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Samantha and Dominik are expecting their first child at the end of October. We wanted to find somewhere with a waterfall and multiple photo spots, so we chose Vickery Creek Falls in Roswell. It was a gorgeous day, cool, and miraculously no humidity. I would definitely recommend getting there early in the morning or late afternoon, as there isn't a lot of shade - especially in front of the falls. If your client is up to it, a quick hike down to the rocks by the falls makes for some GORGEOUS photos! | <urn:uuid:83ba0143-9579-46b4-8262-151ca1b1a05e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.blissbyhp.com/blog/roswell-maternity-session-samantha-dominik/ | 2023-09-25T00:00:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.978679 | 111 |
Hi everyone, it’s Tina here. I mixed Joset Designs and Annette’s release to create this sweet Hello Card. See below for the steps to create your own card.
Step 1 – Trim White Soft Finish Cardstock to 4 1/2″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″ and fold in half for a horizontal top fold card. (A2)
Step 2 – Trim White Soft Finish Cardstock to 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Apply inks of your choice using 4 colors. Pink, Yellow, Teal and Purple. If the inks are water reactive then sprinkle some water and with a paper towel remove the excess. Once dry adhere to card front using 3mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape.
Step 3 – Diecut Playful Flowers using Green Cardstock and White Cardstock. Fussy cut the White Flowers and adhere to the Green die cut using Kids Choice Glue.
Step 4 – Diecut Winter Bird using White Soft Finish. Using a blender brush apply ink for the die cut pieces. Assemble using Kids Choice Glue and adhere to card using Foam Tape.
Step 5 – Diecut Everyday Words using White Cardstock for Shadow and Teal Cardstock for Word. Assemble and adhere to card front using Kids Choice Glue.
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Home decor: which indoor and outdoor planters to choose?
Outdoor pots and planters must be made of resistant, insulating and porous materials! The pots must be able to withstand both frost and exposure to the sun so that you can leave them outside all year round. While indoor planters should above all please you aesthetically!
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8 materials to choose for your outdoor pots
How to plant plants in a flowerpot?
- Make sure the pot is big enough. In some cases, you may need to repot your plant into a larger container every two or three years.
- Lay a draining layer of gravel or pebbles of at least 5 to 8 cm on the bottom. This will allow water to drain through the existing holes in the bottom. Then apply a geotextile felt that will retain the soil during watering so that it does not block the drainage holes.
- After the flowerpot is prepared, you can start planting. Form the root ball by gently removing dead or damaged roots. Now place the root ball in the soil and tamp it down. If necessary, protect the installation from the wind, for example with wooden slats. A layer of pine bark or pebbles can be used as mulch.
Stylish exterior: balcony plants in pots and planters
Our idea: use a planter to bring your pots together
Are your green outdoor plants dazzlingly beautiful and the plant pots impress with their design? Aren’t you a little overwhelmed by all those plants in the middle of garden furniture? We have a great idea of how you can fix all of this. Get your hands dirty and design your own flower planter! They are available in many models: oval, angular, round or stepped. Place your flower pots in the planter and create an original composition for a stylish exterior.
Would you like to decorate your outdoor area with beautiful balcony plants? Take a look at our exclusive assortment on Homary and find chic flower pots and cachepots.
What is the difference between a pot and a vase?
The vase is a decorative object and used to put cut flowers in water. Today, it is found in different shapes: rounded, in an XXL version, with figure patterns or even in the shape of an ice cream cone. The pot, when it is used, to put plants or living flowers with soil. We especially love the vases with blue patterns inspired by the Orient to give an original touch or even the large vases to put on the ground to put pampas grasses, always very trendy.
What is special about potted plants?
Unlike many other plants, potted plants can give you years of enjoyment. Pots or planters? The two are often confused. Actually, the cachepot is used to conceal the ordinary flowerpot and has a decorative function. Cachepots are often made of wood, clay, stone or terracotta. But a concrete, metal or even plastic planter can also be very refined. Potted plants find their place in the garden, on the balcony or terrace as well as inside the house. They create an atmosphere of well-being thanks to their purifying or relaxing properties.
Some potted plants are ideal screens. Thanks to their imposing size, they protect from the gaze of neighbors or passers-by. As they are planted in containers, you can protect them from bad weather in winter by storing them in a better location, sheltered from the wind and cold. Therefore, you can grow exotic plants in pots that would otherwise not survive in the garden. There are several factors to consider when looking after your plants properly: light, temperature, wind, rain, watering, fertilizing and repotting. Care instructions vary depending on the potted plants you have. | <urn:uuid:988cc732-0ad3-4436-a9ea-1273c72098db> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.blogsflu.com/home-decor-which-indoor-and-outdoor-planters-to-choose/ | 2023-09-24T23:16:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.942178 | 806 |
Toronto bar known for its burgers has permanently closed
A Toronto bar known for its scratch-made burgers and other comfort food fare has abruptly announced they are now permanently closed.
The Mutt was known for the way they made every element of their burgers from scratch, including the bun and even the cheese.
They also served items like roti and Dutch-Indonesian-style fries with peanut sauce.
A pop-up project called Philly in the Six had taken over the space for the last little while, serving Philly cheesesteak sandwiches instead of the restaurant's usual burgers.
Now, it looks like those signature Mutt burgers aren't going to be served in the Dundas West space ever again. However, it looks like all is not lost for fans of the food at The Mutt.
"The Mutt officially closes today," reads an announcement posted to social media on August 18, signed by James, Jodi and Mani.
"We want to thank everyone who supported us through the years and especially through the pandemic. We hope to be serving some fan favourites at a new spot very soon."
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Have you ever fought what felt like a losing battle with exercise and overeating? That was me, from adolescence until age 41. And then something happened that finally changed everything.
I had struggled most of my life with yo-yo dieting, and had trouble sticking with exercise. As a kid, I wasn’t the athletic type and dreaded gym class.
Over the years, my weight fluctuated by almost 100 pounds. I was classified as obese for my height. More importantly, I just wasn’t feeling my best. I was stiff and sore a lot, and often lacked energy, though medical tests came back normal.
But this time, I went on to successfully stick with exercising and improving my eating. I changed my body. And I did this while working full-time at a sedentary job and raising my family.
Now, I’m certified as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor, health coach and senior fitness specialist. I became a fitness professional after this personal transformation inspired me to make a career pivot.
It all changed because one day I had enough. I was truly sick and tired of feeling sick and tired! I felt old before my time. I wondered, “If I feel like this now, what’s it going to be like for me in 10 or 20 years?”
Feeling defeated with weight loss, I decided I was done with strict dieting, done with losing only to gain it all back. But I figured if nothing else, I needed to get my body moving to try to alleviate the stiffness.
I found a barely used treadmill for sale for $100 – a price too good to pass up – and thought, “Walking: I can do that!”
This time around, I decided to start small with exercise. I started walking on it for 15 minutes at a scheduled time every day. Why 15 minutes? Because I knew I could do that without making excuses.
The next week I did 16 minutes a day. Each week I added another daily minute or two. Gradually, I increased speed as well as time.
By adding a little bit each week, I worked up to an hour of exercise per day. But this was radically different than in the past. Back then, I thought exercising meant you had to do an entire hour-long workout video. The problem was, I wasn’t yet conditioned for that, so it felt overwhelmingly hard. No wonder I gave up all those years. I didn’t realize that it’s alright to start small and to work your way up to more.
My initial efforts were small and doable this time. But – and this is critically important – I was faithful in doing it every day so that it became a habit.
I wasn’t losing weight the first few months, but I didn’t give up like I had every other time in the past.
I realized I had started feeling better. My legs were getting stronger. I didn’t feel stiff and sore when I got up from my desk like I used to. I had more energy, and was even more cheerful. I was truly getting better, physically and emotionally. So I said, “Well, if I don’t lose weight then so be it. But I’m not giving up.”
I didn’t want to go back to feeling sick and tired all the time.
That was the turning point. I made exercise about my health and quality of life, instead of just the scale. Everything finally clicked for me.
All the effort I’d been putting into exercise made me want to eat better, too. I started with small changes – no more drastic dieting. I added healthy habits over time by focusing on just one new thing each week. Things like having smaller portions, taking my lunch instead of grabbing fast-food, and choosing more natural foods and fewer processed.
Thanks to exercise and good nutrition, I became energetic instead of lethargic, happier instead of stressed, stronger instead of sore. Not overnight, but it happened. A year later, I was no longer the same person I had been. I was hooked on healthy living. Fifteen years later, I still am.
That’s not to say that every day is perfect or I never get off track or overeat. I’ve let go of perfection and instead strive for balance. I’ve made exercise and nutrition a regular part of my life, and when I stumble, I don’t give up. I don’t want to go back to how I used to be, and that is powerful motivation to keep going.
The bottom line is, when you are healthy and feel good, it benefits every area of your life. You can have the full, active life you want, and be there for your family and friends. When you feel great, when you have your health, you can do anything.
I learned that a healthy lifestyle isn’t about the scale: it’s about wellness of body, mind and spirit. It’s also a lifelong journey of learning, changing strategy when needed and overcoming challenges.
My life was completely changed for the better, and I was so grateful for this that I felt a calling and a new purpose. Now it’s my mission to help others live their best life, too.
It’s not too late to turn over a new leaf. You’re never too old to become your best you, and live your best life now. You just have to be willing to try again, with a fresh approach. Take that small, wobbly first step – and keep going.
Join me for exercise classes! I’m leading two free, live online classes sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) Raleigh location – Chair Fit and Wellness in Motion. Visit my website to sign up for my exercise class or more information.
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A look at the different review screens in Blue Link including Sales Order Review and Purchase Order Review.
0:00 - 0:16 Review screens in Blue Link ERP are very powerful tools for managing transactions, particularly where there are large volumes. In this training session, we'll explore the use of the most frequently used review screens in Blue Link ERP.
0:17 – 1:03 Now, before we start to unpack this, a useful tip if you're looking for review screens is to simply go to the search bar and type in review and you will immediately see all the menu options that have different review screens. Using the sales order review screen as our initial example, we can see all the sales orders that are currently open, that have not been posted and put to bed. We can see all kinds of information about them, including things like order status, order type, where things are in the process, where the customer is, what the destination is, the shipping method, etc. As well as important. Information such as the fill percentage, how much of this order could we fill, and a health indicator that shows us in green or red whether this order is ready to move to the next status or is blocked for whatever reason.
1:04 – 1:23 Now you can click on the plus sign next to any one of these orders to see the details behind the order, what's on the actual individual line items. And we can double click on the sales order number at any stage to actually open up the sales order screen and work with this individual order. The real power of the review screen comes in the ability to view only the orders that we need to do something with and then take actions on those orders.
1:24 – 1:40 I'm going to quickly walk you through how to filter the orders that you see on the screen and then deal with a group of orders. Let's say for example, we'd like to see all the orders that are new that have not yet been no works been done on them. We could go over here, right click and say filter by selection.
1:41 – 2:08 Now we're only seeing the new orders. If that's something we're going to use on a regular basis, we can save it using the SAVE update feature up here and reuse it going forward. But I'm going to take you to the next level, which is we can apply an additional filter. We can actually apply it almost as many filters as we like. Let's say we're only interested in those for which we don't have. Customer purchase order, so we can right click on one of the empty cells and say filter by selection.
2:09 – 2:23 And now we're seeing new sales orders for which we do not have a customer purchase order. Now maybe we'd like to save that for reuse so we can do that here. Given the appropriate filter state name and save it.
2:24 – 2:46 Now we return to the sales order review screen as it was before we filtered it, but instead of having to manually apply those two filters, we can simply pull down the list of appropriate filters. Pick that one. And we now have the same filter set. Now we can do things with this. For example, maybe what we want to do is generate an e-mail, or maybe what we want to do is change the status to on hold or something like that.
2:47 – 3:10 So what we could do is we could say let's select all of those. We may want to unselect the one that is red because it means that there's no information on this order at all. And then what we can do is say take actions and change the status to On hold, simply click the take action selector button and all of these statuses are changed to hold as you will see.
3:11 – 3:21 You'll notice that only that one remains here, and if we remove the filter, you'll see a whole lot of orders that are now on hold. All of these ones over here.
3:22 – 3:43 Now here I've applied a filter called pickable as I’m seeing the orders that are available to pick. So if I'm the warehouse manager I could release these to our handhelds. Or if we're still using paper based for example I might select these and say go ahead and print the pink slips. And maybe what we want to do is change the status to busy being picked for example. Which we could do the same thing here.
3:44 - 3:55 You could use the same thing to generate your packing slips, to generate electronic invoices, and ultimately even to go ahead and post the invoices.
3:56 – 4:18 Now some of the tool for quotes, if you do a lot of quoting your business allows you to manage the quotes that you have opened at the moment when you first come into the screen, you're seeing all the open quotes, the quotes that have neither been cancelled nor accepted and turned into sales orders. The same basic rules apply in terms of creating filters and saving filters, clicking on the plus sign to expand or double clicking on the quote number to open the quote itself if you want to do more work.
4:19 – 4:53 But the other thing that you can do over here is you can check on this little box and include cancelled quotes and now you will actually see your history of all the quotes so you can actually do an analysis or drill back down to a specific quote. Let's say customer says that you issued a quote for me years ago, and I'd like to revisit that quote, no problem. We include the Cancelled quotes and then we could filter it down by customer. So we could say customer begins with Geo. And now we're seeing those quotes and hopefully we can find the quote that the customer is looking for very easily that way.
4:54 – 5:26 And of course we once again have the select options and the take actions button that allow us to do various actions on multiple selected quotes. Let's take a look now at the purchase order review screen. Once again, the same rules apply visa vie filters and filter sets, as well as the plus sign expanding to see the line items and double clicking on the purchase order number to open the purchase order screen. And again, we'll take actions we can do things like sending a bunch of purchase orders or approving or changing the status.
5:27 – 5:42 We can also see on screen, very useful, the status information we've got back from the vendor where appropriate, have they confirmed the PO, do we have the confirmation number, et cetera, but it basically gives you the same information.
5:44 - 6:08 I will briefly complete this video by pointing at the other two review screens, probably less used than the three we've covered. But for those of you that are doing production, assembly, bill of materials and create production lots, we have a production review screen that allows us to see all the production lots that are currently in progress that have been started but not yet finished, we can again expand to see the components that are involved.
6:09 – 6:39 You'll note that in this case, the auto checkboxes will take action buttons because you cannot really manage the manufacture of multiple different lots in a bulk basis in a true CMU manufacturing scenario. But you do have the ability, of course, to double click on the lot number to open up their production line in order to continue advancing and progressing it and at least on the screen you have an idea of where we are when things happen, when it was started, when the raw materials or components were issued, whether or not it's being completed, etcetera.
6:42 – 7:04 And finally for the accounting people, accounts payable voucher review screen. Our understanding is that most Blue Link users tend to enter and post accounts payable vouchers in one step. But there are companies that enter voucher, however may be a clerk enter a voucher and have somebody else review it and then go ahead and post them.
7:05 – 7:54 Review Screen here works the same way we can again see the general Ledger distributions by clicking on the plus sign. We can select multiple vouchers, if we have permission. For example, we could take actions and go ahead and post these vouchers. If you are using our document management addon DocuWare, you're also able from here to view the image of the accounts payable voucher and this is one of the most frequent uses of this screen if you are using DocuWare and you're importing or scanning supplier invoices directly into Docuware DocuWare can create these unposted accounts payable vouchers for you, and then the first time you ever have to encounter them is from the screen where you review them, make sure that everything is correctly allocated. You can go ahead and post them, or double click on the invoice number to open the app voucher screen and complete the notion.
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I'm pretty excited and nervous at the same time for my very first blog. If you haven't seen us before, my name is Hannah and I'm the creator behind bluewine studio, sister owned small business in Southern California. Growing up in California, Hanbi, my sister and I've always dreamed of having our own studio and creating what we love, which led us to start our own business back in 2018. At our studio, we make candles, collect everything aesthetic for home decor, work on fun projects, and more!
Now that we are five years into our business and it's already half way through 2023, I decided it's time to break out of my comfort zone. While our Instagram page has been a great platform for sharing our love for aesthetic lifestyle featuring our handmade candles and minimal home decor collection, I couldn't help but feel there was something missing. I felt like I wasn't connecting to the audience. So here I am ready to share my experiences, thoughts, and passions with all of you!
To be honest, blogging was never an option for me. Writing hasn't been a part of my life since my university days and expressing myself through words has always been difficult. But deep down, writing and talking about myself was something I always wanted to do. It takes courage to open up and share your experiences with the world that I've come to realize that this blog might be the perfect next step for me. I want to build a community with an authentic and genuine connection.
I'm still unsure where this blog will take me, but I'm excited to see where it leads. For now, I'll be sharing bits and pieces of my life lately - the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Stay tuned for my upcoming posts, where I'll talk about the creative process behind our candles, tips for small business owners, designing aesthetic home, and so much more.
Thank you for following along and I can't wait to share more in the next blog ♥
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(Bloomberg) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo once again pushed for changes to the central bank’s charter to task monetary authorities with supporting jobs growth along with maintaining currency and price stability.
“Bank Indonesia’s mandate is not only to manage the exchange rate stability but also inflation stability. It would be better if job creation was included,” Widodo, 61, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Thursday.
The latest draft of the proposed changes to the central bank charter seen by Bloomberg in June includes an expanded mandate on economic growth and job creation. It would also allow Bank Indonesia to buy sovereign bonds in the primary market during financial crises to formalize what was a temporary “burden sharing” arrangement to aid the government’s pandemic response.
It’s the third straight year the government is pursuing the measure first proposed in 2020. The plan had drawn criticisms that it could compromise central bank autonomy. The parliament has resumed discussions on the bill.
“We believe that the financial sector needs reform that strengthens coordination to maintain financial system stability, especially after the pandemic crisis,” Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said at a parliamentary hearing on the bill on Thursday.
The president’s re-emphasis on the law is “telling” and likely signals the passage of such amendments in parliament, said Wellian Wiranto, an economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. in Singapore. At a time when inflation is the market’s top concern, it raises the question of how the bank could strike the right balance between employment and price control, he said.
“That may be especially more crucial given Bank Indonesia’s expressed reluctance to hike rate thus far, even against the lingering inflation pressure,” Wiranto said.
Bank Indonesia doubled-down on its dovish stance at a separate meeting on Thursday, saying it doesn’t see the need to raise interest rates despite inflation at a seven-year high, as it looks to keep supporting an economy showing signs of a sustained rebound.
When asked during the interview whether Bank Indonesia is due for a rate hike, Jokowi, as the president is popularly known, said that it’s “not the government’s business” to interfere in the central bank’s decisions.
“The BI interest rate is a central bank matter,” he said. “They have their own calculation on why they don’t increase rates.”
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We’re now just passing the two-year mark since many high-profile companies introduced the idea of utilizing the Internet to revolutionize our industry (and many others). Wall Street refers to this time frame as the “dotcom” period – when many promises were made but few were kept.
A year or so ago, many of us began wondering when the “promised” products would become available to revolutionize our industry. Few materialized. Consequently, the stock market crash reflected this lack of tangible revenue-generating solutions. Investors began to prefer profitable ventures that made sense, rather than burning millions of dollars each month to make people aware of the “possibilities.”
Though I may sound like I’m against e-commerce, this is far from the truth (and I assure you that my 401k profile reflects this). I believe 100 percent in technology and that new ideas will change our industry.
How will new ideas change us? Let me count the ways. Let’s take a look, for example, at how parts handling will change:
- Parts will be delivered to our door when needed without going through the telephone or fax.
- Parts ordering will be automated so when the job is scheduled, parts will be identified and scheduled for delivery.
- If recycled parts are warranted, they’ll also be scheduled, and digital images will be sent to verify condition.
- When parts arrive, parts prices will already have been verified in our management system so we only have to verify that we received them.
- The status of the vehicle will be automatically updated on the Web when the parts arrive.
- Supplements for parts increases will automatically be tracked and produced when a final bill is sent.
- Funds for the job will be transmitted within days directly to the bank, and your accounting system will be updated to reflect the payments.
And these are just the parts handling changes that are in store.
But before these – and other – changes can occur, there will be failures. This is one of the greatest dangers in attempting to be a market leader – as evidenced by the many Internet vendors who had great ideas but couldn’t execute them. But the thing to remember here is that it’s a double-edged sword. You can get cut during this “live and learn” period, but if you’re too slow to get involved in e-commerce – or refuse to get involved at all – you may be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
So what types of e-commerce options are available and just what obstacles still need overcome before we can put our failures behind us? Let’s take a look …
E-commerce solutions can be broken down into three basic categories:
- Business to Customer (B2C)
- Business to Business (B2B)
- Business to Employee (B2E)
Sometimes companies will concentrate on a single category, or they may offer solutions that will be included in more than one category. They can also accomplish this with a single product or program, or they offer individual products that fall into one or more of the three main categories.
Let’s take a look at all three of these in more detail.
Business to Customer
B2C offerings are currently the most common and were once thought to be the “get rich” idea of the 1990s. This offering is designed to sell a business’ products and services directly to the end user, who are normally retail customers.
A recently published article in “Business 2.0” magazine, citing a Forrester Research Inc. study, projected consumer Internet sales to grow to $108 billion by 2003. Knowing that years ago B2C sales figures were minimal but are now projected to reach $108 billion causes many companies to wish to be the next Amazon, eBay or mega shopping site. And why not? Selling over the Internet can and has significantly reduced what it costs businesses to sell products.
And B2C offerings are a part of our global industry in many areas, i.e. aftermarket parts (not crash parts per se, but wheels, accessories, etc.). Currently, aftermarket sales have surpassed $142 billion worldwide. Definitely a far cry from the small corner accessory shops that lined the streets in the 1960s and ’70s. The Internet has made availability simple: If ordered by 5 p.m. today, it’ll be there tomorrow – all without leaving your home or computer.
What about B2C and collision repair? There are thousands of sites that can be considered at least partly B2C in our industry. They include such offerings as:
- CollisionServices.com – provider of body shop supplies, equipment and forms for our industry.
- NAPAOnline.com – provider of auto-related parts, supplies, and accessories.
- OnTool.com – provider of services and tools.
- SnapOn.com – provider of tools and equipment.
Most of these types of offerings include a “shopping cart” system allowing anyone (normally with a credit card) to window shop, research products and purchase merchandise directly from the company without sales personnel or representatives bothering them. This can be very enticing to many people.
There are also some very industry-specific offerings with a slightly different spin. Some may argue that they fit more within the next category, B2B, but they also interact directly with your customers, which qualifies them as a B2C offering as well.
These include vehicle status programs, which keep customers up-to-date as to the status of their vehicles. (Though these offerings are minimal today, they’re expected to increase within a year.) Progress.com currently offers this service and Mitchell International’s emitchell.com will soon follow. A few management systems have also begun to offer this uploading capability to allow customers to view their vehicle’s status.
Also, CSI companies will be developing and offering the option of web-based CSI interviews. Instead of calling customers to survey them, they’ll offer customers the ability to go to the Internet to fill out the shop survey.
Business to Business
Most analysts agree that B2B offerings will be the biggest boon. The Forrester Research Inc. study that projected consumer Internet sales to grow to $108 billion by 2003 also predicted that B2B sales during the same period could grow as large as $1 trillion.
B2B offerings involve your business with a product, service or program from another business. These offerings can be as simple as you connecting online to a business’ inventory of products for purchase as a wholesale account. They can also be as robust as managing your payroll, accounting, estimating, digital imaging, insurance assignments, parts ordering and tracking, etc.
When outsiders – and insiders – first looked at the revenue potential in our industry with e-commerce B2B offerings, they looked at supply chain integration as the grand slam. Heck, at the time, our industry was full of proprietary software products. Heck, we could barely bring another vendor’s estimate into our management system cleanly. (Can we now?) Not to mention, generally one of the biggest frustrations to shop owners is getting and managing parts.
This is where the new industry dotcoms focused last year because many of their pricing models include them as middlemen who received, most often, transaction fees from the businesses they direct the services to – and not us, the users of the service. Because our industry generates $10 billion per year in parts and materials transactions and a small fee of 1 percent will generate millions of dollars in constant revenue yearly, it’s no wonder our industry has been attractive to investors and supply chain product offerings.
The dollars, however, are staggering when it comes to transactions for parts and other supply chain integration with paint vendors. And without complete supply chain integration, many dotcoms had problems being able to fill orders properly.
What’s the problem?
They can’t currently integrate with the dealer’s, the manufacturer’s or the shop’s management system (in most cases). This means shops and dealers must have other software and probably more hardware (computer) to process the order, forcing them to perform double entry. It’s still certainly better than faxing or telephone calls, but for the dotcoms to prove their worth, their processes need to be seamless. Only then will the transaction fee they charge be worth it. The same holds true for recycled and aftermarket parts and paint.
Without a doubt, improvement to our industry’s supply chain is still badly needed, and it needs to benefit all parties in the chain: the manufacturer, the distributor and the users (us) – not just the middlemen.
This wasn’t believed to be possible until ADP, CCC and Reynolds and Reynolds formed ChoiceParts.com and, earlier this year, filed an antitrust suit against Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler to open access to the data necessary to make this possible. ChoiceParts allows ADP and CCC management systems to integrate into the parts-ordering program (Reynolds and Reynolds) used by the dealers. The intent of the eventual product offering is to connect our industry (the user) directly to the manufacturing and distributing of parts for the best pricing and delivery time. This connection will benefit all up-line in the supply chain, as well as inventory management and production needs. For example, dealers will have better control of their inventory needs, the warehouse will have a better idea of the dealer’s needs and the manufacturer will have a better idea of the warehouse’s needs. This is called supply chain integration. The final piece will interface our estimating and/or management systems into the ordering process, which can be automated and is less “paper and entry” dependent.
A few of the other companies currently offering online parts ordering (but not necessarily integration) include:
- www.Car-Part.com (recycled parts);
- www.nextpart.com (recycled parts);
Until all this integration stuff gets sorted out, most companies will shift to the transaction of the claim as their revenue – which brings us to online claims processing, another B2B offering frequently used by our industry.
Until very recently, we exclusively used proprietary networks to upload and download insurer assignments, our estimates, supplements, final bills and digital images. Now many companies are fighting for these claims transaction fees. From this, we hope user-friendly products will emerge that include the integration of the management system needs to handle supplements, parts price changes and other inconsistent business rules established by insurers.
A few of the companies currently offering online claims processing include:
- www.ProcessClaims.com – translates live data via the Internet, linking the insurance and collision repair industries.
- www.eMitchell.com – receive and process assignments from insurers in real time.
- www.AutovistaNet.com – offers access to insurance claims assignments and digital images.
- www.Ensera.com – receive and process assignments from insurers in real time.
