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Child support is often a contested issue between parents in a divorce or between unmarried parents in a paternity case. Parents can be justifiably worried and upset over how this issue will affect their present and future relationship with their child(ren) and how it will affect their parental rights. Additionally, child support is also an issue that must be resolved when households break up or between unmarried parents. This must be solved, whether through agreement or litigation between parents, based on Ohio’s guidelines for its calculation. Both of these issues can be complicated but it is important to understand that courts operate on what is in the child’s best interests, not on what parents desire, in regard to them.
At Morgan Law Offices, our Columbus child support and child custody attorney can help you navigate all matters related to the children you share with your spouse or with an unmarried former partner. At our firm, you will have the benefit of extensive experience resolving these issues over a long history extending back decades. Attorney Kelly Morgan understands the emotional stress and uncertainty that is associated with child-related issues and can provide the compassion as well as the professional competence you need.
Child Support in Ohio
Child support in Ohio is based on state guidelines that calculate the amount of support that is to be paid from one parent to the other. The parent with whom the child resides for the majority of the time (known as the primary residential parent) generally receives this payment from the other parent.
Child support payments are based on the combined adjusted gross income of the parents. It takes into consideration:
- whether parenting is shared, split, or sole
- the number of children being supported
- which parent is the residential parent
- the number of children from other relationships that are being supported
- income from all sources
- child care expenses
- health insurance
- spousal support
- and more.
Courts assume that the calculated amount shall be what is owed in child support. However, when this amount is considered to be unjust or inappropriate, it may be adjusted up or down. Courts will look at various factors to determine a different payment amount than what has been calculated. The underlying principle of child support, which is considered the child’s right, is to best serve the child.
Turn to Morgan Law Offices for Help
If you need legal help with any issue related to child custody or child support, whether it involves a pending divorce or court case between unmarried parents or whether it has surfaced long after court orders have been issued by a judge, you can turn to our experienced and dedicated family law attorney. Our firm is backed by more than four decades of practice in this field.
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Table of Contents
How do I run an Ethernet cable in a finished house?
Pull a cable to a closet that lines up with a wall on the second floor (good) or a closet on the second floor (better), and run the line up the wall inside the closet, on the inside wall the door is cut out of, so you can’t see the wire even if you look into the closet.
Do I need shielded Ethernet cable for home?
In small homes or businesses, unshielded Ethernet cables will usually work just fine. Unless your home or office sits near power lines or is stuffed with appliances, there isn’t typically enough interference around a home or small business environment to require shielded Ethernet cables.
Should I run CAT6 in my house?
Registered. You should use Cat6 as much as you can and eliminate wireless devices from your Wifi network for the best overall system performance. So, yes, wire two Cat6 to each room.
Can I use Cat7 for home network?
Can I Use Cat 7 Cables for the Internet? Yes, you can. It is an ideal cable when you are looking for a high-speed connection for your connection, especially in a smart home. A cat7 cable offers a faster connection of data over a cable than WiFi, which is wireless.
Is there anything better than Ethernet?
Just like powerline adapters, MoCA adapters are faster than WiFi and far easier to install than traditional Ethernet cabling, making them one of the easier alternatives. MoCA adapters use the existing COAX cabling in your home to transmit networking frequencies from your router to your devices.
What is a home network layout?
Ethernet Network Diagram This home network layout mitigates the range and connectivity-specific issues of a router. As a part of this network layout, the home devices are connected to the router via the Ethernet cable. Good routers offer 2 to even 4 Gig Ethernet ports, thereby allowing you to set up wired connections with ease.
What is the best Ethernet card for home network?
My favourite ethernet card on the list is TP-Link Ethernet Card. In simple terms, it’s more than enough for moderate usage and doesn’t cost you much. Also, the two-year warranty will allow you to put the trust in the card’s performance without any hesitation.
Are there any home network diagrams for wireless networks?
Many home network layouts work fine, but most are variations on a basic set of common designs. This gallery contains network diagrams for wireless, wired, and hybrid home networks. Each network diagram includes a description of the pros and cons of that particular layout as well as tips for building it.
What type of network is used in a home network?
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If pregnancy and breastfeeding have taken their toll on your breasts and left you with a silhouette that discourages you, we have good news! Dr. Max Pekarev of MP Plastic Surgery can perform breast augmentation to increase the size and shape of your breasts!
But wait. Before you jump in line for a breast augmentation consultation, there’s something you should consider—breastfeeding. If you have finished having children, but you’re still breastfeeding, you will need to wait for a period of time before undergoing breast augmentation. Keep reading as we talk more about this procedure and the requirements regarding breastfeeding.
Breast Augmentation with Dr. Max Pekarev
Dr. Max Pekarev is a plastic surgeon who is highly sought after by many women who want breast augmentation. He is board-certified and has been providing beautiful, natural-looking results for many years.
Because Dr. Max Pekarev provides a caring and relaxed environment for his patients, women who visit MP Plastic Surgery always feel comfortable and welcomed. He is a transparent professional who works hard to build a positive doctor-patient relationship with every breast augmentation patient because he believes honesty should be the foundation for those relationships.
If you’ve recently been breastfeeding, be sure to take note of these two things before you come in to visit Dr. Max Pekarav for your initial breast augmentation consultation:
Your milk must be depleted for at least 6 months before you can have a breast augmentation.
Dr. Max Pekarav will only consider breast augmentation for women who have seen no milk production for at least 6 months. This time will allow the breasts to return to their new normal size and shape. Once 6 months have passed, Dr. Max Pekarav will have a true idea of what your breasts need during your breast augmentation.
You have a solid birth control plan in place.
The next thing you should consider before choosing to have a breast augmentation consultation with Dr. Max Pekarav is whether or not you’re done having children. If you are, you should also have a solid birth control plan in place to protect against future pregnancies.
It’s not that Dr. Max Pekarav requires you to avoid pregnancy after your breast augmentation, and there’s nothing about the procedure that is harmful to you or your unborn child, but breast augmentation after pregnancy and breastfeeding can negate your results. Dr. Max Pekarav wants all of his patients to enjoy their results for many years to come. This is why he recommends that his patients be finished having children before choosing breast augmentation.
Call Dr. Max Pekarav at MP Plastic Surgery Today
If you’re still wondering about breast augmentation after breastfeeding, or you have additional questions about the procedure as a whole, don’t wait to call Dr. Max Pekarav today to schedule your initial consultation. During your appointment, he will fully evaluate your breasts, talk to you about his recommendations, and answer any questions you may have regarding breast augmentation.
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At a basic level this preparation can be done by being able to answer these questions:
Where is the meeting to be held?
If it is necessary to travel to the location:
What is the address of the building?
What is the contact number for the site if need to advise of any delays, etc.
Are adequate travel directions available?
Where should you go when get on site?
Who do you need to ask for at reception?
Is parking available? If so, where? If not, any suggestions as to where could park?
Anything else that would be useful to know if never been to the site before?
When is the meeting to be held? (Date and Time)
How long is the meeting scheduled for? If an end time isn't defined the meeting is more likely to run on longer than it needs to.
What is the agenda for the meeting? If it is not clear what the meeting is for it's questionable whether the meeting is warranted at all. If it is not clear what the meeting is for it is harder to suitably prepare for it.
Who will be the chair of the meeting? This needs to be defined before the meeting starts so it is clear who is in charge and responsible for the meeting.
Who will be taking minutes? It will be important that everyone is clear about what was decided and who is responsible for what as a result of the meeting. If someone is given the responsibility for making sure that suitable notes are taken and distributed afterwards, there should be no one who is unclear what they have to do as a result of the meeting.
Who will be attending? And Why? it's generally useful to know that everyone who needs to be at a meeting will be there. There's no point going if the people who can answer the questions which will be raised at the meeting will not be there.
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What are the benefits of implementing SAP S/4HANA and using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) for integrated business planning?
An assessment by our expert Dr. Oliver Schöb, management consultant msg treorbis GmbH.
In the following, we will use a simple numerical example to explain how the plan P&L can be generated automatically with BPC for SAP S/4HANA. We follow the planning process shown, but will not describe all planning steps in detail. We will be guided by the planning process shown, but will not describe all planning steps in detail
(1) Sales/turnover planning
Sales/turnover planning is the starting point for operational planning. There are many alternatives for this planning step: It is possible to plan sales volumes and sales turnover per customer and item as well as to plan sales volumes and sales turnover for customer and item groups. When planning is started on the specified aggregation levels, the plan data is often broken down to items and customer with a top-down distribution. This is always necessary when a valuation of the sales quantities with the calculated costs of goods manufactured of the items is to be done at a later stage. In addition, the plan value for sales turnover can be calculated in different ways: direct planning of net turnover or planning of gross turnover and sales reductions. Regardless of which alternative is chosen, there has long been a comprehensive range of planning layouts and planning functions for this planning step.
What is new now with SAP S/4HANA, thanks to the use of the universal ledger, is that the result of this planning step can be used both for contribution margin accounting and for P&L . Gone are the days when, due to the different data structure between FI and CO, you had to transfer the planned values of the value fields to planned values for G/L accounts with a lot of additional effort.
(2) Planning production input
The business content of BPC contains a planning function “Calculation of Production Costs“ . Reminiscent of the familiar planning functions in the ERP environment, one might expect that when this planning function is executed, the costs of goods manufactured of the quantity sold are generated for contribution margin accounting. But this is not the case. The costs for the consumption of raw materials, internal activities and external activities are calculated. So it's about the production input . At this stage, we are not yet concerned with the costs, but rather on the consumption quantities of the input materials and the required production times . The calculation of these consumption quantities and times is done by accessing the sales quantities of the items planned in step (1), which are valuated with the standard price calculations of the items. Any intermediate levels (semi-finished products) are completely exploded.
Until now, there was no comparable planning function.. In costing-based profitability analysis, it was possible to calculate the plan operating level of the cost centers based on sales quantity planning, but it was not possible to calculate plan values for raw material consumption with the SAP standard.
Thanks to the new planning function, the plan operating level of the cost centers is automatically calculated. In addition, the purchasing department receives a list of the planned raw material quantities, which certainly improves the accuracy of the plan values for the purchase prices.
It should be briefly noted that the plan costs, calculated in this planning step, must not be used either for plan P&L or plan contribution margin accounting because the costs calculated at this point still access old plan prices and old purchase prices This can be ensured with appropriate settings for the planning function.
(3) Cost center planning
We will not go into the details of cost center planning at this point. As already mentioned, planning step (2) provides the plan operating level for all cost centers, which significantly improves the accuracy of the plan costs. (Previously, projected actual values or estimated values were very often used to calculate the plan operating level).
As before, the results of cost center planning are the plan prices for production hours (and other activity types), the % values for allocating material overheads (and possibly production overheads) and the plan costs for each cost element (and/or G/L account). The plan costs for primary cost elements are automatically shown in the plan P&L . However, they are not shown in plan contribution margin accounting, as we might erroneously assume if we take the term "accounting-based profitability analysis" too literally.
(4) Calculation of costs of goods manufactured of items
After determining the plan prices and % values for overhead accounting (in planning step (3)) and the planning of future expected purchase prices and updating the BOMs and routings, all preliminary work required for costing has been completed. The costing run to determine the future costs of goods manufactured of the items (standard prices) is carried out as before in the ERP system without support from BPC. The costs of goods manufactured (and/or their itemization) determined with this planning step are used as the input for the calculation of costs of goods manufactured of the sold quantity in the subsequent planning step.
(5) Calculation of costs of goods manufactured of the quantity sold
This planning step starts with the renewed execution of the planning function “Calculation of Production Costs” While planning step (2) was about the consumption quantities, we are now interested in the plan costs. Here, we are only dealing with the plan costs for raw material consumption (and external activities). This values are required for the plan P&L . The secondary costs shown are not required for the plan P&L. The transfer of plan costs for the secondary cost elements (cost elements 9411 and 9431 in the example) must be prevented by settings in the planning function.
In the meantime, we have already received a lot of data for the plan P&L, but it still looks very empty in our plan contribution margin accounting. As mentioned above, the accounting-based profitability analysis does not automatically show all the data that is displayed in P&L. This applies to both plan costs and actual costs. An orientation to the value flow in actual makes it easier to understand the procedure for generating plan data. The figure below outlines this value flow (creation of the item by a production order with subsequent goods issue to the customer for an SD order item).
Looking at the planning steps that have already been successfully completed, we can state that we have mapped the situation on the cost centers and production orders using the planned costs that have been determined. We did not have to generate any production orders for this. We can also dispense with the consideration of stock receipt and issue postings for the finished goods in the planning. To show the plan costs of goods manufactured in contribution margin accounting , we only required plan values for “special” stock change accounts . These are the accounts that are created in in actual when the goods are issued by a transfer posting from the original stock change account (accounts 9010, 9011 and 9012 (blue color in the figure)).
The costs of goods manufactured of the quantity sold were already determined using the planning function “Calculation of Production Costs” . However, the itemization shows the plan values for the "input" accounts for each item. But only the plan values for the “special” stock change accounts are required. Unfortunately, there is no predefined planning function for this in the Business Content. At this point, a planning function is used for which a Fox formula has been defined. Fortunately, extensive programming knowledge is not required for this. The figure below shows the result of this planning function for our example.
(6) Cost center credit production and material area
For cost centers, whose planning costs are partially or completely included in the costs of goods manufactured (by allocating production hours, manufacturing overheads, etc.), of course only the over-/underabsorption of the planned costs may be settled. In our numerical example, a 100% allocation of planned costs was carried out in planning step (5) (see Fig. 10), so that no values now arise in the plan contribution margin accounting when these cost centers are settled.
(7) Cost center credit administration and distribution
For cost centers, whose plan costs are not part of the costs of goods manufactured, the total plan costs must be transferred to contribution margin accounting. At present, there are no assessment cycles for this (Note: The previously used assessment cycles in the ERP system do not generate plan values for the table ACDOCP (“Universal Ledger“)). A fox formula can be used as an alternative. Figure 11 shows the result of executing this planning function.
After performing planning steps (1)-(7), the target has been achieved: All plan values have been generated for plan P&L and plan contribution margin accounting and match the displayed operating profit . For the execution of the planning steps, some very useful planning functions are delivered in the business content of BPC. By additionally creating some fox formulas, an automated linking of subplans can be achieved. Thanks to the use of the universal ledger (table ACDOCP) for storing the plan data, plan P&L creation can be done without an additional planning step; it takes place in parallel with the creation of the plan contribution margin accounting.
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Residents and young physicians who are about to enter medical practice will benefit from the New Physician's Guide to the Future, a 44-page resource released today by the Michigan State Medical Society and the Michigan Osteopathic Association.
The joint publication provides detailed guidance and information about concerns and challenges new physicians will encounter when moving into any type of practice arrangement including licensure, contracting, and insurance, among many others.
"The goal of MSMS and MOA is to make the transition as a new professional in medical practice a smooth one," said Rubin Raju, MD, chair of MSMS Resident and Fellow Section. "This booklet is a really great tool."
The Guide is broken down into chapters, including:
- Starting Your Search
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- Medical Liability Insurance
- Billing and Reimbursement
- Continuing Medical Education
- Laws & Regulations
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- Personal Injury
- Auto Accidents
- Bicycle Accidents
- Brain Injuries
- Bus Accidents
- Car Accidents
- Car Insurance Claims
- Commercial Vehicle Accidents
- Construction Accident Injury
- Elder Abuse
- Hit and Run Accidents
- Hotel Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Nursing Home Neglect
- Pedestrian Accidents
- Premises Liability
- Rear-End Collisions
- Rideshare Accidents
- Scooter Accidents
- SEPTA Injuries
- Slip & Fall
- Social Security Disability
- Truck Accidents
- Uninsured Motorists
- Workers' Compensation
- Wrongful Death
Philadelphia Scooter Accident Lawyer
The debate surrounding electric scooters rages on in the bustling streets of Philadelphia.
While these zippy two-wheelers have gained immense popularity in cities across the United States, here in Pennsylvania, they remain uncharted territory in the eyes of the law.
Philadelphia Scooter Accident Lawyer
Electric scooters, often provided by companies like LimeBike, Bird Rides Inc., and Spin, are lobbying for their inclusion as a convenient and eco-friendly mode of transportation. Advocates laud their efficiency, but critics raise valid safety concerns for riders and the communities they navigate.
A critical issue emerges: since electric scooters are not yet street-legal in Philadelphia, riders could find themselves in precarious situations if involved in accidents. Personal injury protection (PIP) insurance may not offer the necessary coverage, leaving them in legal limbo. In such challenging circumstances, filing a lawsuit in Philadelphia may be the only avenue to seek the compensation they deserve. However, Pennsylvania's modified comparative fault laws introduce complexities that demand legal expertise.
This is where Muller Brazil, a distinguished personal injury law firm serving Philadelphia and its neighboring areas, steps in. Our award-winning legal team has the knowledge and experience to guide victims through the intricacies of electric scooter accident cases, ensuring they receive the compensation they're rightfully entitled.
Understanding Scooter Accidents in Philadelphia
Philadelphia can be a perilous place for electric scooter riders and pedestrians due to several factors. With heavy pedestrianized areas like Independence Mall and Rittenhouse Square, electric scooters reaching up to 20 mph speeds can surprise riders and pedestrians and unfortunately lead to collisions causing damage and injury. Various accidents can occur, including single-scooter crashes caused by mechanical issues, rider error, or adverse road conditions like potholes and wet pavement. Loss of balance is a common cause of injuries, with traumatic brain injuries occurring when riders neglect to wear helmets.
Pedestrians risk being struck by scooters or injured while trying to avoid them. Scooter riders may crash while evading pedestrians, cars, or obstacles, and they can also be involved in accidents with motor vehicles, including dooring and left-turn incidents. In these complex situations, consulting experienced electric scooter accident attorneys is crucial for understanding liability and securing compensation.
Potential Insurance Issues with Scooter Accidents in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia, electric scooter accidents bring a host of potential insurance complications. Pennsylvania operates as a no-fault state for auto accidents, where victims typically rely on personal injury protection (PIP) insurance for compensation. However, since electric scooters are not legally recognized in Philadelphia, the coverage provided by PIP insurance still needs to be determined. It's generally safer to assume that PIP insurance may not cover electric scooter accidents in the city, akin to how motorcycles are excluded from PIP coverage in Pennsylvania. While the state is considering a pilot program to extend PIP coverage to electric scooters in certain cities, Philadelphia is not part of this initiative.
This legal ambiguity surrounding electric scooters in Philadelphia can lead to insurance carriers denying claims. In such situations, seeking guidance from a Philadelphia electric scooter accident attorney is advisable. They can help clarify PIP coverage and explore alternative avenues for compensation, including pursuing lawsuits against negligent drivers.
OUR PHILADELPHIA SCOOTER ACCIDENT ATTORNEY KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN
At Muller Brazil, our Philadelphia electric scooter accident lawyers know what it takes to win a scooter accident case. We'll work with you to review any evidence, such as video footage and witness statements, that will help prove your claim. We also know how to negotiate with insurance companies and other parties to reach an equitable settlement agreement. Our attorneys are experienced in the intricacies of electric scooter law and will fight for the rights of scooter accident victims in Philadelphia.
We understand that recovering from a serious injury can be expensive, and our attorneys will ensure you get the full compensation you deserve. We'll help you seek reimbursement for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
"I could write a book about the staff at Muller Brazil. Simply put, they are lifesavers." - Nikki T.
WHO IS LIABLE IN A PHILADELPHIA SCOOTER ACCIDENT?
Determining liability in scooter accident claims within Philadelphia can be complex. The absence of mandatory insurance for scooter operators complicates matters significantly.
If a scooter rider collides with a pedestrian, liability often hinges on the rider's insurance coverage, which may be inadequate or nonexistent. In cases of scooter malfunction, potential liability extends to both the scooter-share company and the manufacturer, provided they were aware of the defect and failed to take action.
Pursuing claims against scooter manufacturers, especially those based in China, can be intricate due to international jurisdiction, legal barriers, and a host of other issues.
When scooters collide with motor vehicles, driver negligence can be a basis for lawsuits if the four elements—duty of care, breach of duty, causation, and resulting injuries and losses—are established.
Additionally, poorly maintained infrastructure may give rise to municipal liability claims against the responsible government agency. Navigating this intricate legal landscape necessitates expert advice from a Philadelphia accident attorney, ensuring claimants are well-informed and equipped to pursue their cases effectively.
HOW OUR SCOOTER ACCIDENT LAWYERS CAN HELP YOU
When you choose our scooter accident lawyers, you'll have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your case is in capable hands. Our lawyers will use their extensive knowledge and experience to help you in the following ways:
- Thorough Investigation: We'll leave no stone unturned in our quest for the truth. Our lawyers will thoroughly investigate your accident, gather all relevant evidence and interview witnesses to build a strong compensation case.
- Strong Advocacy: Insurance companies are notorious for lowballing settlements, but we won't let that happen to you. Our lawyers will be your fierce advocates, negotiating with the insurance company to ensure you receive the compensation you deserve.
- Experienced Representation: If your case goes to court, you can trust us to represent you with skill and determination. Our lawyers have a proven track record of success in the courtroom and will fight for your rights every step of the way.
- Personalized Attention: Every scooter accident case is unique, so we'll work closely with you to understand your specific needs and goals. Our lawyers will be there for you every step of the way, answering your questions and addressing your concerns.
Don't wait any longer to get the help you need. Contact us today to schedule a free consultation and learn more about how our Philadelphia motorcycle accident attorneys can help you.
The Importance of Hiring a Philadelphia Scooter Accident Lawyer
If you've been involved in a scooter crash in Philadelphia, it's essential to have a qualified and experienced scooter accident lawyer. Here's why:
NAVIGATING THE LEGAL PROCESS:
The legal process for seeking compensation after a scooter accident can be complex and confusing. A Philadelphia scooter accident lawyer has the knowledge and experience to guide you through the process, ensuring that you understand your rights and the steps you need to take to protect them.
PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS:
Scooter accident victims can seek compensation for their injuries, lost wages, and other damages. A Philadelphia scooter accident lawyer will tirelessly protect your rights and ensure that you receive the compensation you deserve.
MAXIMIZING YOUR COMPENSATION:
Insurance companies are often more concerned with protecting their profits than fairly compensating scooter accident victims. A Philadelphia scooter accident lawyer will negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf to maximize your compensation and ensure that you receive the full amount you're entitled to.
REPRESENTATION IN COURT:
If your case goes to court, a Philadelphia scooter accident lawyer will represent you, presenting your case clearly and compellingly and fighting for your rights.
PEACE OF MIND:
Dealing with the aftermath of a scooter accident can be stressful and overwhelming. With a Philadelphia motorcycle accident lawyer on your side, you can focus on your recovery while your lawyer handles the legal details, giving you peace of mind and allowing you to move forward with your life.
Hiring a Philadelphia motorcycle accident lawyer is an important step for anyone involved in a motorcycle crash. With their knowledge and experience, a qualified motorcycle accident lawyer can help you navigate the legal process, protect your rights, and secure the compensation you deserve.
What To Do After An Accident
If you've been involved in a scooter accident in Philadelphia, it's important to take the right steps to protect your rights and ensure that you receive the compensation you deserve. Here's what you should do after a scooter accident:
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Ep. 6 Singing Connected Relationships in Prison Contexts with Dr. Mary Cohen
Dr. Mary Cohen
Dr. Mary Cohen is a leading scholar exploring community music making within prison contexts. Our conversation explores the redemptive, restorative, and connective empowerment of choral singing as building imaginations of possible selves and ubuntu, or connectedness. This podcast blends conversation, quotes from Andy Douglas' book Redemption Songs, and sound clips from the Oakdale Community Choir.
ubuntu, music education, choir, prisons, justice, imagination
Dr. Mary Cohen is Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship focuses on choral singing and well-being with particular emphasis on music programs in prison contexts. She has published extensively on these topics in publications like the Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Choral Singing, the Choral Journal, the Journal of Correctional Education, and many others.
Cohen, M. L. (2012). Harmony within the walls: Perceptions of worthiness and competence in a community prison choir. International Journal of Music Education, 30(1), 46-56. doi:10.1177/0255761411431394
Cohen, M. L. (In press). Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public’s perceptions of people inside prisons. In M. Balfour, B. Bartleet, L. Davey, J. Rynne, & H. Schippers (Eds.), Performing Arts in Prisons. Bristol : Intellect.
Cohen, M. L., Silber, L., Sangiorgio, A., & Ladeluca, V. (2018). Music-making as a means to promote positive relationships. In G. Welch & G. McPherson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Music Education (2nd ed.) (pp. ). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cohen, M. L., & Henley, J. (2018). Music-making behind bars: The many dimensions of community music in prisons. In B. Bartleet & L. Higgins (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Community Music (pp. 153-171). Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Cohen, M., & Wilson, C. M. (2017). Inside the fences: The processes and purposes of songwriting in an adult male U.S. prison. International Journal of Music Education, 35(4), 541-553. doi: 10.1177/0255761416689841
Douglas, A. (2019). Redemption songs: A year in the life of a community prison choir. San Germán, PR: InnerWorld Publications.
