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By Fred C. Tenover, Ph.D., D(ABMM), FIDSA, FAAM, FISAC
Upon completion of this article, the reader will be able to:
- List the reasons that have led to antimicrobial resistance.
- Discuss healthcare statistics and outcomes of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
- Describe how proper antibiotic treatment is selected for individual patients.
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About the Author
Dr. Fred Tenover is Vice President for Scientific Affairs at Cepheid, where he has worked since 2008. He is also Consulting Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and Consulting Professor of Biology at the University of Dayton. Prior to joining Cepheid, he served for 18 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta as Associate Director for Laboratory Science in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. His research team discovered the KPC carbapenem resistance gene and other key resistance determinants. He then became the Director of the Office of Antimicrobial Resistance for the CDC. Dr. Tenover was a member of the CLSI Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Subcommittee for 17 years, developing novel test methods for resistance detection and interpretive criteria for new antimicrobial agents. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
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Caring is the Key!
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In 2018 Cecilia Trevino (Ceci) was diagnosed and treated with a brain tumor at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). During her hospital stay she was surprised by the love and care shown by friends, family and even strangers.
The gifts and surprises she received kept her distracted and helped her not be afraid and scared of the treatments and procedures she underwent during her extended hospital stay.
In 2019, Ceci wanted to collect toys for children who were being treated at TCH. Ceci approached her parents with an idea on how to organize a toy drive so that she could bring smiles to the many children being treated at the hospital. She started her collection at her school; later broadening her reach to her family and friends. With everyone’s help, a donation of more than 350 toys was made to TCH.
Ceci was so moved by the response in 2019 that she wanted to do it again in 2020. Her goal was to donate one more toy than in 2019. To her amazement she was able to collect and donate more than 750 toys.
In 2021, The Ceci Cares Foundation was created and certified as a 501 (C)(3). This past Christmas, the Foundation was able to donate over 6,000 toys and $600 in gift cards to all 3 TCH facilities, Memorial Herman Pediatrics Hospital and The Sunshine Kids.
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We all remember the very first Fifty Shades of Grey trailer and that moment even girls who hated reading finished the whole trilogy in a matter of a few days. While Fifty Shades of Grey was some kind of a masterpiece and Fifty Shades Darker was the best gift for Valentine’s Day 2017, Fifty Shades Freed seems to earn more criticism than glory.
The new Fifty Shades Freed trailer is exciting and even dramatic – if you haven’t watched it yet, here you have it:
Did it make your heart pump? I am sure it did – especially if you are a Fifty Shades movie fan. But do you have that feeling that it is just another fiction that you could find online and watch anytime today?
Hopefully, that feeling will fade away when we will watch the next trailer and full movie in February 2018. Still, the story keeps going and the third and final Fifty Shades Freed can make you scream with delight!
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The construction industry is a significant employer of workers in most countries around the world. In America, construction workers account for approximately 2.9% of the entire US workforce; broadly similar proportions can be found in other developed countries. In addition, the construction industry is a key contributor to the overall GDP of a nation. In America, it accounts for almost 5% of the country’s total GDP, equating to over $1.3 trillion.
This form of industry is a vital and major part of any country’s economy. If you are the owner of a construction firm, you will be acutely aware that your staff is one of the most vital components in the success of your business. Put simply, your workforce will be responsible for delivering the projects on time, to quality, and in line with budget projections. Without a highly skilled and motivated team of contractors working for your company, it will struggle to remain profitable and efficient in an increasingly competitive environment.
One key way to ensure that your workforce is highly motivated and works to their full potential is by making the wellbeing of your workforce an absolute priority. Workers who feel valued are more likely to remain with the firm, which will help keep recruitment costs low while minimizing employee churn. In this article, some of the key ways in which you can look after the wellbeing of your construction industry workforce will be explored in detail.
Offer a range of employment benefits
Every employee will be motivated by the idea of working for a firm offering diverse employment benefits. These benefits can play a key role in making staff members feel valued by the organization and may help with staff retention and morale in the workforce. Examples of employee benefits include providing a comprehensive health insurance plan (ideally including the worker and their families) that offers a range of medical services, dental care, and access to optician services.
Ideally, this form of healthcare plan should also include access to mental health services for the staff member and their family. It should be recognized that approximately 21% of the American population will experience a mental health problem each year. Having access to suitable mental health services can be a key way to recover from these issues and should be considered a valuable part of any health insurance plan.
In addition, comprehensive employee benefits packages can also contain other services that improve the wellbeing of the construction workforce. For example, subsidized gym membership can be a fantastic incentive for staff members who wish to keep in shape, and promoting such forms of exercise will help to ensure that your contractors stay fit and healthy. This can also help to reduce staff sickness levels in your firm. To sum up, a comprehensive range of employee benefits can help improve your workforce’s wellbeing and plays a key role in retaining and motivating your staff.
Encourage smoking cessation
It is well recognized that smoking tobacco is a dangerous practice that can reduce a person’s level of health and put them at an increased risk of developing cancer and other serious health problems. In fact, 9 out of 10 lung cancer deaths are thought to be directly caused by smoking. However, the construction industry has the highest proportion of smokers in its workforce, with 34.3% of all construction staff using some form of tobacco product.
The construction industry can be a stressful sector of work, with budgets and strict timescales needing to be adhered to, along with the nature of the work, which often requires a significant amount of physical exertion. Put simply, it is little surprise that many construction workers choose to smoke, even if they are fully aware of the health implications of doing so.
Construction firm managers, leaders, and owners can play a key role in encouraging their workforce to quit smoking and benefit from improved health. They can consider offering free access to nicotine replacement products as part of their employee benefits package and can give the workforce information on how to book an appointment with a smoking cessation specialist.
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Book quality accommodation
Many construction firms will require their contractors to work on regional or even national projects, often without a large amount of notice. These jobs can be for a period of days or may stretch to several weeks at a new location. Workers will therefore need to have suitable accommodation booked for them so that they can start the day with a minimum of commuting time.
Ideally, accommodation needs to be near the location and of suitably high quality to ensure that the workforce has all the amenities they need and a comfortable room to sleep in after a hard day’s work. Using a dedicated company that routinely books accommodation for construction workers and other mobile staff makes sense. Contractor accommodation from comfyworkers.com and other such sites represent a great choice as these organizations have extensive experience and knowledge of securing suitable accommodation for contractors and other staff.
These companies will be able to search through their lists of premises across the country to find accommodation that is close to the construction site and to a pre-determined budget. Often, using these specialist services is a more cost-effective and efficient way to secure accommodation for your staff as the manager will be given a list of premises that meet the criteria and the budget.
This can save managers and senior planning staff time and effort when planning works outside their local area. In addition, having the assurance that the accommodation is to a suitable standard will ensure that the workforce are comfortable when working outside local boundaries.
Safety equipment and training
It is of paramount importance to recognize the value of high-quality safety equipment in any construction operation. All staff members will need access to essential equipment such as hard hats, steel toe-capped boots, and reflective clothing. These basic items will keep the workforce safe when working on any site and can play a key role in reducing the number of accidents at work.
It is estimated that one in ten construction workers are injured in the course of their duties in any given year. This statistic makes construction work one of the most hazardous occupations across all sectors of industry and reinforces the need for suitable safety wear and equipment. In addition, all construction firms should have job-specific safety training programs for all their staff. This will go beyond the simple manual handling and health and safety training that is provided to most workers in other industries.
It should include comprehensive information on the dangers that all staff face when on building sites and the need to undertake dynamic risk assessments when starting a new task. This is especially important when working from a height or in a restricted or potentially dangerous environment. Mandatory safety training should be completed before any new staff member or contractor starts work with the firm.
Refresher training should ideally take place on an annual basis. In addition, it is good practice to offer staff basic first aid training so that they can assist others should an accident occur. These measures demonstrate the company’s commitment to the safety and welfare of their workforce and will ensure that safe working practices take place on every job and at every site.
Risk management reporting systems
In addition to safety equipment and comprehensive training packages, every construction firm needs to cultivate a working culture that learns from accidents, near misses or adverse incidents to minimize the likelihood of a reoccurrence. Building a safe working culture that puts employee welfare in the center of all operations can be aided by putting risk management reporting systems in place. In its most basic form, this could include having an “adverse incident hotline” where incident reports can be made over the telephone.
A verbal message can be left on an answerphone that is recorded by office staff. This is an ideal method for construction staff as it allows them to make a quick call while on site to immediately report what has occurred. These reports can then be entered into a risk management database or a related health and safety software platform.
Over time, as a volume of reports has been recorded, the firm can begin to create statistics and reports with the information. This will allow them to spot any patterns in industrial accidents, near misses, or adverse incidents with a view to putting remedial measures in place to reduce the risk of reoccurrence. In short, a robust system for incident reporting can help any construction firm improve its safety record and put worker safety at the forefront of everything they do.
Many industries and sectors of business hold annual staff awards for their workforce. These ceremonies reward workers with excellent working skills and a commitment to high-quality output. The construction industry is no different, and it can be incredibly rewarding for construction staff to gain formal recognition for their hard work and dedication.
Staff awards ceremonies show the workforce that their actions are valued by the owners and senior leadership in the firm and can be a key way to motivate, retain, and encourage staff to work to the highest possible standards. Ideally, a staff awards ceremony should include a range of different award categories (such as a new starter of the year, a mentorship award, and outstanding commitment to staff safety). Such awards play a key role in keeping standards high on every site and encouraging staff to perform in every task to the best of their abilities.
Heathier on-site food options
On many larger construction sites, hot meals may be available to the workforce. Commonly, 3rd party vendors are invited to visit the site at lunch or break times so that staff members can enjoy a freshly cooked meal. However, the choice of food is often limited and may consist of fried foods such as burgers and other less healthy meal options.
If you have vendors who visit the site, ask if they can prepare more healthy meal options that are lower in saturated fats, such as jacket potatoes with reduced-fat toppings. Many vendors are happy to include healthier and more nutritious menu choices that are still likely to be popular with the workforce. This small change can have a significant positive impact on worker health over the course of their careers and may help staff to avoid obesity and other problems that are caused by a poor diet.
To sum up
The construction industry can improve worker wellbeing in a wide range of ways. Offering a comprehensive employee benefits package can be extremely effective, along with encouraging the workforce to quit smoking if they use tobacco products.
Staff should have access to safety equipment on-site and must receive suitable health and safety training. A safety culture can be further embedded in the organization by using reporting systems for accidents and near misses.
Staff members should expect to receive high-quality and comfortable accommodation when they are working outside their local area. In addition, staff award ceremonies can demonstrate the value that the employer place on its workforce. Finally, offering staff a range of healthy and nutritious meal options when on-site can improve the long-term health of the workers.
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International Fountain Music
Music plays an important part in fully experiencing International Fountain. The 120-foot high supershooters and dome-mounted water jets are choreographed to move with pre-programmed music, including Aaron Copeland’s “Billy the Kid,” Duke Ellington, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and a mix from Northwest rock ‘n roll legends.
But when the fountain waters flow in a more constant fleur de lie pattern, the music becomes more personal to Seattle Center, curated to correspond with the seasons and activities on the grounds. That portion of the musical mix, which went on hiatus at the start of the pandemic, returned at the beginning of this month.
Since 2001, it has been orchestrated by a highly talented local musician and music producer, James Whetzel, who has drawn on his areas of expertise as an ethnomusicologist to bring an eclectic mix of music from all over the world to International Fountain. In the summer, James’s fountain playlists feature more upbeat tempos. In the winter, the music slows down and becomes more atmospheric. The pieces he selects often pay tribute to events on the grounds, like Seattle Center Festál, or highlight resident productions, like those at Seattle Opera or Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Over the years, James has put together hundreds of biweekly fountain playlists. Each has 35 to 50 tracks running the gamut from classical to modern. He sees his first priority as providing an inviting atmosphere for people to interact with the fountain. KNKX just took a look at his music curation. The music also streams inside Seattle Center Armory.
Click here to hear Jame’s latest playlist.
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The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) industry is rapidly changing. New opportunities in the form of increased insurance coverage mandates, enhanced technology, and private equity investment place ABA practices in the unique position to capture additional growth. Additionally, the increase in autism prevalence rates, efforts to combat fraud, and the ever-changing landscape of ABA compliance are all impacting practices across the United States and highlight the need for behavior analytic health services.
The coming changes require agility and foresight. Check out these 6 trends that ABA practices can expect to see in 2020, and stay ahead of the ever-changing landscape of ABA service delivery.
1) Increase in Required Insurance Coverage
Starting in the 1990s and 2000s, parents began to lead the charge to expand coverage for autism services. Beginning with Indiana in 2001, a growing number of states added autism insurance requirements. Finally, in August 2019, Tennessee became the last state to mandate that autism services be covered by insurance.
However, wider coverage of ABA is still needed. According to Autism Speaks, “Fully insured plans must comply with these [state] laws, but self-funded plans do not. Self-funded plans are regulated by federal law – not state law.”
Advocates plan to continue working to expand insurance coverage, as the country is a patchwork of laws, with many private insurance companies not required to provide any coverage for autism. Greater opportunities may emerge for providing ABA services that caregivers can afford for their children.
2) New CMS Regulations to Combat Fraud
In 2018 and 2019, several ABA clinics came under fire for Medicaid fraud. In some of those instances, the way in which services were tracked and billed was not in compliance with applicable state laws.
Effective January 2020, there is a new law aimed to combat fraud for in-home services: Electronic Visit Verification, or EVV. This law is federally mandated by The Cures Act for Medicaid-reimbursed in-home services. In it, each state must require service providers to verify electronically these 6 points of data:
- Type of service
- Individual receiving service
- Individual providing service
- Location site
- Time – beginning/end
Because each state can implement EVV as they see fit, the country is a patchwork of various and constantly-shifting requirements. Some states are working with specific vendors and many states have waivers and are deferring their EVV implementation. The beginning of the year may look like a shuffleboard, with ABA practices and other healthcare providers needing to keep a close eye on their state(s) quickly-changing Medicaid and EVV requirements.
3) The Shortage of Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) Continues
ABA practices continue to feel the strain due to a lack of BCBAs to meet the growing demand for services. According to the Center for Disease Control, autism prevalence rates have increased to roughly 1 in 59 children, a 154 percent increase since 2000. As of now, there are 1.25 million children and over 2.5 million adults estimated to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The increase in newly-certified BCBAs is unable to keep pace with the need for services. There are only about 37,900 BCBAs available to serve the millions of people who are in need of behavior analytic services, so practices are under pressure to reduce unbillable hours for their BCBAs and focus time on effective clinical service delivery to help children with autism.
Additionally, ABA practices will have to continue to invest effort into recruiting qualified practitioners and retaining those hard-won staff. Turnover rates for behavior analysts can be as high as 20%. In states where the dearth of BCBA is especially challenging, savvy ABA practices may consider methods to recruit and retain out-of-state talent.
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4) Onboarding and Training Optimization Is Being Achieved
ABA practices are seeing rapid growth rates — which creates a big need for rapid onboarding and training. Practices will continue to see the value of centralizing their training on a single system to quickly bring on board new behavior technicians, billers, schedulers and more. With new staff, new locations, and/or new departments being added each year, practices will find it far easier to manage training digitally. Smart onboarding and training systems will continue to help with the influx of new hires and alleviate the often-high turnover rates in the following ways:
a.) Faster onboarding of new hires. ABA practices need to quickly assign and deliver engaging courses to all new employees like HIPAA and sexual harassment trainings, so having a learning mangement system is a big plus.
b.) Reclaim BCBA’s billable time. With repeatable online courses — created either by your own team, or by third-party content experts — you can empower your BCBAs to focus on their clinical cases and reduce the necessity of having current staff train new staff.
c.) Greater retention through interactive learning content. When it comes to behavior technicians especially, it’s important that they not only take the 40-Hour RBT course, but also pass the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) exam and apply the information in the real world. You’re entrusting RBTs with your clients’ care, and you need to know they will provide excellent services.
d.) Easier ways to stay in compliance. It’s crucial to not only deliver required courses, like HIPAA and Bloodborne Pathogens and the RBT Course, but also track them to ensure your staff are fully knowledgeable and able to apply content. ABA practices may increasingly opt for a Learning Management System to help manage this critical piece of their operation.
5) Opportunities for Analytics & Organizational Behavior Management
Healthcare providers, including ABA service providers, are seeing the need for actionable data and analytics. According to a survey by the Healthcare Executive Group (HCEG), leveraging data to drive decisions was reportedly the top challenge for healthcare executives in both 2018 and 2019.
Best-in-class software providers are responding to that challenge. Everyone from front-line staff to executives can tap into organizational behavior management (OBM) dashboards that help to improve performance. Whether in services delivered, claims paid by funding sources, or overall efficiencies, these meaningful insights in key areas may include:
e.) Staff management metrics like staff productivity and the performance of behavior technicians.
f.) Clinical data collection and progress monitoring, so BCBAs can visually grasp the process a client is making across goal areas or developmental domains.
g.) Accounts Receivable and RCM tools, to stay ahead of collections issues and analyze your insurance payor mix.
h.) Custom report writers that support enterprise-level data analytics, to maximize organization-wide operational efficiency.
6) Digital Data Collection & Practice Management Is Increasing
With all the challenges and opportunities facing ABA practices, more organizations are turning to fully-digital solutions to manage their scheduling, billing, clinical data collection, and more. The leading provider of ABA software solutions has eclipsed 1,000 practices and is serving nearly 100,000 users, with many additional ABA practices considering a digital solution to their manual challenges.
While every practice has unique needs, the drive toward a single digital solution often arises from one or more of the reasons below:
- The challenge of completing claims by paper. It’s tough to keep track of what’s been billed out successfully, what claims need to be scrubbed, and what payors aren’t paying without a centralized electronic claims clearinghouse and digital reports.
- The difficulty of scheduling for diverse authorization frequencies and amounts. When factoring in staff and client cancellations, it’s nearly impossible to maximize authorized hours without a digital tool that keeps scheduling straight for your practice.
- The burden of clinical documentation. Like all healthcare providers, BCBAs and RBTs fill out a lot of documents. It’s easy to make a mistake when completing these manually and manually filling out documents tales a lot of time away from your clients. Digital software can auto-fill documents with information like names, dates, billing codes, and more, to save time and reduce error.
- The clinical importance of frequent, evidence-based decision making. BCBAs want to provide the best possible care to their clients, but receiving data from technicians and then manually graphing it later is time-consuming. Digital data collection provides real-time updates and automatically graphed data, so care can be frequently monitored for better client outcomes.
The headache of multiple systems. Assembling your own selection of different systems for billing, scheduling, data collection, and reporting might seem like the best of all worlds. But since those systems may not communicate well, staff lose efficiency by trying to export something, modify it, and upload it — only to have to redo the process again and again. An end-to-end system cures the headache of multiple systems.
CentralReach is the complete, end-to-end software and services platform that enables administrators, clinicians, and executives of ABA practices to produce superior outcomes.
Initially created by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2012, today CentralReach is trusted by 85,000+ therapists and administrators in more than 1,000 organizations.
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In new lockdown, a second chance for Tamil Nadu
Mains: General Studies- II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations.
- With 54,449 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the State, as on June 19, Tamil Nadu has the second highest numbers recorded after Maharashtra (over 1,20,500).
- Delhi closely follows with nearly 50,000 cases. The number of new cases recorded in Tamil Nadu, especially in Chennai, has been steadily rising.
- Deaths too have increased, from 87 on May 20 to 666 on June 19, a 16-fold increase.
- While there were just three deaths on May 20, the figures increased steadily but remained under 20 till June 12, except on June 11 when there were 23 deaths.
- If the toll crossed 30 on June 13, for the first time, it has been above 40 since June 15.
- From 13,191 total cases and 743 fresh cases reported on May 20, the State crossed the 50,000 mark on June 17 with a record 2,174 fresh cases on that day — the first time the number of cases reported on a given day have crossed 2,000; June 18 had 2,141 cases.
- It was on May 31 that Tamil Nadu crossed the 1,000 mark, with 1,149 cases.
- But the State has been increasing the number of tests carried out each day since May 20.
- From 11,894 tests on May 20, Tamil Nadu has ramped up testing with each passing day to reach nearly 25,500 on June 17, a sharp increase from 19,200-odd cases the previous day.
- June 18 witnessed a further increase to 26,736. So far, Tamil Nadu has carried out 8,00,443 tests as on June 18, which is higher than Maharashtra, with 7,19,637 tests.
- The test positivity rate which has been steadily increasing since June 1, reaching a peak on June 9 with 12.7%, has been reducing since June 14 when the number of tests each day has been climbing; it was 8.5% on June 17. At 10,371 tests per million population, Tamil Nadu is among the top six States.
- A high-test positivity rate reflects either good surveillance or higher spread of the virus in the community.
- According to Prof. Giridhara R. Babu, Head – Lifecourse Epidemiology, Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Bengaluru, it could be a combination of good surveillance and higher prevalence of the virus in the case of Tamil Nadu.
- But he is quick to add that surveillance could have remained constant and not drastically changed in a matter of a few days and hence the increase in test positivity is more a reflection of the higher prevalence of infected people in the community.
- Test positivity can also reduce when the number of tests carried out is increased and the testing is not based on syndromic surveillance.
- The only way to reduce the true prevalence of infected people in the community is by further ramping up testing, contact tracing and quarantining of contacts and isolating those who test positive.
- Having squandered the opportunity to contain the spread during the extended lockdown, the State now has a second chance to make up for it during the complete lockdown for 12 days that began on June 19.
- The most important departure that Tamil Nadu needs to make is to actively look for cases in Chennai and certain parts of three adjoining districts (Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur) where the most cases are being reported.
- There is compulsion to carry out door-to-door surveillance and test anyone who shows even one of the 15 COVID-19 symptoms recognised by the Health Ministry, including a loss of smell and taste, which was recently included.
- Currently, a person needs to exhibit a combination of symptoms to become eligible for a test.
- Another important shift in strategy should be in testing widely without insisting on a person’s travel history or contact with a known positive case as a prerequisite for testing.
- The need of the hour is to move away from the restrictive categories of people eligible for a test to a more liberal and inclusive protocol that allows more people to be tested.
- Aggressive testing and isolation of infected people alone will be insufficient to contain the spread unless it is carried out in a short span of time.
- With each infected individual capable of spreading the virus to more people, concerted efforts are needed to quickly trace, test and isolate the infected.
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- While the majority of cases in the State are restricted to Chennai and three adjoining districts — thus making the task of containing the spread relatively easy — the areas in Chennai where more cases are being reported are those that are chock-a-block with people.
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shlita have issued a holy call to vote and promote
only the United Torah Judaism list, which appears as a
gimmel on ballot slips, in the Knesset elections
scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
Under the heading, "Mi LeHashem Eileinu," the charged
announcement points out that fateful matters affecting
fundamental elements of Judaism hang in the balance in the
current elections, including the survival of the holy
yeshivas and the sanctity of Shabbos Kodesh.
In the notice gedolei Yisroel shlita write, "Every
effort must be made to strengthen the bounds of Judaism to
put a stop to every vilifier who seeks to undermine the well-
being and security of the inhabitants of Eretz Hakodesh. . .
"We pray to Hashem Yisborach that those who vote for the UTJ
and Shabbat - Gimmel list, which is true to Hashem and His
Torah, and which unites different groups to achieve its
supreme goal, working as one in these difficult times and
increasing activists and warriors for our Holy Torah and for
kodshei Yisroel in the traditional Jewish spirit with
love and brotherhood, peace and friendship, may they be
blessed with children, life and sustenance and all blessings
from the Source of Blessings and may all who vote for United
Torah Judaism and Shabbat - Agudas Yisroel Degel HaTorah,
whose symbol is Gimmel, be blessed with all the
blessings written in the Torah."
The UTJ campaign headquarters notes that everyone can
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The United Torah Judaism and Shabbat Publicity Bureau
strongly denounced the inappropriate and deceitful use of
UTJ's campaign slogan for the chareidi sector, "Mishpachah
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chareidi parties to form a bloc that he says would only enter
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government, despite repeated requests by UTJ not to join.
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How can you when your company is not where it’s supposed to be? Evaluating performance is an essential part of any business. You have to know if goals are not being met and what to do about it.
For that, companies need efficient analysis systems. Gap analysis is one of the methods used to make such evaluations. The approach allows organisations to compare their present statuses with estimated results to see how far they have come.
Understanding company progress gives you an idea of the growth level in a particular timeframe. If the analysis shows that objectives are yet to be attained, then you can implement the necessary measures to change that. However, enterprises must first learn how to leverage gap assessment.
The gap analysis also called needs analysis, is a process that compares current results with expected or desired performance.
What is gap analysis mean? The simple answer is to find the gap and then evaluate solutions.
The evaluation method aims to check if a company meets expectations. It measures the present standing of a business unit, team or enterprise with the targeted state. During the assessment, you can find out where the issue lies in the processes, capabilities, systems, strategies, skills, technologies and practices.
Gap Analysis: Performance versus Potential.
Strategic business management technique for measuring possible outcome and the actual outcome.
These simple tools enable you to understand where your business currently is, and what you need to address to get to where you want to be.
Identifying the challenges causing the suboptimal performance puts you in a better position to find actionable solutions. Needs analysis or gap analysis is suitable for evaluating team and individual performance.
Gap assessment is used to measure the potential of a company or other units and how to achieve it. Proper analyses tell you if resource use is optimal. It shows if there is an under or over-use of resources. You can conduct needs analysis at the strategic and operational levels.
The main aim is to raise business performance level.
If you are to leverage the benefits of gap assessment, then you must do it right. The process involves four main steps.
Begin by analysing and defining organisational goals. Ensure that the objectives are specific, attainable, measurable, realistic and timely.
The second stage requires the use of historical data to gauge performance. Using the established goals as benchmarks, you can analyse how well an enterprise is doing. The evaluation can focus on the financial status or other elements.
Step three is data analysis. After gathering information about a company’s status, you need a comprehensive evaluation to pinpoint the primary challenges impacting performance.
Then you have to put together a report with the quantitative and qualitative data collected. This report provides the blueprint of the action items to follow to meet the desired goals.
Besides determining the state of an organisation, an effective analysis should define a timeframe. After identifying the gap between the current and desired state, your evaluation should include a strategic plan to solve the differences.
Various areas in a business can benefit from needs analysis, including quality control, sales and human resources. Some of the reasons to consider the approach are:
Benchmarking – The process allows enterprises to compare outcomes against external factors. It helps companies identify their weaknesses so that they can address them accordingly. You can see what competitors are doing right and how you can achieve similar results in your organisation.
Resources allocation – By evaluating performance, you can establish if your company is using resources as required. Gap assessment reveals the areas where to focus technologies, skills and capital.
Smart decision-making – Once managers are aware of a company’s shortcomings, they can decide on the best way to close the gap. You have all the data to help you develop effective solutions that factor in the current and desired state.
SWOT analysis: SWOT stands for
SWOT process helps determine internal and external threats and identify where and how you stand against your competitors.
PEST analysis: PEST stands for
PEST analysis helps identify threats and business opportunities by looking at four primary external factors.
PEST analysis with added legal and environmental factors.
Fishbone diagram: Fishbone, Ishikawa diagram or herringbone diagrams is a cause-and-effect diagram. This is designed to explore possible causes of a root problem.
Nadler-Tushman Model: Examines how each business process affects each other and helps identify gaps that affect process efficiency.
Business processes get divided into three groups:
McKinsey 7S framework: Analysis if a business is meeting expectations by looking at 7 key internal elements.
