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Will there be marriage in heaven? Jesus’ answer to the Sadducees about the widow married to seven deceased husbands needs to be understood in light of some important truths about the resurrection and the afterlife.
Given their history, it seems rather strange. After all, for hundreds of years the Jews lived alongside a race that was totally preoccupied with life after death. The Egyptians built pyramids that were wonders of the ancient world. But their sole purpose was to launch their leaders into the next world.
Yet the Jews really had no concept of eternal life in heaven. Oh, they believed in Sheol (aka Hades) but the shadowy, underworld existence of departed souls could not properly be called “life.” For the Jews, unlike the Greeks and Egyptians, the soul really could not have true existence apart from the body. A human being, in their understanding, did not just have a body. It was not just a vehicle that the soul drove around town. No, the body is part of the person. The body is the person.
Sadducees & Marriage in Heaven
So finally, when about 150 years before Christ a group of pious Jews, later called Pharisees, came to believe in life after death, they instinctively knew that the body had to be involved. Salvation was not to finally be free of the body and enjoy bliss as angelic souls, but rather the resurrection of the body.
The religious establishment of Judaism never bought this. To this day, most Jews don’t have a definite belief in life after death. In Jesus’ time, the conservatives, including the priests, were called the Sadducees. In Luke 20: 27-38 a group of them presented to Jesus a scenario designed to publicly discredit this silly belief in the resurrection. In this world, death of a spouse frees a woman to marry another. What if she is made a widow six times and marries a seventh? In the resurrection, all will be alive at the same time–who’s wife will this widow be?
As they snicker, the Lord Jesus exposes the problem. These Sadducees assume the resurrection will be a mere resuscitation, a return to bodily life as we currently experience it. But Jesus points out our risen bodies will be different than they are now. Our bodies now are mortal, vulnerable, actually rather fragile. A lifetime of great nutrition and disciplined exercise can be instantaneously ruined by a sudden rendezvous with an 18-wheeler.
In the resurrection, we’ll become like the angels in this way–our bodies will no longer be mortal or vulnerable. I don’t know about you, but for me, that will make quite a difference in my lifestyle and daily routine.
Marriage is a love relationship for sure. But it is also an institution that is bound up with realities of mortal life. Reproduction is necessary because we someday will die and need to raise up replacements to carry on. In heaven, we won’t need to worry about the survival of the species or the family name. Paying the bills and balancing the budget is a big part of the institution of marriage and family as we know them. But keep in mind we’ve got to go to work to pay bills that we just won’t need to worry about in the afterlife. Medical insurance is just not necessary when you are immortal.
But there are things about marriage that will last forever. Marriage points beyond itself to eternal realities. God is a community of persons who ceaselessly give themselves one to another in love. We are made in the image of this triune God which means that we are made for self-giving love. Marriage is a realization of this vocation as well as a symbol of an even greater love relationship–the marriage between God and His people, Christ and His Church.
So there are things about this life, and about marriage, that will last forever. And things that will pass away. Heaven will be not just more of the same, but a transformation of life, a launching into a new realm of life, a life of eternal love of God and one another that will be more exciting than we can possibly imagine.
This post on the Sadducees opposition to the resurrection examines their discussion with Jesus about the widow of seven husbands. This post on marriage and heaven is offered as a reflection on the scripture readings for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, cycle C (2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 2 Thes. 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-40).
For more on Marriage, see the MATRIMONY SECTION Of the Crossroads Initiative Library.
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Decades of experience and know how, high-quality machines and very dedicated people allows us to serve our customers with high-end products and prompt deliveries. In addition, we are always willing to work closely with our customers to develop new solutions for the challenges they are facing. Finally we put a lot of time and energy into reducing our ecological footprint by continuously testing new materials and processes.
High-quality products, prompt deliveries and close cooperation with our customers are our most important priorities.
At Crown General we are very concerned about the environment and climate change. That is why it is our priority to deliver sustainable products. We put a lot of effort in examining the different components of our foam and continuously consider possible alternatives for a more sustainable and environmental-friendly production. Establishing deep relations with our customers and suppliers is therefore one of our main priorities.
Furthermore we are convinced that PVC can play a prominent role in a green and environmental-friendly world. Compared to other alternatives, PVC products are very durable, versatile and have ideal insulation properties. On top of that, PVC products are 100% recyclable which opens the way to a new world based on a circular economy. Therefore we believe our foam is the product of choice for anyone who carries cost-efficiency AND durability as their main principles.
During the production process, we also put a lot of effort into reducing our waste. By means of continuous refinement of our production process, optimization is an ongoing process. Among other things, we strive for optimum energy efficiency. Our mission is a completely energy neutral production. To achieve this, we rely on partners with a similar mission in the matter of sustainability and environment.
As we work with chemical resources we are subject to the REACH and RoHS-regulation. At Crown General, we are committed to the rights and obligations that come with it. Together with our target groups, suppliers and partners, we follow the reach legislation very closely. This close follow-up and our transparency to our customers is the key to success.
Since 1965, our most important goal is to manufacture PVC-foams and coatings of the highest quality. To make this possible, we have developed a comprehensive quality system that has been approved over the years by the automotive, construction and other industries. We constantly monitor our processes through internal audits to ensure continuous improvement.
Our high added value is that we can customize our products according to customer demand. We are always willing to adjust our foams and materials to our customer’s wishes. In addition, we are committed to partnerships. These ensure that we can look for the best solutions together. This also applies to our relationships with our suppliers. Our experienced team of qualified staff ensure an effective quality control system and provide a constant back-up service.
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Optimizing D-I-Y Market Research
Mark Harrington has an interesting note under the title, “Is Surveying Obsolete?” I have a knee-jerk reaction to these articles about the inherent biases of survey research and the folly of asking consumers what they want. Of course consumers can’t always articulate what they want. Their answers can be perfectly sincere, as well as misleading, incomplete, and self-serving. It is the job of analysis, not the consumer, to illuminate their wants and needs.
Harrington continues that in an era of big data, what marketers need to do is observe their customers to assess their true desires. I will leave the question of whether consumer behavior is any more true or accurate than their pronouncements for another day. It is true that we now have an unprecedented opportunity to “observe” a large number of consumers in a variety of “locations,” engaged in multiple relationships with products and friends. And, what many marketers have always wanted to do is immerse themselves in this reality.
But, marketers have also been concerned about the cost of research, and this has resulted in the Rise of D-I-Y research and the tools that make it possible. Yesterday, someone passed on to me a nugget of information he had gleaned from a few questions he had asked using Survey Monkey. And, there are much more sophisticated tools available. But, the question is, “if surveying is obsolete, why isn’t D-I-Y research obsolete?” They have at their core the same “problem”; they both rely on consumers to report their wants and needs.
True D-I-Y research, the D-I-Y of the future, will be a set of tools and services that lets the marketer truly get up to his or her elbows in the lives of consumers.
- It will aggregate data from multiple sources.
- And, it will be able to aggregate and make connections within this data stream over time.
- It will provide tools that allow the marketer to enter the stream and test hypotheses.
- It will provide tools to analyze the stream of consumer behavior and identify trends and themes.
- It will correlate behaviors and make predictions based on these correlations. Ultimately, this kind of research will look more like Moneyball than social science research.
Old-fashioned D-I-Y research is comparatively simple and straightforward. This new D-I-Y is not. Old-fashioned D-I-Y seemed to write the traditional MR industry out of the script. This new vision of D-I-Y, which I prefer to call I-Y (Immerse Yourself), will have plenty of room for the Industry.
- Data streams will need to be aggregated and curated.
- The appropriate tools will need to be assembled into a usable arsenal that can distinguish the signal from the noise.
- The ultimate needs of the marketer need to be synthesized into the functioning of those tools. They will need to be tuned and tweaked.
- Since the immersion is on-going, there will need to be a kind of institution memory that makes sense of the insights and correlations over time.
In the future, the industry will be less involved in the realm of the craftsman, finely honing designs, data, and results and more in the area of event management. The researcher will be an impresario, a director, managing and coordinating all the pieces the marketer will need to be fully immersed in the consumer experience.
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This year could go down as the year of the “FANGs” — that is, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (or more accurately, Alphabet Inc.). All four have registered phenomenal returns in 2017. On a year-to-date basis, FB is up 30.5%, Amazon cleared nearly 28%, Netflix flew to 29%, and Google rounds it out at 21%. It’s difficult to pick among the four, but if I had to, I’d go with AMZN.
To clarify, I don’t have any skin in this game. The traditional financial markets offer few life-changing opportunities that have a realistic shot of reaching their potential. And the FANGs are not what I would call great value at these levels. They’ve benefitted the earlier believers, and now, they have virtually undisputed dominance in their respective sectors.
But Amazon stock strikes me as a distinct opportunity due to the fact that it has few “real” competitors. Of course, everyone is out to get a piece of the smiley-face company. Wal-Mart is aggressively restructuring their online business to stem the AMZN turkey shoot. Other brick-and-mortars are closing their underperforming physical stores and focusing more heavily towards e-commerce.
That’s all well and great. However, Amazon revolutionized the retail market through its customer support, convenience, and integration. Anytime, anywhere, I can shop for almost anything. I also have the confidence that I’m buying close to the lowest price possible. When I shop on Amazon, I’m never limited to a specific sector — if I want to buy a red-dot sight for my AR15, and giant rolls of paper towels in a single sitting, I can do just that.
The other FANGs, though dominant and impressive as they are, run the eventual risk of a serious competitor.
Take Facebook. I’m stunned at how useless this social media network is. Even more disturbing, the company incentivizes the worst behavior in people. Their Facebook Live platform has broadcasted unspeakable horrors. FB proponents claim that these crimes would have occurred anyways.
I’m not so sure. A live broadcast encourages deranged individuals to gain instant notoriety, even if it costs them their lives. And we know that a live (uncensored) camera feed always promotes a reaction among the masses. Has there ever been a local TV news segment which didn’t have jackasses waving at the viewing audience? Would that behavior occur without the camera crew? Of course not!
But aside from corporate responsibility, Facebook could potentially become undone by technological obsolescence. FB and other mainstream social media networks are powered “manually” by the people. Those with the most personality and the most friends will often carry greater leverage online. That’s why celebrities make great use of networks like Twitter, while regular Joes are lucky to get a few subs.
However, a new platform called Steemit seeks to reverse this trend. Rather than reward people for being who they are, Steemit rewards useful, high-quality content production. Those that truly benefit the burgeoning community can expect to attain monetary rewards (via the network’s STEEM cryptocurrency).
The heart of the Steemit community is the blockchain, the same infrastructure that catapulted bitcoin to vast prominence. The difference here is that bitcoin was generated through the solving of complicated math problems, or “mining.” With Steemit, the content creators are the miners, and their content is the desired commodity.
Essentially, Steemit incentivizes quality content. If a work lacks the standard, it will not gain traction and will find little to no reward. Such a system could seriously jeopardize Facebook, and even vaunted Google. While I doubt that Google’s search engine platform will be replaced by anything else, its prime assets, including YouTube, could quickly lose perceived value.
In this regard, only Amazon is truly safe. It also helps that the company itself is relatively controversy-free. People enjoy using Amazon. The same cannot be said about Facebook and prominent Google assets.
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The health and beauty industry was recently put under the spotlight and not for particularly flattering reasons. One of the most recognized names within the sector, Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE:AVP), was the unwitting subject of a fake buy-out bid from a fictional entity called “PTG Capital.” Because the bid was able to traverse official channels, this was a major embarrassment for the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was brought in to look into the undoubtedly thorny circumstances.
But for those investors who may be tempted to feel sorry for Avon Products, don’t. The demise of the former cosmetics giant was telegraphed to all but their management team, which insisted that chief executive Sherilyn S. McCoy, who was elected to the highest post in April of 2012, could turn the ship around. For quite some time, McCoy did manage to significantly add market value, reversing a painfully acute downward slide. But by October of 2013, the jig was up. The markets punished Avon stock and the situation has yet to abate.
Poor Business Structure
It’s not necessarily that Avon is a fundamentally poor company; rather, they’re a company in a fundamentally poor business structure. The “door-to-door” direct sales model is an antiquity like steam-engine cars or racial segregation. There were historical reasons for its implementation but in modernity, such models are out of touch with reality.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) would be Avon’s exact antithesis. Rather than hawking mediocre-quality cosmetics to housewives, Estee Lauder representatives realize that the demand will come to them. Leveraging a market capitalization of $33.15 billion — more than 1000% higher than Avon — their clout in the cosmetics industry is enormous.
Estee Lauder’s technical performance is equally impressive, with their stock continuing to move higher and higher since the onset of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. There’s also nothing to suggest that the momentum will fade in a dramatic manner. Over the long-term, the stock exhibits a “step-up” pattern, moving in leaps and bounds before entering a consolidation phase. Upon exiting the consolidation, EL stock continues on its next upward journey. In such circumstances, the old adage applies: the trend is your friend, until it ends.
The one “advantage” that Avon has over Estee Lauder is its significantly cheaper per-share price, which allows an investor to carry far more leverage with lower upfront capital. However, investors pay for that leverage with beta, or the widely-accepted barometer for a stock’s implied volatility. In this regard, Avon’s beta is 110% greater than Estee Lauder’s, and for good reason.
Look where Estee Lauder is, and compare that to Avon.
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Reflections of a mother
I remember your long arias at 6 a.m., standing in your crib. Not a note of tragedy in them - all anticipation. Your technique was bizarre your range uninhibited your tone experimental - and I marveled at your breath control.
I said to myself (as mothers will) ``I wonder if...''
But when you were three you announced you would be an astronomer (even though girls usually weren't). You meant to find out what those twinkling stars you had sung of really were.
But by the age of four crayons and paints had claimed you. Now I was awakened not by arias but by having paintings shoved in my face before I had one eye open. ``Lovely,'' I would mumble and fall back to sleep until the next masterpiece was joyfully presented. How I loved the flaming music of your crayons!
The drawings piled up till you were twelve. Then the agrarian phase began. I had to subscribe to a farm journal so you could learn about cattle.
But along with the cows came folk singing, and the inevitable guitar. You sang in a reedy little voice but with unmistakable style and again I wondered (as mothers will) but I said, ``No, it's only part of the agrarian phase.''
Yet in two years without a word of warning you made a giant leap from folk song to opera!
I listened to you practising real arias - and I heard the old crib arias, with their long rambling recitatives. I heard the bright, bold drawings in your voice ... and occasionally I heard a note like a star - and I said, ``There's the astronomy.''
In the end, however, the cows came back. Along with pigs, chickens, birds and growing things.
One never knows what's in the heart when someone sings!
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The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer celebrates 92 years of presence of Redemptorists missionaries in Venezuela.
On March 14, 1925, the Fathers Alvarez Palacios, Esteban Arce and Brother Rafael Nebot Robles begun the foundation, until the 24th housed in the archbishop Palace.
From the 24th of this month until February 3, 1927, they lived in a rented house near the Church of San José. The first Visitor or Vice-Provincial of the foundation in Venezuela was Father Andrés Alvarez (1925-1927), it was called Venezuelan Viceprovince.
We have Redemptorist presence in Caracas (Sanctuary of Coromoto – Philosophical Pedro Donders and Brisas del Paraíso); Valencia (La Purísima Parish); Barquisimeto (San José Parish), San Cristobal (Perpetual Socorro Sanctuary), Barinas (Medalla Milagrosa Parish) and Maracaibo (Parish San Alfonso attended by the Province of Bogota).
“For us, our presence as Redemptorists in the country today is a challenge. At the moment, the Vice-Province consists of 18 Priests; 1 Student of temporary vows. In formation period, without votes: 2 pre novices; 6 Students of philosophy and 6 in the propaedeutic.
From Father Alexander Nieves, Venezuela.
Excerpt from the book ““Los Misioneros Redentoristas en Venezuela 1925-2008. Memoria y Análisis”,, by Father Lauro Núñez Huerta. September 2009. (Page 26-30)
To read more in Spanish please see the link: https://www.cssr.news/spanish/2017/03/92-anos-de-presencia-redentorista-en-venezuela/
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Steve Jobs’s quest for perfection was pursued down to the smallest details. It made him the father of some of the greatest products and interfaces in computer history.
As Walter Isaacson’s new biography on Steve Jobs makes clear, though, it could also sometimes make him nightmarish to live with… the sort of obsessive who could make even the most mundane seemingly household decisions into maddening, endless debates.
For most of his life, Steve Jobs lived a spartan lifestyle, and his home was never furnished with more than the barest essentials: a chest of drawers and a mattress in his bedroom, a card table and some folding chairs in his dining room for when guests came over.
But when Steve Jobs wed Laurene Powell and found himself soon to be a father, Jobs had to make some accommodations for married life.
Choosing simple furniture, however, turned out to be a miserable task, thanks to Steve’s obsession with details. For example, when it came time to decorate their living room, Steve and Laurene couldn’t agree upon a sofa.
“We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” said Powell. “We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is the purpose of a sofa?'”
Jobs’s obsession with perfection also extended to household appliances. According to a 1996 article by Wired, Steve and Laurene spent more time discussing what country to buy their washing machine from than most married couples spend discussing the name of their first born child.
“We didn’t have a very good one so we spent a little time looking at them,” he told Wired contributing editor Gary Isaac Wolf. “It turns out that the Americans make washers and dryers all wrong. The Europeans make them much better – but they take twice as long to do clothes! It turns out that they wash them with about a quarter as much water and your clothes end up with a lot less detergent on them. Most important, they don’t trash your clothes. They use a lot less soap, a lot less water, but they come out much cleaner, much softer, and they last a lot longer.”
“We spent some time in our family talking about what’s the trade-off we want to make,” Steve continued. “We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family. Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half? Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer? Did we care about using a quarter of the water? We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table. We’d get around to that old washer-dryer discussion. And the talk was about design.”
Powell seems to have been a pretty eager and willing party for these discussions, but I think it’s safe to say that as much as most of us love Steve, and as great of a boon as his quest for perfection has been for the world at large, few of us would have liked to live with him.
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DO NOT USE the Tria Laser Precision if your skin tone matches one listed as “Not Safe” on the Skin Tone Chart on the inside front cover of this booklet. If you use the Tria Laser Precision on skin “Not Safe” for treatment, the skin may absorb too much laser light and be injured (burned, discolored, or scarred).
DO NOT USE the Tria Laser Precision if you are under the age of 18 or use it on anyone else under the age of 18. The use of the Tria Laser Precision on or by children has not been studied and could result in serious injury.
DO NOT USE the Tria Laser Precision if you have a lighter hair color, such as blonde, white, red or grey. In order for the laser to work, you must have naturally dark hair where you are treating. Lighter hair pigments will not absorb enough of the laser's energy to disable the hair follicle. If you are using medication that increases light sensitivity, please consult a doctor before using this device.
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Working at de Buedemleër
A company cannot work correctly without a motivated, dedicated and committed team.
Our goal is to build long-term relationships that allow each individual and at the same time the whole team to have professional perspectives and pleasure at work.
No open positions for the moment.
Opportunities for young people
Check out our apprenticeship page.
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do not hesitate to apply for one of our open positions or to send us an unsolicited application, even if the "Jobs" page does not contain any vacancies.
Please send us your CV and covering letter using our contact form or by postal mail to "de Buedemleër - HR".
de Buedemleër and its organisation
de Buedemleër is not only a family business, but also a team with a history and passion.
The team consists of ± 30 people, who are organised in 6 different departments:
- Parquet and floor covering
- Blinds, curtains and mosquito nets
- IT, Marketing & HR
The values and philosophy of de Buedemleër are set out in our " Guidelines and Team Values ", a 28-page illustrated brochure.
In order to constantly improve procedures and working methods and to adapt them to new products and techniques, de Buedemleër is organised according to the 5-S method and is also embarking on digitalisation.
The implementation of new software will allow us to digitise information and make it easier to input and make it available. In this way, our services will be even better organised.
de Buedemleër and its assets as an employer
In order to constantly improve the know-how of the entire team and to maintain a pleasant working environment, we offer:
- initial and lifelong training
- modern tools and machines
- vans equipped with professional shelving
- work clothes and safety devices
- two attendance bonuses per year
- one performance bonus per year
- bonuses for arduous or less pleasant work
- additional leave based on seniority
- each employee's birthday is his or her personal holiday
- an annual exchange framework (formal, structural and systematic) between employees and their managers via the ECAUD (échange créatifs au développement)
- a management that always listens to the employees and is keen to meet the (professional and private) needs of all team members
- several extra-professional activities during the year, such as company visits, excursions, a family party and a Christmas meal.