Henley, J., & Cohen, M. L. (2014). Constructing personal narratives around key musical events: Redefining identities and attitudes within and outside of prison music. In M. Cohen (Ed.), Listening to the world: Experiencing and connecting to the knowledge from community music. Proceedings from the 14th Community Music Activity Commission (pp. 115-123). Salvador, Brazil : International Society of Music Education.
Henley, J., Cohen, M. L., & Mota, G. (2014). Musical development and positive identity change within criminal justice settings. In G. C. Beyens, M. A. M. Ramos, E. Zipane, & T. Ophuysen (Eds.), Rethinking education: Empowering individuals with the appropriate educational tools, skills, and competencies for their active cultural, political and economic participation in society in Europe and beyond (pp. 120-149). Brussels : Access to Culture Platform.
Miller, P., & Cohen, M. L. (2017). “Dear younger me”: Writing, songwriting, and choral singing while incarcerated as a means to build identities and bridge communities. In M. Reason & N. Lowe (Eds.), Applied practice: Evidence and impact in theatre, music and art (pp. 195-201). London, UK: Bloomsbury Metheun Drama.
Speaker 1: 00:01 [inaudible]
Mary Cohen: 00:02 what are the deep needs in our society now and how can music education fulfill some of those needs? And I think we have, as a field, need to be using our collective imagination to think in really deep ways.
Shorner-Johnson: 00:16 You were listening to the music and peacebuilding podcast, professional development network at musicpeacebuilding.com exploring intersections of peacebuilding, culture, sacredness, relationship, community, creativity and imagination through research and story. Today we take a deep dive into the amazing, compassionate and restorative work of inside singers, outside singers and Dr. Mary Cohen of the University of Iowa. Together they have formed the Oakdale community choir within the context of the Iowa medical and classification center, a part of the Iowa Department of corrections. We listen to an interview with Dr. Cohen, excerpts from redemption songs by Andy Douglas, and excerpts of singing from the Oakdale community choir. Dr. Mary Cohen is associate professor at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship focuses on choral singing and wellbeing with particular emphasis on music programs in prison contexts. She has published extensively on these topics - in publications like the Journal of Research and Music Education, Journal of research and choral singing, the choral journal, the Journal of Correctional Education and many others that will be listed on our website with this podcast.
Shorner-Johnson: 01:44 I think I read that you first became interested in music within prison contexts in Kansas and I was, I was curious if you could tell us about what first sparked your curiosity about music within these unique contexts.
Mary Cohen: 01:59 Sure, yeah, there's been a variety of things and the more I've done it the other, the more the additional things that I've thought about. When I was in high school, I was on the debate team my sophomore year, my first time on the debate team, the topic was criminal court procedure. And I remember reading and exploring this topic and just curious, you know, what, what would be the point of putting a lot of people in the same space if you're not providing some kind of an educational program? Because we learn so much about who we're involved with and who we're around. So that was just a curiosity from high school.
Mary Cohen: 02:36 And then my husband and I were involved in a choir called the festival singers of Kansas City, and there were a number of folks singing in that choir that were involved in the arts in prison organization. So I was curious about it. I just heard about it through conversations with some of those folks. And then reading the Sunday Kansas City arts page one day and saw that the choir called the East Hill Singers were performing at the Atonement Lutheran Church just a few miles from where we lived in. We were living in Lenexa, which is a suburb of Kansas City. So went to it out of curiosity and was really blown away walking into the church in the gathering of the church were, it was filled with visual arts and some writing. And then during the concert, many of the inside singers, so the men, this choir, east hill singers is from the Lansing correctional facility, the state prison in Kansas, Lansing, Kansas. And the men leave the prison and sing with a group of outside volunteers. Anyway, so going into the concert, Kevin. It was just like, Whoa, this is really remarkable. The idea of singing with people who are in prison. So I just thought the idea of people singing in unison and harmony, you know, people that have been accused of committing crimes, singing with people who are from the society where they've been accused of committing the crimes from, you know, singing together. It's just, it really, really, really sparked my attention.
Shorner-Johnson: 04:05 So how did you start the Oakdale choir? I would guess that it's very complex to start a choir like this because you probably have a lot of naysayers and people who are concerned about security and um, and you have to work through a lot of things. So how did you start the Oakdale choir?
Mary Cohen: 04:22 Great question. So I used a lot of, I did a lot of research when I first came to the University of Iowa to prepare me to start the choir. So that involved things like collecting data, pardon me, from people who lead choirs. So I got to travel to Ohio to meet Kathy Roma who leads now three prison choirs. I traveled to Minnesota and there was a woman named, is a woman named Bea Hasselman who used to direct a choir at the Red Wing correctional facility and you know, and collected more data from a man named Marles Preheim who was one of Elvira's students who for a while let acquire in Hutchinson, Kansas. So I was seeking out people who had already done this. I also, um, had a really important phone call conversation with William Cleveland. Is that a name that you know? No. So William Cleveland has written, um, you think, well the, the article that I've used of his is called common sense and common ground and it's basically skills for artists working with institutions. And um, he's centered, he has another book called, uh, I think I have it right on my shelf here, Art in Other Places, which is from 1992. William Cleveland. So my conversation with him, he suggested to me, Mary, if you know, cause I was trying to figure out what's the best way to do this, what's gonna make the most sense?
Shorner-Johnson: 05:51 Dr. Mary Cohen Speaks of the pioneering legacy of Elvera Voth in the Lansing chorus as planting the seeds for her work at age 70 Elvera Voth started a choir at the Lansing Correctional Facility in 1995 both asked members of the community to sing with prison insiders and the aim of improving choral sound. This idea of combining communities launched inspirations for Dr. Cohen to approach choral work as community work; connection building, Cohen says, is fundamental to the reintegration of insiders with outside society. I asked Dr. Cohen about how she started the Oakdale choir in Iowa. She spoke of the influence of many people and in particular of William Cleveland who taught her that it takes a village to begin a choir.
Mary Cohen: 06:49 And he said, Mary, if you want to start something like this, think of it like starting a village, not a summer camp. Meaning that if you can establish really positive relationships with the people in the prison facility, the staff, the administrators, and you know, make more of a partnership, it's going to be a much more meaningful program. So between that kind of advice and the University of Iowa's Center for teaching offered a brilliant workshop on public-engaged research that I got to go to. Um, and a lot of that was helping me form the ideas for this project. There's a, there were, the director for that center for teaching Gene Foreman and another colleague who's a rhetoric professor at Iowa, Mary Trachsel, the three of us met so I could plan out a reflective writing component that I've included with the choir. And um, Mary, in turn, she sang in the choir. Both Jean and Mary sang in the choir the very first season, 2009 when the choir started. And Mary in turn started a Oakdale writer's workshop in the prison in August. I started the choir in February of 2009 and in August of that year, she started this writer's workshop, which is still going really strong. So to start the choir. I mean, those were things that I did on my own. The different, there were other research projects. I did one where I looked at, um, what are the songs that people who lead prison choirs find helpful and important? Um, that one I didn't publish but I presented at a conference. It was just all stuff to really help me think through how to start this project. Then the second part was making the connection with the prison.
Shorner-Johnson: 08:37 I love Dr. Cohen for her gifts and thinking through relationships. She went on to name at least 10 individuals who all contributed inspirations to her work. Mary is a connector, one who is gifted in crafting community at every stage of a process.
Mary Cohen: 09:05 So, um, the plan had been for me to come in in January and have the meeting at the prison with men to let them know here at some of the ideas I have for starting this choir. Are you interested? You know, what songs might work. So what they did at the prison was there was an interim warden named Dan Craig who I just emailed with today and just learned, he's now the director of the bureau of prisons and, and he's actually retiring soon. But anyway, so, so they were supportive of the project starting because it was planned to go and I had the meeting With the men in the prison on, uh, in January of 2009. And then we had our very first rehearsal, the first Tuesday of February of 2009 as kind of a pilot to see how things would go.
Mary Cohen: 09:52 And uh, from there we just continued to partner with the prison and make sure what we were doing, fit what their goals were for the prison and make sure that what we're doing with bringing people in and this writing component fit their guidelines with security. Okay. And there've been a variety of changes that have happened over these 10 years as you can only imagine. Um, the biggest change was the choir sang in the spring season of 2009. We did a concert themed peace and place. We did a themed concert. Summer 2009, the theme was rivers and rocks. And then at the end of that summer, I met with Dan in a group of other administrators at the prison and they said, Mary, it's really hard to have these outside volunteers. We had 22 outside volunteers come in with, and met 22 insights singers. It was really hard for them on Summer Tuesdays for these outside volunteers to come in every week. So he said, let's just have the choir during the academic semesters. But I said, sure, no problem. And then I asked would it be possible to start a songwriting workshop because that evolved organically and they said yes. So in the summer months, what we do is do songwriting workshop.
Oakdale Chorus: 11:10 Music
Oakdale Chorus: 11:36 Music interlude - Beauty before me, beauty behind me....
Shorner-Johnson: 12:38 before we get too deep in, can you explain for the listeners who are unfamiliar with these terms about how you arrived at insiders and outsiders as designations for people in your choir?
Mary Cohen: 12:49 Sure. Yeah. Well, I didn't have that term when the choir started and I really fumbled around every time I was trying to explain a direction that would be specific to one of the groups and not the other group. The, The prison traditionally has used the term offender, and I knew that term didn't resonate with the goals of this project. So I had attended a conference in California. It was a correctional education association conference and went to a session with someone that had attended the inside-out prison exchange training program. This is a program Lori Pompa started at Temple University and what she does is she trains faculty members who want to teach a class as part of their college load, teaching load, in a prison where half the students are inside students, the incarcerated students and half the students are outside students. So I heard that presentation, someone who had been to a inside-out training and I thought, oh, that could work for the choir. So I want to acknowledge the, Lori's program because that's how I got the terms inside and outside singers.
Shorner-Johnson: 14:01 Imagination is a cornerstone of peacebuilding practice. In Dr Cohen's work. I sense the generative power of imagination. Her scholarship speaks to the imagination of possible selves and the healing power of imagining through musical memory.
Shorner-Johnson: 14:21 I feel like I sense this idea that songs have a, an amazing impact on people and bringing them back into the imagination of some of these, these good memories. And I was wondering, uh, what you had experienced about how songs seem to bring about an imagination of good memories and, and possibility.
Mary Cohen: 14:44 Oh, what a great question. Kevin. This is brilliant. Um, there's so many directions that we could explore with this in the, in the, in the context of what I've experienced. So, um, the first thing that came to my mind is, I was thinking about your question is the role of community, like the concept of a communal voice, um, because I intend in this project to facilitate the whole choir and the songwriting workshop learning From a constructivist approach. So more of a, um, what can we as, um, well can we construct from our own knowledge? And the part of adding this concept of imagination is exciting and challenging. Cause how, how can we, um, explore what we don't know? And that's where that concept of Ubuntu comes back because I Um, I'll try to get to a specific answer about songs in a moment, but just from a more of an overarching kind of framework, when we're together in this context, there's the potential for the imagination to grow in a new way through our interactions with one another. And it's, it's potential. It all depends on how things are facilitated, how people feel in the moment, um, how willing they are to share the ideas that they're thinking and how willing they are to listen deeply to what others are saying. And sometimes it's listening to what they're saying. Sometimes it's listening to kind of the nonverbal message that they're sharing as they're interacting together. Um, and then how can we take that into some kind of a musical experience?
Oakdale Chorus: 16:30 "Inside my mother's eyes" song.
Mary Cohen: 17:10 So coming back back to this concept of imagination in music, we, after I went to my first music for people workshop, I started to improvise group choral improvisation. And, um, with the song that we do beauty before me where it's a simple, simple, um, strategy that I know a lot of my colleagues in Canada have done for a long time and it was just new to me. But, um, you sing a cannon and then, you know, a short, you repeated it a few times, and then the invitation is for someone to sing the drone of whatever the common tone is, or the Canon. If its a Canon That's simple enough to have one pitch, or maybe it's a small little Ostinato that's repeated. And then you could say, invite them to sing one measure of the cannon on a neutral syllable over and over again, like that beauty before me, do, do, do to do, just repeat that little melody over and over again. And then ideally listen and blend with what you hear around you or just stop singing and listen and then come in with the little idea. So anyway, um, this is an example of, as a group, what we've tried to do is create a space for everybody's voice to get to be expressed musically. And, um, you know, I just, I am seeking more ways myself to learn how to facilitate this. In fact, I get to go a week from tomorrow to Los Angeles to participate in a song fest that Maggie Wheeler is putting on. Maggie Wheeler came to Iowa for our learning exchange last November with us with the Soweto Gospel Choir, Maggie and her friend Sarah Thompson are both part of the Ubuntu choir network and they both facilitated songs. Maggie's also from the TV show friends. She played the role of Janice. So a lot of people know her from that and she directs a choir in Los Angeles called the Golden Bridge Choir.
Mary Cohen: 19:06 So, um, what I'm trying to say when it comes to imagination and choral singing is that I've been really, really exploring how we can do this from a communal standpoint. And, um, original songs is one step for that. And then my next step is to, to develop my skill to facilitate more, um, circle style singing where we get that, you know, it's that idea. It's the whole idea of um, coming to a equal sense of power, you know, this concept of the circle and we're all at the same level of power and then how can we, um, create music from that space? And I feel that kind of give and pull of someone that gets to express themself and everybody supporting that expression and then letting that kind of rotate through the group.
Shorner-Johnson: 19:59 Ooh, boom. Two translates as a person is a person through other persons, Reverend Tutu from the Desmond and LeahTutu legacy foundation defined Ubuntu As an ethic of interdependence, it inspires us to imagine into our universal interconnectedness. That whole idea of Ubuntu is kind of a, is a process of, uh, uh, of imagination in many ways of trying to imagine yourself as being in one relationship with other people.
Mary Cohen: 20:34 Absolutely. And I think, um, in the context of this project, the part of it that I find, um, highly challenging is the part of the survivors perspective and providing care for the survivor. So what I've done so far is connect with the state of Iowa, has an office of restorative justice and victims services for the Department of Correction. And the woman that runs that office has been into the prison a number of times. I invite her, if she has any survivors who are comfortable coming in, then they come in and participate in a concert. We had a listening session back, uh, just last fall I hosted a listening session in the music building with, We had about six or seven survivors of violent crimes. So these were all parents. There was one grandfather who's child, parents of children who had been murdered. Because I wanted to ask them what, and these were all facilitated with, um, the support of Mary Roche, the woman that's the director of restorative justice to find out what do you think of a music program inside of a prison.
Mary Cohen: 21:44 And everybody, you know, had a different story. But one thing that they shared that was in common was the thread or the connection that each of those individuals, each of those survivors had with the perpetrator. Hmm. So, you know, as we're talking about Ubuntu and this concept of imagination with Ubuntu here is where, when we're talking about how to move forward toward a healing space with people who have been hurt and the people who have hurt them. Um, and then trying to look at imagination is really important. I mean, using our imagination is really important because it's always best to not have an assumption about why someone made a choice. Every person when we interact with them, it's like we only have that surface tip of the iceberg and there's going to be a deeper story to that individual's life. And a deeper story to Even that individuals, um, ancestor, like their family backgrounds that could have impacted, you know, people that were alive, their parents, their grandparents, you know, generational trauma can also be impacted. So we need to be able in this concept of imagination is so important. And I think if we can maybe. How can we, uh, develop our imagination mean what are the skills we need to be doing as individuals and as communities to develop our imagination in a way that's for the greatest good.
Speaker 8: 23:19 [inaudible]
Shorner-Johnson: 23:20 how do we develop imaginations? What are the deeper stories that our children bring into our classrooms? How do deep stories inspire imagination and support wellbeing? How do I take more time to honor the deep stories of my students? I love how the Oakdale choir has turned song introductions and written reflections into an art form. Calling us to listen for deep story and meaning within choral song.
Oakdale Chorus: 23:55 Our theme for this year is always look on the bright side of life. Uh, this theme really hits home for a lot of us and not just us as inmates. You know, the holiday season can cast a dark shadow over our lives. You know, sometimes on this season, depression can weigh heavy on our hearts and our mind, uh, due to the separation from us being from our families this year, couple of us suffered the loss of some loved ones. But, uh, this choir here, you know, we have bonded as a family, you know, a family of hearts and a family of voices that can relate to the ups and downs of the holiday season. And so as we begin to look on the bright side of life, we became very grateful of our past memory of our families and loved ones. But we also look forward to the new ones with the hopes that they will guide our hearts into the future. So tonight through songs and through smiles, but most of all through love, we invite you guys to join us and our way of sharing gratitude for our family and friends who give us every reason to look on the bright side of life. Now this choir that stays behind me, consists of a smooth brothers singing in the sections of tenor and bass, complemented by a group of beautiful sisters, harmonizing from Alto to soprano. Uh, my main man, brother Williams on the piano. We are all up under the phenomenal leadership of Dr Mary Cohen.
Oakdale Chorus: 25:12 [Applause] Now brother Williams. Let these people know what are we here for?
Oakdale Chorus: 25:26 [Singing "we come to sing"]
Oakdale Chorus: 25:44 to all the people far near. We're truly grateful that you all here. So do us a favor. Open up your hearts. Lend us an ear. See we on a mission. That's to lift your spirits up with cheer. Please clear your mind. It's time for us to rejoice. Hey Choir, give these people a sample of our voice.
Oakdale Chorus: 26:02 Singing...
Oakdale Chorus: 26:21 Ok, so now that we have agreed to leave all our problems at the door, our next mission is to see you smiles restored. You see tonight is the night we see what all the hard work is for. So hold onto your seats. Patt your feet. We are about to soar and I promise we're going to have a good time, that's for sure. Hey choir, give these people just a little bit more.
Oakdale Chorus: 26:41 Singing
Shorner-Johnson: 26:44 This is community music in the Oxford Handbook of community music, Mary Cohen and Jenny Henley, right of the imagination of possible selves as cognitive bridges between the past and future. How do we inspire dream like imagination about who we are and who we can be?
Oakdale Chorus: 27:06 This is not a selfish mission. Happy faces is our goal. And if you dig deep down into your soul, whenever you feel the passion, just grab ahold, hey choir, I think there's something we need to let them know.
Oakdale Chorus: 27:23 [inaudible]
Shorner-Johnson: 27:23 How have you experienced choral performances as kind of an awakening of the potential for possible selves?
Mary Cohen: 27:29 Hmm, that's a great question also. Wow. Um, one of the ways I've seen it experienced, is through the relationships that are developed between people in the prison and their families, the relationships that are developed among all of the people who sing together. And Yeah. I want to make sure as I answered this question, I mean the default way of me thinking is, is what I've noticed with the men in the prison because that's been really powerful. Like a man who has not had a visit for six or seven years. And then finally their family member decides to come to the prison to attend a concert. The one, the May concert where one man had three children, two under 11 years old. Traditionally in the concerts, anyone under 18 is not allowed unless there's a special permission given which the warden does allow for that. But they're usually teenagers. And then he allowed this man's two younger children to come in.
Mary Cohen: 28:29 When I see like way back in 2009 when one man wrote a song called in my mother's eyes, he was reflecting on the look. His mother gave him in the courtroom when he was sentenced to prison and he gave me the lyrics and said, Mary, can you put this to music? And I smiled and said yes. Wasn't quite sure if I had the time or skill set to do it. And I got home and read it. His words in my mother's eyes, I can do no wrong. I'm in her thoughts and prayers always in her prayers. She asks God to keep me strong so I can make it through another day. And I took it in there. The verses go on really powerfully as well. So I took it and wrote it like one line at a time, d minor meter in three kind of like a lullaby, but it was just really, really powerful.
Mary Cohen: 29:15 So possible selves, you know, when someone is able to reconnect with their family and have something new, like a new topic. Kenneth Bailey, who's been in the choir when it started and he's out and just now just moved to Texas. He's written the song, "may the stars, remember your name" that Yo-yo Ma performed in October of 2010 at the Warrenville Youth Center in Illinois. Um, Kenneth had shared that it provides new topics to talk about with his family and other men have talked about that as well. So, um, it's like kind of an incremental way of growing into new selves. Through renewed relationships with family. That's really one of the very first things that comes to mind. Um, and I think there's also a sense of possible selves with the outside singers. You probably got a taste of that from Andy Douglas's book and what he grew, how he grew from being in the choir and there've been other outside singers.
Mary Cohen: 30:13 Pardon me, who have also expressed that their experience of coming in and singing. I mean, everybody has said this. It's like they don't keep coming. I mean they keep coming because it's valuable for the outside singers. That's the research project that I need someone else to come into the prison and do, cause I'm too biased to be able to do it from a a neutral perspective. But we need to find out, you know, what are the positive, negative and neutral components of singing together in a choir like this. Um, and it's, it's just with all these different perspectives, we've got students from the University of Iowa, Faculty, staff, people from the community who are not in the prison and you know, with all the, and sometimes people are only in it for a season and they, many times will come back for concerts if they can, but you know, sometimes they move far away and it's just the memory of the experience. So, you know, to what extent did one season of this choir impact their sense of possible selves? Um, it's really hard from a scholarly standpoint to be able to assess that.
Oakdale Chorus: 31:24 [inaudible]
Oakdale Chorus: 31:24 good afternoon. My name is, uh, Anthony Rod. Most of you guys know me as A-Rod. Earlier you heard Macy speak of the Native American tribes who once called Iowa home. I am a enrolled member of one of these tribes in this choir. We sing from a variety of perspectives, not always aligning. For example, the next song makes me uncomfortable. I know firsthand the depths people would go to to attain their perfect peace. However, I'm beginning to understand the humility it takes to build bridges of peace. It's with this peace in mind that we sing the following song.
Oakdale Chorus: 32:21 Piano intro followed by choir singing "Deep Peace"
Shorner-Johnson: 33:12 Andy Douglas writes, It might seem odd to describe a prison as a caring community, but if we hope to break the chain of criminal thinking, then that's exactly the kind of environment we want prisons to be, and in that respect, in creating a sense of hope, the Oakdale choir is cutting edge. It represents a tool for breaking through the sense of separation that plagues the criminal justice system.
Shorner-Johnson: 33:45 I asked Dr. Cohen about songwriting because songwriting is a key part of her work and scholarship. To date, members of the Oakdale community choir have written 153 songs. The song writing process builds expressions of personal experience and story. Dr. Cohen begins by relating one song written by an insider just as the song writing workshop took off.
Mary Cohen: 34:13 So then during that season, one of the insights singers came up to me and said, Mary, whatever happened to those lyrics, I gave you "my love always." He said, are you going to be able to maybe set those to music? So we had no songwriting workshop at this point in the project. And I said, sure. So I went home, I found his lyrics, at the end of his lyrics, Kevin, he wrote in the style of Reba McEntire. Okay, no problem. So went on to youtube and found some Reba McIntyre kind of get an idea of what that meant from a couple songs set at the piano and set out, set his lyrics to music with kind of an upbeat country style. It was kind of how I thought he meant when he said in the style of Reba McEntire the choir started to learn a song and a couple weeks into the season I get a note typed up saying that the version that I had set of um, my love always did not match the songwriters' the lyricist's ideas. And I thought, Oh okay cause I didn't have any chance. I had no, just one one-on-one conversation with this lyricist to say, tell me what you think of this. So we stopped the song that following summer we had our first song writing workshop in the summer and the man who wrote those lyrics and I set at the piano and I got a much better idea of, of what he meant. He wanted a slow ballad. And I also learned a lot about teaching songwriting because the way he had written his lyrics, he had verse one as like a paragraph. He had the chorus verse one chorus, excuse me, verse two as a second paragraph, but hadn't really understood how the words and the rhythms for one verse in the second verse and needed to align. So I learned a lot about ways to instruct that and how to teach that.
Mary Cohen: 36:09 And then, um, by that December, the following fall, we were able to do the song "my love always." In fact, Andy Douglas reads a really beautiful introduction to that song at the concert. Yeah. Anyway, so the songwriting, obviously it was so clear to me when we did that summer songwriting session in 2009 with a choir and then move on to summer songwriting workshop in 2010. It was crystal clear that songwriting was a meaningful way for the men in the prison to express themselves. And it was really, really fun for me. I love taking someone's lyrics, sitting at the piano and creating a melody for it. Um, what we do at our sessions, this will be helpful for the K-12 teachers, is we use a system for feedback that's called the Liz Lerman critical response process. It's a four step four-step strength-based process that allows, step one is the step of providing what's interesting, meaningful and evocative. So the very first step, all of the people listening to the song, and this can be applied to lots of other artistic contexts. Step two, the artist gets to ask questions. And that's great because then the topic of the conversation is whatever the artist wants, different than the master teacher approach, where someone presents an original piece, original performance, not necessarily original, but any kind of musical performance. And the master teacher is the power person that says, here's what needs to be different. So that Liz Lerman critical response process has provided a really positive way to give feedback.
Shorner-Johnson: 38:03 I asked Dr. Cohen about ritual because her work seems to embody intention through opening and closing rituals.
Mary Cohen: 38:12 In the prison choir, um, we have a song, we always, we started a few quite a few years ago with that silent meditation. And I use, um, part of my yoga practice of the Kosha model where I invite them to relax their bodies. You know, maybe relax the tiny muscles around their face and their eyes. And their lips and release unnecessary tension in their neck and back, you know, just go through a series of relaxing the body and then I bring their awareness into their breath so that the first is the body that um, Ana Maya Kosha and then the Prana Maya Kosha, which is the breath noticing the breath. And the third is Mana Maya Kosha where I invite them to set an intention or many times all have some kind of an intention or a quote. Sometimes the quotes from the reflective writing that the members of the choir have done. Other times it's a lyric of a song they're doing or something that kind of sets a focus for this session.
