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Father Gerhard Vogel SVD, 83, an educator and administrator, died Dec. 18, in Techny, Ill.
"Gerhard always gave of his whole self," said Gene Ahner, a contemporary who taught at St. Mary Seminary at Techny and has known Father Vogel since 1961. "Wherever the Society of the Divine Word needed him to go, he went."
Born in Forbach, France, to parents with German surnames, he was raised along the war-torn border with Germany. Gerhard Vogel had a gift for fitting into places with cultures other than his own, Ahner said.
The eldest of Oswald and Ernestine (nee Palm) Vogel's three children, the young Gerhard Vogel studied at St. Wendel in Germany and St. Gabriel in Austria before professing vows in 1959. As a seminarian, he was assigned to continue his seminary studies at St. Augustine in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he professed perpetual vows and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965.
For his first assignment, he remained in the United States, teaching Latin and French at St. Augustine seminary. In 1973, he became rector of the seminary, succeeding then-Father Leonard Olivier, who later became an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington.
For almost 30 years, Father Vogel was a teacher, administrator and formator at Divine Word seminaries. He served in Bay St. Louis for 14 years; Divine Word Seminary in Perrysburg, Ohio, for six years; and as a formator in Montreal for nine years.
In 1994, he was assigned to St. Peter Claver parish, a predominantly African-American parish in Asbury Park, N.J., where he served until 2003 when he moved to Bordentown, N.J. for semi-retirement. He moved to Techny in 2011.
Father Vogel held a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Father Vogel spent most of his adult life in the United States, and on Jan. 3, 2013, he became a citizen.
In addition to his pastoral and academic roles, he served as chairman of the Hancock County (Mississippi) Chapter of the Red Cross.
Father Vogel is survived by his brother Dr. Heinrich Vogel and sister Teresa Schilling.
Father Vogel was laid to rest on Dec. 23, following a funeral Mass in the Divine Word Residence chapel. He is buried at St. Mary Cemetery at Techny.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in the name of Father Vogel can be made for the care of retired and infirmed missionaries and may be sent to The Rector, Divine Word Residence, 1901 Waukegan Road, P.O. Box 6000, Techny, IL 60082-6000.
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The Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda has decided to extend the deadline for the mandatory recall period for all Antigua and Barbuda Machine Readable passports to 31st December 2021, the Passport and Citizenship Division said in a release.
This decision was taken in light of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the finances of the populace. In addition, travel restrictions, quarantine requirements and mandatory lockdown in countries where Antigua and Barbuda Consulates and High Commissions operate are hampering overseas applicants from submitting applications in a timely manner to meet the previous recall deadline.
Therefore, "all citizens of Antigua and Barbuda with a machine-readable passport are advised that the document now becomes invalid on January 1, 2022. Only ePassports will be valid for travel as of January 1, 2022. The recall of all Machine-Readable passports will facilitate the use of only the new Antigua and Barbuda ePassport introduced in April 2017", the release added.
Application forms for the ePassports are available at the Passport Office, Queen Elizabeth Highway, the Antigua and Barbuda Missions in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom or from the government's website at www.ab.gov.ag. Further information is available from the Passport Office in Antigua and Barbuda at telephone 462-0092.
The Passport and Citizenship Division of Antigua and Barbuda thanks the public for its cooperation and understanding.

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Generating leads is challenging but essential for the survival of your brand. In fact, lead gen is the top priority of marketers. But generating leads for your brand isn't a straightforward process since it requires strategy development, execution, and evaluation, and continuous optimization for improvement.
So, how do you go about tackling such an important part of your marketing objectives?
This step-by-step guide will show you how you can create and execute a successful lead gen strategy for your brand, starting today.
Step #1: Set Objectives
Lead gen strategy development begins with setting clear goals and objectives. What exactly do you want to achieve for your brand with a lead generation strategy? How many leads your brand needs per month or year?
Setting clear goals makes it easier to track progress, monitor, and evaluate your strategy at timely intervals. You and your team know where you have to go and how to get there.
The goals for your lead generation marketing must be SMART. A SMART goal is:
Here's an example of a SMART goal: Generate 50,000 leads in 12 months from organic traffic.
It is a specific goal that shows what your brand wants to achieve in the 12 months. Leads generated from organic traffic can be measured, so it is a measurable goal. It is achievable (though it mostly depends on the historical data you have) but generally, generating 50K leads a year isn't a big task. This goal is also relevant to your brand requirements since generating leads is what your brand needs. Finally, it has a time limit attached to it (12 months).
You can create one, two, or more SMART lead generation goals depending on your brand strategy, marketing budget, and other variables.
Step #2: Create Buyer Personas
Who is your target audience? Who is your ideal customer?
Having a clear understanding of your target audience will help you generate leads that will convert to loyal customers. When you know your target audience, you'll be able to connect with the right people at the right touchpoints via the right content.
For example, if your target audience prefers watching video content more than reading a blog post, you'll have to use video marketing as your lead generation strategy to reach and connect with your audience.
This is where buyer personas can help. A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer. You need data to create buyer personas that truly represent your ideal customers. Here is how it looks:
The more detailed it is, the better. It provides you all the details about your target audience and the best marketing channel to reach them for lead gen.
Step #3: Create Lead Magnets
Lead magnets are the backbone of the lead generation. A lead magnet is an incentive that you offer to your audience in exchange for their email addresses. It helps you generate leads. This lead magnet generated 35,859 leads in 60 days:
Nothing fancy, the lead magnet offers high-quality content to the audience at no cost in exchange for their email addresses.
You need to create several types of lead magnets for your target audience. Give them something valuable free of cost. Solve their biggest problem via a lead magnet. Again, what your audience considers valuable and high quality varies greatly, and the best way to know it is via buyer personas.
Use buyer personas and research to find what type of lead magnets will convert best. Here are a few lead magnet types that you can create:
Cheat sheets
Case studies
Training and courses
Free trials, discounts, and coupons
Step #4: Landing Pages
One of the most important things for your lead gen strategy is landing pages. This is the page where you can offer the lead magnet to your ideal customers. Preferably, you'll create at least one landing page per lead magnet.
However, when it comes to landing pages, more is better.
The number of landing pages has a positive association with lead generation. Brands that create 40+ landing pages generate way more leads than brands with fewer landing pages:
Creating multiple landing pages per lead magnet will help you generate more leads as it will provide your audience with more conversion options.
Creating high-converting landing pages gets easier if you are using a landing page creation tool. The top landing page creator tools include:
Step #5: Drive Traffic
This is the tough part.
You have the landing pages set up and ready, now it's time to send traffic to your landing pages. There isn't any right or wrong traffic generation method; rather, it comes down to your lead generation strategy objectives.
The traffic source should align with the lead gen strategy objectives. If your objective is to generate leads with PPC, you need to identify ad networks at this stage based on data, budget, and brand strategy.
If it's organic traffic, you'll need to create blog posts, build links, rank for keywords, repurpose content, distribute content, and more.
An important aspect of driving traffic to your landing pages for lead generation is that the traffic source must originate from the buyer persona you are targeting. Look at the preferences and interests of the buyer persona you are targeting and make sure the traffic source and content type you are using is the preference of the buyer persona.
Otherwise, it will fail badly.
Integration among lead gen strategy objectives, traffic source, content type, and buyer persona is a must.
Step #6: Lead Scoring and Nurturing
Once you start generating leads, you have two major things to do: score and nurture leads.
Lead scoring helps you order and prioritize leads based on their likelihood of buying. The leads can be scored based on several factors such as sale amount, purchase readiness, expected lifetime value, etc.
Not all leads are sales-ready, so you have to connect, engaged, and work on the leads that aren't ready yet. This is what you achieve with the help of lead nurturing. Both scoring and nurturing run simultaneously for enhanced effectiveness.
You can use different tools to score and nurture leads; for example, CRM, email marketing, funnel management, marketing automation, etc. are the types of tools that you can use. However, the best approach is to use an effective CRM tool (e.g., Salesforce or HubSpot) as it will help you throughout the buyer journey.
Step #7: Analyze and Tweak
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is an important part of your lead generation strategy execution. You need to test and tweak everything for improvement. This includes testing lead magnets, optimizing landing pages, improving conversion rates of different marketing channels, and more.
Your lead generation strategy requires regular tweaks. You can't set it and forget it. That's not how it works.
You need to compare progress based on the objectives and set targets. Look for loopholes and issues. If things aren't moving as expected, see what you are doing wrong.
If things are moving as expected, figure out how you can improve it further. There is always room for improvement.
You'll need a CRO and A/B testing tool (e.g., Google Optimize or VWO). Run data-driven experiments to optimize the conversion rate.
Creating and executing a successful lead gen strategy gets easier if you know the ins and outs. If you are just starting, you might face a lot of hurdles. Getting help from a lead generation agency like First Page Strategy can help you save resources and get everything set up quickly. Our lead generation services will connect you with the experts needed to take the right steps for a successful lead generation strategy.


