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By Eman Abusidu | –
( Middle East Monitor ) – Social media plays a vital role in transforming people’s lives. Being on social networks and blogs allows everyone to connect with others easily. This is especially so for the people of occupied Palestine, particularly those in the Gaza Strip. For Palestinians, social media is a bridge to the outside world, even as they themselves have no freedom of movement. New media has become imperative within Palestinian popular culture, as it helps to create a social landscape very different to the lived reality. It is vital to ensure a better environment and life, lending itself as it does to boosting social contacts and a wider recognition and promotion of the cultural life of Palestinian youth.
According to a 2019 report published by the StatCounter web traffic analysis site, “Approximately 65 per cent of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip use Facebook, while more than one million use WhatsApp and more than 300,000 use each of Twitter and Instagram.”
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A Palestinian youth holds a Galaxy displaying Facebook logo in front of the computer with the WhatsApp’s logo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 26, 2014. (Photo by NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images).
Since the emergence of these social networking sites as key tools for news, Palestinian journalists have performed a key role in letting us know what is going on in the occupied territories. The daily use of Facebook and Twitter, for example, is now routine with social media being the main source of news for the Palestinians. Citizen journalists provide details of social and political events and activities for many across occupied Palestine.
One of Gazan journalist who uses his personal page on twitter to transfer news daily, Palestine: Gaza
Given the extreme circumstances in which Palestinians find themselves, it’s rare for them to have full control over their own lives. They have to jump over so many hurdles to have the kind of life that they dream of; go to the places that they want to see; and study what and where they want to.
One of the hardest challenges, however, is finding a job. Palestinian youth use social media to network and find employment. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, unemployment across occupied Palestine reached 33 per cent last year, compared with 31 per cent in 2018, when 351,500 people in the West Bank were unemployed, as were 219,300 in the Gaza Strip. At the moment, 47 per cent of young people in Gaza are unemployed.
Lubna Harazin is one young Palestinian who couldn’t find a job after her graduation, so she learned various skills, employed them on social media sites and marketed herself. She now works as a content writer and voiceover artist. “I began to market myself on these sites by explaining my skills and competitive advantage that distinguishes me from the rest of the people in the same field,” explains Lubna. “During my time in this line of work, I have formed a large network of relationships and this has helped me to obtain a greater number of jobs. I am now completely dependent on my income from social media.”
Lubna Harazin at work in the studio: The Gaza Strip, Palestine
Social media platforms are used to showcase the talents of Palestinian youth despite the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities. Sahar Redwan is a Palestinian dentist from Gaza. She is also a very talented artist, and uses her drawings to communicate with her patients. “At first, it was only for my patients and those who are close to me,” she says. “I was pleased when my patients told me that they trust me with the dentistry because ‘whoever masters the smallest details in drawing also masters the smallest details in the dental profession’.” That was when she realised that she can share her artwork with the wider world. “I use social media to let people know about my drawing skills. The occupation makes this very difficult any other way, as it is difficult to travel and communicate face to face in other parts of the world, or develop my talents to reach an international audience.”
In fact, the Israeli authorities do not hesitate to block any and all opportunities that may provide a lifeline for the Palestinian people. Israel’s fear of the strength and creativity of Palestinian youth prompted the government to ask Facebook to take action against social media posts by young Palestinians.
“The government has submitted 158 requests to the social media giant within four months asking it to remove content it deemed to be ‘incitement’,” said Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. “Facebook granted 95 per cent of the requests.”
In fact, Facebook took action against 200 Palestinian accounts, removing posts and photographs. According to one Palestinian activist, “Facebook is waging war on the Palestinians. It has never taken such action against the dozens of pro-Israel accounts and pages known to incite racism and violence against Palestinians and their property.”
As the technology develops, social media has become the norm for most people. For the Palestinians, it is more than something to use for fun; it is a work tool connecting them to their fellow citizens and beyond. With social media they can circumvent the Israeli occupation and its restrictions and develop themselves and their community socially, culturally and economically. It is their bridge to the outside world. Young Palestinian students, workers, artists, movie makers and musicians can showcase their creativity and diversity in the virtual realm which has no frontiers. At last, Palestinian youth are able to meet their peers abroad; participate in their projects; and be visible and be seen. They now have a voice, and they are using it loud and clear.
TWITTER TREND: #WeArePalestine
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Adventures for Beginner Piano - Beginner to Pre Grade 1 standard
This new collection of 23 elementary pieces follows the course of a day in Africa, starting with African Dawn and ending with Night Sky with Stars. Meet all the animals along the way - gazelles, flamingos, lions, giraffes, hyenas, monkeys, elephants and many others, as well as many atmospheric scenes such as Mountain Mist and Mirage.
In the crowded market of pre-grade one piano music, these pieces are surely among the most deliciously evocative that I have yet encountered. I think that ‘Safari: Adventures for Piano’ is a fabulous way for new players to discover approaches to technique and playing that would otherwise remain off-limits until much later in their development. ‘Safari: Adventures for Piano’ is quite simply a brilliant publication – don’t miss it!
Andrew Eales Pianodao
Quick Score/Audio Guide
Click here for complete YouTube Playlist
For score samples click here
To download the mp3 files, right-click on the track player and select
"Save audio as"
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A joint statement from the US, Canada, UK and EU on Monday announced the imposition of new, “coordinated sanctions” against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime and its “continuing attacks on human rights, fundamental freedoms, and international law.”
The new and comprehensive sanctions on Belarusian individuals and entities follow last month’s forced landing of a Ryanair passenger jet carrying political dissident Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. Ryanair flight FR4978, carrying Protasevich and Sapega, was forced to divert to Minsk shortly before it crossed into Lithuanian airspace en route to Vilnius from Greece.
The US State Department announced that it “took action pursuant to Presidential Proclamation (PP) 8015 to impose visa restrictions on 46 Belarusian officials for their involvement in undermining or injuring institutions in Belarus.” The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also announced its designation of “16 individuals and five entities pursuant to Executive Order 13405 in response to the [Lukashenko] regime’s escalating violence and repression.”
EU leaders likewise voted to impose sanctions on critical portions of the Belarusian economy, including its banking, oil, tobacco and potash industries. Unlike sanctions imposed on individuals, such extensive economic sanctions “[represent] an effort to broaden the punishment by penalizing organizations … responsible for repression.” The EU will also impose sanctions on Belarus’ financial sector.
In the joint statement, the governments announced:
We are committed to support the long-suppressed democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and we stand together to impose costs on the regime for its blatant disregard of international commitments. We are united in calling for the [Lukashenko] regime to end its repressive practices against its own people. We are disappointed the regime has opted to walk away from its human rights obligations, adherence to democratic principles, and engagement with the international community. We are further united in our call for the Lukashenko regime to cooperate fully with international investigations into the events of 23 May; immediately release all political prisoners; implement all the recommendations of the independent expert mission under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Moscow Mechanism; and, enter into a comprehensive and genuine political dialogue between the authorities and representatives of the democratic opposition and civil society, facilitated by the OSCE. | <urn:uuid:3328fc4f-f850-4087-bde4-a2b5afe2b322> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/06/belarus-sanctioned-by-us-uk-canada-eu/ | 2024-04-20T16:34:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.944306 | 505 |
It’s fun in the sun time again with another collaboration between Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils! We have been playing together all of this week, with a fabulous blog hop this Friday, August 2nd, featuring a slew of amazing talent from both teams, and of course…prizes!!!
For the glittery background I used my Copic airbrush system. Lay the stencil over your card stock. Airbrush and then remove to reveal a pretty design. If you want to take it a step further, place the stencil back down over your design and use Dreamweaver Translucent embossing paste and spreading tool to apply the design. Remove the stencil immediately and wash. Take Stampendous Crystal Micro glitter and apply generously over the paste. Tap off all extra and return it to the jar. Let your paste dry completely before you create your card. The Translucent paste dries see-through and will show off your colors underneath giving dimension and all over yumminess!
Stampendous Crystal Micro Glitter
Stampendous Scarlet Color Fragments
Two prize packages will be given away for the comments left on posts Monday-Thursday, July 29th – August 1st, and one prize will be given away for comments left on the hop day, Friday, August 2nd. Winners will be selected randomly and announced Thursday, August 8th. (Note: USA addresses only, please, due to shipping costs.) Here’s what you could win:
Stampendous Surfer and Sandcastle Kiddos • Dreamweaver Hot Air Balloon, Ice Cream Cones, Summer, Mosaic Swirls, Bird Words, and Sandcastle stencils
Here are some of the other gals inspiration to comment and give love too
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Introducing Kafka app for Internet Archive
Feb 12, 2024
Kafka is an Android app that serves text and audio from the Internet Archive in a modern, easy-to-use, free app with no ads.
I started building Kafka 5 years ago as a small side project, primarily to learn and try new Android frameworks and methodologies. It seemed like an obvious use case to present the vast library of content from archive.org into a user-facing app with modern features.
I completed it recently and launched it as an Android app.
It also serves its purpose as a reference application for Android development. The code is clean enough and it's feature-rich for demonstrating advanced use cases like complex architecture, modularisation, audio playback, and Modern Android Development.
Some of the features are
Explore and search through millions of text and audio
Audio player for continuous playback and PDF reader with continue-reading, zoom, etc.
Download (pause, resume, retry) files on your device and share them freely outside the app
Login to keep your Favorites, Reading List, and Downloads across app installs
Firebase for authentication and user-data management
Rowy CMS (cool free CMS for Firebase) for a fully configurable Homepage
Retrofit, Room, Dagger Hilt, ExoPlayer, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose
Building a good product has always been the priority for Kafka. It will always be free (and ad-free) as I don't plan to monetize this. I have a mid-term plan to add some useful features.
I am planning to make it a KMM app so we can launch iOS and Desktop apps.
Getting new users is always a challenge. I ran a basic TikTok ad but it didn't prove to be very useful. I'd appreciate some tips on how to reach new users.
And of course, this was only possible because of the lovely people at www.archive.org. It's great to see that we still have people building an open Internet and serving the public domain. Please consider a donation to them if you are looking for good causes to donate to.
Please give it a try, share feedback, and consider contributing.
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with glazed apples, walnuts
and bacon-wrapped fried goat cheese
or as a vegetarian alternative with baked goat cheese
Ingredients for 4 people: |
Vegetarian goat cheese variation:
Slice the beet as thinly as possible and place in a circle on a plate.
Make a vinaigrette from the vegetable broth with salt, pepper, sugar, apple cider vinegar and the walnut oil.
Place 2 bacon slices on top of each other in a cross pattern, place the goat cheese in the center and fold into the bacon. Just before serving, brown on both sides in a non-stick skillet without oil.
For the vegetarian version, first roll the goat cheese in flour, then drag it through the egg and coat it with breadcrumbs. Repeat this process. Then, before serving, fry them out in a pan with clarified butter until golden brown and dab with a crepe cloth.
Melt some butter in 2 different pans and glaze each of the apple wedges and walnuts with a little powdered sugar.
Marinate the sliced beet with the walnut vinaigrette. Dress the arugula also with a little vinaigrette and place in the center of the carpaccio.
Arrange 4 apple wedges and walnut kernels around each.
Place 3 bacon and goat cheese rolls on top of the arugula, season with ground pepper and drizzle with walnut oil.
(Vegetarian version = baked goat cheese thaler, add some cranberries to taste)
We wish you a lot of fun while cooking and bon appétit!
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51 Moo 4, Thung Kha Ngok, Mueang District, Phang Nga, Thailand 82000
For reservation, Email: [email protected]
Discover the captivating beauty of Katathong Golf Course, situated in the heart of Phang Nga, affectionately known as the 'Valley of Dreams.
Located just north of Phuket Island, our course is surrounded by lush mountains and is a scenic 18-kilometer drive from Phang Nga Town. For those in Khao Lak, our course is only 40 kilometers away, making it a convenient golfing destination. As you navigate your way from Phuket International Airport, enjoy an hour's drive through picturesque landscapes, immersing yourself in the natural wonders that define this region. Prepare to embark on an unforgettable golfing experience in the heart of Phang Nga's breathtaking scenery.
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Photos by Erin Valentine
[dress: Ann Taylor, denim button-down: Urban Outfitters, tights: Target, boots: Frye, necklace: Ann Taylor, headband: Forever21, earrings: Betsey Johnson]
A new year often means a new everything - new attitude, new outlook, new goals, new wisdom, and new opportunities. Who doesn't like new?! New means fresh, shiny, and exciting, and the new year is chock full of all that good stuff rolled into one big adventure. Hopefully everyone's keeping up with their new years resolutions, but as for me, I'm just going to keep doing me and live my life to the fullest, enjoying every moment!
For me, this outfit represents excitement and new beginnings simply because it's an ensemble that I never would have even considered putting together a year ago from today. Over the past year my personal style has grown tremendously and I've been very open to different looks and pieces that I would normally just pass by while shopping. I've learned to combine accessories, standout, and not be afraid of color. I now love to experiment with everything I have in my closet and try unexpected combinations and play around with layers. I know that a year from today my style will be even more developed and I can't wait!
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While hastily sorting through photos recently for a photo book I was compiling, I forgot about posting some pics of the baby tunic that I knitted for my friend, who just had a little girl last month.
The pattern came from my go-to baby knitting book, Easy Baby Knits by Claire Montgomery.
It's a sweet jumper/tunic pattern, which I love because it can grow with the child, starting out as a dress and moving onto a tunic.
I knit it in black, one because my friend is still kind of into goth stuff, but also because I like making baby things that aren't the typical pastels. Now I just need to get a photo of the new babe wearing it!
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October 13, 2023
April 2, 2023
Last month I started a cute little knitted Easter bunny for SoJo--and I have since failed.
It was going to be great, from a free Berroco pattern with a bunny-shaped head (unlike some patterns which with plain round heads and sewed on eyes) and yarn that I was using up from my stash.
I wasn't going with the bright colors suggested in the pattern, and was going to omit the pocket and collar.
The body came out so-so, and I got ahead of myself and stuffed it, wanting to see how large the rabbit was going to be.
But when it came to the head, this experienced knitter was tied in knots. I must have tried reknitting it 5 times and kept getting confused by all of the place markers it kept calling for. So I threw in the towel. I'm not one to usually blame the pattern, but I really think there's a mistake in it. Oh well. I'm not sure if S will get a knitted rabbit this year, but there's always felting and sewing.
At least I'm happy with his little Bolga Easter basket--the perfect size for not having to fill with tons of stuff over the years.
What is your craft fail? I'd love to hear some funny stories. For kicks, go check out Heather of Dollar Store Crafts' (yep, on my ol' blogroll) other blog, Craft Fail.
March 15, 2024
I've been wanting to make him a birthday crown for a while now, having not gotten around to sewing one for his first birthday last year. But I did it! And I love how it turned out.
I had an old wool sweater that I had knitted and felted, naively for a baby (this was pre-Sojo), thinking at the time that it would actually fit over a baby's head. Defeated yet hopeful it could be used for something else like a teddy bear, I was stashed it away to be repurposed one day.
I cut the bottom of the sweater into a crown, which was actually a perfect fit for Sojo's head and didn't even require a seam (the sweater was knitted in the round).
For the "S" panel on the front, I cut out a circle from a piece of scrap felt that I had made
and needle felted a red "S" onto it.
For instructions on needle felting, see my posts here or here. For wet felting (like the scrap piece above), check out my tutorial here.
I then needle felted colorful circles around the crown
Finally, I wet felted little balls to sew onto the tips of the crown.
I love how jester-ish it is, and I hope that Sojo will look forward to wearing this on birthdays to come.
On a related note, I finally finished the Ministry Shawl.
I'm pleased with the result, but I should have budgeted my yarn better. I made the shawl too wide, and therefore it's a tad too short (I should have made a longer, narrower shawl). I added fringe along the edges to make up for it, and I like that it brings more pastel color into what could be a funeral-esque shawl.
I'm off to drop it off today, so hopefully the recipient like it. What have you been creating lately? Inquiring minds want to know (and would love to see links!).
January 15, 2024
Not that it's a big holiday in our house (we almost never do anything anymore), but that blank space above the doorway was driving me nuts. I miss my recycled book paper garland!
So I decided to knit up a heart garland that I can pull out each year before V-Day.
I had lots of yarn remnants in pink and red from other projects, so it was a perfect way to use up those bits.
This garland would be equally cute in a girl's bedroom after celebrating St. Valentine. The project requires basic knitting skills, but is very simple to whip up.
St. Valentine's Knitted Heart Garland
- yarn in various shades of pink and red (any weight is fine, though your hearts will vary in size)
- knitting needles (I used size 6, but you could use any size you'd like to get the gauge you want)
- double pointed needles for making i-cord (again, whatever size you'd like, depending on how thick your yarn is or how thick you want the i-cord to be)
- yarn needle
For making the hearts, cast on 3 stitches
Knit across those stitches. On the next row, knit one stitch into the front, and one stitch into the back of the first stitch.
then knit the center stitch, and knit into the front and back of the last stitch. You'll now have a total of 5 stitches.
Knit the next row. Continue like this, knitting into the front and back of both the first and last stitch of every other row (knit the other rows) until you have a total of 17 stitches.
When you have a total of 17 stitches, knit 10 rows even.
Now you're going to divide the knitting into the two tops of the heart. Knit 7 stitches, then K2Tog (knit 2 together). Pull out a long piece of the yarn (like a yard) and cut it there. Then reattach the yarn ball to the next stitch, and knit across.
You will have 2 sections now, which both have their own yarn.
Knit across, making sure to keep each section separate with its own yarn.
Next row: SSK (slip first stitch onto right needle as if to knit, slip second stitch onto right needle as if to knit, put them both back on the left needle and knit them together), knit 4 stitches, then K2Tog. Do the same for the other set of stitches on the needle (SSK, K4, K2Tog).
Knit the next row.
Next row: SSK, K2, K2Tog, SSK, K2, K2Tog.
Next row: SSK, K2Tog, SSK, K2Tog
That's your heart!
Weave in the bottom yarn, and save the top two for sewing onto the garland.
Now onto knitting the cord for the garland. This is called an i-cord, which looks like a knitted rope.
Pick up your double pointed needles and cast of 4 stitches in whatever color yarn you'd like.
Knit across, and instead of turning the work to purl, slide it back to the right side of the DPN and pick up the yarn around the back and start knitting again. You're essentially making a long tube and knitting in the round.
Continue in this manner until you have as long of a cord as you need. Mine was 45" long. This was the most tedious part of the project. The hearts were much more fun to knit.
Once your cord is done, bind off and sew in loose ends. Then sew each heart onto the i-cord with a yarn needle, using the threads at the top of each heart. Weave in or snip any loose threads.
You could also make individual hearts and hang them as ornaments throughout your home.
It's a bit addicting! For a cute crocheted heart garland (I need to learn how to crochet), check out Skip to My Lou's post.
There's also a very cool one made from magazine papers sewed together at Oh So Crafty. Lucky me won one from the very generous Tricia over there, and it's so pretty. I love how the light shines through the pages, even in our dark kitchen.
Thank you Tricia, and happy crafting everyone!
September 3, 2023
I just finished my first "fall" knitting project, a hat for SoJo.
I got to try out a pattern from Tot Toppers, a shop created by a crafty mom.
Kate is a knittin' fool like me, but much better. I mean, she designs her own knits and writes up easy-to-follow patterns for them too. I'm just a follow-the-leader sort of knitter. I can read patterns and sometimes modify them, but I don't see myself ever writing a pattern.
Kate also sells her knits, which range from hats for wee ones (hence Tot Toppers), diaper covers and pacifyer leashes. I knitted the Tweedy Cabled Hat for SoJo, which came out so adorably!
I love the cute little brim and the cabled details.I used Paton's Black Tweed wool yarn, about half a skein. I'll admit that I detest doing cables (for non-knitters, it means having to slip stitches onto another needle, continue knitting a few stitches on the regular needles, and then having to pick up those other stitches again); it's a lot of work! However this pattern wasn't cable-crazy, where you were constantly making them. Kate is also very helpful if you have a question. I emailed her once and she was so prompt and friendly with answering my question.
I finished the hat in a weekend and had no trouble with the instructions. I only hope SoJo keeps it on his head, as he's prone to pulling off his hats.
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Research has revealed the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on young people, who are the most likely to have been furloughed, lost their jobs and to have experienced food insecurity. Surging use of food banks under Covid-19 has placed a spotlight on food insecurity in the UK, with Marcus Rashford’s lobbying of the government to secure food provision for schoolchildren just one example.
But very little is known about how food insecurity affects young adults. During the nationwide lockdown, while I was working at Herriot Watt University, I interviewed a diverse range of young people in Edinburgh and London, aged 18-26, to learn about their experiences both before and during the pandemic.
Underemployed and poorly paid
Food insecurity was not new to the young people I spoke to, who had invariably been underemployed in poorly paid, insecure jobs for several years. But the pandemic had severely aggravated this precarity in ways that expose the insecure nature of young people’s employment and its penalties.
Before the pandemic, Holly, 18, was working long hours, six days a week, in a commission-based sales job in London. She was employed on a four-hour contract per week but, apart from a small daily wage, her earnings came almost exclusively from door-to-door sales that she made outside her contracted hours. Unable to work in this way during lockdown, she had been furloughed to the value of her contract, causing a steep drop in income: | <urn:uuid:cf1f28cc-94d3-4525-b68a-0c49718e9c28> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/hungry-and-out-of-work-what-life-is-like-for-young-british-people-under-covid-19 | 2024-04-20T16:40:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.983265 | 311 |
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This Grilled Salmon Steak recipe combines pure olive oil with healthy garlic, rosemary, and lime juice to get the most out of your salmon steaks.
This basic fish marinade will work perfectly for every fish you’re preparing. It’s great for grilling, frying, or baking. Optionally, spread some of the marinade mixture over the fish before serving and enjoy!
If you have some time to spare, you might want to prepare a delicious homemade pesto for your salmon steaks. You’ll need:
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- ¼ cup pine nuts, toasted and crushed
- ¼ cup cream cheese
- 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ½ tsp salt
Whisk together the ingredients until fully incorporated. Spread the mixture over salmon before serving.
How to Grill Salmon Steak
Rinse the salmon well under cold running water. Pat with some kitchen towels to dry. Reserve.
Stir together the rest of the ingredients in a large bowl to make the marinade. Mix well to combine. Submerge the steaks in the mixture and cover the entire surface by scooping the marinade and spreading them on top of the salmon to coat completely. Leave in the fridge for half an hour.
Set the grill to medium-high heat to preheat. Strain the marinade and lay the salmon on the grill.
Let it grill for 3-4 minutes per side. When done, serve warm.
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WHAT MADE US GREAT IS STILL
WHAT MAKES US GREAT.
Harland Sanders is born in Henryville, Indiana. He spends his early years making his way around the southern states, trying his hand working as a steamboat pilot, railroad fireman and farmer.
THE BIG 40
When Harland turns 40, he buys a roadside motel in Corbin, Kentucky and begins serving
his southern style chicken.
Harland’s restaurant is doing so well he is commissioned as "Kentucky Colonel"by the state governor for outstanding achievement in the community.
Finally, the Colonel perfects his unique blend of 11 herbs and spices that are still used today... and still top secret.
The Colonel dons his iconic white suit for the first time and from then on, wears one every time he's out in public.
The first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opens near Salt Lake City, Utah.
ON THE ROAD
Colonel Sanders sells his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant and goes on the road to sign up new KFC franchisees.
THE ORIGINAL BUCKET
Say “bucket of chicken” and you think KFC®. The original KFC® bucket from 1957 has now come to be recognized worldwide.
TIME TO STEP BACK
As a network of franchises grows across the USA, the Colonel feels it's time to slow down, and sells the KFC Company to investors.
FIRST UK RESTAURANT OPENS
The UK opens it’s first KFC restaurant in Preston, Lancashire.
The Colonel is named the 2nd most recognisable celebrity in the world after an independent survey.
A LEGEND PASSES
After a rich and full life, Harland Sanders sadly passes away at the age of 90. His legacy lives on through his Original Recipe chicken and the company logo adapts over the years, with the Colonel's face remaining at the forefront of the design.
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This paper origami frog craft tutorial is perfect for kids! Follow along with step-by-step instructions to create an adorable paper frog. This craft is a great way for kids to learn origami and have fun at the same time.
Welcome to this fun paper origami frog craft tutorial for kids! This tutorial is designed to help kids of all ages create a cute and colorful origami frog. With just a few simple steps and some basic materials, kids will be able to create their own origami frog in no time. So get your scissors, paper, and some glue ready, and let’s get started!
DIY Paper Origami Frog Craft With Step By Step Instructions
- Green Origami Paper
- Colored Sheets (Yellow, Black, and White)
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Step 1: Making The Frogs
Let’s make this jumping frog using green paper. So, let’s get started.
Step 2: Get Ready With Green Paper
Firstly, we need a square-shaped one-sided green color paper of 15*15 cm in size. Now fold the paper in half, crease it, and unfold it.
Step 3: Making Squash Folds
Bring the top right corner to the left, crease it, and unfold it. Repeat the same with a top left-side corner. Turn the paper. Bring the top rectangle to the diagonal and unfold it. Again, turn the paper.
Repeat the process on the lower side of the paper.
Make the two sides of the corner together so that they can meet. And then, flatten the top of the rectangle to make a triangle. This is known as squash fold. Hard to understand but easy to make.
Step 4: Forming a Diamond Shape
Repeat the squash fold on the lower side of the paper. Your paper should give it a diamond shape.
Step 5: Folding Papers
Bring the right corner of the middle to the top and the left corner of the middle to the top.
Step 6: Repeating The Process
Repeat the folds on the lower side too.
Step 7: Making Folds
Now, fold the right corner to make it half shown in the above image. Follow the process to the other three corners of the frog.
Step 8: Turning Paper And Folding
Turn the paper and fold the lower triangle.
Step 9: Folding The Side Edges
Now, fold the right and left corners to the middle of the paper and again fold the triangles to meet the edges of the corner.
Step 10: Turning Paper
Turn the model and fold the remaining sides of the triangle inside that we left in the previous step.
Step 11: Folding
Fold the lower part of the body in the opposite direction.
Step 12: Folding In Opposite
Again, fold the lower part in the opposite direction. And the frog model is ready.
Step 13: Adding Legs
To add the legs, cut the yellow paper in the shape of the legs and paste them to each corner using glue.
Step 14: Adding Eyes
Add the eyes of the frog using a black-and-white sheet. And finally, it’s done.
Final Image – Handmade Paper Frog is Ready To Jump
Making a handmade paper frog is a fun and easy craft project that can be enjoyed by all ages. With a few simple supplies and a few steps, you can create an adorable frog that can hop, jump, and play. Creating a handmade paper frog is an enjoyable and simple craft that can be a great activity for the whole family. Give it a try and let the fun begin!
This Paper Origami Frog Craft Tutorial for Kids is a great way to spend quality time with your children while also creating a fun craft. With a little bit of patience and some basic materials, your kids will have a great time making this origami frog craft.
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Frog Craft For Kids Using Paper
Creating a frog craft with paper is a fun and easy craft for kids of all ages. It is a great way to use up scrap paper and get creative! With minimal supplies, kids can have hours of fun folding and cutting paper to make a unique frog craft.
FAQs Related To Paper Origami Frog Craft Tutorial for Kids
1. What materials do I need to make an origami frog?
You will need a piece of square paper, scissors, and a pen or marker for the eyes.
2. What type of paper should I use?
You can use any type of paper you like, such as construction paper, printer paper, or even wrapping paper.
3. What is the best way to fold the paper?
Start by folding the paper in half diagonally and then in half again. Then fold each corner of the triangle to the center point. Finally, fold the triangle in half again.
4. How do I make the frog’s legs?
Fold the triangle in half and then make two small cuts on the sides. Unfold the triangle and create four small flaps. Then fold them inwards to create the legs.
5. How do I make the frog’s eyes?
Draw two small circles on the frog’s head with a pen or marker.
6. How do I attach the legs to the body?
Use a small piece of tape to attach the legs to the body of the frog.
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Archibald Finnie of Springhill and John Finnie Street and
order of Buildings (grey sandstone as well as red).
As Archibald Finnie of Springhill by this time has been dead for 7 years as he died in 1876 (he spent the last brief months at Diamond Cottage Troon, a building his father had built by the seaside because he had Cancer due to a lump on his face which he had had for 20 yrs and probably this was why he never sat for a portrait like his father. It is said he “Hid away as he faded away” Yet another son also took his place also called Archibald Finnie of Springhill but he did not have any interest in Local Government and by this time he is also dead, his death Certificate showing cause of death “Sea Sickness with irritation of the stomache” which he endured for four months, finally succumbing to “syncope with nervous debility” in 1883 at the age of 32. This is when Mary Ann, Helena, Margaret and Jean, his sisters start to operate Archibald Finnie’s Estate through a Trust and Manager for the Mines through which they continued 7/8 pits until only a pit at Fergushill was open in 1908. It probably was fitting that Fergushill was the final pit to close as that is where Archibald Finnie and Son started mining operations in 1836. The Colliery closed by 1918 and Archibald Finnie and Son appeared to cease trading.
Jean married James Robertson Buntine, Sherriff Substitute, of Stirling and died as a widow in Kilmarnock in 1938.Three weeks later her spinster sister, Mary Ann, died at Springhill House. Helena, also unmarried, died at the age of 84 at Springhill House in 1942.The final sister, Margaret, married the coal master John Sturrock in 1895 and died, aged 90, at Thorntoun House in 1947. Neither of the married sisters appears to have had children. (all above an extract from Chris Hawksworth page 30/31 Ayrshire Notes 41 Spring 2011).
1883 Bruce and Sturrock Architects designed a Gothic set of halls for The Laigh Church which were called the Laigh Church Mission Halls. The proprietor of the halls was The Laigh Church and it was also the tenant except for the shops in its frontage which originally had ( this was a common feature of most buildings in John Finnie Street the shops helped to defray the cost of the upkeep of the halls). Bruce and Sturrock mainly designed Roman Catholic buildings. They also employed a woman professional architect which was unusual at that time and if a woman was employed she was likely to be of amateur status. She was a Sturrock and related to the Kilmarnock Sturrocks. In 1885 the nearest relevant Valuation rolls for this new building shows that there are two shops, Two Mission Halls and a Workshop, owned by Laigh Kirk Session with James Hood Cabinet maker acting perhaps as an agent with his address 1 Cheapside Street and he maybe also be a tenant for the shop and workshop and the tenant of the other shop was occupied by Clothiers Dickie and Wilson.
The other building was number 2-4 Ossington Temperance Coffee House which at the time of the Valuation Roll of 1884/85 was still empty yet another building designed by the Ingram family, by this time James Ingram had died in 1879, but his name was still in the firm’s title of J and RS Ingram. At last the passengers approaching the New Railway Station would get a view of a Classical Building in the new Ballochmyle red sandstone at the top of John Finnie Street as it was the first building on the East side of the street and a grand feast for the passengers eyes. A street which was laid out some 20 years ago. Was this site occupied with a building up to then or was it a gap site? As part of the reason for laying out John Finnie Street was to give visitors to the town a good impression coming out of Kilmarnock Railway Station in 20 years, we have only 9 out of 20 magnificent Classical Buildings which would eventually grace the street. It is worth pausing to reflect that as the train passengers passed the top of John Finnie Street if they were frequent travellers some will have aged considerably by the time the street had a substantial quantity of the Classic Ballochmyle red sandstone buildings.
There may be an explanation for the delay perhaps a lack of funds because of a recession. Developers perhaps underestimated the potential of the street which laid down restrictions on the type of building which were the best classical ones of the time being not cheap to build, probably they were worth waiting for.
There is another puzzle was there a building between the Ossington and the Operetta House or again a gap site as the Ossington built an extension in 1995. This was twelve years after the original hotel was built. Probably there was a certain glamour being built beside an Operetta house but the Valuation records and the Kilmarnock Standard and a sticker in the new rebuilt Opera House Window tells a different story. John Gilmour a Coal Master was declared bankrupt in 1883 he was Chairman and driving force behind the Operetta House. The notice in the new Opera House which is now Council Offices says “The Braehead Free Church held their first service and soiree in 1883.” I assumed the Operetta house were allowing them to use a part of their building and in those days it would be unthinkable to have Operettas on a Sunday, Kilmarnock being a God Fearing Town. In the Kilmarnock Standard in 1885 notes of a fire in the Braehead Free Church in John Finnie Street which was “formerly the Operetta House.” The main damage was in the shops at the front and this was described as “extensive” but the conversion of the 1000 seater Operetta House to the rear to a Church seating about 600 was undamaged. The cause of the fire was a chimney fire in one of the shops fronting the Braehead Free Church. So the Braehead Free Church might have taken over the site of the Operetta house as early as 1883 and no later than 1885. The Valuation Roll for 1884 shows that the Operetta House is ‘Empty at the time of the entry being made.’ The renowned Kilmarnock Historian Archibald McKay Fifth Edition which was edited and brought up to date in 1909 (McKay had passed away in1883 aged 82) by a native of Kilmarnock William Findlay M.D. at page 271 under an article describing St John’s United Free Church which became the name the Braehead congregation adopted in 1895 “ After lengthened negotiations the handsome new theatre or opera house, erected in John Finnie Street some ten years previously , was secured as the church of the congregation, and on April 2nd 1885 possession was taken “ ( This is supported by Valuation Rolls of the time) .The Ossington Hotel being a Temperance Hotel probably felt more comfortable having an evangelical church as neighbours rather than a Operetta House next door to it. You could say that the Braehead Free Church by altering the Operetta House to a “Free Church” it had “converted” it to a mode more in keeping with that part of the town. The Proprietor of the Ossington was Lady Ossington who as Charlotte Cavendish Scott Bentinck was the second daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland. Her brother John became the 5th Duke of Portland and when he died without any issue and as his three brothers had pre diseased him a portion of the wealth was inherited by the Female Line. This wealth was restricted to the Scott blood wealth supplied by her mother Henrietta Scott ( half million pounds mainly gamblings as her father General John Scott just happened to be one of the biggest card and dice winners of his generation before his success at gambling he only had a few debts and a small army Commission and of course as he was an MP for Caithness and was not paid in that role although MPs would probably use their position to gain influence and riches ) This consisted of the modest Kilmarnock Estate and The Marleybone Estate( which had been added to the Scott Blood part of the 4th Duke’s Will perhaps to compensate the Female line or others more closely related to the 4th Duke for some of the problems of selling of his wife’s Henrietta’s estates early and merging and sinking into the Duke’s property) in London which proved to be a Gold Mine. The present owners The Howard de Waldens are every year on the Sunday times Rich List as they are Billionaires because of ownership of the Marleybone Estate in central London which includes Oxford Street and Harley Street. Even back in 1882 when Charlotte inherited the two estates some sources said she was “the wealthiest woman in Britain”. She clearly knew who her wealth came from by changing her name by Royal Warrant to Charlotte Scott. This was the name she used in the Valuation Rolls.
After her death her youngest sister Lucy Joan Scott Bentinck the next daughter in the female line to inherit and she had children, five sons and one daughter so when she dies the eldest son would inherit (both her sisters mentioned were childless). If the diseased brother and sisters are counted when Lucy Joan Scott Bentinck married Charles Augustus Ellis( Charles street and Place in Kilmarnock were named after him) 6th Lord Howard de Walden who was an Ambassador to Portugal in 1828 she was 8th in line to inherit her father’s fortune. He probably thought that the Howard de Walden’s were unlikely to inherit much of the 4th Duke’s wealth. So it was with some surprise that his wife inherited a part of the 4th Duke of Portland’s and by that time she was also the Dowager of the 6th Lord Howard de Walden ( Charles Augustus ) as her husband had died in 1868 some 21 years ago . Most of her wealth seems to have come from a settlement she received from the death in 1854 of her father the Fourth Duke of Portland amounting to £40,000. Then when she inherited the share of the Scott Blood part of her father’s will she would be considerably richer. Most of her husband’s wealth seems to have depended on a small sugar plantation (250 Slaves) in Jamaica. When Charles, her husband died in 1868 he owed so much money the plantation was insolvent. Lucy using her own money then made the Plantation solvent and instead of handing it over to her eldest son Frederick she gave it to Evelyn her youngest and favourite thus causing a feud within her own family. She probably thought that Frederick was not to be trusted as he was a drinker. So possibly as a result of her actions two of her sons got married before this, they seemed confirmed bachelors. They both married and their wives had children but as Frederick was the eldest therefore, he was next to inherit his mother’s share of the 4th Duke of Portland Scott’s will. However he was to die in the year he inherited the two estates probably due to his life style having not lived long to enjoy his fortune for 4 months. Then his only and estranged son Thomas Evelyn Ellis became the 8th Lord Howard de Walden in 1899. He seemed popular and owned Kilmarnock Estates and Marleybone Estates in London for some 46 years. He drove the first Tram in Kilmarnock at a ceremony to celebrate the tram service in the Town.
1886 The Kilmarnock Equitable Co-op Society Ltd continued to prosper and added an extension this year which graced John Dickie Street using the architect of the main building in John Finnie Street Gabriel Andrew. Although the main building was three stories Gabriel was able to tease an extra story to form a fourth story.
1888 In any organisation eventually discord can arise and this happened to the Kilmarnock Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd. A small group of members broke away about 1887 and joined another Co-operative, The Kilmarnock Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd .They built their Building alongside the Laigh Church Mission Halls in the same Gothic architect style so that today you might think it is part of the Laigh Church Mission Halls. It has a Hall a Cooperative Hall, called” Unity hall.” I sometimes wondered why Kilmarnock had two Co-operative Halls and the explanation is that there were for a short period of time two Co-operative Societies in Kilmarnock. The breakaway society did not use the usual Co-operative architect Gabriel Andrew and turned to RS Ingram. The Building eventually numbered 39-41 consisted of a Shop Store Bakery and Stables and it provided a Co-operative style service being associated with other Industrial Co-operatives. Alas the Kilmarnock Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd went under about 1898 when a Masonic Lodge took over the building hiring out the converted building for Masonic use to the other three Masonic Lodges. They all moved in 1927 when a purpose built Masonic Hall was designed by William Forrest Valentine along London Road near the Dick Institute. Ironically the building back at 39-41 was bought by The Kilmarnock Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd and is usually remembered as their Bakery shop.
In 1889 Gabriel Andrew is the Architect for what was originally The St Marnock’s Lodge of Oddfellows Temple. Men were keen to join a Masonic Hall but many did not have the strict eligibility criteria Oddfellows was created for such men and the” Oddfellows” was used to describe them. It became very popular towards the end of 19th Century allowing the Oddfellows to build this magnificent example of Gothic architecture. Their famous tenants were Singer Sewing Company. In the Same block there is another Proprietor and she is Mrs Elizabeth Calderwood widow 2 Ellis Street Kilmarnock (is this a widow of Calderwood the Builder ?) and her tenants are amongst others are Portland Estates owned by this time by the 5th Duke of Portland( The Tunnelling and eccentric Duke who never visited Ayrshire but was quite generous to his workers and industrious monitoring his estates through his Factors and the Turner Bros being his Factors for Kilmarnock and Ayrshire based in Cessnock House Galston their Ducal seat in Ayrshire with an office in Kilmarnock now on John Finnie Street and the Duke at the Ancestral Home at Welbeck Abbey Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire.
In 1890 three red sandstone buildings were built, two in John Finnie Street and one in Grange Place and all were in the same style as the previous grand red sandstone buildings in John Finnie Street. The first one we will look at was the Kilmarnock Arms and I do not know who the architect was. Strangely its name does not appear in the Valuation Rolls for any year up to 1940 but there is a public house mentioned I have been told that the Kilmarnock Arms occupied the entire red sandstone three story block, the ground floor the Public House, the next floor entertainments and lounge, the top was accommodation It was on the east side of the Street and one of the last buildings built on that side of the street. In 1869 the Kilmarnock Football Club was founded and sometime after 1890 The Kilmarnock Arms became a favourite of Kilmarnock Football Club Supporters. The Valuation Rolls from 1895 and right up to 1940 strangely does not use the name “Kilmarnock Arms” but eventually it lists a Public House at John Finnie Street in the Valuation Roll of 1905 and in 1895 The Proprietor was John McCormack Joiner with Factors being Waugh Broadfoot and Reid and the Tenants being (1) selves ( John McCormack changes to )(2) Alexander Stevenston Auctioneers (3) William Easdale Bird Restorer (4) George Cairns Joiner (5) Elder Plasterer the Auctioneer must have had a good trade as his rateable value was £40 a year much higher than anyone else in the block! Kilmarnock Arms is long gone now and businesses at that location are varied with numbers from
Across the road is next of the trio of 1990 and it was built for The British Linen Bank strangely listed in the 1905 Valuation Rolls as “The British Company’s Bank” and Linen would be substituted for Company a bit later and in the town Valuation Rolls . The Architects were Edinburgh Peddie and Kinnear. Yes it is in Classical style and red sandstone adding to splendour of the street. It was to the credit of the Council that Ballochmyle red sandstone would continue to be the norm for John Finnie Street.
The last of the three building is not really in John Finnie Street but it is up Grange Place South end and for years it was the Offices and Print Works of The Kilmarnock Standard Newspaper a red sandstone Classical building whose Architect was Gabriel Andrew. It is opposite the Grain Store Built for The Scottish Wholesale Co-operative Society in 1881 whose Architect was Gabriel Andrew as well.
1895 The Valuation Roll contains on the West side of John Finnie Street at number 89 and on investigation it is a red sandstone two storied but clearly not up to the standard of the other buildings in the street of the same stone. It is the Artillery and Brigade Offices and Houses with two other houses. Its Proprietor is Colonel John Guthrie Sturrock (Colonel Commanding the 1st Ayr and Galloway Volunteer Artillery) and two Tenants are listed (1) Sergeant Major Samuel T Sheffield (2) Sergeant Major Edward Dolphin. In the Ordinance Survey Map for Kilmarnock for 1896 the building is large and has a Drill Hall to the rear. This Voluntary force probably replaced the Militia in Scotland whose funding was denied by Central Government because of certain parts of Scotland involvement in the “Jacobite Rebellion of 1845” and before. Even when we were threatened with invasion from Napoleon we were denied money from the Government and had to rely from money from local landlords such as Fullarton at Troon who funded a private Army which eventually made him bankrupt, which probably enabled the 4th Duke of Portland to acquire Fullarton’s Estate with the small village of Troon,Mansion and Harbour at a “Knock down price” which was useful for that end his Railway.