Mary Cohen: 39:14 So then after that, that that's, I always do that silent meditation relaxation before the physical warmup and the vocal warmup. That's been the pattern. And then during rehearsal we always move spaces. So maybe once, maybe two times where we, what we usually do is start out in mixed formation and they're instructed to sit by someone they don't know at the beginning of the practice. Then after the warmup and maybe one or two songs, they'll move into their sections of soprano alto tenor bass. Okay. Um, and then usually at some point they move back into mixed formation. And then at the end of the rehearsal we make a big standing circle and that's where we do announcements. And if, um, we have time, especially at the beginning of the season, we'd go around the circle and people say their name and they're invited. If they want to say three words, it could be, you know, three words on their mind or three words of songs, I mean, any three words they want or they can just say their name. And then we always end, even summer song writing workshop. We end with a song called may you walk in beauty
Oakdale Chorus: 40:26 Singing "May you walk in beauty...."
Shorner-Johnson: 41:36 Is there anything that I haven't asked you that you would like to say about your, your work with the Oakdale community choir or other work you're doing?
Mary Cohen: 41:44 I think the biggest thing when we're talking about this topic is that it's so much more than providing music education for people in prison because the United States has many, many, many serious human rights issues in prisons. Really big ones like youth that have been incarcerated with adults. The lack of music education for youth who are in, who are court involved. And that's in itself is a huge tragedy in our field. And I think we as music educators should be looking in our own communities. What are, what kind of music education do youth have, who are court involved and what can we do? What should we be doing different? Should we be providing funding through the local public school district? Should there be more, um, some kind of an afterschool program or nonprofit organization or another way that music educators and you know, and what kind of music education would be most meaningful?
Mary Cohen: 42:43 Should we be doing more with families and um, music education. Um, I, you know, the whole, the, the topic that you asked me about with imagination, I think we need to really think really critically and deeply in our field in music education and say, you know, we've got a lot of tradition that's phenomenal AND what are the, the deep needs in our society now and how can music education support, fill, fulfill some of those needs? And I think we have as a field need to be using our collective imagination to, to think in, in really deep ways. Because there are so, the list is so long. Yeah. There's just so many things and that's, um, I, I don't mean to say to be negative about it, I just mean to say that, um, um, I hope that we are able to really make some smart choices and I want to compliment you on the upcoming master's program in peacebuilding and music education at Elizabethtown College because that's, that's a s a star example of what direction we need to be going in our field and looking in new ways. I've got to do a article this summer with an undergraduate student on creating a definition for circular practices and peacebuilding and music education. So I'm looking forward to digging into that topic a little more and I'm super looking forward to finishing the book. I've been writing about music, education and prisons
Shorner-Johnson: 44:14 In redemption songs. Andy Douglas reflects the beauty of this group I'm coming to understand is that it allows all of us, whatever our level of self-understanding, whatever issues we're struggling with, to listen to each other. Listening is an underrated art. When we offer our attention to someone else, dropping any preconceived notions, we might have our sense of having to be right or having to prove anything drops away. Life is fleeting and fragile. Our friends and loved ones will one day be gone. We're all struggling to find our way, but it braces me to see how exercising our vulnerability and courage in this way, walking through our little corner of the world, we can't help but learn from each other.
Shorner-Johnson: 45:16 We offer a blessing to you. Listeners, may we see each other with a mother's eyes, a love that refuses anything but the totality of our beauty. A love that peers light into darkness and turn sound into song. The doxology of connectedness, restoring, imagining, connecting, walking.. Together in beauty. Special thanks to Dr. Mary Cohen, the people in the Oakdale choir community, the staff and administrators at the Iowa medical and classification center, especially warden James McKinney for permission to use recordings in this podcast. We also recommend that if you are looking for a creative nonfiction book, redemption songs, a year in the life of a prison choir by Andy Douglas is a beautiful, heartfelt exploration of criminal justice, restorative justice, singing and spirituality
Speaker 9: 46:24 [inaudible]
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🎅💨Muxton Santa Dash🎅🏃♀️🏃♂️
What a fantastic day for all year groups taking part in our Santa Dash event, lots of fun had getting ready for Christmas break. We even had a visit from Santa himself!!!
🥌KS2 New Age Kurling Competition🥌
Well done to our KS2 students that represented our school in the Kurling competition held at Wrekin College.
Well done to our Y5/6 girls who made it into the knockout rounds. Really competitive game against St Luke’s Primary.
What is 10 by 10?
10 by 10 is an initiative launched by Telford and Wrekin Council, aimed towards ensuring that all primary age children in Telford and Wrekin have the chance to participate in 10 activities. We are working with providers and partners in the local area to increase the opportunity for children to access these activities, and have developed a website so that children can track their progress.
Who can take part?
10 by 10 is aimed at primary age children, who live or attend a school in Telford and Wrekin.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has begun his one-day visit in Ukambani. The first stop was Thwake dam. He was accompanied by former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and all Ukambani governors among other leaders.
President Uhuru Kenyatta (centre) accompanied by other leaders during Thwake project inspection tour. Photo/COURTESY
Thwake Dam in Makueni County is expected to provide clean water to over 1.3 Million residents of Makuei and Machakos counties.
The double cancellation of president's trip was attributed to simmering disagreements between the three governors and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka.
However, while touring Makueni and Machakos region on Wednesday, Kalonzo denied that there was bad blood between him and the gubernatorial trio.
It has cost the government Sh43Billion to invest in Thwake Dam. When complete, it will be expected to produce 20MW hydroelectricity and contain flooding in Athi River.
A 40,000 hectare irrigation scheme will be set up by the government to fight food scarcity in the drought-prone region.
Earlier this week, Makueni governor Kivutha Kibwana dismissed Kalonzo's visit as a ploy. " For the first time, Kalonzo has visited Thwake Dam ahead of president's Ukambani tour. Today he said he is John the Baptist", said the governor.
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JERUSALEM — IF Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fail because of Israel’s continuing construction of illegal settlements, the Israeli government is likely to face an international boycott “on steroids,” as Mr. Kerry warned last August.
These days, Israel seems as terrified by the “exponential” growth of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (or B.D.S.) movement as it is by Iran’s rising clout in the region. Last June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively declared B.D.S. a strategic threat. Calling it the “delegitimization” movement, he assigned the overall responsibility for fighting it to his Strategic Affairs Ministry. But B.D.S. doesn’t pose an existential threat to Israel; it poses a serious challenge to Israel’s system of oppression of the Palestinian people, which is the root cause of its growing worldwide isolation. | <urn:uuid:c6b14d96-3baf-415a-97a0-f55aface3861> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.myayiti.com/2014/02/why-israel-fears-boycott.html | 2024-04-16T04:45:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.952407 | 211 |
Please take notice that on September 12, 2018, at its regular meeting, the Board of Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc., will take up for consideration and intends to approve the following proposal for awards of funding pursuant to s. 288.8017, Florida Statutes (2017):
Applicant: School Board of Bay County, Florida/Haney Technical Center HVAC
Funding Request: $614,000.00
Summary of Project of Proposal Contract: Click here to view
Any person interested in being heard on these matters may attend and address the Board prior to a vote on approval of any award. Information regarding the time and place for the September 12, 2018 Board Meeting may be found by clicking here.
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20th century Berlin: Fall of an empire till Fall of the Wall
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Traces of 5 different state systems in only one century. See the visible tracks of world history in Germanys capital Berlin. Walk along historic sites and let us explain the stories behind.
Our Top Experiences and Tours in Berlin:
If youʻre booking your trip to Berlin last minute, we have you covered. Below are some of the top tours and experiences!
Reichstag - an impressing building - becoming a symbol for modern democracy
Memorial for the murdered Jews - a 20.000 m² awareness in Berlins very center
Hitlers Bunker - a symbol for the wretched and bitter end of a dictatorship
Former Airforce ministry - a propaganda tool and a unseen warning towards WWII
We meet in southern front of the central main train station („Hauptbahnhof“). We will get an overview of todays government district.
Follow with us the Soviet advance in the final days of the terrible bloody battle of Berlin.
Stand in front of the „Reichstag“ (House of Parlament). Get an idea of how and why the Republic of Weimar ended in 1933. Let us explain the difficult 14 democratic years of democracy between an empire and a dictatorship.
See the Soviet war memorial in the former British sector. Lets talk about this impressing monument. Let us explain why this even today is a very ongoing historic symbol.
We continue to the Brandenburg Gate - THE national symbol of Germany. Get some ideas what historic events took place here. Let us explain one of many stories why the Wall really fell down.
The tour continues to the impressing/depressing „Memorial dedicated to the murdered Jews in Europe“. We will give some more details about this extreme crime against humanity and why it is important to keep awareness with a huge monument in the heart of the city.
Stand on top of Hitlers Bunker and listen to stories about the dictators last hours.
We will continue to one of the few remaining buildings from the Nazi dictatorship in Berlin. See the messages the Nazi-propaganda-machine was sending by bricks. Explore how this building became a symbol of the socialist idea to change into a dictatorship. Let us give you a story how this architecture is having an effect till today.
We will see the former headquarter of the evil where the holocoust was planned and administered.
Our tour ends at Checkpoint Charlie. Get an idea why this place got so famous in world history.
From Checkpoint Charlie you can directly enter the very advanced Berlin subway system.
A personal guide for the whole tour
History explanations by storytelling and illustrating pictures
Answers to questions - limited to knowledge
Tips for the further stay in Berlin
Please bring a bottle of water for your personal demand. Please check wheather forecast and dress appropriate for 2,5 hours outdoors walking. In case of rain an umbrella can be helpful.
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Defiance in Connecticut: “When Southbury Said No”
On October 1, 1937, Wolfgang Jung purchased 178 acres of land in Southbury, Connecticut for the German-American Bund to build a Nazi camp. The residents of Southbury fought back against this Nazi invasion of their town. Organized by the Reverend M.E.N. Lindsay, the Reverend Felix Manley, and town leaders, the townspeople established a zoning commission whose first ordinance forbade land usage in the town for “military training or drilling with or without arms except by the legally constituted armed forces of the United States of America.” The ruling effectively closed Southbury to the Bund.
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25th January, 2016
Preparing an annual cash flow forecast can tell you a lot about your business.
It can warn you with plenty of time to spare that you’re not going to have enough cash to survive the next year without getting additional working capital — which is vitally important to know.
Or it could be the wake-up call you need to make some changes in your business. You might need to make a tweak or two, like increasing prices or shedding ineffective staff, or you could discover something more serious, such as you’re in a twilight business and it’s time to move on.
It’s reasonably straightforward to prepare a cash flow forecast if you’ve been in business for at least a year. This is because you have the previous year’s actual cash movements to use a basis for the future, and you know what costs you incurred on a day-to-day basis.
If you (or your accountant) make use of a good accounting software such as MYOB Banklink, it’s a piece of cake because the software groups all your income and costs together in expense categories and can produce a spreadsheet report showing all your receipts and payments on a monthly basis over prior years. It’s then just a case of going through the figures line by line and amending these for impending changes and likely increases or decreases. The main categories involved are overheads and outgoings, cost of sales (or direct costs), and sales.
Overheads are usually straightforward to predict. Outgoings include capital expenditure, drawings, GST and income tax, which you may need help with from your accountant.
Predicting sales can be trickier: will these be the same as last year, higher or lower? Have you increased your prices? Are you planning to discount? Are you getting more customers, or are you losing them?
Once you have decided on the sales, the cost of sales (or direct costs) are last. Do you mark up using the same percentage every time? Or do you vary this depending on the customer? What direct costs such as contract labour or disbursements will you outlay? What proportion of goods you buy for resale get knocked out cheaply or wasted?
So you’ve taken the plunge and prepared the cash flow forecast, and to your horror you find it’s not looking good because in month six you have a cash deficit of $15,000. What could this be telling you?
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We hear you loud and clear! And we get it because we're moms too. In fact, our Sherah team is now 14 moms with 30 kids who work daily with 90 member families who are also busy parents just like you.
So what are parents' biggest complaints today that are begging for solutions?
Here are the top five problems we hear our Sherah member families struggle with in their busy lives along with the top tips from our team of assistants.
#1 - I hate laundry.
Not one person has said they like laundry. It comes up as a top problem in every new member call. Some of you hate the folding. Some hate putting away. Some hate everything about it. Some of you haven't seen your dining room table top in a few weeks. Here are several ways to tackle this problem area differently. Try them and see what works for you.
It seems counterintuitive, but instead of doing laundry once a week, do smaller loads several times a week. Each person gets a day. It creates smaller loads that require no sorting, faster folding, and easier putting away. Depending on the age of your kids, you can even assign a day to each kid and make it their responsibility to bring their dirty clothes to the washing machine on their assigned day.
Have your sitter do more. Many of us already have a babysitter in our home during the week. Do not hesitate to ask them to help with the kids' clothes. They often would rather be busy than bored especially if they're in your home after the kids have gone to bed. They can easily fold a load while you're wrapping up work or out of the house.
Incentivize kids to do more. If your kids are old enough, leverage a chore chart with rewards assigned to each chore including laundry. Instead of a reward being based just on time, make it based on how much you hate doing the task! If you hate putting away, then reward more for this final step! Chores don't have to be rewarded with just money (although we are fans of Greenlight cards). Think outside of the box and leverage whatever motivates your kiddo.
Outsource when desperate. When push comes to shove, sometimes you just need to get it done. Puritan Cleaners offers a wash/dry/fold service, and they'll even pick it up and deliver it back to your front door in two days turnaround time. At $3 per pound, it's great for towels, sheets, workout clothes and cheap kids clothes. Definitely not for your delicates as they use high heat. Another innovative service is SudShare where a neighbor in your community picks up your laundry, washes it in their home, and brings it back within hours for only $1 per pound.
#2 - I'm sick of figuring out dinner.
To be honest, this may be tied with laundry on the loathing scale. Having to put something in front of your family every single night is exhausting. It takes the the joy out of cooking. Combining the frequency of it with your family's hectic schedule and their picky eating habits, and it's close to impossible. Here are some tips to ease the pain.
Come up with a weekly general plan and don't feel the need to get creative. Routine is key here, and kids actually like routine. Routine also frees up your mental load alleviating another thing you have to think about. First look at your weekly calendar and identify which days are easier for cooking and which days need fast solutions whether that be leftovers, something fast from the freezer or pantry, prepared food from somewhere local, or delivery. Below is just an example, but the point is to figure out the weekly routine that works for YOUR family.
Sunday - Cook a big meal when you have more time
Monday - Leftovers from Sunday, re-serve meat as sliders, add a veggie
Tuesday - Pickup/delivery of healthy prepared foods from somewhere local
Wednesday - Easy meal to cook on a sheet pan, Instant Pot, or out of your freezer/pantry
Thursday - Leftovers from Wednesday, add a veggie
Friday - Pickup/delivery/eat out after a long week
Saturday - Cook or eat out depending on how you feel
Another way to create routine is to stick to the same types of meals on certain nights. You can always spice things up with different ingredients and sides to keep it from getting boring, but there is fun and sanity in routines like Macaroni Monday, Taco Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday (Breakfast for Dinner), Thoughtful Thursday (Kids "cook" for each other), Pho Friday, and Spaghetti Saturday. Make it fun and once again remove the decision making.
The last tip is to find a close friend or neighbor who has this same struggle. Stop doing double the work some nights and share the load. You invite their kids over once a week and always feed them on a specific night. They do the same with your kids. Reciprocation and leveraging your community can be a lifesaver. Plus your kids will complain less and have more fun eating with friends twice a week.
Sherah supports your family with meal planning and grocery shopping for your family. Just let us know.
#3 - I can't remember the last time we had a night out.
Whether it's a date with yourself, a best friend, or your spouse, getting a routine in place (see the trend here?) is key to preparing and sticking to it.
Pick the same day each month, add it to your calendar, book the sitter in advance, and invite your special someone including yourself. First Friday nights reserved for Girls Night Out? Second Saturday afternoon reserved for alone time to do what YOU want to do? Last Saturday night of every month for date night? Pick a date and commit to it. Do your best not to let anything else get in the way.
If team status meetings are important enough to schedule in advance at work, aren't dates with those you love the most also worth it? Go ahead and book a recurring date for the next 12 months. Sherah can also schedule that for you, find a sitter, and book your reservation.
#4 - My home feels so cluttered.
Many of us have homes that look organized, but if you open a closet, or go into the attic or basement it's another story. Here's the secret - hire someone else to do it. Not only are they better at organizing and hauling junk away, but there is a psychology to having someone else go through your stuff.
They are often better than you are at identifying what needs to go (four deviled egg plates?), but they also don't have the emotional attachment to your things. Having someone else stand over your items and ready to haul them away on the spot actually makes it easier for you to let them go. Plus many of them will resell your nicer items for you on Facebook Marketplace for a cut of the sales, but they do all the work.
We have several local home organization companies we recommend depending on your needs. They typically charge $300 to $900 for a half to full day depending on how many people they send and how long it takes. It is worth every penny though. Trust us.
#5 - I'm sorry to bother you with this, but...
When it comes to guilt, moms have it the the worst.
Even when we are working around the clock being a wife, mom, daughter and (insert paying job here), we often still feel guilty when we can't seem to get it all done by ourselves. Our spouses may have their own big job and stressors. Our aging parents and in-laws have their struggles. Other moms have their own kids and tasks to juggle. So we tend to feel guilty asking others for help even though we're the first ones to want to offer it.
We have to lean into our community though and help one another. Look around your life and stop being nervous or guilty. From a neighbor across the street to the sister or cousin who keeps offering, start saying yes to offers of help. We're all in this together.
If you can afford to hire an assistant service like Sherah, that's where the real magic
is. We understand that not everyone can afford an assistant which is why we created Sherah to begin to make it more affordable and flexible than hiring your own assistant directly. Plus when you are paying to get support, it removes the guilt. It also removes the stress knowing that the support is always there no matter what the task or what time of day.
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MOTION TO CENSURE MAYOR AT TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
Sparks flew at last Tuesday’s Fermoy Town Council meeting. Voices were raised, tempers flared, faces flushed, patience ran out and, at the end of it all, no one seemed to gain anything out of the exercise.
The main matter at issue was the manner in which the town Mayor, Tadhg O’Donovan, handled the subject of the Fermoy hotel meeting that was to be convened with the other eight councillors to determine an acceptable date when they could all attend, as requested in a letter from Theresa and Timothy Lawton on August 5.
The letter read, “Dear Mayor O’Donovan, we confirm we have now received draft site layout drawings from our architect in relation to hotel and housing on our site in Fermoy. We would be obliged if you would please communicate with your fellow councilors with a view to arranging a meeting so that same can be discussed.”
Mayor Tadhg O’Donovan did not, it is alleged, contact any of the councillors to determine the acceptable date or, indeed, respond to any of the letters he was furnished with by five of his fellow councilors requesting a special meeting. However, it appears that the mayor called a special meeting with the Lawtons himself for September 22, when three of the nine councillors can’t attend.
“A special meeting of the council may be convened at any time by the mayor or if the office of mayor is vacant or the mayor is unable to act, by the deputy mayor, or by the mayor on foot of a request in writing presented to him or her by any five members.
" Where the mayor refuses or neglects to act on foot of a request within 7 days of it being presented to him/her, the members making the request may convene a meeting. The provisions of paragraph 6 of Sch. 10 apply in relation to calling of such meeting,” reads Standing Order 4.
It was very much a stand off situation between the mayor and Cllr Michael Hanley, as the latter, armed with the letter from the hotel developers and standing order 4, asked for standing orders to be suspended and that the councilors convene on date for the meeting in question.
What ensued was a fierce verbal joust in which the mayor claimed over and over again not to understand the reason the councillors wanted the standing orders suspended and that he required Cllr. Hanley to specifically indicate the reason, although the named councillor clearly stated several times, “You have been in breach of standing orders in your failure to communicate with us.”
Cllr. Hanley also later proposed a motion that the provisions of paragraph 6 and schedule 10 in relation to calling a special meeting be included in the text of the Standing Order No 4, as there is no mention of them in the stated order.
That was not the only altercation between Mayor O’Donovan and the councillors. A motion proposed by Cllr. Peter Merrigan infuriated the mayor so much, that he completely lost his temper and the unpleasant situation escalated from bad to worse into a shouting match.
The mayor questioned the legality of the motion which stated, “That this council moves that in view of the willful failure of the mayor to exercise his civic duty to respond to the request by Mr. and Mrs. Lawton to convene a meeting of the council in order to arrange a suitable date to meet with the Lawton’s and debate the latest proposals for the hotel, this council moves that he be censured for his conduct.”
Reflecting on the council meeting and the hotel meeting that is in limbo Cllr. Michael Hanley subsequently said, “I’ve often wondered at what depth the council is prepared to sink to in terms of the way it deals with this issue. We reached a new low at the town council this week. I offered Tadhg my full support while in the chair. Whatever has occurred between his election in June to present time mystifies me completely.
"Putting this at the simplest, this is a most serious issue and I am mystified with what the agenda might be. It has emerged that perhaps the real reason why we are being entertained to this procrastination in dealing with such an important item is that the majority of the five have been actively seeking the establishment of a hotel on the Cork Road side of the town. To say that I am disappointed , would be putting it mildly,” Cllr. Hanley concluded.
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About Cemetery Stories
On Halloween a couple, both of which are clairvoyants, drive to a cemetery. They go for fun to pick up vibrations from the tombstones of the deceased. As they pick up vibrations they have visions of how the person died. Each vibration and vision seems to get darker and darker. In the midst of all of this, they are being stalked by a dark shadowy figure. What starts out as some Halloween fun quickly turns to terror.
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About Reportage November
A mysterious death of a mother and the disappearance of her child leads a group of freelance journalists to the outback of Sweden. The group of four, led by the famous journalist Linn Söderqvist, will make a reportage about the happening, and try to find something the police missed. Equipped with cameras and supplies to survive in the forest for days, they wander out in the woods to find the truth.
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“Gojira Vs. The Smoke Monster” PROCESS!
While you’re here…we wanted to show off some of the behind-the-scenes process pictures for this great new print!
“Gojira Vs. The Smoke Monster” is an 18×24 4 color hand-printed silkscreen poster- signed and numbered by the artist in a first edition of only 150 worldwide.
Like almost all of Doyle’s prints, it starts with a hand-drawn line-art image, done in pencil, brush and ink, and felt-tip pen. This print was drawn on a sheet of 12×16 Strathmore brand Bristol board- it’s a really great surface to work on, and it can stand up to a lot of abuse from wet media, as you’re about to see. Once the line-art is completed, it is scanned in at 600 dpi, and then…
Doyle hand-tones the original art board with watercolor and gouache paint, applied with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Sable brush, size 4. Blocking in the grey tones and values this way gives the final product a more organic appearance than you would normally get from the flat-color aesthetic of screenprinting. That hand-painted image is now scanned in and lined up with the original line-art, and then bitmapped into tiny little dots, which then makes it suitable for screenprinting. Then, Doyle digitally lays in the colors in Photoshop and sends the layers off for burning onto screens!
Here you see the first 3 layers of the print down on the actual paper. The ink is still wet! First color down was the warm grey, then the red, and then transparent black ink! As you can see in the face and hands, the watercolor detailing on the skin is pushed back to the transparent black layer to soften it up a bit, and make it look a little bit softer. The rest of the detail is on the black ink layer, as you can see below!
Here’s the finished print, before it gets trimmed down to 18×24. (We print on 20×26 sheets to give us a handling edge and room for registration marks.) You can see at the top of the sheet the color notes and print instructions to the printers!
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Nowadays, the two most popular hosting options for WordPress websites are Managed Hosting Services and Shared Hosting. Though similar in some ways, these hosting types have their principal differences.
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Directory of the Best Bon Secour, Alabama Process Servers
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Kosovo. The Kosovo Albanian UCPMB guerrilla continued its acts of violence in the region around the border in the east towards the rest of Serbia at the beginning of the year. The guerrillas, the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, wanted to incorporate Albanian-dominated parts of the Presevo Valley with an independent Kosovo.
In February, 7 civilian Serbs were killed and 21 injured when a bus was blown up in the air on the road between Niš in southern Serbia and Podujevo in northern K. The bus was part of a column with six other buses and with an escort of the NATO-led KFOR force. The attack contributed to NATO’s decision at the end of the month to scrap the security zone set up along the border after the 1999 war, mainly to protect KFOR. The Yugoslav military was not allowed to stay in the zone, which stretched half a mile into Serbia and used the guerrillas for attack in the Presevo Valley. NATO also tightened security in the area.
In March, UCPMB agreed to a ceasefire, just hours after Yugoslav soldiers began to regain the buffer zone. Occasional violence continued to flare up, and in mid-May, 14 guerrillas were killed in a fire. However, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, Yugoslavia was able to send 4,000 soldiers and police on May 24 to occupy the remaining part of the zone. Albanian guerrillas had then for several weeks surrendered to KFOR and allowed themselves to be disarmed. They had been promised impunity. Many Albanians in the security zone fled to Kosovo before entering the army. However, the Yugoslav authorities promised to respect the human rights of all residents.
