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AI can drive savings for business travelers says AMEX GBT
SAVING money and time is one thing artificial intelligence (AI) can do well, and American Express (AMEX) Global Business Travel (GBT) is using the technology to deliver savings every time clients book a hotel room.
In an exclusive interview with Tech Wire Asia during a trip to Singapore, Chief Information and Technology Officer David Thompson spills the beans on the company’s AI-based booking solution.
As AMEX GBT books hotel rooms for clients, it follows travel policies handed down to them (preferred hotels, agreements, etc). However, as most hotel’s inventory changes frequently, opportunities to move the traveler into a lower cost hotel room with the same amenities often arises.
“This is where we found the opportunity to leverage AI. We trained AI to understand where the hotel room is and what the amenities are.”
The descriptions for the rooms and amenities can vary dramatically from region to region. What’s called high-speed internet in Europe, for example, is called WiFi in Asia.
“We trained the AI engine to understand all the content globally, and now have the ability to constantly re-shop the hotel booking on behalf of the traveler. If we find a better opportunity to move the traveler into a better economic situation for the corporation, we present that opportunity to the traveler.”
AI helps AMEX GBT scan massive amounts of content, looking for like-for-like or better opportunities for travelers, all to ensure that the company is able to optimize its client’s spend in the travel management space.
The solution took two months to build before the initial deployment, and from the initial baseline, helped the company create an improvement ranging from three and seven percent over the first few iterations.
One of the things that Thompson’s team learned early on is that in order to make sure that the AI model was robust and efficient, the data set needed was much larger than the company has originally estimated.
“We went through historical data for a one year period and used AI to look for opportunities (to save costs) as against opportunities found by human agents, and we saw significant improvement during that time frame.”
Obviously, although in production, the AI model is constantly learning. This means that results are constantly improving — however, sometimes, the actual cost-savings depend on the client that is being served rather than the AI model.
Sometimes, strict corporate policies prevent AMEX GBT’s AI solution from actually making changes to traveler bookings, rendering it impossible to deliver cost savings.
However, Thompson’s team is often able to show how much economic value they would able to bring if the company is willing to alter its travel policies — and clients usually accept, proving AI can really make a difference.
In the future, more companies could be using AI, but the two things they need to keep in mind while developing their model is that the data set that is used to train the solution must be large enough to ensure it is robust, and that the model is tested for results against a strong baseline before it is deployed. | <urn:uuid:5788ecbb-2b83-4f00-903f-34fa3d760f09> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://techwireasia.com/2019/01/ai-can-really-drive-savings-for-business-travelers-says-amex/ | 2023-09-22T11:49:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.962192 | 651 |
When wrapping bumper with vinyl wrap film, especially when it comes to wrapping under the headlights, it can be quite challenging – particularly when you are doing a color change on a light color vehicle (for instance, a white car) for full coverage.
But here is a good solution to save you from spending too much time as well as potential troubles: Using the help from Bridgeline Tape.
Bridgeline Tape is an extra-wide knifeless tape. It can not only be used on headlights but also sections like fender and hood. With the help of it, you will have about one-centimeter extra material that you can cut on the side of the light.
Another great thing about Bridgeline Tape is that the wide green film on the tape will help you lower the surface energy, and prevent the vinyl wrap film from sticking onto the headlight during the install.
Apply the Bridgeline Tape to the headlight along the outline of the light. Make sure that you take your time and make it smooth as well as symmetrical, especially around the corner, because the tape is thick and you have to pay more attention there. As soon as you finish forming, leave at least 10 centimeters for the extra tape on either side, and cut it off.
Now you can apply the vinyl wrap film to the bumper in a standard way. The key is to make the material even, form it to the edge, and create as much glass as you can. Give it a bit of heat to relax the film, and get it to the edge of the bumper, as well as to the edge of the light.
Once this is done, you can now pull off the Bridgeline, as well as the excess film. It is all about squeegeeing down and sealing the material now. Do now remove the green film of the Bridgeline Tape yet though, as it helps you lower the surface energy.
Take your time and use the hard part of your squeegee to glide the material in, and even out the wrinkles. This is where you have to be extra cautious because once the material folds on itself, it is very difficult for you to pick up and re-do at this point.
As soon as the bumper is fully and well wrapped, you can remove the green tape at last.
By now, you would have achieved a high-quality bumper without having to spend too much time (e.g. no need to remove the headlights and put them back) or getting frustrated (e.g. if you do it as normal, when you make a cut at the end of the light, the film might end up coming short).
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Hope you’ve all had a nice August! Both Sara and I have had a wonderful few weeks off and are ready to get back on the road this fall!
First off, we want to say what a wonderful, memorable, life changing two years we’ve had while on tour in support of Heartthrob! We owe many thanks to so many people, but most of all to our marvelous fans! Over the last decade one of the things we’re most proud of is how many incredible people have stuck with us through our many records and incarnations!
We’ll be announcing a run of West Coast dates in the US over the next few weeks, so if you’re holding out for one of those shows, stay tuned for more info.
But our final show of the record cycle will be at The Republik in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 21st! This is our FIRST show EVER in Hawaii! In fact, for a lot of us, it will be our first time visiting (looking at you Sara!). We can’t think of a more magical place to end the most magical record cycle.
Tickets are available here.
If you’re looking to turn this into a little vacation (like we are!) book a room at Shoreline Hotel Waikiki or Coconut Waikiki Hotel, which are both only 10 minutes away from the venue. The hotels are offering special rates which means our amazing fans can be together in one place.
Use the promo code DIRECT for 25% off!
See you soon!
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Train the Trainer
During the training, the educationists were initially resistant to the use of psychometric tools and the concept of catering to different learning styles. However, as the training progressed, they became more engaged and actively participated in the workshops. The educationists found the workshop to be extremely helpful in their profession, and many even expressed their gratitude for the training.
The project began with a session on the basics of psychometric tools and how they could be used to understand student behavior and learning styles. Tejovathi Consulting’s associate then introduced the educationists to different learning styles, such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. The educationists were taught how to identify the learning styles of their students and plan their lessons accordingly.
As a result of the training, the educationists were able to implement the new techniques they had learned in their classrooms. They were better equipped to engage their students and cater to their individual learning styles, resulting in better learning outcomes for the students. The school administration also observed a significant improvement in the performance of the students.
Overall, the project was a great success, and Tejovathi Consulting was able to deliver a comprehensive training program that was well-received by the educationists. The company’s use of psychometric tools was particularly effective in helping the educationists understand how to plan and deliver lessons in a heterogeneous class. The project has helped to improve the quality of education in the school, and the success of the project has led to further opportunities for Tejovathi Consulting in the education sector. | <urn:uuid:c32cb538-6112-4a78-8e4a-28e5d2170896> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://tejovathi.com/portfolio/train-the-trainer/ | 2023-09-22T10:41:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.980334 | 331 |
THERE was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage concerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have appeared to take but very little notice. This personage was M. Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
Fortunately, the reader may remember, or may not remember—fortunately we have promised not to lose sight of him.
The officers who arrested him conducted him straight to the Bastille, where he passed trembling before a party of soldiers who were loading their muskets. Thence, introduced into a half-subterranean gallery, he became, on the part of those who had brought him, the object of the grossest insults and the harshest treatment. The officers perceived that they had not to deal with a gentleman, and they treated him like a very peasant.
At the end of half an hour or thereabouts, a clerk came to put an end to his tortures, but not to his anxiety, by giving the order to conduct M. Bonacieux to the Chamber of Examination. Ordinarily, prisoners were interrogated in their cells; but they did not do so with M. Bonacieux.
Two guards attended the mercer who made him traverse a court and enter a corridor in which were three sentinels, opened a door and pushed him unceremoniously into a low room, where the only furniture was a table, a chair, and a commissary. The commissary was seated in the chair, and was writing at the table.
The two guards led the prisoner toward the table, and upon a sign from the commissary drew back so far as to be unable to hear anything.
The commissary, who had till this time held his head down over his papers, looked up to see what sort of person he had to do with. This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell. He began by asking M. Bonacieux his name, age, condition, and abode.
The accused replied that his name was Jacques Michel Bonacieux, that he was fifty-one years old, a retired mercer, and lived Rue des Fossoyeurs, No. 14.
The commissary then, instead of continuing to interrogate him, made him a long speech upon the danger there is for an obscure citizen to meddle with public matters. He complicated this exordium by an exposition in which he painted the power and the deeds of the cardinal, that incomparable minister, that conqueror of past ministers, that example for ministers to come—deeds and power which none could thwart with impunity.
After this second part of his discourse, fixing his hawk’s eye upon poor Bonacieux, he bade him reflect upon the gravity of his situation.
The reflections of the mercer were already made; he cursed the instant when M. Laporte formed the idea of marrying him to his goddaughter, and particularly the moment when that goddaughter had been received as Lady of the Linen to her Majesty.
At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice. The love with which his young wife had inspired him was a secondary sentiment, and was not strong enough to contend with the primitive feelings we have just enumerated. Bonacieux indeed reflected on what had just been said to him.
“But, Monsieur Commissary,” said he, calmly, “believe that I know and appreciate, more than anybody, the merit of the incomparable eminence by whom we have the honor to be governed.”
“Indeed?” asked the commissary, with an air of doubt. “If that is really so, how came you in the Bastille?”
“How I came there, or rather why I am there,” replied Bonacieux, “that is entirely impossible for me to tell you, because I don’t know myself; but to a certainty it is not for having, knowingly at least, disobliged Monsieur the Cardinal.”
“You must, nevertheless, have committed a crime, since you are here and are accused of high treason.”
“Of high treason!” cried Bonacieux, terrified; “of high treason! How is it possible for a poor mercer, who detests Huguenots and who abhors Spaniards, to be accused of high treason? Consider, monsieur, the thing is absolutely impossible.”
“Monsieur Bonacieux,” said the commissary, looking at the accused as if his little eyes had the faculty of reading to the very depths of hearts, “you have a wife?”
“Yes, monsieur,” replied the mercer, in a tremble, feeling that it was at this point affairs were likely to become perplexing; “that is to say, I had one.”
“What, you ‘had one’? What have you done with her, then, if you have her no longer?”
“They have abducted her, monsieur.”
“They have abducted her? Ah!”
Bonacieux inferred from this “Ah” that the affair grew more and more intricate.
“They have abducted her,” added the commissary; “and do you know the man who has committed this deed?”
“I think I know him.”
“Who is he?”
“Remember that I affirm nothing, Monsieur the Commissary, and that I only suspect.”
“Whom do you suspect? Come, answer freely.”
M Bonacieux was in the greatest perplexity possible. Had he better deny everything or tell everything? By denying all, it might be suspected that he must know too much to avow; by confessing all he might prove his good will. He decided, then, to tell all.
“I suspect,” said he, “a tall, dark man, of lofty carriage, who has the air of a great lord. He has followed us several times, as I think, when I have waited for my wife at the wicket of the Louvre to escort her home.”
The commissary now appeared to experience a little uneasiness.
“And his name?” said he.
“Oh, as to his name, I know nothing about it; but if I were ever to meet him, I should recognize him in an instant, I will answer for it, were he among a thousand persons.”
The face of the commissary grew still darker.
“You should recognize him among a thousand, say you?” continued he.
“That is to say,” cried Bonacieux, who saw he had taken a false step, “that is to say—”
“You have answered that you should recognize him,” said the commissary. “That is all very well, and enough for today; before we proceed further, someone must be informed that you know the ravisher of your wife.”
“But I have not told you that I know him!” cried Bonacieux, in despair. “I told you, on the contrary—”
“Take away the prisoner,” said the commissary to the two guards.
“Where must we place him?” demanded the chief.
“In a dungeon.”
“Good Lord! In the first one handy, provided it is safe,” said the commissary, with an indifference which penetrated poor Bonacieux with horror.
“Alas, alas!” said he to himself, “misfortune is over my head; my wife must have committed some frightful crime. They believe me her accomplice, and will punish me with her. She must have spoken; she must have confessed everything—a woman is so weak! A dungeon! The first he comes to! That’s it! A night is soon passed; and tomorrow to the wheel, to the gallows! Oh, my God, my God, have pity on me!”
Without listening the least in the world to the lamentations of M. Bonacieux—lamentations to which, besides, they must have been pretty well accustomed—the two guards took the prisoner each by an arm, and led him away, while the commissary wrote a letter in haste and dispatched it by an officer in waiting.
Bonacieux could not close his eyes; not because his dungeon was so very disagreeable, but because his uneasiness was so great. He sat all night on his stool, starting at the least noise; and when the first rays of the sun penetrated into his chamber, the dawn itself appeared to him to have taken funereal tints.
All at once he heard his bolts drawn, and made a terrified bound. He believed they were come to conduct him to the scaffold; so that when he saw merely and simply, instead of the executioner he expected, only his commissary of the preceding evening, attended by his clerk, he was ready to embrace them both.
“Your affair has become more complicated since yesterday evening, my good man, and I advise you to tell the whole truth; for your repentance alone can remove the anger of the cardinal.”
“Why, I am ready to tell everything,” cried Bonacieux, “at least, all that I know. Interrogate me, I entreat you!”
“Where is your wife, in the first place?”
“Why, did not I tell you she had been stolen from me?”
“Yes, but yesterday at five o’clock in the afternoon, thanks to you, she escaped.”
“My wife escaped!” cried Bonacieux. “Oh, unfortunate creature! Monsieur, if she has escaped, it is not my fault, I swear.”
“What business had you, then, to go into the chamber of Monsieur d’Artagnan, your neighbor, with whom you had a long conference during the day?”
“Ah, yes, Monsieur Commissary; yes, that is true, and I confess that I was in the wrong. I did go to Monsieur d’Artagnan’s.”
“What was the aim of that visit?”
“To beg him to assist me in finding my wife. I believed I had a right to endeavor to find her. I was deceived, as it appears, and I ask your pardon.”
“And what did Monsieur d’Artagnan reply?”
“Monsieur d’Artagnan promised me his assistance; but I soon found out that he was betraying me.”
“You impose upon justice. Monsieur d’Artagnan made a compact with you; and in virtue of that compact put to flight the police who had arrested your wife, and has placed her beyond reach.”
“M. d’Artagnan has abducted my wife! Come now, what are you telling me?”
“Fortunately, Monsieur d’Artagnan is in our hands, and you shall be confronted with him.”
“By my faith, I ask no better,” cried Bonacieux; “I shall not be sorry to see the face of an acquaintance.”
“Bring in the Monsieur d’Artagnan,” said the commissary to the guards. The two guards led in Athos.
“Monsieur d’Artagnan,” said the commissary, addressing Athos, “declare all that passed yesterday between you and Monsieur.”
“But,” cried Bonacieux, “this is not Monsieur d’Artagnan whom you show me.”
“What! Not Monsieur d’Artagnan?” exclaimed the commissary.
“Not the least in the world,” replied Bonacieux.
“What is this gentleman’s name?” asked the commissary.
“I cannot tell you; I don’t know him.”
“How! You don’t know him?”
“Did you never see him?”
“Yes, I have seen him, but I don’t know what he calls himself.”
“Your name?” replied the commissary.
“Athos,” replied the Musketeer.
“But that is not a man’s name; that is the name of a mountain,” cried the poor questioner, who began to lose his head.
“That is my name,” said Athos, quietly.
“But you said that your name was d’Artagnan.”
“Somebody said to me, ‘You are Monsieur d’Artagnan?’ I answered, ‘You think so?’ My guards exclaimed that they were sure of it. I did not wish to contradict them; besides, I might be deceived.”
“Monsieur, you insult the majesty of justice.”
“Not at all,” said Athos, calmly.
“You are Monsieur d’Artagnan.”
“You see, monsieur, that you say it again.”
“But I tell you, Monsieur Commissary,” cried Bonacieux, in his turn, “there is not the least doubt about the matter. Monsieur d’Artagnan is my tenant, although he does not pay me my rent—and even better on that account ought I to know him. Monsieur d’Artagnan is a young man, scarcely nineteen or twenty, and this gentleman must be thirty at least. Monsieur d’Artagnan is in Monsieur Dessessart’s Guards, and this gentleman is in the company of Monsieur de Tréville’s Musketeers. Look at his uniform, Monsieur Commissary, look at his uniform!”
“That’s true,” murmured the commissary; “pardieu, that’s true.”
At this moment the door was opened quickly, and a messenger, introduced by one of the gatekeepers of the Bastille, gave a letter to the commissary.
“Oh, unhappy woman!” cried the commissary.
“How? What do you say? Of whom do you speak? It is not of my wife, I hope!”
“On the contrary, it is of her. Yours is a pretty business.”
“But,” said the agitated mercer, “do me the pleasure, monsieur, to tell me how my own proper affair can become worse by anything my wife does while I am in prison?”
“Because that which she does is part of a plan concerted between you—of an infernal plan.”
“I swear to you, Monsieur Commissary, that you are in the profoundest error, that I know nothing in the world about what my wife had to do, that I am entirely a stranger to what she has done; and that if she has committed any follies, I renounce her, I abjure her, I curse her!”
“Bah!” said Athos to the commissary, “if you have no more need of me, send me somewhere. Your Monsieur Bonacieux is very tiresome.”
The commissary designated by the same gesture Athos and Bonacieux, “Let them be guarded more closely than ever.”
“And yet,” said Athos, with his habitual calmness, “if it be Monsieur d’Artagnan who is concerned in this matter, I do not perceive how I can take his place.”
“Do as I bade you,” cried the commissary, “and preserve absolute secrecy. You understand!”
Athos shrugged his shoulders, and followed his guards silently, while M. Bonacieux uttered lamentations enough to break the heart of a tiger.
They locked the mercer in the same dungeon where he had passed the night, and left him to himself during the day. Bonacieux wept all day, like a true mercer, not being at all a military man, as he himself informed us. In the evening, about nine o’clock, at the moment he had made up his mind to go to bed, he heard steps in his corridor. These steps drew near to his dungeon, the door was thrown open, and the guards appeared.
“Follow me,” said an officer, who came up behind the guards.
“Follow you!” cried Bonacieux, “follow you at this hour! Where, my God?”
“Where we have orders to lead you.”
“But that is not an answer.”
“It is, nevertheless, the only one we can give.”
“Ah, my God, my God!” murmured the poor mercer, “now, indeed, I am lost!” And he followed the guards who came for him, mechanically and without resistance.
He passed along the same corridor as before, crossed one court, then a second side of a building; at length, at the gate of the entrance court he found a carriage surrounded by four guards on horseback. They made him enter this carriage, the officer placed himself by his side, the door was locked, and they were left in a rolling prison. The carriage was put in motion as slowly as a funeral car. Through the closely fastened windows the prisoner could perceive the houses and the pavement, that was all; but, true Parisian as he was, Bonacieux could recognize every street by the milestones, the signs, and the lamps. At the moment of arriving at St. Paul—the spot where such as were condemned at the Bastille were executed—he was near fainting and crossed himself twice. He thought the carriage was about to stop there. The carriage, however, passed on.
Farther on, a still greater terror seized him on passing by the cemetery of St. Jean, where state criminals were buried. One thing, however, reassured him; he remembered that before they were buried their heads were generally cut off, and he felt that his head was still on his shoulders. But when he saw the carriage take the way to La Greve, when he perceived the pointed roof of the Hotel de Ville, and the carriage passed under the arcade, he believed it was over with him. He wished to confess to the officer, and upon his refusal, uttered such pitiable cries that the officer told him that if he continued to deafen him thus, he should put a gag in his mouth.
This measure somewhat reassured Bonacieux. If they meant to execute him at La Greve, it could scarcely be worth while to gag him, as they had nearly reached the place of execution. Indeed, the carriage crossed the fatal spot without stopping. There remained, then, no other place to fear but the Traitor’s Cross; the carriage was taking the direct road to it.
This time there was no longer any doubt; it was at the Traitor’s Cross that lesser criminals were executed. Bonacieux had flattered himself in believing himself worthy of St. Paul or of the Place de Greve; it was at the Traitor’s Cross that his journey and his destiny were about to end! He could not yet see that dreadful cross, but he felt somehow as if it were coming to meet him. When he was within twenty paces of it, he heard a noise of people and the carriage stopped. This was more than poor Bonacieux could endure, depressed as he was by the successive emotions which he had experienced; he uttered a feeble groan which night have been taken for the last sigh of a dying man, and fainted. | <urn:uuid:34edb84b-fab7-43a0-87a0-0571ff51dafe> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://telelib.com/authors/D/DumasAlexandre/prose/threemusketeers/threemusketeers013.html | 2023-09-22T12:31:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.984878 | 4,597 |
Hi! My name is Kailey Bondiskey and I am currently a rising senior interning at Black Label Keller Williams Luxury Real Estate in Philadelphia as the marketing assistant for the summer of 2021. This internship has taught me A LOT about marketing and real estate of course, but I also picked up some things that can’t be taught over Zoom but rather learned through experience, and that may be beneficial to whoever is reading this now. By the way, I love quotes, so be prepared.
Confidence comes in the doing.
I’ll cut to the chase. In the past, I have rarely been the person whos willing to jump into the unknown fearlessly. In fact, fear has held me back more times than I’d like to admit, including applying for an internship for three years. Acquiring an internship was always something I put above myself; something for future me to know how to handle. It was something I knew I should do but never felt prepared enough to do. Until I did it.
Before and throughout my internship, I kept two quotes in mind. The first being: “Your Comfort Zone Will Kill You.” This one is straight to the point and undeniably true. Nothing worthwhile ever came out of comfort, so it’s best to get yourself used to being out of it now. The second quote was: “Less Impressed, More Involved.” I took this one from a book called Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. He explained it by stating, “The sooner that we become less impressed with our life, with our accomplishments, with our career, with whatever that prospect is in front of us, the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them.” I loved his message and ran with it. So, rather than feeling inferior to those around me who had incredibly successful careers and fearing that I may fail horribly in comparison; I was able to learn, create, and grow. I got more involved. The results of this mindset are life-changing.
Keep it simple.
Starting an internship immediately placed me outside of my comfort zone (thankfully). At first, I felt unsure of my abilities and was terrified that I would have no idea what I was doing. But, I decided to push those inconsequential thoughts aside and stay focused on what I wanted: to simply learn new skills and be involved in new experiences. The Black Label team made that part easy to accomplish. I cannot begin to describe the multitude of valuable skills and experiences I was able to take away from this internship because of the people I was surrounded by. Which leads me to my next point.
You become who you surround yourself with.
Surrounding yourself with admirable, like-minded people is the most important and effective way to stay focused on your goals and improve gradually. Black Label’s team is full of extremely driven, optimistic, supportive, and knowledgeable individuals that only seek to bring the best out in each other every day. Ambition, professionalism, and respect lead the way at Black Label and the effects speak for themselves in the company’s success. Having this kind of team to learn from, look up to, and simply be in the same “room” with (It was mostly remote) has benefited me in more ways than I can fit into one blog post. Without the team’s constant support and encouragement, I know I would not have had as nearly great of an experience to reflect on.
To sum it up: Your internship experience (or any experience really) will only be as good as your mindset, your willingness to learn and fail in the process, and the kind of people you choose to do all that next to! | <urn:uuid:765dd548-d901-40bc-99d2-d1544a8c8dee> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://templeadlib.com/jumping-into-the-unknown/ | 2023-09-22T11:57:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.980642 | 779 |
By John Stossel
Monday is Labor Day. Will you celebrate unions?
The media does. “Unions are cool again,” reports CBS News. They suggest unionization is booming.
Since then, more than 180 Starbucks voted to unionize, and 300 filed for union elections.
Starbucks already offers better benefits than many companies: health benefits, even for part-time workers, free college tuition, maternity leave and more. Their minimum wage is $17/hour. But activists want more.
Apple Store employees and Google workers are also starting unionization efforts. In the first half of 2022, union election petitions increased by 57%.
But despite all political support and media hype, unionization is down.
Unionization did increase during the pandemic but fell as the pandemic waned. In 2021, 15.8 million workers were represented by a union, a decline of half a million since 2019.
There are many reasons.
The Janus Supreme Court decision in 2018 declared it unconstitutional to force government workers to pay union dues. Now 28 states no longer force any workers to pay union dues. That’s a good thing. No one should be forced to join groups they don’t want to join.
Under the Biden Administration Americans are faced with a 40-year high inflation, higher fuel and energy cost and the U.S. dollar losing value— it makes life difficult for most of us.
Bartering can help businesses throughout all industries not only survive but thrive with an entirely new outlook on business, and millions of dollars in cash flow savings could accompany it.
Think outside the box and order a copy of ‘Learn To Barter & 21 Ways To Increase Your Income’ by Michael J. Sparks.
In 1973, when I first went to work for CBS, I was forced to join the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to pay dues to a union that didn’t appear to do much, but I had no choice.
At work, I saw how union rules routinely slowed work down — sometimes in ridiculous ways. I couldn’t just press a button and watch a video. I had to find a union editor and ask him to press the button.
One reason Fox News grew faster than CBS, NBC and ABC’s news operations is that non-union Fox is more flexible. They are able to try new things. They didn’t have to obey all the stupid rules.
This is another reason the number of union workers has declined. Union rules limit their employers’ ability to change, adapt and grow.
Nonunion Toyota and Honda outgrew unionized companies like General Motors. They hired more people, created more jobs. That was good for labor, just not unionized labor.
Unionization helps some. But it hurts more.
Some GM workers got higher pay and more time off. But lots of potential workers never got a chance. Toyota and Honda helped more people simply by growing faster.
Today activists claim unions built the middle class. Without unions, they say, there would be no weekend and no eight-hour day.
But that’s not true.
Workers’ lives improved in America mostly because of competition, not union rules. Competition is what does the most for workers.
In 1914, Henry Ford doubled his employees’ wages to $5 a day and cut their workday to eight hours. People claim he was forced to do it by union pressure. That’s a myth. He did it because his company had high turnover. Raising wages helped him keep good workers.
Free-market competition forces everyone to do better. What workers need is not a union’s rigid rules, but competition.
Today there’s lots of competition for workers. It’s driven companies like Costco to offer a $17-an-hour starting wage.
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Maybe In October
August 31, 2020 | Amber Finney
There are some indications that Peru is opening up finally from the lock down. More firm actions are being discussed and carried out to confirm that. So I have now set October as a time when I will return to the US, Lord willing. Please pray with me about this timing, that it is His timing. Yet, I’m having great ministry here and definitely want to return. The Update link below will tell you more about my plans AND my present activities. You will also see some wild flower photos that you don’t see in the US.
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The Dangers of Slips and Inattentive Staff
One of the more harrowing aspects of negligent nursing homes is the number of slip and fall accidents that often occur. These accidents are, ultimately, preventable and often constitute negligence on the part of the nursing home.
How Slip and Falls Cause Serious Harm to Elderly Residents
Slips are common in nursing homes. What you may not know is that they are completely preventable in most cases. If a nursing home has a resident who is a fall risk or high fall risk, staff are supposed to put together a care plan to prevent falls. That plan could include a variety of things and depends upon the circumstances surrounding that resident.
Sometimes residents take medication that makes them dizzy, and if that is the case, then staff should put together a care plan to prevent falls that are commonly associated with the dizzying side effects of that particular medicine.
Sometimes, residents are prone to falling out of bed. To account for this, staff should lower the bed to its lowest level and place a mat on the floor so that if somebody does fall out of bed, they are not falling as far and they can land on something soft.
Cases Involving Slips and Asphyxiation
Sometimes, the nursing home staff do not use bedrails on their residents’ beds. This is a big deal, as it can lead to bedrail asphyxiation.
In these cases, a bedrail is propped up but the mattress or bed is too small. Residents can slip between the gap in the bed and bedrail and accidentally hang themselves. It is a devastating occurrence, but it unfortunately happens and can be prevented.
Continual Injuries and Signs of Negligence
While you may not be trained to inspect the quality of a nursing home, there are certain “red flags” that you should keep an eye out for. Incidents of continual falls, for example, should stand out to you as evidence that a nursing home is not taking adequate precautions to protect its residents.
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We trust that the nursing home we select for our loved ones takes care of our family members in the manner they need and deserve. Far too often this is not the case. When a nursing home elects to value profit over the care of its residents, accidents happen.
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Below this list you will find a list of every Harry Potter character in both the books and the movies. The first section is a clean list of Harry Potter characters from the novel, and the second section will be list of HP characters in the film series. If you were looking for a list of Harry Potter Movies, including release dates, click here.
If you haven’t read Harry Potter then you should definitely go and read it. There are three reason why you read it through. First of all, if you are into wizardry, you like witches and their world and if you love the element of suspense, you have to go for the Harry Potter series. Secondly, the novel is based upon the world of fantasy. It’s a story of a boy, who had a miserable life at his uncle’s house. Then he entered Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and sorcery where he became friends with Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry is a wizard and his first year was so captivating that he became popular amongst all the attendees. We get a lesson from the Harry Potter series i.e., three best friends facing all odds together. The novel gives us a lesson that indeed there a few battles you need to fight all alone. Harry is the epitome of valor and bravery. It shows us how to face our fears all alone. Harry Potter encompasses a world in itself. So in this article we have categorized Harry Potter in following three lists. Following sections represent these lists in terms of Harry Potter characters in novel, movies and the publish dates of Harry Potter novels.
List of Characters in Harry Potter Book
Below is the plain list that lists down the names of characters in Harry Potter Novel. The characters of the novel are all unique and having captivating nature which adds suspense to the novel.
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Lilly Evans Potter
Albus sverus Potter
Professor Horce Slughorn
Lily Luna Potter
Professor Filius Fitwick
Petunia Evans Dursley
List of Characters in Harry Potter Movies
Characters in the movie put life in the movie plot. Below is the plain list of the characters who have been starred in the Harry Potter movies. One gets nostalgic after going through these characters. With every single character and event there is an element of suspense that comes your way. It has an aspect of imagination and suspense. Every single character of this movie has a reason and has an impact over the viewer’s life.
