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Book Title: Thunder on the Moor
Series: Thunder on the Moor - Book 1
Author: Andrea Matthews
Publication Date: 30th October 2019
Publisher: Inez M. Foster
Page Length: 430 Pages
Genre: Historical Romance / Time-Travel
Maggie Armstrong grew up with tales of blood feuds and border raids, so when her father takes her back four hundred and fifty years to his Scottish home, she is enchanted. Enchanted, that is, until her uncle announces his intentions to betroth her to Ian Rutherford, the son of a neighboring laird. Maggie’s twentieth century sensibilities are outraged, but refusal to agree could ignite a blood feud. Maggie’s worlds are colliding. Betrayal, treachery, and a tragic murder have her questioning whether she should remain or try to make her way back to her own time. To make matters worse, tensions escalate when she stumbles across handsome Englishman, Will Foster. But could he be the hero she’s always dreaded of or will his need for revenge against Ian shatter more than her heart?
Maggie lounged back amongst the fragrant blossoms, the soft sunlight no more than a golden glow along the horizon. Though the air remained damp, the promise of warmth comforted her, and she closed her eyes, letting its delicate cocoon engulf her weary body. A few yards away, a thrush welcomed the coming day, tweeting its morning song in perfect harmony with the steady bass of a croaking frog. The sweet melody soothed her cluttered mind and lulled her into a light sleep.
Images of beaches and warm summer days at the shore filled her dreams. Memories of sandcastles and dabbling her toes in the ocean sent her senses reeling. She could almost smell the salt air, hear the surf crashing against the shore. But wait—those were no breaking waves she heard, but something else, something far more menacing.
With a sudden jolt, she woke, the predawn tranquility shattered by a distant rumble. Maggie sprang up, her eyes widening as she recognized the thunderous beat of hooves rising from beyond the ridge. Behind her, about five hundred yards away, pressed against the graying sky, stood her uncle’s tower. He’d warned her about venturing from the safety of its walls, but she’d been too stubborn to take his words to heart. Perhaps she should have put her dislike of the man aside just this once.
Frantic visions of vengeful reivers sprang to mind, and she rose, determined to make a sprint for the distant peel tower. With the creak of leather armor already echoing in her ears, she struggled to gain purchase on the dew-covered ground, but she slipped and fell into the tall grass of the gentle slope.
Pushing herself up, she chanced a glance over her shoulder and froze. He was nearly upon her, his steel-blue eyes reflecting the mood of the moor. A wave of terror washed over her, for somehow she knew this time Will Foster wouldn’t turn and ride away.
She slumped back on her elbows, unable to move, the world around her fading into obscurity. Riders rode by on their way to the tower, their images blurred and distorted, for nothing could pry her attention from Will or the amulet he wore around his neck. He paused a few feet from where she’d fallen, tugging hard on the reins, hunger burning in his gaze.
Maggie swallowed hard, anger and fear lodged in her breast. She tried to embrace the former, but it was tempered by a sudden desire that caused her thighs to quiver and her mouth to long for the touch of the striking young reiver before her.
Will nudged his horse closer, the fire in his eyes intensifying, and this time fear surged to the fore, jarring Maggie back to her senses. No matter how handsome he may appear, he remained at heart a murdering barbarian, his intentions all too clear. Digging her heels into the soft earth, she pushed herself into an upright position and started running for the tower.
Andrea Matthews is the pseudonym for Inez Foster, a historian and librarian who loves to read and write and search around for her roots, genealogical speaking. In fact, it was while doing some genealogical research that she stumbled across the history of the Border reivers. The idea for her first novel came to mind almost at once, gradually growing into the Thunder on the Moor series. And the rest, as they say, is history … |
We expect all children to attend school regularly unless they are ill or have a home emergency. We have an Attendance Officer and a Learning Mentor/Family Support Worker who liaise with families that are struggling to get their child/ren in to school. A link to our attendance policy is below:
Please call our school office (01924 371738) by 9am if your child is not going to be attending school for any reason. Our Attendance Officer will contact you if we have no reason for your child not being in school, this may be a text message, phone call or email.
Our school gates are opened at 8.45am each morning. The classroom doors are opened at 8:50am and are closed at 9am. Children arriving after 9am must report to the main reception where they can be signed in and a lunch ordred (if required). Our school finishes at 3.20pm.
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If you wish to take your child out of school during term-time, please ask for a request form from the office, or click the Term-Time Absence Request link below to download an editable version which can be emailed to our office email address.
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Effectively, Birdie’s room is coming alongside, and like her, it’s stuffed with happiness and loads of colourful vitality. However I’ve been hung up on the furnishings since day one and it hasn’t gotten simpler. First off, I concern that the Fb Market mattress is just too busy and twee – it’s only a LOT occurring within the room. So I’ll possible discover and order an easier upholstered mattress to calm it down a bit. However that’s not even the largest problem, let’s get into it.
Right here’s what we have now that we are able to’t change – the wallpaper, the carpet, the home windows, and the situation of the closet doorways. Whereas I LOVE these authentic home windows, clearly, they’re low thus creating fairly the nightstand problem. Moreover, the closet door wants to have the ability to open so discovering the correct nightstands has been onerous.
So whereas I used to be stumped I went into my classic stock and pulled the whole lot out, positioned them within the room, and performed and performed to see what felt proper.
Possibility 1: Eclectic However Enjoyable?
This configuration is technically balanced in colour and we lived with this for some time. The closet door opened positive as a result of the skirted wicker desk was shoved a bit over. Is it quirky and enjoyable? Certain. Do I really like the concept of all of this classic? Certain. However it felt like a special home and simply wanted to be extra calmed down.
As a result of what you could be forgetting is that we discovered these unimaginable Artwork Deco shades at an vintage mall and we actually need to use them on this room. We had them flanking the mattress, hanging in entrance of each home windows for a very long time and beloved it, however they’re so massive that they’re creating much more of an issue with the nightstands. Ought to they go actually excessive? Perhaps? Ought to they simply be on the correct facet and staggered? Perhaps (see additional under).
If I needed to prioritize what cuckoo classic to maintain on this room it could 100% be the hanging shades. I LOVE THEM. Certain, I really like the wicker ghost desk (from Store Wilma in Portland) however I do know that I can use that elsewhere. I additionally like that candy dresser I received on Fb Market for $100 and I don’t thoughts it in entrance of the window, however once more, it simply appears like a completely completely different home. The mattress isn’t serving to (I attempted to order this mattress but it surely’s out of inventory so I’m attempting to determine what different choices we have now).
Possibility 2: Painted And Minimize Down?
Then I’ve these two tables that I’ve been hoarding, each classic from Craiglist/Fb Market. Each might get painted however BOTH are too excessive so that they’d have to get minimize down from the underside of their legs. Doable? Certain. Does it really feel completely proper? Nope. I LOVE the scalloped desk a lot and it’s slim sufficient that it might go on the left facet of the mattress and the closet door might nonetheless open, however then what do I placed on the correct? Y’all, I LOVE SYMMETRY IN A BEDROOM. I feel that’s the place I struggling…
Possibility 3: Not This However Perhaps?
Okay, so right here we put the scalloped desk on the left after which introduced their costume trunk on the correct (which inserts actually properly in entrance of the window. Then I threw this classic quilt prime on prime to ascertain reupholstering it (and it simply received busier and busier). HMMM…observing these pictures a month later I’m realizing that these two are an incredible possibility if we have been to reupholster the trunk in one thing easy after which paint the scallop desk (as soon as minimize down a bit) a balanced colour. And if you’re questioning if I’ve thought of portray the mattress, I SURE HAVE. Birdie is adamant to not and he or she says it’s “actually grounding and pops off the wall nicely”. Y’all, listening to her be taught from and completely parrot me is a secret pleasure that I don’t know find out how to categorical. So I need to honor her enter, however would the mattress be higher if it have been a lighter, extra muted tone? Certain. However then possibly only a easy upholstered mattress can be higher anyway, and I might donate this mattress to a neighbor fairly simply. So I don’t need to spend extra time/cash on a bit that possibly shouldn’t be in right here within the first place.
Right here I needed us all to ascertain what the lamps would appear to be in right here – as a result of like I mentioned, they’re my #1 precedence to make work. For months I used to be like, “Let’s simply go for it, make it loopy AF, and simply lean into eccentric English granddaughter”. However with the mess/stuff that her life brings in, the room simply appears like A LOT. If I might return in time and select a much less busy wallpaper I might (I love this paper, but it surely’s a LOT so we have to calm it down).
You’ll be able to see the method of me dropping my thoughts, in actual time. Right here is the place I believed possibly I’d reupholster the bench on the correct, convey within the skirted desk again, dangle BOTH lamps on the correct (staggered), AND THEN to stability out the lamps herald a standing colourful lamp to be the pal to the skirted desk (which is now centered on the window). Thus far, that is our favourite “concept” but it surely’s definitely not there. One other factor it’s best to know is that the lampshades are REAL BIG, and in the event that they dangle low they really feel actually enormous subsequent to any nightstand however if you happen to dangle them excessive they cowl the prettiest components of the window. Ought to I simply forego them altogether and use them within the barn/playhouse I need to do for the youngsters for summer time play? MAYBE. However they create such a jolt of pleasure each time I see them…
Possibility 4: Symmetrical And Boring
I couldn’t not attempt some primary symmetrical nightstands. We introduced these from LA and they’re easy and positive however they appear dumb and small over right here. Do I just like the symmetry in a bed room? I SURE DO. However I would like them to be wider, a bit decrease, and nonetheless shallow as to not are available in entrance of the closet. Like two low dressers (of which I’ve searched excessive and low for). However that is the place I began contemplating changing the mattress with an easier stable upholstered one. If it have been a medium blue upholstered headboard (no footboard, I secretly don’t like a footboard) after which I had two custom-made low and huge dressers made, THEN you dangle the lamps on either side and it’s nonetheless tremendous enjoyable, however calms it down. If I might snap my fingers that’s what I might do, however I additionally actually simply need to shoot this quickly and get it on the market.
I feel long run I do know the place I’m headed, however within the quick time period, I need to present you what I can pull along with what we have now available. After this shoot for this put up I stared on the pictures for hours, I had a thought to flip the room fully, put the mattress on the other wall going through the home windows, and put her bulletin board over right here in between the home windows together with her spherical artwork desk within the nook. And I JUST would possibly!
For now, I’m working with what we have now right here (except I discover one thing else on the town) as a result of we’re capturing this room this week and actually I’m excited to see what we are able to pull collectively for now (understanding that I’ve extra long run targets so as to add extra modernity and symmetry in right here). This week you’ll see what we did to the home windows (which admittedly did NOT assist to calm it down) so the loopy practice has left the station, and we’re excited to indicate you the place we arrived on spherical one in every of Birdies room. WISH US LUCK. 🙂
*Photographs by Kaitlin Inexperienced |
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of hackers? If you’re like most people, it probably has something to do with stealing passwords, injecting malware and demanding ransom payments. But not all hackers operate with malicious intentions. In fact, at least 300,000 hackers are registered as ethical hackers. And some are in-between.
The different subtypes of hackers go by different names:
- White-hat hackers – These are the good ones
- Black-hat hackers – The bad ones
- Gray-hat hackers – These are in-between
White-hat hackers are also known as ethical hackers. They test IT environments – including firewalls, computers, networks and even users – to find vulnerabilities and help organizations secure them before the black-hat hackers take advantage of them.
Black-hat hackers are commonly known as cybercriminals and threat actors. They work to circumvent security systems for personal or financial gain.
Gray-hat hackers have motives that fall somewhere in-between. They break into computer systems and alert administrators to vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. But they may also use their inside knowledge to extort a fee from the victim in exchange for helping to patch the security flaw.
Good guys wear black?
Some people argue that black hats, while operating with criminal intent, are actually performing a beneficial service. Successful hacks typically result in security upgrades for the affected systems, leading to a higher overall security posture.
Cybersecurity analyst and hacking researcher Keren Elezari says that hackers and hacktivists can push the internet and technology in general to become stronger, more secure and more cyber-resilient by exposing vulnerabilities.
Why do they hack?
Simple. Follow the money.
No matter what hat they wear, hackers generally don’t work for free. Not when there’s money to be made. Ethical Hackers earn around $91,000 USD per year. Some technology companies will offer bounties to coders who expose vulnerabilities. Apple offered $1.5 million to anyone who could hack an iPhone. Groups like HackerOne provide platforms connecting businesses, ethical hackers and cybersecurity researchers for security testing. Hackers on the platform have earned over $1 million. Black hats can earn even more, especially when they’re sponsored by governments.
What are other subtypes?
Different hacker personas have different motivations. Here are a few of basic kinds you’ll find out in the wild.
Picture the stereotypical “hacker in a hoodie.” They generally fall under the category of Script Kiddie. They can be programming novices with at least a little coding knowledge. They often use free and open source software from the dark web to infiltrate networks. Their motives can place them in black, white or gray territory.
You’ve probably heard of a group of hackers known as Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group that once took down the CIA’s website. Their primary goal is to bring public attention to a political or social matter through disruption. This puts them into the category known as hacktivist. These gray-hat hackers are known for stealing and exposing sensitive information or launching denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Red hats are the vigilantes of the hacker world. They work to block, disrupt or destroy the work of black-hat hackers. Rather than reporting breaches, they often shut down malicious attacks with their own tools.
Nation-state hackers engage in espionage, social engineering or computer intrusion, typically with the goal of acquiring classified information or collecting ransom payments. As they are backed by government organizations, they are often extremely sophisticated and well trained.
Some of the most dangerous threats are the ones right under your own roof. Malicious insiders are current or former employee who steal or destroy information. They could also be someone hired by a competitor to infiltrate an organization for trade secrets. Malicious insiders pose a very significant risk as they can provide remote access to protected systems. This can lead to a loss of intellectual property, financial fraud or additional cyber-attacks.
Now that you know the hacker subtypes, you should be better able identify threats and maybe even leverage hacking to help secure your business. One of the best defenses against hackers is an automated backup solution, like Carbonite Safe. A backup solution automatically copies your files, either to the cloud or to a local storage device. If a hacker manages to encrypt your files or threatens to delete them, you can recover backup copies without giving in to hacker demands. |
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is making rapid strides in technological development, from Google’s AI program defeating a human in the game of Go, Russian scientists building the ‘Terminator’ and another project from Google’s Brain Team, where the AI program attempts to write post-modern poetry. The AI market is projected to expand to USD 5.05 billion by 2020 (from USD 419.7 million in 2014), at a CAGR of 53.65% from 2015 to 2020, largely due to greater applications in diversified fields, enhanced productivity and increasing consumer satisfaction.
Machine learning technology, a key component of the overall AI market, is estimated to gain traction over the next five years, on account of higher anticipated demand in media & advertising and finance sectors, as well as retail, healthcare, law, and oil & gas.
Multinational technology giants such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, and governments of different countries across the globe are looking to boost their investment in AI. Here are the latest developments that are creating waves in the AI world:
Google Plans to Create AI Generated Art
According to reports, Google has announced a new research project dubbed ‘Magenta’ that is aimed at exploring the use of AI to produce art. The research team will initially study what kind of algorithms are used to generate music and then subsequently move to video and other visual arts. Magenta is set for an official launch on June 1.
‘ There’s a couple of things that got me wanting to form Magenta, and one of them was seeing the completely, frankly, astonishing improvements in the state of the art [of creative deep learning]. And I wanted to demystify this a little bit,’ says Douglas Eck, a researcher on the project.
You can see the Google AI generating music on a digital synth at Moogfest in the following video-
Magenta is inspired by Google DeepDream, which you can use to create your own crazy-ass hallucinogenic images. Just upload your pic and see the phantasmagoric imagery!
Google’s new art project seeks to leverage deep learning models open-source on top of the IT behemoth’s open source AI platform- TensorFlow. In addition, the research team will also look to develop an app to highlight the visual art produced from Magenta and gauge public opinion on whether the art created have any aesthetic or artistic value.
China To Invest USD 15 billion In AI Products
China has unveiled plans to inject more than CNY 100 billion (USD 15.26 billion) to expand its artificial intelligence products market over the next three years. Under the plans, China aims to speed up manufacturing of products such as robots, home appliances and mobile phones in order to develop new technologies and boost its sluggish economy, as well as build platforms for fundamental AI resources and innovation and undertake research and development to make breakthrough on basic core technology.
By 2018, China also seeks to nurture and develop emerging AI industries, encourage innovation in intelligent products and boost the intelligence level of terminal products. The program will reportedly include critical projects such as intelligent home appliances, smart automobiles, intelligent unmanned systems, intelligent wearable devices and robots.
According to the state-run China Daily, the government will also provide guarantee measures financial support, intellectual property protection, talents and international cooperation to pep up the industry.
AI To Define Monetary Policy In the future?
There is a strong possibility that AI may very well set the monetary policy of our country one day. Key economic indicators, such as unemployment figures, GDP and federal fund rates could be predicted by AI technology in the future, making thousands of banking and trading professionals, as well as high-level executives like Janet Yellen, the current Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a run for their money (again, the sinister prediction of AI making jobs redundant in the future. Journalism, art, economics, finance…the possibilities of AI dominance in these fields become more realistic with each passing year).
So how exactly is AI going to define the fiscal policy in the future?
According to Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI will bridge the gap through machine learning, which already find applications in various complex processes such as classifying DNA sequences, detecting credit-card fraud, information retrieval, marketing, online advertising and stock market analysis.
‘ The capability is here. The biggest hurdle is the cultural barrier. You’ve got a lot of central bankers who are not as open to technology,’ says Lo.
Paul Robinson, who heads the Bank of England’s Advanced Analytics unit, feels that AI technology will have a significant impact on economic policy definitely within five years. AI would be used to make more accurate predictions and would not seek to replace the role of human economists.
However, David Wilcox, director of the Federal Reserve’s research and statistics division exercises a note of caution, warning against overstating the role of AI in shaping economic policy. ‘There will remain an irreducible amount of uncertainty that is very large, moreover, the phenomenon of structural change is pervasive in complicated economic systems. For the foreseeable future, the best approach will involve a combination of empirical rigor captured in models, together with human judgment,’ said Wilcox.
Meanwhile, Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, remain skeptical of the technology and data available to make a reliable forecast. According to Varian, the data sets are minuscule (since GDP is released on a quarterly basis, 50 years of data make only 200 observations and only seven recessions) and the technology needs to significantly improve before there is a marked change in the economic calculations done by an AI, as compared to traditional economists. |
In the first six months of this year, Lexus only sold 1,230 SC 430s, which is down 40 percent from a year ago. Toyota apparently was working on a new SC that would be based on the same rear-wheel-drive platform as the upcoming LF-A. The new SC was originally planned for an early 2009 introduction, but was then pushed back to 2011. Now the coupe has been completely killed.
Toyota is currently working on the next-generation Camry, which is due for 2012. Toyota is looking at the possibility of killing the Avalon and releasing a long-wheelbase version of the next Camry in its place. |
June 2019 – Bridgeport Generation Now Votes is started by Gemeem Davis and Niels Heilmann.
June-August 2019 – Ran a successful “Get Out The Vote” campaign ahead of the 2019 municipal primaries for Mayor, City Council, and Board of Education.
July 2019 – Delivered a petition to end absentee ballot fraud and abuse to the Secretary of State’s office in Hartford with over 2,000 signatures
September 2019 – Director, Callie Heilmann led the organization in helping 3 Bridgeport residents sue the Ganim campaign and Bridgeport elected officials for absentee voting fraud and abuse. Known as “Lazar v. Ganim, et al” this historic case exposed the manipulation of low-income, elderly, and mono-lingual Spanish speaking voters, all for the purpose of controlling their votes.
2020 – Joined the Safe Vote Coalition to advocate for voting safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Worked on GOTV for the 2020 Presidential Election.
2021 – Worked with Bridgeport’s State Delegation and secured an independent Election Monitor who reports to the Secretary of State and monitors Bridgeport’s elections. Started the Unrig Bridgeport Coalition and engaged directly in Bridgeport’s municipal elections to advance The People’s Platform. Endorsed 7 candidates for City Council and Board of Education – and 6 out of 7 of our candidates won!
2022 – Helped to organize the Black Women Speak march in Bridgeport in the wake of Lauren Smith Fields’s and Brenda Lee Rawls’s deaths. Joined the Make It Count Coalition Steering Committee and the CT Voting Rights Act Coalition. Executed a voter education campaign on Connecticut’s Early Voting ballot referendum, which passed with overwhelming support in November 2022.
2023 – Advocated at the state level for no-excuse absentee voting, the CT Voting Rights Act, equitable early voting implementation and funding for Bridgeport’s Election Monitor – all of which passed! In January, we also launched The Year of Change campaign to get candidates for Mayor, City Council, and Board of Education elected in the 2023 municipals who pledge to work on The People’s Platform. |
At Treguddick we have a big black board with the words above it - what shall we do next? Oddly enough there's no profanities on the board, but one word is scrawled and chalked over and over again: its Lovage. So, true to our word we followed your suggestion and the rest, as they say, is history!
If you are not familiar with Lovage and moreover, Lovage alcoholic cordial, I'll start uncharacteristically at the beginning!
Lovage belongs to a family of plants that includes parsley, carrots and celery. It's tall with large green leaves - a bit like flat leaf parsley (but with fewer pointy bits) and a flavour similar to celery but with a gorgeous hit of light tobacco'ed anise.
Like pretty much every herb you can mention, down through the centuries a monk here or a quack there has used it in some elixir or other. But when it comes to boozy concoctions it has a particularly rich lineage, with its crowning glory the traditional British cordial known as "lovage cordial."
Going back to at least the 18th century, this delight was made by infusing brandy with lovage leaves, creating a sumptuous and unique combo often enjoyed as a “digestive aid”.
This general plan of sticking some herbs in an alcoholic beverage was a strategy broadly deployed throughout Europe - my fave is homemade vermouth: grab yourself a bottle of cheap cheap cheap white wine or rose, pop 8cm of fresh rosemary stem, 2 bay leaves and a bit of lemon thyme in the bottle and reseal, leaving in the fridge overnight - and you will have the best vermouth you've ever tasted! But I digress.
Back to lovage. As time went by it made commercial sense to make the cordial and have the consumer buy the brandy separately and mix it themselves.
The cordial was probably first sold commercially by J. R. Phillips of Bristol, part of their range of shrubs dating back to 1793 (we make some sense-tingling shrubs too <link>). Founded by William George in 1739, then James Phillips became a partner in 1808. From then a long tradition of the production of this unique product has its roots.
It was traditionally mixed with brandy as a winter drink and was especially popular in Cornwall. Like shrub, it was added to (slightly spoiled) spirit: smuggled brandy needed to hide the salty taste acquired as it was hauled below water during illicit transit. Then the typical cocktail was two parts lovage cordial to one part brandy. The practical benefits in places like Cornwall, where smuggling was common, and the quality of brandy thus variable, was that it masked many off-flavours, rendering nadgered stuff drinkable - and therein a legend was created.
Sadly Phillips closed its doors six or more years ago, but demand remained. Driven by our what's next chalk board and no bottle of lovage cordial at hand, we went back (closing the loop) to the drawing board.
Fresh lovage and a pile of lovage seeds. A chop, a sniff and a chew. The spectrum and complexity of the maelstrom of flavours and aromas meant a low strength alcoholic cordial would not capture the full bandwidth of delight that swirled about us. So we re-invented lovage cordial for the 21st Century.
An iconoclastic sip and the undynal bed-mate for your favourite brandy. The uniqueness of how lovage marries sweet celery notes with earthy parsley and rich but light anise is something to marvel. You must give it ago!
Don’t confine our lovage cordial to sips alone; it's transformative in cooking. A quick win is a pear sauce for either roast pork or duck. Peel, decore and slice a couple of pairs, add 100mls of lovage liqueur in a saucepan with a knob of butter, pop a lid on and cook until pomace. Add 100ml of chicken stock and reduce by half. Then a tsp of any mustard you care, 50ml double cream and a tbsp of fresh chopped sage. Reduce to the thickness you prefer and serve. Enough of this I have to reach for a pan and a glass! |
These stone masks are the latest in a line of expressive heads and faces that Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Switzerland) has made over the last two decades. The approximation of human recognition they achieve is stunning for its formal economy and existential scope. Masks have long served all over the world in many different cultural contexts as symbolic metaphors for the human condition. Because stone examples are hard to fashion and can seem comparatively less expressive, variations of “face of stone” became a metaphor for the absence of emotion, and by extension humanity. Rondinone turns this notion on its head by coaxing not just faces from these rocks—all about the size of a human head—but ones with personality and individuality.
Fragile, timorous, and wry these are characters not signs, covering a more nuanced range of emotions than that suggested by the faces of tragedy and comedy for example used as the calling card of classical Greek theater. That this the comparison is intentional is clear from the absurdist, pseudo-antipodal titles Rondinone has given his masks: the false + the true, the love + the hate, the here + the there, the stand + the sit. In Rondinone’s stony version of Manicheism (dualistic thinking), the “+” is both a sign of addition and a conjunction. So rather than offer stark oppositions, Rondinone’s pairs create spectrums of gray.
Essentially assisted readymades (found sculpture given a boost by its finder), the most important act of artistry in the making of the masks—the thing that makes them sculpture—was Rondinone’s realization that if he selected the right rocks, it would take almost nothing to turn them into faces. The introduction of two drill holes for eyes is all that was required to activate them: to link stone and flesh, the timelessness of our spirits with the fleetingness of our bodies. (Close scrutiny does reveal some subtle chisel work around the eyes, for added pathos.)
Whatever humanity may become: genetically altered, part machine, long-lived, incorporeal, we will always have been a Stone Age people. Staring into the masks’ eyes—looking for the souls inside—we find ourselves getting to know the rocks. Their faces: scarred, stained, asymmetric and unique, are as full of lived experience as our own. |
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Take along a health care folder containing the following:
- Medical History
- List of Current Medicines & Dosage Amounts *Episode Diary/Journal*
- Copies of Medical Articles About CVS
Use an insulated lunch bag to hold all of medications and keep it with you at all times. Within the bag you should keep an information list with:
- Insurance Information
- Family Names and Numbers
- Doctor/Clinic Names and Numbers
- All medications (how much and when)
Bring a sign to put on the hospital door ‘do not disturb, aborting an episode.’
Even vital signs are handled differently. Many times, they [hospital staff] batch their work. For example, new IV bag with vitals at the same time done without a light on and without waking the patient.
Put a chair in the hallway to catch a breather.
Bring comfort items for the patient, such as a magazine for an adult or some quiet playthings for children.
The Needs of the Caregiver
Don’t forget to take things to make your stay as a parent, spouse, or patient support person easier, such as:
- Some meal bars
- Cell phone
- Money for vending machines
- Extra clothes, underwear
- Magazines or a book to read (take a book light so you can keep the room lights low)
- Attach a large luggage tag to your child’s car seat, with all medical information: Emergency contacts, physician’s names & phone numbers, all the meds, etc.
- Keep a list with all medical information taped to the back of your child’s car seat
- Keep a bag packed at all times with everything you’ll need for 24 hours. |
Looking for the Best Sag Harbor, NY Dispensary?
When shopping for cannabis favorites, you’ll want to stop at Little Beach Harvest, a dispensary near Sag Harbor, NY. Little Beach Harvest has a comprehensive menu, including a vast selection of pre-rolls, flower, edibles, and concentrates. Little Beach Harvest partners with local producers to offer high-quality weed to their customers.
Highlighted brands you can find during your visit to the dispensary include Eastern Botanical, Sovereign, Sparkd, Rain Drops, and Big Boy Budz. All products sold through Little Beach Harvest have undergone independent third-party testing to confirm potency and quality. Check the inventory frequently to see what new brands and strains have been added to the menu.
The cannabis shop offers exceptional customer service. Knowledgeable staff members will help you shop for the right products for your budget and needs. Staff will also recommend their top picks from the current inventory.
Choose your favorite cannabis in person at the dispensary near Sag Harbor NY. Alternatively, you can order online and arrange for fast and easy pickup. Once your order is ready, you’ll receive a message from Little Beach Harvest to head over.
Is weed legal in Sag Harbor?
Since 2020, cannabis has been legal in New York State. As long as you’re over the age of 21, you’re allowed to possess and use marijuana for recreational and medical purposes. In New York, you can have up to three grams of cannabis flower or 24 grams of concentrate. In certain public areas, like outdoor dining areas, you may not be legally allowed to vape or smoke. Also, you’re not permitted to use cannabis while in a motor vehicle.
Other Reasons to Visit Little Beach Harvest from Sag Harbor
Southampton is located on the east end of Long Island and has a reputation for being the perfect summer beach town. Although you can visit the dispensary year-round, you may want to extend your time in the area once the weather starts to warm.
Coopers Beach is often rated as one of the top beaches in the United States. Visitors love the perfect white sand beaches and the historic mansions that dot the shoreline. You may even spot whales and dolphins among the Atlantic Ocean waves if you’re lucky. Another top beach to check out near the Sag Harbor NY dispensary is Ponquogue Beach.
If you’re going to Long Island, you have to make time to enjoy the many restaurants and bars in the area. The region is known for its delicious seafood, so stop at restaurants like the iconic Cowfish.
Getting here from Sag Harbor
It takes under 30 minutes to arrive at the Little Beach Harvest dispensary from Sag Harbor. The easiest and fastest route will involve traveling from Noyack Road to the Montauk Highway.
- Start on Noyack Rd
- Noyack Rd turns left and becomes N Sea Rd
- Slight right onto Sandy Hollow Rd
- Continue straight onto Southampton Bypass
- Turn left onto Tuckahoe Ln
- Turn right onto Montauk Hwy
- Arrive at Little Beach Harvest |
Churches who livestream worship services and other programs still must comply with copyright laws.
That’s the message that Adrej Ajanovic, staff attorney with the PC(USA) Administrative Services Group, and Jeffrey Lawrence, director of Media & Publishing for the Presbyterian Mission Agency, delivered during an August 10, 2021, workshop about the increasing importance of understanding the basics of copyright law especially as churches increasingly offer online or hybrid worship services.
“Streaming is skyrocketing,” Ajanovic said, “and the law is still catching up.”
Ajanovic cautioned participants during an online program coordinated by the Presbyterian Communicators Network that he wasn’t providing legal advice and he is not an intellectual property attorney but he did share a variety of resources, including a document for mid councils and churches that includes a brief exploration of intellectual property law.
The bottom line? Research anything you wish to use, whether for a worship service or other activity, to determine if the resource is a copyrighted work. Document your research. Always get written permission before using any copyrighted work.
“Just because you’re a little guy doesn’t mean you’re immune,” Lawrence said, listing three considerations before each use of an image, film or other item that could have copyright implications: Who owns it? Who or what is in it? How do you plan to use it?
These thoughts and other information shared during the program was summarized by Mike Ferguson of the Presbyterian News Service in an online article.
Click here and scroll down the page to find a recording of the “Copyright Workshop: Making sure your livestream worship service is copyright compliant” on the Presbyterian Communicators Network website.
Additional resources about copyright – and other communication topics like social media, e-newsletters, websites, media relations, and video production – can be found online at https://www.
The network also offers workshops about various topics at no charge to synods, presbyteries and churches for groups of 20 or more participants. Click here to learn more about scheduling a workshop for your organization. |
Words by Alek Rose
Jolle and Daniel founded Unrecorded in Amsterdam on a disregard for the unnecessary and a love for the essentials, people and the planet. As brands and customers begin to take more and more notice of sustainability in fashion, Unrecorded doesn't plan on just fitting in, they aim to be the first name in European sustainable clothing. We managed to get some time out of Jolle and Daniel's day to answer some questions.
Can you introduce yourselves?
We are Jolle van der Mast and Daniel Archutowski.
How did you meet?
