as a dedicated team to keep our students healthy and safe. It’s an incredible responsibility, and we are so grateful that they are up for the challenge every single day. Thank you!
Jolene Costello, Oak Tree Elementary
For more than a decade, Jolene Costello has been a proud Oak Tree eagle. Nurse Costello has cared for and comforted between 600 and 700 elementary students every school year. She loves her job and school.
“I like coming to work, because it’s my second home,” Costello said.
At the end of the school year, Nurse Costello is retiring. While she calls the change “bittersweet,” she is ready for her next chapter.
“It’s been a fulfilling time,” she said.
Nurse Costello will truly be missed on campus. She leaves behind big shoes to fill and a great legacy at Oak Tree Elementary. During her 13 years at the school, she not only handled her nursing responsibilities, but she also launched an afterschool Gardeners Group for students. The program received grant money through Kohl’s and Phoenix Children’s. Nurse Costello was also actively involved in the Running Club, and this year the school had nearly 90 students participate. She’s also been a helper with the school’s Giving Tree and food pantry.
“These are things I will miss most as I retire. However, I plan on coming back to Oak Tree to volunteer and help in some capacity,” she said.
She began her nursing career working in hospitals and doctors’ offices, but eventually transitioned to school nursing for the better schedule. In all, she’s been working as a nurse for four decades. Nurse Costello really loves getting to know students and their families.
“I came to Gilbert, because I know every school has a nurse. That’s ideal, because I get to stay at my own school,” she said, “I get to connect with all of our staff and families. I like that.”
Students will come see Nurse Costello for vision and hearing screenings, injuries, illnesses, and medicine. Her colorful office filled with photos, posters, and drawings creates an inviting atmosphere for the children. She says the decorations help spark conversation and calm students’ nerves.
GPS nurses work together across campuses to address any medical issues that might arise. It’s a great opportunity for them to collaborate and support each other while seeking others’ professional expertise. Nurse Costello says her colleagues are just a phone call or email away, and they welcome the support.
“Everyone has been welcoming from the day that I came,” she said, “It’s been a very good career.”
Michele Dickinson, Greenfield Junior High School
Michele Dickinson has been working with Gilbert Public Schools for only three years, but she’s already making a significant impact on the Greenfield Junior High community. Whether it’s responding to injuries on campus or helping students cope with anxiety, Nurse Dickinson gives her all to ensure that students feel supported.
“I like to do nursing in a holistic way. I don’t like to just wash their cut and send them back to class. I always try to give them some kind of support and talk to them,” Dickinson said.
Her love of nursing stems from her caring heart and passion for health education. Nurse Dickinson spends time helping students and families learn how to take better care of their bodies.
“This was something that I’ve wanted to do since I was a little kid,” she said.
Nurse Dickinson believes that some families are surprised by the work she does on a daily basis.
“A lot of people think that nurses sit in the office with nothing to do, or we just hand out band-aids and ice,” she said.
However, it’s much more than that. At the junior high level, Nurse Dickinson does vision and hearing screenings, responds to broken bones and other injuries, educates students about illnesses, monitors medications, develops care plans, and she gives students practical tools for coping with stress.
“There’s a lot more to school nursing than people think, but I actually love that,” she said.
Nurse Dickinson has partnered with the social workers on-campus to run a support group for girls at Greenfield Junior. “Her Story” provides a safe space for the girls to come and talk about their challenges with self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and other issues. The group is invitation-only and meets every two weeks.
“It’s students that we’ve identified as needing a little more help,” she said.
“Her Story” is part education and part team bonding, so the girls receive practical tools and form their own support system. The girls and staff have discussions, play games, and even do arts and crafts. The program is something that students look forward to every year. Students enjoy it so much that they make recommendations on behalf of friends and classmates who they think would be great additions to the group.
As she gets more settled into the Greenfield Junior community, Nurse Dickinson wants to continue building a rapport with students and staff, so that they can all feel comfortable coming to her in their time of need.
“The health office is always open. I’m always here to support anybody,” Dickinson said.
Jody Gilchrist, Campo Verde High School
Jody Gilchrist is a self-described “fixer.” She says the quality drove her to pursue a career in nursing, because she loves helping people. For the last 13 years, she’s been supporting the community at Campo Verde High School, where there are more than 2,000 students on campus.
“When I got here, I discovered what an amazing gem this is in community health nursing, where I can help a lot of people over time,” Gilchrist said.
A student’s high school years present a unique set of challenges compared to junior high and elementary school. Nurse Gilchrist focuses on educating and empowering her students when it comes to their own health.
“Here you only have four years, for most. We are getting them ready to go out in the real world, so what we can do as nurses is really help them be the boss of their healthcare,” she said.
Nurse Gilchrist talks to students daily about the importance of hydration, healthy eating, car safety, sun safety, getting quality sleep and some practical tools to help cope with stress and anxiety. She addresses topics like proper hygiene and the dangers of substance abuse.
As a registered nurse, she also provides students' medication and responds to injuries on campus. She is an advocate working as part of the behavioral health team and supporting students who might need extra help in the classroom. Her days are quite busy, but she does not have to go through them alone. She has the help of Rebecca “Becky” Sutton.
“At the secondary level, I don’t know how any nurse can do anything without a health assistant,” she said, “My health assistant is amazing. She is the biggest helper!”
Nurse Gilchrist feels the best part of her job is getting to interact with students. She describes Campo Verde as a “family.” She says students and staff model the motto, “Campo Cares.”
“I would have to say that it probably feels like a culture that is really embedded here. We have amazing and outstanding students that care about each other and the community,” she said.
Campo Verde is not the only place where Nurse Gilchrist is finding a community of support. She relies on help and encouragement from her nurse colleagues at other Gilbert Public Schools campuses. Together, they motivate, encourage, and assist each other in any way possible. As for the district, Nurse Gilchrist says it feels good to work for a district that values her contribution to the community.
“I just think overall that Gilbert Public Schools has made the health and safety of students a top priority, and they’ve shown that through keeping us here and appreciating us. I know that not everybody has that, and for the students, I know it’s a huge positive,” Gilchrist said. | news |
https://bizmart.africa/world/ceo-resigns-after-making-remarks-on-israel/ | 2024-04-18T16:52:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00741.warc.gz | 0.962894 | 1,145 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__22889842 | en | He’s a case study in failing to read the room.
CEOs must tread a fine line when commenting on the Israel-Hamas war.
Execs’ statements are being closely and publicly analyzed for whom they seem to side with.
Web Summit’s CEO quit after appearing to accuse Israel of “war crimes,” triggering backlash online.
The recent fate of Web Summit’s CEO might, perhaps, send chills down the spine of any business leader.
On October 13, six days after Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel, the technology conference’s leader, Paddy Cosgrave, posted his views on the ensuing conflict on X. In his first post on the subject, Cosgrave seemed to accuse Israel of war crimes. “I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing,” he wrote. “War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.”
After a week of backlash that saw attendees and major commercial partners including Intel pulling out of Web Summit, due to take place in Lisbon in November, Cosgrave apologized and eventually resigned as CEO.
The saga mirrors flare-ups on US college campuses, with companies rescinding job offers to students over student groups’ statements on the war.
Cosgrave’s departure illustrates the stakes for corporate executives when deciding whether or how to comment on any politically fraught subject. While students answer primarily to their school and any future employers, an executive’s audience is more likely to include some combination of employees, shareholders, investors, and customers, often from multiple countries — all of whose views may differ.
Understand your audience
Cosgrave, who is Irish, may not have accounted for a culture clash. The US, the UK, and many European countries count Israel as a staunch ally. Ireland’s government has condemned Hamas’ terrorist attacks, but it was reported on October 7 that it had more explicitly urged a “proportionate” military response.
Ireland also has a long history of pro-Palestinian sentiment, much of it rooted in the country’s relationship to the UK.
“The grassroots and the political elite are more pro-Palestinian than they are in the US,” Bill Kissane, a politics professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science, told Insider. “This is for a number of factors. One is that historically the Irish regard themselves as having been a minority struggling against Britain, so they’re more sympathetic to other anti-colonial or independent struggles — depending on what you regard the Palestinian cause to be.”
Ireland was the first Western nation to recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” in 1980, and in 2021 the Irish parliament accused Israel of the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land. Palestinian flags and murals also frequent republican neighborhoods in Northern Ireland.
While Web Summit began in Ireland, its audience, speakers, attendees, and commercial sponsors are now international. Current and former commercial sponsors include Google, Microsoft, and Siemens, per its website. And American CEOs — including Google’s — have mostly explicitly condemned Hamas and expressed support for Israel.
Cosgrave possibly “didn’t really realize how big a deal it was given the diversity of his audience,” said Paul Argenti, a corporate communications professor at Tuck School of Business.
For Cosgrave’s critics, including VCs and founders, his comments lacked “moral clarity” by failing to explicitly condemn Hamas in the first instance, while also suggesting the potential for Israeli war crimes. (Cosgrave later did condemn Hamas.) But some of Cosgrave’s Irish followers, including entrepreneurs and academics, supported his remarks or took similar stances on X.
Cosgrave did not immediately reply to Insider’s request for comment.
“He might have been getting a lot of ‘You’re absolutely right’ in Ireland,” Argenti added. “But there’s a push to be more pro-Israel in the US. No question about that.”
Cosgrave may have also erred in U-turning, itself indicative that he didn’t fully think through the consequences of taking a public position.
Proceed with caution
Many of the high-profile CEOs who have commented on the conflict so far have explicitly condemned Hamas and supported Israel.
Argenti said it was important to remember that companies are not political entities and that the expectation for them to comment on issues outside their core business is a relatively new idea.
CEOs should consider whether commenting on a political topic issues is strategic, whether they can do anything practical to address the issues, and how much retaliation they might face either way, he added.
“If you have no connection to Israel, what is the point in mouthing off about political issues now?” he said. “Do we really want companies to become political entities is maybe an even better question.”
“My main advice for companies is to be really careful,” he continued. “Have a plan for how you want to deal with issues before they come up — not when somebody’s pressuring you to say something — and then stick to your guns.” | news |
https://appliednostalgia.com/en/photographers/snezana-krstic.html | 2023-11-30T15:06:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00182.warc.gz | 0.968264 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__114526392 | en | Born in 1972. Studied at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. Employed as a photojournalist in the media company Ringier, for the daily newspaper Blic, the respected weekly newspaper Nin and the magazines Blic žena and Elevate. She is also working as the coordinator of the Belgrade Photo Month festival. Her work was published in numerous domestic and foreign magazines, as well as on the Bauhaus - Archiv Museum website in Berlin.
She exhibited independently at the Be Water My Friend exhibition in Novi Sad, as well as at several international group exhibitions. She is a participant in the pioneering effort of the Female Journalists Against Violence group in creating a database of photographs that the media can use for free while reporting on violence against women instead of the stereotypical photos of a man’s fist or a woman crying. The exhibition of these photographs, Photo for Change, was opened at the UN Representative Office in Belgrade. | news |
https://oakridgetoday.com/2013/08/21/two-more-police-officers-sergeant-stationed-at-orhs-alternative-school/ | 2021-12-05T11:00:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363157.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205100135-20211205130135-00533.warc.gz | 0.980785 | 376 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__105351579 | en | Three more Oak Ridge Police Department officers are stationed at Oak Ridge High School and Alternative School this year. However, they are not school resource officers, or SROs.
For the past few years, the ORPD has had an SRO who works mostly at the high school. This year, though, a sergeant and two non-patrol officers are also stationed there and at the Alternative School next door, ORPD Chief Jim Akagi said Monday.
School officials had requested more SROs this year, following the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but funding has been an obstacle. While the new arrangement doesn’t add SROs, it will increase the police presence and visibility, Akagi said.
ORPD School Resource Officer Sherrill Selby will continue to work at the high school. She will be joined by Sgt. Robert Pitts, Photo Enforcement Officer Karen Jenkins, and Community Resource Officer Daniel McFee, who is a former SRO.
On Wednesday, new Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Bruce Borchers said Akagi approached him with the plan to house a few extra officers at the school.
“It was a win-win opportunity,” Borchers said. “We get an increased presence of police, and they have a space to do their normal work.”
Borchers said Jenkins and Pitts will be stationed at the high school, and McFee will work at the Alternative School.
The Oak Ridge school system once had three SROs: one at the high school and two at each of the middle schools.
City and school officials recently announced they had signed a new agreement governing the SRO program. The seven-page agreement signed Aug. 7 is a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, and it formalizes the relationship between the city and schools. | news |
https://suburbs.substack.com/p/the-suburbs-should-be-less-racist | 2022-01-28T03:20:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305341.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128013529-20220128043529-00652.warc.gz | 0.954077 | 922 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__116593793 | en | If you’re a white American, chances are you live in a suburb, or at least grew up in one. If you’re a person of color, odds are about 50/50 you’ve had this experience.
Social scientists have their own technical definitions of what constitutes a suburb, but I think a practical definition is pretty simple: If you need a car to conveniently live your daily life, you probably live in a suburb. And if you live in a suburb, a couple of other things are also probably true:
Most people who live near you look like you and have similar household incomes to you.
The look and feel of your physical surroundings aren’t radically different than they would’ve been a few decades ago.
Homogeneity and resistance to change are hallmarks of suburban life in the United States. And that’s what we need to talk about.
The murder of George Floyd has sparked perhaps the largest awakening on racial issues among white Americans since 1965, when photographs of Black civil rights leader Amelia Boynton were transmitted around the world after she was beaten unconscious by Alabama state troopers in the first Selma to Montgomery march.
Amelia Boynton, in bright blue, marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 2015, alongside President Obama and Rep. John Lewis. Source: The White House - P030715LJ-0549, Public Domain
Today, most non-Black Americans have finally become aware that the subsequent federal civil rights legislation and addition of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech to school curricula did not, in fact, adequately address hundreds of years of oppression of Black Americans.
But if you’re white and live in a suburb, it might feel like the action on anti-racism is primarily somewhere else. There probably aren’t that many Black neighbors in your community -- the population of my city, Burlingame, California, is 1.5% Black -- so beyond tweaking your local police department’s use-of-force policies, the nearest vector of change may feel like your state legislature or Congress.
Fortunately, that isn’t true. The structures guiding how most Americans live, including how your suburb operates, reinforce the same racial inequities that Amelia Boynton was protesting when she put her body on the line in Selma, Alabama more than five decades ago. For folks who care about righting these wrongs, especially white people in the ‘burbs, we need to tackle these problems right here in our own backyards.
This is why I gave this substack/newsletter/blog the aspirational name The Suburbs Should Be Less Racist. I’m a white person who grew up in a suburb (Pittsford, New York: 1.1% Black) and as an adult, have lived in a big city (Manhattan: 17.8% Black), a suburban-ish part of a big city (the westside of Los Angeles: 4.4% Black), and now a suburb again. Shit needs to change here.
People who live in suburbs and believe Black Lives Matter need to be the ones demanding change, because once you start looking into it, you will be astonished by the retrograde attitudes of the people who show up at your local city council meetings and who serve on your city’s public commissions and elected bodies. Aside from some new phrases subbing in for the explicitly racist language of the past, many of them sound exactly like you’d expect their 1960s predecessors to sound, and the decisions they make lead to similar outcomes. This system is not going to become more inclusive and less racist on its own. It needs us.
I’m planning to write here about exactly how suburbs like the one you live in perpetuate racial and economic inequality; how they hoard opportunities for the richest among us and deny them to the people who need them the most; and how the small percentage of Black neighbors you have was an entirely intentional outcome of decades of city and regional planning.
Assuming you are convinced of the problem, we’ll also talk about the things that you, suburban resident who gives a shit, can do to make things better right where you live. Because I promise you, the grumpy asshole who lives the next block over and thinks Black Lives Matter protests are “the wrong way to approach the problem” is making his voice heard. Let’s fight back. | news |
http://www.menopausetracker.info/index.php/2010/07/09/progesterone-alone-may-help-hot-flashes/comment-page-1/ | 2013-06-19T20:36:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709135115/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125855-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.974573 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__20812958 | en | Progesterone alone may help Hot Flashes
WebMD reports on a study announced at the Endocrine Society meeting this month. It looked at a group of 114 postmenopausal women who had hot flashes and night sweats. Half were put on micronized oral progesterone while the other had a placebo.
The women taking Prometrium had a 56% decrease in their score, and the women taking the placebo had a 28% decrease.
The women taking Prometrium had a 48% decline in the number of symptoms; women taking the placebo had a 22% decline.
As of yet no-one knows why progesterone helped. Interestingly the placebo helped too! | news |
http://www.chevronisguilty.org/ | 2013-06-20T05:38:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710313659/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131833-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.904922 | 188 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__204799716 | en | Check out this article from Bloomberg:
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the same year the oil company pledged to develop a gasoline replacement from wood.
Now Chevron is leading a lobbying and public relations campaign to undercut the California mandate aimed at curbing global warming, two years after the state started phasing it in. Research on commercially viable climate-friendly products has come to naught, stymied by the poor economics of coaxing hydrocarbons from plants’ stubborn cell walls, according to Chevron officials.
The rest here: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-18/chevron-defies-california-on-carbon-emissions.html | news |
https://blessedsacramentsandy.org/news-and-events | 2021-12-04T04:24:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362930.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204033320-20211204063320-00269.warc.gz | 0.937608 | 250 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__67601853 | en | Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church is requiring ALL (vaccinated and unvaccinated) people to wear masks at Mass. Please get vaccinated if you haven't already to protect yourself and others from this virus. Click here for Fr. Sam's full COVID statement.
We are still livestreaming Masses on our Facebook page (blessedsacramentsandy). You do not need a personal page with Facebook to watch the videos.
Blessed Sacrament Catholic School is reducing their environmental impact with the addition of solar panels on top of the school. Watch the video to learn more!
Join us at Church in celebrating this wonderful time of year!
Blessed Sacrament's Knights of Columbus is hosting a blood drive on December 8th from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the Parish Hall.
Sign-up on the Red Cross website now!
Join us on this holy day of obligation! The celebration of the Mass will be at 9:00 AM and 7:00 PM on Wednesday, December 8th.
Several priests will be available for reconciliation in the Church on Tuesday, December 14th at 7:00 PM.
Copyright © 2021 Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Sandy, UT - All Rights Reserved. | news |
https://wendypilliton.wordpress.com/ | 2017-10-17T18:23:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822480.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017181947-20171017201947-00457.warc.gz | 0.960174 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__253839146 | en | IN THE future perhaps the only proudly traditional families left in Britain will be those of politicians, using their wives and children as props. Jon Cruddas, a prominent Labour Party strategist, says that “stable, secure families” are the “bedrock of our lives”. According to Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative welfare secretary, the last government “cloaked neglect of the family under the veil of neutrality.” The prime minister wants to encourage marriage through a tax break. Yet society is changing beneath the politicians’ feet.