- Abbreviationfinder: lists typical abbreviations and country overview of Kosovo, including bordering countries, geography, history, politics, and economics.
In May, the UN administration in Kosovo, UNMIK, outlined how self-government should be designed in the disputed province, which has in effect become an international protectorate. Parliamentary elections were planned in November, but UNMIK retained control of taxes and budget, the judiciary and the civilian force that replaced the disbanded Albanian UCK guerrilla. The new parliament was given the right to decide on health care, education and the environment. Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova’s party LDK won the election by a good margin over two parties led by former guerrilla leaders. Rugova was long regarded as a moderate force, and many were therefore surprised when, even before the result was clear, he made a provocative statement that his highest priority was independence for Kosovo. It turned out that LDK did not get his own majority, which the party victoriously counted on.
The outbreak of the war was preceded, on March 22, 1999, by an ultimatum from Holbrooke which ordered Milosevic to cease all military and police initiatives in Kosovo. The Serbian leader reacted with the mobilization of the Yugoslav armed forces. At the same time, Xavier Solana, NATO Secretary General, ordered General Wesley Clark to start air operations against Serbia.
The war itself can be divided into three phases. The first began at 7:55 pm (Belgrade time) on 24 March. NATO air forces attacked some Serbian military installations north of Pristina and strategic positions around Belgrade (air defense posts, military airports, aircraft shelter and maintenance facilities). The NATO forces, consisting of about eighty aircraft, belonging to the eight allied nations – Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, United States – carried out about one hundred and fifty missions with the use of the American strategic bomber B2A, capable to almost completely neutralize the radar interception. The British instead used Tomahawk missiles, launched from an attack submarine, lo Splendid, off the Montenegrin coast. The response of the Serbs was rather weak, entrusted above all to means of Soviet origin, technologically obsolete. Only two NATO aircraft were shot down and even in those cases the recovery of the pilots was carried out, thanks to the special CSAR (Combat and search and rescue) departments. NATO, to neutralize the defense of Serbs systems, used for the first time information warfare (IW, Information warfare). Twelve Yugoslavian MIG29s were destroyed on the first day of the attack.
The second phase of the conflict began three days later, when Serbian forces, despite NATO attacks, stepped up their ethnic cleansing efforts in Kosovo. The NATO command decided to use satellite-guided precision weapon systems (GPS, Global positioning system) of the latest generation, which did not require any type of target designation, as they were directly guided by satellites, and which only US vehicles had at their disposal. But since these systems were not usable in bad weather and for several days the weather conditions were disastrous, the bombing gave rather weak results. Throughout the month of April, military operations did not register much progress, as the Yugoslavs began to deploy men and vehicles near residential areas and to exploit the presence of the thousands of refugees moving from Kosovo to Albania and Macedonia. Furthermore, to evade Allied satellite surveillance, the Serbian forces also resorted to the technique of ‘false targets’, which provided for the replacement of armored and armored vehicles with wooden forms which, appropriately camouflaged, were targeted by NATO aircraft. Meanwhile, the massive influx of Kosovar refugees, driven by the hope of greater security, towards the north of Albania and towards the border areas between Macedonia and Kosovo, determined the need to activate a powerful air bridge between the allied countries and the camps. that the various international missions concurred to set up. A significant turning point from a strategic point of view was recorded starting from 10 April. The United States sent eighty-two aircraft capable of sustaining the bombing actions in conditions of perturbed weather and above all of being refueled in flight. NATO forces massively bombed all major communication routes in southern Serbia and neutralized all fuel deposits. At the end of April, the United States deployed TFH (Task force hawk), an airborne battalion from Germany, a move that also had the function of convincing the Yugoslav military leaders of the ability of NATO forces to support a possible ground attack.
On 23 April, all NATO allies, gathered in Washington, decided to intensify the attacks on Yugoslavia. Thus began the third and final phase of the war. NATO forces bombed strategic installations around Belgrade and destroyed not only the regime’s propaganda tools (television and radio), but also hit Milosevic’s and his wife’s own residence, as well as power plants and aqueducts, stirring up the population Serbian, now exhausted, a consistent negative reaction against the regime. On 8 May, due to an error in identifying the target, the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was hit, causing several victims; there was strong controversy over the inadequacy of the intelligence system US and China and Russia protested vigorously. At the end of May, there were more than seven hundred and seventy-two air strikes. Faced with the escalation of the bombings, the willingness offered by all NATO member countries to grant new bases to the US military and by non-NATO countries, such as Bulgaria, to allow free flying over the airspace, Milosevic accepted the made without conditions. On June 9, in Kumanovo, Macedonia, his plenipotentiaries signed an agreement with NATO and the next day, after ninety-nine days of combat and about 37,000 aerial actions, NATO Secretary Solana ordered the suspension of the attacks on Serbia. Operation Allied force officially ended on June 20. | <urn:uuid:11973ab7-b6cd-4929-aaa9-6f6e978d05ff> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.naturegnosis.com/kosovo.html | 2024-04-16T03:31:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.969345 | 1,562 |
The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina
We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We examine the channels through which a sovereign default may affect the economy.
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Sports have had a positive influence on my life since I was eight years old. Sports have shown me how to handle success and deal with adversity. My dad introduced me to basketball by enrolling me in a camp at our local park district. I am extremely proud of my performance and starting role I played in helping my club team (Vikings United) win a State championship in 2019 and my school team (Parker Junior High) finish the 2020 season at 20-1. One aspect of my game that sets me apart from other athletes is that I willingly play both ends of the court at a high level which allows me to affect the game in more than just one way.
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NYC native pens immigrant survival story against backdrop of war and corruption
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Mysticism, adventure, struggle and a family going beyond their limits to survive — these are the subjects readers can expect while reading Neil Perry Gordon’s debut historical fiction release, “A Cobbler’s Tale.”
This is the story of a young Jewish immigrant, Pincus Potasznik, a cobbler who leaves his pregnant wife Clara and children behind in Eastern Europe’s Galicia region in search of a better life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Complete with fast-paced storylines, “A Cobbler’s Tale” immediately engages the reader on a wild ride as it begins with Pincus’ treacherous ride on the SS Amerika through the violent seas of the Atlantic. On the ship Pincus makes the acquaintance of hooligan Jakob Adler, a risk-taker who becomes Pincus’ partner-in-crime, and changes the immigrant’s story forever.
Attempting to make a life for himself in the U.S. and later resettle his family, Pincus is unaware of the threats and adversity Clara and his children are facing back in their shtetl during World War I. As “A Cobbler’s Tale” weaves together two distinct stories of struggle from Clara to Pincus, the reader can enjoy dual, yet connected plot lines. Relatable to the present-day immigration crisis of separated families escaping persecution for a better life, Gordon brilliantly exposes struggles any immigrant would face immersing into a new culture and country.
Moshe Potasznik, Pincus and Clara’s oldest son, adds an element of Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mysticism around the ability to foretell dire events and to bring peace to those suffering. As the story is loosely based on true events, Moshe is Gordon’s grandfather.
Gordon adds, “My voice in ‘A Cobbler’s Tale’ came from growing up in a multigenerational Jewish family. The small day-to-day intricacies of living with grandparents, who immigrated as children to America, provided me with a direct connection and an ability to tell their stories.”
Born in the Bronx, Gordon and his family moved out of the city when he was 7 years old to the suburban community of Rockland County. Neil graduated as the first high school class from the Green Meadow Waldorf School in 1976. Shortly after graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Pace University, he moved to south Florida and started a drapery business.
In 1990, he relocated back to New York and still operates his business, Decorating with Fabric. He has two adult sons, Samuel and Maximilian. Neil has written two professional trade books, “The Designer’s Coach” and “An Architect’s Guide to Engineered Shading Solutions.”
“A Cobbler’s Tale” was released last month and is available on Amazon, IndieBound and wherever books are sold.
In a Q&A with Smith Publicity, Gordon discussed the characters in his novel and the historical events that inspired “A Cobbler’s Tale.
Smith Publicity: What are the real-life, historical aspects of “A Cobbler’s Tale”?
Neil Perry Gordon: Many of the characters in the book, including the protagonist, Pincus Potasznik, were family. Pincus and his wife Clara, were in fact, my great-grandparents, and Moshe was my grandfather. Although Pincus did leave his pregnant wife Clara, and three small children behind when he immigrated to America, he didn’t actually return for them until after the war ended in 1920, unlike story told in the book. Pincus was indeed a cobbler, as well as the founder of the Landsman Society of Krzywcza, which helped people from his village establish new lives in the America. During WW1, the fighting between Russia and the central powers in Galicia was extraordinarily bloody. By the end of 1914, the Russians controlled almost all of Galicia only to be pushed out in 1915 by the combined German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish forces. Today the area is split between Poland and Ukraine. The Jewish immigration to the Lower East Side is also historically accurate; their influence is still present today.
Smith Publicity: What process did you go through to understand 1910 — from the Lower East Side to living in a shtetl?
Gordon: Fortunately there is a good amount of information online describing how people lived in shtetls in Galicia region. It was important for me to fully understand how they described their existence and what was important to them. I used the same process for researching the Lower East Side in the 1910’s. In addition, I visited Ellis Island to provide an understanding of the Jewish immigration story. This included a private tour of the abandoned hospital facilities on the island, which offered insights to the immigration experience.
Smith Publicity: What is the significance of the Kabbalah references?
Gordon: An important part of the story, revolves around the spiritual figure known as the tzaddik. According to Kabbalah, there are only 36 tzaddik on earth at any one time. A person who is considered tzaddik, is also referred to as the “righteous one.” As in many spiritual practices, as a counter-balance to the tzaddik, there is the rasha, or the “evil one.” The story of the tzaddik and the rasha, are drawn upon from inspirational readings from Kabbalah mysticism.
Smith Publicity: Tell readers a little bit about the courage and fortitude of your characters, and what influenced the development of their personalities?
Gordon: The particular strengths of each character revolve around strong archetypical qualities. Pincus, for instance, realized his personal ambitions put his family at risk, and therefore needed to save them from the ravages of war. Clara displayed incredible strength and fortitude, made evident by her willingness to do anything to protect her children. Moshe was a spiritual figure who provided divine inspiration to those in need. Jakob’s loyalty to Pincus was unmatched, his energy unequaled, and was the impetus of the story’s fast pace.
Novelist Finds Success Joining Genres
The Reader's House Cover Story
We are thrilled to bring you this issue of The Reader's House, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Our pages are filled with insights and inspiration from a diverse group of writers, each with their own unique voice and perspective.
On the cover of this issue featuring an exclusive interview with Neil Perry Gordon, an acclaimed novelist who has found success by combining historical fiction with the metaphysical.
Neil Perry Gordon is a talented writer, known for his engaging and fast-paced novels that captivate readers from all walks of life. His novels have been acclaimed for their engaging storytelling style, well-developed characters and attention to historical detail. Such prestigious publications as Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review and Book Viral have all offered their effusive praise of his works. | <urn:uuid:9e01f45f-e6c5-4778-bcb8-6fdfd07dfc2c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.neilperrygordon.com/press | 2024-04-16T03:52:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.970758 | 1,546 |
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Cyber Security at Nepal Bank Limited
At Nepal Bank Limited, we prioritize the security of our customers information and transactions. With the rise of cyber threats, the bank understands the importance of maintaining a secure online banking environment. Our dedicated team continually monitors and updates our security protocols to mitigate risks and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data.
Security Measures Applied by the Bank
The bank employed advanced security measures to protect your online banking experience, including:
- Encryption technology to safeguard data during transmission.
- Multi-factor authentication for enhanced account protection.
- Continuous monitoring of systems for suspicious activities.
- Regular security assessments and audits to identify and address vulnerabilities.
- Collaboration with industry-leading security partners to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Security Tips for Online Safety
To enhance your online safety, consider the following security tips:
- Never share your password, PIN, OTP to anybody.
- Keep your passwords strong and unique for each account.
- Be cautious of unsolicited emails or messages requesting personal information.
- Install and regularly update antivirus software on your devices.
- Verify the authenticity of websites before entering sensitive information.
- Monitor your accounts regularly for any unauthorized transactions or activity.
Understanding Secure Online Banking Practices
- Be cautious of unsolicited calls, messages, or emails claiming to be from the bank. These may request sensitive information such as your online banking username / password, mobile banking or wallet credentials, one-time passwords (OTPs), ATM PIN / CVV, and security question answers. Remember, disclosing such details could lead to unauthorized access to your account or fraudulent transactions without your consent. Never respond to or share such sensitive information with anyone.
- Remain vigilant regarding SMS/email notifications concerning password/PIN resets for your online banking login, particularly those received on your mobile or email. If you haven't initiated such a request, promptly report it to the bank to prevent unauthorized access to your account.
- Exercise caution when opening links offering lottery wins or gift hampers, especially those found in emails or on social networking platforms like Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp, and others. These links could potentially install malware on your device, compromising your online banking security by capturing login credentials such as usernames, passwords, transaction PINs, and OTPs. Avoid clicking on such links to safeguard your sensitive information.
- Stay cautious against fraudulent pages and profiles on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. posing as legitimate banks. These deceptive accounts are often utilized to deceive individuals into revealing their online banking login credentials or coercing them into transferring funds to unauthorized accounts. Exercise caution and refrain from providing any personal or financial information to such entities.
ALWAYS REMEMBER: THE BANK WILL NEVER REQUEST SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM CUSTOMERS, SUCH AS ONLINE BANKING PASSWORDS, OTPS, MOBILE/WALLET PASSWORDS AND PINS, OR ATM CARD PIN/CVV.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Please refer to the following FAQs for answers to common queries:
Q: What should I do if I suspect fraudulent activity on my account?
A: Contact our customer service number (01-5971177) or email us at [email protected] / [email protected] immediately to report the incident and take appropriate action to secure your account.
Q: What measures does Nepal Bank Limited take to safeguard customer data?
A: We employ encryption, multi-factor authentication, regular security audits, and employee training to protect customer data from cyber threats.
Q: Is online banking safe?
A: Yes, we employ robust security measures to protect your online banking experience. However, it's essential to follow best practices for online safety and remain vigilant against cyber threats.
Q: How can I protect my online banking credentials?
A: Avoid sharing your login credentials with anyone, use strong and unique passwords.
Q: How often should I update my passwords?
A: It is recommended to update your passwords regularly, preferably every few months, or immediately if suspected of possible compromise.
Q: What should I do if I receive a suspicious email or message?
A: Do not click on any links or provide personal information. Forward the suspicious email to [email protected]; [email protected]; for further investigation.
Q: How can I protect myself from phishing scams?
A: Be cautious of unsolicited emails or messages, avoid clicking on suspicious links, and verify the authenticity of requests before providing any personal information.
If you encounter any suspicious activities or security concerns, please contact us immediately at:
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The pandemic has forever changed business interactions, turning face-to-face encounters into remote, digital-centric communication. While much of the attention has been on offices, factories were no exception in adjusting to this new normal, as they put into place "Work From Home" (WFH), social distancing, and other safety practices.
Two changes that factories implemented as precautions against COVID-19 are now being pursued for different reasons: to achieve greater productivity and cost savings. Yet both may also increase network vulnerability to cyberattacks.
Those changes are:
Accelerated Shift to Automation
Labor-intensive factories are speeding up the transition to automated assembly lines. At first, this was to minimize the impact of employees being unable to go to work due to the pandemic. Today it is being done to reduce operational costs and improve quality. However, as automation requires more devices to be connected to the Internet, the risk of cyberattacks has increased immensely.
Scaled Up Information Security
Previously, all production equipment and personnel were located within the factory. However, during the pandemic, factories began to be operated remotely. When people work remotely, the cybersecurity measures within the factory need to be extended to cover any connected devices that employees use as these devices are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
In response to increased risks, Jesse Ku, an industrial control system cybersecurity expert at Moxa who is also IEC 62443 certified, has proposed a five-point "S.M.A.R.T.” cybersecurity strategy:
Scan to Secure
Within the cybersecurity field, scanning is one of the most common methods to enhance security and is often the most effective protection. By regularly scanning the computers and control equipment in a factory with antivirus software for viruses, unplanned updates, and malware, the risk of attacks can be greatly reduced. With WFH now more common across the manufacturing sector, this first line of defense must be extended to connected devices employees use remotely to ensure total coverage.
Manage Security Architecture
It is essential that factory networks are stable and easily manageable. The defense-in-depth concept preferred by information security experts, which consists of multi-layered security control protocols, is often overlooked due to its complexity. However, as factories continue to invest heavily in automation, cybersecurity management becomes a necessity. This includes network segmentation involving setting up a firewall between the automation equipment and the management server.
In the past, there were two main guiding principles for factory operation: ensure the safety of personnel and maintain stable production. Unfortunately, software updates provided by equipment manufacturers are often ignored if the production equipment remains functional. This dangerous oversight in security patching can have catastrophic results as the software remains vulnerable to breaches.
Remote Control Security
Working from home is the new normal, requiring the remote connecting of PCs, laptops, tablets, and phones to company servers. This presents significant cybersecurity concerns. Connection security and authentication mechanisms, such as multi-factor authorization (MFA) and user authentication, should be implemented to significantly reduce the threat of cyberattacks.
The most secure network requires the participation of each individual who accesses it. By educating all employees on the significance of network security via appropriate training courses, the reasoning behind certain decisions will be better understood and increasing the likelihood that new security policies are followed. Furthermore, armed with a full understanding of the changes to come, employees can smoothly adapt to the new security framework and regulations.
The pandemic has changed not only our social norms but also the way factories operate. As factories become more automated and remote, applying the S.M.A.R.T. cybersecurity strategy can help reduce cyberattacks. With remote operations now the new norm, plant managers must be aware of all connected devices and how to strengthen network defenses. | <urn:uuid:6cd72c9d-678a-4cb9-b70f-cc80effead39> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newequipment.com/plant-operations/article/21249177/the-smart-way-to-safeguard-industrial-networks-from-cyberattacks | 2024-04-16T05:27:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.962237 | 769 |
Adapted from an excerpt from The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Teen Anxiety
We live in a world where we are taught that certain feelings are bad, happiness is the preferred way to feel, and if we aren’t happy, we should fix this. So, when we feel anxious (or stressed, overwhelmed, or nervous), we’re often mad at ourselves for having these feelings, and we try to make them go away. We might avoid people, places, or situations to prevent the thoughts and feelings from showing up in the first place, and once they do show up, we might distract ourselves so we don’t really notice them.
We might even hear other people tell us, “Calm down,” or “Take your mind off it.” The things we do to prevent or try to get rid of thoughts and feelings are called “control strategies” because they are about controlling, or getting rid of, what we are feeling inside. Sometimes control strategies are helpful. They make us feel better for a while, which is what makes it so tempting to use them over and over again. We use the term DOTS (distracting, opting out or avoiding, thinking, self-harm) to categorize the control strategies that are commonly used by teens to avoid feeling anxious or to get rid of anxiety once it starts.
Distract, Distract, Distract
Whatever we do to distract ourselves from our anxious thoughts and feelings usually makes things more difficult in some way. So why do we use distractions? Because, in the short term, they work. They take us away from noticing our thoughts and feelings, or at least from noticing them as intensely. There can be a lot of pressure to “feel better” and control our worrying. And many people, young and old, feel badly about themselves (another worry!) when they can’t control their anxiety. Trying to control thoughts and feelings, however, can be harder than you think. Try these activities to see just how hard it can be.
Grab a lemon and cut a slice. Hold the slice in your hand and just look at it. Now, bring the slice of lemon to your nose and gently sniff the lemon, taking in the smell. Now, here’s the challenge: don’t salivate! (In other words, don’t have the feeling of your mouth watering.) First, lick the lemon or put a bit of juice on your tongue and notice what happens. Now take a bite of the lemon or lick some juice, and notice what happens in your mouth. Did you remember not to salivate?
Probably not. Were you able to control your inclination to salivate when you tasted the lemon? Is it possible to actually control your thoughts, feelings, or physical sensations just because you want to? It may appear that the people around you are doing this successfully. But they are no better at it than you are.
As you go about your day, today and onward, notice the messages that are out there about controlling your feelings. (For example, “Just think about something else.”) This may come from well-meaning family, friends, or others in your life; the media; or elsewhere. Make some notes about what you notice.
There is a simple reason for your inability to control thoughts, feelings, and sensations: you are human! Anxiety is like any other feeling: we all have it, just like happiness, sadness, fear, shame, anger, and guilt. You can’t control having feelings. You can learn to control what you do when feelings show up. | <urn:uuid:584e2eb5-ba21-4566-8f97-6d515ad5f3b9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newharbinger.com/blog/self-help/can-you-control-your-anxiety/ | 2024-04-16T04:04:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.95536 | 754 |
FOR NEW MEXICO FOOD HISTORIANS, the moment was unprecedented. Last fall, Tikka Spice did what no other restaurant had done: The four-year-old Albuquerque food truck took home the triple crown of culinary honors from the annual Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown, beating out 15 other contenders to nab the distinctions of Reigning Chomp, Secret Judges’ Award, and People’s Choice.
“It was a total shocker, winning that,” Tikka Spice owner Basit Gauba remembers. “We were up against some pretty heavy hitters.” The momentum generated by the Smackdown trifecta has since fueled a new venture: a food truck called Stackers Burger Co., which sells a lineup that includes the award-winning Duke City Smash Burger. Of the recipe that made his green chile cheeseburger a juggernaut, the Pakistan-born Gauba will only say that he combines several heat levels of Bueno chile to achieve consistency.
Stackers, Tikka Spice, and another sister restaurant, KūKri Chicken (located in 505 Central Food Hall), are all properties of Gauba’s growing fusion-food fleet under the Tikka Spice umbrella. Gauba specializes in what he calls “Desi street food,” infusing South Asian flavors into portable eats such as tacos, fried chicken sandwiches, and burgers. Whole spices are imported from India, then roasted and ground at Tikka Spice’s commissary. Earlier this year, Gauba, who has never had any formal culinary training, racked up another honor as the only Albuquerque chef to be nominated for a 2023 James Beard award.
Inspired by the movie Chef, Gauba began Tikka Spice as a pop-up for community events. “Nobody in New Mexico does a halal green chile cheeseburger or a halal chicken sandwich,” he says. “We wanted to offer that to the people.” After becoming the third owner of a former horse trailer, he outfitted it as a food truck using “a lot of YouTube tutorials,” then built Tikka Spice’s reputation on chicken tikka tacos, served with pickled onions and mint raita sauce. Butter chicken and chickpea curries followed, along with a spicy fried chicken sandwich—which ignited the KūKri Chicken spinoff, centered on extra-hot tikka tender sammies.
Although Tikka Spice’s Albuquerque brick-and-mortar location closed when its lease expired, Stackers will open in a space downtown later this year, while KūKri will gain a truck. Gauba posts the trucks’ schedules online, noting that customers’ orders change depending on where each eatery ends up. “When we’re downtown, it’s chicken sandwiches and tacos. In Nob Hill, it’s vegetarian stuff, like the chana masala bowl. In Corrales, we sling burgers all day long.”
People come prepared for the heat. “Our food is very unapologetic,” Gauba says. “It’s going to be spicy.” | <urn:uuid:63b22029-9a74-4f7d-8430-f7b1d72b34eb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/albuquerque-tikka-spice-food-truck/ | 2024-04-16T05:10:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.946731 | 673 |
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For New England residents, protecting your home against the often-harsh climate can be a constant concern. At NEWPRO, we offer products that are specifically engineered for the local climate, including our SuperMax Vinyl Siding System, which is manufactured using high-tech materials and delivers outstanding energy efficiency.
A homeowner in Rockland, Massachusetts, recently contacted us because she was looking to improve her home’s curb appeal with vinyl siding that will last for years without requiring maintenance. She picked up some of our literature at a local home show and scheduled a consultation.
“We chose NEWPRO because of, first of all, the salesmanship,” she said. “[The sales rep] was awesome at explaining everything and very personable, but wasn’t pushy. He just explained everything, and with the information that I already had about NEWPRO as being a quality product, that’s why we chose NEWPRO.”
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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 10, 2023: Here are the cannabis headlines making marijuana news globally and in the Caribbean and Latin America this week in less than 60 seconds:
A cannabis lounge helmed by Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon — also known as Raekwon The Chef – is set to come to New Jersey next month. Hashtoria will open at 799-805 Broad St. in Newark’s Four Corners Historic District in March.
Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jim McMahon and former NFL players Kyle Turley and Eben Britton, will be hosting the first open cannabis-consumption golf tournament around the Super Bowl, which is being held in the fully weed-legal state of Arizona.
It will soon be illegal to smoke cannabis on the street in Amsterdam’s red light district under new regulations unveiled by the city. The laws will come into effect from mid-May and aim to improve liveability for residents who have long complained of disruption caused by tourists. Sex workers will also have to close their venues at 3 am.
Thailand is tightening the country’s marijuana regulations, issuing new guidance and measures intended to curb a rapid rise in recreational use of the drug since its decriminalization last year. The government said last month that showing identification will be required when buying cannabis flower buds, which are rich in hallucinogenic compounds.
Calls to legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use are growing in Kenya.
The global CBD skin care market size was valued at $633.6 million in 2018 and is anticipated to reach $3,484.00 million by 2026, with a CAGR of 24.80% during the forecast period.