Many other B2B products are available to our industry that provide valuable business products and services and aren’t related to parts and paint/materials, including:
- FirstEstimate.com – a Web-based estimating product with P-Page Logic.
- HROne.com – a complete human resource management program.
- FedEx.com – Internet shipping and tracking.
- UPS.com – Internet shipping and tracking.
- TheBOSS-Online.com – a complete collision industry knowledge base.
- NetLedger.com – complete online accounting.
- Checkfree.com – e-payments of bills.
The list could go on and on.
Business to Employees
B2E offerings are the newest on the block and will also grow significantly as some obstacles (covered in the next section) are removed. These offerings allow businesses to communicate or supply services to their employees. Most often, the services revolve around human resource management areas including evaluations, training, mentoring, coaching, establishing accountabilities and general communications.
HROne.com, as mentioned in the B2B section, is a human resources management tool. Much of it is a business tool to manage your human resources department, but part of it manages the employee evaluation process and communication with employees, placing it in the B2E category, too.
MentorsAtWork.com, on the other hand, is more B2E than B2B. This program establishes and screens your internal mentoring candidates and prospective apprentices, and provides the forum to manage the process of training, coaching and mentoring. The program provides a systematic method of establishing skill targets and management of the interaction between the mentor and the apprentice.
An area that’s not filled today in the B2E arena but is anticipated to grow tremendously is online training for our industry. In my May 2001 BSB article, “Log On to Learn,” I wrote about the Internet and its role in training. Even though there aren’t currently any sites that provide training solutions directly for our industry, the initiatives in the California Bay Area and Phoenix are quickly moving to provide badly needed industry training.
What’s Stopping Us?
For one, we still have hardware issues; we still need high-speed, universal broad band access (but we may be relieved by the infrastructure of satellite systems, DSL and cable). But the real issue that’s holding us back is our industry’s resistance to doing business with something we generally don’t like: a computer.
In a recent e-commerce industry survey, the response rate to the survey itself was a mere 2.3 percent. This low number reflects the importance our industry places on e-commerce today. But relatively speaking, 25 years ago, the same response rate may have been achieved if asked about fax machines, cell phones, palm pilots or PCs. Even the few who bothered to respond to the survey stated their use of e-commerce was minimal. Claims processing and purchasing salvage parts were the most frequently used e-commerce solutions.
No doubt about it. Old habits are hard to break. Today, as a consultant, I still have a difficult time convincing the owner or parts manager that faxing part orders is a more effective method for ordering parts than making 30 to 50 phone calls every day. Convincing someone to just push a button and wait for an electronic reply may be even more difficult.
The key is that the system for e-commerce must be easy to use and/or must integrate seamlessly in our existing systems, primarily the estimating or management systems of our choice. If the system isn’t this simple, it won’t be used, just like time clocks, scheduling programs and many features of an accounting system or management system.
In addition, consistent standards must be followed by all developers so all parties in the product offering can communicate. Work by the Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA; Web address: www.cieca.com) and the Collision Industry Conference (CIC; Web address: www.ciclink.com) is invaluable to establish and maintain standards so our software products and e-commerce solutions will work seamlessly together.
As for us, we need to make a commitment to learn about how to use these systems. Generally, what you learn for one will assist you with other programs, as long as they’re written to the accepted standard. To start, take basic Windows training programs and then the office applications you use. The highest failure we’ve seen with users of industry-specific programs -such as our estimating, accounting and management systems – result from a lack of basic Windows training, not the actual program.
There’s no doubt that e-commerce will reach the dollars projected – maybe even faster that anticipated. And it’s those of you who take advantage early who’ll claim a huge share of the market while reducing costs.
Contributing Editor Tony Passwater is president of AEII, a consulting, training and system-development company. He’s been in the industry for more than 27 years; has been a collision repair facility owner, vocational educator and I-CAR international Instructor; and has taught seminars across North America, Korea and China. He can be contacted at (317) 290-0611, ext. 101, or at ([email protected]).Visit his Web site at www.aeii.net for more information. | <urn:uuid:b3af0a70-7d65-443a-8340-aa414b68c05e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bodyshopbusiness.com/jumping-on-the-e-commerce-bandwagon/ | 2023-09-24T23:19:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.94215 | 3,502 |
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In their recent webinar, Monsido presenters Jillian Als and Jasmine de Guzman reviewed digital equity and provided tips on how we can improve our website and promote better digital equity.
Here are some key takeaways from the webinar.
What is digital equity?
Digital equity is a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy, and economy. It’s the goal! But it’s evolving.
What does it look like on our website?
If the work for digital equity is digital inclusion, here’s how you can think about it for your website:
- Page speed – You can’t control your visitors’ internet speeds, but you can make sure your site loads and performs well on slow connection speeds.
- The mobile experience – It’s not just something Google cares about; some households are not only mobile-first but mobile ONLY.
- Web accessibility – Web Accessibility is the important work to accommodate all site visitors, regardless of ability. People can be born with disabilities, develop them over time, or can happen instantly and be temporarily or for life.
- Reading level – Academic or text heavy content is a barrier for many people, including those with English as a second language. The higher the reading level required on your website, the less likely the entire community will understand and engage.
- Inclusive language – Language that excludes visitors because they introduce bias or are discriminatory decreases trust and willingness to engage online.
What is the Digital Equity Act?
- Bipartisan bill that was passed as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in Aug 2021
- Does not include any compliance requirements
- Aims to drive more innovation and resources to reduce the digital divide
Recent Department of Justice Announcements
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- July 2022 – Announces intent to begin the rulemaking process to enact website accessibility regulations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Frutarom Industries Ltd., one of the world’s 10 largest companies in the field of flavors and specialty fine ingredients, continues implementing its rapid growth strategy and announces today that it has signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of the Australian company Taura Natural Ingredients Holding Ltd. in exchange for a cash payment of approximately US$ 70.0 million. Taura was purchased without any debts and holding cash amounting to approximately US$ 2.5 million. The purchase agreement includes payment of an additional amount of approximately US$ 3.5 million conditional on Taura’s business performance over the 12 month period ending June 30, 2016. The transaction will be financed using bank credit.
Taura was founded in 1973 as part of a New Zealand agricultural co-operative. Today Taura has evolved into a world leading player in concentrated and texturized fruit ingredients, possessing efficient state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in New Zealand and Belgium along with sales offices in the United States and in the UK, with an overall workforce totaling 130 employees. Taura engages in the development, production and marketing of innovative solutions through its unique Ultra Rapid Concentration (URC®) technology for delivering market-leading natural fruit ingredients in terms of flavor, functionality and consumer experience to a wide range of food products, particularly healthy snacks, breakfast cereals, confectionery, convenience foods and baked goods. Taura’s URC® ingredients raise the percentage of the final product’s fruit content, improve and enhance flavor and texture as well as lengthen shelf life using only natural ingredients for flavors, colors and preservatives – qualities benefiting from the rapidly growing trend toward healthier, more natural foods that are lower in sugar and calories. Taura’s sales over the 12 months ending March 31, 2015 reached approximately US$ 40 million1. Taura has a broad customer base that includes leading global and national food and beverage makers in the United States, the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
Frutarom focuses on developing and producing natural products and views these as an important strategic growth engine. Over two-thirds of Frutarom’s products today are natural and the Company invests heavily in developing unique and innovative products with high added value at its sites throughout the world.
Taura’s activity is largely synergetic with Frutarom’s global flavors activity into which it will be integrated, allowing Frutarom to broaden and reinforce its supply of natural products and offer a portfolio of products and solutions that combine fruit components, natural flavors and colors, and ingredients with high nutritional value while continuing to expand and deepen its activity and market share.
Taura’s highly-experienced and successful management team, led by Mr. Peter Dehasque, will continue managing the company and driving its strategic expansion.
Ori Yehudai, President and CEO of Frutarom Group, said: “The acquisition of Taura, a global leader in taste and fruit solutions, is the continuation of Frutarom’s implementation of its rapid growth strategy and the realization of its vision ‘to be the preferred partner for tasty and healthy success.’ This acquisition continues to solidify Frutarom’s position as one of the world’s top companies in its field and reinforces its presence and standing as a leading global producer for natural flavor and fruit solutions.
“The acquisition accelerates the growth of our activity in Asia-Pacific markets, with emphasis on Australia and New Zealand, while for the first time we will have R&D, sales and marketing platforms and a production site located in New Zealand. Taura has long-established relationships with leading customers in these countries that can serve as a springboard for offering them our full unique range of products. Frutarom will merge its sales platforms with Taura’s and together offer our customers throughout the world the full variety of Frutarom’s and of Taura’s innovative, unique and comprehensive capabilities and technologies in the fields of taste and health. The acquisition will also help strengthen Frutarom’s purchasing platform and abilities in natural raw materials, particularly fruit, in source countries.
“Following the acquisition, Frutarom will benefit from bringing on board Taura’s experienced and effective management team and employees at every level who will together with Frutarom contribute towards paving the way forward to continued and quickened growth.”
Mr. Yehudai added: “Thanks to Frutarom’s proven experience carrying out acquisitions and capitalizing on the abundant synergies and cross-selling opportunities inherent in merging the acquired activity with those of Frutarom Group, both through the expansion of the customer base and by expanding the product portfolio, we are certain that this acquisition too will contribute to the continuation of Frutarom’s rapid and profitable growth and generate high value for our customers, employees and investors.”
Mr. Peter Dehasque, CEO of Taura, said: “This strategic move represents a major milestone in fueling Taura’s continued profitable growth into the high value, high growth segments of natural foods and nutritional snacks. Taura’s URC® made, fruit based building blocks have a strong complementary fit to Frutarom’s activities in natural flavors, fine ingredients and fruit solutions. We will significantly enhance our access to a whole raft of natural raw materials which can easily be integrated into our URC®, fruit based materials laying a solid foundation for leading edge innovation for years to come. Having access to Frutarom’s strong scientific and technological expertise will no doubt lead to cross-fertilization and boost our highly specialized portfolio of innovative products further.
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“We are looking forward working together with Frutarom as our teams share the same passion for natural food solutions, ongoing innovation, creating excellent taste and texture. We are very proud becoming part of the successful global Frutarom business.”
Mr. Yehudai concluded in saying that: “We are continuing to implement our rapid and profitable growth strategy. The acquisition of Taura is the seventh acquisition we are completing this year as we continue to identify and execute further strategic acquisitions of companies and operations in our fields of activity, with special focus on fast-growing markets and activities.” | <urn:uuid:dbfa57db-9890-4369-b9f4-cc37314b9c74> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.borderless.net/news/food-drink/seventh-acquisition-by-frutarom-this-year/ | 2023-09-24T22:46:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.94098 | 1,398 |
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As I sit by my pool and look at the yellow-colored pollen coating the surface of the water, I am reminded that allergy season is upon us here in the Tampa Bay area. I have suffered with allergies for most of my life. Along with the allergies comes symptoms like runny nose, wheezing, itchy throat and itchy eyes and ears. In the past, I resorted to using over the counter allergy relief medicine which works for a while but has side effects like drowsiness. Now, I have an arsenal of natural products which consist of herbal and homeopathic remedies without side effects. In addition to these supplements, I can insert some very fine acupuncture needles into a few strategic points to help strengthen my immune system and stop the allergy symptoms. The acupuncture works by fortifying the defensive energy or “wei qi” of the body to stop the allergy symptoms. This works great without side effects.
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Shivapuri National park is a quick hot dish in the menu of Jungle safari if you are in Kathmandu. If you want to explore Shivapuri National park, extended in 144 sq. km offers the only jungle safari possible in the Hilly region of Nepal.
Shivapuri is the second highest hill bounding Kathmandu valley after Phulchowki. In the national park, you will see a mid-hill subtropical and temperate climatic zones. This protected area is a habitat of a wide range of plants, birds, and animals. If you want to explore the wildlife around Kathmandu valley, opt for the Shivapuri Jungle Safari tour.
During the Jungle safari, you will see the beautiful vegetation and exotic wildlife in the park. The park houses 19 species of mammals, 177 species of birds, 129 species of wild mushroom, and over 100 species of Butterflies. If you got lucky enough, you can also see endangered animals, birds, and butterflies.
During the jungle safari, you will be walking through lush jungles, clean and green. There are different forest types inside the park. At places, you will see Sal, hardwoods, chir pine, and oaks. Shivapuri National park promotes ecological tourism. It offers many activities like cycling, ultra Running, rock climbing, hiking, sightseeing, and several others.
Shivapuri National park receives a regular western wind. The park, even in winter remains fog-free. You can see clear views and warm sun during winter safaris. This means you can go on a jungle safari in Shivapuri at any time of the year. This is one of the reasons why Shivapuri is chosen for hiking, trekking, and several recreational activities throughout the year.
Shivapuri Jungle Safari: Different Routes
Changu Narayan to Budhanilkantha
We will begin hiking from Changu Narayan to Sundarijal. We will walk through the flat cultivated lands. People cultivate Rice and Potatoes mostly. Crossing the Manohara river, we will walk through the villages to Sundarijal.
Sundarijal is a beautiful place where the Shivapuri National Park starts. We will check into the national park and will walk into the lush jungles. There is a lovely waterfall where you will see lots of people enjoying. From there, we will walk to Mulkharka village.
We will walk into the beautiful lush jungles. The forests are wild and damp at places. At some places, you will see small meadows basking in bright sunshine. Walking into the forests, there are chances of seeing wildlife like deer, bear, wild pig, monkeys, and other wild animals.
We walk through the amazing trails inside the forest. After hours of walking, we will descend through a vertical stone stair to Budhanilakantha. At Budhanilkantha the safari ends. We will drive to your hotel from there in a private or a public vehicle.
Fulbari to Jamacho
This is the second route that is equally popular for Shivapuri Jungle Safari. Starting from the Fulbari gate, we will drive to the Jamacho monastery. It will take us one or one and a half hours to reach the monastery. Jamacho monastery is a beautiful monastery situated atop the Nagarjuna hill.
At the top of Jamacho hill, there is a beautiful monastery with an amazing Buddha stupa. Also several other Buddhist gods and goddesses there. This place is also famous for sightseeing. You can see amazing views of the Annapurna Himalayan Range, Manaslu Himalayan Range, and Langtang Himalayan Range.
From the monastery, we will hike back to Fulbari gate. We will walk through the jungles in Shivapuri national park. The trail takes us into the wilderness. We will be walking over the brown leaves watching the trees, birds, and the animals.
Walking from Jamacho down to Fulbari gate will take us around 4 to 5 hours. In this period of time, we will explore the Shivapuri National park. If we go Shivapuri jungle safari in Spring, you will see different floral species. The jungle safari will be amazing with bright colors and aroma of wildflowers including Rhododendron. | <urn:uuid:1fb03f16-f276-4610-89eb-01b58fb8ddfe> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.breezeadventure.com/shivapuri-jungle-safari-shivapuri-national-park-breeze-adventure/ | 2023-09-25T00:08:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.902411 | 905 |
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It can be hard to get to the dentist regularly if dental care is out of your budget. However, regular dental checkups can help you preserve or improve your smile. When it comes to affordable dental solutions, TX has some of the best options available. Here are just a few ways you can afford your dental care.
If you have regular insurance coverage, they may pay for part or all of your dental care. This is one of the most affordable dental solutions TX has to offer. However, a PPO plan may not be feasible for everyone, or your insurance coverage may still require you to pay for part of your dental care.
If you are part of a low-income household, Medicaid can help you pay for dental care. At the very least, you will be able to get preventive care such as cleanings and filling. For affordable dental solutions, TX offers Medicaid to those who fit into certain income brackets.
Texas CHIPS as Affordable Dental Solutions in TX
If you have too much income to qualify for Medicaid for affordable dental solutions, TX offers a program called the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIPS for short. This program will ensure any child up to the age of 18 gets the dental care they need if a traditional dental plan cannot be afforded.
Paying for your affordable dental solutions in TX may be as easy as charging your dental visits to your personal credit cards. This may not be a viable option for everyone, and it may not be the solution you turn to first. However, if you need dental care, this may be a way to get it.
CareCredit is a way of paying for certain health care, such as dental visits, through a payment program. Unlike a credit card, you can’t use CareCredit everywhere or for everything. However, it is one of the best affordable dental solutions TX has to offer if you will need to make payments for your dental care.
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If you don’t have an insurance plan to help cover the costs of your dental care and you can’t make payments on it through a source of credit, you may be able to establish an affordable payment plan directly through your dental office to make payments with cash or check. This isn’t one of the best affordable dental solutions in TX, but it is available if needed.
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“But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." (Luke 10:41-42)
While caricatures of Martha and Mary are not provided in scripture, they seem to fit personality types of people in our own lives. In this, drawing conclusions is merely speculation, but the implications of the parallels these sisters have on our own lives, we might just gain a glimpse as to what Jesus' might say to us. | <urn:uuid:b74ac69c-505e-48ac-a30c-a8c6b99a2c82> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.brettyardley.com/theology-blog/mary-martha-what-does-jesus-mean-by-the-good-portion | 2023-09-24T23:24:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.946494 | 157 |
Here are some other snaps I took of the Memorial:
For some reason, I often find the little cards and photos of loved ones that people put on these memorials to be more evocative than the Big Thing itself. And given that others will of course also be photoing the big picture, I often find myself concentrating on these small things when I photo these things. And on others taking photos of course, that being a constant preoccupation of mine.
You don’t have to agree with everything Bomber Command was commanded to do during WW2 to salute the bravery of those who did it.
I for one find that prominent Pericles reference to defending freedom (the one I made into an SQotD, and which you can see in the final picture above) slightly odd. Bomber Command was an offensive weapon, as is made clear in the Churchill quote about how only the bombers could offer victory (see photo in line 3, far left). And its purpose was not just to win the war (which despite Bomber Harris’s promises it only helped to do), but to punish the damned losers of it for having started it. This was a punitive war, and everyone at the time knew it. Oh sure, the story at the time in the newspapers was that it was all precision bombing of military targets, blah blah, but if any bombs just happened to land on civilians, the attitude of civilians on our side was: serve the bastards right.
You have to realise how most British people felt about the Germans during WW2, including most of the bomber airmen. The Germans were the people who, having experienced World War 1 in all its horror, concluded from it that they needed to have a re-run of it, but this time win. Starting WW1 was forgiveable, albeit a horrible blunder, and we still quarrel about who exactly did start it. Starting WW2, on purpose, was unforgiveable.
Okay, maybe a lot of Germans were not in favour of all this. But they went along with it, very happily. Until it all started to go wrong.
WW1 ended with a negotiated German surrender. This time around, our Anglo ancestors were determined that every last German left alive would not only lose, but know that Germany had lost. Each German must taste defeat, and if they died while tasting it, that was just fine. This time, the surrender would be unconditional. No “stab in the back” crap. Stabbed from the front, with overwhelming force, by an enraged world.
Never again. You must never, never, do this again. That was what Bomber Command was saying.
In a way, the bombing offensive was a continuation by other means of the silly pamphlet dropping over Germany which was what the bombers first did. Sending a message, but this time in a form that would register.
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So your cousins from Baltimore are flying in to NYC to dog-sit while you're on vacation? Here's some stuff you might want to hide before they get here....
- The glue traps (they won't understand)
- The bed bug traps under the bed legs (see above)
- The latest rent/maintenance bill (ditto, plus they'll think you must be rich)
- The Krug, not the red wine your client made himself and gave you for Christmas
- The handcuffs (unless you're a cop) and the only Rabbit your guests should see is the stuffed one on your daughter's bed
- Propecia and Rogaine
- Wellbutrin and Ambien
- Tooth whitening trays (and the bound book of naked pregnancy pictures you rest the case on)
- The screenplay/novel you have been working on since college
- Evidence of your second job as an Avon salesperson, even though you are a lawyer, just so you can afford to live here
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Two weeks ago the Supreme Court upheld most of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, private insurers, and government officials are once again the lead actors now that the justices have left the stage, and they will continue to play their respective roles in implementing the new system. However, whether the play comes off may ultimately depend on what at first glance might appear to be a band of bit players in the wings—the nation's human service and behavioral health nonprofits. Implementation of the ACA presents these organizations with an unprecedented opportunity—and a huge challenge.
Some background will be helpful to support this claim. Recall that, for all of its complexity, the ACA seeks to improve the health of the American people by advancing two basic goals. The primary objective is to approximate universal health care coverage for every American. The secondary and supporting objective is to introduce new elements into the health care system in order to begin to control its spiraling costs.
In the long run, universality has to rest on affordability. One part of the law the Supreme Court struck down has in fact made this a near-term imperative. States no longer have to expand Medicaid to cover everyone up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line—the primary mechanism through which the ACA sought to extend coverage to Americans unable to afford it. To be sure, states still have powerful incentives to do so, as the federal government will cover 100 percent of the cost of this expansion through 2016 and 90 percent of the cost thereafter, but these carrots are no longer accompanied by any sticks.
Thus far, governors in Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina have said their states will not expand Medicaid. As Sarah Kliff noted in Wonkblog, "a full quarter of the 15.8 million Americans expected to gain Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act live in these states. These six governors, if they follow through on their pledges, can single-handedly shrink the Medicaid expansion by 3.89 million people."
It would be easy to dismiss these pledges as a rear-guard action by GOP partisans. But their opposition to taking on even a heavily subsidized augmentation in their Medicaid rolls is not without merit. The Kaiser Family Foundation has documented that Medicaid has been the fastest growing of all health care spending categories, public or private, increasing on average by 7.2 percent annually over the past three decades. From 1970 to 2010, Medicaid's share of total health care spending in the U.S. more than doubled, from 7.1 percent to 15.2 percent. Medicaid has become the largest single component in state budgets and is rapidly crowding out other priorities. The National Association of State Budget Officers notes that Medicaid has grown from 21.9 percent of total state expenditures in 2009 to 23.6 percent in 2011. By comparison, K-12 education, the second largest component, fell from 21.5 percent to 20.1 percent over that same period. In light of these trends, state leaders have reason to balk at taking on more exposure to Medicaid's mounting costs—especially knowing that the federal government, which will be increasingly cash strapped itself, could shift more of the funding burden back over to the states down the road.
For these objections to be overcome, the costs of supporting Medicaid beneficiaries needs to come down—in particular for the most intensive users of the system. Analysis by the federal government's Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services has shown that 54 percent of Medicaid costs are concentrated in just 5 percent of the beneficiaries. These high-cost patients are likely to be battling mental illness and/or substance abuse alongside their physical ailments. Researchers at the Center for Health Care Strategies have found for example that roughly 70 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries dealing with chronic and expensive health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, and asthma are also mentally ill and/or addicted. "The addition of mental illness for those with common chronic physical conditions is associated with health care costs that are 60 to 75 percent higher than those without a mental illness. The addition of co-occurring mental illness and a drug and alcohol disorder for beneficiaries with common chronic physical conditions results in two- to three-fold higher health care costs."
As Susan Dreyfus, former Secretary for Social and Health Services in Washington state and now CEO of the Alliance for Children and Families recently shared with me, "you can't buy smarter and assume you will affect the cost curve with these dynamics of high cost populations. It will be comprehensive assessment and integrated case management that includes recognition of the social determinants of a person's health that will drive better outcomes at lower costs."
Here is where the nation's human service and behavioral health nonprofits come in. Many Alliance members and other community-based organizations have been holding up our society's safety net for more than a century, supporting impoverished Americans struggling with mental illness and substance abuse and complicating factors like the lack of stable housing and domestic violence. The Urban Institute reports that there are roughly 150,000 nonprofits providing human services and health care outside of hospital and primary care settings. Notwithstanding the notoriously fragmented nature of the safety net, we can reasonably assume that these nonprofits are, in aggregate, engaging in some way with most of the impoverished people who, by dint of their behavioral health problems, account for a vastly disproportionate share of Medicaid costs (or will if/when they become covered by the system).
Of course it is another question as to whether these nonprofits are helping the people they serve come to grips with their mental illnesses and addictions such that their lives improve and health care costs decrease. The data is sketchy, and I'd expect that most of us observing the field would have mixed impressions; at this point, all we can say is that some nonprofits are having this impact, but many others are not.
That said, if human service and behavioral health nonprofits were to become increasingly effective in identifying and engaging with high cost users of our publicly funded health care systems, the prospects for the universal coverage and gradually decreasing costs that inspired the passage of health care reform would grow much brighter. That is the good news. The challenge is that this is a big "if," one that will require fundamental changes in how these nonprofits see themselves and how others see them, in their competencies and capacity for undertaking the work that lies ahead, in who they partner with, and in how they are funded.
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The British Council library is commemorating World Photography Day (19 August, 2023) with a special event—a photography competition exclusively for its members. This competition centres around the theme "My city – Yangon and Mandalay", encouraging members to embark on a visual journey through the beautiful city. Participants are invited to capture compelling images that represent the essence and uniqueness of the city, showcasing its characteristic charm and spirit through the lens of photography.
Details of the competition:
Main Theme for Yangon: My Yangon
Main Theme for Mandalay: My Mandalay
Eligibility - The contest is open to all library members who are 18 years and over.
Submission: Members are to submit their entry between 11 and 25 August. Only 1 entry can be submitted per membership.
- Only soft copy photograph will be accepted.
- Ensure the photograph has a high resolution.
- Save the photograph to Google Drive and provide the link, ensuring it's accessible to all.
- The photograph can be in colour(s), monochromatic, or black/white.
Evaluation – Entries will be judged on creativity, technique, and description of the photograph by the professional photographer.
Terms and conditions of the competition:
- The photograph must be in its original state and cannot be altered in any way, including but not limited to removing, adding, reversing, or distorting subjects within the frame or adding filters.
- The contest is open for soft copy submissions only.
- The photograph submitted by the participant shall be devoid of any copyrighted images.
- Entries will be judged by British Council. All decisions are final. We reserve the right to disqualify any entry that is deemed inappropriate or does not conform to stated contest rules.
- Submissions will not be accepted once the deadline lapses.
- The prize must be collected by the winner and is non-transferable.
- The winner will be contacted via the email address provided during entry.
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Over the last few weeks, a number of prominent world leaders have called on Turkey.
Late in November, for example, Vice President Joe Biden was in Turkey to discuss cooperating against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. His visit was followed by that of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This month it was Frederica Mogherini’s turn, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief. Her visit coincided with ones by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskite, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who also holds the presidency of the European Council.
Clearly, Turkey is in high demand, but which way will Turkey actually go: East or West. East represents a world with an emphasis on sovereign democracy, state capitalism, authoritarianism, populism and the rise of religiously driven nationalism, in contrast to a West traditionally associated with liberal democracy and markets predicated on the rule of law, transparency, and accountability. Here Putin’s Russia offers a good approximation of the East compared to the transatlantic community which represents the West. It will be important to sustain the pace of these visits from members of the transatlantic community and match them with deeds to revitalize Turkey’s relations with the West, especially economic ties.