Jolle: We were introduced to each other by a mutual friend who said we needed to talk. I was looking into starting something that vaguely resembles what Unrecorded is today and was looking to speak with people who knew more about the industry and specifically graphic design. So we met up at Louis Louis, a new place which had just opened in the East of Amsterdam where we both live.
Do you remember your first conversation about Unrecorded?
Very clearly, because it was that first time we met. We dove straight in and started discussing everything. We are both extroverts and intuitive, so talking about the ideas we have is never really been a problem for us.
What did you do before Unrecorded? Do you think that helped the way you approached Unrecorded?
Jolle: After reading Business & Engineering at university I chose a corporate career and spent my first 8 years with ExxonMobil after which I moved into industrial packaging. In my last job I managed a factory that produced big bags, basically bulk containers, in Thirsk in North Yorkshire. Believe it or not, a big bag factory is extremely similar to a clothing factory. They’re both confection, meaning fabric is cut, then sewn and trims are added to finish it off. Almost all the older English factory workers had worked in a clothing factory in the past, most of them for Marks and Spencer before that kind of work got outsourced to other countries.
What do you enjoy to do in your free time?
Daniel: When I was young I actually played professional football for Willem II FC, but I haven’t touched a football after hanging up my boots when I was 19. Now I love cities and everything they bring, from people to the food to the art, so I try to fill my spare time travelling to new places.
Jolle: I have a passion for water sports and in particular surfing, any wind or waves and I’m straight off to the beach.
You’re only 2 years into the journey, what have been the highs and lows so far?
I think the biggest high was the opening party of our first store. We took a step back and just looked at the crowd from a distance. The fact that cars couldn’t get through meant we had done something right.
Starting a business and keeping it going is tough, there are a lot of balls you have to keep in the air. One day they are all up but the next they can drop like flies. I think one of the toughest moments was just before we opened the store and got a message from our main supplier that everything was going to come in 2 weeks late.
Where do you hope to see Unrecorded in 5 years?
In 5 years time we aim to be the primary sustainable clothing brand in Europe. The fact that we get people who don’t care for sustainability to buy our clothes means that we can have such a huge impact. We are creating a sustainable brand that is aspirational.
Has Amsterdam shaped your brand or your attitudes approaching the brand?
Amsterdam has become a true melting pot. But Amsterdam and the Dutch culture has always been very open and there is not a lot of room for fakes. I think some of that is seen in the way we show everything and that we are not afraid. But Daniel and I have a mixed background as well. This has also definitely helped shape Unrecorded. Daniel is half German, a quarter Indonesian and a quarter Dutch and spent a large part of his younger years on the football pitch, so has been in loads of different cultures. I spent my first 14 years living in London and only moved to Holland thereafter. We don’t look at the world in boxes, we both see things for what they are and people for who they are. That is where we click and that is a big part of the foundation of Unrecorded.
Shop and explore the latest Unrecorded collection at OPUMO. |
Yashasvi Jaiswal double-hundred: 22-year-old opener matches a three-decade-old feat of former Indian player
Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a fantastic start to his Test career. Jaiswal amassed 171 on his debut Test innings against West Indies in Dominica, the third-highest score on Test debut by an Indian batter.
The 22-year-old has continued his tremendous work against England in a high-octane five-match Test series. He made a blistering 80 in the first game but couldn’t continue his innings long and got out while attempting a rash shot early in the day.
However, Jaiswal rectified his mistakes and played a mammoth knock in the second Test, scoring his maiden double-ton in just his tenth Test innings. While every other Indian batter failed to capitalise on the starts they got, Jaiswal showed immense composure and appetite to bat long and score big hundreds in Visakhapatnam.
After walking off unbeaten on 179 last evening, Jaiswal expressed his desire to “double it up” the next day and bat deep to solidify India’s first-innings total, and he did precisely that.
“I would love to double it up and make sure I just keep going and make sure I play till the end for my team, and I will try my best tomorrow,” stated Yashasvi yesterday to the official broadcasters.
Yashasvi Jaiswal matches a three-decade-old feat of former Indian player
Yashasvi Jaiswal broke a few records during his marathon knock against England in the second Test. After completing his double-century, the southpaw equalled an elite record held by only two Indian batters previously.
Jaiswal became only the third Indian batter after Vinod Kambli and the legendary Sunil Gavaskar to hit a double ton at age 22 or less in Test cricket. Jaiswal also became the third youngest Indian to amass 200 or more, reaching the milestone at 22 years and 37 days.
Vinod Kambli reached the 200-run mark twice before turning 22 in 1993, first at 21 years and 32 days against England and second at 21 years and 54 days against Zimbabwe. Sunil Gavaskar made a double-ton at 21 years and 277 days in 1971 against West Indies.
Jaiswal couldn’t have asked for a better start to his Test career. He has shown fantastic range and skills against spin and pace in a young career.
It was surprising to see him in a hurry in the previous game since Jaiswal knows to play mammoth knocks in red-ball cricket. He bided his time initially this time around and didn’t throw away a steady start. |
Better cybersecurity starts with honesty and accountability
Today, I'm going to talk about a shameful topic. This has happened to many of us, and it's embarrassing, but if we don't talk about it, nothing will ever change. It's about being hacked. Some of us have clicked on a phishing link and downloaded a computer virus. Some of us have had our identities stolen. And those of us who are software developers might have written insecure code with security bugs in it without realizing it. As a cybersecurity expert, I have worked with countless companies on improving their cybersecurity. Cybersecurity experts like me have advised companies on good cybersecurity practices, monitoring tools and proper user behaviors. But I actually see a much bigger problem that no tool can fix: the shame associated with the mistakes that we make.
How to escape the cynicism trap
I'm a psychologist and neuroscientist, and my whole career, I've studied the sunny side of human nature. My lab and I have found that giving away money activates similar parts of your brain as eating chocolate, and that helping other people through their stress calms our own. Our punch line is clear: there is good in us, and it does good for us. |
Behind those baby greens is a will of steel and a gutsy, outspoken actress who isn't afraid to offer a little payback to a Hollywood director who did her wrong. Here, the star of North Country (a film about the first successful class-action sexual-harassment case in U.S. history) speaks with fierce frankness about the mother who made her tough and the redemptive power of forgiveness.
More than a decade ago, before she became the big screen's siren of choice and well before she could put an Academy Award on her mantelpiece, Charlize Theron was an 18-year-old aspiring actress, dewy-fresh from her South African hometown of Benoni, thoroughly unschooled in Hollywood dos and don'ts. So when an experienced director asked her to read for a role in his latest film, she was eager to take part. "It was a little odd that the audition was on a Saturday night, at his house in Los Angeles," she recalls. "But I didn't know anything about the business, so I thought maybe that was a normal thing."
Off Theron went ‑- but when the director opened his door that night, "he was in his Hugh Hefner pajamas. I thought, Maybe this is how he works. I go inside, and he's offering me a drink, and I'm thinking, My God, this acting stuff's very relaxed ‑- when do we actually start working? It pretty soon became very clear to me what the situation was. And then you're either someone who can't deal with that situation, or..."
Or you're Charlize Theron, apparently. "I think when you put forth a certain kind of attitude, people don't fuck with you," she says. "I never walked into a room the naive farm girl from South Africa." So, even at 18, "I knew how to deal with it: 'Not going to happen. Wrong girl, buddy.'"
Sitting in L.A.'s Chateau Marmont hotel wearing jeans and an off-the-shoulder yellow top, Theron is relaxed, with skin that's just as flawless as advertised. It's clear that the wait is over for 30-year-old Charlize Theron ‑- one lecherous director's Wrong Girl has become the Right Woman in Hollywood's eyes. Theron's fearlessness made its mark right away ‑- 2 Days in the Valley, Reindeer Games, Devil's Advocate ‑- but it climaxed with her rendering of a serial killer in last year's Monster. Her performance won her a Best Actress Oscar and proved to the world that she could play both sex goddesses and society's outcasts.
Theron will appear in the gritty drama North Country (in theaters October 14), the moderately fictionalized tale of the first woman ever to file a successful class-action sexual-harassment suit in the U.S. Theron plays ringleader Josey Aimes, a single mom who goes to work in the mines of her Minnesota town, only to be terrorized by the mine's males, driving her to legal action against the mining company. To prepare for the movie, which was shot in the same region where the actual events took place, Theron got to know many of the female miners involved in the landmark case. "They were incredible," she says. "I think they know that they were part of history ‑- part of something that changed a lot of things for women all over the world."
For Theron, among the biggest challenges of playing Aimes was a scene in which she addresses a meeting of the miners' union...a challenge, because Theron is actually scared of public speaking. "I get this really strange sensation where everything goes black, and I see white spots, and I break out in hives," she says. "It's probably the most frightening thing you can make me do."
But that's just what North Country director Niki Caro did make her do. "Four hundred guys, some of the real deals," sighs Theron. "It was my first day of shooting, and literally, I couldn't breathe. I couldn't talk. I thought I was going to faint. I didn't know what was happening."
Theron may talk of vulnerability, but her inner toughness always prevails. The cornerstone of Theron's confidence has long been her relationship with her mother, Gerda, who raised her and did the housework while at the same time running a construction company. They've enjoyed a closeness that wasn't hindered by the strict punishments Gerda used to keep her daughter in line. "My mother disciplined me," Theron says. "It couldn't happen in America today, because she'd be put in jail, and to me that's a very sad thing, because I always deserved it. Never once did I go, 'God, this is so unfair.' Afterward, I would go up to her and apologize, because I knew that I had been wrong."
What did Theron's mother hit her with? "Whatever was around: a hairbrush, a shoe ‑- the shoe was a big one," Theron says. One such spanking came after Theron was rude to an older woman in a store. On another occasion, she says, "I went to school with imprints of Disney cartoons all over my thigh from a hanger that she had grabbed that had all these cutouts on them." That time, Theron had disobeyed her mother by eating a bowl of tomato soup while still wearing her girls'-school uniform...and then accidentally spilling the entire bowl down her shirtfront, staining it. "I deserved that one, because that was very disrespectful," Theron says. "She did all the washing and laundry and cooking; she ran the house while running the business. I completely understand. 'I have to be respectful. I'm not washing the clothes, she's washing them.'"
Theron knows such stories may offend contemporary sensibilities, but she feels sure that in her case, mere words wouldn't have made enough of an impact.
Even while Gerda kept her daughter on the straight and narrow, "she was a friend at the same time," Theron says. "I always felt that I could say anything to her without being judged. I knew that I could trust her ‑- and I still do. The woman knows everything that has happened in my life. There are no secrets."
Their closeness endured after Gerda, in self-defense, shot her husband to death in front of 15-year-old Charlize's eyes. It's the sort of personal trauma that could have cast an inescapable shadow over Theron's life. But that didn't happen. "Our lives have gone on; it wasn't like we were living day-to-day, haunted," Theron says. "I mean, in a way you are, but you have to be healthy about it. It's something that will be in my blood forever. It's something that I can't change. So I've had to make the decision to either have it live my life for me or to admit that it happened, and admit that it was something bad, and let go of the guilt. I mean, goddamn it, it's my father, you know? I don't want to walk around with this haunted notion for the rest of my life about him. So I don't. I walk around with fond memories of him."
While some might assume the death of her father would be Theron's dominant emotional memory, as well as a key to the power of her acting, she says otherwise. "I think other things have actually shaped my life much more," she says. "There's this private little chest of ammunition that's just mine, that I get to play with. And I feel like the less people know about that, the more powerful it remains." She laughs. "I guess if I didn't have this job, I'd have to go to therapy. But I don't go to therapy ‑- so I need this job! I don't really want to pay someone to tell them my problems. I would rather be paid to tell my problems."
And she's willing to be revealing: On-screen nudity and portrayals of physical intimacy haven't been a problem for Theron. "I don't have any regrets about the things that I've done nudity-wise," she says. "Would I want kids to see it? Maybe not when they're 7 ‑- but would it be the kind of thing that I would tell them not to do? God, no. I think that all women have to go through a period in their lives when they have to discover themselves before they can have a man discover them."
In fact, the American obsession with the nude female form never ceases to amuse Theron...especially around the holidays, when she gathers dozens of friends and family members for a sunny island getaway: "It's so funny, because the first thing we want to do is take our tops off. And the Americans are like, [uncomfortably] 'I don't quite know how I feel about that...' Then, within a week, they're all topless and they're having the best time ever."
Romantically, Theron is five years into her own "best time ever," with actor Stuart Townsend...though she admits that initially, their relationship (which began when they appeared together in Trapped) wasn't supposed to be all that intense. "He had all the criteria for somebody who wasn't going to be anything serious," she says. "He lived over there [in England]; I lived over here. So we were very honest with each other: 'I think you're hot, I think you're nice, I think you're smart. We can go on dates. What do you think?' And then, things happened." Before long, he'd become the first man she felt close to as both a partner and a lover ‑- "a very sexy friend," she calls him. "The gods of love must have been looking after us."
With Theron not planning to do another movie until 2006 and Townsend starring in the TV series Night Stalker, the couple has enjoyed some old-school domesticity this year. "We're kind of like ‑- what's that American couple?"
Ozzie and Harriet?
"Yes! It's like, 'Bye, honey.' Then when he comes home at night, 'Hi, honey. I dropped your dry cleaning off, and I made some jam.' I feel like I'm going out with a nine-to-fiver ‑- it's great!" The prospect of the pair getting married has been tossed around in the press. "It's not really what I want, or what he wants. But that doesn't mean I don't want to spend the rest of my life with him. I really don't need to wear a white dress and throw a big party. That, to me, is like a premiere."
Or like the many awards shows that Theron braved at the beginning of 2004, as her Monster performance went from scrappy underdog to presumed winner. "At the Golden Globes, my mother couldn't talk to me ‑- that's how nervous she was," Theron says. "I was like, 'Okay, either we need to get wasted right now or something has to change.'" So the week before the Oscars, Theron and Townsend snuck off. "We just backpacked through the southeast of Brazil. No television, three rooms, tiny little fishermen's village, middle of nowhere. It was the best thing I could have done, just to escape all of that noise. Because the day we walked down that red carpet, I was really happy. I was nervous, but I didn't feel like I had all this pressure."
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Philadelphia, PA — March 5, 2010 — As many as 15% of mid- to senior-level job seekers who found new employment in 2009 had to relocate, according to a study of job candidates by Right Management. The firm analyzed data on 26,706 individuals throughout the United States to whom it provided outplacement services. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services.
“Surprisingly, this trend has not changed much over recent years.” said Melvin Scales, Senior Vice President for Global Solutions at Right Management. “While job seekers were challenged with a tough employment market last year, it is reassuring that relocation choices actually turned out to be consistent with the data tracked prior to the recession.”
Percentage of US candidates who relocated in 2009:
As a rule, job seekers would accept a job requiring a move only if the offer is generous or the opportunity compelling, Scales observed. “So relocation is no reflection on any single market, but an indication of a candidate’s fit for a new position. Moreover, relocation is a fact of life and a key part of the flexibility and complexity of today’s workforce and the choices that individuals make.”
Scales advises individuals considering relocation to make sure their decision reflects their own goals and values. “Carefully determine what’s most important in your life. For some, relocating may not be desirable, but for others it may be a wonderful adventure. But if done for the wrong reasons relocation could be costly and disruptive — the opposite of what you were hoping to accomplish.”
About Right Management
Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services. Right Management helps clients win in the changing world of work by designing and executing workforce solutions that align talent strategy with business strategy. Our expertise spans Talent Assessment, Leader Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Employee Engagement, and Workforce Transition and Outplacement. With offices in over 50 countries, Right Management partners with companies of all sizes. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies are currently working with us to help them grow talent, reduce costs and accelerate performance.
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Christie Brinkley & Carson Kressley Host Hero Dog Awards in Palm Beach
Well, I guess it is really “official!” Gala, fundraiser, friend raiser and all sorts of events have begun here in our corner of the world, aka paradise!
Lots of parties have already happened with even more to come in the next few months celebrating and raising needed funds for terrific charities.
I was so happy and honored to attend the 13th Annual American Humane Hero Dog Awards at the Breakers which was a perfect way to kick off the holiday season. Dr. Robin Ganzert, a real leader here in PB and her team really went over and above anything they’ve done before.
This year’s star-studded event was hosted by supermodel, actress, and entrepreneur Christie Brinkley, who looked nothing short of amazing in a stylish red gown, and Carson Kressley who we all know from his many years on his Bravo series.
And while we would expect nothing less of American Humane, this spectacular gala was presented by our dear friend Lois Pope and the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation.
And let me tell you, we all love our pups and kitties, and so do celebrities Nicollette Sheridan, Jennie Garth, Donna Mills and Martina Navratilova who were all in attendance to make sure the celebration was over the top!
“We are thrilled that Christie Brinkley co-hosted the 13th Annual Hero Dog Awards. Christie has spent her entire life advocating for animal welfare and that’s exactly what we do here at American Humane. It was an honor to have her join us as we celebrated these heroes on both ends of the leash” said Dr. Robin Ganzert, President and CEO of American Humane. “And it’s a real pleasure to welcome back fantastic long-time host and animal lover Carson Kressley to our gala in Palm Beach. Carson is a committed ambassador for all animals, and especially our hero dogs.”
Palm Beachers turned out in droves to make sure that all the Heroes and their human friends were applauded as well as to contribute the funds that continue to support American Humane and all the great work they do around the world.
There are more chances to support this organization including some fun events. Check out their website: americanhumane.org and plan to attend!
And as it is the season to be jolly, while you plan your year-end giving, think of making a donation to the charity of your choice. Even buying a gift card at an arts organization can make a difference.
In addition to protecting us and saving lives, the men and women of the Palm Beach Police and Fire Department also do a lot of charitable work in our community. The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation, a local charity, works tirelessly year-round to make sure not only members of the departments have the resources they need to do their jobs, but also provide all kinds of assistance to their families through scholarships and so much more.
The Annual Palm Beach Police and Fire Rescue Ball, La Dolce Vita, is right around the corner. As always, it’s a phenomenal gala and I will be there!
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ESET research reveals a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group targeting critical infrastructure, quite possibly in preparation for damaging attacks.
Recent ESET research has uncovered details of the successor of the BlackEnergy APT group, whose main toolset was last seen in December 2015 during the first-ever blackout caused by a cyberattack. Around the time of that breakthrough incident, when around 230,000 people were left without electricity, we started detecting another malware framework and named it GreyEnergy. It has since been used to attack energy companies and other high-value targets in Ukraine and Poland for the past three years.
We have already extensively documented the threat actors’ transition towards TeleBots, the group most notable for the NotPetya ransomware outbreak. At the same time, we have also been keeping a close eye on GreyEnergy – a subgroup operating in parallel, but with somewhat different motivations and targeting.
It is important to note that when we describe ‘APT groups’, we’re making connections based on technical indicators such as code similarities, shared C&C infrastructure, malware execution chains, and so on. We’re typically not directly involved in the investigation and identification of the individuals writing the malware and/or deploying it, and the interpersonal relations between them. Furthermore, the term ‘APT group’ is very loosely defined, and often used merely to cluster the abovementioned malware indicators. This is also one of the reasons why we refrain from speculation with regard to attributing attacks to nation states and such.
Although ESET telemetry data shows GreyEnergy malware activity over the last three years, this APT group has not been documented until now. This is probably due to the fact that those activities haven’t been destructive in nature, unlike the numerous TeleBots ransomware campaigns (not only NotPetya), the BlackEnergy-enabled power grid attack, and the Industroyer-caused blackout – which we have linked to these groups for the first time last week. Instead, the threat actors behind GreyEnergy have tried to stay under the radar, focusing on espionage and reconnaissance, quite possibly in preparation of future cybersabotage attacks or laying the groundwork for an operation run by some other APT group.
GreyEnergy’s malware framework bears many similarities to BlackEnergy, as outlined below. It is similarly modular in construction, so its functionality is dependent on the particular combination of modules its operator uploads to each of the targeted victim systems. The modules that we have observed were used for espionage and reconnaissance purposes (i.e. backdoor, file extraction, taking screenshots, keylogging, password and credential stealing, etc.). We have not observed any modules that specifically target Industrial Control Systems (ICS). We have, however, observed that the GreyEnergy operators have been strategically targeting ICS control workstations running SCADA software and servers, which tend to be mission-critical systems never meant to go offline except for periodic maintenance.
Links to BlackEnergy and TeleBots
Some of the reasons ESET researchers consider BlackEnergy and GreyEnergy related are listed below:
The appearance of GreyEnergy in the wild coincides with the disappearance of BlackEnergy.
At least one of the victims targeted by GreyEnergy had been targeted by BlackEnergy in the past. Both subgroups share an interest in the energy sector and critical infrastructure. Both have had victims primarily in Ukraine, with Poland ranking second.
There are strong architectural similarities between the malware frameworks. Both are modular, and both employ a “mini”, or light, backdoor deployed before admin rights are obtained and the full version is deployed.
All remote C&C servers used by the GreyEnergy malware were active Tor relays. This has also been the case with BlackEnergy and Industroyer. We hypothesize that this is an operational security technique used by the group so that the operators can connect to these servers in a covert manner.
Compared to BlackEnergy, GreyEnergy is a more modern toolkit with an even greater focus on stealth. One basic stealth technique – employed by both families – is to push only selected modules to selected targets, and only when needed. On top of that, some GreyEnergy modules are partially encrypted using AES-256 and some remain fileless – running only in memory – with the intention of hindering analysis and detection. To cover their tracks, typically, GreyEnergy’s operators securely wipe the malware components from the victims’ hard drives.
In addition to the outlined similarities with BlackEnergy, we have observed another link between GreyEnergy and the TeleBots subgroup. In December 2016, we noticed an instance of GreyEnergy deploying an early version of the TeleBots’ NotPetya worm – half a year before it was altered, improved, and deployed in the most damaging ransomware outbreak in history. There is significant code reuse between this ransomware component and the GreyEnergy core module. We call this early version “Moonraker Petya”, based on the malware writers’ choice of filename – most likely a reference to the James Bond movie. It didn’t feature the infamous EternalBlue spreading mechanism, as it had not been leaked at that time.
GreyEnergy Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
We have observed two distinct infection vectors: “traditional” spearphishing, and the compromise of public-facing web servers. When such a vulnerable web server was hosted internally and connected to the rest of a targeted organization’s network, the attacker would attempt to move laterally to other workstations. This technique is used not only as a primary infection vector but also as a backup reinfection vector.
The attackers typically deploy internal C&C proxies within the victims’ networks. Such proxy C&Cs redirect requests from infected nodes inside the network to an external C&C server on the internet. This is another stealth tactic, as it is less suspicious to a defender to see that multiple computers are “talking” to an internal server, rather than a remote one.
A very curious observation – one that is also indicative of the group's targeting – is that some of the GreyEnergy samples we detected were signed with a certificate from Advantech, a Taiwanese manufacturer of industrial and IoT hardware. These were most likely stolen from the company, just as in the case of Stuxnet and a recent Plead malware campaign.
The GreyEnergy operators also employ common external tools in their arsenal, such as Mimikatz, PsExec, WinExe, Nmap, and a custom port scanner.
For a detailed analysis of the GreyEnergy toolset and operations refer to GreyEnergy White Paper. A full list of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and samples can be found on GitHub. For any inquiries, or to make sample submissions related to the subject, please contact us at: [email protected].
For more information you can also visit our website: https://www.eset.com/ng/greyenergy-exposed/ |
Case Study: Diet Dilemma
Mohinder is a college student who has watched their father suffer from complications of type 2 diabetes over the past few years. Mohinder likes to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as they, them, and their's. In type 2 diabetes, the hormone insulin does not transmit its signal sufficiently. Because insulin normally removes sugar from the bloodstream and brings it into the body’s cells, diabetes causes blood sugar levels to not be regulated properly. This can cause damage to the cells of the body.
Diabetes can be treated with insulin injections, as shown above, as well as dietary modifications, but sometimes complications can still occur. Mohinder’s father has some nerve damage, or neuropathy, in his feet due to his diabetes. This made his feet numb and so he didn’t notice when he got minor injuries to his feet, which led to some serious infections.
Mohinder is obese and knows that their weight plus a family history of diabetes increases their risk of getting diabetes themselves. They want to avoid the health issues that their father has suffered. Mohinder begins walking every day for exercise and starts to lose some weight. They also want to improve their diet in order to lose more weight, lower their risk of diabetes, and improve their general health, but they are overwhelmed with all the different dietary advice they read online and hear from their friends and family.
Mohinder's father tells them to limit refined carbohydrates, such as white bread and rice because that is what he does to help keep his blood sugar at an acceptable level. But Mohinder’s friend tells them that eating a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat is a good way to lose weight. Mohinder reads online that “eating clean” by eating whole, unprocessed foods and avoiding food with “chemicals” can help with weight loss. One piece of advice that everyone seems to agree on is that drinking enough water is good for overall health.
All of this dietary advice may sound confusing, but you can better understand health conditions such as diabetes and the role of diet and nutrition by understanding chemistry. Chemistry is so much more than reactions in test tubes in a lab — it is the atoms, molecules, and reactions that make us who we are and keep us alive and functioning properly. Our diets are one of the main ways our bodies take in raw materials that are needed for the important chemical reactions that take place inside of us.
Chapter Overview: Chemistry of Life
As you read this chapter, you will learn more about how chemistry relates to our lives, health, and the foods we eat. Specifically, you will learn:
- The nature of chemical substances, including elements and compounds and their component atoms and molecules.
- The types and mechanisms of the formation of chemical bonds.
- The structures and functions of biochemical compounds including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA.
- What chemical reactions are, how energy is involved in chemical reactions, how enzymes assist in chemical reactions, and what some types of biochemical reactions in living organisms are.
- Properties of water and the importance of water for most biochemical processes.
- What pH is and why maintaining a proper pH in the body is important for biochemical reactions.
As you read the chapter, think about the following questions regarding Mohinder’s situation and how diabetes and diet relate to the chemistry of life.
- Why do you think Mohinder’s father having diabetes increases his risk of getting diabetes?
- What is the difference between refined (simple) carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates? Why are refined carbohydrates particularly problematic for people with diabetes?
- Insulin is a peptide hormone. In which class of biochemical compounds would you categorize insulin?
- Why is drinking enough water important for overall health? Can you drink too much water?
- Sometimes “eating clean” is described as avoiding “chemicals” in food. Think about the definition of “chemicals” and how it relates to what we eat. |
# Volume of intersection of two conical frustums
How can I find volume of intersection of two conical frustums? Both objects are on the same X axis. I'm not sure yet how exactly they will intersect because each frustum is one user on the map and I need to find probability that two users saw each other.
I would appreciate some example because I think I will not get to final solution myself.
Thanks.
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The intersection of two parallel conical frustums on the same axis is either (a) another conical frustum or (b) two conical frustums glued together at their bases. What variables should we assume are a 'given' in the problem - e.g. the radii of the tops and bottoms and their centers' positions on the $x$-axis? – anon Aug 2 '11 at 11:39
Anon, yes I have radii for tops and bottoms, and centers (In my case that's latitude and longitude). The height of conical frustums can by any number, I think it doesn't metter for me. – Dimitry Aug 2 '11 at 22:49
Is my question so complex that no-one can give me an answer? Or I just need to provide some more details to describe it better? I've spend few days searching in google and on couple forums and can't find any example. Any help would be appreciated. – Dimitry Aug 4 '11 at 8:36
I'm sorry, I figured either someone else would answer or you'd figure it out - assuming I understand your question correctly. I'll open my MSPaint and work on an explanation. – anon Aug 4 '11 at 12:08
A cone is simply a triangle rotated about an axis to make a solid. We'll place it on the $y$-axis instead of the $x$-axis because it looks better standing upright. Now if you slice a smaller cone off the top, then you're left with a conical frustum. This new solid is now the same as an isosceles trapezoid rotated about an axis down the middle. Therefore, if we take a look at an intermediate slice of the intersection of two frustums, we'll get essentially one of four possible situations (up to otherwise superfluous orientation and proportion):
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If you know the top has length (diameter for the frustum) $A$, and you know the bottom has length $B$, and you know the purple line is $u$ distance down from the top and $v$ distance up from the bottom, then the purple line has length equal to the weighted average $(Au+Bv)/(u+v)$. You can use this to find the base diameters of the intersection frustum based on the top and bottom diameters of the main two frustums.
Lastly, a frustum with top diameter $A$, bottom diameter $B$, and height $h$, has volume that can be calculated with the formula $\frac{\pi h}{12}(A^2+AB+B^2)$. If you don't understand how to resolve your intersecting frustums problem now, tell me where you're stuck and I'll try to elaborate. |
Queens College Men’s Soccer Autism Awareness Game
Saturday September 27, 2023
The Queens College Men’s Soccer team will be hosting their 1st Annual Autism Awareness game in conjunction with The Frank & Michael Vertullo Foundation. At the game, the FMV Foundation will be awarding a $2,500 scholarship to a Queens College student.
They also be wearing special blue autism jerseys to commemorate the game.
Admission is free and the game will take place at the Queens College Soccer Fields on the campus of Queens College in Flushing, NY. |
God's New Deal
My good friend, Ben House, has delivered on his promise to write a sequel to his powerful essay published in this space a couple of months ago. I offer it here, with gratitude to Ben's insight, wit, and clarity--note particularly his very practical suggestions at the end:
"Some months back, I wrote an essay titled “The Greater Depression.” In it I focused on some of the less known, but perhaps most significant, events in the early part of the 20th Century. Three events were briefly described that seemed to be the harbingers of a new dark age. Those events were the abandonment of the Classical heritage in education, the public humiliation of Christianity at the trial and media circus known as the Scopes Trial, and the demise of the idea of intellectual Bible believing Christian scholarship in the trial and defrocking of Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen."
"This threefold assault on the heritage of the West, this triumph of the secular Enlightenment over the Reformation is both depressing and fascinating. Much more could be chronicled on the downhill plunge of our culture due to these events. The civil unrest of the 1960s, the materialistic secular humanism of our age, the educational black hole of American culture and government schooling, the Sodom and Gomorrah-like moral decadence our times, and many more evidences of decay and rot could be detailed. Facts, figures, studies, examples, and trends of a culture where the center no longer holds, where the old landmarks are gone, have been documented and lamented perhaps too often."
"Charles Dickens, great as a literary artist, perhaps gave us one of the most insightful research paradigms ever for the field of history: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This statement, describing the era of the French Revolution, captures the essence of the history of a sin-fallen, wicked, depraved world that is yet loved by God and directed by God in His sovereign wisdom and power."
"At the close of the first article, I promised a sequel. This sequel will be more of a happy beginning than of a happy ending. Once again, the historical proof will be selective and usually far from the front pages of the newspapers. When we reconsider evolution, theological liberalism, and educational decline, we do not yet have slain and rotting corpses of the dragons composting our fields. We are more like Dorothy and Toto and company in “The Wizard of Oz” after they got to Emerald City. Watching that movie as a child, on just a television and a black-and-white screen at that, I was scared when the four travelers stood quaking before the awful face and fire of the Wizard. Then Toto pulls back the curtain and their stands this little old man with the mechanical controls. For a brief time, both images are present. The awful and awesome Wizard is still booming out and breathing fire, telling them to ignore the man behind the curtain. But all of them, and us, and even the straw man who lacked a brain, figures out that the little old man is the Wizard."
"Culturally that is where we are. The media and the scientific community still control the gears; the Wizard of Evolution still speaks in thunderous tones; the educational elite are hostile to and dismissive of Christianity; religious faith is poised as incompatible with reasonable, modern, and scientific belief; and Classical education is fun as the plot of a movie, e.g., “The Emperor's Club” but largely quaint and irrelevant in the world of modern educational fads and fancies. But like Toto, my barking for a time might give some insights into the wizards of our still all-too-often depressing time."