Now we stay on the West side and look at a new Ballochmyle red sandstone building in the free renaissance style at the top of John Finnie Street the first building just after the embankment and Dunlop Street which is the The Kilmarnock Club of 1898/9 by R.S. Ingram whose elder brother William Ingram was involved in the initial drawings for the design of the building but unfortunately he died in 1889. The Club was originally founded in 1884 when influential and well-known men came together in the George Hotel Kilmarnock’s main hotel then, now Manson and Murphy Corner. Some Club Members included the likes of T. Kennedy of Glenfield and Kennedy, G. Clark of Saxone Shoes and R. Blackwood of B.M.K. The original Club was in Green Street but the premises eventually became too small and the old Parochial Offices which was on the Club’s present site and the land was acquired as another purchase from the Miss Finnie of Springhill for £900. The Club’s premises are situated on the first floor approached by a pitched pine staircase from which you can observe a fine glass engraving to a landing from which there is access to a spacious Billiard/ Snooker room containing two tables and Club Meeting Room/Reading Room with both these large rooms having a grand view of John Finnie Street. There small bar accessed by the landing or the Club Meeting Room. The Club is Managed by a Clubmaster who in turn is managed by a Committee. In the past the Clubmaster was resident and had a two storied house situated on the ground behind the Club equipped with its own drying green! Similar to other buildings in John Finnie Street the Club had four shops along the front ground floor. The most notable was Emile Morgenthaler Hairdresser who occupied two shop units as did James Hair Cabinetmaker. The occupier of the House was Alan Duncan Clubmaster.
1894-5 George Tannahill & Sons at 75-77 still open and one of the few grand buildings surviving. In Valuation Rolls of 1895 George Tannahill is listed and is the Proprietor of five premises on that site with the workshop and House , Warehouse and another House being Tenanted by themselves and two other Houses being Tenanted by (1) William Pollock Builder (2) James Black Insurance Agent.
1905 The next building had to wait for a school to be removed which was built in College Wynd, in front of the Laigh Kirk, about 1864, the same year John Finnie Street was laid out, but was not sufficiently large to impede the laying out of the new John Dickie Street in 1874. The school in question was the forerunner of St Joseph College which by 1903 had some 700 pupils. The Council persuaded it to close down and move to Rennie Street to a site which recently known as St Columba’s School as in our time St Joseph’s College had moved onwards to Grassyards in New Farm Loch. This enabled a building to be built which occupied the entire side of South side of John Dickie Street in 1905/06 The original proprietor was Kilmarnock’s oldest whisky makers from start to finish, Wallace and Co. The architect was J M Pearson of Pearson and Ronaldson and although the more famous Johnnie Walker took this Company over early in the Twentieth Century the original occupier on this site is remembered because this magnificent red sandstone building is named in stone letters as “Wallace Chambers”. The decorative end of this building projects onto John Finnie Street filling the space between John Dickie Street and College Wynd.
1907 - Kilmarnock by this date had an enough population to justify a Crown Property Post Office and a transfer of the Post Office from Baillie Matthew Muir’s Building at 72-84 John Finnie Street. Architect of the new Post Office was W.T. Oldgrieve of HM Office of Works in grand tradition of the street’s other commercial buildings but the Baroque style more typical of its date.
1915 Valuation Rolls at 43/49 seems to suggest that James Hood Cabinet Maker has built a new red sandstone classical building in keeping with the buildings at 51/53 Archibald Finnie and Son and 39/41 the Masonic Halls and Bakery and James Hood is also the Tenant. I do not know who the architect was or builder and would be grateful to anyone who could supply these. I also wonder what was in this large space before or was it a gap site?
1930 Central Evangelical Church by William F Valentine. A similar building to Valentine’s building in London Road for the Masonic Lodges. Originally this building opened as a Christian Brethren Church.
1940 So far, the last Red Sandstone to be built in John Finnie Street and only 2 stories and not so grand as the usual East side 3 storey. A Funeral Parlour for S.C.W.S. Ltd 95 Morrison Street Glasgow C5. Also an important change of Tenant appears at numbers 43/49 John Finnie Street when The Commercial Bank of Scotland leases the building which was the showroom and workshop of cabinetmakers and furniture suppliers James Hood and Son, the Proprietor being Trustees of the late Alex l Hood per Hugh Burnett& Co Solicitors Grange Place.
In a lighter vein there was a Billboard in John Finnie Street from1884/85 to 1940/41 with the Tenant being a Local man Andrew Wilson in 1884/85 whilst by 1940/41( the last years we have access to at present ) a national advertiser based in Glasgow takes over the Billboards in John Finnie Street. | <urn:uuid:1593e775-1c1f-4c0f-b0fe-bc648ca39590> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kilmarnockhistory.co.uk/en/Archibald-Finnie-Part-3/ | 2024-04-20T16:38:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.98185 | 5,108 |
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Designer Ebony Stephenson, owner of Newport News, VA-based Designs By Ebony, in collaboration with Rodger and Celeste Bennett of Green Fly Tile, faced a variety of challenges when remodeling this master bath in a couple’s forever home. The space needed to be torn down to bare bones in order to serve all of the homeowners’ needs both current and future; the husband already lived with benign tremors from his time in the military, and the couple wanted to ensure the bath would be safe for both of them as they aged, especially in case one of them needed to use a wheelchair in the future. On top of that, the couple also had some significantly different needs – with a 10″ height disparity between them, not to mention one “righty” and one “lefty,” all functional details needed to be carefully considered.
According to Rodger Bennett, “the building process is a journey – it’s the job of the client and the contractor to work together at all times to achieve results.” With this mantra in mind, Stephenson and the Bennetts worked together closely with the clients to create the perfect forever-bath.
In order to account for present and future mobility needs, the team widened the doorways and created a no-curb shower that would accommodate a wheelchair (as well as the couple’s dog for bath time). Adding a large drop-in tub proved to be a challenge in itself, as the team resorted to ripping the framing down to make the half-walls thinner so it could fit.
The new bath features a cool and soothing color scheme, with muted tones and hints of blue, complemented by sleek black hardware, fixtures and grab bars. The project benefited from the addition of Rodger Bennett’s invention,
HOTTROK, a tiling substrate that accommodates and insulates under-floor radiant heating. In addition to heated floors, the bath also offers luxurious touches such as a heated towel warmer, heated tub and bidet toilet with a heated seat. | <urn:uuid:6673d616-9c96-43d0-b9d3-7a563e6de5d3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/master-bath-becomes-heated-safe-oasis/ | 2024-04-20T17:38:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.960662 | 425 |
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Small but perfectly formed: the use of full-height cabinetry not only provides more storage but creates a sophisticated design. Integrated appliances create a streamlined look. Led lighting under cabinets, in open shelving and frosted glazed units adds further dimension to the dark and moody charcoal tones of Zola Graphite and rustic woodgrain of Tavola Parched Oak.
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Back in 2017, THQ Nordic and Experiment 101 officially unveiled Biomutant, a unique open-world action RPG set in a land filled with mutated animals. The game has been playable at events but its release date keeps getting pushed. Fortunately, the title is now in “the final stages” of development, meaning 2020 might be the year it finally comes out.
In a statement shared today, the developers assured fans that the game is still in development, in fact, the studio has “never been working harder” on it:
“We know many of you are wondering if the game is still in development. Let us assure you that we've never been working harder and more focused on it than now! We are doing everything we can to make this the best game all of us have ever worked on and that it will be as entertaining and great as we can possibly make it”.
The statement then goes on to note that “the work involved in finishing a game is long, challenging and unpredictable” and due to the size and length of Biomutant, that process takes even longer. A release date will be revealed as soon as the studio feels “confident about hitting that date and that the game is ready for it”.
Biomutant has been playable at PAX, E3 and most recently, Gamescom 2019, so members of the press have had plenty of hands-on time already. Chances are, the game will reappear at events this year too, hopefully in a more polished, close to final state, at which point, a final release date should be announced.
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KitGuru Says: I'm not sure that this is the sort of open-world RPG that will hook me in but I am intrigued. After all, it does seem to be juggling some unique ideas in terms of characters and setting. Are any of you looking forward to Biomutant at all? | <urn:uuid:c14b2445-e385-4058-a40d-f9668a9dc3f9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/biomutant-is-in-final-stages-of-development/ | 2024-04-20T17:16:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.976276 | 408 |
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For two years now, some GTA players have been scouring every inch of Los Santos in the hopes of finding a fabled jetpack or an alien mystery. So far, they haven’t found their treasure — but they have found some other poignant things along the way. | <urn:uuid:7d80640c-6c28-4d42-96f2-5fc5f0eaa8c5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/memorials/ | 2024-04-20T17:11:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.933572 | 82 |
In the middle of Checkpoint and IGCSE exams
After the Checkpoint exam, Kreativno pero has now entered the IGCSE exam phase. Encouraging for excellent results is the key to raising students' awareness of the importance of success, which teachers support in every aspect.
Dedication is the key to the success of Kreativno pero
School Day marks the long-standing success of Kreativno pero in providing the opportunity for each student to get and achieve what he wants. Commitment is the key to success, it is proud to say this institution.
A completely new approach to address teaching topics
The integration of the Cambridge program in Kreativno pero opens the door to a new and innovative approach to learning and work. The teaching staff that follows this is a carefully selected group of experts.
Innovations on every plan
Going to power in the changes is essential for innovation in education, which Kreativno pero works thoroughly and diligently with high level commitment. The content of the academic program here plays an important role.
Every challenge is essential for the future
Why is our challenge essential to the future? Certainly because of the increased performance in Kreativno pero and the new achievements as well as the magic numbers that make a grandiose difference: 40 different extracurricular activities on a weekly basis, 225 awards won in the competitions, 12 as the average number of children in the class / group and 200 tablets and laptops in teaching which has all influenced the increase in both the standards and the quality of teaching.
The way of thinking
The challenge, above all, changes the way of thinking. The challenge is not where there is no desire to think and work in a new, different way. Challenge does not suffer from standing in place, giving up goal, stopping due to problems. It implies that there is no giving up, there is no unreachable, impossible, unachievable.
Proof of will
The story of Kreativno pero and its founding is nothing but proof that work, effort, diligence and focus can do just what others say is impossible. Proof of will, devotion and fantastic work.
What is the goal?
But what is most important to say is not the goal to reach the goal. The goal is to travel and constantly move the goal, goals, and find new ones. And that's what we want most to achieve with ourselves. To constantly move the boundaries of our own success. Let us never be satisfied with what we have achieved, but to strive for higher, better and more challenging.
An important lesson
Belief in ourselves, in our ability, in our own abilities, that is what we learn from the Kreativno pero, which allows us to no longer accept the idea that there is impossible for us. Now we know that there is a magnificent future ahead of us. And we will have it.
And Kreativno pero believes it. And that's why it's here for us.
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The Latest: Trump hails military strike on Islamic State
WASHINGTON (AP) — Australia's prime minister has welcomed the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi but says it does not end the campaign "to defeat this terrorist group and the extremism it embodies."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says in a statement the death is "a significant blow" to the Islamic State group and "another important step in preventing its revitalization."
Morrison says al-Baghdadi inspired or directed cowardly attacks by Islamic State group followers against "innocent civilians around the world, some of whom were Australian."
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES-BLACKOUT-THE LATEST
The Latest: 2 firefighters burned in California blaze
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California authorities say two firefighters were injured Sunday battling a wildfire that has been raging since Wednesday.
Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said Sunday one firefighter sustained serious burn injuries and was airlifted to UC Davis Medical Center. The other firefighter who was burned had minor injuries.
Nearly 200,000 people in Northern California are under evacuation orders as crews grapple with a wildfire in Sonoma County.
Officials say the wildfire has burned 85 square miles (220 square kilometers), destroyed 94 structures and was threatening 80,000 buildings.
Rep. Katie Hill of California resigns amid ethics probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill of California has resigned amid an ethics probe and revelations of an affair with a campaign staffer.
In a statement Sunday, the 32-year-old freshman from the Los Angeles area says leaving the House is best for her constituents, community and country.
Hill is under investigation by a congressional committee for an alleged intimate relationship with a male senior aide, which Hill denies.
She has acknowledged an affair with a young female staffer. Compromising photos and purported text messages surfaced online this past week in a right-wing publication and a British tabloid.
Last year, Hill won the last Republican-held House seat anchored in Los Angeles County.
OBIT-JOHN CONYERS-THE LATEST
The Latest: Jackson says no King holiday without Conyers
DETROIT (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says there would be no federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the work of John Conyers.
Conyers, the longest-serving black member of Congress, died Sunday at his Detroit home, two years after leaving the U.S. House.
Jackson, the Chicago-based civil rights leader, tells The Associated Press that even some of Conyers' allies doubted that he could persuade Congress to create a public holiday for King. Jackson says Conyers' death and the recent death of Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore have been "real painful."
Jackson says "it's like a hole in the sky."
Conyers was in Congress for nearly 53 years.
The Latest: Argentine ex-president congratulates Fernández
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is congratulating her running mate, Alberto Fernández, before thousands of jubilant supporters in Buenos Aires.
She presided over Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and is poised to make a dramatic return to high office as Alberto Fernández's vice president.
Authorities say Alberto Fernández has 47.83% of the votes compared to 40.66% for incumbent Mauricio Macri, with 91.21% percent of the votes counted. He needs 45% support, or 40% support with a 10 percentage point lead, over the nearest rival to avoid a runoff vote on Nov. 24.
The result would mark turn leftward in South America, which has seen conservative governments elected in Brazil, Colombia and Chile in recent years.
The largely peaceful election was dominated by concerns over rising poverty, soaring inflation and a sharp depreciation of the local currency.
Tiger Woods ties Sam Snead's record of 82 PGA Tour wins
INZAI CITY, Japan (AP) — Tiger Woods has won the Zozo Championship to tie Sam Snead's PGA Tour record of 82 victories.
The 43-year-old American completed the rain-hit tournament on Monday, beating local favorite Hideki Matsuyama by three strokes at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club.
Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee two months ago — his fifth on the same problem joint.
He was making his first start in his 23rd season on the PGA Tour.
The Latest: Gurriel hits RBI single, Astros lead by 4 again
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yuli Gurriel poked an RBI single up the middle to give the Houston Astros a 5-1 lead over the Washington Nationals after eight innings of Game 5.
George Springer led off with a double off Daniel Hudson, who retired Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman before Gurriel came through.
Reliever Joe Smith worked around a leadoff single from Yan Gomes to set down the Nationals in the bottom half.
TEXAS SHOOTING-THE LATEST
The Latest: Gunfire erupts at vigil for shooting victim
GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Gunfire erupted after a vigil for one of the two people killed at an off-campus college party in Northeast Texas.
The vigil took place Sunday night at a park in Dallas. Local media outlets say attendees and reporters on hand for the event took cover. Multiple gunshots can be heard in video posted by one reporter. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but the vehicle for one station was struck by bullets.
It's unclear how many people were shooting.
Family members told local media that the vigil was being held for 23-year-old Kevin Berry Jr. of Dallas.
Authorities are still searching for the gunman who opened fire overnight at a party of about 750 people near Greenville, about 45 miles northeast of Dallas. Investigators say two people were killed and 12 others injured.
For an encore, 'Joker' is No. 1 again at the box office
NEW YORK (AP) — "Joker" narrowly bested "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" to regain the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office in its fourth week of release.
The R-rated comic-book hit earned an estimated $18.9 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That came in just above the $18.6 million haul for the "Maleficent" sequel.
With such a close race to the top, the order could switch when final figures are released Monday.
Todd Phillips' "Joker" recently became the most successful R-rated moved ever, not accounting for inflation, in worldwide release. It's made $849 million globally.
No new releases competed with the holdovers. The best-performing newcomer was the horror thriller "Countdown." It grossed $9 million.
ELECTION 2020-JOE BIDEN
Biden: Kushner has no 'credentials' for White House post
Joe Biden is criticizing President Donald Trump for giving his daughter and son-in-law positions in the White House.
Separately, the Democratic presidential hopeful is blasting social media giant Facebook for allowing the Trump campaign to distribute online ads framing Biden as corrupt because of work his son Hunter did in Ukraine when the elder Biden was vice president.
Biden made the statements in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday on CBS. Biden calls Trump's attack ad a "flat lie." At least one television network has refused to air it.
The former vice president tells CBS he doesn't like "going after" politicians' children. But he says none of his children will work in the White House, as Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner do.
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Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS) are Using ZOLL AED
Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS) is one of the top maritime engineering colleges in Indonesia, producing highly skilled professionals in the field of marine technology. Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS)) can be traced back to 1987 when it was established as a polytechnic by Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) The institute was elevated to an independent institute in 2012. In addition to its academic excellence, PPNS also prioritizes the safety and well-being of its students and staff.
As part of its commitment to safety, PPNS has placed its trust in the ZOLL AED Plus with Real CPR Help Technology from PT. Kurnia Teknologi Indonesia (KSS Group) as an authorized distributor for public safety in the area. This state-of-the-art AED device is equipped with Real CPR Help, an innovative technology that provides real-time feedback to rescuers during CPR, helping them to provide high-quality chest compressions.
The ZOLL AED Plus with Real CPR Help Technology is a powerful tool for responding to cardiac arrest emergencies. Equipped with features such as voice prompts, real-time CPR feedback, and visual indicators, the device enables even untrained individuals to provide effective CPR. The technology also provides critical information to trained responders, allowing them to make informed decisions in the heat of the moment.
With sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) being a leading cause of death worldwide, PPNS recognizes the importance of having a reliable AED device on hand in the event of an emergency. The ZOLL AED Plus with Real CPR Help Technology not only provides accurate and reliable analysis of a patient's heart rhythm, but also guides rescuers through the entire resuscitation process, from CPR to defibrillation.
Why PPNS Choose ZOLL AED Plus?
PPNS's decision to choose the ZOLL AED Plus with Real CPR Help Technology is a testament to the device's reliability, effectiveness, and ease of use. In addition to its advanced technology, the device is also lightweight and portable, making it easy to transport and deploy in an emergency situation.
PPNS's commitment to safety and the use of the ZOLL AED Plus with Real CPR Help Technology is a testament to the importance of having reliable and effective AED devices in public spaces. With the support of KSS Group as an authorized distributor, PPNS can ensure the safety of its students and staff, and set an example for other institutions to follow in prioritizing public safety. | <urn:uuid:7124b352-0561-4ad0-ba91-d4cc6c91f24e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kurniateknologi.com/en/politeknik-perkapalan-negeri-surabaya-ppns-are-using-zoll-aed | 2024-04-20T16:15:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.929083 | 562 |
Dear Friends and Members of CCI
Our next international meeting will be in the beautiful central European city of Prague, the birth place of world champion Wilhelm Steinitz in May 1836. There is much history to be seen as Prague Castle dates from the end of the 9th century and the city flourished during the 14th-century reign (1346-1378) of Charles lV, Holy Roman Emperor and the king of Bohemia of the new Luxembourg dynasty. As King, Charles transformed Prague into an imperial capital and at that time it was the thirdlargest city in Europe after Rome and Constantinople.
We anticipate a high attendance for this meeting as many members and friends have already indicated their wish to participate. Early bookings are therefore advised, to take advantage of the special discounted room rates. Members of the Chess History & Literature Society, which is dedicated to the collection of chess books, are again cordially invited.
by Michael Negele
some of you may remember my reports on certain visits to chess places or to some of our members during the years 2003 to 2013. These travels were mostly related to business trips. So after some changes in my job position my "collection of collectors" didn't increase too much during the last couple of years. However, after my retirement a nice holiday trip to South Africa in January 2018 was combined with a visit to a long-term chess friend. By chance this opportunity led to the highest concentration of CH&LS founding members on the African continent ever since.
Manfred Mittelbach, formerly located in Hamburg, moved to Cape Town after his retirement in 2012. Every Christmas season Manfred kindly invited me to visit his wife Pauline and him in Stephen Street, Gardens, a very nice quarter of the "Mother City". So at the end of January this ideas materialized and so each morning I had a very impressive view of the Table Mountain.
150th Anniversary of the Bamberg Chess Club, founded in 1868
If any book may deserve to be the first one, to be introduced on our new web presentation, it is this anniversary publication of my Bamberg chess friends. All aspects, the Chess History & Literature Society is representing, are reflected on its 264 pages with many unknown illustrations and documents. And, it is also clearly, demonstrating the long tradition of organized chess in Germany, but also the importance of a diligent collector to conserve this documentation.
So we all should remember the late Lothar Schmid, a good friend of Kenneth Whyld. And we should thank the respresentatives of the Bamberg chess community, foremost my friend, Bernhard Schmid, for this wonderful book, published in his Karl-May publishing house.
The only drawback: The book is written in German language, which will not harm any diehard chess collector *).
[Update 2018-05-24] A Luxury Edition is now available: https://www.karl-may.de/modules/produkt.php?nummer=B-06511 [/Update]
We have all been eagerly awaiting the launch of our new website for a long time. There were various reasons for the delays, however be assured that our two webmasters, Wilfried and Frank have done their very best to develop this new website with modern functionality and design as quickly as possible. Both friends were not members of the Ken Whyld Association when they committed themselves to these responsibilities in autumn 2016. | <urn:uuid:be5ef67a-99d7-4b25-9726-56cd59a3442d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.kwabc.org/index.php/en/news-archive.html?month=201803 | 2024-04-20T17:44:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.960939 | 696 |
Entamoeba histolytica Infection
Entamoeba histolytica, is a species of amoeba, a type of single-celled eukaryotic microorganism. It is the causative agent of amoebiasis, a gastrointestinal disease that can range from asymptomatic colonization to severe and potentially life-threatening infections. Here are some key points about Entamoeba histolytica:
- Morphology: Entamoeba histolytica is a unicellular organism with a characteristic amoeboid shape. It has a single nucleus and typically moves by extending and retracting pseudopods (temporary projections of the cell membrane).
- Life Cycle: The life cycle of Entamoeba histolytica involves two stages: a cyst stage and a trophozoite stage. The cysts are the infective form and can survive outside the host for extended periods. When ingested, cysts pass through the stomach and reach the intestine, where they release trophozoites.
- Infection: Trophozoites of E. histolytica colonize the large intestine. In some cases, they can penetrate the intestinal wall, causing amoebic colitis, characterized by diarrhea, abdominal pain, and sometimes blood in the stool. In severe cases, trophozoites can enter the bloodstream and spread to other organs, leading to extraintestinal amoebiasis, which can be life-threatening.
- Transmission: Entamoeba histolytica is primarily transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water containing mature cysts. Poor sanitation and hygiene practices can facilitate its spread.
- Prevalence: Amoebiasis is a global health issue, particularly in developing countries with inadequate sanitation facilities. However, not all infections with E. histolytica lead to disease; many individuals can carry the parasite without symptoms.
- Prevention: Preventing amoebiasis involves practicing good hygiene, including proper handwashing, avoiding the consumption of untreated or contaminated water, and ensuring food is prepared and stored safely.
Symptoms of Entamoeba histolytica:
The symptoms of Entamoeba histolytica infection can vary depending on the severity of the disease and whether it is an intestinal or extraintestinal infection. Here are the common symptoms associated with Entamoeba histolytica infection:
- Intestinal Symptoms:
- Diarrhea: This is the most common symptom. It can be acute or chronic and is often associated with abdominal pain.
- Abdominal Pain: Abdominal cramps and pain, usually in the lower abdomen, are common.
- Bloody Stools: In some cases, the diarrhea may contain blood, which is a sign of tissue damage in the intestines.
- Mucus in Stools: Stools may also contain mucus.
- Frequent Bowel Movements: Individuals may have an urgent need to have a bowel movement frequently.
- Extraintestinal Symptoms (Invasive Amebiasis):
- Liver Abscess: The parasite can travel through the bloodstream and infect the liver, leading to a liver abscess. Symptoms of a liver abscess may include high fever, right-sided abdominal pain, and an enlarged liver. Jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes) can occur in severe cases.
- Lung Infections: Rarely, the parasite can spread to the lungs, causing symptoms like cough, chest pain, and difficulty breathing.
- Brain and Other Organ Involvement: In very rare cases, the parasite can spread to other organs, including the brain, causing serious complications.
It’s important to note that not everyone infected with Entamoeba histolytica will develop symptoms. Some people can carry the parasite without becoming ill (asymptomatic carriers), while others may experience mild or severe symptoms.
Risks of Entamoeba histolytica:
Here are some of the risks associated with Entamoeba histolytica infection:
- Intestinal Infections: The most common form of amoebiasis involves the infection of the intestines. Symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, and cramping. In some cases, the infection can cause bloody stools. While most infections are mild, they can become severe, leading to dehydration and weight loss.
- Extraintestinal Infections: Entamoeba histolytica has the ability to spread to other organs outside the intestines. This can lead to abscesses in the liver, lungs, or other organs. Liver abscesses are the most common extraintestinal manifestation and can be life-threatening if not treated promptly. Symptoms of a liver abscess may include right upper abdominal pain, fever, and jaundice.
- Transmission: The parasite is typically transmitted through the ingestion of contaminated food or water containing E. histolytica cysts. In areas with poor sanitation and hygiene practices, the risk of infection is higher.
- Chronic Infections: In some cases, E. histolytica can establish chronic infections, which can persist for years if not properly treated. Chronic infections may have intermittent symptoms and can lead to complications over time.
- Spread within Communities: In areas with inadequate sanitation and overcrowding, the parasite can easily spread within communities, leading to outbreaks of amoebiasis.
- Misdiagnosis: Amoebiasis can sometimes be misdiagnosed as other gastrointestinal infections, leading to delayed or incorrect treatment.
- Complications: Severe amoebiasis can lead to complications such as intestinal perforation, peritonitis, and the formation of amoebomas (masses of tissue in the intestines). These complications can be life-threatening and may require surgical intervention.
- Chronic Health Issues: Even after successful treatment, individuals with a history of amoebiasis may experience long-term gastrointestinal issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
- Drug Resistance: There have been reports of drug-resistant strains of E. histolytica, which can make treatment more challenging.
- Asymptomatic Carriers: Some individuals infected with E. histolytica may not exhibit any symptoms but can still carry and spread the parasite, contributing to its transmission in the community.
Why do I need an Entamoeba histolytica Test:
Here are some reasons why you might need this test:
- Symptoms of Amebiasis: If you are experiencing symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, cramping, and bloody stools, your healthcare provider may order an Entamoeba histolytica test to determine if you have an Entamoeba histolytica infection (amebiasis). These symptoms can be similar to other gastrointestinal conditions, so testing helps to confirm the cause.
- Travel to Endemic Areas: If you have traveled to or lived in regions where amebiasis is more common (e.g., tropical and subtropical areas, developing countries with poor sanitation), you may be at a higher risk of infection. In such cases, healthcare providers may recommend testing even if you don’t have symptoms, as the infection can sometimes be asymptomatic or cause symptoms later.
- Screening for High-Risk Individuals: Healthcare providers might recommend testing for individuals at higher risk of amebiasis, such as those who are immunocompromised (e.g., HIV/AIDS patients) or those who engage in high-risk behaviors (e.g., men who have sex with men). These individuals may be more susceptible to severe forms of the disease, and early detection is essential.
- Travel or Immigration Requirements: Some countries may require individuals to undergo testing for certain diseases, including amebiasis, as part of the visa or immigration process. In such cases, you might need to provide evidence of a negative test result.
- Contact with an Infected Person: If you have had close contact with someone diagnosed with amebiasis, your healthcare provider may recommend testing to check for possible transmission of the parasite.
- Health Monitoring: In some cases, individuals with a history of amebiasis may need regular testing to monitor for recurrence or to ensure that the infection has been successfully treated.
The Entamoeba histolytica test typically involves analyzing a stool sample for the presence of the parasite’s cysts or trophozoites. Sometimes, serologic tests (blood tests) are also used to detect antibodies against the parasite.
What does the Entamoeba histolytica Test result mean?
The test results for Entamoeba histolytica are typically reported as either positive or negative:
- Positive Result: A positive result means that the test has detected Entamoeba histolytica in the patient’s sample. This indicates an active infection with the parasite, and it may require treatment with antimicrobial medications to clear the infection. The specific treatment will depend on the severity of the infection and the patient’s overall health.
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‘Peter Pan’ Soars at Laguna Playhouse
The tale of Peter Pan has been a beloved children’s story for more than a century. Penned as a play and then a novel by J.M. Barrie, “Peter Pan” centers on a free-spirited, mischievous young boy who has never grown up and has the ability to fly. He spends his days on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with everyone from fairies (Tinkerbell), pirates, Native Americans, and even children from the world outside Neverland.
“Peter Pan” was turned into a 1954 musical starring Mary Martin, who won a Tony Award for playing the title role. The story has been retold in a handful of movies, but perhaps the most fascinating cultural phenomenon about Peter Pan is that the “Peter Pan’s Flight” attraction in Disneyland is one of the original rides when the park opened in 1955, and is still among the most popular in what Walt Disney’s dubbed “the happiest place on earth.”
This month, Laguna Playhouse is the happiest place on earth, because the playhouse is presenting a joyously silly and clever production of “Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: A Pirates’ Christmas.”
What sets this version apart form others is that “Peter Pan & Tinker Bell” is a “panto,” an English tradition that usually starts with a familiar fairy tale or a children’s story, then adds music, humor, contemporary references, and audience participation where booing the villain and cheering the hero is encouraged.
Pantos are perfect for all ages, with clever references flying over the heads of children to land squarely on the funny bone of adults.
“Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: A Pirates’ Christmas,” is described by the folks at Laguna Playhouse as “a singing, swashbuckling adventure performed in the high-flying style of a British holiday Panto. Take off on a wild quest with Tinker Bell, Wendy and Peter Pan as they try to put a stop to the plot of some dastardly pirates who plan to kidnap Peter as a present to Captain Hook. Filled with laughs, magic, dancers and contemporary songs.”
This is the fifth annual panto produced at Laguna Playhouse by Lythgoe Family Panto, and is as funny, if not funnier, than its predecessors.
It’s refreshing to see a theater filled with children and parents, yet not have the production cater solely to the younger set. This production captures the imagination of kids with colorful costumes and sets, and broad yet sincere acting that conveys the emotions of the story, while letting the audience in on the humorous elements, which are plenty.
Every actor on stage looks to be having fun, which isn’t hard to do given the updates to the characters. For example, Captain Hook’s three crewmen have the looks and mannerisms of Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and John Lennon, with the latter spouting dialogue from Beatles’ songs.
The cast is uniformly superb in their roles, and at improv when needed. Ben Giroux as Smee, Captain Hook’s right-hand man, is charming as he adlibs, interacts with the audience, and connects with jokes obviously meant for adults.
John O’Hurley, perhaps best known as playing J. Peterman on “Seinfeld,” is delightfully menacing as Captain Hook. He looks to be having a grand time, as does everyone else on stage.
And then there are the songs. Among the well-known tunes performed in the show to advance the plot are “In the Navy,” “Uptown Funk,” “Close to You,” “Hooked on a Feeling,” and even the Beatles’ “Golden Slumbers.”
Many of the songs involve dancing, carried out splendidly by well-choreographed dancers who range in age from adults to what looks to be about 10 years old.
Overall, “Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: A Pirates’ Christmas” is a delightful holiday show that’s perfect for families, or adults who want to relive their childhood while having a laugh-filled afternoon or evening of theater.
“Peter Pan & Tinker Bell: A Pirates’ Christmas” runs through Dec. 29 at Laguna Playhouse.
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Since it was founded in 2002, HAY has curated an impressive portfolio of remarkable products that fit seamlessly into private and public spaces alike, all while living up to various requirements. The married couple Mette and Rolf Hay started the business because they wanted to create unique high-quality products characterised by excellent artisanry at an affordable price point, so they are accessible to all. This founding principle continues to motivate the business and its collaborators, and it is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the brand’s global success.
From one power couple to another, we are taking a look at the design duo behind one of HAY’s latest designs, the Parade table lamp.
Viola Heyn-Johnsen & Jonas Trampedach are another married couple who have put their heads together for their first shared project, and the result is a new, exciting, and elegant design unlike any other. With a passion for materials, objects, and artisanry, the designers have collaborated closely with HAY to create a unique design that serves as a functional light source and doubles as a decorative, sculptural artwork.
Parade is inspired by the desire to create a lamp that unites ambient light with a sculptural design that contributes a remarkable touch to any interior design. Parade comes in various sizes and colours, so you can choose the perfect model for your desk, windowsill, or bookshelf. The unique geometric table lamps have a one-of-a-kind design that looks stunning on its own, but all the lamps are designed to complement one another, so you can also mount a selection of them together. This allows you to create a cohesive, united parade of colours and sizes for a personal, unique expression guaranteed to command the attention of your guests whether the lamp is on or not.
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4 things to consider when hiring a Skip Bin
Whether you’re doing some home renovations, landscaping your yard or taking on a serious spring clean, chances are the rubbish will be more than your wheelie bin can handle. Hiring a skip bin is usually the most convenient option for dealing with these kinds of projects. However, there are a few things you should consider before you hire a skip to ensure you get the right bin for the job.
- What are you putting in the bin?
Most skip bin hire companies will have clear rules and regulations around what can and can’t be put into their bins. They also usually provide different bins for different types of rubbish. The three most common skip bin rubbish categories are general household waste, garden and green waste, and renovation and building waste. If you have a mix of these, then you may need to hire more than one bin.
There are also a number of materials that you can’t put into a skip bin. Common banned substances include asbestos, batteries, gas cylinders, insulation material, food waste, chemicals, explosives, poisons, medical waste, oils, paints, solvents and other harmful or dangerous materials.
Some skip bin companies will be able to handle these materials for you separately, but you will need to discuss this with your hire company and it will usually come at an extra cost on top of the skip hire.
- How much waste do you have?
Before hiring a bin, you should try to work out approximately how much waste you will have. That will help you to get the right skip size for your requirements.Skip bins are available in a range of sizes from two to more than 30 cubic metres, with the cost of the bin increasing with the size. Since it will be cheaper to hire a larger bin than hiring a second bin if you run out of space, you’re always better off going for a slightly larger skip than you think you’ll need.
Bin companies also have strict rules regarding the weight you can put into each bin and level to which the bins are filled. Overfilled bins can be a safety hazard and companies generally won’t remove a bin that has been overfilled.
Having a general idea of how much waste you will have to get rid of will help you to select the right size skip. Getting this right will save you time and money.
- Where are you putting the bin?
Once the skip bin hire company arrives with your bin, you will need to organise where to place the bin for the duration of the hire period. You will need a spot that’s easy for you to access and close to the worksite. It’s also best to try to place the bin on your own property, like in the driveway or on your front or back lawn.
If the bin is on your property then you won’t need to think about council permits and other people will be less likely to dump their rubbish in your skip. However, if space constraints are a problem, it may not be possible to place the skip on your own property. In that case, you can look at using your nature strip or placing it by the curb on the road. If the skip is sitting on public property, you may need a council permit (more on that below).
You should also take into account vehicle access when considering skip bin placement. While your front lawn may be the most convenient spot for the bin, if the delivery truck can’t easily access the space, then it won’t be able to place the skip there.
- Do you need a council permit?
If you are planning on putting the skip bin on the road, nature strip or other council land, you may need to get a skip bin permit from your local council. Generally, your skip bin hire company is the party responsible for getting council permission. However, if you are using a non-licensed bin company, the responsibility may fall to you. It’s always worth checking that your bin company is licensed and has the appropriate public liability insurance policy and necessary agreements.
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If you want to catch a more modern and metropolitan side of Lanzarote then visit Arrecife, the island's capital. Here you will find a lively port city, shaped both by its seafaring past and its current, rapid regeneration.
Lanzarote´s Cosmpolitan Capital
Arrecife is home to around half the island’s inhabitants, with a population of some 45,000 and boasts shopping galore, beaches, parks, promenades, nightlife and all of the attendant urban hustle and bustle.
The city was once, rather optimistically, described as ‘The Venice of the Atlantic’. This flatters to deceive though, as Arrecife offers little in terms of classic colonial architecture, never mind gondoliers or waterways. In fact in parts, the city is still a little down at heel.
However Arrecife does have a very picturesque hub, which is concentrated around El Charco (the puddle) and the main seafront promenades and parks and can also boast an interesting historical heritage.
For centuries, Arrecife (or Puerto de Arrecife as it was originally known) was the main port gateway to the island due to its proximity to ancient capital Teguise and its natural deep water harbour at Los Marmoles — now home to the city’s ferry and container ports.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries the ports of the Canary Islands in general and Lanzarote in particular were plagued by pirate attacks and Arrecife was raided regularly.
Teguise — Ancient Capital
Teguise, some 10km from the coast was strategically better placed to deal with this threat and carried the title of capital city of the island for some 450 years.
It was only in 1852, as the importance of maritime trade grew, that this title was somewhat reluctantly handed on to Arrecife.
Biggest Fleet in the Canaries
Today, the port houses the biggest fishing fleet in the Canaries and the legacy of these pirate raids can still be seen in the two impressive castles that stand guard over Arrecife’s natural harbour.
Castillo San Gabriel
The most readily visible of these is the Castillo San Gabriel, dating from 1590 and now home to a museum dedicated to the history of Arrecife.
Castillo San Jose
At the outer fringes of Arrecife by Puerto Marmoles lies the Castillo San Jose, which was originally built to repel pirates and alleviate poverty on the island in the wake of the major volcanic eruptions of the 1730’s. As a result it became known locally as the Fortress of Hunger.
Museum of International Contemporary Art
Ironically, The Castillo is still filling stomachs today, as it now houses a stylish restaurant, designed by Cesar Manrique as well as the islands small but prestigious Museum of International and Contemporary Art.
Arrecife Gran Hotel
Arrecife’s current regeneration is symbolized by the Gran Hotel, which opened its doors for business five years ago and is one of only 6 5 star hotels in Lanzarote.
For 30 years this building was just an incomplete shell, scarring the otherwise picturesque seafront around the city’s beach, Playa El Reducto.
Cesar Manrique’s Influence
Developers sneaked this building up in the 1960’s whilst Cesar Manrique was away studying in New York. On his return, construction was bought to a halt — but wrangles over the demolition or future use of the building carried on for decades.
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The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance is an online educational and support resource for cancer patients and caregivers. We are dedicated to providing answers to patients. We have a range of information on our site that talks about the cancer itself, the types of treatment that is expected, and preventative measures. Since mesothelioma is a rare cancer, we like to put a big focus on the care a patient needs. To further assist them on their journey, we provide a list of doctors and cancer clinics that specialize in this diagnosis. It is our mission to continually provide relevant, timely, and factual information so that we can support those who are suffering. This in information is especially beneficial for veterans, who tend to have a much higher rate of asbestos exposure.
Additionally, we are constantly updating our blog with new information about cancer, survivorship, ways to navigate a diagnosis, and survivor stories to spread hope. We are very active with our community on social channels. Our Facebook, and Twitter are the two main outlets we use to connect with and advocate for caregivers, family, and patients. We would love to join your community and spread the word. Please take a look at our site: Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance.
Making the transition from military to civilian life can be a challenge for veterans, and finding their next career move even more of one. Fortunately, many career fields are a natural fit for a veteran's skills, experience and dispositions, including healthcare. The guide below covers the entire process for making the move to a civilian healthcare career including:
- How to identify healthcare that are the best match for your military skills, experience and title
- Advice for choosing military-friendly schools, including those participating in veteran financial aid programs like the GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program
- Taking advantage of transition assistance programs (TAPs) offered by each branch of the military
- Tips on marketing yourself and highlighting your strengths as a veteran
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View All NewsFriday night lights at Haubner Field kicked off the La Salle Alumni Softball season in style!
With over 100 alumni in attendance, the energy was electric as teams raised the LS flag high! It was a cool, crisp night filled with nostalgia and camaraderie.
But wait, the excitement doesn't end there!We're thrilled to announce that due to popular demand, a Thursday league will be getting started later this summer! Stay tuned for more updates and get ready to hit the field again!
The La Salle Alumni spirit is alive and well!
La Salle Alumni were back on campus to take on the role of 'sharks' in Mr. Waymire's version of La Salle Shark Tank!
Our budding entrepreneurs from Mr. Waymire's classes seized the incredible opportunity to pitch their ideas to our esteemed business panel. It's not just a class project, it's a real-world experience that's shaping the future for our students.
Way to go, past and current Lancers!
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American Horror Stories is a series that paves the way for latex to enter the next, higher level of presence in movies and mass media. It is a horror series in which the leading actors have been dressed in latex from head to toe. Their rubber outfits become an integral part of their character.
American streaming service Hulu (available only in the USA) on July 15, 2021 began making available the first season of American Horror Storiers. It is a 20th Television production created by Rayan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The series is a spin-off of the American Horror Story series. It has a form of an anthology so each episode is a separate story. Our attention is drawn to the first two episodes of the entire first seven-episode season. They have been titled “Rubber(wo)Man”. This title is, of course, not coincidental, so it’s worth looking at a little closer.
To refrain from significant spoilers, let’s look at “Rubber(wo)Man” mainly in terms of latex creations. The story begins with teenage Scarlett (played by Sierra McCormick) moving into a new house with her fathers, Michael and Troy. It is not a random house, it is the Murder House. Its name is a reference to the original series. It is the Rubberman’s house, which is famous for murdering its inhabitants. Very soon Scarlett finds in the closet of the new house a mysterious outfit, which turns out to be… a black latex suit, a mask and gloves. Fascinated, the character immediately decides to try on the new outfit. Be sure to watch this scene and see what happened:
We have to admit that Scarlett’s reaction is very natural. The immediate desire to try on new clothes is probably familiar to anyone who has bought themselves a new latex at least once, especially in the form of a whole catsuit. Much is also revealed by the mysterious smile on the teenager’s face, which appears just before she takes the suit off the hanger. She definitely can’t pass it by indifferently. What’s a fitting of new latex without a look in the mirror? Exactly. That’s why Scarlett turns to the mirror as fast as she can. There she sees her own skin, dressed from head to toe in black latex. After a moment, however, she sees in it… a man. This is Rubberman. Thus Rubberman becomes Rubber(wo)man.
Although the scene of finding the rubber garment ends with Scarlett throwing it in the trash in horror, of course, the story doesn’t end here, in fact, it just begins. For it turns out that the outfit appears in the closet in Scarlett’s room. The girl is convinced that it was one of her fathers who brought it back home. Without thinking, she dresses it again and decides to scare the fathers. See how it looked:
The truth is, however, that no one brought the clothes home. It just appeared on its own. Scarlett was chosen. In this way, latex becomes an integral part of the character, and her further actions take place in latex. To feel the atmosphere of the series, let’s have a look at the final scene of “Rubber(wo)Man”:
Latex clothing has become a way in the series to transform the character into someone else, into a new character who can kill. It gives her strength and confidence. Finding the mysterious suit, Scarlett is fascinated and intrigued by it. Also later, despite her earlier scare, she dresses it again without hesitation to make a joke to her fathers. This creates a realistic image of latex. Of course, outside of the movie fiction of latex murder, the emotions are very much in line with reality. Latex allows you to be someone else, to stand out and gain confidence. This is a very important aspect that comes up in the opinions of rubber wearers. Latex (especially a full latex with a mask) allows for a kind of detachment from reality, becoming a different person. Thanks to this many people feel much more attractive. The whole, therefore, adds up to a very large set of positive emotions that make you want to wear the rubber once again and return to those emotions.