It is no surprise that Turkey is in high demand. It sits in the midst of a neighborhood in a chronic state of upheaval. Across the Black Sea, Putin’s Russia has annexed Crimea and continues to destabilize eastern Ukraine. Furthermore, Russia continues to perpetuate frozen conflicts of the post-Soviet space from Transnistria in Moldova to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.
However, no challenge has been greater for Turkey than the instability in Iraq and Syria. Turkey is hosting a refugee population fast approaching two million and is far from seeing the moderate opposition gain the upper hand and replace Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Instead, the emergence of IS has further exacerbated the situation and led to Turkey being portrayed in Western media as both a key player in efforts to “degrade and ultimately defeat” IS as well as a spoiler of these efforts. The latter portrayal is often based in part on Turkey’s reluctance to support the Kurdish resistance to IS’s onslaught on the Kurdish town of Kobani located on the Syrian-Turkish border. Some have gone so far as to accuse Turkey of directly assisting IS.
The need to improve relations with Turkey and better coordinate the fight against IS brought Biden to Turkey. The visit came on the heels of deep policy differences between the U.S. and Turkey over how to deal with IS. The U.S. emphasized the immediate threat from IS and the need for Turkey to be more forthcoming in its support to defeat IS militarily. For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted on the need to create no-fly zones along the Turkish border to increase pressure on al-Assad and bring about regime change.
These differences brought bilateral relations to a new low when Biden claimed publicly that Erdogan had privately recognized Turkey’s failed policies in Syria. This remark precipitated denials and calls for an apology from the Turkish side. Nevertheless, the threat from IS and the growing instability in the Middle East elicited a more pragmatic approach from both sides, as was captured by Biden when he stated, “We need Turkey. And I think Turkey believes that they need us, as well.” Time will tell whether his remarks will translate into action on the ground and if these two allies will be able to transcend their differences and achieve greater strategic cooperation.
Russian President Putin’s visit to Turkey occurred within a week of Biden’s departure, against the backdrop of Turkey minimizing its criticisms of Putin on Crimea and Ukraine. Such a response is very puzzling, particularly because “territorial integrity” has long been a sacrosanct principle of Turkish political culture. Turkish citizens have long been warned about conspiracies threatening Turkey’s territorial integrity and unity. Turkey’s silence is all the more puzzling considering that there is a large minority of Tatars in Crimea with close ethnic, historical and religious ties to Turkey. Much more conspicuously, in Syria, Russia and Turkey hold diametrically opposed policies: Putin has been unrelenting in his support for al-Assad, while Erdogan has been a virulent opponent and considers any attempts to compromise with him as amounting to treachery.
Turkey’s silence on Crimea is likely due in no small part to its massive dependence on Russian energy, especially natural gas. Prospects of Russian gas, coupled with Russia’s capacity to interrupt gas and petroleum flows through the South Caucasus, clearly weighs heavily on Turkey’s stance on Russia. Furthermore, Turkey runs a massive trade deficit with Russia and can only balance it partly with income from Russian tourism in Turkey and with Turkish companies doing business in Russia. Thus, maintaining good relations with Russia has become an economic sine quo non for Turkey.
There is much to be said about Putin’s leadership style and anti-Western rhetoric, which endears him to Erdogan and, to some extent, the Turkish public. One fascinating manifestation of this came at a previous meeting between the two leaders in St. Petersburg in November 2013. During a press conference, in response to a comment by Putin that “Turkey [had] great experience in EU talks,” Erdogan said, “You are right. Fifty years of experience is not easy. Allow us into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and save us from this trouble.”
Clearly, Putin has been clever in exploiting Turkey’s grievances. For example, following recent EU economic sanctions on Russia, Putin offered Erdogan the possibility of greater exports to Russia, allowing him to mitigate the impact of sanctions on consumer goods while simultaneously whetting the appetite of Turkish businesses that have lost markets in the Middle East. This has been accompanied by a promise to replace the cancelled South Stream natural gas pipeline project with an alternative one to carry gas to Europe via Turkey. As can be seen, then, Putin is trying to entice Turkey away from the West and increase its dependence on Russia.
It is against this backdrop that Mogherini’s visit becomes strategically important. Turkey’s problematic relations with the EU have been captured by a standstill in accession negotiations. Technically, for Turkish accession to be completed, 33 chapters representing the EU acquis, the corpus of EU laws and policies, have to be negotiated and closed. Croatia, which began accession negotiations together with Turkey in 2005, completed them in late 2011 and became a fully-fledged member of the EU in July of this year. In Turkey’s case, eight chapters were suspended in December 2006 by the EU while another nine chapters are being blocked by France, Cyprus, Germany and Austria. It was only last summer that the 14th chapter was finally opened for negotiations after stalling back in 2010.
However, the chaos surrounding Turkey is pushing both sides closer together. This fall, both sides expressed their will to revive relations. Ahead of her visit to Turkey, for instance, Mogherini emphasized the strategic importance of EU-Turkish relations while Johannes Kahn, the Commissioner for the EU’s Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement, stressed the EU’s determination to get accession negotiations with Turkey back on track. Similarly, an October 2014 EU document stated that, “active and credible accession negotiations provide the most suitable framework for exploiting the full potential of EU-Turkey relations.” A similar sentiment came from Ankara when Erdogan announced that 2014 would be the year in which the EU and Turkey committed to revive the accession process. Subsequently, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, Ambassador Volkan Bozkır, announced “Turkey’s New EU Strategy” in Brussels in September 2014, and detailed the measures to be taken to improve ties.
Economic factors and public opinion in Turkey are also favorably disposed for an improvement in relations with the European Union. Until 2013, Turkey’s economy maintained robust growth. Since then, however, it has encountered myriad challenges, including a general slowdown in emerging economies around the world and regional instabilty. Democratic regression and a weakening of the rule of law are also frequently cited as has having an adverse impact on the Turkish economy.
Closer relations with Russia are unlikely to remedy these problems. Turkey’s exports to the EU are almost tenfold of those to Russia and nearly 70 percent of Turkey’s foreign direct investment (FDI) comes from the EU. Mogherini’s visit comes at a time when public opinion in Turkey has begun to turn in EU’s favor. According to the 2014 Transatlantic Trends published by the German Marshall Fund, after consecutive years of decline since 2006, those among the Turkish public who looked at membership favorably increased by 8 percentage points to 53 percent from 2013 to 2014. The Turkish public senses that economic, political and strategic considerations make it quite clear that Turkey needs to re-anchor itself to the transatlantic community.
The EU and the U.S. need to reinforce this trend. Mogherini’s words should be matched with action. Thus, it is paramount that the EU opens a number of new chapters for negotiations. Turkey has expressed interest in the opening of at least three chapters calling for domestic political and economic reforms. While Turkish membership is not likely to happen anytime soon, maintaining a credible process is crucial. In the meantime, it is important to take up the World Bank’s recommendation to upgrade the customs union between the EU and Turkey. The customs union helped make Turkey the 6th largest trading partner of the EU and the 16th largest economy in the world. There is also the need for greater recognition from the EU that it benefits from economic relations with Turkey, especially at a time when the EU economy is still struggling to come out of recession and sanctions on Russia are adversely impacting exports.
The strategic value of Turkey’s EU ties continues to be of great importance, particularly in light of the heightened contest between the West and Russia and deep instability throughout the Middle East. In 1995, the U.S. played a key role in supporting the negotiation and signing of Turkey’s customs union with the EU as well as Turkey’s EU membership vocation as a means to deepening Turkey’s transatlantic relations.
The U.S. should reinvigorate these efforts. Additionally, the U.S. should explore the idea of enlarging the TTIP to include Turkey or sign a bilateral free trade agreement with Turkey. This would help re-anchor Turkey to the transatlantic community, enlarge the business community with a stake in liberal market values, make Turkey a net contributor to the transatlantic economy, help with employment creation, and increase strategic cooperation. In turn, stronger and deeper relations with the West would help revive Turkey’s democracy and economy, as well as its soft power in its neighborhood. This would not necessarily mean Turkey’s relations with the East would weaken. Relations with Russia could be maintained and even expanded but without making Turkey vulnerable to Russian influence. Similarly, in the Middle East Turkey could return to the days when it was hailed as a model for the region, economically as well as politically.
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When Tranquillo Barnetta arrived in Philadelphia in late July, Zach Pfeffer must have had mixed emotions. Ten years his senior, the Swiss national would certainly take up minutes in the midfield and make it more difficult for Zach to see the pitch. But at the same time, Pfeffer must have seen Barnetta as an ideal mentor and a player whose actions he could soak up like a sponge.
Both players are versatile utility midfielders. Neither of the players does any one thing exceptionally well, but they don't have any obvious weaknesses either, although Barnetta performs at a much higher level across the board. But Barnetta, veteran of the Bundesliga and three World Cups, has had the career that Pfeffer dreams of and hopefully this mentor-protégé develops into something that helps both players.
In the beginning of the year Zach Pfeffer was the twenty year old utility midfielder and spot starter looking to finally make his mark for the Union. He played a variety of positions, including the box-to-box midfielder, the central attacking midfield role and both wing positions. Zach was the hero of the game when the Union finally turned around their atrocious start to the season. His injury time drive to beat Bill Hamid and DC. United earned the Union just their second win in nine games.
But outside of that highlight, Pfeffer looked like a young player still trying to find his way in the league. His first half red card in the third game against FC Dallas was exceptionally amateurish and left his team out to dry against what was going to be one of the best teams in the league. Pfeffer was never a perfect fit in any of the positions he played in; not crafty enough to breakdown defenses as the central attacking midfielder, too slow to electrify on the wings and not quite strong enough on the ball to play the box-to-box role. He was particularly weak in that latter role during the 3-2 loss at D.C. United, that saw the Union blow a two goal lead.
Perhaps it was the signing of Barnetta or that unfortunate game, but Pfeffer only saw the pitch two more times the rest of the season. Barnetta could do everything Pfeffer could, but had done it many times over and at the highest levels in the world.
But Barnetta did not earn confidence from the Union faithful automatically. During his first minute in the Blue and Gold he committed a foul in the box and put his team down a goal. Fortunately the Union tied the game before eventually losing. Even still Barnetta's first few games were really his Bundesliga pre-season and he was working himself into fitness.
By the end of the season he had reveal his true value. He brings a motor that rivals Sebastian Le Toux and seems to intuitively know the correct safe pass to continue to move the ball forward. By the end of the year, playing the equivalent of eight and half games, he had a goal and two assists and was second on the team in key passes per 90 minutes to Cristian Maidana. There was nothing flashy from the foot of Barnetta but when you work as intelligently and as hard as he does good thing happen over the course of the game.
Here's a look at the defensive stats for both Barnetta and Pfeffer, compared to Barnetta's prior season in the Bundesliga for Schalke 04.
Barnetta's defensive metrics fell off dramatically with the Union and are comparable to Pfeffer's. This could be due to the fact that the Union utilize very little defensive pressure from their attacking players, but the decline is alarming nonetheless. The metrics still are in line with what we see from Le Toux and they are strong compared to other wing players across MLS.
Looking key passes and shots attempted we see a fairly big difference in the way the two players approach the game.
While Barnetta's key passes declined, they are leaps ahead of Pfeffer. Pfeffer did spend more time in deeper roles but that does not account for the large drop off in setting up teammates for shots. On the flip side, despite playing deeper, Pfeffer took more shots when he was playing than Barnetta.
Here is a look at their passing statistics.
Pfeffer's very high 85% pass completion rate, combined with low key pass rate paints him as a very safe passer. The fact that Pfeffer did not attempt as many passes as Barnetta is also a little concerning given Pfeffer played deeper and more centrally.
If the Union are to improve from their current standing near the bottom of the league, they will need to see improved play from both Barnetta and Pfeffer in 2016. Both players seem capable of more and one more year together as mentor-protege will hopefully be beneficial to everyone involved. | <urn:uuid:e90ca4a3-8650-4bd4-9bb9-660bf7fbe0c7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.brotherlygame.com/2015/11/23/9741246/2015-union-player-reviews-tranquillo-barnetta-and-zach-pfeffer | 2023-09-25T00:14:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.986052 | 988 |
As the release date becomes closer, I am asked the same few questions.
Q1- Will I be able to buy your book in my local shops? A - Even though my book will be available to over 450,000 retailers, no. Most shops only stock the top 50 books! Q2 - As a self publishing author will you make lots of money? A - Probably not, no. I have paid a large upfront fee, as well as needing to pay an Accountant. I will also pay for my own copies of my book, for marketing needs.
Q3 - Where can I buy your book? A - Amazon will be the first avenue to buy the book. Q4 - What can I do to help? A - Share my posts on social media, tell your friends about the book. Buy the book, and write a review on Amazon. Q5 - Do you have any local support? A - Yes, a few shops and libraries are interested in book signings. | <urn:uuid:97b4f7c8-301e-4b5c-ac61-9f8b32743c95> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bryonybest.com/post/common-questions | 2023-09-24T22:43:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.968761 | 204 |
Are Wolf Spiders Plaguing Your McAllen Property?
July 10, 2022 - Spiders
Wolf Spiders: Identification & Habits
The wolf spider is a medium- to large-sized common spider that is usually brown or gray. Some may have stripes or patterns on their abdomen. Their legs are long and they have excellent eyesight. Wolf spiders are not aggressive and will only bite if they feel threatened.
Wolf spiders got their name because they hunt down their prey like wolves rather than relying on webs to catch them. They are also known as ground spiders because they live in burrows or holes in the ground. These common household spiders are nocturnal hunters and will often be seen running across your floor at night.
Wolf spiders typically live outdoors in fields, woodlands, and gardens. They build burrows underground where they lay their eggs. In the spring, baby wolf spiders emerge from these egg sacs and begin to hunt for food on their own.
Common Ways Wolf Spiders Enter Houses
As fall approaches, female wolf spiders will search for places to spend the winter months, and this is often when they end up in your home. Wolf spiders are good climbers and can easily scale the walls and enter your home through any small opening they can find.
Here are some ways wolf spiders might enter your house:
- Cracks in the foundation
- Gaps around doors and windows
- Openings in brickwork or siding
- Vents and chimneys
- Screens that are not properly sealed
- Gaps in weatherstripping
- Openings around plumbing and utility lines
- Storage boxes or other clutter left outdoors
As you can see, there are many ways for wolf spiders to enter your home. Once they're inside, they'll start to build webs and lay eggs. If you have a problem with wolf spiders, it's important to take action quickly to get rid of them before they multiply.
The best way to get rid of wolf spiders is to call a professional pest control company like Bugworks Termite & Pest Control. We have the experience and expertise to safely and effectively eliminate spiders from your home and keep them from coming back.
Four Expert Tactics On Dealing With Wolf Spiders
We know that no one wants wolf spiders or any other spiders in their home.
There are a few things you can do to get rid of spiders in your house:
- Seal any cracks or crevices in your foundation or windows. This will help prevent more spiders from coming inside.
- Remove any webbing or egg sacs that you see. Use a vacuum cleaner with a hose attachment to suck up the spider and its eggs. Be sure to dispose of the vacuum bag immediately afterward.
- Reduce the amount of clutter in your home. Spiders like to hide in dark, secluded places. By reducing the amount of clutter, you'll make it harder for them to find a place to hide.
- Call a professional. The surest way to keep all spiders, including wolf spiders, from becoming an issue in your home is the contact a professional exterminator.
At Bugworks Termite & Pest Control, we offer a variety of services that can help get rid of your spider problem for good. We also offer a preventive program that can help keep spiders out of your home in the future.
Total Spider Prevention Programs For McAllen Residents
At Bugworks Termite & Pest Control Co., we understand how important it is to keep your home spider-free. That's why we offer a variety of services that can help. We've been providing comprehensive, eco-friendly pest control solutions in the area for more than 18 years.
We also offer bi-monthly or quarterly follow-up treatments to keep your home pest-free in the months and years to come. This service is perfect for those who want to be proactive about preventing spiders from entering their home. Contact us today to learn more about home defense for spiders or to schedule a free quote.
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At Search Mojo we’re always looking for new and creative ways to utilize the capabilities of marketing automation software to help drive higher conversion rates for our landing pages and for those of our clients. Conversion is often driven by the effectiveness of the landing page itself. Some of the common landing page issues that affect conversion:
- Does the landing page keep the promise of the search ad?
- Is the landing page designed with a clear call to action?
- Is the offer compelling?
- Is the offer worth the exchange of information?
The last question is one that many marketers may not fully consider. All too often I see landing pages that require far too many form fields for the visitor to fill out for what may not be perceived as a very valuable offer. What is a piece of content worth? If we think of personal information as a form of currency, what is a visitor willing to “pay” to receive the content asset?
Shorter Forms Increase Conversion Rates
What we do know is that the less we “charge” for access to an asset, the more likely a visitor will be willing to the information exchange. There are many studies available that demonstrate how reducing form fields on a landing page improve conversion rates. Marketo ran a study that concluded that reducing form fields from nine fields to five improved conversion rates by 34%.
MarketingExperiments ran a similar study that showed by reducing form fields on a landing page from nine to three increased conversion rate by as much as 300%!
Marketing automation tools can make it simple to reduce form fields using three approaches: progressive profiling, conversion paths and social login.
Progressive profiling is by far one of my favorite features of marketing automation. For those who may be familiar with this feature, progressive profiling simply allows marketers to update a prospect’s information over time, dynamically updating forms to reflect information that may still be missing for that individual. In essence, rather than gathering all of the information about a prospect up front, information is gathered over time and the prospect’s record is continually updated. Here’s an example of how progressive profiling works:
Using progressive profiling, marketers are able to reduce the initial number of form fields required for the visitor to receive an asset, which as we’ve seen, improves conversion for landing pages. Progressive profiling can help marketers achieve a quick win with conversion by reducing form fields on landing pages.
Conversion paths involve using multiple landing pages as opposed to a single landing page to convert visitors. Often with search advertising, keywords may not clearly define a searcher’s intent or requirement. Conversion paths, or a series of landing pages connected on a path, can help searchers drive down through pages to a more specific result.
The same is true for gaining more information about prospects in a conversion path sequence, similar to the approach with progressive profiling. For instance, Search Mojo holds regular webinars. On the initial webinar registration landing page, the prospect is presented with six fields:
Once the prospect reaches the “thank you” page after registering for the webinar, the prospect is then presented with the second page in our conversion path, offering an additional asset (in this case an infographic) in exchange for a few extra fields of information:
Using the conversion path method for all webinar registrations over a twelve month period, on average 42.3% of prospects filled out the additional fields on the second page, even though this page was completely optional in regards to webinar registration.
While conversion paths are not unique to marketing automation tools per se, these tools typically allow streamlined updates to existing prospects within its database, making conversion paths much easier and straightforward to implement without causing duplication of lead data.
Social Form Fill and Social Login
Finally, the newest tool in the collective marketing automation toolbelt is social integration. The social form fill option makes it easier for landing page visitors to complete forms with just a click of a button.
Similarly, webmasters and marketers can also combine the APIs from their marketing automation tool with any number of social platform APIs to enable similar approaches using a “social login”. On Search Mojo’s site, we’ve implemented a similar approach to social form fill with social login, allowing visitors to automatically sign in to see assets on the site by providing social profile information:
Why would a marketer want to implement social login or social form fill? In addition to making the landing page process faster and simpler for the visitor, marketers stand to receive more qualified data from the integration with social networks. A study by MarketingSherpa of technology firms indicates how often incorrect information is entered in forms:
The benefit, however, of integrating landing pages with social networks is that the information from social networks has often been verified in some way. For instance, email, which according to the survey data is listed as 68% always inaccurate, is often verified by social networks in order to ensure that the user can be contacted. Name also is often very accurate with social network profiles, as users of social networks want to ensure their profiles can be found easily by name.
Finally, social networks often provide greater depth of knowledge about a prospect’s demographic information (professional or personal). This information can then be used within the marketing automation tool for more targeted nurturing campaigns over time.
How to Get Started
When clients ask me which of these approaches they should employ, I recommend them all! But as marketers, we must often prioritize these initiatives.
- First and foremost, if you’re not already doing so, implement progressive profiling on all of your forms. Progressive profiling provides a “quick win” for marketers to begin gathering much more information over time about prospects, and no salesperson has ever complained about having too much information about a prospect! As you implement progressive profiling, begin reducing your landing page form fields so you can put more prospects into the pipe faster and begin that nurturing process.
- Second, consider how you can begin integrating conversion paths into your current conversion process. This requires mapping out which assets can be used, like progressive profiling, to gain more information about prospects over several pages in a path.
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Matilde Wheelock is a consultant at Business Management Allied (BMA). She has vast experience in developing marketing and commercial strategies for consumer goods companies and a solid track record of leading commercial operations in retail environments. The combination of having worked in the supplier and retailer side of the value chain, positions her as a well-rounded business professional with a unique vision to find optimal solutions to any company. Prior to joining BMA, Matilde spent 26 years working for stellar companies like Procter & Gamble and Walmart in Central America. Matilde received her Bachelor’s degree from University of Texas at Austin, USA and an MBA from Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, Guatemala. | <urn:uuid:4873f0bc-5188-4e7e-b2f1-891eda1fb3f6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.businessallied.com/en/matilde-wheelock/ | 2023-09-25T00:12:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.925551 | 149 |
'I think it's a very dangerous thing': Trump trashes cryptocurrencies and says he favors a strong US dollar
- Former President
Donald Trumpisn't buying into the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies, according to a Fox News interview.
- "I want a
currencycalled the dollar, I don't want to have all of these others," Trump said.
- The comments come after wife Melania Trump announced plans to launch her own NFT.
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Former President Donald Trump is not a fan of cryptocurrencies and expects a potential crash in the future, according to an interview with Fox News on Friday.
"That [crypto] could be an explosion some day the likes of which we've never seen. It will make the big tech explosion look like baby stuff. I think it's a very dangerous thing," Trump said, adding that he favors a strong
Bitcoin traded down about 1% to $48,770 Wednesday afternoon, erasing early morning gains, while ether fell about 2% to $3,989.
The comments come after wife Melania Trump announced plans last week to launch her own NFT, which will cost 1 solana, or about $180.
"I am proud to announce my new NFT endeavor, which embodies my passion for the arts, and will support my ongoing commitment to children through my Be Best initiative. Through this new technology-based platform, we will provide children computer science skills, including programming and software development, to thrive after they age out of the foster community," the former first lady said in a statement last week.
But Donald Trump doesn't seem to share the same excitement towards NFTs or cryptocurrencies, based on his interview with Fox News.
"I never loved it [crypto] because I like to have the dollar. I think the currency should be the dollar, so I was never a big fan but it's building up bigger and bigger and nobody's doing anything about it. I want a currency called the dollar, I don't want to have all of these others," Trump said.
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A new child child has been discovered useless on a ship carrying migrants to the Italian island of Lampedusa throughout a rescue by the coastguard.
The toddler died quickly after being born through the voyage, it has been reported.
Earlier this week, a five-month-old boy drowned off Lampedusa after a ship carrying migrants from North Africa capsized.
It comes as Italy wrestles with a surge of arrivals, main Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to situation a contemporary name for a naval blockade.
The inflow has turn out to be a serious headache for Ms Meloni, whose right-wing authorities got here to workplace in October final 12 months pledging to curb unlawful immigration.
But practically 126,000 migrants are reported to have arrived in Italy to date this 12 months, nearly double the determine by the identical date in 2022.
It has shut parallels to the state of affairs confronting the UK authorities in stemming migrant crossings from France, with Rishi Sunak beneath strain to ship on his “stop the boats” pledge.
Lampedusa – nearer to Africa than the Italian mainland – has lately borne the brunt of crossings from Tunisia, which has changed Libya as the primary base for migrant smuggling within the Mediterranean.
Around 7,000 landed inside a day, greater than doubling the island’s inhabitants, overwhelming current services and triggering pressing appeals for assist from politicians.
Many migrants have been transferred to alleviate the island’s over-stretched refugee centre, which has a standard capability of round 400, however newest figures point out greater than 2,700 stay.
Ms Meloni has invited the top of the European Commission to see circumstances on Lampedusa and referred to as for a cope with Tunisia, aimed toward stemming the stream in return for funding, to be applied.
She additionally mentioned she’d written to European Council President Charles Michel to ask for immigration to be on the agenda at an EU summit in October.
“I intend to reiterate a request for an immediate EU mission to block the departure of migrant boats,” mentioned Ms Meloni.
“Obviously, Italy and Europe cannot welcome this massive influx of people, especially when these migrant flows are being managed by unscrupulous traffickers.”
With a European Parliament election subsequent 12 months, Ms Meloni’s conservative coalition companion, the League Party, has stepped up criticism of the EU-Tunisia deal, saying the growing numbers of migrants confirmed it had failed.
League chief Matteo Salvini is because of host French far-right chief Marine Le Pen at a rally this weekend in his northern house base of Pontida.
Labour guarantees to finish use of resorts for asylum seekers
Fresh instances of diphtheria reported amongst asylum seekers
On Friday, Ms Le Pen’s niece, French far-right politician Marion Marechal, was on Lampedusa to point out her assist to Italy, which she mentioned had been deserted by Europe to cope with migrants by itself.
She mentioned: “I came to support the Italian people and government, because Lampedusa today and the Italian borders are the borders of the whole of Europe.
“We have to alter EU coverage to assist the Italian authorities, which immediately is alone in going through this disaster.”
Meanwhile, France has agreed to work with Italy in forging an EU response to the crisis.
French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned: “I want to say very sincerely to all our Italian friends that I believe it is the responsibility of the European Union, the entire European Union, to stand by Italy.”
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has joined requires the for the EU to share the burden of receiving migrants and ultimately settling those that get refugee standing.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with a wholly owned subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAC) (SBA or SBA Communications) to sell its license agreements with wireless providers that attach their equipment to certain electric transmission towers and other utility structures. The arrangement also allows the SBA subsidiary to continue to market and sublicense access to the towers and structures to additional wireless providers and PG&E will receive a portion of that future revenue. The sale of these licenses, which apply to over 700 towers, is expected to generate $973 million in initial proceeds, subject to customary closing adjustments. PG&E is not selling any transmission towers as part of this transaction.
PG&E is also entering into a strategic relationship with SBA, through SBA’s wholly owned subsidiary, to sublicense and market equipment at additional attachment locations on up to 28,000 transmission towers across PG&E’s extensive network. Through this arrangement, PG&E will receive a portion of future revenues from these sublicensed equipment attachment locations.
Overall, PG&E expects the proceeds from this agreement to help further reduce its financing needs and strengthen its financial position while also benefiting customers, who will receive a significant portion of the sale proceeds in the form of lower monthly bills as well as a portion of any future revenues from additional attachment locations.
