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Rapid deforestation and soil erosion in Attappadi Forest Reserve has led to a crippling water shortage in Kerala's only tribal block and the Irula forest tribe has suffered the most.
By K. Rajendran*, Palakkad, Kerala
Two years ago, when Narendra Modi on Independence Day announced the launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) from the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi, 15-year-old Velligiri living in Kulappadi tribal hamlet in Kerala's Palakkad district, who was listening to the Prime Minister's address on television, had asked his elder brothers, "Why are our people so dirty? In this modern age, why are some Indians still defecating in the open?"
Kulappadi is a remotest and picturesque hamlet, and one out of 192 tribal villages in Attappadi Forest Reserve located in an informal buffer zone bordering the Silent Valley National Park. Almost all the people in Kulappadi are from the Irula tribe. Despite its remote location, it boasts of total literacy and many of the villagers hold government jobs. There's not a single house that does not have a TV set or a toilet.
If you cannot provide us water to quench our thirst, how can you insist on us using toilets? Velligiri, Kulappadi resident
On 1 November last year, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared it as the first ODF (Open Defecation Free) state in the country. Shockingly however, almost all the villagers in Kulappadi, including Velligiri, who were strong critics of open defecation, have turned to defecating in the forest. What went wrong in these two years?
Velligiri has another question in reply. "If you cannot provide us water to quench our thirst, how can you insist on us using toilets?"
No water
Irula women carrying water pots on their head and walking long distances are a common sight in the Attappadi hills. "Give us water," is the common refrain of the people of the area. The scarcity of water in the region has been exacerbated by the significant decrease of rainfall during both the South West and the North East monsoons.
Palakkad district, which includes the Attappadi hills, suffered a 34.2% decrease in the South West monsoon (from 1 June to 30 September) and 67.7% decrease in the ongoing North East monsoon (from 1 October to 30 December) last year. Pre-empting a disaster in October, the region has been declared as drought affected. Also see: Kerala fights drought with recharged wells.
"The impact of climate change is the root cause. Though many rivers and streams originate from the Western Ghats, water scarcity is extensively visible across the hills. In addition, deforestation weakened the water storage capacity of Attappadi soil," V.S. Vijayan, former chairman of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board, told VillageSquare.in.
The 249 sq km Attappadi Reserve Forest consists of Pudur, Agali and Sholayar gram panchayats (village councils). Both Pudur and Sholayar have always been affected by water shortage as they are in a rain-shadow region. Compared with the average annual rainfall of 2500mm in Kerala, this region gets between 500mm to 700mm of rains every year.
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According to the Environmental Land Capability Classification Index, till the end of the 90s, land in Pudur and Sholayar had been included in the class-3 soil land classification category, which is fertile and adequate for cultivation. But, in a recent survey conducted by the Department of Geography, Government College, Chittur, it has been found that the same region has degraded to category-5, which is considered unfertile and inadequate for cultivation.
A thin ditch flowing nearly 1km away from Kulappadi village is the only available water source. This muddy little waterbody is used for drinking, bathing and washing.
"Massive deforestation and soil erosion are the main reasons for the degradation. If soil erosion happens at this level, it certainly results in depletion of water level and water scarcity," Richard Scaria, who led the survey, told VillageSquare.in.
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However, the tribal people are either unaware or not interested in the scientific aspects of their misery. There are more concerned about the probable outbreak of epidemics.
A thin ditch flowing nearly 1km away from Kulappadi village is the only available water source for the Irulas. This muddy little waterbody is being used for drinking, bathing and washing. On many occasions, the people have come across wild animals in the ditch because it's one of the few water holes in the area. Most of the other water resources that the animals depended upon have almost dried up.
The polluted water has lowered the immunity of the tribal community. According to the Kerala State Health Department, in the past three years, Attappadi has seen 91 malnutrition deaths of babies in the tribal community.
Declining tribes
Attappadi is the only tribal block in Kerala that is home to the Mudugar, Kurumbar and Irula tribes. Demographic data of the past six decades reveal that in 1951, 90% of total population of Attappadi comprised tribals. In 1981, they declined to 60%. In last Census of 2011, they have further dwindled to 34% of the total population.
At the same time, thousands of non-tribal immigrants have occupied and settled in most of the fertile land beside the only perennial water resource of the region— the Bhavani River. Slowly but steadily, the intruders have outnumbered the tribal community. Moreover, they have garnered pattas (titles) to the fertile land.
Prosperity and wretchedness
A pretty journey along the Bhavani River offers glimpses of prosperity that are in absolute variance with the wretched interior tribal villages. Coconut, areca nut and banana trees have flourished even in the drought.
"Even the last drop of water in Bhavani is being used by the non-tribal, rich and powerful farmers. Rampant mining of bore wells causes further depletion. The tribes are the only victims," said Scaria.
Till last month, this room was my toilet. Now I've gifted this room to my dearest goat because I don't have water to clean it. Muthulakshmi, Kulappadi resident
In Kulappadi, almost all the Irula households own at least 4 acres of land. The Forest Rights Act being implemented since 2006 had offered a new ray of hope. The Irulas traditionally cultivate pigeon pea, chickpea, finger millet, red gram, etc., which typically do not require intensive use of water. But today they are interested in shifting to cash crops and paddy cultivation.
