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Looking to enter the exciting and profitable field of sports business? Look no further! This comprehensive list of 46 profitable sports business ideas is perfect for sports enthusiasts and provides an excellent starting point. Whether you’re an experienced entrepreneur or just starting out, there’s bound to be an idea here that’s perfect for you. So let’s dive in! Why Start a Sports Business? Starting a sports-related business offers several benefits and opportunities. Here are four compelling reasons why you should consider launching your own sports business: 1. Be your own boss: Enjoy the freedom and flexibility of setting your own schedule and deciding what products or services to offer. 2. Lucrative industry: The sports industry is a multi-billion dollar market that offers ample opportunities for financial success. 3. Promote health and wellness: Help others lead healthier lives by offering products or services that encourage physical activity. 4. Follow your passion: If you’re passionate about sports, starting a sports business is an excellent way to turn your love for the game into a profitable venture. The Sports Industry in 2022 The global sports industry is set to continue its growth in 2022, with projected worth reaching approximately $181.47 billion by the year’s end and as much as $272 billion by 2026. The industry’s expansion will be fueled by emerging technologies and new revenue streams. 46 Amazing Sports-Related Business Ideas Sports play a significant role in our culture, providing numerous business opportunities related to the industry. Here is a list of 46 exceptional sports business ideas to inspire you: 1. Sports Club: Start your own sports club and offer memberships to people of all ages and skill levels. 2. Sports Radio Station: Launch a sports radio station and provide sports commentary, news, and athlete interviews. 3. Sports Consulting Business: Offer your expertise as a sports consultant to athletes, coaches, and teams. 4. Online Sports Shop: Sell sports equipment, apparel, and accessories through an online shop. 5. Sports Betting Business: Provide betting services for fans of various sports or specialize in a specific niche. 6. Sports Magazine: Create a sports magazine that generates revenue through advertising, subscriptions, and sales. 7. Sports Blogger: Monetize a sports blog through advertising and paid subscriptions. 8. Sports Camp: Organize sports camps with a wide range of activities for all ages and skill levels. 9. Sports Copywriting Business: Offer copywriting services to businesses in the sports industry. 10. Sports Equipment Store: Sell a comprehensive range of sports equipment, from balls to bats to shoes. And many more! This list covers a range of sports-related business ideas, including sports photography, event planning, personal training, and sports marketing. By starting a sports business, you not only have the opportunity to tap into a lucrative market but also contribute to the sports industry and help others pursue their passion. So, choose an idea that resonates with you and embark on your journey to success in the world of sports business!
Cuckfield ROC Post Museum Open Days 2017 Fancy coming and seeing a fully restored Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post? Well come down on one of our open days this year and learn about the vast difference between the WW2 and Cold War role of the ROC. No need to book, but it can get busy waiting to get into the underground post so bring a picnic and browse the surface displays! Bank Holiday Monday 29th May 11am to 5pm Saturday 15th July 11am to 5pm (Festival of British Archaeology) Sunday 16th July 10am to 2pm (Festival of British Archaeology) Sunday 6th August 11am to 5pm Subject to weather conditions, we reserve right to refuse entry.
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Trick or Treat Studios have revealed the latest in their impressive range of Star Trek costume masks, the Mugato. Sculpted by special effects make-up artist Chris Gallaher, the mask promises to be a "perfect replica of the mask worn by Mugatu in the original Star Trek episode A Private Little War". That includes a massive horn, and a lot of white fur. Check it out: The mask is currently up for pre-order from Trick or Treat, and per their previous releases it should arrive in time for Halloween this year (September is the current shipping estimate) - Plenty of time to build yourself a white furry suit with spikes down the spine! The Mugato is the latest, and with that horn probably the largest, in a Star Trek range Trick or Treat have been developing over the last few years. Previously we've had Balok, Gorn, Kirk and Spock. Who could be next? I think a Salt Vampire would be impressive!
I just had a talk with my 17-year-old son. He’s curiously learning the ways of the world and waking up to some of its realities. He’s questioning many things, as do many of his peers, which is brilliant. In their history class the other day, the topic was the Aztecs, Incas, and Native Americans and how they were persecuted by European settlers back in the day. He was profoundly affected by it. He couldn’t believe or understand the level of brutality that us human beings have inside. My son, bless his soul, felt the need to talk about it with someone. He couldn’t find a place for all that murder and torture, the human darkness, anywhere in his mind. Although I know a few things about human darkness, I choose to avoid it whenever possible. I prefer to focus on the good, such as the compassion and potential for good deeds that everyone has inside. Still, our talk made me think once again about that darkness and violence, of the hurt we human beings can inflict. Besides I was wondering how to respond to him and how I could make him understand the balance of good and evil in this world. Should I talk about the darkness in him and all of us human beings? All I could think of was to steer him toward the good, because although there is brutality, there is also compassion and good. We all have the potential for good inside, and it’s just a matter of choice. You can affect the world and the whole of humanity through peaceful, compassionate acts. I just wanted to encourage a young soul about the nature of humanity, to restore his faith in people, and to show him that there is hope every time a person does a good deed or has a good thought. Still, we all get to see in our daily lives the violence and hurt inside each other. Now and again, we get to meet our own hurt and see how it has the potential to turn into violence if we let it. A question then came to my mind: Is it really that difficult to rise above all the events, thoughts, and feelings and become more conscious of focusing on the good and finding the compassion inside to unite everyone and everything? Why is it so difficult? These are naive thoughts perhaps. I have always been an optimist, though, and I genuinely believe that the more people connect with the Source, with their essence and the Creator, the more hope there will be for unity. And as we unite, we will go beyond all the limits, restrictions, ideologies, and the hurt within, leading us to create a world without borders but filled with love, one where everyone is united in peace. This has already started. Do not assume that whomever you see before you is separate from you. He or she is just a reflection of Creation, just like yourself. Others are a mirror to you, like you are to them, sharing similar hurts even if we have different minds. We are all One, and there’s always a reason why we encounter a particular person. There is always a teacher, a mentor, a student, a disciple, something to learn, something to teach, or some sort of interchange with whomever you encounter. It’s not easy, I know, but it’s doable, and the more we practice, the better we get at it. The more we have the courage to look into our own hurt and heal our wounds, the more the door opens and lets the light in to caress us and fill us with love. So, let’s put our guard down and embrace it all, all that we have inside. Open up all the love we have in the hope of a united existence and a realm filled with life and love…
The Top 3 Must-Have Brands For 2021, According To The RealReal These will also be your investment pieces. Your first instinct to discover what products are trending for the season might be to scour the runways or the new arrivals sections of your favorite retailers. However another less obvious, but genius, method of investigation is to look at the resale market for clues on what's popular. By analyzing shoppers' behaviors, such as their spending habits throughout the year, luxury consignment retailers like The RealReal are able to determine important data like the top three must-have brands for 2021 and what nostalgic trends will make a comeback. Here, The RealReal shares with TZR its discoveries, so you, too, will know what to invest in for the season. According to The RealReal's 2021 Consignment Report, the number one most-searched brand on its platform in 2021, thus far, is — drum roll, please — Gucci. Head of Women's at The RealReal Sasha Skoda confirmed that Gucci's prominence has been consistent over the past five years, with its name picking up even more steam in the past two years. "After Alessandro Michele joined Gucci as Creative Director in 2015 ... we saw average resale value [to the label] increase by 1.7x," she tells TZR over email. Six years later, the brand's reign continues, which Skoda attributes to Michele's "fresh perspective and bold maximalism." The designer is famously unafraid to take risks in the luxury industry, like separating from the fashion calendar just last spring in pursuit of a slower, more intuitive creative process. Since then, Gucci has released a star-studded film, entitled OUVERTURE of Something that Never Ended, as well as a coveted collaboration with North Face. To Skoda, Gucci offers "pieces that allow [wearers] to curate unique and personal style, versus looking like everyone else." Coming up quickly on the heels of Gucci are two other familiar luxury names such as Louis Vuitton and Chanel, which took the number-three slot in being a must-have brand for 2021. From Skoda's view, these brands have two things in common: "timeless appeal and classic style," she says. "These are items consumers feel confident investing in, because they will never go out of style, and in many cases are actually increasing in value over time." Explore each of the aforementioned brand's top products that keep on giving as the years go by, ahead. We only include products that have been independently selected by The Zoe Report's editorial team. However, we may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Products With The Greatest Resale Value Growth At The RealReal One way The RealReal can tell what is popular with shoppers in real time is by using the metric it calls the Greatest Resale Value Growth MVPs, meaning the brands that saw an increased return on investment from one year to the next. For example, a particular handbag can be worth 50 percent more today than it had at this time last year. This suggests two things: First, these pieces feature design codes that align with today's trends. Second, they're also styles that shoppers feel comfortable investing more in, due to their staying power over time. Net net: they're equal parts on-trend and timeless. Take, for instance, shoulder bags. After first making the rounds in the '90s and early-'00s, the envelope-shaped purses are seeing a resurgence in 2021. Both Gucci's Horsebit Clutch, Chanel's Precious Symbols Pochette, Louis Vuitton's Multicolore Pochette bag and its Recital bag snuck into this category. Savvy shoppers are more than aware that history repeats itself — in which case, the bag silhouette will keep coming into fashion over the years and remains a smart investment. Cat-eye sunglasses from Gucci and Chanel were also amongst the styles with the greatest resale value growth, wielding the same "in vogue over time" factor as the shoulder purse. Scroll through to shop the products from Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel with the greatest resale value growth. Products With The Highest Average Resale Value At The RealReal Another way The RealReal measures what products are resonating with shoppers is by putting items into a highest average resale value category aka those capital-T timeless styles that have held onto their top-dollar statuses over the years. For those who might have expected Chanel's iconic flap bag to be the number-one item on people's wishlist list, think again. The label's footwear is actually dominating in resale value, with its Birkenstock-worthy velcro sandals currently at 101 percent of their original price. "These two examples are currently cult favorites that are in super high demand," says Skoda. "Of-the-moment trends tend to drive a frenzy amongst consumers, which can drive large spikes in resale value." Meanwhile, Louis Vuitton's monogrammed Recital bag is at a whopping 186 percent of its original retail value. Louis Vuitton's top products for The RealReal's highest average resale value and the greatest resale value growth categories were the exact same, perhaps signifying a doubling-down in their impetus. At Gucci, the Leather Double G belt resells for 98 percent of its value when purchased from the brand's website. Skoda personally vouches for this piece, too, telling TZR, "The Gucci leather double G belt ... is such a classic and can be worn in so many ways. I would dress it down with a pair of high-waist denim, a vintage tee, and pair of classic loafers. You could also dress it up cinched around a sleek sweater dress and knee-high boots," she adds. Below, shop the products from Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel with the highest average resale value. This article was originally published on
Pullbacks, Corrections, and Bear Markets When the market drops, some investors lose perspective that downtrends and uptrends are part of the investing cycle. When stock prices break lower, it's a good time to review common terms that are used to describe the market's downward momentum. A pullback represents the mildest form of a selloff in the markets. You might hear an investor or trader refer to a dip of 5-10% after a peak as a "pullback."1 The next degree in severity is a "correction." If a market or markets retreat 10% to 20% after a peak, you're in correction territory. At this point, you're likely on guard for the next tier.2 In a bear market, the decline is 20% or more since the last peak.2 All of this is normal. "Pullbacks, corrections, and bear markets are a part of the investing cycle." When stock prices are trending lower, some investors can second-guess their risk tolerance. But periods of market volatility can be the worst times to consider portfolio decisions. Pullbacks and corrections are relatively common and represent something that any investor may see from time to time in their financial life, often several times over the course of a decade. Bear markets are much rarer. In fact, between April 1947 and April 2022, there have only been 14 bear markets.3 A retirement strategy formed with a financial professional has market volatility factored in. As you continue your relationship with that professional, they will also be at your side to make any adjustments and help you make any necessary decisions along the way. Their goal is to help you pursue your goals. 1. TheBalanceMoney.com, April 30, 2022 2. Forbes.com, September 23, 2022 3. Investopedia.com, September 23, 2022 The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The information in this material is not intended as tax or legal advice. It may not be used for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation. This material was developed and produced by FMG Suite to provide information on a topic that may be of interest. FMG, LLC, is not affiliated with the named broker-dealer, state- or SEC-registered investment advisory firm. The opinions expressed and material provided are for general information, and should not be considered a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. Copyright FMG Suite.
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Mon 1 Jan 0001 - Tue 12 Mar 2024, Crown Inn Where applicable, advertised ticket prices are inclusive of a venue levy, retained by the venue to maintain our programme of arts and entertainment. Comedy & Curry £12 / Comedy only £7 If you'd like a curry with your comedy you must book by 4pm on Friday 8 March Al is a dazzling performer who has entertained audiences all over the world! From sharing the stage at the LG Arena with Lenny Henry and Alan Carr, performing at Pier 39 in San Francisco, playing the biggest comedy club in New York The Broadway Comedy Club in the heart of Times Square, to gigging at the Mecca of entertainment in the legendary AJ's Club in Las Vegas! The amazing world of Al Rudge is a fantastic experience, and we're very lucky to be bringing him to Telford!