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Professor Severus Snape
Professor Minerva McGongal
Lily Evans Potter
Albus Severus Potter
James Sirius Potter
Lily Luna Potter
List of Harry Potter’s Books by their Published Dates
The list below shows the chronological order of publish dates of Harry Potter’s books that are seven in total. These novels are indeed a masterpiece by JK Rowling that were published in the time period of 1997-2016. All these books got popularity among adults and kids even after being rejected so many times. It is known to be a great book series that leaves a positive impact on children and even on adults that other books can’t. Now the question is does reading Harry Potter makes you smarter? Well, Reading Harry Potter will increase your imaginative skills and increase your vocabulary. It is also an enhancement of hope and strength.
|Title of the Book Series||Published Date|
|Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone||June 26, 1997
|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
|June 2, 1999
|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
|May 31, 2004
|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
|May 25, 2001
|Harry Potter and the order of phoenix
|June 21, 2003
|Harry Potter and deathly hallows
|July 16, 2005
|Harry Potter and the cursed child||July 31, 2016|
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The number of Internet users worldwide has now surpassed two billion and so many of us have integrated the web into our lives so much that it’s hard to quantify how much it’s worth to us. But why not give it a shot? Think about it.
How much would someone have to pay you to give up the Internet for the rest of your life?
Would a million dollars be enough? Twenty million? How about a billion dollars?
“When I ask my students this question, they say you couldn’t pay me enough,” says Professor Michael Cox, director of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.
The free market, says Cox, creates a huge gap between what consumers would be willing to pay for Internet access and how much it actually costs.
It’s cheap to get online and getting cheaper all the time. We see the same pattern with many other products. Take the cell phone. When it first arrived in the 1980s, the cell phone had no apps, no music, and no Internet access–it was pretty much a brick with buttons. Yet that brick cost about $4,000, and that’s why only the super rich could afford them (think Gordon Gekko in Wall Street). Today, it takes only about 40 bucks to walk home with an iPhone.
Turns out capitalism has its own built in welfare transfer system.
“When a new product comes out we all get in line for it,” says Cox. “The wealthiest people are in the front of the line and they pay the highest price for the worst version of a product.” Real life Gordon Gekkos buy the products when they’re expensive, and that lets the rest of us enjoy the cheaper, better versions.
Even in a lousy economy we all enjoy things, from smart phones to aspirin to air conditioning, that weren’t available to the world’s wealthiest people just a short while ago. And if we have access to something like the Internet, something that’s worth so much to us, we just might be richer than we realize.
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Ben Franklin once said, “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” A number of alumni epitomize Franklin’s sentiment through monthly donations to TFAS through a program called The Ben Franklin Club.
Funds from The Ben Franklin Club contribute to TFAS student scholarships. Participants donate monthly by an automatic draft from a checking account or by credit card. Alumni who currently participate give between $10-$50 every month.
Alumnus Eric Fox (ICPES 86) has been donating for the last five years.
“It’s easy to sign up and it’s easy to do,” Fox said. “I want to give to TFAS because I want others to have the same opportunity that I had. The same ability to have a life-changing experience and to go learn about freedom and democracy and take classes that aren’t offered on many college campuses.”
The program is convenient because the tax-deductible donations are processed automatically, and participants can change the amount or stop payment at any time by contacting TFAS directly.
Alumna Lindsey Parke (IBGA 05) wrote that she gives back because she realizes that TFAS is a luxury for most students and she wants to support their experiences and education by contributing.
“For me, monthly giving was the most effortless way to give back,” Parke said in an email. “While I am excited to make my pledge every year, this affords me the opportunity to give back without a second thought.”
The program is becoming more and more popular for alumni because of the convenience.
“Throughout all of my experiences with TFAS, I have found a great deal of opportunity. The opportunities to learn from experts and my peers, opportunities to make new friends and opportunities to give back,” Park said. “Being a part of TFAS has allowed me to connect with people and scholars I never would have had an opportunity to meet, and because of this I give back.”
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TFAS welcomed a new cohort of young professionals who work in the nation’s leading think tanks, government offices and policy organizations in Washington, D.C., to the 2020-21 TFAS Public Policy Fellowship. The 17 Fellows will participate in the rigorous year-long program for young leaders with a shared commitment to improving public policy.
The Fellowship’s curriculum focuses on “The Experiment in Self-Government,” examining the challenges and advantages of a free society and placing particular emphasis on the ideas and seminal texts of the American Founding. Fellows participate in monthly evening discussion sessions and two weekend retreats, giving them the opportunity to learn from key public policy leaders, academics and journalists.
During the opening session and orientation on Sept. 8, Fellows heard from TFAS International professor and assistant professor and research fellow at Hillsdale College, Dr. David Azerrad, and executive director of the Claremont Institute’s D.C. Center, Arthur Milikh. Through an interactive discussion session, Fellows engaged in an honest assessment of America’s current political conditions.
Current Fellow Luke Timmons, PPF ’20, welcomed the opportunity to participate in topical discussions with two policy experts. An analyst at Stand Together Foundation, Timmons believes it is critical now more than ever to challenge the U.S.’s current political state in a constructive manner.
“It is abundantly clear that we are at a major political crossroads in the country right now, but I was taken aback by the starkness of Dr. Azerrad and Milikh’s warnings,” Timmons said. “I was excited at the opportunity for an open challenge to the current state of our society and to be able to engage in critical discussion around the answers and solutions to the challenges we are facing.”
A native of the United Kingdom, Timmons is also enthusiastic about embracing new ideals of the American Founding through the immersive TFAS Public Policy Fellowship.
“When I came across the Fellowship, I knew I had to apply,” Timmons said. “I knew this would be an enriching experience and opportunity to dive deeper into the concepts of free market economics and limited government through thoughtful discussion and meaningful engagement with recent and historic literature.”
I knew this would be an enriching experience and opportunity to dive deeper into the concepts of free market economics and limited government through thoughtful discussion and meaningful engagement with recent and historic literature.” – Luke Timmons, PPF ’20.
Another member of the 2020-21 cohort, Luis Parrales, PPF ’20, said that he is most looking forward to learning about the institutions and traditions that make American democracy so successful.
“Especially at a time when some people on the political fringes dismiss how inspiring American ideals and institutions can be at their best, it’s important to develop a confident vocabulary to talk about the American intellectual and political tradition,” Parrales said. “I’m excited that TFAS is giving us the space to do that, and I hope to improve my own vocabulary on these issues through conversations with other Fellows and speakers.”
The 2020-21 TFAS Public Policy Fellowship will continue over the next several months with lectures by esteemed scholars and policy experts like Michael Anton of Hillsdale College in D.C., Lori Windham ’00 of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Dr. Josh Mitchell of Georgetown University and Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, Peter Berkowitz. Azerrad and Milikh will also return for a conference on “American National Character” and a discussion on “Will America Ban Hate Speech?”
For more information on the TFAS Public Policy Fellowship, visit TFAS.org/PPF, and meet the 2020-21 cohort below.
2020-21 Public Policy FELLOWS
Education: University of Missouri
Calvin Blaylock is the executive assistant to the vice president of development at The Heritage Foundation. In this role, he works to optimize the vice president’s performance, leads key initiatives for the development department and crafts strategic communications to Heritage’s 500,000 generous donors.
Prior to joining Heritage, Calvin served as a donor relations officer for the northeast region at the Leadership Institute (LI) where he managed relationships with donors to fund LI’s grassroots programs to train conservative activists.
He is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, where he studied marketing and social work. Because of his excellence on campus, the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society named Calvin as one of the top 14 students in the university’s class of 2018. Since graduating, Calvin continues to participate in a multitude of fellowship programs, including the Heritage Speechwriters Fellowship, Pepperdine D.C. Policy Scholars Program and Forge Leadership Summit.
Education: Saint Mary’s College of California, Institute of World Politics
Scott Cullinane is the executive director of the U.S.-Europe Alliance Foundation, a bipartisan not-for-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing Americans to advocate for the enduring strategic and economic partnership between the United States and Europe.
From 2011-18, Scott served in various positions with the U.S. Congress, including serving as the professional staff member for the House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee where he was responsible for a jurisdiction that included the European Union, Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. He is currently a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Scott’s work has focused on democratic transitions and rule of law in Europe. He has served as an election observer with the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe and participated as a Penn Kemble Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy.
Scott holds a master’s degree in national security affairs from the Institute of World Politics. He has also completed course work at John Cabot University in Italy and Central European University in Hungary.
Education: University of Chicago
Isaac Easton is a research assistant in the office of Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, where he works on energy, natural resources, commerce, science, and transportation issues, and staffs the senator for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Previously, he was an intern at the American Enterprise Institute, where he worked for Christina Hoff Sommers. He is a Constitutional Fellow with The American Conservative and a fellow in the John Quincy Adams Society’s Foreign Policy Leadership Development Program.
Isaac graduated from the University of Chicago with degrees in classics and fundamentals: issues and texts.
Carrie Ferrando, Law ’14
Education: Chapman University, Mercer University, American University
Carrie Ferrando, Law ’14, currently serves as an associate counsel at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans’ Appeals. Prior to her time at the VA, Carrie was a health law and policy associate for a private consulting firm, where she advised capital investors on healthcare market issues.
She previously interned at the Department of Health and Human Services, in both the Office of the General Counsel as well as the Office for Civil Rights, the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) and the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council.
Carrie holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Chapman University, a juris doctorate from Mercer University, and a master of laws in law and government from American University, with additional specializations in health law and policy, administrative law, and legal research and writing.
Education: Christendom College
Colleen Harmon is the intern program manager for The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program. Colleen grew up in Cumberland, Maryland, and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Christendom College with a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature. Colleen is a graduate of the Heritage Foundation internship program.
Before joining Heritage, Colleen worked as a scheduler for a member of Congress. She is currently pursuing a master’s in government from Hillsdale College. She resides in Washington, D.C.
Education: Princeton University
James Haynes is a China researcher at the Brookings Institution, a research consultant for the New Yorker and an alumnus of Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2018 with a degree in classics and a minor in Mandarin Chinese.
He is also the founder and editor of the China Biotech Bulletin, an email newsletter of Chinese biotechnology policy news. Before coming to Brookings, James worked at Saffron Ventures in Arlington, Virginia, where he spent over a year working on international education initiatives in China and the U.S. He lives just outside Washington, D.C.
Education: DePauw University, Ball State University
Jacob Lane is director of external relations and special assistant to the president for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Prior to his current role, he served as managing director of the Collegiate Network, ISI’s nationwide student journalism program.
Jacob attended DePauw University for his undergraduate studies, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and is a graduate of Ball State University, where he earned his master’s in journalism. While at Ball State, he served as a graduate assistant for the journalism department.
He has been involved in Indiana politics since he was an undergraduate student and worked for both the Indiana House Republican Caucus and the Indiana Republican State Committee before working at ISI.
Jacob is a former regional fellow with the National Review Institute and a Haggerty-Richardson Fellow with the Conservative Partnership Institute. He was also a participant in the America’s Future Foundation Writing Fellowship and was in the inaugural class of Speech Writing Fellows at The Heritage Foundation.
Education: University of Notre Dame
Sam Lucas joined The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in April 2020 as a legal assistant. He assists Becket’s attorneys in a myriad of ways, including cite-checking briefs, preparing and filing court documents and providing general administrative support.
Prior to entering the world of religious liberty, Sam graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame in 2017, where he was a Tocqueville Fellow and Kellogg International Scholar. After graduating, he completed a USAID Global Development Fellowship in Blantyre, Malawi, before moving to Washington to work in medicine.
Subsequent experiences at the American Enterprise Institute’s Program on American Citizenship and the James Wilson Institute solidified his interest in law and the American Founding.
Ben Nuelle ’14
Education: Northwest Missouri State University
Ben Nuelle ’14 is an agricultural journalist on Capitol Hill for Agri-Pulse Communications. He covers legislative and federal policy affecting rural communities and the agriculture industry.
Ben is a triplet who grew up on his family’s hay and cattle farm near the small town of Higginsville, Missouri, an hour east of Kansas City. Ben has always had a passion for politics and policy.
Before working for Agri-Pulse, he served as an agricultural assistant for U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa. Ben received a degree in multimedia journalism from Northwest Missouri State University, is an alumnus of the 2014 Journalism + Communications program at TFAS and also served as a TFAS program advisor a year later.
Education: University of Richmond
Luis Parrales is an academic programs senior associate at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he helps develop and execute large-scale public policy conferences and educational seminars for undergraduate students. He was previously a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation and an outreach intern with the startup nonprofit RVA Rapid Transit.
In the summer of 2017, Luis participated in the Natural Law and Public Affairs Seminar at the Witherspoon Institute as well as in the AEI Summer Honors Program. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Richmond in 2018. He will be the co-host of the upcoming podcast “Panorama: On Politics, Latinos, and Conservatism.”
Education: Pomona College
Megan Rohn is a freelance public policy writer based in Arlington, Virginia. She has written for the Washington Examiner, No One Left Behind, and a U.S. senate campaign. She was a 2019-20 Fulbright English teaching assistant in Lithuania and is currently assisting a fellow grantee with a chapter in his book about Russian disinformation and propaganda in post-Soviet states.
Prior to her Fulbright grant, she graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 2018. She earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and went on to be a strategic and nuclear defense research intern at the Heritage Foundation. Later, she spent several months at the Cato Institute as the marketing coordinator until she moved to Lithuania.
She is also an alumna of the 2018 American Enterprise Institute Summer Honors program, the 2019 America’s Future Foundation Writing Fellows program, and the 2020 John Quincy Adams Society’s Foreign Policy Leadership Development program.
José Sáenz Crespo
Education: Pontifica Universidad Católica Argentina
José Sáenz Crespo was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador, in a family dedicated to political activism and public service.
He has worked for the Center for Environmental Policy at American University where he researched the role of technology and innovation in the energy transition and the decarbonization path. José was a communications intern at Exelon Corporation where he conducted research projects regarding corporate reputation, public opinion, and energy markets. He has more than six years of experience working for the Buenos Aires city government as a manager and start-up project specialist, working on various issues, including citizen and community engagement, community policing, and police cultural change. During that time, he co-authored the master plan for the police department and pioneered the design and implementation of police-community relations metrics and learning and collaboration programs to improve community engagement and public security. Additionally, he led the implementation of the first social media-based CRM system for the city government.
José has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pontifica Universidad Católica Argentina and a master’s degree in public administration in energy, environmental, and technology policy.
Education: University of Glasgow
Luke Timmons is an analyst at Stand Together Foundation where he manages the organization’s youth investment portfolio. Previously, Luke worked in various policy and research positions in London and Glasgow in his native United Kingdom.
He started his career at the Dartington Social Research Unit focusing on evidence-based policy and research concerning early childhood and adolescence, overseeing multiple randomized controlled trials and census-level data projects. Following this, Luke was a founding director and senior researcher at Ratio Research, a small consulting group focused on relational social policy and its implications for communities.
Luke was also a senior researcher at the London think tank the Royal Society of Arts where he worked with the organization’s public services and communities’ team on projects focused on policy concerning universal basic income and small business public sector procurement. Luke is interested in reform within the child welfare system, juvenile justice reform, and approaches that harness the power of civil society. In his spare time, Luke enjoys exploring the U.S. with his wife Leah, kayaking, and tasting both bourbon and Scotch.
Education: American University, George Mason University
Michael Turchetti is a director of health policy at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). At PhRMA, Michael works at the intersection of policy, politics and industry on patient affordability and access issues. Prior to PhRMA, Michael was a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and The Lewin Group where he worked on federal and state health care program analyses and evaluations.
Michael earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from American University and his master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. While at George Mason, Michael was a Mercatus Center Frédéric Bastiat Fellow.
William Turton ’16
Education: Clemson University, Hillsdale College
William Turton ’16 is a legislative assistant for Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee. He joined the office in 2019 as a legislative correspondent.
William grew up in South Carolina and Georgia, and he graduated from Clemson University in 2017 with a degree in political science and economics. After college, he earned a master’s degree in politics from Hillsdale College.
Prior to joining Rep. Green’s staff, he interned at the Heritage Foundation, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center and the Federalist Society. In 2016, he participated in the Leadership + the American Presidency program with TFAS.
Education: Ashland University
Nathaniel Urban is the associate director of curricular improvement at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. He manages the “What Will They Learn?” project, an annual assessment of the general education programs at over 1,100 colleges and universities. He also writes about the history of general education, the liberal arts and liberal education.
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How to Disrupt Media Groupthink: Train the Next Generation of Conservative Journalists
TFAS recently launched the new Center for Excellence in Journalism, a strategic effort to promote objectivity and fairness in the media.
Ryan Wolfe, TFAS’s director of the new center, sat down with Rob Bluey on the Daily Signal Podcast this week to discuss the center and TFAS’s mission to invest in journalism and future journalists.
During the conversation, Ryan highlights TFAS’s proven track record of successful programs, internships and fellowships that have propelled TFAS alumni journalists to make positive contributions across the media landscape. They also discuss a key component of the center, the launch of the Student Journalism Association, which aims to support right-of-center, independent, alternative student publications and foster a culture of objective reporting on college campuses.
He also shares his own personal career journey in journalism and why he believes in the importance of objectivity and fairness in the media. To learn more about the CEJ and its efforts, listen to the full conversation on the Daily Signal Podcast.
Rachel Ferguson on Black Liberation Through the Marketplace
In this week’s episode of the Liberty + Leadership Podcast, TFAS President Roger Ream ’76 and Dr. Rachel Ferguson, scholar and author discuss her book “Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America,” the fundamentals of classical liberalism, and the power of social capital. They also explore the harsh reality of government programs’ unintended and often intractable consequences.
At Concordia University Chicago, Dr. Rachel Ferguson is the director of the Free Enterprise Center, assistant dean of the College of Business, and professor of Business Ethics. She is also an affiliate scholar with the Acton Institute and was a visiting fellow at the Eudaimonia Institute. Rachel’s writing has been featured in “Discourse Magazine,” “Law and Liberty,” “EconLib,” the Acton Power Blog, and “The Journal of Markets and Morality.” In her hometown of St. Louis, Rachel is actively involved in community building and empowering marginalized entrepreneurs through LOVEtheLOU and Gateway 2 Flourishing. She is a graduate of Lindenwood University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy with a focus on political and economic philosophy from Saint Louis University.
TFAS Faculty, Alumni, Supporters in the News
William Turton ’16, PPF ’20, started a new position as a professional staff member for the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Current TFAS student Max Mallhi ’23 wrote an opinion piece for Washington Examiner about Matt Taibbi’s lecture on the Twitter Files during the first TFAS and Senator Rand Paul Capitol Hill Lecture of 2023. Listen to the full lecture on YouTube.
TFAS Professor Nikolai Wenzel wrote an article for Law & Liberty about the heroic Jimmy Lai, who is currently in prison serving out a sentence for charges related to his pro-democracy activism.
Kyle Peterson, Novak ’14, wrote an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal about former Vice President Mike Pence disagrees with former President Donald Trump on key issues.
Faith Bottum, Rago ’21, wrote an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal in which she suggested that the Biden administration is committed to destroying four dams in Washington state.
Artemis Papatheodorou ’05 was selected as an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.
Kirt Conrad ’93 was featured in an article in Crain’s Cleveland Business on how he led his country to become a leader in the usage of hydrogen fuel cells for transportation.
Sona Muzikarova ’07 was selected as a 2023 Eastern Europe Eisenhower Fellow.
Michael Lucchese, PPF ’22, reviews Paul Gottfried’s “A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition,” in which he explores contemporary paleoconservatism’s common impulses and telos for Law & Liberty.
TFAS Trustee Emeritus Mitch Daniels wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post in response to the Treasury Department’s announcement last week that the national debt crossed the $32 trillion mark for the first time.
Dr. Elizabeth Spalding ’86 wrote an article for The American Spectator in which she explains the cure to communism is truth tellers, in honor of The Victims of Communism Museum’s first anniversary.
Kimberly Wethal ’16 wrote an article on the Wisconsin Technical College system opposing legislation that would reduce property tax income for The Journal Times.
TFAS Senior Scholar Dr. Donald Devine wrote about government bureaucracy in an op-ed for National Review.
Luis Parrales, PPF ’20, reviews “Of Boys and Men” by Richard Reeves.
Gheed Moayad ’22 wrote about 10 things people should know before meeting Yazidis for Religion Unplugged.
Stephanie Slade, Novak ’16, discussed Patrick Deneen’s latest book about the post-liberal political right on Jonah Goldberg’s podcast “The Remnant.”
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The TFAS International team is preparing to travel to Prague in less than two weeks for the TFAS Prague and European Journalism Institute programs. This year, our students will hear from several prominent leaders including Arizona Supreme Court Justice and TFAS alumnus Clint Bolick ’78, who will discuss the importance of courageous leadership in law as he shares his years of experience advocating against the oppression of the state.
We are looking forward to connecting with the TFAS Prague class of 2023, as well as alumni, faculty, staff, supporters and friends next month!
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Unbiased reporting adds significant value to society. However, when reporting becomes agenda-driven, it has negative consequences for them. BBC is perceived by many as one of the flag bearer of the truth around the world. But its reality is being revealed day by day. In order to broadcast its propaganda it is deviating from its initials.
“The Shamima Begum Story,” a 90-minute documentary, has been released by the BBC. The documentary follows the 10-part podcast “I Am Not a Monster,” which narrates the journey of Begum. Shamima Begum, who joined ISIS, is portrayed sympathetically in the documentary.
Back in 2015, Shamima Begum, a resident of the United Kingdom, decided to join ISIS. But, after being abused and having her fantasy about Syria and ISIS shattered, she intended to return home. However, because her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds, she is not eligible to become a citizen again. The case is still being heard in court.
The documentary has instilled remorse and anger in the people of the UK for portraying her as the victim. As a result, people are threatening to cancel their subscriptions with the BBC. This resentment spread to Twitter, with one viewer asking, “What is happening with the BBC?” Are you kidding me? I won’t ever pay my TV licence again… “She’s a terrorist with no remorse; she doesn’t deserve to have her story heard like she is a victim.”
This setback for the BBC comes just days after it faced backlash in India for airing a propaganda documentary about Prime Minister Modi. People in India are criticising the BBC and demanding a complete ban on the platform.
The important point here is that both the documentary clearly violate the court proceedings. This cannot be a coincidence, as these documentaries are being released at a time when the BBC is allegedly experiencing malfunction in fundings. Its stance on wokism, criticism of Harry and Meghan, and the infamous Diana interview are among the other issues that face the headwinds in the United Kingdom.
The bias displayed by the BBC in its coverage, with its hostile attitude towards India and support of radical Islamists, indicates a departure from impartial journalism. Indulging in brainwashing journalism, it is distracting the “Broadcast Corporation” from the “British,” and sooner or later it will ultimately lead to its demise in the near future.
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Are these new hodlers down for the cause?
Everything is all well and good until Amazon is forced to stop running code associated with any GitHub repository holding code that makes cryptocurrencies operational.
Some men and women of academia and mainstream economics are so entrenched in their ways and have so much sunk social cost in their worldview that they simply refuse to even entertain the idea that Bitcoin may, in fact, work.
For a while there, we had no choice but to use the money forced upon us by the State. Just over 10-years ago the table was flipped as Bitcoin hit the scene.
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My mail-in ballot arrived last week. It's still sitting uncompleted on my coffee table.
For several years I've been a committed Green Party member. After leaving the Liberals, Elizabeth May and the Greens were a good fit for me. Then this dilemma surfaced. I became a lot greener than the Green Party, federal or provincial. They became mired in conventional politics, taking positions that would have been commendable, even inspirational, in 1970 or 1980 but have lost the plot in 2020. The Green Party has pursued a marginalized relevance.
We are in a climate emergency. The world is in a climate emergency. Major change is imperative and time is fast running out. We are on a time table, an hour glass, that the Green Party's politics doesn't recognize. Canada doesn't need a scold in our legislatures. Canada needs a core of dedicated insurgents. People who will obstruct and derail. What the Extinction Rebellion is doing in the streets, what the Wetsueten are doing to defend their sovereign territory, Green Party MPs and MLAs should be doing in their respective legislatures. Otherwise, what is the point?
Life on Earth hangs in the balance. Act like it. Stand up. Speak out of turn. Get thrown out. Make them carry you out. Force their hand and drag them into the spotlight. You've only got a few people. How else are you going to effect change?
With that frame of mind, here are the options for voters in Parksville-Qualicum Beach. Michelle Stil well, the incumbent Liberal, whose claim to fame is/was a successful 16-year career as a wheelchair athlete winning a bag full of gold medals in paralympic games. A favourite of Christy Clark, Stilwell took 45% of the vote in 2017.
The NDP candidate is a town councillor from Qualicum Beach. Seems a nice enough guy but I can't abide his party's support for the Site C dam or every LNG venture that comes along.
So what about the Greens? Like Erin O'Toole, the Greens have a career military officer, a retired RCN weapons systems controller. He seemed okay until I came to the line where he described himself as a life-long "staunch Conservative." He hints that he might have had an epiphany but stops well short of saying as much.
So, the Green candidate doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell and he's is or until last week was a "staunch Conservative." No, I don't think so. The NDP candidate is a nice enough guy but I can't get past Horgan's Site C and LNG policies. And the Liberals? I could write pages why I would sooner have a nail torn out than vote for those bastards.
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If you want to learn mixed martial arts, but you have little or no experience with any type of martial art, joining an MMA gym in San Diego might make you nervous. Beginners often think they shouldn’t join an MMA gym until they are already in great shape and are experienced with at least one martial art. This is definitely not the case, as an MMA gym can be the perfect place to learn a wide variety of skills as well as the essential piece of the puzzle, which is learning how to mix up these skills and fight successfully.
If you want to become a successful MMA fighter or just proficient in MMA skills, you will have to take a variety of skills classes. You also need to take classes in conditioning and strength training. If you’ve never done any type of training, you might start out by opting for San Diego Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes and perhaps boxing classes, as these are two skill sets that can be very valuable to possess. Learning how to choke or lock an opponent and throw a good punch definitely can be a huge asset. From there, try out Judo classes in San Diego and Muay Thai to provide you with a full arsenal of weapons for the ring. A good MMA gym will have a flat rate for unlimited classes, which is just another reason why it’s better to head to an MMA gym rather than a facility that teaches just one martial art.
You don’t need a ton of gear when you are just starting out, but a jock strap and cup are certainly essential and it wouldn’t hurt to invest in a mouth piece. You don’t necessarily need any special clothing, although a rash guard is generally a good idea as it prevents chafing and mat burns. Generally, you can borrow gear from the gym, but eventually, as your skills progress, you will want to buy some more gear, such as boxing gloves, MMA gloves and possibly some shin guards.
When researching MMA gyms look for gyms with highly qualified instructors and ask about taking a free class. Good MMA gyms will give you one free training pass, so that you can look around, take a class and see if this looks like a good fit for your needs. Make note of how instructors interact with students. Obviously MMA athletes are tough, but if you are beginner, you want instructors that push you and still have some level of patience with your lack of skills.
An MMA gym, however, isn’t a glossy fitness club with a juice bar and shiny electronic exercise machines. It is a facility filled with men and women who are serious about their mixed marital arts training. If you want to get into shape, a fitness center is probably a better fit for you. MMA is more than a way to get fit, it’s truly a way to live and these athletes are serious about health, fitness and learning enough to become a successful fighter. Martial arts are all about discipline, control and finding that inner strength, and that’s what you should get from an MMA gym.
Beginners are welcome to sign up at The Arena, and the instructors are specialists in helping beginning athletes move from the early stages and prepare them for actual sparring and fighting. Whether your goal is to simply get into the best physical condition possible or you want to consider taking part in amateur or pro fights, The Arena can prepare you. The instructors only ask that all of the members work at a high level and keep up with the training. This means not only are you expected to improve your physical condition, you also need to hone fight skills, and the instructors at this San Diego MMA gym can help.
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Sheffield Theatres announces the full cast for their production of William Shakespeare’s well-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing, co-produced with Ramps on the Moon. This will open at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield this September before embarking on a UK Tour.
A pioneering initiative, Ramps on the Moon is a consortium of theatres which aim to enrich stories and the ways in which they are told by putting deaf and disabled artists and audiences at the centre of their work.
Playing the roles of Beatrice and Benedick are the previously announced Daneka Etchells and Guy Rhys.
Joining them, the cast includes: Lee Farrell playing Verges, Laura Goulden playing Margaret, Amy Helena playing Seacole, Karina Jones playing Antonia, Kit Kenneth playing Balthasar, Leo Long playing Oatcake, Gerard McDermott playing Leonato, Taku Mutero playing Claudio, Fatima Niemogha playing Don Joan, Caroline Parker playing Dogberry, Dan Parr playing Don Pedro, Shreya Patel playing Ursula, Richard Peralta playing Friar, Ciaran Stewart playing Conrade, Claire Wetherall playing Hero, and Ben Wilson playing Borachio.
Besotted young couple Claudio and Hero have fallen fast and are quickly engaged. Not everyone finds romance so straightforward – Benedick balks at the very thought of it and Beatrice agrees with him, on that if nothing else. But somewhere in this world, there’s someone for everyone, even if they’re right under your nose.
Robert Hastie, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, said: ‘It is with much excitement that we take the lead for this year’s Ramps on the Moon production, which opens in Sheffield before touring to stages across the UK. Ramps on the Moon is a collaborative partnership which we are so proud to be a part of, and it is a thrill to produce such a well-loved Shakespeare play in our birthday year. Witty and uplifting, Much Ado About Nothing is a joyous show with a big inclusive heart and we have an incredibly talented cast to bring it to life.’