A US federal judge has granted early release to Luke Scarmazzo, who was serving a 21-year sentence for his role in a state-legal California medical cannabis operation—with the judge noting “dramatic changes in the legal landscape” for marijuana in recent years.
Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth said Thursday it is closing its flagship cultivation facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario, and cutting some 800 jobs, more than a third of its workforce as part of a shift to an “asset-light model” in Canada.
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This is yet another thing that requires some amendment, or else India would never emerge as a super power country. But the culprit is the bureaucratic rules in India!
It is said that, “A prophet is not regarded in his own country’’. This does not confine to prophets alone, but to the professionally qualified citizens of one country, opting for a better career in a foreign soil. The early 60s kick-started this concept in India: well educated professionals, migrating to US, UK and many other advanced countries where their growth is limitless.
A scientist working in USA and many other developed countries is given a freehand and considerate encouragement. But in India, it is a different thing! The same scientist, experimenting on a specific subject, cannot get what he wanted in the office. Even to have a scribbling pad, he has to fill his stationery request card, which needs to be authorized by the eagle eyes of his chief, whether he, the scientist who had requested for, was helping himself with the office stationery! So silly it is here.
There are many such face-flinching formalities. Moreover, casteeism and the quota system.
As the very above great saying says, even Genius Ramanujan’s fame sky-rocketed only after the English mathematician, G H Hardy had highlighted his work in the English soil. Had it not been for Hardy, Ramanujan’s value would not have fetched fame to him and to India, as well.
prevalent here also act as a hurdle to an aspiring youth who wishes to serve his motherland. Making any amendment to the existing Red-tapism is sure to topple the ruling government as they rely on the vote banks of many of these deep divisions. It would be like opening the Pandora Box! So, the politicians turn their blind eyes and deaf ears to such self-shackled bureaucratic rules.
It may be recalled how Dr. Khurana was not even given scant importance in India, fed up with the Indian government and went to USA where he was respected. His invention had fetched him fame that he had shared the Nobel Prize for medicine in the year 1968.
Another great example is Dr. S Chandrasekhar, a Nobel Laureate for physics in 1983. Prior to the Nobel Prize conferred on him, he was invited to the White House by the then US President Richard Nixon to honour him. And in 2011, Venkatraman of India, too shared the Nobel Prize. Italian inventor of wireless radio, Marconi (1874- 1937) was quoted as saying, “America is the hope of the world.”
Likewise, the list could go on at arm’s length. Due respect, motivation, encouragement, attractive salary and perks, no political interference, bright future prospectus, excellent medical assistance to the individual and his/her family members, living quarters with all amenities, car with a driver, at least year-bound promotion and all other facilities must be given to the deserved, so that such persons would not go abroad and, instead, serve the motherland and take the nation to greater heights. Will the Indian government do this? The chances are rather remote!
McNamara had said: “Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.” True, isn’t it? | <urn:uuid:f51a4f6d-c974-465e-88c1-cfd315958f59> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newspeechtopics.com/6202-2/ | 2024-04-16T05:14:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.977662 | 694 |
A Hole in One for Children During ANDRUS' 13th Annual Golf Fore Kids
Over $200,000 raised for ANDRUS
Westchester County, NY, June 9, 2017 (Newswire.com) - For one day, 140 generous supporters spent a glorious day doing good during ANDRUS’ 13th Annual Golf Fore Kids on June 5th. Over $200,000 was raised to help children and families through more than a dozen sites around Westchester County and support ANDRUS partnerships with local school districts.
Co-chairs James Black of Blackstone Heating & Air Conditioning and Steve Condon of Benjamin F. Edwards were delighted in the turnout and generosity of the participants. Their evening shout-outs included extra thanks to the event sponsors, including Benjamin F. Edwards, Blackstone Heating and Air Conditioning, Bleakley Platt, East Hill Cabinetry, Mercer, Mark and Jody Rollins, Barbara and Ed Smith, Sterling National Bank, and the Marty and Iris Walshin Foundation.
"Golf Fore Kids has become an ANDRUS tradition, and we are always thrilled to see the familiar faces that come to make a positive impact on our organization. This year was ANDRUS' 13th annual outing, and we were able to welcome many familiar faces, as well as some new ones! I continue to be amazed at the level of generosity of our friends, and their willingness to share the ANDRUS story with others truly makes the difference."
Bryan R. Murphy, ANDRUS President and CEO
The Golf Fore Kids outing, held at the newly redesigned course at Siwanoy Country Club, was complete with 18 holes of golf, a buffet luncheon, cocktails, dinner, silent and live auctions and no rain. The Fund a Need focus for the evening was for developing an art room dedicated to the female residents at ANDRUS. A space just for the girls at ANDRUS to express themselves through art will be an additional programming element geared toward raising self-esteem and improving self-worth. As part of a range of therapeutic activities, including Sensory Rooms, Pet Therapy, NYPUM (ANDRUS’ minibike program), Ropes Course elements and more, ANDRUS is proud to increase the number of therapeutic options available to the children we serve.
ANDRUS is a nonprofit that offers a broad spectrum of preventative and restorative services to nearly 4,500 children and families each year from the New York Metropolitan area. It utilizes art therapy as one of its many techniques to help youth who live at ANDRUS and/or attend the Orchard School on the ANDRUS campus. | <urn:uuid:78fdc880-691d-4bf9-b0ce-bf5ca091d8cc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newswire.com/news/a-hole-in-one-for-children-during-andrus-13th-annual-golf-fore-kids-19607321 | 2024-04-16T04:12:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.950992 | 548 |
The Importance of Proper Tire Maintenance
When it comes to vehicle maintenance, many people tend to overlook the importance of properly maintaining their tires. However, tire maintenance is not something that should be taken lightly, as neglecting to do so can have serious consequences. In this blog post, we will discuss the significance of proper tire maintenance and why it should be a priority for every vehicle owner.
First and foremost, proper tire maintenance is crucial for ensuring your safety on the road. Tires are the only part of your vehicle that makes direct contact with the road surface, and they play a vital role in providing traction, stability, and control. If your tires are not in good condition, it can lead to poor handling, increased stopping distance, and loss of control, especially in adverse weather conditions such as rain or snow. Regularly inspecting and maintaining your tires can help prevent accidents and ensure a safe driving experience for you and your passengers.
In addition to safety, proper tire maintenance is also essential for fuel efficiency. Underinflated or overinflated tires can significantly impact your vehicle’s fuel economy. Underinflated tires create more rolling resistance, leading to increased fuel consumption. On the other hand, overinflated tires can cause uneven wear and reduced traction, affecting both fuel efficiency and safety. By regularly checking and maintaining the correct tire pressure, you can improve your vehicle’s fuel economy and save money on gas.
Proper tire maintenance can also extend the lifespan of your tires, saving you money in the long run. Over time, tires naturally wear out due to regular use and the different road conditions they encounter. However, neglecting to maintain your tires can accelerate this wear and lead to premature replacement. By regularly rotating your tires, checking for signs of wear, and ensuring proper alignment and balance, you can maximize the lifespan of your tires and avoid unnecessary expenses.
Besides, well-maintained tires contribute to a smoother and more comfortable ride. Tires that are properly inflated and in good condition provide better shock absorption, leading to a more pleasant driving experience. On the other hand, tires that are worn out or improperly maintained can result in a rough and noisy ride. By investing time and effort in tire maintenance, you can enhance your driving comfort and reduce unwanted vibrations or noises.
Lastly, proper tire maintenance is also environmentally friendly. Worn-out tires with irregular wear patterns or incorrect pressure can produce excessive noise and vibrations, contributing to noise pollution. Additionally, when tires are not properly inflated, more fuel is consumed, leading to increased carbon emissions. By maintaining your tires correctly, you can minimize the impact your vehicle has on the environment.
In conclusion, proper tire maintenance is of utmost importance for various reasons. It ensures your safety on the road, improves fuel efficiency, extends the lifespan of your tires, enhances driving comfort, and is environmentally friendly. By regularly checking tire pressure, inspecting for signs of wear, and performing necessary maintenance tasks, you can enjoy the many benefits that come with properly maintained tires. Ultimately, taking care of your tires not only benefits you but also everyone else who shares the road with you. | <urn:uuid:fdf2d634-a1a5-492a-bf98-5e9c6e44dbc5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newsworthyjournal.com/the-importance-of-proper-tire-maintenance/ | 2024-04-16T03:54:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.94907 | 637 |
What are the best countries to identify a woman to marry? For many people men, all their ultimate target in life is to tie the knot while using perfect girl. They like spending the lives with this someone special and desire a lifetime along. But there are some men just who are uncertain about how to approach this issue, and are not sure if they should invest the time and money within a country it does not guarantee them contentment. Here is a short guide to supporting you determine ideal place to marry.
The first step in deciding where to find a wife is always to make sure the country has steadiness. Countries like the UK have got recently skilled a extreme amount of political and economic change, which can make hard for a guy to find the right partner. Nevertheless , some males prefer to become closer to house, especially if that partner can be from their very own country. If it is the case available for you, then you should look at the Scandinavian countries as being a of the best areas to get hitched. Scandinavia provides many of the potential benefits to living in a traditional European nation while at the same time becoming very accessible from the rest of the world.
Step 2 in deciding the best countries to find a partner is to ensure that the country you are looking at has access to the type of life style that you are looking for. The best countries to find a wife tend to provide you with the highest quality of life because of their residents. To be able to determine what these kinds of factors happen to be, you should look at the marriage statistics meant for the country. This will tell you in case the country’s level of matrimony and divorce is raising or lessening. It will also assist you to determine which usually countries have best financial systems, so that you discover much cash content you will be prepared to dedicate over the years in your new couple. | <urn:uuid:fa498851-45b9-44e7-807c-ec5bfcc2f8ae> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.newyorksurgicalsupply.com/ideal-countries-to-locate-a-woman-to-married/ | 2024-04-16T03:18:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.965901 | 379 |
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The Cleveland Guardians is a dedicated section on our MLB jersey website, showcasing an extensive collection of Cleveland Guardians baseball jerseys. As a specialized online retailer, we pride ourselves on offering authentic and high-quality MLB jerseys, including those of the Cleveland Guardians. Whether you are a fan of the team or looking for a trendy sports merchandise item, our website is your go-to destination for all your Cleveland Guardians jersey needs.
Browse through our wide range of Cleveland Guardians jerseys available in various sizes, designs, and player editions. Capture the spirit of the team with our officially licensed jerseys, featuring the iconic team logo and colors. Each jersey is crafted with precision and detail, ensuring the utmost comfort and durability. Whether you are attending a game at Progressive Field or cheering from home, our Cleveland Guardians jerseys are perfect for showcasing your team pride.
With our user-friendly website, you can easily navigate through different categories and filter options to find your desired Cleveland Guardians jersey effortlessly. Our secure online payment system guarantees a hassle-free shopping experience, and our prompt delivery service ensures that your jersey reaches your doorstep in no time.
Embrace the excitement of MLB and support the Cleveland Guardians by shopping from our extensive collection of jerseys today. Join the loyal fanbase and stand out with style and pride in your very own Cleveland Guardians jersey. Make a statement and be a part of the team’s journey towards victory with our top-notch MLB jerseys available exclusively on our website. | <urn:uuid:cc8440b2-cb43-437a-81fe-105b127cb39f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.nfljerseysales.us.com/product-category/mlb/cleveland-indians-jersey/ | 2024-04-16T05:21:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.903632 | 302 |
Hello my friends and welcome to the official Stampin’ Up! Artisan Design Team blog hop. You’re in for an incredible blog hop today as we all sharing creations using Sale-a-bration stamp sets. I’m happy to welcome you to Canada, and get ready to hop around the world to see my design team friends.
I am thrilled to share my projects with you today using the Tasty Trucks Stamp Set. This stamp set is an exclusive that can only be earned during Sale-a-bration.
How does Sale-a-bration work?
For every $60 you spend (before shipping and tax) in my Canadian Online Stampin’ Up! Shop, you can choose a FREE Sale-a-bration item. These are exclusive products that can only be earned with a purchase of $60 – you cannot buy them!
For this card I stamped several trucks onto Watercolor Paper with Basic Black Archival Ink and then watercoloured them using my Aqua Painter and several colours of Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink Pads (you’ll find the full list of ink pad colours at the end of this post).
For my next project, I decided to keep it SUPER simple.
There are so many cute accessory stamps in this set that work perfectly with the little food truck, but I wanted them to really stand on their own. This adorable trio of notecards really shows off the smaller images in this set, as well as the fabulous sentiments. Quick tip – watercolouring these smaller images is easiest if you use a Blender Pen.
Thank you for visiting me today. To view all of the products I’ve used on my projects, please scroll down to see the supply list with clickable links to my Canadian Online Stampin’ Up! Shop.
Up next on the blog hop is the talented Aurélie Fabre in France.
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As soon as you place an order of $50 or more (before shipping & tax) and use the monthly hostess code, you become one of my VIP customers. Full details on all the VIP treatment HERE. | <urn:uuid:d2fd4839-daa3-4976-ad6a-116fd342d8af> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.nicepeoplestamp.com/artisan-feb-1/ | 2024-04-16T06:12:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.940352 | 448 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It took 160 years, but on March 27 a girls’ varsity basketball team from Sacramento made history as the first sports team from the Sacramento City Unified School District to win a state championship.
And they did it in dramatic fashion.
The C. K. McClatchy High School Lady Lions beat the Junipero Serra High School Lady Cavaliers from Gardena, Calif. 65-61 in a double-overtime match for the California Division I championship. Lady Lions Head Coach Jessica Kunisaki said winning the championship game has been an “unreal” experience.
“We’ve always dreamt about this and for it to be a reality is … just a weird feeling,” said Kunisaki, a 2004 McClatchy High School graduate.
After trailing the entire game, the Lady Lions fought hard to gain a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter with 1 minute, 10 seconds remaining. However, after a series of quick plays, the Lady Cavaliers caught up and Lady Cavalier junior point guard Briana Johnson made what Kunisaki called an “NBA-range three (pointer)” to bring the game into its first overtime with just seconds left.
“We wouldn’t want anything else for our last game than to get to play extra minutes,” Kunisaki told her team after going into overtime. “I mean, that’s the best thing you can ask for, is that you get more time to complete our dream.”
And the Lady Lions made every minute count, sealing the win after junior small forward Gigi Garcia scored four points within the last minute of play in the second overtime. Senior shooting guard Alex Washington made two free throws with just seconds left.
“They kept fighting, kept digging and they knew this is what they wanted and I think their adrenaline kicked in,” Kunisaki said. “They didn’t play tired; they didn’t play defeated.”
Retired McClatchy High School teacher and former varsity basketball head coach Harvey Tahara traveled to Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif. to watch the game. He said he noticed the different playing styles between the two teams, the Lady Cavaliers being more physical.
“I think McClatchy did a great job of trying to figure out what they had to do,” he said. “They pretty much stayed with their own style of play: They played up-tempo, pushed the ball and defensively they were very tough.”
A Young Leader
Completing her fourth year as head coach of the Lady Lions, 28-year-old Kunisaki has more than 20 years of experience playing basketball. She began playing at 5 years old at the instructional level with the Buddhist Church of Sacramento and continued through to Division C when she was middle school. In the eighth grade, Kunisaki joined the Barons Athletic Organization, one of three Asian American club basketball leagues in Sacramento, and played for the full five years until she graduated high school.
At the same time, Kunisaki played point guard all four years at McClatchy and continued playing for three years at Chapman University, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership before earning her master’s degree in counseling at California State University, Sacramento.
Tahara said Kunisaki was “a great joy to coach,” because she played hard and was really intelligent. He has known her since she was about 8 or 9 years old, when she attended the summer basketball camps he held at McClatchy High School.
Kunisaki has coached basketball at McClatchy High School for seven years. She previously coached the junior varsity team for two years and was Tahara’s assistant coach for the 2010-2011 year before he retired from coaching.
Kunisaki said she was nervous about following Tahara’s footsteps in taking over as varsity head coach.
“I wasn’t sure if I was ready,” she said. “I tried to take notes to see what he was doing so well.”
While Kunisaki was his assistant coach, Tahara noticed many qualities that make Kunisaki a good coach. He said she is young, but mature and genuine, is very poised and patient, has vast knowledge of the game and knows how to teach effectively.
“She has so many good qualities about her that I think she naturally draws kids to the kind of things that makes for a successful team,” he said.
As her former mentor, Tahara said he is thrilled to see her team win the state championship.
“To see her succeed at this level and lead a team to the state, it just doesn’t get much better than this,” he said. “I couldn’t be more proud of somebody.
I think she has just done a fantastic job.”
The Sacramento Bee named Kunisaki this year’s Girls All-Metro Coach of the Year for basketball.
Following a restful spring break after their championship win, Kunisaki and the Lady Lions were swept with a packed schedule of honoree events. On April 7, the Sacramento City Council recognized the team for winning the Division I State Championship at its city council meeting. District 4 Council Member Steve Hansen presented the resolution.
“It’s amazing what you’ve done. I think you made the city really proud and brought it home,” he said.
Many of the other council members echoed Hansen’s comment, also emphasizing the fact that they are a team of female athletes.
“When I heard it on the news and I had a chance to read it in the paper, I felt like I was a part of the team and you did that for a lot of people,” said District 7 Council Member Rick Jennings II. “So, hold your heads high, this was a historic moment.”
Later that evening, the Lady Lions were honored at the Kings NBA basketball game where they were introduced and threw small basketballs to the crowd during one of the game’s time outs. The Lions shared the honor with other local teams like the men’s and woman’s basketball teams from University of California, Davis and California State University, Sacramento; the Sacramento River Cats and the Sacramento Republic FC.
The Sacramento City Unified School District honored the team during its Board of Education meeting on April 9, where the team led the Pledge of Allegiance and received the Stellar Students recognition.
“We were so confident that you were going to win that we put you on the agenda before the game because we knew in our hearts that you would make us proud,” said Board of Education President Darrel Woo.
The Sacramento City staff organized an afternoon parade for the team on April 10, which marched from the high school on Freeport Boulevard to Cervantes Park.
The following week, the Lady Lions were honored at the County Board of Supervisors meeting on April 14 and Kunisaki said there may be a Senate Resolution in their honor in the future.
“To win this for more than just myself or for the girls, it has just felt really special to us,” Kunisaki said. Kunisaki also expressed thanks for the support from assistant coaches Jeff Ota and Que K. Ngo, who are also veteran coaches, and Carlos Vicenty.
The Lady Lions’ championship victory also highlighted a few other key elements. Not only was March Women’s History month, but their win is a symbolic of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Title IX, co-authored by the the late former Hawai‘i Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink, is a federal law that “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice Website.
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Every owner or registered owner of a motor vehicle that is either registered or principally garaged in New Jersey is required to maintain insurance that provides liability coverage, uninsured motorist benefits, and personal injury protection benefits. There are various fines and penalties that may be imposed for failing to maintain this required insurance. Many people are aware of the penalties associated with receiving a ticket for failing to maintain insurance which include monetary fines, community service, and loss of license. These are not, however, the only penalties. There are also penalties that affect your right to bring a personal injury action or receive personal injury protection benefits under another insurance policy whether or not you are ticketed for no insurance.
New Jersey statutory law requires the owner or registered owner of an automobile registered or principally garaged in this State to maintain a standard, basic, or special policy of insurance that provide various levels of medical expense coverage. If you fail to maintain either a standard, basic, or special policy of insurance and are involved in an accident while operating the uninsured automobile, you will be precluded from bringing a claim for economic or non-economic damages even if the other driver is fully at fault for the accident and you sustain sever bodily injuries. You will not only be barred from filing a lawsuit against the at fault driver when you don’t purchase any insurance at all but will also be barred if you attempt to insure the vehicle in another state when the vehicle is principally garaged in New Jersey. If the vehicle is principally garaged here, then it must have our required insurance coverage.
Another penalty for not maintaining a standard, basic, or special policy of insurance is that you can be precluded from receiving personal injury protection benefits under another policy of insurance that would otherwise provide coverage. This penalty applies even if you are not operating the uninsured vehicle at the time of the accident. The exception to this penalty is if you did not have an intent to operate the uninsured vehicle and it was taken off the road. It would be your burden to prove that the intent to not operate the vehicle was reasonable. If you cannot do so, you would be barred from collecting personal injury protection benefits under someone else’s insurance policy.
The failure to insure your vehicle can have consequences that are much more severe than the fines that could be imposed if you received a traffic ticket. You could be in a serious accident caused by the negligence of another drive resulting in permanent disabilities and not be able to recover pain and suffering damages. It is, therefore, in your own best interest to maintain the insurance required by the State of New Jersey on your automobiles. | <urn:uuid:f8d7653d-82ee-4aa2-b275-a2a829e59e48> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.njlawyers.com/blog/2015/september/consequences-of-not-properly-insuring-your-vehic/ | 2024-04-16T05:39:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.960631 | 521 |
Description logo: No Blink is represented by a green turtle with blue eyes whose is taking a step forward. No Blink is writtent in bold letter below the turtle. Below No Blink is writen in grafity style letter, the sentence “You don’t need a sight to have a vision”.
A talk of 20 to 30 minuts whose aim is to raise awareness, encorage, motivate, inspire, the audiance in a dynamic way. The speech is concluded with a Q&A session.
From 60 to 90 minuts, a conference focusses on motivating or raising awareness and does so by enabling interactive exchange with the audiance. A conference is concluded with a Q&A session.
From half a day to a full, a workshop’s objective is to approche the themes through activities which put the participents in a variety of situations and takes them out of their confort zone. The exchange occurs at a more personal level.
From the cancer to the loss of sight, from high school in Geneva to university abroad, the transition from the world of elit sport to the business one… By sharing my experiences, No Blink’s objectives are to raise awareness and take off the negative perception of visual impairement, to help, encorage, motivate, inspire people to dream and make their dreams come true! Through No Blink, I offer motivational speeches, conferences, workshops for all. | <urn:uuid:43eafab3-7003-4b76-a6c2-e9184db608db> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.no-blink.com/en/homepage-2/ | 2024-04-16T04:47:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.933322 | 295 |
Herki, also spelled Harki (Kurdish: Herkî ,ھەرکی) is a large tribe in Kurdistan. The largest part of this tribe live in Iraqi Kurdistan and a significant number live in Iranian Kurdistan. They are also found in Northern Kurdistan.
The Herkis lived mostly a nomadic life with their herds; however, this changed a lot after 1920 and the Treaty of Sèvres. The new hand-drawn borders of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey hindered Kurdish tribes to continue their way of life.
In 1989 they counted some 20,000 people, living between Urmia and Rawanduz, one of the largest remaining groups of pastoral herders. On their regular movement they brought salt from Iran to Iraq and carried wheat and barley back to Iran.
The Herkis were a very well-armed tribe, and were noted to be good warriors and fierce men. Some of their women would occationally be seen fighting alongside men.
This rug is particularly interesting since the weaver has used a pattern for weaving normally used for kilims. She also incorporated into the weaving a couple of scorpions.
Material: 100% hand-spun sheep wool
Size: 342×88 cms
Origin: Kurdish Herki, Iraq
Date of weaving: 1970
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Last November, 13 students and three staff members travelled to Uganda on a three week short-term mission trip. Quite simply we went to share the unconditional love of Christ to the Ugandan people. We did this practically by doing lots of painting and helping with concreting at a little rural primary and high school in Mbale and working in an orphanage just outside Kampala. We also spent a lot of time with the youth from Musaale Church in Mbale and, many, many children in the communities we visited. There are lots of good memories with all of these young people.
One special moment where we were able to practically and unconditionally love someone was while in the village just outside Mbale. We went to see a dear lady called Esther. Many years ago she was kidnapped as a young girl by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) which was led by the infamous, Joseph Cony. She was raped and beaten over many years till one day she tried to run away. She was captured and beaten so badly that she was at the point of death. After being left for dead by the rebels, one of these men took pity on her and rescued her, later making her his wife. After many years her husband died of AIDS but not before transmitting this to Esther.
In the small community where Esther lives she is seen as a dead woman walking as she has AIDS and is given no help at all except from our good friend, Ps Peter Wamono and the people from Musaale Church. Esther lives in a mud home with a little broken down stable and rundown kitchen just outside the home. We asked if we could pay to have this structure torn down and a new one built for her which we did. We also purchased new mattresses and linen for her and her son and little grandchildren who she also looks after and cares for as they were all sleeping on the ground. She was completely blown away by all of this. She then blessed us with some fruit and we departed but not before giving and receiving many hugs and a lovely time of prayer.
This is just one of many stories of God using us to be a blessing to the beautiful people of Uganda. This was a fabulous, life changing and life challenging experience for all. | <urn:uuid:4693b229-58fc-4c59-a655-883265a23ab2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.northside.qld.edu.au/news/northsiders-bringing-gods-love-to-uganda | 2024-04-16T03:25:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.991542 | 458 |
John Du Cane – From Struggling Business To Worldwide Kettlebell Movement
Business Name: Dragon Door
Location: Little Canada, Minnesota, United States
Region: North America
Country: United States
Hear John talk about his struggles keeping his business open, to building and growing a successful fitness business leading the kettlebell movement worldwide.