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Leisure education, be it process, content, context, or a combination of all, is significant for enhancing the quality of life of individuals and societies. As major socialization agents for children and adolescents, schools have been advocated to undertake the role of leisure educators. Despite this advocacy, aspects related to leisure education are often marginalized within the school curriculum. While initial calls were made for leisure education in schools in the West, its implementation has been hindered by the priority given to the study of literacy and numeracy and the emphasis on preparation for the world of work. At the same time, recent developments in educational systems in non-Western contexts have been paving the way for schools to educate for leisure as part of their curricula. These include a growing emphasis on whole person development, life wide and lifelong learning. The present paper depicts these trends and examines how and to what extent leisure education is practised in times of educational and curriculum changes. Examples are provided from a recent study undertaken by the author on secondary school students in Hong Kong which explored the different ways in which schools educate for leisure. Implications are drawn for ways to utilize the reformed school system for further enhancement of leisure education in schools.
Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 1524-1536 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | African Journal for Physical Health Education, Recreation and Dance |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2014 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Leisure education
- schools
- educational change
- leisure curriculum
- pedagogy
- educational reform
- leisure educators.


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One more movie, co-produced by Georgia and France will be filmed in Georgia within the Film in Georgia program, Georgia's Ministry of Economy has announced.
The title of the new movie is the Girls on the Sun and the Georgian producer company 20 Steps Productions is working on it.
The story develops in Kurdistan and reveals the lives of two different women.
One of the main heroines of the movie, Bahar, is the head of the women battalion Girls on the Sun, while a French journalist Matilda covers ongoing issues.
The Georgian Ministry says filming will start at the end of the month and will continue for six months, employing more than 840 people.
Adjacent areas of Akhaltsikhe and Rustavi in Georgia were selected for filming.
Six new movies have already been filmed within the Film in Georgia program and two others are coming soon.


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The International Centre on Racism stands against racism in all its forms. The death of George Floyd and others in the past in the name of law enforcement has saddened and appalled members of the Centre. We strongly condemn prejudice against black and minority ethnic people in the US, the UK and around the world. The ICR hereby sends out a message of encouragement and thanks to all involved in resisting racism, whether through activism, reporting or cultural and academic endeavour.
Image "Candlelight memorial in honor of George Floyd, Astoria Park, Queens, New York on June 1, 2020." By Blaue Blute. (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)


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Little Dragon – 'New Me, Same Us'
Sounds like … disco disco party party with the right tinch of melancholy.
Little Dragon have a solid repertoire of five records with different shades of electropop under their belt. New Me, Same Us does not divert from this path but takes the shiniest sequins out of their established oeuvre and sows a new dress out of it. The band's success has benefited from an impressive collaborative history including SBTRKT, Flume, Mac Miller, Kaytranada as well as a feature on Flying Lotus' latest album Flamagra which likely let to the choice of releasing the new LP on Ninja Tune.
A signature characteristic of the four-piece is their talent to add levity to all kinds of emotional expression. The focus shifts back and forth from synths, R'n'B and funk elements to Yukimi Nagano's lyrics, achieving a beautifully balanced pop album. Hold On, Are You Feeling Sad? (featuring Kali Uchis) – the two singles, and Rush being the more upbeat tracks, stand out through their disco sparks and danceability. Another Lover, Stay Right Here, and Water carry a neo soul-vibe which blend with softly sung lyrics such as "I can't understand what I'm doing, don't understand where we going, please understand where I'm coming from, understand that it's all in me". New Me, Same Us is filled with intricate moments of reflection and there is a sweet ambiguity if the well-produced instrumentals should distract or point us towards our own contemplating nature. (Anna Stich)
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Half Waif – 'The Caretaker'
Sounds like … synth pop even an indie rock fan can get along with.
'Baby don't worry about me / I don't worry about you' Nandi Rose aka Half Waif croons on Ordinary Talk. The singe embodies the energy of the entire record The Caretaker pretty well. With brooding electronic touches, dramatic piano melodies and somber vocals, the artist creates a cosmos of her own and revitalizes the commercialized genre of synth pop. After the acclaimed debut Lavender, which was inspired by the flowers growing in the family garden, her personal family history snuck its way onto the current LP as well. Half Waif keeps returning to topics like the 'family legacy of losing and seeking homes'. Exploring human connection and the feeling of belonging is also what drives In August. Here the artist takes a sober look at a friendship breaking up over a year's time. With hushed synths, the slow burning track displays the confidence with which the artist moves within her genre.
If Half Waif did not lure you into her web yet, the ballad My Best Self is sure to sweep you off your feet at last. Nandi Rose's vocals clear and pitch perfect hit a nerve. Accompanied by lush breezes of synthesizers, she moves from perfect falsettos to rawer timbers. The Caretaker shows an artist confident in what she is doing. As a warning sign to herself torn between need for independence and the reality of dependence that we cannot escape, she invents the character of The Caretaker. 'The weeds are growing everywhere, and she's not taking care of herself', she tells the story of someone entrusted to take care of a garden metaphorically herself. If everyone's dilemmas sounded this gorgeous, synth pop would be more than just a shallow chart-topping genre. (Liv Toerkell)
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Hundreds – 'The Current'
Sounds like … an elegant flux of compassion and devotion.
For their fourth major release in their impressive decade-long journey as Hundreds, the sibling masterminds Eva and Philipp Milner chose to embrace an imagery that perfectly relates to the consuming quality of their sound. The Current epitomises the progressive sonic adventures in electronic pop music, which the gifted duo has been honing in years past. Adventurous, refined and artistically delicate, this record is one "about the flow, about letting yourself go and being a close observer of that process". It also finds Hundreds step out into the open, delivering a sophisticated and sincere work of art.
It should come as no surprise, that Eva's pure melodies float graciously across the eleven pieces, which contributes greatly to the vast soundscape that The Current is building up. Charged and anticipatory, the first track Vessel In The Sky initiates the voyage, comprising the fragile ambiance of a world adrift and featuring the surprising appearance of Philipp on the microphone for the first time. Equally atmospheric and balancing between tender melodies and swelling floods of electronic inventories, Hundreds erect refined sonic structures in songs like Calling or Body Of Water, only to tear them down again on Ready Shaking Silent or The Storm. The flow of melodies creates a flow-like feeling, added by hazy beats and subdued drum elements as well as ingenious electronic arrangements. It is with these immersing soundscapes that The Current knows how to captivate its listenership in the unobstructed flow of its dynamic rising and falling. The broadness of this record then also lies in the themes, that the songs address. From the compassion of revisiting an old friendship in the title track, the revenge-tinted quality of Ready Shaking Silent to the charming escapism of In The Air, Hundreds leave almost no sentiment unturned. And they do so with absorbing artistic elegance. (Andreas Peters)
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Nicolas Jaar – 'Cenizas'
Sounds like … discovering a sacred temple ruin in the middle of the jungle.
The first thing is: before listening to Cenizas, I did not know I needed this kind of music in my life but now, I do not want to live in a world without it. Nicolas Jaar has been blurring the definitions of electronic music for around 10 years: the lines between the acoustic and the digital on Space Is Only Noise, the interrogation of political techno on Sirens, the combination of chaos and pop-sampling as his moniker Against All Logic, and now, with Cenizas pushing the limits of sound under enlightening scrutiny.
In late November 2019, Jaar posted two videos on Instagram showing speakers buried in sand for an art installation and documenting how their vibration affects the rocks around them. There is a texture to this image that melts with the consecrated air around each song – merging physicality and otherworldliness. The opener Vanish beginning with woodwinds hallowing through what sounds like an enormous room is broken into by Jaar's own voice layered into a choir, moving smoothly into Gregorian cantillates of Menysid. On Gocce, wobbling percussions come together with an underlying two-note piano line, a jazzy bass and a meditative humming. After the introspective motifs of the first five songs, Mud gives the impression of a spiritual gathering with ceremonial drums keeping a straightforward pace, tambourine shakes and the Chilean artist's rumbling voice. Garden is one of the few tracks that keep a melodic instead of an atmospheric feel, a clear piano theme is introduced, varied into its single components and then supported by lightly ringing bells. There is an undeniable 'As above, so below' – aura to this record and the ideal room for it to be heard, should have the importance of a place of worship. Cenizas means 'ashes' in Portuguese and if this is the soundtrack for rising from them, I am Oh so on board. (Anna Stich)
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Sorry – '925'
Sounds like … a musical backdrop for the woozy hours of waking up to a bad hangover.
Emerging from the vibrant London indie scene and not afraid to pour fuel into fire, Sorry are more than predestined to become the new poster people of what guitar music in 2020 can sound like – if they only ever cared enough to go for a label like that. Formed by long-time school friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen, later added by Lincoln Barrett and Campbell Baum, their debut output 925 contains all the progressive inventiveness that the four-piece has to offer. In it, febrile and charged downer rock songs display a disenchanted vision of our modern world, which competes with a relentless ache for love, pleasure and excess. As if apocalyptic imagery were embraced by metaphors of present-day need for comfort and security. Or, to put it bluntly, a musical universe between heaven and hell.
The jazz-inspired first track Right Round The Clock bounces off the action. The haunted and sombre vocals of both Lorenz and O'Bryen, in the form of a dialogue, perfectly deliver the song's desperate craving for fame and love. As heard in the chorus punchline "I'm feeling kinda crazy, I'm feeling kinda mad / The dreams in which we're famous are the best I've ever had", which is a reference to Tears For Fears' famous lines in Mad World. Fierce drums and raving electronic guitars then continue to lead the way in songs like Starstruck, a song that feels like a spiral, echoing the powerful energies of excess and seduction. But in the course of the record Sorry also manages to strike the more quiet tones as well. The hazy piece Rosie and the sentimental sounding ballad As The Sun Sets are fitting examples here. The latter does not come without a slight nod to Mr. Louis Armstrong. "What a wonderful world / what a hell of a day", Lorenz' fragile voice laments, backed by a full range of distorted guitars. Yet, one cannot question the beauty that lies in the gloomy juxtaposition of the desolate and the magnificent. The power of this record lies in the ability of Sorry to paint a distorted universe which equally mirrors as well as criticises the world we live in. That they manage to deliver this without sounding a bit pretentious, is what makes 925 even more enjoyable. (Andreas Peters)
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Sojourning: Parables from a Life
Each year Gordon's Global Education Office sponsors a photo contest for students in its many study-abroad programs. This year's theme was "Sojourning: Parables from a Life."
An Inspector Calls: Fall Theatre Production Continues through November 15
What can a British play written more than 50 years ago have to offer a modern audience? Surprisingly, a lot!