Since the 1980s the number of marriages has collapsed to Victorian levels. Divorces have climbed from 16,000 per year in 1945 to over 117,000 per year now. In 2011 the proportion of children born out of wedlock reached 47%, up from around a fifth in the 1980s. Birth rates and family sizes are well below their 1960s peaks. As Spencer Thompson of IPPR, a think-tank, puts it: “The two-parent, male-breadwinner family is basically extinct.” | news |
http://www.jacksonhole.com/blog/page/39/ | 2016-09-26T10:28:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660746.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00187-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.941957 | 1,021 | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-40__0__31311984 | en | Adam Dowell, owner of his own training business, Avail Performance, is a big advocate of functional training in the gym when he’s not on the mountain. Having been an athlete his whole life Adam understands the need for maintenance to perform at peak levels. Photo by Andrew Miller.
Trick or Treat? Mother Nature is offering up nothing but treats for Halloween, with storm totals now approaching two feet and powder turns being found in the Jackson Hole backcountry. We got out for a few turns this morning to celebrate Halloween and all of the new snow. We are fired up on skiing powder and tried to keep the Halloween spirit alive by incorporating a pumpkin costume. Why not?
Scroll through the photos and get fired up for winter with us!
It’s not even Halloween yet and Jackson Hole is already looking like winter. We were greeted with another coating of white this morning with over 4″ falling at the Rendezvous Bowl plot, on top of the 10″ reported yesterday. Check out the photos from yesterday morning as we enjoyed the new snow and the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol began getting ready for another great ski season. And in case you were wondering…it’s still snowing!
We are starting to receive our hardgoods orders and as we un-package these shiny new skis, all of us start thinking about our best turns from last year. Mark my words, it is going to be a big year!
JHMR athlete Hadley Hammer is a top-level competitive freeskier and will be competing on the Freeride World Tour this season. In preparation for the tour, Hadley has been training hard with the Mountain Athlete gym in Jackson Hole. Check in with Hadley as she offers up a couple of go-to exercises to get your ski training off on the right foot:
The early winter continues in Jackson Hole with more snow falling over the last few days. The past 3 nights have seen snow accumulate on the upper mountain, with the total 3-day count at 8″. Even with all of the snow up high, fall is hanging on down in the valley, although winter is starting to win the battle. Here’s a view of Rendezvous Bowl and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, with frosty fall foliage in the foreground:
Mother nature has been keeping us guessing over the past week in Jackson Hole. We’ve seen two consecutive nights of snow at the higher elevations, with the valley floor getting a full coat of white last night as well. The contrast between fall colors at the lower elevations and a coating of white up high has us scratching our heads and also enjoying the beauty.
The count in the Rendezvous Bowl plot at 10,000 feet today was 4″ of new snow, on top of the 3″ reported yesterday.
The commute to work has been incredible. Here’s a look west towards Jackson Hole Mountain Resort while crossing the Gros Ventre River.
To celebrate the new #1 ranking for best ski resort in North America by SKI Magazine, we decided to release a video highlighting all of the winter fun in Jackson Hole. Set to “I’m Alive” by Michael Franti, Jackson Hole is also excited to announce that Franti will be playing at our Mountain Festival this winter!
The votes are in, and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) is ranked #1 Overall Resort in North America by the annual SKI Magazine Reader’s Poll! Turn up the volume and celebrate with this uplifting and passionate video, to the beat of Michael Franti’s newest hit. Come experience it for yourself this winter, and ski or ride Jackson Hole… you’ll be tapping your toes until you do.
Come join us on Thursday, September 19th in the Jackson Town Square for a celebration of the winter to come. The event starts at 5PM and includes a Season Pass Giveaway, new video release, free raffle, face painting, athlete signing with TGR athletes, free drinks by Pepsi and after party deals at local establishments with your raffle ticket from the party. RSVP now!
After Party Deals with Raffle Tickets at:
Pinky G’s Pizzeria
Town Square Tavern
Silver Dollar Bar
Raffle Prizes Provided by:
JD High Country Outfitters
Beaver Creek Hat & Leather
Pinky G’s Pizzeria
Town Square Tavern
RSVP on Facebook:
Old Bill’s Fun Run for Charities is happening on September, 7th. Over the past sixteen years, the event has helped local charities raise nearly $91 million and has touched the lives of thousands. Over the years, those dollars have helped house homeless pets, feed the hungry, teach our children and protect Jackson’s natural beauty.
Before Old Bill’s Fun Run we wanted to highlight a few of the non-profits that make a huge impact in our community. (more…) | news |
https://bisonventures.com/analyzing-key-inflation-components-and-economic-indicators-a-june-outlook/ | 2023-12-08T20:12:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100769.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208180539-20231208210539-00149.warc.gz | 0.951861 | 711 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__16314309 | en | Analyzing Key Inflation Components and Economic Indicators: A June Outlook
June 02, 2023
Introduction: As we bid farewell to the month of May, it’s time to examine some crucial factors influencing inflation and gauge the progress we can anticipate in the upcoming June 13 release of the CPI inflation data. By analyzing various elements such as oil prices, used car prices, rental costs, employment figures, and the housing market, we can gain insights into the potential direction of inflation and its impact on the economy.
Oil prices and used car prices: In April, oil prices soared due to OPEC’s production cuts, but they have since subsided and are currently trading below $70/barrel. This decline in oil prices is expected to alleviate inflationary pressure in the upcoming CPI report. Additionally, used car prices, which experienced a significant surge in April, are now rising at a slower pace. Moreover, with seasonal adjustments during this time of year, the used car price index could even register a negative change, further reducing inflationary pressure compared to April.
Rental costs: Although rental costs have been slow to reflect the downward trend in real-time, the most recent data suggests they are starting to catch up. The May 10 inflation report revealed that new shelter costs were lower than those from the previous year. With current rents dropping rapidly, as indicated by Apartment List’s May Rental Report, we can expect rents to continue declining in the CPI report, thereby contributing to a decrease in inflation.
Replacing figures in the year-over-year calculation: Examining the year-over-year calculation, we note that the headline figure stood at 0.9% and the core figure at 0.6%. In April, both headline and core monthly inflation readings were 0.4%. These figures indicate a potentially favorable outcome for interest rates.
Employment figures: While inflation is gradually decreasing, the Federal Reserve seems to rely on lagging indicators rather than real-time data, potentially leading to mistakes in their decision-making. The stubbornness of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data has caught the Fed’s attention, but real-time indicators suggest an inflection point. Job openings, particularly in the construction sector, have declined from their peak, while the leisure and hospitality sector has experienced shrinking employment. These trends may result in weaker job creation numbers.
Debt Ceiling Deal and the housing market: President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a debt deal in principle, alleviating fears of a default and receiving a positive response from the bond market. In the housing market, the Case Shiller Home Price Index indicates a rise in home prices, signaling a recovery from the recent inflection point. Although year-over-year appreciation may eventually turn negative, comparisons to the peak last year underscore the strength of the housing market, with projected appreciation of 5-6% for the full year of 2023.
Conclusion: As we eagerly await the release of the May CPI inflation data, various indicators suggest a potential decrease in inflationary pressure. Factors such as declining oil prices, a moderation in used car prices, decreasing rental costs, and changes in the employment landscape all contribute to this outlook. It remains to be seen whether the Federal Reserve will consider these indicators in their decision-making process and adjust their policies accordingly. Additionally, recent developments such as the debt ceiling deal and the recovering housing market provide further reasons for optimism about the overall economic trajectory in the coming months. | news |
https://aimro.ie/blog/challenges-online-mobile-advertising | 2020-08-05T04:35:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735909.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200805035535-20200805065535-00348.warc.gz | 0.950735 | 1,226 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__157982707 | en | “We’re moving a large chunk of our budget to online ….next year”. A familiar refrain heard by the RED C team as we report on advertising effectiveness across a range of our clients. It appears as if the message has finally broken through among brand teams and in board rooms across Ireland, that advertising spend online is still lagging a long way behind online consumption. But what are the challenges for brands to make it work, and by the time brands have a plan will the target have shifted again?
The IAB Ireland (Internet Advertising Bureau Ireland) commissioned RED C to conduct research into consumer consumption online, in order to understand how consumer behaviour will influence advertising consumption and also among industry experts to try and decipher the best practice for brand spend online in 2014.
The start point is mobile – both smartphone and tablet. Consumer activity online is being driven by a shift to more mobile surfing. The increased penetration of smartphone (54%) and tablet (30%) ownership is driving the overall time spent online during the day to close to 3hrs among those with a smartphone device. A quarter of that time online is through the phone itself, with a further 10% through a tablet. More and more the primary usage of a phone is for online browsing, in fact 41% of smartphone owners use it more for browsing online than for calls and texts.
No surprise that the best practice advice from media agencies we interviewed was unanimously that “Companies need to prioritise the mobile: Mobile first, PC last. Mobile sites need to be transactional”.
Currently 21% of advertising spend in the market is on mobile (IAB BWC H1 2013 online ad spend), but 30-40% of all internet search is on mobile. There is a clear message here: the party has moved on and mobile now needs to be at the heart of any online campaign for the future. There are many challenges for brands in meeting this consumer need, but one of the core challenges is to keep up with both consumers and technology.
Both the platforms for mobile/online advertising and the devices themselves are disparate and ever changing. Consumers themselves are constantly changing how they behave and interact with brands, having been influenced by ongoing improvements in the devices they use.
Almost everyone (89%) with a smartphone have browsed the phone whilst watching TV, but more than ever this browsing appears to be connected to the programme being watched, with a third making this direct connection between the TV programme being watched and the related surfing at least once a week.
Consumers are also using their phone while in store, providing a direct connection between consumer and retailer, and possibly presenting a challenge for comparison pricing. Two thirds of those with smartphones have searched for product and services while in store, while the majority have looked up a product online having originally seen it in store.
But actually delivering direct sales through mobile remains a challenge. According to one industry expert, “Where mobile has a high share of online consumption, it continues to struggle in terms of triggering direct spend. PC’s are still the preferred choice for bigger purchases”. Mobile advertising then has to encourage the short term transactional purchase, but can’t necessarily deliver the final sale.
So what is the best way to reach consumers through mobile? The experts say, “Consumers go online in the morning when turning off their alarms, then when commuting to work then at lunch and again late evening.” The challenge for advertisers is to think about mobile as a consumer connection point throughout the day, and develop campaigns that meet this varying need.
According to the experts this doesn’t necessarily mean a rush to develop your own app. Just 13% of all of the time spent online by consumers is through apps, but it does represent a large chunk of the time spent online through a smartphone. While developing an app for your brand provides a tangible end product to show to the board, the reality is that apps don’t necessarily deliver unless they provide a clear connection and are relevant to consumers. “There is a disconnect between app download and usage. There is a need to have a relationship with an app for usability.”
Perhaps more important is the need to mobile optimise your brand’s website in the first place. Almost all smartphone owners (87%) are interested in mobile optimised sites and the experts stress the importance of this when starting on a mobile campaign. “The entire journey needs to be mobile optimised… a final click to a badly optimised landing page destroys a campaign.“
For the future brands will also need to consider advances just around the corner. Consumers are looking for more speed with 4G high on their preference list, and this will ultimately lead to more ability to stream content. Coupled with the desire for better “cloud” facilities, it suggests consumers will spend even more time accessing their own personalised content wherever they are.
Whatever the challenges, it is clear that consumers are open to mobile advertising, as long as it is both valuable and relevant. In fact 61% of Irish adults believe ads on their mobile are valuable, some way ahead of many other European countries, but key to this is providing value.
The clear message from this research is that if it isn’t already, mobile has to be at the heart of your digital strategy. The challenge for brands is fast implementation, while keeping up with consumer’s needs, and ensuring the message is both relevant and provides value.
Thanks to contributors including Justin Cullen MD, Radical, Kevin Foley, Commercial Director, Adforce , Fintan Lonergan, MD, O2 Media, Shenda Loughnane, Head of Digital, Aegis Media, Garret O’Beirne, Head of Digital, OMD, Michelle O’Keeffe, MD, Electric Media; and IAB Ireland for commissioning the study. Full report can be downloaded from the IAB website http://iabireland.ie/ | news |
https://www.tulipnetwork.org/post/tulip-is-highly-commended-at-the-committee-for-sydney-s-smart-city-awards-2018 | 2022-07-07T05:09:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104683683.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707033101-20220707063101-00101.warc.gz | 0.953035 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__191280754 | en | We are excited to have been awarded the accolade of 'highly commended' at the Committee for Sydney's annual Smart City Awards, which took place at Sofitel Darling Harbour on Wednesday 5th September.
Five categories were announced, judged by a panel that included:
Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO, Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission
The Hon Victor Dominello MP, Minister for Finance, Services and Property
Adam Beck, Executive Director of the Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand
Dorte Ekelund, Principal Advisor on Smart Cities for SMEC and also the Chair of the Committee for Sydney’s Smart Cities Taskforce.
TULIP was awarded for our work with the City of Sydney on urban heat monitoring in Chippendale and Redfern. This was our first pilot work that began a year ago and stands as the the first proof of concept for the program. It's fantastic to be recognised amongst so many other great projects.
Our category was 'Best Local Government Initiative', with Liverpool Council taking first place for their excellent Smart Pedestrian Project, which they are delivering with long-standing TULIP partners Meshed.
We'd like to thank all our partners, particularly those that supported us in the early days of the program - Meshed, City of Sydney, IAG and from UTS, the Institute for Sustainable Futures and the Knowledge Economy Institute. More recently, Reekoh, Urban Institute and Nokia have expanded our platform functionality and we continue to work with them closely on our Lake Macquarie project. | news |
https://olqas.org/2016/10/12/fr-sensats-marian-apparition-lecture-is-available/ | 2018-03-24T04:28:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649683.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324034649-20180324054649-00783.warc.gz | 0.905891 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__152638802 | en | Guest lecturer Fr. Clinton Sensat gave a great talk about Marian Apparitions to a crowd of nearly 100 people, as part of the Back-t0-Basics lecture series. In the 50 minute-long talk, Fr. Sensat identified the apparitions as private revelation, explaining the significance of that; discussed the possible modes of the apparitions; examined how the Church concludes whether or not the apparition is of supernatural origin; and looked at three lesser-known apparitions.
Fr. Sensat, now pastor at St. Thomas More Church in Eunice, is the former parochial vicar at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Ville Platte.
The next Back-to-Basics lecture will be on Nov. 14: “A Primer on Purgatory and Indulgences” by Fr. Taj Glodd, the current parochial vicar at Sacred Heart.
To listen to an audio recording of Fr. Sensat’s lecture, click on the player below.
To listen to other past lectures, click here. | news |
https://strathearn.org.uk/news/post.php?s=2018-02-07-another-clean-sweep-for-strathearn-cross-country-teams | 2018-12-13T06:22:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824525.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213054204-20181213075704-00359.warc.gz | 0.970421 | 751 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__120506666 | en | Co Down District Cross-Country Championships
Congratulations to all the Strathearn athletes who competed in the Co Down District Cross-Country Championships on Tuesday 6th February. There was a new venue again this year which meant travelling just across the road to Campbell College instead of our usual journey to Downpatrick and beyond! Our girls were outstanding and Strathearn had a clean sweep bringing home all 5 of the Co Down trophies with some exceptional individual and team performances. This is the 2nd year in a row we have done this and shows the strength and depth of talent we have here in Strathearn.
The day started with the Mini girls’ race and our Form 1s got us off to a great start with Bethany Johnston leading our team home finishing in 4th place just off the medals. Lucy Wills was hot on her heels in 6th place, then Maddie Haldane in 11th, Hannah Dadley-Young in 17th, Amy McClean 20th and Charlotte Moore 21st. These results combined ensured we were well ahead of all the other teams and were crowned overall Mini Champions.
Next up were the Minor girls and they have to have been the team of the day with no other team scoring anywhere near their points. Mabelle Wilcox powering home to claim individual gold, Emmy Thornton claiming individual bronze and Niamh Hatfield just missing out on a medal in 4th place. Alice Browne was 6th, Connie Hanna 8th and Ellie Gordon 13th.
The Junior girls took on the challenge next and the team worked very hard to keep the trophies coming our way. Lara Whitten finished just shy of the medals in 4th place, Freya Adams came home in 6th place, Martha Todd in 8th, Anna McKinty in 16th place, Faith Heyburn 18th and Amy Ellison 37th. The team score was again better than any of the opposition and Strathearn added the Junior title to our list of wins.
The Intermediate team had the challenge of running 2500m and we knew we had a strong team starting having some girls on this team trying to win their 4th and others their 5th successive Co Down title. But they still had to complete the race. Amelia Kane and Murphy Miller charged off from the start into the lead group, with Amelia leading the race from early on and pulling away from the others all the way round finishing 1st individually for the 4th successive year at these championships. Murphy came in 5th place, Freya Axten in 12th and along with Rhiannon Brady, Jemima Thomas and Aimee Stitt Strathearn finished well ahead of the other teams and brought home another Co Down trophy.
The Senior girls were the last team to take to the course and they put in a great team performance with Olivia Nelson the first of the Strathearn girls to cross the line in 2nd place, narrowly beaten by one of her former team mates Erin McConnell who unfortunately left us at the end of last year. But the other girls made sure we kept the trophies coming our way with Alex Reilly finishing 5th, Sophie Kenny 7th, Katie Wills 10th, Ruby Baxter 11th and Sam McCormick 20th. For some girls this is their 6th successive Co Down title, what a brilliant record!
So a fantastic day’s work for the Strathearn Cross-Country teams, and this time last year we said it would be hard to live up to in years to come, but you’ve done it again, well done!!!! Now we look forward to further success at the Ulster Championships on Wednesday 21st February at Mallusk.
Well done and GOOD LUCK girls!!! | news |
http://bauhaus77.blogspot.com/2012/07/5-thong-you-should-know-about-higgs.html | 2019-02-17T00:09:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481249.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216230700-20190217012700-00524.warc.gz | 0.961726 | 882 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__193266728 | en | What is the Higgs?
The Higgs gives all elementary particles their mass. Physics needs the Higgs. Without it the electron, for instance, would be massless. Just as a photon is the smallest amount (or quantum) of light, the Higgs boson is aquantum of the Higgs field, an all-pervading field thought to give elementary particles mass, via the Higgs mechanism.
Theory says that particles gain mass by interacting with the Higgs field: massless particles like photons slip through the field as if it wasn't there, whereas heavier particles such as quarks "feel" the Higgs field as if it were treacle. The Higgs boson is a key component of the standard model of particle physics, which explains all the known particles and forces except gravity.
Is a Higgs discovery technically possible?
Yes. The LHC is searching for the Higgs in the debris of proton-proton collisions. But the Higgs is too short-lived to be seen directly. Instead, its presence is inferred from the particles it decays into, but these particles are also produced by other so-called background processes that occur when protons collide. So, gathering data is the name of the game.
