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The PARCC Content Frameworks for Literacy/ELA for 9-12 (all I looked at) are not much more than a transcription and reformatting of the Common Core ELA/Literacy standards. Which makes sense, because, despite what people tend to read into them, the CC standards are very narrow and specific.
PARCC agrees with my analysis that the "standards" are equivalent to "tasks," thus in each grade level band there are 9 specific analytic tasks to be rehearsed with a variety of texts, demonstrated through a variety of informational and argumentative writing. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much the whole high school ELA curriculum.
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I frequently hear people debating the definition of cloud computing, or embracing a particular example of cloud computing as the definition of cloud computing.
I put together a few slides intended to illustrate a few different examples of cloud computing. I think that there are at least three fairly different classes of cloud computing that provide different value to different people. What all have in common is the use of computers and software in the Internet to replace computers and software residing on a particular physical computer in a known location.
The three different classes I use are Computing as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
Computing as a Service replaces the management of physical computers with virtual servers running on the Internet. At it’s most basic, Computing as a Service may still require managing the server operating system, and other low-level operations/system administration tasks. But it does eliminate the need to own or rent particular pieces of hardware, and manage or rent datacenter services. Eliminating physical hardware provides an additional benefit: it becomes easier to rapidly scale computing resources up and down to respond to peaks in demand, as well as reducing up front investment. Computing as a Service is rarely talked about by end-users, because it’s mostly invisible to them.
Application as a Service replaces traditional applications run on a personal computer with software running on a web server. Examples of this include Gmail, Salesforce.com, Google Maps, etc. End-users tend to be most familiar with these applications, and so many times they think of cloud computing as limited to this particular category. Here the value provided is the elimination of installing and managing local applications, the benefits of frequent releases with effort to upgrade.
Different people, depending on their role, may default to a particular mindset around cloud computing. But embracing a broader definition, and understanding how other people may be thinking of cloud computing, can lead to more productive conversations about the benefits and tradeoffs of various cloud computing options. | <urn:uuid:28da20dd-b2f3-4a29-bdbf-26b888a45665> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://www.williamhertling.com/2010/08/what-is-cloud-computing/ | 2023-09-25T00:49:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.938245 | 399 |
Happy New Year! I know this letter is late getting to you, we have really had a busy but productive few months. As you know we arrived back in the USA late November, we really hit the ground running reporting to our supporting churches and even presenting at a few new churches. We have seen several folks saved and many opportunities to share the Gospel with people along the way. God has been gracious in our travels keeping us safe despite some car troubles right from the beginning. Please keep us in prayer as we have a pretty full schedule over the next few months taking us as far north as Maryland and as far west as New Mexico. We are praying for new supporting churches and looking froward to fellowshipping with those that have faithfully supported us through the years. If we have not been by and you would like us to come please feel free to reach out to us with possible dates.
The work in Bequia continues by God’s grace and the help of Brother Osie. He has done a wonderful job preaching and teaching. He loves his people and has a burden to see the people saved and follow the Lord in their daily lives. Please keep him and his family in your prayers, jobs are not always easy to find, especially a job that will allow him off for church. He is praying about starting a small business to allow himself to better support his family and serve in the community. It is our desire to see the work grow under Brother Osie and we trust the Lord that it will. The church has worked together recently to get moved back down stairs and have it decorated and looking really nice. The new fans will help keep things a little cooler, we eventually hope to put in some AC and a small sound system.
Pastor Mitchell and the folks at Gospel Light Baptist Church have finally gotten their block machine and are planning to make their own blocks to build their new church building as the old wooden structure is beginning to fail. They are planning to make about 10,000 blocks at a cost of $1 per block. Please pray with us as they step out by faith to accomplish this great task. And if you would like to give to this project please let us know.
Pastor Wilson and the folks at Bethany Baptist in Stubbs, St. Vincent are doing well. Pastor Wilson will be using some of our tent equipment to go out and do some street preaching there around his community. He has also offered to come over and preach in Bequia once a month focusing on evangelism. Brother Wilson has asked us to pray for him as he is trying to start a printing and embroidery business to better support his family and take care of the work of the Lord.
On a personal note, I have been invited to go to Papua New Guinea in June. This is a tremendous opportunity for us. We will be traveling with a group of young people and folks that are interested in world missions. We will be meeting with several missionaries and national pastors that are actively working to evangelize their field. We believe that this will help us and others. The cost will be $4000, the Lord has already provided $950 for the trip.
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Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott
I’m part of the Heartbeat blitz tour where we’re going around and celebrating the upcoming release of Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott! If you haven’t heard about this book before here’s your chance, and you can also win an ARC of this pretty! I’ve been excited to read this myself ever since I met the author at BEA (which was awesome) and heard her talk about her book 🙂
Watch for my review after the holidays!
Published by Harlequin Teen on January 28th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, YA
Buy on Amazon
Life. Death. And...Love?
Emma would give anything to talk to her mother one last time. Tell her about her slipping grades, her anger with her stepfather, and the boy with the bad reputation who might be the only one Emma can be herself with.
But Emma can't tell her mother anything. Because her mother is brain-dead and being kept alive by machines for the baby growing inside her.
Meeting bad-boy Caleb Harrison wouldn't have interested Old Emma. But New Emma-the one who exists in a fog of grief, who no longer cares about school, whose only social outlet is her best friend Olivia-New Emma is startled by the connection she and Caleb forge.
Feeling her own heart beat again wakes Emma from the grief that has grayed her existence. Is there hope for life after death-and maybe, for love?
“An intense examination of a family coping with grief, this absorbing character study easily keeps pages turning.”
— Kirkus on Heartbeat
Heartbeat Sneak Peek
About the Author
ELIZABETH SCOTT grew up in a town so small it didn’t even have a post office, though it did boast an impressive cattle population. She’s sold hardware and panty hose and had a memorable three-day stint in the dot-com industry, where she learned that she really didn’t want a career burning CDs. She lives just outside Washington, D.C., with her husband, and firmly believes you can never own too many books.
Thanks to Harlequin Teen, you can enter to win one of 10 ARCs of Heartbeat
- Open to US and Canada
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Welcome to ZachJones.net!
Welcome to ZachJones.net - my little playground on the web. This homepage links my four humble blogs together. Here's a breakdown of what I dabble in on the web:
- Life According to Zach - This blog is a little random, but flows mainly from whatever I've been thinking about or going through lately (or reading...)
- Thoughts to Chew On - A blog devoted to exploring any deeper thoughts which pop into my head or I feel like diving into. Here I tend to be more verbose...
- Leading in Worship - A blog devoted to all things worship arts related. I try to keep the posts short, but I'm so passionate (and have thought so long) about the stuff I'm writing about it's hard to keep things short.
- My Linux Exploits - I enjoy playing around on my linux-based OS, and here is where I try to outline what I've done - more so I have reference material for future installations, but also in the hopes I can help anyone out there trying to do the same stuff I have worked through.
- Been There, Read That - Reading is a passion and hobby of mine, and I thought it woul be good to share some of my thoughts on what I've read so others might benefit from my experience. Specifically, with the fiction books I review I notate what age groups I think the book would be appropriate for.
Please check 'em out, subscribe if you like what you're reading - and comment your heart out! I love conversation and debate. I'm pretty opinionated, but I love to hear the perspective of others - many times they will provide a much-needed balance! | <urn:uuid:1fd0221e-cd97-4089-961f-049d604f0d75> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | http://zachjones.net/ | 2023-09-24T23:55:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.959486 | 352 |
Opening night of The Stadium Tour.
Photos by Sandra Haynes
A friend of mine had amazing seats and let us share her photos on our page. This is her post about the show below. We will be covering the US Bank Stadium show so stay tuned for more on the tour.
So many mixed emotions! I’m still in shock MEETING Motley Crue and Def Leppard!! It was a distanced photo but to just be in the same room with them… WOW! Missed my girl, Joan and half of Poison. But did score one Vince pick and two Nikki picks! It was an excruciatingly HOT day!! And then it started raining when DL came on soooo we missed a lot of their show because all of our merch was getting soaked. But they all sounded amazing!! I may have to pick up another show just to enjoy the actual show!!
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Shavo Odadjian says that he is still “optimistic” that SYSTEM OF A DOWN will one day record a follow-up to its “Mezmerize” and “Hypnotize” LPs, which came out in 2005. The Serj Tankian-fronted outfit has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011 but has yet to record any new music.
Odadjian, who recently unveiled his new band NORTH KINGSLEY, discussed SYSTEM‘s inability to make a new album during an appearance on Ernie Ball‘s “Striking A Chord” podcast.
The bassist said (hear audio below): “I love SYSTEM. I love the guys. They’re my friends, over anything. Even if I don’t see them or talk to them for months, when we’re on the phone, we’re best friends. That’s how I am with them. Nothing has gone down so terrible that we can never [make music together again].
“That’s why I’m always optimistic, and whenever I say that, it becomes headlines. ‘Oh, Shavo is optimistic,'” he continued. “Well, yeah, bro, I’m optimistic about a lot of things. It doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen. But the reason why I’m optimistic is because nothing has been done that can’t be undone. It’s not like someone said or did something that’s ‘end all.’ It’s not like, God forbid, anyone’s passed away. We’re still all here, we still can talk, we still can play, we’re still alive.”
Elaborating on the reason the members of SYSTEM OF A DOWN haven’t been able to see eye-to-eye on how to proceed with a new record, Shavo said: “If we could just agree. If people weren’t so adamant about their views. It would be nice to just back up a little and say, ‘You know, let’s just do it. And I’ll listen to you if you listen to me,’ instead of, like, ‘I think it should be this way, ‘I think it should be that way.’ Okay, well, then that’s not gonna work because if you both… I don’t know.”
He continued: “It’s a mixture of a lot of stuff that’s happened. And it just kind of grew to a point where, because of social media and because of all this demand for the record, it’s become taboo; it’s become this thing. It’s, like, bigger than it should be. It’s become this crazy thing: ‘The new SYSTEM record isn’t happening.’ It’s way too crazy, bro. Everyone is a little weird. Because Daron [Malakian, guitar] will post [something from his] SCARS [ON BROADWAY side project], and they’ll rip him up about the new [SYSTEM] record. Serj will post something political. They’ll rip him up about the new record. John [Dolmayan, drums] does something; ‘Where’s the new record?’ I’m posting NORTH KINGSLEY. ‘Where’s the new record?’ It’s always there now. It became this thing [where] we’re, like, ‘Fuck this.’ It’s gonna make me say, ‘Fuck the new record,’ because there’s so much [demand for it]. But the flipside is we should be fucking honored that people still care and want the new record.”
In 2018, Malakian publicly accused Tankian of not wanting to record, with Tankian responding that creative and financial issues with Malakian led to the stalemate. In a message on Facebook, Tankian wrote that Malakian wanted to control SYSTEM‘s creative process, take more of the publishing money and be the only band member to speak to the press.
Back in May, Tankian revealed that he will put out a solo EP of what he described as “rock songs” later this year. Tankian told SPIN that they were first meant for SYSTEM OF A DOWN, saying: “Originally, I had these songs in mind for a SYSTEM record if we were to end up doing a SYSTEM record. But as we could not really see eye to eye on how to go forward with that, I decided to finish them off myself and release them as an EP.”
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10 to 1 Public Relations Wins Three Hermes Creative Awards
10 to 1 Public Relations was recently recognized with three Hermes Creative Awards. The three awards recognize 10 to 1 Public Relations’ expertise in public relations campaigns, managing and recovering from crisis scenarios, and event-based public relations.
According to the awards organization:
As a firm focused on creating the highest caliber PR campaigns and results for our clients, it’s especially rewarding when independent third-party organizations recognize our strategy creation and implementation efforts as among the best they’ve seen compared to our industry peers. I’m most proud that these three Hermes Creative Awards recognize our team’s hard work and dedication to serving our clients’ needs and achieving their goals.Josh Weiss, Founder and President of 10 to 1 Public Relations
Here’s a recap of the winning campaigns that were recognized:
Platinum Winner: “Establishing Worzalla as a Top Local Employer” – Strategic Campaigns/PR Communications/PR
Worzalla, a leading book printer, enlisted the agency’s help to strengthen its employer brand and attract top talent. Through a comprehensive PR strategy, 10 to 1 Public Relations crafted a compelling narrative that highlighted Worzalla’s positive work environment, employee benefits, and commitment to the local community. The campaign’s success in enhancing Worzalla’s reputation as a desirable employer contributed to its well-deserved recognition.
Platinum Winner: “Intel’s Groundbreaking” – Strategic Campaigns, PR Communications/Live or Virtual Event
Faced with the challenge of introducing a groundbreaking product, Intel turned to 10 to 1 Public Relations to devise a PR campaign that would captivate local audiences in Arizona. 10 to 1 Public Relations orchestrated an unforgettable experience that showcased Intel’s revolutionary technology. The campaign’s exceptional execution and ability to generate excitement surrounding the announcement made it a resounding success.
Gold Winner: “Preserving Risas’ Reputation” – Strategic Campaigns, PR Communications/PR Campaign
Risas, a prominent dental company, faced a reputational challenge that required expert handling. 10 to 1 Public Relations devised a comprehensive PR campaign focused on transparency, proactive communication, and stakeholder engagement. Through strategic messaging and meticulous crisis management, 10 to 1 Public Relations successfully safeguarded Risas’ reputation, earning the admiration of both industry experts and the public.
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About Encántame Towers
Encántame Towers is located on the pristine beaches of Playa Encanto, just a short 15-minute drive, east of downtown Puerto Peñasco. It is the 6th project for the development team of Miguel Guevara and Mary Snyder, who have both been in Peñasco, full time, since 1995. All 5 prior projects, Puerta Privada, Sonoran Sea, Sonoran Spa, Princesa, and Condominiums Pinacate are completed, successful, and turned over to the homeowners. They have been the leaders in quality construction, on-time performance, and continued customer satisfaction.
- Generate awareness for the opportunity to buy new condos during the construction phase.
- Build recognition for the many unique features and amenitites that Encántame Towers would provide residents.
- Announce major milestones during the construction process to build excitement for the new development.
10 to 1 Public Relations has the depth and breadth of experience you need to define, plan, and execute strategic communications that reach and exceed your goals.
What We Did.
As a result of our PR efforts, Encántame Towers was able to sell out the first of three buildings during the first 12 months of our engagement. We also secured multiple in-person media interviews for reporters to walk through the showroom and see the amenities that Encántame Towers had to offer. | <urn:uuid:dd0859d0-5043-4754-b262-cf10957df0e0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://10to1pr.com/portfolio/encantame-towers/ | 2023-09-24T22:52:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.94494 | 313 |
On December 30, 2021, the central government declared the entire Nagaland as a “disturbed area” for six more months under the AFSPA Act.
Telangana state has become the first state in India to compete for 100% first dose of COVID-19 vaccination.
India approved two more COVID vaccines and one pill on December 28, 2021. Two vaccines, Corbevax and Kovovax, were approved by the drug regulator Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO). The anti-viral drug molanupiravir was also approved. It can be used only in an emergency situation.
In January 2022, India will chair the UNSC Anti-Terrorism Committee, after 10 long years.
Ever since Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was elected to the post, an ‘India out’ campaign has started within the country. The campaign has mostly dominated social media over the past three years. It is led by critics of the government. Critics accused the Maldivian presidential government of “taking Indian shoes off the ground”.
On December 25, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that children in the age group of 15-18 years would get the COVID-19 vaccination from January 3, 2022.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur introduced the “Anti-Doping Bill” in the Lok Sabha on December 17, 2021.
On December 15, 2021, the Union Cabinet approved a proposal to rise the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years.
On December 14, 2021, the Supreme Court observed that fundamental rights are guaranteed to every citizen, regardless of profession, and directed the central government to initiate the process of issuing voter ID, Aadhaar and ration cards to sex workers.
On December 14, 2021, Ladakh received its first FM radio station in the capital Leh.
On December 14, 2021, India, Iran and Uzbekistan held talks on joint use of Chabahar port. He also underlined the important role played by the port in enhancing regional connectivity.
Defense / Security
The Indian Army recently set up a “Quantum Laboratory” in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, highlighting its steady and significant progress in the emerging technology domain.
On December 28, 2021, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated 24 bridges and three roads, which have been constructed by the Border Roads Organization (BRO).
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the BrahMos Aerospace cruise missile manufacturing unit in Lucknow on December 26, 2021.
On 25 December, the Indian Naval Ship (INS) reached the port of Maputo, Mozambique carrying 500 tonnes of food aid as part of the Kesari Sagar Mission, which has been dubbed as the “Security and Development for All in the Region” mission.
India’s first indigenously built missile corvette, INS Khukri (P49) was decommissioned after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam on December 24, 2021.
Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named ASIGMA called “Army Secure Indigenous Messaging Application”. It will replace the AWAN (Army Wide Area Network) messaging application. AWAN has been in service for the past 15 years.
The first successful test flight of the short-range surface-to-surface Pralay missile was conducted on December 22, 2021. The Pralay ballistic missile was flight tested from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. The missile followed the desired quasi-ballistic trajectory and reached the specified target with a high degree of accuracy.
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh recently launched Rashtriya Ekta Geet, composed by National Cadet Corps cadets.
On 19 December 2021, the Indian Navy conducted the first sea trials of Indian Navy’s indigenously built stealth destroyer Mormugao in the Arabian Sea.
Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) demonstrated Controlled Air Delivery System on December 19, 2021.
On December 18, 2021, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully test-fired a new generation nuclear capable ballistic missile ‘Agni P’.
The Minister of Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the India Semiconductor Mission on December 29, 2021. Under this scheme, interested companies who want to tap the Rs 76,000 crore incentive set by the central government to develop semiconductors and showcase the manufacturing ecosystem in India will be able to start applying for it from January 1, 2022.
On December 30, 2021 Insurance regulator IRDAI has continued state-owned LIC, GIC, and New India Assurance Company Limited as Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SII) for 2021-22.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its Financial Stability Report on December 29, 2021.
Major telecom service providers are set to launch fifth generation or 5G telecom services in select cities in India in 2022.
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued guidelines for flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel robust hybrid electric vehicles.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently extended the deadline for complying with the card information storage rules by another six months.
On December 23, 2021, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs proposed an ‘amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)’ to expedite the rescue of distressed companies that end up in bankruptcy tribunals.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched India’s first “Intelligent Transport System” on Eastern Peripheral Expressway in Dasna, Ghaziabad.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to provide a loan of USD 350 million to improve access to urban services across India.
On December 16, 2021 the Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh launched the MIS (Management Information System) portal for ranking of States/UTs in land acquisition projects.
A rare variety of Assam tea named Manohari Gold Tea created a record as it was auctioned at a record price of Rs 99,999 per kg.
At the World Trade Organization (WTO), India has lost a dispute with the Disputes Settlement Panel on the subsidy of sugar exports.
Bank of Baroda (BOB) has launched a wearable payment solution named “Bob World Wave”.
Science and Technology
Recently, a team of astronomers used data from the Hubble Space Telescope to search for the signature of a magnetic field on an exoplanet. The findings were described in the journal Nature Astronomy.
NASA’s Psyche mission is going to launch in August 2022. This will be the first launch to detect a giant metallic asteroid named Psyche in the main asteroid belt.
Researchers at IIT Delhi’s Kusuma School of Biological Sciences have developed an RT-PCR-based test that can detect the omicron version of SARS-CoV-2 in 90 minutes.
MoU/ Summits/ Conferences
The Government of India and the Government of Saudi Arabia have finalized an air bubble agreement to allow all eligible passengers to travel between the two countries.
Sri Lanka is soon going to enter into a long-lasting agreement with India to jointly develop the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm.
On December 17, 2021, India and Vietnam signed a letter of intent to enhance cooperation in the postal sector. It was sung in line with the wider strategic and economic ties between the two countries.
On December 17, 2021, India and Vietnam signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of Information Technology (IT).
The central government approved the issuance of the 19th tranche of electoral bonds on December 31, 2021, ahead of the assembly elections in five states. The sale of electoral bonds will be open from January 1 to January 10, 2022.
The state of Tamil Nadu has released its “New Policy for Women 2021” on December 29, 2021. This policy will be in force for more than five years.
On December 29, 2021, the government released the “Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement (ARIIA) 2021” award list.
Accepting the request of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia advised airlines in India to play Indian music on their flights and airports in India.
Under the flagship Gram Ujala program, state-owned CESL has achieved a milestone of distributing 50 lakh LED bulbs. This milestone has been achieved under Project Crore of the Gram Ujala program.