What it's like to be a "Buedemleër"
Only with a committed and motivated team can a company be successful over time. Below you can read the experiences of some of our team members.
Technician and team member since 1995
As the first employee of the company, hired just one year after its creation, I have been able to observe the evolution and development of de Buedemleër. I am proud to still be working for this serious and dynamic company, which offers supervised training courses, career development opportunities and is always ready to listen to the team and engage in constructive dialogues.
Head of the administrative department and member of the team since 2006
Since 2006, I find a lot of pleasure in my work and I feel more like a family member than "just" an employee. 🥰
Sales Manager and team member since 2015
I really enjoy the diversity of my job, I am in direct contact with our customers and suppliers and I have more administrative tasks such as writing quotations, supplier orders and checking customer invoices. In addition, de Buedemleër is a real family business: no one is treated like a number, we are never given the feeling that we can easily be replaced. The management goes to great lengths to make everyone feel comfortable and to ensure that the balance between private and professional life is respected.
Head of the Blinds, Curtains and Insect Screens Department, team member since 2017
de Buedemleër is a small family business with a pleasant and respectful working atmosphere.
The relationship with the management is sincere and based on reciprocity, there is always someone to listen to everyone's needs.
The organisation of the company is flexible, which is something important that motivates us to get up in the morning and go to work.
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'It had to be filmed in Naperville': Writer-director of 'Most Guys Are Losers' brings it all home
Eric Ustian knew two things when he finished reading Mark Berzins' book "Most Guys Are Losers."
First, he wanted to adapt it for television or the big screen. And he had to change the location.
Nothing against Denver, but Ustian needed to bring the story to his hometown.
"It had to be filmed in Naperville," he said. "The book has universal truths. It was easy translating this story to Naperville."
Ustian, a 1998 graduate of Naperville North High School, is making his writing and directorial film debut with "Most Guys Are Losers." The movie stars Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino and her legendary father, Paul Sorvino; Andy Buckley, known for his role as David Wallace on "The Office," and Keith David.
Set to premiere in theaters on July 1, "Most Guys Are Losers" has a distinct local feel that will look familiar to Naperville residents. Ustian, who now lives in Los Angeles, made sure of it.
"I love my hometown," he said. "I was so fortunate to grow up there. And it's because of the people. Being out here for 23 years, it's not that California people are bad people. It's just that Chicagoans are great people."
As much as Ustian, 42, loves his life in California, he still has fond memories of growing up in Naperville. Yes, he misses Chicago winters.
He competed on Naperville North's golf team and dabbled in basketball, but he showed little interest in the arts in high school. He and a friend had a show on the local Naperville television network, NCTV-17, and that sparked an interest in production.
By chance, Ustian was discovered by agents during a trip to New York City and given a shot at acting. Faced with a decision between attending the University of Iowa and taking a chance on Hollywood, Ustian chose the latter.
It hasn't been easy, but he's persevered.
"It makes me emotional to think about it," Ustian said. "My dream was to make a movie, and now I've made a movie. It took decades to get here, but I did it."
While Ustian has appeared on shows including "Six Feet Under," his true love is working behind the camera. He was a production assistant on "Secretary" and "Blades of Glory" before forming his own production company, Pier Avenue Films.
"Acting is what helped me get settled out here, but it just wasn't my thing," Ustian said. "As soon as I was behind a camera, I knew that's what I really wanted to do."
Building a dream team
"Most Guys Are Losers" focuses on a bar owner, played by Buckley, who pours years of experience into a book about helping women -- specifically, his daughter -- differentiate between good guys and bad guys. But when faced with his daughter bringing home a guy for Thanksgiving, Buckley's character goes against the advice from his own book.
Ustian's adaptation is based on the time he spent with Berzins, the actual writer of the how-to book. He saw firsthand how Berzins was unhappy with his daughter's boyfriend, and Ustian felt the irony of defying the book's advice made a more interesting story than the book itself.
Casting turned into a dream scenario when Mira Sorvino came aboard and quickly was followed by Paul Sorvino and Keith David. Buckley was chosen for the lead role because, as Ustian said, "it's impossible not to like him."
Ustian believes the younger members of the cast, including former Naperville North football player Belmont Cameli, are bound for stardom. Another cast member, Kevin Miles, makes a brief appearance at a time before he became known as Jake from State Farm.
Gathering everyone in Naperville was a surreal but special time for Ustian.
Ustian returns when he can, staying at his childhood house where his mother still lives. He even attended a recent football game between Naperville North and Naperville Central.
But for all the memories he cherishes, it was during the production of "Most Guys Are Losers" that he formed a deeper connection with his hometown.
"Everyone wanted to be a part of it, and they really rolled out the red carpet for us," he said. "Being part of that culture and understanding it, there's nothing like that here. I'm just grateful for the way we were treated."
18 days in Naperville
Ustian and his crew filmed the bulk of "Most Guys Are Losers" at the end of 2019 in Naperville.
They spent much of the 18-day shoot in the downtown area, filming around the Riverwalk and inside Frankie's Blue Room on Chicago Avenue.
The scenes featuring the family home? That's Ustian's childhood house.
"It was a great deal ... it was free," Ustian said with a laugh.
"The advantage of shooting at home is I had a bunch of friends and family who helped me out," he said. "When you shoot in and around Chicago, it's a lot different than in L.A. People in Chicago want to work with you."
It took multiple rewrites for Ustian to get the story where he wanted it, and the pandemic put further delays on the project. Now that the arduous process is behind him, though, he can't wait for people to see the finished product.
There's a red-carpet premiere event planned for Los Angeles, but Ustian said there also will be a special showing in the Chicago area. He's not sure when or where it will be, but he relishes the opportunity to return some of that hometown love.
"It was one of those movies where everything came together," Ustian said. "It just worked, and that's so rare in this business."
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met, on Monday, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, during the latter’s visit to Cairo.
The meeting addressed Egypt-Russia cooperation in different fields, and the Ethiopian Nile dam crisis.
Al-Sisi renewed Egypt’s keenness to reach a legally binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Ethiopian dam.
Both officials discussed the bilateral military and security cooperation, including joint efforts to combat terrorism.
Additionally, Al-Sisi and Lavrov talked about the possible resumption of Russian flights to Egypt, the Dabaa nuclear plant project, and the ongoing preparations for the next session of the Joint Economic Committee.
During the meeting, President Al-Sisi stressed his keenness to strengthen the extended partnership with Russia, which contributed to the conclusion of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement.
The agreement opens up new horizons for cooperation between the two countries in many fields, especially the Russian Industrial Zone in East Port Said and the Dabaa nuclear plant.
Moreover, the meeting addressed the latest developments of the most important regional issues, as the Egyptian president affirmed his country’s position on restoring security and stability, establishing elements of sustainability in the countries affected by conflicts, and rebuilding their national institutions.
Regarding the Libyan issue, Al-Sisi reviewed the Egyptian efforts to support the new temporary executive authority in Libya in various bilateral, regional, and international forums, and to advance all paths to settle the crisis militarily, politically, and economically.
He further stressed the need to end the presence of mercenaries in Libya and stop foreign interference which fuels the crisis.
For his part, Lavrov praised the vital Egyptian role in resolving the Libyan crisis, especially the Egyptian President’s personal efforts in this regard, which strengthened the political path to solving the issue. He also stressed Russia’s keenness to continue cooperation and intensive coordination with Egypt.
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If you are building outbound links and using
target="_blank" to open clicks in a new browser tab, you may have a link phishing security issue.
As a digital marketing business, we want to help people find great content. That means we create lots of content and link to content. For example, we maintain a list of upcoming marketing conferences and marketing statistics.
Like many websites, for our outbound links, we use
target="_blank" in our link anchors. This opens the link in a new tab in the web browser. We do this for a couple of reasons, but the main one is that it keeps the visitor on our website and hopefully they’ll come back when they finish following the link they clicked.
However, when using this technique you can create a phishing vulnerability.
This link phishing vulnerability is not only dangerous, but it is something that a lot of content marketers don’t realize is happening.
How Do I Fix This?
I’ll explain how this link phishing vulnerability works, but if you just want the fix, add this to any links where you use
For example, let’s say you want to link to DailyStory’s list of upcoming marketing conferences (we would appreciate that). Of course, you want that link to open in a new browser tab. Here is what your link should look like in HTML:
<a href="https://www.dailystory.com/blog/best-marketing-conferences-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">List of Marketing Conferences in 2017</a>
When you add
rel="noopener noreferrer" to your link it protects you from this link phishing security vulnerability. Something every content marketer should care about!
It’s worth mentioning, that if you are using the latest version of WordPress it will do this for you automatically when you create a link in the rich editor and select ‘Open link in a new tab’:
How does this link phishing vulnerability work?
It’s worth noting that the blogs linked to above all reference vulnerabilities in both Facebook and Instagram. Those are fixed.
The simplest explanation is that the newly opened tab, the one opened by your use of
target="_blank", gets some special rights and access to the tab that opened it.
Here is how the vulnerability works:
Someone visits your website and clicks on one of your links to read a blog you referenced, let’s call it “Some Great New Business Idea”. Because your link used
target="_blank" a new browser tab was opened. This new tab can access the tab that opened it.
“Some Great New Business Idea” is a page designed to exploit this vulnerability in the hopes that people will link to it ( a bit of a stretch, but work with me).
You finish reading “Some Great New Business Idea”, close the tab and see that Twitter wants you to sign back in. Unfortunately, you are now the victim of a phishing attack and have unknowingly given someone your Twitter login.
If you are using outbound links in your content marketing strategy, which most of us are. You need to make sure that you fix this so you don’t expose your readers and visitors to this link phishing vulnerability.
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Men's handmade leather coat, 100% soft lamb leather, selected materials and 100% Made in Italy.
The style proposed 'Coat mod. Spinel' in genuine leather, 100% soft leather is composed by:
- 2 front pockets;
- 1 inside pocket with button;
- 1 inside leather pocket for smartphone;
- collar and reverse;
- buttons closure;
- button at the sleeves;
- shoulder flaps with button;
- regular fit.
Our model is 1.82m high and he wears a 50 size for this coat.
For this coat style we advise you to buy the size you usually wear.
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See dash2la.com/terms-and-conditions for full terms and conditions. Open to Australian residents. One entry per Eligible Order, defined in full terms. Competition opens 13/04/22 at 09:00 AM and closes 29/05/22 at 11:59 PM. Winner drawn 03/06/22 at 11:00 AM at Permitz Group, Suite 2.04, 4 Ilya Avenue Erina NSW 2250. The total prize pool valued at up to $17000 (incl. GST). Winner notified by email and published online at www.Dash2LA.com 06/06/22 for 28 days. The Promoter is Doordash Technologies Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 96 634 446 030) of 401 Collins St., Melbourne, VIC 3000. Authorised Under: NSW Permit No. TP/01767. ACT Permit No. TP 22/00556. SA Licence No. T22/431.
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It is like “The breakfast Club” but with Snake or an Alphabet letter
The minimal requirements
This article is for the person working in a middle size company at least, let’s say around 300 people. As everyone doing data analysis, you probably have your own preferred language, would it be python, Scala, R, or even vba, you always have to remember that you are not the only one. As you reach a certain amount of people inside a company, some department tend to appear:
- Business Intelligence / Data Analysis
- Marketing / Sales
Putting aside HR, which would be the only department where I never witnessed that, but on every other one, there are some reports that needs to be built for their daily operation. Going into that direction, there are probably people taking care of those reports. These people will probably want to improve their way of doing it.
Not all of them will look for programming language but they will be probably interested into learning how to improve their report.
Having a company club to discuss cross-department problematic is always a good thing, never to be fear. It means that employees want to improve and not stick to their level; it can be frightening for some managers as some ideas will be share from outside the department and information will spread without the control of the managers, but at the end, is it a bad thing?
More problematic is the fact that employees may realize tasks that have been decided no feasible by managers or not prioritize by them. So Managers can feel their authority diminish from these group of co-workers. You can clearly avoid that by following some rules on your club that needs to be explain explicitly. Managers are rights to be concern that this not get out of hand, but the inner motivation should never be refrain as having worker wanting to progress is a blessing.
When creating an internal club, which could be about ‘advanced reporting’, you need to know who can join you as key figures. Persons that will legitimate the group and are seen as expert in their domain, does not have to be about reporting in our case. It is exactly what we need to avoid here, we have to bring really different profile to this group because, technical expert, business expert, BI expert and so on…
As people will join to get knowledge on advanced report, you can derivate from that topic to go to broader topics and this is where everyone has to gain something. Discussing about cross department topics, in term of analysis, is the best way for you to learn different aspect and improve your current process. Things that we never considered being the key problematic of some other colleagues will show you the complete structure of the company and better understand the logic behind business decision (or not).
If you get really cody, you can create session to review code and work on specific projects together, make it look fun it will be your own internal Kaggle competition. As people can get more involved with data that they own. Be careful however, as I am always explaining to too excited colleagues, bad implementation or logic on Kaggle will get you down in the ranking, in your company other things are at stake (reputation, group existence, politics, etc…).
It is normal that people will get along depending affinity and this group will probably not live forever but if this works out well, you will learn so much and other colleague with you. Remember that this group is for colleagues that are self-driven, want to improve, they will probably see the same benefit than you.
This looks fun so why it does not already exist?
It is because it is not so easy to do, and I will give you the 3 key components (in my opinion) before trying to launch this kind of group.
- Being in the company for more than a year
It may sound stupid but just put yourself at the place of your colleagues, you are new and try to revolutionize. It shows that you are either someone too enthusiastic or a junior in mind.
Never forget that you need to prove first that you manager your own project before doing extra project. Being in the company for more than a year will allow enable you to know enough people to launch this project.
- Being in good relationship with mostly everyone
As said before, there are some politics involved in every company, the bad thing to do is to launch that project to make you look good or short cut someone. Would be bad to launch that to be stabbed in the back at the first occasion.
- Having a knowledge that is necessary for the group
It could be anything, you will the one that takes note, you will organize the meetings, you will keep the people motivated and interested. Better would be to have some knowledge to pass on but it is not mandatory.
As I said earlier, there are some rules that you want to follow to make this group live as long as possible. I will give you the one that I found.
- Explain the concept to your boss and get the agreement to start this project with him / her.
No point starting something that can be terminated by yourself.
- If you start this to be well seen in the company, it won’t work so you can stop now.
Most managers will probably ignore what is coming out of this group or be jealous of it and try to destroy it. This group is about gaining knowledge, not promotion.
- Try to recruit people from different departments to make the group look as broad as possible in term of skills and expertise. It will reinforce the impression that everyone has something to learn from it.
- Be dedicated and hope for the best.
You can try your best and the group ends after 2 meetings, or just do the minimum and everyone is happy. It depends of the person present and degree of motivation of the person in that group. So don’t stress but be serious about it.
- Do not start this group during working hours
The best would be to at lunch or evening. Timing is hard to find but it doesn’t work if you put stress on top of normal workload.
Creating a Python Club, a R club or anything that required cross department is very complex to realize. It needs to be aligned with Management, without them getting involved (otherwise, you lose the flexibility require to make it fun), you need to get people involved; you need to sell the interest of this initiative without overselling it and disappoint people or infuriate the managers. Eventually, least but not last, you need other people to be involved in this so everyone is learning from it.
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Wackos Say Global Warming Is A Human Rights Violation
December 16, 2004
Environmental activists say greenhouse gas emissions are destroying the Inuit way of life and therefore must be considered a human rights violation
. What’s an Inuit? Read the article to find out.
You know, I think these activists are the kind of people John Kerry wanted George Bush to talk into participating with us in the War on Iraq.
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Hadees of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is the practical explanation of the Holy Quran, complete guidance for all the aspects of life and a very basic, strong and primary source of making the [people of the] world attain salvation. Hadees is the second greatest and most important source [of teachings] in Islam and like the Holy Quran, the blessed treasure of Hadees makes Islam a complete code of life. For gaining benefit from the blessed Ahadees, it is necessary to study and understand them thoroughly so that we can completely learn the Islamic laws at every step and become a practising Muslim by following the rules mentioned in the blessed Ahadees.
An excellent source of understanding Hadees
The entire treasure of the blessed Ahadees of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم is in Arabic. Since these Ahadees have been said by the Leader of the Arab’s eloquent speakers, so along with being pleasant and beautiful, every line, every sentence, in fact every word carries countless meanings and contains several pieces of information and rules which cannot be refuted. Taking this significance into consideration, ‘Ulama of Ahl-us-Sunnah have written great commentaries [Sharh] on Ahadees in every era to make people understand them.
اَلْحَمْدُلِلّٰہ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ! ‘Ulama of Ahl-us-Sunnah have written excellent commentaries on Ahadees in Urdu as well. Amongst them, ‘Nuzhat-ul-Qaari’, commentary on Sahih Bukhari written by Mufti Shareef-ul-Haq Amjadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه, and ‘Mirat-ul-Manajih’, commentary on Mishkat written by Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan Na’eemi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه are especially worth mentioning. Studying these commentaries will not only prove to be helpful in understanding Hadees but will also become a cause of increasing knowledge and the source of developing yearning for acting upon the Islamic teachings. Studying the books published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah is also helpful in understanding Hadees, such as, a short booklet, namely ‘40 Farameen-e-Mustafa’, newly annotated and referenced edition of ‘Anwaar-ul-Hadees’ which is based on correcting beliefs and deeds, and ‘Faizan Riyad-us-Saliheen’, a detailed commentary on ‘Riyad-us-Saliheen’.
10 adani pearls of studying Hadees
1 In the beginning, start studying Hadees from any short book and divide the pages of the book for daily perusal.
2 Fix the time for study and while studying, remain in the state of Wudu, facing the Qiblah.
3 We read many important points while studying. If topics are marked through certain signs or symbols for memorising and remembering those important points, long-term benefits can be obtained from this study.
4 If those signs and symbols are marked with a highlighter, and stick notes available in the market are used to mark the pages, referring to them will be very easy when required.
5 Make separate lists according to the topics of these signs or symbols in the first few pages of the book or in the notebook. In this way, material regarding many other topics will be collected.
6 Use Hadees and commentary on Hadees with the intention of revising them while conversing or delivering Bayan. By its blessing, you will be able to memorise Ahadees properly and effectively.
7 Fix a day for revising the written notes so that the information contained in Hadees and commentaries on Ahadees remain fresh in your mind by being revised again and again.
8 If you do not understand something while studying, clear up your knowledge-related confusion by seeking its explanation from the ‘Ulama of Ahl-us-Sunnah.
9 Haste, lack of interest or lack of attention is a major hindrance to Hadees learning. Therefore, study Hadees, giving it proper time and attention. If you read Ahadees and their commentaries while thinking about the blessed apparent lifetime of Rasoolullah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, you will feel great pleasure along with having continuous interest.
10 Increase your knowledge and good deeds by studying blessed Ahadees.
For the sake of His Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, may Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ bless us with the privilege of studying blessed Ahadees!
اٰمِيۡن بِجَاهِ النَّبِيِّ الۡاَمِيۡن صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيۡهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
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The ‘Dawgs were 1-4, Paul Finebaum was giddy,
Evans had resigned, Richt was about to be put on the shelf,
Vince Dooley was a Vol fan, the players’ rap sheets weren’t pretty,
Uga VII was dead, and I didn’t feel so good myself.
Then Greg McGarity came home in time to anoint Uga VIII,
The 3-4 defense gelled under the guidance of Todd Grantham,
Aaron Murray matured, Georgia won three victories straight,
And the team left for Jacksonville singing a different anthem.
A.J. Green was back! Washaun Ealey ran on lengthy sorties!
The D had sacks and takeaways! Justin Houston was a beast!
The offense clicked and started scoring points into the forties!
At stake on Duval Street was a shot to win the East
If the team returned to Athens with a win in its hip pocket.
Though there are a few Gator fans who’ve been known to be nice,
Many of them are jerks, like that chump, Sonny Crockett,
A former Florida football player from the show "Miami Vice"
Who owned a pet alligator and named the lizard "Elvis."
It’s an affront to good taste to name a Gator after the King,
Which is why I hope the ‘Dawgs punch Florida in the pelvis.
I’m confident that they will, because---and here’s the thing---
I have good reason to be sure that the Saurians are toast.
There is this critical fact, which I hope you haven’t missed:
For you can’t spell "Sacrificial Goat Roast"
Without "A Sacroiliac Gator Fist."