The simple answer to this question is no. They both offer a way of analysis but there is a difference. What is the difference between SWOT analysis and gap analysis?
GAP Analysis: Internal evaluation analysis of actual business performance to identify areas of performance that are not performing well and identify why and how you can improve results and reach your desired level of business performance.
SWOT analysis: Compares your company against competitors. Helping identify your business strengths, weaknesses, and potential opportunities, as well as threats.
They can be a powerful tool working in tandem together helping you position your company in a better position for success.
Businesses use gap analysis to know how well they are doing in terms of meeting specified objectives and business goals. The assessment can be on everything from sales performance, project management to productivity to supply management.
Regardless of the industry or size, needs analysis can help you get your company where it has to be and improve productivity and profitability.
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Finite-temperature stability of crystals is of continuous importance in solid-state chemistry with many exciting properties only emerging in high-temperature polymorphs. Currently, the discovery of new phases is largely serendipitous due to a lack of computational methods to predict crystal stability with temperature. Conventional methods use harmonic phonon theory, but this breaks down when imaginary phonon modes are present, and anharmonic methods are thus warranted to describe dynamically stabilised phases. We investigate the high-temperature tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition of zirconia based on first-principles anharmonic phonon theory and molecular dynamics simulations as an archetypical example of a phase transition involving a soft phonon mode. It is shown that the stability of cubic zirconia cannot be attributed solely to anharmonic stabilisation, and is thus absent for the pristine crystal. Instead the stabilisation is attributed to spontaneous defect formation which is also responsible for superionic conductivity at elevated temperatures.
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Ultrasound and Venous Valves for Diagnosis and Treatment
Medical specialists increasingly rely on Venous Valves and Ultrasound technology to accurately diagnose and treat health conditions. Utilizing ultrasound, veins in the body can be examined to assess blood flow and identify blockages in the venous system. Venous valves, which are specialized anatomical structures that regulate blood flow, can also be assessed using ultrasound technology. Knowing the underlying cause of a health condition helps doctors provide more effective treatment plans.
Ultrasound Investigation of Venous Valves for Diagnosis and Treatment
The human body contains many venous valves that can be investigated using ultrasound technology. When examined through ultrasound, doctors can gauge how well the valves are working to regulate the blood flow. Knowledge regarding how blood flows through venous valves can help assess venous flow and identify underlying problems.
Ultrasound as a Non-Invasive Option for Diagnosis and Treatment
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Ultrasound Used to Help Determine the Right Treatment
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Have you ever thought about casting a godly vision for your marriage? Perhaps you’ve never even heard of the term before, and in that case – don’t worry! This post will explain what it means to cast a Godly vision for your marriage and how to do it! Where does the principle of vision castingContinue Reading
If there’s one spiritual vitamin that every Christian marriage needs, it’s studying the word of God. Yes, studying the word on your own is a necessity; however, studying the bible as a couple can (and will) give your marriage the fuel it needs to thrive. Don’t worry about all the negative things that would attempt to keep you from this special act – lack of time, distractions, busyness, or thinking it’s not relevant. Instead, read (and implement) the following 7 practical tips to help you joyfully start studying the bible as a couple.
How to Study the Bible as a Couple
Why Study the Bible as a Couple
Studying with your spouse goes far beyond creating in-depth intimacy on multiple levels. The word of God is truthful and authoritative, making it life-changing for your marriage. In Psalm 119, we can find many reasons to study God’s word:
- Serves as a guide for Christian living.
- Provides strength for the weary.
- Gives instruction for every area of life.
- Offers understanding.
- Brings renewal to life.
- Leads to joy and delight.
This list alone sheds a mighty light on how a marriage can be impacted by simply saying “yes” to studying the word – both alone and with your spouse.
Even before you start attempting to study the bible together, pray. Pray for the time you’ll need, what to study and what to use to help aid in your studies. Also, keep your marriage in prayer as you begin to open a new door of revelation and communication.
Communication is always an important key in marriage, especially with decision-making. As you decide to study together, make sure you are both on the same page. There’s nothing more hindering in a marriage than assuming your spouse wants to do something and/or do it a certain way. Freely communicate your expectations, questions, doubts, etc. Then use them in the next tip.
Once you’ve openly communicated your expectations, questions, doubts, and the like, it’s time to set some goals. These goals should be smart: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Yes, this may sound like something you’d hear in business, but the same can be applied to the bible study time with your spouse.
To give you an example, a SMART bible study goal would look like this – As a couple, we will:
- Study the book of Proverbs.
- By studying Proverbs we hope to better understand godly wisdom.
- We will use our Bibles and a commentary to study.
- Learning about wisdom is relevant to our personal lives, marriage, and parenting.
- We will study Proverbs over the course of a month.
To help you keep track of your goals as a couple, consider a goal-setting planner.
Invest in Good Study Materials
Having good study materials such as a study bible can help when it comes to understanding context, biblical timelines, and the relevance of God’s word in your life today. There are also a number of companion books from commentaries to bible study guides.
Once you have decided to study, what to study, and set goals, now it’s time to invest in the materials you need to make it happen.
Studying the Bible should never be about how much you’re doing more than what you do with what you’re learning. To keep from getting overwhelmed, start small. You could start with a few verses and slowly work your way up to reading entire chapters, then books – eventually leading to having read the entire bible multiple times.
Guard Your Time
Studying the Bible requires the choice to take your time with Jesus (and your spouse) seriously. Think about the story of Martha and Mary. Martha was told to basically put her busyness of housework to the side and to get like Mary, who was more concerned about sitting at the feet of Jesus.
Trust me when I say that it’s easy to get bogged down in the mind when thinking about all that needs to be done. However, when it’s time to study the bible with your spouse, try to forget about all else for the time being and embrace the time of spiritual growth.
Study with Other Couples
Sometimes it can be easier to begin studying the bible as a couple when you do it with a group. Having this small community is beneficial for having discussions that enhance understanding and knowledge about particular topics. It can also be comforting to share this personal journey with other believers.
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Learn to fuel the gymnast for optimal performance and longevity in the sport.
Learn how to fuel your gymnast so that you can avoid the top 3 major nutrition mistakes that keep most gymnasts stuck, struggling, and injured.
Gymnastics is a sport of perfection. Gymnast’s scores start from a 10.0 and go down from there. The artistry, competition, and pursuit of perfection often attract a certain personality type, one we typically consider “Type A”.
While there some advantages to “Type A” personalities and gymnastics certainly teaches amazing life skills, work ethic, discipline, etc…this iron-clad approach does not mesh well with nutrition or body image.
There are several thought patterns and behaviors relating to nutrition and body image that stem from perfectionism, including “all or nothing” thinking, unsustainable nutrition practices, and weight/shape concerns. These behaviors often lead to under fueling, self-sabotage, and often disordered eating and body dysmorphia.
Dichotomous or “all or nothing” thinking is very common for the gymnast. Gymnasts (and others who struggle with perfectionism) often think that there are “good vs bad” foods, “good days vs bad days” with nutrition, and this can also translate into performance as well. I’ve worked with gymnasts who will refuse to take another turn on bars or vault if they feel like their first attempt “wasn’t good enough”.
Unfortunately, this kind of thinking can often lead to self-sabotage when it comes to food. First, the gymnasts tries to eat “perfectly”, for many is considered “clean eating” or following some sort of prescriptive plan to a “T”. They may be successful for a while, but at some point, they deviate.
When life happens or the gymnasts gets tired of the rigid, restrictive diet and they eat something they consider “bad”, it’s common for them to continue eating out of guilt and “I’ve already blown it, so doesn’t matter now”. This is not helpful nor productive for health, body composition, or performance and often leads to a period of dietary restriction or over-exercising to try and “compensate”.
Some gymnasts are seemingly able to follow a strict plan for years and years, but such a plan may leave them underfueled. Gymnasts often need a lot more nutrition (calories) than they think, and trying to eat only fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and fibrous starches may be insufficient from a caloric perspective. For a gymnast who needs 3000+ calories a day, if they try to only eat lean protein, fibrous starches, and fruits/vegetables, they will likely be too full before they get in everything they need for the day.
We know that rigid control of eating behaviors in men and women is associated with more eating disorder symptoms and greater mood disturbances than was flexible control of eating behaviors.
A monotonous diet (such as one with little variety due to elimination of “forbidden” foods) triggers food cravings.
Lastly, perfectionism can also lead to major weight and shape concerns in gymnasts. There has long been this “perfect gymnast body” ideal that characterizes a slim, svelte, long “lean” gymnast body that is light and moves effortlessly through the air.
This major issue with this “thin ideal” is that it does not recognize body diversity nor the reality that today’s gymnastics difficulty requires such strength and power that most gymnasts will have a significant amount of muscle mass to perform the skills.
Weight and shape concerns in the gymnast can also lead to obsession with the scale, and any gymnast who has struggled with their weight will tell you that the number is never “low enough”. This is related to the perfectionism, but can be deadly.
I used to suggest following an “80/20” approach to nutrition…80% of the time one should eat “healthy foods” like nothing fried, fruits/veggies, lean proteins, healthy fats, etc and 20% of the time could be “junk foods”, etc.
I no longer use that phrase as it is still diet-like.
I like to ask my gymnasts what balance with foods feels like to THEM? What can they ADD to their diet to improve performance versus remove? How can they consistently nourish their bodies while enjoying all foods with guilt, shame, and anxiety?
If you have any more questions, feel free to schedule a free 20 minute discovery with me!
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In Allan Twigg’s book Aboriginality, he tells of a meeting between three sovereigns – a king and two queens – that never happened. It was missed by inches. The year was 1939. The place, Vancouver. The occasion, England’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Canada.
A year earlier, the Lion’s Gate Bridge, joining Stanley Park to West Vancouver, had opened. The King and Queen and their entourage were to drive over the bridge to “honour it.” The lands needed to build the bridge had been transferred in 1936 from Indian Reserve lands to the First Narrows Bridge Company “without consultation and little compensation.”
But the Squamish people, at least, bore no ill-will. Instead, they officially requested a meeting between their Queen, Mary Agnes, and the English royals. The Squamish wished to exchange gifts and greetings. Queen Mary dressed for the occasion in full ceremonial regalia. Alongside her was her son, Chief Joe Mathias, who had actually sailed to England in 1911 to attend the coronation of King George.
Here’s what happened: “The royals didn’t stop. Nobody from the Squamish Band was invited to take part in the honouring ceremony. ‘This was the only time we could present my grandmother to the Queen,’ recalled Chief Simon Baker, ‘but the car drove past us. . . . It was terrible for my grandmother.’”
Later, the Honorary Secretary of the Vancouver Committee for the Reception of Their Majesties sent a letter to the Squamish people. Besides assuring the Squamish people that their gifts had been received and sent to Buckingham Palace, it contained an explanation about the matter of the drive-by:
“We can assure you that every effort was made to fulfill the wishes of Their Majesties and had they desired to stop, it would have, of course, been done. We are assured that the Majesties took particular pains to acknowledge the homage of their Indian subjects, and that in passing them the rate of speed was considerably lowered.”
In passing them the rate of speed was considerably lowered. A line like that, so cavalier, so breezy, so condescending, reflects the ethos of an epoch. In 1939, attitudes of official racism were everywhere – fascism in many European nations, anti-Semitism in most, Jim Crow in the American south, apartheid in South Africa. 1942 would see the beginning of the roundup, property-confiscation, and internment of Japanese Canadians. These are only a few of the better-known examples of attitudes, assumptions and actions pervading the air everyone breathed.
And then there were Canada’s First Nations people. We had begun to organize official prejudice toward Native peoples many decades earlier, in the late 1800s.
It was embodied in the growing presence of Indian Residential Schools across the land. It was reflected and made into legal code in the ever-expanding reach of the federal Indian Act. It was expressed in government appropriation of Native lands and retraction of Native resource rights, and in the legal pettifogging and stonewalling over treaty settlements.
A history that began, largely, full of mutual honour and promise was swiftly becoming rife with betrayal and resentment. White Canadians are heirs of all this. We’re beneficiaries.
I know most of us are not directly implicated in any of it. We are, after all, innocent of any personal wrongdoing. We didn’t draft or enforce the oppressive measures of the Indian Act. We didn’t remove Native children from their families and communities and abuse them, verbally, emotionally, physically, sexually, in Residential Schools. We didn’t start the fire.
But the majority of white Canadians grew up in a culture and an economy that, at least in part, has been built on the backs of the land’s first inhabitants. We may not have committed any overt acts of injustice, but most of us have been beneficiaries of, and bystanders to, such acts.
Our forebearers took much from the people, and didn’t say thanks, and didn’t say sorry, and rarely looked back. And we, for the most part, have been happy to reap the windfall, or at least remain uninformed and uninvolved. And many of us still carry, dormant perhaps but ready to awake with little stimulation, the very racism that marked out our forbearers.
Why would I make such a bold and sweeping indictment? Because most of us are still just driving by, and often not even at reduced speed.
That was me for most of my life. And then it got personal. In 1995, I moved to Duncan, a small community on Vancouver Island, and stayed 18 years. Everywhere I had lived before made it easy to avoid First Nations people, and therefore easy to avoid my real attitude toward the people. In every other place I lived, the Native reserve was at a distance from the municipality. I rarely saw a real live Indian.
That changed when I moved to Duncan. The reserve, geographically and demographically, intersects the municipality at several points. The two are woven together tight as a wampum belt. Many of the area’s place names – Mount Tzouhalem, Penelekut Island, Sansum Narrows, Cowichan River – reflect this. Duncan is 1/8th First Nation, and that percentage of population is visible everywhere. Native people are impossible to ignore or avoid. I managed it anyhow for almost a decade.
The church I pastored met on Tzouhalem Road, named after a 19th century hereditary chief. Across from our church building stood – until it burned down in 2010 – the old offices for the Cowichan Band. If I turned left from the church parking lot, I skirted the edge of the reserve and then, about a kilometer down, crossed into reserve lands. I always knew where the boundary line fell, though no sign marked it: the houses told me. Most were dilapidated, with flaking paint, caked on moss, grimy and sometimes broken windows, collapsing stairs. Garbage and rusty cars littered the yards.
Later, I found out why many homes on reserves look this way. There are two main factors.
One is the legal nature of reserve lands, which can never be sold on the open market. The effect of this is that reserve lands never increase in value (unless turned into leased land, but that’s another story). This means that a house on the municipal side of Tzouhalem Road might, over five years, increase in value from $300,000 to $400,000. But a similar house on the reserve side of the road might only be worth $30,000. Forever. Its value never increases, and usually decreases, as does all aging things. This kills all incentive for doing home improvements.
The second reason is that entire extended families live in many of these houses. A house designed to hold, say, five people comfortably might have 10, 15, 20 people living in it at various times. That’s because Native people generally have a deep value for sharing: it’s uncommon for a First Nation’s person with a house to turn away even a distant relative in need of a place to stay. Yet a house built to hold five people can’t handle 10-plus people living in it any more than a car designed to seat five people can handle 10-plus people regularly cramming into it. Things break down much faster.
But I knew none of this at the time. All I saw were dishevelled yards and ill-kept houses and rusting jalopies. And I made a judgment about the people who lived there. The judgment distilled to a single word: typical. Because I had no real relationships with First Nations people – I knew a few to nod at in passing – there was nothing to disturb either my facile judgment or my illusion that I held no prejudices. I just kept driving by.
Eat whatever they put before you
Then I met Tal. Tal James is Penelekut, a band from an island close to Duncan. Tal had, in his early 20s, become a Christian. Today he works with North American Indigenous Ministries, a mission agency dedicated to sharing the gospel – in all its dimensions with First peoples. Tal has become a good friend. He has let me ask, and patiently answered, many stupid questions.
He has taught me much about his culture, and helped me get past my uninformed reactions to Indigenous practices, places, legends, artifacts – powwows, sweet grass ceremonies, totem poles, long houses, wampum, thunderbird stories – things I once knew nothing about, but held opinions and made judgments about anyhow.
And sometimes Tal, along with his German wife Christina, have gently but firmly rebuked me for my subtle but clear racism.
An example will help. Tal and I are at a restaurant in Nanaimo not long after I have announced to the church in Duncan my intention to “reach First Nations people for Christ.” We’ve just ordered lunch. I turn to Tal and ask what many of the people in the church are asking me: “What should we do about the dark side of Native spirituality? Many in the church feel that they cannot have fellowship with a First Nations people before they have figured this out.”
Tal falls silent. He looks around. He leans forward. “Mark,” he says, “why did you come into this restaurant, take a seat, order a meal, without once asking or worrying about the spiritual beliefs and practices of the people who own the restaurant, manage it, or work in it? You’re about to eat food prepared by someone you don’t know but who, more likely than not, does not share your beliefs or morals. You don’t seem the least bothered by that. But you do seem bothered by the idea of sitting and eating with my people unless first you approve of our spirituality – which, by the way, you know little about.”
I was stung. But he was right. And that day began for me a fourfold journey: one, facing my prejudices without illusion or justification; two, forsaking them; three, learning First Nations culture from First Nations people; and four, committing to loving my neighbour as myself. It has been a slow walk, sometimes agonizing, but deeply liberating. I still have a ways to go. But I am thankful that I have made a beginning.
About a year after this conversation with Tal, I was at a meeting with several people who were helping a friend and I plan an event called “Understanding the Nations.” It was to be a five-hour workshop educating churches about local First Nations history and culture, and challenging them to engage in practical acts of reconciliation.
One of the people we’d invited was Dan Marshall. Dan is a university professor who had written a superb history of our local tribe, the Cowichan people. We hoped Dan would present at the workshop on Cowichan history. But he was wary of my motives.
He deeply loved and respected the Cowichans and, as he said, didn’t want to be part of a “new colonial, imperial, paternalistic effort to impose the Christian religion on First Nations people.” Then he asked me outright: “Is your intention with these workshops to try to convert the Cowichans to Christianity?”
God had now, for a year, been excavating me, exposing me, burning things out of me, pounding things into me. I said to Dan (who later became a good friend), “I admit, my dream is mass conversion. I would love to see everyone – all nations, all people of whatever ethnic identity in this community, and you also, Dan – I’d love to see all come to know Jesus Christ. But you are asking about my intention for these workshops. That’s simple: I want to convert the church.”
For two years, we ran the workshops in over 10 venues – mostly churches. Around 1,000 people attended in all. And it happened: though several Cowichans got curious about the church, and some ventured near, and a few put their faith in Christ, the majority of conversions were among white Christians.
More and more of us began to see our entrenched racism, to repent of it, and to begin a journey toward real change. More and more of us chose to no longer just drive by. We slowed. We stopped. We got out of the car. And most of us have never been the same.
Praying with smoke
Ray Aldred is a Cree storyteller and Christian theologian, and a dear friend and colleague. Recently, we both spoke at a church conference on missions. We decided on the final evening of the conference to weave our talks together, back and forth, circling each other’s stories, building off each other’s insights. It was like a tribal dance. Obviously, we had to choreograph it. “I think you should invite me up right at the start,” Ray said. “I will honour the traditional occupants of the land and thank them for allowing us to be here. And then I will pray with smoke.”
Praying with smoke is a Cree tradition (shared by many Plains Tribes) of burning sage or sweet grass (the fragrance of which bears an unnerving resemblance to cannabis) in an abalone shell, snuffing out the fire, and wafting the smoke, with an eagle feather, until its fragrance pervades the room, all the while inviting the Spirit to come from all four corners of the earth and, like the fragrance, fill the room.
“Um, ok. You know people will freak out?”
“I’m good then. Let’s do it.”
So we did. And people freaked out.
I was up next. “I sense,” I said, “that many, if not most of you, are deeply uncomfortable with what just happened. I’m going to ask you to do something with that: neither reject it nor embrace it. I’m inviting you, instead, to hold it in open, upturned, outstretched hands” – I modelled this as I said it. “And I’m asking that you give both Ray and I an honest hearing.”
That seemed to settle things down, and so Ray and I spoke, back and forth, moving in and out of each other’s space, doing our dance. We talked about the broad sweep of the Canadian church and government relations with First Nations people throughout our shared history.
We talked about the tribal, ceremonial and storytelling roots of biblical faith. We talked about how the church had repeatedly missed opportunities with First peoples to share the full gospel in all its wild, profuse, subversive, scandalizing, extravagant beauty and potency; had failed to incarnate the wide-open arms of God, and yet every once in a while had got it right.”
By the end, I sensed a new readiness and openness among those present. I stood on the platform and held out my open, upheld, outstretched hands.
“Some of you,” I said, “still aren’t sure what to do with what you saw earlier. But I’m sensing that most of us – maybe all – want to be part of a new story. We’ve heard enough of the old story to feel some appropriate guilt and shame and heartbreak. But what use in getting stuck there? Let’s resolve to create a different future. I’m not even sure what the next step is, other than it involves a fierce ‘Yes’ to that different future, an unswerving commitment to write a new story. If you want to be part of that, would you stand, and with open, upturned, outstretched hands, say to God, ‘Yes’.”
As far as I could tell, the whole congregation stood.
A year later, Ray was speaking at a chapel service at Ambrose University, where Ray and I are colleagues [until recently; Ray has recently begun teaching at Vancouver School of Theology]. He began by praying with smoke, wafting the smoke with an eagle feather so that the fragrance of the sweet grass pervaded the auditorium.
And then he invited me up. Ray gave me the eagle feather. He said it was his gift to me, to honour my love for, and my work with, First Peoples. I was overwhelmed. And felt unworthy. Really, I haven’t done much. I just stopped driving by.
Mark Buchanan has written several books (Your God is Too Safe, Hidden in Plain Site) and is associate professor of pastoral theology at Ambrose University.
He will be teaching For the Healing of the Nations at Regent College July 18 – 22, and will also offer a free lecture at the college July 18: Every Tribe & Tongue & Nation: The Church & Canada’s First Nations.
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Introducing the Davidoff Yamasa Series. Yamasa is a region untapped, with ideal climate, soil rich in minerals but lacking pH count. Henke and his team would further enrich the soil, raising the pH levels suitable for growing tobacco.Our Master Blender, Henke Kelner embodies that same daring spirit today. His pursuit to bring the cigar aficionado new tastes, experiences and pleasures, led Henke and his team to the Yamasa region of the Dominican Republic. | <urn:uuid:3b64fe21-9b44-4474-bd61-d7753a145c90> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://cigarboulevard.com/products/davidoff-yamasa-series | 2024-04-18T14:45:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.907152 | 115 |
Director S.S. Rajamouli’s epic magnum opus Baahubali set to be released on July 10th, 2015 worldwide has already created a buzz in the industry. The film which is believed to be made with a hooping budget of over 250 crores is probably India’s most expensive motion picture to date. The film will be released in four different Indian languages: Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi.
Baahubali which stars Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, and Tamannah Bhatia in lead roles will be releasing as many as 6000 screens worldwide – in over 15 countries, including 2500 screens overseas for English & French versions (about 200 screens in the US alone). The film is coming in two parts; Baahubali: The Beginning will introduce an exciting journey of filmmaking that for sure will make its mark in Indian cinema.
The premier show that is being screened a day before the release date has already been sold out with high ticket prices ranging between Rs. 4000-8000. Interestingly, the first normal show of the film will hit the screen as early as 5 AM. Online ticket booking website Bookmyshow.com has already gone sold out for this movie in major southern Indian cities, including Hyderabad, where the Premier show is scheduled.
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There are many interesting facts coming in about the film and its making, just before its release. As per the makers, the film took 500 days the making of which 180 days for writing the script. Rajamouli with his vision is regarded as one of the finest directors of the Indian film industry, particularly with Telugu language films like Sye, Vikramarkudu, Magadheera, and Eega.
With so much hype, Baahubali is set to surpass the benchmark for commercial filmmaking in Indian cinema. However, not much has been revealed about the storyline of the film. Some say it’s been inspired by the Hindu epic Mahabharata and others somehow link it to the American film ‘300’ (released 2006). The basic plot, however, narrates the story of two brothers vying for control of a kingdom.
Here are a few milestones on Baahubali’s journey so far:
- Baahubali was the first Indian film to participate in Comic Con India.
- Over 15 of Baahubali hashtags that were generated trended nationally on Twitter – no other film in the country has come close to this number.
- The Baahubali trailer is one of the highest viewed trailers in the country with over 2 crore views. It also held its position high in the trending list for over 4 weeks and still counting.
- Baahubali was featured in prestigious international publications such as Variety magazine and The Guardian. Members of the cast and crew were also interviewed for BBC’s documentary on 100 years of Indian Cinema.
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Paul Feig’s “Last Christmas” is all set for a November release and the trailer is here. In the movie trailer, we hear Emilia Clarke singing one of the most popular songs of the Wham! era and it makes us nostalgic.
The Game Of Thrones star Emilia stars alongside Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh in this romantic-comedy that follows a young woman Kate who has been unlucky in many instances of her life and now works as an elf in a department store during Christmas holidays. However, her life is about to take a turn when she meets Tom (Golding) who is too good to be true for her.
Here is the movie trailer for “Last Christmas”
Kate (Emilia Clarke) harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jingle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Tom seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate’s barriers. As London transforms into the most wonderful time of the year, nothing should work for these two. But sometimes, you gotta let the snowfall where it may, you gotta listen to your heart … and you gotta have faith.
Inspired by the George Michael song, “Last Christmas” would feature the music of the late iconic pop singer, including the holiday classic title song and a few brand new unreleased tracks of the legendary singer.
The screenplay is co-written by Academy Award winner Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Bridget Jones’s Baby) and playwright Bryony Kimmings.
The film is produced by BAFTA winner David Livingstone for Calamity Films, by Emma Thompson, and by Paul Feig and Jessie Henderson for Feigco Entertainment.
"Last Christmas" is slated for a November 8 release in the United States, November 15, 2019, in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. Click To Tweet“Last Christmas” by Wham!
The song is a Christmas classic produced and written by George Michael. The song was released by pop duo Wham! (George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley).
While the song has a festival theme, the lyrics are more about a broken relationship, a betrayed love, and less about Christmas.
In the video of the song, we see George and Andrew meeting their girlfriends at a ski resort. Andrew is dating a girl, who was earlier in love with George. The song refers to her, George’s previous love interest.
The movie “Last Christmas” is based on the festival theme, and it was earlier reported that George Michael was aware of the concept of this movie, before his death in 2016.
CAST: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Emma Thompson
DIRECTOR: Paul Feig
STORY BY: Emma Thompson & Greg Wise
SCREENPLAY BY: Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings
PRODUCERS: David Livingstone, Emma Thompson, Paul Feig, Jessie Henderson
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New Legon Cities forward, Asamoah Gyan, will miss the team’s opening match in the Ghana Premier league against Berekum Chelsea due to injury.
Gyan, 34, joined the Royals in the biggest deal of the local transfer window after signing a one-year deal.
The former Black Stars captain, did not train with the team on Monday and Legon Cities Head Coach, Goran Barjaktarevic, confirmed that the forward will not feature in the season opener.
“Asamoah Gyan is one experienced player and he’s still got some problems with injury.” Head Coach Barjaktarevic said.
“We are working to get him fit because it is very important when he comes back, he comes back in good shape”.
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Sambalpur: The union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan flagged off a special train from Sambalpur to Ayodhya on Tuesday, carrying 1,512 devotees from western Odisha.
The Sambalpur-Darshan Nagar-Sambalpur Astha special train, with 20 sleeper coaches, left Sambalpur station and will stop at Rourkela and Jharsuguda before reaching Ayodhya on Wednesday. The devotees will return the next day.