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Have you ever exposed a well-kept piece of information, whether intentionally or unintentionally? Here, people share the wildest secret they’ve ever exposed. 1. Guess what?! When I was young, I had a friend who lived down the street. She had a trampoline and I didn’t, so naturally we spent a lot of time together. I also had a cousin who was a year younger than us, whom I saw quite often. Someone decided it was a good idea (or possibly just forgot I was there) to mention the fact that my cousin was adopted while in front of me. That’s a pretty big secret in itself, but it also turned out that my friend from down the street was adopted… from the same birth mother as my cousin. My friend and my cousin were super secret brother and sister and I was a 9-year-old with this information. How exciting! Who wouldn’t want to know they had a secret brother or sister? So I called them to the tree house on the schoolyard during recess once and spilled the beans. My family hasn’t told me a secret since. I was training at a pizza place as part-time help many years ago. My manager was explaining the register procedures to me and everything sounded a little weird. You could mark just about any inventory as a baking mistake. So I asked them how they stopped people from just taking cash transactions and marking off the inventory. He had never thought about it. Two weeks later he had the assistant manager arrested for stealing. I didn’t work there for long after that, it was a bit awkward. 3. Watch the world burn. A couple years ago when I was still in high school, some kids I knew started an “anonymous confessions page” for our school on Twitter where people could Direct Message the account and the page would post it anonymously. Being that we were all still young and naive at the time, naturally the page got tons of submissions almost immediately. It started off innocently enough, things like ‘I have a crush on X’ or ‘I think Y is cute,’ but as the page gained in popularity the confessions became more and more profane. Eventually, the confessions got to a point where people were submitting very personal secrets about their friends like ‘X cheated on Y with Z’ as well as some graphic sexual fantasies. After a few weeks, the page gained notoriety and everyone was keeping up to date with the latest confessions (continued). Anyways, at this point the kids who were running the page decided that they wanted nothing more than to see the world burn. They took screenshots of every submission with the person that submitted it, and on a dark Sunday evening, posted every single screenshot on the page for everyone to see. In an instant, best friends became enemies, longtime couples were broken up, and perverts were outed. In a way, I like to think that these kids were chess masters, slowly moving pawns until finally exposing the fake and superficial nature of high schoolers in a cold and calculated move. School was pretty tense the next day. I knew two people who were first cousins and married to each other. I offhandedly made a remark about it, and found out that was suppose to be a secret. 5. My husband is the grandson of a former Russian dictator – enjoy the cake! One time my mom went to her friend’s wedding and the bride took her aside and revealed that the groom was the grandson of Stalin. 6. Stuck to his word. In Kindergarten, my best friend told me he knew where his dad’s gun was and wanted to bring it to school to show me and our other friends. I told him not to, and that I would tell the teacher if he did. About a week later, at recess, he pulled out the gun. So I went and told the teacher. But being the 90s, he only got suspended and a stern talking to by the police. 7. He’s an imposter! I was hanging out with a childhood friend of mine and my brother. His mom tells us to go to his brother’s film final presentation (all film students make a short 10 minute film to be graded by the audience, staff, teacher, and fellow students) so we go. What we didn’t know was at his college he had a persona of an immigrant working hard to make it in the US…in reality he was born in NY. When they (his friends) meet his (the guy pretending’s) family they ask who we are and we tell them. They ask why don’t we have accents (friends and brother) and we say we’ve all lived here since birth. We hear the next day we completely messed up his social circle and he’s been blacklisted by the Colombian clique at school. Not very exciting but it was the biggest one I uncovered. 8. Don’t mess with grandma. A few years ago I was cleaning out our attic. My house was my grandparents’ house so there was a lot of very old paper work. I was curious so I was combing through all of it. In one box I found divorce papers from 1952 with my grandmother’s name and some unknown mans name. I showed them to my mother and she told me that my grandmother was married for two years before my grandfather. This may not sound very shocking, but the story of why they got the divorce was eye-opening (continued). Turns out grandmother married the guy right after college and moved to Detroit. There he turned very abusive. She couldn’t get a divorce because he wouldn’t allow her to get one. Turns out it was hard for women to get a divorce if the husband didn’t want it. So she had to convince him to get a divorce. So she shot him in the butt with her gun and moved back here to Tennessee. He mailed her the papers. No one but my mother knew this. So now I have an interesting story for my grandmothers old gun. 9. Mom, who’s “David”? We were at a pool party and one of the girls was lying on a sun lounge by the pool. I picked the sun lounge up by one end and was about to throw her in the pool but then thought I should ask so as not to be a jerk. She said it was fine so into the pool she went. Unfortunately she had forgotten her phone was in her pocket so it was drowned at the bottom of the pool. She borrowed her mum’s old phone to use as a replacement, and noticed her mum hadn’t erased all the texts in her inbox. She saw one from a name she didn’t recognize and opened it – it was her mum’s boyfriend. She had been cheating on my friend’s dad for years with this guy and my friend brought it up, it all came out and they got divorced. 10. Pay up. My jerk boss owing over half a million to the IRS. A lot of us immediately jumped ship. My new job is in the same building and I had the pleasure of witnessing the FTB raid his office in full riot gear. Haven’t seen his doors open since. 11. Yikes, that must be tough. I have managed to expose that my mum has been cheating on my dad…on 3 different occasions… 12. I was going to tell you… Went to my cousin’s wedding and I got stuck at the miscellaneous table with a bunch of random people. Anyway, I was bored and I started talking to the bride’s BBF since she was the only person close to my age. She really liked to talk. After a few dances and the cutting of the cake, she was pretty tipsy and let it slip that even though the bride was marrying my cousin, she was still very much in love with her ex, the real love of her life (continued). Turns out just weeks before, the bride took a trip to see her ex and begged him to take her back. The dude said no but only after a few days of illicit sex. She had made a deal with herself that if he said no she would marry my poor sap of a cousin. The BFF keep on going on about how she really missed her ex and how much trouble my cousin had with erections in the bedroom. I was being told this while watching my cousin and his bride playing some silly wedding game. Now, they have one child and seem to be happy. I debated telling my cousin at one point but then he came by the table and started to make fun of my job, my house and even my suit. It was a nice suit. What the hell I drove three hours to get there. 13. He did the right thing. My best friend had a girlfriend. She was a really nice girl, loyal too. My best friend was cheating on her. He would send me texts with different girls he hooked up with in the club. He used to think he was so cool. Well I showed his girlfriend, because she really didn’t deserve that. 14. What’s up, bro? Found out my dad had a kid with his ex wife, that he abandoned and instructed never to contact him again. This was years before he met my mum. Got a Facebook message in 2009 saying basically : Hi I think we have the same dad. 15. When in doubt, tell the truth. I knew this one girl who lied about having thyroid cancer in order to get her friends to come back to her. She told me details that weren’t biologically correct and claimed that she got shots every month to stop the cancer and that the shots would stop working after she turns 20 and she would die. Since I was studying biology at the time, I knew that what she was saying wasn’t even correct and called her out on it. She ended up changing her story and claimed she got the shot when she was 7 in Sri Lanka. Most of her friends didn’t realize she was lying until I pointed out all the wrong facts. I honestly don’t feel bad that she doesn’t have anyone else left because cancer is not something you lie about. 16. Unexpectedly complicated. When I was 16, my parents and I were in the process of moving to another state. My parents would go to the state we were moving to every month to look for houses. During one of their trips, it was supposed to be just me and my step brother at home for 4 days. Shortly after they left, my step brother tells me he’s going on a trip for two of those days to go visit a “friend. The thing about him was, he had no friends. He was home schooled and kinda of a jerk, with no social skills. It didn’t really bug me though – two days home alone when you’re a 16-year-old punk seemed awesome (continued). When he comes home, I decided to figure out what he did. He said it was a romantic trip. After a while, I finally got it out of him. He met another man on adult friend finder, and had a “wild weekend”. After a while, he would go on trips every weekend, and wouldn’t tell my parents anything. Finally, my mom is begging me to tell her if I knew anything, and I caved. I had to tell my parents that my step brother was gay. They are very liberal and accepting people, but this is when it gets wacky. My step brother’s lover was a 50-year-old police detective, who was married to another man. He had no hesitation on telling them that he was in love, and they didn’t use protection. It made for an interesting summer. 17. The truth comes out. One of my friends (A) was staying at another friends of mine’s(B) house. During the night, B’s boyfriend got up and snuck into A’s room she was staying in. They had sex all night. He then snuck back in to B’s bed and they both acted like nothing happened. A told me thinking she was so great that B’s boyfriend couldn’t resist her and she was so much better than B. I was disgusted and told B. 18. The only downfall of being ahead. I was in kindergarten. Most kids there couldn’t read, or didn’t bother to read, but I read everything that came into my sight because letters were fun. One day, a real live Santa was going to come and give us presents. I didn’t really believe in him by then any more, but whatever. So there was this big, beautiful noticeboard in the changing room full of writing. I would often read everything posted on it (continued). So, on this particular day, I went to read it through, and something caught my eye. Read it again to make sure, and after I was really sure, I marched into the playroom and announced it to the whole group: Lisa’s father is gonna be Santa Claus! Most kids started crying, all the teachers got pissed. They thought my parents told me so as they came for me the teachers all went off on my parents. In turn they got a lecture about how they shouldn’t leave sensitive information on the noticeboard when they know I can and do read. 19. Good try, cuz. I had a cousin who got arrested for embezzlement but told the family she went away for 2 years to go to nursing school. I didn’t know exactly what happened, but I knew the nursing school thing was BS. I was able to find the court docket online and showed it to an aunt who was thoroughly convinced that the cousin had told the truth. When my sister was 19, almost 6 years ago now, she met a guy online and fell in love. Surprisingly, we lived pretty close to him. We loved to sit in her room and gossip about him and trade off the keyboard to say things to him and make him confused. He seemed pretty funny online, and my sister decided to finally meet up with him at a park. Everything went great! So great in fact, my parents decided to take advantage of my sister’s great mood and go out to eat Mexican food. We are all laughing and talking about the date, but I’m feeling a bit left out of the conversation since I’m the youngest, so I blurt out, “It’s so crazy how easily you met him online!” Apparently my sister told my parents she met him through a mutual friend since my parents were a bit helicopter-y and thought everyone online was a middle-aged predator. RIP my sisters relationship, 2010-2011. 21. You didn’t go unnoticed, buddy. I exposed a coworker who had, over the course of several months, stolen a few thousand dollars from the store we worked at. 22. He owes them big time. Married my high school sweetheart. Didn’t last long. Divorced due to him cheating. He was in the military at the time. Fast-forward 4 years later when I enlist in the military. When wrapping up my paperwork to ship to basic, they ask me if my last name is “Smith.” I tell them it hasn’t been that in 4 years since I divorced my ex. Turns out he never reported to the military. He divorced and collected BAH (extra pay for being married and having a dependent) on me for 4 years. They reported it and he owes backpay of over $24,000 to the government. 23. Thank goodness. The nurse who was physically harming our geriatric patients. I put in a report, there was an investigation and now she can never work in any type of “patient care” position again! 24. Always ask questions. I live in a townhouse condo complex and have for the past several years. My husband is the owner on title and as (bad) owners we never showed up to the annual general meetings. The first time we went, I was nominated and elected to the board. From there I began questioning odd decisions and where money was going (continued). Turns out the president of the board was dating the maintenance man (who used to be on the board and helped arrange his own $1000/month contract) and they stole and spent money how they wanted without board approval, lied about how decisions were made, lied about work he did, used condo money for their own benefit and tried to make me look stupid for asking so many questions. After a couple months of this the maintenance contract (which had expired) was not renewed and the president resigned. Now it’s looking like I’ll be taking over as president in July to try to clean up their messes and instil trust in the board again. 25. That escalated quickly. I was really into this cute manager at the pool where I worked. After telling my friends at a sleepover, they both revealed at the same time that they had hooked up with him previously, to the surprise of all of us. After talking to more people at the pool, it was discovered that the manager was hooking up and sleeping with not just my two friends, but a number of girls at the facility. This wouldn’t be a problem except he was hooking up with his employees in the storage area at the pool WHILE ON DUTY and, as it was a pool, most of the girls employed were ages 16-20. Fast-forward a bit, upper management found out, and an interview from the human resources later, I found out he was fired and banned from the pool deck. Not sure if he got in more trouble, but from what I’ve heard he now works again as a lifeguard for another pool.
5 Red Flags in Canadian Streetwear You Should Look Out For Streetwear has become a global fashion phenomenon, and Canada has its fair share of streetwear brands that are making waves in the industry. However, not all Canadian streetwear brands are created equal, and as a savvy consumer, it's important to be aware of red flags that may indicate potential issues with a brand's products or practices. Here are 5 red flags in Canadian streetwear that you should look out for. Poor Quality Materials One of the hallmarks of streetwear is its unique and often edgy designs, but that doesn't mean you should compromise on quality. Keep an eye out for brands that use cheap materials that may not withstand regular wear and tear. If the fabric feels thin or flimsy, or if the stitching is uneven or sloppy, it's a red flag that the brand may not prioritize quality. Lack of Transparency Transparency is crucial when it comes to fashion brands. Look for brands that are open about their sourcing, production, and labor practices. If a brand is unwilling to disclose information about where their products are made, or if they don't provide details about their supply chain, it could be a sign that they are not prioritizing ethical and sustainable practices. Unreasonably Low Prices While everyone loves a good deal, overly low prices should raise suspicion. If a Canadian streetwear brand is selling their products at prices that seem too good to be true, it could be an indicator of poor quality materials or unethical manufacturing practices. Authentic streetwear brands invest in quality materials and craftsmanship , and their prices often reflect that. If the price seems too low, it's worth investigating further. Lack of Originality Streetwear is known for its unique and distinctive designs. If a Canadian streetwear brand's products look generic or heavily imitate other established brands, it may be a red flag that they lack originality and creativity. Authentic streetwear brands strive to create their own unique aesthetic and style, so be cautious of brands that seem to copy or replicate designs from other brands. Negative Reviews or Feedback Before making a purchase from a Canadian streetwear brand, take the time to research customer reviews and feedback. Look for patterns of negative feedback, such as poor customer service, sizing issues, or quality problems. If a brand has a history of negative reviews or feedback, it could be an indication of potential issues with their products or services. In conclusion, as a consumer, it's essential to be vigilant and aware of red flags when it comes to Canadian streetwear brands. Poor quality materials, lack of transparency, unreasonably low prices, lack of originality, and negative reviews or feedback are all red flags that should prompt you to investigate further before making a purchase. By being informed and discerning, you can support authentic and reputable streetwear brands that prioritize quality, sustainability, and originality in their products and practices. Remember, it's not just about the style, but also about the values and ethics behind the brands you choose to support.
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer told the party’s annual conference Tuesday that he’d had “to rip antisemitism out [of the party] by its roots” after assuming leadership, to loud applause from the gathered audience, The Guardian reported. The newspaper said this may have been a reference to former leader Jeremy Corbyn no longer being able to run under Labour, and noted the remarkable shift in the party that led to such a statement being met with enthusiasm and no objections. Labour under Corbyn’s leadership was accused of allowing antisemitism to fester within its ranks, and Corbyn himself was accused of various displays of antisemitism. A UK government investigation into antisemitism in the party in 2020 found that equality laws were broken and the party under Corbyn was “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination.” Labour suspended Corbyn following his response to the damning report. He had said he didn’t accept all of its findings and asserted that “the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.” Since succeeding Corbyn as Labour leader in April 2020, Starmer has sought to reshape the party’s public image by expelling or demoting several of its leading activists and supporters who have either been directly accused of antisemitism or who insisted that Corbyn’s tenure did not lead to a substantive antisemitism controversy. Last year Labour banned four far-left factions as part of an effort to address frustration about the party’s handling of antisemitism. The four factions, known for supporting Corbyn, have been accused of downplaying claims of antisemitism as politically motivated and of condoning inappropriate comments by party members. In his speech in Liverpool Tuesday, Starmer accused the governing Conservatives of losing control of the economy, and promised to take the UK out of an “endless cycle of crisis” if his party regains power after more than a decade. Starmer is seeking to persuade voters — and, crucially, businesses — that his left-of-center party can be trusted with the economy. The new Conservative government of Prime Minister Liz Truss made his campaign easier with one of its first acts. The value of the British pound sank and the cost of UK government borrowing climbed after the government on Friday announced the biggest package of tax cuts in decades without providing a detailed breakdown of how much it would cost. Financial markets reacted with alarm, sending sterling to a record low against the US dollar of 1.0373. It later recovered to about $1.08 but still has lost about one-fifth of its value against the dollar in the past year. “What we’ve seen in the past few days has no precedent,” Starmer said. “The government has lost control of the British economy — and for what? They have crashed the pound, and for what? … For tax cuts for the richest 1 percent in our society.” Labour, one of Britain’s two main parties, has lost four straight elections, most recently a 2019 drubbing that was its worst performance since the 1930s. Britain has had four Conservative prime ministers since Labour was last in power in 2010: David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and now Truss. Starmer is determined to end that run. The 60-year-old former public prosecutor aims to persuade voters that Labour is the “party of the center ground,” not the high-taxing party of urban left-wingers its detractors like to depict. A risky set of Conservative economic policies with the stated goal of boosting economic growth by slashing regulation and cutting taxes for businesses and high-earners has helped Starmer portray Labour as the prudent choice. Opponents say the measures will send inflation, already close to 10%, even higher and worsen a cost-of-living crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Starmer also presented a plan to stimulate the British economy by investing in alternative energy. Vowing to make the UK a “green growth superpower,” he said Labour would set up a publicly owned clean energy company to expand sun, wind and wave power and make Britain’s electricity supply carbon-neutral by 2030. Starmer’s speech was greeted enthusiastically by conference delegates who are in a buoyant mood as opinion polls put Labour ahead of the Tories by as much as 17%. While the UK’s next general election is not due until 2024, Labour’s current popularity has helped Starmer unite his often-fractious party, at least for now. But there is still disquiet among some who want Labour to stick to the policies of nationalization and spending hikes promised by the socialist Corbyn. Others want the party to reverse Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, but Starmer said Labour would “make Brexit work.” He also promised that a Labour government would continue Britain’s membership in NATO and support for Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion.