On December 28, 2021, the Maharashtra Legislative Council passed the “Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016 (Third Amendment) Bill”. The act is being opposed to a provision to include members of the LGBTQIA community in university boards.
On December 25, 2021, the central government released the “Good Governance Index 2020-21”. This index has been prepared by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).
On December 23, 2021, the “Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021” was passed in the Assembly. This bill is known as the Anti-Conversion Bill.
The Punjab Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, has given its approval to set up a “State General Category Commission” for the unreserved categories.
The 97th edition of the World Sangeet Tansen Mahotsav began on December 25, 2021 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
The International Day of Pandemic Preparedness is observed every year on 27 December to raise public awareness of pandemics at all levels and to prepare for future outbreaks.
National Consumer Day is celebrated every year in India on 24th December. On this day, the President has given his assent to the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
International Day of Human Unity was observed globally on 20 December to honor “Unity in Diversity”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Goa on 19 December to participate in the Goa Liberation Day celebrations.
Awards & Recognition
On December 30, 2021, Sahitya Akademi announced its prestigious “Sahitya Akademi Award, Yuva Puraskar as well as Children’s Sahitya Puraskar” for 2021 in various languages.
On December 19, 2021, shuttler Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian man to win a silver medal at the BWF World Championships.
Recently, Chinese citizens flared up against Elon Musk’s space program after China complained that its space station had to take aggressive action to avoid a collision with satellites launched by Musk’s Starlink program.
On August 25, 2021, India’s trade minister, Muhammad Lutfi presented his case to the lower house of Indonesia’s legislature for ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement.
The world’s longest metro line was opened in the Shanghai province of China on December 31, 2021.
Iran has launched a rocket with a satellite carrier containing three instruments into space on December 30, 2021.
On 29 December 2021, the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) announced the addition of Egypt as its new member.
On December 28, 2021, Israeli food-tech firm SavorEat launched a plant-based burger system, which is personalized for each customer.
On December 27, 2021, a new Chinese earth observation satellite named “Zhiyuan-1 02E” was launched into space by China.
The Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award were presented in Dubai on 23 December 2021.
Researchers in China have developed a machine that can use artificial intelligence to accuse people of committing crimes. This is the world’s first development. AI prosecutors have the ability to file charges with over 97 percent accuracy.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away at the age of 90 on December 27, 2021.
On December 20, 2021, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) began reviewing draft amendments to the “Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests”.
Hong Kong’s oldest university launched an overnight campaign on December 23, 2021 to destroy a statue in memory of those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in the latest blow to academic freedom.
Russia issued a draft agreement proposed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on safeguards for both sides.
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GameStop RobinHood Freemasonry 33 Chaos Exposed
New York (CNN Business)Robinhood received a startling 3:30 am call from its clearinghouse during last week’s Reddit-inspired market chaos asking for the free-trading app to put up a staggering $3 billion, co-CEO Vlad Tenev said Monday.
Traders who banded together over Reddit and other social media platforms have used Robinhood to make massive share purchases of GameStop, AMC Entertainment and other struggling companies that wealthy investors had bet against.
The campaign, intended to make hedge funds and other large investors suffer, has caused the share prices of these companies to soar, and American and British securities regulators have said they were watching the volatile markets.
That is the core of stakeholder capitalism: it is a form of capitalism in which companies do not only optimize short-term profits for shareholders, but seek long term value creation, by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, and society at large.
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The Brunswick Ball is a site-specific interactive-projection installation developed by Carlo Tolentino in collaboration with Sahaj Garg. It was produced during the Playable City Brunswick 2020 project, under the RMIT School of Design – Masters of Animation, Games and Interactivity.
The Brunswick Ball is an outdoor interactive experience that connects people with music, movement, and nature. Focused on movement and music-making through motion capture and/or environmental interaction.
It is currently exhibited in virtual form as a website with an Art Book and video essay detailing its production before and during Melbourne’s lockdown stages mid-2020.
Feel free to visit The Brunswick Ball Online Production Link and Video Essay at https://www.carlotolentino.com/brunswickball
Carlo Tolentino is a creative director, multi-media and interactive designer, who has worked across multiple creative industries across advertising, video production, art, and theatre. With over 12 years of experience, Carlo has designed and performed live visual projections in large venue music concerts, and art festivals.
Sahaj Garg is a Creative Technologist, Artist, Researcher, and problem solver experimenting with immersive and interactive media, simulations and future technologies such as AR- VR, blockchain, and AI. His recent research includes ways to track people or objects in 3D environments using a digital camera and computer vision technology in artistic-friendly game development tools. | <urn:uuid:3678c8af-3e20-447b-92e7-31f1eb9821d5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://2021.designweek.melbourne/events/the-brunswick-ball/ | 2023-09-24T23:02:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.928937 | 304 |
Beauty myth number one: You need to empty your wallet on flashy products and treatments to get results. While, yes, there are plenty that are worth the money, there are also plenty of affordable tricks that may work wonders for your skin.
We asked esthetician Sarah Akram to share a few of her favorites, which we turned into a handy quiz to help you decide which one to try first.
To get your own affordable, personalized recommendation, just answer a few Q’s below, and you’ll be matched with an esthetician-approved skin-care hack that’s easy to add into your routine almost immediately. Plus, each one uses a cotton product, which means each tip is natural and plant-based, too. Ready to get yours?
Keep scrolling to take the quiz, and find your esthetician-approved skin-care hack.
If you got… Protect
So you’ve pretty much perfected your skin-care routine and rarely experience dry skin, but you still want to make sure you’re going above and beyond for summer. It all comes down to protecting your skin, says Akram. “I highly encourage wearing large sunglasses, wide brimmed hats, and long sleeve shirts and pants to limit exposure to harmful free radicals,” she says.
Once you’ve gotten your summer wardrobe under control, go the extra mile by DIYing a reusable cotton sheet mask that’s packed with antioxidants. Simply take a muslin washcloth (a type of 100 percent cotton that’s super thin, so the product ends up on your skin, not soaked into the fabric), cut holes for your eyes, nose, and mouth, soak it in your most reliable serum, and voila! A sustainable face mask you can use again and again.
If you got… Hydrate
Just because it’s humid outside doesn’t mean you should skimp on hydrating your skin when you’re inside. Translation: Keep your humidifier running year-round.
“The practice of using a humidifier at home helps to keep the skin moist,” Akram says. “The humidifier adds moisture to your bedroom, which will aid your skin in retaining sufficient moisture. Another easy hack, but very important: drinking plenty of water to stay hydrated!”
On top of these two easy-to-execute solves, try adding in a moisturizing, cottonseed oil-infused product (FYI, cottonseed oil has a ton of beauty benefits) like Burt’s Bees Sensitive Daily Moisturizing Cream to give your skin a big gulp of hydration.
If you got… Exfoliate
Yes, cleansing and moisturizing are the stalwarts of any skin-care routine, but one key step that’s often overlooked? Exfoliating, which can help make skin extra glowy. And while there are plenty of great exfoliating products out there, you can actually start immediately with something you’re bound to have on hand: a cotton washcloth.
“An easy yet affordable hack to exfoliate skin is using a cotton washcloth to cleanse,” Akram says. “The texture of your washcloth will mildly exfoliate your skin which helps to brighten your skin.” Use it gently when washing your face, and apply a bit more pressure when washing the rest of your bod.
If you got… Calm
If redness is something you’re trying to combat, Akram suggests adding in products containing aloe vera, like innisfree Vitalizing Sleeping Mask with Aloe. “Aloe vera is a hydrating ingredient that when applied will help to soothe your skin and stimulate circulation,” she says.
Apply it with a cotton round to avoid wasting product on your hands (PSA: Akram settled the debate between cotton rounds versus cotton balls here), and just like that, you’ve got an esthetician-approved skin-care hack to add to your routine just in time for summer.
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Start a new career with eTutorsZone while working from home at your convenient. This remote job opportunity in 2022 is open to all qualified candidates
eTutorsZone is one of the top online education companies . The business is dedicated to offering students all around the world high-quality online tutoring at a very reasonable cost. Because of its affordability, convenience of use, and capacity to offer an immediate connection to a tutor just when a student needs help and is prepared to learn, online tutoring has been quickly gaining popularity among students. We are committed to make the learning fun, interesting and interactive for the students. To accommodate the many needs of today’s students, we are proud to offer private, live, one-on-one, Internet-based tutoring on their schedules, from the comfort of their own homes or schools.
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Folks, the news that every Giants fan didn’t want to hear is likely coming. Mike Kafka is likely heading to Arizona to become the Cardinals head coach. There is a lot of smoke out there right now indicating this. A Cardinals beat reporter insinuated it earlier today.
On top of that, the two finalists for the Cardinals job are Giants Offensive Coordinator Mike Kafka and Bengals Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo. The Cardinals just gave Kyler Murray nearly $200M in guaranteed money, they’re not going to hire a defensive head coach.
Mike Kafka is a great play caller. He was also able to make Daniel Jones look like a somewhat average quarterback in 2022. There’s no chance he’s not getting this job in Arizona if it’s between him and Anarumo.
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Goel never played for India as Bishen Singh Bedi was always the preferred option. However, he holds the Ranji Trophy record for most wickets, with 637 scalps. Apart from Haryana, he also represented Punjab and Delhi in domestic cricket. For his significant contribution to India cricket, Goel was honoured with the CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 from BCCI.
The closest Goel came to playing for India was in 1974-75, when Bedi was dropped from the team for the Bangalore Test against the West Indies. However, he was eventually not picked for the game.
Many former and current Indian cricketers paid rich tributes to Goel as the news of his death spread. Take a look:
Bishan Singh Bedi: Rajinder Goel was easily the most ‘contented’ human being I’ve known. I used to envy his sense of ‘contentment’ in my moments of turmoil...RIP ‘Goely’. You bowled your heart out to keep Ranji Trophy alive..!!
Sachin Tendulkar: Saddened to hear about the passing away of Rajinder Goel ji! He was a stalwart of Indian Domestic Cricket picking up more than 600 wickets in the Ranji Trophy. May his soul Rest in Peace and my heartfelt condolences to his near and dear ones.
Sourav Ganguly: To have a career that lasts more than 25 years and still be able to perform consistently speaks about his dedication and commitment towards the game. To be able to pick 750 wickets needs years and years of hard work and I salute his efforts.
Ravi Shastri: Master of his craft. Killer line & length in our terrain. Humility personified. Condolences to the entire family.
Virat Kohli: We’ve lost a legend in Rajinder Goel Ji. Him being the highest wicket-taker in the history of Ranji Trophy, speaks volumes about the career he had.
Sanjay Manjrekar: Have always been staggered by the records of Shivalkar & Rajinder Goel. Here’s Goel’s FC record for you - 157 matches, 750 wickets!
59 five wicket hauls & 18 times 10 wkts in a match. Avg -18.58.
That’s bradmanesque in bowling - 5 wkts every 2.6 matches
V.V.S. Laxman: Deeply saddened by the passing away of Shri Rajinder Goel, the highest wicket-taker in the history of Ranji Trophy. My heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones.
Virender Sehwag: A very simple, humble man. Highest wicket taker in his last first class season. 750 First-class wickets but never played for India. Was India’s loss
Ravichandran Ashwin: The highest wicket taker in Ranji trophy cricket #RajinderGoel passes away, all I heard growing up was “what a fine left arm spinner Rajinder Goel was” I haven’t seen you bowl sir, but you have left a legacy that will last forever. #RipRajindergoel
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Mediterranean populations have some of the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease and the longest life spans of any in the world. Additionally, Italians, Greeks, and other individuals from these areas thrive on a diet that contains up to 40 percent fat.
However, most of this fat is monounsaturated Olive Oil, and the health boons of this polyphenol-rich oil continue to stack up. Let’s take a closer look at 3 better known benefits of Olive Oil.
Olive Oil May Weave Off Alzheimer’s Disease
Epidemiological studies have long displayed that individuals who follow a Mediterranean diet that includes Olive Oil and other healthy foods have a lower risk of developing dementia.
Additionally, a recent study discovered that when laboratory mice which generally developed Alzheimer’s disease ate routine chow enriched with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, they performed better on tests of memory and learning.
Moreover, their brains were drastically less likely to develop beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, which are telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Olive Oil Can Aid In Lowering Blood Pressure
In a study conducted in Italy, a diet rich in extra-virgin olive oillowered blood pressure dramatically in patients with mild to moderate hypertension - and in some cases reduced the need for medication.
The study also included individuals with moderately high blood pressure (less than 165/104 mm Hg) on antihypertensive medication. Participants were assigned to a diet containing either Extra Virgin Olive Oil or sunflower oil. Six months later, they were crossed over to the other diet for another six months.
The Olive Oildiet assisted in reducing blood pressure to a much larger extent than the sunflower oil diet, allowing patients to cut their drug requirements by an average of 48 percent.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil is also a concentrated source of polyphenols, potent antioxidants that protect LDL cholesterol from free radical damage and help keep the inner lining of the arteries healthy and free from plaque buildup, which also has positive effects on blood pressure.
Olive Oil Helps Reduce The Risk Of Stroke
Researchers conducted a study to determine if consuming high amounts of olive oil (as both a cooking oil and a salad dressing) was somehow related to a lower incidence of strokes. After following participants who had no history of stroke for five years, the researchers later discovered that those who used the most Olive Oilhad a 41 percent lower risk of stroke than those who never consumed it.
In a second evaluation, those with the highest blood levels of oleic acid (a type of fatty acid in olive oil) had a 73 percent risk reduction compared to those with the lowest levels.
This makes perfect sense. As noted above, Olive Oil increases levels of nitric oxide, which helps keep blood pressure in check, and high blood pressure is one of the most significant risk factors for stroke. Furthermore, olive polyphenols are potent antioxidants that prevent LDL cholesterol oxidation and stave off atherosclerosis, another stroke risk factor.
Finally, research recommends that Olive Oil also helps prevent platelets in the blood from sticking together, thus reducing the formation of blood clots that could lead to a stroke.
How to Take Advantage Of The Essential Benefits Of Olive Oil
To ensure you’re getting all these health benefits, use only extra-virgin olive oil. To keep it fresh, store it in a cool, dark cupboard or in the refrigerator (bring to room temperature before using as it will thicken and possibly solidify).
Use olive oil as your primary oil for cooking, marinades, and salad dressings. It’s fine to heat it. Monounsaturated fats are relatively stable—just keep the heat low to medium when sautéing.
Generally, a good rule of thumb for salad dressings and marinades is three parts Extra Virgin Olive Oil to one to two parts citrus juice or vinegar of your choice, plus fresh or dried herbs and seasonings.
For example, three tablespoons olive oil, two tablespoon red wine vinegar, 1 clove minced garlic, a dash of dried red peppers, salt, and pepper makes a light and delicious vinaigrette.
Do Olive Oil Benefits Have To Be Brand Specific?
Our Olive Oil experts highly suggest that you make sure what you are purchasing is the real deal. A food fraud study published in the Journal of Food Science found that olive oil was the most adulterated food item available.
For example, mislabeled countries of origin, misstated ingredients on labels, addition of less expensive seed, nut, and vegetable oils, questionable purity — these issues have been around for years.
Real Extra Virgin Olive Oil is simply the oil from mechanically pressed olive seeds — no heat or chemical processes can be used. To help ensure freshness, look on the bottle for a harvested date. In a perfect world, your olive oil should be less than a year old.
If stored in great conditions, olive oil can keep for up to two years.) A brand with the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) or the California Olive Oil Council (COOC) stamp of approval is probably legitimate.
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The Colts are rolling but have yet to face anything like what awaits them in Kansas City. Also, the Eagles must overcome their 4th quarter woes to have a chance in New Orleans.
Last Week: 3 – 1 – 0
Playoffs: 3 – 1 – 0
Saturday, January 12 (4:35PM ET)
(6) Colts at (1) Chiefs
Comparing schedules is a lot of fun and mostly worthless. I love worthless tasks, so let’s get to it… There’s been a lot love coming the Colts way of late. Winning 10 of 11 will get that kind of attention. Who cares if only three of those wins came against playoff teams. The Colts have proven themselves as legitimate contenders in an AFC playoff field that is completely up for grabs. You know whose resume is weaker than expected? The Chiefs.
Kansas City only lost four times this season. If one were to look closer, though, they’d see the Chiefs are only 2-4 against playoff teams. Such is life when you own one of the NFL’s worst defenses. Ten spots stand between Kansas City’s defense and the next closest playoff team (Rams) in points allowed. In total yards, there are seven spots between them and an Eagles defense that found three quarters of its secondary outside of Wawa. The Chiefs also surrender the most 1st downs per game in the NFL, nearly three more than the league’s second worst team. There’s just not a lot of room for error for Patrick Mahomes and that offense, if any at all.
Furthermore, the Chiefs have been dreadful in the postseason under Andy Reid. They’re 1-4 overall and even worse; 0-2 at home. It’s almost impossible to trust this team in the postseason.
There’s hope in Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes was not a part of the aforementioned January struggles. While Kansas City did not surpass 21 points in their last three playoff losses, it’s hard to imagine history repeating itself Saturday. The Chiefs lowest output this season was 26 and they scored 30 or more in 12 games. I know it’s the playoffs and offenses slow down, but Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill are too good, and there’s no Alex Smith to scuttle their efforts this time.
Back to the schedule thing… the Colts haven’t really played an offense anywhere near Kansas City’s caliber. Outside of their loss to the Patriots, nothing on Indianapolis’ schedule even comes close. Of their 16 games, the Colts opponent in eight of them finished ranked between 26th and 31st in points per game. Even worse, 9 of Indianapolis’ opponents finished between 25th and 31st in yards per game. The Colts faced an offense in the top half of the NFL in points or yards only three times this season and only one opponent (New England) ranked among the top ten in either stat. If you look at their loss to the Patriots or Texans (with Will Fuller), you’ll find the Colts surrendered 37 and 38 points, respectively, allowed over 425 yards of offense, and Tom Brady and Deshaun Watson both threw for more than 340 yards. Kansas City’s offense AVERAGED 35 points per game, and Mahomes AVERAGED 320 yards passing.
It’s understandable why the Colts are generating so much upset buzz, but the truth is there’s no proof they can stop Kansas City’s offense any more than Kansas City can stop theirs. Besides, Andy Reid is due. CHIEFS If I were Charles Barkley; Chiefs -5
Saturday, January 12 (8:15PM ET)
(4) Cowboys at (2) Rams
My second favorite outcome from Wildcard Weekend was Cowboys fans thanking the Eagles for saving them from the Saints and Rams fans thanking the Eagles for saving them from the Bears. Both fan bases are overconfident about their chances this weekend and it saddens me both can’t be wrong.
The Cowboys biggest issue is their coach is a dope and their quarterback is as erratic as they come. On the other hand, Dak Prescott has proven himself a gamer, especially in his brief postseason career. While he missed a handful of throws against Seattle, he also made several big plays and redeemed himself for a bad 4th quarter interception with a game-breaking 17 yard run on 3rd and 16. Remember, Prescott also went toe-to-toe with Aaron Rodgers two years ago before Rodgers miraculously hit Jared Cook to set up the winning field goal. Prescott isn’t great, he may not even be good, but he can elevate in small batches.
If the Cowboys lose, it’ll boil down to Jason Garrett relying too heavily on Prescott while ignoring Ezekiel Elliott and the run game. Even in last week’s victory over Seattle I thought Garrett didn’t run the ball enough. Elliott is probably the NFL’s best runner and Garrett refused to run on 2nd down. It often forced Dallas into 3rd and longs. In my opinion, if Seattle’s coaching staff didn’t neuter Russell Wilson and the offense, the Cowboys would have found themselves in trouble. Dallas was 4/11 on 3rd down and struggled to find any offensive rhythm until late in the 3rd quarter.
On the flip side, the Rams defense hasn’t been anywhere near as good as advertised back in September. While they’ve held opponents to fewer than 27 points in half their games this season, those eight teams aren’t exactly… explosive. Only two of those eight ranked among the league’s top 16 offenses, though neither were among the top 12. No, the Rams aren’t perfect, and they’re not the offensive juggernaut we thought they were in October either, but their offense is significantly more potent than Seattle’s.
On that note, here’s an unpopular take: Dallas’ defense is a bit overrated. You can throw on them. They’re middle of the pack in sacks and sack percentage. They rank 23rd in 3rd down conversion percentage and finished 27th in interceptions. Conversely, the Rams offense ranks among the top ten in nearly every passing category, including 3rd down conversions, passing touchdowns, yards, and perhaps most importantly, pass protection. Jared Goff has been hit or miss down the stretch, but like most quarterbacks, when given time, he’s able to move the ball and score points.