Expressing gratitude to the railways for facilitating the pilgrimage, Pradhan highlighted the enthusiasm among the devotees for the journey to Ayodhya.
In addition to flagging off the special train, Pradhan is set to inaugurate the Robotics Centre at Vedic International School in Pabpali Sason and attend the opening of the Skill India Centre at Majhipalli here among other events. | <urn:uuid:2ba623fb-0492-469f-9165-b79c109d411d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://citybuzzclick.com/special-train-to-ayodhya-from-sambalpur-flagged-off/ | 2024-04-18T13:10:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.887815 | 185 |
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Jewish Architecture Cemetery Chapel in Roman - Prayer Hall
To the main object: Cemetery Chapel in Roman, Romania
The walls of the rectangular hall are decorated with painted Corinthian columns. Six painted panels above window and door openings in the western and eastern walls contain depictions of Holy places in the land of Israel. None of them is inscribed. The northern panel on the western wall contains the name of the artist: “Şoil Grosvald Zugraf 1935 / Roman.” Şoil is the local Yiddish pronunciation of the name Shaul; the word zugraf, painter in Romanian, is misspelled (should be zugrav).
The ceiling represent a blue sky with six-pointed stars. A Magen David, accompanied by an inscription יי נתן ויי לקח (God gave and God took back, a phrase from a funeral service) is painted in its center. Four round medallions in the corners contain depictions of Holy places in the land of Israel, which also have no inscriptions. | <urn:uuid:b67b7eb4-dc91-4802-bdc7-d22d5f57b3f6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=3367&sort=DESC&many=20&start=0 | 2024-04-18T12:52:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.934339 | 230 |
Today, late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott would have been 48 years young. So, in tribute to Dime and his birthday, I want to share this hilarious video of him drunk and destroying a car. Also, I am sharing a video on how badass he was at playing guitar.
Legendary Pantera / Damageplan / Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul has carved out a remarkable career since forming Pantera in 1981. Paul will add yet another album to his resume when Hellyeah release 'Blood for Blood' on June 10, but as evidenced in a new interview, the drummer is only feeling pressure from two sources: himself and his late brother 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott.
For music fans looking for a good cause to get behind, the annual ‘Ride for Dime’ event is just around the corner scheduled for Aug. 16 and 17 in Texas. With events scheduled in both Fort Worth and Dallas, friends, fans and family members will all join forces to remember Pantera guitarist “Dimebag" Darrell Abbott with a motorcycle ride followed by two nights of great music.
Despite the tragic death of shredder 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott and the hostility held between certain members of the great Pantera, there has been rumblings of a possible reunion of the band for the past few years. Pantera / Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul hasn't been one to pioneer any sort of reunion, and while paying tribute to late Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman along with his late brother Dimebag | <urn:uuid:a37ea3a1-789d-476a-8baf-ab023eebf748> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://classicrock1051.com/tags/dimebag-darrell/page/3/ | 2024-04-18T15:10:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.958021 | 311 |
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To tackle and build resilience to the ever-increasing impacts of the climate crisis, societies around the world are transitioning to become low-carbon and more sustainable. The process of these transitions is affecting individuals across multiple geographies, sectors and generations.
Just Transitions manage the transition process in a way that enhances the benefits of these changes and reduces negative impacts on the most vulnerable.
Embracing this concept is essential to meeting our climate goals and ensuring no one is left behind.
Stakeholders — such as affected communities and workers, civil society, the private sector, and governments — play a key role as both architects and beneficiaries of just transitions. Just transitions take a participatory approach to decision-making to ensure that all voices are heard in the process of planning and executing the shift to a low-carbon society.
Climate Strategies’ South-to-South Just Transitions network (S2S) brings together research partners from nine countries to produce reports on the benefits and barriers related to just transitions in their national contexts. Over the past year, our research partners have engaged with stakeholders to share their research findings and develop inclusive networks for just transitions in their respective countries.
This article draws on these experiences to recommend successful tactics for engaging stakeholders in just transition conversations around the world.
S2S Partner Network
How to Plan Successful Engagements:
Clarify what you hope to achieve
In some countries, the just transition (JT) concept is still new, and our engagements were designed to familiarize stakeholders with the concept.
For example, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) found that a combination of small group meetings with key government and private stakeholders provided an opportunity to increase public and private policymakers’ understanding of the JT. These meetings also served to create a trusted relationship between academia and government actors working on the JT.
In other countries, just transition discourses were more advanced, and activities focused on identifying barriers to action, generating potential solutions, and building a consensus on next steps. For example, JT discussions are prevalent in Indonesia because of the country’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). As a result, the Dala Institute in Indonesia found that engaging in JT working groups was an effective way to connect with existing stakeholders.
In all cases, the consortium sought to build bridges between stakeholders to support continued interactions after the initial project.
Tailor your approach to your stakeholders
The S2S consortium started by identifying key stakeholders and holding brief consultations to determine the best way to engage them. The chosen methods of engagement included online and in-person forums, roundtable discussions, small focus groups, interviews, panel discussions and workshops.
Initial engagements in the form of one-on-one informal interviews (particularly with governmental officials) worked well in Argentina, Vietnam, Colombia and Ghana to gather in-depth information from key policy and decision makers. In Kenya, workshops that included a presentation followed by breakout group discussions provided an opportunity to increase participation and reach an agreement on key next steps.
Build on existing networks and concepts
Just transitions are an increasingly important framework, and many NGOs, governments, and institutes are engaged in the subject. By tapping into relevant existing networks or related events during the planning phase, it was possible for consortium members to connect with a greater number of actors in a short time period.
For example, the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) engaged with stakeholders at government-led sustainability workshops. The Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy (Malawi) engaged with civil society networks to expand their reach. Building on existing concepts can also be useful when first engaging stakeholders — the National University of Laos connected just transition frameworks to the more familiar concept of benefit sharing to build understanding.
Successful Approaches to Stakeholder Engagement
Several S2S partners found it useful to undertake their engagements in virtual form. Sociedad y Naturaleza (SyN) in Argentina noted that a virtual approach made engagements more accessible for busy stakeholders. Fedesarrollo (Colombia) found that virtual engagements allowed them to reach several regions in the country at once. On the other hand, partners in the University of Bangladesh, CEPA (Malawi) and Environment for Development (Kenya) highlighted the importance of in-person engagements as a strategy to build trust and agree on key next steps.
Making use of personal contacts proved to be an efficient way to access several stakeholders. SyN (Argentina) found that the closer the tie with a person or network, the more likely they were to actively participate.
Finally, partnering with media and respected figures proved to be a successful strategy to maximise attendance and to increase exposure. For SyN in Argentina, working with a well-known and politically neutral journalist was instrumental in a context where just transitions are highly politicised. In Bangladesh, co-hosting an event with the Dhaka Tribune enabled the University of Liberal Arts (ULAB) to achieve wide news coverage, which appealed to some high-level stakeholders.
Barriers to Stakeholder Engagement
In many countries, the primary challenge was getting high-level officials to participate in organized activities. However, SyN noted that building personal relationships over time increased success, and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Vietnam and the Dala Institute (Indonesia) found that meeting on-to-one could increase long-term engagement.
Another common challenge involved managing varying levels of just transition knowledge among attendees. Looking ahead, Fedesarrollo (Colombia) suggested organizing multiple workshops to enable continuous learning. Additionally, they found that sending out a survey before the workshops allowed organisers to tailor the information to different stakeholder needs.
Finally, HUST (Vietnam) and ULAB (Bangladesh) both pointed out the challenge of accommodating stakeholder schedules. ULAB found that high level stakeholders may be more willing to attend shorter events. HUST suggested that conducting in-depth interviews and small focus groups — which are easier to execute and schedule, compared to workshops and roundtables — were a good option when scheduling conflicts couldn’t be resolved.
- Understand and adapt to each stakeholder’s position. Government officials, in particular, may be concerned about discussing new subjects. Dala (Indonesia), found that planning informal one-on-one engagements to build trust and subject familiarity ahead of larger meetings could resolve this issue.
- Key stakeholders might not be reflected in organisational structures. As SyN (Argentina) discovered, the people making relevant decisions are often mid-level senior officials. To identify these people, it’s helpful to speak to trusted individuals within target organisations who can help researchers navigate decision-making hierarchies.
- Partner with other institutions that are working on similar topics (i.e. think tanks, NGOs, or national newspapers) to maximise impact and reach. Partners in Malawi, Kenya, Argentina, and Bangladesh used this approach to secure participation from a broader range of stakeholders.
- Use a bottom-up approach. The University of Nairobi (EfD) and the University of Ghana found that connecting the just transition to on-the-ground realities and tangible needs was an effective way to engage decision-makers, as opposed to relying on theoretical data. CEPA (Malawi) found that connecting just transition frameworks to existing development goals was also successful.
- Make the interactions recurrent. Going back to stakeholders with new information is a useful way to maintain trust and engagement. Fedesarrollo continues to engage with key actors to identify new gaps and opportunities for future research that can support policymaking needs.
A successful just transition not only depends on governments, but also on the active and sustained engagement of stakeholders, including local communities, national, regional, multilateral and international organizations, public and private sectors, civil society and other relevant actors, as well as an effective management and provision of evidence-based and context-relevant knowledge.
The South-to-South (S2S) Just Transitions Programme
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AWS Helps Elastum Make Buying Cryptocurrency In Two Clicks Possible
Implementing world-class security measures ensured scalability, reliability, and cost-effective results for Elastum
Elastum is a leading cryptocurrency platform designed to make crypto investing accessible to everybody in just two clicks. The platform makes it possible to purchase mainstream cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, or more niche projects like Loopring, using any currency you like.
Helping people buy and sell cryptocurrency is a challenging task. You need access to a scalable solution while also providing top-tier security to your customers. Before working with Cloudvisor, Elastum was already taking advantage of AWS but wanted to improve their security practices further and ensure they were doing everything they could to keep customer data safe.
Cryptocurrency investing can be very unpredictable and susceptible to sudden spikes in interest, which could overload an inflexible platform. That’s why it was important for Elastum to opt for a solution that would allow them to scale their operations up or down quickly.
Elastum Had Already Put The Foundations In Place
Elastum had put security procedures into place, but the solutions they used were manual and not simple to scale. For example, the Elastum team relied on the AWS console to make changes, not more robust solutions. They asked Cloudvisor to help them optimize their solution and implement AWS best practices to help make their solution both secure and scalable.
Let’s dive into how Cloudvisor improved the security and scalability of Elastum’s AWS implementation.
Infrastructure Security Was Mission One
Security should be a key concern with any implementation, but this is even more true when handling people’s money. Elastum not only helps people buy and sell cryptocurrency, but it needs to handle sensitive data during Know Your Customer (KYC) checks.
The first step was to audit Elastum’s existing infrastructure. It was well set up but entirely self-managed, and it wasn’t yet compliant with many AWS best practices. Cloudvisor began to put its plan in motion by focusing on the initial infrastructure.
Improving development processes and role management
To start, the team began to implement an integrated infrastructure as code (IAC) approach that took advantage of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and infrastructure CI/CD pipelines. Following best practices,The Cloudvisor team implemented a multi-account approach by creating separate AWS accounts for access management, logs collection, development & production environments.
Accounts had specific roles that followed the rule of least privileged access. This ensured that users and systems are always under control of what they could do within Elastum’s environment. Using this approach reduced the “blast radius” of any one account and minimized the damage that can be done if one is compromised. As a nice side benefit, it also prevents inexperienced users from accidentally accessing features that they should not be using. As an additional layer of security, all logs were separated into different accounts, providing visibility in case things went wrong.
The team also helped improve Elastum’s systems’ long-term viability by overhauling the code and backup procedures. This included creating a better system for restoring backups on S3, fully utilizing Gitlab and a number of other miscellaneous changes.
Implementing Robust Encryption
The next challenge to overcome was encryption. Ensuring that your data is properly encrypted is one of the best ways to protect it from prying eyes, particularly important when handling sensitive financial data.
Cloudvisor helped Elastum to implement encryption as per AWS best practices. Specifically, implementing the AWS Key Management System and Secrets Manager removing the human factor from the company’s encryption process. This helps to protect the infrastructure from internal challenges, while also preventing any data from being read with an appropriate key.
Focusing on managed infrastructure
The final major piece of the puzzle was shifting away from self-managed infrastructure to AWS managed services. These services are scalable and reliable by design, which eliminates the need for third party solutions that would normally be needed to ensure scalability and reliability.
Additionally, AWS takes care of ensuring that the service is available, and that each layer of infrastructure is hardened against accidental or deliberate human factors. This reduces the amount of time and expertise the customer needs to operate their cloud infrastructure.
Next Cloudvisor Needed To Ensure Scalability & Reliability
The great thing about following AWS best practices is that everything is interconnected. The client was previously using self-managed Kubernetes clusters, which are functional but generally difficult to scale, with significant amounts of time and expertise dedicated to supporting it. In an effort to alleviate this pain-point, Cloudvisor migrated the client to a managed Kubernetes service: Amazon EKS.
This was a huge boost for Elastum because they were able to take advantage of autoscaling. This tool enables a company to rapidly scale a system up or down without overspending. This is hugely important for companies in fields like cryptocurrency, where the hype cycle can lead to sudden large influxes of users, followed by a drop-off as excitement dies down. Autoscaling helped Elastum to save money during bear cycles, and meet demand during bull cycles.
In order to maintain continuity of service, Cloudvisor has been working closely with Elastum’s team to make continuous improvements to their systems. We have also helped their team to successfully implement our suggested development practices, which makes it far easier to update their implementation.
Elastum has had zero downtime while working with Cloudvisor
Downtime is a major concern for many companies when making adjustments to their cloud services. That’s why we were so proud of maintaining zero downtime for Elastum for the entire period they have worked with us, even when migrating the implementation.
In addition, we helped Elastum to implement efficient development processes. This ensures that their releases to production are properly tested and controlled. This significantly reduces the risk of downtime due to human error, or a poorly tested release.
We think that the results speak for themselves.
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This post contains some of my takeaways from Texas A&M Women’s Assistant Bob Starkey’s series “Thoughts on Half Court Offense.” He posts almost every day on his Hoop Thoughts Blog. Sometimes it is just a short quote or thought and sometimes it is a detailed series like this one. Whatever it is, it is always worth taking a look at.
You can read his entire series on half court offense at this link: Thoughts on Half Court Offense
Do you have a method of flowing into half-court offense out of your fast break? Out of your press offense? Out of your special situations? Do you practice flowing? We are big believers in that all half-court offense in the whole method should be concluded with at least one conversion. This allows the work you need to execute how you will flow as well as work on your transition defense.
Do you chart your half-court offense? Or do you just chart your offense overall? Of course you can look at the stat sheet after a game and see that you shot 46% from the floor, shot 18 free throws and turned it over 14 times. But what was your stat line in just half-court offense? If you eliminated transition, press offense and special situations then what did your team shoot from the floor? How many free throws? How many turnovers?
Be careful not to fall into a lull by just reading overall stats. You might play a team that is poor in transition so your stats get padded by your fast break but your half-court offense was not efficient.
Certainly there are coaches out there with the philosophy that “we are fast break team” and they well may be excellent in transition. But here are some numbers to think about that come from a book by Bob Liguori titled “Building A Championship Offense.” I’ll preface these numbers by letting you know the book is more than a decade old so the numbers he gives could be outdated — but I’ll follow that up with my thoughts afterwards. In Bob’s book he found the following:
Regardless of your desire to run, remember 3 keys:
1. Seventy-five percent of all field goals come in half-court situations
2. The better your opponent, the lesser number of transition opportunities.
3. Transition baskets decrease on the road.
I think those numbers hold close today. I also strongly believe that those numbers hold true in post-season basketball. Players may be a little more hesitent to run — at least early in a play-off game — not wanting to make mistakes. As you advance in the playoffs, you will obviously play better teams and part of them being better will most always include good transition defense. Even coaches tend to get a little more conservative in the post-season.
As you go through the season, and you are scouting or just watching a game on television, pay attention to some of these trends. After reading Bob’s book, I’ve found that in the majority of most “big games” (games played by two excellent teams), scoring is almost always down. Of course part of this is because of good defensive play…but that again goes to the need to execute in the half-court against good defensive teams.
If you want to be consistently effective in offense…if you want to advance in post-season play…work daily to become a good half-court offensive team.
Today we are going to talk about components of good half-court offense and hopefully give you some things to consider when your are putting together your offensive system of play. The components, or characteristics of good half-court offense are certainly debatable based on your philosophy but ever successful half-court offense will have their own particular elements in which they will base their play around.
I have always believe in the importance of getting to the free throw line. Again, this is my philosophy and that does not make it right or wrong. If getting to the free throw line is part of what you want your offense to be, than that will guide you to answer a few other questions along the way. Earlier this year I blogged about getting to the free throw line — it’s importance and considerations for getting there. You can read that post at:
Components of Good Half Court Offense
Chuck Daly said it best, “Spacing of offense and offense is spacing.” Regardless of whether you run motion, continuity, patterns or quick hitters you should include elements of spacing. Obviously in regard to quick hitters you may not have good spacing in the beginning but it should be part of the flow of your offense. So much good stuff comes about because of spacing including the ability to feed the post, drive to the basket, and open up penetrating cuts. It helps neutralize the help of the defense as well as spread the defense to put more pressure on them.
2. Initial Alignment
Regardless of what you are doing offensively, how you initially begin in your set should be of importance. The placement of the players can first distort the defense as well as help you maximize your entry options. Just because you run Triple Post doesn’t mean if you have to start in the basic set that most teams do. Take a look at your personal and take advantage of your own team with the alignment.
3. Entry Options
All offenses need the ability to have the ball entered. Obviously on of the more common entry passes is the guard-to-wing. Give thought to how you are going to enter the ball to get your offense started — no matter why type of offense you run. And of course, you should have Entry Option #1, Entry Option #2 and Entry Option #3. Regardless of how important your initial entry option is, you must be prepared for it to not being open. I once read where pilots have to file a flight plan and that than they are to create a back up plan. Do the same with your entries.
This is especially important if you are running patterned or continuity offenses. As someone who enjoys the defensive side of the game, I take great pride in “disrupting” an opponent’s offense. Teams that run patterns and continuity all have a specific pass and particular receiver to keep the offense going. From the defensive standpoint, we would work hard to take the particular pass or reciever away fromt he offense. If the team has a counter for when that is denied, than they can continue to attack offensively. It is always easy to spot a team that may not rely on counters. You can see their need to hit the high post player at the top of the key to reverse the ball and when it is denied, she will step a step higher…and then a step higher — working hard to get open just to keep the offensive alive.
If you are running a patterned or quick hitting offense, what are you going to “flow” into when it is over? If you have a shot clock to work with, you must be very effective at flowing into something to be successful in your half-court offense. Certainly some teams can and do pull the back out and yell “set it up” or call another play. If I could again refer back to my defensive philosophy, the offense setting up means our defense gets to reset as well. We tell our defense that anytime the offense pulls the ball back and yells “set-up” that we should take that as a sign that we have succeeded defensively. If you are going to flow into motion or a continuity, make sure you work on it in practice. And if you are going to pull it back out and call another play, you should work on that as well.
6. Paint Presence
This is certainly open to debate but I strongly believe that successful half-court teams are great at getting paint touches. Now please understand that this doesn’t necessarily have to be all low post feeds. But good offense knows how to score inside — even if they are primarily a 3-point shooting team. Maybe you don’t have a big team or an effective scorer at your post position. Ever tried posting up a guard? It is a very difficult thing for a defense to handle. Paint touches can also come from dribble penetration or flashes into the post. Very few things put more pressure on a defense than a team that can get the ball to the paint. I listened to Mike Krzyzewski a few back at a clinic talk about how Duke has worked hard to incorporate a 3-point shooter attack — and if you’ve watched them play you can certainly you can see the effect of the 3-point shot. Last year Duke was 34th in the nation with over 20 3-pointers a game. Yet they also managed to average 22 free throw attempts a game. It because they like to utilize dribble penetration or post feeds to set up their 3’s. At LSU, we refered to these as “Paint Touch 3’s” — you get the 3 (usually a little more open do to defensive collapse to the paint) while also pressuring the defense with the paint touch.
7. Shot Selection
This is again open to interpretation and philosophy but what I do think is important that you have it definded for your players individually and for your team as a unit. The whole goal of good offense is simply stated: get a good shot each time down the court. It is up to you to define what constitutes a good shot for your team. Do not leave it open to the imagination of your players. Be specific and make sure you are constantly reviewing with your team the type of shot you are expecting.
8. Valuing the Ball
All good offense is also about possession. Good offensive teams take care of the ball. A big part of this will be your ability to emphasize that to your team on a daily basis through practice, skill development and video. But you can also aid it by the structure of your offense. While at LSU, dribble usage was a big part of our offensive philsophy and here is how we viewed it: http://bit.ly/nTkmn4. Again, this does not have to be your set of principles, but make sure you team understands what you expect. The same holds true in passing. By having some design thoughts on when, where, how and who to pass it, you can help your offense to better maintain possession of the basketball.
9. Floor Balance
This is a simple concept that some coaches don’t give a great deal of thought to — but it can great effect your team. There are two major thoughts in having good floor balance. The first if making sure that you have good board coverage. This obviously can be enhanced by having a set philosophy on shot selection — it is easier to rebound when you have a good idea of who is going to shoot and when and where they will shoot it. But having good floor balance can put your best offensive rebounders at the best spots on the floor to attack the glass. The other component of floor balance is defensive. Good floor balance certainly benefits your transition defense.
10. Ball Reversal
This is another one that could be question by a few coaches with various philosophies but I think a good half-court offense must be able to effectively reverse the basketball. The better the defense, the more difficult it will be to score on a first-side entry pass. Good defensive teams simply won’t allow it. So you have to work on options to reverse the basketball and how you will attack from that — especially with the thought that some defenses will work hard to prevent the ball reversal action.
In his book “Building A Championship Offense,” Bob Ligouri studied offense in great detail and came to this conclusion: “The most effective 1 on 1 situations came as a result of an off-the-ball screen and cut. One on one moves were much more efficient after 3 to 4 passes and 1 to 2 court reversals.”
I very much believe this to be true. In fact, one of my offensive mantras is that “everything is more effective off ball reversal.” I think you could take any offensive action and then work it into ball reversal and it will be more difficult for the defense because they must handle that action after a closeout. It will also often give better opportunities because of the ballside action being slow to get to help or not getting to help at all.
This could coincide with Ball Reversal and again philosophically some coaches might not agree with it making the list of elements necessary for a good half court offense. But again, we need to look at our half-court offense being effective against the best that we will play against and good defensive teams will make sure you don’t score early in a possession. The art with being effective while being patient is maintaining aggressiveness. Patient is not complacent. Patient is now slow. We talk to our teams along the lines of being “aggressively patient.”
I don’t think a coach has to demand that his offense is always patient but she/he needs to coach them so that they understand what patience means to her/his philosophy and be able to execute that when necessary.
Roy Williams thinks patience in offense is important because the longer you aggressively run your offense the more likely the defense will have a breakdown. In fact, good offensive patience could be defined as running your offense aggressively until you can take advantage of a defense breakdown.
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Spray foam insulation is one of the most widely-used insulation materials for new homes, providing a high R-value per inch to help increase the property’s value. Typically the Interesting Info about closed cell spray foam.
Comparing fiberglass insulation with spray foam insulation in terms of R-value is evident. Achieve an R-13 rating requires around 3.8 inches for fiberglass, while only 2 inches is needed with closed cell spray foam insulation to meet that benchmark.
The R-Value of Spray Foam Insulation
When purchasing insulation, its R-value indicates its resistance to conductive heat flow. The higher its R-value is, the better its insulation properties will be. R-value can vary based on density, thickness, and installation methods – for instance, compressed insulation may lose some of its R-value properties.
Spray foam insulation boasts a higher R-value per inch than other forms of insulation, as well as superior air infiltration reduction capabilities compared to its competitors. This is due to spray foam’s ability to fill gaps and voids around wiring and plumbing and cover open webs of floor trusses for an effective thermal barrier that offers a greater R-value per inch than fiberglass insulation alone.
The R-value of spray polyurethane insulation depends on its type and cell structure. Closed-cell spray foam insulation is a popular choice in homes and buildings; its R-value per inch makes it one of the more efficient insulation types to use on surfaces like ceilings and walls; additionally, it’s often utilized in unvented attics or wall cavities.
Medium-density spray foam offers an R-value of 5.6 per inch and is often chosen for unvented attics, wall cavities, and new construction projects. As it expands more readily than low-density foams, medium-density sprayed foam creates an effective seal against air infiltration while filling any gaps in its path; additionally, it is suitable for attic partition top plate sealing and rim joist sealing applications.
The R-Value of Closed-Cell Spray Foam Insulation
R-value refers to a material’s resistance to heat flow. Spray foam insulation usually offers higher R-values than fiberglass due to its dense composition and glue-like adhesion; additionally, its flexibility allows it to reach tight spaces between floor joists or studs and close areas on walls or roof assemblies for effective moisture resistance and long-term insulation value. Closed cell spray foam also boasts excellent long-term moisture-proofing abilities due to its longevity as a long-term barrier against moisture build-up in wall or roof assemblies as well as being long-lived enough not to accumulate moisture build-up inside walls or roof assemblies over time – in other words, an excellent combination for R-value: closed cell spray foam provides long-term moisture resistance and helps combat moisture build-up from within walls or roof assemblies from build-in moisture resistant walls or roof assemblies with long life resist moisture build-ups due to long-lasting moisture barrier properties that help resists build-up as well. In addition to its R-value properties, it helps fight moisture build-up in wall or roof assemblies, and its long-lasting properties help resist moisture build-up within wall or roof assemblies over time.
Comparable to a 2×6 stud wall, spray foam insulation systems offer up to 7 times greater R-value than fiberglass assemblies at maintaining their R-value in low and high outdoor temperature ranges. Closed-cell spray foam may cost more than open-cell foam but provides superior long-term performance – in tests conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratories, they found that spray foam systems maintained 74% to 83% of their R-value at both temperature ranges, whereas fiberglass assemblies only retained 41% and 67%, respectively.
Note that evaluating the R-value of walls is essential when considering them as a whole. Sheathing, drywall, and air-barrier membranes affect how much of their R-rated value has been achieved; Energy Star recommends R-38 for homes in southern states, while R-49 would work better in northern locations.
The R-Value of Open-Cell Spray Foam Insulation
Spray foam insulation’s R-value remains steady over time, unlike fiberglass batt insulation which degrades and loses its R-value over time. This is thanks to spray foam’s moisture impermeability; when properly installed by experienced professionals, it creates an air seal that resists all forms of moisture effectively and won’t lose its R-value over time. However, for best results, it should be applied during moderate weather to not interfere with application procedures resulting from extreme cold or heat conditions.
Open-cell spray foam insulation, commonly called half-pound foam, boasts low density with an R-value between 3.5 to 3.6 per inch. Since it allows vapor permeance, a vapor retarder should always be utilized when installing this form of insulation in interior walls or unvented attics.
Closed-cell spray foam offers superior insulation performance in cold climates where moisture issues arise when installed by an experienced professional and with the appropriate R-value of 6.5 to 6 per inch. Closed-cell foam is more costly, however.
When selecting an R-value insulation material, it must match or surpass your area’s recommended R-values. Remember, R-value tests were conducted under conditions with no wind and moisture present; thus, it is vitally important that you work with a home contractor who understands this system about real-life applications.
The R-Value of Fiberglass
R-value refers to a material’s resistance to heat flow; the higher its R-value is, the more insulation power it possesses. It measures resistance against a building’s three primary heat escape methods: conduction, radiation, and convection.