“When we emerged from Chapter 11, we made a commitment to achieve financial stability and bolster our overall financial health and we’re delivering on that objective. Strategically selling non-core assets like these is one way we’re continuing to follow through on that commitment, reduce our financing needs and strengthen our balance sheet,” said Chris Foster, PG&E Interim Chief Financial Officer.
“This transaction adds a significant portfolio of high quality, exclusive locations to our outstanding existing US macro tower portfolio and SBA expects these assets to generate approximately $39.5 million in Tower Cash Flow in their first full year in our portfolio,” said Jeff Stoops, President and Chief Executive Officer of SBA Communications. “As 5G network deployments are now a reality, we are excited to use our vast experience and industry leading position in order to facilitate the future additional use of these assets by wireless service providers for the collective benefit of the wireless industry, PG&E and SBA. We are also particularly pleased about the opportunity to work closely with PG&E over the coming years to maximize wireless deployments across their extensive network of transmission towers.”
PG&E estimates that approximately half of the net sale proceeds will be returned to electric transmission and distribution customers in the form of lower monthly bills. Furthermore, the net transaction proceeds are expected to help partially offset future equity issuances and dilution of PG&E shares, a substantial portion of which are held by the Fire Victim Trust established to compensate victims of 2015, 2017 and 2018 fires.
Continued Commitment to Safety
Licenses for wireless antennas are one of the secondary uses of transmission towers approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the California Public Utllities Commission (CPUC) and under this agreement, PG&E retains control over its safety protocols. For years, wireless providers have paid PG&E to attach equipment to many of the company’s thousands of transmission towers and other utility structures.
These arrangements are carried out in compliance with the CPUC’s General Order 95, wildfire mitigation procedures, and other utility safety standards and protocols. PG&E will continue to regularly inspect and maintain the towers and audit the attachments. Any work on PG&E’s electric transmission infrastructure will continue to be performed by trained, qualified electrical workers.
This transaction is expected to close in early 2021.
PJT Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to PG&E. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP acted as legal counsel to PG&E.
This news release includes forward-looking statements that are not historical facts, including statements about expected cashflows, and the beliefs, expectations, estimates, future plans and strategies of PG&E Corporation and PG&E, including but not limited to the sale of the transmission tower wireless license revenues and its impact on PG&E Corporation and PG&E’s expected financing needs, rates and operations. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, which management believes are reasonable, and on information currently available to management, but are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. In addition to the risk that these assumptions prove to be inaccurate, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements include factors disclosed in PG&E Corporation and PG&E's joint Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, their joint Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020, and their subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. PG&E Corporation and PG&E undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether due to new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements regarding SBA’s expectations for the amount of Tower Cash Flow the acquired assets will generate in their first twelve months in SBA’s portfolio and the intent and ability of SBA to maximize use of the PG&E assets by wireless carriers in the future. These forward-looking statements may be affected by risks and uncertainties in SBA’s business as well as other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. These risk factors include (1) the ability of both parties to meet the closing conditions of the definitive agreements and to successfully close the contemplated transaction, (2) the willingness and ability of wireless service providers to maintain or increase their capital expenditures, especially in those geographic regions covered by the definitive agreements; (3) SBA’s ability to accurately identify and manage any risks associated with the sites and other assets covered by definitive agreements, to effectively integrate such sites and other assets into its business; (4) SBA’s ability to secure and retain as many site sublicensees as planned at anticipated license rates on the sites covered by the definitive agreements, including the impact of continued consolidation, and (5) SBA’s ability to accurately anticipate the future performance of the referenced sites. These forward-looking statements are also qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements and risk factor disclosures contained in SBA’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including SBA’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 24, 2020 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on November 5, 2020.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with more than 24,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
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11:30am Call to Order
- Pledge of Allegiance
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11:40 a.m. The Ins and Outs of COVID: From Mandates to Workers’ Comp.
In this interactive panel, topics will range from new mandates to workers’ compensations regarding COVID. Questions and answers to follow.
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What will be your writing legacy?
June 11, 2012
You will have to pardon the somber tone of this blog. It emanates from a brush with tragedy over the last thirty-six hours.
A close friend of my eighteen-year old daughter was in a serious automobile accident Saturday afternoon and remains in critical condition as I write this. Her teenage classmates are huddled at the hospital, standing vigil for her.
Another person died in the same wreck, in the twinkling of an eye.
This tragedy did not involve teenage drinking and driving. It was not a cautionary tale about the aftermath of bad decisions.
It was just two people who for whatever reason were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Maybe I will write about the accident itself in a few days when I gain some distance on it.
In the meantime, I have struggled with the lessons this tragic episode teaches me about my legacy as a writer.
Tragedy strips our defenses and exposes our bare skin. It puts the trivial things in our lives on hold while it forces us to deal with life and death, love and loss, the meaning of life or its absurdity.
It strikes me that this is the way writing, great writing at least, should be. It should not be just an exercise of putting words on a page with a certain degree of skill. Neither should it be about a formula where the writer delivers a tried and true punch line he knows will bring a laugh.
Our writing must be more than that. It is not enough that we peruse the bestseller lists, see what has sold and mimic it. A trained monkey can do that.
Rather, we must write about those essential things that make us human, the darkness that threatens to overpower the light of our souls, the dynamics that motivate a parent to love her child, a husband to care for a wife on her deathbed at the end of a long and tortuous losing fight. We must attempt to capture in a phrase or a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter the distilled essence of the human predicament.
And we must accomplish this with simple stories, parables so clear that they cut to the bone.
I don’t mean to say here that genre fiction cannot reach these noble goals. It doesn’t matter if the author packages his insight as a thriller, a mystery, a romance, or a paranormal story. What matters is that the story means something, that it grabs us and shakes us hard. It must peel away the false layers and bore into the marrow.
The author must be willing to lose himself in the work, so that the book becomes the thing, not a toy to display, but a collection of insights which stands the test of time because it is true to our experience.
So, what will be our writing legacy? At the end of the day, when we have run our race, will we be able to look back at our body of work and say we did our best to show the world as it is and as it should be?
If so, we authors will have left something for our children to treasure.
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Love Is A Battlefield: Artist Alexandra Grant’s “Antigone 3000”Author:Abigail Stone
Artist Alexandra Grant creates powerful, provocative work, collaged from text and shapes, paint and paper, ink and wax, lines and curves, that upends hate and chaos, transforming them into love and beauty.
It wasn’t really that surprising to discover that artist Alexandra Grant and writer Roxane Gay went to high school together. There’s an intersection between their similar battles against the canon of expectation that have driven the western world — and the place of women — for centuries. In Grant’s case, the seeds for that were put in place when she was still young. An only child born to two college professors in the Midwest, she was funneled through Paris and Mexico City. Being over six feet, a quality she shares with Gay, now with prematurely white hair, she has always stood out. She found solace from her otherness in the world of books. “I think part of my attraction to becoming an artist,” says Grant, who had entered college to study math but then switched her major, “was to finally have a shared language with people that wasn’t dependent on location or nationality.”
“I knew that language was going to be at the heart of my practice,” she says, “The decision to come to LA was in part because I saw how many text-based artists there were here,” she says referring to a legacy that includes John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and Barbara Kruger. But where they provoke, Grant engages. “I think there has to be a return to narrative,” she says.
The genesis of her current series, Antigone 3000, which was shown at Lowell Ryan Projects, and the thinking behind how the physical work came together, seems simple enough. She wanted to be seen and understood as a woman and as an artist. “I wasn’t being shown in relationship to other abstract painters of my generation and I wanted to be in the bigger conversation,” she says. With Mike Brown’s death in Ferguson in 2014, the story of Antigone, which she had first encountered through the Jean Anouilh play as a child and then again in the psychology classes she took as an art student, suddenly felt especially relevant. Galvanized, Grant began to explore the myth in her paintings.
The story, for those who are unfamiliar with Socrates play from which Grant draws her text, places the young Greek girl at the center of a conflict between what is law and what is right. When her brother, Polynices, is killed in fight over who will rule the city of Thebes, her Uncle, now the king, refuses to honor him with a ceremonial burial. He even goes so far as to decree that anyone who mourns him will be stoned to death as a traitor. Antigone defies his order, defending her stance with the statement that she was born to love, not to hate. “It’s the dynamic between the violence of the state and violence of the organic mess of life coming into conflict,” says Grant. “Her move is so central to every generation. I wanted to play with that. How would I represent that abstractly?”
She started with a ruler. “Those lines represent the state. The Rorschach and the poured paint represent the messiness of life. But then how was I going to represent Antigone? I wanted to create a different way of representing language that wasn’t handwriting or me printing Gothic or Helvetica on a computer and having it be like graphic design. And I had all this tombstone wax, which you use to make grave rubbings, left over from a project, and I thought, ‘What if I took this rubbing material and I rubbed paper on that painting, what would happen?’ And then I just started combining the more abstract painting with the texts and the reason they’re all on paper is because everything is rubbed over that plaster and there’s older drawings and more abstract ones all cut up in triangles and pasted on.”
The potent visual antagonism of the finished work is palatable. Each painting, in its abstraction, is a battlefield and a visual proposition that Antigone, in choosing love over hate, rises above opposition and towards the divine propelled by her steadfast conviction. Though this series represents Grant’s first dive into the world of Antigone, in many ways her work has always been about choosing love — from grantLove, her philanthropic love brand which produces and sells original artworks and editions to benefit artist projects and arts non-profits, to her publishing house X Artists’ Books, to her frequent collaborations, even the fact that she was ordained as a Universal Life Minister in order to preside over a friend’s wedding. “I don’t see myself as a revolutionary,” she says, “but I do see myself as standing for something.” Love may be a battlefield but, in the end, it always triumphs.
For information or to inquire about purchasing Grant’s work, contact Lowell Ryan Projects at 323.998.0063 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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CALLING FOR TRUTH RADIO PROGRAMS
Circa 2006 - 2009
Approximately between 2006-2009 "Calling for Truth," a daily, live, call-in radio program was co-hosted by Dr. Dean and Kevin Boling every weekday afternoon from 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm EST. Via the use of Internet technologies (this website), the program was made available to audiences throughout the United States and around the world.
Website visitors could enjoy audio archives of the radio programs, Dr. Dean's Blog, along with relevant news stories and views affecting Christians. There were even FREE MP3 Downloads of all the "Calling For Truth" Radio Programs that were available in the Audio Archive Section. When this site's domain expired CallingForTruth.org disappeared from the Internet. However,the Pastor Kevin Boling now has his own website called “Knowing The Truth” also a live, call-in radio program providing Cultural Commentary, Doctrinal Dialog,and Insightful Interviews with some of today’s preeminent Christian leaders and authors. Go to:www.knowingthetruth.org/ for more information.
I always read the News & Views section of the Calling for Truth website.Recently I discovered that the domain for callingfortruth.org was available, so I bought it with the goal of recreating some of its content from archived pages. I definitely didn't want someone else purchasing the domain and re-purposing the site for something that had nothing in common with the original website.
There were lots of great nuggets of wisdom and insights revealed in Dr. Dean's Blogs. However, I did not come across any posts about online gambling sites aimed at US players. Online gambling is becoming increasingly popular. A person can easily find online casinos offering poker, slot machines, roulette, blackjack, and a variety of other table games. But does God view it as moral or immoral? Should a Christian gamble? What does the Bible say? The word "gamble" is not found in the Bible, yet the practice violates Bible principles regardless of the amount of money involved. And now that a person does not have to drive to a brick amd motar casino, but can gamble anywhere via their computer or cell phone, the desire to gamble is even more insideous. In Timothy 6:9,10 - Love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Greed leads to many foolish and hurtful lusts, and many sorrows. If gambling is greed, then Christians should expect to find it associated with all kinds of sin and immorality. As Christians, we should imitate the example of Jesus (1 Corinthians 11:1, Matthew 10:24,25, 1 Peter 2:21,22). How does gambling harmonize with the example of Jesus and the teaching of His word? I think it is pretty clear.
I have added enough blog content to give a good feel for what the blog area was originally like between 2006-2009. Please be indulgent with this truncated version of CallingForTruth.org.Consider the information on this site for its historical value.
Dr. Dean's Blog 2006-2009
Dr. Paul Dean is a pastor, cultural commentator, and author. He hosts a live, call-in radio broadcast every M-W-F at 1:00 pm Eastern. You can access archives or join the conversation by logging onto www.callingfortruth.org. You can also sign up for “The Dean’s List,” a free news and Christian worldview e-letter. Check out his new book, Disciple Like Jesus for Parents. To schedule Dr. Dean to speak, simply e-mail him at email@example.com.
What is Christmas All About?;
Written by Paul Dean
Friday, 15 December 2006
Christmas! It means so many things to different people. For example, WorldNetDaily reports that Senator Patty Murray “rebuffed instructions given last year by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, that the national tree in front of the U.S. Capitol be referred to as the ‘Capitol Christmas Tree’ after having been called the ‘Capitol Holiday Tree’ since the 1990s. During the lighting ceremony, the senator from the tree's home state never used the word ‘Christmas’ in her speech to the assembled crowd, opting instead for the term ‘holiday tree’ twice.”
Friends had attended the lighting ceremony. It was a chilly evening. Many people were there with young children. Someone commented about the number of Northface jackets that were evident including the prelavence of comfortable North Face products including the best jackets for infants. What a stange observation, but then again perhaps it wasn't since the commentator had just bought a Northface jacket/ bunting for her 9 month old since they were going backpacking in the Maine woods during the Christmas holidays. Yes, folks Northface makes great ultralight bunting for 6 months old and up and great fleece one pieces for new borns and up that can be layered underneath. Great Christmas gifts for those living in the wintery north lands with wee ones. Perfect for little one's when you take them to Christmas eve services. Ah, but I digress.
But, it was her communications director Alex Glass’ answers to questions in the aftermath that were so intriguing: “She was speaking to a crowd, and she said what she said. This is the holiday season, we're just thrilled that the tree is from Washington state. It's just a time to bring everybody together to celebrate the season.” “When asked if there were any objection to calling the tree a ‘Christmas tree,’ she said the senator doesn't have a policy. ‘I think, you know, whatever people want to call it, we are accepting of all of it. It's a time to remember what the season is about.’ And that is? Celebrating, of course. And what are we celebrating? ‘The season,’ Glass said. And what is the season? ‘I'm not going to get into semantics with you guys,’ she said.”
Now, there is a sense in which we can forgive Glass and the senator for not knowing what the season is about. They apparently don’t know Christ and are merely politicians struggling in a politically charged climate. The problem lies in the fact that too many Christians are confused about what the season is about as well. Do we really know and live out the reality that Christmas is about the advent of the promised deliverer? Think about this wonderful verity for just a few minutes as we ground our thoughts in one verse from God’s word: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel (Gen. 3:15).”
First, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would be specially and sublimely a man. He would not be an angel or some other creature, but a man, “for there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5).” The deliverer was to be “her Seed,” the seed of the woman. How sublime is the fulfillment of this promise. Christ Jesus, “being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Phil. 2:6-8)”
Second, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would be unique concerning His human nature. He would be the Seed of the woman only and not the Seed of an earthly father. Much debate is centered on the virgin birth of Christ. The fact that Matthew and Luke are clear in their affirmations that Christ was indeed born of a virgin (Matt. 1:23; Lk. 1:27) should stop all debate on this issue. While alma in Isa. 7:14 literally means “young maiden,” not only is the implication of virgin clear in that text but declared with no equivocation in the gospels with the use of the word parthenos, or virgin. But more compelling is the unity of Scripture from Genesis to Isaiah to the gospels and the intent of the prophecies in the Old Testament concerning this wonderful reality. Those with eyes to see understand clearly the Seed of the woman in Genesis to be a clear gospel reference to the nature of Christ’s birth as the sinless One.
Third, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would accomplish His mission through vicarious suffering. The word of the Lord was “you shall bruise His heel.” This statement is the gospel in a phrase! “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit (1 Pet. 3:18).” Christ died as a sinner by way of imputation: our sin imputed to Him. The Just One suffered for guilty sinners. But, because He had no sin of His own, death could not hold Him and three days later He came out of the grave with all power and glory in His hand.
Fourth, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would ultimately defeat sin, Satan, and death. Christ abolished death (2 Tim. 1:10), destroyed the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3:8), and disarmed all principalities and powers, having made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them through the cross (Col. 2:15). These blessed realities are summed up in the promise, “He shall bruise your head.”
Fifth, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would be revealed in His divine nature. If the Seed of the woman was virgin-born with no earthly father, it follows that His origin is special in more than one way. Further, if this One was to suffer for guilty sinners though He had no sin of His own, and if this One was to conquer sin, death, and the powers of darkness, it follows that such a One would have a unique power and nature. One who could atone for sin and defeat Satan, reverse the fall, (and be not only typified in worship but worshipped in the process as we shall see momentarily), could be nothing short of Divine. The deliverer would be God Himself. As noted, He would also be man. Thus, the deliverer is none other than the God-man. “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, ‘God with us (Matt. 1:23).’” Here the response to Mary’s question, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?" And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God (Lk. 1:35).”
Sixth, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would reconcile His people to the Father. Out of the mass of humanity, Satan’s children, by nature, children of wrath, Christ would redeem a people for Himself (Jn 8:44; Eph. 2:3; Matt. 1:21). The mass of humanity is at enmity with God for the Lord declared “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed.” Of course, this enmity is the result of the first Adam. But, our reconciliation, the fact that “He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” is the work of the Second Adam on the cross. “Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life (Rom. 5:18).” O how we must preach Christ at Christmas!
Seventh, Christmas is about the promised deliverer who would be typified in worship and worshipped. In this way God has declared fully “the way” and “the who” of our salvation. God has told us what worship of Him is. While the form of worship has changed from the primeval period to the patriarchal period to the Old Covenant to the New Covenant, the essence of worship has not. The essence of worship is the glorification of God though the person and work of Jesus Christ.
In the aftermath of Adam’s sin, it is obvious that men were commanded to worship God by way of sacrificing animals that were consumed wholly upon the altar after the skins had been removed. The skins were to be used for clothing (and not for food as men were not allowed to eat animals until after the flood). The Lord Himself demonstrated such in slaying the first animals and covering our first parents’ nakedness. Subsequently, Cain and Abel were given to the same activity. Cain’s offering of fruit was not accepted because he did not obey God in faith and offer that which had been commanded (Gen. 4:3-7; Heb. 11:4).
Of course, as Adam and Eve covered their own nakedness with fig leaves (Gen. 3:7), the fact that God slew animals and covered them with the skins demonstrated to them that they could never cover their own nakedness or work for their salvation, but that God had to cover their nakedness and He had to do so through the sacrifice of His Son and cover their shame with His righteousness by way of imputation. O what blessed gospel truth is here proclaimed!
And, what gospel truth is preserved in the revealed mode of worship given to Adam and his immediate posterity as they had Christ in a figure every time they offered a sacrifice to God! Every time they remembered what God had done and every time they made an offering to the Lord they were hearing and proclaiming “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel (Gen. 3:15).” Every time they worshipped they heard and proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ, even as we do the same.
So, let us therefore worship Christ at Christmas and let us put that worship of Him on display. After all, that’s what Christmas is all about: Christ the Lord our promised deliverer
FRAMING DEBATE IN THE CULTURE WAR
Written by Paul Dean
Friday, 16 February 2007
The use of language in argument is an art that secularists have mastered. The general populace and far too many Christians often embrace a godless worldview by virtue of a lack of discernment in this area (which of course is grounded in theological ignorance to a certain degree). For too long, the anti-God crowd has framed debate in the multi-front culture war and in so doing advanced their cause through forcing Christians to fight on enemy ground at worst or on neutral ground at best. In such a war, Christians must never give up ground nor must they fight on neutral or enemy ground through a lack of discernment.
Consider a recent story regarding a survey in connection with how physicians’ religious or moral beliefs affect patients’ care. According to the AP, “A disturbing number of doctors do not feel obligated to tell patients about medical options they oppose morally, such as abortion and teen birth control, and believe they have no duty to refer people elsewhere for such treatments…The study, conducted by University of Chicago researchers, found 86 percent of those responding, believe doctors are obligated to present all treatment options.”
“‘That means that there are a lot of physicians out there who are not, in fact, doing the right thing,’ said David Magnus, director of Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics. ‘Conscientious objection is fine…as long as it doesn't conflict with the rights of the patient,’ Magnus said. ‘You can't abandon the patient or essentially coerce the patient by saying you won't do the procedure or refer them to someone else.’”
“Overall, 52 percent said they oppose abortion, 42 percent opposed prescribing birth control to 14- to 16-year-olds without parental approval, and 17 percent objected to sedating patients near death.” Serious issues are involved here, not the least of which is language.
First, referring to abortion or the morning after pill as “treatment options” frames the debate in biased terms. Treatment generally presupposes that something is wrong with a person; that illness has struck or some kind of accident has occurred. Pregnancy in and of itself is not and illness, malady, or dysfunction. The use of such language blunts the reality of the subject matter and facilitates the notion that the killing of unborn children is nothing more than a routine medical procedure with no ethical implications whatsoever.
Second, such language denigrates the essential dignity that is inherent to human beings and puts them on the same plane with animals or even excess tissue that is to be discarded. If human beings are not created in the image of God, if they have no essential dignity by virtue of that fact, and if they are no different than the animals, then the issue of ethics itself will cease to have meaning. No one sees a lion killing a gazelle for food as an ethical issue. The taking of human life in any context can then become a “treatment option” as human life in general has no more value than animal life.
Third, in light of the foregoing, to charge a doctor with being unethical because he/she will not perform an abortion, is not only meaningless in terms of the secularists’ worldview, but, it is hypocritical. If ethics are meaningless on an evolutionary or naturalist worldview, then the naturalist cannot level the charge of unethical. The language of ethics simply becomes artillery in the debate.
Fourth, the imposition of the larger medical community’s ethic upon all, is not only meaningless and hypocritical, but it is just that: impositional, that is, coercive. It is a violation of the individual’s liberty of conscience, a cardinal value that Americans have held dear for over two-hundred years. Thus, to refer to a doctor as coercive because he won’t do a procedure is, once again, linguistic sophistry. (A patient can always get a second opinion or go elsewhere).
Fifth, in connection with the above, to speak of the rights of the patient is also out of bounds. What about the unborn child’s rights? What about the doctor’s rights?
Sixth, the use of phraseology like “abandon the patient” simply because a particular doctor won’t perform an abortion is both disingenuous and inflammatory. Even the title of the article is devious: “Doctors’ Personal Beliefs Can Hinder Care.” How about the opening line of the piece: “A disturbing number of doctors?” Further, calling it unethical to refuse to prescribe birth control to underage girls without parental consent stands the definition of honesty on its head.
Again, a little discernment is needed when we look at how secularists frame the debate. Let us not abandon doctors, patients, and indeed the secularists themselves by abandoning our responsibility to be both theologically informed and literate that we might not only discern the fallacies the enemy foists upon us but that we might actually frame the debate with truth.
The Authority of Scripture in a Culture of Compromise
Written by Paul Dean
Friday, 13 November 2009
Compromise of any sort begins with an assault on the truth. Relativism is but one weapon that pounds away, day after day, on the notion of absolutes. As America’s new religion has been dubbed by some as “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” one understands that for most people, God is a nice idea but He’s not someone they want to be bothered with on a regular basis. Of course, when there is no God, or when we can’t be bothered with God, there is no truth; when there is no truth, there is no authority – but oneself. Perhaps the single most destructive source of compromise in our culture is the marginalization and/or rejection of the authority of Scripture – not by unbelievers but by professing Christians.
Yet, all is not lost. The church still has her calling, message, and Lord who is in fact building that church. Three affirmations come to mind here.
First, in a culture of compromise, it is the authority of Scripture that is rejected by evil men who are deceived. We must never forget that one’s commitment to the authority of Scripture for his life is a spiritual issue. The true believer is one who is increasingly committed to God’s will as given through the Scriptures while the unbeliever is one who increasingly rejects the truth and its authority. Paul says to Timothy, “But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived (2 Tim. 3:13).” The issue is not intellectual or rational. People without Christ are deceived. They cannot understand the things of God apart from the work of the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:14). No one can be forced, enticed, or even manipulated into embracing the Bible’s authority. The issue is spiritual and God alone can cause submission. Of course, when we believers reject Scriptural authority from time to time, and we do, we are mimicking those who are deceived. We must be confronted with this staggering reality often.
Second, in a culture of compromise, it is the authority of Scripture that is our only rule for faith and practice. In other words, what we are to believe and what we are to do in any circumstance is revealed to us in God’s Word. With reference to what we believe, Paul declares that it is the Scriptures that are “are able to make [us] wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Tim. 3:15).” It is from the Scriptures we get our doctrine (2 Tim. 3:16). This principle relates to what we believe about ultimate reality, politics, ethics, relationships, and so forth. In terms of what we do, Paul asserts that it is the Scriptures that are “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17).” This principle relates to what we do in terms of our attitudes, actions, vocation, the way we treat others, our worship, or even the way we carry out the work of the church in ministry or evangelism for example. We must search the Scriptures daily to get our doctrine. We must be reproved, corrected, and instructed constantly by the Scriptures. Only then will the Scriptures be our practical authority. Otherwise, all we will be doing is paying lip service; and that is hypocrisy.
Third, in a culture of compromise, because it is the authority of Scripture that is rejected by evil men who are deceived; while at the same time, it is the authority of Scripture that is our only rule for faith and practice; it is the authority of Scripture that is underneath the Lord’s solemn charge to us. That charge is straightforward: “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching (2 Tim. 4:2).” We are to preach the Word whether it is popular or not; whether it is received or not; whether people like it or not. It is authoritative. And, it is the Word that God uses to change the hearts and minds of guilty sinners. We must not ourselves reject the authority of Scripture when it comes to our method of evangelism. Sinners cannot and will not be saved by fleshly means. Further, our culture cannot and will not be changed by fleshly means. We are in a spiritual battle and the weapons of are warfare are not carnal (2 Cor. 10:4). God Himself commands: “’And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?’ says the LORD. ‘Is not my word like a fire? says the LORD, ‘And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?’” This command affirms both that which we are supposed to do (preach the Word) and why we are to do so (it is the Word that breaks the rock in pieces). The Lord Himself says we must preach the Word.
Every now and then someone asks me what the vision of our church is. I usually say, “What do you mean,” when I know exactly what they mean. They want to know how we are going to go about building the church. Because the Scripture is my authority, I simply say, “Preach the Word; no compromise.” If the church doesn’t get hold of this reality, we will continue to lose our savor and be trampled upon by men in this culture (Matt. 5:13). On the other hand, if we do get hold of it, the fortresses of this culture will crumble before our God.