You’re aware that you should be setting goals to get maximum benefit from Google Analytics, but you’re not quite sure how to go about it. Now’s the time to focus because learning how to use goals effectively can transform your website’s performance. Used correctly, the data supplied by goals can give you a competitive edge. Goals are one of Google Analytics’ most powerful tools. They allow you to measure success in a tangible way, and can show where your site needs to be improved and how well your strategies are performing. Goals are objectives you set for your site, which you ask Google Analytics to measure. A goal can be as simple as how many people visit a specific page, or how many people sign up for a newsletter. You can also set up more complex goals, such as whether people stay on your site for a certain length of time, or visit a minimum number of pages. You can use goals to track the performance of a particular page, app or campaign. Goals of this sort help you figure out if a particular strategy is working, and how well. Have you ever wondered how many visitors were actually signing up for your newsletter, or what percentage of visitors to your site use your contact form? Goals can give you usable numbers, and with those numbers you can make, and measure, improvements. Goals can be easily set up to interact with your ecommerce site, so you can track profits either across your entire store or for a particular page, product or offer. Even if you don’t have an ecommerce store, you can assign a value to each goal and measure profit in this way. Such an approach would suit a business that relies on enquiries rather than a shopping basket, allowing it to estimate the value of an enquiry and use the data to measure potential profit. Goals can be used to measure almost anything on your site, and give you a more in-depth look into how your site works. As you make improvements, goals show how well these are performing. In short, goals are the way you measure the success of your site overall, as well as the performance of individual campaigns. This is definitely one of the more difficult aspect of goals. Setting them up is straightforward, but knowing what you want them to do can be a challenge. Obviously, objectives vary from business to business and depend on strategic needs, so only you can decide what they should be. There are, however, a few basic options that will work for the majority of businesses. It might sound obvious, but the goals you set up should align with your business goals. Think about your website’s goals and use these in setting up your Google Analytics goals. Don’t waste time setting up goals that don’t help you; think about what matters most to you, and do that. The most obvious goals are used to measure conversions. Whether that means people making enquiries, signing up for an email newsletter, downloading an eBook or whichever conversion matters to you – measuring it with goals is a great way to track how well you’re doing. Having concrete numbers assigned to your conversions means you can really track your performance. Conversion rates are a great way of measuring success, and setting up goals gives you an accurate idea of how you’re doing. If your conversions are likely to lead to profit, you can assign them monetary values to estimate how profitable your site is. For example, if one in every 10 enquiries leads to a conversion worth €100, each conversion is worth €10 on average. Google Analytics can be used to track site use and goal completion. Setting ‘time on site’ as a goal lets you measure how many of your visitors are spending a long time browsing, or perhaps getting lost. You can measure how many pages people visit and translate that into a goal: how many people are visiting more than just one page, for instance. Of course, ‘negative’ goals can be set up as well. If you think people should go from landing page to conversion in five minutes or less, set up a goal for anyone who spends more than five minutes on the site. This way you’ll know how often your site is failing. The same is true of number of pages where people shouldn’t need to use more than a few pages to get what they need. High percentages here mean you know something needs to be improved. Once goals have been set up, particularly conversion goals, Google Analytics can show your conversion funnel, which tracks how people get through your site to eventual conversion. This will show you where to focus to improve the conversion path. Similar to conversions, events can track users performing a specific action, such as watching a video or sharing an article on social media. If you want to know how well different elements of your site are working, setting up event-based goals will help you figure out how people are using them. For example, if you post a video at the top of each article, you can see how many people are actually watching it. Obviously there’s nothing stopping you from setting up as many goals as you want. The more data you have the better, so don’t be afraid to track a variety of goals as long as they’re relevant. Goals are created from the Admin area of your Google Analytics account. Go to the Admin tab, and on the far right – under the View area for your website – you’ll find the options for Goals. Depending on how your Analytics has been set up, you’ll have several choices. Google Analytics has built-in templates for specific industries, so if you’re in one of those industries, let Google suggest a goal template for you. If you choose a template, it will pre-fill most of the information for you, which makes it a fast, easy way to set up goals. Smart goals measure the traffic that comes to your site from AdWords, looking at how these users interact and which are most valuable to you. It then uses that data to generate additional goals, which interact with AdWords to improve your PPC campaigns. Custom goals are essential for most people. Choose the type you want from destination, duration, pages/session or event. To measure conversions, use the destination goal to target a ‘success’ page, such as the page people are redirected to on using your contact form. The number of people who land on that page is the number who have converted through one of your goals. To measure site use, choose duration or pages/session, and set up the number you want to assign to the goal. Events require a little more work, and need their own tracking set up before they can be defined as goals. Since event tracking is complex, you may need a developer to help with setup, or you could consult the Google Developers site. Once you have event tracking set up, you can tie a goal to the event. Goals can be tied to specific events, or to a range of events falling under a broader category, such as a visitor watching any video on your site. Once your goals have been set up, allow some time – 24 hours at least – for the data to start rolling in. You’ll find the outcomes in the Reporting Tab, under Conversions. Once you get a handle on goals, you’ll find Google Analytics a key tool in your online marketing arsenal.
We have already looked at a HDR real estate photography tutorial using the Enfuse method of blending brackets. When I first started my business it was one of two options. The other option for blending multiple exposures together was strict HDR software like Photomatix. At the time, Photomatix didn’t have an Enfuse option so the result was over-saturated, overly tone mapped images. I see different variations of HDR photos online for property listings and thought we could go through a couple and look at their strengths and weaknesses. When I first started seeing HDR Real Estate Photography, it was the classic stereotypical HDR. Tone mapped images resulted in over-saturated, cartoon-like photos. Although the result is a bright, artsy photo, it doesn’t give an accurate representation of the property. When buyers go to look at the home in person they’ll be presented with something totally different than what they saw online. The below photos were created in Photomatix. You simply import your bracketed shots and select a tone mapping preset. My recommendation if you use Photomatix for HDR real estate photography is to take advantage of the enfuse settings. You can get a much more realistic result compared to the very colorful versions shown below. Knowing I didn’t want to provide the above examples to my clients, I started using Enfuse with Lightroom. You can watch a full-length video and read all about the process in a previous post here. The end result? Photos similar to the below examples. They look natural and more closely resemble the accurate colors of the property. Buyers won’t be misled by looking at inaccurate photos online. To me, these photos appear more pleasing and are easier to look at. You’ll notice a difference in the kitchen photo especially. In the HDR tone mapped version above, there was a lot of blue and orange present. They were almost competing with each other on each side of the photo. This negative quality disappears in the Enfused version below. HDR Real Estate Photography Tutorial Using Photoshop I owe a shout out to reader Ron Paulk for sharing the following with me. He showed me how you can send bracketed images from Lightroom over into Photoshop. You can then merge them as an HDR within Photoshop. When you bring the HDR image back to Lightroom, it’s a 32-bit file which allows for a lot of editing capabilities. Let’s first take a look at the Enfused version, the process of editing that I show here on the site via the video tutorial: Now for the actual tutorial. (Click on each thumbnail to view a larger version) Select your bracketed shots, right click and go to Edit In->Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop… After the brackets open in Photoshop, check Remove Ghosts, change Mode to 32-Bit and UNcheck “Complete Toning in Adobe Camera Raw, and click OK Return to Lightroom to view the HDR photo Process in Lightroom You can see from my processing in Lightroom that I made quite the drastic change to the photo that came from Photoshop. I made some localized brush adjustments as well, so you’ll have to play with it to see what works for you. Here’s the resulting photo: One of the major benefits of this version of creating an HDR image is the ability to save the highlights. You can definitely see in the example that the window view is more visible than in the Enfused version. However with all good things comes a compromise! The process of editing brackets like this takes time. You have to do each bracket individually, which will require you to be at the computer for each blend. Also each set takes about 5 minutes or so to blend. With Enfuse you can blend them all in bulk. And there’s no need to sit at your computer if you don’t have anything else to do. I like how Enfusing frees you up whereas creating the HDRs in photoshop tie you down. I think using a mix of everything could be a great route to go. For photos where highlights/window views aren’t an issue, just use the Enfuse method. But for the few shots where you need to try and save a window view, pull them into Photoshop. This way you get a good result when you need it, but only spend the time when necessary.
1st Dan Black Belt Alan is one of our boxing coaches and has been with us since 2016. Alan comes with a wealth of experience across multiple disciplines but now focuses solely on boxing, both teaching and competing. He is an integral part of our fight team and also runs the Dedicated White Collar Boxing Charity program. Alan is an active fighter with a record of 8 wins, 7 by KO, one loss and is the current Cruiserweight and Kent Champion cruiserweight. His dedication to the sport is unquestionable and he will often share his knowledge within our kickboxing classes. He has a keen focus on fitness and takes our circuit class as he knows all too well the importance of cardio to compete at the highest level. Alan has taken up running and is part of the regular TKO running team, although a bit of fun he intends to compete in his first marathon later this year. On the rare occasion, he is not in the gym he can be seen somewhere near bluebell hill try to find his Doberman Boris!!
Back in 2015, our Information Technology Department began rolling out a new Paperless Initiative to all of our stores across the United States! This initiative was so big, several other corporate departments joined the Paperless Team to effectively reduce the amount of paper used to complete our loan application process. Talk about a successful team effort! Here at the TMX Finance® Family of Companies, we constantly strive to work as a team. Whether it be in our stores or at our corporate offices, we know that we are all working toward one goal. We are so proud of all the team members that contributed to this initiative’s success, and a huge congrats to the IT Paperless Team on their leadership, hard work, and drive to make this a successful project!
Taye Diggs & Idina Menzel -- Finally Let It Go for Real ... Secretly Divorced Taye Diggs & Idina MenzelFinally Let It Go for Real ...Secretly Divorced Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel took their sweet time pulling the plug on their marriage -- nearly a year after separating no divorce papers were filed -- but the couple finally, and secretly, did the deed. Diggs and Menzel announced their split in December 2013, but according to court docs obtained by TMZ ... there was no further action until November, when Taye filed the divorce petition in New York. Looks like they hammered out all their issues -- child custody and divvying up assets -- during the delay ... because the divorce was quickly finalized on December 3. Diggs and Menzel were married for 10 years and have a five-year-old son named Walker. A source connected to the couple says the break-up has been as amicable as these things can be ... and they've both remained committed to raising their son together and peacefully.
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Christmas Market Galway - 6th to 8th December 2021 Booking is now open for our Tour to Galway and the Christmas Market. Departure Points: TBC - 3 Days transport by Luxury Coach with a Professional Driver - 2 Nights B&B Imperial Hotel located right on Eyre Square (Home to the Galway Christmas Market) - Dinner on each evening - Guided Tours of Connemara, Dan O'Hara's Homestead and Cong - Refreshments at Dan O'Hara's - Entrances to Attractions €259 Per Person Sharing €40 Single Supplement - Reduced the maximum number of people on board the coach. - Require all passengers to wear a mask onboard - please bring one with you. - Provide passengers Zoono 24 hour hand sanitiser upon boarding - Coach fully sanitised prior to pick up and throughout the tour
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, October 25, 2023 / TRAVELINDEX / Despite an earthquake that shook Morocco last September, the country’s Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, and Social and Solidarity Economy, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, remains optimistic about the nation’s tourism prospects, setting a target of 14 million tourists by the end of 2023. In an exclusive interview with VoyagesAfriq, conducted on the sidelines of the 25th UNWTO General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Fatim-Zahra Ammor highlighted the remarkable resilience of Morocco’s tourism industry. Amid initial uncertainty following the earthquake, September unexpectedly emerged as a record-breaking month for Moroccan tourism. This success was attributed in part to the country’s effective crisis communication efforts and the solidarity shown by tourists. Minister Ammor recalled the initial concerns: “When the earthquake arrived in early September, we were worried about what was going on and how we would end the year in Morocco. We were especially concerned as we were on track for very good numbers. But we showed strong resilience because we began communicating with international partners promptly to reassure them about the real situation in Morocco.” She maintained that this was crucial because “the earthquake was not in Marrakech, as it was said in the beginning but rather 70 kilometres away. Therefore, for the tourists, the destination remained safe. Even tourists present at the time in Morocco shared their experiences on social media, providing testimonials about the actual situation.” Minister Ammor expressed confidence in Morocco’s ability to achieve its ambitious tourism target, stating, “we did quite well. We had the best September ever and are planning to reach 14 million tourists by the end of the year, which is an all-time record.” First published on VoyagesAfriq by Kojo Bentum Williams First published at TravelCommunication.net – Global Travel News
We currently have approximately 1,000 bridges, 600 of which support the obfs4 obfuscation protocol. Unfortunately, these numbers have been stagnant for a while. It’s not enough to have many bridges: eventually, all of them could find themselves in block lists. We therefore need a constant trickle of new bridges that aren’t blocked anywhere yet. This is where we need your help. By setting up an obfs4 bridge, you can help censored users connect to the open internet through Tor. Based on this call we put a bridge relay into the net a week ago, and – if everything works out – we will add a second one. However, that was not enough for us. Mostly during the last few weekends, we’ve implemented a TorBox feature that allows anyone with a public IP address, 24/7 internet connectivity over a long time, and a bandwidth of at least 1 Mbps to configure their bridge relay at the touch of a button and put it on the net. Besides, we have added and improved some other details, so that we can now release the resulting image as TorBox v.0.2.5. Below are the corresponding links (typically, you need only the image file): Changelog v.0.2.4-rpi4 (08.08.2019) —> v.0.2.5 (24.09.2019) New: This version introduces the support for setting up a bridge relay. Updated : The system is based on Raspbian “Buster” lite with Linux Kernel 4.19.66 and Tor version 0.4.1.5. New: A little message (“TOR is working“) in the right corner of the main menu shows you immediately if you are connected with the Tor network (meaning https://check.torproject.org returns a positive result). Since a missing response does not automatically mean that there is no connection to the Tor network, no error message is displayed. In other words, if this message is missing, there may or may not be a connection problem. New: We use the same method as mentioned above for the final message box after selecting (or changing) a connection (main menu entry 6-11). In case of success, the message starts with “CONGRATULATION !!” otherwise with “HMMM… THAT DOESN’T LOOK GOOD…“. In contrast to the positive message, negative feedback does not necessarily mean that an error has occurred. Since the check does not last more than 5 seconds, Tor may not have been ready yet; the check site may have been down, etc. New: Support for Adafruit’s PiTFT displays (PiTFT 3.5″ resistive touch 320×480, PiTFT 2.8“ capacitive touch 240×320, PiTFT 2.4″, 2.8″ or 3.2″ resistive 240×320, PiTFT 2.2″ no touch 240×320, Braincraft 1.54″ display 240×240). Note: TorBox’s menus and dialog boxes have only been adapted for the PiTFT 3.5 (320×480) or any other display, which displays in textual mode at least 25×80 characters. Improved: Menus and dialog boxes should now work more smoothly on 25×80 textual screens as well as on smartphone and tablet clients. For that reason, we added for some message boxes scroll texts, which are visible with the “scroll down” remark in the title of the message box. Improved: Revised version of the Tor reset functionality in the „Countermeasure & Troubleshooting“ menu. Improved: Cleaning up in the shell scripts (used more variables, combine certain parts into functions, etc.). Updated: Pre-configured Bridges (we also added our bridge relay) Fixed: While adding bridges, TorBox activates/deactivates the new bridges depending on the current bridge modus. Fixed: Some more non-critical bugs and typos in the text files. The pre-v.0.2.6 release is expected at the end of the year. If you look at the various forums about Tor, there is a lot of skepticism, misunderstandings, and questions, especially among newcomers, about how Tor works and the possibilities (or limitations) it offers. This is due in particular to the fact that many people are unfamiliar with how Tor works, and feel that it is far too complicated to understand. With an excellent video of Computerphile, Dr. Mike Pound shows that it doesn’t have to be complicated. Very simple and easy for beginners to understand, he shows how Tor works and mentions its limitations. My first Tor Bridge Relay is properly working – see here. With TorBox v.0.2.5 (coming soon) everyone with direct internet connection will be able to set up a Tor Bridge Relay — only with a view „clicks“. Bridges are essential for people in authoritarian countries to reach the open internet. TorBox v.0.2.4 offers such client functionality already, but soon, users with a direct internet connection can help others by setting up their relay. Amid conflict and political turbulence, South Sudan has one of the least developed telecommunications and internet systems in the world. Fifteen Internet Service Providers (ISPs) operate in South Sudan, but the lack of fibre-optic cables and the limited availability of public power hinder connectivity. MTN enjoys the greatest share within the mobile phone market, followed by Vivacell and Zain. Earlier this year however, Vivacell’s license was suspended for not paying USD 60 million in fees. South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution of 2011 guarantees freedom of expression and press freedom under Article 24, with possible exceptions for public order, safety, or morality. The Article also calls on media to abide by professional ethics. Article 32 of the Transitional Constitution guarantees the right to access official information, with exemptions for public security and personal privacy. The regime though regularly violates media freedom protections in practice, and government officials have engaged in rhetoric that contributes to a hostile environment for the press. In an attempt to verify reports on the blocking of websites and to examine South Sudan’s internet landscape more broadly, OONI did some network measurement tests in South Sudan. OONI Probe consists of a number of software tests that scan TCP, DNS, HTTP and TLS connections for signs of network tampering. Some tests request data over an unencrypted connection and compare against a known good value. Others check for HTTP transparent proxies, DNS spoofing, and network speed and performance. To measure the blocking of websites, OONI started off by carrying out some research to identify South Sudanese URLs to test. They subsequently added these URLs to the Citizen Lab’s test list repository on GitHub, since OONI Probe is designed to measure the blocking of URLs included in these test lists. Over the last few months, OONI primarily ran OONI Probe’s Web Connectivity test (among other OONI Probe tests) in two networks: MTN South Sudan (AS37594) and IPTEC Limited (AS36892). As part of their testing, they measured the blocking of URLs included in the global (including internationally relevant sites) and South Sudanese (including sites relevant to South Sudan) test lists. Once they collected OONI Probe network measurements from South Sudan,they analyzed them with the aim of identifying network anomalies that could serve as signs of internet censorship. Last year, media outlets Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj, and independent blogs Nyamilepedia and Paanluel Wel, were reportedly blocked in July 2017. OONI recent testing not only corroborates these reports, but also suggests that these sites remain blocked one year later. The following table links to network measurements pertaining to the recent testing of each of these sites across two ISPs: OONI findings suggest that MTN (AS37594) blocks TCP/IP connections to these sites, while IPTEC (AS36892) blocks access by means of DNS tampering. It’s worth noting that both MTN and IPTEC block access to both http://sudantribune.com and http://www.sudantribune.com. South Sudanese authorities blocked these sites for publishing “subversive content” and stated that the bans would not be lifted until those institutions “behaved well”. Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj are foreign-based media outlets accused of hostile reporting against the government. Paanluel Wel is a leading blog for the Dinka tribe, known for spearheading tribal political interests for the Dinka people and inciting hatred and violence against the Nuer people and other tribes. Nyamilepedia, on the other hand, is a leading blog for the Nuer tribe, known for promoting Nuer political interests and spearheading hatred against the Dinka and other Nuer who left the rebellion to join the Dinka-led government. Many other URLs presented network anomalies (such as HTTP failures) as part of our testing, but such anomalies were most likely caused due to poor network performance and transient network failures. This suggests that South Sudanese internet users may encounter challenges in accessing sites in various points in time, even if they’re not intentionally being blocked. It’s worth highlighting, however, that many of the URLs that OONI tested (including internationally popular and local sites) were found to be accessible in South Sudan during this study. These include sites related to conflict resolution and peacekeeping, such as the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) site. These measurements clearly show that the Mikrotik HTTP transparent proxy was present last year in the network path to the above sites through South Sudan’s 4G Telecom (AS327786) network. It remains unclear though if this proxy is still in use, since measurements haven’t been collected from this network in recent months. It’s worth noting that this equipment may potentially be used for implementing internet censorship and/or for caching (the Mikrotik HTTP proxy has this feature) to improve connectivity. Given though that most of these sites were accessible (and the ones that weren’t presented different errors, sometimes triggered as part of anti-DDoS protection), it may be the case that this proxy was primarily deployed for improving connectivity and network performance. Internet censorship does not appear to be pervasive, but limited to sites that authorities deem to publish “subversive content” and incite violence. This is evident through the blocking of Nyamilepedia and Paanluel Wel, the leading blogs of the Nuer and Dinka tribes who are known to incite violence. OONI data also corroborates the blocking of media outlets Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj, both of which are hosted outside of South Sudan. Local journalists and media organizations though face different (non-digital) forms of censorship. Nonetheless, the fact that South Sudan has already started implementing internet censorship raises questions as to whether its internet censorship apparatus will expand as internet penetration levels increase and political events unfold. Further research and testing is therefore required to better understand the country’s internet landscape and monitor any new censorship events. Throughout the testing period, between January 2017 to May 2018, more than 1,000 URLs presented network anomalies. 178 of which consistently presented a high ratio of HTTP failures, strongly suggesting that they were blocked. Rather than serving block pages (which would have provided a notification of the blocking), Egyptian Internet Service Providers (ISP) appear to primarily block sites through the use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology that resets connections. In some cases, instead of RST injection, ISPs drop packets, suggesting a variance in filtering rules. In other cases, ISPs interfere with the SSL encrypted traffic between Cloudflare’s Point-of-Presence in Cairo and the backend servers of sites (psiphon.ca, purevpn.com and ultrasawt.com) hosted outside of Egypt. Latency measurements over the last year and a half also suggest that Egyptian ISPs may have changed their filtering equipment and/or techniques, since the latency-based detection of middleboxes has become more challenging. The chart at the right illustrates the types of sites that presented the highest amount of network anomalies and are therefore considered to more likely have been blocked. To examine the impact of these censorship events, AFTE interviewed staff members working with some of the Egyptian media organizations whose websites got blocked. They reported that the censorship has had a severe impact on their work. In addition to not being able to publish and losing part of their audience, the censorship has also had a financial impact on their operations and deterred sources from reaching out to their journalists. A number of Egyptian media organizations have suspended their work entirely, as a result of persisting internet censorship. “Defense in depth” tactics for network filtering Security experts are probably familiar with the “defense in depth” concept in which multiple layers of security controls (defense) are placed throughout an IT system, providing redundancy in the event that a security control fails. In Egypt, ISPs seem to apply “defense in depth” tactics for network filtering by creating multiple layers of censorship that make circumvention harder. Back in 2016, OONI uncovered that state-owned Telecom Egypt was using DPI (or similar networking equipment) to hijack users’ unencrypted HTTP connections and inject redirects to revenue-generating content, such as affiliate ads. The Citizen Lab expanded upon this research, identifying the use of Sandvine PacketLogic devices (Sandvine is a company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) and redirects being injected by (at least) 17 Egyptian ISPs. A handful of Tor contributors reported about the state of the Onion (all activity in the community, which is related to the Tor network and its community) at the latest HOP conference, occurred 20–22 July 2018. They talked about adding new security features, improving Tor Browser on Android, deploying the next generation of onion services, making Tor more usable, lowering the network overhead, making Tor more maintainable, and growing the Tor community with new outreach initiatives. They also shared some of what you can expect from Tor in the coming year, and answered questions from the community. For more videos from the latest HOPE conference, see here.