Fiberglass batt insulation comes in various thicknesses and R-values that range from 2.2 to 4.3 per inch, making installation easy for contractors or DIYers alike. Installers can easily place it between joists or on attic floors using special tools known as blanket trolls for installation.
To achieve the R-value indicated on a fiberglass product’s label, it is vitally essential that framing cavities are entirely enclosed by air barriers on all six sides – something which may prove challenging.
Fiberglass insulation’s R-value decreases with moisture accumulation and age, potentially losing as much as 8% even before installation is completed. On the other hand, spray foam is produced on-site and remains consistent over time – energy studies show it can increase R-value by 40%!
Spray foam insulation offers superior R-values than fiberglass insulation, and it is much easier to achieve high R-values with spray foam than with fiberglass insulation.
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'Applicants must submit a narrative describing their long-term vision for future research with an emphasis on bold projects that have potential for impacts within their areas of interests. The research statement should also summarize the candidate’s prior work as evidence for their potential vision.' Statements like this are commonly found in position announcements with a research emphasis whether in academic institutions, state or federal agencies, or industry. How will you prepare your 'research statement', how will it be structured, and what examples will you use to demonstrate your experiences and potential? Writing an effective research statement is an important first step to move you from being an 'applicant' to an 'interviewee'. During this session, participants will engage in a discussion about strategies for preparing an effective research statement that leverages your experiences and demonstrates your potential.
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Hardware manufacturer Bitmain has announced a partial refund for some buyers of its Antminer S17+ and T17+ devices, ranging up to $272 per unit in some cases, reflecting the changing outlook for the block reward mining sector.
The move is a response to the fall in digital currency prices in March, as well as recognition of the decline in BTC block rewards ahead of the halving event about to take place in May—the net result of which is less revenue for mining operators.
The discounts come amid price markdowns at the firm, and will apply to devices with delivery dates set between February and April. The refunded amounts will be paid in coupons, with customers receiving or expecting delivery in April in line for the maximum $272 refund.
The Chinese company said the coupons could be redeemed for purchases from Bitmain, in line with the increasingly challenging market conditions for hardware manufacturers. According to analysts, the move comes at a time when Bitmain is expected to oversee declining profitability as well as increasing liabilities.
The recent crash in BTC prices, fueled by the coronavirus crisis, has already weighed on hardware prices, with companies forced to slash costs for new equipment. Coinciding with the upcoming halving of rewards, firms like Bitmain are expected to increasingly struggle to operate profitably.
The problems for Bitmain are compounded by its delivery cycle, which operates on a pre-order basis for delivery two to three months after ordering. As a result, customers who ordered devices for delivery in April are likely to have paid inflated prices based on market conditions at the time of purchase in January, despite prices now being significantly lower.
Prices for hardware have been slashed across the board in the past month, with double-digit percentage reductions becoming normal across the sector. Antminer S17+ units have dropped from $1,567 to $1,320 over the period, a 15.7% decrease in retail price.
With the profitability set to continue to decline after BTC’s upcoming halving, the refunds underline the problems currently facing manufacturers in the sector. The news is likely to be welcomed by those with substantial orders in progress, as well as those who have accepted delivery of new hardware in recent weeks but it won’t be enough to stop the blood bath that is coming to these operations after the BTC halving.
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First time posting here cause Adobe asked me to share my experiences with everyone. Have requested that they fix it in an update as well. Recently I reformatted my PC and installed a new graphics card in my PC. My hardware consists of a:
ASUS Z170s Sabertooth
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2Tb Samsung 970 Evo NVME SSD
GTX 1070ti (upgraded from GTX 970 OC edition)
Prior to reformmating (due to other issues), my Lightroom and Photoshop were both working fine. After I reformmated and installed both. I didn't really use Lightroom and Photoshop since cause I don't shoot professionally anymore and I'm kinda "retired" from shooting and have been focusing on my fall back job. Recently I got a new used Aorus 27" IPS monitor capable of HDR and after setting up everything, my Lightroom became unreasonably laggy, rotation, brush, gradient filter and cropping took more than a second to update when previously, it didn't.
No reason why a better graphics card would result in slower performance, especially and old one that has more or less matured. In photoshop, when I click on menu, the preview in the top right hand corner (Photography layout) and menus will just keep flickering, when I did things such as smart sharpening, it will flicker as well. And overall, the performance will be slow. It is worth mentioning Windows is up to date, my graphics drivers are up to date and of course, Adobe products are up to date. It would be stupid not to have them up to date especially now that I work in the IT industry and it's a main part of my job to do.
It was unusually slow considering everything but the raw file itself is on mechanical hard disk. Everything was on a modern NVME drive so it should be pretty much instantaneous. I rolled back to an older Lightroom and it didn't help. Fed up with the issue, I resorted to contacting Adobe technical support. They did things that I myself in the IT industry would have done. They controled my PC remotely and guided me to reset settings, start a new catalog, and even got me to do a clean removal of everything Adobe (which is a pain) and still they couldn't find a solution, and 2 technical support eventually "left the chat". Whether it was a technical error or they just left cause they didn't want to be blamed or something, I was pissed as I was rushing a job I was helping a friend with on a freelance basis. I went to bed and the next day I woke up and thought about the settings I changed between the time I formatted my PC and changed parts. I tried Lightroom on my laptop to make sure I wasn't being unreasonable with the speed I want my PC to perform like how I did moving from a small camera sensor to a larger one and expected 0 digital noise in my photos.
I plugged in a 2nd portable 15.6" monitor to my computer and it worked flawlessly, that's when I started thinking what do my Aorus monitor, portable monitor and laptop have configured differently. I thought it could be the refresh rate or the resolution but those have changed for quite some time and after tweaking it, there wasn't any difference. Then it hit me, and I finally found the culprit! The culprit was the HDR capability of my montior, and Windows HD colour was the only thing on that's present on my 27" monitor that the other 2 didn't have! I turned it off, lo and behold, Lightroom was responsive once again and Photoshop stopped flickering! So I quickly calibrated my monitor and started rushing my job. Hopefuly Adobe is reading this and starts working on an update that allows Windows HD colour to be turned on with Lightroom and Photoshop utilizing it as we move forward into a more HDR capable display future.
- Lightroom was unreasonably slow, Photoshop was slow and would flicker
- Software, drivers, firmware are all up to date
- Computer is relatively modern at least and capable of playing AAA title games, so Lightroom and Photoshop should be a piece of cake
- Recently changed monitors
Solution: Windows HDR should be off to fix the issue
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The Stromoy Racing Team is set to debut an all-new DAC tunnel boat, designed specifically for the Mercury Racing 360 APX competition outboard, in the UIM F1H2O World Championship. After three days of final testing with the support of Mercury Racing, the team plans to race the new package in the Sardinia Grand Prix of Italy Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 in Oliba, Italy. The race will mark the debut of the 4.6-liter V8 four stroke 360 APX outboard the UIM F1H2O World Championship.
“We are ready and super excited to start on the next chapter in our powerboat racing career,” said racer Marit Stromoy. “A brand-new, custom-made DAC has now been collected from Italy and is in our workshop in Norway. The new boat has been specially designed to fit the new Mercury Racing four-stroke F1 engine, the 360 APX. The 360 APX is a huge step forward in technology and sustainability and reduces emissions to the environment by over 90 percent. This has become a big factor for our sponsors and together we made this decision.”
The Mercury Racing engineering team was on hand for the test sessions August 16-18 at Songe, Norway, on a small lake that Stromoy Racing uses as a testing venue.
“The new DAC boat worked very well right away,” said Jeff Broman, director of engineering. “The boat is designed specifically for the weight and performance characteristics of the 360 APX motor. It’s a little wider than the boats currently running Mercury two-stroke outboards in the F1 series, and the weight distribution is optimized. The boat was developed by Stromoy after her Lake X session with the Mercury Racing DAC test hull, and work done by Guido Cappellini at DAC in Italy. The boat is all carbon fiber and, I’ve got to say, the craftsmanship in this boat is fantastic.”
The Mercury Racing 360 APX combines a durable, low-emissions, four-stroke powerhead with amazing performance. The motor is based on a modified version of the Mercury Racing 300R 4.6-liter V8 powerhead. The 12-inch midsection is designed specifically for Formula 1 tunnel boat applications, with a structural wet sump driveshaft housing and integrated power trim and lift with remote pumps. An overdrive spur gearset between the crankshaft and the gearcase increases the input shaft speed to the gearcase to match that of the current 9600-RPM two-stroke race engine and produces the left-hand propeller rotation desired for Formula 1 circuit racing. The overdrive is designed to accommodate multiple gear ratios, so the teams can select the ratio that best fits each particular race.
Broman explained that Stromoy Racing Team, always competitive but at a budget disadvantage to other teams in the series, is perfectly aligned to make the switch from two-stroke power to the 360 APX.
“This is a sharp team but they have to compete with fewer resources,” said Broman. “They are ready to buck the two-stroke paradigm and try something new. It’s a chance to get out front with this new power option. For this team the lower cost of ownership offered by the 360 APX will be a big advantage. The two-stroke outboards need to be rebuilt after each race. The 360 APX will race for a season with just oil changes. There will be a lot of eyes on Marit and this boat at the next race.”
Marit Stromoy burst on to the F1H2O scene in 2007. The 46-year-old racer from Sandefjord, Norway, has made history on two occasions. In Portimão, in 2011, she became the first woman in the history of the sport to claim a pole position and, four years later, in Sharjah, she claimed her first Grand Prix victory. Stromoy has competed in over 100 Grand Prix events and finished third in the rankings in 2019, with the last of her five podium finishes coming in Xiamen that year. She made her racing debut at the age of 12 and started out in S-550, winning the European title on three occasions and the Nordic Championship twice.
The UIM F1H2O World Championship is the flagship international series of single-seater inshore circuit powerboat racing. The series attracts up to 20 of the world’s leading drivers competing in tunnel-hull catamarans capable of making hairpin turns at more than 90 mph and achieving top speeds in excess of 140 mph on the straights.
Want to learn more? Take three minutes to watch Jeff Broman discuss the APX 360 with Powerboat Racing World.
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that question is not about security however its about making life easier.
See here how it looks.
Anyone seen those for central Europe?
Would like to get rid of all that chargers.
Couldn't find anything online.
right this is more a safty issue:
I would think they are not allowed in EU.
1) low and vigh voltage must be split into independant mountings
2) the (still needed) power converter in the wall would, even if not used, constantly be powered on, which is in conflict with EUs use of power reduction plans.
But if you are a bit handy, you can build a wall mount yourself. There are USB faceplates available and a power converter for 220V in / 5V-4A out you can buy at any electronics shop.
Google for "Rutenbeck 170 105 01"
Please obay your national safety and security regulations when working with high voltage!!!
yes that issue with having 230V and 5V in one is a very valid point.
EU saving energy I don't mind so much
I think it would be nice to get those plugs. It would make things just easier.
There are charging pads like http://www.chargingpad.org/index.php or http://powermat.com/ but the device must support it. They are as well somewhat more expensive.
Not going build one my self just to dangerous to accidentally burn down the house.
Going to keep my eyes open maybe I will find it eventually.
@2eemeli wrote:Not going build one my self just to dangerous to accidentally burn down the house.
not more dangerous than replacing the old outlet against a new one. But I guess it has to be done by an electrician, otherwise you would loose insurance protection.
But maybe you first buy a USB-HUB with enough Amps and enough connections. D-Link has anice 7-port HUB as well
I haven't seen anything like it before. Does that mean you can simply insert USB cords there?
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Hi all, as you know I’m a fan of Tripetto because the tool makes making complex forms really easy (calculator / conditional logic). But Tally is even easier! Tally works like a charm as if you’re making a document in Notion. Add your blocks, add your logic. The free version has lots of options and you can embed it in Glide via Webview.
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We know that email or a pop up window could be used as a notification about an event. But if you are expecting a user reaction from that notification - you might consider adding a button or a link that can trigger the expected action. We also know that lot of these actions could be meaningless if they lack details that lead to decision making. A notification email might be boring, or the notification window might be too small. An interesting overture to address this could be usage of contextual notifications. Adaptive Cards from Microsoft not only offer the contextual awareness, but allow the user to trigger certain actions in a plethora of user interface components . Since adaptive cards are also an open source technology, it makes it even more interesting. In this blog, I like to share some scenarios where we used Adaptive Cards to existing business process in SAPs Digital Supply Chain.
Why Adaptive Cards?
The two main cloud services we use in this Digital Supply chain scenario are SAP Integrated Business Planning and the Ariba Network. We are creating a Supplier Forecast using SAP IBP and sending this to a known supplier on the Ariba Network. During the communication between the SAP IBP and the Ariba Network, there are messages exchanged which might go wrong or succeed, but they generate notification emails with a information such as Ariba Network ID, time, etc. However, the notification email has less contextual info about the payloads contents being exchanged. So we considered the use of Adaptive cards here to bring in the rich contextual information. Some interesting facts about choosing Adaptive cards were,
With a JSON structure, one can create and adapt the layout of the cards - which is adds flexibility to the user interface.
It is very expressive - allows to dynamically add contextual details, depending on the processes or event.
No client side coding or scripting is needed as it runs out of the box using standard communication tools like MS Teams or MS Outlook.
Let me explain the basic flow, before I go into the details of Adaptive Cards.
At a high level
Fig.1 Process overview
SAP Integrated Business Planning
I created a planning area in the SAP IBP instance based on the SAP7F sample planing model. Master data was imported into this planning area from an S4H system using real-time-integration (Step 1). Then I created a simple planning view in Excel (Step 2) using the IBP Excel plugin. In this Excel sheet, I am using a key figure (Unconstrained Forecast) which is defined with a planning level - Product, Location To, Customer on a daily basis. This key figure is what I send to a Supplier on the Ariba Network. Usually, one uses the Data Sharing app in SAP IBP to communicate with the Ariba Network. Since I like to add some custom logic to the process, I am not using the app, rather working it out from Excel. I created a macro using Visual Basic and attached it to a Button in the Planning View Excel sheet. On pressing the button an action listener would send this data. To consume the Ariba Network API's I need to create a cXML payload which might have to be mapped to different IDs that are relevant for the Supplier on the Ariba Network.
SAP Cloud Integration Suite.
To work with cXML payloads, I considered the SAP Cloud Integration Suite. The excel macro makes a REST call to an iFlow build in the SAP Cloud Integration Suite. This iFlow is used to call the SAP IBP instance to fetch the data, prepare a payload for the cXML structure, map the IDs and then call the Ariba Network to send the Forecast as a ProductActivityMessage to the Supplier (Step 4). Once this payload is acknowledged on the Ariba Network, I am creating an Adaptive Card which can be sent to the Supplier as well as the Buyer that this data is being received on the Ariba Network (Steps 5 & 6). For the Buyer details such as the acknowledgement of the message is more than enough at this point. But for the Supplier the Adaptive card could make a difference.
Microsoft Adaptive Cards
The iFlow in the SAP Cloud Integration Suite is creating the JSON structure which is contains the contextual data needed for the cards. This data is sent to a Logic App running on Microsoft Arzure cloud platform. The authentication is done using Client Certificate generated on the Azure platform. The Logic App listens for the inbound JSON. One can create a JSON Schema before hand at this HTTP Listener so we can generate helper functions to access the different objects and key of the JSON payload.
Fig.3 Flow of the Logic App
In this logic app, we are iterating over all the row items of a Supplier Forecast and creating a snapshot view of the Product Activity message that was sent to the Ariba Network. The flow bot on the Logic app would post the card either on the MS Teams or send an email to an Outlook inbox. The card also has two buttons which can be used to trigger a follow up iFlow or another endpoint. The button "Reject" would simply ignore the message. No action is taken for that in this example. The button "Import to IBP" will send a trigger to the Logic app. On this trigger, the app would call an iFlow on the SAP Cloud Integration Suite. This flow uses the data provided by the Logic app to call the Ariba Network and download the Forecast data sent to him by the Buyer.
Fig.5 Screenshot of an Adaptive card with Supplier Forecast on a MS Teams channel
In this example we can consider an SAP IBP system as a planning application used by the Supplier. We have defined a key figure called "Buyer Forecast". The iFlow downloads this supplier forecast and send it to the Supplier's IBP system via RFC connection (Steps 7 & 8). One is free to use either RFC or oData calls here. From my observation, I found a couple of advantages using contextual notifications via Adaptive Cards,
Imagine the supplier is getting 100s of requests, since he can see the quantities and item details in the requests, he can prioritize which Buyer he might give first preference or answer immediately based on his current inventory or warehouse location for example.
Since he already gets a notification via the Ariba Network, adding context makes that more expressive and also actionable.
There is a smooth transition of message payloads between the systems with very less human intervention. From the user experience point of view, the Buyer uses an Excel sheet to trigger sending data and the Supplier uses Outlook or Teams to download the payloads. This reduces the burden of users to learn the quintessence in tools like IBP and Ariba Network. Once setup, the end to end flows can be scaled to a lot of users.
There are quite a lot of examples how Adaptive Cards are getting popular in business processes at SAP. I found this tool - Adaptive card designer quite interesting to shape the Card layout. There are tons of blogs and tutorials one can use to learn them too. Here is an example of how Adaptive Cards were used to bring contextual awareness in a notification and help the user to react to it from a popular communication tool. If you have other use cases or you might think or something interesting on these lines, please feel free to share them in the comments.
It was one of first projects using Adaptive Cards and I like to say a big thanks to Martin P from Microsoft. The amount of time we invested in pair programming was just less than 2 days to get this end to end working. A big thanks to the rest of team at Microsoft - Holger B, Roman B, Martin R and Lei who helped and guided in all the discussions we had before the start. | <urn:uuid:6d351b20-67d9-48dd-96ff-3865e3371483> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://community.sap.com:443/t5/supply-chain-management-blogs-by-sap/using-microsoft-adaptive-cards-in-supply-chain-scenarios/ba-p/13529000 | 2024-04-18T14:16:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.934086 | 1,622 |
Over the years I’ve worked with some wonderful recruiters when seeking new opportunities. I’ve also come across way too many that just aren’t good at their job. They don’t listen, don’t understand my needs and goals, and only seem to be interested in pushing irrelevant jobs on me. I’d like to hear about others’ experiences as it relates to working with recruiters for a UX role.
I’ve never worked with a recruiter, but I know that @Noquarter had a great experience with a few when he contacted them for user research on his portfolio project. He might have some input.
I have never used a recruiter, but that doesn’t mean I’m not open to the idea.
For the longest time I felt very uneasy about the idea. I think that stemmed from the fact that I’m an innately loyal person, so having someone looking out for opportunities on my behalf while I was in employment felt underhanded or something.
However, when I was at a role for 5 years and started to get itchy feet, a recruiter coincidentally reached out to me on LinkedIn, and I agreed to a coffee chat. It was good for me to get a different perspective on what pay conditions at the time were like, what kinds of roles were available, and also to think about where I wanted to head.
In the end I took a contract role referred to me by a friend, and began working for myself, but that conversation was a good jolt of reality that I needed. It’s easy when you take a job that you love, working with people you enjoy the company of, to let go of your career aspirations and just enjoy the job. Which is fine, but it can result in you being taken advantage of by your employer, unintentionally or otherwise. Having a regular conversation with a recruiter can prevent that from happening. I don’t actually know if that recruiter I spoke to was good at his job or not, but chatting to him was helpful.
Bit of a long-winded tangential answer there. I do get plenty of random offers via recruiters on LinkedIn, who clearly haven’t read my profile. I ignore them.
My primary experience with recruiters has been poor, as they really don’t know about UX - I’ll never forget having a phone conversation with one who asked what UX stood for!
But there are a few good eggs out there that have helped me snag a contract here and there. It’s really a matter of finding the needle in the haystack.
I’ve had the same experience with recruiters as you Mortvia. They don’t speak the language, don’t understand what we do, don’t listen to what we are looking for…the list goes on. Don’t get me wrong. I know some wonderful recruiters but they are few and far between.
My experience with contract/perm agency recruiters has, generally, been very poor from the job-seeker perspective. They have no idea at all what they are recruiting for, don’t follow through with their promises (“Oh yes, I’ll keep you informed every step of the way, count on me!”) Recently it has gotten worse with a flood of recruiters who are really very inexperienced and even harder to understand. I did some agency recruiting many years ago and my experience was that my colleagues could generally be described as sales-oriented folks. I suggest staying away from them - at the senior executive level there are some very good outfits but those are the 1% of the recruiting world. | <urn:uuid:bdcdc5c3-2b98-4f10-a6f1-cbba1f39b8c0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://community.uxmastery.com/t/whats-been-your-experience-with-ux-recruiters/506 | 2024-04-18T13:16:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.986955 | 771 |
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attached to the pintle of most standard tow trucks.
Make certain the tires are uniformly inflated to a
Always make sure the foot which supports the front ends
pressure of 20 to 25 psig and that the wheel brakes are
of the cart is retracted and the wheel brakes released
before attempting to tow the unit. Do not exceed a
speed of 20 miles per hour when towing on pavement;
2.3 PRE-OPERATING SERVICING
reduce speed in accordance with the condition of the
terrain. Secure the tow bar in the vertical position when
it is not being used.
2.1.1 The cart handle attached to the tow bar allows the
126.96.36.199 Make sure the compressor package assembly is
compressor package assembly to be moved manually
as level as the terrain permits, then check the level of
for short distances and for proper positioning of the
the oil in the compressor reservoir by observing the
equipment. When the unit is located in its operating or
indicator sight mounted on the side of the reservoir. If
storage location, step on the foot pedal at the front of
necessary, remove the cover and filter assembly from
the cart to drop the support foot and set the wheel
the breather assembly installed in the compressor
brakes. Secure the cart handle in the vertical position.
crankcase, and add oil to bring the level up to the FULL
mark on the indicator sight. Approximately five pints of
oil are required to fill the reservoir. Be sure to replace
2.2 PRE-OPERATING INSPECTIONS
the cover and filter assembly.
Refer to Instruction Decal on engine
compartment access door.
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assembly, looking for obvious indications of damage
such as oil or air leaks, loosely mounted or missing
parts, bent or broken fins on the interstage connecting
tubes and cylinders, damaged or improperly zeroed
pressure gages, and broken safety wires. Check all
pneumatic and fuel systems connections for tightness.
Make certain all surfaces of the unit are free of
obstructions and deposits that would impair the
operation of the engine, compressor and other
components, or prevent efficient cooling of the units.
Examine the air hose, the pressure servicing valve and
the chuck for damaged fittings, swelling, rupturing, and
for dents, cracks, leaks, and other damage.
2.2.2 Remove the attaching screws and lock washers
and lift the silencer cover and intake filter from the
compressor first stage cylinder head. If necessary,
clean the filter by washing in ethyl alcohol (Federal
Specification O-A-396) and allow the element to air dry.
Figure 2-1. Compressor and Engine
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the silencer cover, then remove all residue by wiping
with a clean, lint-free cloth. Replace the intake filter and
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Physico-chemical and microbiological characteristics of the Apis mellifera L. honey of from different warehouses
honey bees, apiarian product, quality controlAbstract
The state of Ceara excels in the national scene as one of the largest producers of honey, what makes it important the monitoring of the quality of bee products processed in the warehouses. The objective of this study was to characterize honeys of Apis mellifera L. from seven apiaries located in the region of Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. The honeys were analyzed as for apparent sucrose, reducing sugars, acidity, pH, moisture, insoluble solids, ash, coliforms at 35° and 45 °C, yeasts,molds and Salmonella spp. According to the results of physic-chemical, all honeys evaluated where in accordance with Brazilian legislation, with significant effect at 1% probability for all physic-chemical parameters evaluated, demonstrating the heterogeneity of these characteristics. The samples analyzed were not contaminated by coliforms at 35° and 45 °C and Salmonella spp., showing a low number of yeasts and molds. According to the results of the parameters specified by legislation, the beekeepers performed the management, the harvesting and the processing of these bee products as recommended in order to obtain a qualified product.Downloads
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Increased connected medical device use has been great for physician and patient convenience but not so great for keeping patient data safe, according to a recent Capterra Medical IoT Survey. The survey, which was conducted in October 2022 with 151 U.S. respondents, revealed that 67 percent of healthcare cyberattacks impacted patient data and almost half of them (48 percent) impacted patient care. The fact that so many of these attacks are doing damage is a sign that increased security risks in the medical industry are resulting in severe consequences in patient outcomes and privacy.
Medical internet of things (IoT) has helped make healthcare more efficient, convenient and patient-friendly, so eliminating it would not be the best solution for fighting off these cyberattacks. It is imperative that a remedy is found, however, as many connected IoT sensors have security vulnerabilities that could endanger healthcare facilities and patients. These vulnerable devices include glucose monitors, insulin pumps and defibrillators.
“As a healthcare organization connects more medical devices to its network, its attack surface expands,” Zach Capers, senior security analyst at Capterra, said in the report. “Connected medical devices often go unmonitored for security vulnerabilities, and because they run on a wide array of software and hardware platforms, it is difficult to monitor with a single tool. This means that many connected medical devices are left wide open to cyberattacks.”
Inaction is a factor
Part of the issue that is that while more than half (53 percent) of healthcare IT staff noted the industry’s cybersecurity threat level as “high” or “extreme,” a lot of healthcare organizations are not taking the necessary action to protect their medical IoT devices. Meanwhile, almost 60 percent of organizations do not change the default username and password of their new connected medical devices when they are put into use, according to the survey. Additionally, more than 80 percent run their connected medical devices on old Windows systems.
When a security vulnerability is detected, medical organizations should patch the device or perform a firmware update as soon as possible. Today 68 percent of healthcare organizations do not always update connected devices when a patch is available. Also, the vulnerabilities and associated patches are not always well publicized, so healthcare IT staff is tasked with staying up to date on any emerging threats to medical IoT devices.
Best protection for IoT devices
Maintaining medical IoT security requires being consistently proactive and vigilant. Additionally, healthcare care practices would be best served to conduct routine vulnerability assessments before connecting medical devices to their IT network. Keeping a current and accurate inventory of all connected devices, associated software and firmware would also limit vulnerabilities. Organizations should use software to monitor these devices, according to Capterra’s report.
Additional strategies include creating virtual local area networks (VLANs) to separate different devices and data flows. This keeps an organization’s network out of “one basket” and minimizes overall risk.
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I think we can all agree that interest-rate cuts are on the table now. Even Jay Powell says so!
That rare “straight talk” from mystery-man Jay has fueled a jump in bonds. But there are still some bargain “bond proxies” on the table waiting to be snapped up.
To be sure, Jay is still being cagey about when the first cut will drop. But futures traders think they’re on to him: they’re calling for at least three quarter-point cuts by the end of this year, as of this writing:
Source: CME Group
We can argue about whether or not that’s too aggressive. But no matter when or how many, rate cuts are coming, and they’ll continue to drive bonds (and stocks and funds that behave like bonds) higher in the months ahead.
But funnily enough, even though Jay is being as clear as a bell, there are still cheap “bond proxies” on the board for us.
Case in point: utility stocks, which tend to trade opposite to bond yields. As you’d expect, many of these stocks have spiked in the last few months as Treasury rates moved down from their recent peak of nearly 5% back in October. But there are still a few “delayed reaction” utility buys on the board for us today.
We’ll build a “mini-portfolio” of these perfectly positioned dividend payers (and growers) below.