Obama’s School Talk: Should Christians Really be Concerned?
Written by Paul Dean
Monday, 07 September 2009
Scores of Christians and conservatives are denouncing President Obama’s announced speech to children in schools across the country tomorrow. Notables like Michelle Malkin are concerned with subversive activism. Republicans are accusing the President of imposing a political agenda on the nation’s children. Other conservatives see the move as socialist indoctrination. Of course, references to certain dictators’ propagandizing of children abound. Numerous parents intend to keep their children home tomorrow.
On the one hand, I certainly have some concerns of my own with the current administration, the direction of the country, and the increasing intrusion of government into our lives, including the speech tomorrow. At the same time, Christians who have children in public school ought to keep at least four critical thoughts intermingling here.
First, is the President’s speech not an opportunity for you to not only give your child the tools of critical analysis as you dissect it, but, is it not also an opportunity for you to train your child to engage with his friends and/or teachers? There will be discussion in the class room about the speech. Opinions will be offered. What better way for your child to really be salt and light than to offer an informed, timely, winsome, biblical response? If you and your children are going to engage the culture, you must be in the culture, not stay home that day.
Second, what do you expect? Is it really a surprise to you that government officials want to have influence over your children? Just today I received a phone message from one of our state senators who is also concerned about the speech from the President and is promising to promote legislation to “protect our schools from becoming propaganda tools.” While I do appreciate his sentiment, my first thought was, “You’re kidding right?” Is that not what they already are in so many ways? While you as a Christian parent can choose to send your children to a public school for a number of valid reasons, you should not do so with your eyes closed. The worldview being put forth in your child’s school is opposed to the worldview given by the Scriptures. This dynamic goes beyond the science class and affects everything that is taught. If God is not the foundation for what your children are taught, then they are getting a view that is opposed to God. Pluralistic indoctrination need not be directly taught, though it is, to set forth a worldview that is unbiblical. There is no such thing as neutral ground. Either the foundation of what is taught assumes the reality of God or denies Him. You need to understand that your child is being indoctrinated into a secular worldview each and every day. That being the case, why does it surprise you the President wants to address your children?
Third, the fact that your child is being taught something contrary to the Scriptures on a regular basis simply magnifies your need to intentionally influence his thinking. You need to teach the Bible to your child on a daily basis and apply it to his heart. It is not just a matter of information but devotion. You want your child to be devoted to Christ. Moreover, you need to engage in worldview dialogue with your little one or teenager constantly. Every message you hear flows from a particular worldview. When the news anchor talks about the “innocent slaughter of trees” you know he is coming from a different worldview than you. That comment provides you with a teaching moment. Talk to your kids and talk to them often about how to look at the world through the lens of Scripture. A review of what they learn at school would be a great place to start.
Fourth, you won’t change what the government does by political pressure of any kind. Sure, you will gain some ground here and there but it will be temporary and temporal in effect. In other words, it will pass when the next group gets their way by getting out the vote and the impact you have will be earthly. It will be what you want as opposed to what others want and of little, if any, eternal value since it will be the result of political action and not the result of God doing a work in the hearts of people. You should be engaged in the political arena if God has called you to that. You should have a say as to what goes on in your child’s school. But, just remember, the direction of our government and culture is a reflection of the ideas and attitudes that dominate our culture. Only when hearts are changed and the Christian worldview gains ascendency in our culture again will we see real change at any (and every) level of society. Use spiritual weapons (2 Cor. 10:4-5) and faithfully live out the calling God has given you, whatever it is.
CALLING FOR TRUTH RADIO PROGRAM June 2007
Monday, June 18th - "Blasphemy of Biblical Proportions"
How should Christian interpret the movie Evan Almighty? Should Christians be involved in partnering with the world to change the world? On this edition of the “Calling For Truth” Radio Program we discuss the many issues surrounding the release of this film and the marketing of it to the Christian community.
Wednesday, June 20th - "Everyday Talk"
Our special guest on this edition of “Calling For Truth” is Author John (Jay) A. Younts. Jay has written the book “Everyday Talk – Speaking Freely and Naturally about God with your Children”.
Tuesday, June 12th - Live From The SBC
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Tom gave us an update on some of the issues facing the SBC. He also made a major announcement about an upcoming conference called, "Building Bridges: Southern Baptists and Calvinism". The conference is being jointly sponsored by Founders Ministries and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Friday, June 8th - Alien Intrusion: UFO's Evolution Connection
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Or, what about the modern mystery of alien abductions and stories of visitations by beings claiming to be from other planets or star systems? Are aliens really making contact with human beings? Is it important anyway?
To deal with this issue from a biblical perspective, our special guest on today’s edition of the “Calling For Truth” Radio Program will be Gary Bates from Creation Ministries International.
Gary has undertaken specialist research into the UFO phenomenon and associated extraterrestrial beliefs. Gary has written the Amazon.com top 50 bestseller Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection. This unique book provides biblical answers to the puzzling questions regarding UFOs and life on other planets.
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After the months of July and August, during which many CANA meetings took place around the world, fortunately most of them live, the 2021-2022 season is already well underway!
Une nouvelle organisation
The extended team of CANA international met on Wednesday 8 September at the CANA house in Les Pothières (Anse, France). A full day meeting, essential to launch this year 2021-2022. A new organisation and a revised follow-up of the countries are gradually being put in place after the departure of Father Christophe BLIN. It was a good time of exchange and questioning necessary to accompany the development of the CANA mission in the world.
Cette année 2021-2022
This year, in view of the World Meeting of Families (Rome, June 2022) which will conclude the Year of the Family Amoris Laetitia, the focus will be on the Pope’s Apostolic Letter “The Joy of Love”. Each month, we will continue to publish an article to promote a better understanding of this text which is a great encouragement for our mission to couples and families.
And to contribute to its pastoral application, we would like to see this translated into concrete action in many countries through the deployment in different languages of:
- CANA Welcome, announced on the Vatican website!
- CANA Parents
- CANA Hope (for divorced or separated people)
- CANA Bible Week
- CANA Family Week
Une rentrée à travers le monde
In many countries, the CANA Fraternity’s meeting to launch the program for the year is taking place in September. Here are some examples.
In Latvia, 25 couples have just committed themselves for the year, including 7 couples following the CANA week this summer and 3 couples following “1,2,3…CANA”! Two CANA Welcome programs were launched, one in a Catholic parish and the other in a Lutheran parish.
In Lithuania, the launch day was amazing, Joné and Gintaras share: “We started with a visit to the house where Sister Faustina lived near Vilnius. On that day, 38 couples joined the Fraternity for the year and we will have 5 fraternities in Vilnius and 3 in Kaunas. We are very happy that the Archbishop of Vilnius Gintaras Linas GRUŠAS has given his consent for Fr Algirdas to accompany the CANA mission in Lithuania.”
In Italy, CANA is present in the North and in the South in Sicily, with a great geographical distance between these two areas. In order to avoid long journeys, the CANA launching day is done at regional level. Thus, in Northern Italy, it took place on Sunday 12 September in Asti. We had the pleasure to join them and to meet the new national leaders – Massimo & Sylvia MIGLIO – who are taking over from Aldo & Elena RABELLINO, our predecessors as leaders of CANA International. In Sicily the launching day has also just taken place.
In the Czech Republic, the launching of the new season took place on 19 and 20 September.
This 2021-2022 Season is shaping up to be one with so many good things to come:
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U.S. researcher studying poultry wastewater as way to irrigate crops
By Paul Hollis, Auburn UniversityNews Research
Freshwater supplies increasingly limited as world’s population grows.
As freshwater supplies become increasingly limited and the world’s population continues to grow, Auburn University College of Agriculture researchers are working on ways to find and utilize alternative water resources for irrigating crops.
“One proven source that can meet this demand is wastewater,” said Brendan Higgins, assistant professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering. “In addition to providing water for crops, wastewater resources are rich in nutrients, specifically nitrogen and phosphorus. Combined, these nutrients can improve the growth of food crops.”
Higgins is leading a research team that has received a four-year $499,577 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to study the possibility of using poultry processing wastewater for irrigating in controlled-environment agriculture.
Other members of the research team include Daniel Wells, assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture; Dianna Bourassa, assistant professor and extension specialist in the Department of Poultry Science; and Rishi Prasad, assistant professor and extension specialist in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences.
The poultry industry, Higgins said, is a major generator of nutrient-rich wastewater.
“This water supply is currently being treated as a waste at a significant expense to industry and, ultimately, to consumers,” he said.
In 2018, the U.S. broiler industry produced roughly nine billion chickens, resulting in an economic impact of $31.7 billion on the U.S. economy. The processing plants that handle poultry slaughter and meatpacking also produce roughly 62 billion gallons of wastewater annually at a cost of more than $247 million to treat.
“Repurposing this water supply for use in crop production has the potential to significantly reduce treatment costs, increase food production and reduce the overall impact on the environment,” Higgins said. “However, there are three main challenges that need to be addressed in order to safely and efficiently use wastewater for food production.”
The first challenge, he said, is that nutrients in the wastewater should be in the appropriate form for stable crop production. Secondly, the crops irrigated with wastewater must be free of pathogens, and, lastly, the negative effects of antimicrobial chemicals in the poultry wastewater must be mitigated.
“The goal of our project is to develop engineered biological processes that overcome these three challenges,” Higgins said. “Successful development of such processes will pave the way for recycling of wastewater back into safe and sustainable food production.”
Researchers will meet the project’s goal by engaging in four major research activities:
- Develop an innovative wastewater treatment reactor that uses algae and bacteria deployed together to clean the water and transform existing nutrients into forms that are usable by plants.
- Test the ability of the above reactor, along with other non-chemical treatment steps, to clean the water of pathogens so it is safe to use for crop irrigation.
- Grow lettuce—a model crop that presents a “worst-case scenario” from a food-safety standpoint—to test the system’s performance. During this step, researchers will dose in antimicrobial chemicals into the treatment system to determine how effectively it removes and mitigates their negative impact on lettuce production.
- Develop a set of engineering models derived from the experimental data. These models will serve as the basis for scaling up the process so it can be deployed safely and effectively at commercial poultry processing plants.
The treatment system, Higgins said, will need to be located near the processing plant.
“Water can be pumped a significant distance, but of course you would need to consider the site-specific economics,” he said. “Where is the supply and demand, and does it make sense for this particular location?
“One of the attractions of controlled-environment agriculture is that the footprint of the facilities is quite small, given how intensive the crop production is. You can produce a lot of lettuce on a small area of land using greenhouse technology. It is conducive to suburban and exurban areas where a lot of the poultry processors are located.”
The Auburn project will be located at the College of Agriculture’s Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center.
The poultry wastewater concept originated during a meeting of the “animal production” working group organized by the College of Agriculture and led by Ken Macklin, professor and extension specialist in the Department of Poultry Science.
“I’ve been working with poultry processing wastewater over the past few years and have been developing the idea that algae can be used to overcome the negative consequences of antimicrobial agents in the poultry processing wastewater,” Higgins said. “However, it wasn’t until our research team started talking that this idea of growing crops with wastewater really came to fruition.”
While the research project will be focusing on growing lettuce, Higgins sees the potential for using wastewater on a variety of crops.
“Non-food crops like cotton would probably be easiest from a regulatory standpoint,” he said. “However, we really wanted to grow food with the water because it is a major research challenge. There are already many options for reutilizing waste materials on non-food crops and forage.”
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The evolution of Canary Wharf since the 1980s has transformed the remnants of the UK’s largest docks into a skyscraper packed peninsula.
East London’s most famous skyline is best observed from afar, and there are multiple locations around London to get the perfect shot — or just sit back and take in the view!
Here’s a brief list of 6 of the best places with views of Canary Wharf.
Easily accessed on foot from Canary Wharf’s centre, and conveniently passing by Canary Wharf Pier and the Uber Boat, the Thames path provides stunning views.
Section three of the Thames Path spans between Tower Bridge and Greenwich. Snaking through the Isle of Dogs, this section also provides some of the best views of Canary Wharf.
Taking the path west towards Tower Bridge captures the height of Landmark Pinnacle and Newfoundland — two of the tallest residential buildings in Europe — and the contrasting low-rise docklands’ development nearby.
There are a surprising amount of parks near Canary Wharf. One of the largest, and home to the famous Royal Observatory, Greenwich Park provides outstanding views towards Canary Wharf and across the entirety of the City of London.
Located around 2 and a half miles south of the financial centre, Greenwich Park’s raised elevation combined with its distance from the skyscraper packed area, means it provides a great panoramic view.
As a result, it’s probably the most commonly photographed view of Canary Wharf, but on a clear day, the vista across London is spectacular.
Greenland docks in Surrey Quays is another location with excellent views of Canary Wharf that is easily accessible via the Uber Boat.
The oldest of London’s wet docks, this location in Rotherhithe is no longer used commercially, and is now home to multiple houseboats and several new residential developments.
With 130 residential berths and surrounding developments, there are plenty of nearby cafés and shops to visit while you are there.
There is even a water sports centre!
The expansive docks provide an obstruction free view for capturing the entirety of the Canary Wharf skyline from the southwest.
If you are after an interesting view of Canary Wharf, and one that is not often seen, the Tate Modern is a good place to start.
Opened in 2000, the ex-power station has since been modernised twice by Herzog & De Meuron — the same renowned architect that designed flagship Canary Wharf residential development One Park Drive.
In 2016, the Switch House extension provided the famous art gallery with a 10th floor viewing platform with unobstructed views along the Thames towards Canary Wharf.
The viewing centre is free to access and provides one of the more unique places to view Canary Wharf, set against the busy London foreground.
Helping to keep Canary Wharf above water, the Thames Barrier is a 1700 ft (ca. 518 m) long flood defence system located upstream of the Isle of Dogs.
The tidal Thames varies in height throughout the year, with surge tides raising water levels up to 3 meters! Ten steel gates — weighing 3,300 tonnes each — open and close to regulate the height of the water level in London.
While you can’t get access to the structure itself, there is a visitors centre and the site is easily accessed via Pontoon Dock DLR station. Photos from the south side, emphasise the height of Canary Wharf’s skyscrapers against the backdrop of the Thames and the o2 Arena.
One of the best ways to see Canary Wharf is from the air.
Whilst renowned aerial photographers like Jason Hawkes use helicopters to get their fascinating shots — there is a budget alternative!
The Emirates Airline is London’s first cable car, routing between the o2 Arena in North Greenwich and the Royal Docks. While a functional means of transport across the Thames — you can even use your oyster card — the cable car provides stunning aerial views.
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4 Reasons to Use Cannabis for the Treatment of Pain
Pot for Pain? Can cannabis treat pain as well as opioids?
1. Long History & New Research
Cannabis has been used for pain relief by people around the world for many thousands of years. However, unlike opium and its’ derivatives, also used from antiquity till the present time for pain relief, nothing was known about what compound(s) produced the much sought after analgesic effects of marijuana until very recently.
The structure of morphine (the main active compound in opium) was isolated in 1925. For a variety of reasons, it wasn’t until 1964 that the structure of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active compound in cannabis) was discovered. Because so little was known up till then about cannabis and how it worked, very little research was done on cannabis and it’s analgesic properties.
Assistant studies marijuana in the Maripharma Laboratory in Rotterdam, Netherlands. MICHEL PORRO/GETTY IMAGES
2. We are naturally receptive!
Since that time though we have discovered that there are over 100 (phyto) cannabinoids made by the plant, in addition to terpenes that have many medicinal properties themselves; that we make our own internal (endo) cannabinoids; and, that we have a vast system throughout the brain and body of (endocannabinoid) receptors that produce the effects of cannabis. In addition, since 1964 much more research has been done on producing analogs of the naturally occurring phyto or plant cannabinoids.
Not only can cannabis treat pain as well as opioids, it can help treat patients addicted to them and help with their (opioid) withdrawal symptoms. There are no cannabis receptors in the brain areas involved with respiration, unlike the many receptors for morphine in those areas. Intentionally or accidentally taking too many opiates can cause overdose and death. On the other hand there is no risk of overdosing from taking too much cannabis for treatment of pain and, in fact, there have been no documented overdoses from cannabis, ever.
Health effects and benefits of Marijuana.
3. Stop pain impulses + Anti-Inflammatory
When people take THC or CBD (cannabidiol, the second most abundant compound in cannabis) for the relief of pain the endocannabinoid receptors can actually stop or seriously limit the pain impulses coming up to the brain from injured or swollen muscles, joints, nerves and skin or intestinal tissue. In addition, CBD works directly in those tissues to decrease or eliminate the inflammation that is such an integral part of the pain cycle. This is another difference with opioids as they have no anti-inflammatory properties.
Taking too many opiates can cause overdose and death. On the other hand there is no risk of overdosing from taking too much cannabis for treatment of pain and, in fact, there have been no documented overdoses from cannabis, ever.
4. It’s Legal New York!
In New York State, the vast proportion of patients enrolled in the Medical Marihuana Program are being treated for chronic pain. Many conditions have some component of pain involved with them. What we are finding is that, for those conditions, once the correct ratio of THC and CBD, and form of ingestion (vaping, drops, pills, etc.) is found for a particular patient, they can begin to get back to a more normal, pain free life. With the help of a certified treating physician, you can legally obtain medical marijuana products to relieve chronic pain. The Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) which passed on March 31st 2021, includes provisions to expand the Medical Marijuana Program’s qualifying conditions. The Office of Cannabis Management & the NYS Department of Health have been making updates within the state-wide system that will allow practioners to certify conditions previously not listed. Kenneth R. Weinberg, M.D. © 2021
Cannabis Doctors of New York CDONY can now certify patients for the medical use of cannabis for any condition based on the practitioner’s clinical discretion. Patients are no longer limited by the list of qualifying conditions to be eligible for the use of medical cannabis.
*We are currently booking appointments for expanded conditions. Your condition may benefit from Cannabis, please contact us for an appointment.
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Caravan’s eco tours Costa Rica packages are fully guided and all inclusive, and designed to provide the most amazing eco tour possible with minimal environmental impact.
Tourism in Costa Rica is the number one industry, outperforming even the pineapple and coffee industries.
Since they abolished the military back in 1949, Costa Rica continues to lead the world in eco sustainability. Nearly a quarter of the country is protected within wildlife preserves, wildlife refuges, and National Parks, including much of the coastal and marine areas. By comparison, only 12% of the USA is protected.
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Costa Rica is a place of rare natural beauty where sustainable conservation, education, and a deep commitment to environmental protection are all combined and supported by the tourism industry.
A full 23% of this tiny country of just under 5 million people has been designated as protected national parks, and natural wildlife reserves and refuges, which is really quite amazing!
Protecting a diverse array of rare tropical birds, reptiles, flora and fauna, Costa Rica ecotourism attractions include 75 green protected areas, which account for approximately 6% of earth’s entire biodiversity. It’s truly unbelievable for such a small country that takes up only 1% of the worlds land mass.
Costa Rica has:
- Over 13,000 varieties of tropical fauna and flora
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Ecotourism Activities in Costa Rica
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Poas & Arenal Volcanoes – Viewing either volcano up close will depend on the weather but Poas volcano boasts a mile wide crater and Arenal volcano, which is visible from your hotel (weather permitting), is magnificent with its active lava flow.
Escallonia Cloud Forest – Located near Poas Volcano, the high humidity of Costa Rica’s Escallonia cloud forest coupled with less rain and low lying clouds makes this fog shrouded attraction ideal for nurturing Escallonia’s many incredible orchids and tropical ferns.
Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge & Carara Biological Reserve – Enjoy both of these protected areas as part of Caravan’s Costa Rica ecotourism package. A cruise on Cano Negro’s Rio Frio offers up close viewing opportunities to see howler monkeys and water walking lizards, while the Tarcoles River cruise on the “river of crocodiles,” which is near the Carara Biological Reserve in Guanacaste, brings you to the home of the rare Scarlet Macaw.
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Manuel Antonia National Park – Listed by Forbes as one of the world’s 12 most beautiful national parks, the protected coastal rainforest area of Manuel Antonio on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast is a favorite destination on Caravan’s Costa Rica eco tour. It’s also home to many of the country’s 2-toed and 3-toed sloths!
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Caravan’s all inclusive tours, including Canada, the USA, Panama, Guatemala, and our Costa Rica ecotourism packages, are all fully guided by professional Tour Operators, and our all inclusive tour company has remained family owned and operated since 1952. To learn more about some of these Costa Rica eco attractions, see our eco tours page.
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In 1965, Roger Mudd hosted a two-hour CBS TV special on Caravan Tours. This TV production took about one month to make and was so successful it inspired the 1968 romantic comedy movie “If it’s Tuesday this must be Belgium.” In the early 50’s the Mayor of Dublin presented Caravan with the Key to Dublin for bringing the first American tour to the city after WWII. Since then, Caravan has been recognized as a pioneer in travel. You can trust in our stability, experience and dedication to quality.
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Caravan includes all activities listed in the tour itinerary page. Caravan does not sell any optional activities which can add hundreds of dollars to your tour price. Your free time is scheduled in great settings where there is no need to buy additional expensive activities.
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Blake Shakey and I were descending the slope and Blake assured me we would reach our destination within the hour. Blake and I had been inseparable for the three weeks, wherever I went Blake would follow. We were held up, by jealous peers, as a model of friendship, an example of two men bonded by a common passion for life and adventure, an equal companionship of pride and servitude. It would be true to say there were no two other men that abhorred each other in the way that Blake and I did.
“Your playing is sloppy and your posturing, a cliché ridden throwback to the bloated mentors of your childself” was how Blake introduced himself to me those long three weeks ago, and he had a point. “I’ll sort all THAT out,” he added. “It’s your fingers, they’re too long to be playing a guitar. You should have been a locksmith”
“Stop nodding your head like that when you play, it makes you look like a bad wanker”
A gruelling week in my room (which Blake had “appropriated” for the purpose of sleeping…I had to sleep on the floor with my head near the fireplace) followed and I had begun to take leave of my senses, waking up giddy and going to bed (the floor, with my head near the fireplace as I mentioned earlier) feeling noxious. Blake had brought with him an old rolled up, dust-impregnated carpet, which he would hit repeatedly with a broomstick every time I made what he perceived to be a mistake.
Being allergic to dust it made my nose red and eyes stream.
“You’re not doing it right”
Blake was not a musician, nor was he a pleasant looking man. Occasionally between snide remarks and put-downs he would toss epithets of wisdom at me.
“He who laughs last, Kavus, laughs loudest” “You can’t make an omelette, Kavus, without breaking some eggs”
This last pearl I took to be particularly useful, as I was at the time making him a rotten omelette.
“Come with me. It’s time for the descent”
He had promised, from the out, that the descent would make a reasonable player of me and more worthy an addition to the Cardiacs troupe. After waiting patiently outside the pub for a few hours, Blake emerged and announced he was ready and we began. It was getting dark. At the bottom of the slope he retrieved a rusty box out of the pond and had soon managed to encourage my hands into it, securing them with a length of rope that smelt like dogshit.
The nibbling and biting started then.
“I warned you about those long fingers of yours” he laughed, turning his back on me and beginning the ascent.
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Waynesville, North Carolina
Mountain Projects, Inc. is a non-profit that assists those in need to remain as independent as possible. The agency has served the residents of Haywood and Jackson Counties for 45 years with a reputation for integrity and compassion. Haywood Community Connections is a program of the Senior Services Department that brings nonprofits, government entities, businesses and community members together in collaboration, and is responsible for forming the Alzheimer & Dementia Workgroup.
The Alzheimer & Dementia Workgroup‘s overarching goal is to increase awareness of Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related illnesses and to advocate for increased supportive services. The workgroup was formed in response to a county-wide assessment that revealed Alzheimer’s or other related dementia to be an area of concern to seniors. The target population consists of those diagnosed and their caregivers. The workgroup has brought Safe Return and Project C.A.R.E. to Haywood County. They have incorporated an Alzheimer’s training component in every law enforcement training series across the county.
The workgroup developed a training program for clergy, lay leaders, congregation members, and faith-based volunteers, entitled Day-by-Day. The program teaches faith-based organizations how to reach out into the community and serve those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.
In addition, the workgroup has served as a vehicle to initiate collaboration among various churches and nonprofits: a true systems change. The Alzheimer’s & Dementia Workgroup is comprised of representatives from the Alzheimer’s Association, Haywood Community Connections, Cooperative Extension, Area Agency on Aging and United Way. | <urn:uuid:e1d1e87a-309a-4437-b153-f06d0f92ab51> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.caregiver.org/award/mountain-projects-inc/ | 2023-09-25T00:19:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.951429 | 341 |
Mr. Bushnell is an investment banking professional with extensive experience working alongside wealth advisors and their business owner clients as they consider sales or other major financial transactions. He has more than 14 years of capital markets investment banking experience, specializing in merger and acquisition transactions, capital raising, strategic planning, and valuations.
With a focus on family-owned and closely held middle market companies, Mr. Bushnell advises on sell-side transactions that increase liquidity for business owners and grow assets under management for asset managers.
Prior to joining Carl Mark, Mr. Bushnell worked in finance with a specialization in advising real estate companies and their management teams on strategic and financial issues across all phases of development and operations. He has provided counsel to clients on transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of operating companies, as well as major portfolios of real estate assets. He has also advised a foreign bank on its U.S. portfolio of 52 properties, including hotels, apartments, healthcare facilities, residential developments, and golf course communities.
Mr. Bushnell holds a BA from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Urban Land Institute. He is a FINRA Registered Representative. | <urn:uuid:9947c362-fb7f-4921-9db2-416412087311> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.carlmarkssecurities.com/team/jonathan-p-bushnell/ | 2023-09-25T00:58:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.968104 | 241 |
Carrie set her sights on being a cosmetologist as early as junior high. Twiggy (the supermodel of the day) and Carrie’s natural curly hair were at definite odds with each other! Wanting to know how to style and manage her curls set the wheels in motion. The evidence of her strength and work ethic can be found in getting her Cosmetology license only months after graduating high school.
Newly licensed as a Hairstylist, Carrie was recruited by former Revlon model B’Anne of With Love B’Anne’s. The two years spent under B’Anne’s mentorship began Carrie’s knowledge of skin care and makeup application.
In 2003, Carrie opened a large Salon/Spa in Flagstaff, and operated it for ten years prior to her move back to the Phoenix area. Desiring a smaller, more personal salon culture, she chose to relocate to the beautiful Historic District of Downtown Glendale. This quaint and charming salon in the Catlin Court community offers all the amenities you will love.
- Licensed Cosmetologist since 1976
- Certified by the Institute of Integrative Oncology in Skin Care
- Dermalogica Expert
- Volunteer, Pure Heart Church Chaplain
- Glendale Chamber of Commerce Member
- Event Ensemble Member
- HELP (Homeless Engagement Lift Partnership) advisory board
Make an appointment to visit Carrie's Salon Where Style is an Art!