"The media once crowded into small Dayton, Tennessee to cover the Scopes Trial and pronounce a verdict on Christian fundamentalism. Newspapers and news coverage were not new, but the extent of the coverage of this small trial was incredible. Reporters from all over the United States and world converged on the courtroom in Dayton. The trial was moved outside to make room for all the media people and others who crowded in to hear. More than just day-to-day coverage of the facts, the media provided the verdict, the judgment. The judge in the case ruled against Scopes and fined him a token sum. The media ruled against Christianity, against the authority of Scripture, against the Genesis account of Creation."
"The judge's sentence was quickly passed and forgotten. The media's sentence never ended. Media spin moved from being an interpretation to a fact. The media spin made its way into the textbooks and histories and into the movies (“Inherit the Wind”). Thus spake in revelation the triune god our age: media, textbooks, and movies. (If all three agree, then it must be so!) William Jennings Bryan, the defender of the Creation account in the trial, was reduced to a foolish sound bite or two and then he died. We grant that Bryan made some colossal blunders in his defense of Christianity and his death right after the trial certainly did not help. So Creation was buried with Bryan and Science (capital S), as a philosophical way of understanding all reality, triumphed over religion."
"In the rise of the news media to such predominance, the news media hastened the creation of the mechanism of its own irrelevance. Today, news shows are unending-cable news programs are broadcast twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, newspapers and magazines are still printed by the thousands, radio news shows have replaced music, and now Internet news sources give us even more news. In news shows, they interview each other, repeat each other, and often yell at each other more than a bunch of schoolboys playing kickball. To keep the watcher engaged, news snippets race across the bottom of the screen trying to squeeze every last person in the world into their promised fifteen minutes of fame. Often the top corner of the news program scrunches in a few other details of news. And then these never-ending news programs break-for news. In-depth reports stretch on for up to four minutes. Key officials are interviewed in depth for, maybe, ten minutes, with an advertisement or two. And as Neil Postman so beautifully pointed out in Amusing Ourselves to Death, even the most serious news story is always abruptly interrupted with the words, “And now this word from our sponsors.” Sometimes I don't know if the key story is the war in Iraq or the conclusions of 4 out of 5 dentists about whitening my teeth."
"As a person without cable television, who lacks subscriptions to newspapers or political magazines, who rarely listens to more than ten minutes of radio news every other day, I am thankful for this modern Wizard-the news media. From one angle, it is huge and scary, but from another angle, behind the curtain, it is little old men pulling levers. Its vastness has opened the doors or airwaves for a few brilliant political libertarians, cultural conservatives, and social traditionalists, and even some thoughtful Christians, to add their voices and insights to the yelling or telling of current events. Pronouncements of the media provide wonderful fodder for preachers and teachers. Put aside Ripley's Believe It or Not and listen to the media and before long, whether you listen to the conservatives who will do your research for you or whether you listen to the liberals to collect the stories on your own, you will have a wealth of illustrations and examples of any and every insanity or perversity you wish to assail."
"Man lives in community. We will always find a medium to connect us to others, both near and far. The pulpit was once a key center for bringing the community together with both announcements of local happenings and preaching. With the advent of radio and then television, for a time the media rivaled, even bested the pulpit. Once Walter Cronkite might have been the most trusted man in America. Today news reporters appear to be little different from the stock traders at the Chicago market, all yelling to be heard, all noise and chaos, all telling tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, most signifying nothing."
"Several recommendations for using the media wizard (after all, in the movie the little old man did have some good advice): 1. Listen to the five-minute radio news broadcasts on the hour and half-hour. One segment in the morning and one at night will be plenty. If a story is important, it will get a full ten to twenty seconds. 2. Glance only at newspapers or news magazines after they have been out a while. If the news story is not still relevant a week or month later, it was probably not worthwhile to know about on the day or the day after it happened anyway. 3. Wait for co-workers to tell you the news. When they say, “Did you read about such-and-such in the paper?” use the opportunity to let them fill you in. If it is important enough, go and read that story yourself. 4. Subscribe to World Magazine. World is Christian, thought provoking, usually a week or two behind events (a plus, as I pointed out above), and very well done. They are not and do not claim to be infallible, but the magazine is most edifying. 5. To understand our culture and the issues of our day, read great works of history or literature. Obviously the Bible, but also other books are beneficial. A biography of George Washington (I can't wait to start Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer in a few days) will give more insight into politics and leadership than a year of watching “Hardball.” A biography of Franklin Roosevelt, whether by friend or foe, will give you plenty of reasons to vote against John Kerry. Reading the fiction of Dostoevsky, Tolkien, or Caroline Gordon will give you more truth than CNN. Reading a history of the Reformation or some other grand era of church history will be more curative to the soul than the latest Time or Newsweek survey of the state of religion today. 6. And if you must watch a news program, enjoy it. Many journalists are simply entertainers, perhaps failed comedians and actors, but still entertainers. Some enjoy H.G.T.V. for relaxation; some like sports; occasionally, I like to watch the news for fun."
"I set out to show the puncture wounds of the beasts that haunt our age. I seem to have strayed: The devolution of Evolution remains to be considered; the rise of many faithful sons of J. Gresham Machen needs to be told (yes, they have been at war too often, but like the warrior-king David, they still have been men after God's own heart), and the revival of Classical Christian education is still in its infancy. God did not abandon America in the early or later parts of the 20th Century. The battles are not over, some are scarcely begun, but there is not longer any reasons to fear the wizards. More to follow!" |
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A change in season means new fundraising opportunities for your nonprofit. Our library of seasonal fundraising ideas is extensive because we know the value of catering your supporter experiences to timely initiatives:
Even football season comes with its own set of fall fundraising activities.
Fall is an advantageous time for nonprofits because students are heading back to school and eager to socialize with their friends. School-themed fundraiser ideas are perfect for this time of year. These seasonal events provide a chance for your organization to rally supporters around your cause in new ways. Increase donations and expand your reach this back-to-school season with some creative fall fundraising ideas.
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To capitalize on the natural energy that comes with the start of a new school year, host a homecoming event to kick off the fall season.
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2. Throw a Back-to-School Night Party
Finish summer vacation with an exclamation point by hosting a back-to-school fall fundraiser event. Combine the fun of summer break into one last hurrah with something as simple as an outdoor movie, or as extravagant as an inflatable obstacle course and carnival games.
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4. Arrange a Campus Pop-Up Coffee Shop
College students are no stranger to caffeine. Set up a simple pop-up coffee shop on campus to attract new donors, boost visibility, and help students survive their early morning lectures.
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4. Organize a Run or Walk Event
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5. Coordinate a Group Hike
Racing isn’t for everyone. Give these folks another way to support your cause by organizing a hiking excursion centered around fundraising. The fall is a particularly great time of year to get into the woods.
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7. Set Up a Rivalry Competition
Fundraising competitions don’t have to happen within just one individual school. Your nonprofit can capitalize on the power of school rivalries by challenging neighboring students to compete against one another to see who can raise the most.
Besides bragging rights, be sure to come up with an incentive for the winning school. This could be something simple, like a free pizza lunch, but it will have more impact if it relates specifically to your organization.
Duke and North Carolina’s school newspapers organized a similar fundraiser to tap into their heated rivalry on the basketball court, but channeled this competitiveness into a fundraising activity for good. Drive school spirit and donations with one event.
8. Partner With Philanthropy Groups
Many academic clubs and organizations are required to have a charity partner that they fundraise for during the year. Most college fraternities and sororities have a particular organization they support. In high schools, leadership clubs like Key Club, National Honor Society, or National Beta Club typically do the same.
In addition to fundraising, many of these groups also require their members to have a certain number of annual volunteer hours. Take advantage of this opportunity by connecting with schools to increase the visibility of your cause and potentially form a partnership with a particular club. This also allows you to begin promoting volunteer opportunities that a younger audience would likely find enjoyable.
Nurture the relationships with these volunteers to steward them into lifelong supporters, and encourage them to spread the word about your organization to their fellow club members and students.
9. Hold a Dress Down Day
Dress Down Day fundraisers allow students and teachers who are typically required to wear school uniforms to dress casually on a specific day when they donate or fundraise on behalf of your organization. To make the most of this experience, you’ll need to work directly with the administrative office at schools with designated dress codes.
These campaigns work well especially because they create instant FOMO. Students can see which of their peers gave to your cause (and which didn’t), motivating them to get involved next time.
10. Put on a Trivia Night
A contest of knowledge only seems fitting for an educational environment. Your trivia night could be organized at a school or local restaurant and involve as many members of the community as you’d like.
Competitors pay a set fee to enter the trivia tournament, which can either be used in part as the prize money for the winning team or individual or put toward your organization’s fundraising goal. If you choose the latter, you could offer another incentive to the winner, like tickets to a school athletic event or premium parking for students.
Pull together some fun trivia questions, possibly including some questions related to your organization or cause.
Pro Tip: Reuse these questions in your online marketing to engage supporters, especially on social media.
11. Arrange a Scavenger Hunt
Create a list of school-related items for students to track down, like highlighters, rubber erasers, or even an apple. Host a school-wide competition to see who can track down every item on the list the fastest.
You could even host the contest virtually, requiring students to snap photos of their finds and submit them on a designated page or share on social media with a particular hashtag.
If you’re an education-related charity, invite the students to donate the collected items as in-kind gifts.
12. Sponsor a Pep Rally
Get in touch with local schools about potentially sponsoring a pep rally for the upcoming sports season.
Ride the wave of school spirit by pitting the classes against one another to see who can raise the most money. The numbers can be tallied up and announced at the event.
Cap this off by sending a representative—staff member, volunteer, or a beneficiary of your organization—to speak at the rally. This is also a great way to build brand awareness among the students and teachers.
Get Started With These Fall Fundraising Ideas
There are endless ways to fundraise during the fall season. Capitalize on the momentum of students returning to school to elevate your cause, increase brand awareness, and expand your reach.
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Hala El-Said, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, confirmed that the launch of the “Citizen’s Plan” reflects the state’s keenness to involve citizens in the efforts made to develop the planning and follow-up systems, with the aim of achieving sustainable and comprehensive development, and in a way that contributes to addressing developmental gaps between the various governorates, and the localization of sustainable development goals and in order to achieve the 17th goal of the global sustainable development goals, “partnerships to achieve the goals”, stressing that the citizen is the real pivot of development, and therefore the need to empower them and provide them with data on the development programs and projects that the country is implementing.
She added that all development plans adopted by the state aim to improve the quality of life of citizens, and that this will not be achieved without active community participation, in line with “Egypt’s Vision 2030,” pointing out that the Ministry of Planning has taken many steps during the past period aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability and emphasizing on The importance of citizen participation in planning and follow-up.
Regarding the citizen’s investment plan in Sharkeya, El-Said explained that the number of development projects in the governorate reaches 414 projects, and that the value of public investments directed to Sharkeya in the 2022/23 plan amounts to EGP 8.7bn with a growth rate of 8.75% compared to the 2021/22 plan.
With regard to the sectoral distribution of targeted public investments in Sharkeya in the 2022/23 plan, the report of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development indicated that investments amounting to EGP 4.6bn were directed to the housing sector at a rate of 53%, followed by the local development sector at a value of EGP 1.1bn at a rate of 12.6%. The sector of higher education and scientific research is allocated to EGP 1bn, or 11.5%, then pre-university education, with investments amounting to EGP 634m, or 7.2%, then the transport sector, with investments amounting to EGP 381m, or 4.4%, and other sectors in the governorate have investments worth EGP 985m by 11.3%.
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After a few months hiatus, we return with a fantastic Pop Up tasting and supper in our shop on Saturday the 24th February at 7pm. February is a big month for tasting in the world of natural wine and we are usually in the Loire value for a few days at the start of the month for the Salon St Jean (Renaissance des Appellation) and Dive Bouteille events in Anger and Saumur. These fabulous tastings in stunning surroundings showcase the finest Biodynamic and Natural growers from across Europe. It is an opportunity to taste new vintages and Cuvee from celebrated and emerging growers alike (many of which we sell of course) and the wine is always delicious. You have the opportunity to taste some pretty expensive stuff which would normally be out of reach in UK restaurants from fine Biodynamic Champagnes to top Swiss producers and Loire Wine Icons like the Savennieres Coulee de Serrant wine made famous by Nicolas Joly. They also put on great food for lunch at these events (Oysters at La Dive last year, see the photos) and superb artisan coffee to keep you awake after 5 hours of tasting. All of this for a mere 30 euros or so entry fee so put them in your diary for next year. After the day tasting, it is fantastic to wander into Anger and Saumur, two beautiful Towns which lie on the Loire River, where you find a vast array of natural wine bars, restaurants and generally gorgeous stuff to eat and drink. Last year, the bar across from the River in Saumur put on a ‘Fete des Huitres’, (Oyster party) and hundreds of wine people stuffed them in until about 3am washed down with many bottles of cloudy Pet Net and funky beers.Anyway, to honour these great occasions and also because we think the Loire produces some of the best in the world, our first Pop Up is based on wines and food from the region. The Loire is home to many famous natural growers and in many ways it is the spiritual home of the movement. We happen to have loads of amazing bottles which we want to open including some older vintages so this promises to be a tasting and supper to remember.
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Experienced Abdullah’s are more tactful than pompous Mehbooba on confronting New Delhi; Jack of all master of none
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POONCH: Abdullah’s, who ruled J&K for several decades, know very well how to adjust themselves as per situation demand and their strike rate in standing successfully in politically tough situations is nearly 90%.
Whether remaining a part of NDA during Vajpayee’s regime at Centre or getting support of BJP in LAHDC-Kargil, Abdullah’s know very well how to grind their own axe to stay alive in politics. Words like ideology and identity of Kashmir, which Abdullah’s always used during previous elections in valley, are not significant for them now, because they have been adopting a diplomatic approach while dealing with a strong Union government. After the abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A, Dr Farooq and Omar, earlier tried their best to unleash the sentiments of valley people, but after getting a brawny bout from Union government, both the experienced Father-Son duo have released their failed adventure and are now moving very tactfully in present circumstances. Even after their release, they did not touch the issue of Art 370 and 35 A in a robust way. Even after forming GUPKAR alliance, both senior and Junior Abdullah remained insensitive as far as campaigning for their candidates in DDC elections was concerned and this led to unrest among the National Conference cadre also. Even on the arrest of PDP youth leader Waheed Ul-Rehman Parra, Abdullah’s preferred to remain silent as it was an issue of national interest. On the other hand, pompous Mehbooba Mufti wasted no opportunity in attacking the Center on various occasion with an indirect agenda of gaining sympathy of people of valley, but all her ill planned actions of confronting with Centre have been producing nil result. After her release, Mehbooba gave many wrong statements and those statements had the capacity to stand against national interest. She tried to project herself as invincible, but has become disillusioned mostly. To win back lost confidence among the people, Mehbooba has been roving in valley, but getting nothing in return. Her vociferously campaign to defame Centre government on various occasions has been providing counterproductive. She allowed Dr Farooq Abdullah to head GUPKAR alliance and both Mehbooba and Dr Farooq emphasized to fight for getting special status back. When GUPKAR decided to take part in DDC elections, every member of alliance was confident, but as soon as the elections process started, GUPKAR started to become a divided house in which parties other than NC and PDP became bench sitters only. Sensing trouble, Mehbooba decided to take the lead and started visiting several areas of valley by showing herself indirectly as leader of GUPKAR alliance. Her unintended activities shows that she has lost her way and becoming unnerved day by day. Mehbooba seems to be in quagmire and doesn’t know how to proceed ahead with Centre rather than taking a jibe at Union government time and again without getting any output in her favour. Due to the different tactics being adopted by Abdullah’s and Mehbooba, it’s the Mehbooba, who is likely to face the heat if she fails to mend her ways, than the Abdullah’s who have been playing tactfully as far as confronting New Delhi is concerned. In comparison to Abdullah’s tactful skills, Mehbooba seems to be jack of all master of none politically. Both, Abdullah’s and Mehbooba have realized that their political career have ended in J&K after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35- A and their unintended actions shows their frustration only. Still, Abdullah’s are playing safe. Is NC a part of bigger game plan of BJP government at the centre to clean bowled other valley based political parties? Only time will tell. |
The aspect of criminology and the study of the subject was started by Cesare Lombroso, hence his title of being the father of criminology. Through critical analysis, Lombroso came up with different crime theories and particularly addressed crime among women. While he played a role in defining modern-day criminology and the practices related to the subject, he created a ripple effect that dissected his work. According to the Lombroso’s theory of criminology, it is believed that crime and criminality were carried from one generation to another through inheritance and that specific physical defects identify criminals in the society, otherwise referred to as atavistic nature or savagery.
Most people have misinterpreted the Lombrosian theory. Most of them claim that he bent data to fit his narrative and created theories like that of atavism that defines crime as a hereditary practice for savages. Due to such perception, Lombroso is now known as the father of modern criminology, who might have been misinterpreted throughout his time. I agree that while Lombroso contributed significantly to the unit of criminology and helped fight crime, he was mostly misinterpreted due to different people interpreting his data and findings differently.
Cesare Lombroso can be remembered as the person who set up the subject of criminology and helped structure the crime and investigation department. Lombroso started his contributions in the field of criminology by publishing his first book named “L’uomo delinquente” in the year 1876. In the book, Lombroso talks about his perception of crime, arguing that both physical and biological alterations describe criminals and non-offenders. According to Knepper and Ystehede (2013, p. 11), Lombroso’s theory on crime about the “atavistic” nature of criminals provides a new dimension to crime and how we understand it. According to Lombroso, the theory of atavism holds that people who engage in criminal activates are savages who are primitive and backward. The theory asserts that criminals are not normal human beings as their biological and physical set up alters their approach to society. It was also argued that Lombroso’s theories were acceptable to the public and his description of the criminal man “fit perfectly with then-current hierarchies of gender, race, sexuality, social class, and physical ability.” Gibson and Rafter (2006, p. 171). The theory was highly regarded, and it played a role in establishing the criminology department. However, Lombroso’s theory of atavism and other ideologies of his work started facing critical scrutiny in the 19th century, creating the notion that Lombroso’s work was highly misunderstood.
Another aspect of Lombroso’s highly misunderstood work was his methods of doing research and collecting information and data. Many scholars and researchers who have gone through Lombroso’s work claim that he had fishy ways of carrying out research that were not transparent and subject to peer review. Mary Gibson argues that he ‘bended data to fit his theories” (Gibson and Rafter, 2009, p. 139). The author asserts that while he was studying the body of a dead woman (Giuseppe Villella’s body), Lombroso was seen to hide a lot of information and bend the data to fit his theories. Since Lombroso had come up with the criminal man’s theories and how he or she was born into the character, he bent the truth in the case to match his findings. Critics imply that Lombroso worked in Italy where crimes were rampant and he interacted with the same looking criminals through which he created a profile of the “criminal man” (Beccatossi, 2010, p. 561-562). Just as explained, Lombroso’s work is highly misunderstood due to the critics that have addressed the possibility of his rigidness to share the correct data acquire from his studies and experiment. For that reason, I agree that Lombroso’s work was misinterpreted by many.
One finding that creates doubt in people that Lombroso documented was the criminal woman’s findings. After going through the woman’s case carefully, Lombroso concluded that the woman was sexually active and less intelligent, which were some of the characteristics that defined her as a criminal. According to Newburn (2017. p. 124-125), Lombroso’s findings on the criminal woman’s case are highly reviewed, based on the fact that Lombroso concluded that women were worse criminals compared to men. Just as the author explains, Lombroso made a controversial conclusion that women were likely to be criminals because feelings of vengeance drive them. The findings were criticized based on the evolution that the world has seen in women and the power that they have been given over the years. In the 19th century, it was widely believed that a woman’s biological goal was motherhood and being a good wife (Cullen & Wilcox, 2010). However, Lombroso’s theories about the criminal woman are not a representation of today’s era as women have much more freedom than they did at the time of his writings. He described the criminal woman as ‘undeveloped’ men, which goes against political correctness today. I agree that Lombroso’s work was highly misinterpreted, warranting the critics seen in the world of academics today.
Lombroso made significant contributions to the department of crime by structuring the criminology department that has helped fight crime over the decades. While the philosophers’ theories contributed to the department’s creation, they also became a subject of criticism. In his work, Lombroso made studies and experiments on criminals, how they behaved, what they loved to do, and how they were similar. Through careful examination of criminals, Lombroso concluded that they were inherited and they also harbored unique physical features. Although they were great contributions to criminology, Lombroso’s theories were vastly criticized. Nevertheless, some ideas rooted in his work are alive today, as there is a belief that there might be physical characteristics that can contribute to criminal behavior, which can be seen in the nature vs. nurture debate in criminology. Lombroso’s work contributed highly to the establishment of criminology. While he may not have carried out his work and research in a conventional way, he was highly misinterpreted in his findings and general work.
The work that Lombroso did mostly revolved around crime, especially for women. The scholar managed to go through different cases, experiments and other forms of knowledge acquisition, making him an individual with immense knowledge in the field. For that reason, it is important to note that it is possible that most of Lombroso’s work was indeed misinterpreted. First, Lombroso’s thoughts and ideas on women in crime did not sit down well with critics. According to Lombroso, women were likely to get involved in crime because they were creatures that were driven by vengeance. In my opinion, Lombroso was misunderstood in this case, as I am sure he meant that emotions play a role in influencing crime. Essentially, Lombroso came to the conclusion that since women were thought to be the weaker gender, they were more likely to get in trouble because they could not control their emotions. However, those facts as tabled by Lombroso are rubbished in today’s society due to the empowerment that women have received over the years. In the past, women were not valued, and their opinions did not count. For that reason, it was easy for women to be subject to assumptions that continue to be deciphered in modern criminology and society. Due to the fact that women are valued and respected today, it is impossible for an individual o believe Lombroso’s assertion that women were in fact weaker genders and are bound to get into crime compared to their male counterparts.
Lombroso believed that criminals had special physical features that identified them, and he asserted that criminals were born into crime with common physical features. Since Lombroso spent his time with all types of criminals, he took his time to profile them. Through the profiles, he managed to come up with a solution to finding and identifying criminals. He came to the conclusion that criminals had similar physical features like being left-handed. Due to such assertions, critics believe that the work of Lombroso was not clear, the critics believe that Lombroso provided the public with information that he could not explain. Such antics have provided a lengthy streak of criticism on his work and his ideologies on crime and criminals. Today, Lombroso’s work is under criticism because of the assumptions that people believe Lombroso made. For example, I understand that people may be infuriated based on the fact that Lombroso casually called individuals out as criminals based on certain physical features. Additionally, his work continues to face negative review since his work acts more like an attack on human beings rather than a corrective measure. Thus, I believe that the work of Lombroso was done effectively, and he contributed critically to the field of criminology, hoever, he is being discredited because of the misinterpretation sthat can easily be explained.
Beccalossi, C. (2010) Lombroso, Cesare: The criminal man. In F, Cullen, & P. Wilcox (eds) Enciclopedia of criminal theory. (pp 561 -566).
Cullen, F.T., and Wilcox, P. eds., 2010. Encyclopedia of criminological theory (Vol. 1). Sage
Gibson M. and Rafter, N H. (2009) Cesare Lombroso, Criminal Man. Durham and London: Duke university press. Durham and London: Duke university press.
Knepper, P., and Ystehede, P. eds., 2013. The Cesare Lombroso Handbook. Routledge.
Newburn, T. (2017). ‘Classicism and Positivism,’ in Criminology (3rd ed.), UK, Oxon: Routledge, pp 123-142. |
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Angina is caused by atherosclerosis and inflammation of the heart’s blood vessels. Causes of cardiovascular disease are the same causes of angina. The primary causes are modern eating habits, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle. The Standard American Diet leads to a constellation of dietary-caused risk factors including being overweight, diabetes/insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and inflammation. The key to reversal of angina and lowering one’s risk of cardiovascular disease is a high nutrient, whole food, vegan or flexitarian-based diet plan that I call a Nutritarian diet.
Increasing exercise tolerance can lower oxygen requirement, improving angina symptoms. It also improves the risk factors associated with CVD, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.1
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I’ve read a lot about the benefits of short bursts of high intensity exercise; studies show that it is safer and more effective at improving heart function in cardiac patients when compared to prolonged moderate intensity exercise. It recommends four minutes of exercise including short bursts of 30-90 second intervals of intense effort. I’m wondering if incorporating some of these short HIIT sessions into my week and cutting back on a few of the long gym sessions would be advisable and help me safely improve my angina symptoms.
The research is leaning towards high intensity interval training being the best for the heart and arteries, and the best part about this is that for those of us who have a tight schedule, you may be able to fit in a shorter duration of exercise if it is more intense. But even including light exercise regularly, such as having a nice long walk, is still therapeutic in other ways, too. Nevertheless, if you have significant heart disease, any exercise regimen has to begin very slowly, and intensity reduced. You should speak to your doctor to help you devise an exercise regimen safe for your heart condition and limitations.
I am a 57-year-old female and recently suffered a heart attack. I had a cardiac catheterization and was told there was no blockage. I am 5’3’, 125 pounds with total cholesterol of 120 - prior to the heart attack. I have been placed on a statin and a medication for my blood pressure. I was diagnosed with prinzmetal angina. Have you had experience with this type of angina resolving by following the Nutritarian diet style?
Yes, I have seen this type of angina resolve. It usually reflects plaque in the smaller vessels, and that spasm is occurring due to oxidative stress. Many heart attacks occur from clots forming in small vessels from juvenile plaque not visible with conventional cardiac testing. A plant-based, high nutrient density diet (or Nutritarian diet) is the most effective way to reduce inflammation, remove plaque, and prevent spasms in the small vessels.
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Countdown: 100 Days to Bells of Peace 2020
By Kathy Abbott
Announcing Bells of Peace, A World War I Remembrance, November 11, 2020, when everyone is invited to toll the “Bells of Peace” in honor of all those who served and sacrificed in World War I.
To kickoff “Bells of Peace,” on August 4, 2020, join us for a “100-Day Countdown” to November 11, 2020 on our social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The “100-Day Countdown” features stories commemorating the 100-day offensive on the Western Front leading up to WWI Armistice, November 11, 1918 when the guns fell silent and the bells tolled on the Western Front, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
During the WWI 100-Day Offensive, the U.S. and its Allies fought valiantly on the Western Front to push the Germans into retreat, resulting in an unexpected November 11, 1918 Armistice.
The fascinating details of these unprecedented 100 days, which were transformative in U.S. military history, included: key battles where an inexperienced U.S. Army came into its own and quickly distinguished itself; the Spanish Flu Pandemic traveled to Europe with our troops; chemical warfare decimated its final victims; the war in the sky and tank warfare raged; the Navy convoyed the perilous waters of the Atlantic; and much more.
Meanwhile on the home-front, Americans were contributing to the war effort with expectations of a long conflict ahead. The “100-Day Countdown” explores this through many primary sources including the NY Times and the Official U.S. Bulletin…. read this great detailed coverage to further understand how “The War That Changed the World” changed America forever.
To commemorate this moment on November 11, 2020, we invite you, your family and friends, your organizations, and your communities to toll the “Bells of Peace” and remember this pivotal moment in our Nation’s history and all those who served in World War I. Find out more about participating in “Bells of Peace” here: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/bells-of-peace-doughboy-foundation.html |
By Marsha Norman
Directed by Patrick McCray
April 22nd - May 8th, 2011
The scene is the living room/kitchen of a small house on an isolated country road, which is shared by Jessie and her mother. Jessie’s father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in divorce; her absent son is a petty thief and ne’er-do-well; her last job didn’t work out and, in general, her life is stale and unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father’s service revolver and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself.
At first her mother refuses to take her seriously, but as Jessie sets about tidying the house and making lists of things to be looked after, her sense of desperate helplessness begins to build. In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment—a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.
Tiffany Tallent as Jessie Cates
- Gayle Greene as Thelma Cates |
Best Fabric Conditioners in India:- People wear different types of fabric and shine their personalities through their clothes. There are different types of clothes that people love to wear but most of them are comes with the danger of getting dust.
There is no doubt that protecting them is a tough task and sometimes people fail in this. But, I bet you don’t want to stay on this list and looking for the best solution for it.
To protect the fabric and extended your clothes ages, the fabric conditioner is the best solution for it.
A fabric conditioner can help you to protect your clothes, enhance fabric quality, and reduce friction during the laundry. So, your clothes stay in great shape, reduce fuzz and pilling, and lower color fading.
But how are you gonna choose which fabric conditioner can give you the best outcomes and don’t damage your clothes while laundry?
Don’t worry! We got you covered.
We created a list of Fabric conditioners in India that helps you to protect your fabric and make them look new every time you wear it.
So, without wasting time, let’s dive into it.
Table of Contents
Top 10 Best Fabric Conditioners in India to Buy Online
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Bosch Fabric Softener is specially designed to give softness to your clothes. It protects your cloth from the damage caused by regular detergent and gives smoothness to your fabric. It makes your fabric touching smooth and looks new. It also prevents color fading due to that caused by detergent wash.
You can use it while dropping your clothes into a washing machine, you just have to pour some of the drops and that’s it. Your fabric will get a bright and shiny condition.
- Designed to infuse softness
- Deep fabric protecting
- Long-Lasting Lavender Aroma
- Soft & smooth clothes
- Prevents color fading
Softouch fabric conditioner comes with an active neem base that wipes out the anti gem and shrinking along with anti-fading. It has active conditioning agents that help you to keep your clothes shiny and soft.
It also has antibacterial protection and an advanced formulation that keeps your clothes always look as new.
With Softouch Fabric conditioner you can make your clothes shinier, fresh, and crisp without putting in much effort.
- Comes with German Encapsulation technology
- Active Conditioning agents
- Antibacterial protection from gems
- Encapsulated fragrance
As the name said, Comfort after wash helps you to shine and brighten your cloth after you are done washing with your regular detergent. A small drop of this conditioner can protect the layer of fabric and prevent damage that causes by time-to-time washing.
It gives your clothes fiber nourishes and untangles, that keep protect your cloth for long term ages.
The fragment can be lasted for a long and gives a smooth and shiner fabric experience.
- Comfort nourishes and untangles cloth fiber
- Visibly soft clothes
- Infused with fragrance pearls
Downy Liquid Fabric Conditioner is the best solution to prevent stretching. Fading and fuzz and protect your clothes for the long term. The fragment of this conditioner can last for a long and provides a great smell to your clothes.
It softens your fabric and gives comfort while wearing. The best part about this product is can reduce more wrinkles compare to regular detergents. It can easily work with a high-efficiency washing machine and gives an extra smooth wash.
- Compatible with HE washing machine
- Biodegradable fabric softening agents
- Fabric diver damage closeup
- Cool cotton airy essence
Comfort Fabric conditioner is one of my personal favorite fabric conditioners. There are several reasons I said that it is widely used for conditioning and provides the best nourishment to any kind of clothes.
You can just add small drops of conditioner in your after wash and can witness amazing results. It protects every layer of fabric and prevents all the damage caused by repeatedly washing.
- Comes with jasmine Fresh
- Works as After wash fabric conditioner
- Prevents damage happens while washing with hands
X Brite Premium comes with detergent powder along with a fabric conditioner, so you don’t have to worry about purchasing a separate conditioner for it.
It can work in hard water and gives softness to the fabric. The best part is it can ensure that your clothes keep the condition same as possible. It also cleans pipes and drains from the clothes and prevents all dust damage.
It can be used for any kind of fabric, the result will be no different.
- Works in hard water
- Fast-dry tech helps clothes dry quicker
- In-built fabric conditioner
- 100% active ingredient detergent
- Cleans pipes and drains
Liquid Organic provides a safe and new-like shine with nourishes and untangles cloth fibers that cause by regular washing and provides shiner to your clothing.