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I'll never forget the first time I walked into the infusion center with my dear friend who had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The many chairs were occupied with women receiving chemotherapy, hooked up to IV bags full of red-colored liquid. Only later would I learn that Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) truly lived up to its nickname: "The Red Devil."
As a Naturopath, I had a basic understanding of what drives cancer, but when my friend was diagnosed, I began to study all the time.
Watching my friend deal with the challenges — the nausea and the fatigue and the fear — breast cancer became personal. I determined to learn as much as possible to help her and ensure her good health.
One of the first things I learned was how sugar drives cancer. Known as the Warburg Effect, sugar's effect on cancer was discovered by Dr. Otto Warburg, a German scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1931 for his discovery.
Simply put, Dr. Warburg discovered cancer chooses sugar, or glucose, over oxygen for energy. Even though the pathway is less efficient, produces less energy, and requires the cancer to work harder for the energy it receives, cancer still chooses sugar.
So, I was very surprised, to put it mildly, when four times during her 3-hour infusion, my friend was offered juice, hard candy, a popsicle, and — the cincher — a cupcake!
Of course, my friend said "No," but all the other women gladly took what was offered.
Deeply upset and concerned, I wanted to talk with the head of the infusion center, but I realized the sugar at the infusion center was one small piece of a much larger problem.
While the women were receiving chemotherapy to "kill" the cancer cells, but eating sugar at the same, it was almost as if they were negating the work of the chemotherapy.
It's like digging a hole at the beach: as you scoop the dry sand out, more rushes in to fill the space.
I know that during cancer treatment you want to feel comforted and these foods offer that.
Friends and family bring goodies because they mean well, and it's hard to resist. Not only are treats delicious, you also don't want to hurt the feelings of well-intended loved ones.
But the reality is that these foods feed the tumor — while the chemo is working to stop its growth.
Why would you feed cancer at the same time you are trying to kill it?
Nutrition for cancer is very complex. There are many environmental, emotional, genomic, and epigenetic factors which contribute to cancer, and they all need to be taken into consideration when creating a personalized nutritional plan.
While there are many contributing aspects towards cancer, dietary factors can contribute up to 35%!
Comfort foods are lovely. But true comfort comes from knowing you are supporting your health and doing everything you can to maximize treatment and minimize risk of recurrence.
Here are a few guidelines which form the foundation of a health-supportive way of eating:
Refined white sugar is everywhere in the Standard American Diet and as its use has increased, so has chronic disease. White sugar contributes to obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes — all contributors to cancer.
Tumor cells have more insulin receptors than healthy cells and elevated levels of insulin are known to promote tumor growth.
Healthier forms of sugar are foods which are found in nature: organic, raw honey (best if local and in a glass jar — not plastic), monk fruit, maple syrup, coconut sugar.
If your health permits it, these are to be used sparingly and only for a special occasion.
Although fruit is natural, it is processed by your body as a source of sugar, so eat it sparingly.
Nature has provided us with a rainbow of colorful fruits and vegetables!
The different colors of fruits and vegetables come from nutrients: the antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals that counteract the oxidative stress involved in the microenvironment of cancer. These phytonutrients help protect the body from oxidative stress, modulate several key enzymatic pathways, and help your body boost your immune system.
The strong color in fruit and vegetables reveal their healing ability. Dark blue fruits contain anthocyanins that have potent antioxidant properties. These help remove free radicals from the body, providing protection against cancers.
Those richest in phytonutrients are the dark leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, root vegetables, bitter greens, and tomatoes.
Cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cabbage onions, and garlic, contain sulforaphane which causes cancer cells to self-destruct, blocks DNA methylation, and controls certain processes in cell cycle progression.
All berries — blueberries, blackberries, mulberries, acai berries, and in plums and blue-black grapes, pomegranates —contain anthocyanin, which gives these food the deep blue color. Acting as a powerful antioxidant, anthocyanin helps remove free radical from the blood, and can reduce DNA damage.
If you are going to eat red meat or poultry, make sure it is grass-fed, free-range or wild-caught. These meats don't contain antibiotics and chemicals such as growth hormones. Furthermore, they are very high in Omega 3 fatty acids.
An important fact which supports a plant-based diet is vegetarians are 40% less likely to develop cancer and cancer recurrence than meat eaters.
It's no accident that every culture in the world knows the benefits of fermented foods, because they provide important nutrients for your body. Fermented foods support beneficial intestinal bacteria, aid digestion, and support immune function.
The main function of carbohydrates is to provide energy and glucose is the main form of energy that the body uses. Carbohydrates that enter the body as sugar are broken down into glucose to be used by the cells for energy.
The Standard American Diet of about 2200 calories per day, will obtain 50% of these calories from carbohydrates — often in the form of processed foods such as cereals, non-whole grain bread, pastries, cookies, and chips.
When you eat a lot of carbs, more insulin is secreted. This causes cancer cells to take in more glucose, resulting in increased cancer cell growth.
Reducing carbohydrate intake can slow tumor growth by limiting the amount of excess glucose available to the cancer.
Maintaining even blood sugar levels to avoid spikes in glucose, which then provide extra sugars used by the cancer.
A whole-foods diet is rich in whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and fiber and has a low glycemic index.
Fats are an important part of your diet; the key is to choose healthy fats and avoid the ones that aren't.
Two types of fats — saturated fat and trans fat— are known to be potentially harmful to your health.
Trans fats (trans fatty acids) are solid at room temperature (think of margarine, shortening, and beef or pork fat). This feature makes trans fats the fat of choice in foods that need to be "shelf stable."
Trans fats appear in fast foods that contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils: in fried foods (French fries, doughnuts, deep-fried fast foods), margarine and vegetable shortening, baked goods (cookies, cakes, pastries) and processed snack foods (crackers, microwave popcorn).
These are the worst fats for you and should be totally eliminated from your diet!
Saturated fats are found in fatty cuts of beef, pork, and lamb, dark chicken meat and poultry skin, and tropical oils such as palm oil, cocoa butter and lard. These fats should be avoided also.
"Bad fats" change the ratio between the Omega fats. When people grew and made the majority of their food, there was a ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFA) of approximately 1:1.
Western diet foods have created an imbalance in the ratio; now there is approximately 15 times more Omega-6 than Omega-3. This causes inflammation, which can contribute to cancer growth.
Healthy fats include cold-pressed oils such as borage, evening primrose, black currant, flaxseed, grapeseed, hemp, olive, avocado, and fatty fish, such as salmon.
I recommend extra virgin olive oil be the main oil you use and the greener in color, the higher the content polyphenols it contains. Plant polyphenols, such as those found in extra virgin olive oil, have properties which impact the activity and levels of sirtuins, proteins that regulate cellular health.
Polyphenols have been shown to reduce cell proliferation and increase cell death in cancer cells, especially against breast cancer cells.
Once again, Nature has provided us with what we need to be and stay healthy – spices. Humans have used spices for thousands of years, both for their flavor and their natural medicinal benefits, and every culture has unique spices as part of their cooking!
Spices are parts of plants, so they contain all the healing benefits of plants – phytonutrients, phytochemicals and phytosterols. They also contain vitamins and minerals and are a source of antioxidants, with many spices capable of anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor activity.
When I was a chef, I loved using fresh spices in my cooking! Fresh is ideal, but if they are not available, organic dried herbs and spices will add wonderful flavor to your food, and some nutritional benefit.
This is a concept seen in Chinese medicine — your diet changes as the seasons change.
Ever notice how when it's cold outside, you crave warming foods such as stews, soups, and root vegetables?
And during the summer months, you naturally gravitate to eating lighter — lots of salads, fruits such as melon and watermelon, and even cold drinks.
Nature has provided us with what we need; foods which appear during a season actually provide the nutrients most needed during that season.
For example: root vegetables such as parsnips, sweet potatoes and pumpkin contain complex carbohydrates which keep you warm during the cold winter months.
Food sprayed with chemicals will make you sick, whether you have a chronic illness or are concerned with prevention. Spraying food reduces its total nutritive value of phytonutrients, and antioxidants.
A good way to get healthy, organic food is by supporting your local farmers' markets and subscribing to community CSA boxes.
Treat your body with the reverence it deserves and promote your longevity and good health with every bite! Fresh foods free of chemicals provide your body with nutrient dense nutrition to feed your cells and support your good health.
Up to 60% of human body is water. Water provides cell membranes with structure, which helps to keep harmful molecules outside of the cell. Adequate fluid is important for every process in your body, from elimination of waste to brain function.
Unfortunately, water coming from the tap is often filled with chemicals, from fluoride to perchlorate. The only solution is to filter your water in your home. There are many excellent filters available.
While water should be your main beverage, teas can also be healthy for you and offer phytochemicals and antioxidants, as seen with Green Tea.
Coffee contains unique phytochemicals but make sure it's organic and don't drink more than 1 or 2 cups a day! The sweet, frappe drinks which are sold in coffee shops are filled with sugar and should be avoided.
Food is more than just fuel for our bodies. The food that we eat, when cooked with love and shared with family and friends, brings abundance and love and good health to all those at the table.