Only enough data can allow the separation of a Higgs signal from background noise. After the December announcement, the LHC shut down for its normal winter break. It then switched on again in April, smashing protons together at a higher energy than before. This high-energy data, combined with improved data analysis techniques, means researchers now have about twice as much information at their disposal than they did in December, says CERN physicist Albert De Roeck.
That is enough to either double the strength of the statistics obtained in December – or negate the December signal as a fluke. The latter would almost certainly be the death knell for the standard model Higgs, as physicists would have exhausted almost all their options. "It does swing the balance one way or another, so you can count on an interesting announcement," says De Roeck.
Wait a minute, so all this fuss could mean the Higgs isn't there at all?
Yes, it could. Perversely, a negative result is as exciting as finding the Higgs. That's because ruling out the Higgs would be a big blow for the standard model of particle physics. There's plenty of evidence from other experiments that the standard model is not a complete theory. Rethinking the Higgs mechanism in light of a negative result could provide strong clues to physics that lies beyond the standard model.
If the Higgs has been found, can everyone at the LHC leave and go home now?
No. The Higgs is the last remaining piece of the standard model – but we already know that there are particles and forces that lie beyond that model. Take gravity, dark matter – thought to make up about 85 per cent of the matter in our universe – and dark energy, which is credited with the universe's mysterious accelerating expansion. None of these can be explained by the standard model.
Dark matter particles, however, might show up at the LHC. These might come in the form of particles predicted by supersymmetry (SUSY), an extension to the standard model that posits a massive super-partner for every known particle. Some SUSY particles have the right properties to be dark matter, among other things.
What's the atmosphere like at CERN?
"I am very tired after two months of little sleep," says De Roeck, one of many who have been feverishly crunching the data in time for the ICHEP conference. "We feel tired but also excited." One thing that make things a little awkward is that the two rival Higgs-hunting experiments – ATLAS and CMS, both housed at CERN – are bound not to share their results with each other, as well as the general public, until Wednesday.
That's very important for the science: if they knew what the other had seen it might bias the results. But it also makes for uncomfortable encounters when ATLAS researchers pass CMS team members in the corridors of CERN. "We look suspiciously at each other, and we smile – and they smile back," says De Roeck. | news |
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/news/2011/050211.shtm | 2015-07-07T22:12:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00017-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.888676 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-27__0__37173711 | en | NDAA1 Science Cut Score Press Release
May 5, 2011
The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction announces the adoption of state academic achievement standards for the North Dakota Alternate Assessment-1 (NDAA1) in science. Dr. Wayne G. Sanstead, State Superintendent, approved the adoption of the state achievement standards for the NDAA1 following a process that sought the input of statewide special education and content specialists. These state achievement standards for the NDAA1 become the basis for the scoring of student performance in science on the 2010-11 NDAA1. The NDAA1 measures student achievement in terms of the state’s content and alternate achievement standards for students with significant cognitive disabilities. | news |
http://peace-program.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/2017/04/18/wednesday-march-29-inauguration-ceremony-of-the-cambodia-moeys-hiroshima-university-collaboration-center/ | 2019-10-20T11:11:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986707990.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20191020105426-20191020132926-00505.warc.gz | 0.944514 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__109307812 | en | On Wednesday, March 29, we held the Inauguration Ceremony of the “Cambodia MoEYS-Hiroshima University Collaboration Center” at the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Cambodia.
In 2016, Hiroshima University, for the first time in the nation’s history, signed an agreement on academic and cooperation with the MoEYS, Cambodia. The strong support from it has been the driving force behind the university’s success in Cambodia and led to the establishment of the new center in Phnom Penh.
The ceremony began with an opening address by Dr. Makoto Miyatani, Executive and Vice President of Hiroshima University, followed by an address by H.E. Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia. We then had a congratulatory speech by H.E. Mr. Hidehisa Horinouchi, Ambassador of Japan to Cambodia. After the ceremony, all of the attendees visited the Collaboration Center.
It is our hope that this new collaboration center will allow for a smooth, effective collaboration and academic exchanges with the government and partner institutions of Cambodia. Hiroshima University will make every effort to promote the further development of higher education in Cambodia and Japan with this newly established center. | news |
http://www.hockwold.info/wncamra/OuseBoozeRCOTY16.htm | 2017-09-20T02:13:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818686117.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20170920014637-20170920034637-00648.warc.gz | 0.95556 | 334 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__172698668 | en | Issued: 4th September 2016
King’s Lynn Club is Crowned
CAMRA East Anglia Regional Club of the Year 2016
Following on from their success of winning the title of West Norfolk Club of the Year the Ouse Amateur Sailing Club was judged alongside clubs from throughout the East Anglia Region and CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) are pleased to announce that they have been judged to be the winner of the title of East Anglia Club of the Year 2016.
Phil Piggott, Hon Secretary of the Ouse Amateur Sailing Club said, “We are delighted and proud to win this award and thank all our Real Ale supporters and also CAMRA for putting the Ouse Amateur Sailing Club forward. We look forward to the next round!”.
The Ouse Amateur Sailing Club have supported real ale for many decades and four to five beers and one real cider are available on gravity in their club house at the end of Ferry Lane. They are also a previous winner of the CAMRA’s National Club of the Year title.
Andrea Briers, East Anglia Regional Director said “The Ouse Amateur Sailing Club offers a good range of real ale and a cider for their members to enjoy and shows that is it possible for clubs to offer these products. I wish them luck in the next round of the competition.”
The club will to forward to the National Club of the Year competition and will be judged alongside clubs from throughout the country.
The presentation of their award took place on Wednesday 7th September at 8 pm.
Photos courtesy of Michael Fysh | news |
https://www.readycleaningserviceskc.com/single-post/2016/05/05/Hiring-vs-DIY-Cleaning-Whats-Your-Free-Time-Worth | 2020-02-26T13:45:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146342.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226115522-20200226145522-00265.warc.gz | 0.960462 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__71827509 | en | By the numbers
On an average day, 83 percent of women and 65 percent of men spend time doing household chores like cleaning, cooking or lawn care, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2014 American Time Use Survey.
On days they did household activities, women reported spending an average of 2.6 hours on chores, while men spent 2.1 hours. That’s on top of the 7.8 hours the average employed person spends at work most days, according to the survey.
For most people, time spent on house cleaning is not exactly considered quality time.
Meg Roberts, president of nationwide house cleaning company Molly Maid, said a2014 company survey of 2,000 households revealed how homeowners really feel about housekeeping.
A whopping 93 percent of respondents said they would literally prefer to do anything else besides cleaning. To drive the point home, 30 percent of respondents said they’d rather ride in a car with their in-laws for six hours than clean, while 10 percent said they’d rather eat dog food.
The most despised chore was cleaning the bathroom, with 63 percent agreeing they hate cleaning the bathroom more than any other room.
To Read The Full Article By Angie's List Click Here! | news |
https://sarahfeldberg.com/2015/02/11/jerry-tarkanians-biggest-mistake-ever/ | 2023-06-10T10:35:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657169.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610095459-20230610125459-00675.warc.gz | 0.986433 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__138547281 | en | A few years ago, right around this time of year, I had the chance to interview former UNLV Runnin’ Rebels Coach Jerry Tarkanian, who died today at 84.
I was working on a Valentine’s Day story about couples in the spotlight, how local Vegas celebrities manage the ups and downs of a relationship in the public sphere. So photographer Leila Navidi and I showed up to talk with Tark and his wife Lois, a city councilwoman, at their Las Vegas home. While we waited for Lois to arrive, I sat in the kitchen with Tark, trying to make small talk while he grumbled about Lois the way old married couples do. He wasn’t really in the mood for an interview, but he mostly tolerated us anyway. And when we got around to the early days in his relationship with Lois he lit up a bit, and told this wonderfully endearing story:
“We didn’t have a big wedding because we didn’t have a lot of money. I was the assistant football coach at a Catholic high school and it was football season. We had a game on Friday night and we got married on Saturday. I took her to the Fresno State/Idaho football game [for our honeymoon], and she’s never forgiven me for that. That was the biggest mistake I ever made, but in reality there was nowhere to go.”
Click here to read Tark’s obituary on the Las Vegas Sun, and click here for the rest of our 2011 story on “Love in the limelight.” | news |
https://krc-kw.com/how-we-see-the-future-of-recycling/ | 2024-02-24T06:31:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00296.warc.gz | 0.941023 | 573 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__180091950 | en | As per the Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research conducted by Kingfa Scientific and Technological Co. Ltd. on July 2021, three-dimensional cross-linked structures formed in rubbers during vulcanization significantly improve the performance properties of rubber goods. Simultaneously, cross-linked rubbers are non-biodegradable and cannot be easily reprocessed, such like thermoplastics. Above mentioned features of rubber goods cause serious difficulties with management and recycling of post-production and post-consumer waste rubbers.
European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) estimated that around 65% of the general rubber goods production is dedicated for automotive (e.g. tires, wiper blades, seals, hoses seatbelts, gaskets, insulators, etc.). Gerrard and Kandlikar performed comprehensive analysis of materials used in a passenger vehicles and showed that tires are 3.5 %wt., while the other rubber goods are 1.6 %wt . This indicates that the mainstream of waste rubbers are end-of-life tires. The estimated data showed that globally in each year, approximately 1000 million tires are not suitable for further use or retreading. According to predictions, up to 2030 the number of waste tires generated to the environment will increase to 1200 million tires/per year. Assuming that the predicted data are correct and development of rubber recycling will held the current relatively low level, this means increase by 20% within next 10 years.
Increasing number of waste tires are serious threat to the natural environment and human health. Illegally dumped or stockpiled waste tires are potential risk of uncontrolled combustion.
For example, in 2016 around 9000 people were evacuated from their homes located in Seseña near to Madrid (Spain) due to the combustion of the biggest illegal waste tire dump in European Union (EU). Estimation showed that around 70–90 thousand tons of tires were accumulated in Seseña for more than 15 years.
Fire in rubber recycling plants also occur, but fortunately in lower scale. For example, in 2020: fire of around 1 ton of rubber granulate in Vinderen Sp. z o.o. (Rubtiler) in Owadowie, Sławno, Poland (technical rubber goods producer) or fire of 1000 L fuel tank in Elan Recycling Plant Welshpool, Perth, Australia (producer of pyrolysis products – carbon black, light oil, steel).
Fire of waste tire rubber resulted in emissions of sulfur oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fine particulates and other hazardous compounds. As a consequence, risk of cancer is higher for population living near to illegal waste tire dumps and also selected recycling rubber plants, especially those based on prototype lines without strong basics in studies conducted at laboratory scale. | news |
https://www.khoa.go.kr/eng/user/bbs/detailBbsList.do?bbsMasterSeq=BOARD_MST_0000000041&bbsSeq=BBS_00000000090 | 2021-05-14T10:06:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990449.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514091252-20210514121252-00007.warc.gz | 0.924707 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__187404523 | en | We’d like to share an article published by the newspaper Fiji Sun on 20 July 2018 titled ‘Joint Research Underway To Measure Denarau-Malolo Area’: https://bit.ly/2LBMnn6
KHOA and the Fiji Hydrographic Services (FHS) are currently conducting a joint hydrographic survey of the Denarau and Malolo Island as part of the Official Development Assistance Project supported by the Republic of Korea from 2016 to 2020. The survey began in May and will be finished by mid-August. Once the survey data is processed, we’re going to transfer the technology on how to publish nautical charts within year.
Lt. Cdr. Saula Tuilevuka, FHS Director, said: “The Denarau-Malolo Island approaches were identified as critical to shipping due to the concentration of shipping in the area and proximity of maritime navigational hazards.”
The survey also involved handing over of various survey equipment to the FHS which satisfy the standards of the International Hydrographic Organization.
We’re thrilled to continue close cooperation with the FHS to reinforce the capacity for hydrographic survey and responding to climate change in Fiji.
COPYRIGHT(C) 2013 ~ 2016 BY KOREA HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC AGENCY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | news |
https://and-dev.flintandgenesee.org/contributors/ | 2021-04-18T00:26:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038464065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417222733-20210418012733-00271.warc.gz | 0.959539 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__113652109 | en | Meet our contributors
Melissa Burden is an award-winning journalist with nearly 20 years of automotive, business, education and health reporting experience in major metropolitan markets. She has written for the Flint Journal, the Detroit News and, most recently, Automotive News.
Gary Piatek is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience. He has been a senior editor at Crain’s Detroit and news editor at the Flint Journal.
Mike Naddeo is a commercial and editorial photographer working in the greater Flint area.
Izzi Joseph is a social media specialist at the Flint & Genesee Chamber. She was an associate editor for DBusiness Daily News. | news |
http://salonon5thavenyc.com/ | 2022-12-02T13:34:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710902.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202114800-20221202144800-00470.warc.gz | 0.896161 | 292 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__295242435 | en | CVS Launches Brush on Root Concealer From Salon on 5th Ave/NYC
By Faye Brookman
Salon on 5th Ave Brush On Root Concealer
CVS is launching a new option to cover root growth called Brush on Root Concealer from Salon on 5th Ave/NYC. Four shades suited to most hair colors — dark blonde, dark brown, black and medium-brown — will be available on CVS shelves next month retailing for $12.99. “It is a common problem,” said Sam Lubliner, president of Stance/Beauty Labs LLC, the producer of the line. “You are heading out for work or a night out and see dark or gray roots.” While Lubliner said there are items currently available, many aren’t an ideal solution. “They don’t effectively cover roots or they are aerosols, which are difficult to control. Some items are wands or markers that just don’t give the right coverage.” Lubliner, in conjunction with Cospro Development Corp., devised a special brush that wicks up just the right amount of color for maximum coverage. The brushes are packaged in an airless container to reduce waste. Brush on Root Concealer is one of many exclusives CVS is adding as it elevates its beauty offerings.
Copyright © 2015 Fairchild Fashion Media. All rights reserved. | news |
https://www.jsaxon.org/space/hsk/Reunions/40th2009/lunch.htm | 2022-08-09T05:38:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570901.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809033952-20220809063952-00338.warc.gz | 0.952981 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__75051580 | en | On the 21st July 2009 it will be exactly 40 years since Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon – a defining moment in 20th century history. Many people do not realise that the first pictures from the lunar surface (the most requested news clip of all time) were sent to the world from the ACT. So it follows that the event was one of the major events in the history of the ACT and Australia.
There were probably 4-500 people actively involved in that historic event around Australia including 200 or more in the ACT. We have held reunions and celebrations every 5 years or so and will be holding a 4 day reunion this year. Realistically it will be the last major anniversary that will be attended by many who took part, so we intend to make it a good one!
Of the 4 days – the ‘signature’ event will be the lunch on the 21st July. We are lucky in Australia that the first steps occurred at approximately 12:50 pm. 5 years ago we played a brand new DVD of the video (plus several of the operational voice loops) in synchronism with the time of the actual events. We intend to do the same thing (but using even better video) this year. We will also be launching at least one new book and DVD, having a video conference with Houston participants, and possibly some of the astronauts.
We expect the event will be attended by ACT and Federal government officials, the American Ambassador, the NASA representative in Australia and other dignitaries. Several TV channels attended the 35th Anniversary lunch and this year we expect there will be more publicity including a possible ABC radio live outside broadcast.
The event will provide excellent publicity for any organisation interested in sponsorship. We would appreciate an appointment to discuss the possibilities with you.
We have made a booking for the function to be held in the ballroom of the new conference section of the Southern Cross Club in Woden.
John Saxon (30
years with NASA)
Chair of the coordinating committee
Contact: (02) 6161-1524 or 0421-431-898
www.jsaxon.org and www.honeysucklecreek.net | news |
https://ventures.clevelandclinic.org/Cleveland-Clinic-Ventures/Ventures-News?page=3 | 2022-05-26T11:42:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662604794.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526100301-20220526130301-00414.warc.gz | 0.880184 | 1,064 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__184472066 | en | Assay May Help Avoid Needless Prostate Biopsies
An assay that identifies abnormal PSA proteins showed promise as an aid to avoid unnecessary prostate biopsies triggered by worrisome PSA test results, according to data reported here.
ClearFlow Reports: ERAS Cardiac Surgery Recommends Active Tube Clearance Methodology in Consensus Statement Presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgeons
ClearFlow Inc. has announced that an international society of leading heart surgeons known as ERAS® Cardiac Surgery presented evidenced-based expert consensus statements at the 98th annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons on April 28, 2018.
Pulsante® Therapy Awarded Prestigious Forfait Innovation Package to Fast-Track Medical Innovation for Cluster Headache in France
Autonomic Technologies, Inc., today announced that the College of the French National Authority for Health (HAS) issued a favorable opinion on a Forfait Innovation package for the Pulsante® SPG Microstimulator System. The award will support a randomized controlled trial for patients suffering from cluster headache.
This Smart Mouthguard Can Monitor Concussions
If you watched the Super Bowl LII earlier this month, you'll recall a moment in the second quarter when Patriots quarterback Tom Brady found Brandin Cooks wide open for a beautiful, 23-yard completion. But when Cooks turned to run for the end zone, he didn’t see Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins gunning for him on the left. Like Jaws, Jenkins roared out of the murky deep, and leveled Cooks with a vicious hit to the head.
Prevent Biometrics® Announces Commercial Launch of Head Impact Monitor System, Bringing Advanced Real-Time Monitoring of Concussion Impacts to Sports
Prevent Biometrics, the Cleveland Clinic spinoff that created the first and only head impact monitoring technology to accurately detect potential concussion-causing impacts in real time, announces its newest innovation at the Consumer Electronics Show today: the Gen 1.2 Head Impact Monitor System, bringing advanced, never-before-available head impact analytic capabilities to schools, associations, teams and coaches.
Centerline Biomedical Completes Fifth Preclinical Study
As Centerline Biomedical, Inc. prepares to meet with investors, strategic partners and companies in the healthcare industry during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, it successfully completed a fifth preclinical study at Cleveland Clinic facilities evaluating its surgical navigation system, IOPS, the Intra-Operative Positioning System. This study was the most noteworthy Centerline study to date, demonstrating ability to track sensorized IOPS instruments precisely and efficiently, with enhanced 3-D visualization, without frequent exposure to cancer-causing ionizing radiation associated with current standard of care. Endovascular surgeries i.e. those which repair arteries using stents rely on X-ray fluoroscopy, which provides limited two-dimensional visualization, leading to long procedure times while exposing surgeons and patients to damaging radiation. IOPS, originally developed at Cleveland Clinic, uses a 3-D model of a patient's vascular system to track instruments precisely without ionizing radiation, with the goal of reducing procedure times, complication rates, and overall costs. The mathematical algorithms used to generate the 3-D model are currently being used to revolutionize minimally invasive surgery, with future applications in surgical training and clinical decision support.
Quest Diagnostics finalizes purchase of Cleveland Clinic spinoff Cleveland HeartLab
Quest Diagnostics today finalized its acquisition of Cleveland Clinic spinoff Cleveland HeartLab.