"Due to acute water scarcity, I couldn't even cultivate our traditional grains. How can I experiment with plantain and areca nut in my barren land?" asks 30-year-old Thaghachan, who has already decided to migrate to a city in Kerala or Tamil Nadu, anticipating a disastrous summer and absolute unemployment.
Political issue
As elsewhere, the water scarcity in this region has become a political rather than an environmental issue.
Jyothi Anil Kumar, president of Pudur grama panchayat, says that the persisting water problems of Kulappadi will be resolved soon. "₹3 lakh will be spent to pump out water from a newly made pond to the hamlet."
But no one in the hamlet is ready to believe this assurance because they say similar statements have been made for many years but there have been no results on the ground. "Historically, a section of politicians and contractors have joined together to exploit the tribal people," a village council member says on the condition of anonymity.
After fetching two pots of water from the ditch 1km away, Muthulakshmi, an old lady, narrated the fate of her toilet. "Till last month, this room was my toilet. Now I've gifted this room to my dearest goat because I don't have water to clean it," she says.
Rajendran is a journalist based in Kerala.
This article was made possible by the FEJI-ATREE Journalism Fellowship 2016.
This article was first published on VillageSquare.in, a public-interest communications platform focused on rural India.


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Bill Gullan: Greetings one and all. This is Real-World Branding. I'm Bill Gullan, your host an President of Finch Brands, a premier boutique branding agency. We were very happy to have you, and this is a fun time of year in our industry. There's a lot happening in terms of new initiatives that clients and others are launching in advance of what they hope is a great year, and also one of the major rituals that brings about a lot of focus on brands and on marketing is the Super Bowl.
Word came down a couple weeks ago, I think, and actually the meat of this was happening between the Christmas and New Year holidays, was GNC, the major, I think they have 9000 stores worldwide or something big like that, maybe 4000 in the US, was going through and really put together an initiative geared toward a rebirth, bringing that chain out of the graveyard, and that may be an overstatement, a little bit reductive, but they'd had some trouble.
GNC's been in financial trouble, perceptual trouble, and everything else for really 18 months or more, so it was long overdue for management and others to think about what GNC means in today's commercial landscape, and how the company and the brand can regain some of the momentum that it had for many years before. So, they launched this new initiative. I think it was called "One New GNC" and it included a major store redesign. In fact, I think the entire, at least US store base, closed for a 24 hour period at the end of December to change over from old look to new look.
It also included a revamped loyalty program, and thankfully, an end to the practice of having different prices online and in store. A lot of changes and we know that these will be heralded, we hear at least, through a Super Bowl ad, the first in the company's history that will design to bring to that huge audience word of the fact that their GNC experience is new and that folks ought to come back and give it a shot. I remember when Domino's did that a couple of years ago. That's worked, and we'll get to that in a minute, but here we are with GNC and there's a couple of questions that this raises from my perspective.
First of all, every couple years, it seems like a major brand – and Domino's was one example, J.C. Penney is another example – goes through a spurt of big thinking that is designed to really transform a company in a category. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't, but the questions I have related to what GNC is doing is first of all, are they focusing on the right things?
There's no question that the areas that GNC is addressing are areas in which it has fallen behind. The loyalty program previously was this weird thing – you get triple points on this day and double points on this day, and there were different levels. It was very hard to understand, particularly for a consumer that has been educated to expect, at least at mass interest retail, you get a loyalty card, you get a discount on certain products, you amass points that you can then spend or whatever the case may be.
GNC's was very complicated. They're focusing on bringing more technology to the store experience, so that's good. They want to win back consumers that the company lost to other channels, but the question is does the world need a 9000 unit specialty vitamin supplement store? Its highest interest categories are widely available – they faced and one of the factors most seem to credit to their decline is tremendous competition – online and off, across food, drug and mass, including Amazon, of the basic categories, the vitamins and other things, whey protein that GNC made its name on.
I mean, GNC does have a vibrant private label program with I think it's Mega Man and other brands that you can only get there, but the sense of their proprietary product excellence, I think it waned considerably. The fact that you could get good or better deals on what the marketplace thinks are very similar items in a variety of different channels. So, the question really is are they focusing on the right things and are they doing enough here that'll really reverse the marketplace's … I don't think there's hatred for GNC in the marketplace, but there's a, 'Meh, this brand isn't current, relevant, necessary,' and I'm not sure whether at least these first initiatives are really enough to address the downward trajectory that the brand has been on.
Secondly, and J. C. Penney certainly brings this up is will there be unintended consequences? We remember a few years back when Ron Johnson I think, the new CEO that came from Apple, at J. C. Penney, had a major initiative to really reinvigorate the retailer, and there were a lot of really interesting things. It was going to move more into a bazaar, a store within a store concept. It was going to be really interesting on the store design perspective, etc. But one of the things that led to this really flaming out quickly and the board having to respond, and to what the plan was, was that the company changed without much warning to its couponing structure. The company at J. C. Penney at least had really convinced and educated their marketplace to respond to a particular promotional approach.