The fragrance can be lasted for a long and gives a safe, soft feel with a gentle wash. When you put it on the washing machine it can easily work and gives no residual after washing.
Liquid organic is the best solution for all your washing problems.
- Improves Fluorescent whitening agent designed
- Contains Organic ingredients
- Stain-fighting enzymes
- Deep clean on a washing machine
Softouch 2X French perfume fabric conditioner comes with fragrances of rose, jasmine, patchouli, cotton candy, and vanilla. That gives smooth and clean fragrances after washing.
It makes your clothes smoother and gives comfort and easy washing. It also has active conditioning agents that easily work even in hard water.
It comes with antibacterial protections that protect your fabric from germs and bacteria and ensure your clothe’s safety first.
- A fragrance inspired by French perfume
- Antibacterial protection
- Increased perfume dosage
- Neutralized the effect of harsh detergent and hard water
Naturalcare Fluffy Fabric Conditioner can give your fabric outstanding smoothness and shine even after the wash. It comes with ultra-concentrated which means that you have to use less liquid and experience the same result.
When you pour it into the wash it maintains your cloth softness. The best part, is it can soften your cloth every time you wash them and provide the same result every time.
You can rely on this fabric conditioner for any kind of clothes and gives the best outcomes possible.
- Infused fabrics with softness
- Contains active conditioning agents
- Lingering pleasant fragrance
- 100% freshness & softness
Comfort after wash comes with pearls fragment that all-day freshness to your cloth. It softens fabric from the cloth and gives a soft, comfortable, and reliable wearing experience.
It goes deep into fibers and smoother them; it also protects them from washing with detergent. It can easily work in a bucket as well as a washing machine.
You can rely on this fabric conditioner every time you wear your favorite fabric and make it look new every time.
- Unbeatable shine & fragrance
- Liquid fabric conditioner
- Mesmerizing fragrance
- Visible soft clothes
Top 5 Fabric care brands in India
Softtouch is a widely usable brand in various parts of India. It produces many different like fabric conditioners, detergents, tissue, and more. It has the gain trust of their customer over the year and brings many values to every product they produce.
Comfort is the most famous fabric brand in India and one of my favorites. It produces several types of fabric conditioners and gives long-lasting fragments from it. If you’re using a conditioner for one’s time then you can rely on comfort without hesitation.
Ariel mainly focused on producing detergents and washing powder that were widely used among the Indian people. It also produces several types of fabric conditioners that give softness to your cloth and give comfort fabric experience.
Bosch has always given its product with enthusiasm and with prioritizes quality over quantity. It produces fabric conditioners, detergents, dishwashers, and other clothing cosmetics that help you to give your fabric shine. You can rely on every Bosch product without worrying about cloth protection.
Downy has solely focused on fabric softener along with Dryer sheets. the product of Downy is cheap and gives a more accurate washing experience. Downy fabric conditioner is famous for the fragment that lasted for a long.
How to use Fabric Conditioner
To use the fabric conditioner fill the cup as a label of the bottle and adjusts the conditioner according to cloth size. Pour the conditioner into the drawer and add it to the wash during the rinse cycle.
Don’t pour conditioner in the wash cycle, it can clean away softness.
1. Which is the best fabric conditioner?
Ans. There are several companies that claim that it has the best fabric conditioner but comfort and soft touch are among the best.
2. Is the Comfort fabric conditioner good?
Ans. Absolutely. While a normal conditioner can give softness and strength to your hair and protect them, though, the fabric conditioner protects and gives softness to the fabric.
3. What is the best smelling softener?
Ans. Comfort products give much more fragment, compare to other fabric conditioner brands at a price range.
4. Do you need a fabric conditioner?
Ans. It depends. If you want to use your clothes for the long term, then you can use them. But if not you can rely on regular detergent.
5. What is the most fragrant fabric softener?
Ans. From my personal experience, comfort gives the best fragment that gives full-day comfort.
6. What is the most popular fabric softener?
Ans. All of the above lists have contained the most popular fabric softener that is widely used in India.
7. What is the safest fabric softener?
Ans. We enlist all the above fabric conditioners that are safe to use and give no harm to your clothes.
8. What is the best natural fabric softener?
Ans. Liquid organic is the best natural fabric softener.
So, this is an over-pick for the best fabric conditioners in India. You can look for your fabric requirement and purchase the product that is best suited to your need.
Remember, it is ideal to use a conditioner while washing your clothes, it gives your cloth softness and builds up your confidence while wearing it.
If you have any questions or queries, just type them in the comment box, we always look back into them. |
As cafés shut down during the pandemic, the practice of brewing coffee gained ground in homes. French Press, Aeropress, Moka Pot…coffee lovers are certainly not short of options when it comes to choosing how to enjoy their morning cup of joe. But if there’s one style that has stolen a march over the others, it’s the pourover method.
It can be as simple or as complex as you wish to make it, much like your morning routine. But it’s considered better than other brewing methods at extracting flavour notes from coffee beans, making it a favourite of home brewers as well as roasters. In cafés, in fact, it tends to be priced more expensively.
The pourover method accentuates the coffee's experience as the hot water extracts oils and complex flavours. While the filter traps the oils and coffee grounds, the filtrate is rich in taste and aroma. Being able to achieve this without expensive equipment is the main draw for homeowners to brew using this method.
All you really need to do is pour hot water over coffee grounds through a filter paper placed on a filter holder or pourover dripper. The dripper is positioned over a cup or carafe—a glass container to store liquids—to allow the coffee to flow in. Now, coffee connoisseurs are going the extra mile to ensure their pourover helps them recreate the café experience at home, ensuring a spike in sales of equipment ranging from digital scales to coffee grinders and gooseneck kettles of all sizes and for every budget.
Though there are, of course, premium ways of making pourover coffee—equipment such as Chemex, Clever Dripper and Kalita--it probably now offers the most inexpensive route to begin a deep dive into the world of coffee. All it needs is a coffee dripper (Hario’s V60 is a popular, cheap option) and filter paper. Combined, the two don’t cost more than ₹900. Aeropress, on the other hand, would cost around ₹3,300 and Moka Pot, around ₹3,800.
It wasn’t always so. “A year ago, there were kettles suited for pourovers in the price range of ₹15,000-17,000 but now there are many more options for customers to choose from,” says Abhinav Mathur, CEO of Something’s Brewing, which retails coffee and coffee equipment online. He says customers first buy a scale, graduate to a gooseneck kettle and then get a grinder.
“Investing in coffee during the pandemic is a permanent mindshift among customers. That’s why they are picking up expensive equipment. New brands have come in with lower prices as well,” Mathur adds. This is evident in the pricing of kettles by homegrown brands like Benki and Instacuppa, which sell for less than half the price of Japanese company Hario’s kettles, for example. While Hario’s kettles cost around ₹4500, Instacuppa’s costs ₹2199 and Benki retails for just ₹1254.
Instacuppa and Benki are newer additions to kettles that didn’t exist a year earlier. Instacuppa kettle, for example, was launched in October 2020 and demand is still so high that it's almost always sold out.
Mithilesh Vazalwar, founder of Nagpur’s Corridor Seven Coffee Roasters says that 30% of their equipment sales, more than any other, come from pourovers.
Lzafeer Ahmad, a lawyer in Delhi, says he started with a French Press for black coffee but bought a plastic V60 just before the lockdown last year. When every brew gave a different result, Ahmad checked online and realised his basic hand grinder, bought off Amazon two years ago, just wasn’t cutting it for pourovers. “The grinder was okay for French Press but not for pourovers. That’s when I bought a new grinder called Timemore C2, along with a weighing scale, that together costs ₹9,000,” he says.
While the new grinder ensured his beans were ground to the perfect size, Ahmad realised that his pours (the rate and speed of adding water) were getting difficult to control with his regular kettle. Having already spent money on upgrading his pourover setup, Ahmad went in for a Benki kettle that cost ₹1,500, almost as much as a French Press.
He didn’t regret the expense. For once he completed his setup, Ahmad began tasting notes like never before. “I used a French Press for five years and all black coffee tasted the same to me. With pourovers, I could make out notes of strawberry and coconut from a Subko Specialty Coffee Roasters coffee and bergamot and tea from Quick Brown Fox’s Ratnagiri estate coffee. I had no idea home-brewed coffee could yield taste this good.”
Shobhit Agarwal, based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, began his pourover journey last year. “I started home-brewing and while I could make do with alternate arrangements for other equipment, I was blown away when I bought a C2 grinder in March this year. Suddenly, my speed of grinding went from two minutes on a cheap grinder to 35 seconds. So much so, I wondered if the C2 was actually broken!”
“Meditative” is a word associated with pourover coffee, especially the first cup in the morning. “It’s both an art and science. When you get up in the morning, you want an association with your coffee, not just press a button and drink it,” says Vazalwar. Watching the coffee “bloom” (extracted in the V60 cup), seeing it drip on to the carafe, tasting the notes, no equipment to use or clean–there’s almost an ASMR quality and visual appeal to pourovers not found in other brewing methods.
In cafés, pourovers are priced higher than regular Americanos and cappuccinos. Café owners say this is largely because they are brewed manually. Khushboo Tawde, owner of Mumbai’s Sidewalk Café, says people who like lighter styles usually prefer pourovers: “V60-style coffee has science behind it and is time-consuming. The barista is completely dedicated to making your coffee so you are paying more for their skill and time.” Vazalwar agrees: “Their labour and craft are what makes pourover more expensive than an espresso.”
Ahmad recently purchased a Kalita coffee dripper “because of how beautiful it looked”. His next piece of equipment? “There are no immediate plans but an electric kettle is next on my list.”
Clearly, when it comes to pourovers, no one can stop at just one.
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Priyanko Sarkar is a Mumbai-based journalist and writer covering the beverage industry. |
If the coming-of-age changes you notice in your child make you wonder if the kid you still consider your “baby” is literally growing up too fast, it’s probably nothing to worry about.
“I think a lot of times parents get confusing information,” Paul Kaplowitz, MD, PhD, FAAP, told Healthline. He is an endocrinologist with the Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., who has studied early puberty in children.
He said that children who develop pubic hair or body odor aren’t necessarily going through puberty. Several studies suggest that the onset of breast and pubic hair development is earlier than it has been in the past.
Kaplowitz sees a lot of children whose parents rush them to the doctor when they notice these changes, but he assures them they are nothing to be alarmed about. About 90 percent of the patients he sees don’t require treatment, he noted.
“The majority of these cases are…variations that don’t require extensive testing or treatment,” Kaplowitz said.
Puberty typically starts between ages 8 and 13 in girls and ages 9 and 14 in boys.
According to a 2019 review of scientific literature, research has found that the age puberty starts has decreased by between 12 to 18 months over the last 20 years.
In fact, one
A 2012 study where researchers surveyed 144 pediatric offices in the United States found that boys experienced signs of puberty, including genital and pubic hair growth and early testicular volumes, between 6 months to 2 years earlier than in past studies.
Yet some early signs of development do not necessarily mean your child has started puberty, according to a 2015 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The report noted that the vast majority of children with signs of early puberty have typical variations in growth and development that do not require testing or treatment.
“The truth is we truly don’t know why boys and girls, girls in particular, are showing signs of sexual maturation earlier,” Kaplowitz said.
He believes that the lack of hard data makes it difficult to say that children are showing signs of puberty or going into puberty sooner than they did in the past.
Researchers have linked several factors to early puberty in children.
The age a child enters or appears to enter puberty can vary with their race. Many studies over the past couple of decades have found that African American girls experience puberty significantly earlier than white girls, according to a
For example, one 1997 study surveyed 225 U.S. healthcare professionals about the sexual maturation of their patients ages 3 through 12. The researchers concluded that African American girls were more likely to have public hair and breasts than white girls at every age. For example, they found that 27.2 percent of African American girls and 6.7 percent of white girls had developed pubic hair by age 7.
The previously cited 2012 study found that African American boys were on average more likely to have genital development and pubic hair about a year earlier than non-Hispanic white and Hispanic boys.
Researchers note that there hasn’t been a lot of research to date in African Americans in order to understand the causes or implications of racial differences. Ultimately, more studies are needed.
Obesity may be contributing to some early signs of puberty. A 2021 study found that girls who had a higher body mass index (BMI) at an early age or who gained weight more quickly compared with their peers early in life were more likely to start breast development and menstruation earlier.
A 2014 study found that children who are heavier at age 5 tend to have lower levels of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) throughout childhood and reach puberty sooner. The tendency was more significant in girls than in boys.
Fat tissue contains cells that produce hormones involved in sex hormone metabolism. Researchers have speculated that more fat tissue in girls could trigger estrogen production, leading to earlier signs of puberty.
Kaplowitz notes that it can also be harder to tell if a girl who is overweight has developed breasts or simply has more fat tissue in her chest area. In most cases when a parent has brought their child to him, Kaplowitz has found that breast glands have not developed.
Children’s exposure to chemicals before birth and in the first years of life has also been examined as a potential cause of early sexual maturation.
The study concluded that the research is mixed, with some chemicals appearing to result in earlier puberty and others possibly leading to delayed puberty. Because these chemicals are so present in our everyday lives, the researchers wrote that it’s difficult to figure out the effects of each individual compound.
Their conclusion echos that of another 2022 review on the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on children.
If your child is a girl under age 8 and you notice rapid growth — perhaps a few inches in a year — or progressive breast enlargement, you should consult a doctor, Kaplowitz said. Boys under age 9 who have genital enlargement should also be seen by a physician.
A child with these symptoms may be experiencing precocious puberty, which is defined as starting puberty before ages 7 to 8 in girls and age 9 in boys. Precocious puberty can lead to a reduced adult height and psychological and behavioral abnormalities, and it may require treatment.
Having some signs of early puberty doesn’t mean that your child has precocious puberty. Doctors diagnose the condition with testing, including by measuring a child’s sex hormone levels.
A doctor can also determine the cause for precocious puberty. Some variants of the condition can be caused by a other disorders, such as tumors, which can have other health repercussions.
For now, Kaplowitz wants parents to know what to look for in the event their child could have a serious concern. He also wants to remind them not to worry if they notice certain changes.
“Early pubic hair and body odor does not mean the child is actually in puberty and does not mean the child is going to start their puberty early,” Kaplowitz said. |
Trillion Trees partner WWF, with support from the Trillion Trees ReForest Fund, has expanded its forest landscape restoration work in Tanzania. In 2022, they planted 48,000 trees in West Usambara and in 2023, 27,360 seedlings have been grown in East Usambara for planting in 2024. This mountain range in north-eastern Tanzania is one of the country’s most important biodiversity hotspots but is threatened by unplanned clearing of the forest for agriculture.
Trillion Trees is using innovative and multiple landscape restoration approaches both to enhance the wellbeing of local people and support biodiversity. This enables communities to engage in supporting natural regeneration through the sustainable management of community forests to generate more sustainable sources for fuelwood and livelihoods. Recently the project has been restoring forest patches, particularly in the Mbaramo area, supporting native tree-planting along river catchments to promote habitat connectivity for wildlife and improve water quality and supply to the area.
Restoration activities are already being carried out in the West Usambara Mountains, which provides water for the lowlands including Mkomazi National Park and Umba Steppe. The project has provided seedlings to community groups to grow trees around water sources, along streams, farms, school campuses and degraded lands |
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My husband and I were experiencing similar problems before.
At first, I started noticing the symptoms of staphylococcus aureus due to severe itching in my private part, irregular menstruation, and brown discharge.
My husband had his own symptoms too.
He gets a white milky discharge from the tip of his manhood in the morning, he also experiences pain when urinating, and always had a frequent urge to urinate regularly.
It came as a sudden shock to us because we could not figure out where or how we contacted the infection from.
So, I quickly went to a big pharmacy to make some inquiries and was told to get 500mg of an antibiotic. I and my husband used it in the evening. We had to continue using it for the next 6 – 8 days so we could notice the effect.
Sadly, after 6 days of using it our conditions have now become worse and one annoying aspect was that the antibiotics left me with a smelly private part.
So, we stopped the self medication immediately.
We rushed down to the hospital to do some test and find out what was actually wrong.
When the test results came out, my husband and I tested positive to Staphylococcus aureus.
Staphylococcus infection (staph,)” is the most widespread infection in Nigeria. And it is one of the major causes of male infertility due to Azoospermia (Dead sperm count).
Staphylococcus is a very complex disease, apart from being contracted sexually or as a toilet infection; there are some other ways of getting infected.
If you have contracted any form of disease in the past like, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, candida (yeast infection), urinary tract infection (U.T.I), etc, which you may have treated but not totally cured, could lead to staph infection.
It could even be contacted from using unclean public toilets or from sores, wounds of infected persons.
Our Healthcare provider recommended several highly powered antibiotics for us.
We used them as instructed… and after the first 3 days the symptoms reduced, we continued using them straight, until 7 days.
After 2 weeks, we did another sets of urtheral and vaginal swab test as advised. The test result came out scanty.
Just few weeks later on, the symptoms came back heavier again!
So, we knew that the staph infections was still very much in our body system!
Why Didn’t the Antibiotics work?
That was how I started my personal research. The simple truth is, I discovered that infections like staphylococcus, gonorrhea, syphilis, Chlamydia etc. now have resistance to antibiotics.
That means, common highly powered antibiotics will not have much effect on the bacteria and microbes that causes infections.
To make it even worse, when you continue using this antibiotics and you are not getting a positive effect from it, you are putting yourself at an increased risk of getting more infections that resists antibiotic treatment like – MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus).
But then, the entire situation changed when I came in contact with an old time friend who was also a Health expert.
I explained how the staph infection have affected my marriage, detestroyed our immune system, affected our health and also affecting my fertility.
She decided to help me get a permanent cure to it.
She recommended a natural herbal treatment that helps cure Staphylococcus, syphilis, gonorrhea and other infections… while treating the root cause of the problem and banishes it for life from the body system.
According to the health expert, the major difference is that this solution is purely herbal, and gives a permanent cure. Once you complete the herbal treatment, you will not fall into any relapse of the infection recurring anymore!
I quickly begged her to help me get the same herbal powder so I and my husband could use it as well to get rid of infections before it became something else.
She agreed and sent them to me…
At first, I was very skeptical…
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Immediately, I and my husband started taking them… as recommended.
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Why should you hire a plumbing contractor to inspect a slow bathtub drain? Even though the water may eventually drain from your tub, take a look at the top reasons to contact a pro right now.
Standing Water Is Dangerous
Do you have children or pets who enjoy playing with or in water? A young child may view the standing water in the tub as an in-home paddling pool. Likewise, your dog may want to take a dip in or a drink from the tub. The water in a slowly draining tub will stay at a deep level for more than the few seconds it takes you to exit the bathroom. This means you will leave behind a potential drowning hazard after a bath or shower. A prompt plumbing services repair can clear the clog and give you back a quick-draining (and safe) tub.
Standing Water Is Dirty
You just bathed or showered in the tub that now refuses to drain quickly. Not only is the leftover bath-time water left standing in the tub, debris that has backed up from the drain may mix in. This creates a dirty, messy, and possibly smelly tub. Reduce the need to constantly clean the tub or spread air freshener through the room with a professional plumber's service. After the plumbing company identifies the issue and removes the clog, your freely draining tub won't leave behind a stinky ring of debris.
Slow Drains Could Cause Pest Problems
The water left in the tub after you shower isn't the only reason to call a plumber to repair a slow drain. Psychodidae, more commonly known as the drain fly, is another potential problem that a contractor can eliminate.
These tiny moths look like fruit flies or kitchen gnats. But instead of produce, they prefer the gunk and debris (leftover hair, skin cells, and shampoo or soap products) that can clog a bathtub drain. While drain flies won't make their home in every narrow, clogged pipe, they could potentially invade your tub.
Even though a plumber won't remove the flies (in the same way that a pest control contractor could), they can help you to prevent an infestation. By eliminating the sludge and slime on the inside of your tub drain pipe, the plumber can make your bathroom less attractive to these invaders.
Slow Drains Are Frustrating
Does staring at the standing water make you want to scream? You aren't alone. Slow-draining tubs are a common plumbing problem that can aggravate and irritate a homeowner. If the picture of standing water in the tub makes you mad, sad, or just annoyed, contact a plumbing company to effectively and efficiently repair the clog.
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The consolidated urban plot is the cartographic instrument that delimits the surface of the municipality of Arenys de Mar that complies with the regulatory requirements to obtain this legal status. The areas to be considered consolidated urban plots (TUC) are, according to Decree Law 1/2009, of December 22, the following: settlements of a complex nature formed by the historic center and its extensions, continuous multifamily residential areas in the settlements, non-continuous multi-family residential areas to settlements within urban land or developable land where residential use is dominant and single-family residential areas adjoining settlements.
Tourist map of Arenys de Mar is a set of cartographic information, represented in a PDF file, which shows the location of the facilities and services and the spaces of tourist interest in the municipality. The dataset allows you to locate the following elements: Museums, Lookouts, Historic buildings, Markets, Schools, Hospitality, Theaters, taxi or bus stops, the Train station or the Police, among others. The map also gives the name of the city roads, as well as of different places of the geography of the territory.
Modalities for the selective waste collection in Arenys de Mar is a set of cartographic information distributed in PDF, which represents the system of selective waste collection used in each point of the municipality. The dataset identifies the collection sector with a numeric code and defines the relevant procedure for each of them; the modalities are: Sectors of selective collection with containers and Sectors of selective collection door to door.
The Municipal Urban Planning Plan (POUM) is the instrument of urban planning of the municipality that directs the development of the Arenys de Mar territory. The cartography of the POUM in Arenys de Mar is made up of six mapping files of different scales in PDF format. The aspects of the municipality that define this map are as follows: Land classification and general structure (Land classification, Derivative planning sectors, General territorial structure, General systems, Mobility network, Free spaces and Equipment), Non-urbanizable land management , Urban and urban land land management and General service networks (Sanitation, Water Supply, Electric). |
According to Alexa, Amazon is the 4th most visited website in the United States and ranks 8th worldwide. To say that it gets a lot of traffic every day would be an understatement, which is why a newly discovered phishing campaign pretending to come from Amazon is so disturbing.
Although Amazon sees heavy traffic every day of the year, things get especially frenzied during the holidays as shoppers flock to the company’s website to buy Christmas presents for friends and family. Scammers know this and seek to take advantage of unwary shoppers, thus the genesis of their latest campaign. The security firm EdgeWave has been monitoring the development of the campaign.
Scammers are sending out well-crafted, sophisticated emails that appear to come from Amazon, featuring subject lines designed to draw the attention of online shoppers, such as “Your Amazon.com Order” Or “Your Amazon Order (order number) has shipped.”
Naturally, if you’ve purchased something from Amazon, you’ll be inclined to open the email to get more information. You’ll then be presented with something that appears to be a legitimate order confirmation, although lacking in any specific details about the product.
In lieu of that, the scammers have placed an ‘Order Details’ button in the email, inviting users to click for additional information. Unfortunately, clicking the link downloads a word document onto the user’s device. If the user tries to open it, they’ll get a message that says they need to enable content in order for the message to be properly displayed.
What this does in actuality though, is enable macros, which hackers and scammers have been using for years to inject malicious code onto PCs around the world, and sure enough, that’s exactly what happens in this case.
EdgeWave researchers have tested the poisoned document and discovered that as the download begins, what is apparently being downloaded is a file called ‘keyandsymbol.exe’. However, embedded in the code, they found references to mergedboost.exe.
By now, most people know better than to click links or open files, even when they seem to come from a trusted source. This latest campaign underscores the importance of ongoing education and friendly, periodic reminders. |
Over the last two years, the widespread shortages, stoppages, and other disruptions affecting much of the global supply chain have led manufacturers, suppliers, and buyers alike to examine their contract terms for an available excuse for nonperformance. Contract parties have focused in particular on any applicable force majeure clauses. When such provisions have been absent or inconclusive, the parties have turned to the doctrine of commercial impracticability and the legal theory of frustration of purpose.
Presumably, the use of these contractual and legal defenses has increased greatly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the list of known adjudicated cases is not long. Those that exist, which are reviewed in this article, exhibit a trend towards interpreting contracts strictly and granting limited relief under the impracticability and frustration of purpose doctrines—especially when the only harm alleged is increased cost. Disputes over these doctrines usually involve battles over injunctive relief—decrees that compel or restrict specific actions—as opposed to traditional monetary remedies. In the final article of this series, we will provide an overview of how courts have recently considered force majeure and commercial impracticability defenses in supplier relationships.
a. BAE Indus., Inc. v. Agrati-Medina
Key questions presented:
- Can cost increases of raw materials stemming from in part from pandemic-related supply shortages render compliance with a fixed-price requirements contract commercially impracticable such that the seller is excused from supplying goods at the contractually fixed price?
- Should a provision in a force majeure clause requiring notice within 10 days of the occurrence of an asserted force majeure event be narrowly construed to preclude excuse of a seller’s obligations when the seller failed to establish the date of the event or that timely notice had been provided?
The trend toward interpreting force majeure clauses strictly and applying the impracticability and frustration of purpose doctrines conservatively is evident in BAE Industries, Incorporated v. Agrati-Medina, LLC.1 The court in BAE granted a manufacturer’s motion for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendant supplier from withholding shipment of specialty parts under a long-term fixed-price requirements contract. The defendant in that case, Agrati, agreed to supply BAE with all the rivets, bushings, pivots and other parts that BAE needed to manufacture and supply auto part components to Tier-1 customers. The Tier 1 customers, in turn, assembled car seats for original equipment manufacturers. However, from 2020 through 2022, the price of steel necessary for BAE’s parts rose due in part to COVID-19 lockdowns, steel mill closings, U.S. border restrictions, and the war in Ukraine. As a result, Agrati refused to ship parts unless BAE would pay price increases, arguing that the spike in steel prices rendered the fixed-price requirements contract commercially impracticable. BAE Industries then filed suit and moved for injunctive relief to compel Agrati’s compliance with the terms of the contract.
The court sided with BAE, concluding that an unprofitable contract and an increase in the cost of raw materials does not rise to the level of impracticability of a fixed-price supply agreement as a matter of law. Agrati argued the parties’ force majeure provision encompassed cost increases, but the governing contract expressly stated that cost changes would not give rise to a force majeure event unless the seller gave notice of the event within 10 days. Because Agrati did not state the date of the event or show that it had given timely notice, the Court granted BAE’s motion and compelled Agrati to continue supplying parts as originally agreed.
b. Isuzu N. Am. Corp. v. Progressive Metal Mfg. Co.
Key questions presented:
- Can a buyer obtain injunctive relief requiring a seller to continue supplying goods under a requirements contract notwithstanding the seller’s claim that its performance was excused under a force majeure provision due to labor shortages?
- Can a seller facing labor shortages prioritize product deliveries based on whether buyers have applicable force majeure clauses with the seller?
Similarly, in Isuzu North America Corporation v. Progressive Metal Manufacturing Company,2 a federal district court granted a buyer’s request to restrain a seller from raising prices and rejected the seller’s force majeure argument based on a labor shortage. Defendant Progressive Metal Manufacturing Company agreed to manufacture component parts in quantities as needed to meet plaintiff Isuzu’s yearly requirements. But in June 2021, Progressive sent Isuzu a notice of force majeure, contending that a labor shortage prevented it from producing the agreed-upon parts. Isuzu sued Progressive for breach of contract and sought a temporary restraining order requiring Progressive to continue manufacturing and shipping parts until Isuzu could find an alternative supplier.
During an early hearing, the court took issue with Progressive prioritizing components for other customers with whom Progressive did not have similar force majeure agreements.3 The Court found that Progressive could perform as originally agreed and ordered Progressive to continue producing parts under the parties’ agreement but emphasized that the relief was temporary, lasting until the Court held a more extensive hearing on the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction.4 The parties eventually stipulated to an injunction under which Progressive assisted with Izusu’s transition to another supplier.5
c. Drummond Coal Sales Inc. v. Kinder Morgan Operating LP
Key questions presented:
- Can a party successfully invoke the frustration of purpose defense based on non-existential financial distress?
- Can a party seek to excuse its performance under the commercial impracticability doctrine based on foreseeable regulations that significantly impact the party’s bottom line?
- Will courts strictly interpret force majeure clauses limiting relief to government interventions and civil unrest?
The judiciary’s trend toward enforcing contracts strictly is not limited to the automotive industry. In Drummond Coal Sales Inc. v. Kinder Morgan Operating LP,6 the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a decision holding a coal supplier to its service agreement with a shipping terminal operator. With two years left on its contract, the plaintiff in that case, Drummond, stopped paying defendant Kinder Morgan for terminal services, claiming that recently enacted environmental regulations had dried up the coal market, relieving Drummond of its obligation to pay for those services. Drummond sought to be excused from its obligation to pay Kinder Morgan because the new regulations had allegedly (1) frustrated the purpose of the contract, (2) constituted a force majeure event, and (3) rendered Drummond’s performance impossible.
The Court of Appeals adopted the magistrate judge’s order, which rejected all three of Drummond’s arguments. First, as to the frustration of purpose argument, the magistrate judge reasoned that Drummond merely lost money due to the regulations, which did not amount to a “virtually cataclysmic” event sufficient to frustrate the purpose of the contract. Second, the court declined to apply the impossibility doctrine after finding the regulatory changes were foreseeable. Finally, the court denied Drummond’s request for relief under the force majeure clause, which identified government “interventions” or “other civil unrest” as grounds to terminate the contract. Due to the “civil unrest” language and references to blockades and embargoes in the force majeure clause, the court narrowly construed the provision to apply only to events involving civil unrest or military conflicts and not ordinary regulations.
d. CAI Rail, Inc. v. Badger Mining Corp.
Key questions presented:
- Can a significant economic downturn frustrate the purpose of an equipment lease agreement such that a lessee’s obligation to pay may be excused?
- Can a party rely on the commercial impracticability doctrine to excuse performance due to non-existential financial distress?
A federal court rejected similar arguments that pandemic-related market disruptions and financial distress rendered performance impracticable or frustrated the purpose of a rail car lease agreement. In CAI Rail, Inc. v. Badger Mining Corp.,7 the defendant, Badger Mining Corp., leased hopper rail cars from plaintiff CAI Rail to transport sand used for hydraulic fracking. However, Badger fell behind on monthly payments, prompting CAI Rail to sue for breach and eventually move for summary judgment. Badger argued that CAI Rail’s claim for breach was barred by the frustration of purpose and commercial impracticability doctrines because the COVID-19 pandemic, related travel restrictions, and reduced economic activity caused oil consumption to plummet and degraded Badger’s financial position such that it could not continue to make monthly payments.
The court rejected both arguments for similar reasons. Regarding the frustration of purpose argument, the court emphasized that Badger could not identify a specific government order that precluded it from engaging in the business for which it leased the cars, and a mere economic downturn generally is not sufficient to frustrate the purpose of a contract. The court also rejected the commercial impracticability defense, raised on the same grounds, because (a) Badger still used the cars; (b) Badger’s consulting firm opined that Badger had a viable business but just needed to cut costs due to the economic conditions; and (c) Badger sent CAI Rail a proposal to restructure the lease documents, which would have significantly reduced the rent. The court therefore concluded that Badger could still perform its obligations, even if it suffered for it.
e. Guilbert Tex, Inc. v. United States Fed. Grp. Consortium Syndicate
Key questions presented:
- Can a seller invoke the commercial impracticability doctrine when the seller cannot deliver goods as promised but the agreement provides for alternative forms of performance, such as the refund of a deposit?
- Must a seller without product to deliver attempt to find alternative sources for the product before invoking the commercial impracticability defense?
- Can supply shortages support a frustration of purpose defense where the seller received a deposit for the goods?