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Chapter 13 bankruptcy is referred to as reorganization bankruptcy. When you file for Chapter 13, you will work with a bankruptcy trustee to create a payment plan that will pay back your creditors over time. Typically, you will pay back a percentage of your income and the rest of your debt will be forgiven at the end of the payment plan.
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In addition to being a great load off your mind, waterproof flooring is also stylish, with many different designs, styles and color options to choose from. One of the most popular forms of this flooring is the authentic wood look, which is believable right down to the stain color and the look of texture. However, if you’re simply not a wood-look person, you can also find this flooring in natural stone look, as well as other colors and designs that are quite likely to match your home’s already existing décor.
You can be sure that installation is a process that will be quick and easy. Depending upon which type of flooring you choose in this niche, it can be glued down, or there is the peel-and-stick option, and of course, the popular click-and-lock method, which is a type of “floating floor”. Either way, your installers will be in and out quickly, having left you with a floor you’ll love for years to come.
There’s no need to worry about hefty maintenance schedules with this flooring either, as it’s very easy to keep clean. In fact, sweeping or vacuuming up dirt and debris, followed by a damp mopping, should be enough to bring this floor covering right back to a like-new finish.
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Greater comfort and freedom of movement is required when walking across lowland.
On the contrary, when mountain hiking, you will also need the support of a warm shoe
The duration of your hikes is often linked to level:
For a short period (less than 3 hours) heel cushioning is adequate
Medium to long hikes
For medium to long periods (over 3 hours) you will require built-in cushioning.
Some people plan outings dependent on good weather, others are more daring. Which category do you generally fall in?
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It’s Time to Listen to the Doomsday Planners
Another pandemic, or a terrorist attack, could cripple an unprepared executive branch.
For a moment earlier this month, the West Wing seemed like a vector of disease. First came the news that Donald Trump’s personal valet had tested positive for the coronavirus. Then the vice president’s spokeswoman, who is married to another senior White House staffer, fell ill with COVID-19. Through it all, the president downplayed the risk of his exposure, openly flouting his top health agencies’ social-distancing guidelines. Trump is fine, but these brushes with the virus raise the question: What’s the plan if the whole White House becomes infected?
The answer typically lies with the government’s so-called doomsday planners—the officials at every major agency who are tasked with preparing and rehearsing the nation’s classified continuity-of-government plans. For decades, doomsday planners’ presence has been tolerated, their recommendations have been stashed in policy documents, and their warnings about dark tidings have been for the most part unheeded. The Trump administration has taken an actively hostile approach, though, decimating the institutional engines of catastrophe planning, including at the National Security Council. As a consequence, the U.S. government was not only ill-prepared for the pandemic, but willfully blinded to its potential size and shape, leaving federal agencies in the position of having to confront a fast-moving hurricane without radar to determine where it was headed or a plan to quickly restore essential functions.
The coronavirus has pushed the country’s national-security bureaucracy to figure out how to adapt in a severely restricted work environment, and forced a reexamination of how the government prepares for crises. COVID-19 hasn’t brought the United States to the precipice of doomsday, per se, but it has exposed how much citizens and states rely on a functioning federal government. It’s also revealed the consequences of what happens when the government appears unprepared to reckon with a challenge as significant as the pandemic and hasn’t listened to the people whose jobs require them to churn through permutations and contingencies. Government agencies as crucial as the CIA have had to develop COVID-19 response plans on the fly. Telework practices are patchy and decided by each agency. And it is unclear, even to employees at the highest levels of the national-security bureaucracy, what they ought to be doing.
If you work in continuity planning, a lot of your time is spent ensuring that alternate facilities can function if needed. You try to exercise scenarios, begging senior policy officials to spend a day in a bunker or room and forcing them to make choices under pressure. Then you imagine the worst-case scenarios and try to write plans that adhere to complicated government rules. Year after year, resources for continuity planning tend not to be priorities. Executive-branch departments also have to consider near-term foreseeable challenges, such as infrastructure and technology upgrades. The apocalypse doesn’t rise to top of mind.
Vic Erevia, who served as the special agent in charge of Barack Obama’s protective detail for the Secret Service, was privy to the most developed and well-rehearsed continuity preparations—those involving the presidency itself, and the preservation of communication among the three branches of government. He spent a lot of time in the weeds with the plans and their planners. “These guys, they were kind of treated like the crazy people in the corner doing their own thing,” he told me. “It’s time for them to be given their due.”
Doomsday planners can’t conjure up every possible future calamity. But their warnings can prompt the government to react quickly, to adapt to ambiguity, and to treat uncertainty as a feature of good social science, not an excuse to avoid prudent precautions. . Nicholas Rasmussen, who participated in national-security continuity planning as a senior counterterrorism adviser to George W. Bush and Obama, told me that, at the moment, the U.S. government doesn’t “really have a plan for a scenario where we are down 50 percent of our workforce.” The national-security agencies, including the CIA, have predesignated employees as “essential” and cross-trained thousands to perform essential jobs should those employees become sick. But a pandemic doesn’t distinguish among people, and therefore doesn’t avoid those deemed essential, said Rasmussen, who was also the head of the National Counterterrorism Center until 2017.
The Trump administration has hollowed out the very bureaucracy that’s in charge of the planners. The president has cycled through five homeland-security secretaries and five homeland-security advisers (who also serve as national continuity coordinators) in three years, and has dismantled the apparatus that was expressly designed to inform his response and allow the government to function efficiently during emergencies. Through a succession of national security advisers, the NSC staff was dramatically reduced, culminating in John Bolton’s decision to close a dedicated pandemic-response cell inside the NSC’s global-health security and biodefense directorate. Bolton also pushed out a key official who had both the title and institutional knowledge to shape policy on contingency and continuity, Thomas Bossert, who was a senior member of Bush’s national-security staff and one of the few remaining links between the NSC and federal-preparedness officials. (Bossert did not return calls or emails asking for comment.) Soon after Bossert’s departure as homeland-security adviser, Trump downgraded the position, and it no longer reports directly to the president.
The current homeland-security adviser (and national continuity coordinator) is Julia Nesheiwat. She was appointed on February 21—two full weeks after the previous occupant, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Peter Brown, left the post. During those two weeks, the pandemic spread rapidly in the United States, and the Trump administration temporized, vamped, and struggled to figure out how to respond.
Agencies are largely left to their own devices. Since its birth more than 70 years ago, the CIA has developed an intuitive flexibility for how to function in emergencies. What happens if multiple case officers get sick in a country where the CIA isn’t supposed to be operating? There’s a plan to evacuate them without the host country knowing. What happens if local food supplies become contaminated? There’s a plan to get food stores to the CIA base.
“A lot of our stations are in places where the food supply is insecure and where you can’t trust local doctors,” said a current agency officer who, like other sources cited in this story, spoke with me on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak with the media. “We’ve had cases where the entire station gets sick and we’ve had to get our own doctors into a country. It’s just something we know how to do.”
But even the CIA could not account for a scenario like the pandemic—where almost no physical space on Earth is safe to gather in for months at a time. Four current and former agency officials, some of whom asked not to be identified, acknowledged that the coronavirus had not left the agency unscathed, with employees in the Langley, Virginia, headquarters and across the globe falling ill.
So the agency adapted its crisis planning on the fly. In this case, it did notactivate its main continuity-of-operations site—an enormous, anonymous, secure facility in the mid-Atlantic region where up to 10 percent of the headquarters’ staff could run the agency’s worldwide covert operations and communications system if Langley had to be closed or was destroyed, one former agency official and a current government official told me. Instead, the agency is rotating key staff into work in cadres and has implemented social-distancing measures, they said. (The CIA spokesperson Nicole de Haay declined to provide specifics but said that in response to the pandemic, “our officers are exercising tremendous creativity and flexibility.”) It works, for now. It can’t work forever. Will it work if a terrorist engineers a pathogen to be even more virulent and transmissible than the coronavirus?
In other agencies, the government is trying to mobilize both a pandemic response and a rapid economic recovery with a workforce that is mostly immobile and figuring out what to do on an ad hoc basis. Telework is probably the biggest challenge. At the moment, no official, government-approved telework platform for unclassified work exists. Many virtual private networks are not built to handle the numbers of employees who need to use them, and commercial videoconferencing can be slow and vulnerable to hacks and sabotage. That’s despite the fact that the Defense Information Systems Agency has spent tens of millions of dollars developing secure mobile devices that could allow officials to stay at home, even if their work involves classified information at the secret level.
“I worked through every shutdown, every snowstorm, because you can’t work from home,” Rasmussen said. Normally, he said, agency counterintelligence and security officials would veto suggestions to change work paradigms, because each shift away from a centralized structure could introduce any number of new potential vulnerabilities. “I would imagine they’ll have a harder time saying, ‘No, we won’t even think about that anymore,’” Rasmussen said.
According to a Defense Department official, who declined to be identified in order to speak about a sensitive subject, the Defense Information Systems Agency is nearing the end of a pilot program that would allow employees to do limited, classified-level work from home. And some officials are rethinking their long-standing opposition to commercial end-to-end encryption. Of course, this debate could have been hashed out earlier, with guidelines at the ready, if the NSC had had the staff and sense to heed the lessons of doomsday planning.
Dab Kern, another longtime resilience and continuity planner, who was the director of the White House Military Office until the end of 2017, wants the executive branch to shift the focus of its continuity planning to secure communications and dynamic responses that would allow senior officials to work from almost anywhere. “We need to stop doing continuity the way we have done it,” he told me. “This is our opportunity to shift gears and leverage technology.” Kern noted that many private businesses, large and small, incorporating the advice of resilience experts, had plans to rapidly shift gears. “The rest of the industry does it this way. Why doesn’t the government?”
Another challenge is compelling agencies to keep their plans updated in the first place. Consider the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). This agency, part of the Treasury Department, prints money for the Federal Reserve. It has to function during any emergency. But as of 2017, the BEP had yet to finalize aviable alternate-facility plan. I reached out to the Treasury Department but didn’t get an answer back about the BEP’s current status. I wondered what it would do if, say, COVID-19 began to afflict staff at its two facilities? (There have been no press reports about pandemic-related problems at the BEP, though its internal police force reported to work for weeks before receiving hazard pay.) In 2017, the BEP told the Treasury Department’s inspector general’s office that it did not envision a scenario where the government would run out of currency or need to rapidly print money in an emergency, and so it did not consider that function essential to its own planning. The inspector general’s auditors countered that this assumption was dubious.
This is not the first time the United States has faced a rude awakening about the necessity of fleshing out plans, rehearsing them, and revising them. A similarly cavalier attitude about doomsday prepping led to a communication breakdownon September 11, 2001, the first time since the Cuban missile crisis that the government’s secret emergency plans were formally activated. This prompted a reckoning inside the bureaucracy when the Bush administration ordered the executive branch to develop a comprehensive response for a number of disaster scenarios that would require a national emergency effort. For each scenario, a response plan was created and a lead agency designated. Vice President Dick Cheney and Joseph Hagin, a deputy chief of staff, took the reins. (Hagin served for 18 months in the Trump administration, leaving in 2018.) The aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks marked the first time that serious planning for pandemics figured prominently in government.
According to conversations with more than a dozen people who have seen them, worked on them, or written them, virtually all government continuity plans since 9/11 have been centered around two plots: nuclear terrorism (either all-out war or an explosion in the Washington, D.C., region) or a bioweapons release (limited in scale and scope, with victims easily tested and identified). After the anthrax attacks of 2001, the U.S. focused on intelligence suggesting that al-Qaeda (and later Iraq, under the government of Saddam Hussein) had explored the most effective ways to disperse a biological agent. “That’s why we immediately turned to smallpox,” a current government official told me. “The R0”—the rate of person-to-person transmission based on a pathogen’s contagiousness—“was so high and smallpox was available, at least to some of the nation-state enemies.” Russia, for example, had an active bioweapons program, run by a network of labs called Biopreparat, into the 1990s, and it experimented with weaponizing smallpox. A former Russian intelligence officer, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue and who now lives in the United States, confirmed to me that the program was operational after 9/11. (Russia denies that it is experimenting with pathogenic weapons, but its recent use of chemical and radiological poisons to kill former agents is well documented.) The U.S. intelligence community worries that adversaries could weaponize COVID-19 before there’s a vaccine, taking advantage of the gaps in preparedness exposed by the current response.
After 9/11, Cheney spent many nights at the Raven Rock facility in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But bunkers like Raven Rock are not designed to accommodate an entire bureaucracy. Most of the government’s top-secret disaster plans, buttressed by tens of billions of dollars in “black budget” spending, call for officials to break into groups, with some retreating to a secure facility outside of D.C. where they could communicate with colleagues over classified government networks. In a pandemic, the bunkers would be all but useless if you couldn’t ensure that the workers were virus-free before entering. That would require rapid and reliable tests available at the beginning of the emergency, which is hard enough with a new pathogen, but which the U.S. government did not prioritize until too many people were infected this time around. The White House itself did not develop such testing capacity for COVID-19 until early April, months after being warned that the disease could be a major threat.
Even though more than seven years had passed since 9/11, Obama kept many of Bush’s continuity and resilience officials in their jobs. The idea was to build institutional muscle memory, and allow officials to create innovative responses to problems, according to several former officials whom I spoke with. Chris Lu, the Cabinet secretary during Obama’s first term and the deputy secretary of labor during his second, found that such continuity helped bridge the gap between a government that can’t anticipate every scenario and the natural tendency of disasters not to follow a script. He told me that it was especially crucial that former Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and former FEMA Director Craig Fugate had worked together for years. “You can’t underestimate having three people managing this stuff who all know each other’s rhythms, who know the authorities they have. There is no substitute for that,” Lu said.
In both the Bush and Obama administrations, FEMA and the military, along with a growing cadre of administration officials who took a keen interest in continuity planning, developed a robust program of exercises, some live and some simulated, to stress-test how both the response plans, which differed from one another, and the continuity plans, which often did not, would function in emergencies.
But getting the military, which designed and ran most of the exercises, to think more broadly about the range of threats, was a challenge. “One of my pet peeves at the time was that the range of options … were either business as usual or a nuclear missile was minutes from Washington,” Larry Pfeiffer, a top continuity official in the Obama administration, told me. “And I would say, ‘Look, 99 percent of continuity issues have nothing to do with nuclear missiles. What about dispersals of bioweapons, or someone throws a backpack over the fence line?’” added Pfeiffer, who is now the director of the Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University.
To be sure, even if Trump hadn’t thrown out the Obama administration’s pandemic playbook, it’s hard to know just how seriously the government would have taken planners’ assessments. The president sets the tone, and staff tend to rework their assumptions to fit the president’s. A mercurial president more concerned with keeping himself in the news, and willfully ignorant of negative developments, is not likely to react quickly to potential emergencies. A different president might have improvised differently. But the playbooks—and their assumptions—need to be revised. And the doomsday planners need to have their day in the sun.
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Glassmith Studios Premium Bevel Cluster
Capture the essence and beauty of nature in sparkling beveled designs with GST. This blue and green grape cluster is 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", made up of 16 hand-cut and beveled pieces. The subtle color and artful design will bring realism and elegance to your art.
Looking for a free pattern?
Click on "View User Manual" to download the pattern to complete the project as shown at left below. Enlarge pattern to fit the size of the cluster. Pattern designed by Glassmith Studios, and available by permission on DelphiGlass.com.
The second project featured below is from "Northern Lights" book #6315. Want even more great patterns that beautifully use bevels? Check out Delphi's wide variety of books by Glassmith Studios and other artists. Search "bevel book" on DelphiGlass.com.
Delphi makes it easy!
See what glass and other supplies our Delphi Experts recommend for this project in our Project Supply List.
Delphi Tip: Always lay out bevel clusters on pattern before cutting glass to adjust for small differences.
Images below courtesy of Glassmith Studios.
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For so many years a woman would find many occasions in which to sport a HAT. I remember and miss the beauty of so many designs and colors on those special days. I have created a number of 8.5 by 11 in. works In memory of those times, I hope they come back.
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I have looked into this matter and after reviewing many different web sites I come to the conclusion that the only way to correct an overbite is by wearing braces. I also looked into the suggestion about a retainer. A retainer is not use fix an overbite by it self. I took a monet to copy what a retainer is used for .
What’s a Retainer?
A retainer is a piece of plastic and metal that is custom-made for each individual kid who needs one. It fits the top of the teeth and mouth. No two retainers are alike, even though many look similar. Retainers are really common. In fact, most people (kids and adults) who have braces have to wear a retainer for at least a little while after getting their braces taken off. Other people wear them to close gaps in their teeth, to help with speech problems, or to solve certain medical problems.
Why Do I Need to Wear a Retainer?
There are different reasons why you might need a retainer. The most common reason is to help your teeth stay set in their new positions after wearing braces. It’s important to wear your retainer because as your body grows, your teeth do some shifting. The retainer helps to control this shifting, which occurs naturally.
After your braces are removed, your orthodontist (a special dentist who helps straighten teeth and correct jaw problems) will fit you for a retainer. He or she will tell you how long to wear it and when. For example, you might have to wear it all day for 3 months but then only at night after that. Some kids may wear their retainer only at night right from the start, but they may have to wear it for more than a year. The retainer keeps the teeth in line and you won’t even notice it while you’re sleeping!
Other kids may wear retainers to close a space between their teeth or just to move one tooth. In these cases, braces aren’t needed because retainers can do the job. Often, retainers will be worn for several years to close a space, for example, and then keep the gap closed by holding the teeth in place. When you wear a retainer for any reason, certain teeth may feel pressure and might even feel sore for the first few days. If you experience this, don’t worry — it’s completely normal.
Retainers can help many mouth problems besides shifting teeth. Sometimes they’re used to help a medical problem. For example, you may have a tongue thrust (a condition where your tongue sneaks through your teeth when you talk). Some retainers, known as a crib or tongue cage retainers, are designed with small metal bars that hang down from the roof of your mouth. These retainers keep your tongue from going forward in between your teeth when you speak. Your tongue is trained to go to the roof of your mouth instead of through your teeth. The length of time kids wear a tongue cage varies depending on the kid.
Another use for retainers is to help people with temporomandibular disorder (TMD). This disorder is usually a result of a bite problem (the teeth don’t meet together properly when the jaws are closed) called malocclusion (say: mal-uh-kloo-zhun) or bruxism (say: bruk-sih-zum), which is grinding your teeth while you sleep. Grinding stretches the muscles and joints in your mouth and jaws and sometimes can cause jaw pain or headaches. Retainers can help you by preventing your mouth from closing completely at night, which keeps you from grinding your teeth.
I could find nothing about them correcting an overbite. If you do not want braces because of how they may look. Then maybe look into Invisaligns.
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Cosmetic Dentistry focuses on improving the appearance of a person's teeth, mouth, and smile. Enhance your smile with cosmetic dentistry.
Patient had 4 veneers fabricated to close spaces
To improve smile & self esteem, patient had 4 non-metal crowns
Fabrication of 4 veneers to change shade, shape and position of teeth
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Conducting a pilot study is key to launching a successful larger research study. In a pilot study, researchers can identify shortcomings like poor adherence and how to address those shortcomings. A timetable for a research study should be established, taking into account the experience and competence of the principal investigator and research team. Data should be reviewed in the initial phase of a research study, when missing information can be more easily retrieved, to minimize the amount of data missing in a study.
London, Ontario - A successful research study must have team members' responsibilities defined.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Wound Care, Karen Polansky, R.N., M.SC.N., a registered nurse at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, described ways to avoid problems and pitfalls in a research study.
"There are ways that principal investigators can bypass problems in research," says Ms. Polansky, a clinical nurse specialist.
Clearly, launching a pilot study is a wise step to avoid errors and discover any unforeseen issues in a research study, Ms. Polansky says.
If there is poor adherence in the pilot, researchers can address that shortcoming. Without performing a pilot study, investigators may find that some data are not being captured quantitatively, she says.
Once a pilot study is completed, it should be fully analyzed to identify areas that require troubleshooting.
In the area of woundcare, determining the amount of drainage from a wound seems like a reasonable measure.
However, without continuous monitoring, or without a method of tracking the drainage, that question cannot be accurately answered in a quantitative fashion, Ms. Polansky says.
"If I need to document how much drainage there is from a wound, I have no way of knowing that, based on seeing patients on a twice a week basis," Ms. Polansky tells Dermatology Times.
"By doing a pilot of a pilot, I would find out that the question couldn't be answered,"she says.
Staff need to be informed about the study protocol and the reason for the protocol; for instance, why they need to take vital signs at certain points in time in the research.
It is incumbent upon the principal investigator to decide on the research question and definitions within the research plan and to delineate the research plan, Ms. Polansky says.