Finally, there are a few more behind the scenes photos uploaded on social media by the actors themselves. They are primarily Sierra McCormick (Scarlett), Devyn LaBella (Scarlett’s double) and Troy Castaneda (Rubberman). Latex seems to bring a lot of fun to the actors and is a new experience. We are waiting for the possibility to see the series outside the US and, of course, for other productions with such a large share of latex. | <urn:uuid:f8f3866b-a9d2-46c2-b6c0-47bcdae5c872> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.latexpolska.com/en/american-horror-stories-latex-in-the-foreground/ | 2024-04-20T16:28:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.969358 | 983 |
Escorts For Hire Online – Things to Look For
There are many online London escorts that advertise themselves and these professional women and gentlemen that have your most personal details, as well as your trust. There are a lot of them that offer online London escorts for both short term and long term use. In this article we are going to discuss the different kinds of services available and why this could be the right choice for you.
Escorts for hire in London are only one of the many services that they offer and the others include custom made outfits for different occasions, hair and make up services, perfume, rings, music and much more. Many of these services are not only popular for the fact that they are cheap but also because the people that they offer them to are also cheap as well. One of the reasons for this is that all the services are also provided with love and care. In fact, it can be said that they love their clients.
The other good thing about these services is that they offer promotional benefits to all the new customers and even those who join them after joining them from a partner agency. This includes free advertising for any new customers of the agency. You could increase your business results.
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The international clients that come to London every year and the clients from all over the US are not enough of the big companies or the established agencies. These companies and agencies need more people like you to avail these services.
These women are in London for whatever reason and come as friends or alone. There are a lot of them that advertise themselves and they are mainly in the area of numbers and looking for men and women.
When you find a new female online then you should take your time to get to know her and whether she will fit in with your lifestyle or not. If she does not know the trick of dating then she will not be a great option.
Another important thing to look for when getting an agency is if they know how to get to know their client better and help you get to know him/her better. One of the best things that you could do is ask about your satisfaction in the website. You will never know unless you ask and find out.
Another thing to look for is to see that they offer different kinds of services and what kind they offer and what is more, that they offer these services at cheap prices and are reliable and legitimate. Make sure that you ask questions before getting into any transaction with them.
Escorts for hire online for London clients do not expect anything in return for their services and are there only to serve you and satisfy your needs. Once you find one you are able to hire and be comfortable with her or him.
When you hire an agency to provide you with one then you would have to ask questions and find out the answers to them. But of course, all the answers would be very short and brief.
In any case, no matter how much information you have to find out and how many questions you might want to ask, the agency will be able to give you the answers for you. These are all questions that they would be able to answer and you do not have to worry about anything.
Finding online for escorts for hire is not that hard and you would find one that would be able to give you a good experience. Just make sure that you find one that is legit and reputable.
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By Andrew Cohen
Pitch The Stephanie Llanes Story to Hollywood producers, and they’ll probably ask you to come back with something more believable. Just 28, her young life has already seen more twists and turns than a roller coaster—and more achievements than many twice her age.
Llanes ’16 is one of 12 new Berkeley Law graduates (see list below) to receive coveted nationwide fellowships, giving them a valuable head-start on their social justice careers.
For Llanes, the next stop is New York City, where she will work for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on a prestigious two-year Bertha Fellowship. One of just four people selected from nearly 250 applicants, she made a powerful impression while interning at the organization last summer.
“Stephanie demonstrated a passionate commitment to social justice, an insistence on completing high-quality work in service of the clients and communities CCR represents and a relentless hunger for learning and engagement,” said Legal Director Baher Azmy. “She has a deeply rooted belief in the power of organized social movements to produce meaningful change and a grounded understanding about how lawyers can contribute to that broader purpose.”
Focusing on racial justice and government misconduct, Llanes will tackle issues such as immigration detention and police stop-and-frisk procedures.
“I want to use law as a tool to support social movements to shift power,” she said. “CCR understands that lawyers should support these movements, not merely direct them. As lawyers, we often incorrectly think we’re the skilled problem solvers who should lead the way. But people-centered work is not always about winning lawsuits; it’s about improving people’s lives.”
A native Puerto Rican, Llanes is the first member of her family to go to college. Before that, however, she was signed to a record label and released three reggaeton albums—as a teenager—under the stage name Felina.
Glimpses into the music industry’s ugly underbelly and a “drive to fight and live for marginalized communities” prodded Llanes to ditch a music career and enter college. At the University of North Georgia (formerly Gainesville Community College), she flourished in and out of the classroom—holding myriad leadership positions and landing on USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team—one of just 20 students so named.
After transferring to Emory University in 2011, she co-founded the Change at Emory Racial Justice Student Coalition and expanded the school’s annual State of Race event into a week-long forum focused on race, culture, diversity and human rights. Graduating with a 3.97 GPA, Llanes was one of four students named to Emory’s College Council Hall of Fame based on her leadership and service.
“I’d like to think I inherited some of the fighting and loving spirit of my mom, grandma and great grandma,” she said. “My great grandma was a tobacco field worker in Puerto Rico who started in the fields when she was 5 years old. Around 60, both of her legs had to be amputated due to the amount of tobacco in her system. Even so, she stayed very active in her community and helped people in any way she could. That resiliency runs through the women in my family.”
It was certainly evident during Llanes’ time at Berkeley Law. Among her countless activities and student group involvements, she served as co-president of the La Raza Law Students Association and articles editor of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. She also showed her litigation chops by winning last year’s prestigious National Institute for Trial Advocacy Tournament of Champions—which features the country’s top mock trial programs—on a team with Jerel Dawson ’15, DeCarol Davis ’17 and Salah Hawkins ’15.
Her most meaningful law school experience? “Having the ability to work with john a. powell and the team at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society,” Llanes said of the Berkeley Law professor and institute’s director. “It was truly transformative. He taught me about using legal strategies and the law to shape structures that can serve people.”
Working with the Post-Conviction Advocacy Project, she also represented a life prisoner who last month was released on parole. “My partner Asher Waite-Jones (’16) and I worked with him for a year and a half,” she said. “He was Latino, and working with him touched home for me because I saw myself and my community in him.”
As her fellowship approaches, Llanes admits that these are “daunting and often scary” times to be working on racial justice issues.
“People are asking what America do we want to live in, that we want our children to live in,” she said. “For me, it’s an America where my type of racial justice work doesn’t need to exist, an America that prioritizes love and community. We should aspire to a world where children are free, from Puerto Rico to Palestine to Flint, where governments actually serve their people—all of them.”
While charging full steam toward her legal career, Llanes’ creativity and sense of humor remains in full bloom. At New York City’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in June, she donned a full costume to portray Somos Arte comic book heroine La Borinqueña—who discovers her superpowers when she visits Puerto Rico and fights against social injustice. Her appearance led to a profile article in the New York Daily News.
Other Class of 2016 graduates to begin major fellowships this fall include:
- Guadalupe Aguirre, Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship. Working at the Empire Justice Center in Westchester, New York, Aguirre will provide legal assistance for immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation. She will also help shape strategies to reduce the justice gap for immigrant families and reduce their barriers to social and economic opportunity.
- Madeline Bailey, Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship. Working at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, Bailey will assist condemned prisoners, children in the criminal justice system, people wrongly convicted or sentenced and the poor and vulnerable facing imprisonment. She will also promote remedies that address prisoner mistreatment and the impact of racial subordination and exclusion.
- Camille Dodson, Law Students for Reproductive Justice Fellowship. Working at the Positive Women’s Network in Oakland, Dodson will help inform and mobilize women living with HIV to advocate for changes that improve their lives and uphold their rights. She will also serve as a policy advocate and provide support for community organizing while also leading educational campaigns.
- Shanita Farris, Capital Appeals Project of Louisiana Fellowship. Working at the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans, Farris will represent capital defendants from the time they are sentenced to death through their appeals and post-conviction process. She will also assist in ongoing civil litigation within the organization’s Promise of Justice Initiative.
- Fanna Gamal, Equal Justice Works Fellowship. Working at Berkeley Law’s East Bay Community Law Center and sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation, Gamal will challenge the collateral consequences of school expulsions—which disproportionately impact black and Latino students—in Berkeley and Oakland through direct representation and local policy reform efforts.
- Cristiana Giannini, Gideon’s Promise Fellowship. Working at the DeKalb County Public Defender’s Office in Atlanta, Giannini will help defend indigent clients and work to accelerate indigent defense reform. In doing so, she will advocate for strategies that positively impact such defendants and remove pressures to quickly process them through the criminal justice system.
- Andrea Obando, Equal Justice Works Fellowship. Working at Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco and sponsored by Viacom and the Munger, Tolles & Olson Foundation, Obando will work to eliminate barriers to economic security for low-wage women of color in California by enforcing equal pay laws—and by using legal advocacy and community outreach to expand their access to high-wage jobs.
- Margaret Tides, Michael P. Murphy Public Law Fellowship. Working at the San Mateo County Counsel’s Office in Redwood City, Tides will provide advice to County departments, school districts and special districts. She will also litigate civil cases in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies, and assist on complex and high profile impact litigation as well as public policy matters.
- Brittany Tyler, Equal Justice Works Fellowship. Working at Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland and funded by Fenwick & West, Tyler will provide on-site legal services to victims of domestic violence in Alameda County’s Highland Hospital through a medical-legal partnership. One-third of the hospital’s female trauma patients are treated for domestic violence-related injuries.
- Asher Waite-Jones, Equal Justice Works Fellowship. Working at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco and sponsored by American Lawyer Media, Waite-Jones will provide area homeless youth between ages 13 and 21 holistic representation in low-level infractions. He will also bolster the organization’s traditional practice areas of immigration, guardianship, dependency and school discipline.
- Richard Weir, Human Rights Watch Finberg Fellowship. Working at Human Rights Watch in New York City, Weir will work with the group’s Asia Division and focus mainly on human rights abuses occurring within Burma as the country transitions from a military dictatorship to a quasi-democracy. He will research and document such abuses—conducting field interviews, writing reports and providing targeted advocacy. | <urn:uuid:fa56ebe1-df21-419a-b9d4-040e25e1c267> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/stephanie-llanes-and-classmates-awarded-national-fellowships/ | 2024-04-20T17:02:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.956517 | 2,026 |
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When has meaningful progress ever been quick or easy? It takes time, and when it happens it’s worth celebrating. The good news is that, particularly when it comes to what we see in front of the camera, our industry has made important strides forward when it comes to diversity. Thanks in large part to the hard work of activists and campaigners over the course of several years, it’s now more commonplace than ever to see people of colour, women, and LGBTQ+ people featured in ads.
On the other side of the lens, however, it’s too often a different story. It’s vitally important that we keep asking ourselves ‘who made this ad?’ - and if the answer continues to be a group of people who come from a similar background and who all look the same, then there’s a real issue at hand.
Regrettably, the uncomfortable truth is that things behind the camera (and in production more generally) look remarkably similar to the way they did a decade ago, despite conversations about diversity taking place every year. Part of the reason is that, even now, diversity itself remains a misunderstood concept.
Understanding diversity means accepting that it is an issue whose roots run deep - deeper than quick-fix solutions can solve. A
recent report published by the BFI and
ERIC is a helpful reminder of just how far you can trace the origins of the issue. According to their data, just 19% of 13-16 year olds in UK schools say they ‘feel informed’ about the screen industries as a career path. That’s in contrast to the 41% of teenagers who ‘wish they knew more’ about our industry. That’s a shockingly low number of young people who can visualise a way into filmmaking as a career.
Consider the impact that can have, even to well-intentioned decision makers later down the line. I’ve heard one instance where an agency who ‘blind tested’ for potential directors ended up with an even less diverse shortlist than before, because diverse talent needs opportunity to improve their portfolio. As a result, many good-hearted initiatives end up failing to move the needle, or inadvertently making the situation worse.
Mentorship is one obvious solution which can make a real impact. It’s something we encountered within
Another whilst working with Guinness’ Gender Progression Initiative, when we were tasked with creating a film about Jacqueline Nsim’s dream of becoming a professional footballer in Cameroon. The initial idea was to work with a British male creative director but we suggested that a local Cameroonian director - Doreen Funju – be mentored on the shoot by the British creative director. This gave the film authentic insight through the gender and culture lenses, resulting in a really powerful piece of work. We also worked with a local all-Cameroonian crew on the film - standard practice at Another, encouraging a more sustainable approach to production. By taking a step back from the initial “how it’s always done” directive, we were able to suggest a diverse and authentic approach that ultimately benefited the creatives, brand, and audiences alike.
Zoom out to the big picture, however, and an underlying tragedy begins to take shape. In 2022 we have more clients and brands than ever before who want to invest in diverse talent for their productions - but getting that talent into the industry right at the entry point is still proving to be a huge challenge. For those of us who wish to see more progress on this issue, it’s that point of entry where we need to focus our efforts.
The Root of the Problem
Recently, our team had the pleasure of working with the director
Samona Olanipekun. He told us that “the lack of an official route” into the industry was challenging and daunting. As his family didn’t have any connections, he wasn’t aware that a career in film was even a possibility. “I’ve never had a mentor and had to learn myself, connecting different elements through instinct,” he told us, adding that “it took me 10 years for it all to come together.”
For Samona, that access to key mentorship came along late - and for others, it never arrives at all. This, fundamentally, is what needs to change. I was recently at one of the top degree shows for photography, and my conversation with the course’s lecturer was sobering - if not wholly surprising. Despite the fact that the course was made up largely of women, the lecturer said that the majority will never work as photographers because they lack the confidence to enter historically male spaces. What they also lack are the connections, the mentorship, and the confidence of the industry that they’re worth taking a chance on. This, again, amounts to a smaller pool of women photographers to choose from down the line. Ultimately, it’s a perfect storm designed to create the circumstances for the industry to say “there are no women (or insert any other minority group here) for us to work with”.
To change the industry’s future, we need to start planting seeds now. At Another, we’ve been trying to ‘walk the walk’ for a few years, notably with our female-based initiatives. We co-created
Equal Lens, for example, a not-for-profit organisation established in 2019 to champion the work of women and non-binary photographers. Our community of photographers offers the perfect pipeline for brands and media owners looking to connect with more diverse talent.
We’ve also established a mentorship program that pairs female photography students with an award-winning commercial photographer - providing financial support, training, and valuable hands-on shoot experience. Sponsored by Deliveroo and SimplyBe, the scheme is in place across over 40 universities and offers winners three months paid work experience in London, giving them the opportunity to shoot a social campaign for their brand sponsor.
Looking beyond the above, however, we’re conscious of expanding and opening our initiatives up to a more diverse, inclusive base. It’s not an easy task, it’s taken a lot of free time - and it’s certainly not perfect yet - but it’s important to continue making progress.
We’ve got plans to launch a new initiative in schools and academies, for example, and want to talk to forward-thinking brands to make this happen. Whilst these are small examples in the context of the industry as a whole, it shows how the path to a brighter, more diverse future begins at the grassroots. As Samona says, “advertising is a huge industry we encounter every day yet for young people, there’s no connection between it and a route to joining”.
Samona is right. We all need to continue to learn and acknowledge the issues at hand while looking at the ways we can start to make a difference today. And whilst it may not seem like an easy route, this effort will be reflected in the final product. Giving extra time and dedication to the hiring process will allow us to avoid safe options and build a team that has unique, valuable viewpoints. There’s an opportunity to build inclusive environments, breed new ideas, be more reactive, and take worthwhile creative risks. As Samona notes: “When I hear stories about a lot of my favourite films, commercials, and campaigns, often there’s quite a diverse team behind it. Diversity in thinking is a valuable resource.”
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When I think of pizza rolls, I think of those tiny fried bites of non-recognizable pizza goo that you find in the freezer section. I’ll admit I’m guilty of buying them, but never again. Not after I made these Pizza Rolls from my fellow foodie Erin, who writes a mouth-watering blog, One Particular Kitchen. Picture how you’d build a homemade cinnamon roll then change that to something savory, cheesy, spicy, and absolutely delicious. You’ve got my new favorite way to eat homemade pizza.
So, how’s it taste?
It’s pure genius to eat pizza rolled up this way, and it’s so good. Crazy good. This is the perfect food for tv watching I might add. The beauty is that it’s like regular pizza in that you can make in any combination you like. I like pineapple, ham, and green olives. Odd I know, but it’s hey it’s my pizza! I turned the volume up and used jalapeno/onion Boar’s Head ham. I also used fresh mozzarella, but I think the pre-shredded kind would have been easier to work with.
Once you get your dough rolled out and topped, simply roll the entire pizza into one big roll. Next, take the dental floss to cut into the individual rolls. Using the dental floss instead of a knife prevents the rolls from being squished. Pretty smart, huh?
What I like best about these rolls, is the additional cheese on the top. Ooey, gooey cheese! I like to dip my rolls in extra pizza sauce, too. Yummy! These were so good I had them for breakfast. But I guess pizza for breakfast is nothing new!
One Particular Kitchen’s icebox dough (or try the dough in the deli section at Publix)
pizza sauce (pick your favorite)
any pizza toppings, chopped (chopped so it’s easier to slice through)
dental floss, unflavored (to cut into rolls)
1. Preheat the oven to 350. Roll out the dough into a rectangle.
2. Top with a thin layer of sauce and sprinkle with your choice of chopped toppings. Then add the cheese.
3. Roll it up! Roll it from the short end if you don’t need many rolls. Rolling from the longer end will produce more rolls.
4. Use the dental floss it to cut the rolls. Slide the floss under the roll, cross the ends over the top like you’re going to tie a knot, then pull them all the way through the dough so the floss is straight again. This slices it clean and keeps your rolls from getting flattened as you slice.
5. Place the rolls in an oiled casserole dish with the pretty sides showing (if you’re making these for a party and want them easier to handle, individually bake them in a muffin tray instead). Sprinkle the top with more cheese.
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Living in Nashville, it’s easy to have a quick getaway to Chattanooga for the weekend. A two-hour drive east on I-24 (plus the time zone change) lands you in downtown Chattanooga with plenty to see, do, and eat! In August, we did just that and had the best time. I’m already thinking about my next visit! I’ll walk you through where we stayed, ate, and played. The entire time we couldn’t get over how much nicer their downtown is than Nashville. “It City” has taken its toll on our downtown, so fellow Nashvillians, a weekend break awaits you!
We left Nashville just in time to arrive in Chattanooga around 5 p.m. Plenty of time to check in to our hotel, look around, grab a drink, and head out to dinner. We stayed at The Read House and I cannot say enough good things about it. We booked a corner room with two queen beds in the historic tower, which has recently undergone a $25-million renovation… and you can tell! It was swanky and I loved it! The hotel has this Great Gatsby vibe with its decor, and one of the rooms is supposedly haunted (more on that later).
We had a great view, plenty of space, a really nice bathroom, complimentary robes and slippers, and complimentary champagne. The Read House was running a special when we booked and we also received a $25 dining card to use at their restaurant, the Starbucks in the hotel, or their bar. We promptly used it on Starbucks and cocktails, of course!
After oooing and aahing over our room, we headed to the Bar & Billiards Room to sip on our complimentary champagne. How cool are the glasses?!
Next, we grabbed a Lyft and headed to the North Shore area for dinner at Brewhaus, a German restaurant and brewpub. Beer lovers will dig this one, but alas, I don’t drink much beer. However, I can attest to their ridiculously good food! We split one of their starters, the Brewhaus Sampler. It’s one giant German pretzel with a trio of mustards, bier cheese, and pimento cheese dips; three brat sliders; and four kraut balls. We agreed the pretzel was absolutely the best pretzel we’ve ever eaten. The mustards all tasted the same to us (cider, horseradish, and cherry), but the bier cheese and pimento cheese were perfection. We dipped everything in the cheeses. The kraut balls (bratwurst, cheese, and sauerkraut deep fried) were crispy and tangy. We also really liked the brat sliders. This was almost too much food for two people, so I’m glad we only ordered one!
Later that evening we went on the Murder & Mayhem Haunted History Tour. This was about an hour and half walking tour through downtown Chattanooga. Every time we visit a new city, we try to catch a ghost tour. We really loved our tour guide, but the tour itself was kind of meh on the murder and mayhem. It was more of a history and architecture tour of Chattanooga. We enjoyed it, but it didn’t have as much ghost gusto as other cities.
After the ghost tour, we tried to go to the Whiskey Thief Rooftop Bar atop the Edwin Hotel, but we didn’t want to wait for a spot after walking so much, so we didn’t hang around. Next time!
Saturday we headed out early to beat the crowd for Maple Street Biscuits. This was high on my list of restaurants. I mean, just go to their website and look at those pictures (but try not to focus on the calorie counts)! I ordered the Squawking Goat, a flaky biscuit, all-natural fried chicken breast, fried goat cheese medallion, and house-made pepper jelly. While it was good, it didn’t blow my socks off. The chicken was dry and the pepper jelly was overkill because of the amount. They pour it ALL OVER the biscuit and the plate, and it was super rich. If you order this, I recommend getting the jelly on the side.
My mom got the BAM! waffle, a house-made vanilla waffle with asiago cheese and pecanwood-smoked bacon baked in, topped with honey butter & Bissell Family Farms real maple syrup. The waffle was really tasty, but stingy on the bacon.
Next, we needed to kill time before a tour, so we walked around downtown Chattanooga. We took in the sights, especially outside the Tennessee Aquarium and on the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge.
At 10 a.m. we hopped on a van with the top cut off (literally, they cut it off to make it open air) and embarked on a one-hour tour around Chattanooga. I’m so glad it was earlier in the day, because it was hot! We took the Chattanooga Tennesseer and it was so nice to be driven around in the open air having someone tell us about the history. Highly recommend this tour and it’s only $15!
After the tour, we headed to Clumpies for milkshakes! I got mint chocolate chip (duh) and my mom got chocolate. They were incredible! We walked back from North Shore over the pedestrian bridge to downtown Chattanooga. That’s called balance, my friends. Milkshakes + a lot of walking. 🙂 Plus we called this lunch since we were so full of ice cream goodness.
We went back to our hotel, The Read House, to tour their Haunted Room 311. Every day between noon and 2 p.m. they offer this tour for free! It’s said to be haunted by Annalisa Netherly – a guest who was allegedly beheaded in the bathtub by a jealous lover. The room was restored to back in Annalisa’s day to make her comfortable and doesn’t have modern amenities. Our tour guide suddenly pointed out how a lamp shade tilted while we all weren’t looking. We totally believe the room is rigged for fun stuff like that. It was cool to see, but I don’t believe it’s haunted. It’s not even the real room. The original hotel burned down and was rebuilt later. So, yeah… but still creepy.
We made our way to the Tennessee Aquarium next. I have been wanting to go here for the longest time! It’s separated into two buildings, River Journey and Ocean Journey. It was really cool to see all the exhibits, but holy cow can it get crowded. I’d recommended going when most kiddos are back in school.
After the Aquarium, we walked a bit further down to the Southern Belle Riverboat for a cruise. Since our lunch was a milkshake, we decided to get a snack and some tasty beverages while we waited for the cruise to start. At the 3rd Deck Burger Bar, we had Jack & Cokes and the world’s nastiest nachos. I do not recommend eating food from this place. The drinks were fine, but the nachos were super stale and covered in black pepper (who does that?). The salsa was so bad we didn’t touch it and I’m pretty sure the cheese dip came from a ginormous can that had been there for years. Hard pass on this place, people.
The cruise itself would have been really wonderful if it hadn’t been 2,000 degrees. I bet it would be really nice to go back in the fall when the leaves have changed color and the weather is much nicer. They have evening cruises and dinner cruises, as well.
We were more than ready for good food after the cruise and made our way to Urban Stack. I had heard about this place for its burgers before and we were ready to dig in! They have a ton of burger combos, but we both landed on The Big Cheese — chipotle ketchup, balsamic onions, lettuce, tomatoes, house sauce and your choice of one of 4 cheeses: sharp yellow, white cheddar, fiesta, or house-made pimento cheese. I picked sharp yellow, mom picked white cheddar. The burger was just average for us. Nothing special, and we didn’t like the bun. We both agreed that balsamic onions are a really good burger topping though. We split an order of fries with half regular/half sweet potato. They were meh, too, and the sweet potato fries weren’t very hot. This place is a popular spot, and wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t put it on a must-eat list.
You know we had to get dessert after dinner! We took a short walk over to Hot Chocolatier, this really cute coffee/dessert shop. We split a Chocolate Mousse Cake that was HEAVEN. Creamy, chocolatey, rich, everything I hoped it would be. Do not miss this place if you have a sweet tooth and find yourself in Chattanooga.
As if we hadn’t stuffed ourselves enough, we capped off the evening with a few cocktails back at The Read House. I usually do not like gin-based cocktails but I am currently obsessed with grapefruit, so I ordered the Pamplemousse Martini and was not disappointed. Gin, grapefruit liqueur, lemon juice, lemon swirl. Very grapefruit-y and not too sweet. Mom ordered the Mary Pickford — rum-based, maraschino liqueur, pineapple, and grenadine. It was a bit too sweet for my taste, but she loved it.
We got up super early to head to Aretha Frankensteins for breakfast. Now this was one spot I was really excited about. I’d heard so much about its giant pancakes and quirky decor, and it lived up to the hype! I think it’s a touristy attraction, but we didn’t care. Our Lyft driver had never heard of the place and it’s smack in the middle of a residential area. We got there a few minutes before they opened and our Lyft driver was so concerned that he’d left us in middle of nowhere that he hung around for a minute, so nice! The inside is crazy. Random stuff everywhere, but the old cereal boxes wall was my favorite. We’d heard about the service being super slow and this is most definitely true. We were the first people there and then two other tables came in. It took forever for the three tables to get food. Still I thought it was worth the wait.
Of course I ordered the pancakes! I got the Slim Stack, which is two of them, added chocolate chips, and a side of extra crispy bacon. Holy moly they were huge! I couldn’t finish them, but luckily we were headed home and I took them as leftovers and promptly finished them for dinner that night. 🙂
My mom got the small Biscuits and Gravy (which were still huge) and a side of scrambled egg. She said the biscuit wasn’t very good as it was hard and tasted leftover. I’d read that about their biscuits in a lot of reviews, so maybe stick to the pancakes when you go.
A bit south of Chattanooga is Lookout Mountain that has Ruby Falls, Rock City, and the Incline Railway. We decided on Rock City and the Incline Railway on our journey home. My mom went to Ruby Falls as a kid and it’s kind of lacking, plus the both of us do not do caves (hello claustrophobia!), so we skipped it.
Rock City was pretty cool as you walk through the gardens and they have different touristy areas along the way (gnomes!), but the real treat is the view at Lover’s Leap. You can see seven states! It’s gorgeous. This is another reason I’d love to go back in the fall because I bet that view is spectacular when the leaves change color.
The Incline Railway was our last stop on the trip and to be honest, we kind of wished we had skipped it. It’s a lot of waiting around and not really all that. Yes, the incline is STEEP and the views are cool, but not really worth it the time of year we went. Plus, once you get to the other side, you have to get in line again, wait, and then get back to where you started. I think by that time we were tired and ready to get on the road home.
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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 3
In these next lessons we’re going have a real in-depth study of the Abrahamic Covenant, which I have mentioned in previous lessons is so basic to understanding all the rest of God’s program for the ages and the change of God’s dealing with the human race as we come into Genesis chapter 12.
But before we start that I would like to address a few remarks to our television audience that it’s going to be so hard to cover as much as I would like to cover in just thirty-minutes. And I’m always afraid that if I’m not rightly understood and if these things don’t really come by us in an understandable way that you’d be prone to just turn me off. And so I would beg with those of you watching us on television to not give up on us even though we may not get as far as we’d like to get in this first thirty-minutes, but bear with us and over time I think, as most of my class people have over the years, you’ll begin to see how beautifully all of this comes together.
Christendom is a mass of confusion tonight. We’ve got so many different ideas and groups and the problem is they just don’t take the time to see what does the Word really say, and we also have to realize what it does not say.
Now I’m one of those creatures, and I was just telling my wife as we were driving up, even the national magazines are beginning to realize that there are legions of people, like me, and that is whenever I pick up a book or a magazine, I immediately go to the back page. Do you know people like that? I just can’t help it and you know what they’re doing now, they’re putting their editorials on the last page. Well, now I’m going to do that same approach before we go back to Genesis 12 and start our study on the Abrahamic Covenant, I’m going to start at the tail end of it in Ephesians chapter 2.
Now this is one of the letters of Paul written to the predominately Gentile churches there and the Ephesian letter was more or less in encyclical. In other words, it was written more or less with the idea that it would be passed around to all the other churches in the area. But it was predominately to the Gentiles that he writes, beginning in verse 11 for sake of time. And again those of you watching on television, if possible, find a Bible and take down these verses. Take down some notes and if it should leave you with your head swimming, you can go back and see what the Word says.
“Wherefore remember, that you (now that’s a personal directive) being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who were called Uncircumcision by those who are called the Circumcision…” In other words, that’s the way the Jew referred to the Gentile – the uncircumcised ones.
“That at that time, (while Israel was almost in a snide way referring to Gentiles as the uncircumcised dogs) you (Gentiles) were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise,…” Now underline that word covenants because this is going right back to the Old Testament. But Gentiles were “strangers from the covenants of promise” and now the last is almost unbelievable to a lot of people if they don’t understand why Paul is inspired by the Holy Spirit to write it. And that is that our Gentile forefathers were in this situation.
“…having no hope, and without God in the world:” Now that seems shocking doesn’t it? And people are prone to say, well that wasn’t fair. How could God do that?
Well, we’re going to cover all that if not in this half-hour, well certainly in the next one. But this was the state, you want to remember, of our forefathers back in the pre-Christian era. Now after all we’ve all got forefathers that go all the way back you know, to Adam. And so our forefathers, back there before these revelations that were especially given to the Apostle Paul, our forefathers were in this set of circumstances. They were not part of the nation of Israel. They were Gentiles. They were in no way associated with the Covenants that God made with Israel and consequently then, they were without Christ, “they were without God in this world.” That was their lot.
But don’t stop there. The next verse. That three-lettered word that I always say is so crucial if you’re going to be a Bible student. “But now.” Now, is a time word. Even though this was the lot of our forefathers for hundreds, yes thousands of years – 2000 years and then some now it’s different. We are no longer under those circumstances of being outside the Covenants and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, without hope and without God, now Paul says:
“But now in Christ Jesus you who were at one time far off (what did he mean by far off? They were without hope, without God in this world) are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”The death, burial and resurrection are what make all the difference in the world.
Now while we’re mentioning death, burial and resurrection; it’s been quite a while since I’ve referred to it and like I’ve always stressed, I don’t claim to be an evangelist. I’ll leave the evangelizing up to them. I’m not a preacher and so I don’t constantly preach at people, but nevertheless, even though I’m basically trying to teach, we do want to bring periodically the Gospel of salvation as plainly as we know how to bring it so that there will be – as I told one of my classes the other night. I guess my most fervent prayer day in and day out is “that no one will ever come to my classes over a period of time and slip out into eternity lost.”
Because that to me is just horrifying to have someone sit under what I think is good solid teaching and yet miss God’s salvation. I think that would be awful and so that’s my fervent prayer. So periodically I’ll just make a point to come in and make as clear as I know how to make it, the Gospel, or the plan of salvation, or as Paul just said in Ephesians “that we’ve been made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
All right, now turn if you will then to I Corinthians 15 the first four verses. I use them often enough in my nightly classes that I trust people can almost just see these words in their sleep. Here Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, which was Gentiles predominately, so he’s writing to you and I today. He says:
I Corinthians 15:1-2
“Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, (the gospel, not a gospel) which I preached unto you, and which also you have received, and wherein you stand; (that is positionally) 2. By which also you are saved, (now there’s only one Plan of Salvation in our Bible for us today and that is by believing this Gospel we’re about to share in verse 3 and 4)if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, (in other words, you’ve got to know what you believe) unless you have believed in vain.” In other words, a lot of people believe, there’s no doubt about it, but they’re not believing the right thing, they’re just believing something, and anything and they think they’re going to get by. But the Scripture is so adamant that we have to know what we believe and that’s what Paul uses is the word know – K-N-O-W – from the Greek word, epignosis – full knowledge. We have to know what we believe. But we’d better know the Plan of Salvation. We’d better know why God is able to save a sinner. Now here comes the Gospel in the next 2 verses that saves you if you truly believe it for your salvation.
I Corinthians 15:3
“For (he says) I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that (here it comes) Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.” Now, that means that it wasn’t just all of a sudden an afterthought. God didn’t just all of a sudden find Himself in a jam and He had to do something. No. It was all preplanned from eternity past. It was all considered before man even came on the scene.
I Corinthians 15:4
“And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” He really died for our sins, and rose from the dead! Now that’s the Gospel of salvation we must believe, plus NOTHING.
“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it (the Gospel) is the (what’s the next word?) power of God unto salvation to everyone that (what’s the next word?) believeth;”Doesn’t say to everyone that repents and is baptized. It doesn’t say to everyone that does such and such and such and such. But it says, very plainly that if we believe this Gospel, “that Christ died, was buried and rose from the dead” – when we believe that with all our heart that Gospel becomes the very power of God Himself. The very power that created the universe is released on us, to us, in us and we by that power of God then become a child of God.
I mean it’s beyond human understanding, so what do we do? We take it by faith. We can’t comprehend it, but the Bible says that’s what it is and when we believe it, God, as Paul says over and over, accounts it as righteousness. By believing. But we’ve got to be careful what we believe. Now all of this coming back then to what we just saw in Ephesians 2, that we have been made nigh by the blood of Christ. Now you can’t separate the blood of Christ from His death, and resurrection, because they’re just tied together, and can’t be separated.
I usually don’t fault the men behind the sacred desk, that’s not my job, but one of the couples in one of my classes were rather upset the last time we met and their pastor had made the statement that there is nothing in Scripture that indicates that Christ died a sacrificial death. How in the world can anyone say that, when the Bible is full of the fact “that without the shedding of blood there is no remission?”
And then Paul comes along and is constantly referring to Christ as our Passover. He is the One who died for us, who shed His blood for us, He is the sacrifice and the only sacrifice that God was satisfied with.
Paul also, as he wrote Hebrews, and I’m sure he did, said, “that the blood of bulls and goats couldn’t take away sin, (but what could?) The blood of Christ!” Because He was the supreme, the prefect sacrifice. So that’s all wrapped up together the fact that “His blood was shed, He died, He was buried and He rose again from the dead” and now then we have been made nigh by virtue of that tremendous act of God and when we believe it the very power of God moves in on a life and we become as again Paul says, in II Corinthians and other places, “we become then a new creation.”
But, like I said, now that’s starting more or less on the back page. Now let’s come back to Genesis chapter 12. We touched on it just a little bit last week, but now in chapter 12 of Genesis, we come to a place where once again, God is seeing the human race time after time utterly rebel and reject Him.
Now just for a moment of review. Adam wasn’t in the Garden very long until he did what? Well, he rebelled. He sinned. He was disobedient. Now when Adam moved from that Garden experience, to living out of the Garden, in our present day vernacular couldn’t we very easily call that “a whole new ball game?” It was a whole new ball game, it was a whole new set of circumstances. It was a new set of regulations that God had now given, instruction or whatever you want to call it, was just totally different from life in the Garden. All right, under that set of circumstances then we found the human race just utterly rebel until it got so bad God had to bring in the flood.
Now again watch what happens. When the flood is finished, as we’ve been seeing the last several weeks and Noah and his family comes out of the Ark, what have you got again? Another new ball game. A whole new set of circumstances, and again God gives even more or different rules and regulations to live by. Remember we pointed out how that He gave instruction that they could kill animals and eat the flesh thereof. They couldn’t do that before. And so there was all these things that just made life after the flood totally different than life before the flood.
But God hasn’t changed. Human nature hasn’t changed. But yet, the circumstances change. Now they hadn’t come very long after the flood and we saw here a few weeks ago where were they? At the Tower of Babel, and now Satan’s influence comes in and they end up going after other gods – the introduction of idolatry. Remember? Paganism. At the Tower of Babel paganism just permeated the whole human race. Everyone. We have no indication that now we know Noah lived through a lot of that period of time, we don’t know what happened to him, but Noah aside, we have nothing to indicate that anyone had any knowledge of the one true God. They had all flocked after idolatry and paganism.
Now what does God have to do? For almost 2000 years, and I want to bring this out, from Genesis 1:1 through chapter 11, covers 2000 years of human history. But beginning with chapter 12 verse 1, we’re going to cover the next 2000 years and it takes up the biggest part of our Bible, all the Old Testament and well into the New are now going to be in those next 2000 years.
But here God is with a human race that again has totally rejected His offer of salvation. They have totally rejected His authority and they have followed other gods; they’re steeped in idolatry and remember idolatry’s god is Satan himself. And it just seems as though there’s no hope for that human race. And then we can use that three-lettered word again – “But God”
God says I’m going to do something different. I’m going to take a new approach. Now it wasn’t again that He got caught by surprise. This was all preordained and as we were discussing the other evening with just a small group, you know there’s a fine line between the Sovereignty of God and the free will of man. And it’s so hard to define those two and not get them crossed over because God is absolutely Sovereign. We know that. He has laid the whole line of human history out ahead of time. And yet He has never taken the free will away from man to accomplish it.
And so you come on to this whole business of foreknowledge and all that, but we don’t want to get confused on these things that God is never caught by surprise. So now with the human race totally saturated in idolatry, He says:
“I’m going to take a new approach. I’m going to take one little group of people. I’m going to take one man and out of that one man I’m going to bring about a small nation of people. And with that nation I’m going to work, I’m going to teach them, I’m going to reveal Myself to them in a way that the human race has never had revelation before. And I’m going to take that little nation of people and sometime down the road I’m going to funnel them back into the other nations of the world in order to bring them to Myself.”
Now the best way I can picture it on the chalk board and we’re not going to have time this half-hour to bring it to fruition, but if I can help you to mentally see – let’s take a wide line, and call that the main stream of humanity. The human race. Humanity. Now this wide line come all the way from Adam 2000 years back. And it’s been one catastrophe after another, hasn’t it? Now at the end of that first 2000 years, like I said a moment ago, God is going to do something different. He’s going to call out one man. His name to start with is Abram and we get to know him better as Abraham. Now out of that mainstream of humanity, He’s going to pull off with a little narrow line beginning with this one man Abram, the nation of Israel. The Jew.
And here is what Paul was referring to in Ephesians. While God is going to be dealing with this nation of people coming out of this one man, Abram, He’s going to let the rest of humanity just sort of drift along in their godless state to their eternal doom, having no hope as Paul says.
And I’ve seen it in my classes over and over where they’re almost aghast and they say, “Well they didn’t have a chance! God wasn’t fair.” You know what I always have to remind you? What had God been doing for 2000 years? He’d been dealing with the whole human race with no one segmented. With no one left off, they all had knowledge of what He expected of them, what did they do with it? They stepped it under foot. They ignored it for 2000 years so what makes mankind think they would have changed?
They rebelled and so now God in His foreknowledge can see that this wouldn’t have changed one bit, humanity would have continued to do as they did the first 2000 years. They would just constantly live in rebellion and it would go gradually from bad to worse. So He is perfectly just, as Paul says in Ephesians, to leave these people now to take their course of human history “without God,” without anything to do with this little nation of people that God is going to be working with particularly now until some future time. He was going to send that prepared people back into the main stream of humanity to bring them the knowledge of Abraham’s God, as God will reveal Himself to Abram.
Now am I making myself clear? So He’s going to take this little nation and He’s going to make covenants with them and if you remember a few weeks ago I explained that a covenant is always one way. From God to man. So even though these covenants are seemingly broken and forgotten, (but since they came from God they’ll never be broken) they’ll never be forgotten. Sooner or later these covenants are always going to come to fruition. Never lose sight of that.
And so as God makes these covenants now with the nation of Israel, always keep uppermost in your thinking it’s because of this mass of humanity that God is doing what He’s doing because He’s going to prepare these people, hopefully, for the time when they can come back in and reveal a knowledge of their God, the Scripture calls it “the God of Abraham.” So that he can give a revelation of the God of Abraham to these pagan godless Gentile nations. Has God forgotten them? Not at all.
He’s doing everything for their benefit, albeit there will be generations in here who pass in the scene and out of the scene and they’re lost. That’s just something that we can’t reconcile in human thinking but God knows what He’s doing. So the first thing I want folk to get in their mind is the reason the little nation of Israel has survived the millennia against all odds, in spite of all the times that people of this world have tried to obliterate them, it’s because they’re God’s Covenant People.
Now granted, as we can already see, they didn’t succeed in doing what God really wanted them to do. Because before they got to the place where God could now take them into the Gentile nations and use them as His missionaries or His evangelists, what did they do? They crucified the Lord of Glory. But again, Satan may have thought that he was the victor by seeing the very Son of God dying on that Roman cross. But what Satan and the rest of the world never comprehended, God wasn’t defeated at the cross, who was? Satan was.
So even though the favored Covenant People blew it, (that’s the best expression I can use), they just totally blew it, they didn’t recognize the one who had come to fulfill these covenants, they rejected Him, they crucified Him, but God went ahead and brought the Gospel to the Gentiles without Israel by bringing on the scene one little Jew. Saul of Tarsus.
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Yesterday was the first decent day of weather we've had in a while where I simultaneously didn't have a ton of other things to do. We decided to go hiking and hit the dog park with our pup. A fantastic way to relieve some of that accumulated stress from the work week.
While we were hiking, I noticed a few people wearing masks. On a nice day, the trail can be rather crowded so I didn't think much of it at first. I live in Maryland, so it's fairly common to see.
I don't ever bother anybody for wearing them, but I personally think it's nonsensical to cover up your face when you can be breathing in the crisp winter air in the cascades. To each their own.
Then as we got back to the park, I noticed a guy jogging by himself wearing a mask. Then, later, another person was too. At this point, we were at a big park, and there were not a whole lot of people remaining.
The two joggers who had masks on pretty much had the entire paths to themselves. They were 20 minutes apart from each other with no one else nearby.
I suppose they could have some unique reason to be wearing them, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the covid-19 virus.
Some people are still dedicated to the cause. Maybe they will never give them up? Will there still be die-hard pandemic fans a decade from now who are nostalgic for the time when rigid covid-19 authoritarianism was the norm? They long for the halcyon days of top-down government paternalism and control.