Michèle Taylor, Director for Change at Ramps on the Moon, added: ‘In a year of Much Ados, Sheffield Theatres’ production is sure to stand out and I can’t wait to see what the company does with the play once they get into the rehearsal room. Ramps on the Moon with Shakespeare is such an exciting prospect and represents yet one more milestone in our journey towards real equity for disabled and deaf people in mainstream theatre.’
Opening in Sheffield from Friday 9 – Saturday 24 September, the production will tour to Leeds Playhouse (Tuesday 27 September – Saturday 1 October), Birmingham Rep (Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 October), Nottingham Playhouse (Tuesday 11 – Saturday 15 October), New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich (Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 October), Theatre Royal Stratford East (Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 November), and Salisbury Playhouse (Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 November).
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Are you thinking about getting an oral piercing? They are all the rage nowadays – a piercing through the lip, tongue, or another part of the mouth. However, if you are thinking of getting an oral piercing, there are some things you should be aware of, both for your overall and oral health.
Will an oral piercing damage my teeth?
It is possible that your oral piercing can end up doing damage to your teeth – for example, by causing chips or cracks in the tooth, which can lead to infection if not treated quickly. But an oral piercing can also cause damage to your gums, by rubbing against them and causing them to recede. An oral piercing can also do damage to crowns or other restorations.
Oral piercings can cause other problems, too. They can increase the amount of saliva in your mouth, which can make it difficult to talk, chew, and even swallow. And, they can cause an infection if bacteria gets into your mouth by way of the piercing. In the very worst case scenario, this bacteria can get into your blood stream and cause other health issues, such as endocarditis (inflammation of the heart).
Caring for your oral piercing
If you do decide to get an oral piercing, the most important thing you can do is to keep it clean. Brush and floss thoroughly and often, and make sure you visit your dentist at least twice a year so that he or she can check and make sure that your piercing isn’t causing any problems.
You should also avoid playing with your piercing, putting nonfood items in your mouth (such as pen caps and pencils), and using tobacco products, as these can increase the risk of infection. If you are playing a sport where there is potential for contact with another player, you should take your piercing out before the game, so that it doesn’t get caught on something or end up smashing into your teeth.
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Sexual health can be a confusing subject. While study of television programming found that in an average day, 70% of programs had sexual content; up to 48% of teenager are engaging in intercourse; sexuality among older adults is marginalized and even denied to some degree. Dr. Caroline Roberston describes that “the frenetic pre-occupation with sex in western culture is often completely unrelated to sexual needs but more an expression of a thirst for intimacy.” Ayurvedic medicine teaches us that sexuality and intimacy are a natural and essential part of the individual’s life. Ayurveda looks at the entirety of the individual’s life carefully and clearly outlines phases of life as follows.
The 4 Goals Of Life
All of our activities are aligned towards the following four goals.
- Dharma –These activities are opportunity for the individual to serve their community and universe, and dharma is to preserve the eco-system of the universe.
- Artha– This category of activity refers to work that produces income for the individual and their family. Earning for one’s living is thus considered one of goals of life.
- Kama – This refers to activities undertaken to satisfy one’s senses. These include eating, drinking, and other pleasurable, sensual experiences. Ultimate goal of Kama is to procreate and maintain one’s species.
- Moksha – This word means “liberation” or “salvation”. This category of activities concerns pursuit of Spiritual development and transcendence from material world. The goal is practice non-attachment and to surrender to the Universe or the Creator. This is the most popularized goal of life among those attracted to Spiritual philosophy of Eastern cultures.
The four goals of life are pursued by the individual throughout one’s life. However, each phase of life has a unique focus. The individual’s life is divided into the following four phases.
- Brahmacharya – This phase lasts from birth until the age of 25. This is considered a time for learning as well as personal and spiritual development. Most individuals complete their education by the age of 25 and begin their career and even start a family.
- Grihasta – The second phase of life last from age 26 to 50. This is considered a time for growing in one’s career, applying all the academic, personal, and spiritual resources to one’s work in the world. This is also when one begins life as a householder, marrying a beloved one, starting a family, having children, and growing old in this crucible.
- Vanaprastha – The third phase of life ranges from 51 to 75 years of age. In this phase, one embraces the gift of eldership and leadership. One freely shares their knowledge, experience, and wisdom gathered over the course of one’s life. During these years, many of us become grandparents and have the opportunity to share our gifts with the younger generations helping them learn from our experiences.
- Sanyasa – The final phase is described as lasting from 76 to death. This is the most spiritually focused phase of life, where one gives up worldly pursuits to dedicate life toward spiritual transcendence or moksha.
Individuals are living longer and older adults are sexually active longer. As much as 50-70% of individuals between the age of 50-75 continue to be sexually active, up to 26% remain active between the ages of 75-85. Adapting the principles of balance taught by Ayurveda to our modern life is essential for optimizing sexual experiences, intimacy, health, and vitality.
Ayurvedic Wisdom To Optimize Sexual Health And Intimacy
All tissues in the human body are developed from nutrition that is ingested by the individual. The nutrition comes in three main forms: food, breath, and thoughts. Purity and balance in these three forms of nutrition becomes the basis of purity and balance of tissues in the individual. As the tissues of the body are developed, shukra or sexual fluids are the last to be refined.
Shukra dhatu or sexual tissue is considered a physiological treasure of energy. Its appropriate use can promote health and spiritual evolution. Imbalanced use can lead to weakness and disease. One metaphor for function of shukra is like a cup. As the cup fills, our reserve of sexual energy grows, giving us a sense vitality and virility. As the full shukra cup overflows, this energy is refined further to create ojas.
More refined than the physical shukra dhatu, ojas nourishes the subtle body, by strengthening the immunity and vitality of the individual. Ojas represents the restorative or self-healing capacity of the body. Healthy ojas indicates the perfect balance of body, mind and spirit, where body achieves physiological homeostasis and bio-rhythms. Ojas also represents the resilience and susceptibility of the individual to diseases.
Excessive and inappropriate sexual activity causes depletion of shukra and ojas. Ayurveda “advices judicious indulgence in sex, and considers sexual union as a sacred, consciousness expanding experience that opens up our hearts to love ourselves, (our beloved) and all beings with increased passion.”
The Balance of Masculine + Feminine
Ayurveda relates the concept of Ardh-nar-ishwar (see image). Here in, each individual is made of a divine masculine and divine feminine aspect. Balance among these polarities brings balance to all levels (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) of the individual. Integration of Male and female through sexual union promotes balance. Males and females have all the hormones, although males have dominance of testosterone; estrogen and progesterone are minor hormones. In females, estrogen and progesterone are major and testosterone is minor. while optimal levels of testosterone, the “male hormone”, have been shown to improve sexual desire and function to improve overall health among both male and female. Still, balance is essential because too much testosterone in women can lead to diseases, while too much estrogen among men can lead to diseases as well and vice versa.
Even though, we have both masculine and feminine expression in each of us, outwardly we conduct ourselves as the individual male or female person. Our sexual partner represents the opposite aspect of this outward expression. Thus, sexual union has the capacity to promote balance among the masculine and feminine within us. The concept of “Ardh-nar-ishwar” calls on lovers to approach sex as a sacred act of making love to the Divine in our beloved one. This involves engaging with one’s partner with deep intimacy, love and vulnerability. Engaging in this way promotes divine satisfaction within relationships, marital or otherwise. Intimacy can also promote emotional skillfulness in marriage.
With regards to hormones, within the 24 hours following sex there is an increase of Growth Hormone observed in both sexes. This hormone has positive impact on body composition, muscle strength, exercise performance, cardiovascular system, metabolism, and immune function. An attitude of sacredness and divine union purifies the effect of these positive outcomes of sexual activity, thus making it a healing act rather than a primal need.
The problems of sexual dysfunction are prevalent among middle aged and older adult males and females. Testosterone, DHEA, Estrogen, and Progesterone are the main hormones that affect the sexual functions among men and women. Androgens, testosterone and DHEA are predominant among men; while, Estrogen and Progesterone are predominant in women. Testosterone levels have been found to increase in men leading up to and even after sexual activity, relative to days without sex. Among women, this function is attributed to the hormone estrogen. On the other hand, progesterone stops sexual motivation.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of sexual dysfunction is on the rise in the United States. There has been a worsening trend of abnormal sperm quality among men and declining fertility among women. A recent study found that 52% of young men tested had at least one sperm abnormality; 52% had abnormal sperm motility, 18% had low sperm concentration, 14% had abnormal sperm structure, and 4% had no measurable sperm. The number of men with erectile dysfunction (ED) in the US is up to 18.5 million; the incidence of ED is growing with age. Among women, prevalent problems regarding sexual dysfunction are low sexual interest in up to 32%, inability have an orgasm in 28%, pain during sex in up to 21%, and sex is not pleasurable for up to 27% of women. Overall 26.7% of pre-menopausal women and 52.4% of post-menopausal women in US experience such sexual dysfunction.
As we age, men experience andropause, a drop in androgen hormones; women experience menopause, a drop in estrogenic hormones. These contribute to increased levels of sexual dysfunction among older adults. Ayurveda can come to the rescue and help you maintain your sexual fluids for optimal sexual activity and pleasure.
Herbs For Sexual Health
We have already discussed the emotional and spiritual attitudes towards sexuality. The attitude of love and reverence for one’s partner promotes mental states of relaxation, emotional connection and passion in the relationship. These attitudes lead to a shared sense of responsibility, open communication, integrity, and mindfulness in the relationship. In my opinion, these form the foundation of a successful relationship. Sexual activity is also a form of exercise, and if you are not active, you lose it and even your sexual organ muscles get weaker. Ayurveda provides great tools for overcoming challenges like these.
Ayurveda describes two specific branches of herbs called rasayana and vajikarana. Rasayana herbs are rejuvenative medicines that are holistic in their regenerative functions. These herbs promote tonifying effects on all tissues, which ultimately trickles down to shukra dhatu and ojas. Vajikarana herbs are focused regeneratives that promote efficacy of shukra dhatu or sexual tissues, including hormones and physical organs. Following are some herbs that are beneficial rasayana and vajikarana medicines.
Ashwagandha –Withania somnifera –This is a rasayana, a rejuvenative herb. The main function of Ashwagandha as a rasayana is to rejuvenate the antioxidant enzymes of the body. This controls the oxidation-related damage to all tissues of the body. This action contributes to Ashwagandha’s anti-aging activity. The steroidal lactones in Ashwagandha also help regulate sex hormones.
In clinical studies, treatment with Ashwagandha tripled the virility for men with low sperm count, as well as improved sperm motility. Benefit was also seen with normal males; for them, virility improved by 50%. In another study, when given to men with low sperm count, Ashwagandha increased sperm count by 167%, semen volume by 53%, and sperm motility by 57%. Thus, we begin to see the pattern of how Ashwagandha promotes normal function at all tissue levels, ultimately restoring sexual function and vitality.
Shatavari –Asparagus racemosa –Shatavari is considered the premier women’s health tonic in Ayurvedic medicine. Shatavari is one of the richest sources of phytoestrogens in the form of steroidal saponins (Shatavarin I-IV) and isoflavones (diadzin and genestien). These compounds are essential for shatavari’s effect on sexual function. A clinical study revealed that among young females, shatavari improved egg maturation and ovulation. Among older females, shatavari helped to soothe menopausal symptoms and tonify sexual organs. It is also a source of various minerals including zinc, manganese, cobolt, copper, potassium, calcium, magnesium, et cetera.
Gokhsura –Tribulus terrestris –This herb is commonly recognized as an aphrodisiac. Gokhsura has been found to affect hormone levels; researchers have observed that Tribulus extract has the capacity to raise levels of a regulating hormone called Luteinizing hormone; as well as all androgens, including testosterone, DHEA and dihydrotestosterone.25 ,26 Tribulus has also been observed to improve sexual interest and sexual function in men.[27,28]
Shilajeet –Asphaltum punjabium –This unique medicine is petrified plant material that is harvested in small quantities from steep rock faces at altitudes between 1000 and 5000 meters among the Himalayan mountains. It is considered an excellent source of 85 minerals in ionic form. In clinical study on men, shilajeet increased levels of hormones testosterone and follicle stimulating hormones. These men also experienced 61% improvement in sperm count and motility improved by 18% with 90 days of treatment.
Many females experience vaginal dryness and painful intercourse as they age, this is due to low levels of estrogens. Estrogen creams provide relief but, we also have developed a special non-hormonal Ayurvedic cream, which has shown very good results in vaginal dryness.
Loyal to its holistic tradition, Ayurvedic medicine prescribes these herbs in the context of comprehensive dietary and lifestyle changes. Plant-based diet, regular exercise and adequate sleep are essential for effective healing and efficient function of any medicines. These can be enhanced with the regular practice of breathing exercises and meditation, which promote emotional and spiritual transformation.
DR. ANUP MULAKALURI, ND PROVIDED TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH ASSISTANCE IN WRITING THIS ARTICLE.
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Cookie monsters, this one’s for you. Chip Cookies, a popular cookie store, is opening its first location in Alabama. Keep reading to found out where it’ll be and when.
What is Chip Cookies?
If you’re a fan of Cookie Fix, Crumbl Cookies and the like, you’re going to love Chip Cookies. This cookie franchise, founded in 2016 by husband-and-wife team Sean and Sarah Wilson in Utah, has many location in Utah and Idaho, and are expanding in several states—including Alabama.
Chip Cookies has a simple story—Sarah had pregnancy cravings for cookies, and Sean came up with a business plan. Now, they get to share their award-winning, fresh-baked cookies, satisfying many cookie cravings through storefronts, delivery services and catering.
They always have their “OG” flavor, a gooey, warm chocolate chip cookie. They rotate out other flavors each week, like the Nutella Crepe Chip, Sugar Chip, Cookies + Cream Chip and more.
Chip Cookies is coming to Midtown Village in Tuscaloosa
Alabama’s first Chip Cookies arrives this September in Tuscaloosa’s Midtown Village, as announced by Councilor Kip Tyner on Facebook.
Right now, Tuscaloosa is the only Alabama location that Chip Cookies lists on their website, and they’re arriving just in time for the height of football season (and midterms). Luckily for college students, Chip Cookie locations are usually open until 10PM or midnight. Late-night cookie lovers, rejoice!
- Location: 1800 McFarland Blvd E #303, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
- Opening Date: Friday, September 29, 11AM
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Fierce debate over the date of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a constant feature in U.S. political and public discourse for nearly as long as the conflict itself. For many then, President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will withdraw troops by September 11 seems to settle matters. But there is a much more important question to be asking: What will be the nature of the security relationship between Washington and Kabul the day after America declares an end to one of its longest wars? The answer will shape Afghanistan, define local and regional dynamics, and determine the country’s prospects for peace.
Unfortunately, post-conflict planning in Afghanistan has long been in short supply, and time is running out for the U.S. to avoid repeating old mistakes. The Biden administration, international partners participating in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission, and the government in Kabul must have frank and more public deliberations on what Afghanistan’s security sector will look like in the coming years, the role external actors will play in supporting it, and what a negotiated peace with the Taliban will mean for Afghanistan’s security enterprise. These conversations will be thorny and, in some cases, deeply uncomfortable, but they are essential, and in many ways will have a more enduring impact than the drawdown of U.S. troops.
For better or worse, Afghanistan’s security forces will play a decisive role in shaping the future political and security context of the country. In the short term, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are one of the central government’s few sources of leverage in intra-Afghan talks, not to mention in ongoing deliberations between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban. Indeed, a fully trained, equipped, and effective ANDSF has long been seen as critical to allowing an end to the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, supplanting the U.S. role in defending the country against non-state armed groups. It is impossible to think that any settlement between the central government and the Taliban will endure without capable security forces on Kabul’s side.
Over the long term, the nature and capabilities of Afghanistan’s security forces will set the stage for the country’s long-term prospects, defining and, in some cases, confining the power holders who will shape the country’s landscape and the means by which they will aim to do so. As an institution, the Afghan security forces will play a critically important role in any potential disarmament and demobilization initiative that will be essential to bringing about peace in the country. Despite an unfortunate lack of sustained international focus on their long-term capabilities, the performance of the ANDSF, from the highest levels down to the foot soldier, is inextricable from Afghanistan’s political future.
The tragedy is that despite their centrality in shaping Afghanistan’s trajectory, the ANDSF remain overwhelmingly dependent on international support to function. Afghanistan’s military and police forces rely on foreign assistance for air support, logistics, sustainment, medical services, and basic defense institution management—all essential functions for a military modeled on a decidedly Western-style combined arms force. The budget of the ANDSF alone is larger than the entire revenue of the Afghan state, and will continue to rely on international donors for funding. Unfortunately, this crippling dependency was baked into the ANDSF’s American-directed development and reflects a lack of strategic planning and familiarity with Afghanistan that rings painfully familiar today.
Indeed, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the sector assistance enterprise that would eventually amount to more than $83 billion was virtually absent from American planning. The result was a defense institution building enterprise that was constantly being outpaced by facts on the ground and frequently subjugated to wartime and political priorities. In short, the perennial focus on winning the war and bringing troops home left the development of the ANDSF playing second fiddle. The effects of this strategic miscalculation are now playing out in full.
To be sure, bringing U.S. service members home is an important objective. But doing so doesn’t end the war in Afghanistan, just the involvement of U.S. troops in it. Despite a precipitous drawdown of U.S. forces over the last year, 2020 saw over 8,000 civilians killed across the country, at the hands of both the Taliban, international and government aligned forces, and other armed groups.
Defining an enduring security relationship between the U.S. and Afghanistan will be no easy task. Many variables remain unknown, most particularly the outcomes of intra-Afghan peace talks. But even in an uncertain context, contingency planning now is essential. Regardless of any particular political outcome, the ANDSF will need help not just in maintaining its core functions, but in evolving into fully independent forces able to meet the security needs of Afghans.
Diplomatic creativity will be required to meet these needs, especially as the U.S. seeks to meet its obligations under its deal with the Taliban. Buy-in and assistance from regional powers, NATO, and other stakeholders will be essential, as will the establishment of a robust embassy-based presence for the United States.
Failure for American and NATO planners to prioritize aligning the strategic vision of the ANDSF with local contexts, resources, and doctrines has left Afghanistan in a dangerously precarious situation. Certainly, Afghanistan offers important lessons for the broader American security assistance enterprise in this regard, but with a September deadline now in place, there is an urgent need for the international community to plan how the ANDSF as it stands will be sustained and developed beyond the drawdown of international forces. Failure to do so now risks repeating the same strategic missteps that have kept American forces in Afghanistan for nearly two decades. The war in Afghanistan was America’s making. Exiting responsibly, with consideration for the massive security architecture it leaves for Afghans to shoulder, should be America’s obligation. | <urn:uuid:85f07a7b-07eb-4865-8e11-1997cea220cc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thebaraza.org/foreign-policy/afghanistans-own-security-forces-will-soon-take-over-ready-or-not/ | 2023-09-22T11:09:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.943889 | 1,235 |
Rising demand for flare gas recovery systems for reducing emissions in upstream and downstream engineering.
The global Flare Gas Recovery System Market size was USD 1.05 Billion in 2021 and is expected to register a revenue CAGR of 5.3% over the forecast period, according to the latest report by Reports and Data.
Flare gas recovery systems and flaring control are necessary in petrochemical, oil, and gas production. The World Bank, through the Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, has recommended various advancements in flaring management, operational improvement, and the use of modern technologies to remove flare gas from the environment. The installation of flare gas recovery systems in refineries and processing facilities is also increasing due to the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals to address economic, social, and environmental concerns in the oil and gas industry by 2030.
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Top Lading Players: Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Transvac Systems Limited, Koch Industries, Inc., Birwelco Ltd, MAN Energy Solutions SE, Zeeco, INC., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor, LTD., HeatMatrix Group B.V., Exodraft A/S, Gardner Denver, and Baker Hughes Company, among others.
Some Key Highlights from the Report:
- In 2021, the compressor-based flare gas recovery system sector accounted for a higher revenue share. Flare gas recovery systems based on compressors are suited for handling hydrogen to heavy hydrocarbon gases. Compressor-based systems are designed to absorb compression heat as well as discharge temperatures when temperatures vary. This technology is used in many petrochemical and oil industries for recirculation as well as auxiliary heat exchangers.
- In 2021, the Asia Pacific market will have a bigger revenue share. Rapid industrialization and government export promotion measures are propelling the expansion of the flare gas recovery systems market in this area. Plastics, rubbers, resins, synthetic fibres, adhesives, petroleum-derived paints and coatings are all manufactured and exported from Asia Pacific. Over 100 global chemical centres and some of the world’s top downstream companies, including Shell, Chevron, and ExxonMobil, are located in Asia Pacific.
- Baker Hughes Firm, a U.S.-based worldwide industrial service company, inked a collaboration agreement with Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) on June 29, 2022, to deliver and install a flare gas recovery system. As part of greenhouse gas elimination efforts, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR) intends to minimise emissions and increase the efficiency of O&G operations.
Segments covered in the report:
Operating Pressure Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2019-2030)
- Up to 5 bar (small)
- 5 to 10 bar (medium)
- 10 to 20 bar (large)
- 20 to 60 bar (very large)
Technology Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2019-2030)
- Ejector based
Flow rate Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2019-2030)
- Up to 2 MMSCFD
- 2 to 5 MMSCFD
- 5 to 10 MMSCFD
- 10 to 20 MMSCFD
- 20 to 50 MMSCFD
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- Oil & Gas (O&G)
- Chemical Plants
- Industrial gas treatment
- Bio-gas treatment
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- North America (U.S.A., Canada, Mexico)
- Europe (Italy, U.K., Germany, France, Rest of Europe)
- Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Rest of APAC)
- Latin America (Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Rest of Latin America)
- Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., South Africa, Rest of MEA)
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Easy Landscape Drawing
Easy landscape drawing is a perfect instrument for an artist for many reasons. For beginners, easy geography drawing is a happy and fun technique. Because we feel nature and are satisfied with the idea and its sights, we understand to draw topography objects and things such as trees, peaks, or beaches. This will prompt you to express how to deal with issues such as the textured landscape, its light and shadow, and its proportions. These are the main things to practice to be a good interpreter. landscape drawings easy
Children may be interested in easy landscape drawing step by step. We can see how essential these techniques are for a landscape designer. However, most children want to start applying paint without removing their subject first. I know joy and restlessness. But, without drawing practice, only to see the drawings, children will never learn. In general, drawing is about understanding and catching objects. If you can mark things, you have the skills to possess them in your mind. For an artist-designer, drawing is something you know very quickly in the world.
Abstract footage from the video above
First, we’ll make the tree trunk of our easy landscape drawing. So we have to ensure that we create every detail of the object. After that, we draw a few lines to facilitate the shape of the tree drawing.
Then we follow the drawing rules and techniques to draw the tree’s leaves. Thus, we will draw curly lines to give the shape of the leaves of the tree branches. Make sure the condition of the leaves is perfect and gives a realistic effect.
Currently, in three, we count some better elements in our picture. So we draw a house in front of our easy landscape drawing. Then, to make the shape of the house, we add some straight and curved lines. We need to do the front of the house to do the gable roof and fascia design. Then draw a roof gable and the rearing windows a general top.
In four, follow the same technique and procedure as the previous step of drawing a house. So we need to draw lines to create the place of landscape drawing ideas and add details of making the drawing of the window, fascia of a home, landscape drawing pictures.
After the previous step, we will now draw flowers in front of easy landscape drawing ideas. So make circular and curly lines to draw the shape of the flowers.
Now it’s time to put colors in the simple landscape drawing ideas coloring pages in the last step. So we quickly move on to various delicious colors in our handy drawing for kids. After adding the colors, the sketch looks gorgeous. We learn easy, beautiful, and unique landscape drawing. But it would be best if you practice improving your skills. These drawing techniques allow young people and beginners to find their advantages and disadvantages to become fantastic artists.
This post is part of easy landscape drawing. Practice helps you develop your drawing skills. Follow and share cool drawing ideas to learn and improve your skills. Children may be interested in easy landscape drawing step by step. We can see how essential these techniques are for a landscape designer. However, most children want to start applying paint without removing their subject first. I know joy and restlessness. But, without drawing practice, only to see the drawings, children will never learn. In general, drawing is about understanding and catching objects. If you can remove things, you have the skills to possess them in your mind. For an artist-designer, drawing is something you know very quickly in the world.
Are you examining for an easy geography drawing? In this paper, we will guide you on drawing a landscape. Drawing a landscape can also be an essential measure for a novice. You can bring concepts from a beautiful waterfall, a mountain, a valley, or even trees and domains to draw geography. We are moving to teach you a pencil landscape drawing in this piece. The way we teach creates it comfortable for you to withdraw from a landscape.
We will draw geography with a lighthouse, a rocky surface, and ocean waves. So first, let’s know what a lighthouse is. Lighthouses are tall towers with lights to show sailors their travels and wakefulness or aid them in crises. Lighthouses were the only seed of seashores to train seafarers in ancient times. Earlier lighthouses had chimneys on higher ground by the sea. But nowadays, with advancements in technology, such as radars and GPS, the importance of lighthouses has become less. Our drawing tutorial consists of 6 simple steps. You might not do a good landscape drawing on your first attempt as a beginner, but keep testing, and you’ll become a perfectionist in no time.
Step by step guide on how to draw topography
Imagine a lighthouse by the sea with pebbles all around, from a vantage point where you can also see the sea waves. Clouds and some birds construct an excellent background. Here is a step-by-step guide to drawing a landscape.
Draw a cylinder vertically. This cylinder should thicken down. Draw a lying line to illustrate the background, then a tiny three-dimensional pack to the left of the lighthouse that will be integrated. Draw a ground-level line and slowly alter it to a curve after the lighthouse. This will illustrate a stony mountain near the lighthouse and give the landscape plan a lovely touch. Draw two squares on top of the upper lighthouse court, which should be negligibly more minor than the one below. Draw a triangle above the boxes to represent its roof.
Draw a linear perpendicular line down the seat of the lighthouse. Make the adjoining building look awesome by counting a window and a vent hole. Add single-line shadows as rough crooked bends in the scene and then more additional courtesies to make the rocks look natural. Add cylindrical horizontal lines on the lighthouse, which we will color in the subsequent steps—some small boxes representing windows. Also, draw a railing or grate on the top structure of the lighthouse with a gloom line.
Add more points to the rocky peak near the lighthouse by drawing more little crooked curves. Also, remove a tree in front and rearward: supply blue color ocean and green color tree vapor.
Add gray color to the lid of the construction and green color to the trees. Add some birds to the sky with clouds by removing two similar bends.
Add red color to the lighthouse enclosures so that a bench after a red court is white. Lighthouses are stained to differentiate them from other buildings and be recognized by sailors.
Improve colors on everything. Give a down hue to the sky and a very light blue tint to the clouds to make them appear separated from the sky. Give mountains and rocks a golden brown color. Add green coloring to trees.
We’re glad this tutorial helped you learn easy landscape drawing. Otherwise, check out the tutorial video for this drawing. You can count or fire details according to your personal preferences. This will help you generate new ideas in the future. We also have many more landscape designs. You can also check them out for new ideas for your sketchbook and art gallery. | <urn:uuid:71bbfe1f-089e-41fd-8aac-64ec5899fbd1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theblogulator.com/easy-landscape-drawing/ | 2023-09-22T11:07:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.938527 | 1,518 |
Backpacks have always been in vogue. They have seen us through schools, colleges, slumber parties, or even a sneak out. And just like how we have grown up, so have these packs. They hold the world’s burden on our shoulders but have always got your back. Today they are so much more than your travelling buddies who make backpacks an unavoidable essential in every woman’s closet. And with small handbags fulfilling very small of our needs, these backpacks for women have become a woman’s BFF.
Here are a few reasons why:
- At Your Workspace- With technology on the rise, office paraphernalia has changed from books to laptops and iPads. PUMA’s backpacks are a great medium to carry all your possessions in one place. Today women who work irrespective of their designations, from CEOs to entrepreneurs, prefer swapping their handbags for a backpack for its ease of keeping things. While a purse isn’t going anywhere, the safety of maintaining office gear in it and the increase of options from it being just ‘school bags,’ these are increasingly becoming a crucial part of a woman’s wardrobe and one can easily buy women’s backpack online
- Your Travel Confidante – Travel and bags are a classic duo! The space available makes it a one-stop-shop for all your travel emergency needs. Your backpack is ready to make your travel hassle-free, from your workstation (laptop) to your essential skincare, food, water, a clean change of clothes, and more. So choose that backpack with ample compartments for organising all your travel basics but make sure you do not overdo it with unnecessary items you would not end up using. As it is said, travel light, live light.
- Better Ergonomically – A backpack is designed such that it distributes its weight throughout your back, ensuring a proper balance is maintained. The padding on both the back straps softens the importance of the bag, making sure our muscles, spine and back are relaxed while carrying the backpack around. While travelling in a crowded space, you can always hang your bag on the front rather than the back to be extra careful. A modern woman prefers a stress-free lifestyle. She is more self-aware, strong, and independent while multitasking, and that is precisely what a backpack gives her.
- Mommy’s Choice – For mothers travelling with their kids, backpacks are ideal for them to keep their arms free and allow them to be more focused on the children than their belongings. A backpack for women will enable you to optimise its space aptly with everything kept in compartments making it easier for mums to reach for what they need. The sizes, compartmentalization, and fabrics make it an excellent pick when you don’t care for the weather or the traffic because your backpack has sorted you out. And with multiple sizes and designs available in the market today for all ages, you and your kid can always pair up with your backpacks.