Additionally, those seeking to excuse their contractual obligations under the impracticability doctrine must be sure that their agreements do not provide for alternative methods of performance. In Guilbert Tex, Inc. v. United States Federal Group Consortium Syndicate,8 a federal district court rejected such a defense raised by a seller of N95 respirator masks because the agreement at issue expressly provided that the seller must refund any deposit received if the seller could not deliver masks. The plaintiff in that case sought to buy 3M N95 respirator masks from Datta Holdings, LLC and the United States Fed Group Consortium Syndicate (US Fed). US Fed represented itself as a DC-based trade consortium that only handled orders in the millions. But the buyer only needed about 135,000 masks. Accordingly, the buyer agreed to purchase masks from US Fed through Datta Holdings, which purportedly bought masks from US Fed for smaller buyers, and submitted deposits for two different purchase agreements. The buyer never received any masks and sued the defendants for breach of contract. US Fed defaulted, and Datta argued that its performance was excused by the frustration of purpose and commercial impracticability doctrines due to “unexpected events or occurrences [that] totally prevented Datta Holdings from performing.”9
The court rejected both arguments on summary judgment. As to the frustration of purpose argument, the court observed that Datta conflated the defense with commercial impracticability. The frustration of purpose doctrine did not apply to the facts at hand because, regardless of US Fed’s performance, the buyer’s deposit provided Datta with the same value for which it had bargained. The court then rejected Datta’s impracticability argument for two reasons. First, the defendant presented no evidence that it attempted to find an alternative source of masks or that purchasing masks from another source would be prohibitively costly. Second, and more importantly, the agreement “provided for alternative performance: a refund of Plaintiff’s [deposit].”10 Because the purchase agreement made a refund an alternative (and in this case, feasible) form of performance, Datta could not contend that its performance was truly impracticable.
f. JVIS-USA, LLC v. NXP Semiconductors USA, Inc.
Key question presented:
- Can unforeseen plant shutdowns, such as those stemming from COVID-19-related supply shortages, excuse a seller’s performance under the commercial impracticability doctrine where the seller cannot physically deliver the products regardless of price?
Although succeeding under commercial impracticability, force majeure, and frustration of purpose arguments is an uphill battle, it is not impossible. This is particularly true where a party can show it physically cannot meet production demands, as opposed to proving only that it will suffer financially from cost increases. For example, a federal district court recently denied a buyer’s request for temporary injunctive relief after concluding that compelling the seller’s performance would be commercially impracticable. In JVIS-USA, LLC v. NXP Semiconductors USA, Inc.,11 plaintiff JVIS-USA sought a temporary restraining order compelling the defendant suppliers to continue shipping semiconductors after it became clear the defendants were experiencing supply shortages and could not meet the contractual production volumes. In analyzing the “likelihood of success on the merits,” as required for the entry of injunctive relief, the court noted an issue about whether the agreement contained a force majeure provision. The court did not resolve that issue, however, because it held that commercial impracticability provided a valid defense for the non-shipment, citing “unforeseen shutdowns” caused by factors including the upheaval of global supply chains due to the Covid-19 pandemic.12 The Court therefore declined to compel the defendants to perform as agreed.
g. Tufco L.P. v Reckitt Benckiser (ENA) B.V.
Key question presented:
- Can labor shortages stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdown orders that physically prevent a seller from producing as many products as promised excuse performance under a force majeure clause that applies to reasonably unforeseeable events?
Similarly, in Tufco L.P. v Reckitt Benckiser (ENA) B.V.,13 a federal district court in Wisconsin denied a motion to dismiss a breach of contract claim upon finding that pandemic-related labor shortages could justify the plaintiff’s failure to produce under a supply contract. In that case, plaintiff Tufco agreed to supply defendant Reckitt Benckiser with name-brand disinfectant wipes under a contract with fixed prices and minimum production quantities. However, in early 2021, Tufco experienced labor shortages caused by rising COVID-19 infections in Wisconsin (where the wipes were manufactured) and the extension of U.S. lockdown orders. As a result, Tufco warned Reckitt that it would not be able to produce the agreed volume of wipes and invoked the agreement’s force majeure clause. Reckitt disputed the clause’s application and, after negotiations broke down, terminated the agreement. In response, Tufco sued for breach of contract, contending that the termination was premature. The parties primarily disputed the applicability of the force majeure provision, which excused performance for reasonably unforeseeable events. Tufco argued that the pandemic-related labor shortages clearly constituted a force majeure event, while Reckitt argued that the shortages were sufficiently foreseeable to render the force majeure clause inapplicable.
The Court ultimately denied the motion to dismiss, concluding that the parties should engage in discovery before the court could rule on the issue. In doing so, the Court expressly found “nothing implausible about Tufco’s allegation that it experienced ‘significant and unforeseen labor shortages’ as a result of an increase in COVID-19 infections and corresponding legislation.”14 The Court’s ruling in Tufco L.P. v Reckitt Benckiser demonstrates that the force majeure and commercial impracticability doctrines are much more likely to gain traction where a party can show physical limitations in its ability to perform rather than simple — even debilitating — losses in profits.
Although manufacturers and suppliers can take comfort in having legal arguments at their disposal to justify a failure to meet supply obligations, suppliers should also be aware that courts are unlikely to grant such relief outside of applicable contract terms or extreme circumstances. Even during the height of the pandemic and the subsequent supply chain fallout, courts continue to interpret force majeure provisions strictly and narrowly. Accordingly, as the recent case law suggests, those seeking to excuse or alter their contractual performance should be prepared to point to precisely drafted and directly applicable force majeure provisions or demonstrate an urgent, pressing need based on truly unforeseeable circumstances.
1 No. 22-12134, 2022 WL 4372923 (E.D. Mich. Sept. 21, 2022).
2 No. 21-12358, ECF Nos. 18, 19 (E.D. Mich. Oct. 19, 2021).
3 Id., ECF No. 19, PageID.354.
4 Id., ECF No. 18.
5 Id., ECF No. 29 (Nov. 16, 2021).
6 836 F. App’x 857 (11th Cir. 2021).
7 No. 20-4644, 2021 WL 705880 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 22, 2021).
8 No. 20-11420, 2022 WL 1599867 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 22, 2022).
9 Id. at *6.
10 Id. at *8.
11 No. 21-10801, ECF No. 24 (E.D. Mich. April 16, 2021).
12 Id. at PageID.699-700.
13 No. 21-C-1199, 2022 WL 13826130 (E.D. Wis. Oct. 21, 2022).
14 Id. at *4. |
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iXblue has confirmed that its DriX USV (unmanned surface vessel) has been purchased by the Hydrographic Office of the Polish Navy, through the company’s local partner Thesta. DriX will be used by the Navy to enhance its hydrographic survey capabilities.
DriX is an 8-metre long USV designed to undertake a variety of different missions. Equipped with a state-of-the-art suite of sensors including radar, LiDAR and cameras, and powered by artificial intelligence, the USV analyzes its environment, avoids obstacles, and carries out its missions autonomously. With an efficient launch and recovery system, DriX can be launched from a vessel or can directly sail from a harbour to autonomously map large areas of the ocean quickly and efficiently.
Cezary Majchrowicz, Technical Director at Thesta, commented: “The Hydrographic Office of The Polish Navy has led the way towards the adoption of autonomous solutions within the Polish Navy, and we are honored that they turned to iXblue’s DriX USV as their next reliable and proven autonomous platform for future bathymetric surveys. By significantly increasing both the quality of the collected data and the survey area coverage, the use of this new USV will open up new possibilities for the Polish Hydrographic Office.”
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"Ten years of Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: achievements and future challenges" - Keynote address by Mr. António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Oslo, 16 October 2008
Honorable Minister Jonas Gahr Store,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is an honour to be here commemorating ten years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. I would like to thank the Norwegian Government, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the Representative of the Secretary General for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced People for having organized this landmark event. The presence of so many of you - Government officials, colleagues from the United Nations system, from the ICRC, the NGO movement, international organizations of different natures, as well as academic experts, is a testimony both of our common engagement with the internally displaced, and about the centrality of the Guiding Principles. I am delighted to be associated with this event since protecting and assisting internally displaced persons became one of the key priorities of UNHCR.
When I was elected, I decided that the Office should be entirely committed to the internally displaced people and to the humanitarian reform process which has led to the adoption of the cluster approach in December of 2005. We lead the global protection cluster and co-lead the emergency shelter and the camp coordination/camp management clusters under the overall co-ordination of Sir John Holmes. UNHCR works today with governments and other humanitarian actors in 23 countries to protect nearly 14 million internally displaced persons around the world. Unfortunately, there are many others that we have not yet been able to protect and assist together with our partners.
This is not entirely new for UNHCR. In the past, we have been active in the protection and assistance of a meaningful number of internally displaced persons. In the context of refugee return or asylum activities, we had established sizeable internally displaced persons operations in countries like Angola, Mozambique, the Russian Federation, Indonesia and Afghanistan just to cite a few examples. However our response was very much context driven, putting us in a situation where we lacked predictability and credibility. The cluster approach has increased that predictability and has strengthened our partnership with other humanitarian actors to address more forcefully the plight of millions of displaced people. And I would say that the Norwegian Refugee Council represents for us a reference partner and we are very grateful for everything we have been able to learn with you. As a matter of fact, you had people seconded to UNHCR to help us build the protection cluster co-ordination mechanism.
Now the majority of the displaced persons have been forced out of their homes by conflict and violence but they have not crossed an international border. Obviously, their protection should be guaranteed by their own State. However, in a number of situations, displaced people find themselves on territories of states which often lack the means, and sometimes the will, to provide them with the adequate protection and assistance. And in some situations, the State is part of the problem, not of the solution.
I remember that in the 1990s the debate on human rights was leading to the idea that we need to balance the sovereignty of the state with the sovereignty of the human being. I was directly involved in my past capacities, in the international community involvement in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in East Timor. At the time, we were speaking about the right of humanitarian intervention. Now the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the concept of the Responsibility to Protect.
The problem is that the practical implications of this concept are virtually non-existent. Today, as a matter of fact, we see the re-emergence of state sovereignty as the only key reference in this regard. I think there are two main reasons for that. First, because in the context of the Responsibility to Protect, too much emphasis was put on military intervention, when this is an extreme situation. Not enough was said about the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to rebuild and the other aspects that are associated with the concept. There was not enough emphasis stressing the fact that the Responsibility to Protect is part of the exercise of national sovereignty. But to be frank, the Iraqi intervention and the image that that created about possible hidden agendas of powerful countries in the world when invoking the Responsibility to Protect also contributed to undermine it.
In this situation, the Guiding Principles gained a key strategic value. In the absence of binding instruments, the Guiding Principles became indeed an extremely relevant protection instrument. And we consider them as more than a simple compilation and restatement of legal rules. For us, the Guiding Principles have played a significant role even in shaping our own operational responsibilities in relation to displaced persons, namely in all the dimensions of protection.
A few examples: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Office has emphasized the particular importance of education about the Guiding Principles when working with survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, thus supporting them to assert their rights for compensation and justice. In the Central African Republic, Timor-Leste and Georgia, UNHCR operations have stressed the importance of the Guiding Principles as a tool to explain to national and local authorities their responsibilities towards internally displaced people.
UNHCR offices have likewise supported efforts to incorporate the Guiding Principles into regional documents and legal instruments. This is the case - and I consider this to be the most important initiative that is taking place at the present moment - of the draft African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. My Office is fully supporting this initiative and I call on other partners including the donors to assist the Government of Uganda - represented here by the Honourable Minister - as host of the Special Summit during which this Convention is expected to be adopted.
This is a very important Convention. It will be the first legally binding instrument for the protection of internally displaced. It comes from the African Union, which means that it will not be subject to questions about the legitimacy of its objectives. I do believe that we need to rebuild a consensus on the Responsibility to Protect and on binding instruments in the protection of internally displaced and I believe that the only way to do it is with the leadership of the democracies of the developing world. I think that this initiative of the African Union fully deserves our support and I would appeal to all governments - and the Government of Norway can play here a very important role - in order to make sure that enough support is being given for this Summit to take place allowing this Convention to be approved.
UNHCR's programmes in Colombia illustrate the impact of the Guiding Principles in societies where there is a solid legal infrastructure to assimilate them. Following the Constitutional Court landmark judgement, T-025 of May 2004, several orders of compliance were issued by the Court requesting the Government to address more predictably and proactively the displacement crisis. And the Government's attention and allocation of resources have increased significantly since then.
But the challenge of Colombia is however to narrow the gap between the legal framework and the reality on the ground. This requires keeping humanitarian issues at the top of the political agenda and improving the State's response to the displacement crisis. And I am very pleased to note the presence among us of Judge Manoel Jose Cepeda, Magistrate in the Colombian Constitutional Court. I have witnessed myself how important his role has been in promoting the rights of displaced people in Colombia.
In Sri Lanka, the Guiding Principles form the basis of all UNHCR awareness raising, training activities, protection monitoring, and advocacy on targeting displaced and host communities. Allow me to give another simple example. Children who have not been displaced have been made more aware of the challenges faced by the displaced children through education programmes. And these have encouraged children to include displaced pupils more actively in school and family life. And the Guiding Principles are used on a day-to-day basis to help deal with the concerns arising from protection monitoring. In this case, UNHCR staff met with school principals when it was discovered that displaced children were being denied entry into schools because of overcrowding. And working with those principals, with local government and the displaced community based on the Guiding Principles, additional teachers and resources were found to accommodate those in need.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There are however, a number of remaining challenges which we must address.
First, the challenge of solutions
Establishing the conditions which facilitate the resolution of displacement and support the sustainable reintegration of internally displaced people in their home areas or in new communities is a core component of the Guiding Principles. Here again, national governments have the lead responsibility. But there is a persistent challenge that national authorities cannot resolve alone.
It is only through collective action and strong international solidarity that we can secure meaningful and lasting solutions to internal displacement. We need a coherent and systemic approach which goes beyond the UN and host governments. International financial institutions, bilateral development agencies, NGOs, and the Peacebuilding Commission and the private sector all have a crucial role to play.
But again, here we are at the centre of another difficult area: the transition between peace and stability, between conflict and democracy. Normally, this takes place in countries where the governance capacity is still very limited. And in this gap between relief and development, in this transition between conflict and post-conflict situations, the international community is very dysfunctional. There are different timeframes - the humanitarians with a bigger sense of urgency and the development agencies with a more strategic long-term view. The gap is there and it is very difficult to fill. The capacity to act effectively by the international community is lacking in many circumstances. And the drama is, when peace is established, if there are not enough quick wins in the living conditions of people, and the solutions for internally displaced are crucial in this aspect, then we have frustration, instability and conflict can start again.
Second challenge: the challenge of rapid urbanisation
In 1800, only three per cent of the world's population lived in cities and towns. Now the proportion will reach 50 per cent, and in 2050 it may be as high as 70 per cent. As a result of these trends, humanitarian actors need to consider how best they can adapt their ways of working to meet the needs of beneficiaries in urban areas. And despite the fact that a large proportion - if not the majority - of internally displaced persons are to be found in urban areas, to date our collective record in responding to their protection and assistance needs has been weak.
Traditional models of protection both for refugees and internally displaced, and also of assistance and solutions for them, based on the establishment of camps are less and less relevant in this context. But what are the alternatives? In particular: how can public institutions and civil society in urban areas develop the capacity required to provide the services not only to their usual clients but also to displaced populations? And how can we ensure that displaced people benefit from appropriate standards of protection and are able effectively to exercise their rights as citizens in urban contexts? In answering these questions, we must learn from each other, from the internally displaced themselves and from the communities where they live.
When I look at our operations, both for refugees and internally displaced, it is important to recognize that we still do not know exactly how to handle the problems in the urban context. The recent experience of Iraqis in Amman and Damascus has been very important for us, representing a completely new and different challenge in relation to our usual activities in encampment situations. From there we need to draw many relevant lessons for our future work.
It is clear to us that the pattern will be more and more of urban contexts of displacement and this not only changes the protection and the assistance requirements, but also changes the solutions perspective. When one gets urbanized, it is very difficult to return to a rural environment. It is also very difficult to distinguish those displaced and those that migrated naturally into an urban environment. Even without displacement, urbanization is taking place and these two trends are inter-related and not easy to analyze. This represents a huge challenge for the humanitarian community.
Last but not least, the challenge of forced displacement due to the effects of climate change
While climate change has been the subject of intense debate and speculation within the scientific and the political community, insufficient attention has been given to the humanitarian consequences it will generate. We would encourage more reflection on the humanitarian and displacement challenges that climate change will generate. And the questions which come to my mind are:
- Can the international community address these challenges with the current legal and normative framework, including the Guiding Principles?
Many of us discuss whether it makes sense to now analyze the possibility of an international convention on temporary protection. But is temporary protection the response to displacement generated by climate change? If an island state sinks, do these people need temporary protection? The island is gone forever. These are complex problems to which the international community for the moment has no answer. There has not been a meaningful debate on what kind of instruments we need to face these new challenges. At the same time:
- Is the current architecture of humanitarian action adequate, or do we need new institutions, new coalitions and new partnerships?
As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Guiding Principles and reflecting on its great achievements, I believe that we now need to look ahead. And these are, in my opinion, some of the fundamental questions that as a humanitarian community we need to collectively reflect upon. UNHCR stands ready to contribute to that process.
Thank you very much. |
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Glyphosate is a dangerous chemical that has found its way into a vast majority of our food and water supply. It is an extremely dangerous toxin, and it is causing massive amounts of disease.
Glyphosate is a pesticide produced by the infamous company Monsanto, and they are first handedly causing the downfall of our entire environment. They are polluting the air, space, water, food, and our bodies. This dangerous chemical is causing a world of health issues and complications, and very well might be responsible for the dramatic increase in cancer. Nonetheless, we do know that it is causing a spike in diseases such as celiac disease, according to Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a senior scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The research on glyphosate was in December of last year. She not only has studied the relationship between celiac disease and glyphosate, but also the relationship between other serious health issues like autism spectrum disorder and a wide variety of other diseases. She also believes that it could be the transporter of other toxic chemicals such as aluminum and arsenic. She says that it could be carrying aluminum to the brain and arsenic to the kidneys. Her first findings on glyphosate were published in the journal Entropy last year, followed by a paper that linked glyphosate to celiac disease.
Her research was co-authored by Dr. Samsel, also part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “There’s an extremely strong correlation between the use of Roundup on corn and soy over time and the increase in all these different diseases, and celiac disease is one of them,” she says.
“We certainly have seen an explosive appearance of celiac disease almost overnight in the last five to 10 years… Now you have a growing section of gluten-free choices of various food products…
Lots of people are intolerant to gluten, of course. But people aren’t thinking, ‘Why is this now true? This didn’t use to be true’… I was really puzzled because wheat is not a GE product… GMO wheat is not a product that’s on the market.”
Celiac disease is a serious autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It affects 1 in 100 people worldwide, and two and a half million Americans are estimated to be undiagnosed and are at risk for long-term health complications. The use of glyphosate on wheat crops has shown to severely damage your gut flora and cause chronic diseases rooted in gut dysfunction. Not only has the use of glyphosate on wheat been increased, cases of celiac disease have been too.
Not only is glyphosate causing an increase in Celiac disease and gluten intolerance, but it is actually contaminating over 90% of today’s wheat supply. Preharvest application of the deadly glyphosate to wheat and barley has been routine since the year 1980. It is used as a drying agent 7-10 days before harvest, with conventional farming.
Dr. Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield: “ “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff. According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 61% % for winter wheat is treated with herbicides. Wheat farmer Keith Davis has some comments about the practice too. He says;
“This practice is not licensed. Farmers mistakenly call it “desiccation.” Consumers eating products made from wheat flour are undoubtedly consuming minute amounts of Roundup. An interesting aside, malt barley which is made into beer is not acceptable in the marketplace if it has been sprayed with preharvest Roundup. Lentils and peas are not accepted in the marketplace if it was sprayed with preharvest roundup….. but wheat is ok.. This farming practice greatly concerns me and it should further concern consumers of wheat products.”
Dr. Seneff and Dr. Anthony Samsel both think glyphosate may attack the gliadin as a consequence of a chemical reaction. As noted in their study:
“[G]ut dysbiosis, brought on by exposure to glyphosate, plays a crucial role in the development of celiac disease. Many CYP enzymes are impaired in association with celiac disease, and we show that glyphosate’s known suppression of CYP enzyme activity in plants and animals plausibly explains this effect in humans.” |
SRINAGAR, APIRL 07 – World health day was celebrated today at SKIMS on this year’s theme of WHO “Health for all”. The event was organized by the Department of Hospital Administration SKIMS.
Director SKIMS & EOSG Prof Parvaiz A. Koul who was the chief guest on the occasion in his address highlighted the main issues concerning the health system across the world. He said there is huge inequity in availability of health care-huge expenditure, mental illness, pregnancy related mortality etc. are still prevalent. In India despite the improvement in health delivery lack of accountability, unrelated drug policy, misuse of antibiotics are areas of main concern, he added. Prof. Koul stressed on uniform access to health systems and said onus lies on health care professionals and underlined the importance of healthy ageing. He further said that SKIMS is excelling in digital health care delivery and received 90% positive feedback for its services from general public. He thanked Department of Hospital Administration for organizing the event and expressed hope that the deliberations will be fruitful for participants attending the event.
Dean Medical Faculty SKIMS Dr. Bashir A. Laway in his address said that despite progress at many levels the non-communicable diseases still remain the main challenge. He also congratulated the Department of Hospital Administration for conducting this academic program.
Medical Superintendent SKIMS Dr. Farooq A. Jan in his address underscored the importance of celebrating the world Health Day. He highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the health system and said that inequalities in health system needs to be addressed. Low cost of care, insurance schemes like Ayushman Bharat are the main strengths in existing health system, however, unregulated private sector, lack of accountability, medical errors, antibiotic resistance need to be focused on.
Dr. G H Yatoo, HOD Hospital Administration SKIMS and organizing Chairman of the event greeted the guests and audience for attending the event. He gave the introductory remarks and spoke about the current health problems and its impact.
The event was attended by all HoDs , Resident doctors and other supportive staff of SKIMS. The event was concluded with the vote of thanks. |
I wanted to take this opportunity to update you, our members, on what we have been doing from a short- and longer-term planning perspective to steer England Athletics through this uncertain period. I, and others on our team, have been asked about this matter and feel that the right way of responding consistently is to put something down in writing.
I would firstly like to reinforce my thanks to those member clubs/bodies, athletes and runners who have, in the early weeks of our 2020 affiliation year (effective from 1st April), renewed their membership with England Athletics. We know that this is an extremely difficult and challenging time for you all and we would encourage all athletes and runners to support your own clubs during this time. With many clubs requiring cash flow to service overheads and expenditure it is vital that members stand by them, and support them, by renewing their membership fees, to help clubs to emerge stronger beyond the current suspension period.
Specific to England Athletics, there is sometimes a misconception that affiliation and registration income only goes towards supporting competition. As I discussed in my previous update, which you can read by clicking here, the reality is it supports much more than this and enables us to provide a wide range of activities and support across all areas of the sport.
To be clear, as demonstrated in our annual accounts that are publicly available, we are a not-for-profit SME (small-medium sized enterprise) as an organisation and it is not our policy to keep significant financial reserves. It is our policy to invest the resources available to us to support the development of the sport in England. That said, as an organisation that takes its responsibilities and obligations to our members and stakeholders seriously, we need to retain a suitable level of reserves to be able to honour our commitments should we ever be in a situation where we would need to wind down and close as a company. I am explaining this because it demonstrates how invaluable your membership and registration fees are to England Athletics. As with many other membership bodies this source of income is vitally important.
I also want you to know that we will now be bringing forward the review of our affiliation and registration fee structure for 2021, rather than reviewing later in the summer as we would traditionally, with a view to providing as much clarity and certainty as we can for members sooner rather than later. We fully realise that the current circumstances will have a bearing on the decisions that we need to make with next year in mind. Whilst we encourage our members to continue to renew with us, to support us all through this period, we are fully cognisant of the disruption that this period of inactivity and suspension has caused for you, our members. We are currently planning not just for this year, but also for the next year (2021-22), and we see the next two-year block as being critical as we look to work ourselves through this period of disruption.
We fully recognise that there are wider societal and economic impacts as a result of COVID-19 and that most organisations are having to plan with a great deal of uncertainty. England Athletics is no different and there is a responsibility for us to reflect on our cost base, both in terms of short- and longer-term planning, to ensure that England Athletics and those it supports can emerge out of this period in a healthy situation. With competitions cancelled during May and June, no income from cancelled education courses and road races and, in addition, concerns around our commercial revenues, we are looking at a significant hole in our annual budget for 2020-21. This could be as much as £750k and we are looking closely at revising our plans accordingly. We are also working with our partners Sport England to see how they may be able to support us during this period.
We were quick to implement a number of cost reduction measures during March and April, changing our working practices to adapt to the lockdown and having closed our offices at Alexander Stadium which we share with our partners UKA. As an organisation, we have always reduced overheads by minimising the head office space needed – with many of our workforce already operating remotely. We are embracing digital technology as our primary source of communication and engagement and are working in a different way to service and support our members and stakeholders. You will be aware of this approach as illustrated through our Athletics & Running for everyone @home platform and the related free online resources and activities that we have produced during the last month or so. We envisage that some of the approaches adopted during this period will remain a key feature of how England Athletics works in the longer-term future. We have also been working to reshape what a revised track and field competition season may look like should we be in a position where we can deliver some activity in the summer months.
We are now well and truly into the next phase, which requires us to keep operations running, but with a significantly scaled back team, along with turning our attention to how we manage the transition back to what a ‘new normal’ might look like for athletics in England. As with other bodies in the sporting sector, we have utilised government support schemes and have furloughed staff, predominantly in national or head office-based roles, during the last month. This number equates to just under half of our total employee base of 65 (a mix of part-time and full-time employees).
We are reviewing what we absolutely need to do as a priority as an organisation, in line with our strategic priorities as a company, but also ensuring that we are always making the best use of financial and human resources. This will inevitably mean doing some things differently but also sadly ceasing some activities that are deemed ‘nice to have’ and not essential. The degree of this change is a work-in-progress and we will be developing these plans in the coming period as more information comes to light from sources such as UK government. We are considering all possibilities at this time.
Our members, partners, athletes and all who engage with England Athletics at every level, may form new and permanent habits and come back to us with different expectations, needs or demands. For example, some of the questions we are working through are:
- When our member clubs open again how will we make sure they are safe, welcoming and that our athletics and running family want to return? It’s possible that people will return in larger numbers as society ‘goes local’, so how can we make sure we are ready?
- How do we engage with clubs to shape the most suitable ‘return-to-play’ scheduling of competitions based on medical advice and possible restrictions?
- How do we give confidence that returning to play remains an attractive proposition and that athletics and running remains a form of physical activity which provides an accessible offer for all in our athletics and running family?
- How will we cater for elements of our society who may remain vulnerable to the virus and continue to allow them to be engaged and part of the athletics and running family?
- How do we stage events of various sizes within the restrictions that might still be in place as we transition through the period beyond lockdown?
- How will our business model need to change as we recover from the financial stresses we have been placed under?
- How should we engage positively in the various reviews that are underway to reshape the UK wide competition season both in the short and long term and, where possible, remove issues that have historically held the sport back?
- What is the ‘new normal’ for revenue, costs and investment in athletics and running across England and how do we live within our means in that ‘new normal’?
- How will we continue – as we know we must – to support and invest in areas where significant resource is required such as schools athletics and in track and field facilities in a changing financial landscape?
- How should we adapt our working practices so that we take advantage of changes that have occurred, maximising the opportunities created to travel less, continue with best practice engagement online and continue to further enhance our digital offerings?
- How do we work with all of our members and partners to best understand how they have been affected and adapt our own new ways of working to meet their changing needs?
Lastly, and importantly, we are determined to play our part in both supporting the national response to this virus and also in helping the wider sports sector to adapt. We will continue to collaborate with UKA and the other Home Country Athletics Federations in tackling these issues and will continue to work with, and listen to, our members in seeking solutions to these challenges. We are well aware that you, our members, will be weighing up some of the same questions posed above as part of your own short- and longer-term contingency planning.
We do want your views and thoughts on the challenges you are facing at this current time, to better understand your fears about the future and to determine where best you feel that England Athletics can support you to meet these challenges and come out healthier. With this in mind, we are encouraging you to submit your views, using the online form at the bottom of this page, to help us to help you.
We do not know when we will be able to move towards solutions, as the course of the virus remains uncertain, but what is certain is that we need to have specific plans in place, to be utilised as and when required, and we are already progressing these.
Our exit from lockdown will be both an opportunity for us as a sport and also a threat to our established way of working, surviving and thriving. Our mindset must be exclusively on taking the opportunity presented, to bring about lasting change and long-term benefit to our sport in England.
Wishing you all the very best
(CEO, England Athletics)
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Updated November 30, 2021
Have you ever been curious about which MEE subjects are tested the most?
There are six essays that make up the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). But these essays can be on any of a dozen or more different topics. How will you know which of these topics will be on the MEE?
Short answer: you can’t know. And unless you want to play a fun game of Russian roulette with your bar exam score, you are going to have to study for all of the different MEE topics and be prepared to write essays on all of them.
Even though it is best to study for all the subjects, it can still be really helpful to know which essay topics are most likely to appear. It will help you streamline your studying so you can spend any extra time on the most important topics.
What is the MEE?
The MEE is one of the parts of the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), which has been adopted in 41 jurisdictions. The UBE is created by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Twice a year, experts at the NCBE hand-craft new MEE questions to torture the next batch of bar exam takers. It consists of six 30-minute essays which make up 30% of the UBE score. Bar takers rely on their memorization of over a dozen topics to complete the essays. Here are some tips and tricks on how to write the MEE.
The MEE differs from the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), which consists of two 90-minute questions. The MPT is a closed-universe exam, where exam takers review documents in a fake jurisdiction and apply the law to the facts.
The trickiest part of the MEE is not knowing what topics will be tested on the essays.
Check the data
As you can see, Business Associations and Trusts and Estates were the most tested MEE subjects on the bar exam during the last 13 years. These two topics are twice as likely to appear compared to Contracts, Evidence, Criminal Law, Con Law, or Torts.
But before you change your whole study plan, let’s break down the data a little more.
The first table is a little deceiving. As you can see here, from 2007 to 2013 Business Associations and Trusts & Estates appeared many times on the MEE, but in recent years the frequency has decreased. Since 2014, these top two topics have still had the highest frequency, but other topics like Civil Procedure and Contracts are also highly tested. Overall, it appears that the topics have been more evenly tested in recent years compared to past years.
This second table does show that Conflict of Laws is by far the least tested topic, and Torts is not far beyond. If you are running out of time, those are definitely the first topics to skip.
I wish I could reveal the mind of the NCBE . . . but I can’t. Statistics show that you should spend a little extra time on Business Associations and Trusts & Estates and maybe skimp on Conflicts of Law and Torts. Besides that, the rest of the topics are up for grabs. |
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Innovating to find rapid solutions for ambulance decontamination
THE Welsh Ambulance Service has challenged businesses to develop a new innovation to speed up the decontamination of ambulances during the Coronavirus outbreak.
The Trust has asked businesses to come up with a solution to accelerate the cleaning of its vehicles so that crews can get back on the road and respond to other emergency calls.
It takes additional time to decontaminate an ambulance that had transported a suspected or confirmed Covid-19 patient, taking precious resources away from the frontline temporarily while the vehicle is made safe for the next patient.
More than 200 applications have been received and shortlisted after the Trust put out a call to action through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI).
Jonathan Turnbull-Ross, the Trust’s Interim Assistant Director of Quality Governance, said: “The safety of our patients and staff through the Covid-19 outbreak is paramount and we have to be on top of our infection prevention and control measures.