While the vitamin/supplement category is large and mature, GNC's position is volatile given this competitive dynamic, so the previous loyalty program was a strange concoction. It was, as noted, based on discounts, certain days, etc. The new iteration is much simpler, it makes much more sense, but there are some consumers, their core market, who are still big GNC customers who have been educated by GNC to shop a certain way, and now that's changing, and how are they going to react when their patience or discipline or just basically the rituals that they've created around that loyalty program, when those are gone or rewarded differently?
J. C. Penney's coupon clippers rebelled several years ago and it led to overthrow of the CEO and the company basically in a scared way saying, 'Okay, okay, okay, we're going to back to where we were.' I'm not sure whether these unintended consequences will also befall GNC. I think there's a strong likelihood that they will, because this is a struggling brand, but a big brand nonetheless and there's millions of people who've been educated to shop a certain way and now they're being told to shop differently, and we'll see whether that takes hold.
Thirdly, just the fundamental question, is GNC a brand for this moment in our culture and in our commercial life? We noted that the category that they serve is large and mature. They may not be growing very fast, but there's billions of dollars of business to be won and to be expanded upon in vitamins and supplements, but GNC is facing competitive pressures like never before, so in addition to the food, drug, and mass, there's a ton of direct businesses that have proprietary approaches and really unique, or at least marketed as unique kind of product offerings.
The company, GNC, has stood for engineered nutrition, yet the data suggests that many consumers are heavily scrutinizing ingredient panels. They're very skeptical of synthetic processes. So, in short, GNC's still selling the power of science while the consumer culture seems to be all about the simplicity of nature. There's a real question as to whether or not those eccentric rhythms of what consumers define as healthy accommodate GNC's historic brand definition of what it means. Now, a ton of vitamins and supplements are always going to be bought, so it isn't about the industry or the category going away. It's about whether or not GNC can grow within it.
My three questions here, and they're critical questions, is one, is GNC focusing on the right things? Is it a big enough change to right the ship? Two, are there unintended consequences that will compromise their efforts? Then three is, is GNC really just a brand for now? 9000 stores worldwide, 4000 in the US, and is that the right size of a business here that is facing crosswinds both of their making and not of their making? As noted, every so often this major company shifts direction. Sometimes the changes are too big, too fast, like J. C. Penney. Sometimes they get it right.
We mentioned at the beginning that Domino's offered a multifaceted initiative that touched the product, it touched the promotion, and it touched the marketing, and Domino's has had a tremendous resurgence. Sometimes the changes aren't big or deep enough, and Sears and their many false starts is an example of this.
My fear is that GNC might at least at present, and it's very early, my fear is that they may be falling into that category of changes that are welcome but not fundamental enough to reorient the trajectory of the brand and the business. As always, it's very easy for me to sit here and sound off without either the dataset to illuminate these opinions, nor the responsibility to execute.
The management team in Pittsburgh is there, they've had their heads down, studying the business, talking to consumers, and so they deserve a chance to see what happens here. Yet, my sense is that GNC plan is more cosmetic and the issues are more fundamental. The CEO of GNC admits that the model is 'badly broken.' I'm not sure this ultimately is a big enough fix for a retailer with fundamental problems.
So, we'll leave it right there. That's One Big Idea for this week. We're so glad that you're with us, and we'll sign off from the Cradle of Liberty.
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Bill Gullan: Greetings, one and all. This is Real-World Branding. I'm Bill Gullan, President of Finch Brands, a premier boutique branding agency. This is One Big Idea. Today's topic is rebranding. In fact we've titled it, 'Time to Rebrand?'. No up talk there, it really is a question. It's an important question that many companies face. Often, they come to us to help them assess the strengths and weaknesses of the moment for rebranding and whether or not it's the right approach to take.
Obviously, if they do decide to take it, we're often called in to manage the process. If they don't decide to take it, we're called in to manage other things within the framework of the existing brand. The reason I say that is because there is a fundamental difference between a brand refresh, which is primarily about either contemporizing, or in some way evolving the look and feel of a company, or of an institution and a full rebrand.
We're going to focus primarily here on why not to rebrand even though you may have an itch to think about rebranding. The reason why we want to focus on the negatives and the reasons to think very, very seriously before doing this is because it's much more than a brand refresh.
Companies that may come to us and just feel like they're looking out of date, or they're sick of it frankly, or any other reason, aesthetic, or otherwise, a brand refresh, which may even rise to the level of identity, name, logo, things like that, often is a way to bring a little bit of energy to the way that a company promotes itself.
A brand refresh is one thing, a rebranding process is fundamentally deeper and fundamentally different. It represents a meaningful enough shift in the company's target, mindset, culture, product line, or method of going to market that needs to be addressed through nothing short of a full re-imagination of what a company's called, how it's organized, what it values, etc.
When folks come to us and the topic is should we rebrand, we really spend a lot more time talking about reasons not to. In fact – and this may be, in some ways, self-defeating, at least from a new business perspective – we really adopt a default position of, no, you shouldn't until you've met a pretty significant threshold for a rebrand being the right path to take.