- Fashion Statement – Bags have always been in fashion, and backpacks for women today can be an eye-catcher if styled well and correctly. Women have moved from the stereotypical female way of dressing and are experimenting with athleisure wear due to its comfort and functionality. Backpacks for women go quickly with this clothing style, and with the sizes and designs available, you have plenty of options to select from. So, if you got no pockets in your outfit today, don’t worry. You still have your backpack to your rescue.
- Ease Of Managing – Backpacks for women are synonymous to ease of management thanks to their ergonomic design. They are an excellent pick for travelling, going to a game, or even a cafe you might write out of. Rather than multiple strapping bags on you, like a bag stand or dragging a hefty suitcase from home to work, a backpack allows you enough space to carry your essentials without compromising on the size. And while your man might not mind moving your bag, a heavy side bag can be just as painful for him as it is for you; a simple backpack swap allows him to carry it for you just as chivalrously and painlessly.
- Avoid The Pickpocket Gang – New in the city? The right backpack can ensure your essentials do not get in the wrong person’s hands. Backpacks for women are made with sturdy zip locks that ensure that the pickpocket does not get to your travel documents, electronics or cash. For added safety, lock your backpack so that even the hustle of a busy city can not allow the thief to steal your precious travel essentials.
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Nicki Minaj Gives Out Relationship Advice on Twitter: ‘Queen, Know Your Worth’
Nicki Minaj is currently enjoying the single life, but she has plenty of suitors who are eager to put a ring on it. On Saturday (May 26), the Queen Barbz jumped on Twitter and decided to share some relationship advice with her “queens.”
In her Twitter rant, Minaj wanted to make sure that her female followers value their self-worth in relationships. The rap superstar encouraged her fans to never settle for any kind of abuse in their relationships.
"#Queen, know your worth. I’ve been proposed to 3 times; asked by 4 boyfriends to have their child. Being emotionally, mentally, or physically abused just to crack a fake smile on the gram & show off a ring is not happiness. Being cheated on, humiliated, belittled... for the gram?" she tweeted.
#Queen, know your worth. You were a Queen before him. You’ll be a Queen after him. He can’t make or break you," she continued. "Being equally yoked is what you should strive for. Spirituality is key. Once your spirit can soar on its own, then you are ready to “allow” him the privilege of ur time."
Now we don't know if Minaj is talking about her previous relationships with rappers -- Safaree Samuels, Meek Mill and Nas, respectively. Either way, it's some great advice.
Recently, rumors started that Minaj and Eminem were dating, but that was quickly squashed by her rep.
Minaj does hint at a "new boy" but it looks like he's going to be kicked to curb real soon. In the end, the rap superstar is happy with her "newfound freedom" and enjoys being a single lady.
"New boy asked if I could have his baby in a year & a half," she wrote. "On God I said: 'ain’t pushin out his babies til he buy da rock.' Then I busted out laughing. He said: 'I’ll put a ring on it. I’ll do anything it takes.' Yet all I could think of his how much I love my new found freedom."
Apparently, Queen is the title of Nicki Minaj's next project, which is due out in August. All hail the queen!
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I have bonded with strangers in seconds because of a mutual love for food. My kitchen is my safe space where I take on the role of the nutty professor. Maybe it’s my Montserration upbringing where we learned to make do with what we have. I really think that with the right spices you can use the cheapest cuts of meat or any vegetables and make the tastiest meals possible.
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Let’s take a trip down memory lane. It’s 1988, and you’re sitting around the television set with your cousins, who are as excited as you are that you’ve got a Nintendo entertainment system.
You pop in your brand-new cartridge of the Super Mario Bros. video game, and off you are to a far-away land of magic mushrooms, evil turtles, interconnecting sewers, and the princess that got away.
For children, the appeal of the game is simple: like any imaginative world you can immerse yourself into, you can be the hero, save the girl, and send the villain to a fiery grave. But for those of you who grew up with a physical impairment, seeing yourself as Mario or Luigi running over tubes and swimming underwater was likely much harder to imagine. It presented a world as realistic as the one you were already likely in: unaccessible and hard to navigate.
It is this need of promoting an accessible and inclusive environment that galvanized three Israeli friends to envision a Super Mario Bros. universe that caters to people with physical disabilities.
Not So Super Mario, created by Liron Atia, Roi Meyshar and Gadi Wilcherski of viral video developers Tachles (Yiddish-derived Israeli slang for ‘saying things literally’), depicts Mario as you’ve come to love him, before he breaks his legs attempting a long jump. The next scene finds him in a wheelchair, but unable to do any of the tricks that he could do before, leading his brother, Luigi, to set up wheelchair ramps and similar aids to help Mario master the level, whether he’s using a wheelchair or crutches.
“It’s not the 80s anymore,” the video, which boasts over 300,000 views at time of publication, reads near its conclusion. “Enable access for EVERYONE. NOW.”
“Because I’ve been on a wheelchair for the last eleven years, this video is a bit more personal than others that we’ve developed,” Atia tells The CJN. “We wanted to deliver a message that physical disabilities can happen to ANYONE, even Mario.”
Atia also recently took part in a three-day “make-a-thon” called Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM), a global initiative to solve problems for people with disabilities.
“We wanted to raise awareness that this is not a sexy issue but an important one, and reach people who have never thought about accessibility before. Our ultimate goal was for people to watch the video in order to start a conversation about it. Our next goal is to make people do something about it, and not just talk.”
Normally, Atia says, Tachles creates non-commercial viral videos. Not So Super Mario took precedence, however, because of the vital importance of this issue. “Everybody in Tachles works for free,” Atia says, “to try and make a better world via sarcastic videos.”
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The Government of Costa Rica congratulated the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) today, who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize for their extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons, particularly in Syria.
The Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the work of the organization “is a message to the world to not only eliminate the use of chemical weapons, but any device or invention that is highly destructive.”
The Deputy Foreign Minister, Gioconda Ubeda, reiterated the call for the universalization of the Chemical Weapons Convention and for all international instruments aimed at banning weapons of mass destruction.
Costa Rica signed the Convention on January 14, 1993, which came into force on April 29, 1997 with the founding of the OPCW.
Today the international community recognizes the OPCW and merits it for the destruction of 80 percent of chemical weapons stockpiles.
A team of 34 experts from the OPCW along with United Nations logistics in Syria have begun to destroy the weapons production facilities, according to the organization.
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WastedLocker being distributed in RIG campaign. Investigation of the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline. More ransomware gangs go offline. Double encryption. Third-party stalkerware risk.
A new RIG campaign is distributing WastedLocker. The US Congress considers two bills informed by the Colonial Pipeline incident, and Congressional committees are looking at the company’s response to the attack. More ransomware gangs go offline, but Conti is still trying to collect from the Irish government. Double encryption appears to be an emerging trend in ransomware. Ben Yelin looks at insurance companies clamping down on ransomware payments. Our guest is Nick Gregory of Capsule8 with thoughts on the Linux security landscape. And there’s another problem with stalkerware: third-party risk. | <urn:uuid:6baec59f-4b78-4671-ae8b-2b538da1fe44> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/daily-podcast/1335/notes | 2023-09-22T12:28:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.918562 | 158 |
Malware in pirated Windows installation files.
Dave Bittner: Hello everyone, and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday. I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace. Thanks for joining us.
Tom Roter: As part of our regular threat hunting, we saw some weird events, PowerShell events. We saw them pretty regularly for over a year. Only when a user contacted us, we figured out that the events are coming from a pirated Windows installation.
Dave Bittner: That's Tom Roter. He's a security researcher at Minerva Labs. The research we're discussing today is titled, "Rigging a Windows Installation."
Dave Bittner: What we're talking about here is folks getting their hands on, in this case, a copy of Windows 10, but doing so by questionable means.
Tom Roter: Mm-hmm, yeah. So, the Windows installation file – specifically it's shared on torrent sites, and, yeah, a lot of people use it. I mean, if you look for this specific installation, it has tens of thousands of seeders, which means – I couldn't even imagine how many people have installed it. Also, this is not the first installation that is out there. We have seen some other installations that behave similarly and have the same malware in them.
Dave Bittner: So, someone decides that they need a fresh copy of Windows 10, and rather than reaching out to Microsoft, going through the normal channels, and probably having to pay for it, they go to a torrent site and it's very easy to find a copy of Windows 10 on the torrent sites. But in this case, this copy of the Windows 10 installer is carrying an extra payload here, and that's what you all looked into.
Tom Roter: Yeah.
Dave Bittner: Well, let's let's walk through it together. What exactly was going on here from a malware point of view?
Tom Roter: So, from the malware point of view, the developer of this rogue Windows installation configured a number of pretty sophisticated ways to infect a device and bypass the Windows Defender. The first stage of the attack is carried by an executable file that is located in the "C:\Windows" subdirectory, and is started using the Windows unattend file, which allows for commands to be executed in the first boot up of a fresh installation. This executable is only responsible for setting up other PowerShell scripts that will set up Windows services.
Dave Bittner: And where does it go from there? I mean, this script launches and what does it do next?
Tom Roter: So, once this script launches, a Windows service will be created – two actually will be created. The first one is responsible for cleaning up a little bit of the artifacts that was created during the installation. And the second one, the more interesting one, uses directories that are created during the installation. It actually uses the name to decode, in-memory, a malicious PowerShell script – the one way we actually saw in our telemetry. And this PowerShell script contacts a server that is controlled by an attacker and tries to download a malicious executable.
Dave Bittner: And what malicious executable are they trying to put on the system?
Tom Roter: The malicious executable is, if I recall correctly, is 7-Zip SFX binary, which extracts a lot of different malware on the device, on the factory that was previously excluded in the Windows Defender. That was done by the service.
Dave Bittner: Interesting.
Tom Roter: One of the malware, one of the most serious malware that it infects is XtremeRAT, which is used by various threat actors. We didn't attribute did this attack, but we know that XtremeRAT is being used all over South America, and by the Molerats threat actor, which is attributed to Gaza.
Dave Bittner: And as you say, I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff that this is installing. I mean, everything from adware, cryptominers, and as you mentioned, the RAT for gathering and exfiltrating information off of the system. And I suppose, I mean, this speaks to the fact that if, gosh, if you can control the installation of someone's operating system, I mean, that's really the ballgame.
Tom Roter: Yeah, yeah. You could do basically anything you want. And also think of the scale of how many workstations, live workstations, you can control with this rogue installation.
Dave Bittner: Hmm. Now, describe to me specifically what they're doing to evade Windows Defender. What's going on there?
Tom Roter: OK, so, first of all, the attackers have to store a malicious PowerShell script that contains the addresses they want to reach. If they would have stored this file on disk, the Windows Defender would have found it and deleted it. What the attackers actually did, they took the script and encoded its value in hex ASCII into directory names. These directory names then decoded in-memory to download the payload. That's one thing that the attackers did to bypass Defender. Another thing they did was use the Windows attend file in order to bypass the Defender. This file actually allows them to execute their binary before Windows Defender is up.
Dave Bittner: Interesting. You know, I guess I mean, I usually ask people, you know, what can you do to try to protect yourself against this? And I suppose that still counts from an organizational point of view – you know, how do you prevent folks from downloading infected copies of their operating system off of a torrent site? I mean, that's sort of the basic thing here. And beyond that, as we said, I mean, if that's the way folks are getting their software, it's kind of a self-inflicted wound, I suppose.
Tom Roter: It is. It is. Sometimes it is, but sometimes, if you don't know a lot about computers and you purchase your PC in someone's shop and he's getting cheap on your operating system, installing it from an illegal source, you could get hurt by that. And I'm sure a lot of people did.
Dave Bittner: So, what sort of things could you do then to kind of scan this system? If you had, you know, endpoint protection, would it be able to detect the installations of the various types of malware that were dropped on a system like this?
Tom Roter: So, yeah, of course, even installing an external AV, and a good one, after the installation is done, might be able to delete some of the files. But the problem is you can never be sure if an attacker already installed another backdoor on your device before you have installed the AV.
Dave Bittner: Yeah, I mean, I suppose it really speaks to what you kind of alluded to earlier, which is that if you don't know the chain of custody of your device from beginning to end, I mean, I suppose it's probably in your best interest when you're setting up a new system to start from scratch with a copy of your operating system where you know where it came from.
Tom Roter: Yeah, it's pretty basic just to pay for your operating system.
Dave Bittner: Yeah. But I think the example you gave is a good one, that I could see how someone could overlook that. If you were buying a used system in a repair shop, said, hey, you know, no problem, we've got a clean copy, a clean install of Windows 10 on here, you are set to go. And lots of people wouldn't think twice about that.
Tom Roter: Yeah, that's true. That's why it's so important to install antivirus software and detection software on your device, just in my opinion.
Dave Bittner: Our thanks to Tom Roter from Minerva Labs for joining us. The research is titled, "Rigging a Windows Installation." We'll have a link in the show notes.
Dave Bittner: The CyberWire Research Saturday is proudly produced in Maryland out of the startup studios of DataTribe, where they're co-building the next generation of cyber security teams and technologies. Our amazing CyberWire team is Elliott Peltzman, Puru Prakash, Justin Sabie, Tim Nodar, Joe Carrigan, Carole Theriault, Ben Yelin, Nick Veliky, Gina Johnson, Bennett Moe, Chris Russell, John Petrik, Jennifer Eiben, Rick Howard, Peter Kilpe, and I'm Dave Bittner. Thanks for listening. | <urn:uuid:d49bade7-0287-44db-98e7-447d521b3f90> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/research-saturday/190/transcript | 2023-09-22T12:08:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.964043 | 1,839 |
China’s antitrust regulators are considering levying a record fine on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. over suspected anticompetitive behavior, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The fine could surpass the $975 million that Qualcomm paid in 2015 over anticompetitive practices, the report said. The regulators are also considering whether the Chinese e-commerce giant should divest some assets unrelated to its main online-retailing business.
Alibaba declined to respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Founder Jack Ma’s business empire has been put under intense scrutiny by Chinese regulators following his stinging criticism of China’s regulatory system in late October.
In late December China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced it launched an antitrust probe into Alibaba.
That news came after authorities in Beijing halted a planned $37 billion initial public offering from Ant Group, Alibaba’s internet finance arm.
The company has come under fire in the past from rivals and sellers for allegedly forbidding its merchants from listing on other e-commerce platforms, a practice known as “two-choose-one.”
Alibaba’s Hong Kong shares climbed 1.7% on Friday morning, after its New York shares gained 2.8% overnight amid a broad stock market rally. The New York shares are still down about a quarter from their October levels. — Reuters | <urn:uuid:154e0be0-3038-43c6-807a-90eedbd55500> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thedailycurrentnews.com/2021/03/12/chinas-antitrust-regulators-weigh-levying-record-fine-on-alibaba-wsj/ | 2023-09-22T13:05:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.94445 | 287 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has offered Southeast Asian nations a rare and narrowing window of opportunity to clamp down on the region’s endangered wildlife trade, after the business saw a sharp contraction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the United Nations.
In recent decades, Southeast Asia has become a source, conduit, and market for a wide range of endangered wildlife products, from ivory and tiger skins to bear bile, pangolin scales, and rhino horn. The trade is a by-product of the region’s post-Cold War regional economic integration, both between Southeast Asian nations and between Southeast Asian nations and China, where a large emerging middle-class has created a booming demand for rare and exotic meats and other wildlife products.
According an internal report prepared by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for regional law enforcement agencies, and quoted in this recent report from Reuters, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a sharp drop in the trade of illegal wildlife products in Southeast Asia.
This is reflected in the United States Agency for International Development’s Counter Wildlife Trafficking Digest, released in May, which showed that the number and volumes of seizures of key wildlife products had fallen by as much as half. According to the digest, seizures of pangolin parts in China, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand dropped from 82 incidents in 2019 to 48 incidents in 2020, while the total volume of seizures fell sharply from 155,795 kilograms of pangolin products in 2019 to just 9,765 kilograms last year. The USAID digest also registered decreases in the number and quantity of tiger and elephant products seized in these countries.
The main reason for the drop was the disruption in traffickers’ networks that came as countries shut their borders, instituted lockdowns, and tightened surveillance. The link between the emergence of COVID-19 and the wildlife trade has also prompted some governments to tighten or impose restrictions on the trade, in part or in whole, of wildlife products.
In early 2020, as COVID-19 was beginning its fatal global migration, the Chinese government banned the consumption of wild meat and other wildlife products, and ramped up its prosecutions of wildlife crimes. Meanwhile, Vietnam stepped up enforcement of its on-the-book anti-trafficking laws in July of last year. The link between the coronavirus and wildlife markets also prompted a slump in demand for endangered products.
The illegal wildlife trade didn’t entirely disappear; as this June 2021 report from Mongabay notes, like many industries, traffickers adapted to COVID-19 by shifting their operations online. “Advertisements and trade continue to proliferate on social media platforms, and there is evidence that traders may be resorting to stockpiling animal parts in anticipation of demand recovering as restrictions are eased,” it reported.
Indeed, according to Reuters, the UNODC conducted interviews with wildlife traders and traffickers in remote parts of the borderland between Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and China. Here it found evidence that wildlife products were being stockpiled until restrictions slacken. A similar conclusion was also reached by an investigation conducted by the Environmental Investigation Agency and the Wildlife Justice Commission in Vietnam.
All this suggests that the wildlife business could spring back sharply as the region moves toward widespread vaccine coverage and begins to loosen COVID-19 travel and movement restrictions.
According to UNODC, the drop in illegal wildlife trade has offered a rare opportunity for the region’s governments to prevent the return of the industry once border controls are relaxed, by strengthening enforcement collaboration and improving the content and implementation of wildlife laws.
However, such a route is strewn with numerous obstacles. Much of the regional illegal wildlife trade takes place in remote regions of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos – the so-called Golden Triangle – that has rarely if ever been under effective central state control. The situation in Myanmar, which has spiraled into crisis since the military coup in February, has only entrenched the political economy of conflict and blurred state jurisdictions in which traffickers of narcotics and wildlife have long flourished.
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Dressing for all of the holiday events you have can be overwhelming and stressful; who has the time to plan out six different festive outfits within a few weeks? Not I. And with the holidays being pricy to begin with, you probably don’t want to be buying something new for every event you have. The solution? Winter accessories you can throw on to elevate any look.
By picking up a festive accessory or two, you can make even a black-on-black outfit appear festive and thought-out. Pair them with your favorite basics, and you have a full-blown holiday-ready look in a snap. Here are our favorite accessories of winter 2022: | <urn:uuid:2250a27d-82f3-4bc4-bad7-5077269372bb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theeverygirl.com/stylish-winter-accessories/ | 2023-09-22T11:35:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.9572 | 137 |
Hello. My name is Diana — and I’m a bigot.
I wish that it weren’t true. I like to think that I’m a bigot well into recovery, but I’ve had relapses along the way, and I’m really not sure how far I’ve come. I’m not going to confess the targets of my various prejudices. That wouldn’t serve any real purpose. And I wish journalist Juan Williams hadn’t passed up an excellent chance to keep his thoughts to himself when he said, “…when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
He said these words just after assuring Bill O’Reilly he wasn’t a bigot, but his confession of pre-judging people based on their choice to dress in a way that identifies themselves as Muslims negates his denial with breathtaking effectiveness. (Incidentally, if I wear a cross or another Christian symbol around my neck, or pray before my meal on a plane or in a restaurant, what does it say about me? Does my identification “first and foremost” as a Christian make people nervous?)
To make matters worse, O’Reilly claimed that it wasn’t just a few individuals, but “whole nations” that were against us (Americans, I suppose). I wish anyone who harbors that opinion could visit with my Iranian American friends who are proud to be citizens of this country, and the Iraqi refugees I visit who are working hard and happily building new lives for themselves here.
My final words on this most recent brouhaha are that NPR shouldn’t have fired Juan Williams, no one should try to de-fund NPR, and Fox News has no room to accuse other news outlets of being biased.
This story will blow over and I hope it won’t do too much damage before it falls off the front pages. But in an era of instant communication, I wonder if it’s still true that actions speak louder than words. In the long run, they probably still do, but grace-filled actions are like Redwoods that grow quietly and take a while to be noticed while misinformed or hateful words are more like stink weeds–or stink bombs. They’re lobbed from the internet to cable news to a seemingly infinite number of blogs.
I don’t know if Mr. Williams planned to make the comment he did or if it was an off-the-cuff remark, but he and all the rest of us need to come to terms with our inner bigots and find a good Twelve Step program–and less public venues for our confessions. | <urn:uuid:f741a196-bb6f-44c0-a033-7eb555eef2e8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thefaithlab.info/bigotry-anonymous/ | 2023-09-22T11:19:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.963436 | 592 |
MP: Man receives 40,000-page RTI response in Indore, transports documents in SUV
In Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a man’s SUV was filled to capacity with 40,000 pages of documents he received in response to his Right to Information Act request related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moreover, Dharmendra Shukla also did not have pay the stipulated Rs 2 per page since his plea was not answered within one month.
“I had submitted an RTI plea with the Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) of Indore seeking details of tenders and bill payments connected to procurement of medicines, equipment and allied materials during the COVID-19 pandemic period, Shukla said on Saturday (July 29).
Since he was not provided the information within one month, he approached the first appellate officer Dr Sharad Gupta, who accepted the plea and directed that he be given the information free of cost, Shukla added.
“I took my SUV to ferry the documents and the entire vehicle got packed. Only the driver’s seat remained free,” he said.
When contacted, appellate officer and Regional Joint Director of the state health department Dr Sharad Gupta said he had ordered that the information be given free of cost.
Gupta said he had directed the CMHO to take appropriate action against the personnel due to whom the state exchequer lost Rs 80,000 since the information was not given in time.
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Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and Brian Roan are joined by The B-Side co-host Conor O’Donnell to discuss Ang Lee’s Gemini Man. Brian Roan also talks about the new Breaking Bad movie El Camino. Be sure to listen to The B-Side episode on Will Smith here.
The Film Stage Show is supported by MUBI, a curated online cinema streaming a selection of exceptional independent, classic, and award-winning films from around the world. Each day, MUBI hand-picks a new gem and you have one month to watch it. Try it for free at mubi.com/filmstage. | <urn:uuid:a84b70f9-f2e5-4f58-bfc9-7c3c042102f4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thefilmstage.com/the-film-stage-show-ep-368-gemini-man/ | 2023-09-22T12:56:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.931188 | 157 |
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Steve Smith Net Worth: Born on June 2nd, 1989, in Sydney, Australia, Smith’s journey to success has been nothing short of remarkable. With his cricketing abilities, business ventures, and brand endorsements, Smith has built an empire for himself, solidifying his position as one of the wealthiest cricketers in the world. Follow Our website TheGossipsWorld Media for the latest updates!!!!!
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Steve Smith Net Worth 2023
Steve Smith, the Australian cricket sensation, has taken the cricketing world by storm with his exceptional skills and unmatched talent. With a net worth estimated to be around $30 million in 2023, Smith has secured his position among the richest cricketers in the world.
How Rich Is Steve Smith?
One of the primary contributors to Smith’s massive net worth is his lucrative contracts in the Indian Premier League (IPL), where he has represented various teams over the years. The IPL has emerged as a cash-rich tournament, and Smith’s exceptional batting prowess has made him one of the most sought-after players in the league.
Steve Smith Career
Alongside IPL earnings, Smith also receives substantial salaries from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for his participation in international matches. In summary to his cricketing endeavors, Smith has ventured into private businesses and brand endorsements, further bolstering his financial standing.
Steve Smith: Wikipedia
Known for his popularity and influence, Smith charges a hefty sum of more than 1 crore for brand endorsements, showcasing his value as a prominent figure in the advertising industry. Smith’s journey in international cricket began in 2010 when he made his debut for Australia in a T20 match against Pakistan. Since then, he has gone on to establish himself as a vital cog in the Australian cricket team.
Steve Smith Achievements
Smith’s achievements on the cricket field are equally impressive. He became only the second international player to achieve a Test batting rating of 947, a testament to his remarkable consistency and skill with the bat. Known for his unorthodox yet effective batting technique, Smith has left bowlers from around the world perplexed and in awe of his ability to score runs at will.
Steve Smith Bio
His consistent performances and exceptional leadership skills have earned him numerous accolades and cemented his place among the cricketing elites. Smith’s versatility extends beyond his batting prowess. He is also a talented right-hand bat and a leg-break googly bowler.
Steve Smith Earnings & Income
His ability to contribute to the ball adds value to his overall performance and makes him a valuable asset in the team’s lineup. While his international exploits have earned him immense recognition, Smith’s presence in domestic leagues, such as the Big Bash League (BBL), has further enhanced his net worth.
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The Green Lab creates urban green spaces that support strong social connections and promote wellbeing in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Our green spaces enable community building and connect people with nature in the urban environment.
We put community, wellbeing and environmental sustainability before profit. We see our focus and impact in the context of the Living Standards Framework.
For us, design is a social process of co-creation and capacity building. Where possible we take a participatory approach that involves end-users in the design and construction of the space.
“The Green Lab is an astounding organisation: besides their unquestionable skills in landscaping and rejuvenating vacant spaces, The Green Lab has demonstrated a great community focus and a genuine community development attitude.”
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President Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix last month is expected to cost taxpayers $450,000 in expenses to cover law enforcement officials, the Fire Department, and other city employees working overtime to ensure the president’s safety, control protest crowds, and oversee street transportation, water services, and other public works, AZCentral.com reported Tuesday.
“We do what it takes to protect the president of the United States when he visits Phoenix,” Mayor Greg Stanton (D) told the news outlet.
The Hill added:
While Trump’s campaign paid about $50,000 for the venue and indoor security, he was not charged for the additional costs associated with his visit, City Manager Ed Zuercher reportedly told another local news outlet last month, adding that this would be the case too for other visiting candidates.
Zuercher said he felt it wouldn’t be right to charge him more for the costs of police splitting up the Trump supporters and protest groups.
“You can’t dampen free speech by telling people they have to pay for free speech,” Zuercher told the news outlet.
Arizona Republican Party spokeswoman Torunn Sinclair defended Trump’s $450k campaign rally.
“The safety and security of everyone involved should be priority No. 1. There are costs associated with that — whether it be an event for the President of the United States, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Phoenix rally last October or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Tempe rally last November,” Sinclair said in a statement.
However, Arizona Democratic Party spokesman Enrique Gutierrez and others felt differently.
“It’s 2017. He just won in 2016. This shouldn’t be something that the city of Phoenix should pay for,” Gutierrez told AZCentral, adding that Trump’s campaign should have reimbursed the city for the extra costs. | <urn:uuid:a701681e-d3b9-4a3d-bd47-ebca8618f782> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/trumps-phoenix-campaign-rally-cost-taxpayers-450000-report/ | 2023-09-22T10:59:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.940716 | 398 |
AUSTIN, Texas – A 25-year-old junior marketing executive was detained by immigration officials today after attempting to cross the SXSW fence illegally, reports confirm. Sources say he has been charged with transporting unlicensed brand awareness across festival lines, and put in a detention center made possible by Capital One.
Daniel Paul, the man nabbed by ICE officers, was said to be carrying stickers, pins, and highly potent live streaming ideas meant to give his employer an “IRL” presence at the festival without paying the standard fee.
“When companies send their people to this convention, they are not sending their best,” ICE Officer Gabriel Sanchez told reporters on the scene. “They’re sending interns, brand ambassadors, even social media managers — although, some I assume are good people.”
Paul’s employer, FoxxBoxx, an internet startup company which sends boxes of non-FDA approved energy drinks to customers on a monthly basis, declined to give a statement.
Despite protests, SXSW refused to release Paul, noting the scale for measuring engagement ICE had found on him proved his swag was packaged for distribution, not personal recreation.
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“We love Daniel so much, and we are here tonight to show him our support,” Paul’s mother said, surrounded by extended family gathered outside the SXSW offices to demand Daniel’s release. “He may have gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd in measuring social media engagement and thinking up brand activations, but he has a good heart. Everyone who knows him knows that.”
One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed a FoxxBoxx brand ambassador will meet with the president of SXSW to try to resolve the crisis. The source admitted, however, that “it doesn’t look good for Paul.”
“SXSW plans to deport him back to Palo Alto, which serves as a kind of sanctuary for subhuman marketing scum,” the source said. “Most who go there end up spending years trying to prove their brand allegiance. We’re hoping for the best.” | <urn:uuid:5e825533-5fde-4595-84a9-51c23efeb02b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thehardtimes.net/news/ice-agents-catch-marketer-smuggling-unlicensed-brand-awareness-sxsw-fence/ | 2023-09-22T10:56:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.96719 | 509 |
The thing about Maher is that he’s not on the speaking circuit or the radio.
He’s on television.
So getting really good footage of the radioactive crap he says isn’t difficult; it’s right there in HD.
And of course, Maher’s buddy David Letterman is no less accessible. Ditto for the MSNBC crowd and #littlelionman President Barack Hussein Obama.
So when a new PAC devoted to defending conservative women decides to gather up video clips to show how absolutely disgustingly ugly the Left is when they’re trying to defame someone like Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann, it’s not at all difficult for them to put something together which makes assclowns out of Maher and the rest of the lefty gang.
But while that’s going on, we have the Left’s chief grotesque, Gloria Allred, attempting to criminalize Rush Limbaugh’s cracks about Sandra Fluke…
Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week.
“Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised her free speech and her right to testify before congress on a very important issue to millions of American women and he vilified her. He defamed her and engaged in unwarranted, tasteless and exceptionally damaging attacks on her,” Allred told POLITICO Friday afternoon. “He needs to face the consequences of his conduct in every way that is meaningful.”
In a letter dated March 8, Allred, writing on behalf of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, requested that Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe probe whether the conservative radio personality had violated Section 836.04 of the Florida Statutes by calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke the two derogatory words.