The research team can ask a librarian to assist in refining topics and assess methods for exploration.
A timetable for the project should be established that takes into account the experience and competence of the principal investigator and research team, as well as resources for the team.
"It's important to keep everyone on track," Ms. Polansky says.
In addition, expectations should be established for members of the research project.
A good research project begins with an extensive literature search to discuss prior research and identify gaps in knowledge. Here again, the librarian is a valuable asset to the research team.
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After three nudges over the last few months, I dove deep back into writing after not feeling very ‘creative’.
Nudge #1: Freakonomics podcast about creativity where the discussion surrounded the basic premise that people we view as great creators and creative types generally put a LOT of failures out there into the world as well. There are scores of examples out there, but this was just nudge #1, so no movement yet.
Nudge #2: Reading the book Originals by Adam Grant where the author quotes psychologist Dean Simonton, “The odds of producing an influential or successful idea are a positive function of the total number of ideas generated.” Noted, Dr. Grant and Dr. Simonton, noted.
Nudge #3: While still reading Originals, I was also thumbing through Tribe of Mentors or Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss and the idea came at me for a third time (and second time within three days) and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. While I can’t find the original quote now, the punchline was the same as the first two.
And now, I’m back to writing. Publishing at least one post a day, but probably writing 4 or 5. Thirty or so drafts in various stages of completion and varying quality. Must… keep… writing.
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6 things to avoid in transactional emails
You might think that once a sale has been made, or an email subscription confirmed, that your job is done. You’ve made the virtual handshake, you can have a well-earned coffee and sit down now right?
(You knew we were going to say that didn’t you?)
Transactional emails are actually a massive opportunity, with open and click through rates typically around double that of commercial emails, so now is the time to pull out the stops and do your best work, to turn that one-time customer into a regular customer.
So what should you avoid when it comes to crafting an effective transactional email?
Don’t use a standard template
Boring! Yes, your software may come with standard templates for your transactional emails and yes, that can make your life nice and simple, but don’t just leave your templates bland and unpersonalised. We receive so much junk in our inboxes every day, you can’t afford to blend in – instead, customise your email with your own branding, be bold, be colourful, stand out!
Don’t write vague subject lines
Take a moment next time you receive a transactional email to look at the subject line. You might think with these sorts of email that there isn’t so much opportunity for demonstrating your copywriting prowess, but take this simple example:
Yawn. It does what it says on the tin, but it could work harder.
‘Confirmation of your order of DMWF conference tickets’
Better. It still contains the key information, but it gives your customer a lot more detail, and an immediate reminder of your brand name.
Don’t forget the upsell
If your customer has already ordered from you, and you’re sending a confirmation, they are ripe for an upsell. You have the advantage, because you already know what floats their boat, so use this information, don’t waste it. Amazon are the kings of this – if you so much as blink in their direction they’ll recommend you something. It works though.
Don’t forget to big yourself up
You’re more than just a confirmation email! You have that cool app remember, where customers can track their order? And your blog – that’s had some awesome posts recently, and could be really useful. Bad transactional emails forget to mention any of these extras, even though they genuinely could be helpful or interesting to the recipient.
Don’t use a generic reply-to email
Or worse still, an email address that you can’t reply to at all. Your customer has just carried out a transaction with you, and they may well have questions. A generic or unusable reply-to email is not going to instill a sense of trust or approachability.
Don’t over promote
If you bombard your customer with more sales messages before their first order has even been processed, you run the risk of annoying them before you’ve properly started. Although you don’t want to waste the opportunity completely, there does have to be some balance. Keep the key transactional information at the top of your email, so your customer doesn’t have to work hard to find it, and include additional sales messages at the end.
Do you have any top transactional email tips?
DMWF London – 20 & 21 June 2016
Photo credit: (c)iStock.com/motorenmano
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Gastrointestinal surgical procedures are commonly used to treat parts of the body that are involved in digestion, such as gallbladder, intestines, rectum, and esophagus. Traditional gastrointestinal surgeries performed by general surgeons would require surgical incisions and entail long recovery periods. Minimally invasive surgical procedures, on the other hand, involve minor incisions and have a relatively faster recovery period, making them a preferred choice for many. DFW Bariatrics and General Surgery in Dallas-Ft. Worth brings to you several minimally invasive surgical and weight loss procedures to help you live a longer and healthier life. Read on as we share four types of minimally invasive GI surgeries available in Fort Worth.
Simply put, cholecystectomy is a laparoscopically performed GI surgery that is used to remove the gallbladder. This procedure is performed in conditions where the gallbladder suffers from inflammation, gets blocks , or is filled with gallstones. Only a few small keyhole sized incisions are made right near the navel in this procedure.
Hernia surgery is a minimally invasive procedure generally performed to repair inguinal or groin hernias laparoscopically. The procedure requires the general surgeon to make three or four small incisions in the abdomen area to insert a small fiber-optic tube which comes with a camera attached to its end.
Colorectal surgery, as the name itself implies, treats conditions related to colon and rectum. Several critical conditions such as rectal prolapse, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, and colon cancer are treated in a minimally invasive manner by making just four office incisions to operate laparoscopically.
The anti-reflux surgery treats one of the most notorious GI conditions known as gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD. LINX, Nissen Fundoplication, and Gastric Bypass are three anti-reflux surgery procedures that can be used to treat GERD in a minimally invasive manner without involving deep cuts or incisions.
The Last Word
The conditions that affect the gastrointestinal tract and the digestive system of the body greatly reduce the quality of life, because of which it is best advised to seek immediate medical attention when experiencing any troublesome symptoms. If you or a loved one are looking to seek comprehensive care for GI conditions and would not however want to endure deep cuts and surgical scars, minimally invasive procedures are the way to go. Connect with your Dallas general surgeon at DFW Bariatrics and General Surgery, Dallas to learn more. To schedule an appointment, call 469-620-0222, 469-620-0223 or write to us at [email protected].
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Branigan, James Christopher (‘Jim’, ‘Lugs’) (1910–86), garda, was born 6 January 1910 in the South Dublin Union, James St., eldest among three sons and a daughter of John Alick Branigan (d. 1957), South Dublin Union official, originally of Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, and Ellen Branigan (née Kavanagh; d. 1930) originally of Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny. The family lived in the union complex, which saw heavy fighting in 1916, when Jim witnessed the shooting dead of a British soldier. Educated at Basin Lane Convent (1915–19) and James's St. CBS (1919–24), he left school aged 14 to join Great Southern Railways as an apprentice fitter. Having no railway background and a quiet manner, he was bullied and sometimes even beaten up in the railway yards, but never retaliated. He heartily disliked his work and quit on finishing his apprenticeship in January 1931, joining the Garda Síochána 18 June 1931.
He qualified as a garda in December 1931 and served at the garda depot (1931–5) and Irishtown (1935–6). Having only barely qualified on the required chest measurement, he took up weight training, rowing, and boxing to fill out his slim 6 ft 3 in. (1.9 m) frame. He became a physical fitness fanatic, rising at 5 a.m. most mornings to train, and was a non-smoker and a teetotaller. Throughout the 1930s he fought in various inter-police boxing contests with the Garda Boxing Club. A rugged rather than skilled fighter, he fought at cruiser-weight (1931–6), light-heavyweight, and heavyweight (1936–9). His losses and victories were about equal, and in 1936 he won the Leinster heavyweight title. He also fought for the Irish international boxing team. During a bout in Germany in January 1938 he was knocked down nine times by a skilful opponent, but got to his feet each time. His courage won an ovation from the local crowd, which included Goering and Goebbels. He admired the Nazi emphasis on discipline and sport, and although he disagreed with Hitler's anti-Semitism he kept a scrapbook of his career and regarded him as ‘a great man’ (Evening Herald, 24 Jan. 1973). After being told by a garda doctor that such punishment could lead to brain damage in later life, he retired from the ring in 1939. He became a well known boxing referee, refereeing more than 16,000 fights (1949–83), and was treasurer of the IABA's Dublin board (1937–84) and of the Leinster council for twenty-seven years; he also coached young boxers and vigorously promoted the sport. Besides boxing, he was keen on soccer and especially hurling, and rarely missed a game in Croke park.
In 1936 he was assigned to Newmarket station in the Coombe, a sub-station of Kevin St.; he spent his entire career thereafter in the Kevin St. ‘A’ district. Cycling throughout his beat, he learned to foresee trouble and step in to prevent it happening. He used his local knowledge to forestall the activities of the notorious ‘animal gangs’, notably before the ‘Battle of Baldoyle’ (14 May 1940) and the ‘Battle of Tolka Park’ (22 March 1942), for which he was commended by Justice Martin Maguire. He became a well known figure, earning a reputation for dispensing rough justice on Dublin's streets. Rather than charging petty offenders, he admitted that he usually gave them ‘a bit of a going over’ and sent them on their way to avoid excessive paperwork. In the 1940s a Dublin criminal dubbed him ‘Lugs’ on account of his large ears; the nickname stuck but Branigan hated it and anyone foolhardy enough to use it risked ‘a few clips’. He rarely used a baton, but wore a pair of black leather gloves if trouble was likely. His mere presence, and especially the donning of his gloves, was often sufficient to calm tense situations. He made it a point of honour always to have the first charge of the new year, sometimes delaying the arrest of an offender seized earlier. In the late 1950s Branigan was popularly regarded as the man who tamed Dublin's teddy boys. In controlling their excesses in Dublin cinemas in 1957 he was obliged to see the film Rock around the clock at least sixty times, much to his annoyance. Close to the people on his beat, he often acted as an unofficial social worker, speaking up for young offenders in court, and trying to fix them up with jobs. He regularly sorted out domestic disputes, saving many marriages by giving stern warnings to husbands who beat their wives. Many criminals had a grudging respect for him, and he was often on good terms with their families – the mother of one such family recalled: ‘Mr Branigan always got a cup of tea in this house before he lagged any of me boys’ (Neary, 50).
He was promoted detective garda in July 1958 and was sometimes assigned as bodyguard to visiting celebrities in Dublin, including Elizabeth Taylor, Cliff Richard, and George Best. In December 1963 he was promoted to garda sergeant and given charge of a mobile ‘riot squad’ – a Bedford van code-named ‘Branno five’ – to deal with violent crime and gang warfare. He was still weight-training and sparring with young boxers well into his sixties, and remained on active duty with the riot squad till his retirement on 6 January 1973, having been granted a special extension of service three years earlier. He received many tributes on his retirement, but the one that touched him most was a canteen of cutlery and set of Waterford glass from Dublin prostitutes (‘pavement hostesses’ he preferred to call them), many of whom regarded him as a father figure.
He carried numerous scars from knives and bottles and was once even bitten on the rear while trying to subdue an offender by sitting on him. In court he referred to the biter as ‘worse than the Balubas. At least they cook you first’ (Evening Herald, 23 Jan. 1973), a remark for which he was reprimanded by his superiors. Although his outspokenness in court endeared him to the Dublin public and press, he believed that it was held against him by his superiors and was one of the reasons he never progressed beyond garda sergeant.
He was superintendent of security (1973–83) at Dublin's Zhivago nightclub in Baggot St. He moved from his home on Drimnagh Road to spend most of his retirement in Summerhill, Co. Meath, where he grew crops and bred budgerigars for competition. After several months of illness, he died 22 May 1986 in the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, and was buried in Summerhill. He married (26 April 1941) Elizabeth Armstrong; they had four children.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Scarborough Dude talks about more stuff and calls out a few names.
Happy Alone - Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
The Motivator - T-Rex - Electric Warrior
Special thanks to John Meadows for dicksnjanes closing theme
Check out Slug is Doug eh! That's him at the start of the show - although as happens with many guests of the dicksnjanes podcast, the voice somehow got altered slightly. Go and listen to the whole thing - you'll enjoy it!
Posted by Scarborough Dude at Saturday, November 14, 2009
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geckobrands Premium Large 24 Can Cooler
Pack the geckobrands® Premium Large 24 Can Cooler with your favorite drinks or snacks and head outdoors. This cooler features a removable hard liner and a large main compartment with 5 exterior pockets for plenty of storage. The lid has a bungee cord for securing your gear and a Velcro opening, allowing you to grab a drink while keeping the cooler closed. Its padded shoulder strap makes for easy carrying from the car to your destination.
- Soft Cooler Bag
- Holds 24 cans
- Removable interior hard liner for durability
- Liner is easy to clean
- Main compartment features a Velcro opening for quick access to your drinks
- Top lid features a bungee cord to hold gear down
- 2 Large neoprene side pockets keeps items secure
- 2 Pull string pockets in the front offer storage for your belongings
- Rear zippered pocket provides extra storage
- Neoprene-padded adjustable shoulder strap for comfortable carrying
- PEVA antimicrobial technology in lining helps prevent the growth of bacteria
- Country of Origin : Imported
- Style : GCL
- DSG Pro Tips
- Brand : geckobrands
- Web ID: 16GECUPRMMLRG15BTODR
What to Look for in a Cooler
There's more to coolers than what meets the eye. Discover the features to look for so your food and drink essentials stay cool.
Best Coolers of the Year
Learn more about the best coolers of the year with the top picks for hard coolers, soft coolers and electric coolers from ProTips.
Strength Training Workouts You Can Do with a Balance Pad
Incorporate a balance pad into your next workout at the gym or at home to help improve your overall stability.
Soccer 101: Fundamentals of Corner Kicks
While it is a basic part of soccer, a powerful, well-executed corner kick can be a critical part of a team’s attack. Let Pro Tips show you how.
How to Pack Your Car for a Snowboarding Trip
Make the most of your cargo space as you prepare for your trek up the mountain this winter. With these tips and tricks, the only thing you’ll leave behind is your worries.
How to Effectively Attack the Line in Volleyball
By knowing how to use your reach and contact in volleyball games, you can force your opponents to cover more space on the court.
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Data privacy statement for DIGILAW
DIGILAW takes the protection of your personal data serious. Hereafter, you will find the relevant aspects regarding DIGILAW’s approach of handling personal data:
Visiting the DIGILAW website without disclosure of personal data
Generally, you can visit the website DIGILAW under the URL https://www.digilaw.de (hereinafter „Website“) without the disclosure of any of your personal data. Personal data means any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual (e.g. name, address, email address or phone number). The Website is hosted by STRATO AG in Germany which owns a DIN ISO 27001 certification The Website is SSL-encrypted and therefore the IT security is state of the art.
No transfer of personal data to third parties
Without your explicit consent, no personal data will be transferred to a third party, unless it is mandatory by law.
Cookies- General information
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your device’s hard drive by a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server. For example, when you visit the DIGILAW website a cookie is saved on your computer’s hard drive. DIGILAW solely uses the technical cookie _icl_current_language in order to store the information about your favorite language, i.e. to recognize your preferred language (English or German). DIGILAW does NOT use any other cookies, such as cookies to analyze your browsing behavior or any third party cookies (e.g. for ad targeting purposes).
You have full control over the storage of cookies on your device. Most internet browsers have pre-installed settings that accept cookies in general. By changing the settings of your internet browser, you can prevent it from accepting new cookies or make the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or you can disable cookies altogether. Cookies already stored on your device may be deleted at any time.
Please note that the language choice feature on the DIGILAW Website may no longer be available to you if you disable the cookie.
Technically required cookie – legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) f. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
In order to be able to provide you with a language option (English or German) on the DIGILAW website, a cookie is necessary. The legal ground for this processing is – according to the prevailing opinion – Art. 6 (1) f GDPR (the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party and such interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data).
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Kiddle – the kid friendly search engine made it’s way around the Facebook mommy groups this past week. I love the idea of a kid-friendly …
Internet Safety is a topic that all parents have to address. Kids are now raised with devices and keeping our kids safe online must be a priority. We are sharing our tips for keeping kids safe on the internet.
At what age should a child be allowed on Facebook?
With your kids out of school and spending more time on the computer – keep them safe with these 10 Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe From the Risk of Cyberthreats. Tips provided from Verizon.
Setting boundaries with your kids with the internet, computer and technology in general.
When I was 12 the FBI visited my home because of a sexual predator that was on a BBS that I visited. View these tips to help your child identify online exploiters.
Let’s look at 5 tips to help kids search Google safely. Here is how to setup Google settings so that you child can safely search the internet.
What is your kid’s digital footprint?
Setting boundaries with your kids and the internet is critical. While the web is full of wonderful, not all of it is kid friendly.
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Leave Your Digital Marketing to Us and Focus on Growing Your Business
February 20, 2023
In today’s digital age, businesses of all sizes and industries need to have a strong online presence in order to compete and succeed. However, creating and maintaining an effective digital marketing strategy can be daunting, especially for business owners who are already stretched thin with the day-to-day operations of their company. That’s where a full-service digital marketing agency comes in.
A full-service digital marketing agency can handle all aspects of your online presence, from creating and managing your website to developing and executing a comprehensive social media strategy. This allows you to focus on what you do best – growing your business. So, let us see the top benefits of a full-service digital marketing agency from this blog.
1. Multi-skilled Expertise
One of the key benefits of working with a full-service agency is that they have a team of experts in various digital marketing disciplines. This means that you’ll have access to a wide range of skills and expertise, from SEO and PPC specialists to content creators and social media managers. This ensures that your digital marketing efforts are tailored to your specific needs and goals.
2. A Holistic Digital Marketing Approach
Another benefit of working with a full-service agency is that they can take a holistic approach to your digital marketing efforts. Instead of siloed campaigns and tactics, a full-service agency will take a strategic approach to all of your digital marketing efforts, ensuring that they all work together to drive results.
For example, a full-service agency will work with you to create a comprehensive content marketing strategy that includes blog posts, videos, infographics, and more. They will then optimize this content for search engines and promote it on social media to drive traffic and engagement. This is just one example of how a full-service agency can take a holistic approach to your digital marketing efforts.
3. Regular Reporting and Analytics
Additionally, a full-service agency can provide you with regular reporting and analytics on your digital marketing efforts. This allows you to track your progress and adjust your strategy as needed. This is a key aspect of any digital marketing strategy, as it allows you to see what’s working and what’s not, and make data-driven decisions about your marketing efforts.
In conclusion, hiring a full-service digital marketing agency can be a great way for business owners to focus on growing their business while leaving digital marketing to the experts. A full-service agency will have the skills and expertise to handle all aspects of your online presence while taking a holistic approach to your digital marketing efforts. They will also provide you with regular reporting and analytics, allowing you to track your progress and make data-driven decisions about your marketing efforts.
It’s important to keep in mind that digital marketing is an ever-evolving field and requires constant attention and adaptability to changes in the industry and market. Therefore, finding a reliable and experienced agency that can help you navigate this field, and analyze and adapt to changes is crucial for the success of your business.
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We spent three days in the largest city in western Ukraine waiting for our friend Peter who did not arrive. The city was named in honor of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349. Lviv was the center of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia. The historical heart of the city, with its old buildings and cobblestone streets, survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed. A mysterious and architecturally lovely city, full of restaurants, bean-perfumed coffeehouses, and rattling trams is a continent away from the Soviet brutalism of the east. It’s also a place where the candle of Ukrainian national identity burns brightest and where Russian is definitely a minority language. No other city is more geared up for visitors and no other attracts so many of them. Lviv has the best range of hotels in the country, but COVID-19 killed it all. During the day city still looks busy, at night, it is death pretty early around 11 PM, but some clubs still remain open till 6 AM with just a few patrons inside (Fashion Club – entrance 100 UAH, Cuba Libre 150 UAH; Split Club – entrance 300 UAH, Cuba Libre 150 UAH; Rafinad – entrance 100 UAH; and the last and the only busy and worth visit – Malevich Club – entrance 100 UAH, Cuba Libre 125 UAH). Also, we do recommend refilling the water before arriving in the city, because most of the gasoline stations in Lviv are smaller, we found water only at Ukrnafta – for a “tip” at the beginning, but at the end, they charged us horrible 300 UAH – so it became our most expensive water refilling in our life.