Offering a variety of services: Haircut, Hair color, Waxing, Facials, Dermalogica Pro Power Peel, Make Up, Weddings,
Fibroblast Skin Tightening system, Gift Certificates
7163 N 58th Dr Suite B, Glendale AZ 85301
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BY BICYCLE /BY WALK
If you start from the city center, cycle along the edge of the beach for 20 minutes, you will arrive at a Y where you will have to take a left towards Bocas del Drago, continue 15 minutes and you will arrive at the castle.
No matter where you are in Bocas ask for the plastic bottle Castle, all the drivers know the place.
From the city center > $ 4
Take the bus to Simon Bolivar central park. The bus to take is called: BOCAS - DRAGO. It leaves every 30 minutes from the center. From the city center > $ 1
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND SKY
Ideally located close to the sea 5 min walk thanks to our private water access and access to the main island road. The resort is located 15 minutes from the city center.
Carretera de Drago
BOCAS DEL TORO
+507 6924 9070
The castle is located on the main island of the archipelago of Bocas del Toro
Taking the bus is the cheapest way to get to Bocas del Toro. Allow 10 hours for the trip. Go to Albrook Bus Terminal Terminal de Gran Transporte (www.grantnt.com)
- There is a day bus leaves Panama City at xx. You arrive at XX at Almirante
- There is a night bus leaves Panama City at 8 pm. You arrive at 6 am at Almirante
Many taxis will be waiting for you at the exit of the bus to take you to the water taxi station $1 > 5 min
Take a water taxi to Bocas del toro $10 > 30 min
Welcome to Bocas !
Flights from San José to Bocas del Toro run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (certain times of the year only, contact Nature Air for more information) and depart at 1:20 pm. Nature Air's terminal is located at Tobias Bolaños International Airport (SYQ) located approximately 5 miles west of downtown San José and is approximately 10 miles from Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in San José, Costa Rica.
Take the bus company Transportes Bocatoreños, which leaves from the bus station as Panaline. Buses leave at 9:00 a.m. and arrive at the border around 3:00 p.m.
At the Sixaola border you will need to get an exit stamp from Costa Rica, then when you cross the border (a bridge) and join the Panamanian side (the town is called Guabito) you will need to get your passport stamped to enter Panama. Transportes Bocatoreños (758-8511 in Panama, and 2227-9523 or 2259-1325 in Costa Rica).Remember that you will need to show an exit plane or bus ticket from Panama, and if you don't have one, just buy a return bus ticket somewhere in Costa Rica.
Then you can continue your journey to Changuinola (about an hour). In Changuinola, you can take another bus to Almirante (less than $ 2) or a taxi (around $ 15) at the bus terminal. Once you get to Almirante, take a $1 taxi to the docks, from where you can catch a water taxi to Bocas del Toro ( $5 depending on the company). | <urn:uuid:88bfc05d-821d-4559-b2bb-87d15d36abf5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.castilloinspiracion.com/location | 2023-09-25T00:00:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.897569 | 754 |
City taster: Vienna
This time last year I visited Vienna for a long weekend. If you're looking for a beautiful and romantic city break at this time of year, Vienna should definitely be high up on the shortlist. As capital cities go, Vienna is arguably one of the most culturally rich with an outstanding musical and artistic heritage, as well as an abundance of stunning architecture.
I found Vienna easy to navigate both on foot and via the U-Bahn and became familiar with my surroundings very quickly. It’s surprisingly small so it’s easy to cover the main areas in a few days. That said, if you have a particular interest and specific attractions you want to see, you may need to prioritise, but for me I was happy to walk along the beautiful streets and through picturesque parks, soaking up the atmosphere of a city described as being one of the most liveable in Europe.
One of the specific reasons for choosing Vienna was the pull of the Christmas markets. From the middle of November, it feels as though there is one around every corner and the mood is set perfectly by the crisp weather combined with the colourful illuminated decorations and the aroma of hot punch. If you are looking for a little Christmas magic, then wrap up warm and indulge yourself in the traditional handicrafts and hospitality you will find here.
The Donauturm is the tallest structure in Vienna and is where I satisfied my need for fantastic views across the city and surrounding landscape. It's actually quite a way out of the main city area, which I didn't discover until I attempted to get there on foot. Originally seeing the tower ahead of us in the distance we simply started walking in towards it, but as we should have been getting closer, it felt like it was moving further away. We ended up hailing a cab for the final part of the journey and then using the subway to get back afterwards.
Vienna has been one of my favourite cities to visit. It holds an historical charm, is filled with stunning architecture and everyine I met was incredibly friendly. If you're considering a short break pre-Christmas then I would definitely recommend it. Flights were very reasonable from London Gatwick (I flew one-way with British Airways, returning on EasyJet to get the best price). I stayed at the Der Wilhelmshof hotel, which was fabulous and the breakfast was the best I think I've experienced in a hotel. The location was excellent too, just a few minutes' walk away from Wiener Prater.
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Eight hour video of Irish river goes viral
There is an old wooden bridge that crosses the bubbling River Bonet in County Leitrim, Ireland. It is a tranquil place--tucked away from the world--that few people know about.
That was, until now.
An Irish artist has posted eight hours worth of footage of the scenic frame to YouTube. The video has gone viral, with close to seven million views.
"Leitrim is a very very beautiful place...It is unspoiled," Johnnie Lawson tells As it Happens host Carol Off. "I wanted to capture as true a sense of this space as I possibly could."
Lawson's work is an example of slow television -- a genre of video that features ordinary events over a prolonged period of time. In this case, viewers can enjoy a bubbling river with birds chirping in the background.
Lawson, however, says his video goes far beyond the aesthetic attraction.
"I've gotten several requests from people who were suffering from insomnia. They wanted my calming sounds to be playing in their space," he says. "They've mentioned several times how peaceful a sleep they've been having as a result."
It's not only people with insomnia he's helping. Lawson says people suffering from depression and tinnitus have also used his video.
"There is a healing capacity within nature. They just let their mind wander and get away from the pain they might be in."
Lawson has hundreds of similar videos on his YouTube channel. This video, however, is his most popular. People have been watching the video from all around the world. A couple of views have even come from the Vatican, he says.
Lawson attributes part of the video's success to the fact that it's something everyone can appreciate.
"I didn't want this to be elitist in any way," he says. "To me, this project had to be open to every single person on the planet regardless of their religion, nationality or language. It had to cross all borders and that was very important." | <urn:uuid:939c240c-00b3-4d4b-b727-1ba01123ccf8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3065346/eight-hour-video-of-irish-river-goes-viral-1.3065367 | 2023-09-25T00:24:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.985013 | 429 |
In this winter’s deep freeze CBINT will have its warmest weekend of the year!
Please join your CBINT family for a joyful retreat from February 10-February 12, 2023. The CBINT Shabbaton will take place at the Wisconsin Dells’ beautiful Perlstein Retreat Center. There we’ll experience Shabbat with delicious kosher food, inspired teaching, winter fun and uplifting prayer, while celebrating new and renewed friendships across our generations.
On Friday afternoon we will settle into our rooms in the Lodge. The program proper will begin with a community activity at 4:30, followed by candle lighting at 5:04. Kabbalat Shabbat begins at 5:00 with a delicious dinner to follow. A Shabbaton means sweet time together from start to finish:
We will publish a detailed schedule in the coming weeks.
The all-inclusive price per person is $120/adult, $90/child, with a household maximum of $360. We want as many congregants as possible to participate, so if you have concerns about the cost, please reach out to Rabbi Alter. We will also give attention to facilitating rides, especially for elders in order for this wonderful weekend to be as accessible as possible. The program will end after lunch on Sunday, early enough to enjoy some Wisconsin Dells fun before heading home.
Please make room in your calendar to be a part of CBINT’s first Shabbaton in a long while. A registration form is enclosed. Be in touch with us or Rabbi Alter if you have questions or concerns.
In enthusiastic anticipation of a wonderful Shabbat together,
Laurie Biskowitz and Moria Lehman, Shabbaton Committee Co-Chairs | <urn:uuid:492f41a2-a6b0-409a-82b7-653935269fff> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cbintmilwaukee.org/events/cbint-shabbaton/ | 2023-09-24T23:26:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.930256 | 361 |
Disabled Army Veteran, Roger Gaines, loves his country, is blessed by a great upbringing, and is thankful for God. These are just a few topics he might bring up while socializing at the Marian House Soup Kitchen during lunch. Roger served 11 1/2 years in the Army in various communication roles while working around the globe, from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Italy, to Ft. Hood, Texas, and finally to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he says, “it’s home as far as I’m concerned.” He loves the mountains and the people, and he is forever grateful for the support systems in place at the Marian House and the Veteran Affairs (VA) office for keeping him off the streets.
As a disabled veteran living on a fixed income, Roger has found it difficult to make ends meet and maintain employment due to medical issues. While he receives a VA Housing Voucher, lessening the budgeting burden, he also relies on the Marian House for meals, particularly when his limited food stamp allotment has been exhausted or weather inhibits his ability to get to a store. Roger relies on a bike for transportation.
In addition to meals, Roger relies on the Marian House for social interaction. He has formed friendships with the staff and patrons and says, “To me, the Marian House is invaluable because it feeds people. They keep people’s stomachs full, and the food is good. The location is perfect, too; it’s right where it needs to be.”
Several years ago, his outlook was not so secure. As a result of not understanding how the VA deducts his medical co-pays, Roger was hit with the debits all at once from his disability check, resulting in not having enough money to pay rent. He said, “If I had understood they were going to do this, I could have planned for it.” At the time, Roger’s landlord was understanding and had agreed to let him pay back the amount he owed over a few months, but then decided to stop accepting VA Vouchers altogether. Roger was evicted because he still had $153 to repay.
An eviction is one the toughest barriers to overcome, even with a VA Housing Voucher, as almost no landlord will rent to someone with an eviction. Recounting the story, Roger says, “It’s a catch-22. It took me four months to get a new place. I was getting hopeless.” He found himself at the Springs Rescue Mission because he didn’t “plan on sleeping outside if [he] doesn’t have to.” He reached out to everyone he could to get housed. During this time, he ate many meals at the Marian House and visited with Client Services to review his options. He also worked with the VA, and finally, Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center was able to help him into an apartment complex just a block and a half from the Marian House. His new place is small, but Roger “is grateful for his space, his new AC, and kitchenette.”
Roger Gaines was homeless for four months, and that is four months too long. His life was placed on hold because of a series of events beyond his control. Stably housed once again, Roger has aspirations of using his GI bill to enroll in school to study religion. More importantly, he has returned to make sure he stays healthy by keeping his blood pressure where it needs to be and getting over gout, something that he felt he could not do when he was homeless.
Veteran homelessness has been a hot topic over the past few years. In 2017, the U.S. saw a rise in homeless veterans for the first time in seven years, with 40,000 homeless veterans reported in the January 2017 National Point-in-Time survey. For someone like Roger, resources such as the Marian House and the VA have helped fill the gaps while he worked toward stability. | <urn:uuid:8c828c49-e783-4efa-84ff-3bb8f5e961a3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ccharitiescc.org/story-of-hope-roger/ | 2023-09-25T00:55:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.987751 | 826 |
This page features all the files containing Vintage 2020 housing unit estimates totals.
Annual Estimates of Housing Units for the United States, Regions, States, the District of Columbia, and Counties: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019; April 1, 2020; and July 1, 2020 (HU-EST2020)
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With each new release of annual estimates, the entire time series of estimates is revised for all years back to the last census. All previously published estimates (e.g. old vintages) are superseded and archived on the FTP2 site. | <urn:uuid:44fb640a-b924-4f04-9be7-ad47cb18bd6c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/research/evaluation-estimates/2020-evaluation-estimates/2010s-totals-housing-units.html | 2023-09-25T01:05:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.912473 | 124 |
I survived one night in a Samsung refrigerator box on the corner of Chester and Neil in Champaign. I had a great time hanging out with the guys on my corner and friends that stopped by. I shot some video of the event and helped raise some donations from people passing by.
Around 10:30 or 11:00 I climbed into my cardboard home for the night. I didn’t sleep well, if at all. It was cold and long, both of which I expected, but it was also loud. An 8th of an inch of cardboard doesn’t block out noise at all, so every footstep, every horn, every siren I could hear as if I was still standing on the street corner. I could also hear every conversation of every person who walked by on the street.
One of the guys at breakfast this morning said it best when he said he felt invisible. I remember hearing someone who was leaving a bar around 2:00AM exclaiming, “What? Are there people in all these boxes?!”
On my drive home I realized that we treat so many people that way in our lives. We just brush by them like they are invisible, rarely if ever taking the time to realize that they are people too.
I had a great conversation with a couple of homeless guys at breakfast this morning that had joined our group for the night. They covered everything from where to get the best eggs in town, what bars would let homeless people in for free water and restrooms, to how they’ve managed to survive this terrible winter.
Food, water, shelter, clothing. Their challenges are not so different than my own. I’m thankful that I was given the opportunity to see them as real people, rather than invisible.
I also wouldn’t want to wish that night’s sleep on anyone. It’s great to be back in my warm, comfortable house, and as the forecast for the next week is headed down to zero again, I’ll be thinking of my newfound friends who don’t have anywhere permanent to call home.
If you are interested in more information about the homeless in Champaign, get connected with CU at Home. | <urn:uuid:029a4e54-653c-4743-90b7-2508bec180a9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.centerstreetproductions.com/event-video-production/invisible-people/1517 | 2023-09-25T00:04:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.981288 | 455 |
Tim H. Peake. Scarce. HB with d/j. 194 pp. inc. 197 b/w pl. inc. 293 col. pl. 218 x 279 mm (8.5″ x 11″). Number 385 of 1000, (1st ed. 1995).
ISBN: 0 9525952 1 4
Key to Abbreviations Used: pp. = pages. pl. = plates (images). Ex-
PB = paperback. HB = hard back. b/w = black & white. col. = colour.
d/j = dust jacket. inc. = including. ed. = edition. fep. = front end papers.
rep. = rear end papers. sp. = spine. frontis = image page at front before pagination. | <urn:uuid:4938fb97-34d2-4a2b-a531-f24192fce702> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ceramicsbooks.com/product/william-brownfield-and-sons-1837-1900-a-most-prolific-staffordshire-pottery-an-illustrated-guide-to-brownfield-wares-1837-1900/ | 2023-09-24T23:43:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.766757 | 168 |
The University of Benin is pleased to join Harvard University for a special global webinar on “Rethinking Malaria in the Context of COVID-19.” On September 1, experts will discuss findings from the year-long “Rethinking Malaria” global consultation as well as lessons learned from elimination countries.
The discussion will span research perspectives; public policy, political, and advocacy perspectives; and programmatic perspectives – please join us!
September 1, 2021
(6am–9am CST | 12pm–3pm GMT
1pm–4pm WAT | 2pm–5pm CEST
Rethinking Malaria in the Context of COVID-19
Register today for the Live Stream (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish languages).
Please feel free to share this announcement with others! | <urn:uuid:66ebb7a6-90d5-4828-ac53-601f813ce911> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cerhiuniben.edu.ng/rethinkingmalaria/ | 2023-09-25T00:20:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.878449 | 196 |
Better Markets, a non-profit financial reform advocacy group, said that the CFTC has no legal obligation to study the costs of its commodity position limits rule and that requiring it to do so could endanger financial reform efforts.
The group filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday defending the CFTC, which finalized a rule in October to limit the number of contracts a trader can hold in gold and other commodities. Groups have sued to stop the rules, claiming that they would harm the marketplace and that the CFTC had not weighed its economic consequences.
The brief stated that the CFTC’s main function is to protect the public and it is not obligated by law to “compare or quantify” costs and benefits, but “must be guided by the dictates of the public interest.”
The CEA requires the CFTC to “consider the costs and benefits of the action of the commission” and weigh the protection of market participants and the public, the efficiency and competitiveness of futures markets, and price discovery. | <urn:uuid:3d9625e5-2324-4b05-a691-51d4f128c243> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cftclaw.com/reform-group-cftc-required-study-costs-position-limits/ | 2023-09-24T23:30:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.966179 | 214 |
If you’ve been involved in a truck accident, you should consider hiring a truck accident lawyer to help you file your claim. They are skilled at explaining the entire process to victims and can make sure that all of the necessary evidence is produced. Truck accident lawyers also have the experience to help you get through a difficult time, like filing a police report. This article will explain some of the things to look for when choosing a truck accident lawyer.
Questions to ask before hiring a truck accident lawyer
A truck accident lawyer should have plenty of experience in handling these cases. Ask your prospective lawyer how long they’ve been practicing. Their experience will be an invaluable asset as it will help you decide whether you want to hire them or not. Highly experienced lawyers can win more cases, but they might charge a bit more. Make sure to ask for references, too. A good truck accident lawyer can provide you with a list of references and answer your questions thoroughly.
If you’re involved in a truck accident, the insurance company for the other driver will contact you. They will be pleasant and appear to want to help you, but be careful – they will try to take your words out of context and try to devalue your claim. Don’t give the insurance company any answers without first consulting with a lawyer. These companies will try to pressure you into giving out a recorded statement, which they can use against you.
Cost of hiring a truck accident lawyer
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How much will it cost to hire a truck accident lawyer? Not as much as you might think.
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Moreover, the lawyer will be able to estimate the amount of lost income. Even if the insurance company offers a high settlement, you may be left with more losses due to the accident. A truck accident attorney can handle all communication with the insurance company and help you obtain the compensation you deserve. However, the cost of retaining a truck accident lawyer can be high. You should also know that an attorney will take your case to trial, which is an ideal option for those who are too afraid to handle legal proceedings. | <urn:uuid:f67d6af8-3c18-41dd-8413-9e849f1e466c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.charityandlife.com/2022/07/27/hiring-a-truck-accident-lawyer/ | 2023-09-24T23:57:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.971776 | 888 |
Robert Pattinson on the Difference Between His ‘Twilight’ Castmates and ‘Harry Potter’ Castmates
Anyone who has been following Robert Pattinson’s career knows that he’s in the process of leading a massive franchise as The Batman. It’s a huge commitment and a wonderful opportunity for the actor, but this is hardly Pattinson’s first experience with being involved in blockbuster movies. Fans will remember that he played the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. From there, he went on to nab one of three lead roles in The Twilight Saga as the brooding immortal, Edward Cullen.
Pattison has been candid about the fact that he had positive experiences on set for both Harry Potter and the Twilight movies. The actor got along famously with his castmates in both franchises. But, naturally, he views his Harry Potter castmates differently than he does his Twilight castmates. In an interview with Collider, the famous Brit highlighted the differences between the two groups of people in his eyes.
Robert Pattinson was completely starstruck by his famous ‘Harry Potter’ castmates
Though Pattinson had a substantial part in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he wasn’t considered part of the main cast. In fact, there were three movies prior to Pattinson’s character making an appearance and the franchise was well underway before he was even cast. Because Pattinson wasn’t with his fellow castmates Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson from the very first film, he saw them primarily as celebrities and was even starstruck by them.
“When I did Harry Potter, I remember looking at Dan, Rupert, and Emma and being like, ‘Those guys are actors.’ I was starstruck by them,” Pattinson confessed. The actor continued on to share that even though he spent a great deal of time with his Harry Potter castmates, he always felt as if they were celebrities rather than peers. “With Dan, Rupert, and Emma, I still see them as that. I was with them for 11 months and I still see them as massively famous people.”
Working on five movies with Kristen Stewart humanized her for Pattinson
Of course, Pattinson was also starstruck by his Twilight castmate, Kristen Stewart, when he first met her. As Stewart has quite a few movies on her resume prior to joining the cast of Twilight, Pattinson was a bit intimidated by her when he met her at an audition. Taylor Lautner, on the other hand, was only 15 when Pattinson first met him and was less well-known, so Pattinson didn’t quite have the same reaction to him as he did to Stewart.
Even though Pattinson saw Stewart as a celebrity initially, working with her over time and throughout five movies, helped humanize her for him. Whereas he never stopped seeing his Harry Potter castmates as celebrities, his Twilight castmates became friends. Pattison also reflected on how special it was that he, Stewart, and Lautner all remained normal and sane despite the massive amounts of fame, attention, and wealth the Twilight movies generated for each of them.
‘The Batman’ star reflects on his ‘Twilight’ experience
“It’s strange to have gone through the same experience with Taylor and Kristen, as well, and to see people retain their sanity, as much as possible,” Pattinson revealed. “I’ve seen a lot of people have minor amounts of fame and just lose their minds completely, after a casting announcement, let alone having done a movie. It’s amazing to see that people manage to maintain.”
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Mr. Fischer, demon of the chess world.
In the history of championship chess there had never been such an awesome
display of power. Seven weeks ago, America's Bobby Fischer defeated a Russian
grandmaster named Mark Taimanov by the unheard-of score of 6-0. Last week, in the
second of three elimination matches leading to an eventual showdown with World
Champion Boris Spassky, Fischer led Bent Larsen of Denmark 4-0. In ten consecutive
matches with two of the dozen best players in the world, he had won every game, not
only without a loss but without even a draw. At the grandmaster level, this is equivalent
to pitching a series of no-hitters.
Ever since he became U.S. champion at 14, chess experts have predicted that this
terrible-tempered prodigy would someday take the world title. The temper is under
control now, and the title seems to be within reach. "Fischer at 28 is the strongest player
in the world," says Larry Evans, a former U.S. champion. "In fact, the strongest player
who ever lived."
Just before Fischer flew to Denver to play Larsen, we spent five hours together in
mid-Manhattan. I'd been led to expect a frail, bespectacled spook. Instead I found a blond
giant with an oarsman's shoulders, a big easy smile and eyes so open that a bird could fly
in one and out the other.
"C'mon! Got things to do!" Fischer blurted when we met. Then he went striding
across town as though city blocks were chess squares. After 50 yards I broke into a muck
sweat, but Fischer went barreling on.
"Know anything about chess?" he shot over his shoulder.
"A little," I said.
"Like you should try to dominate the center of the board."
He yelped with delight. "That's like saying you should try to hit the ball with the
Was he looking forward to Denver? A grunt. "Been traveling for a year, match to
match. I need a personal life. I'm not as narrow as people think, you know. But right now
all I think of is the championship. Chess is my whole life."
Did he expect to beat Larsen? "He's good. But I think I'm the best around. I don't
say that to brag. I think it's true, I love the game-and I hate the Russians because
they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years.
They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws
make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
"Hey!" he said, looking surprised. "It's after 5. I haven't eaten yet today. How
about a steak?" When the steak came, a think sirloin, he ripped into it."Good!" he
mumbled through a big bite. "Good!" He ate as he did everything else, with a kind of
"He is terrifically keen," Larry Evans had told me. "His chess is clean, clear,
classical, but at the same time aggressive and dynamic. He hates defensive positions. He
prefers a weakness in his own position as long as it holds a possiblility of attack. And
don't ever make a mistake. With any grandmaster you can hope to recover, but with
Bobby, you're dead!"
I knew it was silly, but I had to ask him: "Bobby, would you mind-uh-playing
a game of chess with me?" He grinned and pulled out a wallet that was really a soft
leather chessboard slashed with slits that held tiny sheet-metal chessmen.
I took white and advanced the king's pawn two squares. He advanced his queen's
bishop's pawn two squares. I played slowly, thoughtfully. Fischer took about one second
to make each move. I found this somewhat demoralizing. After five moves I asked him
diffidently for the name of the attack I was developing. "Well, actually," he said, "it's a
sort of a kind of a closed Sicilian defense. I guess."
On his twelfth move, Fischer took one of my pawns. Swelling with power, I took
one of his pawns. But a few moves later I found myself a rook and a pawn behind. "Give
up?" he asked. "Not until I'm mated," I said grimly. I didn't have to wait long.
Fischer softened the blow by autographing the record he had kept of the game.
It's a great thing to produce during conversational lulls. "Amazed myself by holding on
for 28 moves," I said modestly. "You know he once beat Grandmaster Yefim Geller in
by Brad Darrach
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Bobby Fischer is a ferocious winner
Angry voices rattled the
door to Bobby Fischer's hotel room as I raised my hand to knock.
"Goddammit, I'm sick of it!" I heard Bobby shouting. "I'm sick of
seeing people! I got to work, I got to rest! Why didn't you ask me
before you set up all those appointments? To hell with them!" Then I
heard the mild and dignified executive director of the U.S. Chess
Federation addressing the man who may well be the greatest chess
player in world history in a tone just slightly lower than a yell:
"Bobby, ever since we came to Buenos Aires I've done nothing but
take care of you, day and night. You ungrateful ---!"
It was 3 p.m., a bit
early for Fischer to be up. Ten minutes later, finding the hall
silent, I risked a knock and Fischer cracked the door. "Oh yeah, the
guy from LIFE. Come on in." His smile was broad and boyish but his
eyes were wary. Tall, wide and flat, with a head too small for his
big body, he put me in mind of a pale transhuman sculpture by Henry
Moore. I had seen him twice before but never so tired.
Just inside the door I
stopped short. The room looked like a terminal moraine of
bachelorhood. Bedclothes in tortured piles on the floor. Socks,
underwear, bags, newspapers, magazines jumbled on the spare bed.
Boxes stacked all over the couch, and on the floor between the beds
a single graceful banana peel. The only clean place in the room was
a small table by the window, where a set of handsome wooden-chessmen
had been set up for play. Serenely an altar in the debris of battle.
A battlefield is what
Fischer's life has been for the last 11 months. In May, coming off a
winning streak of seven games in international tournament play, the
28-year-old Brooklyn prodigy entered the challenge rounds for the
world's chess championship. In the first of three elimination
matches he destroyed Russia's Mark Taimanov, 6-0, the first shutout
ever achieved in grandmaster play. In the second match he finished
off Denmark's Bent Larsen by the same score. In his contest with
Russia's Tigran Petrosian, completed two days before I arrived in
Buenos Aires, Fischer pushed his winning streak to 20, then caught a
bad cold and lost a game. But with the match tied at 2.5 - 2.5,
Fischer changed his hotel, got a good night's sleep and ran the last
four games against the former world's champion in a brutal display
of power. Sometime next spring, at a place still to be decided,
Fischer will meet Russia's Boris Spassky in a best-of-24-games
battle for the world title Spassky now holds. Spassky is a
formidable chess master, but even some top Soviet experts now expect
Fischer to end Russia's 35-year domination of the game and become
the first American ever to hold the title.
"Congratulations on your
victory," I tried to say.
"Yeah, yeah." Fischer
mumbled shyly and turned away to grab a coat and tie. "Got to eat.
Starved. Talk later." And he hurried off to breakfast with about
twenty Russian chess magazines tucked under his arm.