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Have you ever been to the gym & heard the guy who thinks he’s a bodybuilder or powerlifter say they never train core? (Side note this person almost always has an atrocious form!) Ever notice this guy seems to have a new injury every week? Don’t be this guy! Take it from someone who was that guy. I used to get injured like crazy when I first started getting into the gym. One day I discovered the answer. I was getting hurt because I wasn’t doing core. “But what does core have to do with my T-Bar Row?” So glad you asked! Core gives you the strength & stability to get higher weights & better form in almost every workout you do! Think about it, imagine not engaging your core to do a dead-lift, or pick up something heavy. Your body needs to stabilize somehow, and the only other option here (which isn’t an option) is lifting with your lower back. So how do we fix this? Simple! The most effective way to increase strength, stability and comfortability in lifting is by doing 2-3 quality core workouts every time you exercise. Plus who doesn’t want those killer washboard abs & “V-lines!” Your core is your center. It controls and aids in everything you do from taking out the trash, to climbing a ladder. Take a day and pay attention to how often you engage your core (even subconsciously.) Not convinced? Let me paint a scene for you. I’m waiting for my HIIT fitness class to start, we’re about 10 minutes out. As usual, before a class, I’m ready to go, fully set up, have some mom-friendly rap music on my speaker & waiting for my class to arrive. I taught this class on a Queenax which is basically a big jungle gym for adults, with monkey bars and all kinds of other cool stuff! Anyways I’m killing time & start hanging upside down doing sit-ups on the monkey bars. Ironically as a new face walks into my class. Her name was Lucy. Lucy was so impressed with what I was doing especially because she wanted to build a core that she stopped me after class to ask about my progression to be able to do that. Needless to say, I saw Lucy in every class after that Tuesday. Doing core makes everything easier, so just do it!
By Alexander Manning Environmental start up ClimateClever is offering 50 free subscriptions to their award-winning school program for Australian public schools. The ClimateClever Schools Program, valued at $3000, is an engaging, student-led program, underpinned by a set of innovative, data-driven online tools that help students measure, manage and reduce their school’s carbon footprint. The best part about the program is that by reducing carbon emissions, schools will also save significant money on utility bills! The subscriptions are being offered for free in celebration of the ClimateClever program being featured in the ABC documentary – Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge, presented by renowned TV personality Craig Reucassel (War on Waste). This initiative is directed towards public schools, with a focus on schools in lower to medium socio-economic areas with an ISCEA value of less than 1100. However, all school types, including private, catholic and independent are welcome to join the program The ClimateClever App is not limited to schools, with a “Homes” version available for everyday use. ClimateClever user, Daniel Blay, said “As a house-share of 5, we’ve been using the ClimateClever Homes App for three months now…Using the App has meant we are much more mindful of the resources we’re consuming and it’s a great way to keep each other accountable!” The app has also received positive praise from Government leaders around Australia. CEO at the City of Albany, Andrew Sharpe, spoke about the positive impact the city’s partnership with ClimateClever has had on sustainability in the community. “This is the first time the City has had the ability to develop community targets and give feedback straight to the user” said Sharpe. If you are interested or know someone who’s school may be suited for this initiative, we urge you to apply soon, as schools will be selected on 25th of August and the 8th of September. The ClimateClever Schools Program was featured on ABC’s 3-part series, Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge, on Wednesday night. To see the ClimateClever program in action, download ABC’s iview app to watch Episode 1! Check out the school selection criteria here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v4vklMsE0x5qUxKMRdcRh1Clu7d4k5TW/view?usp=sharing To apply, click here: https://climateclever.typeform.com/to/gyhLDuHC
Due to its durable wood, sweet chestnut was already valued by the Romans and Venetians. Until the end of the 19th century, chestnuts, the tree's fruit, served as the main food source for the rural population in mountainous regions of Southern Europe and were known as the "bread of the poor." This elegant wood contains a high level of tannic acid, similar to oak, rendering it antibacterial. It is used for furniture, window-, door frames, barrels and many more. The tree is common in warm European regions and over the past 25 years, its coverage has been increasing again. The sweet chestnut for TRAPA floors originates from the Piemont region. All fits together In nature, “symbiosis“ refers to the coexistence of two different species for mutual benefit. It‘s somewhat similar with TRAPA products: Here, natural wood floors and furniture coordinated in look and feel coexist in symbiosis. Through the presence of the other, each experiences enhancement, comes into its own more effectively and gains additional character. In the in-house TRAPA wood manufactory, experienced solid wood carpenters produce stairs, walls and furniture by hand, which are perfectly matched to the floors in terms of wood type, colour and surface.
Gordon woke us up just in time to witness the sunrise. A bittersweet moment! We had one final thing to do in Malaga. That was to climb up to the castle. We had a choice of taking the usual route or... lump the dog and his carriage uo the side of a mountain! Well of course we opted for the easy option! The view was exceptional. Apart from the slaughterhouse below. It's a thing that has been banned in many Spanish cities. However still happens hear mainly due to the Spanish right wing and tourists! We had the option to visit but decided not too 😳. As a bonus up the top a peanut seller fed this dude. Which enabled me to grab a picture. I ended up having my sports massage for my shoulder and we said farewell to Malaga. Definitely worth a visit if you're looking for some winter sun. Tomorrow we are having a down day as we prepare to head upwards towards our return home! Our next step is Granada 🌞
Are you thinking of visiting Brno for a weekend to unwind, or taking advantage of your visit to the Czech Republic to visit some of the country’s most attractive destinations? Brno has it all. Considered the “little jewel” of the south of the country, the city has something for everyone. Gastronomy, festivals, bars, art galleries and monuments – you’ll have no time to get bored! Where is Brno? With just under 380,000 inhabitants, Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, after Prague, of course. Brno’s geographical location is quite interesting: it’s : - 112 kilometers north of Vienna, Austria - 123 kilometers northwest of Bratislava - 139 kilometers southwest of Ostrava 185 kilometers from Prague, the capital How to get to Brno Would you like to visit Brno? To get there from Prague, you’re spoilt for choice. Brno is easily reached by bus. The journey takes around 4 hours. Buses leave from anywhere in the city, so be sure to check with your bus operator. It’s also possible to get from Prague to Brno by train. Connections are relatively frequent, but the ticket price is not excessive. The journey takes around 2 hours. You can also get there by car. However, the road is complicated and traffic jams are fairly frequent. So be patient. What to see in Brno You’re about to visit Brno and would like to know a little more about the city’s must-sees? We’ll tell you everything you need to know before you hit the road. Strolling through the city Brno is a very friendly and dynamic city. So, before you set off, why not take a few hours to wander around? Don’t hesitate to push open the doors of local bars and restaurants, ask the locals for good addresses or take some pretty pictures. You won’t be disappointed! Enjoy the Town Hall Don’t miss the former and present-day town halls (Stará radnice) or the city’s old basements, which today serve as a labyrinth for the more courageous. The center of Brno is lively. You’ll find plenty of places to eat and enjoy your stay. Visit St. Peter and St. Paul’s Cathedral For a more leisurely visit, the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul is the place to be. It’s a lovely place of worship, where you can relax for a few minutes. The building is impressive, and the interior is just as splendid. A stop we highly recommend. Visit Villa Tugendhat The Villa Tugendhat is a true prototype of modern architecture. It was built by architect Ludwig Mied van der Rohe between 1928 and 1930. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site! Originally the home of a Jewish couple, it was later used by the Gestapo. Today, you can visit it! Gregor Mendel Museum and Abbey Gregor Mendel is the godfather of genetics. You can visit some of the places that were most dear to him, including the gardens of St. Thomas’s Abbey, where he conducted some of his experiments. For the more inquisitive, the next stop is the Mendel Museum. It’s just outside the old town. One of Brno’s must-sees. Špilberk Castle is probably older than Brno itself. It’s a large hilltop fortress that has served all sorts of roles. In the 1600s, the castle helped repel a number of invaders. Less gloriously, many Protestants were imprisoned and tortured here. Brno was Catholic at the time. Where to stay in Brno? Are you planning to visit Brno? First and foremost, make sure you book your hotel room. In a specially dedicated section, we tell you all about the best hotels in Brno. It’s the perfect opportunity to discover the establishments that will make your stay a real success. Where to go out in Brno? Want to go out in Brno? Once again, we’ve thought of everything. We’ve put together a list of some of the city’s best bars and restaurants. Once you’re here, you’ll have everything you need to enjoy your evening and your night out. What are the must-do activities in Brno? Our conclusion Would you like to visit Brno? We recommend spending around 2 days here. Small in size, the city has a lot to offer, and you may well regret not staying long enough, because there’s something for every taste and budget in Brno. You can opt for a romantic weekend or an adventurous one, discovering the city’s history and its most unusual places. It’s the ideal place for a quality weekend away from Prague. A not-to-be-missed stopover if you’re on vacation in the Czech Republic.
Feast your eyes on the delectable batch of Le Dolci muppet cupcakes. The Toronto bakery has really outdone itself with these character treats. Yummy vanilla-iced cupcakes are decorated with the iconic heads of widely acclaimed Muppet stars. There is a Kermit looking particularly green and a Fozzie Bear with large beady eyes and his classic hat. Intricate designs map out the soft tan quality of his fur. And for all those who might be a bit on the wild side, take a chunk out of the Animal treat with untamed red sugar hair splaying out in all directions. The Le Dolci Muppet cupcakes are a puppet lovers dream snack food. Le Dolci Muppet Cupcakes are a Famously Tasty Dessert Find 1. Character-inspired Pastries - Opportunity for bakeries to create desserts inspired by popular characters or franchises. 2. Customized Baked Goods - Potential for bakeries to offer personalized designs on their baked goods to cater to individual tastes. 3. Edible Nostalgia - Potential to tap into consumers' nostalgia by creating desserts that feature beloved characters or icons from their childhood. 1. Bakery - Opportunity for bakeries to expand their product offerings and differentiate themselves with unique, character-inspired pastries. 2. Specialty Food - Opportunity for specialty food companies to collaborate with popular franchises to create customized, limited edition treats. 3. Event Planning - Potential for event planners to incorporate customized character-themed desserts as part of their decor or favors to delight attendees.
The Planning Commission is appointed by the City Council and is responsible for directing and managing the growth and development of the City of Trinidad. The Commission reviews and recommends approval of the City’s General Plan, land use ordinances, development plans, and coastal development permits. It also reviews and collects community data and keeps informed of the best practices in city planning and zoning. The Commission also reviews and approves new construction, and development, and conducts design reviews to ensure consistency with the City's Vision Statement. The latest Planning Commission Packets and Agendas may be found under the Agenda & Minutes button on the main page of the City's website, or by clicking here.
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What’s the weather like in Sa Coma in August? In Sa Coma, August is the hottest month of the year with plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures. The weather is typically hot and dry, making it an ideal time to enjoy the beach and outdoor activities. Average daily temperatures The average daily temperature in Sa Coma in August ranges from 25°C (77°F) to 30°C (86°F). Daytime temperatures can often reach as high as 35°C (95°F) on hotter days. Evenings tend to be slightly cooler, with temperatures dropping to around 20°C (68°F). Sunshine and rainfall August in Sa Coma is known for its abundant sunshine, with an average of 12 hours of sunshine per day. This means you’ll have plenty of good weather for outdoor activities and sunbathing on the beach. Rainfall is very low during this month, with an average of only 17mm throughout the whole month. This makes August one of the driest months of the year in Sa Coma.
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Hundreds of members of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo state have lent their voice to the call for the sack of the National Chairman of the party, John Odigwe Oyegun. The protesters who were armed with placards with various inscriptions, marched through major streets of Akure. They said Oyegun must go for overruling the recommendations of the national working committee of the party which ordered for a fresh primary election. They want the party leadership to endorse Segun Abraham as the APC standard bearer of the party since he was not involved in any manipulation. Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Enas Mohammed, said Oyegun is not a blessing to the party because he lacks electoral value.