“Typically, it can take an additional 30 to 45 minutes to clean an ambulance vehicle that has transported a suspected Covid-19 patient, but the process can also take upwards of several hours, depending on the level of decontamination required.
“We have to think outside the box if we want a solution that is going to speed up this process, and release our crews back on the road quicker to respond to other calls.
“We were delighted with the number of submissions we received, and genuinely excited by the ideas and concepts that these businesses have to offer.
“We look forward to seeing how these will evolve through the evaluation stages, and to understand how these innovations can be further supported to roll out across Wales, which will ultimately save lives.”
The challenge is being managed by the Welsh Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Centre of Excellence, hosted by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, with support from Welsh Government, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and Innovate UK.
Vaughan Gething, Minister for Health and Social Services, added: “I’m really pleased the Welsh Government is supporting the Welsh Ambulance Service to spearhead this UK-wide search for sanitation solutions.
“Anything which reduces the turnaround time for our ambulance fleet will ultimately save lives because innovation is never more important than in times of crisis.
“I hope too, that we can find solutions which can be used by our other emergency services and the dedicated workers keeping our public transport on the move.”
Testing will take place at the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down, Wiltshire, in mid-April before the Trust will consider the successful solutions which may be implemented across the organisation. |
If you’ve ever had a rash or irritated skin after wearing earrings, necklaces or a watch, chances are it is due to you having an allergic reaction to the metal nickel. Nickel allergies are common but seem on the upswing in recent years, with recent studies showing nearly twenty-five percent of children tested for allergies showed an adverse reaction to nickel. This is posing a problem for some, as nickel is in everything from jewelry to electronics.
Thankfully, most who have allergic reactions to nickel only have minor symptoms. However, a report released recently profiled an 11-year-old boy who had a rash that spread over a large part of his body. Doctors eliminated all everything they could think of that would be causing this rash, and yet it persisted.
After much consternation, the doctors discovered the cause, the iPad that belonged to the boy’s parents.
The boy in the report already had a condition that caused rough scaly patches to appear on his skin. However, once the boy developed rashes all over his body, the parents took him to a doctor, which eventually led to them discovering that the iPad was to blame. The device itself caused the boy no issues, however the coating that was on the surface of the device was the source of the nickel that caused the boy’s rashes.
The iPad was bought by the parents in 2010, and the boy started using the device often shortly afterwards. “He used the iPad daily,” one of the boy’s doctors said. Once the parents purchased a case for the iPad, as well as starting the boy on what the doctors called a “nickel avoidance regimen”, the boy’s rashes improved.
With the rising number of nickel allergies in children the report stated that doctors should be more aware of what electronic devices children were using when they come in for treatment due to a nickel allergy.
“With the increasing prevalence of nickel allergy in the pediatric population, it is important for clinicians to continue to consider metallic-appearing electronics and personal effects as potential sources of nickel exposure,” the authors of the report concluded.
Upon the report’s release, Apple released a statement of their own about the boy’s allergic skin reaction. The report from Apple stated:
“We have found that allergies like the one reported in this case are extremely rare. Apple products are made from the highest quality materials and meet the same strict standards set for jewelry by both the U.S. Consumer Safety Product Commission and their counterparts in Europe. We rigorously test our products to make sure they are safe for all our customers.” |
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Traxxas RC Boats: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying and Exploring High-Performance Models
Traxxas RC boats are high-quality remote controlled boats that have been in the market for quite some time now. These boats are built to deliver excellent performance thanks to their powerful motors, sophisticated electronics, and rugged construction. In this article, we will explore the different Traxxas RC boats that are currently available for sale, their unique features, and how they compare to each other. There are several types of Traxxas RC boats available for sale, including the Blast, Spartan, M41, and DCB M41 Widebody. The Blast is a compact and affordable boat that is ideal for beginners, while the Spartan is a larger and more powerful boat that is designed for advanced users. The M41 is a high-performance catamaran that offers exceptional speed and maneuverability, while the DCB M41 Widebody is a sleek and stylish boat that is perfect for those who want to make a statement on the water.
Different Types of Traxxas RC Boats Available for Sale
There are several types of Traxxas RC boats available for sale, including:
- The Blast: A compact and affordable boat that is ideal for beginners.
- The Spartan: A larger and more powerful boat that is designed for advanced users.
- The M41: A high-performance catamaran that offers exceptional speed and maneuverability.
- The DCB M41 Widebody: A sleek and stylish boat that is perfect for those who want to make a statement on the water.
Traxxas boats come in various sizes, shapes, and colors, making them perfect for both kids and adults who want to have a fun experience in the water. Each type of boat has its unique design and features, and these differences make them suitable for different users. Whether you’re looking for a boat that is easy to control or one that is designed for racing, you’re sure to find the perfect Traxxas RC boat that will meet your needs and expectations. Moreover, it’s essential to check the Traxxas website or reputable online stores to browse through various models, compare them and make an informed purchase decision.
What are the different designs and features of Traxxas RC boats?
Traxxas RC boats come in various designs including catamaran, hydroplane, and deep-vee. They also feature powerful brushless motors, water-cooled electronics, and high-capacity batteries for extended run times. Many models also come with TQi radio systems, self-righting capabilities, and fun graphics.
Traxxas RC Boats: Powerful, Innovative, and Perfect for Every Boating Enthusiast
Traxxas RC boats are known for their innovative features that help to enhance their performance and user experience. Some of the unique features of Traxxas boats include:
Waterproof electronics enable boats to operate in wet conditions without damage to electronics, while self-righting mechanisms help boats to recover quickly from capsizing. These boats also come with sophisticated electronics that provide exceptional controls and performance, along with powerful motors that deliver fast speeds and agile maneuvering capabilities. Additionally, telemetry systems allow for real-time monitoring of boat performance via a smartphone.
These features and benefits make Traxxas RC boats for sale the perfect choice for a wide range of boating enthusiasts, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user. Furthermore, the company’s website provides detailed information on each of their boats, including specifications, colors, pricing, and accessories, making it easier for customers to choose the right boat for their needs. So if you’re looking for high-quality RC boats that offer exceptional performance and user experience, be sure to check out Traxxas’ line of boats for sale.
What types of information are included on Traxxas’ website for their RC boats?
The Traxxas website includes information on their various RC boat models, including specifications such as size, weight, and motor type, as well as features such as speed and battery life. They also provide details on compatible accessories and replacement parts, along with instructional videos and customer reviews.
Factors to consider when buying a Traxxas RC boat
When considering buying a Traxxas RC boat, there are several factors you should keep in mind. These include:
- Experience level – choose a boat that suits your experience level, whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user.
- Type of boating – consider the type of boating you want to do, whether it’s racing, leisure, or something in between.
- Water conditions – consider the water conditions in your area and choose a boat that is suited to those conditions. For instance, if you have rough waters, you’ll want a boat with a self-righting mechanism.
- Features – consider the specific features you want in a boat, such as waterproof electronics and telemetry systems.
- Price – consider the cost of the boat and whether it fits within your budget.
- Replacement parts and accessories – ensure that replacement parts and accessories are readily available for the specific Traxxas RC boat model you choose, in case a part breaks or needs upgrading.
By considering these factors, you can choose the right Traxxas RC boat for sale that will give you the best boating experience you deserve and avoid potential frustration, disappointment or wasting money. Additionally, the company’s website offers an online store where customers can buy Traxxas boats as well as replacement parts and accessories. It is also best to read reviews from customers to have an idea of their experiences before deciding to purchase a boat.
What type of boating should I consider when buying a Traxxas RC boat?
You should consider purchasing a Traxxas RC boat for recreational boating.
Traxxas RC boats are top-of-the-line remote control boats that offer an unparalleled boating experience. With a wide range of models, features, and capabilities to choose from, Traxxas RC boats are suitable for users of all experience levels. Beginners can start with the Blast, while seasoned boaters can opt for the Spartan or M41 for a more challenging experience. Plus, with the innovative features that come with each model, such as waterproof electronics, telemetry systems, and self-righting mechanisms, boaters can enjoy the thrill of the water without worrying about their boat’s safety.
When shopping for a Traxxas RC boat, it’s crucial to consider several factors to choose the right boat that will meet your expectations. By considering your experience level, the type of boating you want to do, water conditions, features, price, and the availability of replacement parts and accessories, you can be confident that you’re getting the best boat for your money. Additionally, Traxxas’ website offers an excellent online store where customers can buy boats and accessories that come in handy if replacement parts or upgrading is necessary.
In conclusion, Traxxas RC boats offer endless fun and excitement on the water, and they make a great investment for anyone who loves the outdoors and water sports. By following the tips outlined in this article and considering the specific features and capabilities of each model, you can find the perfect Traxxas RC boat that will provide you with memorable boating experiences for years to come. Get ready to hit the water and enjoy the thrill of racing or leisure boating with your Traxxas RC boat! |
3 Day Summer Itinerary for a Couples Stay at The Cove
If you’re looking to explore the stunning scenery of the Okanagan Valley while spending quality time with your significant other, then a stay at The Cove following this itinerary is perfect for you!
For a day of adventure, pack your hiking shoes, swimsuit or bicycle. If you’d rather enjoy a leisurely trip, then bring your appetite for delicious Okanagan wine and food. No matter what you’re looking for, West Kelowna has something for everyone!
Here is The Cove Lakeside Resort’s 3 night stay itinerary suggestions for a mix of adventure and relaxation:
Day 1: Arrival
Check-in to Resort. Order in a delicious Italian take-out dinner from Il Mercato Social Kitchen and take some time to explore the Resort and your luxury accommodations. End the day by playing a round of tennis at our on-site court, then opening a bottle of Okanagan wine from the Westside Wine Trail and enjoying a glass on your balcony.
Wake up to an amazing Okanagan sunrise and brew a fresh coffee to start the day with your in-suite Keurig coffee machine. Take some time to explore and visit the local farms to pick seasonal fruits and berries, or fill up your basket with honey and fresh organic produce. Then head to Old Vines Restaurant at Quails' Gate Winery for a taste of the Okanagan with lunch and wine tasting. Take in the afternoon views out on Okanagan Lake in a kayak or on a SUP, or if you're looking for a little more adventure, rent a waverunner or JetSurf surfboard, with LakeSurf Okanagan at The Cove marina. Cook up some dinner at one of our BBQ grills and dine on your private patio, then complete the evening with a moonlit stroll along the waterfront boardwalk or at the Gellatly Heritage Regional Park next door.
Start your morning off with a hike by heading down the road and exploring the 75 hectare Glen Canyon Regional Park. Stop into The Modest Butcher at Mt. Boucherie Winery for lunch and dig into a steak sourced nearby or enjoy the risotto made with fresh Okanagan vegetables. Then head back to the Resort for some sunbathing and a dip in the pool. Take the rest of the afternoon to unwind with relaxing treatments from the Spa at The Cove.
Day 4: Departure
Purchase some souvenirs from the front desk and check-out of the Resort. Stop by Kekuli Cafe for a coffee and a bannock breakfast sandwich before heading back home and starting to plan your next visit to The Cove!
Book your Okanagan Valley getaway at The Cove Lakeside Resort for the most unforgettable and romantic experience. |
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Heritage Christian Services Unveils $9.1 Million Homes with Heart Capital Campaign
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Heritage Christian Services, a human services provider for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, today launched its Homes with Heart capital campaign to the general public during a kickoff event at the Pieters Family Life Center in Henrietta. The campaign will raise funds to build or renovate 12 homes in the Rochester and Buffalo markets to address the changing needs of people they support as they grow older.
More than half of the 400 people living in Heritage Christian Services’ 24-hour staffed homes are over the age of 50. The Homes with Heart sites will serve as models for future Heritage Christian Services homes that will be designed to support people in all phases of their lives.
A significant pledge amount to be matched 2-to-1 towards the campaign’s fundraising goal of $9.1 million has been made by Patricia Larrabee founder of Rochester Clinical Research, and her two sons Adam and Brendan, in memory David Larrabee, husband and father. The Larrabee Family gift is a matching challenge; for every dollar donated to the Homes with Heart campaign, the Larrabees will match it by donating two more dollars up to the pledge amount.
“This is one of the most impactful projects for the people we serve, their families, and communities in the agency’s history,” said Marisa Geitner, president and CEO of Heritage Christian Services. “We project that the renovations and new builds made possible by the Homes with Heart campaign will serve close to 400 people over the next 60 years. The work of today will serve future generations with high quality care and support.”
Renovations include widening hallways to better accommodate wheelchairs, eliminating steps and stairways for easier mobility, improving bathroom accessibility with walk-in showers and new railings, adding a first-floor laundry and medication administration rooms, creating larger parking areas for wheelchair-accessible vans, and more.
“These single-level fully accessible homes will improve the livability and accessibility for individuals and their families, creating safer environments that enhance our ability to provide care to people in need,” said Mark Zawacki, executive director of the Heritage Christian Services Foundation. “While Homes with Heart includes capital improvements, it’s really about ensuring that those we support may be afforded the same high-quality options to age in place and receive the end-of-life care at home that you and I want for ourselves and our loved ones.”
People can donate to the campaign or learn more at HCSHeart.org.
ABOUT HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES
At Heritage Christian Services, we believe in possibilities. Established in 1984, Heritage Christian Services strives to advance an inclusive and equitable community. Our more than 3,700 employees work alongside the people who choose our services, ensuring that everyone can achieve what is meaningful to them. Based in Rochester, with concentrations in the Finger Lakes and western New York, we’re innovating and expanding as the needs of our community grow. We serve our community with programs that promote housing options and the support within them, in addition to programs that sustain relevant employment and day habilitation. We have also established programs for high-quality childcare, setting the standard for statewide workforce education, ensuring robust health, wellness and equity, and embracing self-empowerment. Visit HeritageChristianServices.org. |
Fredrick Conley was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fredrick joined STAR after serving thirty-five years in the United States Army in a variety positions, uniquely as an Equal Opportunity Advisor, Equal Employment Opportunity Counselor, Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediator, and Sexual Assault Response Coordinator. His motto is “Start by Believing” which is the global campaign initiated by End Violence Against Women International designed to transform the way we respond to sexual violence. Fredrick’s mission is to increase awareness, availability, and accessibility of survivor trauma-informed services throughout recovery. He is excited about joining STAR and looking forward to raising awareness of sexual trauma throughout the community. |
November 11th is almost over, but I wanted to write about poppies, so here I am.
Another day on the verge of departure, another week past, another season, and it’s not like I can call it unremarkable. And yet what drove me to “blog” again is not the world per se, but the idea of a flower I haven’t personally experienced in…two years now? Three? That flower, though – the knowledge that there are poppies growing somewhere – is a call to return, a hailing, an interpellation, and and and…
Today is Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, Armistice Day, a day of names that may vary depending on which side of World War I your forebears fought on. And the poppy, particularly the red poppy worn on the lapel, is its flower. In this strange year, eyed by strange ghosts, we renew our international vow to remember.
How to remember?
First, the ghosts that demand attention, the ones we don’t know personally. Then, the ghosts that demand attention, newborn, in gestation. Fields of asphodel, fields of poppies – flowers. I’m sitting in my bed, surrounded by everyday detritus, in the Year of Our Lord 2020, on Remembrance Day, thinking about flowers. That’s rich. And, I suppose, a rambling way of admitting to a distance I’m ashamed of, but not one unique to me.
According to World-O-Meter, the US coronavirus death tally has surpassed 247,000. That’s over twice as many American deaths as in World War I, and over half of our national death count in World War II from 1941 to 1945. Roughly 83 9/11s’ worth of deaths. The human mind, science tells us, begins to reduce faces and names to statistics long before a country is tasked with comprehending that many people vanished, much less remembering them. And still I’m caught off guard by my own inability to feel that loss, to process, and by finding myself a bystander in yet another historical instance of “how did this happen?” On a somewhat tangential note, last year, my Elementary German I students didn’t know what the Berlin Wall was. We Americans have a short attention span, perhaps.
In any case, everything has moved into abstraction. I ask myself again what has happened in the past week:
- Joe Biden was elected President
- Donald Trump refused and refuses to concede the plainly lost election
- Rudy Giuliani gave a speech at Four Seasons Landscaping, sandwiched between a crematorium and a sex shop
- Alex Trebek died
- I read DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi for class
- My students took a test online
- I ordered more books to add to the growing pile next to my bed
The poppy is a salient flower. One must imagine poppies sprouting up between all these shards of half-lived, distant events, swelling into a field. Poppies blinking awake. A promise of red.
Regarding bullet points one and four: Biden’s victory was a moment of lightness, that feeling of coming home after a shift of a shitty foodservice job to make a beeline for the sofa and finally rest your aching feet. The announcement the next day of Alex Trebek’s death felt wrong – Wasn’t my shift over? Wasn’t 2020 finally beginning to look up?
Biden’s election brought talk of an American redemption, a restoration, a return to normalcy and a more welcoming idea of “greatness.” In a way, Alex Trebek (a Canadian!) embodied many of the values of that view of greatness. He hosted Jeopardy! long enough to become a familiar face, a part of that after-shift routine. Occasional jibes and hints of condescension aside, he treated contestants fairly and politely. He, the contestants, and the viewers all took part in an everyday celebration of knowledge for its own sake, wherein luck was at play, but watching the show, you could believe in the merit of the day’s winner. And Alex’s Q&A sessions with the contestants turned winners and losers alike into brief neighbors. A competition, yes, a performance, a spectacle, but there was never a sense of ulterior motives. It was just fun to share in people’s enthusiasm for random factoids. And Alex’s pristine pronunciation made you want to assume he naturally knew the answers to all the questions he asked.
Whenever I’m back home, I watch Jeopardy! with my dad, whose political beliefs I vehemently oppose, every night. I wonder if that will still be the case in the future.
Biden is a re-run of Jeopardy!, so to speak. I’m glad he’s there. But his presence and his victory do not negate the damage of the past four years, and of this year in particular. Alex Trebek will grace my TV screen again; Alex Trebek is dead. He just joined a massive and growing cohort of people who will not see 2021. It’s not too late for any of us to join that cohort. We can’t take anything for granted anymore, not even those of us who were privileged enough to believe for a long time that we were inherently part of an effortless greatness. Since Alex announced his diagnosis, I have actively dreaded the news we got a few days ago, and oddly, I still dread it. The individual tragedy hasn’t registered: I’m lost in the field of poppies again.
And so I’m writing this without direction, unsure of what it means to remember, to participate in remembrance. Thinking about the poppy as the gorgeous paradox it is in what and how it can mean: producer of opium, tranquilizer, aid to colonization, thing of beauty, killer, sign of life, vision, sign of disorder.
When I was in Dortmund for my English teaching assistantship, I commuted to and from Soest, about a 40 minute train ride from industrial drudge to quaint medieval town and back again. Germany has a population of over 80 million within a land area less than half the size of Texas, that is to say it’s quite densely populated. Although the train passed cultivated field after cultivated field, wind turbine after wind turbine, the only thing I saw (beyond the occasional deer) that felt wild, felt self-perpetuating, was the odd smattering of red poppies edging towards the train tracks. The odd reminder that what you think you know of your tired route won’t stand to time. Or that there’s room for life in the gaps. Anywhere.
(I could never get a good picture of the trackside poppies, which seems fitting enough.)
Consider these paragraphs the petals of a poppy, meandering around some unknown dark center, some promise. Bliss? Oblivion? Cataclysm?
Pretty, too. Consider this still of Kurt Cobain lying in a carefully constructed field of silk poppies and machine fog:
(I did not exist when people whose faces and names I will never know constructed that field. Now the man pictured does not exist. And we will all join him in nonexistence. Perhaps the faceless poppy-setters already have. How strange.)
I have no answers, so today, I’m turning once again to
[at this point I broke off, and now I’m returning a couple days later to see if I can write myself into a hole I can disguise as conclusion. I’ll include some digital doodles as an interlude.]
If I recall correctly, I was going to continue that sentence to talk about images, images in language. A poppy or two from the endless field of invoked poppies. A source of comfort and consternation, something to explain why napping is my favorite pastime when I am at all times conscious of and terrified by the flow of death in my veins. Black center of bloodred petals, vault of silence in every throat, and yet the words exist, and yet some author you read in high school English class can germinate red in twenty-odd teenage heads. A form of collective memory? Yet we’re going wrong and will do so again and again.
If we can share in tragedy, we can share in beauty. Both belong to memory. And so I’ll cease my rambling by sharing with you some poems with poppies, beginning with my own rough translation of Paul Celan’s “Corona:”
From my hand autumn eats its leaf: we are friends.
We shell time from nuts and teach it leaving:
time returns to the shell.
In the mirror is Sunday,
in the dream there is sleeping,
the mouth speaks true.
My eye descends to the sex of my lover:
we gaze at each other,
we give voice to dark things,
we love each other like poppy and memory,
we sleep like wine in the mussel shells,
like the sea beneath the moon’s bloodbeam.
We stand intertwined in the window, they look up at us from the street:
it is time that they know!
It is time that the stone concede to bloom,
time for a heart to beat in disquiet.
Time for it to be time.
It is time.
From Emily Dickinson:
It was a quiet seeming Day —
There was no harm in earth or sky —
Till with the closing sun
There strayed an accidental Red
A Strolling Hue, one would have said
To westward of the Town —
But when the Earth began to jar
And Houses vanished with a roar
And Human Nature hid
We comprehended by the Awe
As those that Dissolution saw
The Poppy in the Cloud
Another rough translation (really rough this time, since I tend to get angsty when trying to translate end rhymed poems), this time one of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus:
Only the one who has raised
his lyre in shadow as in sun
may know what it means to join
in the song of praise without end.
Only the one who once ate
at the dead’s own banquet of poppies
will never again face the loss
of even the quietest note.
Although the reflections we see in the pond
may often be lost to a ripple,
know the image.
Only within the double-space
will the voices become
undying and mild.
Two Sylvia Plath poems, both of which feel current, the latter of which is one of my favorite poems I’ve ever read, one I can recite from memory and often turn to for comfort:
Poppies in July
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes that I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep!
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colorless. Colorless.
Poppies In October
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly —
A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky
Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.
O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.
And because I’m so happy Louise Glück won the Nobel, I’ll let her words wrap up this account of confusion:
The Red Poppy
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered. |
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Just one day after the New York Times reported the Department of Justice was set to fault the Ferguson, Mo. police department for making racially biased traffic stops and arrests, an official report is confirming that officers routinely violated the constitutional rights of the city’s black residents.
The Justice Department report accuses the officers of making unjust traffic stops and using excessive force during arrests. The report comes after a months-long investigation sparked by the shooting death of Black teenager Michael Brown Jr. at the hands of Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer.
Shockingly, the report says the discrimination was perpetuated due to the racial stereotypes held by city officials. In one incident, officials distributed racially-tinged jokes on their city email accounts, including a jab at President Barack Obama and a joke suggesting abortion in the black community would reduce crime. According to the Washington Post, one 2008 email stated that the president couldn’t hold that office for very long because “what black man holds a steady job for four years?”
The report does not identify who wrote the scathing email or whom the email was sent to.
Following the explosive discovery, the city of Ferguson — a largely white body of officials serving a mostly black population — will be forced to negotiate a settlement with the Justice Department, or risk facing a lawsuit on civil rights charges, the New York Times reports.
In compiling the report, federal investigators conducted hundreds of interviews, reviewed 35,000 pages of police records and analyzed race data compiled for every police stop. They concluded that, over the past two years, African-Americans — who make up about two-thirds of the city’s population — accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops, 90 percent of citations, 93 percent of arrests and 88 percent of cases in which the police used force.
Black motorists were twice as likely as whites to be searched but were less likely to be found in possession of contraband such as drugs or guns.
About 95 percent of those jailed for more than two days between April and September 2014 were black, lending support to the claim that officials relied on the fines from ticketing and arresting African-Americans to balance the city’s budget.
The full report is expected to be released Wednesday.
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If you want to know how to make money online without being tied down to an office, you’re in luck.
There are a lot of options for remote work these days, from working as a freelance author to serving as someone’s remote personal assistant.
If you prefer working from home to dealing with traffic every day, consider the options available online.
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Many companies advertise remote positions through traditional job-search websites like Indeed and LinkedIn.
Some freelance websites allow you to pitch yourself for open jobs, while others ask employers to reach out to you instead.
Sometimes it can be difficult to find legitimate work from home jobs among the scams.
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About Transcription Jobs
You can find plenty of transcription jobs on the internet if you can listen to a recording and type out what the speakers are saying with relative speed.
Everyone from doctors and lawyers to Netflix hires transcriptionists. Although artificial intelligence is making gains in the field of transcription, people who prioritize accuracy still prefer human transcribers.
If you can understand heavy accents or technical terms, you have a leg up over others. For example, the average annual pay for a medical transcriptionist is higher than the pay for transcriptionists in other fields.
This is because medical transcribers must be able to accurately transcribe the terms used by doctors. Inaccurate transcriptions in medical notes could mean life or death for a patient, and the pay reflects the skills required.
You need a certification for most medical transcription jobs, and getting the certification may be a good investment.
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If you’re interested in transcription work, invest in a good foot pedal. Foot pedals allow you to pause, play and rewind recordings with your foot, letting you complete transcriptions more easily. A good one generally costs between $50 and $100.
About Data Entry Jobs
You can find lots of legitimate data entry jobs at home if you know where to look. Unfortunately, there are also some scams in the world of data entry, which is why you need to be careful when searching.
Any job that requires you to pay a fee up front should be dismissed immediately. However, plenty of companies and even individuals need freelance data entry workers.
Data entry jobs require you to be a precise typist to carry out basic tasks. This could be adding tags to images so they’re properly categorized, archiving documents that have been scanned, or searching for information online and filling in a spreadsheet based on what you find.
You can find freelance data entry opportunities on websites like Fiverr and Upwork. There, you can connect with employers and find opportunities so you can begin filling out your resume.
If you’re not interested in freelance data entry, you can also find more long-term positions with major employers like Working Solutions or Xerox.
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A lot of companies prefer to see a college degree, but it’s not a requirement across the board, especially if you can provide a portfolio of work.
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On freelance writing sites, you can apply to the jobs that appeal to you and ignore the jobs that don’t.
You can even develop an area of expertise and specialize in content related to it, which can end up helping you make more money.
How much you can earn from freelance copywriting jobs depends on your level of experience and skill.
The more work you have in your portfolio and the more positive references you can provide, the more you can charge per word.
Do your research about what rates are standard for your type of writing before speaking to clients.
There are plenty of ultra-low wage positions paying less than a penny a word. If you’re a skilled writer, you can find higher pay than that.
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If you have any experience serving as a personal assistant, you might consider one of the numerous virtual assistant jobs online.
Like a personal assistant, a virtual assistant helps his or her employer with arranging meetings, fielding phone calls, taking notes, placing orders and more.
Unlike a personal assistant, a virtual assistant works remotely rather than sitting at a desk in an office.
Additionally, virtual assistants also tend to play a bigger role in managing an employer’s online presence, from writing emails to retweeting posts on Twitter.
You can become a virtual assistant by advertising yourself on freelance websites, creating your own portfolio and developing a social media presence.
Freelance websites allow you to sell your services online, reaching out to clients who post available jobs. Alternatively, you can find clients online by asking them to contact you.
Finding clients requires a bit of marketing and social-media savvy. However, if you collect a list of clients, you can easily generate a steady income working as a virtual assistant.
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In the rice development scheme major thrust is given for the promotion of fallow land cultivation and group based paddy promotion concentrated in the major rice growing tracts of the State under seven Special Agriculture Zones with natural endowments for augmenting rice productivity. The ultimate objective would be to increase the area under rice to 3 lakh ha by the end of 13th five year plan. An outlay of Rs.87.65 crore is provided during 2018-19.
An amount of Rs.6000.00 lakhs is provided for providing input assistance @Rs.5500/ha under sustainable rice development component excluding Palakkad district. The support of Rs.5500/ ha will be linked to quality seeds, organic inputs, certification and bio-control agents. Input assistance for Palakkad district will be provided under National Food Security Mission.
An amount of Rs.300.00 lakhs is set apart for promoting group farming activities of the active Padasekhara samithies. The amount will be released to Padasekhara samithies based on a transparent criterion for promoting group farming and facilitating e-payment system. The padasekharams will be revitalized and encouraged to set up rice mills. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification assistance will also be provided to padasekharams.
Focused interventions are proposed in seven Special Agriculture Zones for Paddy viz. Kuttanad, Onattukara, Pokkali, Kole, Palakkad, Wayanad and Kaipad. An amount of Rs.150.00 lakhs is set apart to provide operational support to paddy development agencies in a project based manner.
For the promotion of fallow land cultivation an amount of Rs.1200.00 lakhs is earmarked. Rice fallows will be brought under sustainable cultivation in a phased manner in project mode with the active involvement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) and Kudumbasree. The assistance to farmers will be based on a panchayat level list of beneficiaries prepared under the supervision of the Agricultural Officers. A three year support as approved in 2016-17 will be continued. The possibility of raising double crop from single cropped paddy lands and triple crop from double cropped lands will be explored in potential areas to increase the gross cultivated area. Upland cultivation will be expanded considering the scarcity of wet lands for which an amount of Rs.375.00 lakhs is set apart. Support for group formation of upland cultivators and fallow land cultivators will be provided.
In order to ensure the availability of certified seeds suitable to the locality “Registered Seed Growers Programme” (RSGP) will be continued with special emphasis on seed village basis.
Rice mills and parboiling units to undertake local processing, packing, branding and marketing of rice and rice products including mini rice mills and special mini rice mills to process speciality rice varieties are also proposed to be established through padasekhara samithies/co-operatives/NGOs/ farmer entrepreneurs under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) programme. Support will also be provided for certification.
To encourage and sustain paddy cultivation in urban areas including education institutions an amount of Rs.100.00 lakhs is earmarked.
An amount of Rs.100.00 lakhs is set apart as “Rice Innovation Fund” for new, ecofriendly and sustainable technologies aimed at improving paddy production and for undertaking “Rice Year” programmes on a project mode from the 100 activities identified as part of rice year. |
Alene Holden was born May 10, 1923 at Joy, Arkansas to William Henry Murdaugh and Effie Murdaugh.
She was preceded in death by her parents and by her husband Floyd E. Holden, and one son Rodger Dale Holden.
She is survived by two sons; Keith and Henry Holden, and two daughters; Diane Farmer and Sherry Acree.
She resided in Searcy for the past fourty years where she enjoyed gardening and tending her flowers and rose bushes. The most important thing in her life was her family and spending time with them. |
Seattle is a better city because of Dongho Chang. There may not be another public servant working in our city in the past decade who has had a greater impact on so many people’s everyday lives. Since 2012, Chang has forever revolutionized what it means to be a traffic engineer in our city by bringing a level of personal care and genuine love for his community that has made him something of an unintentional local hero. He has had a direct impact not just on the physical shape of our streets but also on the culture of SDOT’s professional staff.
Chang is leaving SDOT to become State Traffic Engineer for WSDOT, the agency where he started his career before working in Everett and then Seattle. His last day at SDOT is September 15. This is wonderful news for Chang, WSDOT and communities around the state.
Many people may know Dongho Chang best from his Twitter feed, an oddly compelling tour of new and old transportation infrastructure around Seattle. But to me, it’s never been the content of the tweets that was impressive, it’s the reason he is visiting all these sites in the first place. Chang is constantly observing and learning, noting how people actually use the city’s infrastructure (regardless of the intent behind the design). As City Traffic Engineer, his job could technically be done almost entirely in an office by looking at plans and reviewing engineering manuals, yet he is seemingly everywhere. He takes the real world outcome of his work seriously and personally, and simply satisfying the rules in a dusty engineering manual is not good enough for him. The solution needs to actually work for people, and observing it in action from as many perspectives as possible is the only way to know if a design has succeeded. So when he posts a tweet about a new bike lane or signal or whatever, that’s probably what he’s doing.