I have never seen them wearing masks prior to the hype, but at least they're staying true to their newly founded glory. Some will continue to wear them while driving alone and while running alone outside miles away from other people. They may even do it for the remainder of their lives.
Some will feverishly stick to their principles even far beyond what the CDC recommends for safety
In fact, all the reputable scientific literature recommends not wearing them while jogging outdoors. Even during the height of the pandemic, it didn't make sense to take such extreme measures. Wearing a mask while outside jogging alone contravenes the entire logic behind the so-called social distancing... but every individual can take whatever precautions they want for themselves.
Perhaps The Atlantic was on to something when they said that some Liberals just won't quit the lockdowns. Pretty bad when even the progressive magazines are rippin' on them.
At any rate, they can suffocate themselves as they see fit. As long as they weren't forced to do it, they can wear as many masks as they want while they jog alone outside in nature.
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Pro-life advocates worry that an abortion-friendly political agenda has worked itself into the medical specialty of obstetrics and gynecology.
Now, OB-GYN medical professionals who are pro-life are taking a stand for women and babies as they seek to uphold the sanctity of all human life and push back on the narrative that abortion is essential health care.
“The fact that 85% of women’s health care specialists don’t perform abortion, to me, tells you everything you need to know that abortion is not essential health care because if it was, you wouldn’t have only 15% of OB-GYNs performing it,” Dr. Christina Francis, chairwoman of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says.
AAPLOG, Francis says, “has submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court in defense of our members’ conscience rights and on every major abortion case since 1973.” That, of course, is the year the high court issued its Roe v. Wade ruling.
Francis joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to discuss her group’s mission and how the abortion agenda infiltrated the group AAPLOG sprang from: the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or ACOG.
Also on today’s show, Janae Stracke, grassroots director for Heritage Action for America, breaks down what’s happening across America regarding election reform and new voting laws. And as always, we’ll crown our Problematic Woman of the Week.
Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.
Virginia Allen: I am so pleased to be joined by medical doctor Christina Francis. Dr. Francis is chairwoman of the board of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs. Dr. Francis, thank you so much for being with us today.
Dr. Christina Francis: Thank you so much for having me. It’s a pleasure to be with you.
Allen: You are a strong pro-life advocate in the medical field. I want to begin by just asking you to share a little bit of your own story with us. Why did you decide to pursue a career as an OB-GYN?
Francis: Sure. I never in a million years thought that I would be doing OB. When I started college, I knew that I wanted to go into medicine, mostly because I always loved science, but I also just loved interacting with people, and just really helping meet needs. And I grew up in an inner-city ministry, actually, that my parents ran. So it was instilled in me from a very young age that it’s important to reach out to especially those who need our help, and to do what we can to help them. For me, medicine just seemed like a really good combination of that and my love of science as well.
In college, I spent some time overseas and lived in Romania for a while, worked in orphanages there, and it was during my time there that I decided that I wanted to do medical missions full time when I finished my training. So actually heading into medical school, I thought that I would do maybe family practice, or internal medicine, or pediatrics. Something that would just give me a pretty broad experience, and be able to take care of the most people. Never even thought about OB-GYN. Then it was actually my second year of medical school. I was shadowing a family practice doctor, and he had a patient who was going to be delivering. And so he said that I could go with him.
I had witnessed the birth of my sister as a younger person, but this was my first time really being into what was happening and paying attention to that. So I went with him to the delivery of this woman who I’d never met before, and stood toward the back of the room as he did the delivery. As she was delivering, I just started bawling because I just thought it was the neatest, most beautiful thing that I had ever seen. And because she saw me crying, this older, experienced, labor and delivery nurse came up to me and she looked at me and she said, “Oh, honey, if this makes you cry, you need to do this for a living.”
And I have wished so many times that I could find her so that she could know that she really changed the course of my life with saying that, because when she said that I thought, “Well, maybe I need to think about this.” Then as I went through my clinicals in my third year, I realized there was so much about the field of OB-GYN that just really spoke to me and that I loved. Not only the delivery part, which is absolutely my favorite part of my job, but I loved that I got to be there for women through many different aspects of their lives.
You know, when they’re teenagers, when they’re having babies, when they’re going through menopause, toward the end of their life, even, a lot of women are still seeing their OB-GYN. Getting to be there for women through many different phases of their life.
I realized, too, that it was actually great preparation for the mission field. You know, many times in developing countries the population there that are hurting the most, as far as medical care goes, are women and children. It actually set me up very well for being able to practice medicine on the mission field.
Allen: Wow. Are you still sometimes traveling and doing missions work overseas?
Francis: I do. I do sometimes. Of course, COVID put a little bit of a halt on that, unfortunately. But yeah, so I actually lived in Kenya for three years following my residency training. Worked at a small mission hospital in rural Kenya, and fell in love with it. Never in a million years thought that I would be back living in the States.
But it was actually the other mission, what I consider a mission field—of reaching women in this country and around the world with the message that abortion is not good for them, it’s not good for their children—that brought me back to the States. But since moving back to the States in 2014, I have gone back to the same hospital in Kenya every year. Of course, pre-COVID. So yeah.
Allen: Oh, I love that. I worked as a missionary for a year in South Africa, so I can totally understand you kind of get bit by the African bug …
Francis: You do.
Allen: … and they’re just an amazing group of people. … Let’s talk a little bit more about your mission now in the area of pro-life, and of talking with individuals about the value of life. Have you always been pro-life? Did you grow up in a pro-life family?
Francis: I did. I did. I’m so thankful that I grew up in a Christian family and a family that instilled in me from the time I was young that all life is valuable and that we are created in the image of God, and because of that we are valuable. My mom actually works for a [National] Right to Life affiliate in Southern Indiana, and so that was in our home.
And so I always was pro-life. But I would say for a long time I never really knew exactly why I was pro-life, or was never fully able to defend that position, at least with anything beyond my Christian faith.
So I was back in the States, actually … During the time that I was in Kenya, I came back to the States for a time to finish board exams and things like that, and it was while I was in the States that a very dear friend of mine, my best friend—and I always say that everyone should have a friend like this in their life—called me up one day. She had been doing some educating of herself, during 40 Days for Life, about abortion.
And she called me and she said, “Christina, we need to talk.”
I said, “Sure. What’s up?”
And she said, “Well, you’re a woman, and you’re an OB-GYN, and you say that you’re pro-life. But what are you really doing about it? I think that you could be doing so much more.”
Like I said, everybody should have a person like that in their life that challenges them to really step up. So she really got me thinking a lot about, “She’s right.” I have said my whole life that I’m pro-life.
And I find myself in this position where I’m a woman, and so regardless of whether this is correct or not, I think that people tend to listen to women a little bit more on this issue. Even though I’m of the opinion, certainly, that men have just as much of a say about whether abortion is right or not. But I’m a woman and I’m an OB-GYN, and so I see these preborn children from their very earliest stages, the earliest that we can see them.
And I see them throughout pregnancy, and I see them when they’re born. And I see all of the emotions that go along with a pregnancy, whether it be a wanted pregnancy or an unplanned pregnancy. Because of that, and because of my medical training, maybe I am really uniquely positioned to be able to address this. So it really was just kind of a searching of my heart, of totally shifting my perspective.
Again, my plan was never to live in the U.S. My plan was I was going to be overseas for the rest of my life. I would have told you that you were crazy if you would’ve told me [that I’d be] overseas for the rest of my life, I would have told you that you were crazy if you would’ve told me I was going to be living in the U.S., that was never on my radar.
And so [I] just did a lot of soul searching. And I’ll tell you that the moment that I think I knew for sure that this was what I was supposed to do was: I was in Washington, D.C., for the national March for Life and I went to the Holocaust [Memorial] Museum there. I’m sure many people who are listening have been there. And if you’ve been there, you’ll know the room I’m talking about. I was in one of the rooms in the museum that talks about kind of the lack of response to what was going on to this Holocaust, this slaughter of millions of innocent people that was going on.
And the lack of response from the U.S. and other Western countries. And I just remember thinking when I was sitting in that room and I was reading some of the news articles and listening to the audio commentary. I just remember getting very indignant and thinking, “Man, if I would have been alive back then I would have done something, there’s no way I could have been quiet about that.” How could people know that millions of innocent people were being killed and not do anything about it?
The irony of that thought hit me in that moment. And I just thought, there’s a holocaust going on right now. There’s a holocaust of preborn children who are being killed every day for the sake of convenience. And not only are preborn children being killed, but women are being harmed. And they’re being lied to about abortion and about what abortion can, quote unquote, accomplish for them or help them to accomplish.
I know better and so why am I not saying anything or doing anything about it? And so that really was kind of my defining moment, I would say. I’d always considered myself pro-life, but [that’s] where I just thought, “OK, I can’t be silent about this anymore.”
So that’s when I made the decision that I would move back to the States. I didn’t know what that was going to look like. I just thought, “OK, I’m going to do this and I’ll figure out how I can have a voice in this very important subject.”
Allen: Those are sobering moments when a truth really hits your heart in a way that marks you like that. I’m so thankful for those moments in our lives, but they can be incredibly painful as well. You kind of wake up to those realities.
So now you are the Board of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNS. What was that journey like? You decided, OK, I’m moving back to America, I’m going to protect life and talk about the value of life as a medical professional. And then what ultimately led you to such a prominent role in the OB-GYN pro-life field?
Francis: Absolutely. Well, isn’t it amazing how, I think, sometimes we’re just called to answer a call and to be faithful to what we know that we’re supposed to do. And you don’t always know what that’s going to look like. And so I moved back to the States and I joked that for the first year probably or so that I was back in the States I kept a suitcase packed by the door. Because I just thought I don’t know if this is going to work out or not. And if not, I can always go back to Kenya.
When I first came back, I was very lucky and blessed to receive some pro-life apologetics training from Scott Klusendorf with Life Training Institute. And just really for the first time, I think ever in my life, [I] saw that yes, being a Christian informs my stance on abortion. But also even if I wasn’t a Christian I would still be pro-life, because it just makes sense when you look at true human equality. And when you look at the fact that science tells us beyond a shadow of a doubt that those preborn children are full-fledged, whole, distinct, and living human beings from the moment of fertilization.
So because of that, my duty as a physician is to protect that life as well as the life of the mother. It was just very eye-opening for me to think of it in that way. And to kind of look at how do we look at preborn children as being different from born human beings. But are they really different? So kind of dissecting that.
I just started talking with people just in my circle of influence about that, and had some really great conversations. Then I was introduced by a mutual friend to Dr. Donna Harrison, who is our CEO at AAPLOG, which is a much easier way of saying the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNS. That’s a mouthful so we could just, we can just call it AAPLOG.
So I was introduced to Dr. Harrison, who has become an amazing mentor of mine. And anybody who knows this woman knows that she is a powerhouse in the pro-life movement. She is really a true hero and defender of women and their children. I started talking with Dr. Harrison and found out about AAPLOG, I didn’t even know about APPLOG before that. And then went to my first APPLOG conference.
We hold an annual educational conference every year for physicians and other medical professionals that provide academic-level presentations for continuing medical education about different aspects of abortion and the pro-life movement and conscience protections in medicine.
I’ll be honest, when I went to my first conference, having not really known much about APPLOG, I kind of thought, “Oh, this will be a great chance to network with other physicians who are pro-life as well.” But in my mind, I mean, just being fully honest, I had in my mind that this was probably going to be kind of a “Kumbaya” moment. We’ll like sit down together and we’ll encourage one another and that’ll be great and it’ll be worth going just for that.
But I was blown away at the level of the presentations that were given, the science that was presented. And realizing that science really is on the side of the pro-life movement. Not only when you look at the fact that these preborn children are in fact human beings and deserving of our protection, but also when you look at the overwhelming evidence that exists, that abortion is harmful for women. Not only does it end the life of an innocent human being, but it also sometimes permanently harms the life of that woman who has made that abortion decision, oftentimes under duress, or just in a moment of panic. Not realizing and not being told by the abortion industry, that this is going to harm her lifelong.
And so that was another life-changing moment for me to say not only should I be defending the rights of these preborn children, but man, in my practice and in my interactions with colleagues, I need to be passing this information along. That really, if we’re recommending what’s best for our patients, that’s never going to include abortion.
Allen: Wow. That’s amazing. Would you mind just taking a minute to share a little bit of the history of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNS, or APPLOG, with us? Why was there a need to start a specifically pro-life association for obstetricians and gynecologists?
Francis: What a great question, because it has always baffled me as to how an OB-GYN, a physician who is dedicated—our specialty is dedicated to caring for pregnant women and their children—how can an OB-GYN either perform abortions or support the performance of abortion? So it’s a great question. It’s very sad to me that we have to have a separate organization. We actually started out as a special interest group within ACOG, or the American College of OB-GYN.
A lot of people have probably heard of ACOG [American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist, founded in 1951]. They are the largest professional medical organization representing OB-GYNs in the country. They claim to represent close to 60,000 OB-GYNs who are members from across the country. However, where we find ourselves currently, they do not represent their membership whatsoever when it comes to the issue of abortion.
Just kind of a little bit of history behind ACOG and where they started, and just to show you the need for AAPLOG and where we came from. So ACOG when they started back in the mid-’50s, they started again as a professional medical organization representing women’s health care physicians. And when they started, they actually held to the Hippocratic view on abortion. The original Hippocratic oath, that’s the basis of our medical ethics that expressly forbids performing abortion or recommending an abortion to a woman. Because it recognizes that that would be ending the life of a human being and that that practice has no place in medicine.
And so ACOG when they started … they held to this belief. There are documents that we have from back when they started that clearly expressed that the only form of abortion—which I would say is actually not an abortion—that they supported and acknowledged how to place in medicine was what they call the therapeutic abortion. What that referred to at that time was a situation where the life of the mother was at risk and you needed to intervene and end her pregnancy prematurely.
So that was the only form of abortion that they endorsed or said had any place in medicine. They even acknowledged, like toward the late ’50, early ’60s, that because medicine was advancing so quickly that the list of reasons why a therapeutic abortion would need to be performed was becoming smaller and smaller. And that they actually hoped that it would eventually go away completely, that there would never be a need for a therapeutic abortion.
So that’s how ACOG started. That’s in complete congruence with the Hippocratic oath and in complete agreement with how I practice medicine. So there’s very definitely times where a woman’s life is in danger. However, just because you have to prematurely deliver her child even if that’s pre-viability, meaning that child is not going to end up surviving, that can be done in a way that respects the dignity of that child and done in a way that lets that child remain intact and gives that family a child to grieve. So this is basic to the practice of OB-GYN. And thankfully, those situations are very rare where that needs to happen.
Unfortunately, we move into the ’60s and some key members of the ACOG leadership who were very much pro-abortion, very much for the legalization of abortion without the input of members. So this was a top-down initiative at ACOG, [which] started to push for liberalization of abortion laws and started to push for ACOG to endorse more instances where an abortion would be performed. So they took it from the life of the mother being at risk to “Well, if her health is endangered in some way, then we’re going to support abortion.”
I think for any of your listeners who are well acquainted with Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, that health exception probably sounds very familiar. And in fact, that change in language where we’re looking at health, not just [saying] “OK, her physical health is going to be severely impaired.” But when we’re changing that definition of health to include anything in a woman’s environment, her social health, her mental health, her familial health, her age—any of these things could relate to health. And if any of these things were endangered, then that should justify an abortion.
Again, this was coming from the top down. This was not representative of ACOG’s membership and how they practiced or what they thought should be legal. Unfortunately, ACOG wrote a pro-abortion amicus brief for the Doe v. Bolton case in which they were the ones who actually provided that health exception language to the Supreme Court. And then, end of 1972 into 1973, they also submitted a pro-abortion amicus brief in the Roe v. Wade case. So ACOG was instrumental in abortion being legalized in this country.
And this was all done because they were kind of following the cultural tide in the country, not because there was any sort of new medical evidence stating that elective abortions or abortions for these reasons were medically necessary. When all of this was happening, there was an upswell of dissent from within the membership and that went unheeded by the leadership.
Once the Roe v. Wade decision came out, then our founding members pulled together and formed a special interest group within ACOG for pro-life physicians. It started out with about 35 or 40 physicians and then quickly grew to become the largest special interest group within ACOG and had about 2,000 members. And stayed that way until 2013, when ACOG decided to dissolve all special interest groups.
Allen: OK. Wow. So now you all stand separate as your own organization, really representing that pro-life view. Are any individuals within the American College of OB-GYNs—is there still any sort of pro-life, even if it’s underground, faction within that group? Or are all—would you say probably the vast majority of OB-GYN professionals within the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are pro-choice?
Francis: It’s a great question. So we know that about 85% at least of OB-GYNs actually don’t perform abortions. Now it doesn’t mean that all of those physicians would claim to be pro-life necessarily, but the vast majority of OB-GYNs don’t perform abortions and don’t support this sort of radical abortion agenda that ACOG has exhibited and has increasingly exhibited over the last 10 to 15 years.
A lot of our members actually—you don’t have to leave ACOG membership to be an AAPLOG member. So a lot of our members still are dues-paying members of ACOG. So there are a lot of their members—they’ve never polled their membership on this issue. And the reason is because they don’t want to know what their members think about this issue. They want to continue to push their politicalized, pro-abortion agenda without input from their membership.
Actually, the fact that 85% of women’s health care specialists don’t perform abortion, to me tells you everything you need to know that abortion is not essential health care because if it was, you wouldn’t have only 15% of OB-GYNs performing it. And I think the reason for that is very clear. One, that all of us who are OB-GYNs know that it’s not an essential part of women’s health care, but also it’s antithetical to why we went into this profession.
Again, we went into this profession to care for moms and their babies. We didn’t go into this profession to end a life and to harm our maternal patients. So the pro-life position, or at least the anti-performing-abortion position, is actually the majority within the field of OB-GYNs.
Allen: So talk a little bit about what the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs does today? How are you all really protecting life, and fighting for both mothers and babies?
Francis: Absolutely. We are the largest nonsectarian professional medical organization representing pro-life medical professionals in the world. We have mostly members from the U.S., but we also have international members. And we exist to equip and encourage our members to be able to give the evidence-based defense of our preborn patients and our maternal patients. We are doing that through representing our members in the public square.
We have submitted amicus briefs to the Supreme Court in defense of our members’ conscience rights and on every major abortion case since 1973. We’re doing that so we can fight for the rights of our members to continue to practice pro-life medicine. We also exist to give our members, as they’re practicing, as they’re encountering patients in their office who maybe are contemplating abortion, we want our members to be equipped with the, again, overwhelming scientific and medical evidence that exists to say that abortion is harmful for them.
So when you have a woman as a physician or a midwife—we have midwives who are members, we have family practice doctors who are members. When you’re sitting there with a patient in front of you who says, “Do you think abortion is what I should do? Do you think that that would help me in this way or that?” Our members have the evidence to be able to say to them: “One, I can tell you that this is a human being growing inside of you. But two, let me tell you the reasons why making this decision now might have harms for you later on in life.”
I think the importance, one of the things that we like to stress at AAPLOG, is, yes, we are for our preborn patients, but we also are for our maternal patients. And we are just trying to empower women with the information that they need to make an informed choice.
Even if my patient ends up deciding to go and have an abortion, I want her to go into it eyes wide open. I want her to know the risks that she’s taking in doing that, so that at least if she’s making that choice, she knows that she’s making an informed choice. She’s not making a choice based on lies and based on not being given the full information that we have.
That’s really what our main focus is, to equip our members to be able to have those conversations in their practice, with their patients, to be able to have those conversations with their colleagues. And we also are really striving to empower and encourage physicians in training.
You may know this, but medical students, especially, and OB-GYN residents are facing immense pressure to cave to kind of our pro-abortion cultural narrative that women should have unfettered access to abortion. That we should not say anything to them to discourage them from having an abortion. And that they actually should be required to refer a woman for an abortion, or perform the abortion themselves. They are facing immense pressures from their superiors to give into this narrative.
And we want them to, again, be armed with this information that, “Hey, I’m opposing abortion because it’s bad for my patient. I’m not just opposing abortion because I have a moral objection to it; I’m opposing it because it’s bad for my patient. And it’s bad for me as a health care provider to violate my conscience, to violate what I know to be best for my patient, just to give into this cultural narrative.”
We exist to equip and encourage them, and we really want medical students and residents to know that they are not alone. I know that so many pro-life medical students and residents just feel very isolated and they are quiet about their views because they feel like they can’t speak up because they face academic censure.
They’re having to stand up to their attending physicians or their upper-level residents who will determine the course of their career, and say to them, “You know what? I don’t agree with you when you’re saying this about abortion. I don’t agree with you. I’m trying to tell you that it’s bad for my patient.”
If they feel alone—I think they feel like they can’t do that. But we are trying to give them the power of 7,000- plus members behind them, and the scientific evidence that they need to be able to defend their patients.
Allen: That is so, so critical. And we certainly encourage all of our listeners to check out your website at AAPLOG.org to learn more. But Dr. Francis, we really thank you for the work that you’re doing, the resources that you’re providing for individuals, and for the ways that you’re fighting to protect both women and babies.
Francis: Thank you so much. And if I can just say one more thing too: This is going to actually be a “Problematic Women” exclusive. If there’s anybody out there who’s in the field of women’s health care who is listening to this, and you’re wondering about some of the things that I said about ACOG. Or maybe you’ve seen some guidance come out from ACOG recently on abortion, and you’re just wondering where this is coming from.
We actually just launched a new website that is www.notmyACOG.com, and people can go to that website to just see the documentation of a lot of the things that we talked about on the podcast of ACOG really placing the abortion agenda ahead of what is good medicine. I just would encourage people to check that out, especially if they’re involved in women’s health care.
Allen: Excellent. And we’ll be sure to put both of those links in the show notes so individuals can easily look that up. Dr. Francis, thank you so much for your time today, we so appreciate it.
Francis: Thank you for having me.
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Vice provost’s expertise in research ethics proves relevant in pandemic
Demand for Quincy Byrdsong’s expertise in the infamous Tuskegee study and the evolution of research ethics has increased in the midst of Covid-19.
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As the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Quincy Byrdsong, Lipscomb’s vice provost of health affairs, was in a unique position to observe and make sense of the research and advancements used to treat the new virus and to develop and disseminate a vaccine.
While earning his Ed.D. from Tennessee State University, the Nashville native completed his dissertation on the Tuskegee syphilis study, a 40-year-long study infamously known as an abusive and unethical biomedical research endeavor. His studies at that time helped inform his career, first as a biology and chemistry teacher, and later in various administrative roles over science and research programs at higher education institutions and health companies.
In 2020-21 as the current president of the international Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) and a board member for the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection (AAHRPP) (the only accrediting body in the world for human research protection programs), he has a front-row seat for how his scientific colleagues are addressing ethical research issues today in the time of a deadly pandemic.
“The development and roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine has been the most rapid and responsive action in history to a devastating pandemic. However, the COVID-19 vaccine has been the most challenging episode in history from a medical ethics standpoint due to the inconsistent and conflicting information surrounding its place in public health,” said Byrdsong, whose reputation as a thought leader in research ethics is growing.
Since the start of the pandemic, Byrdsong has received increased attention from the academic community, who have been inviting him to speak at various organizations and academic conferences, such as the Conference of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and a meeting of the Health Care Compliance Association. He chaired a session at Lipscomb’s own Christian Scholars’ Conference on the effects of the Covid pandemic on health care today.
He has also received invitations to submit works for scholarly journals and others have been referring to his writings. Especially of interest to academia has been an August 2020 piece in the SOCRA Source Journal of Clinical Research Excellence that argues the 1979 Belmont Report’s ethical provisions for research involving human subjects (developed in the wake of the Tuskegee syphilis study) should be updated for today’s societal beliefs, Byrdsong said.
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Recitals 1-5 are for ages 6-18 includes Levels 1-LCP: Elementary Combos, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop and Contemporary classes.
How do I know which Recital my child is in?
The video tutorial here will show you how to view this in your account online. Students will receive a personalized "event confirmation" via email on April 3 which shows which Recital(s) your dancer is in.
How long is each show?
The length of the Recitals are as follows. The shows may run a little shorter or a little longer depending on how quickly the dancers move on and off the stage.
Recital 1A and 1B are 60 min.
Recital 2 is 75 min.
Recital 3 is 90 min.
Recital 4 & 5 are 105 min. with Intermission
In-Studio Dress Rehearsals: May 20-25
The last week of class before Recital is an in-studio Dress Rehearsal during your normal class day/times. Dancers should arrive to classes just like they would arrive to the theatre. Full-stage makeup is not expected for In-studio Dress Rehearsal, however we will be taking group photos so a little makeup is encouraged. It is critical that everyone arrives ON TIME and READY.
Arrive dressed in your first costume with hair and light makeup done prior to arrival.
Bring you basket/bin to carry everything. Be sure your basket/bin is labeled with your name.
If you have multiple classes on the same day, bring all costumes you need in your basket/bin.
Everything should be labeled with your name.
Remember we're taking photos, so be sure to look your best.
Stage rehearsal for Recital 1 is held immediately prior to the show and is mandatory without exception. If your child misses they will not be allowed to perform. Recital 2-5 do not have a stage rehearsal.
Costumes & Basket/Bin
Dancers must arrive dressed in their 1st costume. Costume changes, shoes, extra tights, and a water bottle/snack, must be carried in a small laundry basket/bin labeled with their name.
Label costumes, shoes, accessories, and tights with the student’s name.
Place costumes in a garment bag with the student’s name on the outside.
Carry costumes & shoes in a small laundry basket/bin labeled with student's name.
Pack accessories in a clear plastic bag with the student’s name on the bag and on each item.
Press or steam all costumes prior to coming to the theatre.
Please do not wash costumes in your washing machine; dry clean them only (after the recital).
Students are required to purchase their own tights to wear with their costumes. Tights must be new or in like new condition. Students must have a second pair of tights in each color in their basket/bin as a backup.
Sansha brand PINK tights are required for ballet and ballet & tap combo classes.
Skin toned stirrup tights are required for contemporary classes.
Sansha brand TAN tights are needed for all other classes.
NO FOOTLESS TIGHTS.
Tip: Layer Tights! Dancers should wear Tan tights and layer Pink tights on top for ballet. This makes costume changes easiest.
Tights are available at the academy, from dancewear stores or online merchants. Please purchase new tights for the recital.
A nude colored camisole leotard/basic may be worn under costumes for comfort and added privacy during costume changes. This should be worn closest to the skin, instead of underwear.
Tip: NO UNDERWEAR should be worn under costumes (that is what tights are for).
Nude colored camisole leotards are available at the academy, from dancewear stores or online merchants.
All female students must wear their hair in a tight bun (with hairnet and bobby pins). Dancers with short hair must pull their hair away from the face and slick it down. A French braid is a good option for dancers with hair too short for a bun.
Tip: Pack extra hair supplies: hair gel, hair nets, bobby pins, and hairspray.
Male students should have their hair neatly combed.
Makeup is necessary otherwise facial features will be washed out by the stage lights.
Female students: red lip-stick, blush, eye shadow (brown), and mascara.
For the boys, a little bronzer/blush, eye shadow (brown) and tinted lip balm, works well.
Tip: Pack extra make-up in your basket/bin for touch ups
Phones / Tablets
Dancers may not use cell phones or other electronics backstage or in the dressing rooms during the Stage Rehearsals or Recital. These items are easily lost and distracting, but more importantly we need to protect our students from being photographed while costume changes are going on. If a dancer is seen using a electronic device backstage it will be confiscated and the dancer can retrieve it after the rehearsal/performance.
Recital Drop-Off + Pick-up
Parents or guardians should bring the students to their assigned dressing rooms, where they will be checked in and placed under the supervision of LPAA staff and volunteers. Students will remain backstage for the entire performance. Parents are not allowed in the dressing rooms after the children have been checked in for the recital. We will have a record of where each student’s family is seated in case of emergency.
Note: ID Badges will be given to parents during Check-in for Age 9 & under. These badges will be required to pick-up the students at the end of the performance. Ages 10 & up will meet parents in the lobby.
Please do not attempt to pick up your child during the performance, we are unable to safely dismiss students until the after the show has ended. All students will be under the supervision of LPAA staff and will be safe for the length of the performance.
The Recital Bundle ($119) is the best value to get everything you need and save big!
T-Shirt (choose size)
Video Download for all your dances.
Group Photos Download for all classes
2 pairs of tights (pick-up at LPAA),
"Star Dancer" on Wall of Fame.
Recital Bundles can be ordered online (see video above). Order deadline is April 20.
T-shirts will feature a special design on the front and a cast list on the back. T-shirts are a fun keepsake for the dancers and children enjoy wearing t-shirts after recital as a memento of their special performance. Recital T-shirts can be ordered online (see video above). Order deadline is April 20.
Recital T-shirts T-shirts are available in Children’s sizes; 2-4 (XS), 6-8 (S), 10-12 (M), 14-16 (L) and Adult sizes; small, medium, large.
Wall of Fame "Star Dancer"
A 8in X 8in Photo Star of your dancer will be hung on the wall at the theatre for all to see! You choose the photo you want, send it to us and we'll do the rest. Photo should be emailed to [email protected] no later than April 20.
Wall of Fame "Star Dancer" can be ordered online (see video above). Order deadline is April 20.
Digital Download Video & Group Photos
Each Recital will be filmed and professionally edited. Group photos will be taken in costume during In-Studio Dress Rehearsals. The cost for digital downloads is $52 per show. Downloads will be available 4-6 weeks after the Recital.
If you purchase the Recital Bundle, you will automatically receive Videos (Digital Download) and Group Photos for all of your classes as soon as the editing is complete.
Recital Ticket Sales will begin April 10 at 10:00 AM.
Watch the video above to learn how to purchase tickets, then login to your account to order online.
Ticket Limits: Tickets are limited to 6 tickets per student through April 19, to ensure all families an equal opportunity. On April 20 all remain seats will become available and families are welcome to purchase additional tickets. We expect our Recitals to sellout, so don't wait to get tickets.
Tickets: Tickets are $22-31 in advance, reserved seating. Tickets are non-refundable.
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Convicted criminals were sentenced to their punishments by Justices of the Peace at sessions and the judges at the Old Bailey. There were a number of possible punishments to choose from. While some were dictated by statute for specific offences, the Justices and judges often had the opportunity to use their discretion, as they attempted to match the punishment to the individual circumstances of the criminal and the crime. Sentences were not always carried out, however, owing to the widespread use of royal pardons, which introduced a further element of discretion into the process. While convicts had little power to determine these outcomes, they and their friends could petition the Justices or the King for a pardon or reduced punishment.
For defendants convicted at the Old Bailey after 1780, the Life Archives in the Digital Panopticon often provide information about the punishments they actually received. For the latest research on how punishment sentences correlate with actual punishments received, see the Digital Panopticon page on Penal Outcomes.
Punishments, particularly for felons, changed dramatically during the century. While some changes, such as the reduced role of the death penalty and the growing use of imprisonment, can be attributed to cultural developments such as a decreasing tolerance of violence and a renewed belief in the reformative potential of hard labour, a major stimulus for change was the repeated crime waves which Londoners experienced (or thought they experienced) during the century, which led politicians and the judicial authorities to search repeatedly for new, more effective methods of reducing crime. It was the pressure of London crime, therefore, which forced the pace of change in national penal policy. Also important were the various acts of resistance to penal innovation by convicts, which helped shape the limits of the possible.
With the exception of the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Accounts (OA), the documents included on this website contain relatively little direct evidence of punishments, though the Sessions Papers (PS) and Orders of the Court (OC) include petitions, reports and justices' orders. Further information about all the punishments discussed below can be found on the Old Bailey Proceedings Online.
The vast majority of those convicted of petty offences were fined, with the level of the fine determined by statute or by the discretion of Justices of the Peace, according to the nature of the offence and the sex and social status of the offender. The most frequently levied fine in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was 3s 4d (three shillings and four pence, or one quarter of a mark), with 84 per cent of all fines amounting to 13s 4d (one mark) or less.1 Occasionally much higher fines were levied, usually in an attempt to force the convict to reach a private agreement with the prosecutor over the payment of damages, in which case the fine was significantly reduced. Evidence of these negotations can be found in the Sessions Papers (PS).
Historically, felons were punished by death, but the King was able to pardon those offenders he did not wish to see executed. The availability of benefit of clergy significantly reduced the number of felons executed, but fears about the growth of crime during the eighteenth century led to the withdrawal of many offences from benefit of clergy, and the creation of new capital offences, creating what became known as the bloody code. Nevertheless, counteracting this trend, over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a growing unwillingess to see large numbers of offenders executed meant that increasing numbers of felons were spared death by being convicted on a reduced charge or pardoned.
There was still support for the execution of the most serious offenders, however, and in certain contexts, such as the 1720s and 1780s, which both experienced crime waves and political instability, the proportion of convicts executed increased. In selecting those to be hanged the King and his cabinet (which reviewed the cases of all those sentenced to death in London) paid attention to the nature of the offence, the character of the prisoner, and the state of crime at the time. There was a particular concern to punish members of criminal "gangs".2
By mid century, fears about the growth of violent crime and concerns that the death penalty was not working to deter it led to the passage in 1752, in the middle of a post-war crime wave, of the Murder Act.3 This mandated that those convicted of murder should be executed within two days of the trial, and that their bodies were either to be delivered to surgeons to be "dissected and anatomized" or publicly hung in chains. The delivery of the bodies of executed murderers directly to the surgeons helped prevent the riots over the custody of bodies which had frequently occurred following executions.4
Worries about the conduct of execution crowds continued, however, as it was thought that the crowds sympathized with the convict, treated the event as a carnival, and failed to learn the right lessons. This contributed to the removal of executions from Tyburn (where Marble Arch stands today) to in front of Newgate Prison in 1783. The often disorderly procession carrying the condemned from Newgate to Tyburn in carts was abandoned, and executions were carried out earlier in the day and more efficiently. The introduction of the drop led the condemned to die quicker with less struggle, giving them less chance to elicit sympathy from the crowds.
Nonetheless, by the late 1780s public unease about the death penalty placed severe constraints on its use. Victims of crime, reluctant to be responsible for executions, often either refused to prosecute or charged the accused with a non-capital offence. Despite serious concerns about crime in those years, the authorities limited the number of offenders actually executed because they feared that too many executions would not only antagonise the respectable classes but also lead to popular disorder. This is the background to the remarkable episodes in 1789 when nineteen convicts essentially dared the state to execute them by refusing to accept the royal pardons offered to them, in full knowledge that the authorities did not want more executions.
Concerns about the failure of the death penalty to deter crime, and a desire for a substantial alternative punishment for serious offenders who were not executed, led to a dramatic increase in the use of secondary punishments in the eighteenth century. At the start of the century those who received benefit of clergy or conditional pardons were typically branded on the thumb, but this was seen to be an insufficient deterrent to crime.
Transportation dates from the seventeenth century, but the number transported was relatively low, because the cost of the voyage had to be paid for either by the convict or a merchant or shipowner. The key innovations of the 1718 Transportation Act5 were that judges could directly order transportation as a punishment, and that the state would pay for it. The act was passed during a period of political instability, following the Hanoverian Succession, and during a period of intense concern about crime in London. Lobbying by the City of London, and particularly its Recorder, William Thomson, was instrumental in the passage of the act .6
Similar concerns contributed to the passage of a new Transportation Act in 1784. Following the outbreak of the American War in 1776 transportation to America had to be abandoned, and male offenders were sent to the hulks instead. Crowded prison and hulks, leading to high mortality rates, escapes and mutinies, highlighted the need to resume transportation, particularly for what were perceived to be incorrigible offenders who were too dangerous to release. Following the Gordon Riots in 1780, and the crime wave which followed the end of the American War in 1783, pressure for the resumption of transportation increased, and the courts began to sentence offenders to transportation even before the government had decided where they should be sent; these convicts languished in Newgate Prison. The pressure created by overcrowding in Newgate directly led to the government's search for a new destination.7 In this way, crime in London became the driving force behind the reintroduction of transportation, and indeed in subsequent years London convicts were proportionately much more likely to be transported than those from the rest of the country.8
Transportation was often resisted by convicts, who feared the consequences of a long sea voyage and of being put to forced labour in a strange foreign land. Many petitioned the king asking for a lesser punishment or a free pardon, and an unknown number were successful, thus explaining why some convicts sentenced to transportation, such as John Page, remained in London and subsequently appeared at the Old Bailey charged with another crime.9 In addition, some of those who were transported returned early. During the eighteenth century 243 men and women were tried for returning from transportation at the Old Bailey, approximately 1.6% of the number sentenced to transportation from that court.10 These numbers peaked in 1783-84 when new destinations for tranportees were experimented with, including the West Coast of Africa, causing intense anxiety among convicts and leading to mutinies on two convict ships. In 1785 Henry Aikles, who failed to fulfill the condition of his pardon and transport himself to America, was acquitted of the charge of returning from transportation on the grounds that he was unable to travel due to ill health, thereby establishing some legal limits on the practice of transportation.
Unwillingness to travel to a place where they would 'be devoured by savages' lay behind the convicts who refused the royal pardon in 1789.
This section examines imprisonment as a punishment; for descriptions of specific prisons, and the improvements carried out in prison buildings in the eighteenth century, see the separate pages on prisons and houses of correction.
Prisons traditionally were places for holding accused criminals and convicts while they waited for their trials to take place, or sentences to be carried out. Run by keepers who charged fees for almost every service provided in order to make a profit, prisons were relatively open places where prisoners and visitors intermingled. Along with the serious and petty criminals, some prisons held large numbers of debtors, whose poor chances of release probably contributed to their reputation, and the reputation of prisons more generally, for disorderly behaviour.
The idea that incarceration at hard labour could actually contribute to the reform of offenders dates from the sixteenth century, but at that time this was only thought possible for petty offenders, such as vagrants and prostitutes, who were punished in houses of correction. The first attempt to reform felons through imprisonment at hard labour occurred in 1706, when an act, in response to a petition from the City of London, authorised incarcerating felons who were granted benefit of clergy in houses of correction, where they were to be put to hard labour.11 The act was not a success, because no extra funding was given to the keepers to provide the extra security needed for holding felons, and owing to concerns about the failure of houses of correction to reform prisoners and prevent escapes. Following the passage of the Transportation Act in 1718, convicts granted benefit of clergy were transported instead.
A number of factors led to renewed interest in imprisonment as a punishment for felons in the 1770s. There was growing dissatisfaction with both transportation and the death penalty, both of which had manifestly failed to prevent repeated increases in crime. Second, there was growing belief in the merits of imprisonment at hard labour as a means of reforming offenders. But the most important stimulus to the use of imprisonment in the 1770s was the collapse of transportation in 1776: the number of convicts sentenced at the Old Bailey to a term of imprisonment increased from 14 in 1775 to 135 the following year when war broke out.
The number of convicts sentenced to imprisonment dropped when transportation resumed in 1787, but it did not fall back to pre-1776 levels. While it was still thought that the most serious offenders who were not executed needed to be exiled from the country, the belief remained that less serious felons, especially the young, could be reformed through a period of incarceration at hard labour.
Following the conclusion of each sessions at the Old Bailey, the Recorder of the City of London sent a report to the crown on all the convicts who had been sentenced to death, recommending some for pardons. Convicts could also appeal their sentences by petitioning the King directly for a pardon. On the basis of this information, the king and his cabinet regularly reviewed all death sentences from the Old Bailey, identifying the most egregious cases for execution while pardoning those for whom there were mitigating circumstances. It was important to ensure that the number of executions which took place in the metropolis was neither too few as to undermine the deterrent function of the punishment nor too many as to constitute a threat to public order.
Large numbers of offenders were pardoned, either with a free pardon, or a conditional pardon, which commuted the sentence to a lesser punishment. Decade by decade, between 42 per cent and 77 per cent of those sentenced to death at the Old Bailey were pardoned, an average of just over 60 per cent for the whole of the eighteenth century.12 The decision to grant a pardon was taken on the basis of the state of crime at the time, the nature of the offence, the sex, age and character of the offender, and the status of those who petitioned on his or her behalf.
Women had an additional opportunity to avoid execution, by pleading that they were pregnant. Such women were then examined privately by a jury of matrons, chosen from women who were present in the courtroom, who were asked to determine whether the woman was "quick" with child (if movement could be detected, signalling the start of life). If so, the woman's punishment was respited until the child was delivered, at which point in most cases, but not all, the woman was given a full pardon.
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries around half of all women sentenced to death pleaded their bellies, and almost two thirds were found quick with child and their punishment was respited. The remarkably large number of women who avoided punishment in this manner suggests that some women were making false claims, and that, as one observer complained, they found sympathetic female friends who made themselves available to serve on the jury of matrons, and colluded with them.13
After 1725, however, the proportions both of women making this claim and of those who did being found quick with child declined dramatically, such that by the last quarter of the century only 2 per cent of those sentenced to death pleaded their bellies, and only 25 per cent of these claims were found to be true.14 The cause of this dramatic change is unknown, but it may be that the authorities exerted greater control over the selection of juries of matrons, or perhaps pregnant women were excluded from the judicial process before the trial and sentence took place. Certainly the general trend in the late eighteenth century was for greater sympathy to be shown to mothers, not less.
While for most of the eighteenth century most of those sentenced to death actively pursued a royal pardon in order to save their lives, in 1789 a remarkable reversal took place when seven women and twelve men who had been sentenced to death refused to accept the royal pardon which had been offered to them. The pardon was conditional upon transportation to Australia, and to accept the pardon meant to agree to be transported to the other side of the world to a place where, according to reports from the first fleet which had just arrived in London, conditions were difficult and the natives were murderous. Encouraged by a belief in their own innocence, and their anger at conditions in the overcrowded Newgate Prison, these convicts decided to create a dilemma for the authorities by claiming that they would prefer to be executed rather than submit to transportation. They were fully aware that public hostility to the large number of executions meant that the authorities were loathe to carry out more executions. While the convicts' defiant behaviour attracted widespread attention, eventually all the convicts caved in and accepted the pardon. Nonetheless, this revolt prompted the authorities to revise the processes of sentencing and pardoning in order to reduce the amount of discretion exercised, both by the courts and by convicts. From 1797, conditional pardons were tantamount to orders: it was no longer necessary for convicts to accept a pardon in order for it to take effect.15 Once again, pressures created by those accused of crime helped shape the evolution of the criminal justice system.
Lives using the keywords Death Sentence:
Lives using the keyword Executed:
- Ann Hurlock, 1736-1760
- Christopher Plumley d. 1780
- Edward Kirk, fl. 1684
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- George Cock, b. 1720
- George Lovell, alias Gypsy George, c. 1742-1772
- James Cluff, c. 1698-1729
- John Gower, c. 1658-1684
- John Rann, d. 1774
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- Mary Ellenor, 1684-1708
- Mary Knight, c.1685-1716
- Mary Nichols, alias Trolly Lolly, c. 1685-1715
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Lives using the keyword Transportation:
- Beattie, J. M. Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. Princeton, 1986.