But let’s start with Virginia-based Dominion Energy (D), which has six million electricity and gas customers across 16 states. And talk about cheap: this one trades at 16.4-times forward earnings (well below its five-year average of 19.4-times) and yields around 5.6%.
As you can see from its 10-year yield history below, Dominion rarely pays this much.
Dominion’s Dividend Yield Runs Near All-Time Highs
Why the deal? D’s in the doghouse because the company cut its payout in late 2020. Why the chop? Too much debt, of course. Dominion had embarked on an acquisition binge in the name of growth. Which, ironically, backfired.
The result was a rare payout slash from a utility—that’s why first-level investors keep Dominion in the doghouse.
Which intrigues us here at Contrarian Outlook. Chief financial officers (CFOs) are like carpenters. It’s best if they measure twice and cut only once. As a result, the safest dividend is often the one recently cut. Unless management is a complete clown show, the last thing they want is to have to cut twice!
Which is why a recent dividend raise from Dominion—definitely not a management clown show—is encouraging. It shows confidence that the current dividend is being paid comfortably. Moreover, we can expect lower rates to reduce the company’s borrowing costs. And in any event, that 2020 cut has long been priced into D’s valuation (and high yield).
A Simple Way to Track Your “Bond Proxy” Payouts
Now that we’ve talked about the opportunity (still) waiting for us in utilities like D, I wanted to let you know about one more thing.
It’s a new tool we’ve created that lets you ditch the spreadsheet you normally use to track your dividend payouts and manage your income stream with much less hassle.
Like most people, my bills come in every month. And I’m not cutting checks any longer; most of my expenses are on autopay. Which makes income tracking more important than ever. I need to make sure I have the money in the account before it gets dinged.
That’s where our new toy whipped up by our IT team here at Contrarian Outlook, called the Income Calendar, comes in.
Let’s do a quick run-through, using D and four other utility stocks that stand to gain as the 10-year Treasury yield drops further: Entergy (ETR), a 4.4%-payer; WEC Energy (WEC)—current yield: 4.1%; California-based Sempra (SRE), with a 3.5% payout; and Crown Castle International (CCI), which is technically a REIT, not a utility, but I’d argue the company’s cell towers are just as vital as power lines these days. CCI’s yield rings in at 5.7%.
Let’s go ahead and plug these five quarterly payers into Income Calendar, allocating $100,000 to each one, for a $500,000 sample portfolio in total.
Right away, IC gives us the vitals—no finicky Excel formulas needed!
On the left, we’ve got an “at a glance” custom 12-month income forecast served up for us in an easy-to-read bar chart. (You’ll note we don’t get any payouts in February, May, July and November here, but that’s okay—we’re building for quality, not frequency here. And with Income Calendar’s help, we can smooth out our payouts on our own to compensate.)
On the right, Income Calendar gets granular, giving us a dollars-and-cents monthly forecast, including our total projected income for the year of $23,034.18, good for a 4.7% yield. Not bad!
(And note that we intentionally don’t forecast dividend growth in IC, to be as conservative as possible, but as all five of these stocks have dividend-growth histories, we could likely expect a bit more than 4.7% as the next 12 months play out.)
There’s more. Let’s dial up June 2024, a month in which we get paid by Entergy, WEC, Dominion and Crown:
You can see that Income Calendar not only tracks our payouts but forecasts other key dates, like the ex-dividend date (or the date by which you need to be a shareholder to receive the next payout) and non-dividend-related events like market holidays.
It’ll also tip you off to expected earnings dates (there aren’t any of those in June 2024, but they normally show up in red). Moreover you can get a breakout by stock, too:
Let’s see an Excel spreadsheet do all that! Income Calendar really is a complete roadmap that makes sure you’re always on top of what’s coming up for your holdings, and you’re never caught short of dividend cash when you need it.
One final note—we’ve recently made a major upgrade to IC: we’ve integrated it with Plaid, a service that safely and securely links up to your brokerage account and imports all your tickers and share counts—so you don’t have to do any inputting at all.
It’s easy to use, and if you appreciate convenience (who doesn’t?), I’m sure you’ll love it.
My Personal Invitation to You: Try Income Calendar With No Obligation
The best way for you to see what Income Calendar could do for you is to try it out yourself. Log in, drop in a few tickers. Maybe include a couple stocks you’ve been watching, just to see how your income stream could change with an extra buy or two.
I think you’ll quickly see how this new tool can save you valuable time—and give you peace of mind that your dividend cash will be in your account before your bills come out.
It couldn’t be easier to set up, and you’ve got no obligation whatsoever.
Simply click here to see the investor briefing I’ve put together on Income Calendar, including a quick video that demonstrates, step by step, exactly how to use it. You’ll also get a chance to “road test” the service for 60 days.
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Date: September 30, 1927
Location: Washington, D.C.
I am not entirely certain but I expect to say a short word of welcome to the delegates to the International Radio Conference who are to assemble Tuesday afternoon.
I have no information about any change in the tariff rates on automobiles on the part of Australia.
I had not given any thought to doing any traveling after I leave the Presidential office in foreign countries. I do not know now any reason why I should want to leave this country.
I do not know when Mr. Morrow is coming to Washington. I assume that he will probably come as is the custom with people who are sent on foreign missions to look over the files and have some conferences with the State Department before they take up their duties in foreign countries.
No decision has been made about the post in Cuba or in the Philippines.
Of course, nobody could make any estimate as to how much flood control will cost until the plan for flood control is brought forward. Undoubtedly different plans would cost different sums, perhaps varying quite a good deal, so that it would be idle to make any estimates in anticipation of the report of the Board of Engineers. The same reason would apply to any estimate as to the first appropriation. One would probably be correct in expecting that that would not be as large as some of the following appropriations because there would not be the opportunity to begin the work, or rather there would not be the opportunity to carry on the work that there would be after it was well under way.
My views about the merchant marine have been set out in my several Messages to the Congress, and nothing has come to my attention to indicate that the position that I then took was not sound or one which I do not expect to support. There may be some changes in the situation that have not been specifically brought to my attention that would cause me to make some transient change of policy, but I think the permanent policy that I have already outlined in my messages is the one that this country should pursue.
I have no information as to what Mr. Schlee — I do not know just how that is pronounced — one of the round-the-world aviators — made in the nature of any request of our Navy, so I would not be able to comment on that. I think those two men made a remarkable demonstration in reaching Japan. I am somewhat inclined to commend their wisdom in not attempting to fly across the Pacific.
Merely in answer to this question I would not say that the mission of Brigadier General McCoy to Nicaragua made him any more or any less available for the Philippine post.
I do not know of any general activity on the part of American producers or any general information as to their ability to supply the demands of the domestic market if our present customs duties on imports from France should he changed. The silk trade has voluntarily, and entirely of their own volition, sent word to me that they are in position to furnish to American consumers all the silk that is now purchased from France. And also voluntarily and of their own volition one of the associations of textile manufacturers sent to me the same information. It is coupled I think in both instances with the statement that they are not undertaking to influence the position of this government in any way and that they do not desire to do any injury to the people of France who are engaged in the production of silk and the production of fine textiles. It is merely a statement of their ability to supply the entire market here if the contingency should arise where that would be necessary.
QUERY: The other textiles. Was that cotton goods?
THE PRESIDENT: I do not know. It was a textile association — whether it was merely confined to cotton — some association I think that had headquarters in New York. I did not understand from looking at the letter and especially from the letterhead that it was confined to cotton textiles though that may be the case. It was simply an association of textile manufacturers but I think there was nothing in the letter or letterhead to indicate that it did not include both cotton and wool.
At this point the President indicated that there was nothing further and the correspondents proceeded to leave the room. They were called back and the President continued:
I wanted to say that I have a report from the Red Cross Headquarters that they have put their organization to work on the St. Louis disaster – and a similar report from the War Department. I made inquiries of both of those places this morning expressing my desire that they should immediately offer such aid as they could. I find from the information I have received that their relief was already on the way.
Citation: Calvin Coolidge: Remarks by the President to Newspaper Correspondents
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Brothers Nadir and Hisham endured back-to-back loss when their mother died just one year after their father passed away. They continued to live in their tiny apartment in the slums of Helwan. A kind uncle who lived in the same building did what he could for the boys, but he could only provide meals. Beyond this, the brothers lived off their laborer father’s monthly pension, a meager 300 Egyptian pounds (about $50 USD).
While Nadir, the eldest, was able to manage the loss of both parents, Hisham went into a deep depression and didn’t want to finish school. He struggled every day with despair. Rep Saad arranged for him to see a counselor and also provided something very crucial: emotional support. While Not Alone provides for immediate needs, a major aspect of the program is to give a participant the confidence that he or she may have lost after a parent’s death or abandonment.
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By Kevin Deutsch
The Broward County School Board on Tuesday lifted its COVID-19 mask mandate amid a sharp decrease in local infections but said it would “strongly encourage” all students, staff, visitors, and vendors to continue wearing face coverings to school.
The new policy goes into effect this Saturday, Nov. 20. A formal opt-out process will not be utilized, district officials said.
Broward public schools will also follow the Florida Department of Health guidelines for quarantining, officials said.
Tuesday’s decision follows the board’s Oct. 26 vote lifting of the mask mandate for high schools and technical colleges.
Tuesday’s mandate reversal was approved by school board members 7 to 1, with member Sarah Leonardi the only dissenting vote on the issue. Member Ann Murray was absent.
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By Dan I. Cook
I know it might be a little late for my recommendations of gifts for the foodie in your house, but oh well. Remember, it doesn’t have to be Hanukkah, Christmas, Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day to get that gift.
So here are my top five 2021-22 gifts. Please feel free to add anything other folks would like as well.
Sous Vide Precision Cooker with Bluetooth
I got turned on to this gadget by Chefs Keith and Mike, who worked together at The Cook and Cork in Coral Springs. This was maybe five or eight years ago. These chefs blew my mind with the food they were preparing.
One of my favorites was the Korean Style Ribs. These ribs were perfect because the meat didn’t all fall off the bone when I bit into it. I hate when I bite into a rib and all the meat falls off leaving me with a pile of meat on my plate. I want ribs not a BBQ plate of pulled pork or beef.
Not only was it very tender, but the structure of the meat held up fantastically. The secret to preparing this dish was this contraption called a Sous Vide Machine. They showed me how it worked, and I was blown away.
Since I didn’t graduate from the Culinary Institute of America, this machine looked like some sort of science experiment. You place your protein in an airtight bag and then submerge it in a temperature-controlled water bath. It basically simmers for a specific time. Then you finish the dish in a hot pan or grill for only minutes. As for meat, it comes out as a perfect medium.
I bought the Anova brand, and it is so easy to use, so don’t be scared. They have an app, and you just follow the steps. Pretty simple.
I’ve made 15 filet mignons at once in my sous vide, and it just made my cooking so easy. I’ll be using it again for Christmas Day for some flank steaks I’ll be preparing for the family. The Sous Vide Machine is a must-buy for any foodie out there. You can buy one here: Amazon for $99.
Seth McGinn’s Can Cooker Jr.
I’m a seafood boil king. I’ve got the 100-quart crawfish pot, the burner, and the cold beer to be successful.
While watching the YouTube channel Deer Meat For Dinner, the host used this can cooker. It’s a quasi-pressure cooker that prepares your boil in about an hour and fifteen minutes.
The corn and potatoes go in first. You lock the lid down you wait to see steam coming out of a hole up top. Once that happens, you lower the heat for about 20 minutes. After that, place your seafood in for another ten minutes or so, and you are done. The Jr. size cooker is big enough to hold enough food for a family of four. You can buy it here: Amazon for $84.99.
Nothing fancy about this gadget which is how I like things sometimes. Who needs a fancy electronic steaming device when you can just plop this on top of a pot of boiling water.
The bamboo steamer makes anything you want the old fashion way. It’s a perfect tool to reheat all your favorite Trader Joe’s specialties like any Buns, Shumai, and Dumplings.
Cooking vegetables, shellfish, chicken, and fresh fish has never been so easy and healthy. I recommend buying the parchment paper made specifically for a bamboo steamer. The paper keeps the food from sticking to the bamboo and helps with clean-up. You can buy it here: Premium Bamboo Steamer Basket for $32.88.
Artestia Cooking Stone
Our friends Kathy and Charles James gave us one of these stones about 15 years ago. It’s a stone you preheat in the oven and then keep it warm on your table with a Sterno or two. Precut the proteins and vegetables into bite-size pieces and cook them on this stone.
I’m a huge fan of the communal style of eating like fondue and Korean barbecue. If you don’t like to work for your food, this device is not for you. As a fellow foodie, you have to love cooking your food at your dinner table and just having a great conversation with friends or family.
I guarantee your family and friends will get a kick out of this cooking device. You can buy it here, Artestia Cooking Stone for $45.96.
Sushi Making Kit
During last year’s lockdown, my family and I self-quarantined for about two months. I wasn’t going anywhere except the grocery store or a drive-thru restaurant. I wasn’t about to pay all these delivery fees. I did my best to order food from local places, but it was expensive.
One of my true loves is sushi. I never had the confidence to make it, but I had nothing but time on my hands, so I decided to give it a whirl. I bought all of my equipment from an Asian Supermarket in Margate. You can buy a complete kit from Amazon, and they are very reasonable, under 50 dollars for the ones I’ve seen. The essential items are the rolling mat, sushi rice paddle, and a very sharp knife. An excellent knife can be costly, but you need a real sharp one when cutting your sushi. I found cutting the sushi was the most challenging part of this process.
What’s great about this gift is getting your partner, friends, and family involved with the sushi-making process. We designed our rolls: smoked salmon with cream cheese and cucumber roll, a shrimp tempura roll, and a Mai Kai Crab Rangoon Roll. All were excellent.
As I said, don’t be intimidated about making sushi. Just surf YouTube, and you will find many videos on making rice and many different rolls. You can buy one here: Sushi Chef Sushi Making Kit for $87.95
These items are relatively cheap and excellent stocking stuffers for the foodie you love. I know frozen meat and ice cream aren’t ideal in a stocking, but hey, figure it out. Now I’m not going to break down why you should buy these items; you just need to trust me. These are unique products that are extremely tasty.
I hope everyone has a great holiday season, be safe, and Stay Hungry!
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Pure Bubbles Face Cream with Retinol: Review with Ingredient Analysis
Every now and then, I get emails from emerging brands talking about their new launches. Well! Rarely I do get this feeling like I should try a certain product. The last time it happened was when Aditi, the founder of The Minimalist brand approached me.
It’s been more than a year now since then. I felt the same way when Bhavana, the founder of Pure Bubbles Skincare approached me to try their newly launched Retinol Based Face Cream.
I was familiar with Bhavana and her formulations when I used to be pretty active on Instagram (Why I am not active anymore on that platform, I would tell you that on some other day). Although we used to follow each other yet we never had a serious talk then.
It’s been a week now that I am using this Face Cream for Women. How promising & safe are the ingredients? Is it effective? Definitely, a week is not enough to talk about the efficacy of a Retinol-based product. But, I have already outlined the pros and cons. Let’s talk about whether it can be one of the best retinol-based face creams in India or not.
The Inspiration and the Background Story of Pure Bubbles Retinol Face Cream
Bhavana Doshi is the founder & owner of Pure Bubbles Skincare. She started working with a professional formulator in 2020 for a Retinol face cream for the Indian market. Having used a lot of retinol-based products, she felt a lack of proper amalgamation of ingredients being used in the Indian market.
The main criterion was to have a concentration of 0.3% (the final concentration achieved after deducing the premixed emollients to stabilize retinol.
This high % of Retinol concentration can cause skin dryness). But, Bhavana did not want want to deal with her labels claiming this thing.
So, instead of a serum, she wanted to venture into a cream-based formula, where the emollients would help to deal with the skin dryness. She achieved this by using a combination of antioxidants and barrier-protecting molecules, and by choosing an emulsifier which is great for sensitive skin and helps stabilize Retinol.
And last but not least, she made this formula effective by adding a proper delivery system (glycols) and her prime ingredient Ethylhexyl Methoxycrylene. In order to help Retinol become photostabilized as it is a volatile molecule by itself.
Basic Information about Pure Bubbles Face Cream with Retinol
Price: INR 999 for 28 ml
Shelf Life: 2.5 years
Buy From: Pure Bubbles Official Website
What does the Brand Claim about Pure Bubbles Face Cream with 0.3% Retinol?
This Retinol face cream (0.3%) has been created for beginners and advanced users of retinol. The formula is suitable for All Skin Types. It has a blend of nutrient-rich emollients, botanical actives, peptides, Vitamin B3, and Lab derived actives making this retinol a work of art.
It comes in a form of cream and helps with the following concerns:
- Minimizes acne/ blemishes through faster cellular turnover. It may initially lead to peeling of the skin which is nothing but the shedding of old skin cells.
- Reduces the appearance of pores.
- Minimize hyperpigmentation & sun damage.
- Long-term use reduces and prevents premature ageing and reduces fine lines and wrinkles.
Ingredients that work in sync to deliver all the above concerns:
- To deal with wrinkles: Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 and Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
- To deal with Acne/blemishes & Hyperpigmentation: Potassium Azeloyl Diglycinate, Niacinamide, Phycosaccharide ACP, Phragmites Karka Extract, and Poria Cocos Extract
Ingredient Analysis of Pure Bubbles Retinol Face Cream
The Retinol-based facial cream is made of more than 30 ingredients. I feel extremely proud when I find that an Indian cosmetic brand has disclosed all the ingredients of their products. It is sheer happiness.
At a glance at the ingredients, you can already see that this cream is free from artificial colourants, dyes, and fragrances. Amazing for sure. But, what about the other ingredients? Are the rest of the ingredients as safe as the brand claims? Let’s find out.
Water is used as the base of the cream.
2. Polyglyceryl-10 Dipalmitate
This skin conditioning component is pretty new to me. So far, have never seen this in any product.
It is a safe emollient that helps to nourish dry skin.
This cosmetic-grade solvent also works as a humectant ( a component that helps to retain moisture e.g. honey, glycerin, etc.). And, it is totally safe.
A brilliant skin and hair conditioning agent that is perfect for all skin types.
It is a multifunctional component that works as a humectant, solvent, and also as emollient. As per EWG, it is safe too.
6. Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
This safe component is often called fractionated coconut oil. It is widely used in personal care products as an excellent skin smoothening antioxidant.
7. Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter
A beautiful and pretty effective natural butter that is a saviour to dry and mature skin people.
8. Ethylhexyl Methoxycrylene
I am amazed that how brilliantly the formulation of the product has been done. Ethylhexyl Methoxycrylene helps to protect a formula if there is any photo-unstable component present.
A natural and safe humectant that retains moisture onto the layers of the skin.
10. Butylene Glycol
This safe chemical component is a water-soluble and colourless solvent that is usually used in both rinse-off & leave-on products.
It works as a thickening agent in cosmetics. Thus, it helps to control the viscosity.
12. Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1
As per Paula’s Choice, this component helps to repair visibly damaged skin and also strengthens the skin cells. Here you find this product: https://biotechpeptides.com/product/pal-ghk-palmitoyl-tripeptide-1-topical-200mg/
13. Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7
This amazing component helps to prevent uneven skin tone and wrinkles by suppressing the excessive production of interleukins.
14. Potassium Azeloyl Diglycinate
This water-soluble safe component helps to hydrate and moisturize the skin. And thus, it improves the overall condition of the skin.
15. Phragmites Karka Extract and Poria Cocos Extract
This blend is an excellent active ingredient that helps to soothe irritated and damaged skin.
16. Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Extract
The antioxidant-rich extract is an excellent skin conditioning agent that helps to soothe the skin.
17. Ceto-Stearyl Alcohol
Another skin softener that also helps to thicken a liquid-based product.
18. Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
As difficult & long as the name is, the simplest is its function. This component works as a thickener that helps to improve the overall texture of the product.
19. Phycosaccharide ACP
This trademark chemical component is an anti-acne and sebum controlling agent. It also helps to heal irritated skin.
20. Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Oil
Rich in Linoleic & Linolenic Acid, Vitamin C, and Vitamin E, this seed oil is a natural skin rejuvenator for mature and ageing skin.
A safe and natural skin conditioner and humectant.
22. Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
Tea leaf extract is rich in antioxidants that can soothe damaged skin.
23. Phenoxyethanol (and) Triethylene glycol
This blend is quite widely used in the personal care industry in order to preserve the efficacy of products.
24. Retinol (and) BHA (and) BHT
I can already see the frowning line on your forehead looking at the name BHT. Butylated Hydroxytoluene aka BHT is often considered a Carcinogen as it is a Formaldehyde release. In fact, I was in a dilemma too. So, I contacted Bhavana.
As per her explanation and also my research, the presence of BHT (the concentration is hardly 0.01% in this formula) makes sure that the Retinol stays encapsulated or stabilized. This is one of the best ways to maintain the efficacy of Retinol and BHA in this cream.
25. Calcium Ketogluconate
This is a natural molecule that comes in powder form. It helps in to tighten and brighten the skin from the inside & outside.
26. Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil
With high numbers of antioxidants, this oil helps to maintain skin hydration.
27. Olea Europaea (Olive) Leaf Extract
This extract is amazing for repairing irritated skin and healing sun-damaged skin.
28. Sodium Hyaluronate
It is a form of Hyaluronic Acid and is one of the best natural ways to fight off wrinkles and fine lines of ageing.
A brilliant and safe emollient that also provides an anti-pollution effect to the formulation.
Trelaholse is a natural moisturizer and skin protectant.
31. Hippophae Rhamnoides Oil
Another amazing skin nourishing agent that works beautifully as an emollient.
32. Sodium PCA
Primarily, it is used as a safe moisturizing element in cosmetics.
It is basically an anti-irritant to the skin. Thus, it can hydrate and soothe the skin at the same time.
34. Sodium Gluconate
It functions as a natural alternative to synthetic chelating agents like Disodium EDTA. It helps to protect this cream from discolouration and rancidity.
35. Polysorbate 20
This component helps to improve the overall feel and texture of a product. It is widely found in the cosmetic industry.
Phew! And, that’s all. I am simply stunned by the fact that all the ingredients are not only safe but some of the components are also pretty unique. I keep analyzing cosmetic ingredients yet I found a few new names.
None of the ingredients is redundant. All the ingredients had purposes and that is brilliant for sure. Overall, the formulation is well-researched. And, I would happily give the ingredients of Pure Bubbles Retinol Face Cream a rating of 5 out of 5.
Packaging, Texture, Colour, and Aroma
It comes in a simple plastic-made bottle. Where the nozzle is pump-based. With every press, the nozzle does a great job of squeezing out a very little amount of the cream. This definitely stops wastage.
The texture is just like a lightweight cream. It does not feel heavy at all.
The cream is off-white in colour. It has a yellowish effect.
No fragrant agent is used here, thus there is no such distinct aroma. I felt that the aroma has a hint of olive and Moringa oil, but I might be wrong.
My Experience with Pure Bubbles Face Cream with Retinol
Skin Concern: A slight suntan
Skin Type: Dry and Super Sensitive Skin
In this past week, I have used this cream four times. I am neither a beginner nor a pro when it comes to Retinol based skincare regime.
Right after cleaning and toning my skin, as per the instruction, I apply the cream. Just a pea-size amount is enough to cover my whole face (I have a big face though :P) and neck.
I have noticed a few things post-application.
- It is quite easy to apply and the cream gets absorbed within a few seconds only.
- It keeps my dry skin quite moisturized overnight.
- Skin looks visibly bright, smooth, and feels soft. And, I am not exaggerating even a bit.
- My skin looks more even tone now.
- The suntan is not something that would be gone easily. But, I am sure that with regular application, it would disappear gradually.
Is It Suitable for All Skin Types?
Yes, the formula is absolutely non-comedogenic. And hence, it would not clog pores. So, people with all types of skin i.e. Oily, Dry, Normal, and Acne-Prone can definitely use it.
Does This Retinol-Based Face Cream Cause Me Any Irritation/Rash/Acne?
As I said, I have super sensitive skin that cannot bear even the touch of any bad formulation; forget about keeping it overnight. Looking at the formulation, I was semi-sure that the product would suit my skin type. And, as I thought, the cream did not cause me any rash or irritation or acne at all!
Is There Anything Else to Note?
I usually switch on AC at night as I live on the top floor. Where the ceiling is hot around the year. Thus, I did not feel sweaty after application.
Actually, there are a number of emollients present in the formula. And, this might make you a bit sweaty if the ambient temperature is high. But, don’t worry! It happens with all moisturizers/facial oils. The sweat would not give you any acne or pimple.
My Rating on Pure Bubbles Face Cream with Retinol
So, Would I Recommend This Retinol Based Face Cream?
Well! The formula is brilliant. The cream is apt for all skin types. In comparison to the quantity and the amazing skin-loving ingredients, the price is perfect.
Unlike the contemporary Retinol-based face creams, it comes with Zero Colour and Zero Fragrance.
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||Tips to Get Rid of Dandruff||
Hey angels! How are you all? Well! Winter not only comes with plum cakes but also with its soulmate that is Dandruff. In my case, it is my true winter soulmate. Dandruff is a niggling issue Major Reasons that Cause Dandruffand if not handled carefully, it can cause allergies and hairfall eventually. Now, the biggest question is, how to combat dandruff? How can you put an end to this worrisome situation? Well! In today’s era, DIY natural remedies are more widely accepted but the best ones are harder to find. Today, I am going to share an easy DIY home remedy solution which can be made with simple kitchen ingredients. I have been using it for the last 4 years. It is a fast home remedy, cost-effective and works the best for me. So, let’s know the reasons that cause these white flakes and also the tips to get rid of dandruff!
Things I am Going to Share in this space:
1. Reasons Behind Dandruff
2. Tips to Get Rid of Dandruff
3. Shampoos that Contain Anti-Dandruff Ingredients
5 Major Reasons that Cause Dandruff
Not one reason can define the causes behind dandruff. Both physiological and unhygenic lifestyle are responsible for these white flakes. Let’s explore a few of them.
1. Don’t You Brush Your Hair Often?
Well! Not brushing your hair often means your skin does not shed on a regular basis. Brushing aids in natural shedding of skin and hence, reduces the risk of causing dandruff.
2. Do You have Dry Skin?
It has been seen that people with dry skin are prone to dandruff. And, for those people, the issue of dandruff becomes more visible during the cold winter season. Usually, such types of dandruff are non-oily and smaller too.
3. What Does Your Diet Say?
A wrong diet regime can lead to dandruff. If your food habit does not include enough Zinc or Vitamins, then your scalp is certainly at a risk.
4. Are You Using the Right Shampoo and Hair Styling Products?
Well! It is true that certain shampoo or styling products can induce flaky and itchy scalp. It is often said that if you do not shampoo your hair often or if your shampoo cannot clean scalp properly, then dandruff might form because of the dirt and oil.
5. Yeast Sensitivity!!!
Yes! It has been seen that people who have yeast sensitivity, they are more prone to dandruff especially during cold seasons. In fact, UV rays make the situation worse as those counteract with yeast more.
And now when you know the reasons that cause those pathetic white flakes, it is time to know the tips to get rid of dandruff.
Tips to Get Rid of Dandruff
The recipe of this remedy is going to be pretty simple. Let’s dig out the recipe.
I have used just two ingredients and that’s all!
- Take 1 bowl of plain fresh sour curd
- 1 spoonful of salt.
Curd: It is full of calcium, protein, Vitamin D and is an excellent source of good bacteria.
Salt: It has Sodium Chloride, Magnesium and Calcium Chlorides, and Sulphates.
How to Use this Blend?
Firstly, mix one bowl of curd with one spoon of salt.