Parking location – Lviv: 49.846575N 24.021185E (330 UAH / day)
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Calvin the alien: young, curious, and full of life. What could possibly go wrong? (Credit: Skydance/Columbia Pictures) LIFE the movie is both predictable and full of surprises, much like...er...life itself. In the broad sense, it is a monster-run-amok genre film. No spoilers there; you already know that if you've seen the trailers or even just the promotional posters. The interesting parts lie in the movie's details, which deviate from expectations in provocative ways. The setting of LIFE is not far away in a far-off future, as in Alien (an obvious source of inspiration), but aboard the International Space Station sometime within the next few years. The monster is not some arbitrarily conceived extraterrestrial, but (mild spoiler) a revived organism retrieved from Mars by a NASA spacecraft. And the monster's targets are not some hapless set of spaceship employees but a highly trained crew who nevertheless (hardly any spoiler at all) make a series of terribly bad decisions. Those signs of deeper thinking provide the best moments in LIFE. The space station setting looks and feels like a real space station. The idea of quarantining a Mars sample in orbit makes logical sense (although the way the sample arrives is more about cinema than celestial mechanics). Even the medical events in the movie are grounded in reality--due, in no small part, to the input of Kevin Fong, an expert in space medicine at University College London, who advised the movie. I spoke with Fong and director Daniel Espinosa, who previously directed the thriller Safe House, to explore their vision of the world of LIFE. I was especially curious to hear how they set the movie's balance between scientific verisimilitude and genre storytelling. An edited version of my conversation follows.
Oh right. It's a science fiction thriller. Of course something goes wrong. (Credit: Skydance/Columbia Pictures) What was your role in bringing a dose of reality to the imaginary world of LIFE?Kevin Fong: My day job is as an MD in anesthesia and intensive-care medicine, but I also work on an emergency helicopter, going to the scenes of accidents. There were elements of that work that informed some of the characters on the film. David Jodan [played by Jake Gyllenhaal] is a doctor and Miranda North [played by Rebecca Ferguson] is a doctor. At first, the filmmakers weren’t as interested in the technical reality of being a doctor as the emotional reality. Then were asking me about: What would a space doctor do? What are the effects of space flight on the human body? They did quite a lot of nasty things to their characters in that film, explosively decompressing them, shocking them, defibrillating them. All of that was stuff I had a hand in informing and trying to say, ah, you might want to think about doing it like this. And where they could, they accommodated. I was impressed. It’s easy to run roughshod over those details, and yet they didn’t. How specifically did they bring medical accuracy into the movie?KF: One of the scenes I was most involved in was the one with cardiac arrest. What I saw filmed was as close to what would happen in reality on a space station as you can get, with minor poetic license. It wasn’t like the usual medical scenes in films where something happens and you think, well, that’s just…not possible. You have to start by deconstructing the idea that half of the space station is a hospital. Most people think you wouldn’t go into space without taking the kitchen sink with you in medical kit. Actually it’s the reverse: you have very little kit up there, and very little skill set. They also rewrote some of the dialogue to make it more clipped and more businesslike. When I heard it I thought, that’s not far off the way I’d sound if were there. You don’t want to try to make the film exactly like reality because reality’s boring, which is why we go and watch films, but they were receptive. I could say, Why don’t you think of changing the look of this or why don’t you think of changing the line of that, and they would accept it if there was room for it in the script or the story. In a film about this fantastic idea of having contact with alien life running riot on a space station, you might think…once you’ve crossed that Rubicon, why pay any attention to reality? In fact it was the opposite, and I hope that helps the film. What do other movies most commonly botch about space medicine?KF: We spent a lot of time talking about what a heart rhythm looks like at the point when you shock your patient. It’s never a flat line. That’s the most often-made mistake in all of medical drama: the patient has a flat line on the ECG and they shock him. I spent a lot of time saying, look, you can’t shock someone out of that rhythm. It’s the jerky line which is a ventricular defibrillation. And people do not sit up, ask for a cup of tea, and tell you who the murderer is after you shock them out of cardiac arrest! Part of my goal was to make a film that annoyed medics as little as possible. The exact defibrillator they used in LIFE is outmoded, but the new type is so undramatic to watch that we couldn’t use it. Other than that… You have a background in space medicine, so you can also evaluate the Space Station set. How authentic did it feel?KF: It was impressive. They had sculpted it to be as close to the real thing as possible. It isn’t a facsimile of the International Space Station, but the size of the module, the dimensions, the sort of equipment they had dangling off the walls, it was all very familiar to me. If you’d told me this was a training mockup of a new module on the ISS I’d have no trouble believing it.
The set of LIFE feels realistic, and that much more menacing and claustrophobic. (Credit: Skydance/Columbia Pictures) Next I had a more extensive discussion with Daniel Espinosa about LIFE and especially about its alien protagonist, nicknamed Calvin by a group of schoolchildren. In one of the movie's more intriguing scientific imaginings, Calvin is described as having a unique biology, without the kind of specialized cells found in all higher organisms on Earth; every cell in Calvin's body functions as part of the creature's brain, eye, and muscle. But Calvin is also oddly familiar in other ways. Espinosa is a fan of old cinema and also a new father. Both of these sensibilities strongly influenced the look and tone of the movie. You have a one-year-old child; what perspective did new parenthood bring to the film? Did it change the way you approached your characters, especially your alien?Daniel Espinosa: A lot of those fears when you become a father, all those sides of yourself that you’re not proud of—the fear that you’re going to infect your child with those weaknesses, aggression or lack of it, whatever weaknesses you might have—that’s something that went into the depiction of Calvin. In the beginning he’s like a little baby, with the possibility of love. And then after being abused in his teenage years he strikes back and becomes this horrible, horrible ‘person.’ It sounds a bit ridiculous, but those fears were part of process. What are you saying about a possible future encounter with alien life? That what happens next depends on us as much as it does on the alien itself?DE: You know what Carl Sagan said: The issue with encountering extraterrestrial life is not so much what extraterrestrial intelligence would want to do to us, but how we would behave toward them. If you look at the past, how we encountered unknown cultures or characters, mankind does not have the best reputation in behavior quality. There is one great scene in which we see the world through Calvin's eyes. I wished we could have seen more of that, like in the Predator movies. Did you consider filming more of LIFE from an alien perspective?DE: I would have but then when we tied the movie together it was such a tightly knit basket. We decided to keep it that way. As a director you always have the instinct to decorate, but that would have made a very long movie!
Director Daniel Espinosa, thinking other-worldly thoughts. (Credit: Frankie Fouganthin) LIFE conforms to a lot of sci-fi conventions, but also tweaks s few of them. How would you place it within the tradition of other movies like Alien, or all the way back to Invasion of the Body Snatchers?DE: Alien was an obvious touchstone, but I also plainly see a film noir element in LIFE. It has the same kind of ending as many of those great American movies from the 1950s, which later on got adapted by the Twilight Zone and zombie movies like Night of the Living Dead. I have a slightly different perspective maybe than other directors. It’s interesting working in genre because the concept is one that you’re supposed to flirt with other movies in the genre, but you’re also supposed to break some rules. What rules do you decide to break? How angry will the audience be with you when you do it? You also have two very different lead actors, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Renolds, who have a tradition in other science fiction films. How did you tap into that history in LIFE?DE: If you put Ryan Reynolds in something, the silent, moody character [Jake Gyllenhaal's David Jordan] is assumed to be the side character; Ryan must be the main character and the protagonist, right? It was fun to play with the audience. That also comes from the great noir genre, using audience expectations against them, like in Psycho. Noir is the one film genre that the Americans solely created and dominated. It gave all the story templates that later on could be used or abused by directors like Bryan Singer with The Usual Suspects, or Tarrantino with Pulp Fiction—it all comes from noir. It’s surprising how forgotten that era has gone among younger filmmakers and enthusiasts. How did you create the most important character of all, Calvin the alien?DE: I contacted Adam Rutherford, who specializes in the beginning of life on Earth and why it evolved the way it evolved. I gave him the script and I said, why don’t you take this almost as a science experiment, these descriptions of Calvin and his cells? What kind of proposals can you give me of how this creature could have evolved? It’s interesting because Calvin would have evolved in zero gravity [Note: I think Espinosa meant the lower gravity of Mars]. Rutherford said, The evolution would have been completely different than anything we’ve seen before. I was anxious about working with the American film companies that create creatures; you have essentially two or three companies that create almost all the creatures you see in cinema. It is a bit incestuous. So I decided to pick this Swedish artist with a very dark sensibility and put him together with Adam Rutherford. Calvin was the result. I like sometimes to let experts guide the work—to fill in the blanks. When I did my Swedish movie Money I had the criminals essentially direct the scene: "This is exactly where we’d be standing and what we’d be doing." Then I asked them to leave! I started working from there instead of doing something that was from my imagination. Those are the systems I chose on camera. [mild spoiler] Since Calvin is basically a fractal--all brain, all muscle, all eye--why does he have a face in LIFE?DE: Almost all creatures, even if they have eyes all over the place, they have something that can manifest their focus. You have some animals with faces where the faces are not really faces. If you look in that face it’s just meat, there are no eyes. There are no teeth. You need a face as a focal point for consciousness. But you raise an interesting point. When Ryan Reynolds is chasing Calvin with his fire gun, the creature suddenly stops and makes these ripples. For me, it is trying to communicate with him. If you look at those ripples, they are fractals, vibrating through its body. The setting of LIFE feels very near-term, quite unlike that of Alien. Why did you decide to do that?DE: Fiction is supposed to be a keyhole into the future. Back in the late 1970s people could imagine a future 200 years down the line; you could easily imagine a post-atomic age. Today it is impossible to imagine 200 years in the future because life is so chaotic. In science fiction, the keyhole has shrunk. I thought it would be interesting to do something that was today and was completely realistic. When we built the set we drew as much as possible from the NASA advisors, and we made a timeline of how long would it take to get a Mars sample that we have recovered. The probes we have on Mars now have no possibility of returning. We'd have to build the technology to go to Mars, land on the right spot, get a sample, and fly it back. I asked NASA about their plans if they had a surge in funding. We got a schedule of what their plans were. That’s what we built our Space Station around. I'm thinking that LIFE is set in the late 2020s?DE: Less than that. We’re talking about five or six years from now. In the real world, do you fear the idea of bringing back samples from Mars or another world?DE: I’m nervous about mankind’s possibility to create the right decisions, across the board. We’re living in a very chaotic world. You have very randomized thought in the United States in a very complex political system. We have great tensions in Europe and the Middle East. Russia is getting more maddening by the minute. Who knows where China is going? Our possibilities to make the right decisions does not seem to be at its strongest right now. We are not at the peak of humanity’s coolness and ease; harmony seems very farfetched right now. That makes me nervous with all decisions, whether it's contacting extraterrestrial life or just doing a trade negotiation. For more space and science news, follow me on Twitter: @coreyspowell
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Since the publication of his book Evicted in 2016, sociologist Matthew Desmond has become the best-known chronicler of a quiet epidemic sweeping the United States today: eviction. Drawing on the book’s fine-grained account of how eviction plays out in Milwaukee, the country’s most segregated city, he has since sought to assemble a more panoramic, national picture of this crisis as the founder of the Eviction Lab, based at Princeton University.
Now, the work of Desmond and his colleagues has a visual companion in Evicted, the exhibition, currently on display at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2018–May 19, 2019). The exhibition features photographs by Sasha Israel, Michael Kienitz, and Sally Ryan as well as striking infographics and short videos. Here, we present a photo-essay adapted from that exhibition, alongside a brief interview with Desmond about the scope of the eviction epidemic—and how we might solve it.
Colin Kinniburgh: Earlier this year, you and a team of colleagues launched the Eviction Lab, the first-ever nationwide database of evictions. What struck you most in your findings?
Matthew Desmond: First of all, before this project, we didn’t know how many people got evicted every year. By our calculations, in 2016, 2.3 million people lived in homes that received an eviction notice. How do we get our hands around that number? That’s twice the number of people that got arrested on drug possession charges. That’s thirty-six times the number of people that died from an overdose in 2016. And 2.3 million is definitely an underestimate, for two reasons. One is that we don’t have every eviction record in the United States—we’re still missing a lot. The second is that these are just formal, court-ordered evictions. These aren’t informal evictions; these aren’t illegal lockouts or buyouts. So that number is, I think, quite conservative.
The second big thing that struck me is that—you know, I spent a lot of time studying this problem in Milwaukee, and in Milwaukee, citywide, it’s about one in twenty-five renter homes that are evicted every year. I thought that was pretty high—and it is high—but we’re seeing cities in America that have double the eviction rate of Milwaukee, almost approaching triple. And if you ask where we’re seeing the crisis, it’s concentrated in the southeast of the nation—which is not where I thought we would see evictions exploding, because these are traditionally fairly low-cost housing markets.
Kinniburgh: Have evictions always been so widespread?
Desmond: If you read urban history and you run across an eviction scene, you are left with the impression that evictions used to be rare and scandalous. They used to draw crowds. People used to protest—they sat on the furniture and didn’t let marshals move the family out. There’s a famous scene in Invisible Man where the invisible man happens upon an eviction in Harlem, and the community’s outraged and they’re rallying around this scene, and that’s how it used to be.
Since then, we’ve grown used to the knock on the door and the effects lining the curb in low-income communities. We don’t have a lot of data for this; our data goes back to 2000. What we see between then and now is a pretty consistently high eviction rate in the United States, especially in cities. So we’ve moved from a place where eviction was rare to a place where eviction is very common in the lives of the urban poor.
Kinniburgh: Who is affected the most by evictions?
Desmond: Eviction affects the young and the old, it affects the sick and the able-bodied. . . . It doesn’t just affect people in Seattle or New York or San Francisco—cities that get a lot of play in our discussions of the housing crisis. It also affects people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and rural communities, and suburban communities. If you look at rents, you’re left with the impression that the housing crisis is really a coastal crisis. If you look at evictions, you’re left with a much deeper and broader impression of where the housing crisis is.
Now, who’s getting evicted? It’s moms with kids. If you spend any time in eviction court, you just see a ton of kids. Until recently, the housing court in the South Bronx in New York City literally had a daycare inside of it because there were so many kids coming through the door.
African American women and moms in particular are evicted at incredibly high rates. In Milwaukee, among renters, one in five black women reports being evicted at some time in her life, compared to one in fifteen white women. Eviction is something like the feminine equivalent of incarceration: many of our poor, young, black men are being locked up, and many of our poor, black women are being locked out. They’re disproportionately bearing the brunt of the eviction crisis.
Kinniburgh: People often think about housing as a local issue, and in turn talk about it in terms of gentrification, especially in the coastal cities. Does that framing capture the scope of today’s crisis?
Desmond: No. If evictions were only in gentrifying neighborhoods, there would be a lot less of them. What we’re seeing is that most evictions seem to be happening in non-gentrified, segregated neighborhoods. Even there, people are having a hard time keeping a roof over their heads.
If we care about who owns a neighborhood—who gets to invest in a neighborhood, and cash in on that investment—then gentrification is an incredibly important topic. If we care about displacement, and homelessness, and people losing their communities to eviction, we have to look broader than just a gentrification frame.
Kinniburgh: In addition to seeking local and national-level policy measures, are there parallels in other countries that housing-rights activists in the United States can learn from in addressing this problem?
Desmond: The good news is that we can learn from each other too. There’s a lot of wonderful work going on all around the country. One thing that’s very humbling in my life is going around and talking to community organizations and people who have been working on these issues for longer than I’ve been alive, frankly, and just learning about the amazing work that’s going on block by block. There’s a lot of stuff that’s working here—it’s just the old American problem that we’re not dosing it big enough.
But you’re right, we can learn a lot from other countries as well. We can learn from countries that have established housing as a right. Canada just put forth a housing platform that makes this argument very clear. In doing so, they joined a lot of other countries—some of them resource-rich countries, some of them resource-poor—that have established housing as a right. And that right can really be meaningful. If you go to the Netherlands or the United Kingdom, you’re engaging with systems that have learned to offer housing assistance at scale.
You also confront housing situations that would blow our minds. In Seoul, South Korea, there’s an arrangement where, when you move into an apartment, you pay the full year’s rent—a big chunk of money—on day one. The landlord can invest that, but when you move out, the landlord has to give what you gave him or her back to you. He can keep the capital he made off the investment, but he’s got to give that initial deposit back. When you say that in America . . . our heads explode! The system that we have now is not the only system.
So, I think that we can learn a lot from each other, in cities big and small, and we can learn from a lot of other countries as well—little things, too. If you move to evict me in France, there’s a mediator, so it doesn’t become an antagonistic relationship immediately. And then, the right to counsel—the right to a lawyer in eviction court—is something that’s growing around the country, in large part because normal renters, moms and dads, started working together to advocate for that right. In doing so, they’re introducing America to a place where the world has been for a long time. And not just places we usually talk about with this question. Azerbaijan has a right to counsel in housing court. Zambia has a right to counsel in housing court. This is something that America is a laggard on in the global stage.
Matthew Desmond is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the Principal Investigator of the Eviction Lab. He is the author, most recently, of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown, 2016).
Colin Kinniburgh is a senior editor at Dissent.
Special thanks to Sarah A. Leavitt and Emma Filar at the National Building Museum.
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The New York newspapers called him “Dag,” but no one else dared to address the Secretary General of the United Nations by any but his father’s name. In referring to him, diplomats, personnel, newspapermen, and underlings knowingly said “the G.S.” or reverently “He.” For eight years the lonesome man, aloof on the 38th floor of the East River palace, who had been hired to run the technical apparatus of the world diplomatic meeting place, was everything the United Nations may ever stand for. His vision went far beyond his mandate and he construed the Charter, the resolutions of the Security Council and his job in broader terms than the founders dared write into the articles. The Secretariat itself under him became—from a refuge for New Deal and Popular Front survivors—the nucleus of an international civil service whose members have forgotten which country they came from. The membership of nations all but doubled and nearly realized the Secretary’s principle of “universality,” shifting the power balance in the Assembly from the bigger, older, more advanced nations to the smaller, younger, less developed countries. He hoped that in the long run this development, despite its initial unpleasantness, would free the Secretary from big power dictation, and the United Nations from being the cockpit of big power antagonisms.
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The details may be controversial and the result dubious, but the principle of a UN force—as used in Sinai and in the Congo—was established. This is what counted for Hammarskjold. He even went ‘farther: his action against Lumumba and his action against Tshombe constituted direct intervention by the UN in the internal affairs of a country. In defending Hammarskjold, Madame Bandaranaike, prime minister of Ceylon, said: “The UN had no choice … t...
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This summer has been so busy I haven’t had time to do a ton of shopping (worst fashun blogger ever, right?), but right now there’s such great deals to be had I kind of went a little nuts. I ordered a lot and, as expected, quite a few things didn’t work out (I openly abuse free shipping). So rest assured this is truly the best of the bunch. By some small miracle (because lord knows I didn’t plan it this way), the pieces I kept turned out to be great basics that I hope to use for a long time. What great sale scores have you all found?
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Cantilever brakes and V-brakes are popular for their considerable tire clearance on bikes. These brakes work similarly; brake arms hold the brake pads on each side of the bike. When you squeeze the lever, the brake pads come in contact with the rim, thus causing your speed to slow down or stop.
Despite the similarities, one of these brakes is better than the other. That said, which is better, cantilever brakes or V-brakes?
This article will discuss the following:
- Which is a better choice between cantilever brakes and V-brakes
- A detailed comparison of cantilever brakes and V-brakes
- The advantages of cantilever brakes over V-brakes and vice versa
V-brakes are a better braking system than cantilever brakes. While cantilever brakes have more tire clearance, V-brakes require less input force to work. V-brakes also offer more braking power.
Knowing the advantages of the brakes you want to install on your bike is essential. So, suppose you are deciding between cantilever brakes and V-brakes. In that case, this article will provide the essential factors you need to know.
Cantilever Brakes Vs. V-Brakes
Good bike brakes mean better control over your ride. But apart from giving you control over your bike’s speed, a study states that brakes are essential in ensuring a cyclist’s safety. For this reason, your bike’s brakes should allow you to change its speed based on the changes in your riding condition.
There are two most common braking systems seen in bikes right now:
- cantilever brakes
Knowing which is better if you plan to install any of these brakes on your bike is crucial.
Which Is Better, Cantilever Brakes Or V-Brakes?
Cantilever brakes are popular as they offer more clearance between the tire’s rim and the brake pads. This clearance ensures that mud does not build up on your brakes when you ride in wet conditions.
On the other hand, V-brakes also offer a good amount of clearance but less than what cantilever brakes can provide. For this reason, V-brakes are more likely to catch mud and dirt, making bikes with such brakes challenging to pedal in some conditions.
However, cantilever brakes are notoriously difficult to adjust. The reason is that when one of the wires connected to the brake arms becomes loose, you must adjust both brake arms to achieve the proper tension. Finding the right height and angle of cantilever brake pads is also tricky.
V-brakes offer better adjustability. You can individually adjust the brakes’ straddle wire, allowing you to balance each wire’s tension quickly. V-brake pads are also fixed, so they will not easily lose their angle and height once you set them. Still, you need to adjust your V-brake pads from time to time.