- Beattie, J. M. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror. Oxford, 2001.
- Devereaux, Simon. The Making of the Penitentiary Act, 1775-1779. Historical Journal, 42 (1999), pp. 405-33.
- Devereaux, Simon. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830. In Strange, C. ed., Qualities of Mercy: Justice, Punishment, and Discretion. Vancouver, 1996, pp. 52-76.
- McGowen, Randall. The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England. In Devereaux, Simon and Griffiths, Paul, eds, Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900: Punishing the English. Basingstoke, 2004, pp. 210-231.
- Shoemaker, Robert Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex. Cambridge, 1991.
For further reading on this subject see the London Lives Bibliography.
1 Robert Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex (Cambridge, 1991), p. 156. ⇑
2 J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (Princeton, 1986), p. 513. ⇑
3 25 George II c. 37. ⇑
4 Peter Linebaugh, The Tyburn Riot Against the Surgeons, in D.Hay, et al., eds, Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (1975), pp. 65-117. ⇑
5 4 George I c. 11. ⇑
6 J. M. Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror (Oxford, 2001), chap. 9. ⇑
7 Simon Devereaux, In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830, in C. Strange, ed., Qualities of Mercy: Justice, Punishment, and Discretion (Vancouver, 1996), pp. 52-76. ⇑
8 Simon Devereaux, Imposing the Royal Pardon: Execution, Transportation and Convict Resistance in London, 1789, Law and History Review, 25 (2007), p. 128. ⇑
9 Between 1761 and 1770 284 petitions from throughout the country for remissions from transportation were successful: A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (Oxford, 1987), p. 40. ⇑
11 5 Anne c.6. ⇑
12 V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford, 1994), Appendix 2, Table 1, p. 616. ⇑
13 Alexander Smith, The History of the Lives of the Most Noted High-way Men, Foot-pads, House-breakers, Shop-lifts and Cheats, of Both Sexes, 2 vols (2nd edn, 1714), II, pp. 184-85; James Oldham, On Pleading the Belly: A History of the Jury of Matrons, Criminal Justice History, 6 (1985), pp. 17, 23. ⇑
14 Oldham, On Pleading the Belly, Appendix 1, pp. 33-37. ⇑
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The personable Italian baritone makes his belated Canadian debut.
Now in its tenth season, the annual New Year’s Eve Extravaganza, Bravissimo! Opera’s Greatest Hits is a must-see event for Toronto area opera lovers. What’s more fitting than a gala concert to bid farewell to the year that has just passed? It gives fans a chance to hear well known Canadian opera singers joined by international stars, some singing in Canada for the first time.
A headliner at this year’s concert is Italian baritone Massimo Cavalletti, who is making his belated Canadian debut. A native of Lucca, Italy, the lyric baritone is in demand in all the major opera houses from La Scala to Covent Garden to Paris to the Met, in such roles as Figaro, Rodrigo, Ford, Escamillo, Marcello, and Enrico, to name a few. It’s fair to say Cavalletti is the archetypal 21st–century opera singer, combining a terrific voice, photogenic looks, and abundant stage charisma.
Before his arrival in Toronto on Boxing Day for rehearsals, I reached him by phone to Lucca, in Tuscany, where he was spending Christmas with his parents. In our forty-minute conversation, the personable Mr. Cavalletti fielded my many questions with charm and disarming candor. His English, while not quite idiomatic, is good. I only did minor editing in the Q&A below, to maintain the flavour of our chat:
Let me start by saying that we in Toronto are looking forward to your Canadian debut. Is this going to be your first time in Canada?
Yes, it’ll be my first time in Canada. I’ve been to New York many times to sing at the Met, but never to Canada. I am just a little bit afraid of Toronto because it will be very cold! I’ll see if I am able to walk around.
[Laughs] it’s not that bad! You’ll just have to wear a scarf, and bring lots of warm clothes! Tell us a little about the Bravissimo concert. What will you be singing?
I’ll sing the Toreador Song from Carmen; “Largo al factotum” from Il barbiere di Siviglia; and the big aria from Un ballo in maschera – “Eri tu.”
No, no duets, just arias. We’ll also sing with the chorus. They sent me the music to something by Robert Burns. Everybody sings it with the audience joining in.
Ah, Auld Lang Syne! We always sing this at New Year’s Eve. You’ll probably also sing “Libiamo” from La traviata, right?
Yes, but there’s nothing for me in “Libiamo” [laughs], only tenor and soprano and maybe mezzo.
Have you worked with Maestro Marco Guidarini before?
No, I’ve never sung with him, but I know he’s a very good conductor, especially good in this repertoire. I am looking forward to it. I fly to Toronto on Dec. 26, and start rehearsal the day after.
Have you sung with the other Italians, sopranos Barbara Bargnesi and Francesca Sassu?
I just did La bohème in Teatro Regio Torino. There were two casts, and Francesca Sassu was singing Musetta in the other cast. One night the baritone was sick, and I jumped in and sang with Francesca. She’s a very good friend now. Francesca is a very good singer – the Canadian audience will enjoy her.
Tell us a bit about your upbringing. Do you come from a musical family? Are there other musicians in your family?
No, no musician in my family, not at all. I never expected when I was young to be an opera singer; I wanted to be an electronic engineer. I studied it until 21 or 22. Then I found my voice. I was singing in the church choir since I was 6, but I never thought about opera.
What was the first opera you saw, do you remember?
It was at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca – Barber of Seville. Since 1998, I started to sing in the chorus in Lucca, Pisa, Livorno, Torre del Lago. I started with all the operas – Tosca, Turandot, Bohème, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Zauberflöte, Don Carlo. I did a few small roles while in the chorus, until 2001-2. Then I started concerts in Italy, not big, important concerts. In 2004, I had the opportunity to study in the Accademia Teatro Alla Scala in Milano. From that moment my real opera life started. I debuted in 2004 in Bergamo north of Italy in an unknown Donizetti opera, Parisina.
Since you were born in Lucca, the birthplace of Puccini, have you always been exposed to his music?
Puccini’s music is very important for me because it reminds me of the sound of my hometown, Lucca, and of the Tuscan countryside. The language Puccini uses in the opera is very comfortable for me. I speak Italian with a Tuscan accent, and I’ve just debuted as Gianni Schicchi [story set in Florence]. I’ve been singing Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème since the beginning of my career. I debuted as Schaunard in La Scala in 2005 and repeated it many times, including the Met. I sang my first Marcello in 2007 in Zurich. In the future, I hope I’ll have the opportunity to sing the more important, more difficult Puccini baritone roles.
Like Scarpia maybe? Any plans to sing Scarpia?
Hmmmm… no. Maybe after I am 50!
Ah okay, maybe you are too young for Scarpia! If you don’t mind my asking – how old are you?
I’m 39. Scarpia is like Jack Rance, in La fanciulla del West. This role is amazing, but for me, it’s difficult to believe me in this role. I have in my mind such great baritones as Giangiacomo Guelfi and Sherrill Milnes, with that dark, big, strong sound. I am a lyric baritone. I think for me, I need many years before I should try this repertoire. I sang Lescaut in Berlin and the Met, and I’m going to sing it again in the future. Roles like Enrico and Rodrigo – if an artist sings it in a good way, they have a success. For the Lescaut and Marcello kind of roles, it’s difficult to get noticed, even if you are a big star. Even Escamillo. Even the biggest stars don’t have success as Escamillo. But it has a great aria for concerts which I am singing in Bravissimo.
I noticed you sing a lot of bel canto. It tells me you have the agility, the coloratura for this repertoire.
Yes, it’s perfect for my voice, but it’s the agility for the more lyric-coloratura Rossini, like the Barber, and not the typical Rossini baritone roles like Dandini and others. Barber is very important to lyric baritones – Nucci, Protti, Gobbi, Bastianini, even the biggest operatic baritones have sung Barber, but they never sing any other Rossini role.
Do you have any idols – from the past and the present?
From the past, it’s Ettore Bastianini. For the present, it’s Leo Nucci. He is my idea of a complete artist – an actor, a great singer, and a great teacher.
You also studied with him at one point?
I studied with him at the Accademia Alla Scala, and then sang with him many times, in Simon Boccanegra. We did around 40 performances, with me singing Paolo and him Simon. During the rehearsals, we had lots of time to speak to each other and we talked about opera interpretation and technique. When you spend so much time with an artist, you can learn a lot.
You also studied with Luigi Alva?
Yes, I spent two years in La Scala Academy. I studied with Maestro Alva, especially in recitativi of Rossini and Mozart repertoires. His voice was still there; he could sing with us. He told us how to change the voice to give different colours in recitativo.
You have sung in many famous opera houses, do you have a favourite?
Teatro La Scala is my favourite. I’ve sung 600 performances in my life, 520 operas and 80 concerts. 100 opera performances were in La Scala, in 19 different productions and many roles. Every night in La Scala is a great night, an emotional night. The workers there for me are family. I know them by name. Every time I step onto La Scala, I feel at home. They recognize me because I am there so often. It’s very friendly.
But I’ve heard that a lot of singers are afraid of the La Scala loggionisti.
Yes, they are afraid because [the loggionisti] are not just about the voice, but also the competence of the opera singers, and their choices [of roles]. Some artists believe they can sing anything, that every role is the same. They have no respect to the character. When you go to La Scala to sing, especially Verdi operas, you have to respect a lot, to know exactly how to sing every single note. In Italian repertoire, the meaning of every word is so important.
Did you see the La Scala opening night that was live streamed? They just opened with Andrea Chenier, with Anna Netrebko.
Yes, I have to tell you I don’t like to see opera on tv because the sound isn’t so real on tv. I hope to, when I go back to Italy from Toronto, to go see it in person. If I can’t go in person, I don’t want to see it on tv. For example, when we sing at the Met, the sound is very real. At the Met they use microphones not on the body of the singer but on the stage floor. The sound is real, the same as what the audience would hear; the difference is minimal. But in Italy they don’t like the “atmosphere microphones” and prefer individual microphones. The quality for me is not good enough. It’s fake.
With body mikes, you can’t really tell the size of the voice.
Exactly! Every voice is equalized. I know very well the voices of all my colleagues – not just strong or not strong, but also the colours. You have to go to see it live to enjoy it.
Do you sing in languages other than Italian? You sing Escamillo, so you also sing in French. Do you sing things like Lescaut in Manon or Valentin in Faust?
I sing in Italian and French. In French, I sing Escamillo yes, also Le Cid, La Juive (Ruggiero). In the Zurich production of La Juive, Ruggiero is a bigger role.
What are your dream roles, roles for the future?
Well, one of my dream roles will be very soon, di Luna in Il trovatore, in Florence, Sept. 2018. [Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by Fabio Luisi]
But di Luna is more of a dramatic baritone, not lyric?
I will try to sing it in a lyric way, as I sing in Lucia and Puritani, lyric and Romantic. For the future, I hope to sing [the title role of] Rigoletto, and maybe one day, [Carlo di Vargas] in La forza del destino. Carlo is lyric and dramatic at the same time. Needs lots of experience. I don’t like to sing it as everybody sings it now. Today singers sing everything. I would like to discover the roles, to look into the roles, not just the notes but go deeper. We have to more than just sing the notes; you have to respect the composer.
Since you are only 39, do you see maybe 10 years from now, you’ll try Iago?
I think for Iago, it will be 50 or 55. It will be one of the last operas – Iago, Macbeth for my voice. It’s far into the future. One role that can be earlier is Simon Boccanegra. I sang so many times with Leo Nucci and also with Placido [Domingo], I know the role very well. I feel very clear the meaning, the words. Leo explained everything to me about Simon Boccanegra. I hope between 2020 and 2022 to debut. I think my voice is dark enough and I have the high notes for the role. I recently sang Schicchi and had a success as a father and an actor on stage. Verdi wrote to Boito and Ricordi, saying that for Simone Boccanegra we need an actor-baritone, not just a singer. Simon you have to be also an actor, a person with the stage in his blood. In 2020-22, it will be almost 20 years on stage for me. I think it will be time for me to sing this.
Do you still live in Lucca?
No, my parents live in Lucca, and I’m here for Christmas. I lived in Zurich from 2008 to 2015. I was Fest [artist] at the Zurich Opera from 2008 to 2013. Then I moved to Lugano, the south part of Switzerland.
When you’re in Toronto, you must come to look at our beautiful opera house! It has excellent acoustics, and only 5 minutes away from Roy Thomson Hall where you will be singing. I hope you will come to sing opera in the future. You know Maestro Guidarini has conducted at the COC twice? He was just here two years ago for La Traviata, and Bravissimo last year.
I know the Toronto opera house is a good house to sing; the audience is very passionate. I hope this will be the first step for many other engagements in Canada in the future.
Thank you, Massimo, and toi toi toi for Bravissimo!
Readers can catch Massimo Cavalletti’s Toronto detut at Bravissimo! Opera’s Greatest Hits on December 31, 2017, at Roy Thomson Hall. For details see here.
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One should understand the difference between database backup and tree repair. Database backup is intended to prevent database accidents such as damage of the tables that make Smereka completely unusable. While making database backup table all archived "as is" with all possible logical errors.
Tree repair is intended to finding and fixing logical errors. This requires that the database was workable. To make the repair one should register in the system as global administrator and in the personal office click the link to "repair the tree".
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The node is assumed to be lost if it's parent attribute does not coincide with the values id field for some record in the nodes table. Such a node and all its crown will not be shown correctly by Smereka. Repair consist in moving this node to a position of "Recycle bin" child node. There one can review and delete it or move in the desired position.
Cyclic references search
Cycle links (or recursive reference) is formed when some node have parent attribute that point to the child node. In the simplest case, the "AAA" node is an ancestor of the "BBB" node and "BBB" node is an ancestor of the "AAA" node. Cyclic reference leads Smereka to fail. Repair consist in breaking the cycle at arbitrary point and moving the root node to "Recycle bin".
Restoration of the sort order
Repair consist in re-assigning the seqpos attribute values. This operation is hierarchical and can be run for the whole trees or for the crown of some node.
Checking the symbolic names uniqueness
If the two sibling nodes have the same symbolic names, only one of them will be available via symbolic addressing (with numeric addressing both available). It is not possible to determine in advance which particular node will be chosen. Repair consist in assigning to a duplicate names numerical suffixes 0..9, 10..99, etc. If a symbolic name have the maximum length numeric suffixes replace the last characters of the name. This operation is hierarchical and can be run for the whole trees or for the crown of some node.
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Check the links integrity
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What a time to be alive. Aarhus is culture capital on behalf of the world, the darkness that has been weighing us down for the last two months is slowly retracting and, as always, your trusted friends from Mads Nørgaard are at hand with all the best stuff to do February. Sure to get you through the final stretch of winter with a smile still on your face. Let's get cracking.
The Entire World in Vesterbro
Once the most sad piece of real estate in Copenhagen, now the latest in a seemingly unlimited line of food markets. Westmarket is the first of its kind to grace Vesterbro and your latest supplier of gastronomic gems from all over our diverse globe. Now you just have to decide which corner of the world to visit.
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Ever needed a reason to visit Ishøj? Well, here’s a pretty good one, as Arken put the body on display and up for debate during the exhibition, Gosh! Is It alive? You’ll see the extremely lifelike from Tony Matelli, the obscure from Patricia Piccinini and the enormous from Ron Mueck. The giant babygirl by Mueck, who is probably the little sister to Boy in Aros, has arrived at Arken to stay as part of the museums permanent collection.
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We’re staying on our favourite topic, and strongly advice you make your way to Statens Museum for Kunst as the brilliant museum is back with SMK Fridays #25, the first of 2017. This one evolves around Japanese art and culture from the late 18th century and is going to be accompanied by a special live music performance in collaboration with the Frost Festival.
Statens Museum for Kunst
Sølvgade 48 - 59
1307 København K
Speaking of Frost Festival. The brilliant winter festival is back again with live shows aplenty throughout Copenhagen. This year you can listen to the talented Bisse in concert at a private home somewhere in Copenhagen, go see Cancer at Designmuseum Denmark or check out another of the many great acts playing creative venues.
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Only 27% of the data about you held by government agencies is encrypted in the Europen Union.
With GDPR, you’d think that Europe would be more secure. A recent study says that 97% of businesses and other entities in Europe “use sensitive personal data” as part of their digital transformation. In short moving from paper to the cloud, particularly for a lot of government services. Only 27% of them are encrypting that data.
That means that virtually all of your data, which here includes things like bio-metrics, DNA prints, finger prints, voice prints, retina scans, medical histories, financial records including all of your transactions, are likely being stored un-encrypted in a cloud somewhere. That might be a reputable cloud provider, but it might also be a “Cloud” which consists of a couple of servers wedged into a storage closet in the back of someone’s garage.
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This year has literally been a wash. We started out spring strong, rearing and ready to go. A full project list and loads of motivation. We moved animals, loamed and seeded pens, worked our buns off at the pasture. Site work and access road were done and hopes of logging to begin. Then, the rain. Feels like months of endless rain. Months now lost to managing muddy paddocks and trying to keep the animals out of it! Digging trenches, fixing culverts. I suppose that’s New England for ya.
On a brighter note, we had a very successful fundraiser in the HomebrewBQ. Big thanks and gratitude to the volunteers, bands, brewers and attendees! We are really looking forward to an even better event next year! Also, we will begin planning a new fundraiser for Spring so stay tuned! we have such a great network of rescue friends that support us and us them. We will be doing a 50/50 Fundraiser to benefit the sanctuary and another local rescue. Keep an eye out for the details.
This year we had “closed our door” to new animals due to funding and accommodations but we were able to find a way to take in 2 goats- Billy and Cash, along with 2 more potbelly pigs- Pete and Pippi, as well as a small flock of hens and some ducks. We have never been ones to ask for donations and as many know, we raise the majority of funding through the products we make and of course our day jobs. After having to deny so many animals, we know we need to do better about asking for help. Many friends have had fundraisers for us and so many have donated!
We are excited to announce that though it’s still raining... progress is finally happening! Magzalea now calls over 93 acres home. 84 of those acres are old pine trees that are now diseased and dying. Every storm you can here them coming down. Logging has finally begun this week to bring new healthy life to the sanctuary. This will open up areas for the animals and give us the opportunity to plant more trees! This is a big step in our project. That being said, we will be doing some heavy fundraising to put towards fencing, building moveable shelters and another big project... a fostering area! Every year we are contacted by other rescues, shelters and owners of perfectly happy, healthy, pet worthy animals that just need a place to stay until their new family finds them. Sadly, we have not been able to do as much as we’d like in our present state. We are really hoping for some successful events and fundraising so we can make even more of a impact in the lives of animals.
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What is better than Omegle?
You also can discover like-minded people by choosing the related filters. Till now Omegle and Chatroulette are considered to be the most important opponents of each other, however the truth is, Tinychat has the potential to beat them each. The site claims that the daily watch time of this app is more than 5 million minutes, and hundreds of thousands of people use it for random video chatting. This online chat room, Paltalk, is a reliable tool for anybody on any gadget. It supports units corresponding to Android, iOS, Windows, and others. Users can create group chat rooms to make an easy way to join with different people. Additionally, customers can browse totally different chat rooms and join with members with the identical interest.
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‘Clock-in’ academics cited among reasons for decline of public universities
Singapore-based academic Syed Farid Al-Attas says there is a corporate disease seeping into the work culture of the local academia.
Varsities’ ranking race akin to Macau scams, says academic
Professor Ahmad Murad Merican also hits out at KPIs set for lecturers which pressure them to publish multiple articles per year.
Decline of varsities, rush for rankings traced back to ‘academic imperialism’
Chandra Muzaffar says an obsession with global rankings has a role in the overall decline of local universities, but it also reflects Malaysia's status-conscious society.
Malaysian academics among the top in ‘fraudulent’ publications found in global database
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Living and working as an undocumented resident is challenging enough without the added complication of child custody issues. It is common for undocumented residents to fear exploring the extent of their child custody rights due to an undocumented status’s legal risks. The US Constitution provides protections for a parent’s rights to care for and maintain responsibility for their children, regardless of immigration status. Even a person being deported has certain rights of custody. The Bureau of Immigration Affairs allows for undocumented residents facing deportation to potentially choose to leave their child/children in the United States with caretakers.
The state’s interpretation of parental fitness
Though the constitution may be supported by federal immigration law, state agencies like child welfare and state family courts have a fair bit of power when it comes to deciding on custodial decisions. Here are some of the circumstances where a parent could lose custody of their children in Tennessee:
- Family courts and juvenile courts have the power to declare a parent unfit. This can extend to parents who are undocumented residents.
- Child welfare agencies can have a say in this designation as well.
- There have been cases where a court or child welfare agency finds a parent unfit on the basis that they are undocumented.
- This ‘unfit’ designation can have a variety of justifications, including the inherent risks in traveling to the US unauthorized with a young child or that parent did not meet a ‘basic level’ of prenatal/postnatal care.
- The trouble with a parent being deemed unfit is that this is mostly a subjective decision.
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Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Thursday his nomination of Lt. Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. to lead the Maryland State Police, an agency that faces a federal probe of alleged discriminatory hiring and promotional practices against Black troopers.
Butler, who served as acting superintendent since January under former Gov. Larry Hogan (R), takes over after Col. Woodrow “Jerry” Jones III after he announced his retirement at the end of last year. If confirmed by the Maryland Senate, he will be the first Black person to lead the agency.
“It’s truly an honor to step forward and be able to take the reins of the Maryland State Police and lead the women and men on a mission that…will improve the quality of life of citizens across the state,” Butler said during a press conference inside the State House in Annapolis. “This will not be easy, but the women and men of the Maryland State Police are prepared for this and are fully capable of making an impact and improving the quality of life of citizens across the state and those that travel to our state.”
Butler has worked with the state police for nearly 30 years with his previous assignment as chief of the Field Operations Bureau, the most visible part of the agency of more than 1,000 troopers, who are assigned to 23 barracks statewide.
Moore called Butler “a professional” with “courage, fortitude, resilience, understanding and compassion” in his service to the 102-year-old agency.
“In short, Roland’s a professional,” the governor said. “He has the background, the knowledge and the character to lead the Maryland State Police as it carries out this critical mission.”
Besides handling day-to-day operations, Butler must also endure a federal investigation announced last year by the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Maryland. Former Del. Erek Barron became Maryland’s U.S. attorney in October 2021.
State lawmakers, including members of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, heard complaints from Black troopers that highlighted fewer Black officers hired and disciplined more than their white counterparts.
Two Black state troopers and another of Black and Puerto Rican descent filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in October against the state police. According to the suit, they claim the agency cultivated policies and procedures against officers of color and allowed a hostile work environment where officers of color saw “a paper training dummy at a MSP shooting range with a black face Afro wig for officers to shoot at [and]…a commemorative coin with the phrase ‘Make Waldorf Great Again.’”
According to a recent report from The Baltimore Banner, a state police barracks on the Eastern Shore conducted a quota-like system to reward officers who “meet monthly expectations” for traffic stops, arrests and other metrics.
“I will not support quotas. I will not support inappropriate behavior,” Butler said Thursday. “We’re here to safeguard the communities and the people within Maryland. We will do our very best. I will hold people accountable. My executive staff will hold me accountable.”
Butler must also endure other challenges the governor laid out.
The class size of troopers in the academy averages 35, compared to at least 80 in previous years. Moore said a recent class he visited had only 19.
About 80 state troopers left the agency last year, with only 47 seeking employment, he said.
“Like the rest of state government, law enforcement and public safety have struggled to rebuild its ranks,” Moore said. “To rebuild the state police force, we must elevate the profession, invest in training and development of our troopers, and do all we can to elevate a culture that retains, advances and rewards the most effective and ethical law enforcement professionals.”
Also in attendance at the press conference was Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller (D); Carolyn Scruggs, secretary of public safety and correctional services; Vincent Schiraldi, confirmed Tuesday by the Senate to head the Department of Juvenile Services; and Harold “Bud” Frank, deputy chief of staff in the governor’s office for public safety. | <urn:uuid:a6870009-8c18-4859-96b1-4ee4d90e1564> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.marylandmatters.org/2023/02/23/moore-announces-roland-butler-jr-as-nominee-to-lead-the-maryland-state-police/ | 2024-04-20T16:52:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.960866 | 896 |
Workplace Back Injuries
Back pain can make just about every aspect of life more difficult, from moving around to putting away groceries or preparing your own food. Unfortunately, your job can be incredibly difficult on your back. Back injuries are common in many kinds of employment, especially nursing and construction. However, you may be surprised to learn that sedentary jobs, such as desk jobs, can also result in serious back injuries overtime. If you have suffered a back injury at work or as a result of your job, you may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits that can help you to recover and reclaim your life.
Common Work-Related Back Injuries
There are many kinds of back injuries that can be caused by or as a result of work. Below is a list of some of the most common kinds.
- Spinal stenosis
- Sprains and strains
- Trauma to the lumbar spine
- Cervical spine injuries
- Herniated disks
- Bulging disk
- Repetitive motion injuries
- Disk compression
Causes of Work-Related Back Injuries
- Back injuries can be the result of a traumatic accident, such as falling off of a ladder, slipping and falling, or lifting a heavy box.
- Repetitive Motion Injuries. Even when there is not one traumatic event, repeating the same kind of motion that is hard on your back can cause an injury over time. For instance, picking up boxes, loading or unloading shipments, and even sitting hunched over at your computer each day, can all result in back injuries long term.
- A sedentary job can result in back problems, especially if you have poor posture or do not have other means of strengthening your core and back muscles outside of the office.
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In Maryland, if you are an employee and you are injured at work or as the result of your employment, you are entitled to workers’ compensation for your injury. Unfortunately, that does not always mean it will be easy to get the benefits that you are entitled to. The first step to determining whether you are eligible is figuring out whether you are classified as an employee or an independent contractor by your employer. If you are an employee, you are entitled to these benefits provided that the injury occurred while at work or while performing your job duties. If you were injured outside of working hours, while under the influence, or while doing something explicitly prohibited, it is possible that your claim will be denied. The first thing to do after you are injured is to tell your supervisor or employer so that they can begin the claims process. If your claim is successfully approved, you will be able to get medical treatment and full or partial wage replacement while you recover from your injuries.
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The Seven (7) Ergonomic Risk Factors to be assessed in the Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment (INERA)
The Seven (7) Ergonomic Risk Factors in the Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment (INERA)
Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment is assessed by looking at seven (7) ergonomic risk factors classified in the Guidelines of Ergonomics Risk Assessment at the Workplace 2017. Ergonomics risk factors are factors or hazards that may cause ergonomic-related issues such as body discomfort, sickness, pain as well as injuries due to improper working behavior that may affect the muscle, joints, or bones.
Ergonomic Risk Factors consist of different elements which are:
The 7 Ergonomic Risk Factors in the Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment (INERA)
The Ergonomic Risk Factors are based on the Guidelines of Ergonomics Risk Assessment at the Workplace 2017.
1. Awkward / Poor Posture
Doing work-related tasks that require a body position other than neutral, such as twisting, bending, overreaching, arm abduction, head bending and others.
2. Static and Sustained Posture
Working for an extended amount of time while maintaining a specific position with little to no movement, such as continuous standing or sitting for a long period of time.
3. Forceful Exertions
Forceful exertions are where high-level force is applied when moving or supporting any weight, including when lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, pulling and moving it with one's hands or by using one's body.
4. Repetitive Motions
Working for a long time which involves repetitive sequences of movement using joints and muscle actions.
Performing tasks that expose the workers to kinetic energy from vibrating surfaces or tools, such as hand-arm vibration (HAV) and whole-body vibration (WBV).
6. Contact stress
Refers to either internal contact stress, where a tendon, nerve, or blood vessel is stretched or twisted around a bone or tendon, or external contact stress when a portion of the body scrapes against a component at the workplace.
7. Environmental risk factors
People's comfort, activity, and health might be impacted by working in a poor environment such as inadequate lighting or air ventilation, extreme temperature and excessive noise.
It is important to monitor ergonomic-related issues especially Ergonomic Risk Factors (ERF) at your workplace to ensure your employees are always in a healthy and productive condition.
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Graphitization of graphite electrodes is a big power consumer, mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan and other regions. Before the chinese festival, it mainly affects Inner Mongolia and some parts of Henan. After the festival, Shanxi and other regions are beginning to be affected. At the same time, environmental protection efforts in Hebei have been upgraded, and many processing plants have shut down operations. Affected by this, the cost of graphitization processing has also risen from 4200 yuan/ton in early September to 4500 yuan/ton.
Current status of graphite electrode market:
Due to the continuous increase in raw material prices and the long production cycle of graphite electrodes, manufacturers have increased the risk of obtaining goods. At present, mmost graphite electrode manufacturers still have low-cost products before, so they are beginning to reluctantly sell them. Some traders heard the news in the early stage, and they have already stockpiled. Graphite electrode machine processing plants in some regions also purchase large quantities of rough products to stock up.
Market outlook forecast:
The situation of near-term electricity should continue, raw material prices will also remain high, and graphite electrodes still have room to rise in the future.
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Tips to Save Your Money While Moving
Well, money saved is money earned and everybody wants to save as much as they can. The money saved can be spent on things which are of greater importance. One of the expensive things in life, which many of us have to encounter one day is moving house. For many people, moving is an overwhelming event it’s that time when you are you are leaving your old place and going to a new place that you have chosen. There are so many new experiences just around the corner. Moreover, it can get quite expensive and stressful as the transportation cost, unlike the previous times, is quite high these days, also the money we spent on the moving professionals can’t be ignored. A glance on the moving quotes can offer you a clear picture.
So we have devised certain points which can work out in your move and make you’re moving less expensive. First thing first, you need to cut out your expenses. You have to surely limit your expenses to make your move economical. We do not assure that there will be no costs involved, but there are ways through which you can save, this will ensure a perfect way to ensure that you get where you are going without breaking the bank.
Avoid taking along unnecessary stuff
Just take those article that you will be needing in your new place. We all know this fact that we Humans are big-time hoarders we have those stuff which we don’t require and we tend to hoard it for years but yes now is the time to say goodbye to your unnecessary stuff as transporting it will only increase the transportation cost. I am sure you will not be requiring all of the items you have accumulated instead you should keep something worth considering, especially as you progress the moving day.We should positively take things that we want and the rest of the things should be sold, donated, given away, or discarded.
Think about all the help you require with packing:
You have to make a list of things you can do yourself and the things you need help with. Moving requires a lot of decision making and you have to make these decisions yourself keeping all the factors in mind. There are specific factors you need to consider like how much time you have, how much energy you have, how much stuff you need to move, how far you are moving, etc. It is certainly economical to pack and move your things in many cases. But moving is a lot different when it’s just you in a studio apartment linked to you and a well-established family moving a large home. You have to understand your capability and willing of people who are helping and if you are taking the help of movers from outside to make sure you check the cost factor to avoid giving unnecessary cost to companies who are just overcharging because of their brand value. And it is advisable to do the packing task by yourself or with the help of your friend rather than taking help from outsider agencies who will charge a lot for this basic work.
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Domain 1.0: Network Technologies
Domain 1.1: Common Networking Protocols
TCP - TCP breaks data into manageable packets and tracks information such as source and destination of packets. It is able to reroute packets and is responsible for guaranteed delivery of the data.
IP - This is a connectionless protocol, which means that a session is not created before sending data. IP is responsible for addressing and routing of packets between computers. It does not guarantee delivery and does not give acknowledgement of packets that are lost or sent out of order as this is the responsibility of higher layer protocols such as TCP.
UDP - A connectionless, datagram service that provides an unreliable, best-effort delivery.
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol enables systems on a TCP/IP network to share status and error information such as with the use of PING and TRACERT utilities.
SMTP - Used to reliably send and receive mail over the Internet.
FTP - File transfer protocol is used for transferring files between remote systems. Must resolve host name to IP address to establish communication. It is connection oriented (i.e. verifies that packets reach destination).
TFTP - Same as FTP but not connection oriented.
ARP - provides IP-address to MAC address resolution for IP packets. A MAC address is your computer's unique hardware number and appears in the form 00-A0-F1-27-64-E1 (for example). Each computer stores an ARP cache of other computers ARP-IP combinations.
POP3 - Post Office Protocol. A POP3 mail server holds mail until the workstation is ready to receive it.
IMAP - Like POP3, Internet Message Access Protocol is a standard protocol for accessing e-mail from your local server. IMAP (the latest version is IMAP4) is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server.
TELNET - Provides a virtual terminal or remote login across the network that is connection-based. The remote server must be running a Telnet service for clients to connect.
HTTP - The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web. It is the protocol controlling the transfer and addressing of HTTP requests and responses.
HTTPS - Signifies that a web page is using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and is providing a secure connection. This is used for secure internet business transactions.
NTP - Network Time Protocol is a protocol that is used to synchronize computer clock times in a network of computers.
SNMP - Stands for Simple Network Management Protocol and is used for monitoring and status information on a network. SNMP can be used to monitor any device that is SNMP capable and this can include computers, printers, routers, servers, gateways and many more using agents on the target systems. The agents report information back to the management systems by the use of “traps” which capture snapshot data of the system. This trap information could be system errors, resource information, or other information. The SNMPv2 standard includes enhancements to the SNMPv1 SMI-specific data types, such as including bit strings, network addresses, and counters. In SNMPv3 security was addressed. Because all of the trap information sent was in clear text, any monitoring information being sent and collected for operational purposes could also be pulled off the wire by a malicious person
SIP – Stands for Session Initiation Protocol and is a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information and online games. The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty (multicast) sessions consisting of one or several media streams. The modification can involve changing addresses or ports, inviting more participants, adding or deleting media streams, etc.
RTP – Real-time Transport Protocol is the audio and video protocol standard used to deliver content over the Internet. RTP is used in conjunction with other protocols such as H.323 and RTSP.
IGMP – Internet Group Management Protocol is used to manage Internet Protocol multicast groups. IP hosts and adjacent multicast routers use IGMP to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is only needed for IPv4 networks, as multicast is handled differently in IPv6 networks.
TLS - Transport Layer Security is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks such as the Internet. TLS and SSL encrypt the segments of network connections at the Transport Layer end-to-end. Several versions of the protocols are in wide-spread use in applications like web browsing, electronic mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and voice-over-IP (VoIP).
Domain 1.2: Identify Commonly Used TCP/UDP Ports
Ports are what an application uses when communicating between a client and server computer. Some common ports are:
Domain 1.3: Identify the Following Address Formats
IPv4 - Every IP address can be broken down into 2 parts, the Network ID(netid) and the Host ID(hostid). All hosts on the same network must have the same netid. Each of these hosts must have a hostid that is unique in relation to the netid. IP addresses are divided into 4 octets with each having a maximum value of 255. We view IPv4 addresses in decimal notation such as 22.214.171.124, but it is actually utilized as binary data.
IP addresses are divided into 3 classes as shown below:
NOTE: 127.x.x.x is reserved for loopback testing on the local system and is not used on live systems. The following address ranges are reserved for private networks:
IPv6 - The previous information on TCP/IP has referred to IPv4, however, this addressing scheme has run out of available IP addresses due to the large influx of internet users and expanding networks. As a result, the powers that be had to create a new addressing scheme to deal with this situation and developed IPv6. This new addressing scheme utilizes a 128 bit address (instead of 32) and utilizes a hex numbering method in order to avoid long addresses such as 126.96.36.199.188.8.131.52.184.108.40.206.220.127.116.11. The hex address format will appear in the form of 3FFE:B00:800:2::C for example.
MAC Addressing - Also known as hardware address or ethernet address, A MAC address is a unique code assigned to most networking hardware. The hardware is assigned a unique number by the manufacturer and the address is permanently assigned to the device. MAC Addresses are in a 48-bit hexidecimal format such as 00:2f:21:c1:11:0a. They are used to uniquely identify a device on a network, and for other functions such as for being authenticated by a DHCP server. For more information, read MAC Addressing Formats And Broadcasts.
Domain 1.4: Proper Use of Addressing Technologies
Subnetting - IP addresses can be class A, B or C. Class A addresses are for networks with a large number of hosts. The first octet is the netid and the 3 remaining octets are the hostid. Class B addresses are used in medium to large networks with the first 2 octets making up the netid and the remaining 2 are the hostid. Class C is for smaller networks with the first 3 octets making up the netid and the last octet comprising the hostid. The Network ID and the Host ID are determined by a subnet mask. The default subnet masks are as follows:
Hosts Per Subnet
What if you wanted more than 1 subnet? Subnetting allows you to create multiple logical networks that exist within a single Class A, B, or C network. If you don't subnet, you will only be able to use one network from your Class A, B, or C network. When subnetting is employed, the multiple networks are connected with a router which enables data to find its way between networks. On the client side, a default gateway is assigned in the TCP/IP properties. The default gateway tells the client the IP address of the router that will allow their computer to communicate with clients on other networks.
Classful versus Classless addressing – the original TCP/IP addressing method described above was called classful addressing which worked by dividing the IP address space into chunks of different sizes called classes. Classless addressing is referred to as Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) and is done by allocating address space to Internet service providers and end users on any address bit boundary, instead of on 8-bit segments. So 172.16.50.0 does not have to use the standard subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 which makes a Class B address space and which also puts it on the same network as 172.16.51.0 using the subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. (With classful addressing, our example has 172.16 as the network name and the 50.0 and 51.0 ranges are both part of the same host naming convention). Instead, by using classless addressing 172.16.50.0/24 puts these systems on a different network than 172.16.51.0/24 because the network names here are 172.16.50 and 172.16.51 which are different.
NAT - NAT stands for Network Address Translation and is a commonly used IP translation and mapping technology. Using a device (such as a router) or piece of software that implements NAT allows an entire home or office network to share a single internet connection over a single IP address. A single cable modem, DSL modem, or even 56k modem could connect all the computers to the internet simultaneously. Additionally, NAT keeps your home network fairly secure from hackers. NAT is built in to the most common Internet Connection Sharing technologies.
PAT – Port Address Translation is a feature of a network device that translates TCP or UDP communications made between hosts on a private network and hosts on a public network. It allows a single public IP address to be used by many hosts on a private network.
SNAT – Secure Network Address Translation an extension of the standard Network Address Translation (NAT) service. SNAT is done through one to one IP address translation of one internal IP address to one external IP address where NAT is effectively one external address to many internal IP addresses.
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol provides a solution that automatically assigns IP addresses to computers on a network. When a client is configured to receive an IP address automatically, It will send out a broadcast to the DHCP server requesting an address. The server will then issue a "lease" and assign it to that client. Some of the benefits of DHCP include the following:
Prevents users from making up their own IP addresses.
Prevents incorrect gateway or subnet masks from being entered.
Decreases amount of time spent configuring computers especially in environments where computers get moved around all the time.
APIPA – Stands for Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing. Client systems that are configured for automatic IP address assignment / dynamic IP assignment will attempt to use DHCP to make a request for an IP address lease for a given network. When the DHCP server is unavailable the service on the client will automatically configure the system with an APIPA IP address in the 169.254.0.1 through 169.254.255.254 address range with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
Unicast - the sending of information packets to a single network node. This type of network transmission is used where a private or unique resource such as media servers are being requested for two way connections that are needed to complete the network communication. So in the media server example, a client system may make the request for streaming content from the single source and the responding system may leverage unicast as part of the response to the session request to deliver the content.
Multicast – a single source address responding to multiple destination addresses with information to be sent. In a media server example, the single source address may need to send the data to multiple clients; it does this by sending the data with multiple destination IP addresses. All the clients that “see” this network traffic will check to see if it is meant for them with the supplied information. If it is not the client does not receive the data. If a network node does see that the data is intended for them the device will respond by receiving the packet.
Broadcast – traffic sent out from a network node that will reach every other node on the subnet / broadcast domain because the message is sent with the intent of reaching all nodes. The network node that is sending the traffic will use the broadcast address for that subnet and every device in that broadcast domain will receive the broadcast information. Generally the broadcast address is the last IP address of that segment. As an example, in the IP address range of 192.168.0.0 this broadcast address would be 192.168.255.255 and the traffic would reach all available nodes on the subnet. Additionally 255.255.255.255 could be used which is the broadcast address of the zero network (0.0.0.0). Internet Protocol standards outline that the zero network stands for the local network so only those node on the local network would hear the broadcast traffic across the 255.255.255.255 address.
Domain 1.5: Common IPv4 and IPv6 Routing Protocols
Link State routing protocols – are one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet switching networks and includes protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS). The link-state protocol is performed on every router on the network, where every routing node constructs a map of the connectivity to the network by showing which nodes are connected to each other. Each router calculates the next best logical hop from it to every possible known destination which forms the node's routing table.
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) – is a dynamic routing protocol and is used on Internet Protocol (IP) based networks of all sizes – large to small. OSPF is an interior gateway protocol (IGP) that routes IP packets within a single routing domain and was designed to support variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) addressing.
Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) – a link state protocol that operates by forwarding network topology information throughout a network of routers. Each router then independently builds a picture of the network's topology based on the data received and the best topological path through the network to the destination. IS-IS is an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) typically used on larger networks.
Distance-vector routing protocols – are one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet switching networks and includes Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP). uses distance as one factor and the vector as the other to determine against the known routing tables to deliver data to source and destination locations. Routers using the distance-vector routing protocol will update other routers of topology changes periodically when a change is detected in the topology of a network.
Routing Information Protocol (RIPv1) – RIP is a distance-vector routing protocol using “hop count” as a routing metric. The maximum number of hops allowed for RIP is 15 which effectively limits the size of networks that RIP can support.
Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2) – improved upon RIPv1 by having the ability to include subnet information with its updates which allows for Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) support. The 30 second proactive broadcast has been eliminated in favor of multicast advertisements for its updates. The 15 hop count limit remains so that the devices are backwards compatible with RIPv1 devices.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) – is the core routing protocol of the Internet. It maintains a table of IP networks and the data that designates where and how to reach each network through autonomous systems (AS). BGP makes routing decisions based on path, network policies and / or rule sets.
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) – a proprietary hybrid protocol from Cisco that is a distance vector routing protocol that functions like a link state routing protocol. EIGRP collects information and stores it in three tables; the Neighbor Table which stores the information about neighboring routers, the Topology Table which contains only the information and data regarding the routing tables from directly connected neighbors and the Routing table which stores the actual routes to all destinations.
Domain 1.6: The Purpose and Properties of Routing
Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) – routing protocol that is used within an autonomous system which is sometimes referred to as an administrative domain. One type of Interior Gateway Protocol are the Distance-vector routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). Another type are the Link-state routing protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)
Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) – routing protocol that is used across different autonomous systems / administrative domains. It was the routing protocol leveraged for Internet connected devices in the early 1980s. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the replacement standard for Internet routing over EGP.