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Everett Wayne Galer
November 1, 1935 - March 15, 2018
Celebration of Life service honoring Everett Wayne Galer will be Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at Central Christian Church, 1111 West Broadway, Enid, Oklahoma. The Reverend Kathy Bryant and the Reverend Don Johnson will officiate. Burial will follow at Good Hope Cemetery near Helena. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Helena. There will be viewing at Helena on Monday 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Then there will be a family reception at Central Christian Church on Tuesday from 12:30 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. www.lanmanmemorials.com Facebook: Lanman Funeral Home Inc.
Wayne grew up in Helena working on his family's farm and at his family's hatchery. He graduated from Helena High School in 1953, then attended Okmulgee Tech and Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He married Frances Luscombe, also of Helena, on September 3, 1955. The couple made their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico for a short time where Wayne was employed by Sandia Corporation. They returned to Enid where Wayne worked for IBM as a service engineer for 35 years. During the 1980s he and his family owned and operated a local sports store, "The Cross Court Tennis and Ski Shop". After retiring from IBM he worked for Enid Public Schools, then Hennessey Public Schools in their respective technology departments.
Wayne loved the sport of tennis. He began playing in high school and he and Fran played tournaments and were active in Enid Team Tennis organizations. He also coached his son's little league sports teams. He was an avid supporter and fan of his daughters and granddaughters music recitals and theatre performances. Wayne enjoyed weekly card games of hearts with friends from his Sooner Sunday School Class at First United Methodist Church. Anyone who knew Wayne knew that his storytelling skills were legendary.
Wayne was preceded in death by his parents, Everett and Madeline Galer of Helena.
He is survived by his wife, Frances of Enid; three children, daughter, Terri Galer and husband, John Vermillion of Enid, sons, Norman Galer and wife, Joyce of St. Louis and Randy Galer and wife, Rhonda of Vail; seven grandchildren, Louisa Dienst Peterson and husband, James of Santa Monica, John Mark Vermillion of Bozeman, Ethan, Sean and Brandon Galer of St. Louis, Kathryn Galer of Vail and Anna Galer of Orlando; two great grandchildren, Juliet Peterson and Aiden Vermillion.
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A do-it-yourself mindset is in existence and well in numerous Americans; it's pretty much just how many companies in the nation are presented. And while we laud the creativeness and ingenuity there are several words and phrases of careful attention we will need to pay attention to particularly when coping with something as serious as our pet's health.
In trying to find more knowledge about dog wheelchairs, you possibly can turn up numerous do-it-yourself plans on the Internet. You should give credit to the generous souls who took the time to build and record their suggestions and set it out there for free. While it seems ungrateful to review these kind of efforts, it is essential to include a word of alert. Before investing in any such task for a dog wheelchair for your dog suffering from a mobility difficulty, please make sure to check with a veterinarian. Determine if a dog wheelchair is actually all that your dog needs, and if the sort you're planning to build is the most ideal type.
There are numerous kinds of dog wheelchairs. Just as are there a variety of problems that may cause a pet to lose the usage of its arms and legs, there are various ways to address them. Figuring out our pet's condition will point to the right plan of action. There's surgery, medications, treatment, the usage of flexibility aids, and also the various combination of the above mentioned. It will also let us know precisely what type of dog wheelchair will certainly match our pet's needs the best-rear, front, or complete support-which often may appear obvious, but in truth, needs a professional assessment.
You can easily plop your pet, belly down on a contraption of PVC pipes having a droopy cloth at the center and 4 wheels, as many of the search engine photos turned up, however who knows if that is encouraging or hurting your pet's wellness.
This is simply not to state there aren't good do-it-yourself style ideas out there that could fit your pet's needs. On the other hand, there are great individuals enough out there sharing tips; it's only a matter of finding it and executing the plan appropriately. Keep the vet in the loop. For all you know, he or she may be able to point you in the proper path.


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Department Profile
The Department of Integrated Forest and Landscape Protection provides education in the units focused mainly on the fields of integrated forest protection, phytopathology and forest protection, study of harmful agents, tree sanitation and conservation, harmful agents in urban environment and tree work health and safety, forestry entomology, apiculture, plant physiology, ecophysiology and stress physiology of plants, pathophysiology of wood species, forest withering and preventive measures, resistance potential and forest stability, nature and landscape conservation,
landscape maintenance, landscape ecology and disturbance ecology and practical mycology. The scientific and research activities of the department are aimed at sustainable management and stability of forest ecosystems, landscape and plantations of fast-growing wood species; management of protected areas and forest health in changed ecological conditions, as well as at the issues of disturbance ecology. Furthermore, the issues of urban vegetation and of health assessment of wood species from the ecophysiological aspect and tree work health and safety are tackled.
Department History
At the beginning of the academic year 1991/1990, when the landscape part moved to the newly established Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, the focus of the department moved to scientific disciplines that were needed or could be used in rational forest management and provided for the ecological stability of forests. A specific example of such disciplines is the Forestry Entomology explaining the relationships among animals in the forest ecosystems. The unit Forest Protection focuses on learning about the resistance potential of the forest, mainly on explaining the basic causal relationships
between activation of harmful agents and forest damage. The research and scientific activity of the Department is oriented towards the issue of activation of harmful agents and population dynamics of insect. The beginning of the academic year 2016/2017 was associated with the change inevitably emerging from the orientation of the earlier Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management. Two independent departments with specialised profiles were created – the Department of Integrated Forest and Landscape Protection and the Department of Applied Zoology and Wildlife Management.