John Du Cane
All cameras America is a, it’s the best country in the world. And everybody hears about it. Everybody loves it, who hates it. And if they hate it, the reason somebody hates America is because they’re jealous of America. So there’s no third opinion. They’re like growing up. In the Soviet Union, you read some books, you watch some movies, that some American movies that were shown, and seldom left an impression, want to remember is the Magnificent Seven. And that was a terrific movie, such a powerful movie, and the American scenery and just the mood of freedom, and opportunity, anything is possible. And later on, I understand the terms that I learned here, this term of American exceptionalism. I really like that. What I don’t like about what’s happening right now is this country’s trying to some people in this country try to turn away from what has made this country great. They just tried to downplay American exceptionalism and try to be just like everybody else. And they’re forgetting that the rest of the world is looking up to America, and they want us to be exceptional. So I came here and tried to start a new port expert business with some friends, which was unsuccessful this way never heard about this business. Finally, I decided probably I should better stick to things that I know about. August I did a bunch of odd jobs. I sold hot dogs, I Boston nightclub I delivered newspapers, you know, the usual immigrant story. And finally, I started training people because, well, when done well, but important, what do I know about export, then? What am I going to earn selling hotdogs? As I started training people, eventually, I changed several facilities, training facilities by less training facility that was in Minnesota, was in the basement of a bank vault. And that was beautiful, because it was in the basement, so nobody could hear the screams. And nobody really had any good use for the space. They had tried to rent it out to an armored car company, but they had their own. And so there’s no retail front. And so I got a great deal. About that time. That’s when I got my first lesson in marketing. I learned about positioning versus prospecting. And I understood that positioning prospecting means just chasing people down, okay? You come to me trained with me, because I’m the best or whatever. And positioning is just placing yourself where people will find you, people who are the right people will find you. So a friend of mine had suggested that I teach workshops at a local seminar company. And I offered a couple of different workshops to them stretching and ABS, things like that. As a result, as I learned early on that word great, because instead of paying for marketing, I was paid for marketing. I wasn’t paid much, maybe a couple hundred dollars. But nevertheless, every time I would teach the course and people come to me so well, do you offer private training? Yes, I do. And here’s a great example of positioning again. And this wirey a skeptic looking Englishmen took my class and he walks over to me afterwards, and he introduces himself as john Duquesne and is asking, I’d like to write a book. And that was the beginning of a wonderful friendship and terrific business relationship with Dragon and dragon door.
When I first founded dragon door back in 91. There was one impulse, which was an excitement about sharing my passion for Tai Chi and Chico with the world. And that was about it. You know, I didn’t have anything at all well figured out about how that was going to play out in my universe, or anyone else’s universe. For that matter. It was just a kind of vague sense of the desire to get the word out and didn’t really know what I was doing on many, many levels. We published our first book called a vein and she, but it was through traditional publishing, you know, we were selling the book for like 1695 to Barnes and Noble and it didn’t matter how many copies you sold. If it was in the 10s of thousands, no one was going to get rich. I then also organized a couple of certifications. So certification systems for people who wanted to instruct in medical g comb and other aspects of Chico so that developed. However, I was in a desperate financial situation, no question. And the most scary moment came when I remember opening the door to an African American gentleman who was there to turn off my water because we hadn’t paid the water bill. And we somehow managed to come up with the payment for the water bill. And I had lots of situations like that where we had a terrible time staying alive. This is where dragon door started. And kind of, fittingly, it’s still a to do with healing. So I had my little desk over here. And this is literally where dragon door publications first got off the ground. So you didn’t go went out of here? Yeah. Really? Yeah. All your mortars Yes. And your marketing kit is directly out of this tiny little office. And it got so bad that eventually, I approached the guy next door to me in who is about the carwash also, john Kramer, who had a limo business. And I decided to start driving limo to bring in least some regular cash while I was trying to make it as a publisher. And I then had the very good fortune to lies, to meet most the single most charismatic author I’ve ever been fortunate enough to meet and that’s Pavel setsubun. And he was going to show us Westerners what we didn’t know about stretching and how everything we thought we knew was wrong, and he was going to fix it. So I was intrigued. And I went to this flexibility workshop with the open new. And there was this young Russian, very charismatic, very articulate, and he, you know, had a shirt on that said, body by Stalin. And he had a definite stick going. He was the EVIL RUSSIAN, and he came from the evil empire. And, you know, he made a lot about being an ex communist and having kind of escaped from Russia and had been Special Forces. And it was very intriguing, and that was great. But what was so much better was a combination things was that his ideas, and his techniques was stretching and flexibility were amazing. And they were genuinely different. And they were getting people extraordinary results. So I got very excited. And I just felt this special connection with Pavel. Right off the bat. I liked him immediately. And I went up to him and asked him three questions. I said, Do you have a publisher? He said, No. And then I said, Would you like to be published? And he said, Yes. Third question is where you’d like me to publish you? He said, Yes. Let’s look at that. And he just had a few stick drawings of figures and a few kind of little pages of handout. And we worked on that and came out with the first book beyond stretching.
After that, a book and strength training. That was power to the people that at one point, I was to kettlebells. It never occurred to me that kettlebells could be popular is just too hard. So this is how it came about. I’m sitting in Morton Gallagher’s backyard. Marty Gallagher is a good friend of mine. He’s a former coach powerlifting Team USA. He lives in a undisclosed location in the East Coast. And so we’re sitting in the backyard and enjoying some steaks and shooting some breeze and he’s telling me about Kurt Kowalski cone, all this lifters just coach then I’m telling you about things I’ve done and tell him about kettlebells. So he tells me, why don’t you write an article for Milo about this? Southern Milo okay. Milo is this niche publication for just crazy guys who like lifting rocks and then horseshoes and nails? And so I thought, this group seems to be crazy enough, so why not give it a try? So I wrote an article, but it was called the vodka, pickle juice kettlebells and other Russian pastimes. And I thought I didn’t think much of it. And then I started getting mail. People were really curious about
people started getting kettlebells kettlebells had been around in fact, iron. They had been very big. Earlier in the century, with old time strongman they’d been used in Germany and in the states and of course in Russia. But they had absolutely gone out of fashion. Iron mine had this weird adjustable kettlebell that didn’t work very well to in our opinion. There was no literature about it. There was certainly no D DVDs or videos or anything. But pebbles pebble had become master of sports and kettlebell lifting in the military in the Special Forces in Russia. He had this in his background, the article stimulated interest. So Pamela and I started talking about it. And he asked me if he thought that this was something that could fly in the United States. And we had this historic meeting at a coffee shop in St. Paul in Roseville, actually called dumb brothers. And we had, I think, one of the most historic meetings and in modern fitness fitness history, which is why he and I sat down for our espressos. And he had this huge hunk of on on the table with a handles like a cannibal with a handle. So this is a kettlebell is kind of rusting old object, which he actually got from a hockey player from Russia that had been visiting. And he said, What can we do with this? Do you think this will really work? And his idea was that Well, probably there’d be a few grizzled vets who’d been in the military, who this would appeal to, and then maybe some power lifters and some elite athletes, and that would probably be it. So you know, I think it’s, I think it’s to have a bigger appeal.
They kettlebell has been instrumental in rooting out weakness out of the Russian gene pool. And now your next you are on the Soviet territory, and you are becoming a better man.
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Award finalist laying a solid foundation for house builders of the future
Founded in North Wales more than 40 years ago by Steve Morgan, Flintshire-based Redrow has built a solid reputation as a prestige housebuilder, completing more than 5,400 distinctive and high quality homes across England and Wales in the 2016/17 financial year.
As the largest Wales-based housebuilder, Redrow has always had a commitment to nurturing talent and recognises the value of apprenticeships in supporting a sustainable and skilled workforce within the construction sector.
Now the company has been shortlisted for this year’s Apprenticeship Awards Cymru. Redrow will be competing to become Large Employer of the Year at the prestigious awards ceremony at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport on October 20.
Jointly organised by the Welsh Government and the National Training Federation for Wales (NTfW), the coveted awards are sponsored by Pearson PLC and supported by media partner, Media Wales.
Thirty star learners, employers and learning providers involved in the delivery of successful skills programmes across Wales have been shortlisted for the Apprenticeship Awards Cymru.
The Apprenticeship Programme is funded by the Welsh Government with support from the European Social Fund.
The awards are designed to showcase and celebrate the outstanding achievements of learners, employers, tutors and assessors who have excelled in contributing to the development of the Welsh Government’s Traineeships and Apprenticeship programmes.
In its impressive drive to nurture young talent and provide the skills and people that the housing industry requires to thrive, Redrow will employ a further 80 apprentices by the end of 2017, adding to an existing cohort of 204 who are already at varying stages of their training and development.
With the launch of its dedicated apprenticeships programme in 2009, Redrow apprentices can now train in 14 different specialisms, from architectural design to domestic plumbing and heating.
The company has an established New Entrants Team to help and support apprentices based at Redrow’s divisional companies across England and Wales, and works with training providers JTL Training and Coleg Cambria to deliver its programme.
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The holidays are a time to enjoy family gatherings, delicious meals, and home decorating. Nevertheless, it is easy to get over-involved in the holiday chaos and end up stressing over things that are meant to be pleasant.
Each year, there is an increasing amount of studies that show how people are stressed, and even sad, during the holiday season.
The most common causes of stress are the additional demands on time and money that are created during the holidays. There never seems to be enough time to accommodate all the traditions and activities while still maintaining your normal life. The cost of traveling, buying gifts and decor, or preparing your home for visitors also adds up rather quickly. Family situations are another factor that add to increased stress levels during this time of year. Deciding where to celebrate the holidays or who to invite can be a struggle in itself.
This stress can lead to many negative consequences, including, but not limited to:
- Elevated blood pressure
- Trouble sleeping
While holiday stress may seem quite inevitable, don’t worry, there are many ways to naturally cope with holiday stress! Methods such as acupuncture, massage therapy, aromatherapy, yoga, meditation, and exercise can all contribute to a stress-free time of year.
Using tiny needles that penetrate the skin, acupuncture stimulates certain points on the body to alleviate pain or to help treat various health conditions. One study has discovered that stress hormones were in fact lower in patients that received acupuncture. This natural remedy has been known to reduce stress in patients after just one session! For most individuals, acupuncture is an extremely pleasant and calming experience. If holiday stress starts to become a burden, consider acupuncture as a way to calm yourself.
Massage therapy can help you decrease your holiday stress on both physiological and psychological levels. In addition to significant changes in emotional states and stress levels, massage therapy has been shown to decrease heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen consumption and salivary cortisol levels.
You don’t need an hour-long massage to achieve these benefits either. Multiple controlled studies found that these physiological and psychological changes occurred after 10 to 15 minute chair massages. So no matter how busy your holiday schedule is, you can easily make time for this de-stressing method. For enhanced relaxation, massage therapy can also be combined with aromatherapy.
Aromatherapy uses naturally extracted aromatic essences from plants to help balance and promote the health of both mind and body. Inhaling the scent from the essential oils and absorbing them into your skin is believed to stimulate brain function and promote whole-body well-being. In fact, at hospitals, mental health, nursing and hospice facilities, aromatherapy is becoming increasingly popular as a natural alternative to treating anxiety, depression, and pain.
For relaxation, there are different forms of aromatherapy that can be used. The oils can be used as either massage oils or bath products. However you decide to use aromatherapy, this treatment can immensely help reduce your holiday stress.
Hydrotherapy, a naturopathic medicine modality, utilizes the therapeutic benefits of water at various temperatures and is meant to soothe, regulate, or stimulate various systems in the body. In addition to the calming effects of a warm bath or hot tub, constitutional treatments that alternate between hot and cold water temperatures can have profound effects on mood and stress hormones. This is because hot and cold treatments help enhance blood circulation throughout the body and brain.
Various hydrotherapy treatments can be performed by a naturopathic medicine doctor or by yourself at home in the shower. To relieve stress, try starting your shower at a warm comfortable temperature then slowly cool down the water to about 70 degrees and maintain for 2-3 minutes.
Yoga can help release a lot of stress and pressure. Yoga trains you to breathe using your diaphragm and allows you to utilize your whole lung capacity, which gives you the opportunity to breathe more effectively. Learning breathing techniques is the best way to take advantage of all yoga has to offer and help relax you even more during your sessions.
Yoga also trains us to listen to our bodies by being sensitive to each movement. This encourages us to exist in the present moment and to live in a more mindful, conscious, and connected way. Certain postures, such as forward bends and inversions, have calming effects. Postures that release the hips and shoulders are very effective in releasing emotional energy. Both types of postures are beneficial to your body during high stress moments. Consider trying these yoga postures if you are starting to feel stressed about the upcoming gatherings and festivities.
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Action Report: How National Wildlife Federation Is Making a Difference
- NWF Staff
- Sep 18, 2013
Giving Wildlife Room to Roam
Adopt a Wildlife Acre program reduces conflicts with livestock
Grizzly bears, wolves and other wildlife have been able to thrive within Yellowstone National Park in recent years. However, once outside the park’s boundaries, conflicts with domestic livestock, primarily on public lands, have often led to landowners with grazing permits or federal agents killing these wild animals to protect livestock.
Through its Adopt a Wildlife Acre program, created in 2002, NWF contributions from members and partners have allowed the Federation to reduce such conflicts by providing ranchers with fair payment in exchange for their agreement to retire grazing permits on about 685,000 acres in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Following are some of those critical retirements and how they helped provide wildlife more room to roam.
• NWF has retired 15 domestic sheep-grazing allotments on more than 150,000 acres next to Yellowstone in what U.S. conservation agencies designated as a Primary Conservation Area for grizzly bears (above). Domestic sheep are the most significant source of conflict for grizzlies.
• NWF has retired 10 cattle allotments adjacent to the park, creating about 250,000 acres of conflict-free habitat, much of which is used by gray wolves.
• Today, less than 4,500 genetically pure wild bison (right) exist in the United States, almost all of which live within Yellowstone National Park. Bison that wander outside the park are sometimes held in confinement or killed, as ranchers fear they may transmit the bovine disease brucellosis to cattle. NWF has retired cattle allotments on more than 30,000 acres west and north of Yellowstone in Montana, providing critical wintering habitat for bison.
• Beginning in 2009, NWF also worked to reach agreements to retire grazing allotments on nearly 60,000 acres of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Montana, relieving longstanding wildlife-livestock conflicts on several areas of the refuge.
• In partnership with the Wild Sheep Foundation, NWF has been able to eliminate conflicts between bighorn sheep and domestic sheep on thousands of acres in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. In June 2013, NWF retired two domestic sheep allotments of about 12,000 acres on Montana’s Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest northwest of Yellowstone. These retirements eliminated the domestic sheep that were suspected of infecting wild bighorn sheep with pneumonia, causing 75 percent mortality in one herd. The retirements also will help restore riparian vegetation the sheep eat and help improve water quality for the region’s trout and other fish.
“Giving wolves, bears, bison and bighorn sheep more safe habitat is one of the most important things we can do for these iconic American species,” says Hank Fischer, coordinator of NWF’s Adopt a Wildlife Acre program. “This market-based approach is an important new way to resolve wildlife-livestock conflicts. The most amazing result is that we’ve changed the face of land management around Yellowstone with very little controversy.”
Your Dollars at Work
During the past decade, NWF has received more than $3.5 million in donations and has secured more than 620,000 acres through its Adopt a Wildlife Acre program, which has expanded habitat for wildlife significantly. To find out more go to www.nwf.org/wildlifeacre.
Join NWF at Vermont’s Fall Foliage Fandango
NWF is hosting fall outdoor activities to celebrate Vermont’s Worcester Range, an important wildlife corridor in the Northern Appalachians. A local expert is available to lead groups on hiking, mountain biking, paddling and other wildlife adventures and to talk about the relationship between healthy landscapes and local communities. For a schedule, visit www.nwf.org/northeastevents.
Lawn Law Saves Texans Water
Texas lawmakers passed legislation that prevents homeowner associations from forbidding residents from landscaping with water-conserving and drought-tolerant plants. The Texas Water Development Board reports that, on average, about 30 percent of the water that Texas homeowners consume is for outdoor use, mostly for landscaping. Therefore, this law could save a significant amount of water as well as encourage the planting of native, drought-resistant species that are good for wildlife.
Texas has suffered from an intense drought during the past three years. NWF’s Texas Living Waters Project staff worked with the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action and other partners to inform lawmakers of the urgent need to pass this legislation. Myron Hess, NWF’s Texas Water Programs manager and counsel says, “One of the easiest ways to protect Texas’ limited water supply is to reduce outdoor watering. This legislation allows Texans to do their part to conserve at home if they choose to do so.”
NWF and its partners now will work with homeowner associations, water departments and municipalities to inform residents of this new law and native landscaping options. See www.TexasLivingWaters.org for more information.
Migratory Birds in Hot Seat
Climate change predicted to be greatest threat to birds in this century
“From waterfowl to songbirds to shorebirds, the climate crisis is the most serious threat this century facing America’s migratory birds,” said NWF President Larry Schweiger upon the release this past June of Shifting Skies: Confronting the Climate Crisis.
This NWF report details how a warming climate is affecting avian habitats, potentially decreasing some bird populations and leading to other species’ extinction. Migratory birds (such as these sandhill cranes) are particularly vulnerable because they breed, migrate and overwinter in different environments—all of which are changing. Sea level rise and violent storms are swallowing coastal nesting areas. Warming temperatures could alter when horseshoe crabs lay their eggs and therefore when migrating shorebirds such as red knots can find this essential food (see "Shorebirds' Fate Hinges on Horseshoe Crabs"). Increased pests and wildfires already have damaged songbirds’ forests, and changing rain patterns are expected to dry prairie wetlands essential for waterfowl. In response to these warming trends, says the report, 177 of 305 North American bird species have moved an average of 35 miles northward in the past four decades.
Shifting Skies recommends cutting carbon pollution by investing in clean energy, restoring carbon sinks such as forests and applying proactive, climate-smart strategies to bolster areas most at risk. Download the report from www.nwf.org/BirdsandClimate.
Leaf Pack Reveals Hidden World of Streams
NWF now offers Leaf Pack Experiment Kits that allow kids to count and identify insects and other invertebrates in streams to determine water quality. Developed by the Stroud Water Research Center, the experiments range from a simple aquatic-insect analysis to a deluxe stream-ecology study. Purchase kits at www.shopnwf.org/leafpack and post your results at www.stroudcenter.org/lpn.
Proposed Levee Threatens Wetlands
NWF urges Obama administration to stop project, protect wildlife and homes
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its seventh environmental impact statement in July on a 60-year-old proposal to build a levee that would close a quarter-mile gap and sever the Mississippi River from Missouri’s New Madrid floodway.
The project would cut off 80,000 acres of floodplain habitat from the river. This area filters river pollution, provides a natural release valve that protects towns from flooding and provides vital habitat for millions of migratory birds, 91 fish species and rare animals such as the swamp rabbit (right).
A federal district court rejected the Corps’ last environmental impact statement in 2007 because it did not comply with the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. The latest statement recommends essentially the same plan, so the coalition has called on the Obama administration to stop the project. NWF’s Water Campaign Manager George Sorvalis says, “This project would sever the last remaining connection the Mississippi River has to its floodplain in Missouri, devastating fish and wildlife populations. The Obama administration needs to put this boondoggle to rest once and for all.” Visit www.nwf.org/newmadrid for more.
Getting Youth to “Go U”
Some kids are growing up never having experienced nature. NWF and two of its affiliates are changing that through Great Outdoors University adventures.
This past June, North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) held its first “Go U” classes that allow some of Charlotte’s most disadvantaged 6 to 18 year olds to take nature hikes, explore streams, plant trees or even meet rehabilitated raptors. During these day trips, youth are given tasks to increase their problem-solving, math and science skills, sense of responsibility and ability to work in a team. Studies show experiences in nature can help kids cope with stress. Beyond this, says NCWF’s Go U program manager Mary Bures, “These fun experiences allow them to discover the many wonders of nature.”
This NWF and NCWF program is based on the Great Outdoors University program that the Tennessee Wildlife Federation (TWF) launched in 2005. By partnering with schools, youth groups and local organizations, each affiliate can reach hundreds of kids each year. TWF has hosted more than 13,000 outdoor immersion experiences, from one-day adventures to overnight caving and camping trips.
Go to www.ncwf.org/GoU and www.tnwf.org/great-outdoors-university to learn more.
Helping California Cities Bloom
NWF strives to certify 50,000 yards and create wildlife corridors by 2015
This past spring, NWF launched the Wildlife and the City and the 50,000 Yards for Wildlife campaigns to inspire Californians to help urban wildlife and transform backyards, schoolyards, businesses and places of worship into wildlife-friendly spaces. California already has 10,000 NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat® sites. However, these initiatives are designed to create additional habitat to help connect urban green spaces and provide safe corridors in which a great variety of wildlife can live, travel and breed, from California’s threatened red-legged frogs to its burrowing owls.
To reach this goal, NWF is working with nonprofits, government agencies and businesses, including Facebook, which recently became a certified habitat site inhabited by gray foxes (above). “Connecting with wildlife through certified habitats not only contributes to conservation but improves the health of urban communities,” says Beth Pratt, NWF’s California program director. Go to www.nwfcalifornia.org/wildlife-and-the-city/ to find out more.
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Success of this global study was being hindered by protracted site set-up and lack of available site resource across multiple territories.
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Choosing the right personal injury lawyer can be daunting when you have been injured due to someone else's negligence. With so many attorneys out there, it can be difficult to know who to trust and who will provide the best representation for your case. Here are a few essential tips to help you choose the right personal injury lawyer for your needs.
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- American Bar Association: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_issues_for_consumers/personalinjury/
- National Association of Personal Injury Lawyers: https://www.npialaw.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-personal-injury-lawyer-for-your-case/
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Passing by the Hub buildings the other day, we happened upon a vacant lot that we weren't expecting to find. Until very recently, you'd have seen two Frank Furness designed Victorian twins at 3935 and 3937 Chestnut St., sitting in the shadow of the newer Hub building.
The scene is quite different today.
So… what gives?
Permits for the property only indicate demolition and "unity of use" with two adjacent parcels. So our first guess was that a third Hub building was in the offing, or perhaps the owners of the apartment buildings wanted to use this big lot for parking purposes.
Then we took a look at the ownership records for these properties. It turns out the Ronald McDonald House bought the buildings in 2014 and 2015, spending millions on the acquisition. In case you didn't know, RMHC is located immediately next door, over a collection of buildings to the east. So while it's with disappointment that we see the old buildings have been demolished, we're at least cheered to learn that the properties will be used to help sick kids and their families in the future. We're hoping for an expansion of their existing facilities and not just a parking lot though, as that would be a tougher pill to swallow.
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Ms. Mirriam-Grace MacIntyre is the Executive Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) where she oversees the daily operations of a national center dedicated to protecting America from foreign intelligence threats.
From 2021-2023, Ms. MacIntyre served as the Director for Counterintelligence at the National Security Council where she led the development of counterintelligence policy under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Ms. MacIntyre joined ODNI cadre in 2016 first as the National Counterintelligence Officer for Russia, Europe and Eurasia and later as the Deputy National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence and was responsible for leading the development of strategies, plans, and initiatives to advance the Intelligence Community’s (IC) counterintelligence mission and address the needs of U.S. Government decision makers. Under her leadership, ODNI was instrumental in driving significant CI and security advancements at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. She also led numerous high-impact initiatives, including NCSC’s support to Operation Warp Speed’s COVID-19 vaccine development effort which enhanced threat awareness for the state, local, and private sector.
Prior to joining ODNI, Ms. MacIntyre served for eleven years as an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) where she held numerous senior analytic and management positions across the counterterrorism, CI, and counterespionage portfolios. In 2007, she led a team of linguists, analysts, and investigators at the Combined Media Processing Center – Qatar responsible for supporting ongoing military operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prior to that, Ms. MacIntyre held several analytic positions working hard targets and spent two years as an analyst and briefer in support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where she produced current intelligence products on foreign intelligence threats to the Department of Defense.
Awards and honors include DIA’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award, DoD’s Civilian Combat Support Award, DoD’s Civilian Expeditionary Award, and the National Security Award for CI Analysis.
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Maintaining a pristine and organized kitchen is crucial for a healthy and enjoyable cooking experience. In the bustling metropolis of Qatar, where residents lead fast-paced lives, balancing work, and personal commitments, the demand for professional kitchen cleaning services is on the rise. In this blog post, we’ll explore the top reasons why hiring a kitchen cleaning service in Qatar, such as a reputable kitchen cleaning company or maids services, is essential for creating a hygienic and comfortable culinary haven.
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Kitchen cleaning requires specialized knowledge and skills to tackle the diverse surfaces, appliances, and materials found in modern kitchens. A dedicated kitchen cleaning service in Qatar possesses the expertise to clean and sanitize various kitchen elements effectively. From countertops to stovetops, they use industry-approved cleaning agents to ensure your kitchen is not only clean but also free from harmful germs and bacteria.
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Modern life is hectic, leaving little time for thorough kitchen cleaning. Hiring a kitchen cleaning service allows you to reclaim precious time and redirect your energy towards more meaningful pursuits. Whether you are a busy professional or a homemaker managing multiple responsibilities, outsourcing kitchen cleaning to experts alleviates the burden of this time-consuming task.