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At Al Nau hospital, one of the only hospitals in Khartoum with a functional and very crowded trauma ward, we met with two young people who had recent amputations – two young lives changed forever – and we learned from the hospital director that about 300 people had limbs amputated in the hospital in just the past month alone. Doctors say that needs are growing. We saw two, sometimes three patients, sharing beds. Exhaustion among staff, many of whom are practically living in the hospital, and most of whom have not been paid regular salaries in months – is palpable, as is frustration at the lack of supplies, equipment and space. At another hospital, we visited with malnourished children and their caregivers in total darkness because of electricity outages. The backup generator had failed about a week prior, so they were working in the dark and sustaining critical cold chain vaccines with ice packs. As we near the summer months those ice packs simply won’t last. During our visit, we learned that women and girls who had been raped in the first months of war are now delivering babies – some of whom have been abandoned to the care of hospital staff, who have built a nursery near the delivery ward. We saw the UNICEF-supported Al Manara water treatment plant, which is the only one still functioning out of 13 plants in the Khartoum area, providing safe water to about 300,000 people in Omdurman. It too has been damaged by the fighting and is working at just 75 per cent capacity, but will cease to function in two weeks unless more chlorine to treat water can be brought in for that population. Though we could hear sounds of artillery firing in the distance, there was a relative calm where we were, but there was an intense armed presence in the markets, on the streets and even in the hospitals. We saw many young people carrying arms. 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The scale and magnitude of needs for children across the country are simply staggering. Sudan is now the world’s largest displacement crisis. And some of the most vulnerable children are in the hardest-to-reach places. Our asks are clear: - We need parties to the conflict to enable rapid, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access – both across conflict lines within Sudan and across borders with Sudan’s neighboring countries. Chad has provided a crucial lifeline to communities in Darfur, and access through its border remains absolutely critical, along with access through South Sudan. - Parties to the conflict have a moral imperative and legal responsibility to protect children. 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I’ll admit, I hadn’t even heard of Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta before PlatinumGames revealed Sol Cresta – a spiritual successor to the two that was initially announced as an April Fool’s joke before being made into an official release. It piqued my interest for two reasons: one being that I’m a fan of shoot ‘em ups in general, and the other that it was being developed by such a prestigious action-focused developer with one hell of a track record. How did they fare with a shoot ‘em up? Well, Sol Cresta is pretty damn good, even if some technical hiccups do prevent it from striving towards greatness on the Nintendo Switch. Check out a gallery of screenshots down below: Sol Cresta is a vertical space shooter that takes players on an adventure across different planets of the solar system, starting off with Neptune and ending at… well… I’ll leave that for you to find out. If you’ve played any shoot ‘em up before, you’ll know what to expect gameplay wise: a ton of different enemies to face off against with varying attacks, all sorts of environmental hazards to keep you on the move, big nasty bosses that fill up the screen, and, of course, bullets EVERYWHERE. It really nails the vibe of the genre perfectly with its all-out action and focus on score-chasing, with plenty going on throughout each level to maximise the action and keep players constantly moving and shooting. It’s a lot of fun to play. One of the unique features of Sol Cresta comes with its three playable ships. Players will start off with a single ship based upon one of three colours: red, yellow, and blue. The red ship blasts out a quick paced laser, the yellow ship unleashes a vertical drill projectile that dishes out hefty damage, whilst the blue ship launches homing missiles that’ll close in on nearby targets. Whilst you start out with one of these ships, you’ll always earn the other two as power-ups as you progress through levels, with each merging together in formation to unleash more powerful variations of each attack. The clever twist is that you can change up the formation of the ships at any time, allowing you to change the primary attack you unleash upon your foes. This gives the player the opportunity to be strategic and use the weaponry that suits any given scenario, whether that’s when using the red ship’s lasers when surrounded by an array of foes or the yellow ship’s powerful drills when focusing on one target with a meaty amount of health. Certain enemies are weak against particular attack types too, giving players even more reason to swap things around in order to deal out the most efficient attacks. “It really nails the vibe of the genre perfectly with its all-out action and focus on score-chasing, with plenty going on throughout each level to maximise the action and keep players constantly moving and shooting.” There are even some special formations which can be activated, allowing players to take advantage of the weaponry of all three ships at once to deal out even more damage – these can’t be done all the time and have to be activated with power-ups, but they’re a great way to get out of a sticky situation or deal some extra hurt to a particularly formidable foe. Again, knowing when to use these different formation types can be imperative to your success, especially since they each bring with them different advantages that can exploit specific enemy weaknesses. Of course, there are more typical bonuses to earn as you gain points in levels, such as extra lives, additional weaponry, special attacks, and more. Whilst these sort of power-ups are more traditional for the genre, there are some that have a PlatinumGames twist; I’ve never played a shoot ‘em up that’s had me twisting the analogue stick or mashing button combinations like a fighting game to unleash more powerful attacks before, but that’s exactly what Sol Cresta expected of me at times. It’s a really cool and undoubtedly unique feature of the game, though trying to hit them whilst also dealing with a constant influx of enemy attacks could also feel a bit too overwhelming at times. As far as the difficulty is concerned, Sol Cresta can be tough, but it’s not the most challenging shoot ‘em up that I’ve played. It has multiple difficulty options whilst it also allows players to start off at any previous level that they’ve reached, so it’s certainly accessible. That being said, some levels can be insane with the amount of action going on at any given time, so it’s far from being an easy game… it just isn’t unfair with its difficulty either. “Sometimes, a game soundtrack just fits the action on screen perfectly, and that’s certainly the case with Sol Cresta’s exciting tunes that orchestrate the manic action.” Visually, the game looks pretty, with a retro aesthetic adopted that captures the spirit of the shoot ‘em ups of yesteryear but with touches of modern fanciness used here and there to up the production value. It’s all very old-school and you could easily mistake it for a title from the late 80s, but hey, that’s the vibe it was going for. That same vibe is captured perfectly in the soundtrack, with some bloody brilliant tracks on offer throughout the game that’ll really pull you into the action. Sometimes, a game soundtrack just fits the action on screen perfectly, and that’s certainly the case with Sol Cresta’s exciting tunes that orchestrate the manic action. However, whilst it looks and sounds nice, there were a few performance hiccups here and there on the Nintendo Switch. I noticed some stuttering and minor freezing on a semi-regular basis, and whilst it’s nothing game-breaking or too distracting, its presence was frustrating and unusual given that it’s hardly a high-end release. Hopefully, it’s something that can be fixed with a patch in the near future. Sol Cresta does have one other sour point that stuck out: the ‘Dramatic’ DLC. This DLC gives players a more story-focused mode to play through, adding more lore to all of the shooting action taking place. Unfortunately, this wasn’t included with the main game, but instead has to be purchased separately. I don’t understand why it wasn’t included, especially since players have to pay a pricey £35.99 in the first place, so it feels like a bit of a sucker punch. Whilst there are additional modes to unlock by completing achievements in the game anyway, I feel like ‘Dramatic’ should have been one of them and not an extra few quid for players to fork out as day-one DLC. Sol Cresta Review Sol Cresta is an addictive and fun shoot ‘em up that proves PlatinumGames have more than a few tricks up their sleeves. It’ll definitely appeal the most to fans of the genre, though the accessible difficulty options mean that even newbies will be able to dive in and have a good time. The old-school visuals and excellent soundtrack capture the vibe of the classic shoot ‘em ups of yesteryear perfectly too, which is always a big plus. It is a bit disappointing that the performance on the Nintendo Switch isn’t perfect and the ‘Dramatic’ DLC does leave a bit of a sour taste, but other than that this is another stellar release from the team at PlatinumGames. Platform(s): Nintendo Switch (Reviewed), PlayStation 4, PC
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Unlocking the Potential of Exosomes in Medicine In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, scientists are continually exploring novel approaches to address diseases and revolutionize treatments. One such promising avenue is the utilization of exosomes in medical therapies. Exosomes, tiny extracellular vesicles secreted by cells, are garnering increasing attention for their potential in treating a myriad of conditions. Let’s delve into this exciting frontier and explore the promise of exosome treatment in healthcare. Understanding Exosomes: Nature’s Tiny Messengers What Are Exosomes and How Do They Work? Exosomes are nanosized vesicles, typically ranging from 30 to 150 nanometers in diameter, that are naturally produced by various cell types in the body. These microscopic structures play a crucial role in intercellular communication, shuttling molecular cargo such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids between cells. This communication facilitates a range of physiological processes, including immune response modulation, tissue repair, and cellular signaling. The Therapeutic Potential of Exosomes Harnessing Exosomes for Therapeutic Applications The unique properties of exosomes make them promising candidates for therapeutic interventions. Unlike traditional drug delivery systems, exosomes offer several advantages, including biocompatibility, low immunogenicity, and the ability to cross biological barriers such as the blood-brain barrier. Moreover, exosomes can be engineered to target specific cell types or tissues, enhancing their therapeutic precision. Exosomes in Regenerative Medicine Promoting Tissue Regeneration and Repair One of the most exciting applications of exosome therapy is in regenerative medicine. Exosomes derived from stem cells, known as stem cell-derived exosomes, have been shown to stimulate tissue regeneration and repair processes. These tiny vesicles promote cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and extracellular matrix remodeling, making them valuable tools in treating injuries and degenerative diseases. Exosome-Based Cancer Therapies Targeted Drug Delivery and Immunomodulation In oncology, exosome-based therapies hold immense promise for both diagnostics and treatment. Exosomes can serve as biomarkers for cancer detection and monitoring due to their unique molecular signatures. Additionally, exosomes can be loaded with therapeutic payloads such as chemotherapy drugs or immunomodulators and targeted specifically to cancer cells, minimizing systemic toxicity and enhancing efficacy. Challenges and Future Directions Overcoming Hurdles and Expanding Possibilities While exosome therapy offers significant potential, several challenges remain to be addressed. These include standardizing isolation and purification methods, optimizing exosome cargo loading techniques, and ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. Furthermore, research is ongoing to elucidate the complex mechanisms underlying exosome-mediated therapeutic effects and to explore new applications in areas such as neurodegenerative diseases and infectious disorders. Conclusion: Embracing the Exosome Revolution Paving the Way for Next-Generation Healthcare As we stand on the brink of a new era in medicine, exosomes treatment emerges as a beacon of hope, offering innovative solutions to longstanding healthcare challenges. By harnessing the power of these tiny vesicles, researchers and clinicians are poised to revolutionize treatment approaches across a diverse range of diseases. While hurdles remain, the rapid advancements in exosome science herald a future where personalized, precise, and effective therapies are within reach. It’s time to embrace the exosome revolution and unlock the full potential of these remarkable nanostructures in shaping the future of healthcare.
Worldwide natural history collections contain more than three billion specimens assembled over hundreds of years, an irreplaceable physical record of life. Though there is bias inherent in their composition — from a disproportionate number of roadside plants to the dismissal of traditional ecological knowledge that could have expanded our understanding far sooner — we rely on them to gather data on the past, decipher the present, and forecast the future of the changing Earth. With modern technology, they can answer questions that their original collectors never dreamed of. Who knows what further mysteries they hold? Below, scientists explain their efforts to unravel some of those mysteries. Prof. Yolanda Chen, University of Vermont Insect collections can provide snapshots of the diversity and abundance of species over time. I’m particularly interested in the evolution of insects as pests in agriculture. New insect pests emerge every few years, and their emergence can wreak major havoc on agricultural production. While there is a great deal of focus on how to manage or kill insects, there is much less work on why or how some insects evolve as pests. Collections are useful for documenting the changes in use of host plants by insects and in geographic distributions over time. Using this information, we can piece together more of the “where, when, and how” processes that underlie insect adaptation in agroecosystems. CLICK NEXT WITH ARROW BELOW. - 1 of 13 Several of these scientists spoke at the University of Michigan's virtual Early Career Scientists Symposium of 2021, Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation.
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Bhoor Bhuvaha Swaha Tat Savitur Vareniyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat" Mantra is a Mantra(vedic hymn) which inspires righteous wisdom. Its meaning is.."May the Almighty God may illuminate our intellect which may lead us to righteous path". This is the most important teaching. All the problems of a person are solved if he is endowed with the gift of righteous wisdom. Having been endowed with far sighted wisdom, a man is neither entangled in calamity nor does he tread wrong path. Righteous wisdom starts emerging as soon as a methodical recitation of this Mantra is performed. Gayatri is a Sanskrit word. Ga means to sing. Yatri means protection. Gayatri is not a new or independent goddess. She is the supreme power (Shakti) of Lord Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Rama and Krishna. Gayatri means those who "worship her, get protected". "Mantra" is a scientifically composed verse in Sanskrit language, mostly in two lines with specific information for invocation of divine powers, Mantra is defined as a 'Man tarati san Mantrah' meaning .... which uplifts and protects one is Mantra. Secondly it is a combination of letters which are sounds, or an arrangement of words with specific spiritual potentialities. these potentialities unfold themselves in the physical body as a result of awakening the power centers in the body because of the sound waves released by the repetition of the letters of the Mantra. The real power of Mantra lies hidden, and is in the form of syllables which is awakened by uttering the Mantra repeatedly. Mantra contains powers and deep philosophical meaning and its singing reapeatedly benefits mental, physical, and spiritual health. The above mentioned Gayatri Mantra when translated means, "O God, Thou art the giver of life, the remover of pain and sorrow, the bestower of happiness; O Creator of the Universe, may we receive thy supreme, sin-destroying light; may Thou guide our intellect in the right direction." meaning of each word is as follows - OM (Almighty God), BHOOR (embodiment of vital or spiritual energy), BHUVAHA (Destroyer of suffering) SWAHA(Embodiment of happiness), TAT (That; indicating God), SAVITUR (Bright, luminous, like sun), VARENIYAM (Supreme, the best),BHARGO (Destroyer of sins), Go to Top of the Page DHEEMAHI(May receive), DHIYO (intellect), YO(Who), NAHA(Our), PRACHODAYAT(May inspire) Om stands for "The Almighty God". He pervades in all the worlds viz. Bhulo-lok, bhuvah-lok and swah-lok. He is omnipresent. All this Creation. World, universe or cosmos is physical manifestation of God who pervades in each and every particle. That I am seeing Him everywhere. I should always remain aloof from evil thoughts and evil deeds and perform true worship of God by extending cooperation in promoting happiness, peace and beauty in this Universe which is His creation. This(tat) i.e: God is extremely bright(savitur) choicest (vareniyam) devoid of sin (bhargo) and divine(devasya). I am assimilating such God within me, in my conscience,. By such assimilation, I am also becoming bright, virtuous, sinless and divine. Every moment these virtues are developing in all the pores and particles of my mind, brain and body. I am becoming one with these virtues, these characteristics of God. That God may inspire (prachodayat) our(nah) intellect (dhiyo) and lead us on the righteous path. May our intellect become pious. May he lead us to righteous path. On getting the righteous wisdom we may be able to enjoy celestial bliss in this life and make our life successful. We should contemplate and meditate on these three determinations slowly and gradually pausing for a moment on each word and an imaginary picture of that word should be drawn in the mind. man gets enriched in divine elements by contemplating and meditating on this meaning of Gayatri. These sentiments are extremely powerful, encouraging, righteous and elevating. One should contemplate these feelings daily for some time. By such contemplation, the meaning of Gayatri Mantra is fully assimilated in the heart of the person. The result is that in a few days his mind gets diverted from evil deeds and he starts taking enthusiastic joy in righteous thinking and good actions. Howsoever little this tendency maybe in the beginning, it is almost certain that if it persists, the innerself of sadhak becomes spiritually advanced day by day and ultimate aim of life appears to have come closer and closer. As mentioned by Sri Sriram Sharma Acharya."The Gayatri Mantra does not belong to any particular sect of worship. It is not restricted to any community. It is Universal. It contains in it the culture not of any particular society, but the culture of humanity. The Gayatri Mantra is a treasure and heritage that belongs to the whole of humanity without
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Instead of plastic surgery Doctors have found a cheap and safe way to rejuvenate the face Dermatologists from Northwestern University in Illinois (USA) have found a way to rejuvenate the face without the help of expensive cosmetics and plastic surgeons. To do this, it is enough to do mimic gymnastics for half an hour a day. The researchers' work is published in the journal JAMA Dermatology (Alam et al., Association of Facial Exercise With the Appearance of Aging). Specialists have compiled a 20-week program of "facial exercises". Together with the instructors, 16 women aged 40 to 65 years mastered a set of 32 mimic exercises. For the next 20 weeks, the study participants trained their facial muscles at home for half an hour a day. The changes were recorded in photographs before, during and after the experiment. Dermatologists who knew nothing about the study estimated the average age of these women at 50.8 years based on the first images. Analyzing the latest photos, the reviewers changed the rating to 48.1 years. The results were encouraging for scientists, despite the fact that the study was of a trial nature and its results require testing on a larger group of participants. "If the results are confirmed, we will get an inexpensive and safe way of rejuvenation. <...> Subcutaneous muscles, becoming larger, make the skin elastic and give the face a more voluminous shape," said the study's lead author Murad Alam (in a press release Facial exercises help middle–aged women appear more youthful - VM). Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru
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Green Planet Group's wholly-owned subsidiary Healing the Earth was awarded a contract to provide a food growing system as part of a $25 million high-tech farming project. The growing system contract is valued at $13.2 million. The terms of the sale include a 35% deposit of $4.6 million, the second payment of 50% or $6.6 million, when the system is ready for shipment, and a third payment of 15% or $1.98 million when the customer accepts delivery of the working system. The Healing the Earth team is responsible for managing the design, manufacture, and installation of the special purpose building that will enclose the growing system, including the seeding, harvesting, and packaging areas. Not included in the contract are land acquisition, infrastructure costs, site preparation costs, license fees, etc. The building and growing system is expected to be operational within 10 months after construction commences. This system will be installed in the town of Gibsland, Louisiana, the original home of the funder, Mr. Gerald Walker. Mr. Walker's goal is to create approximately 150 jobs in an area that needs additional job opportunities and to improve the overall economy in the Bienville Parish. The pay rate for new entry-level employees is budgeted at $15.00 per hour, which is over double the minimum state wage of $7.25. Therefore, hiring and training the required personnel should not be an issue. Mr. Walker stated, "this growing system will provide enough high-quality fresh food to eliminate hunger in this entire region." The growing system is based upon the patented Healing the Earth technology that can produce all organic, naturally grown vegetables in large quantities that have a high nutritional value and are harvested and distributed daily. These fresh vegetables will include micro-greens, baby leaf and head lettuce, a variety of sprouts, baby and mature kale, baby and mature spinach, etc. All these vegetables are grown in a controlled natural environment that maximizes growth while using 97% less water than field-grown products. If this system was dedicated to growing Romain lettuce, it could produce 36,000 baby heads per day. This technology grows luscious, disease-free vegetables at very competitive prices. Pat Choate, President/CEO states that "this is just the beginning of our efforts to commercialize our revolutionary food technology. I thank Gerald for selecting Healing the Earth to provide his growing system." For more information: Healing the Earth