Essentially, Dallas has to control the ball to win. Though the Cowboys certainly have all the tools to accomplish that task, trusting Garrett to see it through is a bridge too far for me. He’s the biggest weakness to what is otherwise a really solid team. RAMS If I were Charles Barkley; Rams -7
Sunday, January 13 (1:05PM ET)
(5) Chargers at (2) Patriots
It’s shocking to say, but the Patriots are the worst of the remaining eight playoff teams. I know it’s foolish to doubt Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. I know they’re the most successful postseason duo in NFL history. I also know that team stinks. The offense has been a mess since the beginning of November and it’s been pretty clear Brady’s options at receiver are his worst since the Reche Caldwell days. Of course, Rob Gronkowski playing at 65% of what he once was certainly doesn’t help. If there’s a path to New England advancing against a superior opponent it starts with Belichick having two weeks to prepare his defense. It’s not like New England hasn’t elevated its play at times this season. They’ve proven themselves capable of beating good teams. New England finished 4-0 against playoff teams and 7-5 against everyone else. However, all of those four victories came before Halloween.
This is the Chargers game to lose, and losing gets a lot easier if Melvin Gordon is limited by injury. With a healthy Gordon, the Chargers can attack New England’s greatest weakness all afternoon. Their linebackers are slow and terrible in pass coverage. Gordon was one of the league’s premier backs out of the backfield before his injury late in the season. He didn’t look explosive last week against Baltimore. Whether that was a product of his injury or Baltimore’s great defense remains to be seen, but I’d lean toward the injury. If Gordon can’t be the workhouse, the Chargers hopes will fall on Philip Rivers’ shoulders.
I thought Rivers was great last week in that he didn’t try to do too much against a great defense. He never got greedy. While he’ll have more opportunities for big plays this week, he must maintain the same outlook because New England’s secondary is really good and the obvious strength of that defense. Turnovers are Los Angeles’ recipe for disaster. The Charger defense is built to run with offenses like New England’s. Given the talent discrepancy, Rivers getting loose with the ball is the Patriot’s best option. I feel so confident in the Chargers winning but feel so scared to pick against Brady and Belichick. CHARGERS If I were Charles Barkley; Chargers +4
Sunday, January 13 (4:40PM ET)
(6) Eagles at (1) Saints
Nothing would shock me more than the Eagles losing by 41 points again. It took most of the season, but the Eagles have finally found some stability on the back end with Avonte Maddox and Cre’von LeBlanc. Unfortunately, stability doesn’t equate to dominance. The Eagles are still vulnerable in the secondary. As they’ve done all season, they missed on several turnover opportunities last week and let their aggressiveness work to the opponent’s advantage. Maddox looked like Jalen Mills in the 2nd half against Chicago, biting on every double move to disastrous results. It’s a miracle Malcolm Jenkins hasn’t lost his mind this year.
Given the condition of the secondary, what lead would feel safe Sunday in New Orleans? 17? No, already blew that one twice. 20? Probably not against Drew Brees and that offense. 24? Maybe. If you think I’m crazy, take a look at the offensive numbers against the Eagles over their last four 4th quarters (Washington game excluded because, you know, Josh Johnson doesn’t count).
Dallas (including OT): 247 yards, 20 points
Los Angeles (Rams): 169 yards, 10 points
Houston: 188 yards, 14 points
Chicago: 173 yards, 9 points
For you non-math people out there, if the Eagles played the first three quarters like they do the 4th, they’d surrender 777 yards and 53 points per game. Not great.
So what happens in fourth quarters that cause the defense to implode? I don’t know for sure, but I have two guesses. 1. The defensive line is toast at that point. It’s no secret this defense goes as far as the front line takes them. If they’re wreaking havoc and getting pressure, everything else falls into place. Unfortunately, the loss of Derek Barnett and the disastrous season for Tim Jernigan have hurt the depth of the unit. There’s just not enough juice left come crunch time. 2. Malcolm Jenkins is the only starter on the back end. He’s the only guy back there that was back there during last season’s playoff run. (Corey Graham was on the team but not on the field nearly this much). In chaotic moments, players draw on experience and trust. This unit has been together for less than two months. It’s fair to say that (and the results demonstrate as much) no one really knows what to do or what the other guys are going to do. Experience as a unit matters more in the secondary than any other unit with perhaps the offensive line as the only exception.
Can the Eagles win? Sure. Doug Pederson must take the same approach he took into the Super Bowl. He has to play loose and create advantages. Punting shouldn’t be an option once near midfield assuming reasonable down and distance. The offense must add packages the Saints aren’t expecting. More Dallas Goedert comes to mind. Maybe Mike Wallace plays and gives the Eagles the deep threat they’ve painfully missed all season long. Penalties must be kept to a minimum, and the team, especially the defense, must capitalize on opportunities for big plays.
Nick Foles and the offense should be able to move the ball and score points, but without an effective running game and a workhorse back, they won’t be able to control the game. They’ll require a heroic effort from the defense. The defense is capable of such an effort for most of the game, but history doesn’t lie, and their history in the 4th quarter has been a slaughter. SAINTS If I were Charles Barkley; Eagles +9
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Which Wyoming hoopster wore it best? No. 42
LARAMIE -- Do you ever see a number on a Wyoming basketball jersey and think of all the great players to wear it?
Yeah, me too.
In this summer series, I’ll give you my take on which Pokes’ hoopster was the best ever to don each number. The criteria are simple: How did he perform at UW? What kind of impact did he have on the program?
No. 42 - THEO RATLIFF
Forward, 1992-95, Demopolis, Alabama
Résumé in Laramie
* 111 games played at UW
* 78 games started
* 10.3 points per game
* One of 38 UW players to score 1,000-plus points
* 425 shots blocked (school record)
* 3.8 blocks per game (second in UW history)
* One of three players in UW history with a triple-double
* .547 field-goal percentage (seventh in UW history)
* Two-time First-Team All-WAC selection (1993-94, 1994-95)
* Two-time WAC Player of the Week
* First round selection in the 1995 NBA Draft
* UW Athletics Hall of Fame inductee in 2005
Shelden Williams, Hasheem Thabeet and Shaquille O'Neal.
What do those three college basketball legends all have in common? They are staring up at Theo Ratliff in the NCAA's all-time shots blocked category.
The Alabama product swatted 425 shots during his four-year career in Laramie. That's the best mark in school and Western Athletic Conference history. He currently sits in 14th place in the record books despite not playing college basketball in nearly three decades.
Justin Williams, who played just two seasons at UW, finished with 244 blocks. Al Herndon is in a distant third with 184. Williams owns the school's single-season record with 163, but you can find Ratliff's name in the next three slots.
Twice the 6-foot-10 forward rejected 11 shots in a game. Those record-breaking days came against Mississippi State and rival BYU in 1994. On four occasions, Ratliff blocked nine shots in a game.
Once, he finished with 10. That was a special night.
Ratliff netted 20 points, pulled down a dozen rebounds and reached double digits in blocked shots in a 64-56 victory over San Diego State in the 1995 WAC opener in Laramie. That night, the senior became the first player in UW history to land a triple-double. Only Williams and Hunter Maldonado have accomplished that in a Cowboys uniform.
"It was really good to see Ratliff play like he did," UW head coach Joby Wright told the Associated Press after the game. "He was trying to send a message that he is ready to play. I'm expecting him to have a monster year."
Ratliff did. The Cowboys, not so much.
Wyoming finished the season 13-15 overall with a mark of 9-9 in league play. Ratliff blocked a career-high 144 shots and averaged 14.4 points per game en route to being named a First Team All-WAC selection for the second consecutive season.
The Detroit Pistons selected Ratliff 18th overall in the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft. During his 16-year career, Ratliff played for Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Portland, Boston and Minnesota before returning to the Motor City and the City of Brotherly Love. He wrapped up his career with stops in San Antonio, Charlotte and Los Angeles.
Ratliff was named an NBA All-Star in 2001, the first of three times he was leading shot blocker in the league. Twice he was named to the NBA All-Defensive Team.
Ratliff was inducted into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. The Pokes locker room inside the Arena-Auditorium is named after him.
Who else wore No. 42
Joe Jolly (50's), Ronald Bostick (60's), Jim Dalton (60's), Don Hatten (60's), Jim Moeller (60's), George Peck (60's), Gary Von Krosigk (60's), Jim Gabel (60's), Sam Ballard (70's), Henry Bailey (70's), Delbert McDonald (70's), Ken Vecchio (70's), Bruce Roehrkasse (70's), Tim Daniel (80's), Quinn Wirth (80's), Sly Johnson (90's), Antone Lostetter (90's),
You may have noticed we didn't have a selection for No. 40 and 41. These are the players who wore those jersey numbers in Laramie:
No. 40: John Korthonen (50's), Ken Rochlitz (60's), Ron Rochlitz (60's), Paul Rayko (60's), Cliff Nelson (60's), Terry Childers (60's), Mike Bannister (60's), Bob Romanski (70's), Mike Larkin (70's), Ken Morgan Clark (70's), John Lenander (70's), David Brown (70's), Dwight McClendon (70's), Tim Hunt (80's), Mike Maloney (80's), Jeff Allen (90's), Justin French (90's), Daaron Brown (00's), KC Henry (10's), Ben Bowen (20's)
No. 41: John Korthonen (50's), Ken Rochlitz (60's), Ron Rochlitz (60's), Paul Rayko (60's), Cliff Nelson (60's), Terry Childers (60's), Mike Bannister (60's), Bob Romanski (70's), Jon Woolley (90's)
Look who wore the No. 35 best right HERE.
Check out our "Who Wore it Best" football series right HERE.
* All available rosters provided by the University of Wyoming Athletics Department. If we missed a player who wore this number, please email firstname.lastname@example.org
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College’s First Day of Classes in September 1969 lauded on Tuesday, Sept. 17
HUDSON, N.Y. –On September 15, 1969, Columbia-Greene Community College opened its doors for the first time. Nearly 350 full- and part-time students took their seats, while 18 faculty members headed to the front of their classrooms.
Fifty years later, some of these inaugural students, faculty, and staff will return to C-GCC to share their memories of the past, impressions of the present, and hopes for the future.
A celebratory event will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 12:30 p.m. in the Professional Academic Center on campus, featuring an informal panel discussion with professors emeriti, alumni, retired staff-members, and others.
The stomping grounds are no longer the same; C-GCC’s first home was in Athens, N.Y., in a former elementary school. The college library was down the street in a converted grocery store, and “Doc Drum” taught physics via the game of pool in a neighborhood bar.
C-GCC moved to its 144-acre current home in Hudson in 1974, where it continues to grow. Today, more than 1,500 students are taught by a full-time faculty of 46. Its 82,000-volume library would challenge the shelves of even the largest supermarket, and 39 academic programs are now offered.
In addition to conversations with former students, faculty, and staff, Tuesday’s event will also include a photo exhibit titled Beginnings–An exhibit of photos from the Athens Era of Columbia-Greene Community College, featuring photos by Gloria Wexler and several vintage photos from past yearbooks, curated by C-GCC Professor of History Ted Hilscher.
Light refreshments will be served, and the public is encouraged to attend.
For more information, call (518) 828-4181, or visit SUNYcgcc.edu.
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Versatile Italian based fast rising artist, Pure Talent comes through with a new single video titled “My Blessings” along side with Italian based Nigeria artist Lazyboi
According to Pure Talent, he said My Blessings is an inspiration song for him. He is trying to place hiphop in another dimension.
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Stingrays look like giant swimming pancakes. Most are round or kite-shaped and have a long whip-like tail. There are no bones in their body. Instead, their form is made from cartilage, like human ears. Their skin looks like shark skin and is grey, tan, or brown.
Most stingrays are about 10 to 20 inches in diameter but some can get quite a bit bigger. Do stingrays have stingers on their tails?
Do all rays have stingers on their tail? They sound like docile animals so are stingrays dangerous?
Let’s find out!
Do stingrays have a stinger?
Stingrays have a stinger on their tails. It is a sharp barb that stingrays use in defense. They do not use their stinger to hunt prey, it is only used in defense. Their tails are whip-like and they use the power from their tail to inject the stinger into the predator. Not only does it provide a painful sting, but it also releases toxic venom.
Are stingrays dangerous?
Yes! Stingrays are dangerous because they can sting you. The stingers on their tails are venomous and harmful to humans. Yet, it’s also important to note that while stringrays can be harmful, there are generally only one or two fatal attacks reported each year. That is to say, death from a stingray is extremely uncommon.
What Happens if You Get Stung by a Stingray?
If you get stung on the ankle for example it would feel very painful at the sting site, similar to a bee sting. The barb of the stingray would go into your skin and tissue and remain there, releasing venom. According to WebMD you should:
- Bathe Wound in Seawater and Remove Pieces.
- Stop Bleeding.
- Soak Wound in Hot Water For Pain Relief.
- Scrub Wound.
- Go to a Hospital Emergency Room.
- Follow Up.
Lifeguards at beaches where there may be stingray are trained in first aid for stingray stings. They will have large buckets that you can soak your foot in to help ease the pain. You may develop symptoms from the venom, depending on the species that stung you, but most people just have localized pain.
A person with sensitivity to the venom may have symptoms of nausea, dizziness, and fever. Seek medical attention if any symptoms arise.
What Kinds of Stingrays are Dangerous?
All stingrays have a stinger and are dangerous. Not all rays have a stinger, in fact that is what makes rays different than stingrays.
Rays, like the giant manta ray, have a similar body shape and even a long whip-like tail, but their tails do not have any stingers (or barbs).
Some of the most common stingrays are the following:
- Atlantic stingrays: found from Chesapeake bay down to the tip of Florida, 10-12 inches wide, common in estuaries, brackish and freshwater, have a long snout
- Cownose rays: common in the Chesapeake bay along the Atlantic coast to Florida, large stingray up to 3.5 feet wide, visits the Bay in the summer for mating, mildly venomous but still dangerous
- Southern stingray: common in the Gulf of Mexico, along the coast from Tampa down to Marco Islands from May-October, found close to shore in the sand
- Round stingrays: found at beaches along the Pacific coast including San Diego, also found close to shore burrowing in the sand
- Sixgill stingray: longer than it is wide, has one to two barbs, found in Japan Taiwan, and Hawaii
Are stingrays only found in the ocean?
Stingrays can be found along the shore of the ocean or way out in the deep depths. They can be found in saltwater and freshwater as well as brackish areas where the freahwater rivers run into the ocean. Freshwater stingrays can be found in the Amazon River.
Are Freshwater stingrays dangerous?
Yes! According to the Smithsonian National Zoo, “Although docile creatures, they inflict more human injuries yearly than any other animal in Amazonian rivers.” Freshwater stingrays can get to be 18 inches wide and have a tail that is a foot long. Giant freshwater stingrays are even bigger.
How big is the largest stingray?
The giant freshwater stingray can get to be 13+ feet in length! An average bedroom is only 10 ft x 10 ft, so it is bigger than that! They can be found in the rivers of Australia, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The largest stingray ever caught was by Jeff Corwin on the Mae Klong River in Thailand. It is the largest freshwater fish caught by a rod and line. This stingray was 14ft x 8ft! Incredible! They created a special pen to hold it while they examined it and got accurate measurements. Can you believe that a stingray could weigh 800 lbs? This one did. Your average Grizzly bear weighs 800lbs, that is a big fish!
How big is the largest stinger?
One stingray that was caught in Cambodia’s Mekong River was 13 feet across and had a stinger that was 38 cm (15 inches). Think about your average 12-inch ruler and tack on a couple of inches and that is a long stinger! Most stingers (or barbs) are smaller and relative to the size of the stingray. In general, the size of the stinger is 25% of the size of the stingray, so an average 10-inch stingray would have a stinger that is 2.5 inches long. Females have longer stingers than males.
Do stingrays attack people?
No, stingrays do not attack people. They are solitary and docile and prefer to be left alone. The most common time people get stung is when they accidentally step on one. Some stingrays, like the southern stingray and round stingray, burrow under the sand close to the shoreline.
So when people wade into the ocean for a swim they accidentally step on one or startle one and it whips its tail in defense.
What is the “Stingray Shuffle”?
The “Stingray Shuffle” is a way to enter the water at the beach to let stingrays know you are near. By slowly shuffling your feet as you walk into the water the stingrays are given time to scuttle away.
If stingrays don’t attack people how did the Crocodile Hunter die from a stingray?
The TV host, Steve Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter), died while filming for a show called Ocean’s Deadliest. They were out in Australia’s Queensland’s Batt Reef and came across an eight-foot-wide stingray. They knew that stingrays typically swim away from humans so they thought it would be safe enough to get some footage with Steve in the water.
Typically stingrays do swim away but this time it was a freak accident that the stingray whipped its tail in Steve’s direction and the long sharp barb punctured his heart. Although they were able to get him back into the boat, he died by the time they got him to the medics.
How common are stingray stings?
Being stung by a stingray is not that uncommon. With millions of visitors to beaches every year beach-goers, swimmers and divers are at risk of getting stung. Luckily, most stings are just mild cases. It is extremely rare that a stingray sting is fatal, so although stingrays are dangerous it is not a reason to avoid the beach.
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INDIANAPOLIS– Eli Lilly and Company announces new initiatives to help COVID-19 patients in India as part of its commitment to bring the full force of its scientific and medical expertise to attack the coronavirus pandemic around the world. Lilly is offering donations of baricitinib to the Indian government through Direct Relief while simultaneously working with local Indian pharmaceutical companies to execute royalty-free voluntary licensing agreements to accelerate the manufacturing and distribution of the medicine in India during the pandemic. An initial donation of 400,000 baricitinib tablets is being made immediately available to the Indian government for eligible hospitalized COVID-19 patients in India and Lilly will work urgently to increase the quantity of donated product multifold over the coming weeks.
On Monday, Lilly received emergency use authorization by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, a division of Ministry of Health, for its usage in eligible hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Baricitinib is an oral medication currently registered in India for the treatment of moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis in adult patients who have responded inadequately to, or who are intolerant to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.
“With the COVID-19 crisis devastating India, hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of cases and patients need access to potentially life-saving treatments such as baricitinib,” said David A. Ricks, Lilly chairman and CEO. “We hope that our donations as well as collaborations with other organizations speed access to baricitinib and provide treatment options for these patients.”
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Integrating ABA into the Classroom: Strategies for Supporting Students with Autism
By: Blain Hockridge
Managing classroom behavior can be one of the most challenging tasks faced by both new and experienced teachers. It is also a task that teachers may have been inadequately prepared for in their prior training and education. In fact, it’s been found recently that “just 14 percent of traditional teacher-preparation programs require candidates to demonstrate their ability in five research-based classroom management strategies.”
While managing classroom behavior may be difficult enough for teachers in traditional classroom settings with typically functioning students, it can be even more difficult for teachers in classrooms that include students on the autism spectrum. Attempting to provide these students the individual support they need, while also managing classroom behavior as a whole, can be a monumental challenge. Fortunately, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) has provided teachers with strategies for better supporting their students on the autism spectrum for over 50 years. Often in consultation with Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), Speech Pathologists (SLPs), and school psychologists as part of an Individualized Education Program (IEP), teachers can learn and implement empirically validated techniques to create a more inclusive, engaging environment for their students with autism. Here are some ABA techniques teachers can use to better support their students on the autism spectrum.
Token economies are a behavior management system that utilizes tokens or symbols (e.g., stickers, points) as a form of positive reinforcement. These tokens are given to individuals as rewards for desired behaviors, and they can later be exchanged for preferred items, privileges, or activities to encourage and reinforce appropriate conduct. Tokens or stickers should be paired heavily with verbal praise and encouragement to promote a positive educational environment in which the student enjoys participating.
Visual schedules are visual representations of a student’s planned activities during the day. These schedules can help autistic students navigate the multiple transitions taking place throughout the school day that can often be difficult for them. The visual schedule will often be manipulable so that changes to the schedule from day to day can be made quickly, allowing the student time to see the changes and adjust to them.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
When a student with autism has more severe or dangerous behaviors, such as aggression or self-injury, it may be a good idea to conduct a functional behavior assessment (FBA) of the student’s behaviors. FBAs include interviews, rating scales, and direct observations to determine why a student may be engaging in a particular behavior (i.e., the function).