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A clean kitchen is synonymous with a healthy kitchen. Professional kitchen cleaning services focus on eliminating not just visible dirt but also unseen contaminants that can compromise food safety. This proactive approach contributes to a healthier living environment, reducing the risk of foodborne illnesses and promoting overall well-being for your family.
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Determining Employees under the Oklahoma Credential System
Hello, this is Oklahoma cannabis business attorney Jesse Kovach and today we’re going to talk about what constitutes an employee for purposes of the credential system that’s going to go into place starting on January 1st, 2024.
Now, generally speaking for growers, processors, and dispensaries, an employee is basically going to be anybody who interacts with the product. So we’re talking about anybody who grows, harvests, dries, cures, purchases, sells, transfers, transports, processes, produces, manufactures, creates, or packages medical marijuana, medical marijuana products, or medical marijuana waste.
Now, one thing that all commercial licensees should keep in mind is that the person that you have in charge of entering, tracking the inventory, your inventory tracking administrator, or any other employees that are in charge of that, are going to be considered employees under this rule.
Now, for education and research facilities, anybody who samples, trains, or educates on behalf of the licensee will be considered an employee. For waste disposal licenses, it’s anybody who disposes or transports the product. And for transporters, it’s anybody who transports, stores, or distributes without taking ownership of the product.
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Finally, there is a catch-all provision that basically says that anybody who conducts any additional business for the benefit of the commercial licensee will be considered an employee under these provisions. These provisions don’t go into place until January 1st, 2024, but it’s always good to be ahead of the curve on new regulations coming into place.
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The state of Wisconsin occupies a special place in US political history, and the primary votes there this week may prove pivotal for the 2016 presidential race.
The Republican party was founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin. The state was a leader in the progressive movement with Robert La Follette, the Progressive party leader who contested the presidential election in 1924 and won 17% of the vote nationally.
This year, Wisconsin voters have upended both the Republican and Democratic races for the nomination, handing double-digit victories to the second place candidates in both parties – Ted Cruz for the Republicans and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats.
The consequences for both the frontrunners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, could be significant.
In Trump’s case, Cruz’s resounding victory makes it virtually impossible for the real estate mogul to clinch the nomination before the party’s July convention. The Republican establishment is determined to manipulate convention rules to assure he does not win an open vote there.
Whether that means that Cruz, who will most assuredly come second behind Trump, emerges with the nomination remains to be seen. There is considerable buzz that House Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s vice-presidential nominee in 2012, could be drafted as the nominee.
Ryan would certainly be a more formidable candidate than Cruz, a freshman senator on the party’s right-wing fringe who has become the ‘mainstream’ candidate only because of the unexpected strength of the maverick outsider Trump.
For Sanders, whose success was equally unexpected at the outset of the race, the Wisconsin victory adds to the momentum he has from winning six of the last seven primary contests. US mainstream media likes to dwell on Clinton’s commanding lead in delegates, but the bulk of that lead consist of ‘super delegates’ – party officials of various stripes – whose votes technically are unpledged and could switch in the convention.
Sanders is likely to win this weekend’s contest in Wyoming, bringing his tally to seven of the last eight. The question is whether that will give him enough momentum to defeat Clinton in New York – the state that twice elected her to the senate and where she now makes her home.
But Sanders has narrowed her lead in New York to 10 points in the latest polls, compared to 40 just some weeks ago.
The former first lady, former senator, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate in 2008, for all her qualities, is a profoundly polarising figure in the US. Opposition to her is not only intense, it is visceral.
Her net favourability rating is negative – that is, more people view her unfavourably than favourably – and the gap is widening. Sanders outscores her on trustworthiness by a numbing 64% to 25%. And a recent poll by Bloomberg showed Sanders edging her out as Democrats’ first choice by 49% to 48%.
What has made the Sanders insurgency so difficult for Clinton and the Democratic establishment, which is almost 100% behind the former secretary of state, is that the Vermont senator can tap into a seemingly unlimited source of funds from the 2m individual donors who have made more than 6m contributions to his campaign.
In March, Sanders outraised Clinton $44m to $29m, after beating her $43m to $30m in February. Given the expense of a nationwide campaign and the heavy cost of media advertising, this is a significant advantage for Sanders.
This has become a campaign issue in its own right. Clinton is following the traditional route in American politics of raising funds primarily from wealthy donors at tony fundraising events, and uses the full panoply of ‘bundlers’ and ‘super PACS’ – outside organisations that face no campaign financing limits – to promote her candidacy.
This obliges her to jet around the country for these events. She has scheduled a controversial dinner hosted by actor George Clooney later this month where the top fee to sit at her table is $353,000 – an amount Sanders has called ‘obscene.’
Sanders, on the other hand, simply mentions in his victory speeches that it’s time to send in another contribution – the average, famously, is $27. His Wisconsin victory will certainly set off another frenzied round of contributions, and there is every reason to suspect that the added momentum will make his April fundraising total even higher than the record set in March.
If that momentum is sufficient for Sanders to win in New York, or keep the gap in the low single digits – delegates for the nominating convention are awarded on a proportional basis – there truly is a chance for Sanders to win the nomination.
His argument to win super delegate votes is that he is better placed than Clinton to win the general election contest, especially if Trump is denied the nomination and the Republicans choose someone else as standard-bearer. Nothing will unite the Republicans so much and motivate them to vote as having Clinton as the Democratic nominee.
If Wisconsin turns out to be a turning point in both parties, the New York primary on 19 April is likely to determine the outcome.
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Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, is a very beautiful city. Which is also known as Silicon Valley. Where the weather is always pleasant. So as winter sets in across North India, planning a trip to the mountains can be a bit tricky. The second option is Beaches, in which Goa comes first, which is always full of tourists. So in such a situation you can plan to come to Bangalore. Where you have the option of Nandi Hills for trekking, then Gokarna Beach for fun. Which means you can enjoy both of them at the same time. Let’s know what else is special in this city apart from these.
1. Nandi Hills
Nandi Hills is a must visit after coming to Bangalore. This is a great place to chill with friends. To see the beautiful view of rising and setting sun from here, one has to trek a little far. But after reaching the destination, the magnificent view that one gets to see removes all the tiredness.
Distance – 60 kms from Bangalore
Timings – 6 am to 6 pm
Entry fee – Rs 10 per person
2. Bannerghatta National Park
Apart from common wild animals, you can also see many rare species in Bannerghatta National Park. There is a wide variety of wildlife and bird species including elephants, panthers, jackals, foxes, wild boars, sloth bears, gazelles, spotted deer, porcupines, Asiatic lions, royal Bengal tigers, lizards, cobras and many more. Apart from this, sandalwood, neem, tamarind, jamun, eucalyptus, bamboo trees present in the park work to keep the forest beautiful and green. You can also enjoy activities like jungle safari, trekking by coming to this national park.
Distance – 22 kms from Bangalore
Timings – 9.30 am to 5 pm
Entry fee – Rs 80 for Indians, Rs 400 for foreign tourists
3. Snow City
Snow City, located in Bangalore, is one of the most famous destinations here. Spread over 12,500 square feet, this indoor snow themed park is a part of the Fun World complex. Coming here, you will enjoy with friends, as well as it is also best to take children for a ride. Here you will also get to see zero degree temperature. The maximum stay in the park is allowed for 45 minutes only. Here you can play basketball, dance on the ice stage, go snow trekking and enjoy a lot of other activities.
Timing – 10 am to 8 pm
Entry Fee – Monday to Friday – Rs 390 per person, Weekend and Public Holidays – Rs 490 per person
4. Microlight Flying
If you like adventure, then do not miss the option of microlight flying when you come to Bangalore. In which you will get a chance to fly in a two-seater microlight aircraft. In this journey of 15 to 20 minutes with expert co-pilot, you will get a chance to do many types of activities.
Timings – 7 am to 10 am daily
Entry fee – Rs 3450
5. Vine Yard Tour
Another great place to visit in Bangalore is the Wine Yards. Where you can see and understand the process of making wine along with visiting the wine yards and can also test it. Here you make a plan for the whole day, otherwise you will miss a lot.
Timings – 10 AM to 1 PM and 1 PM to 4 PM daily
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It’s wonderful to get a hot lead, but it’s also a process that needs a significant amount of planning, commitment, and time before you can consider the sale done. Consider your favorite competitors crossing the finish line this summer at the Olympics. They didn’t just show up one day and enter the competition. Every single one of them has put money into themselves and prepared for success on the track. Though the race was brief, years of hard work, devotion, and drive brought them to the finish line.
With That In Mind, Here’s How You Can Take A Similar Strategy To Getting Your Leads Over The Finish Line.
Keep Your Eye On The Ball –
Knowing what you’re striving towards is essential. Not every athlete aspires to Olympic gold. Some are striving for personal excellence, while others are seeking to enhance their health and stamina. What are your objectives in terms of sales? Are you attempting to increase conversion rates? Going for oomph? Do you prefer quality leads than quantity? Knowing why you’re working can help you pick the right route and stay on track.
Invest In A Decent Pair Of Running Shoes –
Can you image Usain Bolt winning the 100 meters with a worn-out pair of tennis shoes? He’d still be quick because of his skill, but you can bet he wouldn’t perform at his best without a pair of well-fitting running shoes designed for the task at hand. Your sales staff requires dedicated productivity tools, which includes auto-dialing, email, lead tracking, and a document library with merge able forms, brochures, and content.
Hustle And Practice –
Your salespeople are probably bright and skilled, but they must continue to improve their skills via ongoing training, practice, and mentoring. You and your sales team may analyze performance by listening to call records in the same way that coaches and athletes do by watching videos.
Warm Up –
Now that you’ve decided what you want to do, purchased your gear, and rehearsed for the big day, it’s time to perform! It’s almost time to race, but first you need warm up. Before picking up the phone, sales representatives should engage in a positive ritual to get into the correct state of mind. Warming up may be accomplished by stretching, music, and visualizing.
Establish Your Best Opening Position –
Next, put yourself in the finest possible starting position. Make sure the best leads are ready to contact and that you have the resources you need. For example, if you phone leads to set up appointments but don’t have an effective scheduling technology in place, you may be setting yourself up for failure.
Start Quickly –
A sluggish start is disheartening and can mean disaster. The same is true if you let your most recent leads sour. Call your newest leads first, and you’ll have a lot higher chance of taking them across the finish line with you. If you keep them waiting too long, they’ll either lose interest or buy from someone else.
Calm Yourself –
Don’t rush at first. Get to know your leads once you contact them. Determine their requirements and acquire their confidence before imposing a solution you believe they desire on them.
Maintain Your Attention On The Selling. —
Have you ever wondered why racehorses wear blinders? Its purpose is to reduce distractions. Allow yourself to be distracted; instead, keep concentrated on the sale. This entails setting up a calling environment in which you can focus and pay attention to your prospects. Pay attention for buying indications and provide consultative answers to their difficulties. Logical branch scripting is useful for overcoming objections or providing options based on the reactions of the lead.
Recognize That It Will Be A Lengthy Race And Plan Appropriately —
following up on leads is rarely a 100-yard dash; it is more akin to a marathon. Make a strategy. Determine your prospects’ hotspots, for example, and deliver related emails and material.
Maintain Consistency —
You can’t just start and stop whenever you want or when a lead doesn’t reply right away. You must persevere. 45 percent of all leads purchase. Don’t squander qualified leads (Marketing qualified or Sales qualified).
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize —
We said it before the race began, and we’ll repeat it again now that you’re nearly there. You’ve worked hard, you’re almost out of breath, and you’re not sure whether you’ll make it. However, the finish line is so close. You’ve got this! Maintain your confidence and ask for the sale.
Track Your Performance After The Race —
You’ve finally finished the race. Whether your prospect converted or not, keep track of your success and create objectives for yourself to break new sales records.
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Damian Lillard On The Portland Trail Blazers: “Are We Gonna Get Something Done?”
Damian Lillard has been loyal to the Portland Trail Blazers, and the team has been loyal to him as well. It’s a great relationship back and forth, but it may not be a surprise anymore if Lillard and the Blazers happen to part ways sooner than later.
The Blazers are out of the playoffs this season and will now shift their focus on the impending NBA offseason. Lillard still wants to win, and recently, he made it clear that he’s not interested in playing with young players and rebuilding the team.
The pressure is on the Blazers to keep their superstar happy and form a legitimate title-contending team. In Lillard’s latest interview with Stephen A. Smith, the 32-year old point guard fired yet another warning to his longtime team.
“It ain’t a threat. I ain’t gonna say I’m putting them on the clock, I’m just saying if those things can’t be done, (if) we can’t do something significant like that then we won’t have a chance to compete on that level. Not only will I have a decision to make, but I think the organization will too because at that point, it’s like, ‘Are you gonna go young or are we gonna get something done?’”
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Unpicking Putin’s propaganda
When Russia launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine in February 2022, it started another parallel battle: the war for hearts and minds. Domestically, Russia had to justify its actions to its citizens and — where possible — find sympathy abroad. In its bid to win over onlookers, Russia is turning to the crudest forms of disinformation, deliberately distorting evidence for its own benefit.
Russia’s war on Ukraine offers ample evidence of state propaganda and high levels of disinformation. Broadly, it’s been successful. Even if precise percentages are hard to ascertain, evidence on hand suggests that many Russians who regularly watch state television, especially those over 45, tend to accept the Kremlin’s justifications for the war.
For counter-disinformation efforts to succeed, understanding why people buy into state propaganda is essential.
In the first three months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and following directly from a recently completed substantive research project, University of Manchester researchers monitored two Russian domestic television channels and RT, the state’s international broadcaster, daily, and tracked key developments in the subsequent six months. They also monitored some Russian-language channels on YouTube and Telegram — the main global social media platforms with unrestricted access within Russia — set by anti-war activists to bust disinformation.
The findings shed light on how disinformation and counter-disinformation work and interact. Those in charge of producing Russian state propaganda appreciate what media studies scholars have been demonstrating for a long time: people often do not remember the exact details or facts of media coverage of events, instead recalling how they felt about what they watched, heard or read.
Disinformation works best when claims the propagandist wants to disseminate are made as part of broader stories that feel true to their target audiences. Such ‘feel-true’ sentiment can be stimulated by stories which tap into deep-rooted senses of collective identity and particular representations of national history, reinforced over long periods of time. American sociologist Arlie Hochschild aptly described such accounts as “deep stories”. ‘Deep stories’ based on the manipulation of history and a sense of collective identity have dominated Russian state media coverage of the war.
‘Deep stories’ resonate with audiences when they are securely grounded in the cultural, linguistic and political contexts from which they emerge. Russian state propagandists’ appreciation of this nuance is reflected in differences between war coverage on domestic Russian television and by the internationally-facing RT.
The treatment of imperialism, which varies between broadcasters, is a clear case in point. For older Russians who regularly watch domestic television, depicting the US and its allies as an imperialistic force that wants to colonise Russia and Ukraine sounds familiar and reassuring. The often-repeated cliché ‘the bestial face of American imperialism’ goes back to the Soviet period.
But accompanying this predictable treatment of imperialism in Russian domestic television coverage of the war is another, less obvious, interpretation of imperialism: Russia itself is also represented as an imperial power.
Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russia’s imperial and colonial legacies have barely been interrogated in official state discourse. Under Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country’s imperial history has featured very positively in this discourse.
Domestic coverage of the war has framed Russian imperialism as a force for good, using imperial lexicon from the 19th century, such as the ‘triune Russian nation’ — an umbrella term for ethnic Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians and the term ‘historical Russia’ which was applied to the entire territory of the imperial state under the tsars.
Appreciating that overt glorification of imperialism would find little sympathy abroad, RT’s main Anglophone service, RT International, has stuck to criticising the US. RT International pushes a narrative that justifies the war on grounds that Russia is defending Ukraine (and themselves) from US-led Western imperialism.
The ‘deep stories’ on RT specifically exploit negative sentiments towards US and Western foreign policies prevalent in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as among some left-wing Western audiences.
At the same time, RT, like other Russian propaganda tools, courts right-wing audiences in the West by linking its justifications of the war with attacks on the current ‘liberal order’ and ‘cancel culture’. The various efforts made by RT appear to have had some success.
Despite Western bans, RT International and some of RT’s other language services (particularly RT French, now targeting Africa, and Spanish, which targets Latin America) managed to grow its audiences in the first six months of the war according to yet-to-be-published University of Manchester research, even if RT’s artificial inflation of audience figures makes it hard to pin down by how much.
Russophone counter-disinformation activists appreciate the impact of ‘deep stories’. On Telegram and YouTube, fact-checking Russian state propaganda claims takes second place to articulating and disseminating counter-narratives which are themselves grounded in national identity and history.
Here, the notions of Russian imperialism and colonialism are accorded a negative meaning. YouTube channels by such prominent Putin critics as journalists Evgeniya Albats and Igor Yakovenko depict the war as ‘the last act of Russian imperialism’ presaging the potential break-up of the Russian Federation.
On oppositional Telegram channels, posts titled ‘the Russian World’ include images that depict the Russian army’s destruction of Ukrainian settlements and people, or the ruinous state of Russia’s own towns. By sarcastically inverting the irredentist term used in official Russian discourse under Putin to represent Russian imperialism as a benign force, war critics counter state disinformation less by correcting false claims than by re-interpreting the ‘deep stories’ in which those falsehoods are embedded and which lend them credence.
State propaganda enhances disinformation’s persuasive capacities by embedding false narratives in stories that exploit people’s deep-seated perceptions of themselves as a group. Russia deploys these stories differently depending on the context.
But the fight back isn’t centred around fact-checking, rather it’s a battle to challenge and subvert the familiar deep stories that are bringing legitimacy to false facts.
This article was written by Vera Tolz, the Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester; and Stephen Hutchings, another Professor of Russian Studies at the same institution. Originally published under Creative Commons by 360info™.
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When does getting help on an assignment turn into cheating?
Students – whether at university or school – can get help from many places. They can go to a tutor, parent, teacher, a friend or consult a textbook.
But at which point does getting help cross the line into cheating?
At other times the line is blurry. When it’s crossed, it constitutes academic misconduct. Academic misconduct is any action or attempted action that may result in creating an unfair academic advantage for yourself or others.
What about getting someone else to read a draft of your essay? What if they do more than proofread and they alter sections of an assignment? Does that constitute academic misconduct?
Learning, teaching or cheating?
There are a wide range of activities that constitute academic misconduct. These can include:
Fabrication, which is just making things up. I could say “90 % of people admit to fabricating their assignments”, when this is not a fact but a statement I just invented.
Falsification, which is manipulating data to inaccurately portray results. This can occur by taking research results out of context and drawing conclusions not supported by data.
Misrepresentation, which is falsely representing yourself. Did you know I have a master’s degree from the University of Oxford on this topic? (Actually, I don’t).
Plagiarism, which is when you use other people’s ideas or words without appropriate attribution. For instance, this list came from other people’s research and it is important to reference the source.
Sometimes students and teachers have different ideas of academic misconduct. One study found around 45% of academics thought getting someone else to correct a draft could constitute academic misconduct. But only 32% of students thought the same thing.
In the same survey, most academics and students agreed having someone else like a parent or friend identify errors in a draft assignment, as opposed to correcting them, was fine.
Generally when a lecturer, teacher or another marker is assessing an assignment they need to establish the authenticity of the work. Authenticity means having confidence the work actually relates to the performance of the person being assessed, and not of another person.
The Australian government’s vocational education and training sector’s quality watchdog, for instance, considers authenticity as one of four so-called rules of evidence for an “effective assessment”.
The rules are:
Validity, which is when the assessor is confident the student has the skills and knowledge required by the module or unit.
Sufficiency, which is when the quality, quantity and relevance of the assessment evidence is enough for the assessor to make a judgement.
Authenticity, where the assessor is confident the evidence presented for assessment is the learner’s own work.
Currency, where the assessor is confident the evidence relates to what the student can do now instead of some time in the past.
Generally speaking, if the assessor is confident the work is the product of a student’s thoughts and where help has been provided there is proper acknowledgement, it should be fine.
Why is cheating a problem?
It’s difficult to get a handle on how big the cheating problem is. Nearly 30% of students who responded to a 2012 UK survey agreed they had “submitted work taken wholly from an internet source” as their own.
In Australia, 6% of students in a survey of 14,000 reported they had engaged in “outsourcing behaviours” such as submitting someone else’s assignment as their own, and 15% of students had bought, sold or traded notes.
Getting someone to help with your assignment might seem harmless but it can hinder the learning process. The teacher needs to understand where the student is at with their learning, and too much help from others can get in the way.
Some research describes formal education as a type of “signal”. This means educational attainment communicates important information about an individual to a third party such as an employer, a customer, or to an authority like a licensing body or government department. Academic misconduct interferes with that process.
How to deal with cheating
It appears fewer cheaters are getting away with it than before. Some of the world’s leading academic institutions have reported a 40% increase in academic misconduct cases over a three year period.
Technological advances mean online essay mills and “contract cheating” have become a bigger problem. This type of cheating involves outsourcing work to third parties and is concerning because it is difficult to detect.
But while technology has made cheating easier, it has also offered sophisticated systems for educators to verify the work is a person’s own. Software programs such as Turnitin can check if a student has plagiarised their assignment.
Institutions can also verify the evidence they are assessing relates to a student’s actual performance by using a range of assessment methods such as exams, oral presentations, and group assignments.
Academic misconduct can be a learning and cultural issue. Many students, particularly when they are new to higher education, are simply not aware what constitutes academic misconduct. Students can often be under enormous pressure that leads them to make poor decisions.
It is possible to deal with these issues in a constructive manner that help students learn and get the support they need. This can include providing training to students when they first enrol, offering support to assist students who may struggle, and when academic misconduct does occur, taking appropriate steps to ensure it does not happen again.
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Whether you’re a pupil or a specialist author, Grammarly is an useful tool for inspecting the top quality of your writing. It’s very easy to unintentionally publish something that another person has actually currently created, or you might share a concept as well closely to someone else’s. Grammarly’s suggestions help you prevent this error. It can highlight blunders in your writing, as well as give you an explanation of the improvement.
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Showtime has released on Disney+ Hotstar today, dropping its first set of episodes. Backed by Karan Johar, the show offers a glimpse at the darker side of Bollywood and nepotism.
Showtime is a brand-new Disney+ Hotstar original that has streamed its first set of episodes today. Produced by Karan Johar’s digital brand Dharmatic, the series explores the darkness behind the glitz and glamour of Bollywood, offering a sharp commentary on nepotism and the hustle to make it big in showbiz.
Many netizens have binged through the series and almost all have appreciated the merits of the show and its powerful performances. But several netizens are upset at the show for a reason. As Showtime has released only the first four episodes, with the rest arriving in June, many Twitter users felt the wait was too long and complained about the same. As the series had been so captivating and just getting good, they were eager for more.
Most netizens waxed eloquence on the performances of Emraan Hashmi, Mouni Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal, and Mahima Makwana. While the rest of the cast, comprising Naseeruddin Shah and Shriya Saran, have done exceptionally well and will feature more prominently in upcoming episodes, underdog Rajeev Khandelwal and newcomer Mahima Makwana stole the show.
As for Emraan Hashmi, he has always been on top of his game and Showtime is no exception. Portraying a power-hungry nepo kid, Raghu Khanna, who has been given all the tools of his craft readymade by his father, Hashmi does the role justice to the T. Not only is he calculated, volatile and focused on commercial projects and smooth income, but he also has great dialogue delivery and iconic lines.
Showtime follows the journey of several individuals in Bollywood: Naseeruddin Shah plays a godlike producer who controls the entire industry; Emraan Hashmi as his capitalistic son and producer, Raghu Khanna; Mouni Roy as an aspiring actress with her own secrets and Khanna’s love interest.
Rajesh Khandelwal plays a super-hot hero who is struggling to be relevant, and Mahima Makwana is Mahika Nandy, a film reviewer and aspiring filmmaker in the show. The series follows these characters as they enter a cat-and-mouse chase for survival and power in showbiz.
While Raghu Khanna believes in commercial 100-crore films, Mahika Nandy believes in making films with substance. The struggles of outsiders carving their respective niches in Bollywood are accurately contrasted with the ridiculous attempts of popular celebs and nepotism products to stay relevant among the masses in the show. And there lies the actual appeal of Showtime. | <urn:uuid:67f04580-6c9f-450b-b66d-94a6d70b2489> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.ottplay.com/news/showtime-twitter-review-netizens-hail-the-shows-top-notch-performances-but-are-upset-with-it-for-this-reason/1c961cbad9231 | 2024-04-16T04:52:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.961693 | 598 |
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Inspired by fast sports cars, Great's Pronto shoe melds world-class engineering and beautiful design into a sleek, stylish sneaker. In addition to its best-selling neutral kick (pictured, bottom left), the Brooklyn-bred brand is launching a burgundy variant, the Bordeaux (bottom, right) and a whimsical Color Block version -- currently the object of our affection.
Like the wine it's named after, the Bordeaux is meant to only get better with age and wear. Dark red suede and deep maroon leather contrast on the upper shells, fleshing out a classic runner silhouette. Meanwhile, the Color Block evokes clean and colorful lines of rally racers, with a combination of royal blue and bright red that feels both like a throwback to your schoolyard games and an easy go-to to mix and match with your spring looks. And since they're all made in Italy especially for Great, we recommend getting your favorite pair, well, prontissimo.
