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So the ACLU (that would be, the Anti-Christian Liberals Union) are representing a handful of parents upset because a Pennsylvania high school is actually allowing people to think by including the mention of "intelligent design" as part of the science curriculum.
Ironic, isn't it? The ACLU claims (at least according to their name) to defend our civil rights, free speech being one of the big ones. Here, however, they are essentially arguing for censorship. Acknowledging "intelligent design" as a theory could apparently be damaging to young minds, and teenage students need to be protected from any notion that there may indeed be a God, or at least some kind of other-worldly intelligence. Children apparently have the Constitutional right to learn about alternative lifestyles, birth control and the right to an abortion. However, they need to be protected from the concept of "intelligent design."
At first my assumption was that these parents and the ACLU are afraid of religion, because they are raising the mythological "Constitutional separation of church and state." However, I don't think it's necessarily religion that they are afraid of; I think the key word here is intelligent. They are simply afraid that these High School students may learn to think on their own, and so the ACLU needs to protect their Constitutional right to ignorance. (What amendment was that?)
I could possibly agree, if the issue was teaching Creationism only; that would be just as improper as teaching solely Darwinism. The truth, as they say, will out; that is, if you give opposing viewpoints a chance. By avoiding confrontation, and presenting only one side of an issue, the truth doesn't get a chance. That's censorship.
Of course, what these people really may be afraid of is the radical right, and there they may actually have a point. The radical righters, who would also impose censorship if they had a chance, are often not the best people to represent intelligence.
What really cracked me up was a CNN story (which they attribute to Rueters), which stated, "They also argue that intelligent design is unscientific and has no place in a science curriculum." So, now the courts are going to decided what is scientific? I've dealt with the courts enough to know they have a hard enough time trying to decide what the law is, much less what is "scientific." (Is there a jury instruction for that?)
I am afraid that no matter which way the court rules on this case, truth will lose, because the real problem has nothing to do with the issues being debated. The real problem is one of categories. It seems that both sides, in true modern, rationalistic fashion, have taken for granted that science is something that must be kept separate from philosophy, so they are debating in which category ID should fall. It's ridiculous. Science has always had a philosophical component, whether scientists care to admit it or not.
How you approach any study depends on your worldview, as does how data is interpreted. The fact that someone becomes a scientist is a result of their worldview. The fact that someone's worldview doesn't include a belief in God does not mean their approach to science is not tied to a philosophy. Again, the whole thing is ridiculous. However, a modernistic worldview (again, a philosophy) believes – wrongly – that you can isolate "science" from anything else.
In perhaps two or three generations, I expect that the impact of post-modernism and advances in scientific discovery will change how everyone views science. And, maybe by then someone will have figured out that freedom from religion is really not in the Bill of Rights, and that all of this arguing has just been a waste of time. Or, maybe not. But, by then we'll probably all be dust in the wind, scientifically speaking.


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Sometimes you experience something that makes your jaw hit the floor - like I did yesterday.
It started innocently enough; the BanBat commander invited the other 'wege and me for lunch - on occasion he'll do something like that, either because he wants representatives from the UNMOs for a semi-official function, because he wants some company or simply because he haven't done it in a while*. Yesterday was one of the former, he had invited two ladies from the american Carter Center who are in Yei as Referendum Observers. So naturally during dinner I start inquiring where they are from - being a curious sort and married to an american girl. One of the ladies was from Orlando, but that's not what made my day - the other one? West Virginia, just like my better half. Hearing that, I got more inquisitive - what part of the mountain state? Oh, just a little town no one outside West Virginia have heard off... except me. Which off course made her inquisitive... after all, wouldn't you be if you meet a stranger in darkest Africa who happened to know where you're from?
So off course I came clean and admitted to being married to a West Virginian from the State Capital - where the lady in question had been working until ten years or so ago... and working at the Cultural Center no less. At this point things were getting a little weird... I had to reveal that my inlaws works there, and have been for many a year. And upon hearing my father-in-law's last name... jaws drops.
Lets face it.. how likely is it that you go to a remote corner of Sudan, happens to be near the door when the BanBat Commander wants to invite a couple of UNMOs for lunch, inquires politely about where someone is from and ends up meeting a good friend of your better half's family who were - I was informed - devastated that she and her husband couldn't make our wedding six and a half year ago?
Afterwards I had to call not just my better half, but also both my inlaws, causing jaws to drop in Europe and North America as well... one lunch caused dropped jaws on three continents. Pretty good going for a Monday.
Also, later in the day I ran into three Norwegians when our Security Officer and I went out to have dinner with some of the returning NGOs... which would been making my day if my brain hadn't already been blown.
*) Our BanBat Commander likes entertaining, as I'm sure is obvious from my blogposts.


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Some Office Baroque footage, Some footage similar to Office Baroque
Gordon Matta-Clark died thirty years ago today. He stayed in Antwerp for a while in 1977, just before his death, working with Florent Bex, creating Office Baroque, which he called anarchitecture. Pieces of his "building cuts" were sold around the world[1].
I like him, much as I like the near-contemporary and also short-lived Robert Smithson. Whither now, anarchitecture, and other visionary environments?


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22.214.171.124 Historic Signs
A. Historic Sign Inventory. The inventory of historically significant signs shall be established by resolution of the City Council.
B. Criteria for Designation of Historic Signs. All signs for which designation as a Historic Sign are requested shall be substantially in existence at the time of the application; shall be displayed in their original location; shall be in association with an important event, person, group, or business in the history of Ashland; shall follow a guideline of being in existence for approximately 40 years; and shall meet one of the following criteria.
1. The sign is exemplary of technology, craftsmanship, or design of the period when it was constructed, uses historic sign materials or means of illumination, and is not significantly altered from its historic period. If the sign has been altered, it must be restorable to its historic appearance.
2. The sign is integrated into the architecture of the building and is exemplary of a historically significant architectural style.
C. Procedure for Designating Historic Signs. The owner of any sign may request that said sign be reviewed for significance in the Historic Sign Inventory upon written application to the City Council. Application fees shall be the same as for Type II applications. Applications shall include written findings addressing the criteria for designation of historic signs, and current and historic photographs of the sign, if available.
1. The City Council shall refer all requests for inclusion on the Historic Sign Inventory to the Historic Commission for review and recommendation to the Council within 30 days of the request. Notice of the Historic Commission meeting shall be mailed to all affected property owners within 100 feet of the subject property. If a recommendation is not made within 30 days, the request shall be forwarded to the Council without a recommendation.
2. The City Council shall, after receiving the recommendation of the Historic Commission or after 30 days, provide notice to all affected property owners within 100 feet of the subject property of a public hearing before the Council.
3. The City Council shall decide, based on the criteria above and the recommendation of the Historic Commission, whether to approve the request to include the sign on the inventory.
4. Inclusion on the Historic Sign Inventory shall be by resolution of the City Council.
5. The burden of proof shall be on the applicant.
D. Historic Signs Exempt from Certain Requirements. Signs on the Historic Sign Inventory in any zone shall be exempt from the requirements of chapter 18.4.7, except subsections 18.4.7.030.E and 220.127.116.11.C. Also, that the sign area of the historic sign is exempted from the total allowable sign area, as defined in this section, except as modified by City Council conditions in E. below.
E. Conditions on Historic Signs. The City Council shall have the authority to impose conditions regulating area, maintenance, etc. on the signs included in the Historic Sign Inventory to further the purpose and intent of chapter 18.4.7.
F. Removal or Demolition. Removal or demolition of a Historic Sign shall be done under permit and approval of the Staff Advisor. The Historic Commission shall review the permit at their next regularly scheduled meeting and shall have the authority to delay issuance for 30 days from the date of their review meeting. Such delay shall be to allow the Commission the opportunity to discuss alternate plans for the sign with the applicant.
G. Involuntary Damage or Destruction. Signs on the Historic Sign Inventory, which have been destroyed or damaged by fire or other calamity, by act of God or by public enemy to an extent greater than 50 percent, may be reconstructed in an historically accurate manner. Such reconstruction shall be authorized by the City Council, only after determination that the reconstruction will be an accurate duplication of the historic sign, based on review of photographic or other documentary evidence specifying the historic design. The Historic Commission shall review and make recommendations to the Council on all such reconstructions.
H. Maintenance and Modification of Historic Signs.
1. All parts of the historic sign, including but not limited to neon tubes, incandescent lights and shields, and sign faces, shall be maintained in a functioning condition as historically intended for the sign. Replacement of original visible components with substitutes to retain the original appearance shall be permitted provided such replacements accurately reproduce the size, shape, color, and finish of the original. Failure to maintain the sign in accord with this section shall be grounds for review of the historic sign designation by the City Council.
2. Modifications of a historic sign may be allowed, after review by the Historic Commission and approval by the City Council, only if such modifications do not substantially change the historic style, scale, height, type of material, or dimensions of the historic sign, and does not result in a sign which does not meet the criteria for designation as a historic sign.
3. Changes in the location of a historic sign may be allowed, after review by the Historic Commission and approval by the City Council, only if such locational change does not result in the sign no longer meeting the criteria for designation as a historic sign.