Functional Analysis (FA) If the function is difficult to determine from the FBA alone, then a Functional Analysis (FA) can also be conducted to reach a more precise conclusion. An FA is a procedure in which specific conditions are set up to clarify which of the four main functions of behavior (Access to tangibles, Attention, Escape, or Automatic) motivates a student to engage in the behavior. Once the function of a student’s behavior has been determined, the procedures that should be implemented to better support the student become much more apparent. For instance, if the function of a student’s behavior is determined to be attention from the teacher, then the teacher can develop ways to provide more attention for appropriate behaviors from the student while minimizing the attention the student receives from the problem behavior.
Good Behavior Game
The good behavior game is a group-based behavior intervention that promotes positive behavior and reduces disruptive actions amongst the entire classroom. In this game, students work together to earn points or rewards by following rules and displaying appropriate behaviors, fostering a cooperative and supportive learning environment.
Teaching and supporting a group of students with a variety of skill levels and from a variety of backgrounds makes teachers the superheroes we know them to be. While integrating students with autism into these classrooms can be challenging, with the help of ABA and qualified ABA practitioners, teachers can create a positive, productive learning environment to best do the work they were born to do. | <urn:uuid:d04911af-0086-429b-bb65-c629c35d85d0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://abaspeech.org/2023/09/integrating-aba-into-the-classroom-strategies-for-supporting-students-with-autism/ | 2023-09-25T00:37:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.946732 | 832 |
Computer to marry Houston couple
HOUSTON After a Houston couple couldn't get a friend to serve as the minister at their wedding, they decided to create their own. When Miguel Hanson and his fiancee, Diana Wesley, get married on Saturday, a computer will conduct the ceremony. Well, technically, a computer program Hanson wrote will serve as the minister. During the wedding, to be held in the Houston home of Hanson's parents, the couple will stand before a 30-inch monitor in the backyard. In a robotic voice, the computer will greet the guests, say how the couple met and go through the ceremony. The ceremony won't be legally binding. The couple will still have to get a justice of the peace to sign their paperwork.
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A McAllen municipal judge upgraded the charge Wednesday to a second-degree felony against 27-year-old Adrian Parada Jr. The suspect had faced a third-degree felony charge of intoxication assault before the victim, Abraham Sevilla of La Joya, died Tuesday.
The McAllen Monitor reported Thursday that a federal internal affairs unit is investigating the incident.
Parada rear-ended Sevilla at an intersection Sunday morning. The collision pushed 21-year-old Sevilla's car into a McAllen police unit. The officer sustained minor injuries.
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Your home is one of the most important spaces you will occupy. It should be a relaxing, fun place where you feel like you can truly be yourself. A large part of this comfort comes from the way your home is decorated inside. This starts with the color scheme in each room.
While this is often ignored, the base color of the paint on the walls is merely a foundation. The things you add can enhance and blend with that, and depending on how they are arranged can change the whole look and feel of a room.
Here are 7 tips for picking the right color in each room.
What are You Doing in There?
What you do in each room of your home largely determines the colors you should use. Soft colors for sleeping are best in the bedrooms, and bolder colors can serve you well in the living room or offices where you want to be more alert.
On the other hand, in the kitchen, one of the keys is light and brightness, so white or very reflective walls combined with features like a kitchen bay window make the space easier to work in, and improve your mood while you are there.
The Psychology of Color
Colors matter, and the psychology of color is the study of what effect certain colors have on our brain. Soft colors, like soft blues and yellows are more relaxing, while bolder colors inspire action, and colors like bright red, orange, and yellow can even induce anxiety in some people.
It is important to keep this in mind as you are decorating any room, including with the décor you are putting on the walls. Loud colors that give off sharp contrast can be distracting or even detrimental to the look of a room. Colors that are too soft in a living area or recreational room can be too subtle, making the room dull.
Speaking of the décor you are putting on the walls, the key to this is that the pieces you choose should blend with the color of the walls, the furniture, and the other accessories in the room like plants and lamps.
A careful selection of art, clocks, and even mirrors can make a room seem brighter, bigger, and friendlier. If you struggle to know art and choose it, consult with someone who does, like an interior designer or a real estate agent familiar with staging.
Take it From the Top
When looking at the colors in a room, don’t forget to look up. This includes not only the color of the ceiling, but the light fixtures and ceiling fans that are often there. The color of the ceiling should be a fairly calm and neutral one in most cases, white being the most common.
However, there are times when you can take a risk, add something bolder, and still have the room work. This just means you need to be careful that the rest of the room does not clash and is not too bold.
All that to be said, looking up is always a good way to make sure the room really comes together the right way.
Mix it Up
What about an accent wall? Of course, there is nothing like mixing it up a little, and just like a bold ceiling can serve as an accent, so can an accent wall in a room. The key is to be careful. Pay attention to the things we have mentioned above: what you will be doing in the room, the psychology of color, and the decorations you use.
Still, sometimes the most unusual decision, the one that mixes it up, is the one that works the best. Feel free to explore and play with the areas and colors in your home.
The flooring also matters a great deal when you are selecting the colors for each room. Dark hardwood floors or dark tile will influence the color you can put on the walls without making the room even darker.
If you are redecorating, the floors can be a great opportunity. Adding rugs strategically will make other colors pop and can complement walls and furniture as well. The key is that you simply can’t forget the floors when you are choosing the right color for a room, or your choice may turn out to be a poor one.
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Theraclear Acne Therapy
TheraClear’s Gentle Deep Extraction Technology™ cleanses the pore and concentrated light destroys acne-causing bacteria while a unique skin cooling system keeps the skin comfortable.
What is Theraclear Acne Therapy and how does it work?
A breakthrough in acne therapy! The TheraClear™Acne System is a state-of-the-art, FDA-approved, acne treatment device that combines intense pulsed light (IPL) and vacuum to address multiple causes of acne in a single treatment. The most severe cases of acne can begin to see results in as little as one treatment!
Each treatment is fast with little to no pain. Most patients will require 4 to 6 treatments, scheduled 1 to 2 weeks apart. TheraClear™ Acne System can be used as a stand-alone therapy or in conjunction with other acne treatments. See yourself in healthier, brighter skin!
TheraClear’s Gentle Deep Extraction Technology™ cleanses the pore and concentrated light destroys acne-causing bacteria while a unique skin cooling system keeps the skin comfortable. As result, you can see improvements in:
- Sebum, dead skin cells, bacteria are extracted from deep within the pore
- Blocked pathways are cleared so oral and topical medications work better
- Immediate results within 24-48 hours post-treatment
- Dramatic improvement in skin texture with a reduction in pore size
One Single Treatment. Treats Multiple Causes Of Acne.
Acleara handpiece makes full contact with the treatment area. Pneumatics deep cleans pores by extracting the build-up of sebaceous material. Along with targeting heating of the dermis, the light activates porphyrins to destroy P. acnes and reduces sebum production. Obstruction in the pilosebaceous apparatus is removed and skin normalizes.
Vacuum: Deep cleanses the pore by extracting the buildup of sebaceous material.
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Immediate calming of lesions within 24 – 48 hours; improvement of redness and brown discoloration associated with lesions. Perfectly suitable for patients who want or need a FASTER & IMMEDIATE response and those who have antibiotics concerns. Women with hormonally induced acne who choose to avoid the systemic treatments can also take super benefits from this.
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Sarah Palin Talks About Her ‘Plan’ but Does Not Announce in Iowa
ABC News’ Sheila Marikar reports:
Sarah Palin’s Iowa speech sounded a lot like a stump speech.
She made frequent references to “my plan” — “My plan is a bona-fide pro-working man’s plan and it deals in reality … My plan is about empowerment, empowerment of our states, empowerment of our entrepreneurs … empowerment of you, our hard-working individuals”
Her mention of the “challenge of who and what will replace” Obama brought the crowd to their feet.
She also threw in a few “Palinisms”:
About polls, she said, “they’re for strippers and cross country skiers.”
She dubbed the president’s handling of the economy as “Obama’s bullet train to bankruptcy.”
It seemed like she was about to announce something.
But she did not.
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Behind the Speeds: AT&T Explores G.fast for MDUs
Now that AT&T has committed itself to wiring more than 12 million US homes for 1Gbit/s service over the next few years, company executives are targeting network technology options to bring higher broadband speeds to other customers.
One option that's being strongly considered by AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) officials is the new G.fast standard that telcos and vendors around the world are now starting to explore for delivering higher broadband speeds without the need for pricey new fiber networks. G.fast is a technology that can significantly boost the broadband speeds that can be delivered over existing copper lines, albeit over short distances (within 100 meters or 300 feet).
In an interview with Light Reading, Bill Smith, President of AT&T Technology Operations, said his engineering team is now testing G.fast in the labs to see if it makes the grade. While no field tests have been conducted yet, he's optimistic that the new technology will provide AT&T with a complementary way of bringing speeds as high as 300 Mbit/s to its broadband subscribers without having to lay fresh fiber. Right now, AT&T is relying on GPON technology over its all-fiber GigaPower network to deliver speeds as high as 1 Gbit/s to broadband customers.
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Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries now available on AT&T U-verse TV
With Hallmark’s return, you can watch all the great shows and movies you’ve told us you’ve missed – and more. You’ll get 40 world premiere movies, three original prime-time scripted series and three annual pet-related specials on Hallmark Channel. And Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel is adding 17 original movies, and new episodes of Murder She Baked, Gourmet Detective, Aurora Teagarden and Garage Sale Mystery.
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Megan Bunnell, MD
OBGYN Near Boston, MA
Dr. Megan Bunnell is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in 2019. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospital combined program. Prior to medical school she completed a masters in genetic counseling at Northwestern University and has a particular interest in the genetics of fetal and maternal health. Dr. Bunnell was born and raised in Jamaica Plain, where she now lives with her husband, two sons and dog. | <urn:uuid:5fffb4ec-b39f-4928-893f-cbd2fdfda8d0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://aboutwomenbywomen.net/about-us/our-physicians/megan-bunnell-md/ | 2023-09-24T22:59:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.971816 | 124 |
Asian Business School (a part of Asian Education Group) – ranked as one of the best B-schools in Delhi NCR – recently held its annual inter-college cultural fest by the name of AEG ‘KESSHET 2019-Season 6’ on Thursday, 17th January 2019 at its campus in Noida with full fanfare and gusto, all in the filmy style. One of the interesting event activity at this gala celebration was the “Admania” competition.
The competition saw young marketing buffs and a creative freaks, trying to prove a point about their advertising acumen in the areas of branding and marketing of products & services.
What makes Brands? How do they survive in this world of cut-throat competition? What separates the lions from the sheep? ‘Do you have it in you?’ Why So Serious, do you ask? In Magic Ads, you make ads for crazy products to have your target audience in splits.
There were to be a maximum of six teams in the final round and each team was to comprise of 3 or 4 members. The teams were required to make Advertisements of the products/service of their choice. Each team was given 2 minutes each to present the Advt.
The Advt. was required to be creative & original, and a copy of it needed to be submitted one day before the scheduled contest. A contestant was expected to take care that no vulgarity & obscenity is used in the Advt.
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DJ Jason: Since you are a new artist, I should ask when Cemetery Siren was conceived and if there are any other band members. Tell us how you started, please.
Nyx: Cemetery Siren began in the summer of 2016. At the time, I was toying with an answer song to The Cure‘s “A Forest.” I liked the idea of something written from the perspective of the voice luring Robert into the trees, and ended up with a now lost song called Cemetery Siren. The name ended up sticking as the name of my project instead. I’ve tried a few times to bring other musicians into it, but I haven’t had much luck. Currently, Cemetery Siren is entirely mine, but I would love to put together a full band for live shows in the future.
Listening to your voice and instruments, I am reminded of Gitane Demone and The Shroud. Who are your main musical influences?
There are really so many, it’s been hard to narrow it down. If I had to pick just a few it would probably be London After Midnight, Claire Voyant, Switchblade Symphony, Cinema Strange, and Nox Arcana. I’ve always had a fascination with dark, mellow, almost ethereal music. I love slower, somber music that gives you a chance to breathe when you’re dancing in a club, and transports you to another world for a few minutes. That’s the kind of music I want to create.
You also are a DJ. Would you like to tell us about what you do and what the Goth scene is like where you spin?
Nowadays, I just do guest spots here and there, usually for bigger events like Dark Arts or Goth Prom, but when I started out I was running a weekly goth night called Sacrilege. I like to play a decent mix of goth and goth-adjacent music instead of just the same old hits on repeat, so I did end up playing a lot of current musicians’ work as well as lesser-known older tunes mixed in with the popular goth bands from the 80s. Once I can find the time, I intend to start up a monthly night on the side of my day job, because I do miss it. As for our goth scene here… A lot of the bigger bands do come through on their tours, or stop in cities which aren’t too terribly far away. I’ve been lucky to see a handful of shows locally, including but not limited to Peter Murphy with David J., Redemption, Gary Numan, IAMX, Riverhead, The Moving Units, Cartilage Casanova, The Cure, All Gone Dead and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. We do have one small goth club called Area 51, and a handful of annual events that have all the goths lined up around the block and packing both dancefloors. Every Thursday is an industrial night called Tanz Machina, Fridays and Saturdays are typically 80s with a handful of goth hits, and the club does mix it up sometimes with various themed nights sprinkled throughout with guest djs and different genres – Coming up later this month SLC’s DJ Nothing will actually be hosting the first ever Wax Trax night, which should be exciting!
Also, have you found the experience of spinning music to have influenced your own song writing in any way?
I definitely think DJing brought to my attention the lack of bands out there with quite the sound and feel that really grabs me. I’ve always preferred to dance to the slow songs myself, and had a hard time finding a variety of bands I could play that really fit exactly the mood I wanted on the more melancholy nights and so I do want to help fill that gap – Maybe there will be someone else like me looking for that, and finding my work will resonate with them.
Has becoming a musician been an outgrowth of your work in the clubs?
Not at all. I’ve been a musician for as long as anyone can remember. As a child, I was glued to my grandmother’s piano every time my dad brought us over to visit. I received a 3/4 size classical guitar for my birthday one year, and quickly got to work learning chords. I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember, the first performance I recall being an open mic at a local bluegrass festival when I was around 8, and my voice later earned me the lead role in my school’s musical production of Peter Pan in 6th grade. By junior high, I’d developed an interest in classical violin, and gradually moved from the last seat second violin to fourth seat first violin. I made an effort to learn how to play any instrument I could get my hands on, dabbling in everything from lap dulcimer to silver flute. The first short song I ever finished and actually notated would have been around 14 years ago, and was a simple folky thing for piano and vocals. From there, I toyed with a couple of band ideas in my teens, experimented with composing classical pieces and did finish one lullaby that I intend to re-record, and finally landed on Cemetery Siren.
So, you wrote a song called Cold that is, in your own words, “about saying one last goodbye to your lover as you die in nuclear winter”… where do the ideas for your lyrical content come from? Was that song also a sort of metaphor for an emotional state?
Cold was partially inspired by Lilly E. Gray‘s “The Last Time“, for which I was recording guest vocals – His being about losing me in the apocalypse. I had already written around half of the instrumentation, but vocals just weren’t coming to me yet and nothing in my lyric books seemed to fit. One day before work I was running some errands and humming along to the unfinished track, trying to find the melody, when the word Cold came to mind. From there, my mind turned to the snowfall all around, then to the fear regarding potential nuclear war as I’d recently read an article about the Doomsday Clock being moved forward, and from there I got carried away and ended up with a full scene in mind – based in a nuclear twilight I know I would not survive. I do have several songs in the works based on real experiences that were my catharsis when I was particularly hurt or low, but a lot of my work is based at least partially in fantasy because I have a very overactive imagination and not a ton of output for it.
What instruments and tools do you use for making Cemetery Siren’s songs?
For drums and most of my synths, I’m currently using Cubase Pro 10 with a Focusrite 2i2 interface and my Yamaha PSR-293, sometimes as an instrument and sometimes as a midi controller. For vocals, it’s an AKG P220 run through the TC Helicon Mic Mechanic. Guitars are all my Epiphone SG Pro run through a Line 6 Spider MKII for chorus, delay, distortion, and reverb, and I have been using a fair amount of eBow mixed in with picked guitars. Bass is all run straight into the interface on an Excel p-bass which was gifted to me a few years back. It can be a pretty lengthy process to record everything, and I definitely do lose track of time in our music room fairly frequently.
Do you have any plans for live performances?
Oh absolutely – As I mentioned previously, I have a very overactive imagination, I’ve had full stage sets and various props planned out for years and plan to incorporate them as soon as I have a live set ready. Where do you see your sound going in the future? I’m honestly not really sure, I have so many inspirations and influences that it could go a number of ways and I doubt I’ll ever really stop experimenting and evolving. Wherever it ends up though, I’m sure it will be haunting and otherworldly.
Is there anything that you would like to add for our readers?
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Growing up in the Philippines, her mother left her, her step-mother physically abused her, and when her father died, she went to live with her uncle who sexually abused her. She ran away to the city of Manila when she was 15 years old, and with no other way to support herself, she fell into the world of prostitution.
“I felt God had left me to fend for myself,” Ruby said. “I didn’t know where to go, so I sold my body to make ends meet. As long as the men paid, I didn’t care who I gave myself to.”
After a few years in Manila, a “recruiter” told Ruby about a domestic helper job in Singapore. It seemed like the answer to her prayers, and the end to her nightmare of abuse at the hands of strange men. But when she got to Singapore, it was not the Eden she had envisioned. Her employer sexually abused her regularly and refused to pay her.
After two years, a friend told her about opportunities for domestic helpers in Hong Kong. While she was hesitant to leave her friends and feared her next employer would be as bad as her last one, she found another “recruiter” and went to Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, her employer was fairer, but she felt very alone and afraid in her new country. Eventually, she was befriended by a Christian woman. As their friendship grew, so did Ruby’s stomach. Ruby had been told during her recruiting agency’s physical that she had a stomach tumor, so she was surprised when that tumor started moving. Ruby was fired by her employer when they found out she was pregnant.
“I asked God where He was, but He was nowhere to be found,” said Ruby
Seeking help, Ruby’s friend took her to church and introduced her to ABWE Missionary Maylin Hartwick.
Maylin, her husband Chris, and their two sons first arrived in Hong Kong nine years earlier. They knew the country’s need for the gospel, but they had no idea how deep that need really was. During their years of ministry in Hong Kong and through their travels, they learned more and more about the epidemic of prostitution and human trafficking that was rampant throughout Asia.
According to research by the Far Sight Institute, modern slavery is a major global issue, particularly in Asia, and 71 percent of victims experience some combination of confinement, confiscation of documents, or verbal, physical or sexual threats and abuse. It is a tricky issue as victims of modern slavery are often hidden, which is especially true for the world’s estimated 52-million domestic workers who live and work in the privacy of their employer’s homes.
“Most people have turned a blind eye to these issues and these women, so we started praying that God would lead someone to reach them,” said Maylin. “But instead of sending someone, God called us.”
Since then, God has given Chris and Maylin many opportunities to shine His light into these dark places and to help women like Ruby.
When they learned that Ruby was pregnant and homeless, Chris and Maylin immediately took her into their home. And when they learned that Ruby would be deported without a job to support her visa, Maylin helped fight to extend her visa until the baby was born. Maylin was successful, and as they waited for the baby to be born, she was able to demonstrate and teach Ruby about the hope of Jesus Christ.
“Maylin and her church slowly opened my heart to God after it was closed for such a long time,” said Ruby. “I can’t explain to you how the words of Jesus suddenly changed me.”
When Ruby welcomed her son into the world eight weeks later, she was excited to bring him up in the ways of the Lord.
While she was forced to return to the Philippines after her son was born, Maylin continued to disciple her, and with the aid of other prayer and financial partners, she helped support Ruby through midwifery school.
Today, Ruby is a midwife and has started Bible studies to reach women in the slums where she lives. As part of her ministry, she also uses her midwife training to help pregnant women who can’t afford medical care.
“For other women who are in the same situation I was in, I want to tell them not to let anger destroy you. Trust and surrender everything to the Lord because you will only suffer if you allow yourself to be driven with anger,” said Ruby. “Jesus is knocking at your heart. Let Him come in because He is the Only One you can lean on. Those sad circumstances that occur in your life, allow you to remember Him. Christ died for you because of our sins, He has forgiven you, and you need to forgive yourself.”
Maylin’s passion for helping women began when she was a child, so when she discovered widespread sex and human trafficking in Hong Kong, it broke her heart. She told a friend about her desire to do more and her friend connected Maylin with a local organization that ministers to workers in the red-light district.