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A radical left-wing nut trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was not enough to convince Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that the justices need protection.
One day after the assassination attempt, Ocasio-Cortez bragged on Instagram that she personally helped halt a bill to provide security to Supreme Court justices, their families and staff.
And here's her running up the stairs to stop the bill:
Not all heroes wear capes.
AOC is referring to the bipartisan Supreme Court Police Parity Act that the Senate passed last month in response to large protests outside the homes of the justices. But the House has since held up the bill.
Given the radicalized nature of society, there's no argument that these justices and their families are at risk. And that was the case before a leftist tried to murder Kavanaugh.
In the meantime, angry and nutty wokes vow to continue protesting outside the justices' homes.
On Wednesday, a supposed justice group called Ruth Sent Us is now recruiting people to join them outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home.
Yet, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), "Nobody is in danger over the weekend because of not having a bill."
Got it. Now, tell that to Kavanaugh and his family.
Pelosi says she may consider the bill next week. But she's not making any promises. And with AOC involved, the justices may have to continue sitting in danger.
How self-absorbed and vindictive did AOC come across in that video? There's no way there are 13 million living people who follow her on Twitter.
I think not. Must be a lot of bots.
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Review of the beta and gearing for UCLL and UBA services
In New Zealand, under the regulatory framework for Chorus’ access services, stakeholders can request a determination under the ‘Final Pricing Principle’. This requires the Commerce Commission (the Commission) to determine the relevant costs for the access services, using a total-service long-run incremental cost (TSLRIC) approach. This is not based on Chorus’ actual services, but on those of a hypothetically efficient operator. The analysis has not previously been required, but is now being undertaken for the first time, following requests from stakeholders.
As part of this analysis, the Commission must determine what return on investment such an operator would require. To do this, the cost of capital for the relevant investments will need to be assessed. This may not be the same as Chorus’ cost of capital, but does need to be consistent with the risks associated with investment in services similar to those offered by Chorus.
The Commission asked Oxera to review the evidence around the company-specific elements of the cost of capital, assuming the use of the CAPM, and specifically the Brennan–Lally CAPM applied in other Commission decisions. In particular, Oxera has reviewed:
- the asset beta for a fixed access telecommunications operator. This was the primary area of analysis undertaken by Oxera, as it has the greatest impact on the assumed return for UCLL (unbundled copper local loop) and UBA (unbundled bitstream access) investments, and therefore the greatest impact on charges;
- the gearing and long-term credit rating for a fixed access telecommunications operator;
- the debt beta and equity beta that would be assumed for the hypothetical operator;
- whether the UCLL and UBA services should have a different beta to the hypothetical operator as a whole.
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OYO Pinewood Inn & Suites Silsbee is a budget hotel in Houston with standardised amenities at the best value. The hotel has a parking facility and 24/7 checkin.
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Protective and snug-fit recycled PET fabric laptop sleeve with water-resistant exterior for protection against the elements. Soft interior lining shields your laptop from scratches and bumps. Completed with a durable zipper all over at top for convenient opening and closing.
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The Subject Selection period has now begun as an online process, with all relevant Year level information and presentations available now via the College’s Subject Selection website and Year Level Subject Selection web pages, accessible via SIMON or PAM. Selection of 2022 subjects must be completed as Web Preferences by Wednesday 4 August via individual student logins emailed to all students on 23 July.
Students were involved in their first Subject Selection Tutor Workshop last Friday. A second Subject Selection Workshop is scheduled for this Friday 30 July. During this session students should discuss their subject choices with their Tutor Teacher. We encourage parents also to make themselves familiar with this process by visiting our subject selection website accessible via PAM and SIMON https://www.parade.vic.edu.au/...
Please note the remaining key dates for 2022 Subject Selection:
Friday 30 July | Tutor Workshop #2: Tutor Teacher and student discussion about potential subject choices |
Wednesday 4 August | Due date for online subject selection (Web Preferences) |
Thursday 5 August | Due date for submission of printed and signed subject selection receipt |
Families should also be aware of the Parade College Careers website https://paradecollegecareers.c... for career specific information or to book an appointment with a careers advisor.
At this stage upon our return to school, students wishing to apply for Year 10 Literature, VCE or VET acceleration, may collect an acceleration form from Maurice Petruccelli (MQ13), Janette Berglez (MQ12), Paul Fahey (MQ28) or Scarlett Faulkner (Preston). Literature forms may be collected from James Fogarty
Should circumstances change and this not be possible next week, then we will notify Tutors and students regarding the change to the process.
The GAT has been postponed again so that it will now be on Thursday 12 August. All students who are completing a VCE unit 3/4 subject in 2021 will need to complete this task. Please note, all Year 12 VCE classes will be cancelled on this day. Those students in Year 11 who are completing the GAT will have a supervised lunch break after the GAT and are expected at their period 6 Unit 2 class for the final period of the day. | <urn:uuid:ab95b0ef-af5e-449f-b2a1-1677fb819d70> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.parade.vic.edu.au/articles/no-13-july-2021-from-the-assistant-principal-teaching-learning?e=7001 | 2024-04-16T04:10:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.926049 | 460 |
The Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce and the City of Sierra Madre once again bring you the 2022 Wistaria Festival, showcasing the Sierra Madre Wistaria Vine, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the largest blossoming plant in the world.”
The Wistaria Festival is on Sunday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Every spring, more than a million gorgeous purple blossoms drape from the tangled branches of this “Lavender Lady,” as some call it.
The seeds originally came from China, and two homeowners planted it in 1894 to celebrate their new house. The wistaria plant eventually grew so large it destroyed the home it was planted to honor. The vines now occupy a staggering one-acre stretch of space on the property.
Take note that the Wistaria Festival is the only day in a year that you can view the Sierra Madre Wistaria vine, since it’s on private property along Sierra Madre Blvd. The Festival wasn’t held in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
When you visit, you can send a greeting card with the official Wistaria postmark, visit local shops and more than 100 crafters and food vendors, and view the Sierra Madre Auto Show and the Packard Auto Show.
The organizers have also set up a shuttle tour of historic Sierra Madre landmarks for you to see. All local restaurants will be open, and musical performances are available throughout the day. Some of the musicians lined up include Zen and Trio, harpist Ron Longo, Gem City JazzCats, Kids Rock “Surge,” and Lonny Sotelo and Ocho-X.
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From Day to Night: Transitioning Your Eyewear for Different Looks
Eyewear has become far more than just a vision correction tool in recent years. It has transformed into a fashionable accessory that can effortlessly elevate any look. Whether you wear glasses or sunglasses, transitioning your eyewear from day to night can easily change your entire aesthetic. Let’s explore some tips and tricks to seamlessly transition your eyewear for different looks.
1. The Versatile Frame Styles:
Finding the perfect frame style that suits both day and night looks is crucial for a seamless transition. Opt for classic frames with a timeless appeal that can effortlessly elevate any outfit. Here are two popular frame styles that can adapt to various styles:
a) Cat Eye Frames: Cat eye frames have been a fashion favorite for years. They exude a classic, sassy, and feminine vibe that works well from day to night. During the day, pair them with casual attire like jeans and a t-shirt for a stylish yet effortless look. For a night out, dress them up with a little black dress or a sophisticated pantsuit for a touch of elegance.
b) Wayfarer Frames: Wayfarer frames are a go-to choice for both men and women. They have a unique and versatile design that can complement any outfit. For a daytime look, pair them with a casual outfit like a denim jacket and chinos for a trendy street-style appearance. Transitioning to the night, combine them with a tailored blazer and dress pants for a refined and polished appearance.
2. Switching Lenses: Sunglasses for Day, Clear Lenses for Night:
One simple way to transition your eyewear is by switching lenses. During the day, sunglasses protect your eyes from the sun’s rays while adding a stylish flair to your look. When the sun goes down and you are heading for a night out, switch to clear or lightly tinted lenses for a more sophisticated appearance. This subtle change can instantly transform your eyewear, making it suitable for any evening occasion.
3. Accessorize with Eyewear Chains:
Eyewear chains are not only functional but can also add a touch of style to your look, allowing for a seamless transition from day to night. These chains come in a variety of styles, from dainty and elegant to bold and statement-making. During the day, opt for a subtle chain that complements your casual attire. As the sun sets, switch to a chain with a touch of sparkle or a chunky design for a glamorous and eye-catching look.
Convenient and Chic: Transitioning Accessories
Transitioning your eyewear is not just about the frames and lenses but also about the accessories you pair them with. Consider the following key accessories to effortlessly elevate your style from day to night:
– Scarves: During the day, wrap a vibrant, patterned scarf around your neck for a trendy and casual look. As the day turns into night, choose a silk or velvet scarf that adds a touch of elegance and sophistication to your eyewear.
– Statement Earrings: Swap your simple, understated earrings for a pair of bold, statement-making earrings in the evening. These can instantly elevate your look and make it more suitable for formal occasions.
– Lipstick: A simple switch in lipstick color can go a long way in transitioning your eyewear from day to night. During the day, opt for a subtle or natural shade. In the evening, choose a bold or vibrant color that complements your eyewear and adds a touch of glamour to your overall appearance.
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2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
Textbook QuestionConsider the three pedigrees below, all involving a single human trait. Which combination of conditions, if any, can be excluded? dominant and X-linked dominant and autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive and autosomal
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How to set up an employee benefits program in one hour
Health Benefits • April 20, 2022 at 11:35 AM • Written by: Chase Charaba
Taking care of your employees by offering comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits is now more important than ever. That’s because benefits are one of the best ways to improve employee satisfaction and retention.
But what if you don’t have the time to build and manage a benefits package? This article will explain personalized benefits and how to set up your employees’ benefits program in one hour or less.
What is an employee benefits program?
An employee benefits program allows your organization to provide employee benefits such as health or life insurance and retirement plans. These programs can include traditional group health insurance policies, dental and vision insurance, and employee perks.
Offering attractive employee benefits helps your business stand out from your competition in a tight labor market, especially in the wake of the Great Resignation. You can attract and keep the best talent with an employee benefits package.
However, there’s been a shift away from traditional benefits and toward personalized benefits in recent years.
Today, there are five different generations in the workforce, each with unique wants and needs. Traditional employee benefits such as group health insurance don’t allow employees to control their benefits and how they use them.
Personalized benefits empower employees to use their benefits in the best way for them. This is accomplished by allowing your employees to choose the benefits and perks that are most meaningful to them. Usually, this is done by setting aside a monthly allowance to reimburse employees for eligible expenses.
Which personalized employee benefits are available?
Many traditional benefit options are available for organizations of all sizes, including small group health insurance. But, more organizations are finding that personalized benefits better fit their employees’ needs than the traditional choices.
There are many types of personalized benefits available for organizations. This includes offering a health savings account (HSA), a flexible spending account (FSA), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), employee stipends (also called fringe benefits or perks), and transportation benefits, just to name a few.
HRAs enable you to provide your eligible employees with tax-free reimbursements for their individual health insurance premiums and qualifying medical expenses.
Three of the most popular types of HRAs are:
- Qualified small employer HRA (QSEHRA)
- Individual coverage HRA (ICHRA)
- Group coverage HRA (GCHRA), also known as an integrated HRA
QSEHRAs are specifically designed to be a standalone health benefit for small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs), while businesses of all sizes can utilize an ICHRA. Simply set a monthly allowance for your employees and approve their reimbursement requests for eligible expenses.
You can also use a GCHRA to supplement your existing group health insurance policy by reimbursing employees for out-of-pocket medical expenses.
HRAs are great options for organizations looking to offer a health benefit without the costs and complexities of a group health insurance plan.
With a QSEHRA or ICHRA, your employees can purchase the individual health insurance coverage that works best for them. This gives your employees more power over their healthcare so that they can receive personalized care.
Another popular type of personalized benefit is an employee stipend. Employee stipends are taxable benefits often provided to employees through expense reimbursements. They’re sometimes referred to as fringe benefits, employee perks, or lifestyle spending accounts (LSAs).
Employee stipends come with fewer regulations than other types of benefits. However, they are taxable for both the employer and employee.
We’ll dive into a few of the most popular employee stipends in the next section.
Popular employee stipend benefits
There are many employee stipends available for your organization. Some of the most popular employee stipend options are health, wellness, and remote work.
A health stipend allows you to reimburse your employees for their insurance premiums and medical expenses, much like an HRA.
Because stipends are taxable, you can offer your health benefit to employees who receive advance premium tax credits without affecting their eligibility in the program. You can also provide health stipends to more employees, such as international workers, than you can with an HRA.
With a health stipend, your employees can purchase and get reimbursed for their own individual health insurance policy that best fits their needs. Or, they can use their stipend on out-of-pocket medical expenses. The choice is theirs as long as it fits your health stipend benefit design.
Wellness stipends are sometimes confused with health benefits, but they aren’t the same. A wellness stipend, sometimes called a physical activity stipend, reimburses employees for other wellness expenses such as gym memberships or fitness classes.
A wellness stipend doesn't cover health insurance or other medical expenses. Instead, you can reimburse your employees for various activities, programs, and apps that support overall wellness.
Like other personalized benefits, a wellness stipend gives your employees the power to decide how they want to use their benefits. For example, if you provide your employees with a $100 monthly allowance each, they can choose which of your selected expense categories (such as exercise classes or mobile wellness app categories) to get reimbursed in.
If you allow reimbursements in all categories, then your employees can choose to get their gym membership reimbursed, or they could save their monthly allowances to buy their own exercise equipment in a few months.
Offering a wellness stipend as part of your employee wellness program can improve the overall well-being of your employees, boost productivity in the workplace, and reduce employee stress.
Remote work stipend
If you have remote employees, you can offer them a remote work stipend. A remote work stipend reimburses your employees for their work from home expenses.
For example, you can reimburse an employee for their home internet bill. This ensures that they’ll have a stable high-speed internet connection to perform their duties.
How to set up an HRA
Are you interested in offering an HRA to your employees? Setting up an HRA with benefits administration software is easy.
You can create an HRA benefit in just a few steps:
- Design your benefit
- Add your employees to the benefit
- Employees submit proof of incurred expenses
- Review and approve expenses for reimbursement
How to set up your organization's employee stipend benefit
Now that you have an idea of the most popular employee stipend benefits, let’s see how you can easily set up your new employee benefits.
Here are the steps to creating an employee stipend benefit:
- Select a budget
- Choose which benefits and categories you’d like to offer to your employees
- Create eligible employee classes (optional)
- Add your employees to the benefit
- Reimburse employees for their eligible expenses
1. Select a budget
Start by choosing your budget. This will help you decide what monthly allowance you can afford per employee.
It’s alright if you don’t have a large budget for employee benefits. You can still create an impact on a small budget. However, there are a few ways for you to stretch your budget.
Here are a few ways that you can increase your benefits budget:
- Reallocate funds from underutilized or unused employee benefits to the new benefit
- Eliminate any existing employee benefits that your employees don’t use (Hint: this includes in-office perks)
- Offer employee benefits instead of a raise this year
Your benefit isn’t set in stone. You can always start small and increase your monthly allowance or benefits offerings in the future.
2. Choose which benefit and categories you'd like to offer
Employee stipends are fully customizable. You can create a personalized benefits package that’s tailored to you and your employees.
You can choose to offer just one stipend, such as a wellness stipend, or a combination of stipends to cover your employees’ physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
3. Create eligible employee classes
If you want, you can offer your employee stipends to different classes of employees. You can base benefit eligibility on class membership as long as you use job-based criteria such as full-time or part-time. You can’t use a class to discriminate against an individual.
4. Add your employees to the benefit
Now that you’ve created your personalized employee benefit, it’s time to add your people! Once you’ve added everyone to the benefit, let them know. Hold a company meeting or announce your new benefits through email or some other form of official communication.
Ensure your employees know how the employee stipend works and what expenses they can be reimbursed for. Then, let them know how to submit their expenses for reimbursement.
Your employees are now ready to start using their benefits!
5. Reimburse employees for their eligible expenses
Once employees make eligible purchases, they can submit their expenses for reimbursement. You’ll approve or reject the expenses and then reimburse your employees through payroll, check, or cash.
That’s all there is to set up an employee stipend benefit. Keep in mind that you’ll need to ensure that your benefit is compliant with any applicable laws or regulations.
Creating a personalized employee benefits package doesn’t have to be complicated. By following the steps in this article, you’ll be able to create a benefits package that empowers your employees to use their benefits the way they want to.
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Chase Charaba is the content marketing manager at PeopleKeep. He started with the company as a content marketing specialist in early 2022. Chase has written more than 350 blog posts for various companies and personal projects throughout his career. He’s worked for digital marketing agencies, in-house marketing teams, and as the editor for national award-winning high school and college newspapers. He’s also a YouTuber, landscape photographer, and small business owner. | <urn:uuid:a45dce45-f9e7-4726-85b2-5bcbe0848c39> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/setting-up-employee-benefits-program-one-hour | 2024-04-16T04:10:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.949171 | 2,154 |
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How to apply for the Reedsy National Creative Writing Scholarship?
To apply for the Reedsy National Creative Writing Scholarship, you need to follow these steps:
• Step 1: Write your chapter. You must write an original and compelling chapter on any genre or category you choose. You need to follow the word limit, format, and style guidelines given by Reedsy. You can find more details on the official website or the application guidelines.
• Step 2: Submit your chapter. You need to submit your chapter online through [the UM portal]. You need to follow the instructions and deadlines given by Reedsy.
Why should you apply for the Reedsy National Creative Writing Scholarship?
The Reedsy National Creative Writing Scholarship is not only a great way to fund your education but also a great way to launch your writing career. By applying for the scholarship, you can:
• Showcase your writing skills and talent to a large audience of readers and professionals in the book publishing industry.
• Receive feedback and guidance from Reedsy’s experts and authors on improving your writing and publishing skills.
• Access Reedsy’s tools and resources for creating and publishing high-quality books.
• Network with other writers and novelists who share your interests and goals.
• Contribute to the development of the literary landscape with your unique voice and vision.
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R cells had been regulated by circulating exosomes the therapeutic possible of targeting exosomes by inhibiting immune evasion Aasa Shimizua, Kenjiro Sawadab, Masaki Kobayashib, Mayuko Miyamotob and Tadashi KimurabaOF20.The influence of in vitro NTB-A Proteins Purity & Documentation ageing around the release of extracellular vesicles from human mesenchymal stem cells Xiaoqin Wanga, Jincy Philipa, Forugh Vazirisanib, Chrysoula Tsirigotia, Peter Thomsenb and Karin Ekstr aa Department of Biomaterials, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gastrin Proteins Recombinant Proteins Gothenburg, Gothenburg, USA; bDepartment of Biomaterials, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenOsaka University, Sjuita, Japan; bOsaka University, Suita, JapanIntroduction: CD47, a “don’t eat me” signal, is overexpressed around the surface of several tumours to permits tumour immune evasion. Nevertheless, the function and regulation of CD47 in higher grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) remains undetermined. CD47 is known to become present on exosomes. Herein, we tested the following hypothesis that CD47 present on exosomes mediates immune evasion of cancer cells from macrophages. Approaches: Prognostic significances of CD47 expression in HGSOCs were examined applying a public database including 1656 HGSOC patients (Kaplan-Meier Plotter; http:// kmplot.com/analysis) and validated with 80 HGSCOs treated at Osaka University Hospital between 2013 and 2017. CD47 expression in exosomes derived from a number of HGSOC cell lines have been examined by western blot. The impact of exosomal CD47 in HGSOCs was examined by inhibiting exosome secretion with GW4869, or by inhibiting exosome uptake with E1PA. Additional, the co-culture experiments of HGSOCs with THP-1-derived macrophage had been performed along with the impact of exosomal CD47 on phagocytosis was analysed. Results: High CD-47 expression was correlated with poor prognoses of HGSOC patients compared with low CD-47 expression (19.0 months vs. 23.six months in general survival (OS)). Exosomes derived from SKOV3ip1, OVCAR3 and A2780 cell lines showed sturdy CD47 expression. TheIntroduction: Ageing increases the danger of bone degenerative diseases, that are partially caused by ageingrelated modifications in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Each in vitro ageing (reflected by the passage number in culture) and ageing (donor age) reflect a loss of regenerative capacity in terms of the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of MSCs. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted from MSCs happen to be shown to exert therapeutic effects that contribute for the regeneration of numerous tissues, but there is certainly scarce facts on whether or not ageing, especially in vitro ageing, influences the release of EVs by MSCs. Approaches: An in vitro ageing model in which low- and high-passage cells (LP and HP MSCs, respectively) represent “young” and “aged” cells, respectively, was utilized. Both LP and HP EVs have been characterized by NTA and WB. The EV protein contents were additional explored plus the functions of LP and HP EVs on the survival and proliferation of MSCs have been investigated. Results: The Results showed that in vitro ageing retained the phenotypic signature of MSCs but resulted in morphological modifications and decreases in the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation capacity with the cells. Both LP and HP MSCs secreted EVs with equivalent traits when it comes to size and common exosomalJOURNAL OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLESprotein markers, but HP MSCs secreted extra EVs than LP MSCs. The global proteome. | <urn:uuid:39fe31e3-009b-41f7-a8e1-2b20305366f5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.piminhibitor.com/index.php/2022/11/09/66299/ | 2024-04-16T04:46:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.92248 | 893 |
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We offer building blocks that do the financial transaction processing in your online multi-vendor marketplace system, from authorisation to settlement. You just need to integrate our cloud-based platform with your front-end applications using our APIs.
What do you mean by “sellers management”?Our platform manages both buyers’ and sellers’ sides of the payments in a marketplace, including sellers’ settlement schedules. Not only that, it can work in a multi-country, multi-currency environment. | <urn:uuid:78588a20-92f3-44a7-8869-c9302d5f12ae> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.pismo.io/merchants-and-marketplaces/ | 2024-04-16T06:03:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.917165 | 214 |
The sunflowers are unmistakable symbol of summer. This large flower blooms when facing the sky and gives off a dazzling sensation.
Actually, the sunflower is a member of the Asteraceae family. The country of origin is in the North American state of California and is said to have been introduced to Japan during the early Edo period. However, because parts of the plant differs from Japan’s chrysanthemum in terms of height and overall shape, the first Japanese to have gazed at a sunflower must have been taken aback. Due to the plant’s original cultivation process, you can see a variety of sunflower types in Japan these days. Between a sunflower larger than yourself or the palm of your hand: which do you prefer?
We hope you can enjoy summer’s symbol, the sunflower, in these illustrations!
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Through their collaborative album "Seven Prayers Of Love," acclaimed inspirational artist Mimi Novic and virtuosic violinist Edmond Fokker van Crayestein invite listeners on a transformative journey of love, hope, and healing. Mimi Novic and Edmond Fokker: A Harmonious Journey of Love and Healing in "Seven Prayers Of Love"
"Natural Law" arrives at a pivotal moment in time, offering a timely reflection on the pressing issues of our era, from environmental concerns to societal upheavals. Mizz Martinez Unveils Captivating Album "Natural Law" - A Journey of Empowerment and Freedom
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Comprising 12 captivating tracks, this new release showcases the band's renewed energy while staying true to the unique vibe that sets them apart. Extra Time Releases Riveting Album "Songs with Long Titles" - A Classic Rock Journey
"Masks" is a brilliant addition to The Antenna Tribe's discography, enriching their sound by pushing the boundaries of their artistic horizons. The Antenna Tribe Unveils Captivating New Single "Masks" Featuring Talented Okafuwa
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"Sail to the Sea" offers a captivating blend of alternative rock infused with elements of British pop, showcasing the band's diverse musical influences and unique sound. NAUTICA Sets Sail with Excellent Debut EP "Sail to the Sea" - Exclusive Review!
With the arrival of "An Analog Man In A Digital World," Hagardorn delivers a tour de force of musical excellence. The album's ten tracks offer a mesmerizing blend of indie pop sensibilities, elaborate arrangements, and poignant storytelling. Kurt Hagardorn Crafting Musical Excellence in "An Analog Man In A Digital World" Album - Exclusive Review!
High Magnolia, the talented rapper hailing from Kansas, is gearing up to unleash his latest musical endeavor upon the world. Scheduled for release on February 28th, 2024, his new album "ESTDO" promises to be a tour de force in the panorama of Trap music. High Magnolia's Highly Anticipated Album Out February 28th! - Exclusive Review!
San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Greg Hoy is back with his latest musical offering, the album "Yay for Effort." With a rich musical history and a slew of acclaimed collaborations under his belt, Hoy's newest release is a great addition to his brilliant discography. Talented Artist Greg Hoy Unveils Captivating New Album "Yay for Effort" - Exclusive Review | <urn:uuid:01f46548-30e6-4a7d-b703-75b7e3779305> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.planetsinger.net/category/independents-reviews/page/4/ | 2024-04-16T03:57:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.886415 | 621 |
The City of Regina has extended its Community Safety and Well-being survey from March 31st until April 16th.
With that the City is launching a new online activity to learn about spaces residents find safe and good for their well being.
The survey explores current perceptions of community safety and well-being as part of a collective approach to issues such as poverty and inequality , along with the development and growth of of services for those battling mental illness, addictions issues and homelessness.
In a news release the City says visit their website to complete the survey or participate in the ‘Places I love Activity”
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