The statute stipulates that anyone who “speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity” is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Allred explained that the statute recently came to her attention as having never been repealed, and that it could very well apply to Limbaugh’s remarks as his show is broadcast from West Palm Beach.
As if a prosecutor would waste his or her time attempting to convict Limbaugh of a misdemeanor, when the latter would surely lawyer up with the meanest, nastiest and smartest First Amendment attorney money can buy.
It’s worth remembering that when Gloria Allred was last in the news she was representing real sluts like Ginger Lee, the porn queen Anthony Weiner supposedly engaged in an inappropriate Twitter relationship with, and Sharon Bialek, the desperate gold-digger who made baseless accusations against Herman Cain which contributed to his dropping out of the GOP race. In neither case was Allred particularly useful in driving the public discourse toward a positive outcome, but that’s hardly a surprise considering her past as an undignified, scum-sucking assclown… | <urn:uuid:4b8e751f-fe28-401f-9430-867c01fd4f5e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thehayride.com/2012/03/this-bill-maher-thing-is-starting-to-get-a-bit-sticky/ | 2023-09-22T12:42:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.953725 | 675 |
I love my chiropractor! Not in a romantical way of course, just in a “you fixed my body and I love you” way. It’s taken two visits and I’m almost completely fixed of my sciatic and back problems. I still have some hip pain but that’s just my arthritis dealing with my joints being loose from pregnancy. Yesterday he took a look at my back and said most of my problem is just muscle tension. He did some poking and whatnot and gave me an exercise to do (with a very fun rubber tube thingie, it’s not only good for exercising but also a great tool for annoying your husband while watching American Idol! Just get him to hold it to his ear and say you have a secret to tell him and then blow really hard into the tube, it’s fun and sometimes you can get them to do it more than once, this is a very long rabbit trail now.) which will pull my shoulders back and help relieve tension. I say, if you have back and sciatic pain from being pregnant then pay the money to get it fixed, I can’t believe the instant relief. I went through my entire pregnancy last time hobbling around in a salon and not being able to walk at night, massage didn’t help it much. My docs kept telling me there was nothing that could be done. Well it totally can be, I’m so HAPPY!! I vacuumed my floors yesterday which is a really bad motion for the sciatic and I didn’t feel it at all, later that night I could hop up from sitting and everything was fine! Needless to say, I love my chiropractor, I wish he wasn’t married and I had a sister to marry him off to. Dang.
I made more scones today, I’m addicted. I used brown sugar today and cranberries. I got mom-in-law excited to make them too, I’ll hook my mom in soon enough. She’s busy.
Yesterday Auntie Juju and I took Silas to the park. We enjoy just letting him wander around. We just walk behind him and chat and divert him from any dangers. Silas enjoys the doggies there SO much. He even got a bunch of wonderful kisses from a puppy, right on the MOUTH! Most moms would be grossed out, I was just jealous I wasn’t getting puppy kisses. He still frightens doggies because he runs up to them squeaking (hopefully none will think he’s a squeeze toy and bite him) and then just kinda dives at them and they dodge and he falls over. I can’t wait to get him a dog one day, now just isn’t the time. Silas also ran up to some old man and grabbed onto his legs like he wanted up. The old dude picked him up and said “DO I LOOK LIKE YOUR DADDY?” his wife looked very embarrassed and made him put Silas down. I didn’t mind, the old guy was pleased that Silas had chosen him. I guess shyness isn’t something we’re going to have to deal with. I’m feeling so chatty today! One more paragraph and then I’ll try and think of someone to call or something, even though I’ve talked for about 2 hours on the phone today already!
Brent worked over 12 hours yesterday. I got Silas ready for bed and then we waited for Brent to come home. Silas was so happy to see Brent. He was acting funny, like he knew he was missing someone but wasn’t sure. He said DADA so happily and so loudly when he saw Brent, I got all teary because I could tell it totally was the highlight of Brent’s day to have such a warm welcome. It’s funny, when I became a Mom I noticed that I feel most loved by Brent when he shows love to our son. Us moms are so weird. Ok, that’s all. To those of you that got this far thanks for sticking with me! I’m proud of you!! | <urn:uuid:31ac812a-126a-40c8-abe7-0cc9e5c91d30> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theinformalmatriarch.com/hug-a-chiropractor/ | 2023-09-22T11:44:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.982115 | 882 |
In September 2019, Germaine was interviewed on Channel News Asia (CNA) in regards to the most recent interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve; and how they impact property investors.
You can view the full video by CNA here
Developments that currently have high vacancies will see a surge in such vacancies. It is therefore important for investors to only buy places that are in demand, in high growth areas, and with positive cash flow. Holding power is vital at this point and investors are encouraged to wait until the market stabilises – also when prices increase.
This is good news for aspiring investors. If you are ready to buy in, this is a good window of opportunity especially with the lower interest rates. Such rates will help in increasing the positive cashflow when the unit is rented out (after deducting expenses) as this means paying a lower mortgage per month. | <urn:uuid:b673ab43-bf44-4ece-83be-728c6308629f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theiquadrant.com/how-does-the-us-federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut-affect-property-investors/ | 2023-09-22T12:33:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.968439 | 178 |
I have always struggled with body image. I grew up surrounded by adults participating in diet culture, constantly talking about the next best fad, herb or pill to lose weight. I remember feeling fat at age 9, even though I was just healthy.
For more than 25 years, I have struggled to feel comfortable in my body. Even when I was thin, it was never enough. I always had a goal of it being less than the current weight or pant size.
In middle school, it was kids teasing me. In high school, it was all of my friends who were thinner than me. As a young adult, it was how to look good in the smaller pair of jeans. As a parent, it was bounce-back culture after the babies.
A continual comparison of the better version I could become if I just lost the extra weight.
It never mattered what the number on the scale was or what size of jeans I fit into, I was never comfortable in my skin. There was a deep sense of discomfort in my own body.
I hated her for what she stood for; a constant reminder of never feeling up to par through the lens of societal standards that get placed on people, especially women. This body, that carried me through life, that had done so much for me, I resented.
Pregnant with my third babe, I decided to work on loving myself fully and completely. I stood naked in front of a mirror telling myself about the bits I liked the most daily.
Slowly, it turned into the pieces of me I loved the most. Each time I stepped in front of that mirror to show up for this body, I found myself loving a new stretch mark or a groove I couldn't bear to look at before.
I realized I didn't have to love every bit all the time, but if I could respect each piece for carrying me in its own respect, I could learn to love myself fully. I could honour the parts I felt ashamed of. I could come and feel safe in this body.
It isn't always easy and I try to catch myself before the insecurities creep in, but I don't always. I accept that part of me too.
Today, I am beautiful and I honour my body. She is my home and I am thankful for being carried in this vessel. | <urn:uuid:9e8110f3-3667-4e10-89c2-aeddac715f33> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thelakehippie.ca/blogs/hippie-thoughts/coming-home-to-my-body | 2023-09-22T12:41:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.987333 | 478 |
I've long enjoyed the rather.... colorful.... posts over at gamingwhileconservative. The man has a way with words, and an opinion on gaming that anyone who lives the phrases "git gud" and likes the brutal difficulty curve of your typical roguelike would recognize and take to heart. You can't avoid the meta - embrace it. Find ways to lampshade it on occasion as needed. Your character may be better than average, but he's not world famous yet - so why do you have a backstory/origin that's more than one brief line of text? Also - part of the fun is working around the deficiencies of your character - Three Steps, who I've mentioned before, started out with just one hit point.
Neither straight 3s nor straight 18s won’t make that process any more nor less challenging for the DM. The chargen process isn’t about the DM at all. If you think it is, you’ve got to recalibrate your assumptions. The DM faces only two challenges:
- The challenge of keeping the challenges, monster treasure and trap, interesting and engaging enough for the players to want to keep poking at his campaign world to find the loot and save the princess
- The challenge of remaining impartial even when the players are acting like the bunch of window licking short bussers that gravitate toward playerhood in the first place
Amen. While I personally gravitate to the "roll several sets of characters and pick one" methodology of ACKs, you still very rarely end up with characters that don't have at least one stat below average, often by enough to negatively impact your character in some way.
This is not a story game, not in the sense of your typical Pathfinder adventure, or novel. There is rarely a grand overarching theme. There are, however, threads that run through the game, and stories that evolve as the characters grow, due to the choices the players make. Things that started out as red herrings or distractions suddenly become major running plot points or gags.
But then I learned early in a high school Traveller campaign exactly how quickly smart players could short circuit a carefully planned out set piece. Or bypass it entirely.
Speaking of Traveller, having characters die before you even finish rolling them up certainly keeps you from getting too much into their special snowflake backstory.
He also has some excellent words on what constitutes playing D&D, vs storygaming or that other stuff.
That storytelling game that guys like Pundy play is a fine game. Go play it. Have fun. With my blessing. I don’t begrudge people for their weird hobbies. Apparently some people use sticks to knock balls into holes 200 yards away. Some people kill animals and eat them. Some people dress up as animals and call people that kill animals and eat them names because they don’t think people should kill animals and eat them. Some people write mean jokes about people who dress up as animals and call people that kill animals and eat them names because they don’t think people should kill animals and eat them because they don’t think people should dress up as animals and call people that kill animals and eat them names because they don’t think people should kill animals and eat them.
The point here is that nobody is mad at anyone for not playing D&D. Technically, we’re not even mad at people who play D&D wrong for playing D&D wrong so much as we’re helpfully pointing out that people who play D&D wrong aren’t actually playing D&D at all, and we are generously offering them help.
You see the difference here?
If you really like pretending to be an elf, you’re not playing D&D. You are playing a storygame. Or you are LARPing. Or you are crazy. But you are not playing D&D. People who play D&D don’t lose site of the fact that they are pushing a pawn around a tabletop. That pawn might have ‘elf’ as a label, but it’s still just a pawn. They might think “What would my pawn do here? What’s best for my pawn? How can my pawn avoid combat because he only has 2HP and an AC of 7?” | <urn:uuid:8692ecaa-56d9-4677-b677-f22bb818f177> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thelastredoubt.com/more-fun-and-gaming/ | 2023-09-22T11:44:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.973323 | 898 |
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]HAMEEM Faizee, National Secretariat Member of Communist Party of India (CPI), passed away on Friday, July 5, 2019. He had been suffering from cancer for the last few months.
Born and brought up in Nagpur, Faizee joined the CPI in 1965. He was soon called to the all-India party centre, Ajoy Bhavan, Delhi to work with the central journals department of the CPI. He became an elected member of National Council in 1979 and member of the National Executive of the party in 1993. He was elected to the Central Secretariat of the party in 1997. He continued to serve the party in this capacity till his last breath.
Faizee studied journalism and chose it as his career. He joined the English daily, The Hitavada, Nagpur in 1965 as sub-editor. He became the editor of Hayat, an Urdu journal of CPI in 1979 and also took charge of Party’s central organ “New Age” in 1996. He served as Managing Director of People’s Publishing House (PPH) from 1996 till his demise. In his long career as a journalist, he was associated with the Urdu fortnightly “Umang”, CNS, “Daily Patriot”, “Communist Jayza”, etc.
He was deeply involved in activities of the cultural movement and unionising journalists. For long he was in the national executive of Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA). He authored and edited several books and pamphlets on contemporary political and social issues of national and international importance.
The CPI in a statement said “at a time, when there is a right-wing offensive in the country, his absence is a great loss not only for CPI but to all progressive forces. His contribution to the party and to the ideological battle will be remembered ever and remain as a source of inspiration.” (IPA Service) | <urn:uuid:ec7e0b37-cdc8-406d-818a-dc26bebcdb9a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theleaflet.in/new-age-editor-shameem-faizee-is-no-more/ | 2023-09-22T10:49:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.980879 | 420 |
That can make identifying one a real pain, but good news! Cue the nerdiest thing we’ve ever posted (ok, since this at least) – PIQABRICK!
PIQABRICK is effectively a 3D scanner that can identify any LEGO piece, even the oddities above, revealing the part code that can be dropped into third-party brick marketplaces such as BrickOwl and Bricklink.
Now obviously you have to own the piece that you want to identify already, but for those more seriously into the art of LEGO model making, or the few that do it professionally, PIQABRICK could save hours of research.
Take a look at the video below see how it works, and click here to follow the project in advance of its launch on Kickstarter. | <urn:uuid:5925320b-ba2d-484d-98cc-5772de948798> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thelegocarblog.com/2019/04/09/whats-that-brick/ | 2023-09-22T12:01:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.939492 | 167 |
I didn’t like how I was feeling, being there on the bed with those men and agreeing with them, yet I was suspicious of that feeling–I worried that if I admitted I didn’t agree with what they were saying, then I would become the girl who needed to be fucked, and I didn’t want that. It seemed I wanted to be the girl who was fucked. The girl who would agree and who would let the hand slap her ass and laugh as the hand slapped her ass. I just wanted to be the girl who would agree. I thought that by agreeing, I would be permitted a kind of safety and privacy wherein I could secretly disagree with the men and hate the hand and hate myself for having agreed with them. It seemed I wanted to be turned against myself, and I was–I was so against myself that I could not help anybody else. I could not, in the silence after the laugh had become a slap had become a hand again on my ass again, I could not say, “No.” I could not speak because I would not let myself. | <urn:uuid:d574b1a9-127d-4286-905a-820e5647aa82> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thenewinquiry.com/the-words-triggered-a-gene-to-begin-destroying-me/ | 2023-09-22T11:40:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.997132 | 227 |
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Dual mode TENS/EMS Unit with 4 Electrode Pads to assist with Pain Therapy and Muscle Stimulation.
TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) is used to assist with relief of chronic and acute pain.
EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation) is used for muscle strengthening, increasing local blood circulation, muscle relaxation, rehabilitation.
The TENS/EMS Unit uses electric impulses to activate muscle contraction. The benefits of its use are many: as a tool to assist with strength training, as a rehabilitation tool, and as both a neural and muscular evaluation instrument. Individuals engaged in strenuous physical activity can use the device as both a pre-exercise warm-up tool to activate the muscle fibers and as a post-exercise recovery tool. | <urn:uuid:51d44830-b8a9-4bf2-8fc8-9130ea9a6f80> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://theonlineshoppe.com/products/digital-tens-ems-unit | 2023-09-22T12:27:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.916502 | 164 |
Day 27 of my 50 DIY Days: 15 Fall Sweet Treat Recipes
I’ve got sugar on the brain! Let’s talk about 15 yummy looking Fall Treats you should make. Putting this list together was hard… now I’m craving apple pie like CRAZY. Enjoy!
1) These looks fun! Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts, from Cooking Classy.
2) Caramel Apple Nachos? Yes. I would like that, from Lil Luna.
3) Doughnuts are always a good idea. Check out these pumpkin doughnuts, from Cooking Classy.
4) Wow, this Brown-butter Cranberry Tart looks amazing, from The Food Charlatan.
5) I looooove truffles and these Pecan Pie Truffles look so good, from High Heels and Grills.
6) OMG. Pumpkin Pie Shortbread Bars, from Willow Bird Baking.
7) This is so pretty, no-bake mini pumpkin cheesecake, from A Family Feast.
8) Apple pie is my FAVORITE Fall treat. These apple pie bites looks amazing, from The Blond Cook.
9) These chocolate chip pumpkin muffins need to be in my LIFE, from One Little Project.
10) All I need to say: Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes, from Cupcake Diaries.
11) These are so pretty and look so yummy. Apple Pie Baked Apples, from Sally’s Baking Addition.
12) These pumpkin Rice Krispies treats would look so cute on your Thanksgiving table, from Yummy Healthy Easy.
13) Can’t eat flour or grains? Try this Paleo Pumpkin Pie Cupcake recipe, from My Whole Food Life.
14) Pack these up and give away as a food gift: Cinnamon and Sugar Pecans, from Cooking Classy.
15) Save a bit of money and make some homemade nutella , The Eccentric Cook.
Are you wondering what the 50 DIY Days is? Each year I share a bunch of holiday DIY ideas, recipes, and guides to inspire you during the Fall. Now, through early December, you’ll find a ton of great ideas to get you ready for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any sort of holiday gift giving. You can check out this link to explore past DIY Days.
The images in the first photo are from One Little Project, The Food Charlatan, and Cooking Classy. I want to see your creations! Share what your making with me on Instagram. It could be one of my DIY’s, or a project you’re working on. Share with my IG account @thepapermama and use the hashtag #papermamafriends. | <urn:uuid:05d84c2c-b53a-4076-bb28-140689246515> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thepapermama.com/2015/11/15-fall-sweet-treat-recipes/ | 2023-09-22T11:51:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.863869 | 577 |
Track Title: Bye, Bye Blackbird
Prime Artist: Frank Sinatra
Lyrics by: Mort Dixon
Music by: Ray Henderson
Originally made famous by: Eddie Cantor
Pack up all my cares and woes, here I go singing low, bye, bye blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me, sugar's sweet, so is she, bye, bye blackbird.
No one here can love and understand me, oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me,
Make my bed and light the light, I'll arrive late tonight, blackbird bye, bye.
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Ferti-M 75 lu Injection is primarily indicated in conditions like Cryptorchidism (undescended testes), Follicular growth stimulation, Hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, Male infertility, Superovulation.
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The secret to changing your net worth with the stock market is to find a company, or companies with a competitive advantage in a major investing trend.
Technology that revolutionized the surgical industry.
A chip that created wireless networks.
The chip that turned PCs into video players.
The semiconductor for the digital camera.
one of these big winning stocks had one thing in common, it either created
or changed an industry, in other words it was disruptive. The company
either created a wave with its disruptive technology or was the key
player in a disruption.
Find out how to spot trends and the Big Stocks in them with the book How To Find Big Stocks
The tool that turned $10,000 into $2,800,000 in 2 years.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The news that YouTube is enabling pay per view option for live video streams opens a HUGE opportunity for Internet entrepreneurs.
The iPod, iPhone, Droid, Kindle, Nook...all devices that enable an Internet entrepreneur the ability to compete with major recording artists or publishers.
YouTube will soon enable any Internet enabled device to generate revenue.
One of the investing waves I discuss in my book How To Find Big Stocks is Video will be a major wave.
Soon every Web-enabled camera will be a TV channel. Every person has the ability to be a movie producer. Reality TV really gets real.
In the book I discuss the companies/technologies I feel could have the competitive advantage in this investing wave.
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Think of white America as a huge, ever-expanding bubble. Bubbles, in essence, are isolated spheres that are not easy to pop, that are closed off to everything except themselves. Inside of this bubble that is white America lives white bodies with luxuries like suburbia, intergenerational wealth, land, clean drinking water, healthy food, and adequate education. As history shows, this bubble has only opened its borders to groups that will labor its acres and expand its wealth at little to no cost. Otherwise the bubble remains closed to those who are not from there, and has for numerous centuries.
That bubble was pierced enough to shatter on a late May evening in 2020. For 8 minutes and 46 seconds white America watched George Floyd, a black man, beg for his life on camera while 4 police officers murdered him. George’s Floyd’s immense suffering, his last breaths, were captured as he laid face down on the concrete. And so white America began to see that what exists outside of their bubble matters too, even as much as their own white lives. They began to see that the police do not always murder those who ‘threaten’ them. They began to see that certain acts cannot be subjective, rather that they are objective and straight. They began using their money to fund organizations fighting for equal justice and using their bodies to protect those of color from police at protests. And all across America, black and brown people asked themselves the same questions – Is it true? Is white America waking up?
When white America is thought in resemblance to a bubble, it becomes easier to perceive how this seemingly collective white awakening is just now starting. Before George Floyd was violently murdered, white America was experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic with the rest of the beings outside of their bubble. Loved ones in their communities were sick and dying, jobs were being cut, and they also had to stay in their homes for periods of times that many had never endured. They struggled with food and housing security, mental health declines, and a plethora of other consequences of the pandemic. Like those outside of their bubble, they too felt a sense of desperation. The death and the boredom and the pain were already enough for that bubble to fidget.
Fast forward three months and, what felt like suddenly, the news and the media completely shifted. All across screens and lips was real discourse about Black Lives Matter, police brutality, racism, white privilege, defunding the police! In the scalding middle of a public health crisis, the issues of black America became the issue. George Floyd’s life tipped the scale, however, names like Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor had been shaking the bubble walls, a jogger and an EMT who were both slain just for being black. The country was quite literally on fire, and it takes a whole lot of effort to ignore the beginning of a civil rights movement. The time to not have a stance has passed.
While this surge of action, responsibility and empathy are truly remarkable to witness, black people are holding a degree of skepticism. I have asked myself countless times Why now? Why in 2020? When you carry the DNA of ancestors who broke their backs, who were/are beaten, raped, incarcerated, stripped of their entire identity, denied the right to be treated like a human being for over 400 years… well, you question the sincerity and longevity of the allyship. You question if Black Lives Matter will be just as important to white people when it is no longer a social media trend, when they are not constantly being reminded of life outside of their bubble. Black people have been crying out in pain for years, so at times it feels rather insulting that the collective awakening has just begun. There is anger, confusion, and frustration being felt and that is completely valid. The sudden allyship of white people does not diminish your reality.
Nor does it take away from the fact that this shattering of the white America bubble left some pieces tethered together. There are those pieces of white America that are full of hate, rage, and mainly a copious amount of fear. They are infiltrating peaceful protests, arming themselves with bats and war weapons, and hanging black men in states like California, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. As this is no longer the time to remain silent, there will be vocal white people on both ends of the spectrum and it can be utterly terrifying.
The truth is, this will never make total sense to black people. We will never be able to fully comprehend why all of our collective suffering is just now starting to be taken seriously. But black people, we will always be the leaders of this fight and of this movement. After all, this is our movement and this movement centers around our lives. As leaders, we have a responsibility to provide our allies with a clear vision of our objectives. However, though an accessory to the movement, white people are simultaneously huge catalysts because of their white privilege. Their allyship is an ingredient for real change.
And so as COVID-19 showed us the paradox of humanity, the ties between isolation and community, somehow so does the fight for black lives to be treated as though they really, truly matter. | <urn:uuid:149c264c-504d-410b-a063-6ad910743291> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://therapyforblackgirls.com/2020/07/14/why-now-the-collective-white-awakening/ | 2023-09-22T11:55:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.976022 | 1,071 |
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
In honor and celebration of Pride Month, today we’re focusing on the experiences of those in the LGBTQIA community that identify as asexual or aromantic. This week I’m joined by Yasmin Benoit, the award-winning aromantic-asexual activist and founder of the #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike movement. Our conversation explores what asexuality is and how it differs from aromanticism, some common misconceptions about the asexuality community, and the intersection of being both a Black woman and an ace-aro woman.
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If you read my post last week introducing the brand new Books and Brew Club, you’ll know that this is mine and my brother’s brand new venture, and we are excited about it! Which means that we want to share that excitement with you by offering up one of the very first Books and Brew Club boxes to one of you!
Let me share more with you about Books and Brew Club and give one of you the chance to win the giveaway.
Books and Brew Club is all about delivering some of our favourite things to your door to give you a few moments of calm every month.
Brought to you by The Bookworm (that’s me!) and The Barista (my brother), we are passionate about our books and brews and want to share them with you.
How It Works:
Pop over to the website and choose your brew, tea or coffee. The brews available will vary every month so do pop by to see the latest offerings.
Then click through to select your genre of book, choosing from crime, romance, literary or surprise.
Click add to cart and then checkout. That’s it!
If you want to enjoy a little R&R time every month, just before you add to cart you’ll see an option to subscribe, and you’ll save money this way too.
A Little About Our Books and Brews:
At Books and Brew Club, we source good quality pre-loved books and pair them with the very best flavours of tea and coffee, including 5 servings every time.
Within each box, you will receive a pre-loved book, personally chosen by me, along with your choice of tea or coffee.
We want our boxes to provide with your much-needed me-time every month, an opportunity for you to slow down and unwind.
Your me-time is a sustainable choice, as we send pre-loved fiction, along with ethically sourced and packaged brews. You can find out more about this here.
Books and Brew Club offers Free Delivery to the UK, and ships internationally with added postage. And check out the 12 Month Challenge!
Now is your chance to win one of these boxes for yourself and you’ll be able to choose your book genre and brew. To be in with a chance, enter using the rafflecopter below. This competition is open internationally to over 18s, and closes at 12am 14th July 2022. Good luck!
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Century Condos is a Pre-construction Condominium Development by DeSantis Homes in Caledon Located at Kennedy Rd N & Dougall Ave.
- Developer: DeSantis Homes
- Address: 12530 Kennedy Road, Caledon, Ontario
- Nearest Intersection: Kennedy Rd N & Dougall Ave.
- Pricing: Starting From $550’s
- Occupancy: 2025
- Storeys \ Suites: 86 Units \ 4 Storeys.
- Suite Types: Low-Rise Condominiums.
- Suites Sizes: 490-1272 Sq Ft \ 1-3 Bedroom.
- Deposit Structure: 15% total deposit.
- Incentives: Platinum VIP Pricing & Floor Plans, First Access to the Best Availability, Capped Development Levies, Assignment
Reasons to Buy at Century Condos !
Grimsby’s downtown is changing thanks to a new landmark. Century Condos, a luxurious 4-story boutique residence close to the bustling culture of Main Street, embodies heritage-inspired architecture combined with modern elegance. a neighborhood that is accessible by foot. exquisite finishing. outstanding amenities. dependable connections and thrilling adventures. The tone for life between the Lake and the Mountain has been set by a century of history in Downtown Grimsby. | <urn:uuid:b5a53b3d-3c17-44b7-be95-319b46958d11> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://therealtybulls.com/project/century-condos/ | 2023-09-22T11:28:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.834797 | 282 |
A man had to undergo operation last Wednesday after his couple filled him his anus with silicone. The reason for this was avoid his boyfriend will farts. Police consider it a serious aggression.
Everything happened when he was sleeping. The night before the couple has celebrated their first-year anniversary with a dinner. Man ate a ration of pig’s trotters and it resulted in a sexless night with excessive gassiness. In early hours, the woman ran out to the garage to get a silicone gun and she sealed boyfriend anus. He woke up with bellyache and after noticing about everything he got into his car and tried to drive to the hospital. However, the abdominal pains did not allow him to drive, so he had to call an ambulance.
Doctors caught up to police about the situation and they opened a file and also doctors opened the boy’s anus. For this they used a pick and shovel and obviously the site was fully evacuated by the stench of flatulence.
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A learned treatise on the many and variegated applications of leeches as a restorative agent.
I knew the patient was uncommonly afflicted the moment they set foot inside my practice. Setting down my homunculi as I turned, I was confronted with the very physical manifestation of godlessness as it seemingly wrenched and twisted the young man’s features in an exquisite rictus of agony.
A patchwork assortment of painful and puckering pustules sat suppurating upon his clearly fevered brow as his shaky hands reached out, grasping for succour in the educated embrace of the learned medical professional. I knew then and there that my diagnosis would draw upon the most taxing research and diligent practice in formulating a remedy that both eased his suffering and strode to advance the cause of modern medicine. It was with confident strokes of the quill and the warm glow of certainty that I inked his prescription: COMPLICATED ARSE SURGERY. ~ from the diary of Dr. Sanguinus Catheter MD
‘Trust me I’m a Doctor’ the new small-box card game from Australian developers Half-Monster Games takes place in the golden age of black-beaked experimental medicine. That glorious era where alchemy, mysticism and good old-fashioned bone saws were free to ply their noble trade unfettered by the pithy intrusions of “Germ Theory” or “Anaesthetics” muddying the otherwise purest waters of Bloodletting, Leech Applications, Exorcism and… desiccated dogshit.
As simple as the universal truth that four competing humours hold sway over our mortal vessels, the game tasks 3 to 8 budding practitioners with the act of postulating and proposing the most efficacious remedies to a selection of maladies proffered by the flaking lips of the stricken masses, all whilst competing with the charlatan snake-oil salesmen that comprise the other players and their predilection for quackery and preposterous procedures.
The rules, much like the period knowledge of medicine, are remarkably scant. Enough to form the sinewy connective tissue of the experience, yet with a brevity that sees them condensed to the size of two playing cards. Two decks are shuffled. One depicting the myriad of debilitating ailments afflicting the unenlightened masses, and the other outlining the ingenious advances and insights of learned men that will aid them in its selection of unguents, ointments, rituals, and necessary perineal incisions. Players then alternate between embodying the diseased subjects of the day and the panel of invertebrate wielding interventionists that will proffer their selection of fixes and elixirs in a bid to gain their patronage.
It was with a true sense of pity and despondency in our hearts that we gazed upon the hysterical thrashings of the poor Lady Thistlebottom. Her jaundiced glare and spasmodic twitching bore all the hallmarks of excess bile gathering in the organs vitale, though one glance was enough to convince me that this doleful wretch was stricken with a particularly advanced case. As I closed my briefcase after a thorough examination and intense contemplation that drew deep upon all my professional faculties, I knew the answer was clear. With firm deliberation I announced my verdict of treatment: ONE BOUT OF COMPLICATED ARSE SURGERY. ~ from the correspondence of Professor Adolphus Hookworm III MD
Players will take turns selecting from a hand of three ailments. They will then be beguiled by the competing diagnoses and prescriptions offered by the remaining participants, each of whom will be drawing from a hand of six remedies, refreshed at the conclusion of each round. Players are encouraged to ham it up, bickering and casting aspersions upon the efficacy, suitability and morality of their opponent’s proposals, calling their qualifications into question and disabusing them of their archaic notions of medicinal practice, all in an attempt to win the trust of the prospective patient and have them acquiesce to your preferred notion of treatment.
Curative procedures are subdivided into the realms of either Alchemical Salves & Tinctures, Mysticism, Philosophy & Psychiatry or Anatomical Barber-Surgery. These three competing schools of medicine are denoted by a series of symbols upon each card and should one wish to provide suitable relief, one’s treatment must have a symbol that aligns with the infirmity in question.