NaviGate Cardiac Structures, Inc. Reports “Exceptional” Six-Week Results for Two Implantations of Its GATE™ Atrioventricular Valved Stent (AVS) to Correct Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation Patients
NaviGate Cardiac Structures Inc. (“NCSI”) announced today “exceptional results” for implantation of its GATE™ catheter-guided tricuspid atrioventricular valved stent (AVS) at six-week follow-up in two nonagenarian patients presenting with severe tricuspid valve insufficiency.
Genomic Health and Cleveland Diagnostics Announce Strategic Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize New Prostate Cancer Tests
Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq : GHDX ), the world's leading provider of genomic-based diagnostic tests, and Cleveland Diagnostics, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing next-generation diagnostics technology for the detection of cancers, today announced an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and commercialize new prostate cancer tests based on Cleveland Diagnostics' IsoPSA™ reagents and technology.
Quest Diagnostics to acquire Cleveland Clinic spinoff Cleveland HeartLab
Quest Diagnostics signed a deal with Cleveland Clinic spinoff Cleveland HeartLab to acquire the company before the end of the year. | news |
https://tedturnerreserves.com/press/the-restaurant-at-sierra-grande-a-ted-turner-retreat-reopens/ | 2023-03-22T00:26:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943747.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321225117-20230322015117-00249.warc.gz | 0.902767 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__78180298 | en | The Restaurant at Sierra Grande, a Ted Turner Retreat, Reopens
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NEW MEXICO, UNITED STATES (January 27, 2023) – Following a nearly three-year closure due to the COVID pandemic, The Restaurant at Sierra Grande reopens under the direction of new Food and Beverage Manager, Barbara Portillo, and General Manager of Southern New Mexico Operations, June Strange. The Restaurant will offer daily breakfast from 7am-12pm, expanded weekend brunch from 7am-1pm and dinner Friday through Sunday from 5pm-9pm.
“We are excited to not only expand our culinary offerings for our guests at Sierra Grande, but also to welcome back the local community” said Strange. “The Restaurant at Sierra Grande will bring additional employment opportunities and offer a welcoming gathering place for the residents of Sierra County.”
The Restaurant’s menu will focus on clean, healthful selections, with a contemporary southwestern flair. Offerings include a variety of salads, sandwiches, and healthful bowls. “Ingredients will be sourced as locally and sustainably as possible, and vegetarian and vegan offerings will be a standard” said Portillo, who is also The Restaurant’s head chef.
Paying homage to its proprietor, philanthropist Ted Turner, and in New Mexico tradition, a Green Chili Bison Burger will be a standing feature, along with returning Sierra Grande favorite, Pecan-Crusted Rellenos. A selection of local craft beers and expertly paired wines will be offered daily.
For more information about The Restaurant at Sierra Grande or Ted Turner Reserves, call 877-288-7637 or visit www.tedturnerreserves.com.
About Ted Turner Reserves
Ted Turner Reserves is a hospitality brand grounded in conservation with a mission to connect people with nature. With 1.1 million acres across three properties in New Mexico, Ted Turner Reserves includes Vermejo, Armendaris and Ladder and one retreat, Sierra Grande. These properties provide an unparalleled opportunity for guests to visit and experience luxurious hospitality, outdoor activities, and unfettered access to nature. Guests also will have the opportunity to learn about renowned businessman, philanthropist, and environmentalist Ted Turner’s efforts to restore and preserve these properties and their native species and ecosystems.
Lindsay D Curry
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Ted Turner Reserves | news |
https://novaglobal.com.sg/index.php/author/admin/page/3/ | 2022-06-29T17:01:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103640328.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629150145-20220629180145-00298.warc.gz | 0.945337 | 211 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__39901470 | en | Perdana University and NovaGlobal Pte Ltd entered into a memorandum of understanding on April 26, 2016, to collaborate and give effect to their common objectives of growing and developing informatics research, education and services.
The purpose of this MoU is to establish a framework for collaboration between Perdana University and NovaGlobal Pte Ltd for the following:
a. Establish a student internship scheme;
b. Set up an exchange scheme for teaching, research, and development resources; and
c. Develop from time to time collaborative programs of mutual benefit
The MoU was signed by Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dato’ Dr. Syed Ahmad Bin Hussein as the Perdana University representative and Mr. Ivan Ho Pak Kin as the NovaGlobal Pte Ltd representative. The signing was witnessed by Assistant Professor Dr. Mohammad Asif Khan, Director of the Centre for Bioinformatics and Ms. Nurul Salwanie Che Wahid, Executive Officer of the Asia-Pacific BioInformatics Network (APBioNet). | news |
https://nikaproject.org/stories/nika-project-teams-up-university-malaysia-aac/ | 2019-07-20T03:24:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526408.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720024812-20190720050812-00103.warc.gz | 0.929326 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__155717034 | en | The two weeks in Kuala Lumpur was an amazing project that is continuing to be sustained by the National University of Malaysia’s Speech and Language Pathology department.
Our team of ten partnered with the university students and teachers in three special needs schools:
- Kiwanis Down Syndrome National Center
- Kuala Lumpur School for Autism
- Spastic Children’s Association Of Selangor & Federal Territory
Simultaneously we trained the special needs teachers and the speech therapy students in assessment, curriculum development and constructing communication systems using mobile technology. Thanks to generous donations, The Nika Project was able to provide eight refurbished iPads, two iPods and a projector to the three schools.
We look forward to ongoing collaboration and support with the University! | news |
http://fcpartnership.org/2015/07/06/foundations-community-partnership-board-approves-160000-in-grant-awards-benefiting-bucks-non-profits/ | 2023-11-30T00:59:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130000127-20231130030127-00896.warc.gz | 0.928252 | 1,148 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__179678646 | en | Doylestown, PA (June 29, 2015) – Foundations Community Partnership’s Board of Directors has announced the distribution of $160,000 in grant funding to support 16 Bucks County non-profit organizations and the families they serve. The grant program is an integral part of Foundations’ mission to improve the lives of youth and their families in Bucks County. The grants included $100,000 in Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grants (BIIG) and $60,000 in Capital Grants.
Foundations’ Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grants (BIIG) were awarded to the following nine organizations and programs:
- Aark Wildlife and Education Center will use the grant to expand their summer camp, which serves 120 children in kindergarten through eighth grade, including special needs children.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bucks County will use the funding to implement an Autism Spectrum Disorder Mentoring Initiative, which will focus on providing “High School Big” mentors to children with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Child Home and Community will use the grant towards their Fatherhood 101 program, which is designed to meet the unique needs of teen fathers in Bucks County.
- Pearl S. Buck International will use the grant to expand their educational activities for children with special needs. These activities include Special Needs Family Day, Summer Culture Camps, and International Picnic, which allow adopted and other children to identify with their birth culture and strengthen their sense of personal identity.
- Wood Services will use the funding to teach students with behavioral health challenges health and fitness strategies and how to make better lifestyle choices that will decrease depression, aggression and other negative behaviors.
- One House at a Time will use the grant for their Beds for Kids program, which provides beds, bedding and bedtime items for children and youth who don’t have proper bedding at home.
- Special Equestrians will use the grant to advance and enrich experiential learning for transition age youth with ASD/ID in their Equine Assisted Learning program. The grant will help Special Equestrians enrich existing day programming and unique equine experiences, which offer satisfying physical activity, opportunities for connecting without words, and a sense of personal achievement.
- The Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia: Gilda’s Club will offer Straight Talk about Center peer support groups in area schools for 40 teens ages 12 – 18 who have cancer or know someone with cancer.
- The Peace Center’s Girls Unlimited program will use the funding to provide their highly successful relational aggression program to 300 participants from Centennial School District and Bristol Township.
- Valley Youth House will use the grant to provide a Mobile Drug and Alcohol Therapist for Bucks County Youth in Transition, which services adolescents ages 12-21.
Six organizations received Capital Grants from Foundations Community Partnership:
- Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22 will use the funding to provide rehabilitation equipment for brain injured children and youth, offering students universal opportunities to continue their recovery in a safe environment.
- Chandler Hall will use the grant to build an interactive intergenerational playground, which will be used by elder residents and children to explore new possibilities for growth and learning. Chandler Hall offers a wide spectrum of services for individuals at all stages of the aging process.
- Woods Services will use the grant to refurbish an old and unsafe basketball court used by over 100 adolescent residents facing behavioral health challenges. Woods Services empowers individuals with disabilities to achieve their highest potential and live a fulfilling life.
- R.J. Leonard Foundation provides support for young adults who are aging out of the foster care system. They will use the grant to provide a Fellow Management and Resource portal that will allow them to better manage services, recruit additional fellows, recruit and train mentors, and offer ongoing service and management of fellows.
- Livengrin will use the grant to purchase and install a backup generator at their Bucks County residential treatment facility to ensure electrical capacity for three patient residences. Livengrin has helped more than 125,000 patients and families struggling with the disease of addiction to find help, hope, and healing.
- Doylestown Hospital will use the grant to improve technology at Children’s Village, providing computers and software equipment to its preschool program, which serves over 200 children.
“The Board of Directors is pleased to support these worthwhile local organizations that are making such a difference in the community,” said Joseph Stella. MD, Chair of Foundations Community Partnership Board of Directors. “Our grant program provides funding to the groups that are fulfilling unmet needs for underserved children and families in Bucks County.”
“We’re thrilled to have been chosen as a recipient from FCP who holds its beneficiaries to very high standards,” said Jo Leonard, Founder & Executive Director, The R. J. Leonard Foundation, Inc. “We will use the grant to manage more Fellows, provide high quality mentoring and access to financial scholarships to help foster care youth who are aging out of the system have a greater chance of attaining self sufficiency.”
Foundations Community Partnership is a philanthropic grant-making foundation supporting the behavioral health and human service needs of children and young adults in Bucks County. Foundations Community Partnership provides grants and technical assistance to non-profit organizations, awards scholarships to Bucks County high school seniors, subsidizes service learning internships for college students, underwrites community education programs and supports behavioral health education and research. To learn more about Foundations and its mission please visit their website at fcpartnership.org or contact them at 267-247-5584. | news |
https://seniornetmotueka.org.nz/2019/09/29/ippig-report-september-2019/ | 2019-10-15T23:41:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986660829.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015231925-20191016015425-00079.warc.gz | 0.933316 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__191811530 | en | iPPIG Report September 2019
Apple announced the new iPhone 11 and a new Apple watch at a special event on September 18. They also launched their new ios 13 software operating system, subscription game library and subscription TV. We opened our meeting by watching extracts from the video of that event.
This was followed by a video of Apple’s new software operating system for the ipad, called ipadOS. This operating system will be launched on September 24 and supports a new home screen and the use of a USB drive amongst many other new features. The new operating system for iphones was available on 20 September.
Peter demonstrated a security camera from Wyze. This is a wifi connected camera costing $25 US from Amazon. The camera is controlled by an app, has night vision and will send notifications to you when it senses movement or sound in your house.
Colin spoke about an app, homes.co.nz which provides estimated property values for 1.4m New Zealand homes and maps their location. The app also provides specifics about the properties and previous sale history.
Colin also spoke about tips and tricks for better internet searching.(https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/how-to-use-search-like-a-pro-10-tips-and-tricks-for-google-and-beyond) The tips he described will give more defined google searching criteria when looking for something specific. The simplest is to place quote marks around a phrase or name to search for those exact words in that exact order.
by Peter Beaumont | news |
http://www.workstars.com.au/news/item/workskills-for-indigenous-workers | 2013-05-21T15:26:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700132256/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102852-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.964272 | 237 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__125387368 | en | 21 March 2012
Workskills for Indigenous workers
Partnering with Workskills
Kate Miguel is Business Development Manager for registered training organisation Workskills, with a territory spanning multiple country towns and centres west of Toowoomba.
Through a partnership with Indigenous Workstars, a number of employment opportunities have been created for Indigenous jobseekers in towns such as Roma and Chinchilla.
“A lot of the resource sector companies have busy schedules and foremen and supervisors need help with mentoring new employees,” said Kate.
“Workskills provides the training for the jobseekers we place, but some jobseekers need that additional support to settle into the workplace, and that’s where our relationship with Maree and the Indigenous Workstars team is extremely valuable.
“We’ve found that when we combine training with mentoring, employers are enjoying better success with their new workers, and they have more time to dedicate to the actually running of their business or facilities.”
Kate said she had received positive feedback regarding two young women placed in administration roles who were currently being trained in Certificate III in Business Administration. | news |
https://corporatecitizen.org/media/monetary-donations-most-helpful/ | 2023-06-05T19:42:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652161.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605185809-20230605215809-00322.warc.gz | 0.959522 | 366 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__64606879 | en | If you want to help, give money instead of items.
This is the message that relief effort veterans have for members of the public who want to help victims of the Nepal earthquake.
Singapore Red Cross secretary-general Benjamin William said the organisation does not accept in-kind donations like clothes due to freight-related issues.
“Besides the need for permits, there may be delays in clearing the items at the airport due to the influx of donations from all over the world,” he said.
“If there is a delay, a fine may even be imposed. That is after deploying extensive resources to collect, sort and pack at the initial stage.”
Since launching the appeal for the Nepal earthquake on Sunday, the Singapore Red Cross has received more than 30 written queries on in-kind donations.
Mr William said monetary donations are encouraged as they give the flexibility of buying items more quickly at unaffected areas within the country or nearby countries.
Corporate Citizen Foundation technical adviser Hassan Ahmad, who is in Nepal, said that when he headed Mercy Relief for eight years, he came across people who insisted on donating in kind.
“They were well intended, but generally not appropriate. Clothes may not be culturally acceptable at the affected areas or food may not be within the dietary requirements,” he explained.
Mr Johann Annuar, who is Medecins Sans Frontieres Hong Kong’s peer representative for Singapore, said his best advice for those who want to help in the relief efforts is to find someone they trust.
“Co with somebody you know personally, perhaps a friend who’s doing something on the ground,” he said.
by Ling Yuanrong
The New Paper
29 April 2015 | news |
https://europe.illinois.edu/news/2023-09-27/welcoming-amanda-smith-eucs-new-academic-coordinator | 2023-12-08T02:46:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100710.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208013411-20231208043411-00717.warc.gz | 0.97138 | 138 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__13599855 | en | We are pleased to announce that Amanda Smith has joined the EU Center as its new Academic Coordinator. She will teach seminars in European Studies, advise students, and oversee the Center's academic offerings. Amanda is completing a Ph.D. in French Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois and works on Black feminisms and Blackness in popular culture in France and in the Francophone African diaspora. While pursuing her doctorate, she has mentored graduate students, taught French language, and developed classes on leadership and professional development. She earned an MA in French Literature & Pedagogy from the University of Cincinnati and studied abroad at the Université de Caen. She speaks French and Spanish. | news |
https://www.armenpress.info/en/armen-sarkissian-met-with-intelligentsia | 2021-04-20T04:33:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039375537.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420025739-20210420055739-00519.warc.gz | 0.936443 | 639 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__158466476 | en | ArmInfo. Armenia's President Armen Sarkissian met with representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia. As the press service of the RA President told ArmInfo, at the beginning of the meeting Sarkissian announced that he expects...
ArmInfo. Armenia's President Armen Sarkissian met with representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia.
As the press service of the RA President told ArmInfo, at the
beginning of the meeting Sarkissian announced that he expects to hold
an open conversation in an informal form. At the same time, he
expressed concern about the lack of public discussions with the
participation of the intelligentsia in the recent period, a
superficial approach to a number of problems in society, the lack of
deep analysis of the situation, and a more emotional approach to
The President of Armenia discerned in all this a syndrome of
superficial discussion of everything, which is very painful, or in
other words "headline syndrome".
He also mentioned that there is another factor in Armenia that
worries him, it is connected with pretense, when we make pretense
that we have a lot things, for example, a developed sector of
information technologies, although in reality everything is
different, since having talented people in this industry is one
thing, and a developed IT sector is completely different. Sarkissian
stated that today about 20 thousand people are employed in this area,
while only 5-6 thousand are engaged in programming. Therefore,
according to him, talks about the possession of a developed IT sector
are just an imitation.
The President of Armenia also spoke about the Hay Park project, which
is planned to be implemented on the territory adjacent to the
Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex and which, according to the
President, will become a kind of symbol of the unity of the Armenian
The meeting participants also touched upon the issue of the Armenian
language, pointing out the importance of showing the state's
attention to the language and respectful attitude, while maintaining
the purity of the language, literate speech and writing.
Intellectuals expressed their concern about the change in educational
criteria, pointing to the importance of education, national image and
national values. Sarkissian said that education is one of the main
drivers of development of any country, especially Armenia, where the
education system is one of the most sensitive parts of the country's
"It is not so easy to change a school textbook, methodology,
attitude. This process should go through a long-term public
discussion through public consent. National unity is not only an
army, not only culture, but also a textbook by which we teach a
child. If we do not have national unity, what can we teach our child,
then how can we reach agreement in the field of culture or the army,"
the President asked, adding that we need to be very attentive to
cultural and historical values, have a development strategy where the
key places will be occupied by education, culture and, of course, | news |
https://www.gotri.ca/races/kincardine-womens-triathlon/ | 2023-09-23T15:07:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506481.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923130827-20230923160827-00725.warc.gz | 0.915483 | 278 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__96107706 | en | The Lakeshore Women’s Triathlon (formerly Kincardine Women’s Triathlon) is excited to hold its 2023 race in Port Elgin, Ontario at the main beach.
The race date is Saturday, August 12, and a women’s triathlon, duathlon and relay options will be available.
The triathlon will feature a 375m swim, 10km bike and 3km run.
The duathlon will feature a 3km run, 10km bike and 3km run.
Registration will open Saturday, March 18 at 10 a.m. Details regarding the registration platform and fees will be available on our website in the coming days. Registration will be limited to 300 participants.
Due to construction in Kincardine, the race was unable to be held in its traditional location at Station Beach. The Lakeshore Women’s Triathlon is excited to partner with the Town of Saugeen Shores this year to give racers a new route to challenge themselves with that has beautiful views of Lake Huron throughout the course.
DATES & Time
August 12, 2023
WHAT TO BRING
Bathing Suit (or Trisuit) | news |
https://baccmd.org/community-news | 2024-04-20T16:25:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00898.warc.gz | 0.943302 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__113292176 | en | The Beltsville Adventist Community Center will host a Free Vision Clinic that is open to the public on Saturday, September 16, 2023, from 9 am to 4 pm. The clinic will be hosted at the Beltsville Adventist School Gymnasium at 4230 Ammendale RD, Beltsville MD 20705.