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Energy Economics and Finance Seminar
Virtual event
Event Summary
The seminar series in Energy Economics & Finance (EEF) is jointly organized by Wharton's Business Economics and Public Policy Department, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Wharton's Business, Climate and Environment Lab. The scope of the seminar includes regulation and policy papers. The scope of the seminar also includes environmental and transportation issues, as long as there is a connection with energy. Sessions are biweekly on Mondays from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For Fall 2021, the seminar will be a combination of in-person and virtual talks. In-person talks will be held at JMHH G90 while virtual ones will meet via Zoom. Meeting links and passcodes for virtual talks are required in order to join and will be included in the emailed meeting announcement prior to each session.
Find and add a Google Calendar version of the schedule on the BEPP seminar page.
To sign up for the seminar, please send your name, email, and affiliation to Dhivya Kaushik: email@example.com
Talk title: What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices
Abstract: The percentage of U.S. homes heated with electricity has increased steadily from 1% in 1950, to 8% in 1970, to 26% in 1990, to 39% in 2018. This paper investigates the key determinants of this increase in electrification using data on heating choices from millions of U.S. households over a 70-year period. Energy prices, geography, climate, housing characteristics, and household income are shown to collectively explain 90% of the increase, with changing energy prices by far the most important single factor. This framework is then used to calculate the economic cost of an electrification mandate for new homes. Households in warm states tend to prefer electricity anyway, so would be made worse off by less than $300 annually on average. Households in cold states, however, tend to strongly prefer natural gas so would be made worse off by $1000+ annually. These findings are directly relevant to a growing number of policies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions through electrification, and underscore the importance of pricing energy efficiently.
Lucas Davis
Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule
- 9/27: Ishan Nath, Princeton University
- 10/11: Tihitina Andarge, UMass-Amherst
- 10/18: Lucas Davis, UC-Berkeley
- 10/25: Francisco Costa, University of Delaware
- 11/8: Paige Weber, UNC-Chapel Hill
- 11/15: Sam Stolper, University of Michigan


text: Being a non-profit organization the organization does not accept any gifts, alms or donations .The inhabitants of the ashram work in the agricultural fields and the income from the produce is utilized for social welfare activities and meets the expenses of the organization. The name Dera Sacha Sauda is related with a true-life incident of Guru Nanak .It is believed that when Guru Nanak was twelve years old his father gave him twenty rupees to do business. Guru Nanak bought food with all the money and gave it to saints and poor. He told his father that he had done a "True business." Sacha Sauda is believed to be the place where Guru Nanak fed the poor. The principles of this organization are secularism ,equality ,rejection of materialistic wealth ,leading a true life ,strict individual discipline ,hardwork and meditation as enumerated by Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh in order to attain Moksha. The principal source of income of the organization is agriculture . The organization runs a hospital in Ganganagar, Rajasthan, which is the birth place of Saint Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh Ji, along with a hostel for girls, a boys' school and a degree college in Haryana. Dera Sacha Sauda has been twice recognized by Guinness World Records for massive blood donation camps:A camp conducted by Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh in Sirsa, Haryana on 7th December 2003, in which 15,432 donors participated in merely 12 hours. A camp was organized in Bapu Ji village, Sriganganagar, India on 10th October 2004 in which 17,921 donors participated. The Parampita Shah Satnamji Educational and Welfare Society, which is affiliated to Dera Sacha Sauda, built the Shah Satnamji Cricket Stadium in Sirsa, Haryana. Using a workforce of 10,000, the stadium was said to have been built in 45 days and have a capacity of 30,000. It is spread over 100 acres, which would make the second largest in Asia. Dera Sacha Sauda also runs a Drug Rehabilitation Centre in Sirsa, where many people have been treated. Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh started a Drug Prevention Campaign against the use of intoxicants and inspires people to give up their drug addiction in every spiritual congregation. People willing to give up their addiction stay in Dera Sacha Sauda for seven days and medical treatment is available for them free of cost. The institution sees chemical dependency (Drug Addiction) as a behavioural disorder and encourages the addicts to bring about a positive change in their personality. |


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India After Independence
The emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state with the active help of India was an important event. During the liberation struggle between East Pakistan and West Pakistan India supported East Pakistan. The coordinated approach of the Indian forces along with Mukti Bahini ultimately led to the liberation of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) in December 1971 India is maintaining friendly relations right from the birth of Bangladesh in
India has also been maintaining friendly relations with its neighbours for which purpose the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives are its members. The aim of SAARC is to increase economic, social and cultural cooperation among its members. Periodic meetings are being held to achieve this goal.
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Bugs are coding errors, flaws, or faults in a computer program or software that cause the system to misbehave or produce unexpected results. In simple terms, bugs refer to any outcome or behavior that a program or software presents which was not meant to exist.
In most cases, bugs are caused by human error. Multiple factors can trigger a bug, such as unintentional mistakes in source code or program design, incorrect code injection, etc. Although mistakes like bad syntax [→] are mostly identified by the compiler [→] or interpreter [→], other bugs usually occur due to logical errors.
Use Cases and Examples
Bugs usually result in annoying program glitches, but sometimes they can even crash the whole program. If a product is released and bugs are encountered after, the vendor then has to offer users with patch [→] to update the program and fix the buggy code. In other to fix these bugs developers usually go through a process known as debugging [→] which is employing different strategies to replicate the conditions causing the bug and find a fix for it.
Let's assume you are running a program that works fine. Now you have to close it, so you click the "cancel" button. But the program performs no action to your input. You retry multiple times but it still does not close the program. This implies the program has a bug resulting in this behavior.
Although bugs are not malicious, still they can cause minor to severe damages. Despite technological advancements, it's still hard to ever find a bug-free program. As an end-user, the best way to address bugs is to report them.
Here is another article you might like 😊 "Diary Of Insights: A Documentation Of My Discoveries"


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In this post, we will show you how to fix Destiny 2 that keeps disconnecting from its server and understand the reason why the problem keeps happening. Most of the time it's just a minor problem, so continue reading to learn how to prevent it.
When a game keeps disconnecting from its servers, there are often a couple of possibilities. It's either due to a connection issue with your computer, or the servers are under maintenance. At least these are the first two possibilities you have to rule out to know more about the problem.
Another possibility you have to look into is that the problem can be due to a corrupt game cache or installation files. There are things you need to do to rule out such a possibility. With that being said, here's what you should do:
Fix #1: Do a speed test on your PC
Doing a speed test will tell you immediately if the problem is caused by a connection problem, because if your PC isn't connected to the Internet, you won't even be able to do the test. However, if it's connected but the connection is unstable or slow, then the speed test results will also tell you that.
- So log on to SpeedTest.net.
- If the page loads, click Go to begin the speed test.
If the results show that your connection is way lower than what you're supposed to be getting, then reboot your router or modem. That should fix it.
Fix #2: Check the servers
If Destiny 2 disconnected from the servers without apparent reason or cause, then it's possible that the servers are down or under maintenance. You have to check on that to know if it's really a server issue, because if it is, then all you have to do is wait until the problem is fixed. Server issues are usually fixed within an hour or two.
- To check the servers, log on to DownDetector.com.
- Search for Destiny 2, and then check if there are a lot of reports in the last couple of hours.
If it's a server problem, you don't have to do anything. However, if the servers don't have problems, then move on to the next solution.
Fix #3: Delete the game's cache
After making sure that your PC is connected to the Internet and that the servers are up and running, then it's time to troubleshoot the game itself. The next thing you have to do is to delete the game's cache because it has a tendency to get corrupted. Here's how:
- Press the Windows and R keys on your keyboard.
- Type %appdata% and click OK.
- Look for the Bungie folder and double-click it.
- Now look for the DestinyPC folder and delete it.
After doing that, launch Destiny two again and see if it still disconnects from the server.
Fix #4: Check the integrity of the game files
After deleting the cache and the problem continues, the next thing you have to check are the installation files themselves. They too have a tendency to get corrupted. However, you don't necessarily have to delete them. Just let the Steam client scan them for you and fix any possible problem. Here's how it's done:
- Launch the Steam client.
- Navigate to the Library tab, right-click on Destiny 2 and click Properties.
- Navigate to Local Files and then click Verify integrity of game files.
- Wait until the verification is finished.
Once the process is done, open the game again and see if the problem is fixed, if not, move on to the next solution.
Fix #5: Reinstall Destiny 2
If all else fails, your last resort is to uninstall the game to remove all its installation files and association with the system and other apps. After doing that, reinstall the game and it should fix the problem. This is how it's done:
- Launch the Steam client.
- Navigate to the Library tab and right-click on Destiny 2.
- Hover over Manage, and click Uninstall.
- Click Uninstall one more time to remove the game from your computer.
Once the game is successfully uninstalled, restart your PC and then reinstall it. That should take care of the Destiny 2 disconnection issues.
We hope that we've been able to help you.
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Inspired by color and light, Joyce paints from life, on site, in oils, water-
colors, pastels and acrylics. Rivers, coastal areas and historic towns are favorite locations. Wild birds, people, and animals are often included in her paintings. The Plein Air paintings are the Inspiration and reference for large landscapes and wildlife paintings created in her studio.
Inspired by color & light
Joyce painting in Plein Air.
Photo by Sally Smythe
Rainbow River Ghost Tree, watercolor
Gallinules on the Rainbow, oil
Micanopy Antiques, oil
Brooksville Oak on Market Day, watercolor
Fishing on the Rocks, watercolor
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Get a Feel for your Brand.
Our goal is to have your brand touch the minds of anyone who sees it, but what if they could touch back. Print media lets you take your brand into the physical word and into the literal hand of its consumers. We've worked on a range of print media projects such as business cards, menus, posters, decals, and more. Let the consumer take a piece of your brand with them wherever they go.