Which Is Better?
Considering the comparison above, it is evident that V-brakes are better than cantilever brakes. As V-brakes offer quick adjustments, bikes with such brakes can’t tackle various riding conditions. V-brakes also require less input force to slow down or stop a bike.
True enough, cantilever brakes have more clearance than V-brakes. However, this single benefit cannot outweigh the latter’s ease of use. V-brakes also offer significant clearance, which still works well on muddy trails.
A study published in the ARPN Journal Of Engineering And Applied Sciences states that cantilever brakes are V-brakes’ predecessors. Since developers and manufacturers were able to study the difficulties of using bikes with cantilever brakes, they were able to find a solution to them when developing V-brakes. This development made V-brakes easier to use than its predecessor.
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A Detailed Comparison Of Cantilever Brakes And V-Brakes
To better understand why V-brakes are better than cantilever brakes, let us take a closer look at their differences:
You will only fully understand the difference between cantilever brakes and V-brakes; it is first essential to identify the mechanical advantage.
The book Bikes, Forces, And Torques defines mechanical advantage as the amount of boost a tool can contribute to one’s input force. In bikes, the mechanical advantage is the amount of braking force brakes can produce from the cyclist’s effort to squeeze the brake levers.
Cantilever brakes have a lower mechanical advantage than V-brakes. For this reason, they require a greater input force from the cyclist to create friction against the rim and slow the bike down.
Meanwhile, V-brakes have a high mechanical advantage. So, you do not need to feed the brake levers with too much force to initiate braking.
Cantilever brakes have a transverse cable, a component you will not find in V-brakes. For this reason, the V-brake straddle wire is better positioned when pulling the brake arms. This better pulling angle allows you to apply more pressure on the brake arms and pads at a squeeze of the brake levers.
That said, V-brakes have more braking power than cantilever brakes. They also have less brake travel, as the brake pads will create friction against the rim almost instantaneously.
The brake pads are responsible for decelerating a bike by rubbing against the tire rim. According to a thesis written at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, brake pads usually consist of rubber due to their ability to create high friction.
Despite using the same material, cantilever brakes have better brake pads. Cantilever brakes have larger brake pads than V-brakes. The larger the brake pads are, the better they feel once they come into contact with the tire’s rim.
As mentioned, adjusting cantilever brakes is tedious as you need to balance the wire tension on the two sides of the bike. The brakes have many parts, which can be overwhelming if you are unfamiliar with them. In addition, cantilever brake pads can move independently, so they go all over the place during adjustment.
Meanwhile, V-brakes are easy to adjust as they only have a single cable. They do not have as many parts as the cantilever brakes. The bolts that hold the brake pads do not easily come loose, so they will not move around like cantilever brake pads.
Advantages Of Cantilever Brakes Over V-Brakes
Apart from better tire clearance, the only advantage cantilever brakes have over V-brakes is their compatibility with drop bar brake shifters. While V-brakes may also work on brake shifters, you may need to integrate an adapter to increase the brakes’ cable pull.
In addition, the V-brakes that work on brake shifters need a different shifting system than the bike already has. So, installing V-brakes on these bikes requires more modification.
You may also use a smaller type of V-brakes called mini V-brakes. However, cantilever brakes still work better on bikes with brake shifters, as mini V-brakes have poor tire clearance.
Advantages Of V-Brakes Over Cantilever Brakes
Cantilever brakes have a straddle holder right above your bike’s fork. This position exposes unsheathed cables, which are prone to external damage.
V-brakes were able to solve this problem by removing the transverse cable. As a result, there is no exposed brake cable, making your bike look neater.
Moreover, the mechanical advantage of V-brakes comes pre-set. So, they are more user-friendly, as you will only need to adjust a few components to achieve your bike brakes’ optimal power.
If you are using a bike with a suspension fork, it is unlikely that you will find cantilever brakes that fit it. If you do, the brakes’ performance will be far less than the superior performance of today’s brakes. And while you may use a cable hanger to install cantilever brakes in modern bikes, they cannot convert input force to mechanical force as much as V-brake do.
V-brakes offer more options for bikes with suspension forks. Even better, your options perform a lot better than cantilever brakes.
Learn more about Pedals, Handlebars and Brakes
- Handlebars on MTBs are wide, find out why – Why are MTB Handlebars so Wide?
- Should you upgrade your handlebars? Read – Are Handlebars Worth Upgrading?
- Universal pedals? Read all about it here – 9 Universal Pedals for Your MTB
- Learning how to Jump? Learn more with – How to Jump a MTB with Flat Pedals
- Keep your disc brakes clean – How to Clean Mountain Bike Disc Brakes
- Is their a difference? – Mountain Bike V-Brakes vs Disc
Cantilever Brakes Vs. V-Brakes: The Takeaway
Cantilever brakes and V-brakes have almost identical mechanisms. Both use brake pads to squeeze and create friction against the front tire’s rim, decelerating its rotation.
We’d love to hear your thoughts. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, our comments section is open to them.
After comparing cantilever brakes and V-brakes, it is evident that the latter offers much better performance. V-brakes are more user-friendly, as you only need to make minor adjustments to them occasionally. These modern brakes require less input power to decelerate and stop your bike.
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- Lie, David, and Cheng-Kuo Sung. “Synchronous brake analysis for a bicycle.” Mechanism and Machine Theory 45, no. 4 (2010). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.11.006. Accessed March 2, 2023.
- Piancastelli, Luca, Leonardo Frizziero, and Giampiero Donnici. “Study and optimization of an innovative CVT concept for bikes.” Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. ISSN 6608, no. 9 (1819). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G-Donnici/publication/290840714_Study_and_optimization_of_an_innovative_CVT_concept_for_bikes/links/5ba8bb8d92851ca9ed2180cd/Study-and-optimization-of-an-innovative-CVT-concept-for-bikes.pdf. Accessed March 2. 2023.
- Washington University in St. Louis. Bikes, Forces, and Torques. https://web.physics.wustl.edu/introphys/Archives/FL14/BikeForces_FL14.pdf. Accessed March 2, 2023.
- Collier, Ian M. “Regenerative braking on bicycles to power LED safety flashers.” Ph.D. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/32868/62587936-MIT.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y. Accessed March 2, 2023.
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Photography is packed so full of “rules”. Well, they’re more like guidelines, really. But the “rules” seem to tear photographers up into two camps. The first wants everybody to strictly adhere to them and the second wants to shoot whatever and however they like. There’s nothing wrong with either approach, really, but the two are not mutually exclusive.
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It was only February when it was announced that Fujifilm would be acquiring American-owned Xerox in a $6.1 billion deal. It seems that now, though, that deal is not going to happen, thanks to a couple of “activist investors”, reports the BBC. Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason own, between them, 15% of Xerox and had opposed the deal. They say it undervalued the company and trouble has been brewing ever since/
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SR-22 Insurance in California
It is important to know who needs SR22 insurance and how to get it as a licensed driver in the state of California since this form will be required for you to continue driving. Getting SR22 is one of the ways you can ensure your ability to drive in the future. It is proof of insurance that informs the government that you are covered in the event that you get in a crash. This way, any victims of the crash will get compensation. However, not all drivers need this type of insurance.
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Who needs SR22 insurance in California?
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The Reasonable Accommodation Resource Center (RARC) at the Civil Rights Center (CRC) provides guidance and information about, and facilitates the provision of, reasonable accommodations for DOL employees and applicants for DOL employment who have disabilities.
Defining an Accommodation
DOL provides reasonable accommodations to applicants for DOL employment and DOL employees with disabilities. An accommodation is a change in work rules, facilities, or conditions which enable an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform the essential functions of a job, and/or enjoy equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment. For more information, please refer to the Department of Labor Manual Series (DLMS 6-200) entitled: Reasonable Accommodations for Employees and Applicants with Disabilities.
Requesting an Accommodation
A request for accommodation can occur by utilizing one of the following methods:
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- Contacting RARC via firstname.lastname@example.org.
Roles and Responsibilities
An employee/applicant (or their representative) who seeks an accommodation should/may:
- Make a request for an accommodation verbally, in writing, and/or using one of the above methods, to the RARC, the agency Workplace Equality Compliance Officer (WECO), a Deciding Official (typically the first line supervisor/manager), the servicing human resources office, or any agency employee connected with the job application process, as appropriate (e.g., agency employee contacting candidates to schedule an interview for the position);
- Use "plain language" in your requests for adjustments, changes, equipment, or other form of assistance for a reason related to a medical condition but need not mention a specific statute such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or the Rehabilitation Act, or use the phrase "reasonable accommodation";
- Participate in good faith in the mandatory interactive process (explained below) when requesting a reasonable accommodation; and
- Provide RARC or the agency WECO with medical documentation upon request that supports or confirms the functional impairment(s) and the requested accommodation.
The Deciding Official, typically the first-line supervisor/manager, is responsible for:
- Documenting and immediately reporting/submitting all requests for reasonable accommodation to RARC. The requests can be sent to the RARC via email@example.com;
- Providing information and forms to employees and applicants requesting accommodations or referring the employee to the RARC and the agency WECO to obtain such information and forms;
- Participating in good faith in the mandatory interactive process when an employee or applicant requests a reasonable accommodation;
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- Maintaining confidentiality of records, as required by the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA; and
- Working closely with the RARC and/or agency WECO to ensure that the accommodation request is addressed as promptly as possible.
The RARC is responsible for:
- Providing information and forms to employees and applicants requesting accommodations;
- Conducting the initial intake and tracking of all requests for accommodation;
- Consulting with and advising Deciding Officials (and other vested parties) throughout the interactive process;
- Managing DOL's Centralized Accommodation Fund (CAF);
- Processing reasonable accommodation requests that involve the purchasing of items and/or services via the CAF. These purchase may include:
- Assistive technology devices or software (such as screen readers), communications equipment, or specially designed furniture (such as ergonomic chairs, sit/stand risers, etc.)
- Providing technical assistance to agency WECOs and others connected with the accommodation process to facilitate the provision of prompt, effective assistance.
The WECO is responsible for:
- Providing information and forms to employees and applicants requesting accommodations and informing RARC of the request;
- Processing reasonable accommodation requests that involve performance, conduct, or leave issues; reallocation of tasks; reassignment; revision of standards; telework; or other scheduling adjustments, after consultation with the servicing human resources office;
- Consulting with and advising Deciding Officials (and other vested parties) throughout the interactive process.
The Interactive Process
Once a request for an accommodation is received, the employee/applicant, the Deciding Official, RARC and/or agency WECO, will engage in an interactive process to determine what the individual needs and identify appropriate effective reasonable accommodation(s). The purpose of the interactive process is to determine what, if any, accommodation should be provided. This means that the individual requesting the accommodation must communicate with the appropriate persons throughout the entire process, but particularly where: the specific limitations or barriers are unclear; an effective accommodation is not obvious; the parties are considering different forms of reasonable accommodation; or the current accommodation is no longer effective and another effective accommodation must be identified.
The Deciding Official, RARC and/or agency WECO will immediately contact the applicant or employee after the accommodation request is received to begin the interactive process and start discussing the request. DOL will process requests and, where appropriate, provide accommodations in as short a period as reasonably possible unless there are extenuating circumstances.
Timing of the reasonable accommodations process begins at the time the request is initiated. Circumstances that can impact the length of time to complete an accommodation are awaiting medical documentation, completion of assessments (if needed), and/or shipping/delivery of items. When necessary, the RARC will purchase equipment, services, or assistive technology, etc. using DOL's Centralized Accommodation Fund (CAF).
Resolution of a Reasonable Accommodation Request
All decisions on accommodation requests are issued by and from the Deciding Official, following consultation with RARC, the agency WECO and/or the Office of the Solicitor (SOL). If the Deciding Official grants a request for accommodation, the Deciding Official will inform the employee or applicant in writing of the decision and work to implement the accommodation. If the Deciding Official denies a request for accommodation, the Deciding Official will inform the employee or applicant in writing of the decision and reason for the denial. After an accommodation has been provided, RARC will monitor the accommodation for effectiveness, as appropriate, by following up with the employee.
For more information, please go to:
- DLMS Chapter 6-200 - Reasonable Accommodations for Employees and Applicants with Disabilities
- Agency Workplace Equality Compliance Officers
- Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
- Employer Assistance & Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)
- ADA National Network
- Appendix A – Confirmation of Request for Reasonable Accommodation (PDF)
- Appendix B – Application for Parking Assignment for Employees with Disabilities (PDF)
- Appendix C-1 – Authorization for Limited Release of Medical Information to Program Support Center (PDF)
- Appendix C-2 – Authorization for Limited Release of Medical Information to Computer Electronic/Accommodations Program (PDF)
- Appendix D – Consent for Examination (PDF)
- Appendix E – Reassignment Preference Form (PDF)
- Appendix F – Sign Language and Captioning Request Form (PDF)
For more information, please contact:
Samuel Rhames, Jr., Chief, Reasonable Accommodation Resource Center (RARC)
Civil Rights Center, Room N-4123 (Frances Perkins Building)
*If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
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There’s nothing I love more than getting a glimpse into other people’s homes. Do I want the full tour? Yes, please. Care to see the garden? That’s a rhetorical question, right? And while writing my first home decor and organizing book, Embrace Your Space, I had the chance to indulge in my favorite pastime and peek inside 12 inspiring small spaces. Sure, I knew they would be charming and full of personality, but as I explored each one alongside photographer Genevieve Garruppo, I also discovered a treasure trove of organization ideas I hadn’t expected. You know, those tricks that beg the question Why didn’t I think of that?!
I found a brilliant closet organization moment in a pint-size apartment in Manhattan’s East Village and learned my new favorite decluttering strategy at a quaint Hollywood Hills cabin—all thanks to the creative folks who call these places home. Here are seven nuggets of small-space organizing wisdom that I knew I had to include in my book. (Psst: Pick up a copy now for even more tidying tips and storage hacks.)
1. Identify Your Organizing Achilles’ Heel
Fact: Decluttering is difficult for most of us. Step one is to get to the heart of your home’s mess. When I chatted with writer and creative consultant Natasha Nyanin about her jewel box of a New York City studio, she ID’d her Achilles’ heel of organization straightaway: “I can’t not buy books,” she said. Through our conversation, I realized my own organizational downfall: aspirational clutter. Just ask the bins and bins of craft supplies I will surely use one day. But once you’ve recognized the problem, you can address it. For me, that means taking inventory before I decide to bring home any more fabric or washi tape. For Nyanin, that meant investing in a large bookcase to house her home library and tossing less important items (so long, decorative bowls!) to make space for more titles.
2. Declutter According to Your Pastimes
At her family’s L.A. hideaway, designer Leanne Ford leaned into her minimalist aesthetic—thanks in large part to her signature shades-of-white color palette—but she left an abundance of books, paintbrushes, and decorative objects on display. “I really wanted this to feel like a creatively inspiring cabin,” she explained. No TV, no video games, no fancy gadgets—by getting rid of the distractions that she didn’t want demanding her family’s attention, Ford left plenty of space for all the pursuits (reading, art, music) she did.
It dawned on me then that decluttering isn’t just about stuff—it is about deciding how you want to live. What you grant space for versus let go of will determine how you spend your time. Declutter accordingly.
3. Hide Storage in Plain Sight
I’ve always believed in choosing storage that matches your style, but it wasn’t until I toured fashion PR pro Lisa Lu’s 350-square-foot studio that I realized sometimes you want furniture that doesn’t just blend in but completely disappears. By attaching a row of white IKEA Besta cabinets along the ceiling, Lu gained sufficient space for off-season clothes that you can barely see against the white wall paint. The same trick works for colorful spaces, too. Just paint the cabinet, dresser, or armoire the same shade as the surface behind it.
4. Always Be Editing
Maybe it started when the KonMari method took the world by storm, but somewhere along the way, many of us have come to see home organizing as this epic (read: daunting) marathon that consumes a week of our lives every year. So when I heard interior designer Fiona Byrne describe her “daily declutter” method, it instantly sparked, well, joy. The concept: Let go of any item the instant it no longer feels like you—why wait? For example, the designer had a sailor top she once loved, but as her tastes changed, she wasn’t feeling its navy color anymore. “I’d just get rid of that, and only keep things that, every time I put them on, I felt good,” said Byrne. Whenever she opens her closet—or her polka-dot office drawers, for that matter—there’s not a single item she doesn’t adore.
5. Set Up Organizing Systems for Your Laziest Self
When figuring out how to store everything in her apartment, designer Kate Hamilton Gray knew that during the busy workweek, she likely wouldn’t take the time to sort her mail and carefully hang up each piece of clothing. Instead baskets save the day. She tosses dog toys in one, uses another as her work in-box to collect paint chips and fabric samples, and stows her go-to sweaters in a woven hamper. I suddenly understood why so many home organization ideas fail: They are simply too ambitious. By relying on baskets and Shaker peg rails, the designer can mindlessly put everything back where it belongs—no folding, clothes hangers, or complicated systems necessary.
6. Sneak Storage Into Any Available Nook and Cranny
If you live in a rental apartment or an older home, chances are there’s an awkward alcove lurking somewhere. I was inspired by how many of the homes I visited maximized every last inch of these oft-overlooked nooks. Naturally, Domino’s style editor, Julia Stevens, knows that a sliver of square footage equals a big storage opportunity. In the loft she formerly shared with roommates Paris Fabrikant and Tori Jenner, Stevens outfitted a niche next to the kitchen with an IKEA island and custom-cut wood shelves. Pots, pans, glasses, dishware, and multiple sets of knives found a home without taking up any precious cabinet space.
7. Take Shelving to the Ceiling
If you’ve read any articles or books on home organization, you’ve undoubtedly heard organizing pros extol the use of vertical space. And for good reason. Shelves, hooks, and wall-mounted cabinets add valuable storage but have a barely there footprint. When exploring several homes featured in the book, I realized you could go one step further: Take your storage to the ceiling.
In their Brooklyn apartment, Matthew DeRosier and Casey Gorrell installed a set of marble shelves from their countertop all the way up. The lower ledges hold everyday dishes, while the uppers display decorative objects and less frequently used vases. In a closet, extend your shelves to the tippy-top and designate the highest ones for off-season clothing or spare bedding reserved for guests.
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Welcome to this charming property with spacious interior with a total of 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, providing ample space for a family or guests.
Large 2.54 acre lot, perfect for outdoor activities or potential expansion.
Convenient location with easy access to nearby amenities.
Charming and well-maintained property that offers great potential for customization.
The large lot provides privacy and gives you the opportunity to create your own outdoor oasis.
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My name is Alicia, and I'm a self-taught artist. I create works that relate to express ideas and promote happiness. I am currently writing and making illustrations for an upcoming children's book. Oh and I love tacos
I specialize in illustration, watercolor.
This is a collage of current arts that have been created for clients. I rather enjoy a palette of bright colors and Flora.
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There is no question that DGB has grown massively over the past few years, transforming into something I couldn’t have imagined even a few years ago. It has opened doors for me which in turn has allowed me to expand what this site does and the type of content it brings to readers in the fenestration industry.
Part of that growth has of course been with the number of companies who have chosen to advertise with me on here. You only need to look at the right hand side of this post to see the mix of very high quality companies who are advertising right now. More are due to be announced in the coming weeks and months too. It’s their financial investment that has allowed me to turn this into a proper business and grow it into something that has challenged and changed how this industry does media.
However, this site is built on what I write. That’s how it started and it stands on it’s own within UK fenestration media. I will write about and approach subjects that won’t always be thought about. I’ll tackle things others won’t for fear of upsetting others. This is what got the site off the ground and this is what I will continue to do so long as this site is alive.
So, in an effort to keep that content front and centre I have created a sub-section on here called DGB Opinion. You can find it by clicking here or by going to the home page and clicking the big blue button that sits just under the most recent posts published. This new page on DGB will collate all of my own original content. No PR, no business, no jobs. Just the ramblings that have come forth from me.
My aim is to make sure that the site continues to put forward the unique and original industry content that it was built on. My own unique place in this sector, sandwiched between working for an installer, this and the NFAs gives me a viewpoint of the industry very few people have. I intend to keep making the most of that.
I hope you all find DGB Opinion useful.
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When the time comes to gather against the coming Winter, don't be caught unawares. Contained within are all the tools you'll need to enter the world of the Dreaming - to start your character on the road to perilous quests and fantastic journeys.
The Key to Hidden Magics...
Each kith is rumoured to have Bunks specific to themselves. Learn more of these Bunks, and this learn a little more of the secrets of Glamour.