Friday Food Distribution
Every fourth Friday of the month, the BACC holds a food drive in the parking lot of the Beltsville Seventh Day Adventist Church where volunteers distribute boxes of food provided by Capital Area Food bank to members of our community in need. The boxes are put right into the cars of our community members, so they can drive right in, receive a box, and go right on about their day. Come rain or shine, we’re out there doing what we can to help those in need. The event lasts from 10am and goes until 12pm, or until supplies last. Beltsville SDA is located at 4200 Ammendale RD, Beltsville MD 20705 | news |
https://www.sablecreekgolf.com/golf-news/masters-2023-happy-but-exhausted-augustas-amateur-star-sam-bennett-opts-out-of-texas-college-event/ | 2023-12-04T13:45:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00113.warc.gz | 0.979052 | 354 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__222990810 | en | Sam Bennett’s heart said one thing. His legs screamed another. In the end, his tired body won out over his wanting mind.
The reigning U.S. Amateur champion who made a huge splash in the Masters last week by contending into the weekend said on Sunday night that he’d like to compete on Monday in the Aggie Invitational hosted by his college team, Texas A&M. The effort would have required Bennett to walk for 36 holes on the first day and 18 on the second.Exhausted, but clearly torn, the fifth-year senior said after visiting Butler Cabin as the tournament’s low amateur at two under, “I don’t have many more college tournaments left, so I’d like to play in my home event,” the fifth-year senior said on Sunday. “I came back to school to be with my team and do that, so I think I want to play.”
Bennett returned to College Station, Texas, on Sunday night and got a rousing welcome. But by Monday morning he’d decided that he just couldn’t pull off playing in the Aggie. So, he wasn’t among Texas A&M’s six starters when they teed off.
The Aggie faithful will forgive him. Bennett, 23, put the program in the biggest spotlight possible when he opened his first Masters by shooting 68-68 and being among those near the top of the leaderboard heading into the third round. He ultimately struggled on the weekend by shooting 76-74, but he became an inspiration to so many amateurs who dream of making their mark on one of golf’s biggest stages. | news |
https://ilanaj.com/2021/09/10/villa-duo-martinez-and-buendia-join-argentina-for-world-cup-qualifiers/ | 2021-10-28T05:07:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588257.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028034828-20211028064828-00264.warc.gz | 0.938193 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__120261262 | en | Villa duo Martínez and Buendía join Argentina for World Cup qualifiers
The Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez and midfielder Emi Buendía have travelled to join the Argentina squad ahead of their World Cup qualifiers, the club have confirmed.
After the Tottenham manager, Nuno Espírito Santo, revealed the north London club were trying to “anticipate the damage” of Cristian Romero and Giovani Lo Celso defying Premier League rules by joining up, Villa announced that Martinez and Buendía had also left for South America. Premier League clubs agreed last week to refuse to release players for playing duty in countries on the UK government’s Covid-19 red list.
A statement on the club’s official website said: “Aston Villa can confirm Emi Martinez and Emi Buendía have travelled to join up with the Argentina squad with the permission of the club in accordance with Fifa’s international match call-up rules.
“Both players have agreed to make themselves available for Argentina’s vital first two World Cup qualifying matches against Venezuela and Brazil, but will not take part in the third international match against Bolivia.”
Last week, Premier League clubs united in defiance of Fifa and refused to release players for international duty in countries on the UK’s red list because of the escalating row over quarantine restrictions, and the lack of exemptions for players returning from high-risk countries. | news |
https://ccc-rks.net/en/ccc-meetings/ | 2024-03-02T13:16:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475825.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302120344-20240302150344-00675.warc.gz | 0.965233 | 349 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__28728772 | en | Consultative council meeting and voting for working groups
On November 27, 2018
Assembly building, office N-10
The consultative council for communities held its regular monthly meeting, where the Chairman reported to the members of the Council about his commitments and the work of the Chairmanship since the constitutive meeting until now.
The Chairman of the Council Mr. Zivoin Ćirković, informed about the visit to the Bonsteel military camp and the meeting with the colonel Mr. Nick Ducic, then the meeting with the Norwegian ambassador Mr. Per Strand Sjaastad and many radio and television appearances.
At the meeting, a decision proposal was presented for the formation of working groups, which were also voted by the members of the Council.
Working groups and number of members:
- the working group on education issues will have five members
- the working group on employment issues and social issues will have five members
- the working group for cultural issues will have five members
- the working group on language issues will have five members
- the legislation working group will have five members
Meeting of the Consultative Council for Communities with a new composition
Pristina, on October 18, 2018
Assembly building, hall N-10
The Consultative Council for Communities held its constitutive meeting, in which twenty-four (24) members participated. At the meeting, the Council elected its chairmanship of three (3) members.
President of the Council was elected Mr. Živoin Ćirković, while the first deputy chairman, Mr. Berhil Šasivari, and Mrs. Andelina Qorraj Emini, second vice president. | news |
https://dinovate.com/undp/ | 2023-03-21T10:23:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943695.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321095704-20230321125704-00640.warc.gz | 0.966619 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__80521668 | en | Project brief: To develop a series of visual materials for the UNDP/Government of Japan partnership to be showcased at the TICAD Conference in Tunisia).
Project summary: Dinovate, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Japan, recently undertook a significant project aimed at showcasing the support provided by the Japanese government to Africa through their collaboration with the UNDP. As part of this project, Dinovate was responsible for developing and designing a comprehensive impact report, which documented the results of UNDP’s Japan-funded projects in Africa over two years (2019-2021).
In addition to the impact report, 52 pages in length, Dinovate also produced a series of multimedia products, including video storytelling and other engaging visual materials. These products were made to show how the collaboration between Japan and the UNDP has made a difference and to show the good things that have come out of it.
The final products were presented at the annual TICAD-8 conference, which was held in Tunisia. This conference is an important event that brings together government officials, business leaders, and development experts from around the world to discuss and explore ways to accelerate economic and social development in Africa. By presenting their work at TICAD-8, Dinovate and their partners could showcase their efforts to a wider audience and highlight the impact of the Japan-UNDP collaboration in Africa. | news |
http://www.aprilslaughter.com/2014conference/ | 2017-05-24T21:31:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607862.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524211702-20170524231702-00320.warc.gz | 0.936697 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__210390569 | en | April Slaughter returns for her fourth consecutive appearance at the
2014 Haunted America Conference June 20-21 at the Lincoln Theater in Decatur, Illinois!
In her presentation DISCONNECTED FROM DEATH, April will be discussing the evolution of funerary practices, mourning traditions, the significance of postmortem photography in early American history, and how dealing with death in today’s world has become more a business of disconnection, and less about processing and accepting loss.
April will also be available during the conference to sign copies of her books. For more information and to register for the event, please visit the official Haunted America Conference website. | news |
http://www.oregonlink.com/treecity.html | 2018-03-23T05:28:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257648178.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180323044127-20180323064127-00026.warc.gz | 0.948566 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__180406549 | en | March 27, 1997
Salem has again been named a Tree City USA by The National Arbor Day Foundation for the
twenty-first consecutive year. Salem is a charter member and was the first city to receive this
award in Oregon. This year is the 125th anniversary of Arbor Day.
The City of Salem will be presented with the 21st TREE CITY USA award by Oregon State
Urban Forester Paul Ries at 12:00 noon in the City Council Chambers. The mayor will then
proclaim April 6 as Arbor Week.
The Tree City USA program is sponsored by The National Arbor Day Foundation in
cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters.
To become a Tree City USA, a community must meet four standards: a tree board or
department, a city tree ordinance, a comprehensive community forestry program, and an
Arbor Day observance.
Salem's citizens have been supportive of the street tree program. They consent to replanting
where necessary to remove diseased or damaged trees, grant easements when street improvements limit planting space, and advise city staff when special maintenance needs arise.
The Parks Division is responsible for the street tree program which includes planting,
pruning and removal of dangerous or damaged trees on the street right of ways. There are
currently 95,000+ street trees for which the Parks Division is responsible. In addition, there
are thousands of trees within city parks they also maintain.
Arbor Week originated in 1872 as Arbor Day and is observed annually during the first full
week in April (specified by Oregon state statute). It is celebrated nationally, and as part of
this annual celebration numerous tree planting activities are scheduled for Salem.
Source: City of Salem
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https://www.floridawingcap.org/ | 2021-09-26T16:50:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057882.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20210926144658-20210926174658-00504.warc.gz | 0.921931 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__54098013 | en | A Change of Command is a time honored ceremony which marks the moment when the responsibility of command is passed from the current commander to the incoming commander.
Florida Wing conducted a Change of Command at the Florida Wing Conference banquet held at the Tampa Marriott Water Street on July 24th. Col. Andrea Van Buren, Southeast Region Commander, presided over the ceremony in which Col. Luis Garcia relinquished command and Col. Luis Negron assumed command of the wing.
During the Commander's Call-to-Prayer this morning at the virtual national conference, Maj. Gen. (select) Edward Phelka, CAP, the in-coming national commander for #CivilAirPatrol, announced that he has selected Chaplain (Colonel - select) Linda Pugsley to be the next Chief of Chaplains. She will assume her new rank and position at the change of command on 26 August.
Maj. Gen. (select) Edward D. Phelka will assume command of Civil Air Patrol the morning of Aug. 26 in his home state of Michigan. Phelka and newly appointed National Vice Commander Brig. Gen. (select) Regena Aye will be sworn in during a private change of command ceremony in Detroit limited in attendance because of COVID-19 precautions.
A video of the ceremony will be available to members and the public at 7 p.m. Central on CAP's YouTube Channel. A link to the video will be sent out Thursday. | news |
https://www.theserenespot.com/blog/massage-improves-immune-function | 2023-03-28T18:51:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948868.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328170730-20230328200730-00555.warc.gz | 0.926773 | 294 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__269716656 | en | Massage improves immune function: Studies show benefit in different circumstances
There is mounting evidence that massage therapy supports the immune system. Research among groups of people in different situations showed that massage increased the activity of natural killer cells, white blood cells that can attack tumors.
Four studies completed by the Touch Research Institute (TRI) at the University of Miami Medical School demonstrated improvement in immune function after receiving massage.
The first TRI study examined the effects of massage on women with breast cancer. After 5 weeks of massage sessions, three times a week, natural killer cells increased and anxiety decreased by 50 percent. According to Tiffany Field, PhD and director of TRI, these women showed a "whopping increase" in cells that attack tumors and infections.
In the second study, massage given to thirty HIV-positive men resulted in improvements for objective measurements in three areas -- psychological, immunological, and endocrine functions.
Field believes that reduction of the stress response is what helps heal. "We know that cortisol [a stress hormone] kills off natural killer cells and in our studies we are seeing an increase in these [natural killer] cells." Similar results were reported with a group of HIV-positive children, and another with HIV-positive teenage girls.
Other research reported increased immune response with massage for a group of students preparing for exams. This supports the argument that massage improves the function of the immune system for healthy and ill alike, helping the body better fight disease. | news |
https://temps4care.co.uk/blog/care-news/why-the-care-industry-is-so-important/ | 2022-05-26T01:27:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662595559.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526004200-20220526034200-00333.warc.gz | 0.97511 | 677 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__307690252 | en | Overworked, underpaid and unappreciated are just some of the common misconceptions people think about the care industry.
In fact, there’s a number of uninformed professionals who think they aren’t qualified to do anything else.
In August 2018, the Express published a damaging article stating that 93% of Britons want to put cameras in care homes to protect vulnerable people from abuse and neglect.
However, this type of bad press isn’t giving the industry a true reflection of what it’s really like.
As you know, it takes a special type of loving, attentive, patient and supportive person to work in this industry. And that’s what 24-year-old Beth Sturgis recently tried to address in an open letter on Facebook.
Changing the perception of the care industry
Talking to The Independent, Beth said she wrote the post because she sees a lot of negative stories in the media and was fed up of people thinking it was a job where she just popped in, completed an easy job and left.
The letter was designed to help people see that her profession does really care about their clients.
“Today I helped a man that has lived through the war wash and dress because old age has now hit him and he is unable to walk or do these things for himself because his body is ageing faster than his mind,” she writes.
“Today I helped a lady who this time last year was living her life normally to complete her normal daily tasks because she is now living her life with a cruel disease that has taken over her body and left her unable to do these things for herself.”
Beth also addresses her commitment outside of work hours, writing: “I have attended funerals of those I have helped, those who I have seen twice maybe even four times a day and I have cried at the loss of those lives.”
When The Independent asked whether she would consider a different profession, she made it very clear that she wouldn’t and finds it very rewarding.
“I honestly can say that I feel it’s in my blood, my family are all in the line of public service, my mother is also a carer and I saw how much she loved it and thought I’d give it a go. “
Since Beth posted her open letter on Facebook, it went viral, receiving more than 8,000 likes, 6,000 shares and some truly touching comments.
What does this mean for the care industry?
Beth’s honest insight into the world of care and health is a breath of fresh air to the industry. As specialists in recruiting the best care professionals, we understand finding the perfect employee isn’t always easy.
This letter acts as a reminder and a good piece of advertisement to promote the positive elements in the industry.
Turning these negative perceptions into positive can only benefit organisations and recruitment agencies like us.
Hopefully, this news will give you another spring in your step today and remind you that you’re doing an incredible job.
Spread the word and share this message today, it might just make finding your next employee that little bit easier.
For help filling your next role, get in touch with Temps 4 Care today. | news |
http://hartford.hubspotusergroups.com/blog/hartford-hug-live-website-throwdown-12/17/2015 | 2018-02-23T12:34:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814700.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223115053-20180223135053-00459.warc.gz | 0.80908 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__197999659 | en | On December 17, the Hartford HUG will host a special live, in-person event for Hartford HUG members and guests. Join us for lunch at 12:00pm at Impact's brand new office in Wallingford, followed by a live Website Throwdown at 12:45pm. Submitted websites will be analyzed by Bob Ruffolo, CEO of Impact, and Michael Hurczyn, Director of inbound Strategy at 710 Studios, and Hartford HUG Leader.
12:45pm - Live Website Throwdown
Join the meeting: https://join.me/rruffolo1
On a computer, use any browser. Nothing to download.
On a phone or tablet, launch the join.me app (https://join.me/app) and enter meeting code: rruffolo1
Join the audio conference:
Dial a phone number and enter access code, or connect via internet.
United States - Hartford, CT +1.860.970.0010
Access Code 257-776-165#
Other international numbers available (https://join.me/intphone/
By computer via internet:
Join the meeting, click the phone icon and select 'Call via internet'. A small download might be required.
Start time by time zones (https://join.me/timezone/ | news |
https://bashor.org/ABOUTUS/Bashorisgrowing.aspx | 2024-02-21T22:24:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00428.warc.gz | 0.969094 | 900 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__129439573 | en | About our Building
As reported by South bend Tribune
GOSHEN — Bashor Children’s Home is opening a new residential program this week for teen-aged girls who’ve been trapped into sex trafficking.
The issue is worse than officials at the nonprofit had realized. Two girls from the immediate area are already in house, and Bashor is on track to fill all of the eight beds in the next few weeks, said Sean McCrindle, Bashor’s vice president of operations.
“Some of the kids who’ve come here didn’t realize the situation they were in was human trafficking,” he said. “They thought they were just earning money for people and themselves.”
Indiana’s Department of Child Services is just now trying to count how many girls are victims of sex trafficking in the state, as it hasn’t been tracking those numbers in its data, said spokesman James Wide.
Bashor became aware of the need after it opened a runaway shelter for teens one year ago, which has stayed busy seeing a total of at least 65 kids, McCrindle said. Trafficking victims started to appear last year, spurring the need for a new program.
“The kids who came through the shelter opened our eyes to how big the issue is,” he said.
He counts fewer than a dozen residential facilities in Indiana that specialize in helping trafficking victims. Wide said the next closest one is in Muncie.
The victims cannot simply return home because, in many cases, family members were involved in trafficking, McCrindle said.
The people who sell them — who seem caring at first — often house and feed them, but then they also control the girls’ access to phone, Internet, money and outside relationships, he said. The paid sex often happens in a hotel, a house or a vehicle.
Bashor’s new treatment program is more than a shelter. Girls will stay nine to 12 months or longer and receive intensive therapy for the trauma they’ve seen, McCrindle said. It will also be for girls who are at high risk of trafficking.
That could be girls who’ve lived in poverty, who’ve suffered abuse, who’ve seen a lot of family conflict or who’ve been a chronic runaway, he said. These girls may start out by couch surfing at friends’ homes. Then, as they run out of places to do that, they find people who ask them to earn their keep. And then the girls cannot find a way out.
Bashor has hired an extra 12 to 16 staff to run the 24-hour program, said spokesman Steve Riikonen. DCS will pay Bashor a fee per child served — an amount that is still being negotiated based on the level of services. Bashor will do fund-raising in the community to cover the remaining costs, an expected gap of $180,000 to $208,000, McCrindle said.
The girls will receive counseling from Oaklawn, a Goshen-based mental health provider, which Medicaid could reimburse, Riikonen said.
The victims will be referred to Bashor by either the state’s Department of Child Services or by juvenile courts and detention centers.
The nonprofit Family Justice Center of St. Joseph County, which serves victims of violence and sexual abuse, trains its staff and volunteer advocates — who answer its 24-hour crisis line (574-289-HELP) — in the realities of human trafficking, said Director Amy Stewart-Brown.
If there’s a case of trafficking, she said, referrals are made based on the victim’s needs.
Bashor has already brought in two girls who came in separately over the past two weeks, both from the immediate area. Three more are scheduled to arrive over the next month, McCrindle said. All are from Elkhart County and surrounding counties, which is Bashor’s priority to serve. But the state could start referring victims from across the state, too, he said.
Once victims are ready to leave Bashor, he said, they could transition back to family members, if safe, or to foster families. Or, if they’re close to age 18, they could move into an apartment. | news |
http://www.woozleresearch.com/2016/09/26/cia/ | 2019-02-16T15:24:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480622.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216145907-20190216171907-00104.warc.gz | 0.949906 | 1,580 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__42132697 | en | Quarterly results, earnings calls, economic releases, management meetings and expert insights have long been the core of financial analysis, but big data is fast becoming the new frontier for fund managers. Even a cursory check of google trends shows that big data search queries have increased 20 fold in the last 4 years. On top of that it is increasingly being used as a buzzword in industry conferences, research and articles to showcase the advent of Fintech and the opportunities it presents for investors.