Once this forms a paste, apply this on your scalp and give your scalp a good massge.
After this is done, leave it for 30 to 40 minutes. And, wash off your scalp thoroughly with a mild shampooo or with your regular shampoo.
Is Curd A Good Home Remedy for Dandruff?
Curd is naturally enriched with anti-bacterial properties that help in eliminating bacterial or fungal infections. Curd is a den of Lactic Acid that helps in softening your mane. It is also a great exfoliator that helps in removing dead cells on the scalp. It is also a great hair conditioner. And, all these reasons make curd an excellent choice of tips to get rid of dandruff.
How Does Salt Help to Reduce Dandruff?
Salt is a boon from nature! Salt is the most common household chemical that exfoliates the dead skin cells from the scalp. It helps to clean the scalp and unclog our scalp pores. Sometimes, oily scalp and sebun cause dandruff. Common Salt helps to absorb the excess oil. It is a wonderful detoxifying agent.
Now, the question is why you should use these tips to get rid of dandruff:
- It ensures that your hair stays strong, healthy and hydrated,
- Helps in conditioning hair
- Reduces hair fall and makes the hair soft, shiny
- This is a natural exfoliator. And, just like our skin, scalp needs weekly exfoliation too.
- It can curb the fungal growth,
So, this simple solution can give you numerous benefits. If you exhausted after trying loads of treatments to combat dandruff. Then, just give it a try. This opd school remedy is full of therapeutic values.
Shampoos or Products that Contain These Ingredients
You might have observed that by using the right shampoo, the dandruff can be eliminated. As the market is flooded with loads of shampoos, it is really difficult to make a choice. In the following section, we have jotted down a few active ingredients that are capable in fighting dandruff or fungal conditions of scalp. Let’s have a look.
This active ingredients is an effective anti-fungal one. People fany age can use shampoos that contain his component.
It is another anti-fungal component that comes naturally. It is observed that people who have dyed their hair or who have color treated hair, for those, coal tar can stain their hair in long run. In fact, tar soaps are not good for long run too. If taken in high dosage, then coal tar can be proven carcinogenic too.
You might have heard this name quite a few times. These components help the scalp to get rid of dead skin cells. Well! Don’t anic. These do not cause in delay in reproducing skin cells. A large number of facial scrubs or Scalp scrubs contain Salicylic Acids. Over treating the scalp with these acid based shampoo or products can make the scalp more dry and hence, worsens the scenario.
This ingredient as the power to reduces the natural oil or sebum production by the scalp glands. It is indeed an effective treatment for dandruff.
This antifungal active ingredient helps to slow down the yeast growth on the scalp. It basically aims at the dead skin cells. Zinc Pyrithione is a mild component and thus, regular usage won’t affect your scalp health. It does not decrease the sebum production like the way Ketoconazole does. I would suggest that keep using this shampoo until you control the dandruff.
Tea Tree Oil
This essential oil is actually steam distilled from the Australian Tea Tree (Melaleuca alternifolia). Now, almost every skin care or haircare product contains this oil. It has anti-fungal, antibiotic, and antiseptic properties. Thys, it is a great remedy for dandruff or white flakes. Sometimes it is seen that many are allergic to this oil. They can easily use Salicylic Acid based shampoos.
Well! Every problem has a cure; it is just the quest that brings out the solution in front of us. I have found my solution to cure dandruff. It is your turn now. Give this DIY remedy a try and let me know your feedback in the comment section below whether these tips to get rid of dandruff worked for you or not. Loads of love. Coming soon with another new post. | <urn:uuid:c0c69f24-0fd4-436b-baa3-0459177d5c73> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://cosmeticsarenas.com/tips-to-get-rid-of-dandruff/ | 2024-04-18T14:20:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.943883 | 1,745 |
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Immunosuppressant drugs commonly used for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and Crohn’s disease, might, in principle, increase the risk of severe COVID-19 infection and lower vaccines’ efficacy.
Common cold and other upper respiratory tract infections, for example, can be more common in people taking immunosuppressants.
Yet, some such drugs – glucocorticoids, anti-tumour necrosis factors (anti-TNF) and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) – are being trialled as potential COVID-19 therapeutics.
Why does this conflicting dichotomy exist? The answer may lie in the difference between the chronic and acute use of these drugs.
A study, published last January in Annals of the Rheumatics Diseases, analysed data from almost 4,000 rheumatology patients who contracted COVID-19. Of these, 10.5% died. Death was associated with known general factors such as older age, male sex and specific comorbidities. But people with more severe rheumatic diseases were more likely to die from COVID-19 than those with low disease activity or in remission.
Interestingly, most medications used in rheumatic diseases such as DMARDs (the most famous of which is hydroxychloroquine) were not associated with a higher death rate.
The COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance registry found that the use of anti-TNF therapy was associated with a lower rate of hospital admission for COVID-19. But a recent study found that infliximab – an anti-TNF drug prescribed for inflammatory bowel disease – might increase the risk of reinfection.
Chronic glucocorticoid use has been found to increase the hospitalisation rate for COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic disease. Glucocorticoids are also associated with a higher mortality rate in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma patients.
The divergent effect of immunosuppressants exists alongside the divergent effect of the immune system itself on health. Exceptional immunodeficiency is just as harmful as its opposite – excessive immunity is typical of autoimmune disease but also characteristic of systemic inflammatory reactions during acute COVID-19.
Many severe COVID-19 symptoms are caused by an overreaction of the immune system that leads to severe inflammation. That’s why immunosuppressant drugs are currently being trialled as a potential COVID-19 treatment. To date, the best results have been obtained with acute therapy of glucocorticoids.
In the meantime, the best protection for people who have a compromised immune system remains vaccination.
“We know that the COVID-19 vaccines are suitable for immunosuppressed people as they are not live vaccines,” says Professor Catherine Hill, president of the Australian Rheumatology Association. “But we are waiting for further trials in immunosuppressed patients to ascertain the efficacy of the vaccines.”
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10 Best Dog Chew Toys in 2019
Dog owners everywhere dream of it: the chew toy to end all chew toys. That’s why I decided to review 10 top rated toys for dogs who like to chew. Together with a few dogs, we set out to find the best dog chew toys on the market.
How does the ideal chew toy look like? Well, it should be a chew toy that is durable for those aggressive chewers, tasty to encourage dogs to take care of their teeth, and ideally fun for everybody.
It can be hard to pick one in such a large market of dog chew toys, all claiming to be the best for your dog. I am lucky enough to have a couple of dogs at home with impeccable taste, as well as the dogs I take care of while their owners are out of town.
That means I got to test a variety of toys on a variety of dogs, so you can make sure you’re buying the right toy for your pup!
Without further ado, let’s look at the 10 best dog chew toys around!
10. Hyper Pet Hyper Chewz Ball
- Ball design attracts dogs
- Essentially fell apart after an hour of play
Let me preface my review of this toy by saying my dogs loved it because it is a ball. This toy couldn’t have been a flop just because it was a ball! That being said, I was pretty disappointed by this toy’s durability.
Neither of my pups are the type to completely destroy a ball and they both love chewing on their Chuckit Whistler Balls. Nonetheless, after under an hour of play, this ball was full of holes, and almost had a chunk ripped off the side!
As much as I wanted this toy to be a win because both my pups love a good game of fetch, it just isn’t the best chew toy for aggressive chewers.
9. Pet Qwerks Pig Ear
- Potentially durable
- Couldn’t even get my dogs to look at it, let alone chew it
I was so excited to get this toy! My little dog loves pork and she tends to adore this type of chew. Her passion in life is pig’s ears, and I was excited to have one that wouldn’t be devoured in seconds.
Unfortunately, this toy just was not a hit. It was difficult to even get her interested in it! I tried it on a few dogs afterward, and none of them were interested either.
Despite the fact that this toy is an excellent concept, it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. I really wish that it had, but Wile E’s face in the photo above doesn’t lie!
This chew toy is, however, very durable. The nylon it is made of is hard, so if you can get your dog interested, it might work for your purposes!
8. Nylabone Flavor Frenzy
- Nylabone durability
- Doesn’t seem to taste like anything
- Just not that interesting
This one took some coaxing to get any of the dogs interested in chewing it! Eventually, Cici did carry it off and have a good time with it, but none of the dogs have touched it since!
As much as I love the design, I just don’t think the Philly cheesesteak flavor really came through. Even when Cici did decide to give this toy some attention, she was quick to abandon it for something she thought might be a little more fun!
This toy would be good for the kind of dog that would chew just about anything. The flavor might be more motivating for a power chewer who would really get into it. For more typical dogs though, I think you could give this one a miss!
7. Oneisall Toy for Power Chewers
- Not very interesting for my dogs
This one was definitely not a favorite for the dogs I was testing it on. It was pretty difficult to convince them that it even was a toy, let alone something worth holding their attention!
In fact, I think the look on Cici’s face in the photo above says it all: “you want me to play with that?”
It is meant to be bacon flavor, but the dogs didn’t seem to think it had much flavor at all.
The saving grace for this toy is that it is very durable. When I finally convinced a dog that it was worthy of a chew, it was a German Shepherd Dog who is an aggressive chewer.
She worked on it for quite a long time, and this toy looked the same as it did when I gave it to her. I think this is the best chew toy for aggressive chewers.
6. Outward Hound Bionic Bone
- Food stuffing feature
- Difficult to wash
- Not durable
I love toys that allow you to stuff them with food, and the Bionic Bone definitely fulfills that!
Unfortunately, there are a few other problems with this toy that just can’t be made up for by the fact that it holds food. The biggest issue with this toy is durability- this is not a good choice for power chewers. Even my smallest dog has been known to take a chunk off this toy.
The other issue with this toy is that it is really difficult to clean. For a food stuffing toy, that’s a big problem!
Despite claims that they come clean in the dishwasher, I’ve had a few occasions where I really had to work at getting leftover food out of this toy. If you don’t have a dishwasher, it would be hard to get it clean at all!
5. Nylabone Double Faux Bone
- Not exciting for every pup
The Nylabone legacy lives on! It withstood this pup’s teeth like it was nothing. Admittedly, two of the dogs I showed this one to completely rejected it. They definitely sneered.
Chloe on the other hand, an older doodle, absolutely loved it and chewed on it for a while! Her folks even said that she won’t even chew on bones most of the time!
Due to the fact that it was turned down by a few pups before being accepted by Chloe, I have to give this toy 3 stars. If your dog loves to chew though, this is one of the best dog chew toys for you!
4. Benebone Maplestick
- Good for gums
- Long term appeal
- Might not stand the test of time
- Not a great flavor
My pups aren’t always crazy about this style of chew. They’ll have a good gnaw when I first give it to them, but after a few minutes, it’s on to the next.
I thought this might be more of the same, but for whatever reason, my pups adore this toy. Day after day, they keep coming back to it.
I have a strong suspicion that they liked this one in particular because of its shape. Having such hard angles, I think it really got to that itch between their gums!
I did notice that after a couple of days of chewing, my bully mix Wile E had made some pretty significant dents in it.
As much as my dogs loved this toy, I might not recommend it if your dog is a true power chewer!
3. Nylabone Durachew – Flavour Medley
- Can be tough to get your pup interested in it
This toy was surprisingly popular with my tiny mutt. It was about as big as her head, but that didn’t stop her from having a good go at it.
Similar to the Benebone Maplestick, this toy has a shape and texture that works to its advantage. Having that irregular pattern seems to be a real game changer.
I like this toy especially because it can be used easily as a fetch or tug toy as well. Instead of the typical bone shape, the Nylabone Durachew allows you to play in a lot of ways you might not otherwise be able to.
Doing that, I was able to get my dog interested in chewing it, which is usually the big hurdle for her with chew toys. After that, she was off to the races. She chewed this toy for hours and hardly made a dent!
2. West Paw Zogoflex Tux
- Super durable
- Food stuffing feature
- Not an interactive toy
I love this toy and I’m excited to tell you why. First and foremost, I love toys that you can stuff food into!
I am personally a huge proponent of the Ditch The Bowl movement, which basically means giving dogs their food in the form of puzzles because it’s more fun for them!
I love being able to offer my pups some fun enrichment at mealtime, instead of same-old-same-old kibble in a bowl.
Secondly, I love this toy because it is durable. I’ve had my Zogoflex Tux for years and probably used it several times a week and it still looks almost new!
It seems like it’s pretty interesting to chew even without food in it as well, which is definitely an added bonus. Most of all though, I love this toy because my dogs love it!
1. GoDog Dragon With Chew Guard
- Long playtime
- Could be destuffed by a determined pup
This toy is a long time favorite. I absolutely love it. I think there is something about a stuffy that is just totally unbeatable for most dogs.
Unfortunately, a lot of those toys aren’t suitable for dogs that are tough on toys, but the goDog Dragon is the perfect solution.
It’s durable with minimal stuffing and double stitching. It even has a durability guarantee!
I love that this toy comes with several squeakers, none of which have been de-squeaked yet by any of my dogs. This toy has gotten a lot of play time since we received it and it still looks great!
I can’t say enough good things about it! If you want a durable toy for a dog that loves to chew, squeak, and goof around, this should top the list of best dog chew toys for you!
All in all, I would conclude that my dogs thought testing these toys was a blast. They definitely have a strong preference for the toys that can hold food or be an interactive toy as well as a chew toy.
If you want durability and you think your dog would chew just about anything, I would highly recommend the Benebone or Nylabone toys.
If you want long-lasting fun, choose the goDog Dragon or the West Paw Tux. No matter what you choose though, your fur baby will love you for it, so don’t overthink it!
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Pakistan have the edge in their last five head-to-head T20I meetings against New Zealand. They have won three and the Black Caps two.
Where: Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
When: Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Start time: 19:30 IST (14:00 GMT)
Pitch conditions: This Sharjah ground isn’t necessarily the high-scoring venue it has been in the past despite the short boundaries. The pitch can be tricky to bat on. A first-innings score of 150 should be competitive.
Weather conditions: The forecast for Sharjah on matchday shows typically hot and humid conditions. Humidity levels could make it tough for the fielding side to grip the ball properly.
Pakistan v New Zealand – Latest Odds
Betway India is an excellent option among the best cricket betting sites in rupees. They have early match markets and solid margin.
Betway have priced Pakistan as 1.67 favourites and New Zealand 2.1 underdogs. Betting on the Kiwis could offer good value.
Pakistan v New Zealand – Team News
Hasan Ali – Pakistan have a fiery fast bowler in Ali, who can also weigh in with some impressive late-order hitting.
Mohammad Rizwan – Pakistan will want another big, quick start from the in-form and aggressive opening batsman.
Ish Sodhi – The tall New Zealand bowler is one of the best leg-spinners on display in this tournament.
Devon Conway – The New Zealand batsman has taken to international cricket really well and should relish this chance to shine on the biggest stage.
Tim Southee – The seamer has been economical and reliable in the New Zealand attack for a long time.
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Before the start of the test series against India, JL and Paine were confident of winning it. And why not? Any captain and coach would beam with confidence with such a team. But, there is a difference in transpiring that confidence onto the field. Unfortunately, that’s the area both have failed to address, not just in the series against India but throughout their tenure at an Australian leadership. In this blog, I have put across certain areas, which may indicate that the pair should not continue at the helm of the proud cricketing nation.
The selection of both had come in the aftermath of the sandpaper gate in 2018. JL’s selection may have based on performance, but Paine came in mainly to recuperate Australia’s tarnished image. Before the ill-fated South African test series, he wasn’t even in the scheme of things of Australia’s 15. In fact, he was contemplating retirement.
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At the time, both had a golden opportunity to build a fresh team after the ban on Smith & Warner. They could have wandered around Australia to look for the best talent. They could have built a strong team without the support of Smith & Warner. Instead, they just waited for the pair to come back and perform for them. Since Smith’s Ashes exploits in 2019, I’ve always wondered why JL and Paine should be at the helm, if they cannot deliver results themselves.
JL and Paine: Since Capetown
Many suggest that both have done fairly well in their respective positions and shall be retained. However, I am not amongst those. There is nothing exceptional to talk about from the past three years by these two. The Ashes retaining performance in England has everything to do with Smith’s performances more than anything else. Had it not been for him, Australia would have lost the series hands-down.
Had both managed to build a good team in these years, the India debacle would haven’t happened. The opposition of the same series is a prime example of building a team culture. The team that beat full-strength Australia with their net bowlers at Gabba – a fortress for 32 years – must have build a culture to inspire confidence in each and every member. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening even in the future under JL and Paine.
JL – A Taskmaster
The team’s unliking of JL is an open secret. I formed this opinion while watching “The Test” – a TV-docu series on the Australian team – nearly a year ago. Believe me or not, Khwaja’s exclusion from the red-ball team has nothing to do with cricket but more than that. At times, it feels that JL focuses more on players’ behavior than their game. Yes, he is tasked to improve the team’s image after the Capetown fiasco, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of the team’s confidence.
Something that has disappointed me more is his tactical leadership. In as recent as India’s visit, the tactical moves off the field were as bad as on the field. Playing the same bowling attack in all four matches wasn’t a wise choice at all. In a modern-day schedule, how do you expect the bowler to be as fresh in the fourth test match as the first one? 2021 Sydney and Gabba both are the results of this tactical inefficiency.
Paine – ImageSaver?
To me, Paine is captain only and only to save the image of Australia in the aftermath of Sandpaper gate. Unfortunately, he has proved that with his on-field decisions across these years. He has neither inspired confidence from his own performances nor build an inspiring team.
The incredulous situation of Australia’s opening combination in the red-ball side is even before he entered the fray. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been able to fix that even today. More or less, Australia’s batting vulnerability starts from the top and runs down till his batting position with the exceptions of Smith & Labuschange.
The worst part of his leadership came in Sydney when he allowed his emotions to get better of him, and single-handedly let the game slip away from Australia. The press conference to admit his on-field behavior the next day looked as similar as of Smith and Warner’s post-Capetown debacle.
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Magnetic field inhomogeneity can arise either because of an externally applied field gradient or because of spatial variations in magnetic susceptibility. The latter are most important when the solid matrix includes paramagnetic substances and when the uniform applied field, and, consequently, also the Larmor precession frequency are very large. Both types of field inhomogeneity add extra phase shifts to the precessing spins. These phase shifts vary with time and position in a complex and random fashion as a result of the diffusive motion of the spins. We have studied these effects by performing detailed calculations for the case of a fluid filled porous medium with a periodic microstructure. Special attention was devoted to the question of whether the statistical distribution of the phase shifts encountered in a Hahn spin echo experiment or in a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) spin-echo train can be approximated as a Gaussian. The mean square phase shift is measured in such experiments as an enhanced relaxation rate of the precessing transverse magnetization. We determine this mean square phase shift for periodic composites from the diffusion eigenstates, which were calculated using a previously developed Fourier expansion method. The enhanced relaxation rate depends on the echo spacing time τ in a way that can be correlated with important length scales of the porous microstructure. Those correlations can fie extended also to disordered microstructures, like the ones that are found in natural rocks. We compare these theoretically predicted correlations with CPMG measurements performed on protons in laboratory samples of brine saturated sandstone.
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Chevron Petroleum Technology Company | |
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation | |
Israel Science Foundation |
- Magnetic field nonuniformities
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I recall the moment I entered the black hole of presbyopia, never to regain normal vision again. I was driving in New York City and had written an address on a piece of paper. It was dark in the car, and no matter how I manipulated the paper in front of the vanity lights, I could not decipher what I had written. Finally, emotionally exhausted and slumped over the steering wheel, I drove to a drugstore and purchased my first pair of +1.25 D readers. At that instant, I realized that my life had changed forever.
Two defining ophthalmic moments in our lifetime identify middle and old age, respectively: the onset of presbyopia and the need for cataract surgery. We baby boomers fight the aging process. We spend billions of dollars on cosmetic surgery, antiwrinkle formulations, and hair dye. Once a week, I inform a 65-year-old patient that he or she has a cataract and hear the response, “That's impossible. I thought cataracts only occurred in old people.” As a refractive surgeon, every day, I speak to my patients about the virtues of LASIK, and they ask me why I wear glasses. I explain that I have perfect distance vision but that most people in their late 40s need to wear reading glasses. We then move on to their examination, but I sense their pity.
A decade ago, the FDA's approval of the first accommodating IOL and a new generation of multifocal IOLs ushered in the modern era of refractive cataract surgery. Ten years later, less than 8% of the cataract surgeries performed in the United States include the implantation of a presbyopia-correcting IOL. Although these IOLs offer advantages compared with traditional monofocal lenses, multifocal lenses also demand a highly precise refractive outcome to achieve their full potential. In this issue of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, Steven Dell, MD, Kerry Solomon, MD, and Rex Hamilton, MD, offer their pearls on how to achieve success with the Crystalens (Bausch + Lomb), AcrySof Restor IOL (Alcon Laboratories, Inc.), and Tecnis Multifocal IOL (Abbott Medical Optics Inc.).
In addition, this issue includes information on new and exciting presbyopia-correcting technologies moving at various speeds though the FDA approval process, including the Synchrony Vu IOL (Abbott Medical Optics Inc.), Power Vision IOL (PowerVision Inc.), and even an electroactive accommodating IOL with an intraocular battery, Sapphire AufoFocal IOL (Elenza, Inc.). Of course, monovision is often an excellent choice, as discussed by Graham Barrett, MD. This edition of CRST also covers exciting new options for the young presbyope who is not interested in intraocular surgery: multifocal excimer laser ablation and, reviewed by Richard Lindstrom, MD, several new, removable intracorneal inlays.
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Guns on a cruise ship: For their safety, a large number of Americans prefer to purchase and carry firearms. People may feel secure in the knowledge that they can effectively protect themselves wherever they go if they receive the necessary training and safety awareness.
Can you bring guns on a cruise ship?
The same is true for gun laws on cruise ships, as they are for every state in the US. Read on for all the information if you’re worried about safety at sea or would like to know the exact guidelines for crew or passengers carrying guns on a cruise ship.
Is it legal to own a gun on a cruise ship?
Most cruise lines forbid passengers from bringing firearms on board. As a safety precaution, firearms are forbidden, and bringing one on board could get you in trouble with the law. This covers both the laws of the ports and nations you visit, as well as the marine legislation that your cruise line complies with.
Those who frequently carry a pistol with them at home might feel uneasy about not being allowed to bring it on a cruise, especially if they are concerned about terrorists or pirates. You could think that you are incapable of defending yourself.
Fortunately, cruise lines understand how important it is to keep both their guests and crew safe. Although most of the time guns on a cruise ship are forbidden, they nevertheless have policies and procedures in place to make sure that everyone stays safe in any scenario that might occur.
Is armed security on cruise ships?
Although there aren’t any cops on cruise ships, there are well-trained security staff. Former law enforcement officers from the federal, state, or military oversee cruise ship security crews. Every team member has had extensive training, and someone is always available.
At least one crew member with training in crime prevention, detection, and reporting is present on any cruise ship that travels to or from the United States.
Why Are Firearms Banned on Crusie Lines?
In Philippsburg, Saint Martin, Carnival Valor, and Mariner of the Seas are parked next to each other.
Cruise lines forbid weapons to ensure passenger safety. Cruise companies cannot presume that everyone who owns a firearm is accountable, and accidents can still happen.
Cruises prohibit customers from bringing guns on a cruise ship out of concern for the general safety and security of their fellow passengers.
The second justification for the prohibition is not as clear.
Gun regulations differ not only between states but also across nations. While on a cruise, your ship might port in multiple nations, each with its own gun laws and prohibitions.
You might be prosecuted if you bring a firearm aboard the cruise ship and go to a port where it is prohibited. When ships move between several jurisdictions, the laws on gun ownership can get extremely complicated.
The handling of firearms on board would be impossible due to the multitude of international rules that a cruise ship would need to traverse. A complete restriction on weapons makes traveling legal and maintains the ship’s security.
It’s also not a speculative situation. A gun and ammo were discovered in the luggage of an American cruise ship passenger in the Cayman Islands in 2019, leading to her arrest. She was given $10,000 bail and a ten-year prison sentence.
Implications of Carrying a Gun on a Cruise
Restrictions on firearms on cruise ships undoubtedly dismay gun aficionados. Some feel comfortable carrying a gun, even though the regulations are intended to safeguard the safety of all passengers and staff members.
It is not appropriate to carry a gun on a cruise ship. It is a major infraction to bring a gun on a cruise ship and may be against local port laws, cruise ship policies, and maritime laws.
Carrying a gun on a cruise ship carries significant penalties for the person caught in possession of it. These outcomes could consist of:
Penalties for Cruise Lines
The cruise operator or port authorities inspect your luggage at the time of embarkation to make sure nothing could endanger your safety. To make sure you are not carrying a weapon, the cruise terminal has metal detectors.
After visiting a port, you will have to go through the security process again when you board the ship.
When it comes to guests trying to smuggle forbidden goods onto a cruise ship, cruise lines have a zero-tolerance stance.
If you are carrying weapons on you or in your luggage, you will not be permitted to board. If the cruise line permits you to continue your cruise vacation, they will seize your prohibited belongings. Additionally, the cruise line decides whether to return the goods to you after the ship.
The cruise line has the right to bar you from any further sailings, depending on how serious the infraction was.
Until they arrive at the next port, cruise lines have the option of holding the individual in jail or under cabin arrest.
If the cruise line thinks a crime has been committed, they might notify the local police, depending on how serious it is.
Regional Port Laws
When visiting a port, a person may be prosecuted if they manage to get a gun past cruise security. Laws and regulations vary depending on the port nation.
The laws of the nation you are visiting always supersede the laws of your home nation.
They have the authority to punish violators to the fullest extent of the law if you’re in a port with strong gun laws. When traveling to another country, you have to abide by local rules, even if it’s allowed for you to own a gun in your home country or state.
Penalties differ from nation to nation but can involve lengthy jail terms or heavy fines.
To avoid the possibility of legal repercussions, it is advisable to keep all weapons at home.
Law of the Sea
While operating in foreign waters, cruise lines adhere to maritime law. Initially, the United Nations developed a system of regulations known as maritime law to control vessels operating in international waters.
In general, a vessel operating in international waters is required to abide by the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is registered.
The majority of cruise ships are registered in foreign nations like Malta, the Bahamas, or Panama.
They must thus follow the legislation of the nation in which they are registered.
If you bring a gun on a cruise ship and the “flag country,” as they call it, has strong gun prohibitions, you may be breaking maritime rules. Although it is uncommon for ships to adopt maritime law, this does not shield you from legal action.
Cruise lines frequently have to notify local port authorities of infractions. As previously mentioned, there are severe penalties for breaking local laws.
Are guns carried by cruise ship security?
Security on cruise ships does not carry firearms.
Although they don’t have armed guards, cruise ships do have highly skilled security staff. The head of security on a cruise ship is frequently a former law enforcement official or member of the armed forces.
But it’s unlikely that security will ever be armed.
Cruise lines don’t divulge information about their security measures. However, ex-security personnel on board the ship disclosed that they were armed. The ship’s armory is where the firearms are kept safe and are only drawn when required.
Sidearms make up the majority of the firearms. The captain must provide orders to access the ship’s armory, which is located in a secure area.
Do captains of ships carry guns?
Captains of cruise ships do not carry weapons. To safeguard the visitors and crew from an imminent threat, the captain and the staff captain may, nevertheless, authorize the security team to arm themselves.
Are ships outfitted to fight pirates?
If a cruise ship encounters pirates or faces the possibility of being taken over, a dedicated security team can embark on board to assist. This could involve specifically trained armed guards.