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A pro-government militia has vowed to withdraw from a strategic town in Mali's volatile northeast, urging all parties involved in the country's conflict to respect the terms of a June 20 peace deal.
Fahad Ag Almahmoud, secretary-general of armed Tuareg group Imghad and its allies (GATIA), told a local radio station Tuesday that his forces had agreed to withdraw from the town of Anefif, located in northeastern Mali's Kidal region.
"The international community must answer the question as to who will occupy Anefif after the withdrawal of the Platform," Almahmoud said.
"Our withdrawal from Anefif is the first step towards implementation of the agreement," he added.
His comments came after Mali's Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) suspended its participation in a committee tasked with monitoring the implementation of the June 20 peace deal between it and the pro-government militia.
The Algeria-led monitoring committee was established in June to oversee implementation of the agreement, which was signed by the Malian government May 15 and then by rebel groups June 20.
On Aug. 15, Anefif reportedly fell to the pro-government GATIA militia — the first time since mid-2014 that the CMA lost control of a town in the Kidal region.
Three days later, the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, set up a "safety zone" around Kidal after clashes erupted between pro-government militiamen and Tuareg rebel groups, leaving dozens dead.
Tensions erupted in Mali in 2012 following a failed coup and a Tuareg rebellion that ultimately allowed Al-Qaeda-linked militant groups to take over the northern half of the country.
In early 2013, former colonial power France sent troops to Mali and – with the help of Chadian and other African forces — flushed Islamist militants from the country's main northern cities.


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Kukui nut oil has been used for many years throughout the islands of Hawaii. More recently it has become more mainstream in the rest of the world. Kukui nut oil is used to moisturize and protect the skin from sun, salt, wind and other environmental elements. Kukui oil is also used for minor skin irritations, wounds, and burns. It is most commonly used as a massage oil. The fatty acids present in kukui nut make it a superior moisturizing product for dry skin and hair.
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Kukui nut oil penetrates the skin easily and leaves the skin feeling silky and smooth. Kukui nut oil does not leave the skin feeling greasy. This oil contains vitamins A, C, and E, which are antioxidants known to protect the skin and prevent free-radical damage to the skin cells. Kukui nut oil can leave even the driest, dullest, aging skin looking healthy and radiant. Kukui nut oil also works well as an under eye treatment for the prevention and softening of crow's feet.
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Kukui nut oil is easily absorbed by the deepest layers of the skin, and forms a protective barrier on the skin that protects against environmental damage. Kukui nut oil is used to treat sunburns, windburns, eczema, chapped skin, psoriasis, dry skin conditions, acne, scars, lesions and maturing skin. According to an article on aromaweb.com, kukui nut oil is composed of 42 percent linoleic acid and 29 percent alpha-linolenic acid, which may help to heal certain skin conditions, while keeping the skin healthy and nourished.
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Hawaiians use kukui nut oil on dry hair that has been damaged by overexposure to elements such as the sun and wind. The amino acids and essential fatty acids present in kukui nut oil penetrate the hair shaft and leave hair looking healthy and moisturized. Kukui nut oil can be used as a treatment for an itchy scalp or dandruff. It has the same regenerative effects on the hair and scalp as it does for the skin. According to an article on hairmatters.us, the gamma-linoleic acid present in kukui nut oil makes it useful as a leave-in treatment that conditions, imparts shines, and restores moisture to hair.


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londonbased reachdesk b2b 45m highland Gifting has become a main lever in the world of creating business relationships within the last 20 months. Along with in-person meetings decreased to a trickle, delivering a gift to a friend or business connect has become a more individualized way to reward, curry favor or just stay in touch beyond the basics associated with pinging each other more than a messaging platform, the zoom or a message. Today, Reachdesk — one of the businesses that's riding to the wave of that ever-expanding B2B gifting world — is launching that it has elevated $43 million, an indicator of the momentum within the space at the moment, along with Reachdesk's own company specifically growing 600% in the last year.
Highland European countries is leading the particular round, a Series M round of funding, with Highland Funds, HubSpot Ventures plus RLC Ventures furthermore participating. HubSpot is really a strategic backer: Reachdesk integrates with a variety of CRM and other company support tools, which includes HubSpot's, to help all those sending gifts deal with their campaigns towards a more organized way.
While the globe of retail includes a clear peak period for gift buying plus giving that begins around Black Fri and ends soon after the New Year, corporate giving knows no begin nor endpoint aside from the beginning and conclusion (and ideally not really the latter, but rather a relentless relationship) of a company association.
So with the market with an upswing to fill up the vacuum remaining when in-person conferences disappeared off the work schedule, there have been a number of other B2B gifting startups furthermore seeing growth plus raising money in order to fuel that. They will include Sendoso , which usually announced a hundred buck million round a couple of weeks back. Then there's Alyce , which raised $30 million in Apr for a platform this says uses AI to improve the suitability between the occasion, the particular sender and the individual who is receiving the present. (That's not a poor aim, considering that striking the target on the present itself and delivering something that feels correct can mean all the distinction between getting delete word getting your desired end result as the sender. ) And & Open raised $7. 2 million for the own twist in the model, a system aimed specifically with sending B2B presents at scale.
Reachdesk started in London in 2019 by Alex Olley, Jay Radia, Meelan Radia and Alex Correia-Santos, with Temy Mancusi-Ungaro joining because CEO in May of the year. The idea for that company came out of exactly the same impulse that sparked the creation associated with at least one of the other online companies in the space: private experience.
Specifically, the two Radias — who are siblings — previously acquired co-founded Yieldify, the marketing startup which was backed by GV, among others. In that period and across various other roles, they direct came to understand how guide the process was meant for gifting in the B2B world, and how it may be so much more meaningful — in the business sense, not really the sentimental feeling as you might have within a consumer gift — if it could be linked in with other software program that people use to monitor and manage their own business prospects plus wider strategic preparing.
Mancusi-Ungaro — who is located in Reachdesk's other large center, New York — acknowledged that there are certainly a lot of similarities in between different gifting companies — it is, all things considered, a very well-defined plus massive space, really worth some $235 billion dollars annually in the Oughout. S. and Oughout. K. alone — but the key differentiator with Reachdesk, he or she added, is that it has been operated as a worldwide business, which gives clients the ability to use the system in much larger and more consolidated promotions. That in turn provides the startup access to offering much bigger business customers, in addition to smaller sized ones, in a more effective manner.
The company does this particular by providing three primary buckets for giving options. The first of those focuses on the company's own inventory associated with items, a mix of the company's own swag and items that this curates, which Reachdesk houses in co-located warehouses in different parts of the world. The second is an industry, currently with some fifty vendors, that links gift givers using a network of present makers that concentrate on, say, personalised business gifts. The third region is the wide entire world of gift credit cards, with no physical containers at all. The idea would be to expand all 3 in the future.
While today the majority of the use cases pertaining to Reachdesk are still within the areas of sales plus marketing, there are some rising scenarios that talk to how it might develop, said Mancusi-Ungaro. Such as more internal presents for employees inside your company; and possibly also gifts that the business might send to its clients, B2B2C, if you would certainly, with the "C" symbolizing not clients, yet customers of the company. In such a scenario you can imagine that the global achieve and scale associated with Reachdesk might well enter into play.
"The Reachdesk group truly understands this points faced simply by companies looking to crack through to customers along with effective marketing promotions and has built just one solution that acutely addresses these, " said Laurence Garrett, partner at Highland Europe, in a declaration. "Every group member is interested in making corporate giving work for everyone included, and has an unique undertake it, one that is placed to capitalize for the potential in this room, and become a clear marketplace leader. "