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Budding UK based Nigerian Gospel artist Dr Udoka Obi popularly known as UD Obi is out with her highly anticipated song titled FATHER OF MERCY, accompanied by the lyric video.
Father of Mercy was inspired by how merciful our God and Father is, by sacrificing his son, Jesus Christ on the cross to pay the price for our sins. So even when we were still sinners, he showed us mercy. Many verses in the bible remind us of God's mercy for us. The Bible relates mercy to love and forgiveness.
As Pope Francis writes in Misericordiae Vultus, "the mercy of God is not an abstract idea, but a concrete reality with which he reveals his love as of a father or a mother, moved to the very depths out of love for their child.
Psalm 103:12 assures us that as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. That means that our heavenly father never holds a grudge or brings up our past as he is a father of mercy. His words also in Matthew 11, 28-30 tells us to come to him and he will give us rest.
Following Christ frees us from carrying the burdens of our sins because he has already done that work for us.
Father of Mercy as song is a call for us all to return to God our father, who promises to all of us, a relationship based on forgiveness, compassion, love, reconciliation, truth and mercy.
Dr UD Obi is passionate about spreading the word of God through music. Dr UD Obi other songs can be accessed through her youtube channel and it includes, Christ is Born to Us and The Kingdom is You both released in 2021
Dr UD Obi holds a doctorate degree in Engineering and is also a keen entrepreneur.


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Private Professional Guardians Law and Legal Definition
Private Professional Guardians are professionals with experience in the issues related to guardianship. They may possess the desire to positively influence the lives of people who are mentally disabled. The fee prescribed for professional guardianship services must be reasonable and approved by the court when a guardian is appointed.
The following is an example of a state statute (Nevada) defining the term:
According to Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 159.024, the term 'private professional guardian' means a person who receives compensation for services as a guardian to three or more wards who are not related to the person by blood or marriage. The term does not include a governmental agency, a public guardian appointed or designated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 253 of NRS(Nevada Revised statutes), a banking corporation, as defined in NRS 657.016, or an organization permitted to act as fiduciary pursuant to NRS 662.245 if it is appointed as guardian of an estate only, a trust company, as defined in NRS 669.070. and a court-appointed attorney licensed to practice law in this State.
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My Fall/Winter/Early Spring project is to carve a family sculpture out of yellow limestone from British Columbia that will be installed in the new gardens of the Dorset Health Hub. The slideshow shows the rock how it started, the shelter which was built over it, and the work-in-progress of the 5 foot tall sculpture.
Cirvan Hamilton & Elise MullerUsing a variety of domestic hardwoods, Cirvan designs and builds contemporary pieces of fine furniture. Elise's stylized figurative sculpture is carved in a variety of stone like marble, alabaster, limestone and local dolomite. Archives
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The missing sector orb weaver, Zygiella x-notata, is a common spider species found throughout Europe and the United States. The original distribution area of this orb weaver spider is in Europe. The spider is most commonly found throughout the United Kingdom an Western Europe. However, over the last decades, the population has spread throughout the world. In the United States it is a common sight along the coastal areas of the East Coast as well as the West Coast.
The common name of this spider comes from the fact that the spider spins an orb shaped web with one missing sector. Therefore, it's web somewhat resembles a round pizza with a missing slide. Since the missing sector orb weaver can have a very similar appearance to the furrow orb weaver (Larinioides cornutus), the peculiar web shape can be a great help to identify this spider.
Missing Sector Orbweaver Description
The legs and cephalothorax (the "head" of the spider") of Zygiella x-notata are usually light brown with darker brown colorations or bands around the legs and the eyes. The spider's abdomen is mostly cream-colored or silvery-grey with dark brown, sometimes black, markings that somewhat resemble two wings or an oak leaf. The coloration and markings on the spider's abdomen are easily confused with the furrow orb weaver (Larinioides cornutus).
Outside of their webs, missing sector orb weavers are often confused with members of the Steatoda genus, the false widow spiders, especially the triangulate cobweb spider (Steatoda triangulosa). Since Steatoda spiders can deliver a painful bite, the harmless orb weavers are often mistakenly killed.
An adult female missing sector orb weaver reaches an average body length of 0.25 inches (6-7 mm). Adult male specimen are around 30% smaller than females and have a smaller abdomen but the same coloration and markings as the female spider.
The web of the missing sector orb weaver is very characteristic and a great unique feature that helps identify the spider. As other orb weavers, it builds and orb shaped web between plants or buildings. However, one piece, or sector, of the web is missing. The finished web resembles the shape of a round pizza (orb-shaped web) with a missing slice.
As other orb weavers, Zygiella x-notata does not pose a threat to humans or pets. The spider uses it's mild venom to paralyze small flying insects that are caught in the web. Orb weavers are non-aggressive spiders and are great to have around the house, as they will rid the garden of mosquitoes and other pests.
Other Common Names
Next to its most used common name, the missing sector orb weaver, Zygiella x-notata is also referred to as the winter spider and the silver-sided sector spider.
Zygiella x-notata scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Zygiella
- Species: Zygiella x-notata
Distribution of the missing sector orb weaver
Next to their original geographic range in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, populations of the missing sector orb weaver can be found throughout the world. Larger populations have established in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, Indonesia, Northern India, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Turkey, Brazil and Argentina in South America as well as in the United States and in Canada.
In the United States, Zygiella x-notata can be found along the East and the West Coast, including Alaska. Namely, the spider occurs in the following states: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut.
- Taxon details: World Spider Catalogue
- Binominal name from: Clerck, 1757
- http://britishspiders.org.uk/wiki2015/images/2/26/Missing_sector_spreads.pdf
- Levi, Herbert Walter: "The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae, Araneidae)." in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 267-290, Cambridge 1974. ISSN 0027-4100
- Weissmann, Monika: Web-building and prey-capture in two orb-weavers. 1987.
- Venner, Samuel; Pasquet, Alain; Leborgne, Raymond (1 March 2000). "Web-building behaviour in the orb-weaving spider Zygiella x-notata: influence of experience"