In your latest decision or letter from the VA, they surely mentioned that you should send anything you have to the VA Evidence Intake Center – also known as the EICs. I’ve told you in an earlier post what the EIC is – and how it works. In today’s post, I’m going to give you 7 Tips for sending information in to the EIC. #7: Send only Flat Envelopes with Unfastened Papers to the VA Evidence Intake Center. Remember how I told you that the first step that the EIC takes is to sort the papers you send and remove staples, etc? Your documents will be scanned and processed a TON quicker if you don’t put any sort of staples or paper clips on the filings. They quality of the scan will be even better if you don’t fold anything you send them. #6: Use headers on your submissions to the VA Evidence Intake Centers. When the EIC ‘sorts’ what you send them, they will be separating cover letters, VA Forms, medical records and other documents. Each different type of document will be uploaded to a different part of your digital case file in VBMS. Well, if you do as I teach in the How to File a VA Claim Training Video, when you submit your Fully Developed Claim you will be sending all sorts of different types of information to the VA. You’ll be sending forms, medical records, affidavits, medical opinions, military service records, and more. How, then, do you ensure that you can later show the DRO or BVA Judge or CAVC Judge what you sent to the VA and when? Here’s a quick solution. Put a “unified header” on each document. Here’s what I put on each page of a submission to the EIC: Line 1: Type of Document (Notice of Disagreement, Substantive Appeal, Evidence Submission etc) Line 2: Include the date of the Submission Line 3: Write the name of the VA Regional Office Line 4: Your Name Line 5: Claim Number Line 6: Page Numbering (I recommend using Page # of # type references) If this header appears at the top of EVERY page in your filing, not only is there a greater chance it will get to the right RO more quickly, but it also helps you show later what you submitted to the VA, and when. Here’s a sample of what our header template looks like – we edit the portions in red for each new submission: #5: Don’t send to the VA Evidence Intake Center AND the Regional Office. We did this for a while – I was uncertain whether everything going to the EIC would make it to the RO, so I sent it to both. Turns out, the stuff you send to the RO gets routed back to the EIC anyway…so all your doing is adding duplicate information to your digital case file in VBMS. And y’all know how I rail against “Sending the VA a Haystack”….send them too much information and they will never find the needle you want them to find. My Firm has started doing it this way: we send it to the EIC only. #4 Send by fax to the Evidence Intake Center Whenever You Can. If you have your own fax machine – or if you use a fax by email service like Maxemail – the EIC will send you a reply fax confirming the time, date and # of pages that were received. The nice thing about email-to-fax services is that they keep a copy of what you sent by fax for a certain period of time (mine keeps outgoing faxes in our archives for a year). This helps to prove, later, what we sent and when if there is ever any question. The confirmation will also include a Document Identifier Number – a unique number that will allow you (if you need to) to trace your document through every stage of the EIC digitizing process. More than that though, if you have a decent scanner (or fax by email service) the quality of your submission will be much better than if you submit paper to the EIC to scan it again. By the way, here is the VA Evidence Intake Center Fax number: VA Evidence Intake Centr (Janesville, Wisconsin): (844) 822-5246 (Toll Free) If you need the mailing addresses to the VA Evidence Intake Centers – or want to verify that those fax numbers are up to date, click here to visit the VA Website. #3: If you Send by Mail….Use only Certified Mail. Not everyone has their own fax…and many folks don’t feel comfortable submitting documents by fax. And some folks just want the proof that someone signed for their submission. In those cases, use Certified Mail Return Receipt Requested. It costs a couple extra bucks (somewhere around $7-9 dollars depending on how much paper you are sending. But the comfort of having the “green card” receipt showing that you timely served your document, and that the EIC received your document, is worth 100 times that amount. When in doubt, send it Certified Mail Return Receipt Requested. #2: Call the RO and confirm that they received the submission. Once the EIC scans and processes your submission, it is sent to the VA Regional Office’s digital inbox – for lack of a better term. The RO is supposed to be immediately moving the document into your file in VBMS, but they are not. I’ve seen cases where ROs are letting files languish in their electronic inbox for weeks or months. Now, if you call the 1-800-827-1000 number, the folks that answer that call do not yet have the ability to see what is in your VBMS file (your digital case file) or what is in the RO’s digital inbox. But if you submit an IRIS request, or visit the RO in person, or if you were smart enough to get the email address of the last person at the RO you talked to, you can ask them to check their e-folder (their name for the digital inbox) and confirm that they received your submission and have added it to your digital VBMS case file. #1: Keep a copy of everything you send to the VA Evidence Intake Center! This is the Oldest Rule in the VA Claim Handbook – and it still holds true today. No matter what, NEVER EVER break this cardinal rule of sending stuff in to the VA: Don’t ever send your original copy of a document, and don’t ever send your ONLY copy of a document. If you don’t keep a copy of a document that you sent to the EIC, and the VA or the EIC (or the postal service) loses or damages the document, there is nothing left to resubmit. Also, you cannot prove what you sent to the VA unless you keep an exact copy of everything you send. I hope these Tips help you make BETTER submissions to the VA Evidence Intake Centers. You tell me….what problems have you had dealing with the EIC?
The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was breached by thousands of protesters and QAnon followers during a "Stop the Steal" rally against the results of the 2020 United States presidential election where Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden. Photo by: zz/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx QAnon has graduated from obscurity to the mainstream. Once only found in the darkest places on the web, QAnon now has members of congress pushing wild theories ascribed to this far-reaching phenomenon. The QAnon conspiracy theory has its tentacles in everything, spreading false information about a variety of real social and political issues including the Black Lives Matter Movement, the presidential election, COVID-19, and even Disney. QAnon is no longer on the periphery of the internet, but a tangible movement that could threaten US democracy. QAnon is the popular term used to describe a whole host of internet conspiracies that explain a false, alternate reality where the world is run by a shadow government filled with Satan-worshiping pedophile elites. The QAnon conspiracy leaped from obscure forums onto social media platforms, where it was amplified by Facebook groups and YouTube videos. The FBI calls it a potential domestic terror threat, and after the January 6 riots, the movement is now a credible threat to U.S. democracy. QAnon’s loose mythologies, broad core tenets, and simple ability to absorb smaller conspiracies with the slimmest thread make it a movement that’s hard to define. A product of the overly connected modern age, QAnon is something new, unknown, terrifying, and dangerous to democracies across the world. What is QAnon? It all started with Pizzagate. Pizzagate was a conspiracy that pre-dated QAnon, but many of its pieces served as the foundation for QAnon belief. The Pizzagate conspiracy started when WikiLeaks released hacked emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman in November of 2016. One particular email exchange released by WikiLeaks showed that James Alefantis, owner of the Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington D.C., was in touch with Podesta about having a potential fundraiser for Clinton.Soon, users on 4Chan began to make wild claims about the potential meaning of the email exchange. Conspiracy theories filled Internet message boards speculating its meaning. These users soon postulated with zero evidence that Comet was the center of a child sex-trafficking ring.Soon after, Edgar Welch, radicalized by these wild theories, drove from North Carolina to Comet Ping Pong armed with an AR-15 assault weapon. He entered the pizzeria and fired in the restaurant. Welch was soon apprehended and later was sentenced to four years in prison. All of this transpired due to the wildy false and since-debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory which took message boards by storm.Pizzagate was the firing shot that signaled the beginning of something graver and more dangerous, a conspiracy theory that easily radicalized its base. Many parts of the Pizzagate conspiracy continued to circulate the internet after it’s initial downfall—such as demonic politicians participating in human trafficking and child sex rings—and it is these ideas that helped form QAnon. What is Pizzagate? In October 2017, an anonymous message was posted on the ephemeral message board 4chan. Using a fictitious backstory, the user claimed to have access to confidential information and chose to reveal it all in cryptic yet easy-to-solve posts, later dubbed Q-drops. The anonymous user, identified only by their tripcode but eventually known as Q, continued writing almost 5,000 messages over the next four years, forming the far-right conspiracy theory’s foundation. The mysterious Q claimed to have been an employee at the Department of Energy with Q-level clearance, hence the moniker that’s been given to this anonymous poster (or posters). Fervent 4chan users began deciphering these posts on the ephemeral imageboard, and though this amateur cryptanalysis lit a flame in the /pol/ board, it lit the whole world on fire once social media got ahold of it. Eventually, Q moved to 8chan, stating that 4chan had been “infiltrated.” This move coincided with the authorship of Q changing hands, as textual analysis has found that multiple people are behind the persona. How did QAnon start? A few anons (what the believers of QAnon call themselves) abetted the conspiracy theory from fringe imageboards to the mainstream internet. The most successful among them was Tracy Diaz, known online as Tracy Beanz, who helped start the first QAnon Reddit board and whose YouTube videos spread the conspiratorial gospel. The QAnon storm is central to the broader conspiracy theory. The conspiracy of “the storm” has its origins at the start of Q’s first post on 4Chan. Q posted under a thread titled “Calm Before The Storm,” likely a reference to a weird Trump quote when he was standing with military leaders. “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” he said, and then when asked what he meant, he said, “You’ll find out.” In the fall of 2017, Q posted a very detailed rundown about a supposed future arrest of Hillary Clinton and her former campaign chairman John Podesta, and details about how this event would go down.“HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01 am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M's will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities.” What is the ‘Storm’? Nothing ever transpired. Since then, the Storm has become common parlance for an impending event in which thousands of supposed global elites, including Obama, Clinton, and any liberal you can imagine, will be detained, incarcerated, and/or executed. Usually, this is expected to be spearheaded by Trump. Though it can vary.Even though the Storm never happened (and the date of the Storm keeps getting pushed back), this hasn’t dissuaded devout followers from believing a storm is coming. It’s hard to say how many people actually believe in QAnon, but pollsters keep trying. A number of surveys have shown a strikingly inconsistent percentage of the U.S. population believes in the conspiracy-fraught theory. One poll conducted in October of 2020 showed that 7% of the U.S. population believed QAnon was true, whereas a rolling survey has shown month over month that only 4 percent of Americans support QAnon. A PRRI-IFYC study conducted online from March 8-30, 2021, showed that 15 to 20 percent of Americans (or roughly over 30 million) believe in three core ideas of QAnon. About 15 percent of Americans believe that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” This poll concluded that news media consumption was the biggest variable for QAnon beliefs. In fact, those who trust far-right news the most are more likely to believe in tenets of QAnon (go figure). How many people believe in QAnon? So how should we dissect these polls if we’re seeing such vastly different numbers? One of the issues with polling as it relates to QAnon and other conspiracy theories is that pollsters can’t get a clear picture as to who is an ardent believer and who is not. One poll with QAnon support in the single digits outright asked: “Are you a supporter of QAnon?”; the other single-digit poll asked, “What is your opinion of QAnon?” Both these questions can lead to what pollsters call social desirability bias, where respondents give what they think is a more “socially acceptable” answer instead of being truthful. On the other hand, the PRRI-IFYC study asked respondents questions related to whether they believed in specific QAnon tenets without directly asking whether they supported the conspiracy theory.The issue with the PRRI-IFYC study is that QAnon isn’t unique in its conspiracy theories—it’s a tentpole of some pretty old conspiracies. So asking questions about beliefs might not be catching other kinds of believers. At the same time, one might believe in some of these tenets and not follow QAnon at all. Whatever the case, even if we accept that at least 4 percent of the U.S. population believes in QAnon, that’s roughly 13 million people. Having said that, more people believe in ghosts, demons, and other supernatural beings than believe in Q. But ghosts, demons, and other supernatural beings don’t necessarily pose an existential threat to democracy. The Facebook Papers. That’s what thousands of pages of leaked internal documents are being called. Apart from showing Facebook’s mishandling of misinformation, it also demonstrated that Facebook was well aware of the damage its algorithm was having on people—and how quickly it shuffles people down a conspiracy-laced rabbit hole. A study conducted by Facebook researchers demonstrated just how easy it is for someone with a conservative political leaning to be served QAnon conspiracies and right-wing misinformation. In 2019, a researcher set up a fake Facebook account for a fictitious Carol Smith, a hypothetical Wilmington, North Carolina, mom who was politically conservative. Within just two days of her profile being created, Smith received recommendations to join Facebook groups that were dedicated to QAnon. Even without following these groups, within a week, her feed was full of hate speech and disinformation that violated Facebook’s policies.This one example showcases how Facebook’s algorithm could easily radicalize a person. The global pandemic has also meant more people are at home and apart from friends and loved ones. With more people online and using technology to stay connected, an algorithm that pushes conspiracy theories can easily lead to dire consequences. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube suggest content that can easily radicalize and indoctrinate individuals. Because of this, QAnon is tearing families apart—with loved ones becoming radicalized and moving to forums and sites with like-minded conspiracists where they share harmful hoaxes and beliefs which have led to violent acts and even murder. What role does social media play in QAnon’s popularity? It’s important to note that Facebook and YouTube aren’t the only platforms rife with misinformation. Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and other social networks had to crack down on misinformation once QAnon conspiracy theories started spreading widely on them. Even after social media de-platformed QAnon, it’s still festering in other forums and websites—and let’s not forget that QAnon got its start on 4chan. Q falsely claims to be a government insider working for the Department of Energy with Q-level security clearance and close ties to Trump. For years, the burning question has been who is behind Q? But it seems likely there could be multiple authors behind the eponymous leader of the movement.One possible author behind Q is Ron Watkins, the son of Jim Watkins, an internet entrepreneur who founded a Japanese porn site in the 1990s. He expanded to imageboards after allegedly stealing 2channel from its original owner, who hosted the website on Jim’s servers. In 2014, Ron convinced his father to acquire the imageboard 8chan and became one of the site’s administrators. In 2018 the QAnon movement packed up and moved from 4chan to 8chan. Who is Q? Since the move, it’s been speculated that Jim and/or Ron Watkins had a hand in nurturing the conspiracy theory. The former software developer of 8Chan, Fredrick Brennan, told Insider that he believes Jim Watkins played a part in “Q drops.” In 2021, Ron slipped a not-so-subtle clue that he might be Q. As VICE News reported, “Ron Watkins spoke about his newfound fame as a key spreader of baseless claims about voter fraud after Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Then he said: “It was basically three years of intelligence training, teaching normies how to do intelligence work. It was basically what I was doing anonymously before.” Later, after realizing his mistake,he added, “...never as Q.” Though Ron adamantly denies he is Q, he’s parlaying the cred he’s earned in the movement and attempting to run for Congress in 2022. Though Jim and Ron Watkins both deny they are Q, whatever the case, the conspiracy has grown beyond the creator. Even without Q posting for nearly a year, conspiracies still grow and thrive. Q posted his final drop on December 8, 2020, a month after Trump lost the election. Despite the silence, the movement has continued to grow and evolve, finding new adherents inside mainstream politics and in communities like the evangelical church. Q seemed to know trouble was coming, because ahead of the election he told followers to go into stealth mode and avoid mentioning QAnon. What happened to QAnon after Trump’s election loss? So in the wake of the January 6 attack, where QAnon followers like the QAnon Shaman played a central role in storming the Capitol, many adherents of the movement attempted to distance themselves from the conspiracy, claiming somehow that QAnon was a construct of the media.To back up this patently ludicrous claim, followers pointed to a Q drop that said: “There is Q. There are Anons. There is no QAnon.” The followers did this to allow them to continue to spread their conspiracies without the negative press QAnon attracted after the Capitol riot.Even though Trump lost and was banned from mainstream social media, QAnon followers focused primarily on the efforts to undermine the democratic process. They spent a lot of energy boosting the sham recount in Maricopa County in Arizona, as well as efforts in other parts of the country to undermine election results and convince election officials of their wild theories. Central to this was Ron Watkins, who restyled himself as a cybersecurity expert who knew more about voting machines than pretty much anyone in the world. Even though his “expertise” was highly questionable, he succeeded in becoming a right-wing talking head, and was even retweeted by Trump—before both were kicked off mainstream social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, along with tens of thousands of their followers.Many parts of the GOP world have embraced QAnon conspiracies, including dozens of candidates for 2022, and even Donald Trump Jr. There are also plenty of people grifting off the QAnon support base, hosting talks and conferences across the country, including a conference in May in Texas where Michael Flynn called for an uprising like the Myanmar military coup, and a conference in October at a Vegas hotel owned by major Trump backer Don Ahern. Flynn has been joined by right-wing figures like Kraken lawyers Lin Wood and Sydney Powell, as well as conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, as major players in the post-Trump QAnon universe.Besides seeing their conspiracy theories becoming part of the Republican Party orthodoxy, QAnon followers have also found a new home in right-wing churches where evangelical pastors are ready to go to war over the belief that Donald Trump is still president—pastors like Pastor Greg Locke, who spouts conspiracy theories about child sex trafficking tunnels under the White House from the pulpit. Though there are also some pastors fighting back against the spread of these conspiracies within the church.Other QAnon supporters have moved into even more dangerous parts of extremism, including white supremacy and antisemitism. Just this month, we saw QAnon head in a new direction when an antisemitic leader of a cult-like offshoot, who bases his predictions on numerology, convinced hundreds of followers to travel to Dallas to see the return of JFK—which obviously never happened. The anti-vax movement is far larger than QAnon, but the conspiracy theory has pointed its large pyramid eye on the COVID vaccine, with disastrous results. QAnon has joined the far-right in radicalizing anti-vaxxers, turning steadfast yet passive refusal to get vaccinated into more-extremist fervor. Influential conspiracy theorists have pushed COVID treatment “alternatives” such as ivermectin, a medication primarily meant to treat parasitic diseases in livestock. Some just disregard the idea of COVID treatments since they consider the infectious disease to be a complete hoax. Threats of violence have even emerged over vaccines, with Romana Didulo, the self-proclaimed QAnon “Queen of Canada,” urging her followers to “shoot to kill” people who are vaccinating children. Those who choose to remain unvaccinated in America are varied in background and their reasons why, but conspiracy theories like the ones advanced by QAnon push anti-vaccine sentiment to the extreme, making vaccinations not a matter of choice but of life and death. Anti-vax conspiracy theories With all new belief systems, there usually comes a schism, a war between sides whose views might seem to differ minutely for an outsider but are critical to insiders. The conspiracy's first civil war spawned from an unlikely catalyst, the conservative darling Kyle Rittenhouse. The teen gunman who killed two people appeared on Tucker Carlson’s increasingly conspiratorial show and accused Lin Wood of “taking advantage” of him when the former Trump lawyer briefly represented him in 2020. This sparked criticism from other notable figures in the movement, who came to Rittenhouse’s defense and denounced Woods. Under attack, Woods lashed out at his fellow QAnon figurehead and unofficial leader of the movement, Michael Flynn, accusing Flynn of not defending him. Woods’ divisive slights toward Flynn have since divided their conspiratorial supporters. The sparring between the two escalated when Wood released the audio of a phone call between Flynn and himself. Flynn had some choice words when it came to the movement that has so far venerated him, calling QAnon “total nonsense” and its supporters a bunch of “kooks.” Even after his comments, his supporters seem unphased, with some, like influencer Craig Longley, dismissing Flynn’s comments as merely a distraction. Though supporters of the conspiracy theory have been separating into splinter groups—such as the JFK cult—the Flynn-Woods feud marks a breaking point in the movement. Supporters are forced to pick sides, with the opposing side becoming “deep state” agitators—the heretics of the QAnon world.This page was originally published in mid-November 2021. It’s been updated for improved clarity on the topic.