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Facts About Salem
Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon and the county seat of Marion County.
One of Oregon's premier cultural events is the annual Salem Art Fair & Festival.
Salem was founded in 1842.
Salem became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851 and was incorporated in 1857.
Salem has a population of 174,365, as of 2019, making it the second-largest city in the state after Portland.
The State of Oregon is the largest public employer in the city, and Salem Health is the largest private employer.
The first people of European descent arrived in the area as early as 1812; they were animal trappers and food gatherers for the fur trading companies in Astoria, Oregon.
Oregon has had three capitol buildings in Salem. The first was built in 1855 and burned to the ground after only two months. The second was built in 1876 and lasted until 1935 when it, too, caught fire and burned down.
Salem is twinned with the following sister cities Tamil Nadu, India; Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan & Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea.
The 31st U.S. President Herbert Hoover resided in Salem for three years.


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Auckland Museum and Domain
One of the most popular (and most importantly, cheap) attractions in Auckland, that is a stone throw away from Epsom, is the Auckland Museum and domain. A worthwhile day trip, we recommend starting at the domain where you can explore some of the many historic trails that wind throughout the huge area of greenery, including the lovers walk – or follow the trail through the bush to Parnell and take in some of the artesian food and chocolatiers.
If you prefer to stick in the domain, the biggest highlight is the winter gardens which features rare and spectacular plants in a constantly-changing display within the confides of the two barrel-vaulted Victorian style glass houses which face out on to an extensive courtyard and sunken pool.
From there you can move onto the Auckland Museum which is open daily from ten AM to five PM and if you are looking to learn a little bit more about New Zealand's history and culture, look no further. The museum features a diverse range of exhibits, including Maori and Pacifica, fashion and pop-culture, wars and even a volcano room.
Mount Eden
Any local will tell you that you can't visit Epsom without walking to the summit of Mt. Eden. On a velar day, a trip up the highest volcanic peak in mainland Auckland will reward you with striking panoramic views views of the downtown area and harbour and greater city limits. The walk up is also adjourned with animals and stones that are often arranged to spell different messages. Be sure to take plenty of water, snacks and selfies!
Stardome Observatory
Perfect for children and adult stargazers, the stardome offers visitors a truly unique experience to fully experience a slice of the southern hemisphere night sky. Discover the history and significance to New Zealanders of well-known constellations like the Southern Cross and Matariki. The sky of the Southern Hemisphere contains beautiful star clusters, gas cloud nebulae and star patterns that can only be seen from this latitude. Open seven days a week, this is a perfect activity for the whole family to enjoy.
La Cigale French Market
Voted Auckland's Best Food Market by Metro Magazine for the last 8 years, this artesian French market you'll find an amazing selection of top quality products from both New and from overseas. If you are wanting the perfect way to start your morning, look no further, the markets feature long communal tables where you can enjoy a coffee with something delicious from one of the counters, which include the famous Croque Monsieurs or the best Bahn Mi sandwich in Auckland, mouth-watering beef bourguignon pie or a slice of one of our many tarts – and that's just the tip of the iceberg! Experience it for yourself, La Cigale French Market is held every Saturday from 8am to 1.30pm and Sunday from 9am to 1.30pm.
Eden Garden
This award winning garden is located in the heart of Auckland and features over five acres of award-winning gardens and serenity that's well worth the trip. Along side the many plant collections (including perennials, vireyas, camellias, bromeliads and native New Zealand plants), there's also waterfalls, rock formations, resident native birds and fabulous city and harbour views.


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Is it appropriate for oncology nurses to dress up for occasions or holidays at work?
Although many of us are looking forward to the upcoming football season and holidays, they are often tough times for the patients and caregivers who would rather be anywhere than at a medical facility. Nurses, too. Nurses with lots of team spirit may have to miss high school, college, or NFL games. Nurses who have to work during the holidays may dread those shifts and the sacrifice of missing family events. With such mixed emotions, it's not surprising that nurses might want to wear a team jersey at work or a costume for Halloween, even dress in holiday-themed scrubs. On the flip side, nurses must also consider that reminding patients of the traditions and shared events they are missing due to their cancer may evoke negative emotions.
Is dressing for the season in the workplace inappropriate, insensitive, or unprofessional? It may be difficult to determine whether a team jersey, costume, or accessory is appropriate. Before donning that elf costume, ask yourself 3 questions:
Employers usually have a dress code that guides what is appropriate and acceptable in the workplace. Their goal is to establish professionalism, as employees must represent their employers in a positive way. Although it may seem insignificant or trivial, studies show that nursing attire can have a significant impact on patient perception, trust, and the professional-patient relationship.
Most dress codes speak to holiday wear but are not very specific. For example, one organization's policy states, "During holiday seasons, sweatshirts or sweaters with holiday decor may be worn with department head approval. Holiday wear cannot have dangling decorations." Interpreting this statement can be challenging. What constitutes a holiday season? Does it include only select holidays like Christmas, Easter, and the Fourth of July? What about other minor holidays, such as St. Patrick's Day? What about holidays celebrated by certain cultures, such as Chinese New Year? What about days that some consider a holiday, such as Super Bowl Sunday? There is a holiday for almost every day of the year in the United States.
"Holiday wear" can also be an ambiguous term. Does it include costumes or apply to holiday scrubs? What about holiday jewelry or accessories such as cat or bunny ears? Would you consider holiday makeup (eg, green eyeshadow and red lipstick for Christmas) holiday wear? Your definition and your organization's definition may not be the same, so it is important to check the details of the dress code.
Anything that extends past your person could present a challenge to keep clean and prevent transportation of germs from patient to patient. Take into account how costumes, jewelry, and accessories may interfere with your ability to safely care for a patient. Most policies have very specific details about jewelry worn in the workplace, such as the size of earrings, length of a necklace, or number of rings.
Nurses must always think about transporting germs, especially in the care of patients with cancer. Some areas caring for patients with severe neutropenia, such as hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) or leukemia units, may take extra precautions to prevent infection. They often have policies about not sharing equipment (eg, stethoscopes or scales), significantly limiting or eliminating jewelry, and not wearing fake fingernails. They may require nurses to change into scrubs and put on work shoes once they get to work instead of at home. In these areas, holiday wear usually is prohibited.
Be sensitive to how a costume, accessory, or even face painting might scare some patients or cause concern to a caregiver. If a patient is taking medications that can cause confusion or hallucinations, such as narcotics or antiemetics, or has brain metastasis that alters cognition, a clown face or angel's halo may cause alarm and distress. In addition, think about how you might feel if you need to provide caregiver support or comfort after a patient takes a turn for the worse or dies.
A nurse's dress should convey professionalism and confidence to patients and caregivers at all times. Many nurses claim that patients like it when they dress up or wear holiday scrubs. However, when 200 outpatients and 200 inpatients were asked about this in a research study, holiday scrubs had a mixed ranking (41% supported; 59% did not).1 Perhaps those who vocalize that they like holiday attire represent a smaller portion of your patient population. Also, there may be a population of patients who feel uncomfortable with their nurses wearing certain attire, especially if they are of a different culture or religion. Nurses must consider patient opinion, as today's healthcare environment is very competitive and patient satisfaction matters.
Besides considering your employer's policy, patient perception, and potential harm, also ask yourself why you want to dress for the holiday. Is it to express your individuality? "Self-expression is great, but not in the work place," advises Imee Unto, MSN, RN, OCN, vice president/chief nursing officer, Florida Hospital Ocala, Adventist Health System, West Division. Unto is responsible for enforcing the dress code at her organization. "The dress code is in place to define what is acceptable to the organization."