In the last five years, the organization has established a group of strong Christian volunteers who meet every Thursday for a time of prayer and worship before setting out in teams to build relationships in Hong Kong’s red-light district. The teams visit the same area of the neighborhood each week and work to form meaningful connections with the women working in the bars.
“Because we go out in teams on the same street every Thursday night, the ladies and everyone else who works in the bars know our routine. Once trust has been established, we are able to let them know that there are other options available for them if they are willing.” said Maylin. “When we show our care and concern, reaching out to them and asking to pray with them, many of them can’t hold back their tears.”
Many of the women they meet in their street outreach are from other South Asian countries, and they come for a variety of reason, but their predicaments are not unique. There are three kinds of women Maylin frequently ministers to: women, like Ruby, who came to be domestic helpers; women who knowingly came to work in the bars; and women, who were promised a good-paying job and then were tricked into working in the bars.
“Regardless of how or why they came to Hong Kong, even the women who knowingly came to Hong Kong as prostitutes, have their freedom taken away,” said Maylin. “The bar owners and the mamasans take away their documents until their debts are paid.”
That is exactly what happened to Isabel.
Isabel* was a single mother living in the Philippines with four children, and she was desperate to find money to send her drug-addicted, 15-year-old daughter to a rehab center. Isabel was already struggling to make ends meet so the cost of rehab seemed beyond her reach until a “recruiter” told her about a good-paying restaurant job in Hong Kong. The “recruiter” promised her that they would take care of everything including money for her airfare, hotel and visa. It seemed too good to be true — and it was.
When she arrived in Hong Kong, she was put her up in a nice hotel for three days, and then she discovered there was no job, but she still owed all the money for the ticket, the visa, and the hotel. She was told she had to go work in the bars in the red-light district.
“Many women who are trafficked to Hong Kong are promised a job, but when they get here, there is no job and they find out they owe money,” said Maylin.
According to Anti-Slavery International, debt bondage, also called debt slavery, is the least known but most common form of modern slavery. Debt bondage occurs when a person is forced to work to pay off a debt. They are tricked into working for little or no pay, with no control over their debt. Most or all of the money they earn goes to pay off their loan. The value of their work becomes invariably greater than the original sum of money borrowed, and they face violence and intimidation if they try to leave.
This has happened to almost all of the women Maylin ministers to. They are forced to live together in run-down apartments that are overseen by a female pimp, who goes by the term “mamasan.” The women are trapped by the debt they owe for getting to Hong Kong and then they owe more money for food and living in the apartment. The mamasans hold the women’s debt record, but often the women don’t know how much they owe or how much they have earned.
“To pay their debts, girls are told they need to dance in the bars or they just need help encourage patrons to drink more, but then they find out later they are expected to sleep with the men,” said Maylin.
When Isabel found herself trapped in this situation, she was devastated. The mamasan told her that she only had to stay in the bar and drink with customers, but that her debt must be paid. Isabel already knew the hope of Christ, but with no other way out, she agreed to go to the bars.
“I didn’t go have sex with the men but many have embraced the lie that they are doing the right thing for themselves and their families. Many have gotten into gambling and drugs and done other bad things for the money,” said Isabel.
It was at the bar that she met Maylin during one of her Thursday night outreaches. Maylin and her church family welcomed Isabel, prayed with her, and helped support her as she worked to survive her situation and pay back her debt.
Then one night at the bar, Isabel met an Australian business man who offered to pay off her debts and help her get home to the Philippines. Leary of such a generous offer, Maylin and Chris met with him to ensure his intentions were pure, and he confirmed that he was asking for nothing in return. Through the man’s generosity, Isabel was able to return to her family in Manila and send her daughter to rehab.
“I am back in the Philippines now and it’s been hard to provide for my children without a job. We had to relocate to a different slum area. We would like to just have a place where we don’t need to have to move again. It’s been a hard life after my husband left me, but in faith, we keep hoping and praying,” said Isabel.
While life is still hard, Isabel has the prayer and support of Maylin and her church in Hong Kong. Isabel dreams of having her own small business selling vegetables and cooked food from her home, and Maylin recently went to visit to see her vision. Now Maylin is working to find supporters to help Isabel start her business so she can safely earn an income while raising her children.
The Hands & Feet of Christ
When Maylin got involved with the red-light district outreach, she brought her passion and the need to her church. They whole-heartedly embraced the idea, and every Sunday, their congregation of about 60 people prays for persecuted Christians and people trapped in human trafficking and slavery. Then, when their church’s lease was up three years ago, they felt God calling them to move their church to the red-light district in the heart of Hong Kong’s business district. Despite its high-end restaurants, it is home to thousands of modern slaves and a large Muslim population in need of gospel.
Moving their church to this area has allowed them to live alongside people in deep need and their church members have become missionaries in their own neighborhood. Their church quickly became known as a place where people in need could go to get help.
Many of the church ladies minister to their community by cooking for the red-light district outreach. And in 2016, their church partnered with a new culinary training ministry, Taste of Hope, to help refugees, domestic helpers, and at-risk women learn marketable skills that they can use to build a better life for themselves and their families.
Together, Maylin and her church continue to minister to women trapped by debt bondage and sin by sharing the hope of the gospel with them and by helping them navigate their situation and their options. They help teach them about the local laws and their rights in Hong Kong. Their church also created a small shelter where these women can stay for a short time if they lose their job or need emergency housing.
“Many trafficking situations stem from a dysfunctional family, coupled with a lack of opportunity and a need for money. These women are vulnerable to deceivers,” said Maylin. “We teach them that Jesus is the only one who can provide, and He will provide.”
While Siti* was a Christian before she met Maylin, she was still deceived and trapped.
“I grew up in a Muslim home where I was treated like I was just a shadow compared to my brother and sisters,” said Siti.
When Siti was 14, a “recruiter” came to her village in rural Indonesia and told people about a well-paying opportunity to work overseas. Siti, feeling neglected, jokingly told her father she was considering it, and he told her she should go.
“I couldn’t believe my ears. I thought my parents didn’t love me anyway, so I decided to leave,” said Siti.
Siti contacted the “recruiter” and signed up, secretly hoping her parents would love her enough to stop her. They did not, so at just 14 years old, the recruiting agency gave her a fake I.D. with a new name and her new age, 22.
Despite being a child, she was sent to Singapore as a domestic worker where she was treated appallingly. She was physically and emotionally abused by her employers. She was on call 24-hours a day and typically worked about 16-hours a day making about a dollar an hour. She was given less than 10 percent of her meager earnings and the rest was taken by the agency to pay back what she supposedly owed.
“I worked in a country where I didn’t know the language or the people. Even though I was treated badly and was not paid the salary I was promised, what was most painful was that my parents didn’t even care where I was,” said Siti.
After her two-year contract ended in Singapore, she applied to work in Hong Kong where her employer was also cruel to her. Luckily, she met Maylin who prayed with her and helped support her until she was able to find a kind and fair employer.
“Maylin and her church helped me stay spiritually strong through a tough time and learn how to forgive my family and my employers,” said Siti.
Maylin continues to disciple Siti, and with the help of their church, they are reaching more domestic workers who are struggling.
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Last week in Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its third week. The ongoing invasion continued to drive demonstration activity across the region in support of Ukraine. Meanwhile, women’s rights demonstrations were also held across the region to commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March. The migrant crisis continued on the Belarusian-Polish border. In France, ongoing demonstrations in Corsica against the attempted murder of a Corsican separatist in prison became increasingly violent. Meanwhile, fighting along the Armenia-Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact escalated.
Russian forces continued their invasion of Ukraine last week. Three weeks into the invasion, the Ukrainian government continued to hold all the major cities, except Kherson and the regions occupied since 2014, including Donetsk, Luhansk, and the Crimean peninsula (BBC, 15 March 2022). Heavy fighting ensued in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv, which were partially encircled by Russian troops (Unian, 16 March 2022). After surrounding Kherson, the city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhia region, and Mariupol in the Donetsk region, Russia effectively cut off Ukraine from the Azov Sea and linked the Russian-controlled territories in Donbas and Crimea by land (The Guardian, 3 March 2022).
Russian forces continued targeting civilians last week, deliberately shelling hospitals, kindergartens, and residential buildings, as well as firing at civilian evacuation routes from Mariupol, Volnovakha, and other cities (The Guardian, 8 March 2022). The Russian military continued heavy shelling of Mariupol throughout last week, amid reports of mass fatalities (Washington Post, 12 March 2022).1Fatality numbers are frequently the most biased and poorly reported component of conflict data; they can vary considerably and are often the subject of debate given the strategic incentives to over- or underestimate these numbers, as well as the significant logistical difficulties in collecting accurate data, among other factors (for more, see this piece by ACLED in Washington Post, 2 October 2017). Civilians trapped in the besieged city faced a lack of access to food, electricity, water, and heat (Washington Post, 12 March 2022). These events contributed to the 234% increase in violence in Ukraine last month relative to the past year flagged by ACLED’s Conflict Change Map, which first warned of increased violence to come in the country in the past month2Amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, changes in the media landscape, inaccurate or delayed reporting of active fighting, and the pullout of international monitors from Ukraine all present difficulties for tracking political violence in Ukraine; this should be taken into account when using any real-time data on this context, including ACLED (for more information, visit ACLED’s Ukraine Crisis hub, which offers curated data, an interactive dashboard, the latest analysis, and more).
Demonstrations denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine continued across the region last week. ACLED recorded over 50 demonstration events in Ukraine against the Russian military aggression last week. Demonstration activity was concentrated in regions partially occupied by Russian forces, in particular, Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Luhansk. In several instances, Russian forces opened fire on the crowd, causing injuries and killing one protester (Ukrinform, 7 March 2022; Unian, 5 March 2022). In Russia, demonstrations against the invasion of Ukraine continued across the country last week, despite an overall decrease in demonstrations amid an ongoing police crackdown. Demonstrations were reported in at least 50 cities. Almost all anti-war demonstration events were met with police intervention, with police detaining and beating protesters.
Demonstrations in support of Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion also took place in Cyprus, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Finland, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Belarus, Romania, Armenia, Moldova, Slovenia, Kyrgyzstan, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom last week. While demonstrations remained largely peaceful, several acts of violence targeting Russian and Belarusian state infrastructure were reported in the region. In Italy, unknown people threw a large firecracker into Belarusian embassy grounds in Rome, reportedly in response to Belarusian government support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (ANSA, 9 March 2022). In Ireland, a truck driver drove a truck through the gates of the Russian embassy in Dublin. In France, unknown people threw a molotov cocktail at the Russian House of Science and Culture in Paris, an institution that is considered to be closely linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin (Attaque, 8 March 2022).
Conversely, demonstrations in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place in Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Meanwhile, numerous women’s rights demonstrations were reported throughout the region last week to commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March. Women’s rights demonstrations took place in Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
On the Belarusian-Polish border, migrants’ continued attempts to cross into Poland last week led to clashes with Polish police and military forces. Migrants in Bruzgi reported being ordered by Belarusian border guards at gunpoint to either cross into Poland or enter Ukraine (The Guardian, 14 March 2022). Both Polish and Belarusian forces have been accused of human rights abuses against migrants stranded at the border (The Guardian, 8 February 2022). These events contributed to the 115% increase in violence in the Podlaskie border region last week relative to the past month flagged by ACLED’s Subnational Surge Tracker; the tool first warned of increased violence to come in Podlaskie in the past month. Enforcement of strict Polish border policies along the Belarusian-Polish border comes in stark contrast to the treatment of Ukrainian refugees (The Guardian, 4 March 2022). Over 1.8 million refugees from Ukraine have arrived in Poland since 24 February and have received the right to remain for 18 months with access to work, education, and healthcare (NFP, 14 March 2022).
Meanwhile, in France, demonstration activity continued in Corsica Island last week in response to the attempted murder of Yvan Colonna, a prominent Corsican militant separatist, by a jihadi prisoner in Arles. Demonstration levels increased last week compared to the week prior and they were increasingly violent, with half of all demonstration events in Corsica turning violent. While Corsican nationalist groups were active during violent demonstrations, the heightened presence of middle school, high school, and university student groups were particularly notable during violent demonstrations (RFI, 15 March 2022). Violent demonstrators used Molotov cocktails and other projectiles in clashes against police and military in front of prefectures in Ajaccio and Bastia, other subprefectures, and the gendarmerie. This violence contributed to the 126% increase in violence in France last week relative to the past month flagged by ACLED’s Conflict Change Map, which first warned of increased violence to come in the country in the past month. Demonstrators are calling for the transfer of all Corsican political prisoners from mainland France to local prisons, their release on bail, and reopening the question of Corsican independence. In response to the violence, France’s Interior Minister announced that he would visit the island to “open a cycle of discussions” (Al Jazeera, 14 March 2022).
On the Armenia-Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact, fighting escalated last week. During clashes in the Ararat province of Armenia, one Armenian serviceman died and another was wounded. Meanwhile, clashes between military forces in the Askeran region of Artsakh left one Artsakh civilian wounded. This violence contributed to the 578% increase in violence in Azerbaijan and Artsakh last week relative to the past month flagged by ACLED’s Conflict Change Map, which first warned of increased violence to come in the region in the past month. The worsening violence comes as the whole territory of Artsakh has been deprived of gas since 8 March, with Azerbaijan having prevented access to a broken pipeline for restoration works (Jam News, 9 March 2022).
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Downstate Republicans on Wednesday renewed their calls for the Pritzker administration to overhaul its handling of the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna, following reported issues of staff misconduct and patient abuse.
Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, told reporters in a virtual press conference that “time and time again, we’ve seen this administration fail to fully prioritize our developmentally disabled community.”
“It’s our state’s duty, of course, to ensure that all of the facilities that serve the vulnerable community provide the best possible care, whether that facility is a (Department of Human Services) facility, whether a state-run facility or an approved, privately owned, community-based facility,” she said.
Abuses at the center first came into focus after reporting by ProPublica, Lee Enterprises and Capitol News Illinois.
A report released last month by the DHS Office of the Inspector General called for a “fundamental overhaul of the system” at the center.
“Although changing a facility’s culture is by no means a simple task, the first step in that process is recognizing that there is indeed a problem,” the report noted. “Stated plainly, the status quo at (the center) is not acceptable.”
DHS Secretary Grace Hou said in response that they are making changes to address the center’s culture, like hiring new leadership and developing new staff trainings.
“These changes will bring Illinois in closer alignment with nationwide, research-informed best practices, advance the state’s commitment to equity and the civil rights of people with disabilities, and meet the state’s legal duty to ensure that residents with disabilities have a full opportunity to live in the least restrictive environment of their choosing,” Hou said.
The administration announced this spring that it would partner with Southern Illinois University School of Medicine to repurpose the facility’s services to better meet residents’ needs and offer many residents the chance to transition to community-based settings or other state centers.
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Kanban is a feature for streamlining and controlling workflows. Through it you can maximize project efficiency and improve communication. Check out its benefits.
Kanban is a very old methodology for organizing and streamlining work processes. There are currently several automated tools that make it possible to use this method even more efficiently.
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Kanban is a method that was created in the 1950s by Toyota, initially to control process flows in the industry. The focus of this methodology from the outset was to make production more agile.
Currently the model is one of the most used in agile project management. Kanban allows the team to split features to be developed into smaller parts.
This way, the steps are managed from a very simple and intuitive control dashboard.
The original Kanban method takes into account three phases: to do, doing and done. Separating these phases into separate frames makes it easy to monitor demands.
How does the Kanban Method work?
The Kanban method is very simple and intuitive. In the traditional way it is made by means of cards, stickers and signs of various colors on an exposed board in the company.
These cards can be post-it paper or plastic and represent all actions and tasks that were or will be developed in the project.
Through colors, primary colors such as green, red and yellow are generally used, it is possible to identify the status of each task.
This method is very effective as it facilitates the team’s work in identifying and tracking the performance of each decision-making process.
Using this method, you can classify tasks as follows: to do, doing and done.
Since all tasks are concentrated on one board, the leader or manager must set a limit on the number of cards that will be worked in a time period.
This condition is interesting because it forces the entire team to devote efforts to the tasks that have accumulated to avoid delays and make room for the inclusion of new demands.
It is worth mentioning that this is just one of the ways of using Kanban. However, the main purpose of this method is to view information quickly and easily.
It is up to the manager to define the color and frame setting that best fits the existing task type or status.
Why apply Kanban in project management?
Within project management, the goal is to achieve better results. And in that sense, Kanban has a lot to contribute because it offers:
Kanban, as well as other agile methodologies, is carried out in phases that aim to complete the development of one step at a time.
This practice allows the project manager to prioritize features that have the greatest potential for customer return. In addition, you can easily add new tasks as they arise.
The Kanban method allows the definition of priority tasks from the layout of the cards. This makes it easier to quickly check the urgency of each activity.
This makes the process more agile by avoiding time to evaluate what should be done next. It also prevents major tasks from being set aside, which would compromise the project deadline.
To put a kanban into practice in project management, it takes no more than a good-looking whiteboard and the cards that will be placed there. There is no need to make technology investments or even train employees for their use.
Thus, from the correct use in each project, it is a very simple and practical method to be used, avoiding waste of time and resources.
Within the project this methodology generates a cost reduction because it reduces waste and increases the efficiency and productivity of the team. This is because the project can be done faster in less time.
Benefits of Automated Kanban
An excellent way to use the method today is the automated Kanban Excel template, a premium Excel template from Adnia Solutions. Check out the advantages of using this feature:
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In a kanban with an exposed frame, the risk of information loss is very high. After all the post-it can get lost, torn or simply disappear from the board without any record.
In Adnia’s kanban template no information will be lost as only people with certain permissions can archive or delete the cards.
Using the automated Kanban Excel model you can make comments on the cards, mentioning the responsible members. Thus, making the card not just an information point, but a place for discussion of the task.
Assignment of team members
It’s possible to assign team members to a specific task allowing you to monitor team and individual flow.
Given these benefits you are certainly wondering how to use this agile methodology, right? Then check below how to implement kanban in your project.
How to implement Kanban
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Using the examples of several varied real-world disasters, critically analyse the concept of differential human vulnerability
Globally, the negative influence of natural disasters is steadily increasing over the past decades in terms of the rising number of people affected and the growing proportion of economic losses. By the end of the twentieth century, many researchers began to realize that an unequal distribution of natural disaster effects different areas and population. The natural disasters that strike suddenly and violently are no longer the product of purely natural phenomenon caused by natural hazard events, but an outcome of a complex interaction between natural hazard events and human society (Boruff, 2009). So, the vulnerability that is the intrinsic characteristic of the hazards’ receptors, for example, infrastructure, economic activities and people, indicates the potential for loss. It is the root cause of the uneven distribution among destruction and has become an important component of affecting the natural disaster outcomes in many recent. There is considerable debate about the conceptualization and definition of vulnerability in the academic community (Khan & Salman, 2012). Scientists have typically focused on physical exposure to extreme events and their outcomes whereas social scientists have stressed other factors such as social structures and differential access to resources. In an effort to attain a better understanding of differential human vulnerability, elements of politics, social, economic and environmental factors will be considered.
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This essay will examine the social-economic and political factors that contributed to different disasters and destruction across the globe, thus analysing the concept of differential human vulnerability and will demonstrate that even though global awareness of natural disasters has increased, human vulnerability remains a highly substantial issue for many countries, due to the social-economic and political factors. For the purpose of this essay, differential human vulnerability will refer to the susceptibility of people, communities, and regions to natural, human made, or technological hazards (Kumpulainen, 2006). First, the essay will provide an analysis of the 2018 California Camp wildfires and how socioeconomic status played an important role in differentiating vulnerabilities. Secondly, it will review the 2010 Pakistan floods and explore the issues associated with livelihood vulnerabilities and how social class affected the population with varying severity. The third section will analyse typhoon Haiyan and how political factors inflated vulnerability across the region. The final section will conclude and summarise the main points of this essay.
Differential human vulnerability to environmental hazards results from a range of social, economic, historical, and political factors, all of which operate at multiple scales (Thomas et al., 2018). While fire prone areas in the US are more likely to be populated by higher income earners, this fact threatens to overshadow the millions of low-income individuals who also live in fire prone places but lack the resources to prepare or recover from fire (Davies et al., 2018). The 2018 Camp fire is California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in history- it’s the 6th deadliest wildfire in US history and resulted in the death of 85 people. It is estimated to have cost USD 16.5 billion dollars in damage and would eventuate in the destruction of over 18000 buildings and 150 000 acres of land. The wildfire lasted 17 days and reduced the population of Paradise by 80%. In the case of the Camp Fire, differential access to resources determined how effectively people dealt with hazards and managed disasters (López-Marrero & Wisner, 2012).