Once the patient has described their symptoms in vivid detail and the panel of Doctors has in turn proffered their nostrum, decried the competence of their colleagues and performed their best PT Barnum pitch, the patient makes their selection based upon the least-worst option at hand. Having provided solace to their subject, the process then repeats until one of the Doctors has been successfully selected three times and they are crowned the Surgeon-General, a title they must be referred to with throughout the remainder of the day.
The subject was demonstrating a textbook case. Before me the pate of his head shone brightly as strand-by-strand his thinning barnet revealed the spherical tilt of his cranium beneath. Hair loss. A sure sign of impotency and a tell-tale indication of spiritual impurity manifesting itself in the deforestation of his manly locks. It was times like this I gave thanks to the hand of providence that had steered me towards this benign profession where my steady mortal hands could truly make a difference and redress the many blights that ailed the tormented. With a warm and confident baritone I summoned my assistant, exclaiming “Prepare my quarters, …for COMPLICATED ARSE SURGERY”. ~ from a monologue performed at the annual Symposium on Bloated Appendages by the esteemed Dr. Tarquin Fistula MD
With its paper-thin mechanics and modest sum of components, ‘Trust Me I’m a Doctor’ presents an exercise in improvisation, narrative play and gleeful schoolyard banter predicated entirely on a masterclass in theme. By this point in proceedings you probably know if this particular tainted specimen jar is for you and your colleagues. The paltry monetary outlay it requires is a further therapeutic ostrich feather in its operating-gown cap, and should you find yourself amongst a crew in possession of a similarly suspect sense of fun then it’s a perfectly redoubtable way to fill an hour or so of your evening.
And if not? Well you’ve probably already predicted my prescription…
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Former Portland Trail Blazers first round draft pick, Purdue All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year, Caleb Swanigan has died at the age of 25. Swanigan died on Monday night of natural causes at a Fort Wayne hospital according to the Allen County coroner’s office. The Purdue men’s basketball official Twitter account sent a tweet to honor the former Boilermaker.
Our thoughts and prayers to Caleb Swanigan’s family and friends. The world lost a gentle soul last night.
Love you Biggie. pic.twitter.com/spU2hQtJdi
— Purdue Men's Basketball (@BoilerBall) June 21, 2022
Swanigan grew up in Indianapolis and was named Indiana “Mr. Basketball,” a Parade and McDonald’s high school All-American in 2015.
He went on to play for Purdue where he had a standout sophomore season. Swanigan earned First-team All Big Ten, Big Ten Player of the year, and First-team All American honors.
The 6’9 260 pound star was selected 26th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft.
We are heartbroken by the passing of former Trail Blazers player Caleb Swanigan. Our thoughts and prayers are with Caleb’s family, friends and all who loved him.
Rest In Peace, Biggie. pic.twitter.com/QxiGMZi5cg
— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) June 21, 2022
Swanigan bounced between the G League and the Trail Blazers during his first year and a half in the league, and on February 7, 2019 was traded to the Sacramento Kings.
On January 20, 2020 he was traded back to the Trail Blazers and played his last game in the NBA that year. When the league paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restarted in the summer of 2020 at the Disney bubble in Orlando, Swanigan opted not to join the team for personal reasons.
During a traffic stop in 2020 a search of Swanigan’s vehicle uncovered three pounds of marijuana. He pleaded guilty to the minor possession charge and didn’t serve any jail time.
Swanigan apparently struggled after he stopped playing, as there were signs of dramatic weight gain and concern for his health by those close to him. Weight fluctuation was something he struggled with his entire life as his father was prone to obesity as well.
Trail Blazers star and former teammate Damian Lillard came to the aid of Swanigan online when someone posted an unflattering image of Swanigan.
“If you gone post this s*** with real concern that’s cool. But don’t ask ‘how does one go from this to that’ … he clearly having real life issues. That’s how… you don’t know WHAT it is he’s going through to cause a drastic change. If you gone be supportive then do that but don’t ask no s*** like that like it’s not possible when you naturally a big dude and go down a dark road.”
Never forget when @Dame_Lillard put a heckler in his place once he attacked Caleb Swanigan on social media.
Dame will forever be a real one ✊ pic.twitter.com/lEOKvbKixy
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 21, 2022
Swanigan, nicknamed “Biggie” by friends and teammates was extremely well liked and that was reflected in the outpouring of condolences on Tuesday. His former head coach at Purdue, Matt Painter, issued a statement via Twitter.
“Biggie had a positive influence in everyone’s life. Was such a thoughtful person and gentle soul who had to overcome so much in his life. He will be greatly missed.”
Terribly saddened by this. Biggie had a positive influence in everyone’s life. Was such a thoughtful person and gentle soul who had to overcome so much in his life.
He will be greatly missed. https://t.co/Ivm5MiaCUm
— Purdue’s Matt Painter (@CoachPainter) June 21, 2022
The NBA family is profoundly saddened by the passing of Caleb Swanigan, who played three seasons in the NBA after a decorated career at Purdue. We send our heartfelt condolences to Caleb’s family, friends, and former teammates. pic.twitter.com/8DGrg3ePW7
— NBA (@NBA) June 21, 2022
Swanigan was also a rapper under the stage name “Slyy5jackk.” Further details surrounding his death and his last days will likely emerge in the weeks to come.
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NGC 1250 - Lenticular Galaxy in Perseus
NGC 1250 is a Lenticular Galaxy in the Perseus constellation. NGC 1250 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere.
See also NGC 1250 rise and set times.
Given its B magnitude of 14.2, NGC 1250 is visible with the help of a telescope having an aperture of 14 inches (350mm) or more.
Photometric information of NGC 1250
The following table lists the magnitude of NGC 1250 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).
For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.
The surface brightess reported below is an indication of the brightness per unit of angular area of NGC 1250.
Apparent size of NGC 1250The following table reports NGC 1250 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 1250 is a visual representation of it.
Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 1250
The image below is a photograph of NGC 1250 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).
NGC 1250 - Lenticular Galaxy in Perseus morphological classification
NGC 1250 - Lenticular Galaxy in Perseus is classified as Lenticular (S0) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of NGC 1250 - Lenticular Galaxy in Perseus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of NGC 1250
Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of NGC 1250 are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 1250 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.
Rise ans set times of NGC 1250 from your location
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Rakesh Kumar is an Indian film actor and producer who is known for his work in the South Indian film industry. He has worked in more than 50 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and other regional languages. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his performances. In this article, we will take a look at Rakesh Kumar’s physical stats, net worth, and wiki.
Rakesh Kumar’s Physical Stats
Rakesh Kumar stands tall at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) and weighs around 70 kg (154 pounds). His body measurements are 40-32-14 inches. He has black eyes and black hair.
Rakesh Kumar’s Net Worth & Wiki
Rakesh Kumar has an estimated net worth of around $1 million. He has earned his wealth from his career as an actor and producer. He has been part of many successful films and has also received several awards for his performances.
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Do you want to take a screenshot on your Windows PC? Are you looking to get full screen screenshot or just a screen record? You might think you know how to screen shot you on your windows with your print screen key but it’s more than that. There are several ways to take screen shot on your Windows 8, 10, and 11.
In this article, you will learn different ways you can capture your entire desktop, video record, get a keyboard shortcut, windows search bar, and whatnot. After this reading article, you will have a great concept of how to screenshot on Windows anytime and anyhow.
- 1 Contents of the article
- 2 Option 1: How to screenshot on Windows with print screen key
- 3 Option 2: Press Alt and print screen button to capture the screen (alt+prt sc)
- 4 Option3: Windows logo + Print Screen screen capture
- 5 Option 4: You can use the snipping tool to take a screenshot
- 6 Option 5: Use a third party app called snip and sketch to take a screenshot.
Contents of the article
- Press the print screen key (often abbreviated as “PrtScn” or “PrtSc”) on your keyboard. This will capture a screenshot of your entire screen and save it to your clipboard.
- Press the windows key and print screen keys simultaneously. This will capture a screenshot of your entire screen and save it to your Pictures folder in a subfolder called screen shots.
- Use the snipping tool. Click the Start button, type the snipping tool in the search box, and then select it from the results. Click the “New” button, and then drag the cursor over the area of the screen you want to capture. You can save the screenshot as an image file or copy it to the clipboard.
- Use the Windows Game Bar. Press the windows key and G keys simultaneously. Click the screenshot button in the Game Bar or use the keyboard shortcut windows key and alt and PrtScn to capture a screenshot of your game or app.
Option 1: How to screenshot on Windows with print screen key
Using the print screen key can be the easiest way to take a screenshot, in fact, it is the most used one by Windows users. To take a screenshot with the help of the print screen button all you have to do is follow the steps below:
How to take a screenshot on Windows 10 with the print screen key?
- Make sure that the content you want to capture is visible on your screen.
- Locate the Print Screen key on your keyboard. On most keyboards, it is labeled as “PrtScn” or “PrtSc.”
- Press the Print Screen key once. This will capture an image of your entire screen, including all open windows and icons.
- Open an image editor or document where you want to paste the screenshot. You can use Microsoft Paint or any other editing software.
- Press the control key and V or right-click and select paste to insert the screenshot. You can also use the “File” menu to save the screenshot as an image .
Note: Some keyboards may require you to use the “Fn” key in combination with the print screen key to take a screenshot. Also, keep in mind that the print screen key only captures an image of your screen and does not automatically save it to a file. You will need to paste the screenshot into an image editor or document to save it.
How to capture screenshots for the whole screen?
If you want to get your entire screen capture without using any snipping tool to modify here is what you have to do:
Open up the desired screen
First, open the screen you want to capture, and make sure it is the correct page. Get it to full screen mode. Now you have to press the print screen button on the upper right side of your keyboard. By pressing this key you will activate the print screen action. You wont require a third party app for this type of windows screenshot.
Use your keyboard for the screenshot
This type of capture can be done through your keyboard, all you require is the correct full screen and the perfect screenshot tool called the print screen button. You can take a screenshot of anything and anytime.
Windows saves your screenshot
The windows will automatically save your screenshot to the images or pictures folder in your file explorer. All you have to do is keep taking screenshots with the elegant screenshot tool. You will see a notification on the lower left side of your screen.
Make the edits as you go
Now if you want to save the file manually then all you need to do is paste the screenshot into any window; Microsoft Word or Paint. You can also get to select the file explorer you want to save the image in. This can do image editing without having to use the snipping tool after taking screenshots.
Save it the folder you want
After you’re done editing your image you can save it to the screenshots folder. With the help of the Windows key and print screen button you can take a screenshot, add it to your screenshots folder, edit the image, and save it again.
You might be one of those Windows users that have a keyboard with a Function key called Fn on it. This means that you need an extra step to get a screenshot of your full screen screenshot. Here is what you can do if you have the Fn key on your keyboard:
All you need to do is press the function key Fn and the print screen button to activate the screen capture, i.e., the Fn + print screen button or print screen button.
The print screen key will capture the entire screen and save it in the screenshots folder or file explorer. You should also be able to see a notification on the lower right corner of your screen and notice that it is saved automatically.
However, if you want to use your snipping tool window to edit the image before you save it, you can change the settings of the screenshots folder and have it saved manually after you make the changes.
You can say that the image is not saved but copied to your Windows clipboard. So if you want to save the image all you have to do is press windows key to access the clipboard and get the image to save in the folder you desire.
This second method involves not a lot of effort. You can get away with using a few keys to get the desired results.
- Ensure that the window you want to capture is active and in the foreground. Locate the Print Screen key on your keyboard. It is usually labeled as “PrtScn” or “PrtSc”.
- Hold down the “Alt” key on your keyboard and then press the Print Screen key. This captures an image of the active window. Open an image editing program or document where you want to paste the screenshot. You can use any image editing software, such as Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop, or GIMP.
- Press “Ctrl” + “V” or right-click and select “Paste” to insert the screenshot. Alternatively, you can use the “Edit” menu and select “Paste.” Save the screenshot as an image if needed. You can use the “File” menu and select “Save As” to save the screenshot in a specific format such as JPEG, PNG, or BMP.
That’s it! You have now taken a screenshot of the active window using the Alt and Print Screen buttons on Windows.
Editing the screenshot image
If you want to edit your screenshot, then you need to do it before it saved in a folder.
Get the screen open you want to take a screenshot of then you need to use the alt and print screen button to get the result you want.
Now that you see the notification of the screenshot in the lower right corner of your screen you can press windows button to get your snipping tool out.
Open the snipping tool and start working, crop out the section from the screen shot you just took. The snipping tool is fairly easy to use, in fact, it’s the most used way of getting the section you want.
You can also go to windows desktop, search for the clipboard, and get the image at hand. Copy and paste the image to Microsoft word or Paint. This way you can crop it out using their tools.
Option3: Windows logo + Print Screen screen capture
This option is used by a few users of Windows 10, all you have to do is press windows key and print screen record.
Your screen will go darker and an screenshot will be taken of your entire screen.
This will be saved to your images or pictures or screenshots folder.
Make sure to use the windows logo or button for this one and that your keyboard is working just fine.
Incase you want to edit the image, you need to get into your screenshots folder and use your snipping tool.
Option 4: You can use the snipping tool to take a screenshot
One of the most commonly used method is to select snipping tool to get the screenshot you want.
All you have to do is to press the windows key and type snipping tool, when you do this a snipping tool window will pop up.
Select it and get going with the process. You can either:
- Take a screenshot of the entire screen
- Get the horizontal part of the screen
- Any shape or form of a screenshot.
Taking screenshots through a snipping tool app does not mean that the image or screenshot will be saved to your PC. You need to manually save the image or screenshot to your computer.
Here’re the steps to use the snip and snipping tool to take a PC screenshot:
Open snipping tool app, you can search for it in the search bar when you press the start menu. However, if you see the snipping tool on your window mode or taskbar, you can click on the button.
You can also right-click on the icon and press open to start the process. But your best bet would be to get in to start menu, then go into the search icon and type snipping tool in case you have never used it before.
Note: if you are using a microsoft surface device, you can do the same process by getting into the start menu and search icon to find the snipping tool. Most of the microsoft surface device also have the windows key print screen tool to take a screenshot.
Now a new window will appear on your windows vista or windows os. You can pick the mode of the snip you require: free form mode, full screen capture, window snip, or horizontal or rectangular snip.
We are going to start with the rectangular snip
The snipping tool also includes the set a delay option that allows a delayed screenshot that can be taken at the certain time you have picked as shown in the image below.
This tool can be helpful when you want to get a screenshot at a certain time. This is why you can put the delay out up to 5 seconds.
How the process takes place
when you are all ready to taking screenshots, click on the button New. The screenshot tool will turn the mouse cursor into a cross. If you have used the delay option, the screenshot tool will fade on the amount seconds you have picked.
If you picked the horizontal screen snip you can click and drag to create a rectangle on the screen. The screenshot will be the rectangle you have cropped.
If you have picked the free form snip you can click and drag to create any shape. although you need to keep in mind that once you stop pressing the screenshot will be automatically taken.
If you have selected the window snip, you can click on the windows you want to take the screenshot of.
Lastly, if you click on the full screen snip, the tool will take a full-screen screenshot of the whole screen.
The saving options for the screenshot
Once you have taken the screenshot, you can do a lot with it.
Save the image as a file by clicking ona file and selecting Save as then and putting it in the desired location.
Send it via email by clicking on the file and selecting Send then going into email recipient or you can add it as an attachment to the email.
Print the screenshot by clicking on the file and then selecting print.
You can also copy the screenshot to your clipboard by clicking on the file then editing then copying.
You can also edit the screenshot using the Pen or Highlighter function. You can customize the color of the pen. This is useful if you want to focus the attention of the screenshot on a particular section.
Option 5: Use a third party app called snip and sketch to take a screenshot.
There are several third party applications you can use for your screenshot. The snip and sketch app can be replaced by the snipping tool on windows.
snip and sketch app is the ideal option for screenshot on windows. If you want to annotate customize and share your screen shots.
To start the Snip & Sketch, press windows key print screen+ shift + s or look for Snip & Sketch app in your search bar.
With a snip and sketch you can pick how you like to get your screenshot. these options are some what similar to the snipping tool.
The snip and sketch process
Horizontal or rectangular screen snip, free form snip, window snip and full screen capture. These screen captures will not be saved immediately.
All the tool does is copy the image to your clipboard. You have select and insert images you like on the documents you like; Microsoft Word or Paint or Photoshop. You want to start by looking for it in the search bar. The snip and sketch window will appear.
Then in this window, you need to click on the New button to start your screenshot, in most windows operating system, all you need to do is use your cursor and click and drag. Set a timer if you want, from snip in 3 to snip in 10 seconds.
After you’re done selecting the screen will go dark and the sketch tool will appear at the top of the screen. It will give you four options to choose from; rectangular snip, freeform snip, window Snip, and full computer screen snip.
When you have selected one of them, you will be able to take the screenshot you want, be it a rectangle, a freeform, a particular window, or a full screen screenshot.
Once you have captured the screenshot, Snip & Sketch app will open and you will see your screenshot. Here you can add annotations with a ballpoint pen, a pencil, or a highlighter. You can erase them using the eraser and you can also use a ruler (which you can rotate by using the mouse wheel) to make the annotations in the angles you want. There is also the option to crop the screenshot.
Now that you’ve finished editing the image you can Save, Copy, or Share using the buttons at the top right corner. Clicking on Save will let you choose where to save the image. Clicking on Copy will copy the image to your Clipboard and clicking on Share will let you share the image to your contacts via email or via other apps.
How are the different snips used?
Create any shape around any object
As the name indicates, a rectangular-shaped snip.
Select a window, which could be anything you want, that you want to capture.
Capture your entire screen.
- Open the Snip and Sketch application: You can do this by typing “Snip and Sketch” in the Windows search bar and clicking on the app when it appears in the results.
- Choose the type of screenshot you want to take: When the Snip and Sketch app opens, click on the “New” button in the upper-left corner of the window. You will be presented with four options for taking a screenshot. Select the option that best suits your needs by clicking on it.
Take the screenshot: After you’ve selected the type of snip you want to take, the Snip and Sketch application will minimize to the taskbar and a small toolbar will appear at the top of your screen. You can use this toolbar to cancel the snip, take a new one, or open the snip in the Snip and Sketch editor.
For example, if you selected the rectangular snip, click and drag your mouse to draw a rectangle around the area you want to capture. When you release the mouse button, the snipped area will be automatically saved and opened in the Snip and Sketch editor.
Edit the screenshot (optional): Once the screenshot is taken, it will be opened in the Snip and Sketch editor. You can use the pen, highlighter, or eraser tools to annotate the screenshot if you wish. The editor also has other options, such as cropping the image or changing its color.
Save the screenshot: When you’re done editing the screenshot, click on the “Save” button in the upper-right corner of the Snip and Sketch window. You will be prompted to choose a save location and file name for the image. You can also share the screenshot directly from the Snip and Sketch app by clicking on the “Share” button instead.
Option 6: You can use the Game Bar to take a screenshot.
- Open the Game Bar: Press the Windows key + G on your keyboard to open the Game Bar. If you haven’t used it before, you may need to enable it in the Settings menu first. To do so, go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and make sure the “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game Bar” option is turned on.
- Take the screenshot: Once the Game Bar is open, click on the “Screenshot” button or press the Windows key + Alt + PrtScn on your keyboard. This will take a screenshot of your entire screen and save it to your default Pictures folder.
- At the top right corner of your screen, a window labeled broadcast & capture will appear. Click on the camera icon to take the screenshot. This will save the screenshot as a PNG file and saves it in full-screen image.
If you only want to capture a specific area of your screen, you can use the Snip & Sketch tool instead. To do so, click on the “Capture” button on the Game Bar and select “Snip & Sketch” from the dropdown menu. This will open the Snip & Sketch tool, which you can use to capture and edit your screenshot as desired.
Edit the screenshot (optional): If you chose to use the Snip & Sketch tool, your screenshot will automatically open in the editor once you’ve taken it. You can use the tools in the Snip & Sketch editor to annotate, crop, or resize the image as needed.
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What is customer service?
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— Tailor your approach to each individual. Some guests may be more patient than others, so it’s important not to treat everyone the same. Be sincere and apologetic if something goes wrong, and try to correct the condition as quickly as possible.
— Be aware of your surroundings. When interacting with your guests, be mindful of what else is happening around you. If other people are waiting in line or working in the salon, respect their time by keeping conversations short and avoiding loud noises.
— Keep up appearances. Ensure your nails always look perfect – this will instill trust and encourage guests to return. Regular upkeep of your nails also shows that you take care of yourself. Appearance is critical in any salon – whether you have polished or natural nails – so make sure yours always look neat!
To provide an exceptional customer experience, nail salons must have policies regarding wait times, cancellations, and refunds. Keeping these guidelines consistent throughout the salon will help.
How customer service affects customers
The importance of customer service cannot be understated. According to research compiled by a B2B Company CEO, nearly 70% of customers will leave a business if they experience poor customer service. This damages the company’s reputation and costs lost revenue and employee turnover.
To ensure that your customers have a positive experience, it is essential to have an effective customer service strategy. Some standard components of such a strategy include: establishing clear expectations with your customers, providing accurate information, offering timely responses, and being compassionate and respectful towards your customers.
Customer service also affects customers themselves. Poor customer service can make customers disgruntled with your brand and even consider switching to competitors. In addition, it can cause employees to be unhappy with their jobs and make them less likely to recommend your business to others. Thus, ensuring high levels of customer service is suitable for your business’s sake and the well-being of those who work within it.
The different types of customer service
Something must be said for attentive service from a skilled nail professional. Whether you’re shelling out $20 for a mani/pedi or spending an hour getting your nails done at a high-end salon, it feels good to know that somebody is there to take care of you–whether that means providing expert tips on color choices or stocking the right polish brands.
So what types of customer service are common in the best nail salons? Case in point: here’s how four different types of customer service can look in practice.
The Service Stations
In a traditional salon, each station provides its unique blend of services (e.g., Waxing, Manicuring, Pedicuring). And while this arrangement can be convenient for clients who want to avoid lengthy lines and random chatty professionals, it can also lead to confusion and long wait times. That’s where the dedicated customer service desk comes in: staffers are specifically trained to navigate customers through the entire salon experience and offer assistance with any questions or concerns.
At some salons, such as New York Nail Spa and California Nails & Spa, employees wear “customer pins” (instead of IDs) that indicate which stations they work at during busy periods. This system helps customers be sure they’re speaking with the correct staffer about their needs without having to ask around or search for a particular individual.
Face-to-face Relationship Counsel
The nail salon industry is ever-growing and profitable, but it is challenging. One of the most important aspects of running a successful business is having great customer service. Nail salons that can provide excellent customer service stand out from the match and are more likely to be remembered by their clients. Here are some tips on how to have stellar customer service in your nail salon:
- Be Friendly and Helpful: You must be friendly and helpful when serving customers, but make sure you go overhead and beyond to complete them feel welcome and appreciated. A smile, a hello, and a willingness to help should be the standard operating procedure for every nail salon employee!
- Listen Carefully: When a customer talks to you, you must attend carefully and test to understand their request. If you need more time to reply to their question or provide the service they need, feel free to ask someone in the salon who might help them. This shows that you value their time and want to do everything possible to ensure they have an enjoyable experience while visiting your establishment!
- Make Sure Customers Know About Your Policies: All customers must know about your policies before they enter your salon – whether it’s the policy regarding appointments, prices, or services offered. Keeping all of your client information accurate will help reduce chaos when customers arrive (which lessens the chances of disruptions) and reduce anxiety before treatments begin (since everyone knows what’s expected!). | <urn:uuid:149920e3-5ad9-4c4e-bd95-b6b5c5a434a4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thetechtarget.com/customer-service-in-the-best-nail-salons/ | 2023-09-22T11:18:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.950352 | 1,435 |
How To Play:
-In 123 Cups, players receive five colorful cups and try to solve the tasks presented on cards as quickly as possible.
-Speed and a good eye are required as the cards show whether the cups are stacked or stand next to each other.
-Which bird is sitting up in the tree, which one down? In what order do the colorful jackets hang on the wall?
-Is the order correct? Then quickly knock on the bell!
-In the end, the fastest hands wins.
Number of players: 2 to 6 players
Game Time: 15 Minutes.
Contents: 36 Challenge cards, 30 cups (6 sets of 5 colors), 1 Bell, 1 English Rulebook
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A stalk of wheat isn’t the same by any other name.
And the distress the difference between wheats can cause you?
Well, that’s been reported widely both from Europeans visiting the U.S. – shocked at the acne outbreaks, weight gain, and lethargy they experience – and Americans visiting Europe – shocked to find that they could eat baguettes and pasta without their customary discomfort.
Since it’s the third-most plentiful crop in the U.S., it’s crucial that we take a close look at what we’re dealing with here.
While there are a lot of factors to consider, there is one aspect in particular worthy of investigation: the differences between hard red and soft white wheat.
In the U.S., we grow mostly red wheat – 60% of our crop yield. It’s what makes our bread so soft, fluffy, and stable, in contrast to it being the hard variety rather than the soft. (By stable, we mean it lasts longer on the shelf than fresh European bread.)
23% of our wheat crop is white wheat. In Europe, it makes up most of their yield.
White wheat certainly contains less gluten than red. And for that matter, the gluten it contains isn’t as strong as red wheat gluten.
For those with Celiac’s disease or gluten sensitivity, that could solve the mystery of varied reactions to each type of bread.
But for a more complete picture, we have to look at the way we treat our crops in the states as opposed to the way Europe regulates their crop treatments.
Let’s start with red and white wheat…
Remember how we said our crop yield is mostly red wheat?
Here’s what’s going on: We plant five different kinds of wheat. They are hard red winter (planted in wintertime), hard red spring (you guessed it), soft red winter (you’ve got this), white wheat, and durum.
Those two hard reds are what make up the 60% figure that represents how much available hard red wheat gets turned into all our floured foods. It’s the kind of wheat most used in making bread flour. That’s because of its high protein content…
And that’s what gluten is – a protein.
Now, red wheat isn’t “bad.” It’s just different. The gluten it contains is stronger, making it ideal for baking bread. Soft wheat – because it’s lower in protein overall and especially gluten – is usually employed to make pastries, like cookies and cakes.
It’s not true that all breads found in Europe are made with soft, white wheat. In fact, Europe imports 1.1 million tons of American wheat per year. However, most of the wheat they grow is white.
Now… our wheat in the states isn’t genetically modified. But it has been specifically bred to be higher in gluten for the above mentioned purposes – essentially, it makes prettier, bread-ier bread because the sticky gluten helps the bread rise.
We’ve got to look beyond gluten composition, however.
There’s a major difference between the way American wheat and European wheat gets handled…
When You Rip Off the Hood…
It’s glyphosate, once again. Aren’t you getting a little bored of this villain?
Europe was… So although they haven’t banned it exclusively, many countries and cities have limited or prohibited its use.
Quick reminder: It’s an herbicide most notably found in Monsanto’s Roundup, the subject of much controversy as its effects have been poisonous to crops, fish, people, and animals.
Glyphosate is used to kill weeds that compete with grass crops – like wheat, for example.
Its usage has been linked to ADHD, irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, kidney disease and failure, hypothyroidism, cancer, colitis, depression, heart disease, and many more diseases.
Now, glyphosate hasn’t altered the DNA of corn and soy. But it’s important to understand that although its intended use is to kill weeds, its poison kills insects and pollinators as well. (And it’s speculated that it does this by poking holes in their gut linings.)
Glyphosate is a chelating agent. It binds to things. In this case, it’s binding to nutrients and minerals in wheat.
This process means that wheat treated with glyphosate is likely to be lower in nutrients like zinc, iron, and manganese – all nutrients the gut needs for strength and stability.
Now, some studies have claimed that because glyphosate can’t affect the metabolic pathways of cells in mammals, and therefore it’s okay to ingest it in trace amounts. (Excepting, of course, all of the obvious problems it has caused.)
But the effects of glyphosate on the gut microbiome weren’t studied. And as we know, the bacterial composition of the digestive tract has far-reaching impacts on every aspect of human health.
Not only are Europe’s wheat products made with less protein (gluten) in majority than the United States’ majority wheat products…
But you are absolutely ingesting trace amounts of glyphosate – which not only irritate the gut but also rob the plant of nutrients – whereas in Europe, the chance is lessened.
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The Supreme Court judgment in the Singur case has reopened the debate on what constitutes legitimate ‘public purposes’ for which the state may forcibly acquire privately owned land. By holding that the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation’s (WBIDC) acquisition of land for Tata Motors did not constitute a ‘public purpose’, Justice Gopala Gowda, has signalled strict judicial scrutiny of whether the forcible acquisition of land for companies in and of itself is legitimately a “public purpose” or not. In doing so, Justice Gowda has created an opportunity for a judicial rethink on how we understand ‘public purpose’ and what level of judicial scrutiny of governmental declaration of ‘public purpose’ is legitimate when land is acquired on behalf of companies.
The Land Acquisition Act, 1894, a British-era law, permitted forcible acquisitions of land by the government for a “public purpose” and upon payment of “compensation” provided the “procedure” prescribed by the Act was followed. The twin requirements of public purpose and compensation are based on the rationale that no individual should disproportionately bear the burden of the ‘public good’, which the government, as the representative of the people, legitimately executes. The procedure prescribed under the Act gives land losers a fair hearing as to why their land should not be acquired and whether the compensation assessed for their lands is adequate.