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Bipartisan Lawmakers Eye Permanent Fix for Deported Veterans
- Biden administration moved to protect noncitizen veterans
- Legislation would limit deportations, ease citizenship path
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing legislation to help people who were deported after serving in the U.S. military.
The Biden administration announced last week it would review the removals of noncitizen service members, veterans, and family members; bring home those wrongly deported; and ensure they can access government benefits. Several members of Congress praised the development but said it must be reinforced on Capitol Hill.
"We need a real legislative solution," Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) said in a statement Tuesday. "I will be working this Congress—as I have in previous Congresses—on legislation to allow our deported servicemembers and veterans to return home."
Noncitizens who serve in the military are eligible to become citizens, but some don't apply or don't meet all the requirements. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is supposed to give special consideration to such veterans before deporting them, but a 2019 government watchdog report showed the agency was applying the policy inconsistently.
More than 44,000 noncitizens enlisted in the military between fiscal 2013 and 2018, according to the Government Accountability Office report. The GAO concluded, based on incomplete data, that about 250 veterans were removed or placed in removal proceedings during that time.
Young co-sponsored a proposal in 2019 to protect veterans from deportation and offer them a speedier path to citizenship. The bill didn't advance. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), who led that measure, hasn't reintroduced the legislation yet but last week touted it as a way to "ensure no administration can deport our honorable veterans in the future."
Young said he was in talks with Republicans and Democrats and was "hopeful that we can make progress." The 2019 bill would protect noncitizen veterans who were honorably discharged or released and not convicted of serious crimes.
'Permanent Solution'
Similar legislation reintroduced last month in both chambers would prohibit deportations of veterans who aren't violent offenders, create a visa program for deported veterans to enter the U.S. as legal permanent residents, and ensure they receive veterans' benefits.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, introduced the legislative package (S. 2261, S. 2265, and S. 2268) alongside other Senate Democrats. Duckworth lauded the Biden administration's initiative last week but said in a statement "it is still critical Congress change the laws that allowed this to happen in the first place."
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who introduced a similar measure (H.R. 4137) said in a statement Tuesday that "it's now more important than ever that we pass it and have a permanent solution to end the deportation of veterans once and for all."
Under the Biden administration's plan, the departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security will review deportations and work to bring home people "who were unjustly removed," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the announcement.
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Rise to the moment
Follow the Young Christian Climate Network's Relay to COP26 as it passes through the Diocese of Oxford.
The Young Christian Climate Network's relay to COP26 has hit the Diocese of Oxford! We want to support this courageous initiative and show that the diocese and our parishes are deeply concerned about achieving climate justice. See the latest updates below as our bishops join the walkers and local churches host a huge variety of events to raise awareness and encourage the YCCN in their amazing endeavours.
17-19 August
Leaving Kidlington and Oxford behind, the Young Christian Climate Network walkers and supporters continue their journey to Deddington via Lower Heyford.
On 18 August, the team head from Deddington to Banbury, then out to Kineton on 19 August, their last day in the Diocese of Oxford. After they leave the diocese, the walkers set their sights on Birmingham, planning to arrive on 24 August. The relay continues all the way up to Glasgow in time for the COP26 conference from 31 October to 12 November.
You can follow the YCCN's progress on their website. It's not too late to get involved! If you're hosting a climate justice event in the run-up to COP, let us know!
16 August
The walkers made their way to Kidlington through Oxford, stopping for a slap-up lunch provided by St Peter's Wolvercote. The day's walking finished at Kidlington Baptist Church, where walkers were greeted with tea and biscuits, and Bishop Steven and Bishop Gavin joined them for dinner.
The Revd Felicity Scroggie and the Young Christian Climate Network then led an evening worship service.
14-15 August
Having journeyed all the way from Reading to London, the Relay to COP26 team are welcomed to the Diocese of Oxford once more, coming through Buckinghamshire and on to Oxford.
On 14 August, the walkers visited Oakley and were hosted overnight by All Saints', Brill, in the Bernwode Benefice.
On Sunday, the team were welcomed to Christ Church Cathedral, where they attended the Evensong service and shared pizza with sub-dean Fr Richard Peers.
31 July - 1 August
This morning, boots lined the aisle of Reading Minster as the Rt Revd Olivia Graham, Bishop of Reading, gave a special blessing to the YCCN walkers. Read her poignant sermon below. The walkers processed to Twyford for a welcome by the Thru-Christ congregation.
Reading Minster hosted a Care for Creation service with preacher Canon Brian Davies, as the YCCN walkers continue their journey out of the diocese and into London. They're back on 14 August! On 31 July, there was a tributary walk from Wargrave - you can see some of the walkers in the video below!
A tributary walk also took place in Bracknell on 1 August, with churches from Bracknell, Windsor and Slough all gathering to support the YCCN walkers - and breaking into a quick game of rounders while they waited!
"That sense of community was a huge bonus to being part of something bigger for climate justice."
Reading Minster YCCN Climate Service
Let me add my welcome to Sonya's. Thank you for coming to join us this morning, from near and far, and thank you to those who are going to continue on the relay to Twyford later on today, carrying the Relay baton, the flag which started in Cornwall and will end in Glasgow. When we arrived at Wesley Methodist Church from Aldermaston Wharf on Wednesday, David Shaw reflected on the importance of passing on the baton, and as it moves towards Glasgow, we think not only about this journey of protest and advocacy, but about the baton of responsibility which has been given to us by God for the care of God's creation, and passed down the generations.
My generation has mucked this up badly, and in sorrow we stand alongside the younger ones to witness together to the damage done, and to work for climate justice and a more sustainable way of living. We stand alongside those who are already bearing the cost of climate change, whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed, while they contributed very little to the root causes.
And we are motivated by love – for God, for our brothers and sisters across the world, and for creation.
A stark picture
Such an inspiring poem from the great Amanda Gorman. We know, with greater clarity every day, that we are heading for more than 1.5 degrees of planetary warming. We know, without a shadow of doubt, that this is part and parcel of a more vast biodiversity crisis. The numbers tell their own story:In the last half century, about 50% the world's animals have been lost. Of all the mammals left on Earth, only 4% are wild mammals, 36% are humans, and a whopping 60% now are livestock. 70% of all birds on the planet are now poultry.1 Insects have declined by 75%. Three quarters of the crop types we grow rely on insect pollination.2
These numbers present a stark picture of the effect we are having on the web of life which sustains us and provides for our needs. Ecosystem collapse and climate change are a real and present threat to our continuation as a species.
Climate finance
We know the crucial importance of the COP26. It simply cannot afford to fail. And yet one of the greatest stumbling blocks to getting global agreement is the turning of ambition into firm commitment.
The issue of climate finance is crucial. Finance for the developing countries, not only so that they can meet the costs of mitigation and adaptation, which is underfunded, but also to pay for the loss and damage which they are experiencing as a result of climate change. These countries have not developed their economies using vast quantities of fossil fuels. And they are now trying to develop their economies and raise the standards of living for their populations, but they simply don't have the economic resources to pay for green development, or for the loss and damage caused by our decades of inaction.
Without firm commitments to this finance, not only will the losses mount up, the damage get worse, and the costs rise, but there will be no political goodwill from these countries when it comes to international agreements on carbon emissions.
It is essential that this funding comes from those who have accumulated wealth through polluting activities, not from those already struggling.
The four asks of YCCN, which they are taking to Glasgow, are:
For reinstatement of the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of national income.
To get firm agreement from rich countries to double the commitment of $100bn a year for climate finance.
Work with other governments and international organisations to develop a loss and damage mechanism
Push for the debts of the world's poorest countries to be cancelled.
These are all issues of justice.
Justice lies at the heart of the discussions about the climate crisis.
The Bible paints a picture of a God who is very very keen on justice.
So many times, we read of God's concern for the poor, the marginalised, the vulnerable, the stranger and the refugee. So many times we hear of the cause of the wronged being righted; the hungry being fed; those who wield power needing to have a special care for the weak.
The costs of climate change are not evenly spread. According to the IPCC, climate change will not only affect the different regions of the world differently, but also the different generations and genders. The poorest populations will be most affected. 70% of this population, according to the UN, are women, and a large percentage are young women.
We face lots of transnational challenges in addition to climate change: public health, inequality, social and political polarisation. Only if we build bridges of human solidarity will we survive as a species. That's what we have learnt from Covid. The principle of social justice must be at the heart of the conversation, and how to put it there is one of the defining questions of our era – brilliantly highlighted by this Relay.
Raise your voice
Here is an issue which links directly to our faith. As people of faith, we have a responsibility to raise our voices for those who cannot.
And we also have a responsibility for our own actions and the example we set.
At its heart, we are dealing with spiritual issues. We have disrupted the ecological balance of all that God created on Earth, and we owe it to God and to each other and to all the species we share the planet with to restore the balance.
A senior academic scientist recently said:
"I used to think that the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems, but I was wrong. The top environment problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And we scientists don't know how to do that."
But we people of faith do know how to do that. This is the greatest physical and spiritual challenge humanity has ever faced. And we have the tools and the understanding to go right to heart of it.
Love the Lord your God. Love your neighbour. Be good stewards of the earth and all that is in it. This is the challenge we face, because we recognise in ourselves our greed, envy, laziness, indifference, and our insatiable desire for more and more stuff.
There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. We are not going to return to a life of simple hunter-gathering, back to nature and very basic consumption. That ship has sailed. We are bound up in a highly complex financial and economic web with global reach.
Religions are deeply implicated in this crisis, and they are deeply implicated in the way out of it. But we have so far mostly failed to integrate scientific and ecological findings into our preaching, teaching and living.
Religion's got the power to appeal not just to our minds, but to our souls, and that's where change is most needed. Conversion even.
Our actions are the true indication of our commitment. We have known about this looming crisis for decades, and for decades we have continued to assume that it is someone else's problem.
We have collectively taken millions of plane flights and driven billions of miles using fossil fuels; we have eaten a tremendous amount of food cultivated through unsustainable and even dangerous processes; we've wasted unbelievable quantities of energy and water; we've thrown away billions of tons of non-biodegradable materials, polluting our oceans and our land; and we've created personal coatings of Teflon so that no responsibility has stuck to us.
Time to change
All this has to change. We can make choices which are good and not bad for the environment; we can do it visibly; we can talk to others about it, and spread the word and the message, and if enough of us do it, there is a real probability of a critical mass leading to wider behavioural change.
We saw it in the way in which driving while drunk has become more and more socially unacceptable. We've started to see it in many aspects of environmental awareness and care – we turn lights out more often; we sort our rubbish; we grow bee-friendly plants in our gardens or leave parts of them a little wild, and so on. And we live in a society and a world which is powerfully networked; so there is a real possibility for traction.
What messages shall we hold in our hearts? Here are some:
To consume in moderation. To think about how much is enough? How much do I need, as opposed to want, knowing how much I am conditioned to want what I do not need.
To be farsighted, to keep the far distant future in sight – the future of my children and grandchildren and their grandchildren– so that I will see the effects of my actions, or the consequences of my inactions now.
Not to lose hope. We can do this if we act now. If we act personally, locally, nationally and globally, and if we each play our part – the part we have been given, in this planetary drama which is being played out principally in the next decade.
So I salute and stand in solidarity with the young Christian climate activists and all who join them. We support you, congratulate you, pray for you and thank you for what you are doing. May God bless you who have walked this road to Reading from Cornwall, and you who will walk on from Reading to Glasgow, and may God go with you and guide your way.
1. [Facts taken from this article in the Guardian, based on a PNAS study, and refer to overall biomass, not numbers of individuals or species]↩
2. [From The Wildlife Trusts' Reversing the Decline of Insects]↩
Why join the Relay?
Walkers share their thoughts with Hannah Ling, the diocese's social justice advisor.
30 July
The YCCN #RiseToTheMoment boat reaches Reading Minster, after a (slightly wet) pilgrims' procession from Wesley Methodist Church. Emma Major, Licensed Lay Pioneer Minster at St Nicolas, Earley, hosts Sanctuary at Reading Minster, a climate-based art installation.
29 July
The YCCN team have been hosted by local Reading churches, including St Mary's Burghfield, Wesley Methodist Church and Abbey Baptist.
Watch their Creative Climate Workshop, featuring Dr Peter Cook, research scientist at the University of Reading, Chloe Brimicombe and James Fallon, PhD students at the university, Dr Jo Laynesmith, co-ordinator of Reading Green Christians, and Ruth Jarman, from Green Christian and Christian Climate Action.
28 July
Bishop Olivia Graham and Maranda St John Nicolle, the diocesan World Development Advisor, joined the YCCN walkers this morning at Aldermaston Wharf as they walk towards the centre of Reading, Berkshire, where they'll spend the weekend.
At 4.30pm, Wesley Methodist Church host a Walkers' Welcome ahead of a busy schedule of events! Revd Mark Laynesmith, chaplain at the University of Reading, and Chloe Brimicombe, environmental climate science PhD researcher, spoke to BBC South Today about the importance of the walk - watch here.