Institutional investors, even individual investors, now have access to unfathomable amounts of information. Technological advances in computing power and algorithmic complexity of even the last few years now allow digital data to be processed automatically and near-instantaneously. Much of the explosion in the quantity of data is being driven by new technologies such as mobile phone GPS signals, purchase transaction records, satellite imagery, and posts to social media – technologies that never existed only a few decades ago. The sheer depth and breadth of the data we generate daily really cannot be overstated. We generate some 2.5 quintillion (25 x 10^18) bytes of data every day, and IBM estimates that about 90% of the data in the world today was created in the last two years alone! If you don’t believe me, check out these incredible numbers by US software company Domo which show just how much data is created every minute by the following means:
- Email users send 204,000,000 messages
- Google receives over 4,000,000 search queries
- Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of content
- Tinder users swipe 416,667 times
- WhatsApp users share 347,222 photos
- Twitter users tweet 277,000 times
- Instagram users post 216,000 new photos
- Amazon makes $83,000 in online sales
- Pandora users listen to 61,141 hours of music
- Apple users download 48,000 apps
- Yelp users post 26,380 reviews
- Skype users connect for 23,300 hours
- Vine users share 8,333 videos
- Pinterest users pin 3,472 images
- YouTube users upload 72 hours of new video
Understandably, the implications of harnessing this information to better understand business and consumer behaviour is seen as a veritable goldmine for active investors. And many are already making huge inroads into collecting, evaluating, and ultimately monetizing this new alpha through data science. For investors at the cutting edge of this relatively new field of stock selection, the WWW abbreviation synonymous with the dotcom bubble is now the VVV of the big data bubble – more Volume, more Variety, and quicker processing Velocity. Many investors and data providers are committing huge amounts of human and financial capital in the hope of uncovering new, untapped alpha signals – a new path for the financial industry but one that is well trodden by others, most notably by global intelligence services.
Intelligence agencies employ several intelligence gathering methods which utilize human, signals, geospatial, and measurements and signature intelligence. Combined and analysed correctly, this mosaic of information more often than not results in successful operations. However, the technical affluence of the US has often led to an infatuation with technological methods of intelligence gathering at the expense of on-the-ground research.
CIA case history clearly demonstrates that when decisions are made based solely using technical data, incorrect human intelligence, or without human intelligence at all, major errors and failures have occurred.
Operation Zapata, known today as The Bay of Pigs, was an intelligence failure in which the CIA trained exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro’s regime. The operation was a total failure, largely because of inadequate preparations, insufficient political backing, faulty assumptions about what the Cuban population thought of the Castro regime, and what it might do in the wake of the invasion. A former case officer asserted that it was a lack of human intelligence on the ground in Cuba which led to the failure of the Bay of Pigs and resulted in global tension and Kennedy’s greatest fiasco. Moreover, the human intelligence that had been collected by British intelligence in Cuba, that was made available to the CIA, indicated that the Cuban people were predominantly behind Castro, and that there was no likelihood of mass defections or insurrections that the US had anticipated.
The intelligence failures of the United States to fully utilize human resources would continue with the 1979 Iranian revolution. The intelligence problem here can be attributed to the US’s inability to perceive Iranian discontent with the Shah. This could have only been detected by on-the-ground intelligence gathering. This was then rendered a failure since it took no cognisance of primary data collection. The failure to anticipate the coup can be attributed to limits placed on collection by policy makers. Intelligence officers were prohibited to make contact with citizens in the souks (markets and bazaars) who were opposed to the Shah. This would have been considered offensive to the Shah and the Shah’s regime. Instead, U.S. intelligence were constrained to rely on the shah’s secret police, Savak, which had an institutional interest in denying that any opposition existed.
Shortly after the Bay of Pigs, the US faced yet another challenge in the Cuban Missile Crisis which resulted in success not a failure, solely because of the use of primary human intelligence. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred between the US and the Soviet Union during October 1965, over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Reconnaissance flights over Cuba discovered the movement of the missiles utilizing satellite imagery which they deemed capable of striking the United states which was subsequently corroborated from intelligence received from a Cuban refugee that had seen Russian missiles on a truck in Cuba. Although the world seemed to be on the brink of nuclear annihilation, the US employed human intelligence sources which proved essential and critical to the decisions made by policy makers. Oleg Penkovsky was a colonel in Soviet military intelligence who provided invaluable intelligence to the US. The information Penkovsky provided allowed the Kennedy administration to know the amount of time the Soviet missiles took to assemble and become functional. This allowed Kennedy to pursue a diplomatic option, which resulted in Russia removing the missiles from Cuba in exchange for concessions from the US. The human intelligence provided by Penkovsky had averted a disaster and saved the world from nuclear destruction. Had the timely, first-hand account of the Soviet Union’s capabilities not been available, Kennedy would have been forced to act on the existing intelligence based upon images of missiles capable of hitting the US mainland which had the potential to result in disaster.
When we examine key US intelligence successes and failures of the 20th Century, the emerging pattern clearly confirms that no single or unique form of intelligence gathering ought to be considered in isolation. Human intelligence and insight should never be overlooked since it has the capacity to validate or invalidate other information sources and even introduce new learnings and new information!
Similarly, in the world of investment management, there is no panacea, no single form of data which can consistently deliver alpha – be it fundamental, technological or economic – or even a combination of all three. Fund Managers traditionally rely on a mosaic of inputs which are analysed collectively to facilitate a better understanding of the investment merits and risk-return profiles of any particular asset.
For Investors, there are valuable lessons to be learned retrospectively from the history of US Intelligence operations. Fund managers would be wise to pay close attention to human intelligence gathering and to ensure that it is incorporated into, and forms an intrinsic part of their collective data base. In doing so and by combining the human intelligence element through primary research, Investors can better manage risk and optimise the potential for success.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana | news |
https://www.eventim.si/en/news/2020/04/celine-dion-courage-world-tour-postponed-642439.html | 2022-08-10T05:14:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00243.warc.gz | 0.959304 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__193803779 | en | Céline Dion “COURAGE WORLD TOUR”
FIRST MONTHS OF THE EUROPEAN TOUR POSTPONED
Due to the precautionary measures that are being activated for the purpose of preventing the spread of corona virus (COVID-19), the first few months of the European part of the tour, including the concert in Zagreb Arena on June 5th, have been postponed. Zagreb concert is a part of the world tour which began on September 18th 2019 in Quebec. 28 sold out concerts in 19 cities have been postponed. We are in the process of negotiating with the artist management and the Arena Zagreb regarding the new date which will be announced soon.
Already purchased ticket will be valid for the new date. For any additional information that will be released soon, follow the site where you purchased your tickets. | news |
https://streambankmedia.com/social-media-in-the-news/ | 2019-10-23T20:22:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987836295.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023201520-20191023225020-00541.warc.gz | 0.960091 | 510 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__182970612 | en | Here’s what’s new in Social Media this week:
So you think it’s hard to fit your thoughts into 140 characters? How about 117? Twitter has recently revamped its t.co link wrapper, which will extend the length of wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters – meaning that your commentary on the link will have to be shortened.
Now for what you’re really wondering – how will this change affect your Twitter presence? Probably not very much. Two characters may seem like a lot, but after all it’s only for Tweets that include links. Plus, this is only for those who use Twitter’s t.co shortener. Other link shortening sites like Bit.ly.com seem, at least for now, unaffected.
The Future of Social Media
By now you have probably seen the instantaneously-viral video for the new Google Glass. Now, you may think that this is science fiction – it certainly seems that way. Glasses that take pictures and video, with tiny eye-screens that display anything from Google searches to map directions? That’s definitely something out of Star Trek.
While it may seem far-fetched, there are many ways that the Google Glass could potentially put the “social” back in social media. The Glass is shown to have a built-in function that allows users to video-chat with groups of friends who will be able to see what the user himself is seeing. It also has a built-in translation feature, meaning that you could potentially have a conversation face-to-face, in real time, with someone who speaks a different language. Will this change the way that humans interact? Is it making us more or less of a cyborg? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
P.S. If you have $1,500 handy and just can’t wait for these gadgets to go on the market, Google is now accepting applications for Beta Testers, or, as they call them, “Glass Explorers.”
Social Media Week
You may not have known this, but social media has its very own week. Since its inception in 2009, Social Media Week has grown to become a bi-annual conference with events taking place worldwide. With conferences on topics ranging from the importance of social media in charity work to “How to be funny in 140 characters or less,” there’s definitely something for everyone. | news |
https://www.picked.ai/magazine/is-a-4-day-work-week-the-future-of-employment/ | 2023-03-30T20:41:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949387.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330194843-20230330224843-00544.warc.gz | 0.980693 | 828 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__15435103 | en | The UK launched a 4-day work week pilot program on 6 June 2022, to run for six months. Participating businesses offer their employees two options, both of which include a reduction of hours without loss of pay:
There has been an increasing push for the implementation of a four-day work week. The proponents of this policy argue that it would lead to increased productivity and less stress. Critics, however, are concerned about its potential negative effects on the economy.
This system is already in place in countries such as Sweden and New Zealand, where it is considered a success.
Below we look at how a shortened working week could impact businesses, the effect on productivity and employee wellbeing, with statistics for each point.
How would a 4-day work week impact businesses? Key stats
The idea of a four-day work week is gaining traction as a way to reduce stress, increase productivity, and improve work-life balance. But would it benefit businesses?
Opponents of the shorter work week say that it is not fair for companies that already have shortened hours on Fridays or that are closed on Fridays altogether.
There could also be scheduling issues, since many businesses operate on a Monday to Friday schedule. 82% of businesses are hesitant to fully commit to a four-day work week, as they believe that it will have a negative impact on their availability to customers.
One potential benefit for businesses is that they would save on operating costs like electricity, water, and gas. They would also save on wear and tear on their equipment, because employees would be working fewer hours.
Additionally, this could help businesses to recruit the best employees. Almost two-thirds (63%) of employers believe they would be more attractive to new employees with a four-day work week.
Employees like the idea of having three days off instead of two. Ladders found that 70% of its surveyed job candidates would prefer to work four days instead of five if they receive the same salary.
Would employees be more productive? Key stats
There is much talk about the 4-day work week as a way to improve employee productivity. Some people believe that if employees had fewer days at work, they would be more productive.
Others believe that it would just mean that employees would be working longer hours each day. There is no definitive answer, but there are some pros and cons to consider.
On the plus side, a 4-day work week could lead to less burnout and fatigue. A survey of over 1,00 US employees showed that 83% of respondents experiencing burnout believe that a shorter work week could help to alleviate this.
While critics argue that getting all the work done in four days can be difficult, Microsoft Japan reported a boost in productivity of 40%, after its four-day work week trial.
Would employees’ quality of life be better? Key stats
While some employers and employees are resistant to change, there are many reasons why a 4-day work week would be beneficial for everyone involved.
Employees would have more time for family, personal interests, and other activities outside of work. Working fewer hours would result in less stress and improved mental health.
Without the pressure of working long hours and commuting five days a week, employees will be more relaxed, and as a result, more able to think creatively.
Another benefit of this change in our work schedules is cleaner air. As employees spend less time commuting, this would lead to less pollution and reduced traffic congestion.
A study conducted by Platform London found that moving to a four-day work week by 2025 would reduce the UK's emissions by 127 million tons, a decrease of more than 20%.
After implementing a 4-day work week, Perpetual Guardian reported a decline in work-related stress from 45% to 38% and an increase in employees' commitment to their employer from 68% to 88%.
It seems that in many cases, a 4-day work week would lead to happier employees and a more efficient workplace. But it would ultimately depend on the company and the employees' preferences. | news |
http://flordenopal.tumblr.com/page/2 | 2013-12-08T22:55:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163826391/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133026-00039-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966873 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__151640359 | en | LOS ANGELES — In a small meeting room in the Villa Flores senior housing development downtown, a group of 9-year-old girls are planning their next project. They look at maps and plot their routes for what will serve as Girl Scouts Troop 16155’s hiking challenge. But there are no dirt trails, rocky hillsides or campgrounds on their route. Just concrete streets, crossings and restaurants.
This is a distinctly urban hike — a fitting project for a Girl Scouts troop that is based in downtown Los Angeles and has attracted mostly Latinas from East L.A., downtown and south of downtown. Only about a fourth of the 58 girls who have joined since the troop was formed in June live above the poverty line.
It’s a new demographic reality that Girl Scouts of the USA is confronting — and embracing — in the face of declining membership. The shift is significant for the century-old organization that is more often associated with white-dominated suburbia, van pools and cookie sales in strip malls. | news |
https://cbjamaica.com/luxury/St-dot-+Elizabeth++Treasure+Beach/MLS-76081 | 2024-04-20T16:04:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00643.warc.gz | 0.931105 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__164900394 | en | 122 acres of development land in Treasure Beach, less than 3 minutes away from the beach. This lot is the largest remaining piece of land in the upper Treasure Beach community, making it prime real estate for residential, commercial, or mixed use development. There are exciting times ahead for Treasure Beach and St. Elizabeth with several government initiatives gaining momentum, namely the proposed US$ 200 million Pedro Plains Irrigation Scheme which Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described as a 'national strategic project'. This could be a game changer for St. Elizabeth and breathe new life into the Parish, bringing with it further investment in infrastructure, tourism, and housing. Another exciting project which is set to change the landscape of St. Elizabeth is the improvement of The Lionel Densham Aerodrome, making St. Elizabeth more accessible for locals and tourist alike. | news |
http://www.naucat.com/en/news/curiosities-and-events/arrested-drug-smugglers-180928/ | 2019-05-20T01:37:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255251.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520001706-20190520023706-00337.warc.gz | 0.957213 | 104 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__54651586 | en | Foto: Guardia di Finanza
On Friday evening, the Italian authorities received a tip from Croatia that a rubber speedboat was heading towards the Italian coast near the city of Pescara. Guardia di Finanza helicopter and boat (both taking part in the Frontex Operation Themis) were soon on their way to intercept the suspected drug smugglers. After giving chase, the Italian boat intercepted the speedboat carrying 1.7 tonnes of drugs wrapped clear plastic packages. The authorities arrested two suspected drug smugglers. | news |
https://exhibitionsatm.com/event/nepal-agritech-international-expo-2023/ | 2023-01-30T10:52:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499816.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130101912-20230130131912-00666.warc.gz | 0.911134 | 352 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__265439447 | en | Nepal Agritech International Expo 2023
Agriculture sector engages around 66% of the total population in Nepal. It contributes one-third of the nation’s GDP with significant contribution to national economy. It creates a diverse array of jobs and employment from farming to small-scale enterprises. Nepal is vulnerable to food insecurity and recurring natural disasters like floods, drought, landslides, earthquake, diseases and pest outbreaks. The agriculture sector in the country is still dominated by subsistence farming resulting in low productivity and production of agricultural commodities.
Media Space and Futurex Trade & Events is organizing its 5th edition of Nepal Agritech International Expo 2023 From 10 – 12 February, 2023 at Chitwan Expo Center, Bharatpur, Nepal. The aim to create a platform to showcase and introduce the best and latest Agri inputs, products, services and technologies that would drive the agriculture of the future. It would also serve as a platform to convene some of the best minds from across the globe in the space of agriculture along with key representatives from government, industry, academia and the farming community to discuss, deliberate, identify priorities and propose an agenda for the growth of the agriculture sector in the country.
Why to Exhibit in Nepal Agritech 2023
- Gain fast and cost-effective access to India’s massive agriculture and agro-food market
- Showcase your full range of products and services in the India’s largest Agriculture and Animal and Hortitech Show
- Network with the most important key decision makers from across the region
- Build valuable networks in India and expand your business
- Keep up to date with competitors and industry developments
- Generate valuable sales and maximize your return on investment | news |
https://www.railroadpass.com/blog/historic-85th-anniversary-party | 2017-12-17T14:04:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948596051.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217132751-20171217154751-00288.warc.gz | 0.925421 | 205 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__173854411 | en | From July 31st through August 1st 2016, our Railroad Pass Hotel & Casino team hosted the casino’s 85th Anniversary Party. Nevada locals, travelers, truck drivers and city officials enjoyed our great specials, cake & champagne, hor d’oeuvres, cash giveaways, prize giveaways and a Ribbon Cutting ceremony.
City of Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen, Councilwoman Gerri Schroder and Councilwoman Debra March presented Railroad Pass Hotel & Casino Owner, Joe DeSimone Jr., a proclamation certificate, making August 1st Railroad Pass Day in the City of Henderson.
We were also honored and thrilled to have two ex-owners, Pat and Robert Deike, at our Anniversary Party. They owned the casino from 1971-1976.
Special thanks to Mayor Andy Hafen, Mayor Rod Woodbury, Henderson Chamber of Commerce board members, Congressman Crescent Hardy, Councilwoman Gerri Schroder, Councilwoman Debra March, Boulder City officials, Harry Reid Representative and Joe Heck Representative for attending our event. | news |
https://www.neqsolholding.com/news-and-media/digital-silk-way-project-comes-into-international-spotlight/?l=EN | 2024-04-19T14:28:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817438.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419141145-20240419171145-00892.warc.gz | 0.865388 | 440 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__9008901 | en | News and Media
“Digital Silk Way” project comes into international spotlight
The “Digital Silk Way” project, a telecommunications corridor to connect Europe and Asia via Azerbaijan, has attracted international interest at the “Dubai Expo” worldwide exhibition and “Capacity Middle East 2022” global event.
The “Digital Silk Way — Connectivity Beyond Borders” event at the Azerbaijan Pavilion at Dubai Expo highlighted cooperation directions bringing together representatives of Transtelecom, Turk Telekom International, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telecom Malaysia, Gulf Bridge International — Telecom Qatar, OneWeb, Telegraph 42 Management Gmbh, Fastweb, NTT, and other influential international companies.
In addition, international partners showed great interest in the project during the “Capacity Middle East 2022” telecommunications event in Dubai. Negotiations were held with Google, Cienna, Lumen, Neterra, China Telecom Global, China Mobile International, Vodafone Carrier Services, Turkcell Superonline, Vodafone Turkey, Batelco, STC, and other major international companies. Models of cooperation on the project have been agreed upon with various telecommunications operators and suppliers, and Memorandums of Understanding are expected to be signed.
The “Digital Silk Way” project aims to create a telecommunications corridor connecting Europe and Asia via Azerbaijan and making significant contribution to the development of digitalization and connectivity in the wider region, including Caucasus, Central and South Asia. The project will contribute to the development of information technologies and digital ecosystem in Azerbaijan and the country’s transformation into a digital hub of the region.
The project initiated by NEQSOL Holding and implemented by AzerTelecom was selected as one of the five best strategic infrastructure projects in Asia at the Global Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum in 2020 in the United States.
NEQSOL Holding is a diversified group of companies operating in eight countries across the energy, telecommunications, hi-tech, and construction industries. AzerTelecom, part of NEQSOL Holding, is Azerbaijan’s leading wholesale telecommunications operator connecting Azerbaijan with the global Internet network. | news |
https://www.pleasanthillca.org/1507/Storm-Drain-Pipe-Slip-Lining-on-Pleasant | 2023-06-10T04:17:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656963.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610030340-20230610060340-00162.warc.gz | 0.881755 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__136549278 | en | The City’s contractor, Kerex Engineering, completed slip lining of a damaged storm drain on Pleasant Hill Road near Jemco Court. The existing 18” diameter corrugated metal pipe (CMP) was missing the bottom section of pipe due to rust. EBMUD crews discovered this condition while installing a new water line on Pleasant Hill Road. The contractor pulled a new 12” diameter high-density-polyethylene (HDPE) pipe through the host pipe. This newly lined pipe will not leak and will safely convey storm water across Pleasant Hill Road. Contact Deirdre Castillo, P.E., Senior Civil Engineer, [email protected] for additional information. | news |
https://www.ncrtl.org/post/build-upon-success-in-dobbs-generate-momentum-for-midterm-elections | 2024-02-27T09:28:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00313.warc.gz | 0.949095 | 609 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__39106423 | en | The pro-life movement has an important job to do!