The 1894 Act prescribed different procedures for land acquisition for a ‘public purpose’ and for a ‘company’. Part VII of the Act provided that when the government sought to acquire land for a company, it must declare that the acquisition of land was necessary for a work that was “likely to prove useful to the public.” In fact, the legislative history of the 1894 Act indicates that the law was not intended for the “acquisition of land for all companies”. Acquisition of land for companies was legitimate only if the public could directly use the works carried out by the company. This was specified so that the government could not use the Act in furtherance of “private speculations”.
The Supreme Court interpreted ‘public purpose’ for government acquisitions under Part II of the 1894 Act expansively, holding that the term was “elastic and could only be developed through a process of judicial inclusion and exclusion in keeping with the changes in time, the state of society and its needs”. The court rejected the notion that ‘public purpose’ meant ‘public use’. Instead, all that the government needed to show was that the acquisition benefitted the “public or a section of the public in some way.”
However, with respect to land acquisitions for companies, in 1959, the Supreme Court in R.L. Arora v. State of UP case laid a different test, noting that the work executed by the company must be “directly useful” to the public, like a school or a hospital. It was insufficient that the “product of the work” was directly useful to the public. Moreover, the court would scrutinise whether the government’s declaration of ‘public purpose’ when acquiring land on behalf of companies met this test. This was a strict scrutiny test that understandably made the government unhappy as another instance of ‘judicial usurpation’ of executive functions.
In 1962, however, the Supreme Court made a U turn. In Somavanti v. State of Punjab, the court held the government’s declaration of “public purpose” when acquiring land on behalf of companies was “conclusive evidence” of such a purpose, and that the court would not intervene unless there was a fraud or colourable exercise of power by the government. The court also held that a nominal contribution by the government towards the expenses of acquisition on behalf of a company would make it a “public purpose” acquisition.
This permissive interpretation allowed the government to bypass the stricter procedure for land acquisition on behalf of companies under Part VII of the Act merely by declaring such an acquisition to be for a “public purpose”, and making a token contribution to the expense of acquisition, and thereby availing the easier procedure under Part II of the Act. The WBIDC’s forcible acquisition of land on behalf of Tata Motors for compensation that was entirely financed by Tata Motors was not in any way atypical.
In an exhaustive study of all land acquisition cases decided by the Supreme Court during the period 1950-2015 conducted at the Centre for Policy Research, we found that almost 40% of the cases involved a challenge to the validity of the procedure whereby land was acquired. In almost four of the 10 challenged cases, both the high court and the Supreme Court invalidated the acquisition for non-compliance with the existing procedures. But in accordance with the court’s deferential view since Somavanti, we found that the Supreme Court invalidated the government’s finding of public purpose in less than 1% of cases.
The Singur land losers were using the land for cultivation and agro-processing industries. Though they objected to the acquisitions in the manner prescribed by the 1894 Act, the government ignored their objections. The land losers then challenged the acquisition before the high court. While their appeals were pending, the WBIDC took possession of the land, compensated those who were willing and displaced the unwilling. This led to continued protests and blockades by the land losers, eventually forcing Tata Motors to abandon their project in 2008.
Justices Gowda and Arun Mishra disagreed on whether the acquisition for Tata Motors was done by the government for a ‘public purpose’ under Part II of the Act, or “for a company” under Part VII of the Act. But they were unanimous in their opinion that whichever procedure was applicable, the government had not followed it. In a scathing indictment of government action in this case, the judges found “no application of mind” in the conduct of the acquisition proceedings, labelling the collector’s inquiry into the land losers’ objections a “farce and an eyewash”. Significantly, the court ordered the West Bengal government to restore possession of lands to all land losers within 10 weeks.
However, in a departure from 44 years of precedent, Justice Gowda held that where there was no scheme of industrial development fulfilling a general public need, nor was the cost of acquisition serviced by public revenue, acquisition of land by the government on behalf of a company did not satisfy the requirement of ‘public purpose’ under the 1894 Act. In effect, Justice Gowda’s opinion reclaimed the court’s position in the R.L. Arora case.
Justice Mishra disagreed with Justice Gowda on law and facts. In line with Somavanti and other cases, he held that since the funds for compensation though deposited by Tata Motors, were paid to the land losers by WBIDC, a statutory corporation, the government’s declaration of ‘public purpose’ was insulated from challenge, even when acquisition was on behalf of a company.
Since Singur, and in part because of it, the 1894 Act was repealed and replaced by the Land Acquisition Act, 2013. The 2013 Act mandates that any acquisition of land involving a company must have the prior consent of 80% of the affected families. Attempts by the central government to amend this provision through ordinance failed last year. But several state legislatures have amended or are in the process of amending the 2013 Act to circumvent this provision. In this context and especially for pending cases under the 1894 Act, Justice Gowda at least has indicated that the Supreme Court may no longer defer, but strictly scrutinise whether any governmental acquisition of land for a company is indeed for a public purpose. Since the court did not decide the case on grounds of ‘public purpose’, precisely because the two judges could not find agreement on this issue, the law on public purpose will remain ambiguous until the Supreme Court makes a definitive pronouncement on this issue.
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Srinagar: A three-year-old Kashmiri boy has been placed at the centre of a political war of words on social media after his grandfather was reportedly killed in cross-fire between militants and the police, while the child was present. His family has said that the grandfather, Bashir Ahmed, was killed by the police – an allegation dismissed by the police as the product of threats from militants.
Now, the family says the child himself has confirmed their allegation.
When this reporter met the family at their home on the outskirts of Srinagar, they said the three-year-old boy, AB*, when asked who killed his ‘papa’, had told them that the police did.
What the child said
AB was accompanying his grandfather when the latter was killed in north Kashmir’s Sopore town in cross fire between militants and government forces on Wednesday morning.
One Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man was also killed in the militant ambush, while three CRPF men were injured.
Unaware of the tragedy that had fallen on his family, AB was playing in a plastic tub and eating snacks when this reporter visited his home on Wednesday evening.
AB’s parents told The Wire that their son claimed policemen had shot his grandfather, a claim they too believe to be true. AB confirmed this in the presence of this reporter, too, who met the child with the consent of his father and the support of his family.
When asked what happened to ‘papa’, which is what he calls his grandfather, AB said “goli mari” (he was shot). By whom, he replied “Police wale ne” (by the police).
“Papa (grandfather) ko goli mari policewale ne (A policeman killed grandpa),” the boy told this reporter. “Policewala ne gori mari (A policeman shot at him),”
“I enjoyed the drive (Mujhe gaadi mai mazaa aya tha…Papa died (Papa margaya)…police killed him,” AB said when asked to recall the incident.
While medical professionals and investigators are best placed to evaluate the evidentiary value of what he is saying, the boy is already being used in an official propaganda campaign aimed at establishing another story: that his grandfather was killed by militant cross-fire during an encounter with security forces on Wednesday morning and that the police and forces were responsible for saving the child’s life.
Scoring points on Twitter
The whole of Wednesday, a photograph of AB sitting calmly on top of the lifeless body of his grandfather, Bashir Ahmed, circulated widely on social media with BJP leaders promoting the narrative that there would be no Pulitzer Prize for the heart-rending image since the man had been killed by terrorists and not the security forces.
The reference to the Pulitzer was because of the official consternation the Pulitzer committee generated earlier this year when it gave a prize for photojournalism to three photographers from Jammu and Kashmir and referred in its citation to Kashmir as “contested territory”.
A second image from the Sopore encounter showed the boy walking away from his grandfather’s body while a soldier who is on the side crouching with his gun against a wall holds out his hand. It is not clear if he is trying to tell the boy not to come towards him or is summoning him over.
The photographs were tweeted by senior police officers and the photographer too is assumed to be someone from the security forces.
The pose of the Rashtriya Rifles soldier in the frame suggests either that the encounter had not ended or that he had not been told it was over, which raises the question of why the soldier or officer taking photographs of the child did not rush the child to safety – as is the standard operating procedure whenever there are civilians caught in an area where an operation is on – instead of pursuing his ‘photo op’.
This particular photograph was circulated on Twitter by the head of the BJP’s IT cell and included the familiar Pulitzer taunt and a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi: “There will be no Pulitzer award or citation for this picture because it doesn’t suit the macabre narrative ‘Breaking India’ forces peddle on Kashmir… For them Indian Army can be nothing but evil. Even Rahu Gandhi won’t shed a tear, not even for the child!”
The ANI news agency also released a video of the child being driven away from the site to his home by the security forces. The child is traumatised and weeping and soldiers are trying to pacify him. Since the video is shot inside the jeep, it was presumably shot and released by the security forces.
Police blame militants
The police said militants attacked a CRPF and police party at around 7.45 am while they were placing a naka at Model Town in Sopore, some 50 kms from Srinagar. They said Bashir Ahmed came out of his car to take his grandson to safety and was fired upon by the militants.
However, Nazir Ahmad, a brother of the deceased, alleged that Bashir was asked to come out of from his vehicle and killed on the roadside.
“If he was killed in cross-firing, how come did no bullet hit his car”, he asked. “The police are lying,” he said.
The Sopore police took to Twitter to warn people that legal action would be taken against anyone circulating “false reports and rumours” about Bashir’s death.
The news surfaced on some social networking sites that the civilian was brought down and killed is totally baseless and is far beyond the facts, Sopore Police refutes and denies the news and legal action shall be initiated against the false reports and rumours @KashmirPolice
— Sopore Police (@SoporePolice) July 1, 2020
At a press conference in Srinagar, inspector general of police (IGP) Kashmir range, Vijay Kumar rejected the family’s claims about Bashir having been killed by the security forces, calling it totally baseless.
He said that the family were levelling these allegations under militant threat.
“I want to ask them (family) whether they were present at the site of the incident. Did they see for themselves who fired? They circulated video messages blaming forces of killing their father from Srinagar, which is totally baseless,” he said.
Kumar said that if there is any eye-witness, let them come forward, “we will act accordingly.”
Meanwhile, former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah decried the use of the child’s “misery” as a propaganda tool:
Everything becomes a propaganda tool in the bloody violence in Kashmir. A three year old toddler has to have his misery broadcast to the whole world to drive home the “we good they bad” message. We would have got the point without his misery being filmed & shared so please don’t.
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 1, 2020
If ever a reminder was needed of a propaganda initiative sometimes running the risk of turning counter-productive, the same photograph of the child and his dead grandfather was tweeted by the Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson on Wednesday afternoon with the hashtags ‘Indian Brutality’ and ‘KashmirLivesMatter’.
Acknowledging that someone from among the security forces had taken the child’s photo, IGP Vijay Kumar told reporters, “Going to the operation area with mobiles is wrong. I will ensure police teams going for the operation don’t carry mobiles along as that may pose threat to their lives. In 2018, many security forces personnel got killed while using their mobiles during duty hours, in standoff attacks.”
*The name of the child is being withheld and his image has been blurred to protect his identity.
This story has been updated to note that the reporter met the child with the consent of the family.
The original version of this story had a short video recording of the child narrating what had happened. The video was shot with the support and consent of his family but has now been deleted following objections from some readers who found it distressing.
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One of my favorite woodworking projects is a butcher block end-grain cutting board. Im not sure if its the “back to basics” simplicity or just the fact that it is one of the most useful projects a woodworker can make, but something keeps bringing me back for more. A custom cutting board makes a great gift and many woodworkers make them in batches every Holiday Season. And if you are relatively new to woodworking, this is a great project to hone your milling, glue-up and tablesaw skills. I’ll cover the preparation and construction of the board itself, as well as the various finishing options available. I’ll also discuss how to maintain the board and keep it looking fresh for years to come!
I never thought when I made this video that so many folks would find the plan useful and make their own. I think its safe to say this is the video that launched a thousand cutting boards! So you may already be very familiar with this design. But what you may not know is the fact that this design came about almost by accident. Once of my first cutting boards was a very large board made of purpleheart and birch (left). It turned out to be far too large for our kitchen. Nicole asked that I cut it down. So instead of just cutting trimming the length and width and calling it a day, I decided to have some fun with it. I sliced it into pieces, flipped the pieces 90 degrees, alternated their direction and glued them back together. The end result is the cutting board you see in this video. Quite a transformation! And I am so glad that so many of you were inspired to make your own, and even make some amazing variations on the concept.
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104516 - RUGGED FLEX RELAXED FIT PLAID FLANNEL SHIRT (Carhartt)
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Advocacy remains at or near the top of our ASE members’ priority lists, since a solid financial base is essential to supporting our efforts to improve practice quality and advance echocardiography through research. Over the six months since my last update in this column, ASE’s advocacy efforts have really paid off:
Distinction of Echo from Advanced Diagnostic Imaging
We were very troubled to see that the original Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) repeal bill released by the Finance and Way and Means Committees contained a provision that would have been very harmful to all physicians ordering and performing echocardiograms, in both hospitals and private practices. The provision lumped cardiac ultrasound in with “advanced diagnostic imaging,” thereby placing echo in the path of additional payment restrictions and requiring prior authorization for some ordering physicians. The concerns were that the required echocardiography Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) are not broad enough in scope at this time, that infrastructure to implemented these AUC requirements has not been established, and that authorization increases already strained staffing costs.
The committees of jurisdiction acted very quickly on this proposed legislation. Working with a very tight deadline, ASE’s lobbyist was able to have cardiac ultrasound removed from the proposed bill. ASE lobbied legislators, worked with committee staffs, and mobilized our grassroots to ensure that the final committee language did not contain this mandate. There are currently three SGR bills before Congress pertaining to the SGR repeal, and none includes the echocardiography AUC provision.
The Playing Field is Not Level
Last summer, ASE engaged a lobbyist to deliver our message on Capitol Hill. At that time, MedPAC (an advisory group that provides recommendations to Congress on Medicare legislation) recommended that Medicare payment for hospital outpatient services be limited to the amounts paid to physicians’ offices. Hospital outpatient echocardiography was among the primary targets, and our lobbyist has repeatedly met with key legislators to dissuade Congress from implementing these draconian (up to 60%) cuts. This January, MedPAC voted formally to endorse leveling the playing field between physicians’ offices and hospital outpatient departments for 66 APCs, including echo. We urge you to get involved by contacting your legislators. It is absolutely clear that hospitals nationwide will be severely hurt if echo payments are “levelled” to match the unjustified physician office cuts of >50% imposed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) over the past four years. ASE’s able Advocacy team is working hard on this “leveling” issue, and occasionally email “blasts” from ASE will solicit a quick contact with your legislators. | <urn:uuid:6da8c7a5-307a-4c3e-aebb-746209e99afa> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://thoracickey.com/heralding-our-legislative-successes/ | 2023-09-22T11:38:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.957094 | 553 |
Thorn Technologies assists Experient in revamp of Engage
Experient launched its Engage event mobile application, the mobile front-end to their event and trade show management platform EventXL, for Android and iOS. Thorn Technologies helped by integrating with Experient’s software development team to resolve critical issues and enhance the application on both the Android and iOS platforms.
The Engage mobile application is a single platform that provides users with access to multiple events and trade shows downloaded from within the app. Engage is part of Experient’s deep ecosystem of applications, which includes EventXL, SWAP, and EDGE. This allows for a seamless attendee and exhibitor experience from registration to onsite at the event and beyond, giving the Experient a huge advantage over its competitors.
The Engage app is resilient in environments with poor wireless connectivity and provides important features such as:
- Personal profile and agenda
- Registration and housing
- Event schedule
- Exhibitor, attendee, and speaker profiles
- Session and exhibitor handouts
- Sponsorship opportunities
- Social media integration with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yelp
- Push notifications
- Interactive maps
- Location-based services
- QR code scanning integration
Thorn Technologies helped vastly improve the apps in a very short timeframe by fully integrating software engineers into Experient’s software development team and process.
Experient is a meeting planning and event management company that leads the industry as one of the best-known and most respected brands in the world. Their core services include providing meeting planning, meeting management, event planning, site sourcing, hotel contract negotiation, registration, housing, and lead retrieval services for association, tradeshow and government clients.
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1. Lana Del Rey
Without all the insane hype that surrounds her, as well as the near-endless stream of photos of her looking physically flawless and vaguely sad, I would probably just enjoy her music without guilt. But that insanely effective image-cultivating, coupled with what were some inarguably limp performances on SNL and elsewhere, makes my near-obsessive infatuation with her Sad Pretty Girl music the stuff of deep shame. I have listened to her cover of Blue Velvet at least 20 times in the past two days, and it can’t solely be attributed to my unhealthy obsession with any music produced between 1940 and 1965. I just love listening to that human quaalude fetishize abusive relationships in any form I can get it. I want more melancholy pop hits, Lana. Give them to me. And while we’re at it, more photos of you in a bustier and a European micronation’s worth of eyeliner. Please.
Guess what, world? I enjoy Chicken McNuggets. I enjoy McDonald’s fries, when they’re eaten within 25 seconds of leaving the deep-fryer. I enjoy that beetus-inducing sweet tea. Go ahead and judge me. I’m already embarrassed. I enter the warm embrace of the yellow arches with the full knowledge of the greasy shame-spiral that awaits me. I know that I’m probably going to lie about where I got lunch. I know that just one tub of sweet-n-sour is not, and never will be, enough — I am prepared to avoid eye contact whilst I demand another to satisfy my hearty nugget dipping. I know that ranch dressing is only a less-healthy alternative to ketchup, already no bastion of clean eating itself. But I will enjoy its buttermilky goodness with all the self-loathing it demands of me. In fact, I’d say the shame only somewhat enhances McDonald’s, this hate-sex factory of a restaurant. I’m ready to sad-eat, Ronald, bring me my little plastic tray.
3. John Grisham
I’m not saying that he is the great writer of our time — I’m not even saying he’s in the top million. But don’t think I don’t know that at least a decent amount of the side-eye I receive when I am waist-deep in one of his novels while at a beach or airport or other Grisham-friendly reading zone is about how insanely popular he is. He’s not bad, and his better books are compulsively readable. Who doesn’t want to lose themselves for a few hours in the Law and Order of summer paperback reading? I’m sorry that every minute of my life isn’t spent crying into a David Foster Wallace tome, but sometimes I just want to read what happened to that murderer with the heart of gold. Can you snobs stop judging me for five seconds? Me and your mom are gonna join a book club together to talk about his latest page-turner.
4. Rosé Champagne
As I live in the country of champagne (a country that takes its fermented grapes so seriously as to be almost crippled by it), my embarrassment over pink bubbles is quite profound. The thing is, pink champagne tastes no better (and quite often, worse) than regular champagne. It is also, almost universally, more expensive. You know who likes ordering rosé champagne? Douchebags in the club who get bottle service. And me. Why? Because it’s pink, and pretty, and bubbly, and I feel like Marie Goddamn Antoinette when I drink it. I once had a brunch that included both rosé champagne and macarons, and my sense of personal achievement was so high that I felt on the verge of fainting. It was my 7-year-old dream tea party come to life, only I got buzzed off of it. What could possibly have been better? I know that ordering this in bars makes me the most bougie person alive, but I just can’t stop myself. Cheers!
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I have got to admit, I have been very ignorant about how NDT is made. I have believed that NDT and glandular supplements, like Metavive and Thyrogold, were virtually the same. And I have been telling people that. They are not, glandular is a much weaker product. I could be embarrassed about this. But I choose not to. This only proves my point, that there is so much to learn about this thyroid issue. Let’s try to stay openminded, and just admit when we are mistaken. That is the only way to learn something new.
I have this info from Chris at Pim Pom products, also the photos. Most of it is a direct quote from him. I have just added a little. Thanks, Chris!
3 different thyroid products
1. Raw desiccated thyroid powder
This is the raw powder that comes from grinding freeze dried glands into a powder. No further processing is done. Freeze drying breaks the cell membranes and extracts all the water from the sample. So the blood and cell cytoplasm is removed. You are basically left with everything that is not water and that doesn’t sublimate under cold, low pressure conditions. This is typically what you get in low cost supplements, and it can contain up to 40% fat. This is what we sell directly as freeze dried powder.
2. USP desiccated thyroid powder / Desiccated thyroid BP
This is what you get after removing the fat and oil from the raw powder. USP stands for US Pharmacopeia, and BP for British Pharmacopoeia. The US and British versions are essentially copies of each other so it doesn’t matter which book you look at. By removing all fat and oil, you remove the cell membranes as well as all the blood vessels and anything else that was not water soluble. Most of what is left in USP powder is protein, primarily the important thyroglobulin proteins with the hormones, and fiber. This powder reliably contains at least 38 mcgs of T4 and 9 mcgs of T3 per grain. USP powder manufacturers typically add dextrose or lactose to the powder to dilute it down to these numbers if the powder is too strong.
I have found it so difficult to get information about this. Chris from Pim Pom has educated me on this. I also found this explanation in this article, Thaer Idrees et al, 2020.
“Contemporary manufacturing and clinical use of DTE
Today, the manufacturing of DTE must comply with current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) as enforced by the FDA, failure of which may result in product recall. In addition,
companies that manufacture and commercialize DTE in the USA must follow the procedures and standards described in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) monography
(93) . In short, currently thyroid glands are harvested from pigs used in the food supply (USDA approved slaughter houses), frozen and then shipped to manufacturers. The glands are subsequently processed to a fine powder that contains thyroglobulin and very little free T3 and T4: most TH is covalently bound to the thyroglobulin peptide chain. Thus, USP protocol requires proteolytic enzymatic digestion of the powder followed by high performance liquid chromatography to measure T3 and T4 contents followed by, and comparison against the respective USP standards. The thyroid powder is formulated into tablets based on the amount of T4 and the final weight adjusted to ensure that the potency of the resulting tablet conforms with USP recommendations, that is a 1 grain (65 mg) tablet contains 38 mcg T4 and 9 mcg T3 with a margin of error of ±10%; the measured amount of T4 and T3 in a batch of tablets must therefore be 34.2-41.8 mcg T4 and 8.1-9.9
mcg T3. It is up to the manufacturers to review the data for each DTE lot and ensure that their product meets those standards both at release and throughout its shelf life.”
I think this can make for a little confusion. The thyroglobulin is only broken down for the liquid chromatography testing. The tablets we take DO contain the thyroglobulin. We have to break this down in our digestion. For some it might be a good idea to take some protein enzymes with the tablet to help break it down. That might help with absorption. Stomach acid is also very important. Hypo thyroid people are often low on that.
3. Thyroid extract/Proloid
Note the absence of “desiccated” in this one. This is essentially whole thyroid glands that have been blended into a slurry. You then change the temperature and pH of the mixture until the thyroglobulin proteins denature and precipitate out of solution. This used to be manufactured under the brand Proloid, however to my knowledge this product is no longer in production anywhere. It is very complex and expensive to manufacture compared to just making the synthetic hormones directly.
Here you see both the raw thyroid and the NDT, the NDT is the whiter powder to the right. You also see the “sludge” that is taken out of the raw powder. It is gross I know. Yellow and brown fat, as well as blood. This is what we are like on the inside 😏
How it NDT testet?
“The gold standard in testing this powder today is defined in National Formulary 24 of the US Pharmacopeia. It is an enzyme test that breaks down the thyroid over 24 hours and then checks for the exact amount of T3 and T4 by using liquid chromatography. The equipment to do this test is extremely expensive, and independent labs charge anywhere from $3000 – $5000 per sample to run the test. We are working with the Thai government to try and develop the capability to run this test locally, however the pandemic interrupted this process when all resources were redirected to vaccine research. Luckily, there is a simpler test that is also included in the pharmacopoeia, the inorganic iodide test. This was the test that was actually used in the 50’s and 60’s before high performance liquid chromatography became practical. This test relies on the known ratios of T3 and T4 in an animal. Since porcine thyroid has a known ratio of about 4:1, then by simply counting the amount of iodide in the sample and verifying it is in the reference range outlined in the pharmacopoeia we can determine that the sample is good. This test can be done with only a few thousand dollars worth of equipment, and we routinely do this in house to verify that our USP powder has been fully processed”. ( Chris Ziomkowski)
Please, don’t mistake me for someone promoting Pim Pom. I do not get any discount or anything else from them. If Chris offered, I would say no. As I want to be independent and free to write whatever I want. BUT, Chris has been very helpful in providing various info. AND I do appreciate what Pim Pom is doing at this time. That is, providing NDT at an affordable price with raw material sourced from a country not affected by the African Swine Fever, Thailand. My only interest and concern, are all the hypothyroid patients suffering with side effects from the synthetic thyroid medications and or too low FT3 levels.
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We’re considering dropping our Reviews column, and we want to know what you think of the idea. The Reviews column is located at the end of each TidBITS issue, and lists product reviews from several major Macintosh magazines. The utility of the column is that you can search a group of TidBITS issues for a given review topic and locate publication dates and page numbers corresponding to those reviews. When we started TidBITS almost six years ago, most Macintosh magazines were paper-based, and it was almost impossible to find back reviews. The magazines did publish yearly indices of reviews, but until the index you needed came out, you were out of luck. The ability to search TidBITS online and find reviews has helped many people, and that utility outweighed the fact it’s a lot of work to type in the reviews each week.
The reason for the Reviews column is essentially gone now that MacWEEK, MacUser, and Macworld all have Web sites that provide search engines and often the full text of the reviews online. These searching facilities are great – we use them ourselves when we need to tread backwards in time. It seems pointless to continue our monk-like copying efforts when the magazines’ Web sites offer much more than our meager lists. Before you ask, no, we are not considering adding URLs to online articles in the Reviews column, since that would add to our already formidable workloads.
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Join us in participating in the Second Annual Tigard Restaurant Month! We will be showcasing and encouraging the community to check out the restaurants, pubs, bakeries, and food carts in Tigard the whole month of June. Last year we had over 500 people participate in the program!
How will it work: Community members will pick up passports at one of the participating businesses or download online. For each restaurant they visit and make a purchase, they get a stamp in their passport. At the end of the month, they will get a prize the is connected to the number of stamps they got. They will also get entered into the drawing for a grand prize basket.
What is required: Restaurants, Food Trucks, Pubs, bakeries, and Bars that would like to participate must be located in 97223 or 97224 or be a Tigard Chamber of Commerce Member. Participating businesses will be required to promote the program on all their communication platforms, promote the program at their restaurant to their customers, and be a pick up location for passports.
Cost to participate: Free for Tigard Chamber Members and $50 for other local eateries.
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Green Bay, WI – NPS Corporation, a leading company in the Away-From-Home Towel and Tissue and Spill Control Industries, announced that Michael Jansen has been appointed President of its Towel and Tissue Division.
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“I am extremely humbled and honored by the trust Andy has placed in me to drive the next round of business growth for the company he founded 24 years ago,” Mr. Jansen stated. “Our team will be sales driven, customer focused and responsive to the needs of our customers. As we begin to come out of the pandemic it has never been more important to be innovative and highly responsive to our distributor partner needs. We will be relentlessly passionate about this.”
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05. 09. 2023
Minecraft, the iconic sandbox game that took the world by storm, continues to captivate players of all ages with its limitless potential for creativity and exploration. As one of the most beloved video games in history, Minecraft has earned its place as a cultural phenomenon, and its popularity shows no signs of waning. With a vast community of players and an ever-expanding universe of user-generated content, the game has become an immersive and collaborative platform for unleashing creativity.
At the heart of the Minecraft experience lies the freedom to build, create, and shape virtual worlds in a way that reflects individual imagination. Whether players construct sprawling cities, towering castles, intricate redstone machines, or pixel art masterpieces, Minecraft provides the tools and blocks to transform visions into reality. This creative aspect has become the hallmark of the game, and it's what draws millions of players to embark on their unique artistic journeys.
One of the most accessible ways to experience Minecraft is through the free download option, provided by platforms like Team Extreme. The free download allows players to dive into the game without any initial financial commitment, making it more accessible to a broader audience. This approach has undoubtedly contributed to Minecraft's widespread popularity, encouraging a diverse range of players to join the community and express themselves creatively.
Upon downloading Minecraft, players find themselves in a vast and procedurally generated world, brimming with possibilities. From serene forests and soaring mountains to sprawling deserts and endless oceans, the game world presents a canvas upon which players can let their imagination run wild. As they explore the landscape and gather resources, players soon realize that Minecraft is not just a game but an outlet for self-expression and ingenuity.
The building mechanics of Minecraft are straightforward, yet the possibilities are nearly boundless. Using a variety of blocks, players can create intricate structures and elaborate landscapes, transforming the terrain into a personal work of art. The game's crafting system allows players to fashion tools, weapons, and other essential items, adding depth to the survival aspect of the game.
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We offer many opportunities to learn about and engage in our work to achieve global gender equality.
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Facemask Servicing – Relies On A Mask Rather Then That Person Hide
They aren’t essential for on a daily basis use, though
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Deborah-95 covers are built to filtration system 100Percentage with the airborne bacteria and viruses up. Using this method, they will defend you and your family from currently being ill. But are you aware that many of these goggles are very miserable? If you’re now dressed in 1, here is why you need to get rid of it now.
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Wintry oxygen annoys your vision, nasal, and tonsils. If you don’t get a proper amount of air circulation through the encounter, that soreness will increase.
With a mask, air is plugged from reaching that person, so that it is tough to breath. And when you’ve got a chilly, every one of the breeze which is trying to can be found in see your face can make it even more difficult. That can improve the likelihood of getting wintry signs and high temperature.
It’s a good idea to scrub your mask following with it. You need to use tepid water and also a gentle soap to reduce the stench that is held in there. So you need to use the light aggressive to clean up within the facemask.
If you have trouible with obtaining the cover up on right through the day, you want a substitute, even though ensure polish it. You need a new And-95 disguise if your filtration system seriously isn’t working properly. It is important that you switch the filtering immediately after every single 2 months. Should the narrow has divots, you are unable to be aware of the outside adequately or really feel in it, you’ll have it exchanged with an all new 1.
You should also replace your facemask each into a twelve months, with respect to the age group and condition of one’s M-95 conceal. It’s never to soon or in its final stages to modify your facemask. It will eventually feel great way too.