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If you are going to spend a fortune on a window display that hundreds of people stop to take a photo of, put your damn store name/logo somewhere on the window so that when people stop and take a photo—and they surely will if you've got THIS in your window!—it will get shared on social media and people will know who you are.
That little placard on the floor just said, "It's time to collect diamonds. WINTER SALE" That's it! 🤯
I understand the French are more "subtle" than Americans but I'm sure they could find a classy way to get their store name into the photo. #missedopportunity
Sorry for that little rant but somebody missed class on the day they taught Social Media Marketing & Branding 101.
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Why buy a vacant home? One of the biggest perks is being able to make the home whatever you want it to be. You can make it your new home, create a vacation home, rent it out, or fix it up and sell it to someone else. In some cases the seller may be willing to sell a vacant home cheaper than an occupied home. This is good news for you because you can save some money, but it could also mean something might be wrong with the house. It may need a little love, attention and renovating. Before you purchase a vacant home, here are a few things to do and watch out for: Professional Inspection Ask for an inspection from a professional and take notes on what they discover. You'll want to know what's broken, what needs to be fixed and what could possibly go wrong. (Note: Be prepared to pay for the home's electricity to be on for the duration of the inspection). Critters Since vacant homes can sit for quite some time, critters may come in and make themselves at home. Although they are usually small animals such as mice or bats, they can cause damage to a vacant house. Those unwanted critters can eat at the floors, carpets, walls and wiring. Be aware that you may need to hire a pest control service, and this could be costly based on the number of animals and the amount of damage. Plumbing
There may be plumbing issues that have caused dried and cracked seals, slow faucets, leaks and other issues. If the heat hasn't been on and the temperatures dropped, the pipes could be at risk to freeze or burst (if they haven't already). Appliances The previous owner may not have unplugged their indoor appliances, such as refrigerators and freezers, or let them dry out. There may be mold inside from the moisture being trapped. Having appliances plugged in with no one there could result in a fire (if the electric was on). Appliances in the house may become unusable due to long periods of sitting with no use, which means you will need new ones. Molds Remember, molds can grow on more than just appliances! Check for mold in the walls, floors, pipes…everywhere! Some molds may cause health issues, so if mold is found during your inspection, you may want to rethink purchasing the home. Talk with your inspector about the extremity and presence of mold, and evaluate the safety risks. Unanticipated Repairs There are other potential sources of damage. For example, break-ins are more likely when a home appears empty, and windows, doors and other items could be damaged by the intruder. Storms are another danger. Debris could hit the home and cause damage that may have gone undetected. Always thoroughly inspect the home before buying! There are a lot of things to do and watch out for before purchasing a vacant home, but the possibilities of what the home could be are endless. If you are looking to buy a vacant home but haven't found one yet, there are a few ways to move forward. Look online, talk to neighbors, get a realtor or simply drive around. There are more vacant homes than you think…happy hunting! Do you have more advice on buying vacant homes? Let us know in the comments! It's important to keep in mind that the life of an RV tire cannot be measured by miles alone, nor can you always rely on tires that "look good."
Given the stop-and-go nature of many RVers, RVs often sit for extended periods of time in-between use. When they are in use, they are often subjected to heavy loads during extreme weather conditions such as high heat. Both situations can lead to tire damage and failure, which can quickly put a damper on any trip — or turn into a dangerous situation. The primary reasons for RV tire deterioration include the following: Ozone and UV Exposure Over time, RV tires are exposed to a great deal of UV rays and ozone poisoning. This can lead to cracks in the rubber, especially in a tire's sidewall. Though a tire's exterior may look just fine at first glance, further inspection may reveal small cracks on and within aging sidewalls that worsen with time. Improper Tire Inflation Under- and over-inflation can both lead to blowouts. To help prevent this, check the inflation pressure or your tires at least once a month, and always before starting a trip. Do this when tires are cold, as heat generated during driving temporarily increases air pressure. Never remove air from a hot tire, which may result in under-inflation when the tire cools. Excessive Load Weight and Uneven Weight Distribution Tires frequently subjected to maximum loads will wear faster, while tires that carry loads below their rated capacity can be expected to last longer. Be sure to load your RV evenly. Uneven load distribution leads to uneven tire wear. Tire Construction Tires of different constructions, such as radial and bias ply, as well as different sizes and stages of wear, can harm vehicle handling and stability. Use the same size and type of tire on all wheel positions. All RVs built since 1972 have a certification label that contains the following important information:
Tire Care Tips The most important thing you can do to extend the life of your tires is to inspect them regularly. The following tips will also help:
Need RV Insurance? In addition to RV tire care, make sure you have insurance coverage specialized for your RV. Check out our RV Insurance coverage options or get a quote. Homes become vacant for many reasons. Maybe your home is for sale but you haven't found a buyer yet. Or you've purchased a new home but won't move in for a while. It could be a rental property that's between tenants. Whatever the cause, there are some insurance risks that you should keep in mind.
You may be thinking, why get vacant home insurance when you already have regular homeowners insurance? Well, most homeowners policies exclude or limit coverage if the home is vacant, so you'll need more specific coverage. Insurance coverage is extremely important for a vacant home, because there are lots of dangers that threaten vacant homes in particular. If you're debating whether or not you need a vacant policy, talk to your insurance agent! Here are some things to ask about: Cost Vacant home insurance typically costs more than regular homeowners insurance due to potential risks like weather threats, fires and vandalism. However, you may be able to get a discount by installing security systems around the house. Even if your insurance company doesn't provide a discount for extra security, it's a good idea that will make your home safer! Coverage Each vacant home insurance policy is different. Many cover damage caused by fires, lightning, wind storms, hail, vandalism and theft. Check with your insurance company to see what options you have. (Remember to ask if flood damage coverage is an option!) There are also different time lengths for policies. Many are 12 months long, but they could go up to four years, so find out what will work best for you. You'll also want to consider Liability coverage, which applies if anyone is hurt on your property and you're found legally responsible. Restrictions Many insurance companies have different definitions of what is vacant and what is unoccupied. Additionally, there may be a specific time length distinction for the type of coverage. Restrictions can also be based on the age or value of the home. Discuss these variables with your insurance agent to find the coverage that works best for you! Still not sure if vacant home insurance is for you? Contact our local agents to learn more and get a quote! Overall, don't be afraid to ask questions about insurance. Let us know if you have any questions in the comments. Don't forget those loyal family members — your pets. They need preparation just as humans do.
Find shelter for your pets Unless you rely on the assistance of a guide or leader dog, Red Cross and other public shelters cannot accept pets. It's up to you to make other arrangements for your pet. Contact your veterinarian, Humane Society or Animal Control office for more information. There may be space available at 'pet shelters' on high ground in your community. Make sure your pets have up-to-date shots. Pet shelters require proof of vaccinations. Your pet survival kit Before a hurricane strikes, be sure to put together a Pet Survival Kit:
Keep an eye on your pet after a hurricane After the danger has passed, be careful in allowing your pet outdoors. Familiar scents and landmarks may be altered, and that could be confusing to your pet. Be careful that your pet doesn't become lost. Downed power lines present real danger to your pet, as do snakes, insects or animals driven to higher ground by floods. Most turtles begin to move as the weather warms. This may be for mating, nesting or many other reasons. Of course, turtles move much slower than cars (and don't understand human traffic laws), which makes crossing the road incredibly dangerous. To celebrate and protect all of the turtles out there, here are some tips for safely helping them reach their destination!
Safety First If you see a turtle on the road, remember to use the correct signals when pulling over. Keep your flashers on to warn oncoming vehicles and always check your surroundings. Moving the Turtle If the turtle is moving at a decent pace, you may be able to stand nearby and watch it cross. If the turtle is stagnant (or if you are uncomfortable touching the turtle), you may use a blunt object to help push it. Make sure the object isn't sharp, and be gentle! This will be your best option for moving a snapping turtle, they may bite if you use your hands. Picking up the Turtle Most turtles will hide in their shells if they are frightened, which makes it easier for you to pick them up. Place both of your hands behind the front legs and towards the back legs. The turtle may try to kick, so don't hold it up high – you don't want to drop it! Also, it's very important to never pick up a turtle by the tail, as this can severely injure them. Car Mat Another option for moving the turtles is using a car mat. This works best for larger turtles that you may not be able to lift. You can allow the turtle to walk onto the mat, or help gently push it onto the mat. Be sure to carry the mat low to the ground in case the turtle falls off. Going the Same Direction Be sure to move the turtle in the same direction it was trying to go. If you place it back where it was coming from, it will most likely turn around and return to the road. Do Not Take it with You Turtles and other wildlife are meant to stay in the wild. No matter how cute turtles can be, resist the temptation to bring it home. When taken out of their home areas, they will most likely try to go back. They are not pets so they need to be in their natural environment. Injured Turtles An injured turtle may look dead, so if you are unsure as to whether or not the turtle is injured, there are a few tricks you can try. Try gently touching the back of their foot, or touch the corner of its eye to test for a reaction. The turtle may try and kick, or move its head or eyes. If a turtle has a crack in its shell, it might drown if it returns to the water. If the turtle you find has a damaged shell, or seems seriously injured, contact a professional. Many veterinarians, animal shelters and wildlife rehabilitation centers will treat them for free. As one of the most common crimes, burglary is nothing to be taken lightly. Did you know that a burglary takes place every 18.2 seconds in the United States? That adds up to nearly 200 per hour, 4,800 per day, and 1,752,000 every year!
And unlike common belief, most of these burglaries happen in the middle of the day. According to the National Council for Home Safety and Security, break-ins are more likely to happen between 6AM and 6PM, right in the middle of the day! With the fall season upon us and the holidays approaching, it is important to make your home safe from break-ins. While there are many safety recommendations out there, HowStuffWorks has covered the seven most effective. Don't showboat. If you've just purchased a pricey new computer or television, breakdown the box and place it in the garbage bin instead of leaving it on the curb for everyone to see. Also, take a walk around your house to see how visible expensive items are with the curtains open. You may want to move some of them out of view to avoid enticing thieves. Pretend to be home. A break-in typically happens when no one is home, especially during the day while many people are at work. For that reason, create an illusion that someone is still there. You can leave a light on, along with music or your television. Secure sliding doors and windows. You can easily break into some older sliding doors by simply popping them off of their frame, even when locked. It's harder to do that with newer ones, but you should still take extra precaution to secure them since they can be an inviting entry for burglars. Simply take a strong dowel, steel bar or two-by-four and slide it into the back groove. Although you should always lock your windows before leaving the house, you can install a simple pin or nail into to the frame to stop it from raising more than a few inches. This will add an additional layer of security in case someone pops off the screen and you have left the window unlocked. Also remember to check window air conditioning units. If you can jimmy the window up from the outside, add a stopper to that frame. Don't leave a spare key out. It may seem like a good idea to leave a spare key hidden under a flower pot or doormat in case you get locked out of your house. But that's an open invitation for a burglar to walk inside without any difficulty. Instead, give a spare to a neighbor you know well or friend who lives nearby for safekeeping. Remember to never put any identifying information on your house keys. If you lose them, and someone else finds them, it would be fairly easy to trace them back to your home and break-in. Secure your yard. Tall shrubs and overgrown trees are welcome hiding places for criminals to wait until the coast is clear to get into your house. That doesn't mean you need to cut down every plant in your yard. Just keep things manicured. Prepare before vacation. Alert neighbors you trust about your trip and ask that they keep an eye on your property during that time. More importantly, when you leave town, don't leave signs of an empty house. First, if you have a home phone, don't change your message to alert callers that you have left town. Also avoid having piled up mail, overgrown lawns and newspapers strewn about your yard that send surefire signals you're miles away. Last, but certainly not least, don't announce vacation on social media. Lock it up. More than 40% of break-ins happen without the use of force, which means a lot of people are leaving their houses without locking the doors and windows. If you have a thumb latch lock and a deadbolt on your doors, always lock the dead bolt. Double-check weaker doors such as patio and sliding ones to make sure their locks are strong enough to withstand kicks. When you leave your home, don't forget to lock up the door leading from the garage to inside. Even if your garage door is down, someone can easily open it. According to the American Red Cross, more than 200 young children drown in backyard swimming pools each year. That's pretty scary to think about. And if you're a parent, that's your worst nightmare. Luckily, there's ways you can prevent a tragedy from happening in your backyard by following these guidelines from the American Red Cross:
Happy Independence Day! Harris, Reed & Seiferth Insurance Group hopes you are enjoying your holiday break in the sunshine. If you're cooking out this Fourth of July, it's important to be extremely cautious and alert at all times! According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), July is the peak month for grill fires. To avoid fires or unwanted burns, and of course - home insurance claims - review the tips below to have a happy and safe holiday.
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Jessica Anya Blau is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Johns Hopkins University, where she received her master's degree. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins.
Readers can count on bestselling author Jessica Anya Blau for a breezy coming-of-age story about a nice, middle-class, teenage girl who learns about life during a tumultuous summer with an offbeat
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Das Wissenschafterinnenkolleg Internettechnologien der Fakultät für Informatik der TU Wien lud gemeinsam mit der Österreichischen Computer Gesellschaft zu folgendem Vortrag ein: How to
give a great research talk? Simon Peyton Jones
Abstract Great research is wasted unless you can communicate your ideas to others. The two principal ways researchers do so are by writing papers, and by giving research talks. Nevertheless, many papers and talks, even by well-established researchers, are amazingly poorly presented. There are many simple things that everyone can do to improve talks and papers, regardless of whether you are a natural speaker or a fluent writer. In these two linked talks, I will try to abstract lessons from my own experience of writing about and presenting research, in the hope that they may be of use to you. I expect that some members of the audience will also be experienced researchers, with good ideas of their own. Nothing would delight me more than to move from presentation into two-way discussion so please come prepared to make your own contribution. Bio Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University , before moving to Microsoft Research in Cambridge , England in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages. He co-supervises a number of PhD students at the Cambridge University Computer Lab. Simon Peyton Jones has co-authored the article How to give a good research talk' ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28 Issue 11, 1993 (Slides). His home page is at http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj Kontaktperson an der TU Wien Dr. Beate List, email@example.com, Tel. 58801-18830 Unterstützung WIT wird gefördert aus Mitteln des Europäischen Sozialfonds und aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgte durch die freundliche Unterstützung von Microsoft Österreich und der Erste Bank. Hinweise Vortrag in englischer Sprache; Teilnahme kostenlos!
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CA-ACF2® - Protecting Data Integrity
5 hours
These courses describe how CA ACF2™ is used to protect and secure the system against accidental and malicious access and damage. It instructs the student on how CA ACF2™ works and how to define users, rules and parameters, to restrict access to the system and its resources.
Application programmers, systems programmers, database administrators, security administrators, and other personnel requiring knowledge about the use of the CA ACF2™ Security Server (ACF2) on the z/OS platform.
Completion of the "CA ACF2™ Introduction" course and knowledge of TSO, ISPF, data sets, and basic security requirements.
- After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify how system data is protected by using data set rules
- Define data set rules
- Code Role Based Access Rules
- Recognize data set rule parameters
- Identify how data set rules are maintained by using ACF2 commands and ISPF panels
Course Content
Defining Basic Data Set Rules
Defining Data Set Names Rules
Defining Access Permissions
Control Statements and Other Parameters
Conditional Parameters
Control Statements and Parameters
Protecting Special Data Sets
Maintaining Data Set Rules Using ACF2 Commands
Compile Commands
Commands to Create, Modify, and Delete
Maintaining Data Set Rules Using ISPF Panels
Create Data Set Rules
List and Modify Data Set Rules
Delete Data Set Rules