Five major reasons not to rebrand, or things to think about as you decide whether to rebrand or not. These five things are to be taken very, very seriously.
First, is that many brands have what we could call hidden brand equity. Whether that is a heritage of happy clients, whether that's a logo or a name that's pretty recognizable and pretty well-known.
Even if there's some baggage, even if there is some concern that there's a pretty significant level of negativity, or confusion in the marketplace, often even imperfect brand equity is preferable to starting out, or starting over.
The first reason to be very skeptical and cautious about rebranding is that there is likely some degree of hidden brand equity, if you've been doing this for a while, that you can't easily port over and you do not want to sacrifice. In the case where such equity exists, maybe again a brand refresh is a better course than a full rebrand.
Secondly, rebranding is emotional and it's hard. There are two ingredients from our perspective to a successful project. There's content and there's process. Content always needs to be great no matter what it is whether it is rebranding content, new name, logo, positioning, vision mission, whatever it is.
Process in the case of a rebrand is often just as important and rises to the level of importance. Because brands are built from the inside out as we've discussed in a previous episode of One Big Idea, a rebranding process has to start and has to, in many ways, be co-authored by a company, the entirety of an employee base, or at least a large segment of it.
You need to think long and hard about enrolling folks on the team into a process. A. because they have genuine insight from their functional responsibilities, being close to the customer in many cases and B. because the 'small p' politics of this is such that they're really going to need to be on-boarded on the back end for the rebrand to be as successful as you want it to be.
That's the hard multi-dimensional part of rebranding. The other thing in this second reason to be cautious about is that it's emotional. It absolutely is. You're dealing with properties that many folks have never not known. That's all they've known; formed various attachments.
It can feel sometimes, when re-thinking a name, or a logo, or deeper fundamental beliefs that rebranding is turning away from the past, which it is in some ways. That process is very, very difficult particularly when you're dealing with subjective elements. What are our values? How should our Vision / Mission be written? What should our name be? Etc.
If a culture cannot accommodate, or you think ever get past or through the emotional quality of this and the difficulty of galvanizing the entire team around it, it might be best not to approach a full scale rebranding.
The third is that often times, depending on what the company is facing, rebranding does not address the fundamental issue that is leading the company to a time of really deep introspection. Sometimes the reasons to rebrand have to do with very negative equity and the need to escape from that, or massive changes to the market, or whatever it is.
Sometimes there's a product deficiency. Sometimes the company's culture is not strong enough. Sometimes there may have been a mass migration, or attrition in the employee base. So, 'Now's as good a time as ever to think about that brand differently.'
That may be true, but if the issue with the company is a management issue, or is a cultural issue, or is something along those lines, there's no guarantee that rebranding is going to solve that. In fact, the vast percentage of the time it doesn't. Rebranding is about renewing the compact that you make and have with your team, with your employee base, and taking advantage of opportunities through product and through evolutions in the culture, whatever it is.
If your fundamental issue, when effectively diagnosed, isn't really related to something that rebranding is intended to solve, you should focus on the issue and resolve that. Do not necessarily just launch yourself into a rebranding process because 'new would be better,' or it papers over whatever the other weaknesses are.
Fourth, and not surprisingly, rebranding can be very expensive. Not only in enlisting the help of incredible firms like ours, or whatever, but all of the things that need to be re-done. They don't have to be done all at once, but over time. Often, clients step back from the abyss when they realize the impact on that year and the next year's marketing budget.
The dollars that it takes to re-do every touch point, all the way to simple things like re-printing business cards, to sales brochures, whatever it is, these are things you don't want to be out of date. It reflects the fact that the company may be operationally weak if it's presenting this multi-faceted face to the market.
I would certainly, as one embarks upon a rebranding process, game out the financial impacts of this, particularly for larger organizations. For example, when we were doing the Liberty Property Trustrebrand, they are a big company, real estate company. Which meant tons of signage, tons of sales materials across the nation and the world.
To their credit, they thought through brand migration with a financial perspective and built a really concerted plan against how to execute that. It involved prioritizing different markets and different properties where priority 1 or the 'A' bucket was going to get rebranding materials first. It was going to be done over a multi-year period. It was very smart, the approach they took and that we helped them with. The expense of a rebrand is a reason to pull back, or at least to study and go in eyes wide open.
Lastly, fifth and final of what I'm sure are many more, but fifth and final that come to mind here is that there is more to rebranding than you think. This is related to some of the other points. There may be more process-wise than you think. There may be more financially than you think, but when you think of operational and IT stuff like domain name and what the '@suchandsuchcompany.com' email structure, there's a ton of stuff in the operational realm.
There's also, as noted, a ton of stuff needed to align, and educate, and inspire the internal team in addition to their participation in the process. There is a huge need to think through, with a very clear eye, and a lot of energy, the strategy of communicating this to the customer base. Putting a little notice in a billing statement, or putting something up on social media does not suffice as a customer communication strategy around rebranding.
Often, as noted on our previous One Big Idea, where we talked about M&A Branding best practices, in terms of thinking through the brand, it sends a signal. Often times while the intended signal is progress, the future, and focus, there is a signal sent to the customer base of a company going through a rebranding. It indicates that there was something fundamentally broken. It indicates that the company's going through a process of figuring itself out.