Static Router Updates – a router with manually configured routing tables. For these types of devices, a network administrator will manually build and make updates to the routing table for all routes in the administrative domain. Static routers are best suited for small internetworks; due to the need of the manual administration, they do not scale well to large networks where routing information is often changed, updated and appended. Static routers are not fault tolerant because when another network device goes down the manually input information may not necessarily provide alternate pathing to a destination which makes it unreachable (unless quick, manual administrative updates are made.)
Dynamic Router Updates – A router with dynamically configured routing tables. This type of automatic configuration is made up of routing tables that are built and maintained by ongoing communication between the routers only (by default – this does not include initial setup and configuration or administrative needs for a persistent route configuration). Dynamic routing is fault tolerant; if a router or link goes down, the routers sense the change in the network topology when the “learned route” expires in the routing table and cannot be renewed due to the outage. This change is then disseminated to other routers so that all the routers “learn” of the network changes. Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocols for IP and RIP for IPX are some of examples of protocols that can be used for these dynamic updates.
Next Hop – defined as the next place that a data packet needs to go. In most cases, routers do not need all of the information regarding where the originating source of the data transmission was. In most cases routers just need to know where there data needs to go next and the “next” referred to as the “next hop” because all they are trying to do is deliver it to the specified destination IP address that is included in the header information of the data being sent. If that router is the last hop and can deliver it to the specified IP address it does otherwise it refers to its routing tables to figure out which router to hand it off to in the effort to get the data packet where it needs to go.
Routing Tables – sometimes referred to as a Routing Information Base (RIB), is the database information that stores all the rout information for the routing network devices. The routing table holds the route information regarding the topology of the network immediately around the device to other network destinations and it will often include the metric / cost associated for the route. There are three main route entries that are generally found in the routing tables - Network Route, Host Route and the Default Route. The Network Route is route to a specific Network ID on the network. The Host Route is a route to a specific network address. A Default route is the path used if a physical router or other network routing device cannot find a route for the specified destination.
Convergence – achieved when all of the available topology information from routing devices have been passed along to all of the other deceives in totality and all when the information gathered is not in a contradiction state to any other router's informed topology information. When all of the network routing devices "agree" on what the network topology looks like it is said to have full convergence.
Domain 1.7: Characteristics of Wireless Standards
Wireless networks allow computers to comunicate without the use of cables using IEEE 802.11 standards, also known as Wi-Fi. A connection is made from a device, which is usually a PC or a Laptop with a wireless network interface card (NIC), and an Access Point (AP), which acts as a bridge between the wireless stations and Distribution System (DS) or wired networks. An 802.11 wireless network adapter can operate in two modes, Ad-Hoc and Infrastructure. In infrastructure mode, all your traffic passes through a wireless ‘access point’. In Ad-hoc mode your computers talk directly to each other and do not need an access point. The table below shows the various standards.
5 GHz and/or 2.4 GHz
Authentication and Encryption:
WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy is a security encryption algorithm that is easily cracked. For this reason, it has been replaced by other technologies.
WPA - The original WPA standard used TKIP, but was later replaced by WPA2 which uses a more secure AES-based algorithm. WPA uses a 256 bit key to encrypt data. This key may be entered either as a string of 64 hexadecimal digits, or as a passphrase of 8 to 63 characters. It is susceptible to brute force attacks when a weak passphrase is used.
RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) management for computers to connect and use a network service. RADIUS is often used by ISPs and enterprises to manage access to the Internet or internal networks, and wireless networks. Microsoft's answer to corporate wireless security is the use of RADIUS authentication through its Internet Authentication Services (IAS) product.
TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol was designed as a solution to replace WEP without requiring the replacement of legacy hardware. TKIP suffered from similar flaws as WEP and has been replaced by more secure encryption schemes.
Domain 2.0: Network Media and Topologies
Domain 2.1: Standard Cable Types and Their Properties
Unshielded twisted pair capable of speeds up to 10Mbit/s. Used with 10Base-T, 100Base-T4, and 100Base-T2 Ethernet.
Unshielded twisted pair capable of speeds up to 20Mbit/s. Not widely used. Used with 10Base-T, 100Base-T4, and 100Base-T2 Ethernet.
Unshielded twisted pair capable of speeds up to 100Mbit/s. May be used with 10Base-T, 100Base-T4, 100Base-T2, and 100Base-TX Ethernet.
Enhanced Cat 5 is similar to CAT5, but exceeds its performance. Improved distance over previous categories from 100m to 350m. May be used for 10Base-T, 100Base-T4, 100Base-T2, 100BaseTX and 1000Base-T Ethernet.
Can transmit data up to 220m at gigabit speeds. It has improved specifications for NEXT (Near End Cross Talk), PSELFEXT (Power Sum Equal Level Far End Cross Talk), and Attenuation. Cat 6 is backward compatible with lower Category grades and supports the same Ethernet standards as Cat 5e.
Multimode fibers have large cores. They are able to carry more data than single mode fibers though they are best for shorter distances because of their higher attenuation levels.
Single Mode Fiber
Single Mode fibers have a small glass core. Single Mode fibers are used for high speed data transmission over long distances. They are less susceptible to attenuation than multimode fibers.
RG59 and RG6
These are both shielded coaxial cables used for broadband networking, cable television, and other uses.
A serial cable is a cable that can be used to transfer information between two devices using serial communication, often using the RS-232 standard. Typically use D-subminiature connectors with 9 or 25 pins. Cables are often unshielded, although shielding cables may reduce electrical noise radiated by the cable.
Shielded twisted pair (STP) - differs from UTP in that it has a foil jacket that helps prevent cross talk. Cross talk is signal overflow from an adjacent wire.
EMI - Electrical devices such as printers, air conditioning units, and television monitors can be sources of electromagnetic interference, or EMI. Some types of network media have more resistance to EMI than others. Standard UTP cable has minimal resistance to EMI, while fiber optic cable is highly resistant.
Plenum grade cabling - is required if the cabling will be run between the ceiling and the next floor (this is called the plenum). Plenum grade cabling is resistant to fire and does not emit poisonous gasses when burned.
Simplex - Signals can be passed in one direction only. Half Duplex - Half duplex means that signals can be passed in either direction, but not in both simultaneously. Full Duplex - Full duplex means that signals can be passed in either direction simultaneously.
Domain 2.2: Common Connector Types
BNC - This connector has found uses with both broadcast television equipment and computer networks. With regards to networking, this connector was used on early 10Base-2 (Thinnet) Ethernet networks. It has a center pin connected to the center coaxial cable conductor and a metal tube connected to the outer cable shield. A rotating ring outside the tube locks the cable to the female connector.
RJ-11 - Short for Registered Jack-11, a four or six-wire connector used primarily to connect telephone equipment in the United States (POTS). The cable itself is called category 1 (Cat 1) and is used for dial-up connections. Modems have rj-11 jacks that connect them to the wall outlet.
RJ-45 - Short for Registered Jack-45, it is an eight-wire connector used commonly to connect devices on Ethernet LANs. RJ-45 connectors look similar to RJ-11 connectors used for connecting telephone equipment, but they are larger.
ST - The ST connector is a fiber optic connector which uses a plug and socket which is locked in place with a half-twist bayonet lock. The ST connector was the first standard for fiber optic cabling. ST Connectors are half-duplex.
SC - The SC connector is a fiber optic connector with a push-pull latching mechanism which provides quick insertion and removal while also ensuring a positive connection. SC Connectors are half-duplex.
LC - The LC connector is just like a SC connector only it is half the size. Like SC connectors, LC connectors are half-duplex.
RS-232 - A standard for serial binary data interconnection between a DTE (Data terminal equipment) and a DCE (Data communication equipment). Commonly found in use with bar code scanners, measuring tools, and laboratory instruments are designed to interface to a computer using a standard RS232 serial cable connection. Many of these uses are being replaced with USB enabled devices. The connector is a DB-9 or DB-25 connector.
Domain 2.3: Common Physical Network Topologies
Star - The star topology uses twisted pair (10baseT or 100baseT) cabling and requires that all devices are connected to a hub. Advantages are centralized monitoring, and failures do not affect others unless it is the hub, easy to modify. The disadvantage is that the hub is a single point of failure. If it goes down, there are no communications possible.
Mesh - In a true mesh topology every node has a connection to every other node in the network. A full mesh provides redundancy in case of a failure between links, but is impractical due the complexity and the expensive amount of cabling required.
Bus - This topology is an old one and essentially has each of the computers on the network daisy-chained to each other. Packets must pass through all computers on the bus. This type is cheap, and simple to set up, but causes excess network traffic, a failure may affect many users, and problems are difficult to troubleshoot.
Ring - A ring topology has a physical and logical ring and is used on SONET and FDDI networks (note that Token Ring networks are actually a hybrid star ring topology). Any station can send a packet around the ring but only the station with the token can do so. The token is passed around the ring giving all stations an opportunity to communicate. This is a very fast and simple network. However if any part of the ring goes down, the entire LAN goes down. If there is a problem at a station, it may be difficult to locate it. Ring networks are not very common.
Point-to-point - This topology generally refers to a connection restricted to two endpoints. Point-to-point is sometimes referred to as P2P (not the same as peer-to-peer file sharing networks), or Pt2Pt, or variations of this. Examples of this topology include RS-232 serial connections as well as laser network connections between buildings.
Point-to-Multipoint - Also known as P2MP, this is a method of communication between a series of receivers and transmitters to a central location. The most common example of this is the use of a wireless access point that provides a connection to multiple devices.
Hybrid - Hybrid topologies are combinations of the above and are common on very large networks. For example, a star bus network has hubs connected in a row (like a bus network) and has computers connected to each hub as in the star topology.
Domain 2.4: Wiring Standards
568A and 568B - The number 568 refers to the order in which the individual wires inside a CAT 5 cable are terminated. The only difference between the two standards is that the green and orange pins are terminated to different pins. There is no difference in signal and both the 568A and 568B are used as patch cords for Ethernet connections.
Straight through vs Crossover - A straight through cable uses either the 568A or 568B wiring standard and is used for connecting devices to routers, hubs, switches, etc. An crossover cable is used to connect computing devices together directly (i.e. connecting 2 computers directly together). A crossover cable uses the 568A standard on one end and 568B on the other end.
Rollover - Rollover cable (also known as Cisco console cable) is a type of null-modem cable that is most commonly used to connect a computer terminal to a router's console port. This cable is typically flat and has a light blue color. It gets the name rollover because the pinouts on one end are reversed from the other, as if the wire had been rolled over and you were viewing it from the other side.
A loopback cable redirects the output back into itself and is used for troubleshooting purposes (loopback test). This effectively gives the NIC the impression that it is communicating on a network, since its able to transmit and receive communications.
Domain 2.5: WAN Technology Types and Properties
Frame Relay - Frame relay is a secure, private network that utilizes a logical path or “virtual circuit” to allocate bandwidth for high performance transmissions. Frame relay is the premier high-speed packet-switching protocol communicating data, imaging, and voice between multiple locations. Frame relay is available in a range of bandwidths from 56 Kbps to full T1 (1.54 Mbps).
T-1/T-3 - A T-1 is a dedicated phone connection supporting data rates of 1.544Mbps. A T-1 line actually consists of 24 individual channels, each of which supports 64Kbits per second. Each 64Kbit/second channel can be configured to carry voice or data traffic. Most telephone companies allow you to buy just some of these individual channels, known as fractional T-1 access. T-1 lines are a popular leased line option for businesses connecting to the Internet and for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) connecting to the Internet backbone. The Internet backbone itself consists of faster T-3 connections. T-1 comes in either copper or fiber optics.
ATM - ATM stands for Asynchronous Transfer Mode and is a high-speed, packet-switching technique that uses short fixed length packets called cells. ATM can transmit voice, video, and data over a variable-speed LAN and WAN connections at speeds ranging from 1.544Mbps to as high as 622Mbps. ATM is capable of supporting a wide range of traffic types such as voice, video, image and data.
SONET - SONET and SDH are a set of related standards for synchronous data transmission over fiber optic networks. SONET is short for Synchronous Optical NETwork and SDH is an acronym for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy. SONET is the United States version of the standard and SDH is the international version. SONET defines a base rate of 51.84 Mbps and a set of multiples of the base rate known as "Optical Carrier levels." (OCx). Speeds approaching 40 gigabits per second are possible.
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is comprised of digital telephony and data-transport services offered by regional telephone carriers. ISDN involves the digitalization of the telephone network, which permits voice, data, text, graphics, music, video, and other source materials to be transmitted over existing telephone wires. There are 2 types of ISDN channels:
B (bearer) - Transfers data at 64Kbps. An ISDN usually contains 2 B channels for a total of 128kbps.
D (data) - Handles signalling at either 16Kbps or 64Kbps(sometimes limited to 56Kbps) which enables the B channel to strictly pass data
Up to 56 Kbps
Twisted-pair, coaxial, or optical fiber
256Kbps to 24Mbps (ADSL 2+)
512 Kbps to 52 Mbps
1gbps (avg 1-5mbps)
Twisted-pair, coaxial, or optical fiber
Packet and Circuit Switching - Packet switching refers to protocols in which messages are divided into packets before they are sent. Each packet is then transmitted individually and can even follow different routes to its destination. Once all the packets forming a message arrive at the destination, they are recompiled into the original message. Most modern Wide Area Network (WAN) protocols, including TCP/IP and Frame Relay are based on packet-switching technologies. In contrast, normal telephone service is based on a circuit-switching technology, in which a dedicated line is allocated for transmission between two parties. Circuit-switching is ideal when data must be transmitted quickly and must arrive in the same order in which it is sent. This is the case with most real-time data, such as live audio and video. Packet switching is more efficient and robust for data that can withstand some delays in transmission, such as e-mail messages and Web pages.
Domain 2.6: LAN Technology Types and Properties
Ethernet - Ethernet is the most widely-installed local area network ( LAN) technology. Specified in a standard, IEEE 802.3, Ethernet was originally developed by Xerox from an earlier specification called Alohanet (for the Palo Alto Research Center Aloha network) and then developed further by Xerox, DEC, and Intel. Early ethernet networks uses coaxial connections. The most common types currently use twisted pair cabling, however, fiber optic cabling is becoming much more common as standards and speeds increase. Below are some of the ethernet standards:
Category 3 or better UTP cable
100 meters (328 ft)
Cat 5 twisted pair
100 meters (328 ft)
CAT5e or higher
100 meters (328 ft)
Laser over fiber
Up to 5000 meters
Short wavelength laser over fiber
Up to 550 meters
Twinax or short haul copper
9-Pin shielded D-subminiature connector, or
8-pin ANSI fiber channel type 2 (HSSC) connector.
Shortwave laser over multi-mode fiber optics
Laser over single-mode fiber optics
Laser over either single or multi-mode fiber
Shortwave laser over multi-mode fiber optics
Laser over single-mode fiber optics
Laser over either single or multi-mode fiber
Cat 5e (or higher) twisted pair
100 meters (328 ft)
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) - In the early days of ethernet, when two hosts would send packets at the same time, a collision would occur. A standard had to be created that would have the hosts follow rules relating to when they could send data and when they could not. This standard is Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection, referred to as CSMA/CD. CSMA/CD forces computers to “listen” to the wire before sending in order to make sure that no other host on the wire is sending. If a collision is detected, both of the senders will send a jam signal over the Ethernet. This jam signal indicates to all other devices on the Ethernet segment that there has been a collision, and they should not send data onto the wire. How Ethernet CSMA/CD Works
Bonding (AKA Link Aggregation, Port Trunking, EtherChannel, etc.) - Uses multiple network cables/ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single cable or port, and to increase the redundancy for higher availability.
Domain 2.7: Common Logical Network Topologies
Peer to Peer - A peer to peer network is one in which lacks a dedicated server and every computer acts as both a client and a server. This is a good networking solution when there are 10 or less users that are in close proximity to each other. A peer to peer network can be a security nightmare, because the people setting permissions for shared resources will be users rather than administrators and the right people may not have access to the right resources. More importantly the wrong people may have access to the wrong resources, thus, this is only recommended in situations where security is not an issue. P2P file sharing networks work under a similar architecture, however, there are differences between them and the LAN networking architecture.
Client/Server - This type of network is designed to support a large number of users and uses dedicated server/s to accomplish this. Clients log in to the server/s in order to run applications or obtain files. Security and permissions can be managed by 1 or more administrators which who set permissions to the servers' resources. This type of network also allows for convenient backup services, reduces network traffic and provides a host of other services that come with the network operating system.
VPN - A virtual private network is one that uses a public network (usually the Internet) to connect remote sites or users together. Companies use site to site VPN to support critical applications to connect offices to remote users. Instead of using a dedicated, real-world connection such as leased line, a VPN uses "virtual" connections routed through the Internet from the company's private network to the remote site or employee.
VLAN - A virtual LAN is a local area network with a definition that maps workstations on a basis other than geographic location (for example, by department, type of user, or primary application). The virtual LAN controller can change or add workstations and manage load-balancing and bandwidth allocation more easily than with a physical picture of the LAN. Network management software keeps track of relating the virtual picture of the local area network with the actual physical picture.
Domain 2.8: Install components of Wiring Distribution
Vertical Cross Connect – is a location within a building where cables originate and / or are terminated, reconnected using jumpers or pass throughs or are connected to patch panels or other similar devices where the locations are from upper or lower floors in the building. These cables could be of multiple different types and mediums such as phone networks, data lines, copper based, fiber channel, etc.
Horizontal Cross Connect – similar to Vertical Cross Connect locations; these are within a building where cables originate and / or are terminated but these locations are all on the same floor or building level. As with Vertical Cross Connect configurations, these locations can be of multiple different network types and mediums.
Patch Panel – wall or rack mounted collection of data connections where all of the network media converges. These rooms are generally some form of telecommunications closet in a facility and it is used to connect all of the different types of incoming and outgoing media types on the LAN. When they all span the same floor of a building they are sometimes referred to as Horizontal Cross Connect locations and when they span different levels of a location / different floors of a building they are sometimes referred to as Vertical Cross Connect locations. The main Patch Panel room will often be the connection point for the LAN to be connected to the WAN and / or the internet.
66 Block – is a legacy type of punch down block used to connect sets of 22 through 26 American Wire Gauge (AWG) solid copper wire in a telephone system. They have a 25-pair standard non-split capacity and generally are unsuited for traffic and data network communications above 10 megabits per second (Mbps).
Main Distribution Frame (MDF) – is a wire distribution frame for connecting equipment inside a facility to cables and subscriber carrier equipment outside of the facility. One example of this is where all of the phone cabling inside a facility is run to planned phone locations (e.g. offices) back to the MDF. When the local telephone company makes the external connections then all circuits are completed.
Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) – is another place much like a Horizontal Cross Connect location or a Vertical Cross Connect location where network administrators can physically change the network media around and where they can house other needed network equipment such as routers, switches, repeaters and so forth.
25 Pair – is a grouping of 25 pairs of wires all inside a single covering / housing or outer insulation casing. It is best suited for telephone / voice cable runs rather than data cable runs and is generally used as a feeder cable.
100 Pair – is a larger cabling segment to its 25 pair cousin but used in the same manner; all of the 100 pairs of wires are inside a single covering / housing or outer insulation casing. It is best suited for telephone / voice cable runs rather than data cable runs and is generally used as a feeder cable.
110 Block – is the more modern replacement of the legacy 66 Block and is used as a wiring distribution point for wired telephone systems (voice) and other types of wired networking (data). On one side of the block wires are punched down into RJ-11 connectors for voice and RJ-45 connectors for data communications.
Demarc – is the point of operational and administrative control change in a network. One example of this is the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) point in a facility. This is where the wire distribution frame for connecting equipment inside a facility to cables and subscriber carrier equipment outside of the facility occurs and this is considered a demarcation point of the operational control of the internal systems where it changes over to the control of the external presence.
Demarc Extension – where the end of the line of the external administrative control is extended beyond that actual endpoint. Example – you are one business inside of a large high rise building on the 15th floor only and the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) point is on the ground floor. Your responsibility probably ends at the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) on your floor and the external administration (example – Phone Company) ends at the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) on the ground floor. The building administration owns all the cabling responsibility between the Main Distribution Frame (MDF) on the ground floor and your Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) on your floor. That cabling is effectively the Demarc Extension
Smart Jack – is a network connection device that is used to connect your internal network to an external service provider network. The device handles all of the code and protocol differences between the two networks and is often the actual demarcation point between the two service entities.
Wiring Installation – is the physical installation of internal wiring in a facility. This may be the pulls of copper phone and data lines to the running of fiber optic medium from the different cross connect locations.
Wiring Termination – is the end point of networked cable runs that will generally end either in a patch panel or a jack location in an office. This has historically been the copper wire runs associated with phone lines to the RJ-11 jacks / blocks to the data lines on the RJ-45 connections. Wire termination is also a consideration on fiber optic pulls as well which requires a higher set of skill level.
Domain 3.0: Network Devices
Domain 3.1: Common Network Devices
Hub - A physical layer network device used to connect multiple Ethernet devices together. Active hubs act as a repeater and boost the signal in order to allow for it to travel farther, while passive hubs simply pass the signal through. Most hubs have an uplink port that allows them to connect to other hubs, a router, or other network devices.
Repeater: - A physical layer device that boosts signals in order to allow a signal to travel farther and prevent attenuation. Attentuation is the degradation of a signal as it travels farther from its origination. Repeaters do not filter packets and will forward broadcasts. Both segments must use the same access method, which means that you can't connect a token ring segment to an Ethernet segment. Repeaters can connect different cable types as shown in the image.
Modem - The modem is a device that converts digital information to analog by MODulating it on the sending end and DEModulating the analog information into digital information at the receiving end. Most modern modems are internal, however, they can be internal or external. External modems are connected to the back of the system board via a RS-232 serial connection. Internal modems are installed in one of the motherboard's PCI or ISA expansion slots depending on the modem. The modem contains an RJ-11 connection that is used to plug in the telephone line. Modems have different transmission modes as follows:
Simplex - Signals can be passed in one direction only.
Half Duplex - Half duplex means that signals can be passed in either direction, but not in both simultaneously. Half-duplex modems can work in full-duplex mode.
Full Duplex - Full duplex means that signals can be passed in either direction simultaneously.
Modems can also be classified by their speed which is measured by the BAUD rate. One baud is one electronic state change per second. Since a single state change can involve more than a single bit of data, the Bits Per Second(BPS) unit of measurement has replaced it as a better expression of data transmission speed. Common modem speeds are V.34 at 28.8 kbps, V.34+ at 33.6 kbps and V.90 at 56 Kbps.
Network Interface Card - A Network Interface Card, often abbreviated as NIC, is an expansion board you insert into a computer so the computer can be connected to a network. Most NICs are designed for a particular type of network, protocol and media, although some can serve multiple networks.
Media Converters - simple networking devices that make it possible to connect two dissimilar media types such as twisted pair with fiber optic cabling. They were introduced to the industry nearly two decades ago, and are important in interconnecting fiber optic cabling-based systems with existing copper-based, structured cabling systems. They are also used in MAN access and data transport services to enterprise customers. Fiber media converters support many different data communication protocols including Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1/J1, DS3/E3, as well as multiple cabling types such as coax, twisted pair, multi-mode and single-mode fiber optics. Media converter types range from small standalone devices and PC card converters to high port-density chassis systems that offer many advanced features for network management.
Switch - A switch is a network device that filters and forwards packets between LAN segments and ensures that data goes straight from its origin to its proper destination. Switches remember the address of every node on the network, and anticipate where data needs to go. A switch only operates with the computers on the same LAN. This reduces competition for bandwidth between devices on the network. It isn't smart enough to send data out to the internet, or across a WAN. These functions require a router.
Bridge - Functions the same as a repeater, but can also divide a network in order to reduce traffic problems. A bridge can also connect unlike network segments (ie. token ring and ethernet). Bridges create routing tables based on the source address. If the bridge can't find the source address it will forward the packets to all segments. Bridging methods:
Transparent - Only one bridge is used.
Source-Route - Bridging address tables are stored on each PC on the network
Spanning Tree - Prevents looping where there exists more than one path between segments
Wireless Access Point - A Wireless Access Point is a radio frequency transceiver which allows your wireless devices to connect to a network. The WAP usually connects to a wired network, and can relay data between the wireless devices (such as computers or printers) and wired devices on the network. A wireless access point will support up to 32 wireless devices. The range of the wireless signal depends greatly on obstructions such as walls. For more information about wireless standards, see domain 1.7.
Router - Functioning at the network later of the OSI model, a router is similar to a switch, but it can also connect different logical networks or subnets and enable traffic that is destined for the networks on the other side of the router to pass through. Routers create or maintain a table of the available routes and can be configured to use various routing protocols to determine the best route for a given data packet. Routers can connect networks that use disimilar protocols. Routers also typically provide improved security functions over a switch.
Firewall - Either a hardware or software entity (or a combination of both) that protects a network by stopping network traffic from passing through it. In most cases, a firewall is placed on the network to allow all internal traffic to leave the network (email to the outside world, web access, etc.), but stop unwanted traffic from the outside world from entering the internal network. This is achieved by granting and denying access to resources based on a set of configurable rules.
DHCP Server - A server that is responsible for assiging unique IP address to the computers on a network. A DHCP server prevents the assignment of duplicate IP addresses to clients and reduces administrative effort in network configuration. A DHCP server is actually more of a service that is found on network operating systems such as Windows 2002/2008 server, or on network devices such as routers.
Domain 3.2: Specialized Network Devices
Multilayer Switch - A multilayer switch (MLS) is a computer networking device that switches on OSI layer 2 like an ordinary network switch and provides extra functions on higher OSI layers. Some MLSs are also able to route between VLAN and/or ports like a common router. The routing is normally as quick as switching (at wirespeed). Some switches can use up to OSI layer 7 packet information; they are called layer 4-7 switches, content-switches, web-switches or application-switches.
Content Switch - The main function of a content switch is to inspect the network data that it receives so that it can decide where on the network that data (or request) needs to be forwarded to. Once this is determined the data is sent to the appropriate server which can handle the data. In most cases the switch looks to see what type of application or software the request is targeted at. It does this by looking to see what port the requests is directed at. For example if the data is targeted at an ftp port then the request will be sent to an ftp sever. The main benefit of this approach is that the switch acts as a load balancer as it can balance data or requests across the different type of application servers used by the business. A second major function that this type of switch can perform is to look at the incoming requests and see which websites are targeted. This is important for large enterprises or hosting companies. If for example a web hosting company was hosting several thousand websites the switch could direct requests to the specific servers that the websites are running on. These devices tend to be very expensive.
IDS/IPS - These terms stand for Intrusion Detection System and Intrusion Prevention System respectively. IDS is a device (or application) that monitors network and/or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations. IDS is a passive system that gives alerts when something suspicious is detected and logs the events into a database for reporting. IPS, on the other hand, sits inline with traffic flows on a network, actively shutting down attempted attacks as they’re sent over the wire. It can stop the attack by terminating the network connection or user session originating the attack, by blocking access to the target from the user account, IP address, or other attribute associated with that attacker, or by blocking all access to the targeted host, service, or application. Vendors are increasingly combining the two technologies into a single box, now referred to as IDPS. These devices are used with, not instead of, a firewall.
Load Balancer - A load balancer is a hardware and/or software solution that provides load balancing services. Load balancing is used to distribute workloads evenly across two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload. Using multiple components with load balancing, instead of a single component, may increase reliability through redundancy. As an example, Google receives many, many more search requests than a single server could handle, so they distribute the requests across a massive array of servers.
Mutlifunction Network Devices - As you might guess, multifunction network devices combine the function of individual devices into a single unit. An example is wireless access points which often include one or more of the following: firewall, DHCP server, wireless access point, switch, gateway, and router.
DNS Server - DNS is an Internet and networking service that translates domain names into IP addresses. The internet is based on numerical IP addresses, but we use domain names because they are easier to remember. DNS is the service that looks up the IP address for a domain name allowing a connection to be made. This process is very similar to calling information. You call them with a name, they check their database and give you the phone number. The DNS service is included with server operating systems (Windows 2003/2008, Linux, etc.) and network devices such as routers.
Bandwidth Shaper - Describes the mechanisms used to control bandwidth usage on the network. Bandwidth shaping is typically done using software installed on a network server. From this server, administrators can control who uses bandwidth, for what, and when. Bandwidth shaping establishes priorities to data traveling to and from the Internet and within the network.
A bandwidth shaper essentially performs two key functions: monitoring and shaping. Monitoring includes identifying where bandwidth usage is high and at what time of day. After that information is obtained, administrators can customize or shape bandwidth usage for the best needs of the network. I am unaware why CompTIA listed this in the "network devices" section of their objectives, but bandwidth shapers are typically software.
Proxy Server - A proxy server acts as a middle-man between clients and the Internet providing security, administrative control, and caching services. When a user makes a request for an internet service and it passes filtering requirements, the proxy server looks in its local cache of previously downloaded web pages. If the item is found in cache, the proxy server forwards it to the client. This reduces bandwidth through the gateway. If the page is not in the cache, the proxy server will request the page from the appropriate server. Nowadays, the functions of proxy servers are often built into firewalls.
CSU/DSU - A Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit (CSU/DSU) acts as a translator between the LAN data format and the WAN data format. Such a conversion is necessary because the technologies used on WAN links are different from those used on LANs. Although CSU/DSU's look similar to modems, they are not modems, and they don't modulate or demodulate between analog and digital. All they really do is interface between a 56K, T1, or T3 line and serial interface (typically a V.35 connector) that connects to the router. Many newer routers have CSU/DSUs built into them.
Domain 3.3: Advanced Features of a Switch
PoE - Generally speaking, Power over Ethernet technology describes a system to safely pass electrical power, along with data, on Ethernet cabling. Standard versions of PoE specify category 5 cable or higher. Power can come from a power supply within a PoE-enabled networking device such as an Ethernet switch or from a device built for "injecting" power onto the Ethernet cabling. IP Phones, LAN access points, and WiFi switches to RFID readers and network security cameras. All of these require more power than USB offers and very often must be powered over longer runs of cable than USB permits. In addition, PoE uses only one type of connector, an 8P8C (RJ45), whereas there are four different types of USB connectors.
Spanning Tree Protocol - Spanning Tree is one of three bridging methods a network administrator can use. Which method you use usually will be determined by the network’s size. The simplest method is transparent bridging, where only one bridge or switch exists on the network. The next is Source-Route, in which bridging address tables are stored on each PC on the network. Then there’s what you came for, spanning tree, which prevents loops where there exists more than one path between segments. STP was upgraded to Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP).
VLAN - A broadcast domain is normally created by the router. With VLAN’s, a switch can create the broadcast domain. This allows a virtual network, independent of physical location to be created.
Trunking - VLANs are local to each switch's database, and VLAN information is not passed between switches. Trunk links provide VLAN identification for frames traveling between switches. The VLAN trunking protocol (VTP) is the protocol that switches use to communicate among themselves about VLAN configuration.
Port Mirroring - Used on a network switch to send a copy of network packets seen on one switch port (or an entire VLAN) to a network monitoring connection on another switch port. This is commonly used for network appliances that require monitoring of network traffic, such as an intrusion-detection system.
Port Authentication - The IEEE 802.1x standard defines 802.1x port-based authentication as a client-server based access control and authentication protocol that restricts unauthorized clients from connecting to a LAN through publicly accessible ports. The authentication server validates each client connected to a switch port before making available any services offered by the switch or the LAN.
Domain 3.4: Implement a Basic Wireless Network
Install Client – the actual steps taken to set up a computer, laptop or other network connected device to the network. This may be in the form of just getting it correctly configured to use TCP/IP or more involved such as installing a software suite so that specific network parameters can be leveraged for proper connectivity to network resources or resources on the domain.
Network Connections Dialog Box – used to configure different aspects of the network connections by way of a graphical user interface (GUI) within the Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Server 2003, etc). With respect to peer to peer networks, you can use the Network Tasks pane to Create a New Connection, Set up a Home or small office network as well as change the Windows Firewall settings and view available wireless networks.
Wireless Network Connection Dialog Box – the graphical user interface (GUI) within the Microsoft Windows operating systems used to configure the wireless devices and their settings. On the General tab you can configure the specific hardware settings (parameters, drivers, etc) as well as the protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) and the network client that the device will use (e.g. Client for Microsoft Networks). Additionally, you can install services from this screen as well (e.g. Virtual Machine Network Service). The Wireless Networks tab will show you the available networks and allow you to configure preference for each of the networks encountered.
Access Point Placement – correctly positioning your Wireless Access Points will allow for the seamless use of wireless devices on your network. By correctly placing the devices, users will not generally experience signal loss of their connection to the network. It is important to understand that there are many things that affect the wireless access point signal with respect to broadcast and receiving strength that include the construction and architecture of the building where the devices are distributed as well as general disruption of the frequency range that the access points operate on by other devices (e.g. microwave ovens, cordless phones, etc).
Physical Locations of Wireless Access Points (WAPs) – device placement best practices include planning for more than just nominal half distances between devices. Consideration needs to be given to what type of obstructions may be currently in the way (physical fire breaks in between walls; metal superstructure, etc) as well as future plans to subdivide offices. Electrical motors and other higher current carrying lines need to be considered as well to keep interference to a minimum.
Wired or Wireless Connectivity – planning for WAP to WAP connections only or a mix of wired and wireless connections. It’s easier to connect WAP to WAP in a daisy chain signal relay configuration but when you do this you need to realize that a physical failure in one WAP device may take out all the devices. It is more work and it costs more in time money and effort to connect the WAPs using wired connections back to a switch or a router but it greatly reduces the potential connectively loss on the network; the loss of a single WAP where the WAPs are wired back results in only impacting the users of that one WAP instead of all WAPs up and downstream.
Install Access Point – another term for the Wireless Access Point(s) that will allow you to correctly gain access to the network with your device. This point onto the network will allow the client device to configure itself with the necessary encryption (if required) and any other network required settings or else risk being defaulted off the network.
Configuring Encryption – with respect to wireless clients these are the settings most commonly used. Disabled simply means that everything is passed as clear text. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the lowest form of the types of encryption available and is generally only used today to allow legacy devices that cannot handle more robust encryption protocols to gain somewhat secured access to the network. WEP has been challenged and defeated for a number of years mainly due to the increase in computing power and the fact that the keys are alphanumeric or hexadecimal characters that are configured in 40 bit, 64 bit, 128 bit, 153 bit and 256 bit strength. Wi Fi Protected Access (WPA) was created by the Wi-Fi Alliance to better secure wireless networks and was created in response to the weaknesses researchers found in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) is used in WPA to encrypt the authentication and encryption information that was initially passed on the wire in clear text before a network node could secure its communications on the network. Wi Fi Protected Access version 2 (WPA2) offers additional protection because it uses the strongest authentication and encryption algorithms available in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Configuring Channels and Frequencies – most wireless routers work in the 2.4GHz frequency range and require network administrators to set up the channels for the devices to use. 1, 6 and 11 are the main channels used because they generally will not be interfered with from other devices such as cordless phones and Bluetooth devices that also work at this frequency range.
Setting ESSID and Beacon – Extended Service Set identifier (ESSID) is the “advertisement” from the Wireless Access Point that basically announces its availability for network devices to make a connection. The announcement signal that is sent out is called the beacon.
Verifying Installation - the process that is outlined for making sure that all the settings needed to connect a network node to the wireless device. The best practice steps generally include on initial installation of the Wireless Access Point (WAP) to do so without any security to verify that a client can get on the network. Once that is successful you would then incorporate the security protocol that you wanted to use and to make sure the client can operate on the network again. Once this is successfully done it is assumed all other network nodes would be able to successfully repeat the same steps to access the network securely and with the traffic encrypted.
Domain 4.0: Network Management
Domain 4.1: OSI Model
The OSI networking model is divided into 7 layers. Each layer has a different responsibility, and all the layers work together to provide network data communication.
Represents user applications, such as software for file transfers, database access, and e-mail. It handles general network access, flow control, and error recovery. Provides a consistent neutral interface for software to access the network and advertises the computers resources to the network.
Determines data exchange formats and translates specific files from the Application layer format into a commonly recognized data format. It provides protocol conversion, data translation, encryption, character-set conversion, and graphics-command expansion.
Handles security and name recognition to enable two applications on different computers to communicate over the network. Manages dialogs between computers by using simplex(rare), half-duplex or full-duplex. The phases involved in a session dialog are as follows: establishment, data-transfer and termination.
Provides flow control, error handling, and is involved in correction of transmission/reception problems. It also breaks up large data files into smaller packets, combines small packets into larger ones for transmission, and reassembles incoming packets into the original sequence.
Addresses messages and translates logical addresses and names into physical addresses. It also manages data traffic and congestion involved in packet switching and routing. It enables the option of specifying a service address (sockets, ports) to point the data to the correct program on the destination computer.
The interface between the upper "software" layers and the lower "hardware" Physical layer. One of its main tasks is to create and interpret different frame types based on the network type in use. The Data Link layer is divided into two sub-layers: the Media Access Control (MAC) sub-layer and the Logical Link Control (LLC) sub-layer.
LLC sub-layer starts maintains connections between devices (e.g. server - workstation).
MAC sub-layer enables multiple devices to share the same medium. MAC sub-layer maintains physical device (MAC) addresses for communicating locally (the MAC address of the nearest router is used to send information onto a WAN).
The specification for the hardware connection, the electronics, logic circuitry, and wiring that transmit the actual signal. It is only concerned with moving bits of data on and off the network medium. Most network problems occur at the Physical layer.
Here is an idiotic, yet easy way to remember the 7 layers. Memorize the following sentence: All People Seem To Need Data Processing. The first letter of each word corresponds to the first letter of the layers starting with Application and ending with the physical layer.
Domain 4.3: Evaluate the Network Based on Configuration Management Documentation
The topics covered in this section are either already covered elsewhere, or are too expansive for the purposes of this guide. Consult your book(s) for more information about these topics.
Domain 4.4: Conduct Network Monitoring to Identify Performance and Connectivity Issues
The topics covered in this section are either already covered elsewhere, or are too expansive for the purposes of this guide. Consult your book(s) for more information about these topics.
Domain 4.5: Explain Different Methods and Rationales for Network Performance Optimization
Quality of Service - (QoS) is a set of parameters that controls the level of quality provided to different types of network traffic. QoS parameters include the maximum amount of delay, signal loss, noise that can be accommodated for a particular type of network traffic, bandwidth priority, and CPU usage for a specific stream of data. These parameters are usually agreed upon by the transmitter and the receiver. Both the transmitter and the receiver enter into an agreement known as the Service Level Agreement (SLA). In addition to defining QoS parameters, the SLA also describes remedial measures or penalties to be incurred in the event that the ISP fails to provide the QoS promised in the SLA.
Traffic Shaping (also known as "packet shaping" or ITMPs: Internet Traffic Management Practices) is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, increase/decrease latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth by delaying packets that meet certain criteria. More specifically, traffic shaping is any action on a set of packets (often called a stream or a flow) which imposes additional delay on those packets such that they conform to some predetermined constraint (a contract or traffic profile).Traffic shaping provides a means to control the volume of traffic being sent into a network in a specified period (bandwidth throttling), or the maximum rate at which the traffic is sent (rate limiting), or more complex criteria such as GCRA. This control can be accomplished in many ways and for many reasons; however traffic shaping is always achieved by delaying packets. Traffic shaping is commonly applied at the network edges to control traffic entering the network, but can also be applied by the traffic source (for example, computer or network cardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping - cite_note-2) or by an element in the network. Traffic policing is the distinct but related practice of packet dropping and packet marking.
Load Balancing - is a technique to distribute workload evenly across two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload. Using multiple components with load balancing, instead of a single component, may increase reliability through redundancy. The load balancing service is usually provided by a dedicated program or hardware device (such as a multilayer switch or a DNS server).
High Availability - (aka Uptime) refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time. Availability can be measured relative to "100% operational" or "never failing." A widely-held but difficult-to-achieve standard of availability for a system or product is known as "five 9s" (99.999 percent) availability.
Since a computer system or a network consists of many parts in which all parts usually need to be present in order for the whole to be operational, much planning for high availability centers around backup and failover processing and data storage and access. For storage, a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is one approach. A more recent approach is the storage area network (SAN).
Some availability experts emphasize that, for any system to be highly available, the parts of a system should be well-designed and thoroughly tested before they are used. For example, a new application program that has not been thoroughly tested is likely to become a frequent point-of-breakdown in a production system.
Cache Engine - (aka server) is a dedicated network server or service acting as a server that saves Web pages or other Internet content locally. By placing previously requested information in temporary storage, or cache, a cache server both speeds up access to data and reduces demand on an enterprise's bandwidth. Cache servers also allow users to access content offline, including media files or other documents. A cache server is sometimes called a "cache engine."
A cache server is almost always also a proxy server, which is a server that "represents" users by intercepting their Internet requests and managing them for users. Typically, this is because enterprise resources are being protected by a firewall server. That server allows outgoing requests to go out but screens all incoming traffic. A proxy server helps match incoming messages with outgoing requests. In doing so, it is in a position to also cache the files that are received for later recall by any user. To the user, the proxy and cache servers are invisible; all Internet requests and returned responses appear to be coming from the addressed place on the Internet. (The proxy is not quite invisible; its IP address has to be specified as a configuration option to the browser or other protocol program.)
Fault-tolerance - describes a computer system or component designed so that, in the event that a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no loss of service. Fault tolerance can be provided with software, or embedded in hardware, or provided by some combination.
In the software implementation, the operating system provides an interface that allows a programmer to "checkpoint" critical data at pre-determined points within a transaction. In the hardware implementation (for example, with Stratus and its VOS operating system), the programmer does not need to be aware of the fault-tolerant capabilities of the machine.
At a hardware level, fault tolerance is achieved by duplexing each hardware component. Disks are mirrored. Multiple processors are "lock-stepped" together and their outputs are compared for correctness. When an anomaly occurs, the faulty component is determined and taken out of service, but the machine continues to function as usual.
Parameters Influencing QOS
Bandwidth - is the average number of bits that can be transmitted from the source to a destination over the network in one second.
Latency - (AKA "lag") is the amount of time it takes a packet of data to move across a network connection. When a packet is being sent, there is "latent" time, when the computer that sent the packet waits for confirmation that the packet has been received. Latency and bandwidth are the two factors that determine your network connection speed. Latency in a packet-switched network is measured either one-way (the time from the source sending a packet to the destination receiving it), or round-trip (the one-way latency from source to destination plus the one-way latency from the destination back to the source). Round-trip latency is more often quoted, because it can be measured from a single point. Note that round trip latency excludes the amount of time that a destination system spends processing the packet. Many software platforms provide a service called ping that can be used to measure round-trip latency. Ping performs no packet processing; it merely sends a response back when it receives a packet (i.e. performs a no-op), thus it is a relatively accurate way of measuring latency.