Students at Victory College are encouraged to follow their passions in cultural studies as it contributes to their overall development and achievement. Music is an integral part of the school’s fabric, with all students in Prep to Year 6 participating in weekly music lessons. Music can also be chosen as an elective subject for Years 7-10. The College offers a music course for Year 11 and 12 students with five lessons a week. Students will perform their chosen instrument or voice, rehearse as a member of an ensemble and compose and record music as part of the learning program. There is also a strong extra-curricular music program on offer at the school where students can join our award-winning: Students can also participate in the instrumental program run by qualified music teachers who give weekly individual or small group instruction. Instruments include piano, guitar, percussion, strings, brass and woodwind. See the Victory Arts section for more details and enrolment forms. Victory College offers after-school dance classes as part of our Victory Arts program. Victory Arts Dance runs safe and caring classes, ensuring that all classes and performances are age appropriate. We encourage every student to develop a love of dance, as well as nurture the professional technique and skills required to reach their potential. Our passionate and qualified teachers provide each student the opportunity to develop skills and reach their personal best in an enjoyable, stimulating and Christian environment. Classes are conducted after school, on campus at Victory College. More information about classes and enrolment forms can be found below. Drama can be chosen as an elective subject for Years 7-10. It provides the fundamentals of theatre. (Students who are interested in drama may also be interested in media studies). Every second year Victory College puts on a Secondary production for the community. There is also a Primary Speech Choir (whereby students undertake verse speaking in groups) and in the weekly primary chapel services, students can perform on stage. Visual Arts is taught through Primary and is also offered in Senior as part of the curriculum. Our aim is: The College supports the ethos of the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority and the syllabus is aligned accordingly with the specific arts outcomes and standards relative to the appropriate grades. Students are taught a variety of media areas such as: Within these media areas an assortment of subject matter and techniques are explored. Visual Arts is offered in Years 7-12. Digital Art is offered in Years 9-10. Visual Art in Practice is offered in Years 11 and 12. Students can exhibit their art around the school and in the community (at the Gympie Show) and a selection of art works are featured in Gympie Regional Library. Victory Arts is a comprehensive and progressive extra-curricular program offering specialist voice and instrumental lessons and dance classes for students, from beginners to advanced levels. Within the Victory Arts Program, Primary and Secondary students can pursue their love of music and performing arts by participating in individual or shared lessons. Our teachers are privileged to share your child’s journey in mastering a new instrument or performing in front of an audience and seeing their confidence grow. Performance is an important aspect of a student’s musical education and there are a number of opportunities at Victory College where students can develop these skills. Tuition is available in the following areas: * Dependant on number of enrolments Victory Arts lessons are delivered both by Victory performing arts teachers, as well as a variety of external teachers who visit our campus to deliver individual, small group and class sessions. All teachers are industry trained professionals with many years of experience in both teaching and performance. Most tuition is scheduled within College hours; however, some of the groups – such as Dance classes – may be held out of College hours. Please note that times may vary due to enrolments. The cost of tuition is in addition to College Fees. The enrolment forms (see below) indicate the cost of each type of tuition and any instrument hire costs. The cost of tuition is in addition to College Fees: Victory College has a wealth of performance opportunities throughout the year for Victory Arts students of all levels and all disciplines. In fact, at Victory, we believe that performing artists should be just that… performers! Thirty-minute lessons are given to individual students or to two students who share the lesson. The shared lesson gives students the opportunity to learn at a reduced cost while enjoying the benefits of a small group environment. It is recommended that students who are more advanced have an individual lesson with the teacher so that more focus can be directed to individual needs and the student can learn at their own pace. After the initial learning stages, students can consider undertaking music exams as the exam recognises a national standard of achievement and creates a timeframe for the work to be completed. Students preparing for exams must have an individual lesson. Our dance lessons vary from 30mins to 60 mins, depending on each class. Should you need to withdraw your child from Victory Arts lessons, please complete the Victory Arts Withdrawal Form (see below).
- 8 Bedrooms - 7 Bathrooms - 1.047 m2 An outstanding example of a luxury lifestyle home, ideally positioned within one of the Costa del Sols most exclusive neighborhoods. This stunning property can be found next to King’s Fahd Palace within a highly sought-after area on Marbella’s Golden Mile. Set within lush mature gardens the Villa is presented to the market with the highest possible specification and boasts a superb location, only minutes from the famous Marbella Club Hotel and Puente Romano Resort. This magnificent 8-bedroom contemporary villa is immaculately presented and whilst being ideally placed is wonderfully private, fully gated and minutes from the golden beaches of Marbella. The architecture blends traditional Andalusian charm, with the characteristics of a luxury modern hotel. Thanks to the large dramatic window features, vaulted ceilings and apex skylights, the villa bursts with natural light and also enjoys spectacular mountain views. Set over 3 floors, the villa provides over 1000m2 of living areas, within 2000m2 of tropical gardens. The beautiful pool is accompanied by a stunning pool bar, barbecue and jacuzzi with ample areas to relax, basking in the Mediterranean sun or dine on one of the many elevated terraces. The main living area is concentrated on the middle floor. The vast lounge area is beautifully connected to the exterior and benefits from floor to ceiling windows looking up to a stunning gallery. This leads on, to an incredible top of the range kitchen, a dining room with its own terrace and a double bedroom suite. Upstairs, there are 3 master bedroom suites, and a further en-suite children’s room. Here you will also find the gallery which is the perfect place to start the day with breakfast and spectacular views. Continuing down to the basement level is a myriad of additional features. 2 further bedrooms, a fully equipped home gym studio and utility facilities. To tick off a few practicalities, the property offers underfloor heating and cooling throughout, natural gas central heating, a fully installed alarm system, automated gated entrance and entry phone system, triple garage with automated doors, with a huge driveway with ample space for visitor parking. Elegant artwork and furnishings add ambience to the villa and all bathrooms are finished to the highest quality with modern marble tiling. This is a stunning example of a Luxury Villa on Marbella’s Golden Mile a simply exceptional example of property within one of the most exclusive neighborhoods on the Mediterranean coast.
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Learning and development (L&D) professionals across the UK are welcoming a new strategy from the government which places importance on skills and training. The proposed strategy commits £170 million towards creating Institutes of Technology around the country as it hopes to bridge the current skills gap that is restricting businesses. The Prime Minister’s strategy also hopes to restructure technical education, replacing many qualifications that are low quality, with just 15 core technical routes. Skills will be focused to boost expertise specifically in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. As people are beginning to work longer, the strategy also prioritises lifelong learning to keep up with the accelerating pace of technological change. Chris Jones, chief executive, City & Guilds Group, commented on the proposals: “Placing skills at the heart of the industrial strategy can only be a good thing for our economy. The government must tread carefully. “At the moment, we are at risk of initiative overload, what with the apprenticeship levy and the 3m target, the Technical & FE Bill and the Area-Based reviews, among others. We also need to be careful that the Institutes of Technology don’t simply end up being a rebrand of colleges. The funding proposed is not enough to establish new providers.” Currently a consultation on the strategy is underway and a conclusion will be reached on April 17th. It is hoped that the government delivers on its promises as the skills gap in certain sectors is so large that unless the industry acts now to train young people to take up apprenticeships and graduate positions, Chris Wood, chief executive, Develop Training believes “we face the very real possibility of the UK’s national infrastructure failing as current workers retire”. Mr Wood argues that a new approach to training is needed, blending traditional classroom-based education and hands-on learning with “e-learning, the need for self-and peer-supported development, and the development of both digital and personal social skills”.
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Gloria Höckner & Team Four performers and a humanoid sex robot engage in a game with surveillance technologies that analyse their emotions and classify them. They explore what it means to be »recognised« in the eyes of artificial intelligence. They hack their digital twins, transform and duplicate their physical bodies. Their gazes cross those of the camera, faces become instruments. In immersive soundscapes, the performers momentarily shake socially constructed categories perpetuated in technology. They make the area in between their world and discover the poetics of glitches – disturbances in the system. Gloria Höckner (they, them) deals with the relation of the body to technology and (power) structures. After »Futurecore 2000 – All Beats Are Beautiful« as part of »Introducing…« at the Performing Arts Festival 2020, »Sentimental Bits« is Glorias second collaboration with Ballhaus Ost. Language no problem Artistic direction, co-choreography, concept Gloria Höckner Performance, co-choreography Katja-Maria/Kay Taavitsainen, Lois Bartel, Rebecca Pokua Korang, Tanja Erhart Dramaturgy Isabel Gatzke Music Victoria Keddie Costume, masks Ilona Klein Text Isabel Gatzke, Gloria Höckner Stage design Einsiedel & Jung Light design, technical direction Ricarda Schnoor Programming Paul Geisler, Fabian Nitschkowski 3D-models Vanessa A. Opoku Production management, communication Stückliesel Video-operator Mateo Bialokozowics A production by Gloria Höckner in coproduction with K3 and in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost Berlin. Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Elbkulturfonds, Co-financing fund of Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
5 years ago I want to make sure everyone knows this store is NOT PERMANENTLY CLOSED, as Google incorrectly states. I was just there on 4/21/18. The owner said she's had trouble getting Google to correct their error. So hopefully this review helps. The store IS OPEN, and is switching to their summer hours on Memorial Day Weekend (which I believe means they will be open every day; in the spring they are only open weekends.). I encourage everyone to stop by. The store is filled with beautiful things, and they are displayed in such a charming manner! This is one of my favorite places to browse. I always find at least one thing I have to have. They have clothing, accessories, jewelry and items for the home. Examples of my recent purchases include the goats-milk lavender soap with the attached loofah, and a scarf that is the perfect weight and color (not to heavy, not too thin, and a beautiful blush-pink color). I highly recommend this shop.
GoMystery in Nykøbing F – A treasure hunt for adults Take your family and your friends on a different and challenging tour in the old merchant town. GoMystery sends you on an expedition in Nykøbing Falster, where you are going to solve the riddles in the exercise book as you pay attention to the surroundings. The surroundings give you the necessary hints, and when using logic and co-operation you will find the answer of the location of your next stop. GoMystery works almost like an Escape Room, just without locks and time limits. You get a self-guided walk through the town to the exciting buildings, places and works of art of the town, and you get the stories about the different places. On the way you will also see places or details which you otherwise would not have seen. If you run out of ideas for solving an exercise, do not despair. There is an enclosed supplementary book where you can get the lifelines which will send you further. The tour in Nykøbing Falster is called “The Curse of the Fortune Teller” because the experience is tied together with a dramatized story about a fortune teller who once lived in the town… the question is if you are able to help her with breaking the curse? GoMystery can be experienced when it suits you, you just have to pay attention to the opening hours of the collection place. If you need a break on the way or decide to wait for dry weather, you can simply continue when you are ready. GoMystery also runs tours in Maribo and Marielyst. The tour is going to be solved in groups of 2 to 5 people, you must expect a duration of 3 hours and walk about 3 km. Location: Frisegade 2, 4800 Nykøbing F.
The bird sanctuary at Gundsømagle Lake and Reed Beds Gundsømagle Lake and Bird Sanctuary is a great day out for the whole family. The 300 hectare lake area has two covered bird towers connected by an 800 metre long footpath and a 300 metre long footbridge through the reed forest. The footbridge is unique in Denmark and offers a unique opportunity to experience the birds and wildlife of the reedbeds up close. It has been built to give you the feeling of "getting lost" in the reeds, and there are benches along the way for you to rest on. The walk to the reedbed takes you along a footpath through an enchanted forest with crooked trees and many opportunities to see birds, frogs and plants along the way. The footpath passes between two bird-watching towers, from where you have a beautiful view of the landscape and the lake with its exciting birdlife, including bearded tit, heron and marsh harrier. Gundsømagle is a bird sanctuary owned and managed by the Bird Protection Foundation. The cycle path "Jyllingesløjfen" passes by Gundsømagle lake and the bird sanctuary. The car park at Fugletårn Vest is only a 40-minute drive from Copenhagen. Directions: Follow the A6 from Roskilde towards Ølstykke. Take the exit to Gundsømagle and follow the road to Østrup. In Østrup there is a sign pointing to the car park on St. Valbyvej opposite the large white Østrupgård.