Socioeconomic status played a substantial role in the differential human vulnerability across the California wildfires and was characterised by three metrics: persons below poverty level, the number of people (aged 16+) unemployed, and income per capita. The Camp Fire reinforces the concept of human vulnerability and the socially vulnerable being amidst the group who were most affected. The vulnerability for persons inside the fire prone area was dependent on factors such as socioeconomic status, as poorer households often could not afford to pay for fire mitigation services like the removal of trees and fire fuels and thus were likely to be more at risk of devastation. Whilst wealthier residents of the region were not inclined to remove trees of fire fuels from their property, they were also more likely to have access to fire insurance and the resources needed to extinguish any fires. Those of higher income were also more likely to be educated to a better standard which in turn improved their adaptive capacity. Accordingly, better educated individuals/households had better access to relevant information and enlarged social networks that facilitated an expeditious recovery and helped navigate the bureaucratic hurdles (Davies, Haugo, Robertson & Levin, 2018). Economically disadvantaged people were also dispositioned as typically they resided in housing of poor quality and had little/no access to transportation in times of need. The 2018 Camp Fire is strikingly significant, as traditional narrative of disasters is challenged from the accustomed story of poorer countries often being the most vulnerable. The Camp Fire distorts this view and introduces the idea of countries with substantial wealth and power also becoming threatened by natural disasters. Implementing the use of the human vulnerability framework is important as it allows for an analysis of the socioeconomic status and highlights those individuals who were impacted by the fire and are more likely to be affected by long lasting effects. The use of the framework is also an integral part of developing strategies to help prevent further disasters and mitigate any potential areas of risk, as the relevant bodies will be able to construct viable policy and structure to support it.
The 2010 Pakistan floods was a devastating disaster that not only had a disastrous effect on the Pakistani population but also was heavily destructive across large amounts of rural crops and vegetation. The floods in 2010 had an immediate consequence for all Pakistanis in all social levels but had a severe impact on the poor and vulnerable community. The damage assessment conducted by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank for the Government of Pakistan estimated that the cost of recovery was between USD 8.74 billion and 10.85 billion (Khan & Salman, 2012). Agriculture production in Pakistan equates to 20 per cent of their GDP and is largely susceptible to the frequency of rainfall and the availability of the canal irrigation system. The performance of Pakistan’s economy, therefore, largely depends on the agricultural output which substantially fluctuates with weather conditions.
The floods had a significantly disproportionate effect on the poorer Pakistan region as the vast majority of those areas (rural Sindh and southern Punjab) have very limited income and their livelihood was highly dependent on agriculture. The flooding caused immense strain on the infrastructure of Pakistan, with transportation across the country halted, communication lines cut off, food security in urban areas at risk and health and water controls in disarray. As well as urban Pakistan, more rural regions of the area felt a substantial amount of loss as the floods caused significant damage to standing crops and also deprived rural inhabitants of their assets and belongings, essentially pushing them deeper into poverty. The adaptive capacity of the Pakistan region also played a role in the human vulnerability of the region, as there was a wide range of age groups, education, income, employment and social groups (Qasim et al., 2017). Pakistan overall has an active working population that is likely to have decreased vulnerability to floods, but due to a large presence of disabled people and dependents, there is a heightened sense of human vulnerability which makes the population susceptible to violent flooding. Disability, coupled with factors such as poor housing and lower education levels amongst the region make the adaptive capacity of Pakistan low against disasters, but steadily improving as the government implements relevant infrastructure to support and manage disasters.
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On the 8th of November 2013, the Philippines experienced one of the strongest typhoons to make landfall on record. Known locally as Yolanda and internationally as Haiyan, the typhoon destroyed a significant part of the Visayas region, abruptly ending over 6000 people’s lives and displacing a population the size of Los Angeles. The damage was so catastrophic, the governing body of the Philippines called upon the United Nations for assistance and several other international organisations offered their aid to help recover and strengthen the Filipino infrastructure. Exposure to typhoons in the Philippines is inescapably high as geography makes most coordinated efforts to reduce potential disaster almost redundant. As the coastal population continues to grow, so does the explicit danger and vulnerability attached to residing in poorly designed housing and overall degradation of the environment. This is horrifically clear, as the mortality rate over the last 50 years has shown no sign of decline (Doom, 2014)
Even though Haiyan was an example of nature’s extreme ferocity, experts claim that human factors played a major role in the widespread vulnerability which plagued the Philippines. A combination of poverty, badly designed housing and a dense population all contributed to make the Philippines an extremely vulnerable nation to the devastating effects of powerful Typhoons. Around 75 to 80 per cent of the devastation can be blamed on the human factor, according to University of Miami hurricane researcher, Brian McNoldy. The relevant government bodies in the Philippines failed to prepare any relevant form of damage mitigation strategies and did not communicate the severity and potential destruction of the typhoon. Due to the geography of the surrounding regions, the Philippines sits in the world’s most storm prone region and this, in turn, results in a high frequency of typhoons and disasters. McNoldy exclaims that extreme poverty and huge growth in population (most of which is located in vulnerable coastal areas), alongside a government that failed to properly prepare and develop protection measures against such disasters ultimately led to the horrific destruction that was typhoon Haiyan (AP, 2019).
The use of a differential human vulnerability framework and the factors that form vulnerability when discussing a countries susceptibility to various disasters is vital in preparing and preventing any more major disasters. The political, economic and social arrangements allow us to critically analyse a country’s preparedness in preventing such natural disasters. The 2018 Camp fire demonstrates how certain socioeconomic factors contribute to the management and containment of wildfires. Using a differential human vulnerability framework allows government bodies to develop strategies to help mitigate any potential areas of risk. The 2010 Pakistan floods exemplify how poorer countries are much more vulnerable to disasters. Economic circumstances for poorer regions played an important role in the disproportionate effect of the flooding and details like housing and income formed significant contributors to the widespread chaos caused by the floods, consequently depressing them further into poverty. The differential human vulnerability framework helped elucidate why Pakistan endured as much hardship and struggle for the poorer regions and how they can be properly managed in the future. Typhoon Haiyan illuminated what poor political and government guidance can ultimately facilitate and illustrates the importance of having appropriate structures in place for such natural disasters in order to prevent such widespread disaster and suffering. As well as negligence, socioeconomic factors abetted the destruction as much of the housing was located in risk prone areas and was not adequate to survive the havoc of Haiyan. Conclusively, a critical analysis of the differential human vulnerability helps demonstrate and clarify a country’s susceptibility to natural disasters and is necessary for understanding the various weak points of different considerations such as the social, political and economic aspects of natural disasters.
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Functional Mission Analysis for the Air Force Cyber Squadron Initiative
FMA and Mission Defense Team (MDT) capabilities are vital means of success in enabling active cyber defense of Air Force missions and algorithmic responses to intrusions and other breaches endangering information dominance.
This sprint set out to focus on this shortcoming and ways to accelerate the needed transformation, uncover lessons learned, and distill a plan to revector or to harden the CSI support structure.
How might we best provide robust, repeatable processes and training for conducting, saving, and sharing the results of Functional Mission Analysis (FMA) to enable successful expansion of the CSI to all bases for mission success of the AF?
The design project tapped over 40 people from the Air Force, joint cyber protection team members, CSI pathfinder units, as well as industry partners.
Participants held a Q&A session with the former CTO of Google as part of the design research phase. Key insights from industry leaders helped shape the team’s design effort.
The design sprint participants spent significant time developing personas (users) who would have existing stories within the #FMA4CSI framework and whose stories could be improved through proposed advances. Teams identified four key themes, divided into two groups based on current issues and future sustainment needs:
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FMA Data Standardization and Collaboration: Collaborative social environment serves as a social repository for MDT information sharing, TTPs, and baseline templates.
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Talent Management: MDT talent management starts with recognition of skills in tech school.
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Embossed Monogram Empreinte leather brings a sophisticated feel to the NéoNoé MM bucket bag with its leather drawstring and gold-color eyelets. The body-friendly design and light-weight construction mean it’s comfortable to carry, by hand with the removable top handle or over the shoulder and cross-body, thanks to it detachable and adjustable strap.
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- October 19, 2022
- Posted by: Swati.patel
- Category: Press Release
In 2021, India recorded over 3000 cyber attack victims – the fourth-highest count globally after the US, the UK, and Canada – and a 120% increase in ransomware attacks. This was also the year that the recovery cost after ransomware attacks went up to $3.38 million from $1.1 million in 2021. Earlier, in 2020, Juspay suffered a data breach that impacted 35 million customer records, including credit card information and fingerprint scan. And earlier this year, in February, Air India reported a major attack that compromised over 4.5 million customer records.
Overall, data from a recent University of Surrey report shows that cyber attacks on Indian businesses and other industries have doubled over the last three years. Perhaps evident, the chief contributing factor to these attacks is the proliferation of remote work and the IoT revolution. Working from home increases the endpoints across geographies, many of which are unsecured as people use personal networks or public WiFi systems to log in. Remedial measures like two-factor authentication offer some protection, but not enough – today’s cybercriminals are highly sophisticated in their attacks. Through phishing scams, for instance, they can convince employees to part with critical company information while posing as a company manager or spokesperson. Concerning IoT, the interconnectedness of systems and networks greatly enhances agility – the downside, however, is that a cyber breach at one point can quickly spread to the rest of the chain. Distributed DoS attacks, for instance, employ a system’s standard communication protocols to overwhelm the system and take control.
Clearly, when it comes to corporate cybersecurity, the mere application of firewalls is no longer enough. It is essential to delve deep into the nature and location of vulnerabilities so that companies can erect suitable defenses.
What is a vulnerability in Cyber Security?
Essentially, a vulnerability is a weak spot in a company’s security measures that a cybercriminal could potentially exploit. It could involve weakness in the firewalls that protect internal networks or simply a user endpoint without proper security. Vulnerabilities could occur due to poorly secured hardware or software, bugs in a specific operating system, backdoor programs, inadequate password protection or human error due to poor security awareness.
Why vulnerability research matters
The average cost of data breaches was $4.24 billion in 2021 – up 10% from 2020. And as more and more businesses opt for remote work and switch to the cloud, this will only go up. Data breaches and other cyber attacks have far-reaching consequences for any company, including intellectual property theft, compromised networks, and invasion of consumer data privacy (especially personal information). Cleaning these up won’t just cost money, but effort – which means a deviation from core business activity and often-lengthy disruptions. Moreover, cybersecurity vulnerabilities can considerably impact a company’s reputation – even the potential for a data breach could erode trust. This hurts the company’s bottom line and creates public resistance to the benefits of an interconnected digital ecosystem.
It is understandable, therefore, that companies are looking to increase their cybersecurity budget for more research and defense measures. And several brands are offering security governance solutions to identify and sort vulnerabilities, particularly in legacy data infrastructures that are less protected against modern attacks. There are several steps to this. First, the cybersecurity tester conducts profound research on current and potential system vulnerabilities. They also analyze existing security measures for strengths and weaknesses. Response measures will typically include a pre-emptive securing of endpoints across all apps and infrastructures and setting up a damage control system that kicks in if an attack occurs. It is also important to note here that not all vulnerabilities need immediate action – it is still vital to know where they are and classify them as low-risk or high-risk. When choosing a vendor for vulnerability testing, care should be taken to validate their expertise across application, mobile, infrastructure, and IoT security – which includes ensuring that they use the most relevant tools for each use case.
The way forward for Indian cybersecurity
As an emerging digital economy, India is conscious of cybersecurity risks and is taking steps in the right direction. In 2019, the Indian government’s Department of Science and Technology announced a cybersecurity research initiative to develop future-proof technologies that can safeguard information systems against cybercrime. The cybersecurity workforce grew from 110,000 in 2019 to 218,000 in 2021, while cybersecurity services increased from $4.3 billion to $8.48 billion during the same time. And for the financial year 2023, the Indian government allocated INR 515 crore to cybersecurity and stated that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team would closely monitor all cyber threats and attacks. In a dynamic and digital-first world like ours, ongoing research ensures continued safety. Several brands are already investing in vulnerability research in a big way, and firms that work with them to safeguard their data will stay ahead of the curve and retain consumer trust.
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Starting July this year, civil servants will be deducted 7.5 per cent of their salaries for their pension contribution.
The government will then match the contributions with an amount equivalent to 15 per cent of every worker’s monthly pay.
Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich has signalled through draft Budget Policy Statement that the delayed civil service pension scheme will start in the coming fiscal year after allocating Sh24 billion to kick start the fund.
Public servants do not contribute to their retirement upkeep, a move that will increase taxpayers’ pension burden to Sh109 billion in the year starting July from Sh15 billion in 2002.
Part of the pension time-bomb has been attributed to the government’s failure to push through necessary reforms, including kick-starting the long-awaited contributory pension scheme.
Civil servants were initially to contribute two per cent of their monthly salary to the scheme in the first year, five per cent in the second and 7.5 per cent from the third year.
The contributory scheme has been dogged by numerous challenges that have seen its roll-out suspended more than five times since its inception in 2009.
The contributory scheme will see the government adopt the private sector pension model where contributions from employers and employees are invested in equities, property and government paper to generate returns.
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In an exclusive interview with Senegalese investigative journalist Pape Alé Niang, Khady Kébé and Anna Diamanka, the wives of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, described the nightmare they have been living with their family since 2021.
The wives called for an end to harassment against their husband. They implore the government to release the 1,020 unjustly arrested political detainees along with Ousmane Sonko, currently in intensive care following a hunger strike of more than 20 days.
Sonko was first arrested on March 3, 2021, on his way to court to face rape charges by masseuse Adji Sarr.
The case, which turned out to be a sordid plot to oust Ousmane Sonko from the 2024 presidential elections, saw its epilogue on June 1, 2023, when Sonko was cleared, but sentenced to two years in prison for “corruption of youth.”
Without any order from the court, Sonko will be sequestered with his family in his residence located in Keur Gorgui by the police for 56 days, from May 29 to July 24, 2023. He will then be arrested on July 28, 2023, at his home in the presence of his family.
Sonko is currently charged with seven counts:
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2- Association of criminals,
3- Undermining state security,
4- Conspiracy against the authority of the State,
5- Acts and maneuvers to compromise public security and create severe political unrest,
6- Association of criminals in connection with a terrorist enterprise,
7- Cell phone theft.
The arrest came after an alleged altercation with a woman who took the liberty to record the leader without his permission.
Two of his lawyers, Saïd Larifou and Juan Branco, met on August 18, 2023, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to encourage “action that will put an end to the serious acts and violence committed against our client, Mr. Ousmane Sonko.”
Sonko, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 20 days in protest of his arbitrary arrest, is in critical condition, and his wives fear the worst.
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The African population is expected to grow by 1 billion people within the next 35 years. Farmers and their families are one of the most important demographics on the continent as they make up well over 70% of the population as well as contribute a large proportion of GDP in most countries.
A farmer is no different from a doctor or lawyer in that they are aspirational and consumers of a wide variety of products, seeking out quality affordable goods for their families. However, farming families are typically excluded from business growth strategies. Cited reasons for exclusion include a perceived lack of cash and that they are too difficult and expensive to reach.
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Norbert Schmitz was born in 1980 in Arad (Romania). After his Abitur in Ludwigshafen am Rhein he studied Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern from 2000 to 2005. He wrote his diploma thesis in the robotics research lab with the title 'Satelite localisation and sensor fusion for mobile outdoor robot localisation'. He is a PhD student of the department of computer science since January 2006. The thesis entiteled 'Dynamic modeling of humans for natural human-robot-interaction' was submitted in January 2011. Since February he is working at psb intralogistics GmbH in Pirmasens/Germany. Since May 2012 he is working at the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz DFKI) in the research group Augmented Vision under supervision of Prof. Stricker. | <urn:uuid:7c518e3c-e3d3-4451-90e0-3a16fd36288d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/en/staff/former-staff-members/ehemalige/dr-ing-norbert-schmitz | 2023-09-24T23:30:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.932681 | 192 |
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The purpose of this CXTech Week 21 2020 newsletter is to highlight, with commentary, some of the news stories in CXTech this week. What is CXTech? The C stands for Connectivity, Communications, Collaboration, Conversation, Customer; X for Experience because that’s what matters; and Tech because the focus is enablers.
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Microsoft Buys MetaSwitch and the Industry get their Knickers in a Twist
Microsoft buys Metaswitch and everyone gets their knickers in a twist. Phrases like ‘game changer’, ‘everyone’s analysis is wrong and I’m right’, “5G, Edge, private 5G, MEC, 5G….”
I blame PQS, prolonged quarantine syndrome. Here’s my view, do with as you see fit.
Telecom has been a vertical for Microsoft for decades, it’s one of the highest margin because telcos are oligopolies that like to pay a premium for their special requirements. I remember 30 years ago Microsoft trying to break in where Sun was dominant in the telcos’ data centers? Well guess where Yousef Khalidi spent the first 14 years of his career, before heading up Azure Cloud? Yep, Sun.
Another example of this close relationship is when Microsoft bought Skype, part of its ‘mismanagement’ was attributable to not wanting to piss off the telcos, as it made much more money from telcos than it ever would with Skype. So Metaswitch is a step in a long running focus on winning more business in telcos as the margins are good.
But didn’t Microsoft just buy Affirmed Networks a few weeks ago? Isn’t this an overlap? In the the note on Affirmed in the CXTech Week 17 newsletter I discussed an important gap that a company like Telestax could fill in managing the legacy migration issues. Well, Metaswitch fits that bill in spades. Affirmed are focused on being a virtualized EPC (Evolved Packet Core). Note, fashionable telecom technology providers wear a big 5G badge these days on all their collateral. Metaswitch provides the service platforms (TAS/IMS/SBC, Telecom App Server, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Session Border Controller) with again a big 5G badge. That’s most of a telco’s core network between them. And Metaswitch has bags of legacy expertise, they know where all the IN (Intelligent Network) bodies are buried.
5G is the sizzle, but Microsoft can now migrate the telco’s core onto Azure, or build an instance for the telco if it wants to keep costs higher for all its special requirements. MEC (Mobile Edge Compute) in this story is just a silly distraction. Telcos tried and failed in offering cloud computing, and conflating 5G and edge compute in the telcos’ mobile networks is a tower of assumptions, MEC’s value position can be best summed up by this gif below.
As was pointed out to me by a data center expert a couple of years ago:
Core datacenter business is in substantial decline, hence hardware vendors are looking for any bright spots for growth, edge compute is one of them. Not as lucrative though. And likely dominated by the existing cloud providers. There could be an opportunity for the cloud providers to put their technology deeper into the telcos’ networks to reduce traffic costs and latency. That’s been true for decades, look at CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). Telcos simply can not build a business out of the niche known as MEC (Mobile Edge Compute), rather they can support Amazon or Microsoft or Google through offering access throughout their fixed and mobile networks. In the limit, telcos are just access to someone’s cloud, as that’s where the internet and enterprise workflows resides, not in the access pipes. And please, no smart pipe analogies – it’s all about the services not the piece of glass or metal the service travels through where a state oligopoly applies. If you want to compete, it has to be in the services.Anon Data Center Person commenting on MEC 2 years ago
As telecom networks slowly migrate to mostly software (IT), rather than black boxes (NT); I remember writing that phrase 30 years ago. This is a chance for Microsoft to either be a technology supplier (deploy an Azure instance for a telcos’ core) or run the telco’s core network (migrate it onto Azure’s public cloud).
Now addressing some of the funny commentary I’ve seen:
Microsoft will sell telecoms networks direct to enterprises. Telcos are channels for Microsoft’s enterprise products (e.g. UC), AND Microsoft sells UC direct to enterprises. Different enterprises have different buying needs, it sells to both. Will Microsoft sell private 5G core to enterprises? Unlikely, as the margins will not be as sweet as selling to telcos, and there are loads of SIs doing complete solutions that could possibly use Microsoft’s technology to deliver the wireless/mobile solution. This is a deal squarely focused on telcos.
The legacy core vendors are dead (Ericsson and Nokia), long live Microsoft! Most of the money is in the access (80%), not the core (20%). Selling to telcos is a complex political mess. Telcos will not drop Nokia or Ericsson for Microsoft anytime soon. There’s too much legacy crap, incriminating pictures from ‘golf trips’, etc. Ericsson and Nokia will not see much change in most accounts from a revenue perspective. This is the problem telcos need to solve, and it’s nothing to do with technology.