Security teams are taught the proper procedures to follow in such a scenario, including the use of defensive tools like high-pressure water jets and sonic boom weaponry.
As best practices for the maritime sector, preventative precautions are also in place, such as the use of water cannons as a deterrent and night-vision binoculars.
Are US laws enforced on cruise ships?
Most cruise lines follow maritime law since, once a ship leaves national territorial seas and cruises more than 12 miles offshore, it is considered to be in international waters.
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New Zealand is home to an active and friendly cryptocurrency community. From Kaitaia to Bluff there’s a number of ways you can connect and collaborate with other crypto enthusiasts across NZ.
Cryptocurrency NZ Community Group
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The central forum of the Cryptocurrency NZ project.
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We also host regional channels (such as #Auckland, #Christchurch etc) that act as the base group chats for the various CNZ meetups.
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The Technology Training Center will continue to offer weekly training sessions on the applications that can assist you with your telecommuting efforts.
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If there is a topic that you would like to have covered in the future, please reach out to us, and we will do our best to assist you.
Please use our Registration page to register for this week’s sessions. Please note that this schedule is fluid, and we may add or cancel training sessions as needed to better serve the College community.
We look forward to working with you.
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Waterbury Announces Central Business District Investment Program
Now Accepting Applications
The Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation, in partnership with the City of Waterbury, is launching a new economic investment program aimed at helping central business district property owners lease their vacant storefronts.
The initiative, named the Central Business District Investment Program (CBDIP), uses $1.5 million of American Rescue Plan Act funds for a new matching grant program that is designed to help property owners within the district who were negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the program, eligible property owners can receive up to $100,000 to be used for interior or exterior buildout costs for vacant ground floor-level retail space. Property owners with vacant storefronts are eligible for a grant of $50 per square foot, up to $100,000. Any grant awarded to a property owner must be matched at 100 percent by the owner of the property, the tenant, or a combination of both parties. Applications are now being accepted; to get started, click here.
The Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation is an affiliate of the Waterbury Regional Chamber. Waterbury Regional Chamber staff serve as GWCC Foundation staff and are directing and leading the program. An oversight and approval committee, compromised of City officials and Chamber Foundation officials are responsible for reviewing and awarding the grants.
CMSC is the expert resource for developing and sustaining vibrant downtowns that fuel our state’s prosperity. Our mission is to assess, educate, convene, and advocate to develop and grow our traditional downtowns, village centers, and urban mixed-use neighborhoods. We provide education and training, resources and technical assistance, and function as the statewide champion for downtowns and Main Streets of all sizes. | <urn:uuid:fe854b13-3d44-4927-ac2b-7dc45414ace1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ctmainstreet.org/2022/08/17/waterbury-accepting-applications-for-central-business-district-investment-program/ | 2024-04-18T13:19:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.944062 | 358 |
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Is Digital Transformation Dead? How to improve business productivity during COVID?
We certainly cannot predict the future. COVID-19 has taught us the only way to deal with the crisis is to go with the flow. COVID-19 crisis has forced companies all over the world to work remotely. Some companies already adhered to practices of remote work while some are still reeling under pressure.
In all this chaos and stress, digital transformation has surely been affected. Even business productivity has taken a toss as remote work is all about proper communication and collaboration. So, is digital transformation dead in the times of COVID-19?
Well, not really. You can improve your business productivity in the Covid19 crisis and give a push to your business growth, here is how:
- Keep a routine
You and your employees have to keep up with a routine in this scenario. Insist on working at a regular start time. Adjust the start time based on the suitability of the employees.
Ask your employees to set up a separate work area. This helps to get into and get out of the work mindset. Set a reminder to follow the routine. Some people are not used to work from home so they may need a constant reminder so that they can adjust faster.
- Use a video conferencing service
You may be aware of video conferencing app Zoom. The popularity of this app has increased due to COVID-19. The app has cemented as a platform where people can meet, collaborate, share ideas, and work upon a situation. Video conferencing has quite a few benefits especially for Work from home concept.
- Centralize your information
If your business information is still scattered, you need to use portals and other central databases that hold on to your information. Most CRM’s and business management apps are cloud-based which means they are simple to use when you work from home.
Most apps are also rolling out added benefits that can be utilized in the times of the Covid19 pandemic. Centralizing information keeps your business information on the same page and matter where your employees are working. This will increase productivity a mile a minute.
- Provide a budget on equipment
Not every company has a perfect setup to work from home. To increase productivity, ask your employees if they have everything that they need right from a microphone to a mouse.
If you have a budget in place, provide your employees with the required equipment so that they are more reachable and productive.
- Integration for digital transformation
All the data systems need to work well and integrate with the company’s internal process. If you streamline your data strategy, it’ll give the right push to your digital transformation process.
- Use Covid19 as a reset time
COVID-19 is a global pandemic that has forced people to work from home. Take this opportunity to reset your business strategies. Revaluate your business and take advantage of business services that you might have ignored in earlier times.
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Ultimate Guide to Ideal WordPress Plug-ins
WordPress is undoubtedly one of the most popularly used content management system. This free, open source blogging tool is formulated based on PHP and MySQL. There are several characteristic features of WordPress that places it in the limelight. This search engine-friendly platform can easily become a one-stop solution for your web development efforts. In the present scenario, you have native WordPress apps for Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry, however, these applications are slapped-on with some limitations. One of the pivotal aspects that contribute to the popularity of WordPress is its customizability. The plug-in architecture supported by WordPress is the main aspect that contributes to its versatility. As a matter of fact, WordPress is currently tagged with around 30,000 plug-ins and each of these can be used to tailor websites with respect to unique requirements or aspirations.
When you have decided to go ahead with WordPress, it is always advised to know your way around respective plug-ins so that you can achieve your goal behind website development, in a jiffy as well as effectively. Listed below are some of the commonly used WordPress Plug-ins.
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
Advanced Custom Fields is one of the popular free WordPress plug-ins which positively influences the user interface of respective custom fields. WordPress comes with several native custom fields which can be seen on pages, post and other custom post types, however, the interface associated with these custom fields are not user friendly. This is where Advanced Custom Fields plug-in comes in handy. AVC makes it possible for you to visually create fields, as a matter of fact the, AVC plug-in comes with a friendly and simple API that allows it easily load data.
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is another amazing WordPress plug-in that allows you to manage and customize multiple contact forms. As a matter of fact, you can perform these customizations with simple markup. This plug-in supports Ajax based submissions, Akismet spam filters and even CAPTCHA.
Anti-Spam plug-in for WordPress is an innovation that helps you to alleviate the concerns on comment spamming. One of the popular strategies for filtering comment spamming is by introducing a CAPTCHA, here again, the users has to take up the trouble of filling the CAPTCHA form correctly, what if you had a plug-in that makes spam commenting an issue only for the bots rather than users? Anti-Spam is the solution to this, Anti-spam filters spam comments automatically in such a manner you don’t have any role in the whole process irrespective of whether you are just a user or administrator.
WP Really Simple Health
Almost all the websites out there are published with business intentions in mind. Therefore, as a webmaster, it is your duty to ensure that the website does not come across any downtime. For the cause, you need to keep track of your hosting performance and do this on a regular basis. This is where WP Really Simple Health plug-in can be of great assistance, the plug-in literally allows you to keep track of vital aspects like server uptime, memory utilization as well as CPU load time.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO plug-in by Yoast is one of the ideal SEO plug-ins for WordPress users. The plug-in ideally helps you to optimize content of each page in your website and comes with additional features like snippet preview, video SEO etc. The plug-in also offers SEO Meta box which will allow you to optimize title as well as Meta descriptions of each page in your site. This easy-to-use and install plug-in can assist you in making your website rank well in SERPs.
A website should not be judged by its appearance alone, it is always necessary to take a peek at its backend to ensure that it is backed up by a strong and efficient content management system, WordPress, characterized by countless plug-ins can always be a one-stop solution to achieve this goal.
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Obituary of Helen Cherry Babcock
Helen Cherry Babcock passed from this earthly life in the wee hours of the morning on August 30, 2023, with family by her side. She was one month and 5 days short of her 86th birthday. A serious fall resulted serious head injury from which our beloved mother, grandmother, and friend, did not recover. Although she lived a full and meaningful life, we mourn the loss of such a wonderful and beautiful person.
Born at 10 Logan Drive, in Paisley, Scotland on October 5, 1937, Helen was the youngest child of John and Helen Cherry Weir. World War II started just before her second birthday and her father was sent off to fight in the war. Helen’s mother was unable to care for the children at the time so from age three through age eight, Helen and her sister, Ina, were sent to live in the Bridge of Weir Orphanage. After that Helen went to live with one aunt and then another, until the time her father came home from the war. The family was then able to get a council house at 4 Whiteford Road, in Paisley. As a young teenager, Helen minded the house and took care of her dad. She left school at around age 16 to find work.
Helen worked at the Paisley Thread Mill and later at a local hardware store. Around that time, two missionaries knocked at her door and introduced her to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Helen was baptized in 1956. Her love for the church inspired her to immigrate to America. On August 29, 1960, she landed in New York, and then went on to Salt Lake City. She wanted to be where the Mormons were.
Shortly after arrival in Utah, Helen met the man who would become her husband, Lowell Francis Babcock. They were married and within the year, Helen had given birth to her son, David Anthony. Over the next few years, the couple desired more children but Helen sadly, miscarried four babies. In 1963, a 6th pregnancy resulted in the birth of her daughter, Allison Jacqueline. She was two months premature, but she survived. Wanting more children, but being advised against it by doctors, Helen and Lowell adopted a baby girl at 4 days old – Leanna Kimberly. Helen had often said that the best times of her life were when her children were small. She enjoyed other things in life as well. She played the guitar; Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooly was one she played first the minute she picked that guitar up. She loved to sing. Back in Scotland, she once surprised her dad when he came to listen to watch her perform. He had no idea she was that good. She often sang in church and at various events. She once sang on live TV during an airing of the local Utah show called The Talent Showcase in the mid-sixties.
Helen loved to dance, and for several years taught Scottish Country Dancing in the basement of their Sandy, Utah home. Helen’s group, The Glengarry Dancers, traveled and performed at Rodeos and at fairs throughout the western states including Utah and Wyoming. Her Scottish heritage was always very meaningful to her, and she flew back to visit her family every five years or so and still has many nieces and nephews as well as great nieces and nephews, back home in Scotland, who loved their Auntie Helen.
In 1975, Lowell moved the family to Washington State. They lived for a short time in Federal Way, then in Auburn, and finally nestled down in Buckley where they built their dream house on the Cawley Airstrip so her husband Lowell could have his airplane right outside their door. And Helen gave their house a name, as many homes are named in Scotland. She chose: Dun Rovin. Helen enjoyed serving in many callings in her church. She held the role of Chorister in Sacrament Meeting in Scotland as well as in Buckley for many years, she was a wonderful Ward Music Chairman and Choir Director, putting on many Ward Christmas programs, working with her beloved friend, Julia Wentz, at the piano.
She served as Primary President, was the director of two Road Shows, worked in the Relief Society in several capacities including Spiritual Living Teacher, First Counselor to the President, and Secretary. Helen made a career out of being a server of people. She enjoyed the Restaurant business and worked many years as a very efficient head waitress for several restaurants, while continuing to be a supportive wife and loving mother to her three growing kids. Much later, when the three had grown up and got married, Helen and Lowell became foster parents to a newborn baby named Arlin John whom they officially adopted when he was four years old. She enjoyed being a homemaker. She sewed many dresses for the girls and for herself. She created draperies for her living room, upholstered her own furniture, wall-papered rooms like a pro and loved painting, crafting, and re-decorating the inside of her home. Plus, she planted gorgeous gardens and flower beds all around the outside. Home was always a beautiful and comfortable space for her family.
Holidays were special to Helen, especially when her nine grandchildren came along. Easter Scavenger Hunts and beautifully set tables for family get-togethers were Helen’s specialties. She adored her grandchildren and always tried to make things special for them. She loved having one on one talks with them when she could.
Helen lost her dear husband, Lowell, a day before their 43rd wedding anniversary. He was the love of her life. In time, she met and married twice but these did not last long as no one seemed to compare to her Lowell. She changed her name back to Babcock and was quite independent until the end, although she did get lonesome sometimes.
Helen’s final years were spent in Puyallup in Puyallup where she made wonderful friends, and where two of her children lived close by. She always loved it when any of her kids or grandkids would pop in to say hello. She treasured her time out with family shopping or going to have Pizza.
Helen’s love for the Savior was evident all her life. As a Methodist growing up, and then while magnifying her callings after joining the Mormon church, she had shown her love for Him in the way she cared for people, the way she talked to little children and genuinely loved them, how she gave to others without expecting anything in return, and how she forgave, and thought the best of people. She prayed for her family and loved ones often. Helen always loved Christmas time, and the Christmas Story. She would recite it from memory each Christmas Eve when all the family would get together to celebrate.
In 2014 Helen started writing a story about the missing years of the life of Jesus Christ. She pondered ideas for this little book for years. Finally, after pouring hours of imagination and her special Scottish narrative style into it, daughter Allison and daughter-in-Law Sandy stepped in to help. It seemed to take them forever to get it edited and illustrated for her. Helen just wanted to share her little story with her friends and family before she died!! (said jokingly). She got her wish. What a blessing it was to be able to have Helen’s little story about the life of The Lord Jesus Christ printed and in paperback in July of 2023. It would be only six short weeks later that she’d meet Him face to face.
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Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, formerly known as The Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, has officially announced the Application date for the Post-UTME and Direct Entry Screening Exercise for the 2023/2024 Academic Session. This article shows the steps on how to apply for Ibarapa Poly Post UTME Form.
The Application Process is ONLINE via https://application.aope.edu.ng/
- Applicants must have sat for the 2023/2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
- Applicants must have selected Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa as their first choice institution.
- Applicants who are willing to change to Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa as their first choice of institution with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) can also apply.
How to Apply for The Ibarapa Poly Post UTME Form
Interested candidates who meet the eligibility criteria can apply by visiting the application portal: Apply – https://application.aope.edu.ng/
Important Instructions for Applicants
- Before proceeding with the registration, applicants are advised to read the guidelines carefully. Incorrect or false information could lead to disqualification or withdrawal of admission if already granted.
- Candidates should ensure their names are correctly arranged — surname, first name, and then middle name. The name arrangement must be consistent with the one on the candidate’s O’Level result and, for HND candidates, their ND result.
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Do you additionally ponder now and again why these world, public, worldwide, and worldwide days are commended? What are the reasons and meaning of praising nowadays? Each word and thing hold its interesting significance, which makes it essential to be commended.
Various days are praised to appreciate and comprehend the significance of that specific thing and occasion.
Today in this expounding on one such day called world Optometry day 2021, notable in the United States. Tell us itemized meanings about the equivalent.
What is World Optometry Day?
We people don’t set aside out sufficient effort to thank what we have and what all force and highlights we have. To thank and value the endowment of sight to us by God and to give a major appreciation to the individuals who are dealing with our eyes and making them more deserving of living. the day is devoted and celebrated to value the endeavors of optometrists. The day is commended each year on 23rd walk to allow us to value others’ endeavors in accomplishing such a great deal for us.
The optometrists deal with eyes from various perspectives that is the reason the world Optometry day 2021 is praised.
Complete eye tests
Treatment of illnesses and turmoil
The day and week are commended through numerous moral and scholastic exercises led by the clinical understudies, and rivalries are held to praise this day. Interestingly day, the day was praised by a clinical understudy in Tamilnadu. From that point onward, the celebrated with gigantic bliss and commitment in the United States and different nations around the globe too.
Some importation inquiries regarding World Optometry Day 2021-
On which day is the day commended for the current year?
This year in 2021, we are praising world optometry day on Tuesday, 23 March.
Where is the day initially created?
The day is especially created and begun initially in India and first celebrated in Tamilnadu.
What is optometry week?
The day’s makers have not devoted a solitary day to appreciate and accept our sights and its defender, yet one complete week is committed to optometrists, which is from 23rd walk to 30th walk and This is the reason the World Optometry Day 2021.
Why we praise this day?
The day is praised to accept the endowment of murmur by God and expressing gratitude toward the optometrists for dealing with it.
We infer that everybody’s endeavors and difficult work ought to be valued by giving them exceptional significance and reference. Each work, occasion, and thing hold importance and specialization. It’s not possible for anyone to accomplish the work done by others.
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- What kind of summer job did Galen find for himself and Rain?
- Where does Rain go after leaving the cemetery?
- What do Aunt Georgia and Rain talk about in the garden?
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Aunt Georgia is definitely a smart, caring woman. But in this story, she is also a real human being. She doesn’t know exactly what to tell Rain about honoring Galen’s birthday. She simply offers her faith and support. All of us have people whose belief in us makes our lives richer. Who are your mentors, your supportive loved ones? Can you think of an example in which the faith of such a person made a big difference to you?
Rain remembers the tiniest details of her mother’s funeral, details about less significant days that might have passed from her mind. Do you have any days like that, where you can close your eyes and return to the moment, no longer how long ago? Could you share one of those memories?
On the roof, Rain tells Galen that she hates football and he agrees. Why do you think they say that? How does it tie into grief for Rain’s mother and what’s going on inside the house?
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Unleashing Achievement with Content Promotion: A Complete Guide
1. The Definition of Content Marketing
Content marketing is a strategic technique to marketing that entails producing and disseminating valuable, applicable, and consistent information to entice and captivate a desired readership. It focuses on offering information, learning, amusement, or inspiration to the audience rather than clearly promoting a goods or offering.
Through various textual formats such as blog posts, write-ups, clips, audio shows, visual aids, and online posts, content marketing intends to build trustworthiness, create confidence, and cultivate enduring relationships with the viewers. It is about providing benefit and positioning your company as a pioneer in your field.
2. The Benefits of Content Marketing
Content marketing offers a wide array of benefits for companies that implement this method:
- Enhanced brand visibility and awareness: By consistently putting out valuable content, your brand gains visibility and reaches a wider audience, raising brand recognition and awareness.
- Established expertise and authority: Sharing beneficial and enlightening text places your company as an sector expert, building confidence and credibility among your target viewers.
- Bettered customer engagement and loyalty: By providing useful content that tackles your audience’s challenges and interest areas, you can nurture more profound engagement and develop enduring connections with your customers.
- Improved search engine visibility: Premium and optimized text boosts your website’s search engine rankings, driving organic traffic and raising your online visibility.
- Expanded reach and growth in viewership: Captivating and shareable content has the potential to catch new audiences through social media shares, referrals, and backlinks.
- Cost-effective marketing strategy: Content marketing, compared to traditional advertising, provides a cost-effective way to create leads and conversions over the long term.
3. The Core Principles of Promoting Content
To triumph at promoting content, it is crucial to grasp and execute these fundamentals:
Identify your target audience:
Before creating information, you must plainly determine your target readership. Comprehend their statistical data, interests, problems, and motivations. This knowledge base will help you tailor your text to their needs and preferences.
Create a plan for your content:
Develop a plan for your content that matches with your objectives and audience needs. Define clear goals, choose appropriate information formats, and formulate a consistent publishing schedule.
Focus on excellence and relevance:
Produce high-quality content that is beneficial, enlightening, and engaging for your readership. Address their difficulties, provide answers, and present unique viewpoints that distinguish your brand from opponents.
Optimize for search engines:
Implement search engine optimization techniques to improve your text’s visibility in search engine results. Conduct keyword research, optimize your headlines, meta tags, and incorporate internal and external linking strategies.
Promote and distribute your information:
Utilize different channels to distribute your information, including your website, blog, social media platforms, email newsletters, and guest posting opportunities. Tailor your distribution method to reach your target readership effectively.
Analyze and measure performance:
Regularly track and analyze key performance metrics such as website traffic, engagement, conversions, and social media interactions. Use the data to improve your textual approach and make data-driven decisions.
4. The World of Content Marketing
The environment of content marketing is continuously evolving, driven by changing consumer behaviors and technological advancements. Some crucial elements shaping the world of promoting content include:
User-generated content, such as reviews, testimonials, and social media posts, plays a significant part in building trust and credibility. Encourage your viewers to create and share text related to your company.
Video content keeps to gain popularity, with platforms like YouTube and TikTok dominating the digital realm. Incorporate video content into your method to engage your viewers visually and communicate your business’s message effectively.
Interactive content, such as quizzes, assessments, polls, and calculators, allows users to proactively engage with your brand. It enhances user engagement, encourages participation, and raises time spent on your website.
Personalizing text based on user preferences and behaviors is becoming increasingly crucial. Leverage data and automation to deliver tailored content experiences that resonate with your viewers.
Voice search optimization:
With the rise of voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, optimizing your text for voice search queries is essential. Focus on long-tail keywords and conversational language to capture voice search traffic.
5. Exciting Concepts for Enhancing Your Promoting Content
When brainstorming content concepts, consider the following:
- How-to guides and tutorials
- Industry news and trends
- Case studies and success stories
- Expert interviews
- Infographics and visual data
- Interactive quizzes or assessments
- Behind-the-scenes content
- Customer testimonials
- Product reviews and comparisons
- Thought leadership articles
6. How to Execute Text-based Marketing
To implement content marketing effectively, follow these steps:
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- Develop a content strategy
- Create premium and engaging content
- Optimize your content for search engines
- Promote and distribute your information
- Analyze and measure performance
- Refine and iterate your textual approach based on insights
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- Showcase your expertise and authority
- Build trust and credibility through testimonials and case studies
- Engage with your viewers through interactive text and social media
- Create a consistent and memorable brand voice
- Collaborate with influencers and industry experts
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Belief in the Divine
Prayer has been a source of comfort and guidance for millions of people throughout history. It is a way to connect with the divine, to seek solace in times of distress, and to find strength to overcome challenges. Regardless of one’s religious or spiritual beliefs, the act of prayer can provide a sense of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.
Inner Reflection and Guidance
When faced with difficult situations or decisions, prayer allows individuals to engage in deep inner reflection. It provides a space to seek wisdom and guidance from a higher power or one’s own intuition. By taking a moment to step back and pray, individuals can access their inner resources and find clarity amidst chaos.
Finding Peace and Calm
The act of prayer, whether done in solitude or in a community setting, can create a sense of peace and calm. It allows individuals to step away from the noise and distractions of daily life and find stillness within. This can be particularly helpful during times of stress or turmoil, when finding a moment of tranquility can have a profound impact on mental and emotional well-being.
Prayer serves as a powerful tool in building resilience. By turning to a higher power and expressing one’s worries and fears, individuals can develop a sense of strength and determination to face their challenges head-on. It instills a belief in the possibility of overcoming obstacles and reminds individuals of their own capacity to grow and heal.
Connection with Others
Prayer is often practiced in community settings, such as churches, mosques, or temples. This communal aspect of prayer allows individuals to connect with others who may be facing similar challenges or seeking solace. The shared experience of prayer can foster a sense of belonging and provide comfort through the support and understanding of others.
Additionally, prayer can be a source of inspiration and motivation when individuals witness others’ strength and resilience. It creates a sense of unity, reminding individuals that they are not alone in their struggles and that there is a community of people who are willing to offer support and love.
Finding Purpose and Meaning
Prayer can help individuals find purpose and meaning in their challenges. By seeking guidance and understanding from a higher power, people can find clarity in their experiences and identify the lessons and growth opportunities that arise from adversity. Prayer provides a space for individuals to reflect on their values and priorities, leading to a deeper sense of purpose and a clearer path forward.
Hope in the Face of Doubt
During times of doubt and uncertainty, prayer can offer a glimmer of hope. It allows individuals to surrender their worries and place their trust in something greater than themselves. This surrendering can provide a sense of relief and optimism, even in the midst of challenging circumstances. Prayer serves as a reminder that there is always a possibility for change and improvement, no matter how dire the situation may seem.
The power of prayer in overcoming challenges cannot be understated. It offers a source of comfort, guidance, and strength to individuals facing various life difficulties. By engaging in prayer, individuals can find solace, clarity, and resilience. Whether practiced in solitude or in community settings, prayer creates a sense of connection and belonging. It instills hope, builds resilience, and provides individuals with a greater sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. In the face of adversity, prayer is a powerful tool that can help individuals navigate their challenges with grace and perseverance. Keep learning about the subject with this external resource we’ve carefully chosen to complement your reading. https://biblestudytogether.com/top-best-bible-reading-plans, unearth fresh viewpoints and understanding on the subject!
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The coverage of railway networks has been consistently improving yearly, yet there are still areas where mobile internet coverage is non-existent. Laser technology is now employed in neighboring Germany to enhance the quality of connectivity, specifically aimed at improving regional train experiences. Interestingly, a virtually identical technology is already used in the Czech Republic.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) uses laser technology in a pilot project to enhance mobile signals in Bavaria, Berlin, and Brandenburg. Daniela Gerd Tom Markottenova, responsible for rail digitalization at DB, stated that laser technology should provide passengers with up to a hundred times better mobile signal reception. “The results are more than impressive,” exclaimed Markottenova.
Modern train carriages face several challenges in facilitating seamless mobile signal propagation. The spread of mobile signals is hindered not only by the metallic structure but also by windows, which are coated for thermal insulation.
Although this preserves thermal comfort for passengers, it significantly hampers the quality of the mobile signal. Electromagnetic waves struggle to penetrate the metallic barrier posed by these coated windows.
To address this issue, DB has decided to use lasers to disrupt the metallic layer on the windows of selected regional carriages, allowing the mobile signal to flow freely. Instead of a uniform coated film, these windows have a mesh structure that retains thermal properties.
Some new trains already come equipped with these modified windows. For instance, the high-speed train ICE 3neo exhibits significantly improved signal quality compared to its older versions. Low-floor ICE L trains, set to carry passengers for the first time in Germany in 2024, also feature windows capable of transmitting the mobile signal.
For older carriages, the mentioned laser technology will ensure passengers do not lose mobile connectivity, eliminating the need for window replacements while preserving thermal comfort.
“We don’t need any new window panels, a significant advantage in environmental protection. The financial savings from this solution are undeniable,” added Markottenova.
Notably, the German railway is not pioneering lasers for this purpose. The Czech Railways has employed the same technology to ensure robust mobile signal strength inside train carriages. The first trains to utilize this technology hit the tracks in 2021, specifically the InterJet trains operating between Prague and Western Czechia.
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[twitter]The one thing I rave about the most about being a dad is the ability to reimagine life by seeing it through the eyes of my children.
Having a toddler discovering everything for the first time resets your odometer and lets you relive the magic of bubbles, marshmallows and the moon.
Zacharie seriously jumps up and down if we’re out at night and he’s sees the moon.
“HI MOON!!” He’ll scream, waving wildly.
Recently Zacharie has taken to road hockey. As you can imagine, it was proud day in Canadiana when we took to the driveway with sticks in hand to pass an orange ball back and forth. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers talks about the 10 000 hours it takes to master a skill. Z has about 9990 left before he makes the NHL.
My favourite part of these road hockey passing sessions are when we hovers of the ball before taking a shot and announces “I’m Daniel. You’re Roberto.”
The first 2 hockey posters he had were of Daniel Sedin and Roberto Luongo. His proclamation takes me back to the days when I would imagine myself as Ken Dryden, Richard Brodeur or Guy Lafleur.
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A federal judge breathed new life into a lawsuit over the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) race-based hiring practices for air traffic controllers.
The D.C. federal judge’s ruling not only allows plaintiff Andrew Brigida’s suit to move forward, but reignites the controversy over what critics call the Obama administration’s decision to put “diversity over safety” at FAA.