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"Know thyself, love your fellow being, aid him, all the while respecting his dignity" is the golden rule of Freemasonry, fraternal society whose origin go back in time to the very cradle of humanity, being a promoted of peace, understanding and respect for human dignity.
The first information documenting the emergence of Freemasonry in the Romanian territory appeared during the fourth decade of the 18th century. Gaining national sovereignty, which became reality as a consequence of the Independence War of 1877-1878 and of the ensuing Peace Congress, Freemasonry in Romania marks a new decisive step in its history: the founding, on 8th / 20th September 1880, of the National Grand Lodge of Romania, having Captain Constantin Moroiu as Grand Master.
With the occasion of the celebration, this year, of 135 years since the founding of the National Grand Lodge of Romania, Romfilatelia creates an anniversary postage stamp issue, with an eponymous title, thus bringing to the attention of passionate stamp collectors novel aspects of the existence and activity of this fraternal society.
The two stamps of the issue, with the face values of lei 2.10 and lei 14.50, present elements of symbolism of the National Grand Lodge of Romania – the moon, the sun and the 12 zodiacal signs, in a picturesque composition from the N.G.L.R. patrimony, whose elements try and portray the symbols of the material and spiritual universe. The letter G is a reference to the Great Architect, God.
Through the graphics of the stamps, a metaphorical bridge is created between the origins, the past and present, the illustration of the construction project of the Great Temple, which the National Great Masonic Lodge of Romania currently develops, being an element which sustains this idea.
The issue is completed by a first day cover, and as page composition were used the sheet of 32 stamps, the minisheet of 4 stamps with illustrated border and the block of 2 stamps (perforated and imperforated).
The special product of the issue is the philatelic album, created into a limited edition of 565 pcs. and equipped with the special block of 2 perforated stamps (printed on a background with an octagonal contour format) and the First Day Cover of the issue, both products being numbered.
Starting with Tuesday, June 16th, 2015, the postage stamp issue 135 years since the founding of the National Grand Lodge of Romania will be available in all Romfilatelia shops in Bucharest and countrywide.
For further information, please contact the Public Relation Office:
Tel: 021 / 337 24 42


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Kim Kardashian has had enough of Kanye West's "constant attacks."
The beauty mogul is speaking out after her estranged husband continues to disparage her on social media and interviews. He most recently criticized Kim for allowing their daughter North to use TikTok.
On Friday, Ye shared a screenshot of North's most recent TikTok video while questioning Kim's motives.
"SINCE THIS IS MY FIRST DIVORCE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT I SHOULD DO ABOUT MY DAUGHTER BEING PUT ON TIK TOK AGAINST MY WILL ?" Ye asked his 10 million Instagram followers.
After refraining from speaking publicly about their divorce, Kim is breaking her silence. In a statement on her Instagram Story, she slammed the father of her four kids for trying to vilify her.
"Kanye's constant attacks on me in interviews and on social media is actually more hurtful than any TikTok North might create," Kim wrote. "As the parent who is the main provider and caregiver for our children, I am doing my best to protect our daughter while also allowing her to express her creativity in the medium that she wishes with adult supervision — because it brings her happiness."
She continued, "Divorce is difficult enough on our children and Kanye's obsession with trying to control and manipulate our situation so negatively and publicly is only causing further pain for all. From the beginning have wanted nothing but a healthy and supportive co-parenting relationship because it is what is best for our children and it saddens me that Kanye continues to make it impossible every step of the way."
Kim talks about Kanye in her Instagram Story pic.twitter.com/6a8FhEEp4c
— Donda Times (@dondatimes) February 4, 2022
She also alluded to issues behind the scenes of their divorce. "I wish to handle all matters regarding our children privately and hopefully he can finally respond to the third attorney he has had in the last year to resolve any issues amicably."
Sources tell Page Six that Ye is not the father he claims to be. His recent announcement about getting rid of his phone and driving his kids to school every day was "smoke and mirrors." He reportedly has only driven his kids to school even though he's been in Los Angeles.
"Kanye needs to stop asking the internet how to parent and actually start being one," says the insider. "He hardly sees his children and is incredibly inconsistent."
This isn't the first time Ye has publicly called out Kim amid their divorce. Last month, he accused her of not letting him see their kids and excluding him from their daughter Chicago's birthday party, although he ultimately showed up.