Where precision is important, one-way latency for a link can be more strictly defined as the time from the start of packet transmission to the start of packet reception. The time from the start of packet transmission to the end of packet transmission at the near end is measured separately and called serialization delay. This definition of latency depends on the throughput of the link and the size of the packet, and is the time required by the system to signal the full packet to the wire.
Some applications, protocols, and processes are sensitive to the time it takes for their requests and results to be transmitted over the network. This is known as latency sensitivity. Examples of latency sensitive applications include VOIP, video conferencing, and online games. In a VOIP deployment, high latency can mean an annoying and counterproductive delay between a speaker’s words and the listener’s reception of those words. Network management techniques such as QoS, load balancing, traffic shaping, and caching can be used individually or combined to optimize the network and reduce latency for sensitive applications. By regularly testing for latency and monitoring those devices that are susceptible to latency issues, you can provide a higher level of service to end users.
Jitter - Jitter is the deviation in or displacement of some aspect of the pulses in a high-frequency digital signal. As the name suggests, jitter can be thought of as shaky pulses. The deviation can be in terms of amplitude, phase timing, or the width of the signal pulse. Another definition is that it is "the period frequency displacement of the signal from its ideal location." Among the causes of jitter are electromagnetic interference (EMI) and crosstalk with other signals. Jitter can cause a display monitor to flicker; affect the ability of the processor in a personal computer to perform as intended; introduce clicks or other undesired effects in audio signals, and loss of transmitted data between network devices. The amount of allowable jitter depends greatly on the application.
Packet Loss - is the failure of one or more transmitted packets to arrive at their destination. This event can cause noticeable effects in all types of digital communications.
The effects of packet loss:
In text and data, packet loss produces errors.
In videoconference environments it can create jitter.
In pure audio communications, such as VoIP, it can cause jitter and frequent gaps in received speech.
In the worst cases, packet loss can cause severe mutilation of received data, broken-up images, unintelligible speech or even the complete absence of a received signal.
The causes of packet loss include inadequate signal strength at the destination, natural or human-made interference, excessive system noise, hardware failure, software corruption or overburdened network nodes. Often more than one of these factors is involved. In a case where the cause cannot be remedied, concealment may be used to minimize the effects of lost packets.
Echo - is when portions of the transmission are repeated. Echoes can occur during many locations along the route. Splices and improper termination in the network can cause a transmission packet to reflect back to the source, which causes the sound of an echo. To correct for echo, network technicians can introduce an echo canceller to the network design. This will cancel out the energy being reflected.
High Bandwidth Applications - A high bandwidth application is a software package or program that tends to require large amounts of bandwidth in order to fulfill a request. As demand for these applications continues to increase, bandwidth issues will become more frequent, resulting in degradation of a network system. One way to combat the effects of these applications on a network is to manage the amount of bandwidth allocated to them. This allows users to still use the applications without degrading the QoS of network services.
Voice over IP
Real Time Video
Domain 4.6: Implement the Following Network Troubleshooting Methodology
Gather Information on the Problem
In a contact center network, problems are typically discovered and reported by one of the following types of users:
External customers dialing into a call center to order products, obtain customer service, and so forth.
Internal agents receiving incoming calls from a call queue or initiating outbound collection calls to customers.
Internal users using administrative phones to call employees in other company locations or PSTN destinations, and perform basic actions such as call transfers and dialing into conferences.
As the network administrator, you must collect sufficient information from these users to allow you to isolate the problem. Detailed, accurate information will make this task easier. As you turn up your network, you may consider putting these questions in an on-line form. A form will encourage users to provide more details about the problem and also put them into the habit of looking for particular error messages and indicators. Capturing the information electronically will also permit you to retrieve and re-examine this information in the future, should the problem repeat itself.
Identify The Affected Area
Determine if the problem is limited to one workstation, or several workstations, one server, one segment, or the entire network. If only one person is experiencing a certain problem, the problem is most likely at the workstation. If groups of workstations are affected, the problem might lie at a part of the network that users all have in common, such as a particular software application or database, a server, the network segment, or the network configuration.
Determine If Anything Has Changed
To determine what has changed, ask question such as:
Could you do this task before? If this is a new task, perhaps the user needs different sysetm permissions, or additional hardware of software.
If you could do it before, when did you first notice you couldn’t do it anymore? Try do find out what happened just before the problem came up, or at least try to pinpoint the time, since the source of the problem might be related to other changes elsewhere on the network.
What has changed since the last time you were able to do this task? Users can give you information about events that mightaffect their local systems. You can help them with leading questions such as, ”Did someone add something to your computer?” or “Did you do something differently this time?”.
Establish The Most Probable Cause
T o establish the most probable cause, use a systematic approach. Eliminate possible causes, starting with the obvious and simplest one and working back through other causes. Do not overlook straightforward and smple corrections that can fix a range of problems and do not cost much time or effort to try. You might find you can resolve the issue on the spot.
Determine If Escalation Is Necessary
While troubleshooting a network problem, you might find the cause of the problem is not an issue that can be resolved over the phone or at the user’s desktop. It may be necessary to contact a fellow employee who has specialized knowledge, or a more senior administrator with the appropriate permissions and authoration. In these cases, the problem should be escalated to the appropriate personel to be resolved as quickly as possible.
Create an Action Plan and Solution, Identifying Potential Effect
Once you have determined the probable cause, you should create an action plan before changes are made, detailing each step taken while attempting to resolve the issue. One should also be certain that the original state (before troubleshooting) can be returned to in case things do not go as planned. Also consider the how the plan will affect the user or other aspects of the network. Thinking ahead can help ensure productivity doesn’t suffer and that downtime is minimized.
Implement and Test the Solution
Implement the action plan step by step to fix the problem. If multiple changes are made at once, you will be unable to verify exactly what effect each adjustment had. Be sure to document each step because you can lose sight of what you have tried in complex troubleshooting scenarios.
Test the solution. Make sure the solution implemented actually solves the problem and didn’t cause any new ones. Use several options and situations to conduct the tests. Sometimes testing over time is needed to ensure the solution is the correct one.
Identify the Results and Effects of the Solution
Verify that the user agrees that the problem is solved before you proceed with final documentation and closing the request. Even if the problem is solved, and the solution was well thought- out and documented, there might cascading effects elsewhere on the local system or on the network. Test for this before closing out the issue. If a major change was made, it is advisable to continue monitoring and testing for several days or even weeks after the problem appears to be resolved.
Document the Process and Solution
Document the problem and process used to arrived at the solution. Maintain the records as part of an overall documentation plan. This will provide and ever-growing database of information specific to your network and also it will be valuable reference material for future troubleshooting instances….especially if the problem is specific to the organization. Creating a troubleshooting template with required information included in all trouble reports will ensure all trouble reports are accurate and consistent no matter who completes them.
Domain 4.7: Troubleshoot Common Connectivity Issues and Select an Appropriate Solution
Symptoms: Slow network performance and/or an excess of dropped or unintelligible packets. In telephony applications, users hear pieces of voice or conversations from a separate line.
Causes: Generally crosstalk occurs when two cables run in parallel and the signal of one cable interferes with the other. Crosstalk can also be caused by crossed or crushed wire pairs in twisted pair cabling.
Resolution: the use of twisted pair cabling or digital signal can reduce the effects of crosstalk. Maintaining proper distance between cables can also help.
Symptoms: Signal loss or interference
Causes: Near-end crosstalk is crosstalk that occurs closer along the cable to the transmitting end. Often occurs in or near the terminating connector.
Resolution: Test with cable tester from both ends of the cable and correct any crossed or crushed wires. Verify that the cable is terminated properly and that the twists in the pairs of wires are maintained.
Symptoms: Slow response from the network.
Causes: Attenuation is the degradation of signal strength.
Resolution: Use shorter cable runs, add more access points, and/or add repeaters and signal boosters to the cable path. Or, evaluate the environment for interference. The interference you would look for would depend on the spectrum used.
Symptoms: High latency, reduced network performance, and intermittent connectivity issues.
Causes: Collisions are a natural part of Ethernet networking as nodes attempt to access shred resources.
Resolution: Depends on the network. For example, replacing a hub with a switch will often solve the problem.
Symptoms: Electrical shorts—complete loss of signal.
Causes: Two nodes of an electrical circuit that are meant to be at different voltages create a low- resistance connection causing a short circuit.
Resolution: Use a TDR to detect and locate shorts. Replace cables and connectors with known working ones.
Open Impedance Mismatch
Symptoms: Also known as echo, the tell-tale sign of open mismatch is an echo on either the talker or listener end of the connection.
Causes: The mismatching of electrical resistance.
Resolution: Use a TDR to detect impedance. Collect and review data,interpret the symptoms, and determine the root cause in order to correct the cause.
Symptoms: Crackling, humming, and static are all signs of interference. Additionally, low throughput, network degradation, and poor voice quality are also symptoms of interference.
Causes: RFI can be caused by a number of devices including cordless phones, Blue-Tooth devices, cameras, paging systems, unauthorized access points, and clients in ad-hoc mode.
Resolution: Remove or avoid environmental interferences as much as possible. This may entail simply turning off competing devices. Ensure there is adequate LAN coverage. To resolve problems proactively, test areas prior to deployment using tools such as spectrum analyzers.
Symptoms: No or low speed connectivity between devices.
Causes: Ports are configured to operate at different speeds and are therefore incompatible with each other.
Resolution: Verify that equipment is compatible and operating at the highest compatible speeds. For example, if a switch is running at 100 Mbs, but a computer’s NIC card runs at10 Mbs, the computer will run at the slower speed (10 Mbs). Replace the card with one that runs at 100 Mbs and throughput will be increased to the higher level (or at least higher levels since there are variables such as network congestion, etc.)
Port Duplex Mismatch
Symptoms: Late collisions, alignment errors, and FCS errors are present during testing.
Causes: Mismatches are generally caused by configuration errors. These occur when the switch port and a device are configured to use a different duplex setting or when both ends are set to auto-negotiate the setting.
Resolution: Verify that the switch port and the device are configured to use the same duplex setting. This may entail having to upgrade one of the devices.
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: Devices are configured to use different VLAN’s
Resolution: Reconfigure devices to use the same VLAN.
Incorrect IP Address
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: Either the source or destination device has an incorrect IP address.
Resolution: Use the ping command to determine if there is connectivity between devices. Resolution will depend on the problem. If a network is running a rouge DHCP server, for example, two computers could have leased the same IP address. Check TCP/IP configuration information using ipconfig /all on Window machines and ifconfig on Linux/UNIX/Apple machines. In that case troubleshoot DHCP (it may be off line, etc.). It could be the case that a static IP address was entered incorrectly. Check IP addresses; empty the arp cache on both computers.
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: The IP address of the gateway is incorrect for the specified route.
Resolution: Change the IP address of the gateway to the correct address.
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: A device is configured to use the wrong DNS server.
Resolution: Open the network properties on a Windows machine. Open TCP/IP properties and check the IP address of the DNS server listed for the client. Put in the correct IP address. Test for connectivity.
Wrong Subnet Mask
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: Either the source or destination device has an incorrect subnet mask.
Resolution: Use the ping command to determine if there is connectivity between devices. Check the IP address on both devices. Change the incorrect subnet mask to a correct subnet mask. Test for connectivity.
Issues that should be ID’d but Escalated
Switching Loop: Need spanning tree protocol to ensure loop free topologies.
Routing Loop: Packets are routed in a circle continuously.
Route Problems: Packets don’t reach their intended destination. This could be caused by a number of things: configuration problems, convergence (in which you have to wait for the discovery process to complete), or a broken segment (a router is down, etc.).
Proxy arp: If mis-configured, DoS attacks can occur.
Broadcast Storms: The network becomes overwhelmed by constant broadcast traffic.
Wireless Connectivity Issues
Symptoms: Low throughput, network degradation, dropped packets, intermittent connectivity, and poor voice quality are all symptoms caused by interference.
Causes: RFI can be caused by cordless phones, Bluetooth devices, cameras, paging systems, unauthorized access points, metal building framing, and clients in ad-hoc mode.
Resolution: Remove or avoid environmental interferences as much as possible.
Symptoms: For wireless, if encryption levels between two devices (access point and client) do not match, connection is impossible. Similarly, if different encryption keys are used between to devices they can’t negotiate the key information for verification and decryption in order to initiate communication.
Causes: Improper configuration.
Resolution: Ensure that security settings match between and among devices.
Symptoms: Very slow speeds.
Causes: Interference from neighboring wireless network; congested network channel.
Resolution: Many wireless routers are set to auto configure the wireless channel. Try logging into the router and manually change the channel the wireless router is operating on.
Symptoms: No connectivity.
Causes: In wireless, devices must operate on the same frequency. A device for a 802.11a frequency can’t communicate with one designed for 802.11b.
Resolution: Deploy devices that operate on the same frequency.
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: Devices are configured to use different ESSIDs.
Resolution: Set the devices to use the same SSID. Ensure that the wireless client and the access point are the same. Note: SSIDs are case sensitive.
Symptoms: No connectivity between devices.
Causes: Devices are configured to use different standards such as 802.11a/b/g/n.
Resolution: Devices have to be chosen to work together. 802.11a, for example, is incompatible with 802.11b/g because the first operates at 5 GHz and the second at 2.4 GHz. O a 802.11g router could be set only for “g” mode and you are trying to connect with a 802.11b wireless card. Change the mode on the router.
Symptoms: Slow connection and low throughput.
Causes: The distance between two points may be to blame for this connectivity issue. The longer the distance between the two points the prominent the problem may become. Issues that can occur between the two points include latency, packet loss, retransmission, or transient traffic.
Resolution: I f the issue is with cabling, do not exceed distance limitations. If the issue is with wireless, you may need to increase coverage. Use a spectrum analyzer to determine coverage and signal strength.
Symptoms: No or low connectivity between devices.
Causes: Signal from device bounces off obstructions and is not received buy the receiving device.
Resolution: If possible, move one device or the other to avoid obstructions. Monitor performance and check for interference.
Incorrect Antenna Placement
Symptoms: No or low signal and connectivity.
Causes: The position of the access point’s antenna can negatively affect overall performance.
Resolution: Change the position of the antenna and monitor device performance.
Domain 5.0: Network Tools
Domain 5.1: Command Line Interface Tools
Traceroute - A command-line troubleshooting tool that enables you to view the route to a specified host. This will show how many hops the packets have to travel and how long it takes. In Windows operating systems, the command used is "tracert".
IPCONFIG - This command is used to view network settings from a Windows computer command line. Below are the ipconfig switches that can be used at a command prompt.
ipconfig /all will display all of your IP settings.
ipconfig /renew forces the DHCP server, if available to renew a lease.
ipconfig /release forces the release of a lease.
IFCONFIG - IFCONFIG is a Linux/Unix command line tool that is similar to IPCONFIG in Windows. Common uses for ifconfig include setting an interface's IP address and netmask, and disabling or enabling a given interface. At boot time, many UNIX-like operating systems initialize their network interfaces with shell-scripts that call ifconfig. As an interactive tool, system administrators routinely use the utility to display and analyze network interface parameters.
PING - PING (Packet InterNet Groper) is a command-line utility used to verify connections between networked devices. PING uses ICMP echo requests that behave similarly to SONAR pings. The standard format for the command is ping ip_address/hostname. If successful, the ping command will return replies from the remote host with the time it took to receive the reply. If unsuccessful, you will likely recieve and error message. This is one of the most important tools for determining network connectivity between hosts.
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) - A host PC must have the MAC and IP addresses of a remote host in order to send data to that remote host, and it's ARP that allows the local host to request the remost host to send the local host its MAC address through an ARP Request. Guide To ARP, IARP, RARP, and Proxy ARP
ARP PING (ARPING) - ARPING is a computer software tool that is used to discover hosts on a computer network. The program tests whether a given IP address is in use on the local network, and can get additional information about the device using that address. The arping tool is similar in function to ping, which probes hosts using the Internet Control Message Protocol at the Internet Layer (OSI Layer 3). Arping operates at the Link Layer (OSI Layer 2) using the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) for probing hosts on the local network (link) only, as ARP cannot be routed across gateways (routers). However, in networks employing repeaters that use proxy ARP, the arping response may be coming from such proxy hosts and not from the probed target.
NSLOOKUP - This is a command that queries a DNS server for machine name and address information. Originally written for Unix operating systems, this command is now available on Windows and other operating systems. To use nslookup, type "nslookup" followed by an IP address, a computer name, or a domain name. NSLOOKUP will return the name, all known IP addresses and all known aliases (which are just alternate names) for the identified machine. NSLOOKUP is a useful tool for troubleshooting DNS problems.
Hostname - The hostname command is used to show or set a computer's host name and domain name. It is one of the most basic of the network administrative utilities. A host name is a name that is assigned to a host (i.e., a computer connected to the network) that uniquely identifies it on a network and thus allows it to be addressed without using its full IP address. Domain names are user-friendly substitutes for numeric IP addresses.
Dig (domain information groper) - Dig is a Linux/Unix tool for interrogating DNS name servers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server(s) that were queried.
Mtr - Mtr is a Linux command line tool that combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
Route - The route command is used to display and manipulate a local routing table. Examples of its use include adding and deleting a static route. This tool is available in Unix, Linux and Windows.
NBTSTAT - Is a Windows utility used to troubleshoot connectivity problems between 2 computers communicating via NetBT, by displaying protocol statistics and current connections. NBTSTAT examines the contents of the NetBIOS name cache and gives MAC address.
NETSTAT - Is a Windows, Linux, and Unix command-line tool that displays network connections (both incoming and outgoing), routing tables, and a number of network interface statistics. It is used for finding problems in the network and to determine the amount of traffic on the network as a performance measurement.
Domain 5.2: Network Scanners
Packet Sniffers - A packet sniffer is a device or software used to capture packets traveling over a network connection. The packets are logged and can be decoded in order to provide information and statistics about the traffic on the network or network segment. These tools are used for troubleshooting difficult network problems, monitoring network traffic, and detecting intrusion attempts. Also known as Packet Analyzers.
Intrusion Detection Software - This was covered earlier in domain 3.1.
Intrusion Prevention Software - This was covered earlier in domain 3.1.
Port Scanners - A port scanner is a program designed to probe network hosts for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify running services on a host that can be exploited to gain access.
Domain 5.3: Hardware Tools
Cable Testers - Cable testers are electronic devices used to test a cable's integrity by checking for opens and shorts which can cause connectivity problems.
Protocol Analyzers - This tool is used to monitor network traffic and display packet and protocol statistics and information. As far as we're concerned, it is pretty much the same thing as a packet sniffer. Most tools sold today combine the functions of the listening device (packet sniffer) and the analytical device (packet analyzer).
Certifiers - Certifiers are a tool that tests cables in order to ensure that they will perform the job intended. This includes checking the speed loads that it can handle.
TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer) - Sends a signal down a cable and measures the distance that the signal travelled before bouncing back (like sonar). Used to find opens and shorts in cables.
OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) - Similar to the TDR above, however, this is used to test fiber optic cables with light.
Multimeter - A multimeter, also known as a volt/ohm meter, is an electronic measuring instrument used to measure voltage, current and resistance.
Toner Probe - Most will detect opens and shorts like a cable tester, but this tool is mainly used to locate the termination points of cables.
Butt Set - A portable telephone that connects to a line using alligator clips and is used to test telephone circuits.
Punch Down Tool - A punch down tool is used to connect cabling such as telephone and ethernet to wall jacks.
Cable Stripper - Fairly self explanatory. A tool used to strip the jackets off of cables in order to expose the wire that can be connected to connectors or wall jacks.
Snips - Special scissors used for cutting cable.
Voltage Event Recorder - Captures and logs electrical current information for devices which can then be accessed on a PC. Mostly used for mission critical devices such as those found in a hospital.
Temperature Monitor - We aren't entirely sure what CompTIA is referring to with this. There are all kinds of temperature monitors from CPU temperature monitoring software to devices that monitor the temperature of a server room.
Domain 6.0: Network Security
Domain 6.1: Hardware and Software Security Devices
The topics covered in this section are already covered elsewhere in this guide.
Domain 6.2: Firewalls
Application Layer vs. Network Layer – An application layer firewall works at the application layer of a protocol stack. (This is true for both the OSI model and the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)) Sometimes referred to as a proxy-based firewall or proxy server, it can be software running on a computer or server or as a stand-alone piece of hardware. The main function of the application layer firewall is to analyze traffic before passing it to a gateway point. A network layer firewall is sometimes referred to as a packet filter and these will operate at the network layer. The devices will not allow packets to pass the firewall unless they match the rule set as configured by the firewall administrator. Network layer firewalls can be either stateful or stateless.
Stateful vs. Stateless – Stateful firewalls maintain pertinent information about any active sessions they have will speed packet processing using this information. This might include source and destination IP address, UDP or TCP ports, and other details about the connection such as the session initiation, type of data transfer and so forth. With Stateful processing if a packet does not match a currently established connection, it will be evaluated according to the rule set for new connections. If it does match it will be allowed to pass without needing to be compared to the rule sets in use. Stateless firewalls treat all of the packets on the network in isolation and independently from all of the other traffic on the wire. They have no way to know if any given packet is part of an existing connection, is trying to establish a new connection, or is just a rogue packet.
Scanning Services – the process that is used by all firewalls to review the packets that are passing through them. Sometimes they will just review the header information or they may be configured to look at the data as well. More advanced firewalls might also combine virus detection and / or other forms of malware detection as part of their scanning process to halt the transmission of suspect packets through the device.
Content Filtering – generally used at the application level to restrict or prevent access to websites that are not approved for work use, to block sites with objectionable material, or on a corporate black list for one reason or another. Content could be filtered in many different ways from suspect keywords, images on the site, downloadable files present, or site content labeling as defined by the website host itself (e.g. an adult site that defines itself as such – the content filter would review the site content level and apply the filter).
Signature Identification – a method of indentifying certain types of traffic based on a known behavior of that traffic. A firewall would know based on the signature definition comparison whether the traffic should be allowed to pass as permitted (e.g. http traffic or DNS traffic) or whether to deny traffic (e.g. repeated attempts to connect to multiple systems from multiple sessions, appearing as a possible Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Zones – demarcation points from one network type to another. Networks internal to a company are considered internal zones or intranets. A network external to the internal network is generally considered “the internet” or external zones. If there is a network that the company manages that is not a part of the internal intranet but is in place between the intranet and the internet this is called the demilitarized zone or the DMZ. The main purpose of this zone is to act as an additional layer of security buffer between the intranet and the internet.
Domain 6.3: Network Access Security
ACL (Access Control List) - An ACL is a table in an operating system or network device (such as a router) that denies or allows access to resources.
MAC Filtering - This method controls access based on the unique MAC address assigned to all network devices.
IP Filtering - This method controls access based on the IP addresses (or a range of addresses) of network devices.
SSL VPN (Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network) - This is a VPN that runs on SSL and is accessible via https over a web browser. It allows users to establish secure remote access sessions from virtually any Internet connected browser. Unlike a traditional VPN, this method does not require the use of IPSec. The benefit of this solution is that it allows clients to access a corporate network from nearly anywhere which is not practical with a typical VPN.
VPN (Virtual Private Network) - A VPN is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. A VPN works by using the shared public infrastructure while maintaining privacy through security procedures and tunneling protocols such as the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) or IPSec. In effect, the protocols, by encrypting data at the sending end and decrypting it at the receiving end, send the data through a "tunnel" that cannot be "entered" by data that is not properly encrypted.
L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) - L2TP is an extension of the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) used on VPNs. L2TP merges the best features of two other tunneling protocols: PPTP from Microsoft and L2F from Cisco Systems. As a tunnelling protocol, L2TP does not include encryption, but is often used with IPsec provide VPN connections from remote users to a remote network.
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) - IPsec is a protocol suite that ensures confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of data communications across a public network by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a data stream. IPSEC is made of two different protocols: AH and ESP. AH (Authentication header) is responsible for authenticity and integrity, while ESP (Encapsulating Security payload) encrypts the payload. IPSec is often used in conjunction with L2TP on VPNs.
RAS (Remote Access Service) - RAS refers to any combination of hardware and software to enable remote access to a network. A RAS server is a specialized computer which aggregates multiple communication channels together. An example of this would be a server that dial-up users dial into. The term was originally coined by Microsoft during the Windows NT era and is now called Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS).
RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) - Originally released with Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services, RDP 4.0 allowed users to connect to a computer and remotely control (AKA Shadow) it. With the release of Windows Vista and upcoming Windows Longhorn, version 6.0 will allow one to connect to specific applications rather than the entire desktop of the remote computer. Remote Desktop allows systems administrators to remotely connect to a user's computer for technical support purposes, or connect to a server for maintenance and administration purposes. By default, RDP uses TCP port 3389.
PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) - In the past, most internet users were connected to the internet via a serial modem using PPP, however, current technologies have replaced dial-up internet connections with DSL and cable, for example. In short, PPPoE is a network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames in Ethernet frames.
PPP (Point to Point Protocol) - Provides a standard means of encapsulating data packets sent over a single-channel WAN link. Specifically, PPP provides a method for connecting a personal computer to the Internet using a standard phone line and a modem using a serial connection (Dial-up). PPP replaced SLIP as the standard for dial-up connections as it supports more protocols than just TCP/IP.
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) - VNC makes it possible to interact with a computer from any computer or mobile device on the Internet. Unlike Microsoft's RDP, VNC offers cross-platform support allowing remote control between different types of computers. Popular uses for this technology include remote technical support and accessing files on one's work computer from one's home computer, or vice versa.
ICA (Independent Computing Architecture) - ICA is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. Products conforming to ICA are Citrix's WinFrame, Citrix XenApp (formerly called MetaFrame/Presentation Server), and Citrix XenDesktop products. These permit ordinary Windows applications to be run on a Windows server, and for any supported client to gain access to those applications. Besides Windows, ICA is also supported on a number of Unix server platforms and can be used to deliver access to applications running on these platforms. There is a wide range of clients supported including Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, and various Smartphones.
Domain 6.4: Methods of User Authentication
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) - A public key infrastructure (PKI) is the combination of software, encryption technologies, processes, and services that enable an organization to secure its communications and business transactions. PKI uses a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority. The public key infrastructure provides for a digital certificate that can identify an individual or an organization and directory services that can store and, when necessary, revoke the certificates.
Kerberos - Invented by MIT, this protocol has been evolving in the Unix world for over a decade and has become a standard in Windows operating systems. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol which utilizes symmetric cryptography to provide authentication for client-server applications. The core of a Kerberos architecture is the KDC (Key Distribution Server) that serves as the trusted third party and is responsible for storing authentication information and using it to securely authenticate users and services. In order for this security method to work, it is paramount that the KDC is available and secure. The clocks of all hosts involved must be synchronized as well.
AAA - AAA commonly stands for “authentication, authorization and accounting”.
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) - RADIUS is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) management and provides a method that allows multiple dial-in Network Access Server (NAS) devices to share a common authentication database. RADIUS is often used by ISPs and enterprises to manage access to the Internet or internal networks, and wireless networks. Microsoft's answer to corporate wireless security is the use of RADIUS authentication through its Internet Authentication Services (IAS) product.
TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System) - TACACS+ is a proprietary Cisco security application that provides centralized validation of users attempting to gain access to a router or network access server. The TACACS+ protocol provides authentication between the network access server and the TACACS+ daemon, and it ensures confidentiality because all protocol exchanges between a network access server and a TACACS+ daemon are encrypted. Whereas RADIUS combines authentication and authorization in a user profile, TACACS+ separates the two operations. Another difference is that TACACS+ uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) while RADIUS uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
802.1X - 802.1X is an IEEE Standard for port-based Network Access Control (PNAC). This standard is designed to enhance the security of wireless local area networks (WLANs) by providing an authentication framework that allows a user to be authenticated by a central authority. It is used for securing wireless 802.11 access points and is based on the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) - A type of authentication protocol used on PPP connections. CHAP uses a 3-way handshake in which the authentication agent sends the client program a key to be used to encrypt the user name and password. CHAP not only requires the client to authenticate itself in the beginning, but sends challenges at regular intervals to make sure the client hasn't been replaced by an intruder.
MS-CHAP (MicroSoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol) - This is Microsoft's version of CHAP and is a one-way encrypted password, mutual authentication process used in Windows operating systems. Like the standard version of CHAP, MS-CHAP is used for PPP authentication, but is considered by some to be more secure. MS-CHAPv2 was released to solve many of the problems and deficiencies of the first version.
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) - EAP is an extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) was developed in response to an increasing demand to provide an industry-standard architecture for support of additional authentication methods within PPP. EAP is an authentication framework, not a specific authentication mechanism that is typically used on wireless networks. It provides some common functions and negotiation of authentication methods, called EAP methods. There are roughly 40 different methods defined. Commonly used methods capable of operating in wireless networks include EAP-TLS, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, PEAP, LEAP and EAP-TTLS. When EAP is invoked by an 802.1X enabled Network Access Server (NAS) device such as an 802.11 Wireless Access Point, modern EAP methods can provide a secure authentication mechanism and negotiate a secure Pair-wise Master Key (PMK) between the client and NAS. The PMK can then be used for the wireless encryption session which uses TKIP or CCMP (based on AES) encryption. Strong EAP types such as those based on certificates offer better security against brute-force or dictionary attacks and password guessing than password-based authentication protocols, such as CHAP or MS-CHAP.
Domain 6.5: Issues That Affect Device Security
Physical Security – physical security is just as it sounds, locks on the doors, cameras everywhere, and so forth. Depending on the depth of security needed there may be additional layers of security such as an access badge that operates a door that is additionally checked by a guard. You might have a dual door entrance such as a “man trap” where the first door you badge opens and you walk through it and it must completely close before the next door a few feet in front of you becomes operational to bade through.
Restricting Local and Remote Access – A lot of local access restriction will come from physical security measures but you can also set systems to not allow local login at the console except for certain specific account names in the domain or certain specific account names in the local accounts database. With respect to remote access you can also mange the same principle of least privilege by only allowing remote access to just the individuals that absolutely need it as part of their role responsibly and by denying everyone else. Those that are allowed the access should then still need to provide at least a username and password in order to authenticate to the remote system.
Secure Shell (SSH) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices and was designed as a replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shells, which send information including account name information and passwords in clear text.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that functions on port 443 by default and uses the standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encryption and secure identification of the server which allows the server / client communications to be secured. An everyday example of this would be anytime you purchase something online and the shopping website takes you from the regular store front pages defined as http:// and redirects you to their secured servers at https://
Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that is used mostly in network management systems to monitor network attached devices. Version 3 provides important security features that the prior versions did not including message integrity that ensures packets were not altered, authentication that verifies that the inbound data is from an expected source system as well as encryption for the traffic stream itself.
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) – sometimes called SSH file transfer protocol is a network protocol that provides secured, encrypted file transfer capability over TCP port 22 by default.
Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that leverages the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol using TCP port 22 by default to copy files from system to system on the same network or across different networks.
Telnet - Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that was traditionally used to connect dumb terminals to mainframe systems. Today it is sometimes used to connect to headless network equipment such as switches and routers by using a command window. It is a client server protocol that runs on port 23 by default, and does not encrypt any data sent over the connection.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that is the standard protocol in use on the World Wide Web. Operating on port 80 by default, internet clients contact a web server and request pages back from that server to their web browsers which render the returned content from the connection call.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that uses port 20 for data connections and listens on port 21. Often FTP is set up for anonymous access for the putting and getting of files. Even when user name identification is required and password authentication is request to systems using FTP it is done via clear text.
Remote Shell (RSH) – a command line program which can execute shell commands as another user and on another computer across a computer network. All of the commands that are sent are done in clear text and any authentication is also sent over the wire unencrypted. Secure Shell (SSH) is the secure replacement for this utility.
Remote Copy Protocol (RCP) – a Unix based command line utility that is used to copy data from one system to another. The utility sends unencrypted information over the network including any applicable account and password information. It has been replaced by Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) which is sometimes called SSH file transfer protocol.
Simple Network Management Protocol versions 1 or 2 (SNMP) – Application Layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite that is used for system management and configuration. Version 1 was originally introduced in the late 80s and does not have really any applicable security features available. Authentication is performed using the “community string", which is effectively nothing more than a password and that was transmitted in clear text. Version 2 did offer some improvements in performance, security, and confidentiality but it did this through a “party-based” security system that was considered overly complex and it was not widely accepted as a result.
Domain 6.6: Common Security Threats
DoS (Denial of Service) - A DoS attack is a common type of attack in which false requests to a server overload it to the point that it is unable to handle valid requests, cause it to reset, or shut it down completely. There are many different types of DoS attacks including Syn Flooding and Ping Flooding.
Viruses - A Computer Virus is a program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user. A Computer Virus has 2 major characteristics: the ability to replicate itself, and the ability to attach itself to another computer file. Every file or program that becomes infected can also act as a Virus itself, allowing it to spread to other files and computers. The term "computer virus" is often used incorrectly as a catch-all phrase to include all types of Malware such as Computer Worms, Trojan Horses, Spyware, Adware, and Rootkits. There are many different anti-virus programs available to prevent and remove viruses. Since new threats are created almost constantly, it is important to keep the virus definition files updated for your software.
Worm - Worms are stand alone programs that do not need other programs in order to replicate themselves like a virus which relies on users to inadvertently spread it. Viruses and Worms can be prevented by installing anti-virus software which can be run on servers, clients, firewalls and other devices.
Attackers - We aren't entirely sure what CompTIA is referring to with this term so we will offer a general definition. The term attackers refers to any person or group of people that cause harm on individual computers, networks, and the internet. This could include hackers, virus and malware creators, and anyone else who attempts to interfere with normal computer and network operations.
Man in the Middle - These attacks can include the interception of email, files, passwords and other types of data that can be transferred across a network. This is a form of Data Theft attack.
Smurf - This is a type of denial-of-service attack that floods a target system via spoofed broadcast ping messages in an attempt to cause massive network traffic. To accomplish this, the attacker sends ICMP echo packets to broadcast addresses of vulnerable networks with a forged source address pointing to the target (victim) of the attack. All the systems on these networks reply to the victim with ICMP echo replies which will overload it. These types of attacks are very easy to prevent, and as a result, are no longer very common.
Rogue Access Point - This term most often refers to unauthorized access points that are deployed with malicious intent. But in general, it would refer to any unauthorized device regardless of its intent. Types of Rogue APs could include one installed by an employee without proper consent, a misconfigured AP that presents a security risk, AP from neighboring WLANs, or one used by an attacker. To prevent the installation of rogue access points, organizations can install wireless intrusion prevention systems to monitor the radio spectrum for unauthorized access points.
Social Engineering (Phishing) - Social engineering describes various types of deception used for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access. Phishing, a form of social engineering, is the fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication such as email, chat, or instant messaging.
Mitigation Techniques - For the purposes of this guide, we can't cover all of the various options to prevent security breaches, so we'll keep it brief with the following:
Policies and Procedures – an outline in a group, organization or across an enterprise which outlines different sets of standards and actions. These will often define acceptable use of network systems and repercussions for violations. Generally they are drafted by system and network administrators as an outline of service and use and legal will generally tighten up the actual meaning. Management will ultimately need to follow up with approval authorization and who will actually enforce them.
User Training – skills that need to be communicated to the end user community that are using the network resources and connected systems. This training usually consists of rudimentary explanations of expected and acceptable use and what the procedures are for violations. Additionally, it will include some basic level of explanation of security threats and how user interaction can help defend the network as well as make it more at risk when the wrong actions are taken.
Patches and Updates – operating system updates and application fixes that are released to enhance security features or to fix known issues with software. Generally, most of the patches and some of the updates are released in order to correct recently discovered security deficiencies in the code. These updates are always delivered by the application owner unless a specific agreement is made between the application owner and another vendor. Users and administrators would generally download these updates manually to install onto systems or set up some type of automated system for delivery to managed systems and devices. | <urn:uuid:7c131836-ae5a-4f5c-a9c8-041402be2539> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mcmcse.com/comptia/network/N10004_study_guide.shtml | 2024-04-20T18:03:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.92207 | 26,524 |
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IBC is an important arena for many of the cluster companies. This year, six of our members had their own booths at the expo.
Our first stop was at the Vizrt booth. Vizrt is a worldwide market leader in real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry, and is a driving force in the innovation projects taking place in Media City Bergen.
The study tour got off to a flying start with «The Big AR Show», the biggest augmented reality show at the IBC, hosted by Corporate Comms. Manager in Vizrt, Chris Black.
Chris Black entertaining the crowd
Elin Sjødin Drange, Head of Business Dev. at the Municipality of Bergen, assisting Chris Black in his AR show.
The Big AR Show. Video: Vizrt
Petter Ole Jakobsen, CTO at Vizrt, presenting the company for the study tour group.
One can not tour IBC without visiting The Future Zone, where all the latest ideas, innovations and technologies from the industry is crammed into a single, specially-curated showcase area. Here, our guests could experience multi-sensory virtual worlds and imagery of the future, including mixed reality, 3D audio, incredible video displays and holographic projections first hand.
Hilde Gudvangen, project advisor for The Municipality of Smøla, trying on Hololens-glasses
Arne Møller, Founder and Creative Director, SpeakLab, testing a pair of AR-glasses.
(More from the Future Zone here)
Next up was Mediability, a Scandinavian provider of products, systems, solutions, consultancy, services and support to the broadcast and media industry. Ingrid Agasøster, CMO at Mediability, welcomed the delegation from the cluster, and told the story about how the company was founded in 2016, when three of Scandinavia’s best providers of media-production solutions were gathered into one group.
Mediability know how to use the newest technology to customer’s advantage and they offer top of the line equipment, guidance and they always tailor solutions to specific needs. Mediability has had a very successful first year at IBC, winning three awards: The Sachtler Supporting Partner of the Year Award, The ETL Systems Partner of the Year and The LiveU Partner Award for Outstanding Annual Growth.
Ingrid Agasøster, CMO at Mediability.
Robots on rails! Electric Friends has developed one of the most sophisticated robotic camera systems for the broadcast industry. Leaps ahead of their international competitors, Electric Friend are now entering the global market.
Concept developer and founder, Anders Tomren, demoing the camera robot.
Anders Tomren, concept developer and founder of Electric Friends, demonstrated to the group how the next generation camera robots will change the game completely and explained that their product was the subject of massive attention from visitors and competitors alike. The camera robot will soon be installed in TV 2’s impressive Premier League studio in Media City Bergen.
CEO of Sixty, Kjetil Horneland, greeted the group at the Sixty booth. Sixty is a globally oriented design and development agency for the future of TV. Kjetil Horneland gave attendees of the study tour a live demo of Ease Live, a product that makes on-air graphics become clickable and interactive on any connected device.
Sixty merges the well known television experience with the possibilities of online video.
CEO of Sixty, Kjetil Horneland, presenting Ease Live to the study group - a solution that can change the television experience as we know it.
From right: Bjørn Arne Skogstad, CEO of Norwegian Innovation Clusters, quizzing Kjetil Horneland, CEO of Sixty.
At the Vimond booth Ketil Moland Olsen, Matias Høibraaten and Helge Høibraaten welcomed the group. Vimond provides cloud or enterprise video platform software, video post-production and editorial tools, amongst different other services.
Helge Høibraaten, CEO of Vimond, welcomes the group to Vimond's booth.
Our guests got a live demo of Vimond Highlights and Vimond IO, presented by Matias Høibraaten and Ketil Moland Olsen. The storytelling tools simplifies the process of producing broadcast-quality video stories from any computer, and publish them immediately. The tools embodies the Vimond mission: «To make amazing TV stories come to life online using best in class technology by combining deep broadcasting expertise and a healthy dose of passion in everything they do. The result: Viewers enjoying their favorite shows, movies, news and sports, anytime, anywhere».
Helge Høibraaten, CEO, with Matias Høibraaten, Sales Manager, Europe.
VP Product Dev at Vimond, Ketil Moland Olsen demoing Vimond Highlights and Vimond IO together with Matias Høibraaten.
Vimond's Ketil Moland Olsen, proud to be part of Media City Bergen.
Wolftech was co-located with Vimond at their stand. The company is a spin off from TV 2, and a technologically advanced supplier of unique production systems for live sports, and story based multi-platform workflow
– for both broadcast and non-broadcast markets. Robert Strand, Chief of Sales and Innovation, told the group that Wolftech's focus is to deliver innovative new solutions, helping broadcasters and other media companies deliver news and sports content faster and more cost efficiently.
Robert Strand, Chief of Sales and Innovation in Wolftech
After all the cluster companies had showcased, demoed and presented their solutions, IBM was next. The media lab's technology partner was the last stop on the study tour, as the group visited the IBM Watson booth. Tom Darlington, services executive Global Media and Entertainment, and consultant Rick Taffer, showed the group what IBM Watson is capable of. Attendees got an introduction to IBM Cloud, as well as information about the tools IBM will bring to the media lab. This will provide all our members with first class world leading technology and competence.
Rick Taffer, consultant at IBM, with Tom Darlington, IBM services executive Global Media and Entertainment.
Hilde Gudvangen, project advisor for The Municipality of Smøla, was one of the guests attending the study tour. She is currently working on an early-stage AR project, and found the tour highly relevant.
– This is exactly what we came for. It was great to visit all the NCE Media cluster companies. It makes me realize there are companies here in Bergen that we can learn from, or even collaborate with. Also the IBC Future Zone was great to visit for valuable insight from companies that had done similar projects to ours. From this we learned what's ahead, and who the key providers are when it comes to technical solutions for the future, Gudvangen concluded.
Arne Møller, Creative Director and Founder of SpeakLab, was also pleased with the visit to IBC.
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The latest round of funding was led by two European funds, Entrepreneur Venture and Conegliano Venture, both of which already have active businesses in the U.S.
The funds will help Mediabong bring its SyncRoll service to market in the U.S. and elsewhere. SyncRoll will provide publishers and advertisers with a mobile video ad format that engages users by delivering ad messages based on the context, with algorithms analyzing factors including user psychology, semantic profiling and performance.
Advertisers using SyncRoll can place video ads in-line, which then “jump” to the end of the frame when the user scrolls down and continue playing. In addition, Mediabong offers Floating Ad Units, which keep the ad unit in the frame as the user scrolls.
Mediabong Chief Operating Officer Priyesh Patel touted the company’s guarantee for viewability: “When we don't achieve the metrics that are set out by our advertisers, we simply do not charge them.” Mediabong has already worked with publishers including Newsweek, CBS, Reuters, AFP, and the Associated Press, and ad clients including Land Rover, L'Oreal, and Unilever.