Chang also genuinely listens to community feedback, and I have never once seen him assume the posture that he knows better because he is a high-level professional traffic engineer. He doesn’t get defensive, and he’s not too proud to take another look at a design to make it better. Perhaps the best example, and the story that first brought him national attention, was the way he responded to the Reasonably Polite Seattleites and their 2013 guerrilla bike lane on Cherry Street. He didn’t chide them for breaking the law by gluing plastic posts to the newly-painted bike lane. Instead, he thanked them, apologized that SDOT had to remove the posts, and then offered to return them. Then he made their design permanent just a few months later by installing officially-designed posts.
Chang responds directly to people who message him about a street safety concern, and he makes sure their concerns find the right person in the department. This might sound like customer service work that is far below his pay grade, but direct constituent interactions like these are one way he stays grounded and in tune with how the city is and is not working for people. Yeah, it’s unusual for a top level traffic engineer to be handling reports of improper construction detours and things like that, but it’s part of his work ethic and has become part of why people trust him.
WSDOT has historically focused mostly on cars and trucks at the expense of all else. But under Transportation Secretary Roger Millar, the department has been moving in recent years toward a more holistic and complete understanding that the roads they manage are parts of the communities they travel through. Chang brings the next logical step: Putting that vision into everyday practice.
When Chang says that safety is SDOT’s top priority, he genuinely and fully means it. It is not a platitude to him. He is a true believer in Vision Zero. He knows Seattle will reach zero traffic deaths and injuries, and that professional traffic engineers have a duty to work with that goal at the forefront of all they do. I look forward to more people at WSDOT viewing their work through this lens.
But his departure also feels like a signpost marking the end of an era at SDOT, which now has an enormous hole to fill. I joked with Dongho that SDOT will need to hire five people to replace all he does, but that might not be far from the truth. The agency probably should acknowledge that the work he did for our city extended beyond the job of Traffic Engineer. But I’m hopeful that the core culture of the department has shifted since Chang joined in 2012. It’s a big department in a big city, and it should not rely on any one person. A lot of people have learned from him, and the department is pointing in a good direction even if it sometimes feels like it is standing still. Now it’s time for new leaders to step up to turn the city’s ambitious safety, climate change and equity goals into reality.
Thank you for all you’ve done for our city, Dongho. Seattle Bike Blog wishes you the best in the new position. |
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Automatically track and manage customer asset warranty activity in Dynamics 365 for Field Service
To help you seize control of warranty management, we’ve built an agile yet robust add-on that’s integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service. The warranty management module allows you to quickly and easily create, administer, process and track warranty coverage and activities against customer assets throughout their entire lifecycles.
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Joseph Vellone is a Principal in Grassi’s International Tax Services practice. He has over 30 years of tax and accounting experience encompassing corporate, partnership, and international taxation including cross-border transfer pricing. Joe is experienced with the tax affairs of US and non-US based businesses ranging from multinational corporations to closely held businesses relating to tax planning, tax accounting, tax compliance and tax controversy matters. He represents clients in audits and appeals before the IRS, including transfer pricing matters which encompass advanced pricing agreements and competent authority agreements. He is noted for his creative solutions to complex tax matters as well as advising clients on minimizing tax liabilities and enhancing profits and operational processes. The clients Joe serves encompass a variety of largely international transactions, involving corporate acquisitions and mergers, internal restructurings, business formations and joint ventures.
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Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Fordham University and a Master of Business Administration degree in Taxation from Pace University where he graduated with distinction. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York and is an adjunct tax professor at a New York City university graduate tax program. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants – Taxation Division and the USA Branch of the International Fiscal Association. |
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When they have actually experienced serious problems and also loss, insurance coverage companies ask their customers to supply proof of their losses. A public adjuster, not an insurance adjuster,, will certainly function to obtain you your complete compensation.
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- We make plans for prompt emergency help to safeguard your benefits under your plan.
- We thoroughly examine your plans as part of your insurance claims method.
- To optimize on your settlement, our public adjusters examine all exclusions and advantages discussed in your insurance coverage.
- We decrease problems with cash money flow and also company disruptions via the insurance claims approach and aggressive plans, which we establish.
- We put together data on structure problems, shed stock as well as revenue, as well as other appropriate losses. We utilize it as the basis for your claim.
- Our group maintains you informed and also guarantees that insurer will relocate the insurance claim along.
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Smoke damage is among the worse points to need to deal with since it is not always necessarily visible but it influences all your belongs including our clothing and also furnishings, and belongs. If you have fire insurance policy then you will certainly be secured versus the smoke damages. If you have fire insurance policy and also your residence was harmed or ruined when you are enabled back into your houses, you should right away get in touch with private insurance coverage asserts adjusters to process your cases. Due to the lot of homes influenced there will certainly be a many cases filed so it finest to obtain some kind of concern.
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There may even be some federal aid that you may certify for. Once more a professional insurance coverage claims adjusters will certainly be your best wager to make an application for all those benefits. So begin accessing your problems and also start finding out exactly what you should do to fix your property as well as just how much it will set you back to do all that.
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When your house was badly harmed or lost totally, you require assistance quickly. Our action prepare for property owners consists of the following:
- We shield your policy advantages by arranging prompt emergency situation support.
Our adjusters establish your plan insurance coverage and study all exclusions as well as advantages.
- We make sure adequate real estate and also put together a claim that is within your insurance protection, permitting you to reconstruct your residence.
- We assemble exact data regarding all your losses.
Our team will be the intermediary between you as well as the insurance coverage firm.
- With your support, Insurance Adjuster Mount Laguna produces a reliable cases technique to lower the inconvenience of being displaced from your house.
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In order to efficiently file any type of insurance coverage claims you have to maintain great detail documents of what you had before the damages, as well as exactly what it set you back for you to fix it. An effective insurance coverage settlement is one that pay you the price to primary you hold. Therefore, at any time you make any renovation to your house, you require to maintain records of every little thing that you did, keep the receipts for all your acquisitions, as well as take pictures of all of the work that you had actually done so that you can show the previous existing state of the residence. You need to obtain an appraiser to appraise the repair service price to fix your house, assuming you have not fixed it. In every phrase of your insurance policy claims, the insurance adjusters are going to aim to reduce the value of your claims to ensure that they could pay you much less than you could prove. They do this by scrutinizing your invoices, the substitute expense that you are asking for. That is why it’s a good suggestion to collaborate with a independent insurance adjusters that have access to the very same information that the insurance policy firm trusts. She or he could then use their expertise of just how the insurance adjusters work and present info that will assault the insurer plans to diminish the worth of your insurance claims.
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In the insurance company there are exactly what they call insurance cases adjusters. These are people who are participated in handling clients or customers insurance policy cases. They are the ones who will certainly examine an insurance coverage owner’s cases as well as at some point launch a certified settlement.
The repayment that the adjuster identifies will rely on the plan holder’s insurance protection as well as the damages for which they have asserted. Many insurance adjusters would certainly be company staff members, however it is feasible to discover independent consultants who will stand for the claimants.
If you are going to be included in any type of treatment including an insurance business, there are the some points you will require to understand about insurance claims adjusters.
Most of the larger insurance policy firms have their internal training programs and also when they work with insurance adjusters they will take their educational background, experience and certifications into account before choosing where they will certainly place them.
If someone has an architectural or engineering background then the business will employ them as industrial adjusters, an instance of this would certainly be that. Relying on their specialized or history they are generally placed where they would be most helpful.
It is fair to state that if somebody was most likely to be utilized as a car insurance adjuster they would need analytic abilities and skills to communicate with people. For mostly, Insurance policy Claims Adjusters, should be individuals who excel in personal relationships.
So, if you are a claimant you have to be prepared as well as have a little understanding of how you can manage them and their prospective ‘obtain out, specifically if they are under the employment of one of your insurer. Not all insurance policy firms have computing insurance claim adjuster there are some companies that do anything in order to optimize earnings as well as maintaining payments to a minimum is one way of achieving that function.
How long does it take an insurance adjuster to come out?
There are techniques in which an insurance policy case adjuster may make use of in the direction of their client in order not provide a straight response, as an example they may inform you that they will certainly refer you to another insurance adjuster that could react to your concern as she or he is in charge of that location of company.
How insurance adjusters are paid?
Some insurance case adjusters may make a deal of something aside from money designed to appease you in a given circumstance these can include, a ticket for a getaway or if the homeowner is young then they would certainly supply a Play Station 3, an iPod, or a Nintendo Wii.
It is very important for the homeowner to not permit the insurance policy claim adjuster to push him or her. Underhand claim adjusters ready at what they do as well as among their strategies of putting pressure on the claimant is by calling them at the incorrect time of the day like early in the early morning when the kids are rushing to college or you are aiming to get to work. By doing this they’re not giving you time to think as well as push you in concurring with their offer. So when managing an insurer, judge them by their agents or employees and intimidate any kind of underhandedness with a project versus their track record.
What does an insurance claims adjuster in Mount Laguna do?
If you have fire insurance coverage as well as your home was damaged or destroyed as quickly as you are permitted back right into your residences, you ought to promptly speak to personal insurance policies asserts adjusters to process your claims. In every phrase of your insurance claims, the insurance adjusters are going to try to lower the value of your insurance claims so that they could pay you less than you can verify. That is why it’s a great concept to work with a independent insurance adjusters that have access to the very same information that the insurance business depends upon. He or she could after that use their understanding of how the insurance adjusters work and existing details that will attack the insurance coverage business plans to reduce the worth of your claims. |
How Riot Energy Silver-Zinc Button Cell Batteries are Made
Riot Energy silver-zinc button cell batteries are made in our manufacturing facility in Camarillo, California. As this video outlines, great attention to detail is taken to ensure the cathode, electrolyte, separators, and anode all come together to create a high-quality battery.
Quality is extremely important at Riot Energy. The voltage, height, weight, barcode, and lot number of each battery is recorded for traceability and quality control purposes. The production lines will automatically reject a cell if it does not meet predetermined specifications or if all the data is not collected properly.
Our button cell battery is ideal for small applications that require a high-energy, safe power source, such as smart pills, hearing aids, and wearable medical sensors. Contact us to partner on your next project. |
Himalayan and Crystal Chunk Light Bowls
Increase the healing energy in your home with Himalayan and Crystal Chunk Light Bowls.
As we spend more time in the protection of our homes, there has never been a better time to boost the environment in which we live. Himalayan and crystal chunk light bowls can help create a calming and restorative space.
There are so many amazing benefits with Himalayan and crystal chunk light bowls. Not only do they add a beautiful atmosphere to any room, they have some magnificent healing properties as well.
Purify the Air
This is probably one of the main reasons people love Himalayan salt lamps, whichever form they come in. These gorgeous lights can help to cleanse, deodorise and purify the air, as well as ionise it.
We can all do with a bit of that at the moment!
Allergies and Asthma
The severe increase in allergies and asthma in recent years is nothing to sniff at. People who have never had allergy issues in their lives are now experiencing the dread that comes with hayfever season, while asthma risks are steadily climbing.
There is also an increase in chronic asthma conditions, meaning there is reduced lung function over an extended period of time. Himalayan and crystal chunk light bowls can be a huge help for those in this situation.
Salt therapy is a fantastic way to open up the lungs and increase oxygen levels throughout the body.
Relief for Cold and Flu Symptoms
In the same way that they work for allergies and asthma, many have experienced the cold and flu symptom relief that Himalayan salt lamps can bring. As we deal with an unprecedented virus season this year, these warm and nurturing lamps are great for the bedside table, office or lounge room.
Imagine a piece of lovely home décor that emits atmospheric light and can enhance feelings of calm and happiness. A Himalayan and crystal chunk light bowl ticks all of these boxes. Himalayan salt can help boost serotonin levels, in turn creating more feelings of love, connection and contentment.
At Floating Cloud Therapies, our gift shop has an abundance of wonderful lamps and light bowls to choose from. Deck your home out with these glowing miracles or grab the perfect present for someone close to you.
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Ducted Air Conditioning from Brisbane Air
Here at Brisbane Air we install ducted air conditioning in residential, office, and industrial locations. Our technicians are selected for their experience and expertise, high quality workmanship, and attention to customer service.
We pride ourselves on our record of providing top quality products and the highest standards of customer care over our three decades plus history of serving the Brisbane community. Every customer is treated with the utmost care and respect, from the free initial exploration of needs and estimate to installation, and then through our industry leading service and guarantee packages. We are dedicated to providing the very best service and the highest quality products to your budget and requirements – part of our guarantee to you.
How Ducted Air Conditioning Works
While most people think of air conditioning as the unit that sits outside, this is only one component of ducted air conditioning. There is also another unit which is housed within the roof. This roof unit is the indoor air handling unit, while the unit outside is the compressor/ condenser unit. Together these units are the engine of ducted air conditioning, but without all the other components working properly the benefits will never be felt.
The air is pumped through a system of pipes, called ducts, which are located in the roof space. These ducts are usually silver to reflect heat better, which helps keep the air inside remain cool as it moves. Often a steel coil inside the duct will add strength, and extra insulation will help with energy efficiency.
The energy efficiency of ducted air conditioners is greatly aided by ‘zoning’, which is the dividing of space into different areas. This allows the system to work more effectively, with a ‘dump zone’ or ‘constant area’ normally used, to ensure that the whole system is never fully closed. If the system did close completely there could be a build-up of air pressure within the ducting which could cause damage.
Rooms or areas are zoned individually, which means that you control the airflow into each zone. Again, this adds to energy efficiency, and full benefits are truly felt when you also take a few energy saving precautions, such as keeping doors and windows closed.
Air regulators (or dampers) control the air being circulated into each zone, with air entering via a diffuser. There are different designs of diffusers, but all do the same job as a vent to allow air into the required space. The dampers open and close to allow the treated air to enter the room, and when a zone is switched off the damper closes completely.
Air is returned to the system through return air grilles. Like diffusers, there are different designs of grilles to suit all visual tastes. These important pieces of the jigsaw also house air filters which help to purify the air as it circulates. Some more advanced diffusers have an LED light that alerts the user when the enclosed filter needs cleaning: dirty grilles and filters directly impact the efficiency of ducted air conditioning, so it is important to ensure that all filters are cleaned regularly.
In a nutshell, that is all there is to ducted air conditioners: an indoor unit and outdoor unit working to pump air through the home or office, with each designated air conditioned zone supplied with air carried by ducts and dispersed through diffusers and regulated by dampers.
What is a Ducted Air Conditioner Suitable For?
Ducted air conditioning is hugely versatile, and is controlled by a zonal system that allows different areas to be on or off if and when necessary. Depending upon the type of system installed (see below), it can be used to cool or heat rooms or spaces. The whole system can be controlled by timer, meaning rooms can be cool when they are needed to be so without leaving the air conditioning on all day.
This type of system is ideal for the modern family home, where many rooms are likely to be used simultaneously. The house benefits from no hot or cold spots, meaning you can walk around the home in complete comfort: traditional systems don’t offer this luxury. Children can do their homework in comfort in their own rooms, while parents can watch their favourite television programs in peace.
Ducted air conditioning is also well suited to office buildings: no more putting jackets on and taking them off again when moving from one cold office to a hot office baked by the sunlight streaming through wall to ceiling windows. Zonal regulation also allows greater flexibility and distribution of air where it is really needed. Quiet running means less disturbance from work, and the top level filtration provided by ducted air conditioning ensures pure air all day and night.
The internal components of ducted air conditioning come in a range of designs, and so can be used in a variety of situations. They can melt seamlessly into a room’s décor, or be used as a focal design feature (in the way ceiling roses used to be): so, also great for when remodelling or for those building their dream home.
Different Types of Ducted Air Conditioners
There are a few different types of ducted air conditioners, and your selection will depend upon your specific property and needs, but our expert advice will certainly help ensure that you make the correct final decision:
Ducted Refrigerated Air Conditioning (also known as reverse air) is ideal for family homes that require cooling in the summer and heating in the winter. They are easy to control, and can be centrally zoned to reduce running costs even further. Air is recycled around a dozen times each hour, and the fan, ducting, and fittings are placed in the roof space. Generally these systems benefit from a service every eighteen months, which increases life and energy efficiency. The compressor is located outside, and this helps keep noise to a minimum level.
Perhaps the most prestigious of all ducted air conditioning is the ducted refrigerated variable refrigerant flow air conditioner. This type of system is perfect for multi-storey homes that have minimal cavity space for ducting to go into and for commercial buildings. Of compact design, they offer individual room/ area air conditioning control with high quality components and high energy efficiency.
When selecting the ideal system for your situation, you should make sure you buy with the following in mind:
- The plan of the building you want to benefit from air conditioning, including room sizes, location, and aspect (sunny or shady, for example).
- Size and orientation of windows and doors
- The type of construction and any insulation elements
- The number of people using the building, and how many are likely to be in each room at any one time, and what the rooms are used for (for example, sleeping, eating, working, etc.)
Benefits of Using Ducted Air Conditioners
When considering your needs for air conditioning, our experience – which stretches to more than 30 years – is that ducted air conditioning offers greater benefits to the user than other air conditioning solutions. There is a system to suit all needs, and reverse cycle air conditioning systems have the advantage of heating as well as cooling: comfortable in the summer, cosy in the winter. Benefits of ducted air conditioning include:
- Flexibility of choice for your unique circumstances
- Lower running costs offered from a wide choice of high energy rated units
- Zoning allows you to heat or cool different areas at different times, Many systems are enabled with programmable settings, reducing energy waste and further reducing the costs of running air conditioning
- Latest technology units and ducting mean that energy efficiency is increased, with latent temperatures controlled at the touch of a button
- Refrigerated ducted air conditioning reduces internal humidity, and circulates purified air several times every minute during the summer months
- With a wide range of units and components available, the overall system can be customised to individual taste and requirements, enhancing aesthetic qualities and further adding to the value of your home
- Systems can now be controlled through wi-fi applications, allowing full control of the system remotely, from a smartphone or Ipad.
- Ducted air conditioning is ideally suited to both new and existing homes, as first time installations or replacement of existing air conditioning systems
With a ducted air conditioner installation, your home or office will never suffer hot or cold spots again. Purified air is distributed evenly to the areas needed with zonal control, and run smoothly, efficiently, and quietly. You’ll find ducted air conditioning the perfect choice for your home or office.
Wifi control unlocks the door to smarter heating or cooling, for total home comfort wherever you are.
This innovative technology connects your domestic ducted and wall mounted Mitsubishi Electric air conditioners to your smartphone, tablet or online account, giving you the freedom to fully control each unit on-the-go via an Internet connection from anywhere in the world.
- Control from anywhere – view and control from anywhere in the world with wifi.
- Optional extra – the wifi controller is available as an optional extra, with a wifi adapter MAC-559IF-E required per unit.
- Superior customisation – this innovative technology places multiple functions of you air conditioner at your fingertips. Turning the unit on/off, adjusting set temperature, changing mode, fan speed and air direction are all possible.
- Control multiple units – customise the settings of each air conditioner in your home. Purchase multiple adapters to manage all air conditioners independently on the same account to ensure complete control over your systems.
To discover how your home or office can take advantage of all the benefits of ducted air conditioning, reducing your energy bills and maintaining a home or workplace atmosphere that matches your needs, contact Brisbane Air today for a free, no obligation quote. We look forward to hearing from you and adding you to our rapidly growing list of deeply satisfied customers. |
Neighbors Honor Two Girls Killed In Slot Canyon Flash Flood
May 12, 2020, 8:34 PM | Updated: Jun 13, 2022, 4:56 pm
WEST JORDAN, Utah – Community members said they were shocked and devastated after hearing two young sisters were killed in a flash flood in Little Wild Horse Canyon.
Dozens of friends and neighbors spent Tuesday afternoon tying pink and teal ribbons throughout the neighborhood. They also planted flowers in the yard, put up signs and wrote cards for the family.
Everyone who spoke to KSL said everyone in the area loved the sisters, ages 7 and 3, who died in Monday’s flash flood.
“They are the sweetest kids. They just win your heart over. My heart melts every time I see them. It’s so hard to see them gone,” said Jennifer Vanleuven, a friend and neighbor of the family. “We know it’s not going to fix anything, but just so that they can feel our love for them.” |
Get your car cleaned for less! A professional vehicle detailing requires a great deal of expertise, training and experience, mixed in with some pretty intense elbow grease. If the process is rushed or not done correctly, not only will your vehicle look dingy, it could also suffer severe consequences. From damaging the exterior paint to compromising the overall safety by damaging interior wires.
‘Auto Detailer’ is a word commonly used for anyone who washes cars on the side of the road to a legitimate professional business. The difference, a professional business who specializes in auto detailing guarantees their work and you can be sure your car will not be damaged.
Your car will look its best and retain its value. Other options include complete reconditioning, carpet dying, tear repair, and odor removal.
What Makes Rite Now Mobile Detailing a Step Above the Rest
Many of those living in Central Florida don’t realize how extensive the detailing process on the exterior surfaces of a vehicle should be. Going much further than just the obvious painted surface. Safe and non-abrasive products are used to shine and polish the chrome work on both the rear and front bumpers. Those wheel rims with intricate designs will have a showroom new sparkle after they are expertly cleaned. The joints between panels, crevices and grooves, that you may never really notice will be thoroughly cleaned.
It is important to keep the interior of your car looking its best to retain its value. Owners can expect every crevice of the interior to be spotless. From the crumbs between cushions, individual knobs, the leather and vinyl cleaned and conditioned, steam clean all the carpet and upholstery, clean headliner and visor. With the proper tools and techniques, your vehicle will have that new car feel.
At Rite Now Mobile Detailing, we take pride in being an ‘Auto Detailer’ and pay close attention to every detail! Contact us today for an appointment with one of our convenient locations in Ocoee or Windermere, |
"The real essence of the club, the core of the club, the heart of the club was ripped out of it," said Schwarzer. "I feel almost heartbroken about it all. I go quite regularly as my son is involved in their academy and I saw how the club changed so dramatically in a short period of time.
"From security guards to ground?staff, from any staff member I came across, to people in the academy, from people involved in and around the first-team, and even in the first-team, those people were really dumbfounded at how things had gone wrong at the club and were so upset about it.
"Fulham have always been such a family club and such a personal club. Everyone lived for and loved the club and had a soft spot for the club. That was ripped out of it.
"I know Kit from when I was there and he is a great guy. He has had a very successful coaching pedigree with the Under-18s and 21s and he has been about the first-team on a number of occasions.
"He is best placed within the club to take it on and try and reinstall those core values at the club. I know he has already had an immediate impact by virtue of some of the simple changes he has made since he has been there. They are on the right track going back, that is for sure."
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Community Engagement Dashboard
ARPA Funding Group Ranking and Community Ideas Survey
Data Dashboard User Guide
Thank you for visiting the Kent County American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) website and for your involvement in this process. Kent County has developed this dashboard to act as a tool to share data, increase transparency, and comply with federal mandates of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Understanding Dashboard Results
The Community Engagement Dashboard outlines the final results of Kent County’s “Funding Group Ranking and Community Ideas Survey” that opened May 20, 2022, and closed July 1, 2022. Three pages were created to organize the survey data:
- Summary: The Summary page includes the high-level survey results outlining the community’s ranking of priorities, response rates, and emerging themes from community ideas. Community Health emerged as respondents’ top priority.
- Priorities: The Priorities page includes a detailed analysis of respondents’ funding group ranking, including the definitions for each funding group and a bar graph to outline the composition of rankings for an entire funding group.
- Ideas: The Ideas page shares all of the submitted ideas. Select an idea from the list to view more details, including a brief description, date submitted, location, and the ARPA funding group alignment identified by the submitter.
How to use this dashboard
Each dashboard page shows the results for all respondents upon opening the page. View subsets of the total results using filters for location, race/ethnicity, age, education, and income. Use the five drop-down boxes at the top of the page to filter the results.
A few submissions were edited or removed that contained profane, defamatory, or harassing language; promoted or perpetuated discrimination; or compromised the safety or security of the public or public systems.
Frequently Asked Dashboard Questions
How will this data be used?
The data will provide information for decision making about uses of the county’s ARPA funds.
What is the difference between Funding Groups and Emerging Themes?
Does this survey show all the submissions Kent County received?
This dashboard shows 99.9% of the submissions received. Due to the online disclaimer policy outlined above, Kent County removed 3 idea responses and removed harmful/offensive language from 9 idea responses.
What does “Respondent Did Not Answer” mean in the drop-down lists?
“Respondent Did Not Answer” represents the group of survey respondents that did not provide an answer to that specific question.
What happens next?
To get notified about the next steps in Kent County’s ARPA process, please subscribe to our email updates at this link. |
Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector, TransUnion
Kevin Kottman noted that research from TransUnion highlighted that most Americans planning to apply for government programs soon prefer online applications. However, TransUnion’s findings also show that online applications face more delays and rejections compared to other submission methods.
Knowing that, improving online customer experiences for public services — especially at the point of enrollment — will be a bigger focus for Kottman than ever.
Online administrative challenges often cause eligible individuals, especially those in underrepresented groups like low-income and older Americans, to underuse benefit programs. This happens even though many agencies aim to provide accessible and fair services to all.
Even government programs serving veterans are underused. Investigating this further, TransUnion research found minority, low-income and non-homeowning veterans were two to three times more likely to move across state lines than their non-veteran peers. These trends, in part, underscore why identifying and engaging constituents — especially those more likely to need services — remains challenging.
With the recent research on administrative burdens TransUnion brought to market, the company’s public sector organization is committed to improving online identity and device-proofing capabilities for government agencies to minimize friction during constituent experiences.
As a result of TransUnion’s actionable view of each consumer — based on a robust set of online, offline, public and proprietary information — agencies and U.S. constituents can interact with confidence. TransUnion is using these insights further to help agencies find eligible constituents who haven’t traditionally participated in government programs, so more people can enjoy greater access to needed public services.
Drawing from TransUnion’s fresh consumer identity and contact insights defined a new business focus in 2023 when TransUnion helped veterans affairs agencies more effectively deliver essential support to veterans. TransUnion continues to help state agencies create actionable contact databases to improve engagement rates and the effectiveness of their outreach initiatives.
By using branded calling to indicate to veterans that a call from an agency is legitimate, TransUnion is helping equip VA departments to deliver information about essential benefits at times that matter most.
“The TransUnion Public Sector organization is strong and formidable, bolstered by unique data insights and rich market expertise in digital identity, communication services, and investigative and marketing solutions,” Kottman said. “I’m thrilled to lead an award-winning team capable of advancing TransUnion’s market-leading technology in the public sector. Our experience, data assets, technology and continued growth position us to deliver multi-layer solutions to public agencies and do work that matters, including helping to ensure that within each moment a government agency can focus first on serving the needs of its constituents.” |
Chevrons recent relocation to Texas has undoubtedly brought about significant changes in the business landscape. This move has not only impacted Chevron as a company but has also had far-reaching effects on the state.
One key aspect to focus on when discussing Chevrons Texas move is the potential game-changing impact it will have on the local economy.
The headquarters relocation has the potential to attract other major corporations to the state, creating a ripple effect that could lead to increased job opportunities and economic growth.
The strategic decision-making behind Chevrons relocation showcases their commitment to maximizing profitability and efficiency, benefiting shareholders and stakeholders. By tapping into the states abundant resources and expertise in the energy sector, Chevron can further expand its operations.
Why Chevron Moves to Texas
One key reason behind Chevrons decision to move its headquarters to Texas is the states reputation as a business-friendly environment. With favorable regulations and lower taxes, Texas provides an ideal setting for Chevron to enhance its operational efficiency and increase profitability.
Texas is known for its skilled workforce, offering access to a pool of talented individuals who can contribute to Chevrons success.
Being in close proximity to major energy markets gives Chevron a competitive advantage, allowing the company to strengthen its presence within the industry.
By choosing Texas as its new location, Chevron can leverage the states excellent infrastructure and transportation networks, streamlining its supply chain and reducing costs. Texass thriving research and development ecosystem presents an opportunity for Chevron to collaborate with leading institutions and drive innovation in the Chevron corporate relocation.
Benefits of Chevrons Texas Move
Chevrons decision to move its headquarters to Texas offers a myriad of advantages for both the company and the local economy. The transition to Texas allows Chevron to expand its operations and tap into the abundant resources and growth potential of the Lone Star State.
With this move, Chevron can capitalize on Texass thriving energy sector and streamline its supply chain, resulting in reduced transportation costs and improved efficiency.
Additionally, relocating the office to Texas cultivates collaboration and innovation within the industry, as the state is home to numerous energy companies and research institutions.
This relocation also grants Chevron access to a skilled and diverse workforce, ensuring the company has the necessary talent to prosper in its new setting. All in all, Chevrons move to Texas marks a significant transition for the company, as it involves the relocation of their headquarters, business expansion, and corporate migration to the Lone Star State.
|Advantages of Chevrons Move to Texas
|Expanded operations and access to abundant resources
|Capitalizing on Texass thriving energy sector
|Streamlined supply chain, reduced transportation costs, and improved efficiency
|Collaboration and innovation opportunities with energy companies and research institutions
|Access to a skilled and diverse workforce
Impact of Chevrons Texas Relocation
Been a catalyst for economic growth and development in the local community.
Reasons Behind Chevrons Headquarters Move
Chevrons recent decision to move its headquarters to Texas has attracted attention and sparked curiosity from industry experts and the public. While there may be various reasons behind this strategic decision, one undeniable factor is the companys drive to optimize operations and decrease expenses.
By relocating, Chevron aims to simplify business processes and take advantage of potential cost savings.
This could involve benefiting from lower taxes, accessing affordable real estate options, and cultivating a skilled workforce. In addition, by being closer to its core operations, Chevron can improve operational efficiency, align headquarters with day-to-day activities, and potentially forge partnerships and collaborations through its relocation to Texas.
Chevrons Decision to Move Headquarters to Texas
- By relocating its headquarters to Texas, Chevron can take advantage of the states lower taxes, which can lead to significant cost savings for the company.
- Texas offers a wide range of affordable real estate options, allowing Chevron to potentially reduce its expenses on office space and facilities.
- With its relocation to Texas, Chevron can tap into a skilled workforce in the state, which can contribute to improved operational efficiency and productivity.
- Being closer to its core operations, Chevron can align its headquarters with day-to-day activities, facilitating better coordination and decision-making within the company.
Timeline for Chevrons Transition to Texas
Chevrons decision to relocate its headquarters to Texas has generated a lot of excitement and interest. While the reasons behind this strategic move are multifaceted, one of the main drivers is Chevrons pursuit of enhanced efficiency and cost reduction.
By making the shift to Texas, the company aims to streamline its operations and take advantage of potential cost savings.
This includes leveraging the states favorable tax environment, accessing affordable real estate options, and tapping into a highly skilled workforce.
Being in closer proximity to its core operations facilitates better coordination and decision-making, which could potentially foster partnerships and collaborations. The timeline for Chevrons transition highlights the meticulous planning and execution that has culminated in this noteworthy relocation.
Office Migration Benefits for Chevron
For its rich culture and thriving economy, offering Chevron the chance to connect with diverse perspectives and tap into new markets. The proximity to major cities and transportation networks also provides Chevron with the advantage of easily reaching customers and suppliers.
Chevrons move to Texas also brings about cost savings opportunities.
The states lower cost of living compared to other major cities allows Chevron to attract and retain top talent while offering competitive compensation packages.
The availability of affordable real estate and office space grants Chevron the flexibility to expand and grow its operations as needed.
Chevrons decision to relocate its headquarters to Texas provides numerous benefits.