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It's been nearly two years since the horrific murders of her mother, brother and nephew and singer Jennifer Hudson is still searching for closure.
The prime suspect in the murders, William Balfour – who was charged in late 2008 – has been granted yet another continuance today, leaving no end in sight once again.
VIDEO: J.Hud Opens Up About Family's Murders, "It Was All A Blur"
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The Switch to Cardboard
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Partake Brewing is excited to showcase our new packaging! Our new carton makes our product easier to find because it stands out on shelves, and now you don't have to worry about fighting with our old packaging to get our product out! Plus, a little less plastic never hurt anyone. Below are pictures of what to start looking for in stores as we slowly roll it out across North America!


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Treasure at Tampines is a unique 99-year leasehold condominium development located at 118 Tampines Street in District 11. It brings convenience for home buyers as there are shops such as Daiso, FairPrice supermarket that is 24-hour, first-in-Singapore Korean porridge chain J-store as one of the 30 creative food and beverage concepts in the mall, and also comprises of Halal eateries Eighteen Chefs and Hanis Caf� and Bakery.
The sale price of $970 million works out to a land cost of about $676 psf per plot ratio on the potential gross floor area, inclusive of a differential Treasure At Tampines premium $359 million, payable to the state to top up the lease to a fresh 99 years, and for redevelopment of the site to a gross plot ratio of 2.8.
Several convenient properties and mixed use estate: Since this new property launch is located within the heart of Tampines and in close proximity to Simei MRT, residents and future owners can enjoy the hundreds of department stores, shops, restaurants and other conveniences around Treasure at Tampines.
Apartments will range from one- to five-bedroom units with sizes from 463 to 1,722 sq ft. The project sits on a site of about 648,889 sq ft - the equivalent of 11 football fields - and will feature 128 condo facilities, including a 24-hour gym and 13 swimming pools.
Besides the wide range of F&B outlets and a hawker centre, the Hub also houses the Tampines Regional Library, various open community spaces for events, and a number of sport facilities including a football stadium, rooftop swimming pools, a bowling centre, gym as well as a rock-climbing facility.
As Treasure At Tampines is set become an integral part of Tampines, the way for its future residents to blend with the locals, to play sports, to do some reading, to watch a match or a movie, to see a performance or an event, to dine and shop, and avail various services of the Government, is to be associated with Our Tampines Hub.
If you would like to get more information about the Treasure at Tampines Price in Singapore, contact us to book an Showflat viewing session or get in touch with us through our hotline to have the latest information on the prices of the condominium, floor plans, PSF, and other inquiries relating to the property.
Treasure at Tampines is a new 99-year-leasehold condominium by renowned developer Sim Lian Group Limited, located along Tampines Street 11 in District 18. Sitting on 702,164sqft plot of land, this upcoming development will consist of approximately 2000 units of various bedroom types configurations.
With huge companies situated there, residents can enjoy the short distance travelling to companies such as Seletar, Changi Airport, Standard Chartered, DBS, IBM and Changi Business Park, which could possibly be potential job opportunities for residents.


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Now, we all might be familiar with how to work on WordPress. It all commences with signing into your WordPress dashboard, right from your site followed by publishing, revising or uploading brand- new content, installing themes, plugins, taking backups, etc. But have you ever been curious about the working of WordPress? As you all know, WordPress is a Content Management System where you can create and manage a website.
What is a Content Management System or CMS?
CMS is a database-driven software application whose main purpose is to store website content. These contents are stored in the database of the software and are displayed on the web page whenever needed. The aim of a good Content Management System is to enable any user to create and handle their content without any technical knowledge. During earlier days, an average user or a small company had to depend on static HTML sites because they couldn't afford a CMS which would cost many dollars. But now the problem is solved. Anyone can rely on WordPress since it is open source and free to use.
How does WordPress Work?
Coming back to the working of WordPress, the eventual goal of WordPress is to produce HTML pages. At the very basic level WordPress uses PHP and a SQL database to store all its data. PHP is the language in which WordPress is coded. Currently, it is the most prominent language on the web, mainly due to the acceptance of WordPress.
The 'PHP code' is responsible for creating the WordPress core. On the other hand, MySQL is an open-source relational database management system. They open doors to the users to access the database where all kinds of data can be created, read, updated, and deleted. MySQL is the second widely used database management system in the world and is very fast at answering queries.
Each WordPress installation has one MySQL database. Each and every material that you have entered such as user password, posts, pages, drafts, theme options, plugins, etc are stored in this database, while the images, documents and other uploaded files are stored in the folder called 'wp-content'. You cannot copy or move your database but can export the contents of the database and import it to a new blank database.
In short, WordPress is a PHP application that interacts with MySQL database to fetch and present your content in a web browser
What happens when you install WordPress?
Before installing WordPress, you need a domain name and hosting provider to create the website. Your WordPress site will be "hosted" on a website server for a monthly fee.
When you install a WordPress, the following things happen either automatically or manually through a five-minute installation process.
- A SQL database is created
- WordPress files are copied to the web hosting server directory.
- The wp-config.php file is modified to contain the login credentials for the database.
- The WordPress install.php script is run to enable you to give the new website title, username and password.
- The install script creates a bunch of tables in the database, and you can log in to your site.
- After logging in, WordPress provides a simple interface (dashboard) for the users to manage their content database.
- Generates MySQL queries for the database, collects the information and publishes the page having the required data when asked by a browser.
- WordPress welcomes variations through plugins, themes and shortcodes so that any component a website owner wants can be added to the site, given they understand PHP and study WordPress codes.
In the case of beginners, they are often confused by the term 'logging into WordPress'. Remember that WordPress is not a computer application, though you can install a part of it on your computer's web server. When you enter the username and password, it is to the WordPress dashboard of your particular site that you are logging into, not to WordPress.
The WordPress dashboard
You arrive at your WordPress Dashboard by adding the wp-admin to your site URL (https://yoursitename.com/wp-admin). WordPress has two sections: the Public and the Private, or the front end and the backend. The front end of the site is what the visitors to the site see in their browser, while the backend is where the user manages the content. When you are working from your site's Dashboard, it is referred to as working in the "Back-End" of your site.
Also read: How to Customize WordPress Dashboard Easily
The WordPress Structure
The WordPress root directory contains exactly three folders: wp-content, wp-includes, and wp-admin along with a group of other PHP files, the most important one being "wp-config.php"
1. wp-includes
This folder mainly focuses on the core functionality of WordPress that allows it to function at the frontend of the site and more. It contains all the PHP files and classes which are required for WordPress' core operations. You don't have to edit any files in this directory.
2. wp-admin
Wp-admin folder contains everything needed to display the WordPress dashboard which is also known as the backend. All administrative functions related to WordPress, such as writing and publishing posts, moderating comments, installing plugins and themes are done via the WordPress dashboard.
3. wp-content
The wp-content folder contains all user-uploaded data and is divided into plugins, themes and uploads.
- Plugins are bits of code that broaden the service of your WordPress site. It adds functions like About page, e-commerce and Job Openings. They also help you with tasks like uploading, managing or sharing images, documents, audio, video and many more. It is completely the user's choice whether to add a plugin or not to his website.
- The "themes" library contains all the themes that are installed in your WordPress site. You can install as many themes as you want, but can only stimulate one theme at a time (only a few themes permit you to activate more). The "themes" directory can never be empty since WordPress needs at least one theme to work with.
- All the media files that you have uploaded since the time you launched your site, along with all future uploads, will be stored in the "uploads" directory, categorized by year, month and day. It can be considered as the database for all non-textual data.
4. wp-config.php
This file is the most significant one because it connects WordPress to the SQL database. It contains crucial information such as the access credentials to your WordPress database. If this file is not set correctly, you will see a lot of server errors in your browser window.
Technically, WordPress can be accessed on three levels:
- The user-facing website that is connected whenever someone visits a path managed by WordPress – be it a blog, a page or a list.
- The admin area or the Dashboard. This is accessible whenever you log-in to WordPress as an admin.
- WordPress's own files on the server – this consists of the files with the original WordPress code along with theme files, plugin files, CSS, etc.
Amidst all these technical things to figure out, you might get a bit perplexed on how WordPress works. Don't hurry. Take your time to interpret each point in order to understand them better so that you can bring into existence a sensational WordPress website!
Before we move ahead, we would like you to read the following guides, which will help you to get started with WordPress.
- Five things you need to know before kickstarting WordPress
- WordPress.com Vs WordPress.org: Know the seven differences
Some Frequently Asked Questions
Is WordPress free?
Being an open-source software, WordPress is free. But you need to pay for the domain name and web hosting.
What can I use WordPress for?
WordPress can be used to build any type of websites including but not limited to blogs, business websites, eCommerce stores, forums, portfolios, membership sites and social networks. In short even if you are not a developer and has zero coding skills, you can still develop a website.
Why should I use WordPress?
WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the internet. Besides that, WordPress is free and open-source, does not require coding skills, is W3C compliant, has a responsive design, is SEO friendly, multi-lingual, has multiple user compatibility, affordable and can extend functionality with plugins and themes.