While all of these things, we all know, are healthy and important processes to go through from time to time, there's no guarantee that all the customers are going to go with you. There's no guarantee, particularly if you don't build a strategy that is multi-faceted, that enables enough time and that the company can execute against.
Five reasons to say no. In a future episode, we'll talk about reasons to say yes, or reasons why it might be the right time. Just to reiterate those five:
1. There may be hidden equity that you really can't sacrifice in exchange for something that doesn't exist. You don't know how well it's going to catch on.
2. It's emotional and it's hard.
3. It may not address fundamental issues that are constraining the performance of the company as well as everyone's satisfaction within the culture.
4. It's expensive, or it can be expensive and often has to be accomplished in pieces for that reason.
5. There's often more operationally, as well as culturally, as well as in terms of market face and communications, more than you think.
That's One Big Idea for this week as we spring forward on Sunday night. As someone who has small children, not looking forward to this, although walking home with light out is going to be nice too. All the best. Signing off from the Cradle of Liberty, a wonderful day to all.
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How much fat, protein, carbs, fiber, water, etc. do I need to build muscle?
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I am underweight and want to have more muscle and definition, what can I do?
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Back in June, we talked to Fortinet's Doug Ramos about issues and trends affecting enterprise wireless environments today. We followed up with Doug to discuss how the growth of wireless devices and enterprise applications affects the way you design your wireless network, and how you control access.
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As the device landscape shifts from corporate-owned to employee-owned, and as network usage shifts to an ever-greater reliance on wireless, what are the challenges for security?
Wireless is the primary access layer for so much of your network now, and the vulnerabilities of the devices coming onto the wireless network call into question the security on that access layer. Not that many years ago, the furthest you could go from your desk was the length of your Ethernet cable. With your whole organization no longer physically plugged into your network, you have to be able to secure your wireless network, which includes an increasing number of employee-owned devices. Issues include unpatched and unsecured devices accessing, transmitting, and storing corporate data, the proliferation of untested and often vulnerable applications running on these devices, the merging of personal and work tools and data on a single device, and the creation of 'Shadow IT', where non-corporate devices and applications store and share critical corporate data on cloud-based networks and services that are unseen and unapproved by IT.
What impact does the growth of enterprise applications have from a security standpoint?
All of these applications come with their own vulnerabilities, so you have to have the ability to perform off-prem web security, as well as securing web traffic within your firewall. Your firewall needs to be able to see and secure applications and data that move across a network border or segment, but you also need to have security for the mobile application layer as well.
With the major security vulnerabilities found in SSL over the last couple of years, for example, everyone had to change protocols and redesign websites. Unfortunately, because many of these sorts of tools are being developed for expediency rather than security, stuff like that has become increasingly common. Hackers are now looking at getting their information by hacking applications rather than users. It's unbelievable the number of times popular sites get hacked, and passwords and profiles get compromised. And most users are completely unaware of these breaches and associated risks. All of this has begun to create a big push to add an additional layer of security on the application side.
How does the unprecedented growth in application and device diversity affect how you design your network?
Something I talk about a lot is high-density environments. Five years ago, we didn't have the number of applications that are available today for business use. Now, everyone is connecting with multiple devices, including wireless laptops, tablets and smart phones. And that's just the start. The amount of traffic that is being generated just from applications is five times what it was five years ago. Most of that data is moving across the wireless network, which has a significant impact on the wireless environment from a security standpoint, including user and application density.
In thinking about a wireless network, the number one thing that should be top of mind is the density of the traffic that you will have going through the network. You need to consider both user density, as well as application density. When you design a wireless network, one of the first things you calculate is how many physical devices you can connect through an access point. Then you need to factor in the amount of bandwidth each device will consume based on the applications they are going to use. And that is a moving target.
Let's say with very light application use, you can easily connect 50 devices through a single access point. But once they start using web-based applications, that number can quickly drop from 50 down to 20. That has a significant impact on performance, and how and where you're going to deploy wireless network devices, because it's no longer just about number of users and devices. It's also about how much data you're going to have to push through each access point. And with increasingly bandwidth-hungry application traffic, such as video and voice and interactive tools, that number is growing exponentially.
The main objective of every enterprise is to provide secure but controlled network access—enabling the right person the right access at the right time, without compromising security. How difficult is this to achieve?
Network Access Control is one of my favorite things to talk about because it is a challenge that is top of mind for many security teams, and because Fortinet has some amazing solutions in this area.
Network Access Control is critical, and it's not just about being able to onboard so many different devices. It's about making sure those devices are associated to the right people, and those people have the right permissions to access the network and application resources appropriate to their role.
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The week of September 11 I happened to be corresponding with one of the administrators of the Bach Centre in England. I mentioned my gratitude for Rescue Remedy, and he responded that it had been in wide use at the Centre that week, as well.
That correspondence—as well as other events—stimulated me to think once again about stress and decide that this would be an appropriate time to update an article I wrote on the subject several years ago.
What Stress Does
How do you feel when you experience happiness, joy, when life is good and you trust the universe to provide you with all you desire? You feel expansive, maybe like raising your arms in the air and waving them. Your breathing is easy, your heartbeat and muscles are relaxed. You feel so safe that you don't even think about feeling safe.