The BOSS vendors will get shut out like Netcracker and Amdocs. Netcracker runs on AWS or Azure. Amdocs is an SI (System Integrator), so will stitch together whatever tech the telco selects for its special requirements. It’s BAU (Business As Usual) for these vendors.
Microsoft are trying to get into the telecom application layer? No, its already in the application layer: UC, customer care, billing, etc. It’s just they try and sell product, rather than custom integration projects – which is what telcos like because of all their special requirements. This is the fundamental thing that needs to change for Microsoft to be successful, how telcos buy their networks.
Summing up: telco-special virtualization, also know as NFV, failed. The current fashion is cloud native with a big 5G badge stuck to it. But telcos can not hire / retain cloud experts – culture. Nor can their traditional vendors (Nokia and Ericsson) – culture. However, the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google and Amazon can retain and deliver. But can telcos buy a core network, without a boat-load of special requirements? This is a long run game, we’re talking about the next decade.
Microsoft now has the tech to run a telco’s core and more importantly migrate all the legacy crap. 5G is just fashion, the money is in all the legacy stuff as that earns most of the money today, and also costs most of the money to operate. Telcos are as dysfunctional as ever (legacy and ex-civil service), but for those under severe financial pressure, there is finally a way forward into the public cloud and a lower cost core. However, the money spent on BOSS, Access, channel margins, and service technology providers they resell are some of the many other problems they must address.
I know we live in crazy times where people say bat-shit crazy stuff, and there’s no repercussions. Once upon a time the person would be assigned to the “tin-foil hat brigade”. And would have that as a preface to anything else they said. Like David Icke in the UK, to discredit the 5G tower causes COVID-19 meme, show David Icke supports it.
But the last part of the second sentence in this paragraph from VZ is utter BS:
“Verizon Business bought BlueJeans to beef up its business group as it rolls out 5G and targets new wireless applications at its business customers. BlueJeans’ cloud-based video service being folded into Verizon Business’ unified communications portfolio and “deeply integrated” into its 5G roadmap.”Verizon
Its conferencing / collaboration, it all works over WiFi and 4G today, there is nor every will be deep integration into 5G. That’s simply stupid. Businesses DO NOT WANT deep integration into 5G, coz it will not work in most locations for years if that happens. They just want the service to work regardless.
WFH has propelled the importance of conferencing / collaboration. Most of it is over fixed broadband not mobile. To make money Verizon needs to own the conferencing / collaboration technology rather than resell it. That sums up the rationale. Bringing up 5G is a stretch too far that needs to be pointed out as simply silly.
There are some interesting 5G innovations possible, see this one from Tim Panton at TADSummit EMEA in November last year on “Edge IoT and 5G – can WebRTC help? by Tim Panton is CTO at |pipe|.”
TADSummit Week 3
We’re three quarters of the way through TADSummit Asia 2020, you can see all the great content in the agenda.
This week we focused on open source telecom software with a review of the status of WebRTC and drachtio.org. Also two excellent presentations from Sebastian Schumann of DT and Marten Schoenherr of Automat Berlin analyzing the CPaaS market. This leads into a panel discussion on the Universal Telecom API, which I’m excited to share next week.
We’ll wrap up this week with a couple of excellent chatbot presentations from David Curran, which inspired me to start training and testing a chatbot myself.
I strongly recommend you check out TeleSign’s excellent keynote from last week on their evolution into being the leader in identity verification. Here are the presentations so far:
People, Gossip, and Frivolous Stuff
Sergio Lopez is promoted to Back-end Tech Lead at Aplazame. Sergio took part in the first ever TADHack Global in 2014.
George Nazi is now Global VP, Telco Media & Entertainment Industry Solutions at Google. Previously with Accenture.
Mike Helm is now Managing Director – Asia Pacific at Yenlo. Previously with WSO2.
Brian Glover is now Product Design Manager at Hostgator.com. We first met at Shango.
Speaking of Shango, David Walsh is CEO of Zilkr.
Sean Hennessey is now Sr. Manager, Channel Marketing at Mitel.
Sobish Mahajan just started as an Information System Intern at Zebra Technologies. More successful IIT graduates entering the workforce 🙂
Fernando Mendioroz is now CTO at PAiC Business Development
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Turned in my second story last night, and it’s being read today for critique tomorrow.
This time, I feel much less anxiety. I mean, this time I know it’s crap, and I know the issues that are wrong with it.
But it’s very different from what I submitted last week, which I feel is like a palate cleanser after all that Victorian mannerism. This is contemporary, profanity-laden, funny (I hope), and contains the first sex scene submitted for crit so far. Also, a talking dog.
No, the dog is not involved in the sex scene. Perverts.
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Name Keith Booth
Career start 1999
Pro career 1997–1999
Weight 103 kg
|Listed weight 226 lb (103 kg)|
Height 1.98 m
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Role Basketball player
Positions Small forward
|Born October 9, 1974 (age 48)
Baltimore, Maryland (1974-10-09) |
High school Paul Laurence Dunbar (Baltimore, Maryland)
NBA draft 1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 28th overall
Education University of Maryland, College Park
Similar People Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter, Laron Profit, Chris Wilcox
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Keith Eugene Booth (born October 9, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former player. Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997. He was an assistant coach at his alma mater under Gary Williams from 2004 to 2011. He is currently an assistant coach for G.G. Smith with the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team.
Booth was born and raised in Baltimore and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Heavily recruited by coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in several years to play for Maryland. After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, a de facto boycott of the university was put in place by the high-school coaches in Baltimore. Because of this boycott, many star high-school players avoided Maryland as a choice to play their college ball. In becoming one of the members of Maryland's 1993 recruiting class, Booth broke the ice, and the school once again had access to talent-rich Baltimore City. Booth was a 1993 McDonald's All-American.
Booth was the Chicago Bulls' first-pick (28th overall) in the 1997 NBA Draft, and he played two seasons with the Bulls. Booth later returned to the Maryland campus and earned a bachelor's degree in criminology and criminal justice in 2003. After getting his degree, he worked at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland, where he was the middle school baseball coach. He also volunteered at an after-school program at his former high school, Dunbar.
In 2004, he returned to his alma mater to become an assistant under Williams. He organized recruiting as well as promoting and directing the Gary Williams Summer Basketball Camp each Summer in College Park. After Williams' retirement in 2011, Booth left Maryland when incoming head coach Mark Turgeon chose not to retain him.
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Have you got an email list but you don't know how to make money with it? How would your life change if you could build a highly profitable email list?
In this post, I'm going to share with you why some people don't make money with their email list, and what you can do instead so your business becomes profitable.
But first, have you heard of “professional lead generators”?
Professional Lead Generators are those people that are SUPER AWESOME at lead generation, but NEVER actually make any money with it.
Now you're probably asking… “Isn't lead generation what I need to learn in order to make money online?”
My answer to that is… Yes.
One of the biggest mistakes Online and Network Marketers make is they think that lead generation alone will help them make money.
Lead generation in itself is in actual fact only ONE piece of the puzzle.
I've personally seen marketers who are excellent at lead generation but, once those leads are in their email list, they don't know how to monetise it.
The other important piece of the puzzle is learning how to add value, build relationships, and present offers that make people WANT to buy.
In the video below I share a step-by-step process for growing your list, maintaining it and getting into profit FAST.
At minute 6:23 I'm going to share with you the other biggest mistake marketers make that keeps them broke (hint: it has to do with Coca-Cola), and I'll show you how to avoid it.
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6 Myths You Should be Aware of When it Comes to Your Roof
As a homeowner, one of the most important parts of your home that you should make sure to take good care of is your roof. Your roof helps protect your home against the elements, after all, and it can be quite costly to repair or replace if you ignore any issues it might have. Unfortunately, a lot of homeowners are not that familiar with how their roof works or what its needs are. Complicating this further is the fact that there are a lot of common myths about roofing floating around. These misconceptions could potentially hinder your ability to properly maintain your roof. Keeping that in mind, the following are six of the most common roofing myths that you should be aware of:
1. Metal helps prevent ice damming
Ice damming occurs when warm air from inside the home melts the layer of snow directly on top of the roof without melting the outer most layer. This causes water to be trapped between the outer most layer of snow and the roof. This melted snow will slide down to the eaves of the roof where it will freeze, thereby trapping in melting snow, which can lead to water leaking through the roof. There’s a myth that metal roofs will somehow help prevent this from happening; however, the only way to prevent ice damming is through proper insulation and ventilation in the attic.
2. Repairing damaged shingles is easy
Certain shingles, like asphalt shingles or shingles that can be replaced one at a time, are easy to replace–as long as a professional roofer is the one to do it. Not only can it be incredibly dangerous to try and repair roof damage on your own (even if it’s just a matter of replacing a single broken shingle), but if you don’t do it properly, the roof will be more prone to leaks and other issues. You’re much better off leaving it to the professionals.
3. If your roof looks fine, you don’t need an inspection
Just because you don’t see a problem doesn’t mean there isn’t one. For example, there could potentially be leaks in your roof, but that doesn’t mean that water will be dripping down through your ceiling. For example, your underlayment could be severely water damaged due to leaks without you realizing it. It’s why you should have a roof inspection performed at least once a year. During a roof inspection, problems that you may not have noticed before can be identified–and repaired before they cause major issues.
4. New roofs don’t need maintenance
Just because a roof is brand new doesn’t mean that it won’t require maintenance. A new roof is going to experience the same kind of pressure from outdoor elements as an old roof. Because of this, it’s important that you continue scheduling routine inspections despite the fact that it’s new.
5. Asphalt shingles are all the same
There’s a misconception that asphalt is the cheapest type of shingle you can buy. While asphalt shingles are relatively affordable, there are a wide variety of different types of asphalt shingles. In fact, there are even premium asphalt shingles that are very thick and durable and will last a long time.
6. A metal roof will absorb too much heat
Metal roofs will not absorb too much heat during the summer. In fact, as long as your home is properly insulated and ventilated, a metal roof will absorb no more heat than any other type of roof.
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St. Vitus Cathedral
St. Vitus Cathedral – Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert Metropolitan Cathedral is Prague’s Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, the archbishop’s seat of Prague. The cathedral was devoted to Saint Vitus until 1997 and is still frequently referred to only as the Cathedral of Saint Vitus.
- Name: St. Vitus Cathedral
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Built 10th century
- Type of attraction: Architectural/Cathedral
- Ticket price: Free
A prominent example of Gothic architecture, this cathedral is the country’s largest and most important church. Located within Prague Castle and containing the graves of many Bohemian kings and Holy Roman Emperors, as part of the Prague Castle complex, the cathedral is owned by the Czech government.
This is one of the main attractions in Prague and Czech Republic in general and it is usually visited together with the Prague Castle tour.
The most eye-catching features of a cathedral are its stained glass windows, which are known for their amazing beauty. It was widely held in the Middle Ages that a church’s lighting should have a divine quality.
Sunlight streaming in through the stained glass windows casts a rainbow of hues inside the Cathedral. The stained glass windows in the Cathedral were created by dozens of Czech artists, including the well-known painter Alfons Mucha.
The crowning rites of the Bohemian monarchs were held within the walls of St. Vitus Cathedral until 1918, making it a Catholic church, a royal shrine, and a place to store the coronation regalia. The church is the final resting place for dozens of royals and their kin. The Habsburg emperors and kings are buried in the crypt and mausoleum.
The local nobility paid for the construction of private chapels for their families to use. Having your very personal prayer space was an incredible honour back then. Individual donors commissioned the artists and sculptors who decorated their chapels’ interiors. Chapels were also furnished with holy relics and other riches.
Interesting facts about St. Vitus Cathedral
Here are some interesting facts about this amazing landmark:
- In 929 a church was built here on top of the site of a pagan temple dedicated to the god of fertility Svetovid.
- The clock tower of the cathedral, the tallest of the cathedral’s towers, can be seen from all over Prague.
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- A Russian captain was shot “execution-style” in the head on Saturday, according to reports.
- Igor Mangushev was filmed last year brandishing the supposed skull of a slain Ukrainian soldier.
- An expert said the “hit” on Mangushev may have been a proxy attack on the head of the Wagner Group.
- For more stories, go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.
A captain in the Russian army, who previously worked as a propagandist, was shot in the head at close range in Ukraine over the weekend, according to reports.
British newspaper The Telegraph reported that Igor Mangushev was taken to a hospital in the town of Stakhanov early Saturday with a “close range” gunshot wound to the head.
According to The New Voice of Ukraine, citing unverified doctors’ reports, Mangushev was shot “execution-stye” at a checkpoint in the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk Oblast.
He survived but is now being treated for the gunshot wound by a neurosurgery department at a hospital in Kaddivka, in eastern Ukraine, the outlet said.
The Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank, said on Saturday that Mangushev had ties to the private military contractor the Wagner Group.
It also noted that Mangushev gained notoriety for a stunt involving the skull of what he said was a Ukrainian soldier who had died at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
Last summer, Mangushev was filmed brandishing the skull during a heavy metal concert. Per The New Voice of Ukraine, during the recording he called for the destruction of all those who supported the existence of Ukraine.
In my absence yesterday: Does anyone remember Igor Mangushev? The Russian Nationalist PMC “Enot” co-founder who held up a skull of a possible Azovstal defender during a metal concert and ridiculed it.
According to MailOnline, Mangushev has repeatedly called for the murder of Ukrainian civilians in Telegram posts.
The Daily Beast reported that Mangushev also had links to neo-Nazi groups.
Images released on Telegram appear to show a bandaged Mangushev covered in blood, lying on a hospital bed. The Telegraph reported that the photos were shared by Mangushev’s friend Boris Rozhkin, who has been sanctioned by Ukraine for pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda.
“I think we can safely describe this as a hit,” Mark Galeotti, a London-based expert on Russian security and director of Mayak Intelligence, said in a series of tweets about the incident.
In the posts, Galeotti theorized that the shooting could be a “proxy attack” on Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Wagner Group.
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One of the toughest challenges you’ll have when starting a business is building momentum and making a name for yourself. This is especially difficult if you’re surrounded by large corporations, throwing millions (or billions) of dollars into advertising and marketing.
What can you do to stand out?
A niche market is what you’re looking for and in this article, we’ll explain what it is, offer a few examples to help you understand the concept, and share a few tips to begin defining and exploring your niche.
What is a niche market?
A niche market is a subset of the overall market that is interested in a specific product or service. It can be defined by demographics (location, age, gender), interests (hobby, lifestyle), or other factors.
In other words, a niche market is a group of people who are interested in a specific product or service. This can be a great opportunity for small businesses because it allows them to focus on a specific group of people and cater to their needs.
Why target a niche?
When you target a niche, you can focus on meeting the needs of that group of people and cater to their needs. Targeting a niche ultimately allows your business to specialize in a specific area and become known for it.
There are a few reasons why you might want to target a niche:
You have a unique product or service: When you offer something that is not easily found in the marketplace, you have a chance to stand out.
You can be the expert: When you focus on a niche, you can become known as the go-to expert for that product or service. This can help you attract more customers and build trust with your target market.
You can save money: By targeting a specific group of people, you can save on advertising and marketing costs. You won’t have to spend as much money reaching a wider audience.
You can build a community: When you focus on a niche, you can build a community of customers and followers who are interested in what you do. This can help you create loyalty and word-of-mouth marketing.
Examples of niche markets
If the concept of a niche market is still unknown to you then perhaps a few examples will help clarify it. Remember, niche markets can be defined by elements such as demographics (location, age, gender, income, etc.), interests (hobbies, lifestyle, etc), and other factors (job title, industry, etc).
A few examples of niche markets could be:
…and on and on.
You can go one deeper within these to find sub-niches. These refine your audience, letting you get even more focused on the message and offer you’re delivering.
Think of what defines you and realize that you fit into a niche market.
The fact that you’re reading this fits you into the niche market of “entrepreneur” or “business owner”. The information, products, and services mentioned are then catered to your liking based on profiles and research.
See what we mean?
How to find your niche
Now that you got the basics of what a niche market is and its importance when starting a business, let’s now examine several tips and strategies needed to help define your niche and adapt your business to it:
1. Know your target audience
This is the first and most important step in finding your niche. You need to have a clear understanding of who your target audience is and what they’re looking for.
To do this, you can create buyer personas. A buyer persona is a fictional character that represents your ideal customer. This helps you to understand your target audience’s needs, wants, and pain points.
You can create a buyer persona by conducting market research and surveys. Once you have a clear understanding of your target audience, you can begin to cater to their needs.
2. Know your competition
Once you know your target audience, it’s important to research your competition. You need to understand what they’re offering and how they’re catering to their target audience. This will help you to find a way to differentiate your business.
You can research your competition by conducting a competitive analysis. This involves looking at your competitor’s website, social media, marketing materials, and anything else that will give you insight into their business.
3. Find a need that’s not being met
After you’ve researched your target audience and competition, it’s time to find a need that’s not being met. This is an opportunity for you to fill a void in the market and attract customers.
To find a need that’s not being met, you can look at your target audience’s pain points. These are the problems that they’re facing that your business can solve. Once you’ve found a need that’s not being met, you can begin to build your business around it.
4. Build your business around a solution
Now that you’ve found a need that’s not being met, it’s time to build your business around a solution. This involves creating a product or service that meets that need.
To do this, you need to understand what your target audience is looking for and what they need. Once you have a clear understanding of this, you can begin to create a product or service that meets their needs.
5. Create a marketing plan
After you’ve created your product or service, it’s time to start marketing it to your target audience. This is where a marketing plan comes in.
A marketing plan is a roadmap that outlines your marketing strategy and tactics. It includes your goals, budget, and target audience. Without a marketing plan, it will be difficult to effectively market your business and attract customers.
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While all three adult passengers and the pilot died, 11-year-old Laney Perdue suffered only a few broken bones — because her father's last act was to protect her with a hug.
On Saturday afternoon, Mike Perdue and his 11-year-old daughter Laney boarded a small commuter plane bound for Beaver Island on Lake Michigan. They were joined by a couple transporting their two dogs to the vet. But the plane crashed at 2:30 p.m., killing everyone but Laney — who was saved by her father’s hug.
“Her last memory is her dad just grabbed her really, really tight,” said Christie Perdue, Laney’s mother. “And Mike, if you knew him, gave the best, big bear hugs.”
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter training nearby quickly arrived at the scene and airlifted Laney and the pilot, William Julian, to the nearby McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital. Julian died during the airlift, but Laney survived with five broken bones — on the other side of where her dad was seated.
“I believe that it would make sense to me that her injuries were on the one side, and the other side was with her dad, that he was holding her,” Christie said.
“In my heart of hearts, I know that he truly did save her, and he protected her. He was just a beautiful human and loved his community, and he loved Beaver Island. I’m not surprised at all that he did that, that he sacrificed, and he was her hero.”
A father of four, Mike Perdue had a successful career as managing broker and co-owner of the Smith Realty Group in Gaylord, Michigan. He cherished his downtime with trips to Beaver Island and planned to meet his friend and colleague Ryan Wojan there for the first day of deer season on Saturday.
The two fishermen and hunters had decided to make that trip a family affair. Wojan said that Perdue was bringing his daughter along so she could meet up with a family friend. In a twist of fate, Wojan had flown ahead by three hours on the same plane that killed Mike.
According to ABC News, the twin-engine Island Airways plane had departed from Charlevoix, Michigan, around 2 p.m. and was preparing to land at Welke Airport when an unknown error occurred, causing the plane to crash into the tarmac. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the cause of the crash.
“Ten miles out of the island, the pilot radioed in as is standard and everything was status quo, nothing bad reported,” said Sheriff Charles Vondra. “Between then and the crash obviously something bad happened, and I’m not sure what that is yet.”
William Julian became a part-time pilot with Island Airways in April. He had been a teacher in the Traverse City school district for 16 years. Principal Marshall Perkins of East Middle School said Julian was a “devoted educator to the students he served” before his life was cut short.
The other two passengers who died were Kate Leese and Adam Kendall, who had only just moved to Beaver Island to start a vineyard.
“Kate and Adam were meant for each other,” said Amanda Danielle Leese, Kate’s sister. “They lived 20 lives in the time they knew each other. Kate was larger than life. She wanted to experience the world. She wanted to taste it. She wanted to explore it and Adam was right there with her.”
Since the crash, Laney Perdue has undergone two surgeries at the Helen DeVos children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids for the broken bones and fractures she suffered. A GoFundMe campaign created to help with medical bills has already raised over $135,000 out of the $150,000 goal.