Deluxe Full-Colour Character Sheets
New Bunks for each of the Kith.
Full color card templates for creating your own Bunks
Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing Manufacturer SKU: 7003 Dragons Trove ID:
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The Marina Abramovic MethodLaurence King Publishing
A unique, boxed set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramovic to teach you this legend of performance art's method for reaching a higher consciousness and confronting life's challenges.
Using exercises Marina Abramovic has developed for herself to prepare for her incredible performance works, the Method will help you focus, reconnect with the present, and locate your highest creative potential.
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most important early works. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale and in 2010 had her first major US retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2023 she will present the solo exhibition After Life at the Royal Academy in London, and become the first female artist in the institution's 250-year history to occupy the entire gallery space with her work.
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A growing number of state laws are giving dentists a monopoly on providing teeth-whitening services in the U.S., according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute for Justice (IJ) and a related lawsuit filed by two nondentists who were prohibited from offering these services in Alabama.
As the teeth-whitening industry has expanded, so has the push for laws and regulations that control who can and can't offer teeth-whitening services, according to the IJ, a U.S. civil liberties law firm founded in 1991. The IJ's report claims this expansion of dental licensing is a form of "economic protectionism."
"In recent years, teeth whitening has exploded into an $11 billion industry encompassing products like gum and toothpaste, as well as services offered by dentists, salons, spas, and mall kiosks," the report states. "At the same time, state dental boards and dental associations have pushed for laws and regulations that would enable licensed dentists and hygienists to capture a greater share of that market by banning anyone else from offering teeth-whitening services."
Since 2005, at least 14 states have changed their laws or regulations to exclude all but licensed dentists, hygienists, or dental assistants from offering teeth-whitening services, according to the IJ. In addition, at least 25 state dental boards have ordered teeth-whitening businesses to shut down, while nine states have brought legal actions against such businesses.
To examine the risks of teeth-whitening businesses, the IJ reviewed complaints filed with state agencies over a five-year period.
"Consistent with scholarly research, the complaints show that risks are minimal," the IJ stated. Of 97 complaints provided by 17 states, only four reported consumer harm, according to the IJ. The rest of the complaints came primarily from dentists, state boards, dental associations, and hygienists.
"Since 2005, at least 30 states have taken action to shut down nondentist teeth whiteners," said Angela Erickson, the IJ researcher who wrote the report, in a news release. "The evidence is overwhelmingly clear that the pressure for this didn't come from consumers, it came from dentists and dental associations who have a financial stake in keeping others out of business."
Second related lawsuit
In a related lawsuit filed today in the Circuit Court for the 10th Judicial Circuit for Jefferson County, Alabama, two nondentists who were banned from offering whitening services to the public claim their entrepreneurial rights are being violated.
In 2011, Alabama amended the state's Dental Practice Act to declare teeth whitening to be the practice of dentistry, making it a crime, punishable by one year in jail and a $5,000 fine, for nondentists to offer teeth-whitening services.
Plaintiffs Keith Westphal and Joyce Osborn Wilson say the state banned them from offering Alabamans "a comfortable and clean place" to use the prepackaged teeth-whitening products they sell to customers. As a result, Wilson shut down her business and Westphal did not expand his North Carolina teeth-whitening business into Alabama.
Westphal and Wilson are "entrepreneurs who wish to sell legal, over-the-counter teeth-whitening products and provide customers with a clean, comfortable environment in which to apply those products to their own teeth," the suit states, noting that "It is perfectly legal to sell these products to customers who will use them at home without supervision or instruction." Wilson currently sells whiteners over the Internet, and her products are in lawful use in salons and spas in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas, according to the complaint.
Westphal wants to expand his teeth-whitening business from North Carolina to Alabama, but claims he cannot do so without risking fines and jail time because he is not a licensed dentist. He offers whitening services that cost $79 to $129. Westphal's products have a 16% concentration of hydrogen peroxide, but many commercially available products have hydrogen peroxide concentrations of 35% or higher, the suit states.
Teeth-whitening products are regulated by the U.S Food and Drug Administration as cosmetics and no prescription is required to buy them, according to the plaintiffs.
"Teeth whitening is safer than other oral procedures that are not regulated as the practice of dentistry, such as tongue piercing, which the ADA advises can lead to infections or cracked teeth," the suit states. "There is no evidence that Alabama's prohibition on nondentist teeth-whitening protects consumers or advances any other legitimate governmental interest. Rather, the primary effect of the law is to protect dentists who offer teeth-whitening services from competition, and "harms consumers by reducing competition and driving up prices."
Zach Studstill, executive director of the Alabama Dental Association, declined to comment, saying he hadn't seen the lawsuit yet.
"Alabama's prohibition on nondentist teeth whitening has nothing to do with protecting consumers and everything to do with protecting monopoly profits for dentists," said Arif Panju, an attorney at the IJ Texas chapter. "Teeth-whitening products are safe, and whatever minimal risks they carry are the same whether customers apply those products to their own teeth at home or at a mall or salon."
This is IJ's second lawsuit challenging a state teeth-whitening prohibition. In 2011, IJ filed a federal lawsuit challenging Connecticut's similar prohibition. That lawsuit is still ongoing.
Several other states, including Tennessee, Georgia, New Jersey, and New Mexico, have enacted similar legislation. And in North Carolina, the issue went so far that in 2010 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged the state dental board with anticompetitive conspiracy. The board then sued the FTC, which subsequently ruled that the board had acted illegally. The board has since appealed that decision.
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As soon as we start growing baby teeth, we begin to visit our dentists on a regular basis. When we reach adulthood, we might think attending dentist appointments so often is a hassle. But these dental check-ups are crucial to maintaining good oral health.
Do not skip your routine dentist appointment, even if you think it is no big deal. Understanding why you should attend these dental visits can encourage you to keep these appointments. Read on to learn more about the importance of routine care from your dentist in Silver Spring, MD.
What Happens During a Routine Dentist Appointment?
When you visit your dentist’s office for a routine appointment, your dentist will start with a teeth cleaning. They scrape plaque and tartar build-up from your teeth, especially in hard-to-reach spots like near your gum line.
You remove excess plaque and other harmful residues when you complete your oral hygiene routine. But your toothbrush and floss might not reach all areas in the mouth. And if plaque lingers, it will eat away at your teeth, causing severe dental damage.
This teeth cleaning along with oral exams from your dentist, therefore, make up crucial preventative dental care that will lower your risk of dental emergencies. Your dentist will examine your teeth and gums for early signs of dental problems like cavities or gum disease that you might not notice on your own. Then they can intervene and treat them before they progress to irreversible harm.
How Often Should I Schedule Dental Check-Ups?
A dentist will recommend that the average dental patient should attend routine appointments every six months. This makes for the ideal window to clean teeth before plaque and tartar will create problems and to diagnose any issues before they advance.
However, some patients might need to see their dentist on a more frequent basis. Senior-aged patients, those with a high likelihood of developing tartar, and people with underlying medical concerns might need to visit their dentist three or four times a year. You should consult your dentist to find a personalized preventative dental care plan that suits your unique dental goals and needs.
What Do I Do During a Dental Emergency?
Accidents can happen to the best of us. You might suffer from a dental problem even when you practice diligent preventative care. For instance, a blow to the face could generate impact trauma that may loosen a tooth or cause it to fall out.
If you experience a dental emergency like this, you should not wait until your next regularly scheduled appointment to talk to your dentist. Call your dentist right away, especially if you knock out a tooth. Time could be of the essence to successfully restore your smile.
The dentist will likely ask you to come to their office for an urgent dental evaluation. They can provide treatment quickly so that they can resolve the problem and prevent it from worsening. Delaying this care could result in permanent dental damage.
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There comes a time in one’s life when you need some extra cash to settle some financial problems that you might have. Then the need to borrow money arises, it might be to settle some kind of emergency, buy a car, to get your first home, or even to settle some other high-interest debt. Whatever be the case, it all boils down to you wanting to borrow money. You don’t need to be shy or worried because you are not in this alone. Borrowing money is part of life, and in most cases, you need to borrow to maintain a healthy financial life. However, there are various ways in which one can borrow money, both the good and the bad. With the increase in people wanting to borrow money, more financial online loaning institutions are springing up, but your ability to choose the best is what matters.
What is the best and fastest way to borrow money?
Once you have made up your mind to borrow money, you will be faced with lots of options, but you need to weigh the options carefully, to know that which is best for you. However, let’s take a look at some of the fastest and best means in which you can borrow money.
Credit card cash advance
One of the fastest ways of borrowing quick cash is through your credit card. The loan you take out from your credit card is called a cash advance, and you can get the loan the same day you applied for it. You can either withdraw the cash advance from the nearest ATM, visit your bank, or deposit the money into your check account, whichever way you choose to use, rest assured that it is a fast and reliable means of getting quick cash. Although it doesn’t come without a price because there is an interest rate placed on the amount you want to borrow and it also depends on how long you intend to borrow the money.
Short term loans
The short term loan happens to be the most popular way of borrowing money, and it is also known as a payday loan. You apply, and in no time, the money is in your account. The repayment period is short, and it comes with a high-interest rate. Although you might be lucky to get a payday loan with low-interest rates, it isn’t common. The interest on the short term loans increases by the period you decide to pay back. But it is a fast means of borrowing money.
Another fast way in which you can borrow money is through your bank, it is a traditional method of borrowing money, but it is fast, safe, and reliable. As long as it is the bank you have an account with and you carry out transactions often, they are willing to give you the loan amount you request for as long as it is within your credit limit. Some banks’ interest rates are hefty, while some are not.
If you were forced to take out a payday or predatory loan, you need help. To break out of the fee and interest cycle, you need the help of a licensed attorney. The attorneys at Dsouza and Strachan Legal Group have the knowledge and experience you need. Contact Dsouza and Strachan today for a free consultation.
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Hey everybody! Joe and I have been attempting to entertain ourselves for a whole year now. Isn’t about time you joined in the fun and frolic. I mean what’s better than 2 white dudes pontificating about society under the guise of caring about their kids and cats.
Click on the pic of this cool cat to listen to the 1 year anniversary episode and subscribe to follow us through another year of uncertainty!
Comedy Store trained, World-travelled, Cul-de-sac-living recovering comedian, husband and tinkerer of tools talking about time well spent!
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Ego & Hubris Graphic Novel
“Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.”
Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland?
First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager.
One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle–though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It’s strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he’s exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn’t cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . .
Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice’s tales, “Fish Story,” which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey’s first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy’s life.
Ego & Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He’s an intransigent kid, a hard-ass–both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can’t live up to your parents’ expectations, at least you can live up to your name.
Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams–until now. And just as Harvey’s been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation.
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European Union countries have not yet reached a unanimous agreement needed to launch a military training mission for Ukraine, but said they are working out the details.
Defense ministers from the 27 EU countries discussed the possibility of the mission during a meeting on Tuesday in Prague.
"We have to create the basis of an army which has to fight and will have to fight for quite a long time," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has spoken publicly in favor of creating such a mission.
"Most of the member states agreed that it can be done better together. We are going to study to define the parameters of a potential mission," Borrell added.
But for EU countries, this is not necessarily a given.
"Even if there is any possibility of such a mission existing in the future, further discussions regarding any specific involvement of the Czech Republic would be needed," the Czech Ministry of Defense press office told DW in a written statement after the meeting.
After over 6 months of war, rebuilding the capacities of the Ukrainian army is becoming a priority.
The UK is currently running a 90-day basic training mission for 10,000 soldiers who are joining the Ukrainian army to fight.
Several EU countries, including Germany, have been providing smaller scale trainings directly with Ukraine on German soil.
The US has also been training troops on the weapons and equipment it has been sending to the war.
The foreign policy arm of the European Union, the European External Action Service (EEAS), will now start working out what kind of mission could potentially be acceptable to the member states.
Ukraine's Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, attended the EU meetings in Prague via video link. Kyiv has specific demands for what it wants any such trainings to focus on: medical support, sniper training and de-mining expertise.
Military experts say increased training is vital for Ukraine to continue fighting the war.
"People who know war know that it isn't just soldier numbers and equipment that win them. You've got to have a lot of training and a lot of logistics," Jim Townsend, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration, told DW.
"These things are just as critical to victory," he added.
Choosing the command for any potential training mission is also a complicating factor. It would be the EU's first operation of this nature to be held on EU soil itself – ordinarily such training missions are held in the targeted country.
"It's not clear whether the existing hub for EU training missions would be tasked to coordinate this one," Elena Lazarou, Head of External Policies at the European Parliamentary Research Service, told DW.
"The Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) is in charge of three current missions in Africa – in Mali, the Central African Republic and Somalia – but this may be different because we expect the Ukraine mission to be held on EU territory," Lazarou said.
The institutional knowledge of the MPCC means these missions can be launched quickly once the political agreement is found, but the host countries may also want control.
Any mission would also need to be organized in cooperation with the NATO military alliance, according to observers.
"Everything that is being done must be done in coordination with likeminded allies. We've seen it in sanctions and the military equipment being sent," Lazarou said. "The last thing we need right now is redundant help or duplication of efforts."
The potential training mission would also send a political signal to Russia that the EU is ramping up its support for Ukraine.
"In Putin's mind, the EU has already shoved a million pokers in his eye. This is just another grievance he'll sell as anti-Russia, but Europe shouldn't worry about that anymore," Townsend, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, said.
"If you're in it for the long haul and you don't have unlimited manpower, which Ukraine doesn't, you've got to focus on training,” he added. "They won't be able to launch counter-offensives [like the one to retake Kherson] if they're not ready because they'll not have the manpower ready to replace those lost in the battles."
In July 2022, there were 700,000 people registered in Ukraine's armed forces. That number increases to a million if the national guard, police and border guard are included, according to the country's defense ministry.
The expansion of Ukraine's armed forces has been significant – in 2021, there were just under a quarter of a million people enlisted.
"Guys arriving at the frontline without training can be really dangerous," Townsend said. "It's more of a hinderance than a help if you've got someone there who can't keep his weapon clean, and it ends up backfiring and injuring him."
The defense ministers' meeting in Prague was informal, which means they were under no obligation to release any concrete conclusions or statements. That means that the details on the size of the potential mission remain unknown.
"It's very difficult to judge anything about the size or scale at the moment,” said Niklas Novaky, a Senior Research Officer at Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies. "That would depend entirely on the mandate. And that we will only find out once there's an agreement."
Novaky expects that after Borrell's comments at the Prague meetings, the EEAS office will put together a "Political Framework for Crisis Approach" — the official planning document for such a mission that will then be presented to EU defense ministers.
The next time EU governments are likely to discuss this issue will be at the Foreign Affairs Council in mid-October.
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For the second time in a week, former India coach Ravi Shastri has advised the out-of-form Virat Kohli to take a break, even if it meant “pulling out of the IPL, for all you care” to prolong his international career.
Batting maestro Kohli has been battling one of his worst phases in a hugely successful career, having failed to score a hundred in any format for more than two years now.
“I think a break is ideal for him because he has played non-stop cricket and he has captained the side across all formats. It will be wise of him to take a break.
“You know, sometimes you have to draw the balance. This year he is already into the tournament (IPL 2022), tomorrow if push comes to shove and you want to prolong your international career and make a mark there for 6-7 years, pull out of the IPL, for all you care,” Shastri told Star Sports presenter Jatin Sapru on his YouTube channel.
Kohli was promoted to the top of the order against Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday after back-to-back ducks but the move also did not yield the desired result as the former India captain was out for nine. RCB lost the match by 29 runs.
Shastri emphasised on the importance of a break in a player’s career at a time when the calendar is crammed with one assignment after another.
“Not only Virat, I’ll tell that to any other player. If you want to play and do well for India, you have to draw the line where you want to take that break and the ideal break would be off-season where India is not playing and the only time India does not play is the IPL,” Shastri said.
Kohli, the former India skipper in all three formats, stepped down from captaincy roles last year. He has not scored a century in any format since November 2019.
Few days back, after his first golden duck, Shastri said if anyone needs a break, it’s an “overcooked” Kohli.
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What opportunities will this course give me?
This course will provide you with the opportunity to get your foot on the ladder to level 3 courses and access to university if you do not have the appropriate GCSEs. This course allows you to study for GCSE English, Maths and/or Science along with study skills units to see what studying at the next level is like. This course can lead to the Access to HE Diploma for which there are several pathways and other level 3 college courses.
This is aimed at 18+ learners who wish to retain, start learning again, or to start a new career.
What will I be learning?
You will study 1 GCSE or more - English, Maths and/or Science. Please see the course for English and maths to see what is offered there.
For GCSE Science you will study the curriculum for GCSE Biology and towards the end of the course you will study aspects of chemistry. There will be a GCSE exam for Biology.
You will also study for units in Study Skills, units include Personal Organisation, Review & Planning, Presentation Skills and Research Skills; These units will help you prepare for learning at level 3 and also get an insight into university.
Why is this course for me?
Each GCCE subject involves about three hours per week class time, plus about three hours per subject each week for private study, assignments and preparation for examinations. There will be lectures, class discussions, small group work and individual research and you will be expected to attend all sessions. Some subjects will involve practical work.
Your weekly Study Skills session of two hours a week will help you understand how to learn more efficiently and how to produce your work professionally, so that you will be prepared for your ACCESS course at level 3 or other level 3 courses.
The student will do Study Skills units plus at least 1 GCSE.
How will my learning be enhanced?
You will complete aspects of blended learning and being working at level 3 for the study skills units. For GCSE Science you will do experiments and also learn aspects of chemistry.
What do I need to sign up?
You need to have completed GCSEs including English, Maths and Science at grade D/3, if below this will need to be discussed at interview, prior to starting your Entry to Access course.
You will need an interview with the course manager.
Is there anything else I need to know?
Some students will take GCSE Maths and English, but these will be dealt with by Maths and English teams. So will show on your offer, but will not be dealt with by ACCESS teams.
The study skills Units can be added to their Study Skills module when you take the Access course at level 3 should you wish to pursue later.
GCSE Maths is offered on Mondays evenings
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GCSE Science is offered on Monday afternoons or evenings
The study skills unit is offered as blended learning.
The Biology follows the AQA curriculum
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In January 2022, restrictions on student visa holders (Subclass 500) and allowed them to work unlimited hours, with the aim of solving labour shortages in Australia, as of the end of June 2023, these restrictions will be re-established.
After July 1st, student visa holders in Australia will be able to work 48 hours per fortnight. Before border restrictions, the number of hours student visa holders could work was just 40 hours per fortnight and this revised number hints that the Australian Government’s previously stated commitment to increasing migration is high on its priority list.
All student visa holders in Australia need to conserve a balance between their studies and work; they must maintain their course enrolment, ensure course attendance, and ensure course progress to fulfil visa conditions.
There are some exceptions for visa holders working in the aged care sector, who will be able to continue working unlimited hours until the end of 2023. Also, students studying higher-level certifications such as a Master or Doctorate will be able to continue working unlimited hours depending on their course.
It is important to note that students who use an ABN to work must follow the same rules and will only be permitted to work 48 hours per fortnight.
Migration has increased in Australia, but many employers are still finding it difficult to secure qualified staff, particularly in rural areas. Permanent Residency pathways are now being offered to more migrants including those holding the Temporary Skill Shortage visa.
Skilled visas are the best way to secure Permanent Residency in Australia and a recent directive made it clear that applicants with skills in the education and health sectors are the most highly sought-after.
Don’t hesitate to contact our professionals if you have any doubts or are dealing with visa situations. We can help you achieve your dream of living, studying and working in Australia.
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After-sales services and diagnostics, particularly in diagnosing previously sold defective tools, are crucial for maintaining good branding as they directly impact user experiences. Research reveals that 83% of consumers abandon a brand after just one negative customer service encounter, while a mere 1% average human error rate can lead to significant financial costs in business operations.
Team Techify comprising (L-R) Jackson Tai, Jordan Sahabudin, Tan Wei Siang (Team Lead), Mr. Victor Khoo Shien Yang (Mentor), and Gan Wei Jun. They are holding pictures of a member and mentor who couldn’t attend the ceremony, Goi Yi Shen & Mr. Amad Arshad.
In light of these findings, Team Techify, consisting of five BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering students from the Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), proposed an innovative IT solution titled Improving HILTI’s After-Sales Diagnosis with 3D Scanning and Machine Learning. This solution not only aligns with the challenges faced by the construction industry but also positions the team as the frontrunner for the Grand Champion of the HILTI IT Competition 2023.