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Play The OHA Candidate Game October 8, 2014
"OHA has partnered with the grassroots, volunteer organization KANU Hawaii to develop an online, nonpartisan platform to educate the community on important issues – and motivate them to vote. This web-based tool can be played across all mobile devices as well as on your desktop. Candidates responded to a questionnaire by OHA and CivilBeat, then incorporated those questions and answers in the Candidate Game."


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Is 'Brain Spyware' In Our Future?
An excerpt from "Future Crimes."
The following is an excerpt from Future Crimes by Marc Goodman.
A number of technologies are taking us ever deeper into the workings of the human mind, in particular functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a noninvasive test that uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to map the brain and measure changes in blood flow as proxy for cerebral activity. In a groundbreaking experiment at UC Berkeley, neuroscientists were able to use fMRI to allow them to reconstruct the faces people were looking at based solely on patterns of their brain activity and what they were seeing in their mind. In another case, at Carnegie Mellon University, researchers used fMRI to correctly and repeatedly perform "thought identification"—identifying the object a person was thinking about, such as a hammer or a knife, merely by reviewing his brain scan. This and other studies led IBM to predict that by 2017 limited forms of mind reading would no longer be science fiction.
Already any number of commercial ventures have been formed to leverage the business opportunities afforded by "thought identification," including at least two companies focused on using fMRI in lie detection, No Lie MRI and Cephos. Their tests are bolstered by the Harvard professor Joshua Greene, whose research suggests the prefrontal cortex is more active in those who are lying, a useful thing to know for police. While neuro-ethicists ponder what it all means, law enforcement officials are already attempting to use the results of brain scans in criminal cases around the world. In India, a woman was convicted of killing her ex-fiancé with arsenic after a brain scan "proved" she had experiential knowledge of having committed the crime. Of course in American courts, under the Fifth Amendment, defendants cannot be forced to testify against themselves, but how does that reconcile with fMRI technology? At present, the criminal accused can be compelled to surrender DNA and blood samples, so why not "brain samples"? As the technology improves, we can certainly expect to see requests for "brain warrants" increasing as courts call their next witness—your mind—to testify against you.
Of course if doctors, scientists, and cops have access to a technology, it's a sure bet Crime, Inc. is not far behind, and it has been quite curious to know what's on your mind. We can expect hackers to start first by attacking neuroprosthetics, just as they did with other implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and diabetic pumps, by attempting to subvert their communications and control protocols. For instance, an attacker might be able to turn off the stabilizing electrodes of a deep-brain stimulator in a Parkinson's patient, which could lead to the resumption of violent tremors or grand mal seizures. Moreover, if two researchers at the University of Washington can communicate telepathically and even send motor-muscle stimulation signals over the Internet to cause another person to involuntarily move his body with a mere thought, what would prevent any malicious third party from hacking such a system and doing the same? While you were using your ultra-chic biosensor EEG to play Pong, move objects on the IoT, control your quadcopter drone, and snap a photograph with Google Glass using the awesome power of your mind, what would inhibit a third party from remotely dialing in and doing the same? As we have seen time and time again throughout this book—absolutely nothing.
It may already be starting. In 2012, researchers from Oxford University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Geneva demonstrated it was possible to carry out an attack against wearers of consumer-grade EEG headsets such as the Emotiv to pilfer sensitive personal information. While wearing the headsets, researchers flashed subjects photographs of things like ATM machine PIN pads, debit cards, and calendars. Underneath the images were questions such as what is your PIN code and when were you born? The results were powerful: by reading the brain waves emanating from these $300 headsets, researchers were able to figure out a subject's PIN number with 30 percent accuracy and her month of birth with 60 percent accuracy. The results are profound because they were obtained with increasingly popular consumer-grade biofeedback EEG devices (not fMRI machines). Both Emotiv and NeuroSky have app stores where users can download third-party apps, just as we do for our mobile phones. But given the vengeance with which Crime, Inc. has attacked phone app stores and seeded them with malware and fake apps, how long will it be before it uploads "brain spyware" to these new online marketplaces? But as we shall see, your brain cells aren't the only part of your biology that may be under attack.
Excerpted with permission from Future Crimes, by Marc Goodman. Copyright 2015 Marc Goodman. Reprinted with permission from Doubleday, a division of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Marc Goodman is author of Future Crimes (Doubleday, 2015) and founder of the Future Crimes Institute in San Francisco, California.