Currently, the U.S. Senate is divided 50-50, with pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker. On November 8, 2022, there will be 14 Democrat and 21 Republican Senate seats on the ballot across the nation. If Democrats increase their number, they will change the filibuster rules, alter the makeup of the Supreme Court by increasing the number of justices, and ultimately undo pro-life successes like the Dobbs ruling.
The Democrats’ extreme and constitutionally dubious abortion legislation, deceptively titled the Women’s Health Protection Act, would pass both houses of Congress. It should really be called the ”Abortion Without Limits Until Birth Act” because it would enshrine abortion in federal law and policies, and it would tear down hundreds of pro-life protections on the state level including parental involvement laws and women’s right to know laws.
The abortion industry is a formidable foe. They hide behind pretty words like “choice,” “freedom,” and “health care.” Even “Planned Parenthood,” the name of the nation’s largest chain of abortion clinics, is a misnomer. But here are the facts: The abortion industry does not truly care about health, safety, or the future. They are driven by profit. They ignore pain, suffering, abandonment, and abuse, and they make billions of dollars every year doing it. To keep the money flowing, the abortion industry invests heavily in lobbyists, litigation, media, marketing, and political activities.
The pro-life movement achieved a great victory in the Dobbs case. But we cannot get complacent. Pro-life laws currently on the books are at stake in the midterm elections, and vulnerable women and babies are the ones who will pay the price if we do not take a stand. Let’s look at some of the upcoming competitive Senate races:
Pro-life Senator Richard Burr (R) is retiring, and North Carolina remains one of the most highly contested and most expensive battlegrounds. We need to keep this seat in pro-life hands. NRL-endorsed Congressman Ted Budd and pro-abortion former state Supreme Court Justice Cheri Beasley – an EMILY’s List candidate – are vying for the open seat. A WRAL-TV poll found a dead-heat race between Budd and Beasley, with Beasley leading 44% to 40%, while a more recent Civitas poll has Budd ahead, 45% to 40%. Many North Carolinians are still undecided.
In Georgia, pro-abortion Senator Raphael Warnock (D) is seeking a full term in 2022. Warnock has voted for taxpayer funding of abortion and against legislation to protect unborn babies at 20 weeks when they can feel pain. NRL-endorsed businessman and football legend Herschel Walker is challenging Warnock in a race considered a tossup. | news |
https://jsimon3.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/gsoc12-update-week-2/ | 2023-05-29T09:52:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00001.warc.gz | 0.900189 | 212 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__127840154 | en | Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening with the printer color management project for Krita.
Since last week, much of the work was focused in providing a “communication” link between the individual print dialog settings and the libCmpx Selector module. I have just pushed a major commit today for the library that should tightly bridge the two together, allowing Oyranos (housed inside libCmpx Selector) to properly read these settings and process an appropriate ICC profile. With a little more testing and fine-tuning in the module, half of libCmpx will be ready for integration with Krita.
The next few weeks will focus on the second half of the library, which is the PDF spool rendering module (libCmpx Renderer). Work has already started this week in creating a print preview mechanism in the Renderer module, where Ghostscript will create a color-managed, PNG preview of the PDF spool file. | news |
https://red-rochester.com/red-rochester-awarded-the-overall-project-of-the-year-award/ | 2023-04-01T14:59:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950030.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401125552-20230401155552-00128.warc.gz | 0.950266 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__240489955 | en | RED-Rochester was awarded the Overall Project of the Year award at Emerson’s Power and Water Solutions User’s Group Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. This conference is attended by many of the largest electric, water, and wastewater utilities in the country.
Red-Rochester received the award for its Refrigeration/Water Control System Upgrade Project. This project upgraded the control systems in twelve buildings across Eastman Business Park and RED-Rochester’s Lake Ontario Water Treatment plant.
Receiving the award from Bob Yeager, President of Emerson’s Power and Waters Solutions group were Kevin Hann, Ben Akin, Dave Dills, Dave Willson, and Mark Wahl | news |
https://ir.icumed.com/news-releases/news-release-details/icu-medical-inc-present-29th-annual-roth-conference | 2019-05-20T20:45:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256147.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520202108-20190520224108-00383.warc.gz | 0.915946 | 407 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__35519234 | en | ICU Medical, Inc. to Present at the 29th Annual ROTH Conference
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., March 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ICU Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ICUI), a leader in the development, manufacture and sale of innovative medical devices used in infusion therapy, oncology and critical care applications, today announced that Company management will present at the 29th Annual ROTH Conference, held on March 12-15, 2017 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Laguna Niguel, CA.
ICU Medical's presentation will take place on Monday, March 13 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time.
The presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed by going to the Company's website at http://www.icumed.com, clicking on the Investors tab and clicking on the Event Calendar tab. The webcast will also be available by replay.
About ICU Medical, Inc.
ICU Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ICUI) is one of the world's leading pure-play infusion therapy companies with global operations and a wide-ranging product portfolio that includes IV solutions, IV smart pumps, dedicated and non-dedicated IV sets and needlefree connectors, along with pain management and safety software technology designed to help meet clinical, safety and workflow goals. In addition, the company manufactures automated pharmacy IV compounding systems with workflow technology, closed systems transfer devices for hazardous IV drugs, and cardiac monitoring systems to optimize patient fluid levels. ICU Medical is headquartered in San Clemente, California. On February 3, 2017, ICU Medical completed the acquisition of the Hospira Infusion Systems business from Pfizer. More information about ICU Medical, Inc. can be found at www.icumed.com.
Contact: ICU Medical, Inc. Scott Lamb, Chief Financial Officer (949) 366-2183 ICR, Inc. John Mills, Partner (646) 277-1254 | news |
https://johnkruth.com/rip-malcolm-dome-veteran-music-journalist-who-coined-thrash-metal-dies-at-66/ | 2021-11-29T13:54:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358774.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129134323-20211129164323-00183.warc.gz | 0.972325 | 578 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__87977966 | en | The post office RIP Malcolm Dome, Veteran Music Journalist Who Coined “Thrash Metal” Dies at 66 appeared first on Result.
Malcolm Dome, a longtime music journalist who covered primarily metal and hard rock, has died aged 66. The veteran writer is credited with coining the term “thrash metal” in an article on Anthrax in 1984.
The British journalist made his debut in the 1970s, writing for Recording mirror and Metal fury magazines, before landing with Kerrang! when it was launched in 1981. His death was reported by the site Stronger, which includes magazines Program, Classic rock, and Metal hammer, to which Dome contributed during his long career as a journalist.
In 1981, Dome published a book titled Metallica Encyclopedia, which may have inspired the name of the legendary metal band. More directly, he referred to Anthrax’s music as “thrash metal” while writing about the band’s song “Metal Thrashing Mad” in an article for Kerrang! magazine. Of course, that term would describe Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and countless other bands.
Dome was also the editor of Metal forces magazine and a major contributor to Total Rock Radio. In addition, he has written or co-authored several books on rock, including those focusing on AC / DC, Metallica and Led Zeppelin. A selection of his works can be found at his author’s page on Amazon.
His impact on music journalism is evident in the tributes that have poured in since news of his death first broke. Iron Maiden tweeted: “We are all very saddened and shocked to learn of the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome. He was fearless, fearless, passionate and outspoken as a journalist and lately as a broadcaster and we respected him tremendously. “
Phil Campbell of Motörhead added: “I am so sorry that Malcolm Dome has left us. He was a champion of great rock music and a supporter of Motörhead until [my own band] Phil Campbell and the bastard sons. RIP Malcolm.
Frank Turner wrote: “Totally devastated to learn of the passing of Malcolm Dome, far too soon. He was a Million Dead supporter from the start, always a friendly, charming and kind face, incredibly knowledgeable and a legendary journalist. A sad day for music.
We here at Heavy consequence thank Malcolm Dome for helping to pave the way for metal and hard rock journalism. Our condolences go out to his family and friends during this difficult time. To learn more about his career, see a tribute to the Kerrang! website.
See Dome discussing the differences between the breakup bands in the US and UK in the video clip below, followed by a handful of tributes on Twitter. | news |
http://www.collegefootballbetting.net/alabamas-bo-scarbrough-gets-4-game-suspension/ | 2018-05-26T04:13:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867309.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526033945-20180526053945-00389.warc.gz | 0.978524 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__76323871 | en | Nick Saban, the University of Alabama’s head football coach, said that running back Bo Scarbrough has been suspended from playing four games this season. He was speaking after team’s first fall practice of the year.
According to an al.com report, Scarbrough is currently under treatment for an injury he obtained at spring practice and is not likely to be fit enough to play at the beginning of the season.
The 247Sports Composite, a sports ranking and news site, has rated Scarbrough as the No. 16 Overall Player and No. 2 Athlete in the Class of 2014.
Since Scarbrough definitely cannot play four games and maybe more because of his knee injury, Alabama’s Crimson Tide may select five-star running back Damien Harris to take his place. The 247Sports Composite had rated this player as America’s top running back.
This makes one wonder if Scarbrough has any future with the Crimson Tide. He is still eligible, but his injury and four-game suspension may be doing more damage to this football career than he thinks. If Harris turns out to be a great player, Scarbrough will not have many chances left this season.
This would result in two unproductive years in Tuscaloosa for Scarbrough as he watches a younger football player get ahead of him.
Needless to say, it is too early to make such a prediction. One can only hope that Scarbrough will be fit enough to start playing when his four-game suspension comes to an end and that he will be able to contribute a lot to his team. | news |
https://admin.rcmusic.com/news/royal-conservatory-mourns-passing-kune-member-dorjee-tsering | 2021-09-19T01:22:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056656.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919005057-20210919035057-00401.warc.gz | 0.986069 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__116010792 | en | The Royal Conservatory offers deepest condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Dorjee Tsering, one of the founding members of The Royal Conservatory’s in-house ensemble, KUNÉ — Canada’s Global Orchestra. Dorjee passed away on January 4, 2019, after a lengthy battle with cancer.
A Tibetan exile, Dorjee was born in India, where he joined the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts in Dharamsala. There he mastered several traditional instruments and also learned Tibetan opera, as well as several styles of singing and dance. After graduating, he became a teacher at the Institute while pursuing an award-winning musical career that saw him perform throughout India.
Dorjee began a new life in Canada 15 years ago after his wife died in childbirth. While in Canada, he developed his beloved stage performance One Hour in Tibet, which introduced audiences to the history and beauty of Tibetan culture. In 2016, Dorjee joined KUNÉ, where he played the dranyen (Himalayan lute) and piwang (Tibetan fiddle), as well as providing vocals.
“Dorjee was a seminal member of the band and in many ways its heart,” observed Mervon Mehta, The Royal Conservatory’s Executive Director of Performing Arts. He added that Dorjee always carried himself with a quiet dignity despite enduring a life of personal hardships that included never being able to set food in Tibet, his home nation.
Dorjee was a highly respected member of Toronto's tightly-knit Tibetan community who was very grateful for the opportunities provided by his adopted country. Fittingly, one of his most popular recordings was called Thank You Canada.
The Royal Conservatory will be organizing a public tribute to Dorjee on a later date. | news |
https://www.petronerisk.com/the-skys-the-limit-technology-could-take-security-and-sanitation-efforts-to-the-next-level/ | 2024-04-21T15:31:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817780.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421132819-20240421162819-00194.warc.gz | 0.964583 | 2,069 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__61328363 | en | When it comes to sports facility security and sanitation, no idea is too far-fetched as companies flood the market with products and services aimed at lowering a facility’s potential to spread disease.
Look no further than the skies, where drones are being hawked as a fast, efficient way to spray disinfectant throughout the seating bowl. Thermal detection equipment goes beyond identifying those with higher body temperatures to also make sure fans maintain social distancing. Upgraded ventilation systems improve air quality and reduce the chance for germs to spread.
While facilities will be following security and sanitation guidelines from state and local health departments before they reopen, the crisis has produced many new concepts almost daily. It’s just a matter of how much buildings want to spend beyond the guidelines to increase the confidence level of fans.
“We’re all going to be our own risk manager,” said John Petrone, president of Petrone Risk, a consulting firm that works with sports facilities.
Earl Santee, founder and senior principal at Populous, said in a recent webinar hosted by the Stadium Managers Association that his firm’s research finds 52 potential touch points along an attendee’s game-day path, “and every one of them has to have the same amount of care and attention.”
Here are some of the latest technologies and nontraditional approaches being hawked and how they are being positioned to help with security and sanitation.
Thornton Tomasetti is known in sports circles primarily as an engineering firm that has worked on dozens of venues over the years, including the ongoing construction in Seattle of the NHL’s newest arena.
But the company’s protective design and security services division, whose portfolio includes embassies, airports and FBI offices, has created a digital platform for the post-COVID live-event experience that the firm’s associate principal, Bill Edwards, calls “virtual queuing.”
It starts with the purchase of your ticket on an app, where you are presented with a liability waiver that tells the team that you acknowledge you are going to be in a crowded building and that the team will not be held liable if you contract a virus at the venue. “In legal terms, it’s a safe harbor for venue owners and operators,” Edwards said.
The app provides gate and security line assignments, and a range of times to arrive. Upon arrival, fans will have their temperature taken, be asked health screening questions and then have their ticket scanned.
Then the confluence of security and hygiene takes over.
“You will be given a BLE-enabled tag or lanyard or bracelet that you will be required to wear while you are in the venue,” Edwards said.
BLE is short for Bluetooth Low Energy and the technology tracks the movement of fans. The app will guide the fans to their seat, locate their assigned restroom and tell them how to order food. The BLE bracelet can notify stadium staff if a fan attempts to move to a different section or tries another no-no, such as entering the gift shop without reserving an assigned time.
Edwards said the technology can be integrated with a team’s current ticketing and security platforms. He would not disclose pricing, but said that it will be dynamic, as venues can choose a la carte which of the different behaviors they want tracked.
Patriot One Technologies and LAFC are forming a consortium of sports security professionals to evaluate and pilot new physical security technologies, including those focused on health. Dubbed “The Stadium & Event Safety Strategic Alliance,” the two plan to use the club’s stadium as a testing ground for new security concepts.
Through a series of recent acquisitions, Vancouver-based Patriot One has evolved from a weapons detection company to a shop whose platform is driven by algorithms based on data from a network of hidden sensors that can detect concealed weapons and crowd disturbances from parking lots to the seating bowl. It can also detect thermal elevated body temperature, lack of social distancing and perform contact tracing, which can help identify those who may have come in contact with an infected person. The company’s system is in use at Great American Ballpark.
Incident management tech companies with sporting events on their résumés, such as Everbridge and Juvare, also have added contact tracing to their suite of offerings. Each company has worked on behalf of municipalities and their emergency personnel at recent Super Bowls and World Series monitoring things like traffic and road closures, as well as suspicious individuals and packages.
Despite the pledges of what the technology can deliver, the vendors’ biggest challenge will be to find teams and venues willing to pay for the latest offerings at a time when the pandemic has ravaged their balance sheets.
“Everything costs money,” said Petrone, whose firm is overseeing the emergency preparedness plans for Churchill Downs and Pocono Raceway and has 20 other sports clients at different stages of similar evaluations. “Adding staff and technology costs money. This hits every level of the organization.”
Sanitation efforts have received such heightened awareness that the U.S. Green Building Council, best known for its LEED certification for facilities that do the best with energy consumption and the environment, now give credits to buildings undergoing the certification process for following green cleaning best practices.
Air quality is one area getting a big focus as facilities explore technology that filters out more hazardous particles such as germs carrying COVID-19.
Fairfield, Conn.-based AtmosAir offers a system that relies on a technology called bipolar ionization. It integrates into existing HVAC systems and produces ions that attach to particles like COVID-19, making them bigger and easier to filter out.
The system was incorporated into the $185 million renovation of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and is in the Texas Rangers’ yet-to-be-christened Globe Life Field. The technology was deployed last year in U.S. Bank Stadium at a cost just over $1 million for a 10-year contract that includes service. Clean air was one of the reasons the stadium was awarded the highest level of LEED certification.
Approximately 20 other stadiums and arenas, including multi-team buildings such as Staples Center, TD Garden, Wells Fargo Center, Little Caesars Arena and Gillette Stadium, have had the AtmosAir system installed. Executives from Gensler and Skanska, who are well known in the sports design and construction world, are among the company’s advisory board.
When it comes to sanitizing spaces, Chicago’s Soldier Field was ahead of the game, not as much by way of technology but in its relationship with a vendor. Prior to the pandemic, the stadium had already been using World Cleaning Services to clean its premium areas, according to Moira O’Connor, the stadium’s director of operations.
“While typically focused on hospitals, World Cleaning has given us an advantage having them as our building partner during the pandemic,” O’Connor said.
That includes supplying the stadium with two Karcher misting machines and medical grade disinfectant. The misters use electrostatic to help sanitizers and disinfectants attach themselves to surfaces. The process is cost efficient because less liquid is wasted and it can be applied faster than conventional methods, according to hygiene reports. The machines are in high demand and sources told Sports Business Journal they can sell for approximately $5,000.
Clorox makes a similar machine that is used in several venues, including Boston’s Fenway Park. The company has been running its cleaning and disinfecting product plants 24/7 to catch up with demand.
Perhaps the most head-turning concept for sanitizing venues is the use of drones.
Buffalo-based EagleHawk debuted its patent-pending, disinfectant-spraying drones in May at Sahlen Field, home of the Class AAA Buffalo Bisons. Since then, KeyBank Center and Upstate Medical University Arena in Syracuse, N.Y., and more than a dozen NFL teams and Division I college programs have invited EagleHawk to their venues to demonstrate the technology.
Co-founder and CEO Patrick Walsh graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Rollins College in Florida. Prior to founding EagleHawk in 2016, he had spent most of his career with Lockheed Martin working with advanced thermal imaging systems for fighter aircraft and helicopters. He launched his business to survey water leaks at large facilities, then moved into agricultural fungicide spraying. He now has a fleet of more than 20 drones.
“You need a license to spray fungicide, but as of now, if you are disinfecting you don’t,” he said. “The capacity and spray droplets are different. Plus, the change in elevation of seats makes mapping the venues challenging.”
Walsh said a staff of four people with two drones could disinfect a 19,000-seat arena in 2-3 hours and a stadium in 3-4 hours, a fraction of the time and cost of what teams are spending now to do the work by hand. He said the drones also provide more thorough disinfectant coverage.
During the first phase of flying in a sports venue, the drones are tethered as they digitally map the building; sensors prevent the machine from colliding with structures. Part of that tether system is a hose that continuously feeds the disinfectant solution to the drone.