Stress, which occurs when we perceive a threat to our safety or ultimately to our lives, is the opposite of the above.
A turtle withdraws into its shell when it feels such a threat. A hedgehog rolls into a ball. Some of the physical ways humans and other mammals respond to stress include:
Muscular tension, which creates "body armor," a protection against physical wounds.
Speeded up metabolism, breathing, and heart rate, which enables one to more quickly fight or flee.
Arterial construction and faster blood clotting to prevent blood loss from injury.
These physical responses can save our lives if we are directly threatened. However, humans have a characteristic not shared by most other animals. With our imagination we can create scenarios that seem so real our bodies—and often our minds—can't distinguish them from immediate threats.
Thus, people who are afraid of air travel can imagine themselves dying in an air crash, though they are nowhere near, let alone in, a plane, and their bodies experience sensations similar to those they might feel if the crisis were actually unfolding.
On a lower-key, but more chronic level, the thought and fear of danger, death, loss of love or employment, or potential disruption) can also arouse these responses. When they are frequently or constantly invoked, they can, rather than save our lives, threaten our wellbeing, health and ultimately our lives.
Chronic muscular tension can lead to a wide variety of disorders. Chronic anxiety can cause asthma and digestive disorders. Chronic arterial constriction and blood that clots too quickly are related to heart disease.
Stress and Energy
Leading medical and scientific authorities increasingly agree on the above points. Practitioners and teachers of vibrational healing recognize that the physical symptoms of stress reflect a deeper imbalance.
The basic principle of vibrational healing (which can include interacting with crystals, flower and other essences, Reiki, visualizations, and more) is that all living things are created and maintained by a universal energy. This energy, as it flows into each of us, translates into our personal energy.
When this energy is flowing freely, we experience love, a feeling of connection, emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical health, creative, and general wellbeing and trust in the universe to support us. When we experience fear, we are saying (usually unknowingly), "the universe is not a safe place and I don't want to be part of it." We roll up into spiritual balls and block ourselves from universal source energy, thus disconnecting ourselves from our source of life. In essence, we create that which we fear.
Dissolving Stress
It's vital to to interrupt the escalating stress syndrome. Be aware when you get tense, anxious, or fearful.
One of the most effective ways to reverse the escalation is to stop what you're doing and breathe deeply at least ten times. Make sure you're breathing correctly. In correct breathing, the abdomen expands first, then the solar plexus, then the chest. You can monitor this process by placing one hand on your abdomen, the other on your chest. In exhaling, the chest should sink first, then the solar plexus, then the abdomen.
Counting as you inhale and exhale both eases your breathing and distracts your mind. I like the pattern of inhaling to a count of four, holding to a count of four, and exhaling to a count of eight.
Also, as you breathe, you can focus on the path of your breath through your body. Imagine it beginning at your feet and going up to your head as you inhale, then going back down on the exhale.
Sometimes inactivity can cause excessive energy to produce anxiety. It can be helpful to get up (especially if you spend your days at a desk or computer) and stretch and walk around. Regular moderate exercise, such as treadmill work, stationary bicycling, walking, or swimming will keep your stress level down, and can be a lifesaver when you are feeling severely stressed.
Note: Most exercise experts recommend having a physical examination to determine the level of exercise your body can comfortably handle.
Vibrational Relaxation
If you have learned, Reiki give yourself a treatment. At a minimum, Reiki your solar plexus. If you have been attuned to Reiki II, send distant healing to all stressful situations and also use the mental/emotional balance symbol. If you haven't learned Reiki consider learning this system. You can read about it in our Reiki section, httpL//www.rainbowcrystal.com/reiki/reiki.html
Ask For Help
That many of us have issues about asking for help was confirmed by the response to September 1999's Rainbow Reflections article, People Who Need People at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/news/vulnerability.html
A responsibility shared is a responsibility lightened, and working together to solve problems creates a warm feeling which in itself reduces stress.
Do You Have To Do It All At Once?
Successful (and calm) managers know how to set priorities. Make a list of everything you have to do (while trying not to gasp). Decide what's most important, and make a schedule of completion for what is less important.
A schedule will also help you to avoid procrastinating, which is a common source of stress. You may want to read the article on procrastination at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/news/pro.html.
Turn Off the TV
We live in an era of information overload. We can see or read about unlimited numbers of crises or disasters. With the combination of accessibility and the human ability to imagine, we can create feelings of endangerment and stress without actually physically experiencing that danger.
It takes great discipline and awareness not to get caught up in the drama of disaster. During the first days following the destruction of the World Trade Center, I managed for the most part to not watch television or read newspapers, but I found myself spending a lot of time at cnn.com until I realized I was experiencing all the classic symptoms of stress.
The greatest temptation may come from compassion and the desire to feel connected to those who are suffering. The nonphysical guide, Seth, had a powerful answer to this need, saying that if you see someone sinking into quicksand, you don't help them by jumping in with them. You help them by pulling them out.