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Unplanned outage in eSett's services on 8.12.2020
On Tuesday 8.12.2020, there was an unplanned outage in eSett's Messaging Service and Online Service due to infrastructure configuration changes.
The whole outage lasted approximately between 13.15 – 17.20 CET. In the beginning of the outage, Messaging Service was still able to store and keep the messages in queue, but between 14.20 – 17.20 CET eSett was not able to receive or send any messages at all.
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OBiBa Amber Documentation
Targeted at individual studies and study consortia, OBiBa software stack (Amber, Opal, Mica etc.) provides a software solution for epidemiological data collection, management, analysis and publication. Amber is the data collection tool.
- Introduction
- Content
- Administration
- Cookbook
- Form Builder
- How to format text entries?
- How to make a select with a lot of options?
- How to make fields conditional?
- How to validate field values?
- How to make a computed field?
- How to group fields?
- How to make an image map?
- How to translate field labels?
- How to backup/restore/share a form?
- How to style a form item?
- How to extend to new type of fields?
- Case Reports
- Interviews
- Form Builder
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The development of this application was made possible thanks to the support of our partners and funders:
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Solution details
Marco Commander is a high-performance application used for Spatial Data Discovery and Data Reference Inventory. Constructed from the core functionality of Marco Desktop, Commander is designed for parallel processing and fully utilizes the resources of server-class machines to record datasets on a network and perform health-checks to determine factors such as frequency of use. Out of the box, it supports multiple installations on numerous machines, utilizing a central index and central controller for managing jobs, tracking changes, and providing common access to gathered data. This application is part of a suite of Knowledge Management solutions – Marco Studio – designed to better maintain spatial data on an enterprise system.


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Single dad forced to use foodbank he set up
Single parent Graham Holden (44) says his weekly benefits of £86 –which he relies on to feed himself and his 16-year-old son – were suddenly cut off amid accusations that he had a partner living with him.
But he says the woman suspected of living under his roof was actually the previous tenant of his council property and he's never even met her.
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Hide AdGraham works full-time for Perth and Kinross District Council at its recycling centre in Kinross, earning £900 a month, which he says is swallowed up by rent and bills.
The extra £86 a week was made up of working tax credit and child tax credit, as his son is still at school.
In March, he received a letter out of the blue from Concentrix, part of a multi-billion pound American organisation contracted by HMRC to investigate alleged benefit fraud.
The Belfast-based firm has been widely criticised and in an investigation by the Independent newspaper last year, it was accused of embarking on a vast 'fishing expedition', with staff under pressure to open between 30-40 new tax credit fraud investigations every day, with no time to follow them up to find out if they were justified.
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Hide Ad"The letter asked me to send personal documents like bank statements and fuel bills, which I sent off along with a letter from my lawyer confirming I had custody of my son," said Graham, founder of the Kinross-shire foodbank Broke Not Broken.
"I heard nothing more until I went to top up my gas and electricity at the local shop and found my bank account was empty.
"They had stopped my benefits without any warning. I was horrified.
"I had to go to the Scottish Welfare Fund and get a crisis grant.
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Hide Ad"I spent eight hours trying to get through to HMRC without success and eventually phoned Concentrix.
"The person I spoke to was very nice, but said the situation was out of his hands and that he was just carrying out instructions from HMRC.
"I was so desperate I had to get vouchers to go to my own foodbank. I just can't believe this is happening to me – and the sad thing is I know there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people going through the same thing."
Now Graham has set up a meeting with his MP, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who says she has had dozens of similar complaints. Some people have ignored the letters, thinking them a hoax, while others have become upset.
We contacted the media relations department at Concentrix on Tuesday to ask for a comment, but none was forthcoming.


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As someone who works in the field of spiritual formation, I am constantly concerned with providing people space to ask the question, "Where is God in this?" It has now been three months since the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly and noticeably across the United States.
With many of our plans canceled, our schedules cleared, friends and family members distanced from us, we may have found ourselves forced to confront a slower pace. Where is God in this slower pace of life?
In the slowness, gradualness and perhaps even boredom, God is still with us. Though our lives might be primarily stripped of normality, God does not depart from us. Reading the signs of the times through the lens of the church's liturgical calendar, we can recognize that the feast of Pentecost calls us to notice this.
At Pentecost, God sends the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, to fulfill Jesus' promise to the apostles in the Great Commission in the Gospel of Matthew: "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age" (Mt 28:20).
Because of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles at Pentecost, we know that the triune God remains with us, no matter what situation in which we find ourselves.
So, what does it mean to say that God is everywhere? It means that we reframe our original question of "Where is God in this?" to the same question that the psalmist asks in Psalm 139: "Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee?" (Ps 139:7).
Not only is God everywhere, but God also pursues us from every direction, inviting us to deeper relationship and communion. Most especially, God pursues us through the things that are most often right in front of us.
God pursues us in creation. The Book of Proverbs speaks of wisdom, a biblical image for the triune God, as playing in creation (Prv 8:30).
How often do we stop to consider that God plays before us, like a trusting child before her mother, seeking our delight through the play of creation, of beautiful sunsets, fresh snowfall or the improbability of the sun shining through a rain shower?
God also pursues us through other human beings, as Jesuit Father Gerard Manley Hopkins notes in his poem "As Kingfishes Catch Fire": "For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ to the Father through the features of men's faces."
How does God pursue you in your friends, spouse, the marginalized or your children? Do you realize that Christ appears in their faces?
Perhaps the invitation that the pandemic presents to us is to rediscover this fact: that God is everywhere. In other words, perhaps the pandemic gives us the time and space to develop sacramental vision: to glance more intensely, more lengthily, at the things in our everyday path and consider how God is pursuing us through them.
Like our understanding of the sacraments, created things can mediate God to us; however, are we truly paying attention?
While stay-at-home orders continue for some and gradual reopening begins for others, we can attune our eyes for sacramental vision by lingering for just a while longer on the grass and dirt beneath our feet, our relationships with others, the food we prepare and our free time.
This sacramental vision not only allows us to recognize God in all things but also transforms us through our response. The more we notice God, the more we can become like God, no matter what is taking place in our world.
As St. Vincent Pallotti reminds us: "Seek God and you will find him. Seek God in all things, and you will find him everywhere. Seek God at all times, and you will always find him. We must inhale and exhale God. Then we will radiate God's presence."
By Colleen Campbell Catholic News Service
Campbell is coordinator of formation programs at the Catholic Apostolate Center and a doctoral candidate in catechetics at The Catholic University of America.


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Carol Vorderman gives social media followers impromptu Welsh language lesson
Carol Vorderman has given her social media followers an impromptu lesson in the Welsh language.
The former Countdown star, 60, shared the lesson after she stumbled across a gate with an inscription in Welsh on it.
She has been keeping her followers updated on her adventures during a paddleboarding summer holiday in Wales.
In her Instagram post, she said: "Little Welsh lesson. A gate which someone has dedicated to their TAID (Pronounced TIDE) which is Welsh for grandfather."
The TV personality, who is originally from Prestatyn, documented her beach BBQ which she enjoyed alongside a handful of her friends after they spent the day paddleboarding and sightseeing in the beautiful Welsh countryside.
Vorderman has been learning the Welsh language on the S4C programme Iaith ar Daith (Language on Tour).
She spent the tour in the north of Wales with Welsh-speaking BBC weather presenter Owain Wyn Evans.
At the time, she told North Wales Live, told us: "I come home quite frequently but this time was different as I had to speak in Welsh all the time.
"It's strange as it really gave me a different view of home, I suppose as it's quite nerve-wracking."
'Huge growth'
She added: "Almost all of the parents are English speakers but they choose to send their children to a Welsh speaking school as the language is now having a huge growth.
"If I was a parent of young children in Wales now, I would absolutely send my children to a Welsh language primary school."
She also resurgence of the Welsh language in recent years was "beautiful".
She explained: "When I grew up in the 1960s and the 1970s there was, rightfully, a lot of anger surrounding how the Welsh language had been purposefully almost obliterated by the use of the Welsh not in schools, and the treatment of it as though it didn't matter by the powers that be.
"Thankfully, the Welsh nationalists would not give in, and now the language is having the biggest resurgence, and it's a beautiful thing to witness.
"I have fallen in love with my country in a way I didn't know was possible, and the language has a great part to play in that."
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