Walsh would not disclose how much it costs to hire his company but said the expense would be quickly recouped. He said he’s been working with the EPA and various New York government offices to finalize all approvals.
“The department of transportation said, ‘You want to do what?’ So it’s pretty exciting to not really be doing things by the book, but actually writing the book with the authorities!” | news |
https://aureliusminerals.com/news/aurelius-appoints-garett-macdonald-to-its-board-of-directors/ | 2023-09-24T08:04:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506623.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924055210-20230924085210-00017.warc.gz | 0.941752 | 451 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__67484841 | en | Aurelius Appoints Garett Macdonald to its Board of Directors
June 20, 2017
Vancouver, BC - Aurelius Minerals Inc. (TSX.V: AUL) (the “Company” or “Aurelius”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Garett Macdonald, MBA, P.Eng to its Board of Directors.
Mr. Macdonald is a mining engineer with 20 years of industry experience including an extensive background in project development and mine operations. He has been involved with several public companies as an officer & director and has managed large technical programs through concept, feasibility and into construction. After roles in mine operations and engineering with senior Canadian mining firms Placer Dome and Suncor Energy, Mr. Macdonald served as the Vice President of Operations for Rainy River Resources prior to the sale of Rainy River to New Gold in 2013. Mr. Macdonald is currently the Vice President of Project Development for JDS Energy & Mining and a director of Gungnir Resources.
Mark NJ Ashcroft, President & CEO, stated, “I am pleased that Aurelius is able to add a director of this caliber to our Board of Directors. Mr. Macdonald brings with him broad experience across multiple mineral deposit types and will add tremendous technical knowledge and value to our board".
Aurelius is a premier gold exploration company, holding the Mikwam and Lipton Properties within the prolific northern Abitibi Gold belt in Ontario, Canada. The company has a sound management team with experience in all facets of the mineral exploration and mining industry who will be considering additional acquisitions of advanced staged opportunities in the Abitibi and other proven mining districts.
AURELIUS MINERALS INC.
Mark N. J. Ashcroft, President & CEO
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https://www.vivideconomics.com/casestudy/state-and-trends-of-carbon-pricing-2017/ | 2020-05-25T18:38:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347389309.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20200525161346-20200525191346-00304.warc.gz | 0.913538 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__107482913 | en | State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2017
Financing the shift to a low carbon energy system will require incremental investments of US$700 billion per year by 2030 worldwide, according to a new report released by the World Bank.
The report, co-authored by Vivid Economics, finds that mobilising these investments will require an integrated policy response that combines domestic carbon prices, other domestic policies, climate finance and international climate markets. Specifically, the report outlines how the two main modalities of international cooperation – climate finance and climate markets – can enable, support and complement domestic policies to mobilise the flow of resources needed to meet the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.
It discusses the role that results based climate finance (RBCF) can play in transitioning towards such an integrated approach. The integrated approach and the role of RBCF are illustrated through the development of a policy approach capable of accelerating the transition to clean energy.
The report further outlines the development of carbon pricing initiatives over the last year at the regional, national and subnational levels, and finds that despite progress, additional action is necessary for carbon pricing to make a substantial contribution to the Paris Agreement pledge.
The Report can be found Here.
Date: November 2017 | news |
https://support.catapultk12.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410308421261-letsencrypt-ssl-issue-update | 2023-12-06T14:29:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100599.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206130723-20231206160723-00469.warc.gz | 0.910153 | 210 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__117228775 | en | Dear Catapult Users,
This afternoon some sites in Catapult experienced a lapse of their SSL certificate. The warning stated the SSL was expired. This only affected security certificates being serviced by a specific security authority provider.
To respond to this we're updating all sites to use the newest version of LetsEncrypt which will replace the middleman with a new trust chain to secure all of our sites.
The new trust chain will fix the issue related to the expired certificate, but the newer protocol isn't universally supported by older devices (Mac OS prior to 2016 and Windows OS prior to 2008)
To check if your operating system click here:
Documentation from LetsEncrypt related to this update can be found here:
We forced an update to the newest version, and have technology in place to ensure that new certificates are generated every 90 days to make sure that any new updates are automatically applied.
LetsEncrypt remains one of the most widespread providers of website security on the planet, supporting more than two billion certificates a year. | news |
http://ahspittsburgh.org/ | 2014-09-17T07:30:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657121798.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011201-00199-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.948193 | 136 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__68183480 | en | The Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Harp Society is happy to announce a performance and master classes by Nancy Allen, Principal Harpist of The New York Philharmonic; and Head of the Harp Departments at The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
The concert will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 5, 2014 in Kresge Recital Hall at Carnegie Mellon University, a co-sponsor of this event. A reception will follow the concert. Master classes will be held on Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4.
Be sure to mark your calendars! | news |
https://vb2020.vblocalhost.com/presentations/why-the-security-world-should-take-stalkerware-seriously/ | 2024-04-23T18:04:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818732.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423162023-20240423192023-00120.warc.gz | 0.927368 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180953458 | en | David Ruiz is an online privacy writer at Malwarebytes, covering the intersection of digital rights, online privacy, and the law. He spent several years as a legal reporter covering Big Tech’s biggest legal fiascos, including their alleged involvement in the NSA’s global surveillance regime. David also worked for Electronic Frontier Foundation as a writer and policy analyst, launching public campaigns and meeting with US Senators’ and Representatives’ staff to stop the extension and expansion of NSA surveillance. He has been published, interviewed, quoted, or cited by The Intercept, Buzzfeed News, The London Times, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, ThreatPost, Geo/Socio/Politico, The Parallax, 2600 Magazine, KQED, The Sacramento Bee, and more. At Malwarebytes, he leads the company's representation in the Coalition Against Stalkerware. | news |
http://toi.newspaperads.in/ | 2022-01-24T00:49:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304345.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220123232910-20220124022910-00084.warc.gz | 0.976783 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__64916214 | en | Choose from 120+ newspapers across India
The Times of India (also known by its abbreviation 'TOI') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian "newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called The Times of India "the leading paper in Asia".In 1991, the BBC ranked The Times of India among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, The Times of India was rated as the most trusted English newspaper. Reuters rated The Times of India as India's most trusted media news brand in a survey. | news |
https://gamezkraft.com/how-tottenham-and-manchester-city-drew-in-their-premier-league/ | 2024-04-14T01:20:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00468.warc.gz | 0.946722 | 539 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__15214398 | en | Manchester city , On Sunday, December 3, 2023, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City engaged in a thrilling 3-3 draw at the Etihad Stadium in a match that lived up to its hype. Both teams displayed their attacking ability and defensive resiliency in what was an emotional rollercoaster of a game.
The reigning Premier League winners, Manchester City, grabbed the lead through Julian Alvarez in the 31st minute, but Giovani Lo Celso of Tottenham equalized the score shortly before halftime.
Both sides created opportunities and tested each other’s defenses in the second half, which carried over from the first. In the 51st minute, Erling Haaland, Manchester City’s prolific attacker, scored to restore the goal, but Tottenham remained resolute and refused to be defeated.
In the 83rd minute, Tottenham’s dramatic equalizer was scored by Swedish winger Dejan Kulusevski, setting up an exciting finish. Substitute Jack Grealish thought he had won it for Manchester City with a goal in the 81st minute when it looked like the game would conclude in a tie.
Kulusevski, though, had the last word as he headed in a Brennan Johnson cross in the final seconds of play to give Tottenham a point. Both teams deserved a piece of the spoils, and the draw fairly represented the game.
Highlights from the game:
In the thirty-first minute, Manchester City’s Julian Alvarez opened the score.
Just before halftime, Tottenham’s Giovani Lo Celso equalized.
In the 51st minute, Erling Haaland gave Manchester City the lead again.In the eighty-third minute, Tottenham equalized with Dejan Kulusevski.In the 81st minute, Jack Grealish believed he had won it for Manchester City.
The 90th minute saw Kulusevski score the game-winning goal for Tottenham.
Important Talking Points:
The game demonstrated both sides’ superior attacking capabilities.
Tottenham overcame a two-goal deficit with remarkable tenacity.
Kulusevski was the hero for Tottenham, scoring two vital goals.
Haaland scored a goal and provided an assist, maintaining his excellent goal-scoring run.
The draw hurt Manchester City’s chances of winning the championship.
An entertaining Premier League weekend they concluded with the Tottenham vs. Manchester City match. Both sides should be pleased with their performances, as they had flashes of genius. Tottenham rises to fifth place, while Manchester City drops to second place as a result of the draw. | news |
https://www.historicjeffersonville.com/2021/08/12/kevin-costner-visits-field-of-dreams-ahead-of-real-yankees-white-sox-game/ | 2022-06-25T13:01:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103035636.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625125944-20220625155944-00027.warc.gz | 0.950709 | 397 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__190628559 | en | If you build it, Major League Baseball will come. And so will Costner.
Kevin Costner starred in Field of Dreams in 1989.
Don’t expect any ghosts of former pro players to appear at the game. It will be a real game that counts in the regular season standings, and will air on the Fox network with a pregame show set to kick off at 3 p.m. PT.
The Field of Dreams is ready to host a real MLB game.
MLB built a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark at the Dyersville farm where the movie was filmed. The new field is located near the current tourist ballpark site and has a view of the surrounding cornfield. “We look forward to celebrating the movie’s enduring message of how baseball brings people together at this special cornfield in Iowa,” commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB.com when the game was announced in 2019.
Costner got in on the nostalgia with a visit to the field. MLB shared a video on Wednesday of the actor walking around on the grass and taking in the sights. “Wow. This is perfect. Every bit of it,” Costner said. “Felt so good to be back,” Costner tweeted when sharing a photo of himself playing catch.
MLB posted a scenic photo of corn, lights and a sign with the phrase “If you build it…” as it hyped up the game on social media on Thursday.
The New York Yankees team Twitter account shared a photo gallery of its own that shows off the verdant green field, stands and signage.
Fans have long made pilgrimages to the Iowa farm where the movie was set. This for-real MLB game will elevate the dream to an even higher level. Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa.
Originally published Aug. 8, 11:24 a.m. PT. | news |
https://www.hollywoodcandygirls.com/post/attention-orange-county-brides-sad-news | 2024-04-17T13:02:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817153.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417110701-20240417140701-00606.warc.gz | 0.952532 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__111148895 | en | Attention Orange County Brides-Sad News
The Beautiful St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point is 4 Sale!
The companies that own the resort are in default on a $70-million loan from Citigroup Global Markets Realty Group, people knowledgeable about the debt said Tuesday. Negotiations continue in an effort to avoid an auction, according to those sources. But unless something is worked out, the St. Regis will go on the block July 7, to be sold to the highest bidder, according to a “terms of public sale” document obtained by The Times. | news |
https://jackstien.in/blog/indian-achievers-award-to-jackstien-practices-the-remote-hybrid-work-transitionists/ | 2024-02-28T00:27:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00183.warc.gz | 0.878595 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__508285 | en | Jackstien Practices receives the Indian Achievers Forum (www.iafindia.com) award for the Most Promising Start-Up, 21-22.
We are proud, humbled and honoured in equal measure.
A Watershed Year for Start-Ups. And for Remote & Hybrid Work.
Just like Remote & Hybrid Work, 2021-22 has proven to be a watershed year for the start-up economy in India.
Receiving the Indian Acheivers Award for the Most Promising Start-Up in such a year has doubled the honour and we will strive to live up to it.
A Huge Thank You.
A huge thank you to our team, our clients and to the Indian Acheivers Forum for this recognition of our vision – a vision to pave the path into the New Normal of Remote and Hybrid Work. The Right Way. | news |
https://staging.meredith.edu/goingstrong/richa-kulkarni/ | 2024-03-04T15:55:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476452.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304133241-20240304163241-00012.warc.gz | 0.949661 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__200578863 | en | Richa Kulkarni, ’17, was a strong student in Meredith’s MBA Program and she also helped other students find success.
An MBA Program tutor, Richa managed a study lab for all Meredith’s MBA foundation courses.
“Managing the study lab gave me an opportunity to connect with other MBA students,” Richa said. “It was a ‘learn and grow’ process.”
One of her favorite memories is when another MBA student earned an A in a course, crediting the success to Richa’s tutoring. This kind of support is what drew Richa to Meredith’s MBA program.
“The small classes and the fact that professors believe in providing a quality education are reasons I chose Meredith,” Richa said. “My professors believed in me and opened doors of knowledge for me.”
Richa put into practice the knowledge and skill she gained at Meredith, combining the knowledge she gained through earning her MBA with extensive software development and mentoring experience in diverse industries.
She is proud that she met the challenges of a rigorous academic program, including during the MBA Capstone course.
“Capstone is a huge challenge, and needs almost 40 hours of study each week,” Richa said. “Managing a full-time job, being a full-time mom, and 40 hours of study was a challenge. This taught me how to manage my time efficiently and study smart.”
Learn more about the Meredith MBA | news |
https://www.shoptelligence.com/fmg-webinar-practical-ways-to-thrive-in-this-pandemic/ | 2024-02-25T05:07:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474581.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225035809-20240225065809-00270.warc.gz | 0.949112 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__112658073 | en | On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Shoptelligence and Furniture Marketing Group (FMG) hosted an in-depth webinar on Shoptelligence’s perspectives on lasting changes from the COVID pandemic and how retailers can respond to succeed.
Retailers shared their perspectives on how the pandemic has changed their priorities as well as their outlook for the next twelve months. The webinar also covered each of the ways retailers can adjust focusing on solutions retailers can deploy to get the most out of their traffic and how they complement one another.
The recording of the webinar is available on demand. Access it here. Industry retailers and vendors with specific questions on how they can adapt can schedule a complimentary 30-minute insights discussion here. | news |
https://caritasjr.org/news-events/item-1697799515.html | 2023-11-28T23:22:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100016.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128214805-20231129004805-00286.warc.gz | 0.962301 | 791 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__84693561 | en | Life in Gaza Under the Shadow of Conflict
Since the escalation of violence on October 7, 2023, Gaza has lost at least 3,800 people, with 12,900
more injured. Numerous residents have been forced to seek refuge in hospitals, UNRWA facilities, and
churches. The shortage of electricity, water, and food supplies, especially for hospitals, has exacerbated
the humanitarian crisis.
"Do you know what I wish for right now?". He said, "If circumstances dictate that I must face the
consequences of this war, I hope to be the first among my family members to go, sparing me the pain of
witnessing them suffer." This was conveyed by a Caritas Jerusalem Gaza team member to a Caritas
Jerusalem HQ colleague during a phone call.
Many people in the Gaza Strip live in fear and despair as they witness the death and destruction of their
loved ones and their homes.
While speaking with a doctor working for Caritas in Gaza, we heard firsthand about her experience,
which vividly illustrates the personal toll this dispute has taken. She, along with her husband and
children, were forced to flee their house to avoid the impending assault. Although she initially told us
she was fine, she eventually broke down in tears. While she and her small family evacuated, her father,
mother, and brother refused to leave and remained in the north. They made this choice in an attempt to
divide themselves into two groups, hoping to avoid a scenario where all of them might be affected by a
single shelling. She left her home not knowing if she would ever see her other family members again,
underscoring the heartbreaking decisions that Gazans are forced to make in these extraordinarily
Few days ago, Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza was hit, tragically claiming the lives of medical teams,
patients, and displaced vulnerable children and adults seeking shelter within the hospital's walls. The
incident serves as a grim reminder of the harsh realities faced by the non-combatant civilians in Gaza.
Just last night, in a heart-breaking turn of events, the hall adjacent to The St. Porphyrios Church in
Gaza, which provided refuge for 411 people, was struck by a rocket. Among the sheltered were 5
dedicated members of Caritas Jerusalem's staff, along with their families.
Within the hall, a total of 83 individuals sought safety. Tragically, Viola, a 26-year-old CJ lab
technician, lost her life alongside her toddler and husband. Additionally, Viola's sister and two children
were among the casualties.
As of now, the toll stands at 17 lives lost, with dozens more sustaining injuries. Regrettably, these
numbers are expected to climb.
The church was not only a place of worship but also a relief center that provided food, clothing, and
medical care to the displaced and other vulnerable groups. As Caritas Jerusalem, we express our grief
and outrage over the tragedy that targeted these innocent people.
In the face of heart-wrenching developments in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, we continue to hold
onto hope for a return to peace in the Holy Land. As Caritas Jerusalem, our mission remains
unwavering. Caritas Jerusalem is committed to providing support and relief to those enduring
unimaginable hardships, and our vision is one of peace, compassion, and unity.
We hope humanitarian corridors will be opened soon so we can deliver food and medicines to the
civilians who desperately need them. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this
ongoing conflict. We remain dedicated to our mission, calling for an end to the violence and seeking a
just and lasting solution for the people of Gaza and the region.
Friday, 20 October 2023 | news |
https://events.hawaiitech.com/event/world-oceans-day-celebration/ | 2024-02-28T05:12:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00168.warc.gz | 0.881364 | 586 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__9454263 | en | World Oceans Day Celebration
June 13, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm HST| Free
Ko Olina Resort, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and community organizations, is hosting a free virtual event to celebrate World Oceans Day on Saturday, June 13 from 3 to 5 p.m. World Oceans Day is a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future.
- WHAT: 4th Annual World Oceans Day Celebration
- WHEN: Saturday, June 13 from 3 to 5 p.m.
- WHERE: OiwiTV’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/OiwiTV
Throughout this special 2-hour virtual event, viewers can learn about sea turtles, interact live with a NOAA scientist, engage in an art lesson, learn how to cook, and more. It will feature some of Hawai’i’s top entertainers, like Kimie Miner, Nathan Aweau, Paula Fuga, Kawika Kahiapo and more. At the end of the event, viewers can learn how microplastics are affecting our world’s oceans, particularly in places far from where humans live, in “The Smog of the Sea,” a film that documents a one-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea.
The Hawaiian ʻōlelo noʻeau (Hawaiian Proverb) “Kui ‘ia ka lei moku e Kanaloa” translates literally to “the islands are strung together as lei by Kanaloa, god of the sea” or “the ocean unites humanity.” During these extraordinary times, the ocean has been a source of comfort, a place to recreate and, most importantly, a provider of sustenance for those in need. Now, more than ever, is the time to stand together and unite our efforts to protect our ocean’s legacy for ourselves and for future generations.
This 2020, World Oceans Day is growing the global movement to call on world leaders to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030 — a campaign called 30×30. By safeguarding a least 30% of our ocean through a network of highly protected areas we can help ensure a healthy home for both marine and human life.
The 4th Annual World Oceans Day Celebration is generously supported by Ko Olina Resort, NOAA, the City and County of Honolulu Storm Water Quality Branch, Aulani, A Disney Resort and Spa and Four Seasons Resort O’ahu.
World Oceans Day unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our shared ocean. For more information, visit https://virtualworldwceanswaycelebration.eventbrite.com or worldoceansday.org. | news |
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