From a favorable business environment and access to a skilled workforce to opportunities for collaboration and cost savings, the move sets Chevron up for success in the heart of the energy industry.
Benefits of Chevrons Relocation to Texas
- Access to diverse perspectives and new markets
- Proximity to major cities and transportation networks for easy customer and supplier reach
- Cost savings opportunities due to Texas lower cost of living
- Availability of affordable real estate and office space for flexible expansion and growth
Impact of Chevrons Corporate Relocation
Chevrons decision to move its headquarters to a different state has had a significant impact on various aspects of the company and the communities involved. The transition from California to Texas has brought about both positive and negative consequences for Chevron.
One notable effect of this relocation is the boost it has given to the local economy.
Texas, recognized for its business-friendly atmosphere, has warmly embraced Chevron, providing tax incentives and other advantages.
This has not only created job opportunities for local residents but has also attracted other businesses to the region, resulting in additional economic growth. The move has also presented challenges.
Many California-based employees have been displaced, with some given the option to relocate and others forced to seek new work opportunities. This has caused disruption and uncertainty for those affected as they navigate the job amid Chevrons corporate migration to a different location.
Reasons for Chevrons Decision to Move
Chevrons relocation of its headquarters has garnered attention and piqued curiosity among industry experts and the public alike. The companys decision is motivated by various factors, such as the advantageous business climate in Texas.
The state provides numerous incentives and tax breaks to corporations, making it an appealing destination for companies like Chevron aiming to maximize profits.
Texas boasts a thriving energy sector and a skilled workforce, aligning seamlessly with Chevrons core operations.
Being nearer to major oil and gas reserves in the Permian Basin allows Chevron to streamline operations and enhance efficiency in exploration and production. This move also fosters closer proximity to customers and strengthens Chevrons relocation to a different location, providing numerous benefits for the companys Texas transition.
|Reasons for Chevrons Relocation
|Benefits of Texas as a Business Destination
|Incentives and tax breaks
|Advantageous business climate
|Thriving energy sector
|Proximity to major oil and gas reserves
|Enhancing efficiency in exploration and production
|Closer proximity to customers
Office Shift to Texas Affecting Chevron
The recent relocation of Chevrons headquarters to Texas has generated discussions and raised questions about the implications of this change. One of the main concerns is how this shift will affect Chevrons operations and decision-making processes.
Will it lead to alterations in the companys strategic direction or focus? The move will likely impact Chevrons employees, potentially involving the relocation or displacement of a significant number of workers.
It remains uncertain how Chevron will ensure a seamless transition for its workforce and attract and retain top talent going forward. The transition to Texas could have wider implications for the energy industry, potentially solidifying Chevrons position in the thriving energy sector with the numerous benefits of Chevrons corporate relocation.
Benefits of Chevrons Corporate Migration to Texas
Chevrons relocation to Texas also allows the company to establish closer proximity to its key stakeholders. Many of Chevrons major clients and partners are already based in Texas, and by moving its headquarters there, Chevron can foster stronger relationships and enhance its ability to meet the needs of its customers.
Furthermore, Texas offers a strategic geographical advantage for Chevron.
With its central location within the United States, Texas provides easy access to both domestic and international markets, facilitating efficient distribution and transport of Chevrons products and services.
Overall, Chevrons decision to move its corporate headquarters to Texas is driven by a combination of factors that will undoubtedly contribute to the companys success. From the favorable business environment and access to abundant energy resources to the opportunity for collaboration and corporate migration, Chevrons move to Texas shows the companys commitment to growth and efficiency.
Chevrons Relocation to Texas
- Texas is home to many of Chevrons major clients and partners, allowing for closer proximity and stronger relationships.
- Texass central location within the United States provides easy access to both domestic and international markets, facilitating efficient distribution and transport of Chevrons products and services.
- Relocating to Texas offers Chevron a favorable business environment and access to abundant energy resources, contributing to the companys growth and efficiency.
- The move to Texas demonstrates Chevrons commitment to meeting the needs of its customers and enhancing its ability to serve them effectively.
Chevrons Plan for Move to a Different Location
Chevrons decision to move its headquarters to a new location has sparked speculation about the reasons behind this change. Is the company looking to explore new markets, cut down on expenses, or enhance operational efficiency? Unraveling the motivation behind Chevrons move will offer valuable insights into its future strategies and goals.
In addition to examining the motivations, it is crucial to assess the impact of this relocation on the local economy.
A corporate giant like Chevron moving can have both positive and negative consequences for the community.
Will it generate employment opportunities for the local workforce? How will it affect local businesses and suppliers? These questions must be answered to gain a comprehensive understanding of the overall influence of Chevrons transition. It is important to delve into the potential impact of Chevrons corporate relocation on the local economy.
Reasons Behind Chevrons Decision to Transition
Chevrons choice to relocate its headquarters from California to Texas has generated widespread speculation among experts and the public. While the company has not explicitly revealed their motives, there are several factors that could have influenced their decision.
One potential rationale is Texas favorable business climate, characterized by lower taxes and less stringent regulations in comparison to California.
This advantageous environment may enable Chevron to generate significant cost savings, thereby facilitating efficient resource allocation and future growth investments.
Proximity to major oil and gas operations in Texas also presents strategic benefits, such as enhanced access to suppliers, customers, and talent. Moreover, Texas robust energy infrastructure and skilled workforce may have appealed to Chevron, enabling them to tap into the regions pool of expertise. Chevrons move aligns with their long-term objectives, signifying a meticulous Chevron headquarters move timeline.
Supporting Factors for Chevrons Relocation to Texas
- Texas offers a more favorable business climate with lower taxes and less stringent regulations compared to California.
- The advantageous business environment in Texas allows Chevron to generate significant cost savings, facilitating efficient resource allocation and future growth investments.
- Proximity to major oil and gas operations in Texas provides strategic benefits, including enhanced access to suppliers, customers, and talent.
- Texas has a robust energy infrastructure and a skilled workforce, which may have appealed to Chevron, enabling them to tap into the regions pool of expertise. |
HUL Brand Products List
Hindustan Unilever Limited is the largest consumer goods company in India, established in 1933 and is based out of Mumbai. The company known for its presence across almost all categories of consumer products, has a variety of products in each of the categories targeted at almost all the customer segments. It has products in over 20 consumer categories majorly Food & Drink, Personal care, Home care and Water purifier serving over 700 million customers across the country and is undoubtedly the market leader in the FMCG sector.
Some of the famous brands of HUL are Dove, Lux, Lifebuoy, Pears, Hamam, Lyril, Rexona, Surf Excel, Wheel, Comfort, Clinic Plus, Sunsilk, Fair & Lovely, Pond’s, Lakmè, Vaseline, Bru, Taj Mahal, Lipton, Brooke Bond, Cornetto, Kisan, Annapurna, Magnum, Close up, Pepsodent, and many more.
The company with its exhaustive product range and wide distribution network aims to provide products fulfilling the needs and demands of all the segments of the society across the country. The company has always focused on innovative product offerings and adapting itself to the market changes, which has helped it maintain its market leadership.
You can download the HUL Brand Products List in PDF format from the link given below. |
Hospitality Technology expert John Burns joins Arvoia’s advisory board
AI-platform Arvoia has appointed John Burns to its advisory board. Burns will assist the technology company as it embarks on an ambitious global plan for expansion and investment funding.
Arvoia’s AI-platform complements a hotel’s existing technology by transforming hotel websites and augmenting booking engines into advanced digital guest experiences to fuel direct bookings and boost online business performance.
Burns brings a wealth of industry expertise to the Board; with over 40 years’ experience working for international hotel brands such as Hyatt and Ramada, and technology providers including THISCO (now Pegasus Solutions) and INTRICO. A member of HFTP’s International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame, Burns was also named one of the ten hospitality experts changing the travel industry by Lodging Magazine. The native Canadian is founder of Hospitality Technology Consulting and co-founder of Hotel Technology-Next Generation (HTNG).
Says Burns: “Arvoia is one of the most exciting companies I have seen in recent years. Its data-driven approach – backed up by a superior team of data scientists alongside hospitality and technology experts – addresses many of the common challenges in hospitality today. Arvoia is helping hotels wrestle back control of the booking experience from OTAs, placing the guest at the heart of hotels’ owned digital experiences. This is really a project to sink my teeth into, one that will transform the sector. Arvoia has the energy that will really propel growth.”
Arvoia’s CEO Mike Webster comments: “John is a true stalwart of the industry and will be a pivotal voice as we continue our journey. His expertise in hospitality technology will guide us as we push forward with our ambitious expansion plans, including an upcoming funding round. John’s reputation speaks for itself; that he believes in how Arvoia can transform the hotel booking experience is a testimony to the product we’ve created and our corporate future.”
For more information, visit arvoia.com |
Enrique Lizarazo runs La Moda en Piel, a family-owned shoe store in Bogota´s Chapinero district. Founded by Enrique´s father, who still works in the business, all shoes are custom-made by hand. The shoes are made in a cramped room at the back, a dusty, glue-smelling 40 square-metre room split into two levels. Most customers bring a pair of shoes they like and ask Enrique if he can make something similar. Once detailes are agreed, Enrique and his father set to work, preparing and marking the leather for cutting. Enrique´s mother handels the sewing, and two other staff members make the heels. |
Portland, Oregon--(Newsfile Corp. - September 18, 2023) - FloraWorks Holdings Inc., a leading cannabinoid therapeutics company, announced that its flagship product TruCBN™ (a pure form of cannabinol or "CBN") demonstrated effectiveness in treating sleep disturbances in a recent landmark clinical trial independently conducted by Radicle Science. In the industry-first, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 25, 50, and 100 milligrams of TruCBN™ were found to significantly enhance sleep outcomes and provide clinically meaningful improvement.
This groundbreaking trial is the first to compare the effects of CBN against a placebo, and one of the largest controlled clinical studies in history to evaluate a cannabinoid, with more than 1,000 diverse volunteers across the United States participating in the research. Participants received one of five different products: three different doses of TruCBN™, melatonin, or a placebo.
Key findings from the study include:
- The groups taking 25, 50, or 100 mg of TruCBN™ all showed a significant improvement in sleep compared to placebo.
- The group taking 4 mg melatonin also showed a significant improvement in sleep compared to placebo.
- 53.6% of participants receiving the 50 mg of TruCBN™ had a clinically meaningful improvement in their sleep - the greatest percentage out of any groups, including the melatonin group.
- The improvement seen in the melatonin group was not significantly different from the improvement seen in any of the three TruCBN™ groups.
- All side effects were mild to moderate. There were no significant differences in the frequency of reported side effects between any dose of TruCBN™ or melatonin compared to placebo.
"Our results pave the way for developing more safe, effective sleep solutions, ultimately improving the quality of life for millions of people who struggle with sleep disturbances," said Alleh Lindquist, CEO and Co-Founder of FloraWorks. "These findings bring needed clarity to the rapidly growing consumer demand for existing CBN products. Our TruCBN™ will be a strong, new competitor in the global sleep aid market, marking a major milestone in building consumer trust and confidence in the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids."
Dr. Jeff Chen, MD/MBA, Co-Founder and CEO of Radicle Science, said, "The historical firsts encompassed in this study have tremendous implications for formulating effective, natural sleep products for Americans. The findings especially highlight the importance of understanding the appropriate dosage for the desired health outcome. For CBN, higher concentrations like 100 mg do not seem to improve effectiveness for sleep disturbance compared to lower concentrations like 50 mg. This is some of the first human data to suggest CBN can significantly improve sleep, and the effects may be comparable to the most studied and used dietary supplement sleep ingredient: melatonin. It highlights the importance of exploring product formulations in a methodical, clinical manner through randomized, blinded clinical trials."
Dr. Susan Hewlings, Ph.D., RD, Vice President of Research Affairs at Radicle Science, explained, "It's very promising to discover that CBN could be just as effective - and possibly better - than melatonin. Many cannot tolerate melatonin's side effects and it is regulated as a prescription drug in countries like the UK and Japan. This discussion is especially timely given the recent FDA scrutiny towards melatonin dosage and concerns about consuming melatonin above recommended doses."
Clinical findings like these from FloraWorks and Radicle Science have the potential to become major market disruptors to the legacy over-the-counter sleep aid market. Almost fifty percent of Americans experience sleep deprivation, according to the latest CDC survey, and poor sleep has become a public health concern, as it is linked to many health issues, including inflammatory conditions, obesity, heart disease, and overall reduced quality of life. As consumers increasingly seek natural and safe alternatives for better sleep, the introduction of a non-intoxicating, hemp-derived cannabinoid solution presents an attractive option. This could lead to a decline in demand for traditional sleep aids, as the results of this study build consumer trust and confidence in TruCBN™ as a safe, effective, and natural alternative.
FloraWorks is a leading cannabinoid therapeutic development company specializing in high-quality, innovative products designed to improve health and wellness. With a focus on safety, efficacy, and consumer trust, FloraWorks is dedicated to unlocking the therapeutic potential of rare and novel cannabinoids, creating effective solutions that cater to a wide range of needs. For more information, visit www.flora-works.com.
About Radicle Science:
Radicle Science is history's first Proof-as-a-Service company, enabling non-prescription health and wellness products to clinically prove their true effects beyond placebo. The B-corp offers non-pharmaceutical products the first easy path to generate first-of-its-kind clinical evidence across diverse conditions and populations at unprecedented affordability, speed, and scale. Radicle's transformative approach democratizes access to clinical trials and can finally close the "proof gap" between non-prescription wellness products and pharmaceutical drugs.
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Sri Lanka is struggling to raise $587 million to pay for about half a dozen fuel shipments, a top minister said Sunday as the cash-strapped country tries to cope with its worst financial crisis in decades.
The country of 22 million people is unable to pay for essential imports of food items, fertilizer, medicines and fuel — due to a severe dollar crunch.
Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said new fuel shipments were being lined up, but the country is struggling to raise enough funds to pay as the central bank can supply only about $125 million.
Sri Lanka only has 12,774 tons of diesel and 4,061 tons of petrol left in its government reserves, he told reporters in Colombo, the commercial center of the island nation.
“This week we will need $316 million to pay for new shipments. If we add two crude oil shipments this amount shoots up to $587 million,” Wijesekera said.
The first shipment of 40,000 tons of diesel from Coral Energy is expected to arrive around July 9 and partial payment of $49 million must be made for a second one from Vitol by Thursday.
Faced with severely limited diesel and petrol stocks Sri Lanka last week closed schools, asked public employees to work from home and restricted government fuel supplies to essential services.
The minister said the country will have to attempt to raise funds from the open market and seek more flexible payment options from suppliers.
Plans to settle the $800 million owed to seven suppliers for purchases made this year were being discussed, he said.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials will continue to hold talks with Sri Lanka for a possible $3 billion bailout package, the global lender said last week after wrapping up a 10-day visit to Colombo.
However, the immediate release of funds from the IMF is unlikely because the country has first to get its debt on to a sustainable path. |
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The third edition of the network backup system - Ferro Backup SystemBystra, August 29, 2008 - FERRO Software have just released the third edition version of their backup system for servers, office computers and portable computers - Ferro Backup System.
Ferro Backup System is based on client-server architecture and protects computers working in a network. Backups can include selected files and folders or entire hard disks. In the case of a failure it is possible to restore backed up information or the entire operating system including installed applications.
The new version features a module creating reports and statistics, which makes the monitoring of backup operations easier. Available reports include reports on the overall current backup situation, reports on missed and delayed backup tasks and statistics on backup speeds and sizes for individual computers. All reports can be viewed from the new control console, sent to designated email address or uploaded to a web server. Ferro Backup System 3 also supports backups from FTP servers and backups to optical media: CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
In addition to software improvements, several changes have been made to the license agreement. Starting from version 3.0 an unregistered copy can be used to back up two computers rather than just one like previously. In addition, non-commercial use of the unregistered version is free.
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Located in the West Kootenays, Bear Spring Eco Retreat offers novel canvas glamping accommodations. Nestled in the mountains with stunning river views, our property includes an event centre perfect for intimate concerts or weddings (opening summer 2022), a refreshing outdoor solar shower and edible food gardens. Our 300 acre property is perfect for urbanites seeking an outdoor experience immersed in nature without foregoing any of the comforts of home. Located just 12 minutes from the artist city of Nelson, we’re close enough to town to order take-out yet, just far enough to gaze at the Milky Way. Our mostly off-grid, eco-friendly retreat offers modern luxuries including queen size beds and linens, solar lighting and a communal outdoor cooking area complete with dishes and utensils. All you need to bring is food. Enjoy nature walks, foraging, hiking, biking, swimming, skiing, snowshoeing and wild life viewing at or near our sustainable retreat.
Cool Waters RV park is located in a valley about 5 minutes south of beautiful Nelson BC.
The property has a creek running through it, it is about 20 minutes from the local ski hill, and has a great number of mountain bike trails within close proximity.
The RV park has select amenities, including wireless internet, as well as electrical and water service.
BioBio Guest Suite and Guest House are located on an organic farm within a 10 min drive to the vibrant community of Nelson. The best of both worlds: the peace and beauty of the rural setting only a short drive ( or bus ride) to historic Baker St. with its restaurants, art galleries, bookshops and boutiques.
There are 2 options for accomodation. A 1 bedroom suite sleeps up to 4 people. BioBIo GUest House has 2 bedrooms, a TV/den, a living room and sleeps 6 people in beds.
Both are lovingly built by a Swiss carpenter using the highest quality eco materials on our organic farm ( Arrowhead Farm). Enjoy the fresh air and space of the country setting only a 10 min drive from downtown Nelson. 30 minutes to Whitewater Ski Resort.
Arrowhead Farm is situated on a quiet road, away from the highway, but easy access from town.
BioBio Suite is on the first floor. There are no steps from the parking to the suite and none within. The main suite is occupied by the owner. There is no overlap of living areas ensuring peace and privacy for both. BioBio suite has its own entrance and a fenced in yard separate from the yard of the main house. It has a lovely private patio.
BioBio Guest House has its own driveway and parking area and is very private. There are steps both outside and within the house. There is a beautiful flagstone patio with garden furniture and access to the natural swimming pools.
Both are built with low VOC paints and natural finishes, wood, stone and are equipped with Heat Return Ventillators for the best air quality and energy efficiency.
Quality furnishings, new memory mattresses, WiFi ( can be turned off on request), washer/dryer, fully equipped kitchen, TV, Netflix.
While staying at the BioBio Suite or Guest House you will have an option to buy our farm fresh organic produce, Kootenay Local Agricultural Society certified.
Please enquire about our farm/pond permaculture tours and workshops on farm crafts: milking, cheese, butter, sour cream and yoghurt making, sourdough bread baking, fermenting, preserving.
In the area:
We are located 10 min by car from Nelson. In the summer time many Nelsonites use Blewett Rd as their biking trail. It is 30 min by bike to Nelson and 50 ( or more) min back, as we are uphill from town. There is also a city bus that stops in front of the farm on request. Going to town by bike and taking a bus back saves you an uphill ride.
Whtewater Ski resort, 30 min by car, famous for its champagne powder. Nelson was voted The Best Ski Town in North America by Powder Magazine.
Granite Point Golf course, 10 min by car
closest beach: Taghum Beach, 5 min by car
mountain biking: world class, abundant, closest area Morning Mountain is accessible from the house, a 10 min bike ride on Blewett Rd.
Take a Break! Stay at the prettiest RV Park and campground. 36 full service grassy sites in mountain setting. Large or small, we accommodate all. Pet friendly, clean washrooms; hot showers, free WiFi and friendly hosts. Now with 3 fully furnished and fully equipped rental Cabins Call: 866-687-7275
RV Park, campground, ice, pop, firewood, WiFi Internet access, cellular signal, satellite signal.
KARIBU PARK – is nestled in the picturesque Slocan Valley, in the Selkirk Mountains of the West Kootenays, between Calgary and Vancouver. We are on the pristine Slocan River in the hamlet of Winlaw, centrally located to Valhalla & Kokanee Provincial Parks, and the towns of Nelson, Castlegar and New Denver.
A campground for Self-contained RV’s only. Full Service Hook-ups. Wireless Internet. No washrooms or showers available. Daily,weekly and monthly rates. Pets allowed – on leash. Located just south of Nelson on Hwy 6 across from the Welcome to Nelson sign. Reach us by cell phones at 354-8451 or 354-8127 or 352-7238 office phone. Open year round $25.00 per night.
A beautiful, quiet, park like resort on the North Shore of Kootenay Lake. Only minutes to Nelson and close to Kokanee Glacier Park and Ainsworth Hot Springs. Cozy, clean kitchen suites and in summer a gorgeous breakfast included in a very reasonable price. Beach access and kayak rental.
Our ‘Outdoor Resort’ is literally in the middle of existing activities: Kokanee Glacier Park with short trails and multi day hikes is on our doorstep. Kootenay Lake with great sailing, kayaking, fishing and swimming is right in front of us. Next to our place starts a Wilderness Road, leading to the Six Mile Lakes and the Slocan Valley. And Nelson is only 8 km away.
Kootenai Hideaway is a private lakefront cabin accommodation moments north of Kaslo. Queens Bay Hideaway is a private lakefront cottage just 5 minutes north of Balfour.
The completely renovated cabin sleeps 5-6 and has a queen size bed and a double futon couch/bed with an upper bunk in the front view room. There are also two single beds in the loft bedroom. The kitchen is fully equipped along with a BBQ. There is a full bathroom with a shower. There is everything that you will need in the cabin including all bedding, linens and towels. There is ample parking and a RV power plugin on the cabin.The 200′ of private lake frontage consists mainly of small, smooth, flat pebbles that are made to skip on the lakes’ surface forever. The beach has a gradual slope into the lake which makes it safer for children. At the beach there is a fire-pit, hammock, tenting spots, horseshoe pitch or try the productive fishing from shore at the mouth of the creek. The cabin is located near the end of a no-thru road and is well away from the main roadway. You will only hear the wind and water as the other properties are well hidden past the trees. Email or call Darrell and Chloe for more information on the cabin or the Kaslo area and its activities. 250-825-4568 Two Lakeside family vacation solutions for all four Seasons.
Come stay with us and enjoy a home-away-from home!
Fully equipped suites with everything you need for a most enjoyable stay in the magical Kootenay region. Overlooking Kootenay Lake, this charming Heritage Building was built in 1926 and has been transformed over the decades into four beautiful, artistically designed, self-contained suites that can accommodate a single person or a large group of up to twelve people. Free off-street parking, smoke-free interior, beautiful yard and gardens.
We are located in the middle of Nelson town, close to all the favourite local amenities, including over 35 restaurants within walking distance!
We also have another option: our Morning Star Cabin, tucked away in the forest on the perimeter of Nelson, for anyone looking for a truly unique and different experience. Our Cabin can accommodate up to four people and is a five minute drive from downtown Nelson.
For eclectic, vibrant, exclusive and affordable accommodation, contact us!
Walking distance to downtown, beach, shopping. May 1 to October 17th. Showers, flush toilets, picnic tables, covered dining shelter, wireless internet, shade, view, laundry and sani-station. Pets allowed. $25 un-serviced, electricity only $30, and full hook-up $35, base on 2 people. Extra adults $5, Children 14 and under free.
Wing Creek Resort is a spectacularly beautiful, environmentally conscious waterfront resort that offers ownership opportunities and vacation rentals. This unique 20-acre resort features thoughtfully designed luxury cottages, a beautiful private beach, mountain streams, lush forest, walking trails, an orchard, gardens, a gift shop and the Falling Water Spa.
Only 5 cottages available in Phase 1. Wing Creek Resort offers deluxe one-bedroom cedar cottages with granite counter tops, slate and hardwood floors, stainless appliances, and wood burning fireplaces. Decks overlook breathtaking views. Located on 20 wooded acres, with trails, private beach, orchards, gardens and a sparkling mountain stream. Our spa features relaxation and sports massage, reiki and reflexology. Private, quiet, secluded year round retreat. One hour north of Nelson, 20 minutes north of Ainsworth Hot Springs and just 5 minutes north of Kaslo. Wing Creek Resort is in the heart of an area known for its natural beauty, spectacular vistas, natural hot springs, unparalleled hiking, boating, skiing and many other outdoor activities.
The cozy cottage is at the end of a quiet no-thru road, on the shores of the sheltered Queens Bay, the warmest water in Kootenay Lake laps at this beach. The cottage is 30 minutes between Nelson and Kaslo, and just a few minutes North of the Balfour Ferry Terminal.
The fully equipped cottage has a full kitchen with fridge, stove, oven, microwave and a BBQ. There is a full bathroom with a large shower. Everything that you need will be waiting for you, including all bedding, linens and towels… if there is something more you require, just ask.
Head out and explore what the area has to offer. There are spectacular golf courses just minutes away, or soak in the mineral waters at Ainsworth Hot Springs, spelunk at Cody Caves Provincial Park, hire a fishing charter or hike, mountain bike or zip-line… so many opportunities are nearby so please ask for a “Daytrip Distance and Info sheet” to be sent to you. At the end of a day full of Kootenay style adventures, dine at any one of the excellent restaurants or pubs in the area. Then come home to peace and quiet and an evening of telling stories around your campfire on the beach.
Newly built, totally self-contained 2 bedroom house with off street parking.
Located 3 blocks from Historic Downtown Baker Street.
Pets negotiable; extra charge may apply.
This is a non smoking property.
Minimum 2 night stay.
Stunning 2 bedroom suite with walkout waterfront on beautiful Kootenay Lake.
The suite is self contained with a private entrance and well appointed kitchen.
Relax and enjoy the patio’s lake, mountain and garden views, complete with outdoor kitchen and BBQ.
A 25 minute drive from historical Nelson which offers unique shops carrying both quality name brands and local artisan products. While exploring Nelson stop and take a break at one of the many restaurants, coffee shops, or craft breweries this city has to offer.
Conveniently located for both winter and summer outdoor enthusiasts. Minutes away from Kokanee Park for all your hiking, biking, water sports and zipline needs. Two beautiful 18 hole golf courses, plus Ainsworth Hot Springs, and the longest free ferry ride in the world are all nearby. For winter sports we are 45mins away from Whitewater ski hill with some of the best powder in Canada. Also many cross country ski trails for you to choose from in the area.
Or just come sit……..enjoy the private beach, sun and fun.
We are located on Svoboda Road, 2.4 kms from the city of Nelson. Svoboda Road is home to many popular mountain biking trails of all levels. From our beautiful glamping sites you can ride out to the trails, already up the mountain. We are surrounded by the West Arm Wilderness Park so it is pristine forest, creeks and hiking trails also all around us. Being 10 minutes from Nelson also opens up all the amenities of this lovely town…biking/hiking/walking trails at the foot of Svoboda Road that go for miles in either direction; fabulous restaurants, craft breweries, shops, beaches and in non Covid times many festivals and music, and arts events.
We have four 14 foot in diameter domes, each with a twin bed, but room for another twin bed if desired; one 32 foot dome with a queen, and three twin beds; two cabins with queen beds, and a 32 foot travel trailer that is suitable for six people and is self contained with a shower, bathroom, full kitchen. There is a gazebo, full kitchen, three showeres and composting toilets, fire pit for the domes and cabins. All the domes have carpets, dressers, ‘real” beds, linens, towels. We are only filling to 1/2 capacity due to Covid 19 so each group can have their own shower and bathroom. Perfect for mountain bikers, families or a romantic retreat. The property is home to the Martin’s organic farm….full of beautiful flowering gardens, veggies, berries and fruit trees. Quiet, lush, and in the wilderness but close to Nelson.
The Frog peak cafe opened its doors in the summer of 2005 and has been happily serving the community breakfast and lunch ever since. We strive to support as many local farmers and use fresh ingredients in all of our food. The frog peak cafe is a busy community hub that also supports a thriving art community with monthly art shows featuring local artists. The 120 year old building is sitting on 1 acer of beautiful gardens with stone patios and a large play area for children. If you are looking for adventure then take our free bikes out for a ride on the rails to trails a beautiful trail meandering along the slocan river that starts right in front of the cafe. We look forward to feeding and serving our community every day.
Halcyon Hot Springs Resort has a wide variety of exclusive accommodations scattered throughout the serene, forested surroundings. Whether travelling for business or on family vacation, Halcyon has the right place for you. From private, exquisite cabins to family style cottages and grandiose loft chalets, our accommodations provide you with that private getaway experience. All our accommodations are within walking distance of the hot springs. With onsite SPA services and the Kingfisher Restaurant, you will not have to worry about a thing. When it comes time to rest, relax and rejuvenate, Halcyon is here for you. Welcome home.
Our retreat offers novel glamping accommodations and self-contained guest suite. Enjoy stunning views of Kootenay River, explore edible gardens and walk mossy, forest trails on this 300 acre property in the mountains.
Conveniently located just close enough to Nelson, that you may order take-out dinner, yet far enough away to gaze at stars.
The retreat also features a beautiful event venue, gift shop and seasonal tours and workshops.
Cabins, RV sites, Tenting
Heated Pool & Beach
JB’s Pub & Restaurant
Full Service Marina
Country Store & Laundromat
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Hi Nigel Wardell,
The UK / Italy double taxation agreement advises that the lump sum and pension are taxable only in Italy. Your UK pension provider deducts
tax on the lump sum and pension, as part of their pension guidance.
You therefor, need to claim the tax back from HMRC. To do this, you will need to download and print off, the double taxation treaty form
(Double Taxation: Treaty Relief (Form DT-Individual)
Please complete all the relevant sections and send the signed and dated form to your local Italian tax office.
The Italian tax authorities will validate the completed form, by signing and date stamping the form.
They will return it to you, for you to send it to
HM Revenue and Customs
Pay As You Earn and Self Assessment
HMRC can then instruct the pension company to refund any tax deducted in the current tax year and HMRC will repay any tax overpaid in a previous tax year. |
Parents of children with Fragile X Syndrome in Ireland – your views are sought!
Please read the below information regarding research that you may wish to participate in;
Caroline Ruth is an educational psychologist who works as part of a multi-disciplinary Developmental and Autism Team for HSE South, and is currently engaged in doctoral research in UCD. Her research is focusing on the support needs of families with a child/children with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) in Ireland. As part of her research, she is seeking insights from parents of children with FXS through a survey and/or interview. There is a particular focus on the voice of parents and their lived experience of FXS within this study. It is intended that research findings will be used to inform policy and practice within an Irish context, and in particular enhance understanding about this complex disorder. Full ethical permission has been granted for this study.
Participation is voluntary and anyone is free to withdraw at any stage, without need for reason. The researcher will ensure that no parent, child, service or stakeholder will be identifiable from the data.
The survey will take approximately fifteen minutes to complete and can be accessed at the following link:
For any further details please contact Caroline Ruth at [email protected] |
Various Job opportunity at PASS Trust Tanzania
The Private Agricultural Sector Support Trust (PASS) is a facility established in the year 2000 in order to stimulate investment and growth in commercial agriculture and related sectors. It was registered in 2007 as non profit making and non governmental organization under the Trustees Incorporation Act, 2002 and is taxed as charitable organization.
PASS ensures it delivers its services based on customer wants in a high standard of workmanship and professionalism
We believe trust and respect is essential to our team and the same is reciprocated to our partners (Clients, donors, banks, and other stakeholders). PASS ensures building the spirit of trustworthiness (and security responsibility) among individual staff
PASS believes Good relationship and fairness in all our dealings
PASS is highly committed to high standards of integrity.
Value for Money
We make sure every cent you pay is reflected to the quality of service you get
Below are Job opportunity provided by PASS Trust Tanzania
1.Local Environmental & Sustainability Officer
Deadline : 2022-05-30 04:48:40
2.Credit Administration and Recovery Officer
Deadline : 2022-05-30 04:47:48
3. Finance Manager – PASS Leasing
Deadline : 2022-04-30 05:12:45 |
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