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After graduating from Catholic University, I inquired where people went to get the best training in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory and practice. The Washington School of Psychiatry and the DC Institute for Mental Hygiene were named repeatedly. I knew nothing about the Institute’s stellar history when I began working in one of the three branches of what was typically called DCIMH. I am only now fully aware of its incredible backstory. Dr. Harold Eist was appointed the Medical Director of the tiny Institute in 1969 with a handful of staff members seeing less than a total of twenty patients. Harold was the genius behind creating the Institute’s mission which set it apart from all other community mental health centers. The mission was two-fold: first, to provide the same kind of quality mental health care to the poor that the affluent could receive; and second, to offer the best psychoanalytic training to volunteers so that they would flock to the Institute, gladly trading their time and service for the opportunity to learn psychoanalytic theory and practice treating this population. This mission drove its success.
Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Saifa Wall are both intersex. Their bodies or reproductive anatomy don’t fit typical definitions of male or female. When Pidgeon was just a year old, their parents agreed to the first of several surgeries that altered Pidgeon’s body. Surgeries on intersex children have been commonplace since the 1960s. But Pidgeon and Saifa are adamant that intersex people, not just their parents and doctors, should have a say in what happens to their bodies. In 2013 at StoryCorps Chicago, Pidgeon described one of their earliest memories, a surgery they had when they were four years old: “I woke up in a hospital with bloody tissue between my legs, and then I remember just looking up and seeing fluorescent lights going past really fast.” Year after year, Pidgeon and Saifa shared their childhood traumas to anyone who would listen. Since 2017, they have focused their organizing on one place in particular: Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. They organized protests and online campaigns, educating people and calling for an end to surgeries on kids who are intersex. Their years of advocacy have led to real change. In July, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago announced they were suspending surgeries on intersex children who are not able to give consent, the first hospital in the United States to do so. The hospital also apologized to intersex people who were harmed by past standards of care. Since Lurie Children’s Hospital suspended the surgeries, another children’s hospital in Boston has followed suit. When Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Saifa Wall spoke to each other for StoryCorps, they talked about the victory at Lurie, and what years of publicly sharing their traumas has meant. Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Saifa Wall are co-founders of the Intersex Justice Project. This interview was facilitated by StoryCorps Chicago’s Mary Bess Ser. Special thanks to Kate Sosin, whose reporting on Pidgeon and Saifa helped inform this story. Bill Healy produces StoryCorps Chicago for WBEZ and teaches journalism at Northwestern University. Follow him @chicagoan.
With just 38% of the population eligible to give blood & just a fraction of eligible donors actually donating, the American Red Cross is asking those who can to give blood more often. To donate blood, you need to be 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds & be in good general health. The Red Cross will be in Sturgeon Bay Monday & Tuesday to conduct a blood drive at Saint Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. All types of blood are needed to insure a reliable supply for patients. The hours of operation are Monday, from noon to 6PM & Tuesday from 9AM to 3PM. saint Peter’s Lutheran Church is located at 108 West Maple Street in Sturgeon Bay.
“This Is Burning Man” WAFDust Podcast #07 In WAFDust Podcast #7, Yomi Ayeni is in conversation with journalist Brian Doherty, author of “This Is Burning Man’. Brian talks about the early years in the desert, his experiences at the pivotal 1996 burn, and some of the fundamental reasons why the event had no choice but to evolve. We look at the juxtaposition and impact of hosting Burning Man art outside the desert, and the role and mission of We Are From Dust. This is WAFDust Podcast 07 Projects referenced in this podcast - This Is Burning Man by Brian Doherty Photo credit: George Post
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UET Lahore Entry Test Schedule 2013: In this piece of article we will be highlighting all the details about UET Lahore Entry Test Schedule 2013. UET stands for University of Engineering and Technology. This institution has been marked out to be one of the most famous and distinguished popular educational organizations in Pakistan. Each year UET has arrived with the admissions during the month of July or August as soon as the Intermediate results are announced for the students. UET Lahore Entry Test Schedule 2013 If the students are in the favor to get admission in this renowned university then they have to pass through the engineering test known as ECAT. This test is normally undertaken by UET itself. As the date sheet has been concerned then they are usually declared one month before the commencement of the examinations. Now if the students want to get hold over the date sheet then they can get connected with this webpage. We will be soon updating the students all about the schedule and date sheet for the ECAT test by UET. In addition, the UET ECAT test is based upon the subjects of the FSC and DAE. All those students that are eligible for the ECAT test they must be passed through the FSC, DAE, BSC and B.Tech examinations. Following is the list of the main subjects that are evolved within the test: - Computer Science The test pattern will be carried out according to the University management. Now if the students feel any trouble regarding the examinations then this webpage is all accessible for you as the helping hand. Just make sure that you are clearly known about the schedule and terms and conditions. Just get signed into this webpage and we are sure that you will be soon be getting all the informative details about the examination schedule.
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The outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu in China should be viewed as a major global concern. So far, there have been 127 reported cases, out of which 26 people have died. The transmission of H7N9 takes place from birds to humans. So far there has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission, which will require a few more mutations of the virus. The problem with this virus is that there are no symptoms in the birds and it is difficult to know when a particular community of birds gets sick, making it hard to predict when and where the next case will be. Another worry is that the case mortality rate is extremely high – around 20%, which is much higher than previous flu epidemics. This strain of bird flu also seems to be more easily transmitted from birds to humans, according to the World Health Organization. All these factors make it essential for us to take notice and actively work towards preventing a pandemic. The Center for Disease Control in China has learned a lot from past epidemics – SARS and H1N1 – and is managing the best they can. But, given the above uncertainties, it is not an easy job. While the world is better prepared for an epidemic/pandemic than it was when SARS broke out, there is still potential for the virus to have a huge impact on the region in question. A critical element of commerce today is travel, and any industry which relies on transport will be affected by a pandemic, if it occurs. Travel becomes severely constrained, impacting the airline and tourism industries, logistics and the supply chain. Of course, immediately impacted are also industries connected to agriculture, livestock, food supply and restaurants due to contamination of poultry farms. These industries need to be aware and take precautions to mitigate the risks associated with a pandemic. Affected countries and those with the potential to get affected also need to have prevention measures in place to avoid severe adverse impact. Public health systems of some countries have been dormant after the 1940s and 1950s in the aftermath of eradicating polio, and have been lulled into complacency. The population needs to relearn the basic fundamentals of public health to escape the risk of an outbreak. I suspect that there will be a substantial imperative to make a H7N9 vaccine. However, there are several barriers to the successful creation and distribution of vaccines. First, it takes a while to make the vaccine since every strain of influenza is different – we can’t immediately have a supply of millions of doses of vaccines. Second, not all countries have the manufacturing capacity for vaccines and have to rely on those countries that do. Some countries are better prepared. Japan has invested over US$ 1 billion to develop manufacturing capabilities of influenza vaccines domestically, making the country stronger against a potential risk. But in general, each nation acts in its self-interest and there exists an unhappy and unfair distribution of vaccines. Rich countries have better negotiation power and are able to stockpile vaccines, whereas poorer countries, which sometimes need them more, have to wait until the domestic needs of the rich are met and then are supplied with what remains. When there’s a limited supply of vaccines, who gets it? And what is fair? It’s uncertain when there are economics of production involved. But what is clear is that it’s not fair that the poor, who may be at greatest risk, have the least access to the much needed potentially life-saving vaccines. Author: Tadataka Yamada is Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Executive Vice-President and Board Member, of Takeda Pharmaceuticals International. He is also a Member of the Global Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine. Image: A man covers his face among his chickens REUTERS/William Hong Don't miss any update on this topic Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. License and Republishing The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
Universities are proving their sustainability worth by driving SDGs Image: Photo by Muhammad Rizwan on Unsplash Explore and monitor how Sustainable Development is affecting economies, industries and global issues Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale Stay up to date: Listen to the article - Western Sydney University is the world’s number one university in 2023 in terms of the contribution it makes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. - Canada dominates the overall world top ten, with four institutions included in the Impact Rankings, and the UK leads the overall top 100 list, taking more places than any other nation, with 26. - With the ranking in its fifth annual edition, a record 1,705 universities from 115 countries were assessed, as more institutions worldwide seek to demonstrate their commitment to helping deliver the goals. “Yes, we educate. Yes, we do research. But if we are not making an impact and making a difference then we are not fulfilling the goal of our existence.” So says Claire Pollock, provost of Western Sydney University, named as the world’s number one university overall for the second consecutive year in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. The Impact Rankings are different to standard university ratings. They do not judge universities on traditional metrics, such as their academic reputation, their resources, their Nobel-prize-winning faculty or their entry requirements. The Impact Rankings judge the impact universities make on the world through a detailed assessment of the contribution they make to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Western Sydney University beat more prestigious, household-name universities to the world's number one position for its global leadership across a number of specific SDGs. Its vice-chancellor, Barney Glover, told Times Higher Education that the university’s multiple urban campus locations across Sydney’s Greater Western region give it a first-hand experience of some of the biggest sustainability challenges of the 21st century: rapid urban growth, urban heat and entrenched inequalities. SDG5 demands gender equality and SDG10 seeks reduced inequality more generally. Western Sydney University has demonstrated its commitment to tackling these goals not just through a strong record of research in the field, but by its own actions: 46% of its senior academic staff are women and more than 7,000 of its students are the first in their families to go to university. In terms of climate action (SDG13), the university boasts the prestigious Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment and it can also show that 100% of the electricity used on campus is from renewable sources and that it has a fast-track commitment to a carbon-neutral campus. The Impact Rankings assess universities across all 17 of the SDGs on four key parameters: their research; their teaching; their outreach to governments, businesses and the wider community; and the stewardship of their own resources, including their campuses, but more importantly perhaps, their people. There are 17 separate rankings for each of the 17 SDGs and an overall ranking showing institution-wide commitment across the board. This unique lens provides a fresh, alternative perspective on university excellence and it makes for a highly diverse ranking. Five different countries make up the overall world top ten, for example. Taking second place overall behind Western Sydney, is the UK’s University of Manchester, followed by Queen’s University in Canada. Malaysia’s Universiti Sains Malaysia takes fourth place, while another Australian university, Tasmania, completes the top five. America’s Arizona State University takes sixth place. Amid the great diversity of excellence on display in the Impact Rankings, some dominant regions have emerged. Canada dominates the overall world top ten, with four institutions included, and it takes 16 of the world top-100 places, ahead of Australia, with three top-ten universities and 15 top-100 entrants. The UK leads the overall top 100 list, taking more places than any other nation, with 26. The diversity shown in the overall list continues in the 17 individual rankings for each SDG, where ten different countries take a number-one position, including many institutions from the Global South: South Africa’s University of Johannesburg takes the top position for SDG1 (no poverty); Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology leads for SDG4 (quality education); IPB University in Indonesia and Australia’s RMIT University take joint first place for SDG8 (decent work and economic growth); and Universiti Sains Malaysia leads the table for SDG16 (peace, justice and strong institutions). Thousands of universities rank for delivering SDG goals With the ranking in its fifth annual edition in 2023, a record 1,705 universities from 115 countries were assessed, as more institutions worldwide seek to demonstrate their commitment to helping deliver the SDGs. In an interview with Times Higher Education, Arsh Ahmed, Vice Chancellor of Pakistan’s Lahore University of Management Sciences, lamented that the world does not seem to have much faith in the contribution that higher education can make in delivering the SDGs – pointing out that the word “university” appears only once in the UN’s description of the SDGs and their targets and metrics. “We want to prove any doubters wrong – to show that in fact we are extremely well positioned and can make a huge difference,” he said. For John Gill, Times Higher Education’s Editor, the Impact Rankings provide that proof. They highlight, he says “a simple truth: that far from being ivory towers, universities of every size and type are at the forefront of addressing the most pressing problems facing the world, with the great advantage that they are embedded in communities pretty much everywhere.” Don't miss any update on this topic Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. License and Republishing The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum. More on Global CooperationSee all Alexandre Raffoul and Kai Keller April 10, 2024 March 22, 2024 Marcela Guerrero Casas March 18, 2024 March 15, 2024 March 6, 2024 Cham Nimul and Ratnakar Adhikari February 8, 2024
Look who spotted Weifield’s sponsorship banner at the Bike MS Colorado race at the end of June — none other than valued partner, Peter H. from Howell International! Participants of the Bike MS race traveled through unique towns along the front range and wove through the countryside on a two-day ride bordering the foothills—taking in views of Longs Peak, Colorado’s most famous 14er, in an area known as one of Colorado’s most scenic outdoor paradises. Bike MS is the largest fundraising cycling series in the world. Each year, nearly 75,000 cyclists and more than 6,000 teams ride together to change the world for people with MS. To date, Bike MS cyclists, volunteers, and donors have raised more than $1.4 billion to stop MS in its tracks, restore what’s been lost, and end MS forever. Anyone interested in participating in events to support the MS Society can visit: https://mssociety.donordrive.com/ We were honored to sponsor this fantastic event — thanks for the support, Peter!
As dead skin cells build up, they cause dullness and—worse yet—prevent your treatment-focused products from fully soaking in. To slough off these dead-skin cells and make way for your healthy new glow, you'll need to exfoliate away that detritus. The most efficient means of doing so? Slathering on a resurfacing peel to bring that beam back to your visage. "Resurfacing peels help generate skin cell turnover, which helps brighten your skin's surface," says Kathryn Dickinson, founder of Atlanta and Denver-based Aillea, a clean beauty boutique and website. "They work very subtly and gently to help remove dead skin cells and leave you with a glowy complexion." They do this ninja-like work via plant and fruit enzymes or different acids (like AHA and BHA) to stimulate the exfoliation (Dickinson prefers the fruit-based ones). "These work together to even your skin tone, reduce the appearance of fine lines and pores," explains Dickinson. If you have breakouts, they're great for that too. "The enzyme exfoliators are are less abrasive to sensitive, acne-prone skin than physical exfoliants and will help battle breakouts." She adds that they can help diminish acne scars too, and help soothe inflammation. Just remember that more is less when it comes to peels and don't overdo them—because it'll lead to over-exfoliation. And that brings on a whole new slew of problems. Instead? Try a peel treatment once or twice a week. Keep reading to shop rockstar resurfacing peels. Shop glow-inducing peels But can you really shrink your pores? Either way, this is the right way to exfoliate, according to your skin type. Loading More Posts...
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What to Look for in an Extended-Care Policy Extended-care coverage can be complex. Here's a list of questions to ask that may help you better understand the costs and benefits of these policies. What types of facilities are covered? Extended-care policies can cover nursing home care, home health care, respite care, hospice care, personal care in your home, assisted living facilities, adult daycare centers, and other community facilities. Many policies cover some combination of these. Ask what facilities are included when you're considering a policy. What is the daily, weekly, or monthly benefit amount? Policies normally pay benefits by the day, week, or month. You may want to evaluate how (and how much) eldercare facilities in your area charge for their services before committing to a policy. What is the maximum benefit amount? Many policies limit the total benefit they'll pay over the life of the contract. Some state this limit in years, others in total dollar amount. Be sure to address this question. What is the elimination period? Extended-care policy benefits don't necessarily start when you enter a nursing home. Most policies have an elimination period – a timeframe during which the insured is wholly responsible for the cost of care. In many policies, elimination periods will be either 30, 60, or 90 days after nursing home entry or disability.1 Does the policy offer inflation protection? Adding inflation protection to a policy may increase its cost, but it could be very important as the price of extended care may increase significantly over time. When are benefits triggered? Insurers set some criteria for this. Commonly, extended-care policies pay out benefits when the insured person cannot perform 2 to 3 out of six activities of daily living (ADLs) without assistance. The six activities, cited by most insurance companies, include bathing, caring for incontinence, dressing, eating, toileting, and transferring. A medical evaluation of Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia may also make the insured eligible for benefits.2 Is the policy tax qualified? In such a case, the policyholder may be eligible for a federal or state tax break. Under federal law and some state laws, premiums paid on a tax-qualified extended-care policy are considered tax-deductible medical expenses once certain thresholds are met. The older you are, the more you may be able to deduct under federal law. You must itemize deductions to qualify for such a tax break, of course.3 Keep in mind, this article is for informational purposes only and is not a replacement for real-life advice, so make sure to consult your tax professional before modifying your extended-care strategy. How strong is the insurance company? There are several firms that analyze the financial strength of insurance companies. Their ratings can give you some perspective. There are many factors to consider when reviewing extended-care policies. The best policy for you may depend on a variety of factors, including your own unique circumstances and financial goals. 1. ACL.gov, 2022 2. Investopedia.com, 2022 3. AALTCI.org, 2022 The content is developed from sources believed to be providing accurate information. The information in this material is not intended as tax or legal advice. It may not be used for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. Please consult legal or tax professionals for specific information regarding your individual situation. This material was developed and produced by FMG Suite to provide information on a topic that may be of interest. FMG Suite is not affiliated with the named broker-dealer, state- or SEC-registered investment advisory firm. The opinions expressed and material provided are for general information, and should not be considered a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. Copyright FMG Suite.
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