We can't usually physically pull people out, but we can always pray, meditate, and envision a loving and healing outcome. I have read that one person staying focused on positive thoughts has the power of a million focused on negativity. Keep those positive, loving thoughts flowing.
Last, but far from least, seek the help of of crystals and flower essences.
In my years of working with and selling crystals I have noticed that, after clear quartz, amethyst is probably the most popular crystal (rose quartz follows very closely). Amethyst is known as a stone which helps to eliminate nightmares and to aid meditation, thus helping to reduce stress on an around-the-clock basis. Wearing, carrying, and meditating with amethyst are good ideas if you are feeling stressed-out.
Sometimes people feel stressed because they aren't grounded. In other words, they are all over the place, their energy is erratic, and they just don't know how they can go on. Grounding stones are needed for this condition: smoky quartz, hematite, black tourmaline, tiger's eye, and obsidian.
Hematite is also helpful if you are taking on the emotions of others. It helps to form a protective shield. If you are feeling bombarded by general negativity (such as in the workplace), black tourmaline is a helpful stone.
Carnelian is a useful crystal if you're not feeling present and are having trouble making decisions (always an act with great stress potential).
Procrastination is very stressful (I speak from extensive personal experience). One of the best stones to get me in motion is rutilated quartz.
Another source of stress is conflict between the rational mind and the intuition. Moss agate can help to balance these forces so that they can work together instead of arguing.
Fear is a major stress producer, as it will consume just about all the energy you have, as well as create minor-to-major energy blockages in the being (and often in the body). Charoite is the crystal which helps to dissolve both known and unknown fears.
Guilt and resentment will also create considerable stress. The most useful crystal for these emotions is sugilite.
The feet which are connected to the ground are most likely to follow the path towards completion of responsibility. I highly recommend Turtle (Wild Earth Animal Essences). Turtle travels very close to the earth and is attuned to its slow, deep rhythms.
Elm (Bach) is ideal for those who feel so overwhelmed by their responsibilities that they don't know where to begin; while Oak (Bach) can help people who take on more than any one person can be expected to accomplishÑparticularly those who are reluctant to ask others for help.
Sometimes, out of overabundant enthusiasm, we take on projects to singlehandedly save the world (or our particular part of it), and also do our best to enroll our friends in our projects. Please note: I am not trying to suggest that enthusiasm, saving the world, or enrollment are negative, but if you are feeling stressed out by what you've taken on consider Vervain (Bach).
On the other hand, if you need a jump start to get going on what needs to be done Cayenne (FES) is a useful essence.
When you stay awake at night worrying about everything which needs to be done reach for the White Chestnut (Bach).
A Meditation for Stress Relief
Note: Though I have recommended particular stones for this meditation please feel free to substitute your favorites. I have also suggested particular images. Please feel free to substitute these, as well.
Also, as most of you know, there is a specific meditation for planetary healing on the web site at http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/crystal/peacemeditation.html
First Chakra (place at feet): Hematite. In my experience this is one of the most grounding stones.
Second Chakra (pelvic area): Red Jasper. This stone helps to connect us to earth energies.
Third Chakra (navel): Tiger's Eye. This stone teaches patience in the pursuit of a goal.
Solar Plexus: Rhodochrosite. The solar plexus is actually part of the third chakra, but since rhodochrosite is perhaps the best stone to assist us in deep breathing, I have included it as a separate area.
Fourth Chakra (heart): Green Tourmaline. All tourmalines help to relieve stress, and green is the appropriate color for this chakra.
Fifth Chakra (throat): Aquamarine. This stone helps us feel the relaxing rhythms of the sea.
Sixth Chakra (forehead, above and between the eyes): Amethyst. This is the stone of tranquility.
Seventh Chakra: Clear Calcite. This stone will help you view your situation from a different perspective.
I also suggest that you hold a clear quartz point of any size in either hand (or both).
Begin by inhaling and exhaling slowly and deeply, about 10 times. Imagine the muscles in your body relaxing.
Spend as much time as you need to in each of the following crystal positions.
First place your quartz crystal over the hematite. Imagine yourself being deeply rooted in the earth and protected from all negativity.
Next, place the quartz crystal over the red jasper. Feel the earth's rhythms flowing through you, calming and relaxing you.
Place the crystal over the tiger's eye. Imagine that you are a cat sleeping in the sun, totally relaxed and comfortable.
Then place the crystal over the green tourmaline. Imagine grass and leaves growing, slowly and surely.
Next, place the crystal over the aquamarine. Imagine that you are at the ocean, hearing the song of the surf, breathing the healing air, feeling warm and relaxed.
Now place the crystal above the amethyst. Feel the quiet hour of twilight and the soft colors of sunset. Feel yourself unwinding from the day's activities.
Finally, place the crystal over the clear calcite. Imagine that it's a year from now. See how small your problems look from this distant perspective. Relax in the knowledge that all is well.
Connie Barrett is the co owner of Beyond the Rainbow http://www.rainbowcrystal.com where you can find about 250 additional articles related to personal/spiritual growth, crystals, flower essences, Reiki, and other ways of self-empowerment and spiritual development. We also publish two free monthly email newsletters.