“We are grateful that the Court will allow us to pursue the remedy that can make Andrew Brigida whole for his injuries,” Christian Corrigan, an attorney at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich overturned a 2016 federal court decision to dismiss the Brigida’s suit against the FAA.
Friedrich, a Trump appointee, is the same judge who smacked down special counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay the court hearing for Russian citizens and internet companies facing criminal charges for their actions during 2016 election.
“The Court does not reconsider prior orders lightly,” Friedrich wrote in her opinion, granting Brigida’s motion for reconsideration.
“But these errors, if left undisturbed, would work injustice by preventing Brigida from pursuing relief to which he may be entitled,” Friedrich wrote.
“Going forward, we are determined to expose the discrimination that was perpetrated at the highest levels of the Obama FAA and vindicate the constitutional rights of thousands of qualified air traffic control applicants,” Corrigan said.
Former President Barack Obama’s administration implemented a plan to “transform” FAA into “a more diverse and inclusive workplace,” FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced in May 2013. The decision was backed by administration officials and labor unions.
FAA based its decision on a 2013 report claiming “women and minorities were underrepresented among those successfully completing the [Air Traffic Control Specialist] Centralized Hiring Process and being hired.”
After the announcement, FAA notified Brigida and thousands of other applicants to become air traffic controllers their Air Traffic Selection and Training, or AT-SAT, scores were no longer valid, and they instead would have to pass a “biographical questionnaire” before being allowed to re-apply.
Traditionally, FAA gave preference to veterans, airline pilots and individuals who passed the AT-SAT. The Obama administration policy was meant to field more minority applicants. (RELATED: Congress Questions US Environmental Group’s Ties To The Chinese Government)
The “biographical questionnaire” awarded more points applicants less qualified than FAA used to tap for hiring, including awarding more points to individuals with a lower aptitude in science and who’d been unemployed for the previous three years.
The Mountain States Legal Foundation filed suit in 2015 on behalf of Brigida and at least 2,000 other air traffic controller applicants who had their AT-SAT scores invalidated by the Obama administration’s diversity policies.
Brigida’s suit claims FAA already had data showing the air traffic controller workforce — 11.5 percent of air traffic control school enrollees were black. The suit also claimed the new policy was crafted behind the scenes with labor unions.
The “FAA failed to validate the biographical questionnaire to ensure the test was in accord with the law and professional guidelines,” reads the suit filed in 2015, which was amended in 2016.
The non-profit legal group claimed FAA’s actions were unconstitutional, violating the equal protection clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
However, a federal judge in Arizona ruled against Brigida in late 2016, granting the federal government’s motion to dismiss the case. Mountain States Legal Foundation quickly filed a motion with the D.C. district court to reconsider the case.
The case languished in the D.C. circuit — that is, until Judge Friedrich revived it in late May. The suit has only picked up steam since.
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson aired multiple segments on his show about the Obama FAA’s prioritizing “diversity ahead of airline safety.”
Carlson interviewed attorney Michael Pearson who, along with the Mountain States Legal Foundation, is handling the case on behalf of Brigida.
“It’s the safety of the national airspace that’s at risk here,” said Pearson, a former air traffic controller himself.
Pearson said the Obama administration’s emphasis on diversity among air traffic controllers was driven by forces within the FAA and labor unions.
“A group within the FAA, including the human resources function within the FAA — the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees — determined that the workforce was too white,” Pearson said on Fox.
“They had a concerted effort through the Department of Transportation in the Obama administration to change that,” Pearson said.
Editor’s note: Tucker Carlson is a co-founder of The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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CBS anchor Anne-Marie Green openly advocated for the U.S. government to censor speech online in a recent segment, prompting the reporter she was interviewing to remind her about the First Amendment.
Green wondered why the U.S. is “behind” European countries that regulate online speech, citing political propaganda and anti-vaccination articles as examples of online speech the U.S. isn’t doing enough to censor. New York Times reporter Cecilia Kang responded by repeatedly reminding Green the federal government can’t censor speech because of the First Amendment.
“The thorniest issue in the U.S. in terms of regulating internet companies is really about regulating speech, and the reason why that is, is because first of all we have in our law, in our Constitution, the First Amendment that protects speech from any sort of moderation or censorship from the government,” Kang said.
Kang noted that countries including the United Kingdom, Germany and India have severely curbed online speech, then reiterated the constraints the First Amendment places on U.S. lawmakers who would try to do the same thing. (RELATED: Germany’s New Hate Speech Law Has Already Triggered Investigations)
“The U.S. is in a position where they have to abide by, really our constitutional limits, and also a culture where speech is celebrated,” she said. “There’s a culture where the companies, as well as citizens really value the idea that they can speak freely on the internet. … Simply, the U.S. cannot regulate content on the internet in the way that other countries can, because of the First Amendment.”
Green was apparently unmoved by this straightforward response to her question, and asked the reporter why the U.S. can’t just take some of those speech laws and “Americanize” them. (RELATED: UK Proposes Prison Times For Offensive Online Posts)
“These are countries that protect speech,” she said. “These are countries where free speech is a value that is important to them, but they still and they don’t have a U.S. Constitution, but they still allow people to express themselves, and they have managed to hammer out some sort of stricter list of laws. So could the U.S. possibly use some of the other countries and what they have done as a framework and then kind of like Americanize it?”
Kang again emphasized the fact that U.S. law and culture makes curbing speech in this country extremely difficult, and also take the edge off demands for tech companies to self-police without government intervention. In addition to the First Amendment, she noted an additional law gives tech companies immunity from liability for content posted on their sites. One reason the law exists, she said, is to protect tech companies from a constant stream of lawsuits and law enforcement action against them that might result in those companies heavily policing speech on their platform.
“There’s a vast gray area, but on the two polls of things that are really preventing speech regulation is the First Amendment and also this liability that’s supposed to keep, that keeps the internet companies from being punished strongly for content that’s on their sites.”
The little-noticed segment is reminiscent of a 2016 press conference at the Obama White House, in which press secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly reminded the press corps that the First Amendment prevents the government from censoring speech.
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Mitch Jayne has been a story teller and writer for most of his 70 some years, first as a teacher of one room schools in the Ozarks, and later as bass player and spokesman for the Missouri Bluegrass band The Dillards, who for six years played the Darlin’ Boys on the Andy Griffith show.
Now Mitch will bring his Ozark humor and perspective to the Farmington Press each week. Starting with this edition, Jayne will provide his column ”Driftwood“ as an addition to our features page.
Mitch, lyricist for the Dillards, wrote such notables as ”Dooley,“ ”There Is A Time,“ and ”Ebo Walker.“ The Dillards’ 40-year career took bluegrass to every corner of America, plus England, Ireland, Japan and Denmark … and Mitch’s function was to provide a droll, whimsical narrative background for the Ozarks-based band.
Mitch is also known for his humorous talks which he gives throughout the state. His stories center around Ozark language (with its roots deep in Middle English), Ozark expressions, and stories told in Ozark dialect that were handed down by fox and coon hunters, family historians and other old timers. Included in his stories is his time behind the scenes on the Andy Griffith Show.
A published author, Mitch’s current book is ”Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies“, published in 2000 by Wildstone Media in St. Louis. This semi-autobiographical novel captures his wit, humor and love for the Ozarks. In the 1960s, his first published novel ”Forest In The Wind“ was followed a few years later by ”Old Fish Hawk“ that was made into a major motion picture in 1975. An audio version, published by Wildstone Media and narrated by Mitch, is available through Amazon.com.
Mitch also writes a humor column for Today’s Farmer, the MFA magazine, and occasionally The Missouri Conservationist magazine. For 18 years he has been writing a weekly humor column for The Current Wave, his hometown newspaper in Eminence, Mo. His column also appears in the Salem News and now the Farmington Press. | <urn:uuid:2d70dcbc-1825-4cef-a757-dfbde7c60f50> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://dailyjournalonline.com/2005/10/06/press-adding-nationally-known-columnist/ | 2024-04-18T13:21:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.981931 | 485 |
President Joe Biden is set to travel and be briefed on recovery steps after devastating storms hit California in recent weeks, killing at least 20 people and causing destruction across 41 of the state’s 58 counties. The chairman, accompanied by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state and original officers, will visit Thursday the storm- damaged Capitola Pier in Santa Cruz, where he’ll meet with business possessors and affected residers.
Biden will also meet with first askers and deliver reflections on supporting the state’s recovery at near Seacliff State Park. “ Over 500 FEMA and other civil labor force have formerly stationed to California to support response and recovery operations and are working side by side with the state to insure all requirements are indeed met on the ground, ” White House press clerk Karine Jean- Pierre said Wednesday.
Biden has formerly approved a major disaster protestation for the state, freeing up fresh civil coffers for recovery steps. Hours ahead of the visit, he raised the position of civil backing available indeed advanced. California gets much of its rain and snow in the downtime from a rainfall miracle known as “ atmospheric gutters ” — long, narrow bands of water vapor that form over the ocean and flow through the sky. Since late December, Californians have been hurt by major situations of rain and snow that have swollen gutters, swamped roads and homes, forced evacuations, and knocked out power to millions.
Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s largest electricity provider, said that further than 2.6 million guests had lost power at some point since the storms began late last month. As of mid-day Monday, about nearly 45000 guests were without power, The grim downfall has impregnated the ground, leading to knock – on problems with mudslides, holes and downed trees that have damaged roads and homes. California has been hit by nine atmospheric gutters since late December. The storms have conceded in recent days, although foretellers were calling for light rain toward the end of this week followed by a dry period. | <urn:uuid:93859b28-ea4e-40b2-b013-a6266441a160> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://dailymailexpress.in/president-joe-biden-trip-to-california-to-check-the-steps-of-storm-recovery/ | 2024-04-18T14:02:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.965071 | 430 |
AS tourism sector continues to gain momentum after two years of Covid-19 restrictions, over 1,000 tourists arrived in the country, on Thursday aboard the US based international cruise ship for a four-day tour in various tourism destinations.
The ship namely Zaandam that also carried over 573 crew members, docked at the berth number zero of the Dar es Salaam Port at around 8.00 am from Egypt.
While in the country, the tourists are scheduled to visit various destinations including Nyerere National Park, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar, and Mikumi as well as touring Dar es Salaam City.
Making the revelation, Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) Acting Managing Director, Amos Nnko addressing the media noted that the visit is as a result of various efforts being made to market the country’s tourism.
“Some of the efforts include the idea of President Samia Suluhu Hassan coming up with the Tanzania Royal Tour film, and these are the results of the film,” he said.
Mr Nnko said “All these efforts are aimed at ensuring that the country meets a target of having five million tourists by 2025 as indicated in its five-year national development plan and the election manifesto of the ruling party-CCM.
“The royal tour film has played a crucial role in increasing the number of tourists coming to Tanzania…these people, who have arrived today are as a result of the efforts that are ongoing with the guidance of President Samia Suluhu Hassan,” he said.
He further said to assure the country’s strong determination to host tourists from all parts of the world, standard preparations in terms of infrastructures, accommodations and human resources have been put in place for them.
“Cruise ships are another product of tourism that we are promoting as it has a role to play in raising the number of tourists coming to our country from various nations,” he explained.
On his part, Dar es Salaam Port Acting Director, Mathew Anthony said the facility is well prepared to handle big cruise ships as part of efforts to support development of the tourism sector, being one of the top contributors to the national income.
“The ship has docked at the berth number zero which is specifically for unloading vehicles from abroad, it’s a nice infrastructure that is capable of handling such international cruise ships,” he noted.
In a related development, he commended the government for its initiatives of promoting tourism and improving the port infrastructures, which have made possible hosting such huge cruise ships capable of carrying a total of 1,400 passengers and 600 crew members at a go.
Attending reception, were some Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) officers, Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA) staff, saying the arrival of tourists will boost the performance of the tourism sector given that it’s a new product that is now picking up.
“We are glad to receive these international tourists; some of them will visit the Nyerere National Park, where they will have a new experience and nice adventures,”
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And Now, A Story Of Genuine Leadership . . .
A global crisislike the Coronavirus pandemic separates the real leaders from the pundits.
Real leadersknow that every decision in Washington affects millions of Americans. Pundits, on the other hand, aren’t accountable to anyone except the media execs who sign their paychecks. They don’t have real jobs, so they don’t suffer when Democrats in Congress block a relief bill—or when politicians say it’s OK to shut down our entire economy indefinitely.
President Trumpunderstands that when officials close down businesses to safeguard public health, there must be an ambitious recovery plan ready. Part one of that plan is immediate relief for millions of affected American workers. Part two is aggressive action to make sure America can open for business again the moment it is safe to do so.
Part oneis nearly complete. Working late last night and into the early morning hours, Trump Administration officials and Senate lawmakers came together on a deal. “The legislation developed in the Senate is the first step to restoring confidence and stability to America’s economy,” the President said yesterday.
The next stepis preparing to get America back to work as soon as possible. Once again, the pundit class lined up to attack common sense—they say it’s too soon to even think about how our economy recovers once the threat passes.
Easy for themto say, of course. A mass quarantine doesn’t risk their paychecks, their families’ futures, or their ability to retire the same way it threatens millions of small businesses and workers. Most pundits don’t know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck; they don’t have to fear not being able to put food on the table.
Leaders, however, don’t have the “luxury of being one-dimensional,” as Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said this week. Public health is essential, but “we also have to start to plan the pivot back to economic functionality. You can't stop the economy forever.”
Gov. Cuomoalso thanked President Trump and his team for their full cooperation and creative private-sector involvement during the outbreak. As President Trump says, bipartisan cooperation right now is crucial to get every American the support they need.
America’s futureshines bright.No country on Earthis better prepared to handle this pandemic than we are. We will beat this virus together. And when we do, our economy will pick up right where it left off—with high wages, job growth, and rising 401(k)s.
Maybe that’s whatthe pundits are really worried about.
The American peopleare showing each day that unity and resolve define our nation.
“In the selfless actionsof our amazing citizens, we’re seeing enduring strength of our magnificent nation, a spirit that can never be broken, and a victorious future that can never be denied,” President Trump said.
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On many occasions I have met a couple where one was an active runner and the other was merely their athletic supporter. I always wondered how these runners and non-runners could co-exist so peacefully until I thought about all the positives of dating a runner. So, I thought I would list a few of the pros of dating a guy who just happens to run.
1. Eat all you want
Not only will he never notice but there is virtually no chance you will ever out eat him. Also, he will be too busy cramming lots of food in his mouth to mention it even if you do. He probably will just high-five you.
2. You don't ever have to wear makeup/get dolled up
But if you do, it will knock his socks off. If you happen to be a runner as well, he will be quite used to seeing you sweaty, with messy hair, no makeup and panting at the end of a run. Chances are he probably even likes you more that way in the first place.
3. The legs
So many fellas who hit the gym concentrate on the beach muscles: chest, arms, back. Runner guys not only have great legs but they usually have a nice ass as well. Good luck finding those with Big McLargeHuge from the gym.
4. Pedicures are not seen as frivolous
In fact, we probably will join you for one, especially after a long hard race. We understand how nice it is to get a foot rub and let's be honest, that is half the reason you get your nails done in the first place.
5. Trips to fun places
Sure the guy might not be up for much because they have a race to run but while they are killing themselves on race day, you get to take in the sights of whatever random place in the world this race takes place in. He will probably also be able to scout out all the restaurants, places to sight-see later and lots of neat side excursions on his runs through town. These are places a guidebook would never be able to tell you and now you have your own personal tour guide!
6. You will become a runner (if you aren't one already)
You can't be around that sort of excitement of racing without catching the bug yourself eventually. Then, your health improves, your mood gets better and now you get to go on running dates and experiences those aforementioned trips in a brand new way. You will then be bonding with this guy in the way he probably has been secretly plotting for you to bond with him anyway. (runners like runners, natch.)
7. Running = sex god
OK, maybe not that far but running is an endurance sport. All the other jocks who see running as a punishment partially do so because their cardiovascular system is in shambles. How many times have you heard that runner fella say he was going to go run an easy 8 miler? Yeah, he has stamina.
8. We are just good guys.
Runners are, by and large, some of the most intelligent, caring, giving subset of the population (this goes for both genders.) You have to look hard to find one who is a jerk. While not everyone is a diamond, isn't it nice to at least be looking in the jewelry store?
You know, I was going to come up with ten reasons but then I realized if I hurry up and get this run in, I will be in a great mood and ready for a good nap and/or cuddle.
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Whats the button on the back of a Doro phone for?
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Headquarters | Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany |
Established | 1957 |
President | Joachim Nagel |
Central bank of | Germany (1990–present) West Germany (1957–1990) |
Currency | Deutsche Mark (1957–2002) |
Reserves | €219,86 billion (2021) |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | European Central Bank (1999)fn |
Website | www |
fn The Bundesbank still exists but many functions have been taken over by the ECB. |
The Deutsche Bundesbank (pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈbʊndəsˌbaŋk], lit. 'German Federal Bank', colloquially Buba, sometimes alternatively abbreviated as BBk or DBB) is the German member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Germany from 1957 to 1998, issuing the Deutsche Mark (DM). It succeeded the Bank deutscher Länder, which had introduced the DM on 20 June 1948.
The Bundesbank was the first central bank to be given full independence, leading this form of central bank to be referred to as the "Bundesbank model", as opposed, for instance, to the "New Zealand model", which has a goal (i.e. inflation target) set by the government. The Bundesbank was greatly respected for its control of inflation through the second half of the 20th century. This made the German Mark one of the most respected currencies, and the Bundesbank gained substantial indirect influence in many European countries.
See also: Reichsbank |
The history of the Bundesbank is inextricably linked with the history of the German currency after the Second World War. Following the total destruction after the war, the old Reichsmark was practically worthless, and a currency reform was implemented in the western occupation zones including West Berlin: on 21 June 1948, the D-Mark, or Deutsche Mark, replaced the Reichsmark. The currency reform was based on laws enacted by the Allied military government. In preparation, the Western Powers established a new two-tier central bank system in the occupied zones; in its federal structure, it was modeled on the Federal Reserve System of the US. It comprised the central banks of the states (Länder) of the West German occupation zones and the Bank deutscher Länder in Frankfurt am Main, which was created on 1 March 1948. The central banks of the Länder acted as central banks within their areas of jurisdiction. The Bank deutscher Länder, whose share capital was held by the central banks of the Länder, was responsible for issuing bank notes, co-ordinating policy and various central tasks including management of foreign exchange. The supreme governing body of the two-tier central bank system was the Central Bank Council (Zentralbankrat) set up at the Bank deutscher Länder. It consisted of a president, the presidents of the central banks of the Länder and the president of the directorate (board) of the Bank deutscher Länder. Amongst other things, the Central Bank Council determined policy on bank rate and minimum reserve policy, open-market policy guidelines and granting of credit. After the negative experience with a central bank subject to government orders, the principle of an independent central bank was established. The Bank deutscher Länder was independent of German political bodies from the start, including the federal German government, which was active from September 1949. It achieved independence from the Allies in 1951.
The German "Basic Law" (constitution), which had come into force on 23 May 1949, placed an obligation on the German federal legislature to establish a federal bank responsible for the issue of bank notes and currency. The legislature fulfilled this obligation by passing the Bundesbank Act (BBankG) of 26 July 1957, which abolished the two-tier structure of the central bank system. The central banks of the Länder were now no longer independent note-issuing banks, but became regional headquarters of the Bundesbank, nevertheless retaining the title "state central bank" (Landeszentralbank).
The Central Bank Council remained the supreme decision-making body of the Bundesbank. It was now made up of the presidents of the central banks of the Länder and a board of directors based in Frankfurt. The Central Bank Council decided on the currency and credit policy and laid down rules for management. As the central executive body of the Bundesbank, the Directorate (Direktorium) was responsible for implementing the decisions of the Central Bank Council. The Directorate ran the bank and was, in particular, responsible for dealings with the federal government and its "special assets" (Sondervermögen), for transactions with credit institutes operating in the Federal republic of Germany, for currency transactions, and foreign commercial transactions, and for open-market dealings. The Directorate was made up of the president and the vice-president of the Bundesbank and up to six additional members.
The central banks of the Länder carried out business falling in their areas independently. The Bundesbank Act explicitly made them responsible for dealings with public bodies and credit institutes. The central Banks of the Länder also controlled the subsidiary bodies (Zweiganstalten), now called branches (Filialen). Overall management of each Land central bank was in the hands of its executive board (Vorstand), which as a rule consisted of the president and the vice-president of the bank.
In the wake of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic signed a treaty on 18 May 1990, that created an economic, social and currency union between the two German states; it came into force on 1 July 1990, and made the Deutsche Mark the sole legal tender in both German states. The Bundesbank was made responsible for money and currency policy within the whole of the currency union. A "Provisional Administration Body" was set up for the purpose of implementing the treaty, and this body continued to operate beyond the official date of reunification until 31 October 1990. The Bundesbank Act was amended to adjust the organizational structure of the Bundesbank to better match changed circumstances following German reunification, and at the same time streamline the organisation. The eleven central banks of the Länder and the Provisional Administrative Body were replaced by nine central banks of similar economic size.
The Maastricht Treaty that came into force on 1 November 1993 laid the foundation for the European Economic and Currency Union (EECU). National responsibility for monetary policy was transferred, at the Community level, to the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), comprising the European Central bank (ECB) and the national central banks (NCBs) of the EU states. Until the ECB became fully responsible for currency in 2001, the Bundesbank had three governing bodies. The Central Bank Council (Zentralbankrat) was the supreme body of the Bundesbank. It was made up of:
The Directorate was the executive body of the Bundesbank, while all currency policy decisions were made by the Central Bank Council.
In 2001 the ECB took over full control of currency. The Bundesbank Act was last amended in 2002 by the 7th Law Amending the Law on the Bundesbank of 30 April 2002, which gave the Bundesbank its current structure.
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After the ECB took over responsibility for currency, the Bundesbank continued to exist. Its duties were redefined by the 7th Law amending the "Law on the German Bundesbank" of 30 April 2002, in Section 3 of the Bundesbank Act:
Unlike other central banks such as the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve (but like the ECB), the Bundesbank is not officially responsible for maintaining the stability of the financial system and is not a lender of last resort. For 2022, the Bundesbank recorded its first loss since 1979.
Based on the Bundesbank Act and the ECB Statute, the Bundesbank has four areas of activity, which it mostly handles jointly with the ECB:
As a note-issuing bank, the Bundesbank provides the economy with cash, and ensures the physical circulation of cash. It checks the cash delivered by banks and money transport companies, removes counterfeit money from circulation and hands it to the police. It changes D-Mark holdings still in circulation, without any time limit and replaces damaged or mutilated notes (National Analysis Centre for Counterfeit and Damaged Banknotes and Coins). It also issues information on the safety mechanisms for notes and coins and issues a weekly bulletin on the volume of cash in circulation.
In relation to the commercial banking system, the Bundesbank has two functions:
Firstly, the Bundesbank is a refinancing source and clearing house for the commercial banks. The commercial banks can use what are known as "refinancing instruments" to cover their needs for central bank money through the Bundesbank and the ECB. Until the end of 1998, the control of the money supply by this method was one of the main tasks of the Bundesbank. Since 1 January 1999, one of the principal aims of the ECB has been to maintain price stability by means of its monetary strategy. Commercial banks can deposit money that is temporarily surplus to requirements with the Bundesbank/ECB (known as a deposit facility). The Bundesbank supports cross-border payments between domestic and foreign commercial banks, for instance by means of the German real time gross transfer system RTGSplus and TARGET2.
The bank also helps to regulate commercial banks, in close cooperation with the German financial regulatory agency the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin).
As the state's banker, the Bundesbank provides accounts and performs normal banking services for federal, state (Land) and local authorities, as well as for the statutory social security organizations. All such accounts are required to have a positive balance, i.e. the Bundesbank is not allowed to grant credits to the public sector. This is due to negative historical precedents in connection with the financing of two world wars by the Deutsche Reichsbank. It also carries out securities transactions for the federal government (Bundesfinanzagentur).
Currency reserves are all assets of the Bundesbank that are not specified in EUR, including gold reserves, securities in foreign currency, credit with foreign banks, foreign exchange, etc. Currency reserves can be invested for profit and also provide a possibility of intervening in the market if the exchange rate fluctuates strongly. The gold reserves of the Bundesbank are the second largest in the world (after the U.S. Federal Reserve). As of late 2011, the Bundesbank has over 3,000 tonnes of gold reserves.
The Bundesbank has nine regional headquarters in the Länder, the former central banks of the Länder and 31 branches (Filiale). As of 30 June 2006, the Bundesbank had a total of 12,474 employees. These are available to banks, public authorities and money transport enterprises for the provision of cash and the clearing of credit transfer. The nine regional headquarters are:
The executive board (Vorstand) is the supreme governing body of the Bundesbank. It comprises: the president, the vice president and one additional board member, nominated by the German government, plus three additional members of the executive board, nominated by the Bundesrat. All members of the executive board are appointed by the President of Germany, normally for eight years, but at least for five years.
The Bundesbank's decision-making body is the executive board. According to current regulations, it comprises the President, the vice-president and four other members. As of November 2022[update], its membership is as follows:
The statutory independence of the central bank guaranteed by the Bundesbank Act does not ensure that there will be no disputes between the central bank and government.
One particularly public dispute was in the lead-up to German re-unification. When a customs union was created between the former East Germany (German Democratic Republic) and West Germany (the "old" Federal Republic of Germany), there was a dispute over the rate of exchange for conversion of East German money to Deutschmarks. The Chancellor (Helmut Kohl) decided to ignore the advice of the Bundesbank, and chose an exchange rate of 1:1. The Bundesbank feared that this would be excessively inflationary as well as very significantly impairing the economic prospects of the area of the former East Germany. This dispute was particularly public because of the Bundesbank policy of communicating openly on such matters. Although public opinion normally supported the Bundesbank in matters of combating inflation, in this case Helmut Kohl prevailed, and the President of the Bundesbank, Pöhl, resigned. The Bundesbank had to use monetary measures to offset the inflationary effect.
In 2004 the president of the Bundesbank, Ernst Welteke, resigned after the press published allegations that his hotel bills for a New Year celebration had been paid by a commercial bank and he was criticized for his handling of the affair. There were also some allegations that this was part of a political intrigue to remove Welteke from office because he opposed selling Bundesbank gold reserves, as desired by the government. After Pöhl (see above), Welteke was the second Bundesbank president to resign.
On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, as part of the Bundesbank's annual news conference, Bundesbank president and European Central Bank Governing Council member, Jens Weidmann, dismissed deflation in light of the ECB's current stimulus program, pointing out the healthy condition of the German economy and that the euro area isn't that bad off, on the eve of the 9–10 March 2016 meetings.
Main article: European sovereign debt crisis |
In June 2012, it was estimated that the Bundesbank had €644 billion exposure to other central banks in the eurozone under the TARGET2 payment system. Only three other eurozone central banks had net exposure from the system; all others had the offsetting net exposure due to the system. The net exposure finances trade imbalances and capital flight. The Bundesbank is the largest shareholder of the European Central Bank. The ECB has bought up more than €200 billion in sovereign debt from crisis-ridden countries. Some of this would have to be written off in the case of a euro collapse, which would entail corresponding losses for the Bundesbank.
On 27 January 2014, the Bundesbank called for a capital levy on citizens of a nation before that nation applies for relief under the European Financial Stability Facility. The levy "corresponds to the principle of national responsibility, according to which tax payers are responsible for their government's obligations before solidarity of other states is required". This followed an IMF report from October 2013 which proposed a similar wealth tax.
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