The facemask are available all kinds of resources, like some that appear appreciate your epidermis, although not simply will your skin look much better. Some are more effective than these. Get a merchandise that comes in a twig flask.
If you discover that see your face just isn’t sense as clean as it did when you obtained it, there may be a difficulty together with your M-95 separate out, if you’re thinking about being unable to scent your own personal cologne. Substitute your cover up as soon as possible to stop allergic reaction and discomfort.
New technologies has made it user-friendly and uncomplicated N-95 goggles. As well as the common mask, they very easily utilized on other areas in the body.
Some people even use the mask as a possible bad acne disguise to assuage their pores and skin reducing soreness. , although goggles may not be a cure-all Will not utilize them for being an acne cure.
Don’t attempt to lose your terrible habit of choosing your brain. You will find many doing the unhealthy practice of finding the eyes, sixty exactly that you might be finding onto your nose.
You might like to take a step distinct. You will end up pleasantly surprised about simply how much far better it feels if you use a superb facemask. You’ll have a lot more electricity. If you find that your skin pores are not getting opened up up to they will be, a facial is a great idea, you’ll find that you will be much less responsive to sunlight.
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Having a facembrace mask, In-95 along with natual skin care merchandise is harmless, simple and useful. You don’t have to spend some money to ensure that you stay healthy and balanced. Skin will thank you.
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Nice Guy Finishes First
The powerhouse Raptors president did more than just secure an NBA trophy. He helped us see Toronto for what it is: a city of winners
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Listen, we can all agree on the value of a good, hard workout. What the 49-year-old Ujiri is doing here is something different. “I’m struggling a little bit,” he admits. No wonder. For one thing, after a busy summer, this is his first boxing session in months. For another, it has been five days since Ujiri has taken any solid food. Daily fasting—nothing more than tea from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.—is something he does periodically throughout the year as a spiritual exercise. “Like the Muslims,” he says (Ujiri is Christian). Periodically, like now, he undergoes a more intense cleanse, subsisting for days solely on a “juice” of lemon, apple cider vinegar, cayenne, maple syrup and a few other nutrients, concocted by one of the Raptors trainers. “I can’t wait to eat real food tonight,” he says. (It will likely be tilapia grilled by his wife, Ramatu; it almost always is.)
Why does he do this? It’s for his players. “I tell them it’s my way of keeping up with the team,” says Ujiri. An NBA season, with its relentless grind of playing, practising and travelling, is an exhausting ordeal for the players. “When I put myself through this,” he says, “I’m trying to see how they think when they’re tired.” During the playoff run, when the pressure and fatigue were building for his players, Ujiri sometimes increased his workouts to two hours.
I am with you, he was saying. I know what you’re going through. He was also gaining insights that might help him make better decisions about his players. Right now, as Ujiri grimaces through a series of boxing crunches, throwing jabs from a sit-up position, he is trying to help the Raptors win.
Let us consider the unusual summer that kept Ujiri from his boxing workouts. Late on a Thursday night in mid-June, in Oakland, California, he achieved the pinnacle of his career when the basketball team he’d been running for six years won a championship. That night, Ujiri and his team celebrated into the morning at Epic Steak, a San Francisco restaurant. Then he travelled to eight African countries in support of two causes: his own foundation, Giants of Africa, which runs basketball camps for hopeful youths, and the NBA’s global outreach program, Basketball Without Borders, of which he is a director. He stopped off briefly in Rwanda to visit his friend, President Paul Kagame. (Ujiri declined to say how many current or former world leaders he can call up for a chat, but there are at least three: Kagame; “my guy, Kenyatta,” the president of Kenya; and Barack Obama.) And he travelled with Ramatu to Nigeria to see his parents and his friends and show them the Tiffany-made Larry O’Brien trophy his team now owned.
For a while, in the aftermath of his achievement, Ujiri was wooed by the owners of the Washington Wizards, who made it clear to him, unofficially, that they would give him anything he wanted—including an ownership stake in the company that owns the Wizards, the NHL’s Washington Capitals and various other properties—if only he would leave Toronto behind. He resisted the overtures because life is good in the city he calls home, and Washington was offering nothing he couldn’t get here. But it’s always nice to be wanted, especially given the other key element of Ujiri’s eventful summer: the fact that he was living under an oppressive legal cloud.
On June 13, seconds after courtside officials declared Game 6 in Oakland over and Kawhi Leonard began waving his arms in triumph, Ujiri encountered a zealous sheriff’s deputy as he attempted to get to the court to celebrate with his players. The details of the scuffle that ensued were a matter of investigation and review by police and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for four months, until it finally announced its decision not to press charges.
One thing that was immediately clear to anyone who watched the post-game scene on TV: Ujiri was shaken by what had happened. At a time when he should have been giddy with joy, he looked haunted. From her seat in the stands, Ramatu could tell something was wrong. “You could just see Masai’s face,” she says. “My husband’s face was not like him.” Family members watching from home saw it too, and began texting her: “Is Masai okay?”
In a press conference about two weeks after the Oakland incident, Ujiri insisted he respected authority. “I am confident,” he said, “about who I am as a person.”
He’s a winner, for starters. He arrived in Toronto in the spring of 2013, took over a team the league did not respect, and talked immediately about winning a championship. Then he did it. In the process, he injected the city with a bolus of pride. We had felt winning before. But when the Blue Jays won, it was summer; the city was dressed for company, and we were thankful the Americans weren’t seeing us at our worst. The Raptors played when the wind howled and our streets were crusted with grey snow, and they told the Americans to deal with it. With “We the North,” this team held the winter, our secret shame, to their hearts.
That was Ujiri’s doing. When he arrived, he told his team what he wanted in a brand. “I wanted it to be about being proud of who we are,” he says. “Being proud of Toronto and Canada. We’re not afraid of the cold, and we are going to fucking win here.” We the North was developed by the Sid Lee agency based in Montreal. It had already been rejected by that city’s soccer franchise, the Impact, when Ujiri claimed it for Toronto. “I saw it, and it gave me goosebumps,” he says. Us too.
Ujiri is also a builder. Since 2016, the Raptors’ home has been a $37-million practice and workout facility now dubbed—since Drake bought the naming rights—the OVO Athletic Centre, which sits next to Medieval Times at Exhibition Place. At its heart lies an enormous practice court. The offices that surround it are like beachfront property, with views of the court going to the highest-ranking executives along one side and coaches along the other. Fingerprint scanners control access to every section, while computerized sensors on the walls of the court can track every shot for close analysis. This centre exists because Ujiri told Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment the team needed it. Done.
Steps away from the Raptors war room, where trade and draft discussions are aided by a ring of about 20 computer monitors, sits Ujiri’s large, narrow office furnished in brown and cream leather, where images of Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela intermingle with pictures of Ujiri’s wife and two children, six-year-old Zahara and three-year-old Masai Jr., nicknamed “Ding Ding.” Ujiri doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time here. He does much of his work in his car as a driver ferries him to and from his home in North York, which he bought immediately after being named president. At the OVO Centre, he would rather be moving, meeting with players and coaches, talking on his BlackBerry or roving among the desks of his small front-office team, which operates like a kind of executive hydra, its many heads working as one, discussing roster and development matters.
He is a man of convictions. In addition to fasting, Ujiri prays frequently—“I pray to God to look over us,” he says—and considers the two acts spiritual rather than religious. Effort matters to him. He has a scout’s eye for those who will give more of themselves to the cause. “He’s a quick study of people,” says Stan Jones, associate head basketball coach at Florida State University, who has been friends with Ujiri for about 17 years. “He picks up on people’s character, and he carries himself with an unbelievably high level of character that allows you to realize how genuine he is.”
His players see that in him. “He values the little things about a person more than just their basketball talent,” says Fred VanVleet, the Raptors’ emerging star point guard. A few years ago, during the NBA’s summer league—a series of games that allows teams to assess new players—VanVleet was an undrafted kid trying to make the Raptors and playing tentatively. Ujiri was watching. At the end of one game, he pulled VanVleet aside. “He told me, ‘Be assertive. Don’t be shy out there.’” He gave VanVleet instructions for how to improve. “I was taken aback that the president of a team would say that to me,” he says. “I took it to heart.”
For Ujiri, a player’s response to that kind of push goes a long way to determining whether he is a Raptor. The team that won the championship reflected Ujiri’s character-first ethos—the first team in NBA history to win it all without a single top-14 draft pick on the roster. It was a team of players who, at first, didn’t seem to possess the most talent. What they had were depths of resilience and determination. They were a team of Masai Ujiris.
In Zaria, the city in northern nigeria where Ujiri grew up, he was called “Bones” and “Mosquito” by his playmates because of his matchstick-thin legs. There was another name for him, too, coined by a friend named Gideon: “The Boy is Good.” An odd sort of nickname, it followed Ujiri as he grew to excel at sports, partly because Gideon repeated the phrase so often and partly because it seemed to touch on some deeper quality than Ujiri’s skill with a ball.
Ujiri’s best friend, Dennis Ogbe, had been afflicted with polio, his right leg weakened and his left leg paralyzed. By the time he met Ujiri when they were eight or nine, he was coping with a leg brace, a wheelchair and crutches, and the bullies they attracted. “Meeting Masai was a turning point,” says Ogbe. “He has so much compassion and he likes to treat everybody equally.” Ogbe couldn’t run, so during soccer games, Ujiri appointed him the goalkeeper. Whoever owned the ball set the rules, and they were usually playing with Ujiri’s ball. His family was more affluent than most in the area; his Kenyan-born mother, Paula, was a doctor, and his Nigerian-born father, Michael, was a hospital administrator. They had arrived from Bournemouth, England, when Ujiri was nine months old. The two boys met when Ujiri’s family moved to Samaru, a village on the western edge of Zaria, where Ujiri could attend the primary school that was part of Ahmadu Bello University. Ujiri and Ogbe became a team. They flew kites. Collected pigeons. To get to their drama club, which was many kilometres away, they would often share Ujiri’s Scorpio bicycle, working out a system by which Ogbe pedalled with his stronger right leg and Masai his left. Later, Ogbe taught Ujiri how to drive.
As a boy, Ujiri was introduced to basketball by Oliver B. Johnson, known to most as “Coach OBJ.” An American who’d been in the Peace Corps, he had stopped off in Nigeria in 1969, set up some basketball uprights and started coaching the kids who came around, one of whom, in the early ’80s, was Ujiri. It was then, according to the coach, that the boy began to “feel his dreams.” Ujiri dreamed of playing in the NBA, and he would watch games on VHS tapes to learn moves. His ambition took him to prep school in Seattle, then junior college in North Dakota. But the NBA was a dream too far. “I wasn’t good enough,” he says. He was a scrappy player, effective defensively, but he lacked offensive skill, and at a narrow six foot four, he lacked size. Instead, he played professionally in Europe for six years, and after bouncing from his fifth team, he quit.
Trying to figure out his future, he called David Thorpe, a development coach and ESPN analyst he’d met a few years earlier. He wanted to get involved in the business side of basketball, he said. He knew a lot of African players, and thought maybe he could help with recruitment. Did Thorpe have any advice? “First you have to meet people,” Thorpe told him. College basketball’s Final Four was scheduled for the following month in Atlanta. Thorpe told Ujiri to find a place to stay and meet him there, and he’d introduce him around.
There is a loaves-and-fishes quality to Ujiri’s way with introductions that weekend in 2002. He lacked a cellphone, so he frequently borrowed Thorpe’s. Soon, says Thorpe, “I was getting lots of phone calls from famous coaches I didn’t know.” They all wanted to talk to Ujiri. “Clearly he had charmed a lot of people and he had something to sell, which was good players in Africa.” That weekend, Ujiri made more than 20 solid connections with coaches who were interested in the players he knew.
He worked with Thorpe on a document they called Masai’s Sphere of Influence, which showed all the countries where Ujiri had played or knew people. He used that, and his charm, to land a volunteer international scouting job with the Orlando Magic. The team would give him the credentials to gain access to gyms around the world, but promised nothing more. Ujiri grabbed it.
For months he travelled across Europe, covering his own costs, borrowing money from his mother and Ogbe to survive. He slept on friends’ couches. Used Delta Buddy Passes to get cheap flights. At the end of a year, deep in debt, he submitted his expenses to the Magic and received a cheque for $3,000, a fraction of what he’d spent. “It broke my heart when I got it,” he says. The position may have cost him financially, but he’d built equity in knowledge and connections, meeting people everywhere he went. At one point, before the start of an NBA game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, he spotted Adam Silver, then the president of NBA Entertainment. He walked up and started sharing his impressions about the league. When Ujiri left, Silver turned to a colleague and said, “Do I know him? Who is he?” Today, Silver, now the NBA commissioner, is one of Ujiri’s closest friends. The effect of talking to Ujiri, he says, was “almost comforting.”
Within a year, Ujiri had won a paid, full-time scouting position with the Denver Nuggets. He bought a house in Phoenix to be near friends and became known as a guy who went everywhere, attended every event and had a fine eye for talented players who were engaged in the game. At about the same time, he started his Giants of Africa basketball camps in Nigeria, initially as a way to unearth players with NBA potential.
Four years later, at a pre-draft event in Orlando, someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned to see Bryan Colangelo, president and GM of the Raptors, who wanted to know if Ujiri had any interest in working in Toronto. Colangelo, who’d recently been named Executive of the Year, was basketball royalty at the time. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is Bryan Colangelo talking to me,’” says Ujiri. He took a job as director of global scouting in Toronto, and for the first time, he worked in an office every day, wearing a suit. “I was like a sponge,” he remembers. “I had to learn the salary cap. I had to learn the business side of the game. I had to learn trading. I had to learn how to talk on the phone to other executives. I learned all that from Bryan Colangelo.” In 2008, he was made an assistant GM.
Ujiri left his belongings in Phoenix and built a new life in Toronto from scratch, living in the SoHo Hotel. It was during this first stint with the Raptors that he met Ramatu Barry in Washington, D.C., where she sold men’s sportswear at Saks Fifth Avenue. They began dating, and she saw how late he worked. One night, she asked why he wouldn’t come to bed. “Bryan has a big meeting in the morning, so I need to provide all these numbers for him,” he explained. She said, “Masai, you work so hard at night. Why can’t you be the GM?” He looked at her and laughed. “It’s not that easy,” he said. Ramatu told him that he had to believe in it, and they would pray about it. In 2010, Ujiri became GM of the Denver Nuggets.
He arrived facing an enormous challenge: the Nuggets’ best player, Carmelo Anthony, wanted out. Ujiri had never made a trade in his life, and for his first act, he had to trade the franchise star. Ujiri nailed it, getting a return of players from the New York Knicks that a CBS analyst called “tremendous” and “stunning.” In 2012–13, the Nuggets went 57-25, and Ujiri was named Executive of the Year. That was when Tim Leiweke, then president of MLSE, came calling.
A sports executive with a history of winning in Los Angeles, Leiweke had recently arrived on a white steed to slay the morose dragons of mediocrity that had settled in at MLSE. Colangelo’s Raptors had missed the playoffs for five straight years and seemed Leafs-like in their acceptance of losing. Leiweke saw Ujiri as an agent of change. “He had the same kind of juice and determination that I did,” says Leiweke. “A desire to be great wherever he went.” Leiweke told Ujiri what he wanted him to do—“Change the culture, win a championship”—and he offered to chop away the deadwood of the existing front office before Ujiri arrived. With his memories of his first stint in Toronto still fresh, Ujiri gave him a list of the people he wanted gone, some of them executives who had been there for years. “I let 14 people go in one day,” Leiweke says. “It was one of the harder days I had there.”
Ujiri hired Jeff Weltman, who’d been his boss in Denver, as his executive VP of basketball operations. He added Bobby Webster and Teresa Resch, who had experience in the league office, and Dan Tolzman, who’d climbed the scouting ladder in Denver. “Those were my guys,” says Ujiri. The only bit of deadwood left over was Colangelo himself. Leiweke had given him a face-saving role as president of things-that-had-nothing-to-do-with-basketball. Ujiri knew it was hard for his former boss. “You go through the emotions of that person losing his job, and you feel for him,” he says. But apparently there were no hard feelings on Colangelo’s part. “He wanted me to take the job,” says Ujiri. Three weeks later, Colangelo resigned and left Ujiri unencumbered.
In person, Ujiri presents an unusual mix of self-assurance and vulnerability. He seems slightly wary of personal questions and skirts negativity as if it might cling, but he swears and smiles freely, and whatever he says has a raw sincerity, as if it comes from somewhere deep. Perhaps because of that, praise for his leadership abilities knows few bounds. When people who know him try to unlock the essence of his leadership style, they gravitate to the word trust.
“He values trust.” —Fred VanVleet
“There’s enormous trust between us.” —Adam Silver
“He trusts us to bring things to him that we know he would care about.” —Bobby Webster
For Ujiri, the keys to being an effective leader are simple: hire smart people, let them work and hold them accountable. He ranks the skills of others above his own, and the more he talks about his staff, the more fervent he gets. “I believe in them, and they make me better,” he says. “I pray God I’ve given them opportunity. ’Cause they all deserve it.”
His affection for his front-office team is palpable. He says of Resch, with conviction, “That’s my boss.” When he catches sight of Tolzman walking into the common area outside his office, his eyes light up. “DT!” he shouts and raises a fist, grinning widely. Friendship seems energizing for Ujiri. It brings out his playfulness. Told that his close friend Weltman, now the president of the Orlando Magic, would not respond to interview requests for this story, Ujiri juts his chin insolently. “Fuck him. Write that. No, I’m kidding! That’s why we beat their asses in the playoffs. I’m kidding! Don’t write that!” He’s giggling the whole time, his signature soft flutter.
The first five years of the Ujiri era were a dizzying mix of rising hope and crushing disappointment. He managed to erase the team’s defeatism, but not its defeats. In 2018, after LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers swept them from the playoffs for the second straight year, Ujiri’s “hold them accountable” principle dictated that head coach Dwane Casey had to go. In May, Ujiri and Webster walked from the executive side of the OVO Centre to Casey’s large office on the coaches’ side. Ujiri, who considered Casey a fatherly figure, says firing him was “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
Four days later, at Hotel X, the team interviewed the first candidate for Casey’s job: assistant coach Nick Nurse. The executives were on edge. “It started out pretty raw,” says Nurse. Over the course of about four hours, they peppered him with a series of creative questions. At one point, during a rapid-fire round, they demanded he recount his life story in 45 seconds, then asked him if he had a sense of humour and made him tell them a joke on the spot. Nurse was so amazed by their agility that he came away thinking Ujiri’s team had either worked doggedly to prepare for the interview or had a rare natural chemistry. You can thank the boss for that, either way.
Nurse was equally impressive. “I’m pretty certain Nick mentioned winning and championships more than any other guy we interviewed,” says Tolzman. Before becoming an assistant coach with the Raptors in 2013, Nurse had spent 11 years coaching in the British Basketball League and several more in the NBA’s developmental league, winning coach-of-the-year awards just about everywhere he went. He promised to bring a new approach to player accountability. His staff would track a player’s every action on the court, then deliver multicoloured report cards at practice the next morning. He was announced as the head coach in June.
With Nurse installed, attention turned to the roster. It was clear the team needed a heart transplant, and Ujiri’s team saw in San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard a player who embodied talent, drive, professionalism and fearlessness. To get him, they’d have to trade away their best player, DeMar DeRozan.
The risk inherent in trading DeRozan, who was wildly popular, for Leonard, who’d spent much of the previous season sidelined with injuries, was obvious. Disaster was as plausible as success. Yet Ujiri says he gave that risk no thought at all. “I don’t consider that,” he says. “I always believe if you are very, very well-prepared, things will work out.”
Part of the preparation involved informing the MLSE board of their intentions. The NBA operates under a complex salary cap system. For the 2018–19 season, team payrolls were capped at $102 million (U.S). A team could spend more by using various exemptions, but going over $124 million (U.S.) would incur a luxury-tax penalty. The Raptors payroll was high enough that acquiring Leonard would push it over the luxury-tax threshold for the first time. With the $25-million tax penalty, their payroll would jump to just over $160 million (U.S.).
MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum admits he was alarmed by the idea of trading DeRozan for one year of an injured player. But Webster and Ujiri made their case, he says, “in a very studied way.” They’d prepared for hours. Using spreadsheets and a smooth verbal pitch, honed by their own constant discussion, Ujiri and Webster spelled out the financial ramifications of acquiring Leonard and the possible effects on the roster. The board had plenty of questions; the discussion following the presentation was far longer than the presentation itself. But the money holders trusted Ujiri. “His vision,” says Tanenbaum, “is a championship vision.”
The day the trade happened, Ujiri and Ramatu were in Kenya with Obama to attend the opening of a youth centre founded by Obama’s half-sister, Auma. Ujiri was on the phone with Webster late into the night, finalizing the details, and at a certain point, Ramatu announced she was going to bed. She remembers her husband telling her, “I think I’m almost done. I may have to call DeMar.” It was about 5 or 6 a.m. in Kenya when the deal closed.
The 24 games of the historic playoff run that followed produced countless thrilling moments, but there was one in particular that signalled that this team was different, that it could shake off its demons. That was Leonard’s buzzer-beating bouncing ball in Game 7 against the Philadelphia 76ers. But what led to that ecstatic moment were several potentially crushing ones, which Ujiri never saw.
It’s his habit to watch each game from various vantage points. He never sits in the stands. Rarely watches from a box. He even stopped watching from the players’ tunnel because he is constantly badgered by fans. Instead, he roams. In Toronto, he’ll watch the first part of a game from the video room near the court, then ride the elevator and watch the second half from his 15th-floor office at 50 Bay Street. On the road, he’ll sometimes take out his phone and watch from the arena’s parking lot.
As the clock ticked down against the 76ers, Ujiri was watching on the TV in his office. With just 12 seconds to go in the game and his team leading 89–86, he headed for the elevator. He wanted to get to the court to celebrate the win that would push the Raptors to the Eastern Conference Finals. During that elevator ride down 15 floors, he lost cellphone service. When the elevator opened, he started down the corridor, which gave him a view into the press room. There he saw two men staring at a screen. One of them said something, and though Ujiri couldn’t hear, he read the man’s lips: “I can’t believe this is happening to us again.”
“I read it!” exclaims Ujiri. “I read his lips saying that!” Then Ujiri demonstrates how the man placed a hand over his eyes in woe. He hurried into the team’s video room, where Tolzman was watching from the couch. “What the fuck just happened?” said Ujiri. What had happened was this: two free throws by Joel Embiid, one made and one missed free throw by Leonard, and a Jimmy Butler layup. Tie game.
The game was stuck in a long timeout. There were four seconds left on the clock. Ujiri sat down on the couch next to Tolzman and waited. When play resumed, Leonard received the ball, raced to the right corner and sent up his shot just before the buzzer sounded.
Ujiri watched the ball rise and fall. He saw it hit the rim and assumed the shot was missed. “I went, ‘Okay, overtime.’ And I got up.” He demonstrates, rising off the white leather couch of his office. “I’m walking out and I see the second bounce. And it dies a little bit. Then the third one dies almost like completely. And I’m like this.” He stands frozen in his doorway. “And I turn to the screen. And Tolzman is sitting on the couch and he too is getting up. And the fucking ball goes in.” A huge smile spreads over Ujiri’s face. “Oh my God.”
Through that triumphant year, Ujiri’s family and Leonard’s became closely entwined. According to Ramatu, Leonard’s young daughter, Kaliyah, was so taken with little Masai Jr. that at home she would constantly repeat his nickname. Apparently, at one point Leonard said, “Who the hell is Ding Ding? All my daughter keeps saying in this house is ‘Ding Ding.’”
Ramatu also recalls that at the end of the year, while Ujiri was trying to convince Leonard to remain with the Raptors, he joked, “Whether you stay or not, my son is going to marry your daughter, because they love each other.”
On the couch in his office, looking out toward the staff beginning work on the new season, Ujiri doesn’t linger on the failures of the summer. He tried hard to convince Leonard to stay, but he implies he didn’t go to extremes. “We were going to be who we are,” he says. “And Kawhi appreciated who we are. He wanted to go home.”
Now that Leonard has signed with the L.A. Clippers, and shooting guard Danny Green has gone to the Lakers, the Raptors are like a tall ship without a main sail. They’ll make do for now and hope the wind blows just right. Their roster will play elite-level defence, and it still has talent. Young power forward Pascal Siakam seems destined for stardom, and the front office has added potential in new-to-the-league players like Matt Thomas and Terence Davis.
It might be enough. It might not. Ujiri insists he’s unconcerned. More than that, he’s excited. “We’re excited about the young players we have,” he says. “We’re excited about the veteran players we have because of what they bring, the winning mentality. I’m excited about our coaching staff. I’m excited about the front-office staff. Man, we have incredible ideas and things we’re going to do, and we are so excited about it.”
The way he describes things, it’s hard not to believe in the future Ujiri sees. It’s impossible not to want to be a part of it.
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Feb 08, 2018 · 3. Set the same frequency as in the Primary Router(here is 5GHz), and select the AP Mode as Hybrid or WDS mode.Hybrid mode used to both wired and wireless clients while WDS mode used to wireless clients only. 4. Enable Connect to APs in list. 5. Select the same channel as in the Primary Router. Dec 12, 2017 · Wireless Distribution System (WDS) Repeater Network setup . Follow the instructions here. The "Basic Wireless" Setup screen should look like this afterwards: Main Router - Buffalo WHR-G125 (usually with Internet Access) WAN port connected to Internet WAN (configure normally) LAN IP Address = 10.0.0.1 DHCP Server = enabled Wireless | <urn:uuid:552586b8-1147-48f7-a794-04e49aba665c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://torrentsdgwl.web.app/bala68868xib/dd-wrt-wds-cif.html | 2023-09-22T12:42:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.907396 | 722 |
Sometimes the will is strong but the body simply isn’t able.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were in the news for a couple reasons last Saturday, none sadder than hearing the team had placed defensive end Aaron Smith on injured reserve, ending his 2011 season. Smith going on IR wasn’t sad in and of itself. It was almost expected after suffering four season-ending injuries over the past five years. The sadness came with the explanation that followed which brought to light the unfortunate reality that Smith’s football career is most likely over.
The story behind Smith’s injury is definitely a little bizarre. I often joke on this blog about Mike Tomlin being a master of lies and deceit when it comes to discussing his team’s injury situation. I’m starting to wonder if Tomlin isn’t a liar, it’s the Steeler doctors who make Dr. Nick Riviera look like a Harvard graduate. I mean, they did send James Harrison back on the field with a crushed orbital bone.
Smith missed the previous two games with what the Steelers listed as “a foot injury.” When he was placed on IR, though, the team said it was because of “a neck injury.” Later, Tomlin explained the team’s neurosurgeon discovered damage to Smith’s neck that was so severe he risked paralysis by trying to play with it. This means either the Steelers were lying when they held him out with a foot injury (which is bad) or the team doctors are so inept they weren’t aware one of their players was one big collision away from being a paraplegic (which is worse).
Despite what the link states, Smith actually has one more year left on his contract. He was in his final year but he renegotiated when the team was desperately trying to get under the cap. Considering his poor play before being injured and the fact the Steelers have players on the roster to take his place, I don’t expect him back next year even if the money is guaranteed (which I assume it is). At age 35 and with his future health in jeopardy if he returns to action, it would seem the end has finally come for one of the Steelers’ finest defensive players of the past thirty years. While the last handful of seasons have been marred by injury, the first seven years of Smith’s career were nothing short of brilliant.
Smith’s career wasn’t eulogized by a solemn Bob Costas on Sunday Night Football. Five years from now, Smith will be eligible for the Hall of Fame and he’ll probably get a few votes but not many. If he ever gets in, it will be the Dick LeBeau Veterans Committee route although even then I wouldn’t hold my breath. In 2033, when a new generation of Steeler Nation votes on the Black and Gold’s 100th anniversary team, he’ll probably be bypassed in favor of the legends who played for the Steel Dynasty. If anybody from this era makes it, it would more likely be his longtime linemate Casey Hampton.
Which is a real shame because Aaron Smith is one of the best defensive ends to ever play football. For those of you who don’t concern yourselves with the X’s and O’s, allow me to explain. LeBeau runs a very particular 3-4 defense, one where every player has a job to do. By doing your job, others are in a position to do theirs. Smith never piled up the statistics famous defensive ends like Bruce Smith or Julius Peppers accumulated. That’s probably why he only made a single Pro Bowl his entire career.
All Smith did was play 3-4 end to absolute perfection. Over the past twelve years, the Steelers have gotten excellent outside linebacking from one-hit wonders like Jason Gildon and Clark Haggans as well as perennial All-Pros like Joey Porter and James Harrison. A big reason the linebackers have been so effective year in and year out is because of Smith. A defensive end in LeBeau’s system has to take on blockers and create gaps for the ‘backer to shoot through and make plays. In his prime, there was nobody better at it than Aaron Smith. He would routinely occupy two offensive linemen while also being incredibly stout at the point of attack.
In additional to being a great player, Smith was a beloved teammate. The team rallied around him when his son was diagnosed with leukemia back in 2008. I’m sure the Steelers brought him back this season because they thought he had a little more gas left in the tank, although I would like to think there was a little bit of compassion mixed in there as well. Yes, they aren’t a charity but it isn’t unreasonable to suppose a classy family like the Rooneys would give a man who’s been nothing short of exemplary on and off the field a bit of a break.
Farewell, Aaron Smith. Thank you being a Steeler in the best possible sense. God bless. | <urn:uuid:8fe52e66-1c98-469e-9ec1-ed51fde97428> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://totalsteelers.com/2011/10/26/farewell-aaron-smith/ | 2023-09-22T11:06:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.981363 | 1,055 |
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