Mediabong’s U.S. expansion comes amid growing concern about video ad viewability. Last week, Google disclosed that 46% of online video ads were unseen, based on the company’s own delivery video ads on the Web (not including ads on YouTube). The study used the definition of viewability accepted by the Media Rating Council, which calls for at least two seconds of video to play while at least half of the ad is in the screen. | <urn:uuid:16b55ef4-fa36-4372-a8a8-b5ba2bed0449> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/250231/mediabongs-video-ad-network-expands-to-us.html?edition= | 2024-04-20T15:59:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.955082 | 346 |
If you don't convince your consumer you're fully onboard with doing business conscious of environment, diversity, etc., you are likely vulnerable to obsolescence.
For people who work in TV advertising, the next five years are bound to be bumpy -- but not because everyone is cutting the cord.
Still, agencies still charge too much for undifferentiated services and are not competitive with in-sourcing and contractor resources.
Why do I keep writing this column? To contribute to the dissemination of thoughtfulness -- even in a small way.
The most dangerous thing that could happen to Facebook is if thoughtful, reasonable, engaged people drop out of the platform.
If you want people to share your story, it has to be both memorable and simple.
The opposite of paying attention is multitasking, and multitasking makes you stupid. I saw a study that said multitasking actually decreases your productivity by as much as 40%.
Even with the best programmatic algorithms currently being used, the vast majority of the targeted advertising presented to me is off the mark.
Let's just be clear: The really good journalists are a HUGE pain in the ass. They ask impertinent questions, they poke and prod at the halls of power.
I was privy to a great cross-section of hot topics, opinions, new ideas and great work while attending a few industry conferences over the last month. | <urn:uuid:3897877c-a9d2-4274-b29c-da33b319f598> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/media-insider/2018/11/ | 2024-04-20T17:01:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.969936 | 284 |
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If you’re an Israeli citizen and you’re looking to visit New Zealand or Norway, you may be interested in applying for a visa. Here’s everything you need to know about the process.
How To Apply For A New Zealand Visa As An Israeli Citizen
If you are an Israeli citizen and want to travel to New Zealand, you will need to apply for a visa. The process of obtaining a New Zealand visa is straightforward and can be done by visiting the New Zealand Immigration website. There are a few things that you will need to provide as part of your application, including your passport photo, proof of residence in Israel, and a letter from your employer or educational institution confirming your enrollment. When applying for a New Zealand visa, it is important to note that you may be required to visit an embassy or consulate in order to have your visa approved. NEW ZEALAND VISA FOR ISRAELI CITIZENS
How To Apply For A New Zealand Visa As A Norwegian Citizen
If you are a citizen of Norway, Israel or another Nordic country, you can apply for a New Zealand visa. The process is similar to the one used by citizens of other countries.
To begin the application process, you will need to gather the following information:
– Your passport and visa stamp from your last visit to New Zealand (or a recent photo)
– Your current passport photo
– Proof of financial support if you are applying as a family member (if applicable)
– A completed visa application form DS-160 (available online at /) or an electronic version of the form can be downloaded from the same website. If you are not using the electronic form, make photocopies of all required documents and bring them with you when you submit your application. You will also need to provide evidence that you have been living in Norway continuously for at least 90 days prior to your planned trip. This can be any document that shows that you have been residing in Norway continuously for that period of time, such as a driver’s license, bank statement, utility bill or student card. If this is your first time applying for a visa to New Zealand, please contact us for advice on how to provide proof of residency. NEW ZEALAND VISA FOR NORWEGIAN CITIZENS
Once you have gathered all of the required information, it is time to start filling out your application
What Documents Do I Need To Apply For A New Zealand Visa?
If you are a citizen of Israel, you may be eligible to apply for a New Zealand visa. To apply, you will need to provide your Israeli passport and citizenship card, as well as documentation that proves your identity and residency in Israel. You may also need to provide evidence of your financial stability, health insurance coverage, and sufficient funds to cover the cost of your stay in New Zealand.
How Long Does It Take To Get A New Zealand Visa?
If you are an Israeli citizen, and you want to travel to New Zealand or Norway, you will need to apply for a visa. The process of obtaining a visa can take some time, so it is important to plan ahead.
To apply for a New Zealand visa, you will first need to fill out the online application form. You will then need to provide information about your travel plans and your passport information. You will also need to send in supporting documents, such as your passport photos and proof of funds.
The process of applying for a Norwegian visa can be slightly different depending on whether you are traveling as a tourist or business traveler. Tourist visas require only that you provide basic information about your trip, while business visas require additional paperwork such as financial statements and business licenses. Both countries require that applicants have valid passports with at least six months remaining validity.
What Are The Costs Associated With Getting A New Zealand Visa?
There are a few key costs associated with getting a New Zealand or Norwegian visa. The application process can be costly, and you’ll likely need to pay an application fee. In addition, you may also need to provide evidence of your financial stability and health insurance. You should also factor in the cost of transportation to and from the country where you’re applying, as well as any other related expenses. | <urn:uuid:f289f694-bf00-46b3-bff1-5126f0b9f390> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.megamindnews.com/how-to-apply-for-a-new-zealand-visa-or-norwegian-visa-as-an-israeli-citizen/ | 2024-04-20T17:30:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.948522 | 867 |
Baby White Potatoes
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A welcome addition to the large variety of potatoes available from Melissa’s, Baby White Potatoes are simply young potatoes with less starch and more flavor. Baby White Potatoes (also known as White Rose or White Creamer) are part of the thin-skinned family of potatoes. They are round and have a crisp, waxy texture surrounded by a thin skin. Melissa’s Baby White Potatoes can be cooked in almost any way imaginable. Their light, subtle flavor and creamy texture makes them a favorite in potato salad. To preserve their nutrients, leave the skins on and simply scrub gently in water before using.
Baby White Potatoes from Melissa’s are hand-selected for excellent quality. Look for firm, well shaped and fairly smooth potatoes. Avoid potatoes that have wrinkles or any green discolorations (which is caused by overexposure to light, also known as "light burn" and can be easily removed by slicing off with a paring knife.) Also avoid signs of sprouting, wilting or decay. Store in a cool, well-ventilated area rather than refrigerate up to 2 weeks. | <urn:uuid:4d38bd0a-16f0-400e-8f6c-dd0dc6f4dba6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.melissas.com/products/baby-white-potatoes?sca_ref=2727749.FSTT5qQ90k | 2024-04-20T17:01:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.938999 | 262 |
Farm-to-Table Philosophy & Practices
Almost two decades ago, before farm-to-table was even a term in the lexicon, Meshek Barzilay was sourcing its ingredients consciously & locally. Why? Because it is the only way to guarantee nutrition & quality in every bite, while supporting sustainable agriculture in Israel.
The original restaurant, located on Moshav Yarkona, used produce from its very own backyard. 20 years later, our location in the city center and our volume of guests doesn’t permit us to be quite so hyperlocal, but we are still committed bringing you the highest quality– and in every possible instance, organic– ingredients at the fairest price. We source directly from farms & producers throughout israel, who delivery daily to ensure optimal freshness & vitality.
Stop by our organic grocery in the Meshek Barzilay Delicatessen to shop organic produce & goods. You can see and feel the difference in the color & exterior — and of course you can taste the difference on your plate. | <urn:uuid:575b9ff6-4246-4c53-ba51-3ceadf90340e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.meshekbarzilay.co.il/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%91%D7%97/ | 2024-04-20T17:41:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.927072 | 217 |
Under Tennessee law, a person with a disability is someone who needs assistance or protection because of a mental or physical illness, a developmental disability, or another type of incapacity. A conservatorship may also be necessary when someone is temporarily disabled by an illness or an accident. For example, a husband suffering from a traumatic brain injury following a car wreck.
If the person with a disability has designated a specific healthcare agent in writing (such as in a living will or power of attorney), that person will be given priority if a conservator becomes necessary. Generally, if there is not a designated agent, a family member fills the role, such as a spouse or adult child. If there is not an appropriate family member available or willing to serve or if there is a dispute among family members about who will serve, the court may consider an unrelated person. The person may be a friend, a private attorney, a public guardian, or a corporate entity. The court must always consider the best interest of the person with the disability when determining who should become their conservator. | <urn:uuid:e3242609-84d2-47f4-85b0-77393859f17c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mhpslaw.com/practice-areas/probate/conservatorships/ | 2024-04-20T15:38:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.951504 | 214 |
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Governor, MSHDA launch $30 Million mortgage loan program aimed at boosting home sales in eight Michigan cities
May 23, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2013
LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Snyder and Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) Executive Director Scott Woosley today announced a new tool to stimulate the housing markets in eight Michigan cities.
Residents in the five Hardest Hit Fund-designated blight cities of Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Pontiac and Saginaw, as well as Battle Creek, Benton Harbor and Jackson will be able to take advantage of a $30 million set-aside of funds to provide lower interest rates to potential first-time homebuyers.
“While many communities have seen dramatic improvements in their real estate markets, this should provide a welcome incentive and help boost sales in areas of the state that need it the most to stimulate Michigan's continued economic comeback,” Snyder said.
MSHDA’s Homeownership Division designed the program, which offers potential first-time homebuyers meeting all eligibility requirements in the eight cities low interest rates: 3.125 percent without down payment assistance and 3.625 percent with DPA.
Funding for the loans comes from the sale of mortgage revenue bonds, which are a general obligation of MSHDA.
“In the past few years, most of the state’s real estate market has had an incredible recovery,” Woosley said. “This is an opportunity to target money in areas that are still experiencing significant sales declines and help drive the market turnaround for these communities.”
The special offer of the MI First Home program will be available through participating lenders on a first-come, first-served basis until the funds have been expended.
“We anticipate the program will help about 300 individuals or families across those eight cities realize the dream of homeownership,” said Mary Townley, MSHDA Homeownership division director.
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DRAFT BEER FAQS: REMOTE DISPENSING
WHY ARE SOME STYLES OF TOWERS ONLY AVAILABLE IN GLYCOL COOLING?
Draft beer dispensing towers are designed for use with either an air-cooled or glycol-cooled dispensing system. These systems vary greatly in how the draft beer temperature is maintained directly to the beer glass.
Keep in mind that temperature is by far the most important factor in dispensing draft beer from a keg. Temperatures of most types of beers must be maintained between 36-38° F all the way to the glass. Even a few inches of beer hose that is not kept at 36-38° F will result in foam and may promote sour/cloudy beer.
In air-cooled dispensing systems, the draft beer temperature is maintained between 36-38° F by having an open space (minimum 2-1/2" diameter) within the tower, allowing cold air from the refrigerated storage area to be circulated inside the tower surrounding the beer hoses.
With glycol-cooled dispensing systems, draft beer temperature is maintained by circulating with a pump a chilled water/glycol solution through tubing directly next to the beer lines. This maintains beer temperature inside the tower completely all the way to the faucet, thus beer glass.
Some tower designs are not available for an air-cooled system due to a lack of open space within the draft tower's body. These towers do not allow cold air circulation which is necessary to maintain beer temperature. Therefore, draft beer towers set up for glycol cooling should only be used in glycol-cooled draft beer dispensing systems.
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Apple establishes regional hub in Saudi Arabia
Apple has agreed to set up its Middle East distribution hub in Saudi Arabia, in a coup for the kingdom as it rolls out its first special logistics zone in an effort to diversify its economy away from petrodollars.
The US iPhone maker will base itself in Saudi Arabia’s new 3 million square metre economic zone, near Riyadh’s airport, according to Transport and Logistics Minister Saleh al-Jasser.
The zone will offer exemptions from certain taxes and labour regulations. Similar tax-free economic zones, such as Dubai’s Jebel Ali business hub, have been used by Gulf states to attract foreign investment and manufacturing.
Saudi Arabia’s new zone is likely to accelerate the competition playing out with its smaller neighbors in a race to attract investment. It also comes as smaller countries like Jordan and Egypt have been promoting themselves as manufacturing alternatives.
Saudi Arabia has already said that companies doing business in the kingdom should establish their regional headquarters in the country by 2024, or risk losing out on contracts. The UAE has long been a hub for multinationals looking to do business in the Gulf, avoiding Saudi Arabia’s conservative social codes.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has rolled out a series of social reforms to make the country more attractive to foreigners and multinationals. Alcohol, which is banned in the kingdom, is expected to be allowed at Red Sea resorts as part of the wider Neom mega-project. The reforms have coincided with a severe crackdown on dissent.
In addition to serving as a distribution centre, Apple may conduct assembly line and repair work along with light manufacturing at the site, Jasser said.
Asharq TV quoted the minister as saying that the logistics zone will offer tax advantages that include exemption from corporate tax to “zero tax” for a period of 50 years, exemption from VAT, and deferment of customs duties.
The kingdom hopes to increase the cargo of airfreight passing through the country from 0.5 million tons today to 4.5 million tons by 2030.
“We are already engaged with 20 other multinationals, some of which we’re at a very advanced stage of negotiations,” Jasser said in an interview.
Saudi Arabia’s economy has been buoyed by high oil prices and is forecast to grow by 9.9 percent this year, the highest rate among G-20 economies, according to the World Bank.
Apple’s move to Saudi Arabia underscores how the kingdom’s economic heft is overshadowing tensions stemming from geopolitical and human rights issues. Saudi Arabia has reemerged from its pariah status after the killing of Middle East Eye and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Meanwhile, western executives rubbed shoulders with Saudi royals and officials at the kingdom’s economic conference dubbed Davos in the Desert, brushing off the Biden administration's criticism of Riyadh for its support of the Opec+ oil cut.
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Earrings don't have to be big to make a statement. Mila Sol's Double Circle Studs were created with a sense of refined elegance inspired by Barcelona's iconic Panots (street tiles).
Double Circle Studs
Available in sterling sliver with sterling silver posts. Hand sanded finish.
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OpenStack Project Technical Lead Interview Series #2: Monty Taylor, OpenStack CI(Continuous Integration) Project
Here’s the second in our series of interviews with OpenStack Project Technical Leads on the Mirantis blog. Our goal is to educate the broader tech community and help people understand how they can contribute to and benefit from OpenStack. Naturally, these are the opinions of the interviewee, not of Mirantis. We’ve edited the interview for clarity and post length.
Our second interview is with Monty Tayor, OpenStack CI (Continuous Integration) Project Technical Lead.
Mirantis: Can you please introduce yourself?
Monty Taylor: I work for Hewlett Packard on OpenStack, I sit on the OpenStack Foundation Board as well as on the OpenStack Technical Committee, and I run the OpenStack CI and Infrastructure Project.
Q: What is your history with OpenStack?
A: I was at Rackspace in the team that originally got the OpenStack project up and going. So I've been around since the beginning. You can still see my name attached to some of the Launchpad projects, because I helped set those up, and Launchpad doesn't let you change those things.
Q: Why do you engage with OpenStack?
A: I absolutely believe in the importance of having an open cloud, with everyone moving into managed services and cloud applications.
Q: What are your responsibilities as the Project Technical Lead?
A: The infrastructure team is a very self-driven group, a bunch of independent-minded folks. Rather than actually telling anyone on the team that they should do this or do that, we work collaboratively. In terms of leading, it's really more about being an ambassador, an outward interface for people. I talk with various companies who are giving us resources and I am a face as much as I can be for the effort.
Q: Can you explain what Continuous Integration (CI) is? And why does it matter for OpenStack?
A: We started the project with the idea of a gated trunk. Rather than having a human responsible for merging code into the development trunk, which is actually a very boring job, we wanted to have that done automatically.
One of the ways we do that is that we run tests on every change that somebody uploads, and then after it's been code reviewed, we test it again, because the velocity of OpenStack is so great that you're almost assured that the project you're trying to contribute to will have moved on since you wrote the code. So we want to make sure that nothing that goes in will break the trunk.
We have 800 developers actively working on OpenStack. If we let any of them break something, that has impact on the other 799 of them, and then that winds up being a waterfall effect, right? Everybody would be very frustrated, and nobody would be able to get anything done, because they'd be cleaning up behind other people.
So what we do matters to OpenStack because of quality reasons and the project’s velocity.
Q: What is genuinely unique about OpenStack CI? - compared to other CI systems, such as Jenkins or Buildbot?
A: We absolutely take away everybody's commit rights, no one can directly commit code to anything. That's a pretty harsh stance that we've taken. It's a line in the sand that we've drawn that I think is pretty unique.
Jenkins is one of the elements of the system that we use, but it doesn't really understand what we're trying to do here. So we've had to make additional tools around it to build out our CI system.
Jim Blair, who's one of the key folks on the infrastructure team wrote a tool called Zuul, which sort of runs all of our project gating now. And it ensures that we don't relax our stringent requirements that everything works. It keeps track of changes that come into OpenStack in a serial fashion, because that's the most correct way to do it. If you have 150 patches that you want to run, and each patch takes an hour to test, there aren't 150 hours in the day. Zuul is able to correctly test those things in a parallel manner.
With Zuul we are pushing the boundaries of how people contribute code to a project. HP is using Zuul internally now, Wikipedia has started using it, and we’re seeing more and more people picking it up. We're driving the industry in more ways than just making cloud software.
Q: What has the CI community accomplished so far?
A: There's four core infrastructure people who are running the entire project on their shoulders, and we're able to keep releasing things. That's spectacular.
All of the infrastructure that we run for the OpenStack project is self managed in public repositories. So anybody who wants to come up and contribute is able to do that. I think that's an accomplishment, and we've been able to draw on some good community participation.
Q: What capabilities will CI provide in the OpenStack Havana release?
A: Currently we are working on rolling out patches to Jenkins and Zuul to make things more scalable. We're injecting a technology called Gearman into the mix that will allow us to have multiple Jenkins masters, which is a something that nobody else has. That way, we don't have a bottleneck on the scalability of a single Jenkins master.
We've also started to get Logstash up and going, which is a central log aggregator. When something breaks, giving developers enough data to be able to debug what happened in the test has been a challenge.
Also, we're doing some work to collect test output in a streaming fashion, so that we can give feedback to developers more quickly. If one of the tests fails, for whatever reason, as soon as we know that, we can inform developers that the entire test run is going to fail. So they don't have to wait till the end of the hour-long test run to know what they have to debug.
A lot of our work is about getting more feedback to developers, so that we can continue to work in an agile manner without relaxing our stringent requirements on what it means to patch in OpenStack.
Q: You've talked about making sure that OpenStack tooling is democratized. What does that mean to you?
A: We have to ensure as much as possible there is not a single person with too much power or responsibility and that doesn’t apply only to tooling but to the entire OpenSack project. It's not purely out of fear of somebody becoming powerful in its own sake, as much as that a single person doesn't scale. If anybody can actually come in and fix a problem, then it still might be the same four people doing it, for the most part. But it means there's a safety valve for the project.
It also means that you don't have to convince somebody else that your problem needs to be prioritized over somebody else's, which ends in political games. You've got five different people who want to get something done, and one of them has more friends, so they convince people to work on that. If everybody has equal access, any person can just step up and do the work – without having to convince somebody else that the work is worthwhile.
More than 200 companies are involved in OpenStack. If someone wants to do more testing on Solaris for example, I want to make it possible for them to enable that testing, rather than them have to convince me that it's important, and then convince me that I should learn how to do that. That's not fair for them, and it's not fair for me.
Q: It seems like you've actually managed to hit a balance between being optimistic about the human condition and realistic at the same time.
A: Yeah. If I wasn't optimistic, I wouldn't want to be doing collaborative development with other people, because I wouldn't think that anybody had anything to offer. At the same time, you've also got to recognize that people are going to make mistakes. I know I make mistakes all the time, and I want something that's going to catch my mistakes for me, so that I can stay focused on the problem, and not to have worry about the fact that I forgot a semicolon in a syntax in a file somewhere. Computers can figure that stuff out for me, thank you.
Q: Speaking philosophically, what is your vision for what OpenStack could be?
A: The internet itself has done an excellent job at distributing applications that have standard interfaces. There are many different web servers out there, but they work the same from a consumer perspective. We don't have that same thing happening in the cloud space right now. Amazon, GoGrid, Rackspace, Cloud.com, all these very different clouds are coming up, and they all want to innovate, which is good.
There's an optimistic and a pessimistic side of this. The optimistic side says that they're all just solving a problem nobody else solved before. The pessimistic side says that they are single companies, and they want you to remain their customer - just as Prodigy and CompuServe did before the standardized web came about.
I'd love the open cloud to be based on OpenStack, and even further, like a guy on Facebook, a friend of mine just recently said: “Anybody who's using the word cloud to describe the distributed application that's just in their own data center is using the word incorrectly. They're actually talking about a cluster.” And I agree with that. A cloud should be 50, 100, 1,000 different companies all running OpenStack. As a consumer I can just do stuff on that aggregate cloud, and not necessarily need to rewrite my application, or to even know in some cases that it's running on five different providers' networks.
Q: What would you like people to know about CI?
A: I'm still not sure that everybody knows that it's an open system, available to anybody to come in, that we're very friendly people, and we’d love more people to come and play with us.
Q: How can people specifically get started?
A: So the first couple of things, we've got the IRC channel #OpenStack-Intra and we keep a bug tracker on Launchpad. A great way to start is just sort of hanging out for a little bit and watching code reviews, putting in good comments or feedback, start to get a sense of what's a hot topic right now.
Q: Do you think OpenStack has changed open source in general? And if so, how?
A: We've got a lot of companies involved in OpenStack and we've managed to do a pretty good job of producing a lot of work in a context that is very corporate heavy. It seems like it's one of the first things that's operating that way. Linux obviously has a lot of corporations involved, but it took a while to get to that point. IBM and these guys didn’t jump on board immediately. It was a long road of people doing it in their off time.
Nobody works on OpenStack on their off time. It's completely a business-driven thing. At the same time, all these companies come together, and none of them has been a dominant player. As a CI guy, I think we're helping to push how people are thinking about how open source can be done in a rigorous and infrastructural-based testing environment, with our gated trunk and stuff like that. So I think these are all ways in which we're forging new ground both technologically and organizationally.
Q: Thank you very much, Monty!
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Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a ‘rectenna’ and conducted the first real application of atomically thin semiconductors for a flexible rectenna for energy harvesting. A device made from inexpensive materials and is fully flexible and battery free. Most importantly, rectena will convert Wi-Fi signals into electricity which could be used to power large area of electronics like, medical devices, and sensors for the internet of things.
What is rectenna?
The device that converts Alternating Current (AC) electromagnetic waves into Direct Current (DC) is known as rectenna. It is combination of antenna and rectifier. The researchers demonstrated a new rectenna that uses a flexible radio-frequency (RF) antenna which catches electromagnetic waves including those carrying Wi-Fi as AC waveforms. Instead of diode to rectify that current to DC, antenna is connected to a device made up of two-dimensional semiconductors which are only a few atoms thick. Thus the AC signal from antenna travels into the semiconductor which converts it into dc voltage. This voltage could be used to power wearables, sensors, various electronics, or medical devices.
Tomás Palacios, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, also co-author of the paper said, “What if we could develop electronic systems that we wrap around a bridge or cover an entire highway, or the walls of our office and bring electronic intelligence to everything around us? How do you provide energy for those electronics? We have come up with a new way to power the electronics systems of the future—by harvesting Wi-Fi energy in a way that’s easily integrated in large areas—to bring intelligence to every object around us.”
Unique, inexpensive Rectenna, made up of 2D material
In conventional rectennas, silicon or gallium arsenide is used for the rectification. These materials can cover the Wi-Fi band but are rigid and if considered to use it over a large area such as the surfaces of buildings and walls, would be much expensive.
These new rectennas are made up of a 2D material known as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) which at three atoms thick is one of the thinnest semiconductors. The team carried out certain experiments and found that when exposed to certain chemicals, the material’s atoms rearrange in a way that acts like a switch. These forces a phase transition from semiconductor to metallic material. The junction of a semiconductor with metal is known as Schottky diode.
The team engineered MoS2 into a 2-D semiconductor metallic phase junction and built an atomically thin and ultrafast Schottky diode that could simultaneously minimize the series resistance and parasitic capacitance.
Reduction in the parasitic capacitance is one of the fascinating properties of MoS2. Simply, Reduction is the tendency of materials in electric circuit to act like capacitors and store a certain amount of charge. This slows down the circuit. MoS2 provides lower capacitance hence increase rectifier speed and higher operating frequencies. The parasitic capacitance of this Schottky diode is so small and thus is much faster at signal conversion and can capture and convert signal upto 10 GHz including the range of typical Wi-Fi devices.
This kind of design has allowed a fully flexible device that is fast enough to cover the most of the radio-frequency bands used by daily electronics, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular LTE, and many others.
This way a battery free device inertly captures and transforms omnipresent Wi-Fi signals into DC power.
While performing an experiment the researchers’ device produced about 40 microwatts of power when it was exposed to the typical power levels of Wi-Fi signals around 150 microwatts. This is more than enough power to light up a simple mobile display or light up a LED or silicon chips.
Use in implantable medical devices
Another possible application of the technology is powering data communication of implantable medical devices. For instance, researchers are about to develop pills that can be swallowed by patients and stream health data back to a computer for diagnostics. Moreover, Jesús Grajal, the researcher at the Technical University of Madrid and co-author said that the tradition batteries used to power systems could leak lithium and patient could die. So it is much better to produce energy from the environment to power up the small labs inside the body and communicate data to external computers.
Teamwork makes it happen
This research was made possible by the association with the Technical University of Madrid through the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI). It was moderately supported by the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, the National Science Foundation’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Army Research Laboratory.
There are co-authors from MIT, the Army Research Laboratory, Technical University of Madrid, the University of Southern California, Charles III University of Madrid, and Boston University.
At typical Wi-Fi power level, MoS2 rectifier’s power efficiency is about 30 percent, while traditional rectennas like costly silicon and gallium arsenide can achieve around 50 to 60 percent. Depending upon the power of Wi-Fi input the maximum output efficiency of MoS2 rectifiers stands at 40 percent. The team’s next motto is to improve the efficiency and build more complex systems. Current disadvantages will be compensated by the other benefits of the new design, including its flexibility and scalability. Further the inventions promises to power electronics system of the future by producing Wi-Fi energy in much easier ways and that could be integrated in large areas to bring intelligence to every object.
- Xu Zhang, Jesús Grajal, Jose Luis Vazquez-Roy, Ujwal Radhakrishna, Xiaoxue Wang, Winston Chern, Lin Zhou, Yuxuan Lin, Pin-Chun Shen, Xiang Ji, Xi Ling, Ahmad Zubair, Yuhao Zhang, Han Wang, Madan Dubey, Jing Kong, Mildred Dresselhaus and Tomás Palacios. Two-dimensional MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for Wi-Fi-band wireless energy harvesting. Nature, 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0892-1 | <urn:uuid:8a9244f0-73e2-49a2-a1c1-6ed4defa18e5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.mirrorreview.com/this-flexible-device-will-convert-wi-fi-signals-into-electricity-using-2d-materials/ | 2024-04-20T17:47:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.925729 | 1,329 |
Urban, elegant and daring. These were the keywords Tamaris wanted to inforce with the launch of their new shoe collection. Their brand mission “comfort meets fashion” also had to be on the forefront of the campaign. Moreover the content created had to emanate an international look & feel, hence it was also used abroad.
- Content creation owned media:
- 2 video’s
- 55 high res photo’s
- 4 Instagram posts + 6 Instagram stories
We selected two inspiring macro influencers to channel their inner goddess, in a garden of Eden setting on a rooftop in the center of Antwerp. The message? “We know what we want and are not afraid to go for it. We don’t want a red apple; we want comfy red heels. We love nature, but we prefer it combined with the concrete jungle we live in.” With video/photography we took nature into the Fall/Winter with a setting that combines industrial concrete with ample greenery.
The influencers Lotte Feyen and Gaelle Van Rosen posted about their Tamaris favorites with the created content on their owned channels. The 2 dynamic videos were spread internationally by Tamaris.
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- 13,83 % engagement rate
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You will not need me to tell you 2020 has been quite a different year. It all started quite promising and exciting, but by late February we were all starting to worry about what will happen and how long we will be stuck inside. As it turned out, quite long. Which is not particularly helpful for location photographers or pretty much anybody else. Traveling dried up and I ended up the year with flights to only 3 destinations for the entire year – Bahrain, Maldives and South Africa – which was the least amount of flights I have flown since 1999. Because of that I also didn’t blog as much as usual, although I did manage to post about one post per week.
I did end up the year in fairly good shape, photography wise, with a few exciting client shoots – I will do a review of the client work in a follow-up post in a couple of days.
For now, I will leave you with five of my favourite personal images I blogged this year and one video I finally managed to edit and post after a couple of years of sitting on the shelf. Happy New Year and may you have a much much better 2021!
Wadi Dayqah – Oman
Solitude – United Arab Emirates
Dubai winter mornings – United Arab Emirates
Four Seasons Bahrain – Bahrain
The ever expanding Dubai – United Arab Emirates
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Most of us are not great at initiating conversations, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s just that you might need some text conversation starters to make the conversation flow smoothly. After all, your first impression can be a lasting impression, and no one wants to ruin it. “What’s up” is not a great text to send if you are not even friends yet, nor is “Hi” enough to make them respond. A conversation can start with a question provided you do not interrogate them with a barrage of questions. Your aim is to ensure there is a constructive exchange of dialogue from both sides to keep the conversation going. So what’s the right text starter? Read our list of some effective and good conversation starters over text to make your first impression the best impression.
Good Conversation Starters For Texting
These good conversation starters for texting can help you know more about the person and establish a connection with them.
- What is that one food item you can’t live without?
- Do you have any pet peeves?
- Where did you go on your last trip?
- I am currently watching the XYZ show. Have you seen it?
- What is an embarrassing thing you have done recently?
- ABC restaurant has the best pizza in town. Would you like to go there with me?
- Have you ever done something just to fit in with a group?
- Are you currently reading any books?
- Which movie can you never get tired of watching?
- What is your go-to activity when feeling low?
- Which is your most favorite place in the city?
- Would you prefer to hike on a beautiful trail or relax at a beach?
- Have you tried an adventurous sport?
- Which emoji do you use the most?
- Which is your most preferred pizza topping?
- Do you want to see the most scenic spot in the city? Let me take you there.
- Are you a risk-taker or a cautious person?
- Which movie do you find overrated?
- How would you describe your day till now?
- Which is your go-to café in the city?
- Which TV show is your guilty pleasure?
- Does any celebrity inspire you?
- Hey, do you enjoy listening to the XYZ band? I have two tickets for their concert.
- What is something you wish to learn?
- If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?
- Have you ever slept under the stars?
- What is a turn-off for you in a partner?
- What quality do you find irresistible in a potential partner?
- Have you ever used a pick-up line on anyone?
- Which song are you listening to on repeat nowadays?
- Have you ever taken a road trip?
- What do you prefer to do during your free time?
- What is your dream job that you would do for free?
- Do you have any weird phobias?
- Which genre of movies do you dislike watching?
- Have you ever tried singing at karaoke?
- What do you love the most about yourself?
- What is the most important dating rule, according to you?
- What is the most outrageous thing you have done to impress someone?
- What is your most cherished possession?
- What is the most interesting thing that happened today?
- Which movie, TV, or book character inspires you the most?
- Which is the most terrible movie, according to you?
- What are the top three things on your bucket list?
- Which cuisine do you enjoy the most?
- Do you watch anime movies/TVshows?
- What did you start appreciating more in the pandemic that you used to take for granted earlier?
- Would you rather quit coffee or alcohol for life?
- If you could be any celebrity for a day, who would you choose to be and why?
- Have you ever had a magical experience?
- What is the one thing that you miss the most about high school?
- What would you wish for if you had a genie?
- Are you a dog or a cat person?
- Do you have any tattoos?
- Have you ever received a strange phone call?
- Do you watch horror movies?
- Have you watched anything new on Netflix recently? I’m looking for recommendations.
- Is there someone you can talk to for hours?
- What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
- What is the most valuable lesson life has taught you?
- What would you do with the money if you won a million dollars?
- What is the best pickup line that has ever been used on you?
- If you could start a nonprofit organization, what cause would it support?
- Have you ever watched the sunrise or sunset?
- What do you like the most about your best friend?
- Have you ever gotten into trouble with the law?
- What is the nicest thing someone has done for you?
- What is your favorite childhood memory?
- Do you have any weird food combinations that you are a fan of?
- What is your idea of a perfect Saturday night?
- What is your idea of a first date?
- Do you like being outdoors, or are you more of a homebody?
- What are your dealbreakers in a relationship?
- What did you want to grow up to be as a child?
- What’s an ice cream flavor that you wish never existed?
- If you could invent something, what would it be?
- What is the strangest thing about you?
- Where would you go if you had the choice to settle down anywhere in the world?
- Whose advice do you value the most?
- Have you ever been on a weird date?
- How would you describe yourself in three words?
- What is something that you’re the best at?
- What is something that you fear the most?
- Which is your favorite restaurant?
- What is one question you would like to ask someone famous?
- How many countries have you visited?
- What is the most spontaneous thing you have ever done?
- What is the best road trip you have ever been on?
Funny Conversation Starters For Texting
If the conversation is getting too serious, sending a funny text might lighten the mood. Here are some funny text conversation starters over text to bring a smile to your potential interest’s face.
- How long would you survive in a haunted house?
- If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
- If you get stuck in the cartoon world for a day, which cartoon show would you prefer to be in?
- If you could time travel, which year would you choose to go to?
- Have you ever kept tabs on anyone over social media?
- What is the funniest goof-up you have ever done?
- What is the weirdest question a date has ever asked you?
- What is the craziest advice you received?
- What is the cheesiest thing a date has ever done for you?
- What is the worst prank anyone has ever played on you?
- Would you rather have a botched tattoo on your forearm for life or have green hair for a week?
- What is the funniest thing that has happened to you in public?
- What would you do if you woke up as Donald Trump one day?
- Which comedy movie made you laugh so hard that you had tears in your eyes?
- What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done while being drunk?
- What is the weirdest food item you have ever tried?
- Do you believe in any conspiracy theories? Which ones?
- What is the stupidest joke you have ever heard that made you laugh?
- If you were paid a million dollars to share your private and embarrassing moments on national television, would you do it?
- If you had to be an inanimate object for a day, what would you wish to be and why?
- What is the lamest lie you have ever told at home to stay out late?
- If your pet could talk, what is the first thing they will say to you?
- If a movie was made about your life, what would the title be?
- If you were a pet, which celebrity would you wish was your owner?
- Which celebrity would you wish to go on a date with?
- Have you ever farted in public and blamed it on someone else?
- What is the funniest memory from your childhood?
- Is there a dad joke that you love?
- What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had?
- What is your favorite meme?
- What’s your go-to karaoke song?
- What’s the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in public?
- If you could switch lives with a fictional character for a day, who would you choose?
- What is the strangest advice you have ever received?
- What is your favorite ‘knock, knock’ joke?
- What is the funniest typo or autocorrect fail you’ve ever sent in a message?
- What is the worst pickup line, according to you?
- What is the oddest food in your fridge?
- What is the funniest thing you’ve seen your pet do?
- What is your weirdest hidden talent?
- What food best describes your personality?
- What is the funniest joke you’ve ever heard?
- What is the funniest word in the English language?
- Share the funniest picture you have on your phone.
- Describe us using only emojis.
- What animal do I look like?
- What is an embarrassing song that you secretly love listening to?
- What is the funniest thing you’ve done as a dare?
- What is the worst gift you’ve ever received?
- What is your go-to dance move?
- What is the funniest Wi-Fi network name you’ve ever seen?
- What is the funniest excuse you’ve made to get out of plans?
- What is your go-to song when on a road trip?
- What would you do with all that extra time if you didn’t sleep?
Flirty Text Conversation Starters
Want to add a little spice to the conversation? Use these flirty text conversation starters.
- I know you need to wait for three days after the first date to text, but waiting for that long to speak to an incredible person as you seemed like an impossible task.
- I make delicious lasagna. Would you like to join me for dinner tonight?
- Can you guess by what name I have saved your number on my phone?
- Would you stop looking so amazing in every photo? It is distracting me from work.
- I am bilingual, but my vocabulary is reduced to one word “Wow” every time I see you.
- I think I am in trouble. I just can’t stop daydreaming about you.
- What is the most magnificent person in the universe doing over the weekend?
- Thank you. I was feeling pretty low in the morning, but just the thought of you brought a smile to my face.
- Did you smile when you received this message? Now you know how I feel every time my phone pings with a text from you.
- Can you send your picture? I told my friends I met an angel and they don’t believe me.
- I am bad at flirting, can you give me some tips?
- Do you want to know what my favorite distraction is?
- Do you have any regrets in life? I have just one. Not meeting a wonderful person like you earlier in life.
- How long before I get to see your beautiful smile again?
- Want to know a secret? I used to think X celebrity is the hottest person in the world. You made me realize how wrong I was.
- How many flirty texts do I need to send before you agree to go out with me again?
- What is the most romantic thing anyone has done for you? I would like to top it over the weekend. Are you in?
- My friends think perfection is a fantasy. Care to meet them and prove them wrong?
- If you are thinking about where to have dinner, I can give you some ideas and be a great company.
- Have you ever experienced butterflies? I experience them every time I see you.
- What would you say if I told you I am crazy about you?
- Has anyone ever told you that your smile lights up the room?
- Do you know what would be the highlight of my day? Having dinner with you. Are you ready?
- Eight billion people in the world, and you are the only one who makes my heart beat faster. How do you do it so effortlessly?
- I never get tongue-tied in front of anyone. But you’re an exception. What do you think we should do about it?
- I have pictured myself watching the sunset with you countless times now. Would you do me the honor today evening?
- Where have you been my whole life? I have been waiting for you.
- You look absolutely stunning today. What is your secret?
- I couldn’t help but smile when I thought about our last meeting. It was such a great time.
- I have to admit, you have a way of making my heart race when we chat. Is that your secret superpower?
- I’m curious: what’s your idea of a perfect date?
- If we could escape to any destination right now, where would we go?
- How about we play a game of ‘Would You Rather?’ I’ll start: Would you rather go on a spontaneous road trip or go on a picnic date with me?
- You have such a great sense of humor. It’s incredibly charming, and I’m so drawn to it.
- I have to admit, talking to you makes my day.
- There’s something about the way you make me feel that is undeniably special.
- I’ve been enjoying our conversations so much. Would you be interested in grabbing a cup of coffee with me sometime?
- Is your name Google, because you are everything I’ve been searching for.
- I’ve noticed we have a lot in common. Do you believe in love at first chat?
- If we could spend the whole day together, what would we do?
- I’m really enjoying getting to know you, but I have to ask, are you looking for something serious or casual?
- Your smile is contagious; it makes me want to smile too.
- I love your eyes. They’re like two pools of chocolate.
- You’re so funny. I bet I could listen to you talk all day.
- I’m having a hard time concentrating while you flirt with me. I wonder what it’ll be like to finally meet you in person.
- I’m not sure what’s hotter: your eyes or your smile.
- If I had a superpower, I would wish to be able to teleport. Then I could be wherever you are, whenever I wanted.
- I’m not sure what I’m attracted to more: your intelligence or sense of humor.
- I’m starting to believe that you are the most beautiful person I have ever laid my eyes on.
- If our lives had to be compared to a romantic movie, what movie would you choose?
- When you mentioned me to your friends, what was my ‘this is them’ photo?
- What is my favorite way to start the day, you ask me? Waking up to a text from you.
- Can I tell you a secret? Talking to you is the highlight of my day.
- My dog/cat told me to tell you that he misses you.
- Do you know what would be better than texting back and forth? Going for a date.
- You must be a magician because I’m spellbound every time I see a picture of you.
- What do you have planned out for this weekend? Can I be part of the plan?
- Do you have anything planned out for today? I know a cute cafe. Want to check it out together?
- What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Let’s go on an ice cream date, my treat.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How does texting affect conversation?
Texting can sometimes lead to misrepresenting your feelings. Text conversation can hinder you from reading the other person’s expressions, body language, and gestures. It can be hard to gather tone and inflection over text. However, it also saves time as the responses are immediate.
2. Does texting improve social skills?
Texting can help improve social skills like communication and build confidence in shy and reticent people. It is also a good way to open up, converse at your pace, make friends, and forge new relationships.
3. What can I say instead of hey in a text?
Hi, Hello, Howdy, Hey there, Good morning/afternoon/evening, and What’s up? are some greetings individuals can use instead of hey in a text. Your greetings depend on the context and the relationship you share with them.
4. What to text a guy who is ignoring you?
If a guy ignores you, you must approach the situation with understanding and respect. Consider that he may have valid reasons for not responding promptly, such as being busy or dealing with personal issues. Some texts you may leave to help them know you are waiting for their revert include, “Hey, you haven’t been responding to my messages. Is everything okay?” Hi, it’s been quite some time since we spoke. If there’s something on your mind, please let me know.”
5. How do I start a conversation with someone I don’t know well over text?
Starting a conversation with someone you don’t know well over text can feel daunting, but with the right approach, you can make it comfortable and engaging. First, start with a friendly greeting and choose an appropriate time for texting. Then, begin with a brief introduction and look for a common ground or shared interest to use as a conversation starter.
6. How do I respond when the person I’m texting is giving short answers?
When the person you’re texting is giving short answers, it can be challenging to maintain a conversation. Ask open-ended questions that require elaborate answers and respond with follow-up questions or comments that demonstrate you’re actively listening. Show patience and understanding by sharing your own experiences related to the topic, which might inspire the other person to share more about their own experiences or thoughts.
7. How do I know when it’s time to end the conversation over text?
You may close the conversation if the topic has been discussed thoroughly and there are no more relevant points or questions to explore. If the other person’s replies are becoming brief, lacking enthusiasm, or taking longer to arrive, it could indicate they are losing interest, and it may be suitable to end the conversation.
When initiating a conversation with a person you are interested in, you may want to ensure you ask the right questions to keep the conversation going. You can first greet them with a pleasantry and then ask them a question that is not intrusive but can lead to a fun banter or a repartee session. A question can be an opening line for a conversation. However, asking close-ended and awkward questions might lead to awkward single-lined answers, eventually killing the conversation. Using this list of good conversation topics for texting, you can ensure that you ask the right questions and make a good first impression. If you haven’t talked much to this person, steer away from extremely personal and explicit topics. Instead, give them time to get comfortable with you first.
Infographic: A Few Additional Conversation Starters For Texts
Conversations are the best way to get to know each other. But you must have good conversation starters up your sleeve to ensure that your talking goes smoothly. In addition to the vast list of conversation starters, we have added a few more in the following infographic so that you do not have to run out of any. So read on and make sure you keep this list handy as well.
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