In the lobby people
rushed up to Fischer from all directions. He looked startled and
irritated. Argentina is chess-crazy (there are 60 chess clubs in
Buenos Aires alone) and for more than a month he had been stalked
day and night by Latin adoration. A white-haired man collared him
now and spoke earnestly. A young girl grabbed his arm and said
something intense that made him pull back and then stride away. A
U.S. TV sports team puffed along at his elbow, but he wasn't having
any. "Later!" he flung at them and, tilting forward, lurched off
with a powerful wambling stride that made him look like Captain Ahab
making headway in a high wind.
At the London Grill, a
transplanted English pub of pleasantly peeling charm, Fischer made
for a back table and ordered two 12-ounce glasses of fresh orange
juice, the largest steak in the house, a mixed green salad and a
pint bottle of carbonated mineral water. Five minutes later he
ordered another glass of orange juice, and by the time he was ready
for a huge dish of bananas and superrich Chantilly cream he had
finished his fourth pint of mineral water. He ate with the oral
drive of a barracuda and talked incessantly about how wonderful the
food was. "Look at that juice! Fresh, not frozen! And where else can
you get a glass that big for less than ten cents? Look at that
steak! It's almost two inches thick. And YOU can really taste it!
Not like that lousy American meat, all full of chemicals. This is
natural meat! I tell you, Argentine food is the finest in the world!
They really go in for quality here. Like clothes. You can get a
tailor-made suit here for less than $100, and they last! Shoes too.
They got the best shoes in the world here. Look at this pair I got
on. Here, look at them!" Quickly untying an enormous brown shoe, he
took it off and handed it across the table. "Look at that sole! It's
composition and I'm telling you it's strong! I go through an
ordinary pair of shoes in days. Days! But I've had this pair for a
year and it's still great. I mean I love America and I'd never be
anything else but an American, but things are failing apart up
there. Everybody doing his own thing just won't work. We need
organization! We need to get back to basic values!" Shaking his head
sadly, he ordered another dish of bananas and Chantilly.
At sundown, as he does at
sundown every Friday of his life, Fischer disappeared into his room
for 24 hours of solitary meditation. He is a member of the Church of
God, a fundamentalist California-based religious sect, and he takes
his religion seriously. He won't talk about it, though. He won't
talk to the press about any aspect of his private life. But a good
deal is known.
Child of a broken
marriage, Bobby grew up in Brooklyn with a dominant mother and an
absent father. He seemed lonely and a little withdrawn, in no way a
remarkable child, until one day when he was 6 his older sister
happened to bring home a chess set. From that day, bobby's destiny
possessed him. Father, mother, friends: all the people he needed he
found, in a set of chess figures, all the world he wanted was there
in a square foot of space.
At 13, Bobby won the U.S
junior championship. At 14, Bobby ripped through eleven matches,
three with grandmasters, to become U.S. champion; the youngest ever.
But his mother felt strongly that he was too little appreciated. She
went to Washington and picketed in Bobby's behalf. One day she
actually chained herself to the White House gate. Acutely
embarrassed, Bobby gradually pushed her out of his life. At 17, he
quit school ("Teachers," he said, "are jerks") and lived alone in a
warren of chess literature.
At 18, Fischer played
with such demonic brilliance that chess masters were sure he would
become come World's champion the next year. But after a tournament
in Curacao, he accused the Russians of playing to let their own best
players win and fighting like tigers to make Fischer lose. In fury
of humiliation, he refused to meet the Russians again until the
rules were rewritten. The press jeered him as a bum loser, but at
great cost to his career he held out. The world organization system
in world championship play and substituted the series of individual
matches Fischer wanted. Mano a mano, he reasoned, talent would tell.
Talent and erudition.
Fischer is the profoundest student of chess who ever lived. He reads
incessantly, forgets nothing, turns knowledge into action with
monstrous precision and ferocity. "No other master," a German expert
told me, "has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates
danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like
rabbits when they smell a panther. Even his weaknesses are
dangerous. As white, his opening game is predictable-you can make
plans against it-but so strong that your plans almost never work. In
middle game his precision and invention are fabulous, and in the end
game you simply cannot beat him."
At sundown on Saturday
Fischer burst out of an elevator into the lobby of his hotel. An
even bigger crowd was there. Dead-white with hunger after a day
without food, he put his head down and headed for the street. He had
promised an American TV network an interview that evening, but he
pushed the cameraman aside impatiently. "Later, later!" Shutters
clicked on all sides as he hit the sunlight. A husky Argentinian
paparazzo gave pursuit, snapping shots every few feet. Suddenly
Fischer swerved at him, grabbed for his camera but missed, then gave
him two quick kicks in the right leg. Before the photographer could
regain balance, Fischer turned the corner and was gone. Looking
shaken, the photographer sat for some time on the fender of a nearby
cab. "Bobby es loco," he muttered, shaking his head.
An uncanny thing happened
that night in Fischer's room. Like a turtle he shrank into himself
and gathered his world about him. First he switched on a Sony
shortwave radio and fiddled till he picked up some soft rock from
London. Then out came the Russian chess magazines. (Fischer seldom
ventures beyond "chess Russian" but he reads and speaks Spanish
fluently.) Eyes smoked with introspection, he played through 10, 15,
25 games at frenzied speed, slamming the pieces at the board like
darts and muttering savage or mocking or fascinated comments under
his breath. It was genius in full rage and it went on for almost an
hour before he glanced up and remembered I was there.
"I shouldn't have kicked
him," he said. "You can't go around kicking people."
Then his eyes smoked
again and he raced through a dozen more games. This is it, I
thought. This is Bobby's life. Sleep all day. Grab some food. Hole
up with a shortwave radio or a tape recorder or a TV set and play
chess with himself all night. No people in his life if he can help
it. Just a small circle of undemanding electronic acquaintances. A
man alone in a monomania.
"He's not a bad guy, I
guess," Fischer went on, apparently unaware that 20 minutes had
elapsed between sentences. "It's his job that's bad."
He turned the radio up.
"That's Victor Sylvester!" he said excitedly. "Listen to that sound!
Rich, huh?" I gulped, then nodded interestedly. Victor Sylvester is
the British Lawrence Welk.
"I despise the media,"
Fischer went on, looking straight at me and scowling. "'Goodbye,
media man. Spreading your paranoia across the land. Creating
situations that you don't understand.' They're destroying reality,
turning everything into media," he said, turning the volume higher
The phone rang. It was
Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster, calling from Venice.
Fischer glowed. Gligoric is one of his warmest admirers. "Gligo!
Thank you. What? ... I was a little bit worried after the second
game, yeah. ... Well, in the fifth he had a good position but he
didn't try to win. ... That's right, these matches are somehow easy
for me.... But I feel I've been in my best moment for many years.
... Spassky? He's a very solid player but-well, you know. ...
Congratulations from Spassky? No, nothing .... Bye, Gligo."
He put the phone down,
grinning. "I haven't had any congratulations from Spassky yet. I
think I'll send him a telegram. CONGRATULATIONS ON WINNING THE RIGHT
TO MEET ME FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP."
About one a.m. we went
out for lunch. No photographers in the lobby, but Fischer wasn't
taking any chances. We slipped down the back stairs and out a side
door and then hugged the wall till we were two blocks from the
hotel. "I guess we shook those jerks," Fischer said. Then be walked
for about 20 blocks through the night city at a pace that made me
feel like Dopey the Dwarf scrambling to keep up with the big folks.
The streets were full of couples strolling entwined and kissing.
Fischer looked over their heads and hurried by. I wondered if he
noticed them until he darted a glance at a parked car where a man in
his 40s or 50s was necking with a young girl. "Did you see that?"
Fischer exploded. "Disgusting!"
We ate at a Chinese
restaurant. Fischer ordered two main dishes, one made with duck and
the other with pork, as I remember, and then swizzled them around
with his fork till he had a sort of soupy slush. "Terrific food
here!" he mumbled, eyes shining.
After lunch we hiked at
high speed until five a.m., covering at least eight miles. Fischer
talked with a boisterous boyish eagerness about all his favorite
subjects: chess, money, the Russians, electronic gadgets, chess,
clothes, food, the Russians, chess, science, ecology, urban
problems, noise. For a man widely assumed to have tunnel
intelligence, he showed a remarkable spread of interests. But the
more he talked the clearer it became that all his information was
factual, not emotional. It came from books, magazines, newspapers,
television-the media he despises. Not long before dawn he was
telling me how terrible cities are for people, how much he loves
nature and the open countryside. I told him about a big estancia
(ranch) I knew of and suggested that we fly out in a small plane and
spend the next day there. He was at first delighted at the thought
but then he stared at me, the color draining from his cheeks and his
jaw dropping a little, as though he had just been jabbed in the gut.
"I don't know about the plane," he said slowly. "Suppose the
Russians-like, did something to the motor or something. I mean,
people don't realize how important chess is to their image. They'd
really like to get rid of me now."
Flat and green, the
springtime pampas looked like ironed Ireland. Less than an hour out
from Buenos Aires the plane landed on a shaved strip of pasture-
oops! wrong estancia. Three minutes later we saw "Santa Elena"
painted on a tin roof and swooped down to a waiting pickup truck.
Hotel-bound for almost a year, Fischer stared at the grass the way a
prisoner stares at sunlight. "Wow!" was all he could say at first,
The manor house was a
comfortable old steep roofed bungalow set in a park of tropical pine
and towering sycamores. A fat, friendly collie came waddling across
the lawn. Ruby was her name and for Fischer it was love at first
sight. For two hours they romped and cuddled and hiked all over the
estate. At one point Ruby attacked an armadillo but Fischer dragged
her off and for a good ten minutes he looked shaken. It made me
wonder if be had seen something of himself in the small terrified
creature. Back at the house the vivacious housekeeper served us a
tasty Argentine pot roast slathered with vegetables. In a rush of
euphoria Fischer tossed off two glasses of red wine, the first
drinks anybody I know had ever seen him take.
After dinner, with Ruby
trotting loyally alongide, Fischer went riding. He jumped in the
saddle, put the reins around his own neck and said giddy up! He was
scared and he took a terrible bouncing but he was dead game.
Afterward he fell asleep in a hard porch chair with Ruby sleeping on
the floor at his feet. "People are really nice out here," he
murmured in wonder as we left. "You can trust them, you know?"
At Santa Elena, Fischer
was more open than at any time during the days I spent with him. On
the way home in the plane, while night closed around us like a big
rose and he sat hunched over his chess wallet playing furious
solitaire, I made notes on what he had said.
"Americans like a winner.
If you lose, you're nothing. ... I'm going to win, though. ... it's
good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've
met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm
a stronger player and a long match favors me ..."
When I told him I had
heard that Spassky gives up all private life for at least six months
before a championship match, lifts weights, does road work and sees
a psychoanalyst every day, Fischer smiled mysteriously and said: "No
kidding." When I asked how he intended to train, he shrugged and
said: "I don't know. Go along as usual, I guess. Study. Play some
tennis, maybe. Walk. I like to walk, you know."
When he wins the
championships? "I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the
Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years.
Every few months, anyway twice a year, I'd like to get up a purse
and meet a challenger. It's good for the game, keeps up interest in
chess, and it's good for the bank account. I want to get some money
together. Like take professional football. All these athletes making
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Contracts, endorsements. If
there's room for all of them, there ought to be room for one of me.
I mean, after all, I'm a great goodwill ambassador for the United
States! Besides, I want money so I can tell some people I don't like
to go ... yeah."
My last night in Buenos
Aires, the paparazzi ambushed Fischer. Returning to his hotel after
a three-hour walk, he was set upon by a gang of about 15
photographers and "reporters," most of them working for a local
scandal sheet that had promised to "persecute" Fischer until he gave
an interview. The "reporters" crowded around him, digging their
shoulders into his ribs and hissing insults into his face while the
photographers recorded his discomfort. Pale with anger, Fischer
thrust through the mob to the elevator. But in his room he began to
grin, then laughed so hard he almost fell off the couch. "It's like
chess!" he explained in high glee. "I knocked off one of their
pieces, so they went after the king. But I got away, I got away!
Wow, am I hungry! Soon as they're gone, let's sneak out
and get something to eat!"
by Brad Darrach
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A coalition of activists aims to add a symbolic question to the November ballot about funding non-police responses to 911 calls about mental health crises.
The referendum would ask if Chicago should reopen all the closed mental health clinics that were operated by the public health department, as well as whether the city should support a team of mental health professionals to be dispatched to mental health emergency calls instead of police. Residents in the 6th, 20th and 33rd wards would receive the question, which is nonbinding, on their ballots.
Advocates stood outside the Chicago Board of Elections in a news conference Monday before filing their ballot measure petitions, which were sitting in a column of rain-soaked boxes that read “TREATMENT NOT TRAUMA.”
Diane Adams, a leader with Southside Together Organizing for Power, said she fell into a crushing depression when her son died decades ago. The symptoms worsened until she made a suicide attempt, and it was only years later that she began to heal with the help of a therapist.
“I was able to get my life back,” Adams said while noting that others in Chicago deserve that same chance.
The city already operates a Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement — or CARE — pilot program that launched last fall under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. CARE started off using a co-responder model, so police officers have still been involved in the pilot that operated in Lakeview and Uptown and in the Auburn Gresham and Chatham neighborhoods.
Last month, the city expanded the pilot program with a third team — its first operating without a police officer. That team responds to calls in the Southwest Side neighborhoods of Chicago Lawn, Gage Park, West Elsdon and West Lawn.
As for the mental health clinics, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed half of them about a decade ago, and Lightfoot has not come out in support of reopening them. She has instead opted for myriad public-private partnerships to support clinics not operated by the city.
In a statement sent Monday afternoon, the Chicago Department of Public Health noted that its mental health budget has grown from $12 million in 2019 to $89 million and that this year, the city is on track to serve 60,000 residents with mental health services.
“These significant investments are making a difference right now, providing more care to more people than ever before, diverting people out of the criminal justice system and taking a trauma-informed approach that meets people where they are,” a spokeswoman wrote.
While advocates for a non-police model for some 911 calls say officers are not best equipped to de-escalate those suffering mental health crises and that a police presence might antagonize them, others say such situations are volatile and that not having law enforcement present could be dangerous.
Ald. Rosanna Rodriguez Sanchez, who represents the 33rd Ward, where voters would be asked the question, said she recently visited Denver to talk about their Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) program that sends teams of mental health professionals — and no police — to deal with nonviolent calls. She said she believes a non-police response protects everyone, including officers.
“Right now the only tool we have funded is police, and this puts people at risk,” Rodriguez Sanchez said. “It puts communities at risk and even the officers, it puts them at risk. So whoever is trying to send police to deal with these things doesn’t care about even the well-being of those officers.”
Jhoanna Maldonado, a Chicago Public Schools teacher, said she’s seen firsthand that people with access to mental health support can unwind and heal from a crisis.
“It makes a world of a difference,” Maldonado said. “This is the change we need in our city. Let us stop blaming one another for the violence deaths and unarmed shootings of those in mental health crisis and let’s lift up solutions, real solutions, that we know work. That is justice.” | <urn:uuid:52ab3fc3-651b-41e5-aee7-fa088850d150> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-911-calls-mental-health-crisis-police-referendum-20220808-breso3ufu5h35azwe5ekrjarf4-story.html | 2023-09-24T23:18:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.96963 | 837 |
A new school year means a change in your child's life. Some changes may be more significant for children than for others – especially if they are moving to a new school.
Six tips for moving to a new school
Nicholas J. Westers, Psy.D., ABPP, a clinical psychologist at Children's Health℠ and Associate Professor at UT Southwestern, shared the following tips to prepare your child for the transition to a new school and help them adjust to their new school environment.
1. Give your child time to adjust to their new school environment
If you are moving to a new neighborhood or town, tell your child about the move well in advance. Try giving them at least a month to ask questions about their new home and school and allow them to ask questions and support their concerns about the change.
2. Ease transitions to the new school
If possible, show your child their new home, neighborhood and school before you move. Arranging for a tour of the school is a great way to help your child get more comfortable and prepare them to navigate their new school.
3. Validate your child's feelings
Validating your child's feelings means acknowledging and accepting their emotions as real and legitimate, even if you don't feel the same way.
“Telling your child that 'you have no reason to worry' or 'don't worry, you'll be fine' is unlikely to ease their fears and discomfort about the change,” Dr. Westers says.
Instead, he encourages parents to validate their child's feelings with statements like:
- It sounds like you're a little anxious about the first day of school, and that's okay.
- I know going to a new school is hard for you. It's hard for everyone.
4. Ask questions to explore their feelings about the move
Asking your child open-ended questions can help you better understand their feelings about attending a new school. For example, if they are unhappy about the move, ask questions one at a time and allow them time to respond before asking the next question:
- "I know moving can be hard. "What do you think might be hardest for you?"
- "What are you most worried about?"
- "What are you most looking forward to?
“These types of questions help validate what your child is feeling and learn what they are most worried about,” Dr. Westers says. “We might think they're worried about one thing, but they may actually be worried about something completely different.”
Younger children may have difficulty articulating their thoughts and feelings, especially related to anxiety or the move. If they have difficulty responding to open-ended questions, it is OK to provide more guided questions or comments that also assist with labeling their feelings, like:
- "I wonder if you might miss your friends."
- "I wonder if you might be excited to meet new people but also afraid you might have trouble making new friends."
5. Help your child deal with feelings in healthy ways
Helping your child learn and use healthy coping strategies can also help them navigate the transition to a new school. Dr. Westers recommends working with your child to create a list of active coping strategies that they can use if they're feeling overwhelmed or anxious.
“Active strategies take effort and focus, like reading, exercising, drawing, writing, playing music and praying,” Dr. Westers says. “Passive strategies, like sleeping or watching a favorite show, also have a place in managing anxieties, but shouldn't be the go-to activity that kids lean on when they're processing a big change like starting a new school.”
Dr. Westers also recommends that parents model and use active healthy coping strategies too.
“A lot of parents may not want to influence kids with their own stress and anxiety but research shows that when parents are stressed, kids can feel it even if parents try to hide it,” Dr. Westers says. “So rather than trying to hide it and telling your child you never feel anxious, instead try modeling healthy coping skills. You might tell them 'sometimes when I feel anxious, I go for a walk, read a book or reach out to a friend.'”
6. Get kids involved in activities they enjoy
Make time to find activities at the new school and in the community that your child is interested in joining. If sports, school clubs or church youth groups were part of their routine before, prioritize those activities. Moving is also a good time to try something new. Participating in social events with other kids can give your child good opportunities to meet new friends and grow their community in their new home.
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Winnipeg police have identified the man whose body was pulled from the Red River near Don Gerrie Park on Monday.
Emergency personnel responded to the area of Churchill Drive and Hay Street just after 8 a.m.
Police say the deceased has been identified as Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed, 29, of Winnipeg. The death is being treated as a homicide.
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By cherishing your wife, desiring your wife and loving her character, you are esteeming the “trophy” God has placed in your life and on the way to building a marriage that will last a lifetime.
God’s Amazing Gift
Remember as a boy when your trophies decorated the room like deer heads in a hunting lodge? From soccer statues to swimming medals to Pinewood Derby ribbons, you made sure everyone could see your cherished trophies.
Where are they now? Up in the attic, behind the third rafter. Maybe in a well-traveled cardboard box somewhere in storage. Funny how time can tarnish those things we once held so dear.
In the same way, something happens to men after their wedding day. Emotionally, they can feel an itch. The wedding day can feel like conquering Mt. Everest. They’ve reached the summit! They’ve added a new trophy to the case.
But eventually men can start craving another adventure, the next pursuit. Your wife, once held in such high esteem can end up tarnished over time.
Scripture encourages the opposite. Husbands are called to cherish, desire and continually seek to love their wife’s character. The treasure so highly esteemed on the wedding day is to become more significant and valued as you journey through life together.
Cherishing Your Wife
The term “trophy” can seem like a negative, bringing to mind some business executive, celebrity or politician on his second, third or fourth wife, young and beautiful, a prize he acquired. That is not what we’re talking about here.
In the Bible, your wife is not something you acquire; she is a treasured gift given to you from your heavenly father who loves you more than anyone. In this sense you are as much of a trophy as your wife, as God brought you to her.
The word “cherish” means “hold dear, esteem, honor, value.” On our wedding day, God honored you with a crown jewel.
Author and speaker John Eldridge states, “Not every woman wants a battle to fight, but every woman wants to be fought for. Listen to the longing of a woman’s heart: She wants to be more than noticed—she wants to be wanted.”
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her.”
Jewels are meant to shine, to be honored, to be cherished. If you are a married man, then God has given you a gift perfectly suited for you. Your quest is to grow in your love for her. Cherishing your wife is not an option.
Someone has said that woman’s countenance is the window into her marriage. A woman who is being cherished will glow. It’s our role as husbands to keep the shine on her countenance.
Desiring Your Wife
The woman in the Song of Solomon sings, “I am my beloveds and his desireis for me” (7:10). Presumably this couple has been married a while and yet the husband is pictured desiring his wife.
This Hebrew word for desire is found in only two other places in Scripture: Genesis 3:16 and 4:7. In both instances, “desire” is used to connote a powerful, and ongoing, passion.
Solomon constantly desires, or cherishes, his wife, and she knows it. She feels like his prized trophy. As husbands, what should we constantlydesire about our wives? Her beauty for one thing.
If you have a daughter perhaps she’s modeled a new fluffy dress for mom and dad. She wants to be special, a princess with beauty above all others, the one desired by the prince.
It’s not unusual for a teenage girl to desire to be the only one at the party or the dance wearing her particular dress, standing apart from her peers.
The central focus of any wedding is never the groom, it’s the bride. In most respects, it is her special day.
Even when cultural norms relating to the role and agency of men and women are changing, one constant remains—most women want to be cherished for their beauty. The fashion industry is a testimony to this. It is driven to provide clothing that makes women feel special and beautiful.
Husband, it is a safe bet to assume your wife wants to feel beautiful, special, the one woman set apart above all others. Does she know you desire her as much as ever, especially as age and stress of life affects her body?
Loving Your Wife’s Character
You didn’t conquer Everest on your wedding day. You just made it to base camp. That was the easy part. Anyone can have a wedding, few can sustain a marriage.
The climb to the top is ahead. Building a marriage that lasts a lifetime is the real Everest.
Cherishing your wife includes loving her character.
In Proverbs 31:10-31, we see a woman of remarkable quality, beloved by her husband and respected for her gifts. Her contributions are valued by her husband, family and community.
The whole passage compliments her internal beauty—her character. As a fellow creature made in the image of the Creator, you are to seek out and encourage her as the person God made her to be.
You are called to understand how she thinks—what motivates and excites her, what concerns and discourages her.
Peter exhorts husbands, “you husbands should live with your wives in understanding. . . so that your prayers may not be hindered” (1 Peter 3:7, italics added).
The word for “understanding” is “according to knowledge.” Men need to be students of their wives. The verse ends with a warning. If we neglect our wives, God may tarnish our prayers.
In your wife lies the most cherished gift any man could be blessed to have, to be valued above all other women and any other gifts.
Your challenge is to live up to the responsibilities that will continue to make your wife shine and stay in the forefront of your life, never to be tarnished or diminished.
Are you cherishing your wife in all aspects of who she is?
- Ask your wife, “Do you feel as cherished today as when we first started dating?”
- Ask your wife if there is anything you used to do before or early on the marriage that you have neglected.
- When was the last time you complimented your wife on her radiance and features without having ulterior motives?
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CIGRE Working Group concludes Demand forecasting study
Working Group C1.32, Establishing Best Practice Approaches For Developing Credible Electricity Demand And Energy Forecasts For Network Planning
Load forecasts are used across the industry for both long term and operational planning. They form a critical input into infrastructure investment decisions. These investments can be tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and there are numerous examples where industry has been criticised for investing too soon or too late.
With this in mind, CIGRE Working Group C1.32 carried out a survey of international utilities to establish best practice approaches for developing electricity load and energy forecasts. A total of 29 fully completed surveys were available for analysis. The respondents represent 18 countries. Most respondents come from Oceania (10 responses), Asia, and Europe (8 responses each). One response was received from Africa, North America, and South America each.
The forecasts are mainly used for long-term grid planning; in 40% of these 23 cases the responses also apply for short-term operational planning. In 18% of the cases, the forecast was also used for generation development; in 21%, for security of supply; and in 29% also for generation adequacy studies. The timing of the peak load is evenly spread: 50% of the respondents work in a country or region with a peak load in winter and 44% in summer.
In most cases both load and energy are forecast. 36% of the forecasts were for load only. No forecasts focused solely on energy. Almost all forecasts are required by regulation, yet in most cases regulation does not prescribe the methodology. Most respondents used load and energy forecasting software that was developed in-house.
Most respondents do not explicitly forecast reactive power. Reactive power is often indirectly forecast based on assumed or historic values of power factors.
Most forecasting teams (56%) consist of a small group of up to 5 people.
The forecast methodology is frequently revised. Most respondents revised it in the last 2 years (53%) and of this group almost all are also planning to revise again in the next 2 years (88%). For those who reviewed the methodology more than 2 years ago, most also plan to revise again in the next years.
Given that forecast methodologies are frequently reviewed, it seems that best practice in forecast methodologies is not widely agreed (at least amongst the survey respondents). Some aspects where there are common approaches are the modelling of load by type (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial), using a combination of top down and bottom approaches to forecasting and forecast horizons (e.g. most long term forecasts look ahead 5 to 15 years).
Survey respondents identified the most important aspects to improve in the forecast method:
- Input from external sources (such as economic growth, population, etc.);
- Measurement data;
- Input from the distribution level.
The survey responses indicated the most important influences needing to be incorporated into load forecasting in the next 10 years are:
- Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources;
- Demand side response management;
- Storage and electric vehicles.
These influences are a rapid and significant game changer in relation to forecasting and further work is recommended to identify how industry adapts to this challenge.
The Working Group has prepared a technical brochure which will be published soon together with an article that will be published in a upcoming edition of Electra.
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NGN Member acknowledged as Graduate Electrical Power Engineer of the Year
The Engineers Australia Graduate Electrical Power Engineer of the year is a national award which recognises a professional engineer who has demonstrated significant achievements in electrical power engineering during the preceding six years.
Alexandra is an electrical engineer, currently employed at Energex and is well into obtaining her Chartered Professional status with three years of protection system network engineering experience. She holds a first class honours degree and University medal in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland. She has worked in a number of organisations, published a number of papers and contributed as committee member for EESA, IEEE and CIGRE.
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All kinds of businesses in New Zealand are feeling the difficulty of getting good staff, from the painting firm I engaged to paint my house last year to the orchardists in Tasman District where I spent a relaxing Matariki weekend.