The fundraiser’s description explained that Laney Perdue has dealt with the tragic situation like “a trooper” and has already begun talking — and even stood up one day after the accident. And for now, her mother is focusing on her daughter’s recovery while mourning the loss of her husband.
“It was a miracle and a tragedy, all in one day. It’s hard to balance all those emotions,” Christie said.
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She was not only the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army, but Dr. Mary Edwards Walker also managed to survive a Confederate prison and overcome extreme misogyny to earn herself a spot in American history.
Women of the 19th century were expected to wear corsets, bear children, and pursue domestic arts. But Mary Edwards Walker refused to conform to these gender norms. Instead, she attended medical school and became a physician.
When the Civil War broke out, she tried to join the U.S. Army as a doctor but the Union refused to recognize her as a surgeon and pay her like they would a male doctor.
Furious at “the stupidity of this male-dominated system,” Walker pushed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton for years for a paid position within the Army.
Stanton privately complained that unless he got Walker out of Washington, D.C., “this woman will continue to stir up trouble.”
And so on Stanton’s recommendation, Walker was finally hired in a paid position as the first female surgeon in the United States Army.
Walker’s battles didn’t end with the Civil War, though, and she spent the rest of her life fighting for women’s rights.
She even had to fight to keep the Medal of Honor she received for her brazen efforts in the war.
Mary Walker’s Passion For Medicine — And Trousers
Born in upstate New York to progressive parents in 1832, Mary Edwards Walker was destined to become a non-conformist.
Her parents were both abolitionists and encouraged her to seek an education. This was during an era when most medical schools refused to admit women, yet Edwards Walker managed to enroll in Syracuse Medical College as a teenager and earn herself a degree in 1855.
She was only the second woman in the country to become a doctor.
Though Walker married, she refused to promise to “obey” her husband in her wedding vows. She wore pants to the ceremony and even kept her last name.
Together with her husband, who was also a doctor, Dr. Walker tried to open a private practice in Oneida county. But patients were wary of visiting a female physician. After several failed attempts to sustain a private practice — and a failed marriage — Walker looked for a new way to employ her surgical skills.
A Battle Of The Sexes In The Civil War
With the onset of the Civil War in 1861, Walker moved to Washington, D.C. and tried to join the army as a surgeon. But because of her gender, the army refused to recognize her as a legitimate physician and pay her for her service — even though there were less than 100 credentialed surgeons at this time.
So Dr. Walker chose to serve as an unpaid physician for the Union Army in a temporary D.C. hospital. While there, she organized a fund to aid local families of the wounded.
Eager to better serve her country to her skill level, however, Walker moved closer to the battlefront to treat the wounded in Virginia and saw to the casualties at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Walker appealed constantly to the Secretary of War to recognize her as a legitimate army physician and pay her accordingly. Her persistence eventually paid off.
In September 1863, she became the first woman to become a paid U.S. Army surgeon. Yet not everyone welcomed Walker in her new role.
Dr. G. Perin, the medical director of the 52nd Ohio Infantry for instance, declared Walker’s position alongside male physicians to be a “medical monstrosity” and refused to allow her near the troops.
Perin also questioned Walker’s qualifications and had her undergo an in-person exam before a medical board in order to keep her position. She passed.
Walker remained unperturbed by her critics. During her commission with the 52nd Ohio Infantry, she brazenly crossed enemy lines to treat civilians and advocated for progressive methods of treating the wounded. She argued against the common practice of amputating wounded limbs and championed rehabilitation and treatment instead.
Confederate soldiers sneered at Walker and described her as “a thing that nothing but the debased and depraved Yankee nation could produce.” In the hateful words of Captain Benedict J. Semmes:
“She was not good looking, and of course had tongue enough for a regiment of men.”
On April 10, 1864, while treating soldiers in enemy territory, Confederate sentries captured Walker and accused her of spying for the Union. Whether or not she actually was a spy for the Union remains in contention.
Walker nonetheless spent over four months in Richmond’s Confederate prison, Castle Thunder. When one newspaper caught wind of her capture, they reported that: “We must not omit to add that she is ugly and skinny, and apparently above 30 years of age.”
Eventually, the Confederates traded Walker for a captured major.
When the Civil War ended, Walker met with President Andrew Johnson to request a commission as a major. When the president turned her down, Walker visited multiple officials at the War Department to demand recognition for her service.
Finally, in January 1866, the War Department offered Walker a Medal of Honor in lieu of a commission.
Advocating For Women And Running For Congress
Even before she donned a man’s uniform in the Civil War, Walker opted for men’s clothing. She saw her decision to abandon women’s dress as a victory for women’s rights. She anticipated the efforts of American suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by shunning corsets as early as 1840.
In 1897, Walker said:
“I am the original new woman…Why, before Lucy Stone, Mrs. Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony were — before they were, I am…When they began their work in dress reform, I was already wearing pants. I have made it possible for the bicycle girl to wear the abbreviated skirt, and I have prepared the way for the girl in knickerbockers.”
In 1870, Walker was arrested in New Orleans for wearing men’s clothes and accused of homosexuality. When criticized for her clothing, Walker retorted: “I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own clothes.”
A year later, Walker tried — and failed — to register to vote. She testified before Congress twice in support of women’s suffrage. She ran for the U.S. Senate in 1881 and for Congress in 1890.
She found herself increasingly distanced from the center of the women’s rights movement as activists focused their efforts on politics rather than social norms like wearing men’s clothes.
Walker’s Defamation, Later Life, And Legacy
In 1917, Congress voted to rescind Mary Edwards Walker’s Medal of Honor. In fact, 911 civilians who received a Medal of Honor were forced to turn over the tribute.
But when Congress requested Walker return the medal, she refused. She proudly wore it daily, telling the government, “you will receive it over my dead body.” President Jimmy Carter officially reinstated her Medal of Honor in 1977. She was only one of six others to receive this honor.
Walker spent her later years opening her home to women who’d been ostracized for their lifestyles.
When Walker passed away in 1919 at the age of 86, her casket was draped in an American flag and she was buried in a man’s black suit. Just a year later, women received the right to vote.
To this day, Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman — of 3,500 recipients — to have been given a Medal of Honor.
Mary Edwards Walker wasn’t the only person to fight for a Medal of Honor. In World War II, Edward A. Carter risked his life but didn’t receive a Medal of Honor because of his race. And Dr. James Barry hid in men’s clothes for decades to practice medicine in the 19th century. | <urn:uuid:915594d0-6535-4e75-b277-31a74763717c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-edwards-walker | 2023-09-24T23:36:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.977776 | 1,690 |
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It’s almost the end of 2019, so naturally, we are inclined to look back at what has happened in the year so far. There is no surprise that political and economic events are the most common fields of discussion. Yet, among the usual news, we see some quite spectacular things, such as the first photo of a black hole or the first world teen leader in the face of Greta, or the increasing number of countries that have legalized same-sex marriage.
These events are proof that new, much more human topics are gaining our interest quickly. But among science, human rights, and climate change, two more subjects emerge – technology and mental health. Should we be surprised by this combination?
We decided to look at this combination in the automotive industry. The all-time hottest topic – autonomous vehicles, – and the quality that makes us human – our emotions. Looking into these two together, we found something quite peculiar. One of the newest trends in autonomous vehicles is the development of their emotions. “Wait, what?”
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New companies emerge with the core purpose of helping vehicles to be more aware of human emotions. Some of the names include Affectiva, Guardian Optical, Smart Eye, Seeing Machines, Nuance Automotive, BeyondVerbal, and Sensay. All of them have picked their names quite well, don’t you think? They all point to the human features and the emotional benefits they will be bringing to cars. An entirely new development for the automotive industry.
None of the names sound like the big old automotive producers, do they? These companies choose to connect to their target audiences … on a rather human level. They are entering a completely new industry which, literally, did not exist a couple of years ago. And now, they face the task of making a rather new concept friendly and appealing to the regular people. It’s a tough challenge.
Teaching our cars emotional awareness
Naturally, artificial intelligence is at the core of these new tech dashboards. It teaches cars to “understand” the context of human behavior in order to respond in a way that supports human life, health, and happiness.
Today, car technology can do so much already. But with the new developments, vehicles will not only be able to send signals when danger arises but also alter and override the driver’s choices. Not only will technologies understand the way we drive, but they will outsmart us.
Some of the basic human conditions that car technologies will detect are the driver’s level of soberness, stress, confusion, distraction, or sleepiness. But wait, this is only the minimum. Moreover, they will know how to pay attention to other people in the car – the actions and emotional conditions, too.
Why do we need “sensitive” cars?
Why do we need to make cars more sensitive? It sounds a little absurd, really. There are people who lack emotional intelligence, and we are making machines more emotional. Because after all, cars are just machines. Just like a computer or a washing machine. All are man-made items that require humans to operate them.
Why do they need to be sensitive? Sensitive to workload, yes. But why would we want to have a machine that is sensitive to human emotions? The primary reason – safety.
Тechnically, all these companies are working on making automotive technologies more protective of us. Or more protective from us. We can say that, too. Because we know that it is often our own fault when something bad happens on the road.
As much as we want to blame technologies for accidents on the roads, in reality, we should be the ones to blame. According to various researches, the driver is at the core of most car-related accidents. Over 90 percent of all motor vehicle crashes happen due to human error.
It turns out we need to have guardians with artificial intellect to protect us from ourselves.
Data shows that drivers get distracted by things that are not directly related to road traffic and conditions. Such would be a nearby animal or a coffee spill in the car. If you are traveling with kids, the chances of distraction get even higher. How often do you look at the car radio when a sad song comes up and you want to change the station? Yes, that’s a potential disaster right there.
Are we OK with emotionally intelligent cars?
Let’s be honest about this. There are too many questions regarding the ethical perspective of the question. How can artificial intelligence make ethical decisions, really?
Researchers and automakers have been conducting studies to determine the basics principles for guiding the ethical decisions of self-driving vehicles. Thankfully, there are some principles people agree on. This study shows that on average, people want to spare human lives over animals, to save more lives over fewer, and to prioritize young over elderly. Somehow, these decisions are in harmony with global moral norms.
Yet, what happens when we look at more specific topics? For example, how does a vehicle treat a person who is jaywalking?
Some people are quite tolerant of this. And there are others who want to punish a jaywalker every time they see one. How does a vehicle decide what to do? If we zoom out a bit from the individual perspective, we will see that there are cultural factors that also play a role in our decisions.
Some cultures are more tolerant and protective of the community, others are more individualistic. Maybe Hofstede Insights should also have a say here. And even then, we see that autonomous vehicles will have a hard time evaluating ambiguous situations. When we consider the cultural differences in our moral understanding, things don’t seem as clear. People express their emotions differently, for various reasons across the world.
Moreover, we should question the reliability of such studies, too. There’s often a disconnect between what people say they feel and what they actually feel. This makes it hard to capture emotions in a trustworthy way and use the data as a reliable source to make decisions.
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The safety of autonomous vehicles is under question because there isn’t enough data to back it up. Probably that’s how it also was at the start of the automobile era, too. No one had enough information to prove that cars are useful and safe. It took time, quite a bit of marketing, and audacity. Nobody talked about cars being emotional back then. It was quite a rational argument to prove why a car is better than a horse. It’s a machine, it’s all mechanics.
Now it seems like we are trying to make cars a bit like horses. Even though people don’t ride horses for transportation purposes in most parts of the world anymore, they are still a subject of interest for researchers. In fact, studies show that horses can recognize human emotions.
The Independent shares insights from more recent research that these animals can not only pick up on a person’s mood but have a “memory for emotion” that guides their future interactions with an individual.
People in the past did not need research to prove that. From the moment they owned a horse, they started building a relationship with it. Just like relating to any other sort of animal, this process goes through understanding and teaching. And in the end, a person can receive exactly what they want from the horse.
During riding, the horse would be alert, both subject to his rider’s commands, and also aware of his/her state. Whenever a horse sees a threat on the road, it would gallop to the side, even if its master pulled the bridle to go forward, wouldn’t it? A horse has its own emotions and character.
Going forward to conventional vehicles, it seems like the process is somewhat reversed. Once the vehicle is manufactured, it is the driver’s task to understand how it operates and learn how to work with it. A driver cannot really teach the car how to operate independently. He/she just has to learn how to drive it and adapt his/her driving skills based on personal condition, and the weather and traffic outside.
Now, with autonomous vehicles, it feels like we are going back to the two-sided relationship that people had with horses. Each can recognize the emotions of the other. Each can react protectively when the other can’t.
Should we stop nay-saying?
All of this leads to one simple conclusion. Maybe a self-driving car is the upgraded version of a horse? More so than we thought previously. It sounds a little funny and absurd, and it will for quite some time. Yet, this comparison might make us more open to autonomous vehicles.
While before we were asking questions on how an emotional self-driving car operates and how safe it is, now we want to know more about its personality.
Does this new feature give an autonomous vehicle… a soul? Does it make it equal to humans?
Would a person have to find a match when choosing a self-driving vehicle? Will there be a special one that matches one’s emotions and character?
And what would happen when a car gets emotional? Can other cars sense that, too? Is there such a thing as automotive empathy?
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There have been a number of stories about the new Boeing 797 aircraft.
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It is a very cool looking aircraft. Sadly, according to Boeing’s Blog it’s just not true.
Yes, too good to be true, indeed, Walter. Someone was having a bit of fun with PhotoShop perhaps. Boeing is not planning to build a 1,000 passenger commercial airplane dubbed the “797,” based on the blended wing body (BWB) concept or any other futuristic concept. It’s certainly not in our commercial market forecast, which goes out for 20 years. We think the commercial airplane market favors point-to-point routes, and we’re developing the 787 as the perfect match to help meet that demand. | <urn:uuid:b72cc2bf-064e-4308-a964-e5b496a1f849> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://amateurtraveler.com/boeing-797-to-good-to-be-true-sadly-yes/ | 2023-09-24T23:55:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.961587 | 325 |
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On Monday evening, a huge bombshell dropped from Turin. Juventus announced that club President Andrea Agnelli, Vice President Pavel Nedved and the entire board of directors were stepping down.
In 1934, Italy won the World Cup, even though it was the first time they had entered the tournament. Angelo Schiavo finished as second-top scorer with four goals, and remains Bologna’s all-time top scorer with 252 in 361 appearances.
As the World Cup begins in Qatar, one major nation is conspicuous by its absence.
Since winning the tournament in 2006, Italy has failed to qualify for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, and failed to get out of the Group Stage of the competition in 2010 and 2014.
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Bill Gates finally takes this public, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's D conference and leaked blogging. "Microsoft is also betting on mesh networks -- Gates believes that by spreading WiFi backhall among large numbers of clients, WiFi will facilitate broadband for everyone that may serve to replace cellular networks under many circumstances. Gates predicts mesh networks will be mainstream in the next 5 years and he's presumably already looking to build software to address the problems associated with the multiplicity of base stations."The bolded section is my emphasis. OK, so MS plans to build wireless/mesh networking into every product. This suggests a couple of things.
Now we'll wait for the other part of this shoe to drop.
- MS is going to go up against service providers and/or vendors like NT, Cisco, etc.
- Two -- you think the recent Blaster worm was bad?!?
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Here is the link to the article: The Weird World of Hydrogels: How They’ll Change Health Care I wish to discuss this recent article, posted by Web MD, a major source of information for medical doctors. It discusses Hydrogels, the very platform of the bioweapon mRNA software program that has been installed into two thirds of humanity without their consent.
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Thanks, Dr. Ana. I pray that hydrogel/ mRNA has not yet got into my sacred God-made body! Very worried now about what foods it is in, even organic vegetables. I’ve joined a CSA program to get local produce delivered: Community Supported Agriculture. Bless you.
I'm very glad that you mentioned the self-healing capabilities of these polymers. During my thesis, I had a colleague who was synthesizing self-healing PIB (polyisobutylene) derivates. As fascinating it was, I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that almost 7 years later that this specific property will be misused to intentionally harm and kill people. Long story short: Every credible scientist I know from my studies and work got the shot without even questioning it. The real problem is people who think they acted in good faith. Toxic positivity leads to a distorted worldview. I reckon most of them are unable to face the harsh truth and prefer sleepwalking until it's too late.
”Shapeshifting substances”. Interesting word choice in one of the excerpts. Isn’t this the way Satan has often been described - as “shapeshifting”?
Careful visiting the dentists folks, heads up!
In this study, a lidocaine-loaded Pluronic® F68-reduced graphene oxide hydrogel was developed to achieve sustained release of lidocaine.
Lidocaine-loaded reduced .... graphene oxide hydrogel .... for prolongation of effects of local anesthesia: In vitro and in vivo analyses
Weifan Li , Guangqi Zhang , Xiaoxia Wei
PMID: 33487069 DOI: 10.1177/0885328220988462
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Jesus Christ: "Get behind me, Satan."
Wow, Dr. Ana, just - wow...
Thank you for posting so much important information for everyone to be aware of, and for all that you do! 🙏
They may be "non-toxic" by themselves on a table, but not once inside our bodies. Incredible what they're pushing people to accept.
Hydrogels can also make us more susceptible to EMF, or protect us when negatively charged, this is why structured water is the ultimate way to build our own native hydrogel: https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/water-insulates-emf
Einstein said genius is knowing when to stop. Where did I hear that? These fools of AI are not geniuses, they are stupid fools.
The military-industrial complex has turned everything into a weapon. How incredibly stupid.
The Satanic globalists have one really big problem in implementing their plans and there is not a thing they can do about it. If the prophecies of Garabandal are correct, and I believe they are, then God is coming to straighten things out. Hopefully some of us will still be around to witness this.
Completely off topic, - it appears that the pathologist, the wonderful Dr. Arne Burkhardt, just died unexpectedly 😳🥺
Old timer Delgado, using primitive electrodes, controlled critter behavior during the 60s. His research was the foundation for today's nano-hydrogel Nazi pharmas.
Going over some of the mRNAs internals mixed with same products from decades of chemtrails, now noting GMOs and many vaccines plus dental anesthesias and more, I suspect mind/perception control is not new. People have inertia in normal conditions. With controlled perception, the Nazi guiders simply tweak new perception built upon old conditioning. Mix that with premature aging which creates illness that assists acceptance of modified perception.
Next thought was that solid clues of modified behavior should be apparent as observed in old timer married couples. The freak show that Squatter in the WH launched had to have precursor intros into internal nano-hydos. There has to be solid evidence of this behavioral control all around us.
This is also a pretty comprehensive paper on Current Understanding of Hydrogels for Drug Release & Tissue engineering, May 2022 https://www.mdpi.com/2310-2861/8/5/301 (note authors all have Chinese-looking names) from the Collection Hydrogel in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - https://www.mdpi.com/journal/gels/topical_collections/hydrogels_tissue I'm trying to find out whether they're injecting this stuff - or planning to - into psychiatric patients as new generation antipsychotics. Haven't found anything yet but wouldn't put it past them.
"...less likely to attack ....."
Jesus. "we don't know but we are gonna use it anyway...too bad if it turns out that all this hydrogel kills you in about 5 years".
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A 100-year-old tortoise has been rescued from a South African warehouse where it was found chained up and ready to be used in making traditional medicines by a trainee witch doctor.
The tortoise was found at a Pick n Pay warehouse in the urban area of Philippi in the South African province of Western Cape where management said it was being kept there by a staff member without their permission.
Animal Welfare Society (AWS) of South Africa said they were informed about the chained female leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis) by an anonymous tipoff.
Senior inspector Mark Levendal visited the scene on 9th October and found the 100-year-old tortoise shackled by a five-metre long chain through a hole in its shell.
Levendal said the large reptile was also malnourished and straining to reach food.
An AWS spokesperson said: “Our senior inspector Mark Levendal was alerted to the plight of a leopard tortoise that was cruelly tethered with a long chain and kept on the property of Pick n Pay in Philippi.
“He was unable to establish who the tortoise belonged to or how it ended up there.”
The AWS said that the tortoise had been bought there by a worker of Liebentrans Logistics who allegedly got it from an uncle as a present.
The worker is said to be a trainee sangoma, otherwise known as a witch doctor.
Following a meeting with the warehouse managers, AWS said that they are satisfied that the tortoise was apparently kept there without their prior knowledge and that the company has already launched an investigation into the matter with a view to consequences for those responsible.
Officials added that the leopard tortoise’s age was established by counting the number of rings on its shell.
The tortoise is prized because different parts of it are used in traditional medicine to treat a range of human ailments.
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