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In an attempt to improve public e-services a group of enthusiasts, professional programmers and part-time hackers gathered at Tallinn University in late February, prepared to spend an entire weekend coding new applications for the public sector.
Led by the non-profit initiative Garage48, 16 teams turned 16 ideas into functioning products in 48 hours, including an application allowing for easy visualization of the Estonian state budget, something the government figured would cost at least €300,000.
The idea behind Garage48 is to create a competitive environment for the production of new e-services, by organizing "brain-storming week-ends" during which teams of programmers struggle to turn ideas into products in 48 hours or less. Certainly, those products can be a bit rough-around-the-edges, but for many entrepreneurs, this 48-hour brainstorming session is exactly the push needed to get a product underway and into real development. Once they get over the hump of preliminary programming, fine-tuning becomes easy.
The Public Service brainstorming session birthed products ranging from the obvious (a visual aid for understanding the Estonian state budget) to the bizarre (a custom-made plushy toy designer), with plenty of variation inbetween. Other highlights include EmergencyChat – a emergency call system for people who cannot speak; an online babysitting exchange; Ajapaik, an entertaining little portal where users can learn about their home town's history by matching old photographs with spots on Google Maps; and a website for helping owners find their lost pets.
Garage48 continues their brainstorming sessions in Latvia, with another session scheduled in Riga for March 25-27.


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How regulators are clearing the way to payments in the cloud
Every day we're seeing more and more banks across the world take a strategic decision to migrate to cloud services. But if we ask them what barriers they anticipate along the way, compliance with regulations almost always comes top of the list.
It's an important consideration, but the reality is that banks' operating environment and clients are now moving faster than they can possibly keep up with using on-premise infrastructures.
Three key messages
It's against this background that we recently hosted an in-depth webinar on cloud regulation in Europe. The session featured expert speakers from the banking and cloud provider communities and was attended by many of Europe's leading financial institutions. Looking across the presentations and feedback from attendees, three messages came across loud and clear:
- First, whatever the concerns, core banking is moving to the cloud over the next few years
- Second, regulators in Europe and elsewhere have now removed the "barriers" to banks putting core services into the cloud – but the industry hasn't yet fully recognized this shift
- Third, leading banks are already making strong headway into the cloud, and the laggards are starting to be left behind.
Mapping out migration
All three themes were underlined by our recent survey of financial institutions. The first poll confirmed that the momentum behind the move to cloud is now unstoppable. Asked whether they were considering moving their core banking to the cloud and, if so, when, almost half (46%) of the banks participating in the session said they were looking to migrate within two years. Only 12% put the timeframe at 10 years or never.
It's easy to see what's driving this migration. Banks are already finding that the well-known benefits of cloud – such as access to massive computing resources on-demand and pay-per-use pricing – are just the start. Among other advantages, cloud is also freeing up resources through lower costs, dramatically accelerating speed to market, and acting as an engine for front-office innovation.
No more regulatory barriers
So, the migration's underway. And our second poll zeroed in on whether banks think cloud regulation is an enabler or barrier to this journey, asking whether current regulation is sufficiently clear to allow the use of cloud for core banking or material workloads. Over 90% responded that regulation is not clear enough to put core banking in the cloud, with less than one in 10 expressing the view that it is sufficiently clear.
As we subsequently heard during the webinar, this perception of regulation as a barrier is both widely-held – and also out of date. The clear signal now coming from regulators is that the blockers on moving core banking to the cloud have been removed, and that banks are free to use cloud for whatever workloads they choose. This opening-up has been supported by strengthening relationships between regulators and leading global cloud providers.
The pandemic has spurred digital acceleration
We then turned to the state of play on cloud in banks themselves. Given added urgency from COVID-19, banks digitization programs are advancing apace – including cloud. Asked what kinds of workload they're now running on public cloud, almost one-third of our webinar participants said core banking workloads, with the rest split fairly evenly between non-material production workloads, non-production workloads, and no use of cloud at all.
What's clear is that some leaders are advancing on their journey to cloud, while a substantial proportion have yet to start. While complying with the regulations around cloud – especially GDPR – demands work, the effort is far outweighed by the benefits. Cloud's time has come, and banks that fail to seize the opportunity now will face a struggle to catch up. Put simply, there's no time to lose.
To find out more about Finastra's cloud payment solution, visit the Fusion Payments To Go page.


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As You are Researching Christian Boarding Schools near Kissimmee, Florida, Would You Consider One in North Carolina Instead?
As you search around Kissimmee for a residential program for troubled teens, we invite you to look also at Wolf Creek Academy. Even though it is not in Kissimmee, Florida, Wolf Creek Academy is committed to family restoration and putting teens back on the right track for a bright future.
Perfectly situated in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina, Wolf Creek Academy serves teenage boys and girls on different parts of its campus who have a record of behavior difficulties, strained family relationships, or any other emotional problems.
Wolf Creek specializes in attachment disorders and other serious relational and self-destructive behavioral difficulties in boys and girls. Our staff is highly qualified and trained to deal with and treat various psychological disorders that many other boarding schools that call themselves "therapeutic" are not equipped to handle.
We are a faith-based program focused on integrity, character, and accountability. All of the teens who attend our program can be productive individuals when given guidance and a chance to reach their potential.
Wolf Creek Academy offers a loving home environment for teen boys and girls who have gone off course. Residents live in a comfortable home run by a married couple team of houseparents and residential assistants. Inside our family model, teenagers help with daily chores normal for home life and discover how to respect authority and get along with their peers.
Parent involvement is critical to the effectiveness of our therapeutic boarding school program.
Parents stay up to date with weekly verbal and email reports and remain involved in progress of their teen.
For the teen, each day starts off with small group counseling sessions regarding anger management, respect for authority, and many other topics of importance to teens. Weekly individual sessions help teens make progress toward their behavioral goals. In addition, we have a special therapy program to cope with issues related to drug abuse or any other addictive behaviors such as eating disorders or cutting.
Our accredited school lets students find success at their own pace.
In our fully accredited Christian curriculum, students can fill in gaps in their education and work successfully at their particular rate. Teachers and assistants monitor progress through the material and help students who need extra assistance with their work. Credits transfer easily to public and private schools, and graduates earn a high school diploma. Our new skills development center offers a skilled trade as well as vital skills for the manufacturing environment, including welding skills, shop safety, work ethic for brand new employees, and other disciplines.
To keep teens physically active we hold daily PE classes, including various sports and seasonal outdoor adventure activities, including hiking (the Appalachian Trail is nearby) and skiing. Weekly social activities also vary and can include bowling, movies, church, visiting museums and much more.
Wolf Creek Academy wants your teenager to learn a more productive and positive way of life, improve their academics, and improve their decision-making abilities.
We provide a loving, home-like environment with professional counseling to assist teens to choose the right path. Though we are not in Kissimmee,Florida, the North Carolina mountains offer a beautiful setting for restoration and growth. We invite you to read the many resources on our website, especially the word from our director about why parents choose residential programs, while you continue your pursuit in Kissimmee, Florida and elsewhere.
Thank you for including Wolf Creek Academy in your search for Christian boarding schools for boys and girls around Kissimmee, Florida.
Please consider looking beyond Kissimmee, Florida to see how our Christian boarding school can guide your child toward restoration. To discover more, we invite you to investigate our website, then fill out our inquiry form or call us today at (877)477-9653.
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