In the IT industry, however, the shortage of skilled staff has been such a long-term problem that I first migrated to this country under the essential skills category more years ago than I care to remember.
It’s bad enough in primary production or construction, but the problem in digital is that there is something else required more than just the ability to say, write code.
To really make a difference, you need to have an equal understanding of digital technology and how the business world operates. What both of these skills share is that it’s hard to learn them well in theory, it’s much better to learn by doing.
People who have both dimensions of that skill are as rare as orange plumes on St. Patrick’s Day.
Smart people are working on this problem, but here are some of the things astute businesses can do in the meantime (apart from calling us, which of course is the best option):
1. Increase digital literacy
There are plenty of options to learn more about digital capability through programmes like Digital Boost and a myriad of low-cost online courses. However, the best way to learn is to just do it. Digital techniques are often best understood by diving in with a minimum of planning and analysing. There are tons of offerings that can be tried out at very low or no cost and each one of these you look at will give you ideas and help to move your thinking forward.
Of course, this also takes time so you will quickly get to the point where you will be looking for some professional help. One easy step is to read – educate yourself as much as possible through free sources like following digital leaders on LinkedIn or with newsletters like our Digital Digest (go subscribe!)
2. Get streetwise
When you do go looking for help, you will encounter an array of extremely capable salespeople who are highly experienced at locating and pushing your hot buttons. They should be treated with the same level of scepticism you might apply to claims made on a TradeMe or eBay listing.
At times, the things some people say almost amount to scams, exploiting the likely lack of knowledge of their targets. I’ve often heard people confidently articulate opinions that are highly subjective and debatable as if they were incontrovertible facts. It can be very difficult for a non-technical purchaser to sift the truth from all the claims.
Beware of smooth sales pitches or making yourself vulnerable to opinions that aren’t backed up by rigorous evidence. At the very least, get a second opinion and try to keep abreast of the main trends in digital.
3. Question yourself
We often lose sight of how quickly new technologies can completely change everything. It’s only about 15 years since the first smartphones came on the market, and 15 years before that, many companies were mostly using expensive and specialised mainframe or mini-computer systems to run their businesses.
If you’re a business leader with 20-30 years of experience, you might find that some of your convictions about how digital operates are, shall we say... a bit questionable (old-fashioned being such an unkind term).
Question what you’ve been doing for years and there may be hidden benefits lying in plain sight.
4. Get clear on your direction
I find a lot of businesses treat acquiring new technology like buying a new car. They have a list of features they want, and they look for the best price-performance for those features. That might be an ok approach for selecting individual components like laptops or smartphones but when you’re looking at digital and data strategy for even a moderately complex business, a more sophisticated approach is warranted.
This process is more like buying a fleet of vehicles, complete with servicing arrangements and fuel systems... and maybe even the roads they’re going to run on. Thinking about it in those terms automatically shifts into a different and more useful procurement mentality.
Treat your spending on technology like any other investment - be clear and realistic about what you are trying to achieve.
5. Get professional help
No, not counselling – it’s not that bad yet!
If you have endless energy and lots of enthusiasm, you can probably do a lot of the above without any help. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and like all things, enlisting someone with years of experience will almost certainly lead to a better result.
Here’s our final plug (you knew it was coming!): just get someone who knows what they’re doing, like CIO Studio, to help. For example, with our risk-free strategic assessment package, we will take a look at everything and give you a basic roadmap to get you started. If you really want to do it yourself, consider enlisting a digital mentor to get you there faster - everyone needs a sounding board.
Ray Delany is Founder of CIO Studio and is passionate about helping businesses achieve their digital dreams, whether it’s a whole strategy or a little push that’s needed. Reach out to have a virtual coffee with Ray anytime.
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Exiled Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton has written to shareholders urging them to vote him back onto the board as he outlined a plan to “supercharge” the company.
Dunkerton, who left the firm in March last year, pledged to return the company to revenue growth, restore double-digit earnings margins and rebuild profitability within three years if he is welcomed back into the fold.
The fashion retailer’s founder also committed to not selling his shares for at least two years if he is elected to the board.
In the letter Dunkerton restated his criticism of the board’s strategy, which he said has damaged shareholder value and slashed its market capitalisation.
He also slammed the low employee morale at the company, citing the departure of a number of executives and members of the design team over the last year.
Dunkerton, who co-founded the firm with James Holder, is also calling for the appointment of Boohoo chairman Peter Williams as a director in a bid to revive the ailing retailer.
Together, Dunkerton and Holder hold more than 28 per cent of Superdry’s shares.
But Superdry dismissed the letter and reiterated its calls for shareholders to vote against the resolutions put forward by Dunkerton.
“There is little new information and no clear articulation of the proposed strategy or action plan in the statement.” said chairman Peter Bamford.
Superdry has said Dunkerton’s return would be “extremely damaging to the company and its prospects”.
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The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is excited to offer Today’s Vote in the Classroom, a curriculum resource to help teachers simulate the legislative process and examine real legislation in their middle and high school classrooms. Today’s Vote in the Classroom provides two-day lessons that ask students to take on the role of U.S. Senators, debate is.sues, and cast their votes on real bills that have been introduced to Congress. The curriculum is made up of four key parts. Sequenced instructions, a full lesson-plan download, editable worksheets, and classroom presentations will guide you and your students through the program. Go here to learn more. | <urn:uuid:010b1d42-8272-4171-9e09-fa48e3dcaf1f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.civicsrenewalnetwork.org/featured/kennedy-institute-introduces-todays-vote-in-the-classroom/ | 2023-09-25T00:19:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.961021 | 142 |
It's bigger on the inside — with 2023’s season of Doctor Who, we’ll see the 14th actor to portray the Doctor.
For some, portraying the coolest Time Lord has launched their careers or made them into beloved icons that can essentially retire into a life of fan con appearances. For others, their names have been lost to the ether of time.
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- On 23 February 2022, ESET researchers identified a destructive malware, dubbed “Hermetic Wiper,“ targeting Ukrainian computers and websites.
- The Hermetic Wiper malware binary uses a signed digital certificate issued to “Hermetica Digital Ltd’ and the driver dropped by the malware has a signed digital certificate issued to “Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development Co Ltd” to circumvent security checks.
- The malware drops a driver, in the Windows Drivers directory, which is part of the Easeus program with the original filename EPMNTDRV.sys.
- It abuses the driver loaded to the target system, to access its hard disk with higher privileges and to write garbage data into it.
- The malware then renders the system useless by corrupting booting data, which forces the user to reinstall their Operating System.
Technical Analysis of Hermetic Wiper Malware
Leveraging Code-Signing Certificates to Avoid Detection
- The malware binary’s signed digital certificate is issued to Hermetica Digital Ltd., a Cyprus based Gaming development company.
- The malware drops a driver in the Windows Drivers directory. The dropped binary’s signed digital certificate belongs to Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development Co Ltd., the owner of Easeus Data, which is a Data Backup and Recovery Company.
Obtaining a Handle to the Current Process Token
- The malware begins by obtaining a handle to the current process’ token.
- In Windows, a token is an object that represents the privilege a process holds while running on the system. A full list of privilege constants can be found here.
- The malware uses OpenProcessToken API with the DesiredAccess parameter set to 0x0028 (TOKEN_QUERY 0x0008 | TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES 0x0020).
- This allows the malware to change privileges assigned to the token.
Changing Token Privileges
- After obtaining access to the current process’ token, with privileges set, the malware uses LookUpPrivilegeValueW to make sure the current process is assigned following privileges:
- The AdjustTokenPrivileges API is used to adjust the current token privileges if the above listed privileges are not already assigned to the current process.
Loading the Payload into the System Memory
- After granting privileges, the malware dynamically resolves the addresses of following modules and load them into the current process:
- The Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection and Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection modules are responsible for file system redirection on 64 bit versions of Windows. This comes into play when a 32 bit application runs on 64 bit Windows, where the %windir%\System32 directory is only reserved for 64 bit applications. However, since the malware sample is a 32 bit application there is a need for the malware to access the System32 directory. This is possible via Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection. It also helps in accessing the registry without Wow64 redirection.
- The IsWow64Process is used to determine whether the specified process is running under WOW64, or under an Intel64 of x64 processor. This is mainly used to select the appropriate payload to be dropped.
- The malware has multiple images of the payload. The malware holds following driver images for later loading:
- DRV_XP_X64 for older generations of Windows
- DRV_XP_X86 for older generations of Windows
- The version of the system is enumerated using
- The malware selects the payload to be dropped based on the bitness (32/64) in the resource section of the Portable Executable (PE). After which, the corresponding image is retrieved from the .rsrc section of the malware and loaded into the system memory.
Dumping a Driver on the Target System
- The malware disables CrashDumpEnabled, which dumps the system memory in the event of a crash. CrashDumpEnabled is enabled by default on Windows 10, and has a default value of 0x7. The malware changes it to 0x0, thus disabling it.
- This is done to evade forensic analysis if something were to go wrong when the driver is loaded on the target system.
- After disabling the crash dump setting in the registry, the malware prepares to copy an image of the driver, kept in the .rsrc section of the PE, to the target system.
- A pipe \\\\.\\EPMNTDRV\\ is created to perform the transfer of the data.
- The system directory for drivers C:\Windows\system32\drivers is then retrieved via the GetSystemDirectory API.
- The data is written via the LZOpenFilew and LZCopy APIs. The filename is randomly generated at runtime, and the name assigned to the file is ttdr.sys.
- Now the malware has successfully dumped a driver on the target system.
Driver Loading and Service Creation
- To load a driver on Windows, the process should possess SeLoadDriverPrivilege. The malware checks for such a privilege in the current process using the LookupPrivilegeValueW API.
- If the process does not have the required privilege, the malware adds it via the AdjustTokenPrivileges API.
- After adjusting the privileges, the malware opens Service Control Manager on Windows to query active services through the ServicesActive database.
- It checks for any active services with the name of the dumped driver, which in this case is ttdr, via the OpenServiceW API.
- If the service does not exist, OpenServiceW API returns ERROROSERVICE_DOES_NOTEXIST, and then new service is created via CreateServiceW as shown below
- The StartServiceW API is then used to run the driver on the target system.
- This can be verified by querying the service control to check if the STATE parameter is set to “RUNNING.” After this the malware starts interacting with the driver via the IOControlDevice API, which makes the malware a userland component of the deployed driver .
- The symbolic link created for IO communications is verification that the driver has been successfully loaded on the system.
- If the service is present, then malware gets the service status from Service Control Manager using the QueryServiceStatus API.
- The service configurations are changed, if the service is inactive, via ChangeServiceConfig API. And the flag SERVICE_DEMAND_START (0x00000003) is passed as dwStartType value for the ChangeServiceConfig API.
Clean Up Process
- As soon as the driver starts running on the target system, it starts the clean up process by deleting the service entry in the registry, and the driver image in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers directory.
- After the clean up process, the malware disables Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on the system, via Service Control Manager. The VSS service is opened via the OpenServiceW API to change the configuration of the service later.
Disabling the Volume Shadow Copy Service
- A new configuration update is made by passing the 0x00000004 flag (SERVICE_DISABLED) to ChangeServiceConfigW, thus disabling VSS by force.
- The malware makes sure the service has stopped, by passing 0x00000001
(SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP)as the dwControl parameter value.
Making sure the service has stopped
Corrupting the Hard Disk Data
- The malware uses the installed driver to read/write hard disk data.
- To achieve this, the symbolic link used by the driver (\Device\EPMNTDRV), communicates via the DeviceIOControl API, by passing IOCTL codes to make the driver perform a specific task.
- The malware then accesses the Master Boot Record via \\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0.
- IOCTL codes:
- The data corruption logic distinguishes NTFS and FAT systems and has different corruption logic for each of the file systems present on the disk.
- The malware parses Master File Record fields such as $bitmap and $logfile and other NTFS attribute streams such as $DATA, $I30, or $INDEX_ALLOCATION.
- Multiple threads are instantiated by the malware to perform various activities. However, the execution of one of the threads performs InitiateSystemShutdownEx, which is a privileged activity, as the final damage.
- Before shutting down the system, the malware enumerates the following directories for data wiping:
- My Documents
- Windows Event Logs (C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs)
Indicators of Compromise
- Malware Binary: 1bc44eef75779e3ca1eefb8ff5a64807dbc942b1e4a2672d77b9f6928d292591
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Guest Post: New Release, Maharia
In Valor There Is Hope!
Branimir has remained hidden from the enemy, withholding the cursed dagger from their erroneous hands. When a stranger arrives, and offers the chance to end his never-ending battle, Branimir sets off for the City of the Gods for answers. Now, hoping his faith has not been misplaced, Branimir undergoes his darkest adventure yet. He can only trust that he has the courage to survive the truth.
Branimir could not guess how much time had come and gone since they entered the gate and started up the never-ending staircase. Not only did the sun stay at its apex over the City of the Gods, giving constant warmth and light in every crevice, but also something kept his stomach from hunger and his body from exhaustion. Every time his foot lifted and fell, his body seemingly had forgotten he repeated the same movement a hundred times before. In the beginning, the mundane climbing had been a game; but after a couple hours, he lost interest in playing. He stopped counting the stairs after reaching the thousands. Yet he felt no aching in his back, legs, or feet. Bran supposed he should be thankful for being away from the snow and wind on the mountain pass, but the monotony was wearing on him.
“You would think,” he said, after several hours, “with all the magic in this place they would find a quicker way to the top. I bet the Svet’s gateway takes them straight to the top of the peak.”
Alyona ambled along behind him, responding with a dull tone. “Close. You arrive on the seventh tier, near the temple.”
“Nine Lands. And no one thought to put one of those gateways at the bottom of these stairs?” Branimir asked, gazing at the rocky wall on either side of them. He was certain a dragon could fit on the staircase without discomfort. Which did not matter much, considering the dragon could fly to the peak of the mount.
Tyr held the smile on his face, climbing besides Branimir on the right. “Bah! Can you imagine when we go back down to leave? I bet we will lose our minds going back down these stairs.” Tyr swung is giant arms back and forth as he climbed. Branimir hardly noticed he had six fingers anymore. “How about if we were to arrive through the doorway up there? And then, when we went to leave, we were faced with this? At least, we know, right?” Tyr rumbled, peering over his shoulder for an instant. The bottom of the winding staircase could no longer be seen. “I might consider flinging myself down the steps, or simply lying down and rolling. Maybe the gods will spare me if I crack my head.”
Alyona’s dry tone answered the unasked question. “No, they will not.”
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Because of the traditions we follow in our churches, we seem confused when we see people worshiping and praising God with Tamil Christian songs. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to how we need praise and worship God. The best part is we can do this anywhere, at any time. We feel that praise songs have a fast beat, while worship songs have a softer music. I think we have been misguided if that has been taught to us. God clearly tell us how to worship Him.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. John 4:23
According to this scripture, God is looking for those who can worship Him in Spirit and truth. Apparently, this means we need to build a personal relationship with him. Only then, we can worship Him in truth. The more we worship God in our quiet times, the more we will be able to worship God in front of people.
We can worship our Lord through the day, as we do the different chores, at work, with kids, while driving, etc. It is a matter of placing our whole self before Him daily and communing with Him. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Romans 12:1 | <urn:uuid:ff7262dd-dff1-43a3-b238-713440b9d6c7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cmportal.in/stanley-chellappa-songs/ | 2023-09-24T23:33:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.967095 | 323 |
I've got $20 and a shot of Bushmills for the first White House staffer who provides evidence that Barack Obama has read this blog:
Q: Other than The New York Times. Do you read Web sites? What Web sites do you look at?
A: I read most of the big national papers.
Q. Do you read them in clips or do you read them in the paper?
A. No, I read the paper. I like the feel of a newspaper. I read most of the weekly newsmagazines. I may not read them from cover to cover but I’ll thumb through them. You know, I spend most of my time these days reading a lot of briefings.
Q: And television? Do you watch? Web sites?
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Q: And Web sites?
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Vanilla on Rails: The Coexistence of PHP and Ruby
I'm going to debunk another myth that might keep you from trying out Ruby on Rails (or any other new server language). MYTH: Once you start using Rails, you have to do everything in Rails.
I wanted to integrate a forum into my new Rails site. So I took a look at the Rails forums out there and found a whopping three: Beast, RForum and Opinion. Unfortunately, they all suck. Ok, to be fair, they're all rather new, and are still in development. But they still suck.
At first, I was okay with using a crappy forum. But I didn't just need a standalone forum — I needed to totally integrate the forum into my existing site, users and all. But rails apps want to run on their own server. I don't know why, they're all claustrophobic or something. When you try to get two of them to share a server, one tends to peck the other's eyes out like it's a rails-powered cockfight.
So after way too much time spent cleaning up feathers and blood, I decided to give one of the classic PHP forums a chance. I decided Vanilla was going to be my forum of choice, and I got to work.
It turned out that it took me less time to integrate Vanilla with my Rails app than all the time I spent recoding routes.rb to make Beast work. Here's some tips to get a PHP app to coexist with rails:
Install the forum inside /public/
PHP apps are very happy to live inside a subdirectory inside another site. They love it. So what better place to drop one than inside a rails app's public directory. (Try doing that with a rails forum).
This also has the benefit of having a single domain, which makes sharing cookies slightly easier.
Let the rails app and php forum share a database
This isn't a requirement, but it just simplifies things slightly. Vanilla uses a table naming convention like LMU_*, and I'm sure most other (non-rails) forums do the same, so the two can coexist fairly easily. This way you can do stuff like joins across your own tables and the forum tables.
Manipulate the forum tables from Rails
Rather than share a single 'users' table (which is pretty much the only way you'd be able to get two rails apps to coexist in a single database), just add rows to the forum's user table every time a user signs up on your rails app. And of course, don't forget to use a foreign key to relate the two.
Vanilla makes a single sign-on feature easy through a "Remember me" feature. Basically, if 2 cookies are set ('lussumocookieone' for the UserID, and 'lussumocookietwo' for the VerificationKey by default), then the user is automatically logged in. So all you have to do is look up (or write) the VerificationKey in LMU_Users and set these cookies whenever a user logs in to your rails app.
Delete PHP's cookies to destroy a PHP session
This is a really easy hack. Just erase the 'PHPSESSID' and '_session_id' cookies, and the user will be logged out from the forum. This way you can have a single sign-out too.
Okay, this post got pretty specific. But the lessons can be applied to the coexistence of any server-side apps. Communicate via the database and cookies, and you can pretty much do anything. | <urn:uuid:c923c035-dd2c-465a-8354-ce7fdea512e0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/vanilla-on-rails-php-and-ruby-on-rails-coexisting/ | 2023-09-24T23:38:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.949958 | 750 |
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Prime Trust has notified its employees that it may lay off 62 people within the next two months, just weeks after the company made deep cuts to its workforce, according to Nevada's Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation.
It is unclear what percentage of the company's workforce the 62 workers account for as the company's current headcount is unknown. (A bankruptcy filing says the company had 70 full-time employees and contractors as of Aug. 14.) It’s also not clear the degree to which potential job losses cited in CoinDesk’s Aug. 11 story were reflected in this notice.
Prime Trust was not immediately available to respond to CoinDesk's request for comment.
Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, employers must inform their employees of "mass layoffs" or plant closings at least 60 days in advance of those events.
Prime Trust filed for bankruptcy in August, roughly two months after Nevada regulators alleged the company was unable to meet its customers' withdrawal requests. The company also used customer funds to invest in failed stablecoin project Terra, in addition to engaging in other dubious business practices, a court filing shows.
Bids for the company’s assets are due in early to mid-October, according to a court order filed last week, and the transaction may close within the 60-day window created by the WARN notice.
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. As part of their compensation, certain CoinDesk employees, including editorial employees, may receive exposure to DCG equity in the form of stock appreciation rights, which vest over a multi-year period. CoinDesk journalists are not allowed to purchase stock outright in DCG. | <urn:uuid:fe424f7f-e47d-4a00-a153-b66cd7f89726> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/19/crypto-custodian-prime-trust-warns-it-may-lay-off-62-employees-nevada-records-show/ | 2023-09-25T00:34:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.962128 | 426 |
Identity-theft protection company Lifelock has filed another lawsuit against Wences Casares, founder of bitcoin wallet company Xapo.
The suit was filed on Monday in Delaware Chancery Court against Casares and his former CFO at digital wallet startup Lemon, Cynthia McAdam, who currently serves as president and general counsel for Xapo.
LifeLock has alleged that the two withheld intellectual property related to Xapo and bitcoin integration software for Lemon that should have been included a 2013 acquisition of the startup by LifeLock, according to Courthouse News.
The suit also alleges that both Casares and McAdam worked on developing Xapo during a transition period when they were under the employ of Lifelock.
The complaint states:
Lifelock filed a similar lawsuit last year against Casares in the Superior Court of the State of California, a suit which was eventually dismissed.
Within a month of the first report of the original California suit, Casares filed a cross-complaint at California's Superior Court, alleging that LifeLock had “squandered the success of its acquired company, and then sought to blame everyone but themselves for their mistakes".
Earlier this year, that first case was dismissed. Lifelock has appealed the dismissal, a process which has met with additional delays. The most recent complaint was filed in Delaware because a stipulation in the merger agreement, according to a Lifelock representative.
Suits tied to Lemon purchase
In December 2013, Lifelock purchased Lemon for $42.6m. Shortly after the acquisition of Lemon, Casares announced the launch of bitcoin wallet company Xapo, along with $20m in new venture capital. Four months later, Xapo raised an additional $20m from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.
LifeLock says it bought the digital wallet company for its intellectual property, including the wallet "to securely store private credit card and other account information on their smart phones," according to the suit.
In comments, Ragland was dismissive of LifeLock's latest attempt to sue.
"Whatever their motivations are, they’ve obviously decided to throw even more money into what I consider a personal vendetta," he told CoinDesk.
LifeLock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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In an open-air studio right down from the water, a romantic breeze oozing through the Spanish moss right out the window and the most beautiful clothes I've ever laid eyes on... these are just few things you can get ready to fall. head. over. heels with from this stunning fashion magazine editorial shoot with its own Mood Moss chair and flowers planned by Paprika Southern.
Don't say I didn't tell you, you're gonna feel refreshed after you see the excerpt I cut/paste below. Remember to check out the full write up of inspiring details, including an abundance of lush blooms and moss chair made right in our flower shop.
SPRING FASHION IN BLOOM
Spring Fashion in Bloom
Photographed by Siobhan Egan / Styled by Carol Jensky /Hair and Makeup Artist: Megan Mateo / Assistant: Ageda Machuca / Florals: Christy Hulsey, Colonial House of Flowers / Model: Jaz Solana / Clothing and Accessories: Civvies, Custard, Eva Design House, Harper, Kristen Baird, House of Strut / Savannah, Georgia
Paprika Southern is a quarterly publication dedicated to inspiring creativity and intention in everyday life. In the pages you find lush visuals and thoughtful writing, with a commitment to inclusivity. This magazine is a curated view of the most innovative creatives, trends and art of the South.
I am grateful for the opportunity to create an artistic floral composition featuring southern moss, peonies, roses, and native olive branches, Camellia leaves for this professional photoshoot. | <urn:uuid:81f68def-64ba-40b0-b185-c9a1ddf9ef76> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.colonialhouse.net/blogs/featured/these-are-the-floral-ideas-that-are-about-to-takeover | 2023-09-24T23:30:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.910683 | 335 |
Customers who request Custom Work are usually more discerning and can appreciate the difference between mass-produced standard materials and installations and distinctive, unique and artistic installations, that require considerable skill to execute.
They understand that artisan products require a much higher level of craftsmanship and proficiency, and custom projects take much longer to complete than ordinary jobs.
Custom fabrications and installations are one-offs. They take longer to design, layout and construct, and often require incredible patience and attention to detail to install.
Standard work, such as 5″ and 6″ K-style gutters and the matching fluted rectangular downspouts that go with them, can be performed by all of our competent installers. However, Custom work requires a much higher skill set, with more thought, time, and experience that go into the finished product, along with a little trial and error!
At a certain point, custom sheet metal work transcends the technical proficiency necessary to achieve great results. The skill and attention to detail that yields beautiful, functional, long-lasting sheet metal projects borders on the artistic. Or, as has been said: If you use your hands, you’re a laborer, if you use your head, you’re a craftsman, if you use your heart, you’re an artist.
We hope that when others look at our work in the future, they’ll appreciate our skill, and wonder at our artistry, although they’ll never know our name… | <urn:uuid:cb693119-4afb-4fd4-addf-3961bec7ab5c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coloradoseamlessgutters.com/blog/-custom-sheet-metal-gutter-work | 2023-09-24T22:53:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.937681 | 327 |
A 60-year-old Vancouver man was arrested Monday after police say he repeatedly approached children at a school bus stop and inappropriately touched himself outside an elementary school.
Vancouver police were notified Sept. 16 of a suspicious man who was talking with middle school students at a school bus stop at Northeast 144th Avenue and Hearthwood Boulevard. The man was offering kids candy and inviting them to come over to his house; he also put his mouth on a 12-year-old boy’s ear, according to a police news release and court records.
A detective from the Children’s Justice Center was assigned to investigate.
The detective parked near the bus stop Thursday and saw the man approach kids and start talking with them. The detective contacted the man and interviewed him, but he was released pending further investigation, the police department said.
Then, after gathering additional witness statements, police responded Monday for a report of indecent exposure outside Hearthwood Elementary School. A man was seen standing across the street from the school with his hands down his pants, according to police and court records.
The suspect was the same man being investigated for the incidents at the bus stop, police said.
Jacques Douglas Lesueur was arrested and booked into the Clark County Jail on suspicion of stalking, luring and fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation. The investigation is ongoing, police said.
According to court records, Lesueur has prior convictions for indecent exposure and sexual abuse of a minor, and was required to register as a sex offender until Sept. 11, 2019.
He is being held on $200,000 bail in this case and is scheduled to be back in Clark County Superior Court on Friday to enter an order for a competency evaluation, court records show. | <urn:uuid:952aadcd-ab9c-4f1d-9ac0-9f4be0dcc274> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/sep/27/vancouver-man-60-arrested-in-school-bus-stop-luring-investigation/ | 2023-09-25T00:17:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.982001 | 358 |
FAMILIES FIRST FUNERAL HOME
Families First is locally owned and family operated. This means that we are an independent funeral home which does not have to answer to a corporation, board of directors, or shareholders. Instead, we answer to ourselves and are directly responsible to the families and community which we serve.
Our personal relationship with the community motivates each member of our Team to devote themselves to serving the needs of our families and community, offering the highest quality of service, instead of focusing on profit. | <urn:uuid:32e0b2fe-e9c3-4dd0-801c-c13294afded0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.comeoutplayguide.com/product-page/families-first-funeral-home | 2023-09-25T00:16:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.971536 | 105 |
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