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1. Closing those programs that are constantly using internet bandwidth will help make the connection run faster. Some programs such as Skype, MSN and AIM use the internet constantly, connecting to chat servers, to get the user's friends lists and other information. If some of these programs are open, and the internet is running slow; users should try shutting them down.
2. When people have a large number of tabs open at the same time, the internet connection will often run slowly. The reason the net will run slowly, is that most web pages refresh themselves every couple of minutes; and if there are a lot of them open, it slows down the connection. Closing some of these unnecessary pages will help.
3. Some email programs, when left open, can also be the cause of a slow internet connection. This is because they are constantly checking to see if the user has any new emails. You should always make sure to close down any email programs when they are not in use.
4. When there is more than one computer on the same network, it can often slow down the internet. One of the computers may be using a large portion of the available bandwidth which happens when users do such things as download large files, play games or watch online movies. You should always monitor how all people in the household are using their individual computers.
5. The registry of a computer is the database where users can adjust the settings of their computer. However, it can also be a reason for the internet running slowly. When people use their computers, the registry "tells" the computer how to access the internet as to what ports to use. However, the settings in the registry often become damaged which makes it hard for the computer to "read" them; and thus, the computer will take a long time to process anything. You can easily fix this problem with a registry cleaner that will scan the computers settings and repair any problems that are making the computer run slow.
6. Using a firewall can help your internet and computer run faster. This is because a firewall controls both incoming and outgoing traffic to your computer. The more programs that are making use of a computer's bandwidth, the slower the connection are going to be.
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Flash: We Applaud And Thank You, President Trump, For Designating the IRGC a Terrorist Group As We Asked!
Thank you, President Trump, for acting to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a Terrorist organization as you promised you would do and as we at CIPAC have urged.
Coming on the heels of your recent recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan, this latest stunning policy breakthrough adds to your record as the most pro-Israel president in history.
Now we trust you will finish the job by recognizing Israel's sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, while avoiding the pitfall of proposing a two-state peace plan for Israel and her neighbors, which we have shown would be dangerous and costly for America and injurious to Israel as well. Let the parties frame their own deal if they wish and then we can help them if they ask. All prior US and other outside proposals have fallen on the rocks of Palestinian and other Arab and Islamic refusals to recognize a Jewish state in their midst, not on other factors cited.
To all of CIPAC supporters and people who love Israel:
Also, you can be of immense help by acting to:
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I suppose my main question is: how do I create a "good" equidistant projection, at about 60 degrees N?
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Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian was apparently a disciple of Elliot Rodger, the hateful California college student behind a 2014 killing spree.
Minassian, who's charged with 10 counts of murder for Monday's rampage, referenced "Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger" on his Facebook account, which the company confirmed to the CBC belonged to the suspect.
He also referenced a handful of anti-women terms used by Rodger, who stabbed three people to death and fatally shot another three before turning the gun on himself around the University of California Santa Barbara in May 2014.
Rodger injured seven people with a BMW coupe, and struck another seven with bullets.
The 22-year-old Rodger called himself a "supreme gentleman" in a chilling manifesto and video about women who turned him down, posted before he embarked on the carnage.
Minassian used the term — and other slang by those who hailed Rodger as a hero — in the Facebook post in the hours before he allegedly drove a rented Ryder van a mile down a Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 and injuring 15 people.
"The Incel Rebellion has already begun," he wrote in the post, using the abbreviation for "involuntary celibate," and also referenced the online message board "4chan."
"We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!"
"Chads" denotes men who have luck with women, among the irate males using anti-women hate speech, and "Stacys" are women who reject a man's advances.
Facebook told the CBC it pulled Minassian's account once employees linked it to the suspected attacker.
In 2017, Reddit's updated policies about dangerous rhetoric prompted the forum to lock out members of the so-called "Incel" groups.
The reference to Rodger opened up old wounds for those close to the killer's family.
"It's an absolute tragedy," a friend of the Rodger family told the Daily News on Tuesday, referring to the Toronto van attack and its possible link to Rodger.
The friend said Elliot's dad, Peter Rodger, was devastated by his son's shooting rampage and tried to move on in recent years, even leaving the U.S. for an extended period, but it's still a painful topic that he rarely discusses.
"He was the father of a boy who murdered people," said the friend, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It was an absolute nightmare. He has tried to move on, but can anyone ever really move on from something like that?
"His son turned out to be someone he never really knew," the friend said.
Peter Rodger didn't immediately comment when contacted by the News on Tuesday.
The Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this year considered Rodger's melee to be the spark for a wave of attacks by men with alt-right views.
Canadian officials haven't indicated a motive for Minassian's attack, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the assault didn't threaten the overall national security.


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Comments : The judges for the BLS Comp were 2 musicians from the group Old 55 well know by there songs 'On The Prowl' and 'Looking For An Echo' being 2 of there biggest hits. They had the difficult task of picking 3 winners out of 10 contestants. Did they pick the right 3 there is plenty of debate about that, as there always is at Karaoke Finals. Lady luck was on those that won on the night it was a great night had by all. I want to say thanks to all those that came a supported there singers, it is always nice to have someone cheer you on the night. Looking forward to the next one......Cheers Elly G
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