With this victory, the team of five claimed the championship title, a distinction that APU had traditionally held since 2020. The team, led by Tan Wei Siang, boasted a formidable lineup comprising Business Lead Jordan Sahabudin, Innovation Lead Jackson Tai, Operation Lead Goi Yi Shen, and Technology Lead Gan Wei Jun.
The HILTI IT Competition is an annual global IT competition that provides a platform for junior talents worldwide to tackle daunting challenges from the construction industry. This year, 187 teams, consisting of a total of 656 participants from 31 different nationalities, submitted their proposals between early October 2022 and mid-February 2023. Team Techify advanced to the semi-finals alongside 15 other teams in March and ultimately emerged as the Grand Champion among seven finalists. The prize ceremony took place on May 12 where the team was awarded a sponsored trip to one of HILTI’s strategic IT locations in Switzerland.
As a multinational company providing products and services for professionals in the construction industry globally, HILTI continuously seeks improvements in its processes amidst the paradigm shift of the fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0), aiming to maximise positive impact from the manufacturing plant to the tool service centre. As the competition organiser, the company looks for a rejuvenating force that can transcend the current limitations of digitalisation in construction, while also considering business viability and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Based on this context, Team Techify conceived a highly technical solution leveraging 3D scanning and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve better quality control, reduce tool inspection turnaround time, enhance customer experience, and improve new product design.
According to Tan Wei Siang, the team lead, “3D scanning could improve HILTI’s after-sales return process by obtaining the surface deviation of the defective tools and analysing the root cause of the problem. Meanwhile, ML can accurately predict the failure probability of all the parts with a HILTI tool based on historical data patterns.”
In contrast to manual inspection, which is susceptible to human error and results in long turnaround times for after-sales returns, 3D scanning and ML can identify the causes of defects based on the scanning results and historical data. This transformative approach can elevate a business to new heights by enhancing customer experience and satisfaction. Tan added, “It could help increase process efficiency by 30%, thereby contributing to profit growth.”
Team Techify with (Back row L-R) Gan Wei Jun, Jordan Sahabudin, Tan Wei Siang (Team Lead), Jackson Tai, and Mentor Mr. Victor Khoo Shien Yang (front) joyfully celebrates the Grand Championship of the HILTI IT Competition 2023 with the award of a sponsored trip to one of HILTI’s strategic IT locations in Switzerland.
The team received guidance from the university’s mentors, including Mr. Amad Arshad, Senior Lecturer of the School of Computing, and Mr. Victor Khoo Shien Yang, an APU alumnus of Software Engineering. They also benefited from industry mentors from HILTI Group, namely Ms. Christine Schwaerzler-Duerlinger, Cohort Lead Tool Services, Global IT, and Mr. Ng Kim Hoong, Team Lead IT Integrated Operations Centre. Additionally, Mr. Eric Yong Sze Guan, an ambassador from the competition organiser, provided support.
Furthermore, Team Techify's proposed solution aligned with several of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By utilising ML, the solution can create a more efficient workforce and generate new job opportunities for analysts, thereby supporting SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth.
Moreover, by enhancing the company’s resilience during crises and keeping it at the forefront of technological innovation, the solution contributed to SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. The team’s focus on fixing and refurbishing tools to promote sustainable consumption aligns with SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption & Production.
By integrating their proposed solutions with these SDGs, the APU team’s proposal demonstrated a broader impact and promoted sustainable practices, making it more appealing to the panel of eight judges, including senior leaders from HILTI and senior academicians from Malaysian public and private universities. APU’s Chief Innovation and Enterprise Officer, Professor. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam, was one of the judges.
A nerve-wracking final presentation before the panel of judges—Team Techify sailed through it. (L-R) Tan Wei Siang (Team Lead), Jordan Sahabudin, Gan Wei Jun, and Jackson Tai.
Associate Professor. Dr. Tan Chin Ike, the Head of the School of Computing (SoC), commended Team Techify’s success and acknowledged the participation of Team AR Innovators, who made it to the final round. He remarked, “The HILTI IT Competition provides an ideal platform for APU’s technophiles, as we ensure that APU students not only have the necessary technical skills but a competitive mindset and problem-solving acumen that is sought after by major tech companies. This serves as a testament to APU’s position as the Premier Digital Tech Institution, offering top-notch digital technology courses that ensure the development of highly skilled talents who can meet emerging tech job demands both locally and globally. Congratulations and well done to all the participants.”
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For the first time, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses the Emergencies Act.
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, has deployed never-before-used emergency powers to assist provinces in resolving the blockades and public unrest that have engulfed Ottawa for the past 18 days as a result of the so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
The demonstrations caused a six-day closure of a major business corridor between Canada and the United States before it was reopened on February 13th.
Quick Fact: Ottawa is the capital of Canada
EOS-04, an earth observation satellite launched by ISRO, was successfully launched.
ISRO successfully launched EOS-04, an Earth Observation Satellite, and two tiny satellites into their target orbit.
In the year 2022, this was ISRO’s first launch mission. The satellites were launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre’s First Launch Pad in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, using the PSLV-C52 launch vehicle.
Quick Fact: Bengaluru, Karnataka, is the headquarters of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
The CBI uncovers India’s largest bank fraud, worth Rs 22,842 crore, and charges ABG Shipyard.
ABG Shipyard has been charged with a Rs 22,842-crore financial fraud by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The flagship company of the ABG Group is ABG Shipyard. It defrauded a group of 28 banks and financial institutions in the amount of Rs 22,842 crore.
This is the largest bank fraud case the CBI has ever investigated. The case concerned funds obtained and misappropriated between 2012 and 2017.
Quick Fact: The FIR names Rishi Agarwal, the former CMD of ABG Shipyard.
Ilker Ayci named as MD and CEO of Air India
Ilker Ayci has been appointed as the new CEO and MD of Air India.
He will assume his responsibilities on or before 1st April 2022. Ilker Ayci is a former chairman of Turkish Airlines.
Ilker is an aviation industry leader who led Turkish Airlines to its current success during his tenure there.
Science and technology
Rajasthan takes the lead in solar electrification with the Saubhagya Scheme.
Rajasthan has the most houses electrified with a solar-based standalone system under the Saubhagya scheme.
The initiative had no beneficiaries in the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim, as well as the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Up till March 31, last year, the Saubhagya Scheme had electrified 2.817 crore households, including 4.16 lakh through solar-based standalone systems.
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Avogadro's number is 6.023 x 10 raised to the power of _____
Which of the following is not a means by which a President's office is deemed vacant?
The compilation of Vinaypitaka was done during which Buddhist council?:
Which of the following is associated with the coral reef structure?
Arjun Sengupta Committee is related to:
United Nations is a successor of _____:
Which of the following is not an audio file format?
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By Bella Ciabattoni and Pawel Pieluszynski
Mantids – The Voracious Generalist Garden Predator
While many insects often go unnoticed, one group never fails to attract attention. Large, charismatic, and bold, praying mantids are ferocious micropredators that delight anyone who stumbles across them. They have been touted as a gardener’s best friend, willing to dispatch any troublesome pest with their unrelenting appetite for other insects. However, there are more facets to this long-standing belief.
The truth is, the insects that mantids devour in our gardens are not exclusively horticultural pests but also other beneficial insects and species with declining populations, including those we are trying desperately to conserve. It can be argued that an over-abundance of mantids actually encourages the presence of some notorious horticultural pests, such as aphids, by eating large amounts of their highly-specific predators – the flower flies, also known as syrphid flies.
Most of the mantids people encounter in the northeastern United States are exotic species introduced by humans. The European mantis (Mantis religiosa), narrow-winged mantis (Tenodera angustipennis), and Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) make up the bulk of the sightings. A fourth species, the Asian jumping mantis (Statilia maculata), is a relatively new introduction, gaining a rapid foothold in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and New York City. Only one species is native to the northeastern United States: the Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina). This species is near its northernmost boundary in New York City, and as our climate warms and changes, it is from here that it begins to make its way to more northern territories. Smaller than most non-native species, S. carolina can be outcompeted by the larger, invasive mantids and sometimes outright eaten by them. As a result, our native mantis is a relatively uncommon sight in our region.
Mitigating Predation Pressure in a Built Habitat
Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, NY, is an entirely human-built 85-acre public waterfront park. We manage our garden beds as wildlife habitat: planting primarily native plants, using only organic techniques, and encouraging biodiversity through research and experimentation. In 2018, the horticulture team observed how mantids, especially the larger species, were indiscriminate predators that consumed large amounts of beneficial insects such as bumblebees, flower flies, butterflies, and other pollinators. While this behavior is the natural order in a biodiverse garden, an overabundance of large, generalist predators does not contribute to a healthy ecological balance.
A sure-fire way to find mantids within the park is to look upon patches of flowering plants in summer or fall, where there can be dozens of them waiting patiently amongst the blooms for visiting insects. It’s the mantis equivalent to an all-you-can-eat buffet! Often, there will be a pile of discarded monarch butterfly wings on the ground below these flowering plants, an alarming discovery for a gardener. Each time we’ve observed a monarch, bumblebee, or other large pollinator being consumed by a mantis, it has always been one of the two largest species – Tenodera angustipennis or Tenodera sinensis. It’s clear that the larger the mantis, the larger the prey they will eat.
Naturally, the more mantids there are, the more prey they consume. We took these frequent observations as signs that predation pressure from a large population of invasive mantids was becoming a threat to many of the insects we are attracting to the park – some of these insects have rapidly decreasing habitat in the wild. As gardeners and stewards of the land, we wanted to help mitigate this pressure.
Reducing Invasive Mantid Populations via Spring Cutback
In our plant beds, we often come across mantid egg cases or oothecae, each of which can contain up to 300 eggs. After reading about similar work done at Mt. Cuba Center, we decided to selectively remove and destroy mantid oothecae from certain high-pollinator traffic areas of the park. January through April is the best time to employ this type of mantid control. At this time of year in our region, all mantids from the previous season have died off, leaving only their oothecae behind to restart their populations once the temperatures are optimal. Our annual spring cutback, occurring in March & April, became the backdrop for this project.
One of the hotspots for pollinator and mantid activity at Brooklyn Bridge Park is the Flower Field, located on Pier 6 Outboard. The Flower Field is a half-acre, full-sun meadow filled with pollinator-favored native herbaceous perennials and many insect host plants. We’ve incorporated an ootheca collection project into our annual March cutback of the Flower Field each year since 2019. Since our cutback is entirely done by hand, it gives us the perfect opportunity to search for oothecae meticulously. We can remove them and record valuable information, all through performing our normal annual cutback.
Identifying, Collecting, and Disposing of Oothecae
To protect populations of S.carolina during this project, it’s critical to accurately ID their oothecae. The first step to IDing them is to second guess it! The oothecae of T. angustipennis and S. maculata are commonly mistaken for S.carolina. Tenodera angustipennis is best distinguished by two dark parallel lines along the midrib. A grey color and a white midrib (the egg chamber openings) are good ID characteristics of S. carolina, more than size or shape. In contrast, the four non-native species have tan or beige-colored oothecae.
The best way to learn the difference is through visual comparisons. See the guide we’ve made below.
Flower Field cutback is a group endeavor, and all gardeners are instructed to quickly scan stems as they cut them back for oothecae of any species. When found, a piece of stem surrounding the ootheca is snipped off with it and collected. After cutback is complete, each ootheca is recorded. Data for each include species, the location where collected, and the plant species or structure was found. Afterward, S. carolina oothecae are placed back in the general area where they were found. Each ootheca of the other four species is disposed of by cutting them with pruning shears and then disposing them in a tied garbage bag.
Removing Oothecae Has an Immediate Effect
Repeating the collection three years in a row demonstrated that this method for reducing the presence of invasive mantids in a landscape is effective. In 2019, 154 oothecae were collected in the Flower Field during cutback. In 2020, only 21, and in 2021, only 32 were collected! The overwhelming majority of oothecae found have been of T. sinensis and T. angustipennis. Only a single S. carolina ootheca has been found in the Flower Field over the scope of the project.
One of the original objectives of this project was to see if reducing the populations of invasive mantids would bolster the numbers of S. carolina in that same space in the following years. Similar ootheca collection projects were carried out in two other meadows in the park, beginning in 2019. So far, our data does not consistently show this effect. In one meadow, S. carolina ootheca was found in 2020 when previously there were none, suggesting that this cause and effect may be possible. However, this was not the case in the Flower Field. In fact, the plant beds where S. carolina oothecae have consistently been found are on Pier 6 and are a far distance from the Flower Field. Many are found on woody perennials as opposed to herbaceous. This suggests more factors to consider in where S. carolina will roost and why. Perhaps their preferences for shelter and prey play a role.
The populations of invasive mantids in the Flower Field have not totally disappeared. That was never the goal and would be impossible to achieve if it were. Tenodera spp. is highly capable of flight, so even when all the oothecae in the meadow are removed, more from the adjacent plant beds and surrounding park will make their way in again. This is likely why there is still a consistent, though drastically reduced, presence of Tenodera spp. in the Flower Field after three years of this project.
There is still much to learn about how mantids behave in Brooklyn Bridge Park. As gardeners, we can fold these discoveries into our daily work and reoccurring tasks, like cutback. With consistency and time, it’s possible to uncover fascinating details about the spaces we work in.
Other Interesting Findings – Favored Roosts of Tenodera spp.
Through collecting data for this project, we saw several interesting patterns in the habits of these mantid species. Tenodera sinensis and T. angustipennis prefer roosting in Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ in the Flower Field, with 21% of total oothecae found on this plant in 2019, 67% in 2020, and 41% in 2021. This may be partly due to the high pollinator traffic this plant receives when in bloom and the feeding opportunities that it provides. Secondly, T. angustipennis tends to lay their oothecae on hardscaping such as light and fence posts more than other species. These are good hints on where to look for them in your own landscape.
Plant pest issues have not significantly increased in the Flower Field since beginning this project. On the contrary, the presence of at least one pest, the lace bug, has been decreasing every year since 2019 on patches of Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘Raydon’s Favorite’. Patches of this plant, as previously mentioned, are one of the mantids’ most favored roosts.
For gardeners interested in “weeding” insects the same way we weed plants, we believe the strategy outlined above is an effective method of both reducing invasive mantid populations, encouraging our region’s only native mantis, and maintaining balance in a garden managed for biodiversity. Whether through a largescale seasonal project or casually throughout the year, removing invasive mantid oothecae could help your garden become an even safer haven for native pollinators and beneficial insects.
Learn more about the work we do at Brooklyn Bridge Park at Horticulture – Brooklyn Bridge Park
About the Authors
Bella Ciabattoni is Gardener II at Brooklyn Bridge Park. She manages the plantings on Pier 6 Outboard, a four-acre section of the park containing the Flower Field. In this native wildflower meadow, her adaptive spring cutback practices have shaped the space into effective wildlife and pollinator habitat. Before horticulture, she was an invasive species management technician and data manager for the National Park Service. You can contact her at email@example.com or connect at Bella (@bella.novae.caesarea) • Instagram photos and videos.
Pawel Pieluszynski specializes in ecological horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park with a keen interest in entomology and native plant communities. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Biology at CUNY College of Staten Island. You can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org or connect at Paweł Pieluszyński (@metro_mushitori) • Instagram photos and videos
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Because it’s not all about the dress —— yes, the groom’s suit should also take centre stage on the big day. The groom is, after all, one half of the most important duo there! The following ideas will ensure that you, the groom, will attract just as many compliments as your bride for your dazzling choice of attire.
Yes gents, embrace the country look. Thanks to Marcus Mumford and his entourage this look is here to stay. There are many ways to achieve this awesome look. You can go all out in tweed, complete with cap (do try this on, only a man with a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ can truly pull the tweed cap off) or tone it down with beige trousers and a waistcoat. A plain tweed jacket with a white shirt, braces and bow-tie can be particularly effective. This style will look especially awesome at a farm themed or outdoor venue. Barn dance, anyone?
If you are going to wear a patterned suit, make sure you really go the whole hog. Patterned suits should be statement: a half hearted attempt just won’t do. Flowers, dots, parrots, flora and fauna; it’s all there if you want it. A word to the wise, if you are going to do this, check your bride is okay with it (it may be a shock if she is expecting a black suit!) and discuss your colour scheme. No-one wants a colour clash situation at their wedding..
What better way to stand out next to your beautiful bride with a statement colour suit. Be bold. Be daring. Bright blue can be wonderfully effective at being bold whilst maintaining sophistication. Other popular choices include dark greens and maroon. As above, discuss colour combinations with your bride and rock the photo shoot!
A fun way to dress for the groom who does not wish to wear a standard wedding suit.
Think braces with a checked shirt, a dapper suit with cowboy boots, a linen suit with a bowtie: the options are endless and such fun to throw together. A clever option is to buy selected items from a tailor and throw them together with items scavenged elsewhere for a truly upmarket / downstyled look. Just don’t make it look like you tried too hard…
A plain suit can be jazzed up something wonderful with the right accessories. A hat can add just the right amount of charm to the occasion. Coloured pop socks peeking out over shoes will bring a smile to your guest’s faces. A multicoloured cane can add a little suave and a jazzy brolly can make for wonderful photo ops (whilst you’re at it, throw on some wellies too: you never know when it may rain!).
Ultimately, the groom’s suit can be just as exciting as the bride’s dress. It just needs a little pimping. Go be creative and make yourself stand out!
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1.2. EDFI is a non-profit association, mandated by its members to fostered financial and technical co-operation among its members and co-operation with the European and multilateral institutions and to facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning between development finance institutions.
2. Legal framework
2.1. The Belgian Data Protection Act of 8th December 1992 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data (as amended, modified and/or completed from time to time) (the “Privacy Act”);
2.2. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR”); and
2.3. All other applicable legislation regarding the protection of privacy and the processing of personal data;
(together or separately, the “Privacy Legislation”).
3.1. Achieve the purpose and exercise its activities, as described in article 1.2;
3.2. Inform you and/or provide direct marketing regarding its activities and the activities of its partners, members and/or affiliated entities (e.g. EDFI MC, European Development Finance Institutions, its respective shareholders and/or EFP S.A. and ICCF S.A., legal entities incorporated in Luxembourg for which EDFI asbl provides secretariat services) which can be provided in any form whatsoever by means of updates, newsletters, info brochures, emails, marketing materials, invitations to events such as conferences, exhibitions, launches, seminars and workshops and other information regarding the finance development sector that may be useful to you;
3.3. execute the contract(s) that will be or have been concluded with you or your employer, legal entity or organization;
3.4. prospect new parties (e.g. clients, investees, members, subcontractors, or contracting parties);
3.5. better understand your needs and preferences in order to adjust its services hereto;
3.6. inform third parties (e.g. subcontractors, partners or contracting parties); and/ or
3.7. comply with applicable legislation.
(together or separately the “Purpose”).
4. Legal basis and applicability
4.1. EDFI has the following legal grounds for the processing of your personal data:
I. the contract you have entered into with EDFI in connection with its activities as set out in article 1.2;
II. your free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent to EDFI, its partners (e.g. subcontractors, partners or contracting parties) to process your personal data. You can give your consent by any means, such as, but not limited to mail, e-mail, an online or offline consent form, a membership form or orally;
III. a legal obligation; and/ or
IV. a legitimate interest of EDFI.
4.2. Providing your personal data to EDFI and/or entering into a contract with EDFI, implies that you:
4.3. As a consequence, you hereby expressly grant EDFI permission to use your personal data to accomplish the Purpose.
5. Personal data
5.1. The personal data EDFI may process are, amongst others: first name, name, address, email address, phone number, birth date or any other personal data as required by law or necessary for the execution of the agreement entered into.
6. Transfer of personal data to third parties
6.1. EDFI guarantees that it does not transfer your personal data to third parties, unless:
I. there is a legal obligation to transfer personal data;
II. to its partners (e.g. subcontractors, legal advisors or contracting parties) for the achievement of the Purpose;
III. to its affiliated entities, its members, EDFI MC, European Development Finance Institutions, its respective shareholders and/or EFP S.A. and ICCF S.A., legal entities incorporated in Luxembourg for which EDFI asbl provides secretariat services, for the achievement of the Purpose; and/or
IV. EDFI has a legitimate interest to do so;
6.2. EDFI will not sell your personal data.
6.3. Third parties to whom EDFI may, or is obliged to, transfer personal data on the basis of the above categories, can be located within or outside the European Union. The personal data may thus be transferred to companies or authorities of non-EU countries. EDFI cannot be held responsible regarding the transfer of personal data and cannot be liable for the further processing of the personal data by such third parties.
7. Storage period
EDFI stores the personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the Purpose and at the minimum for the duration set out in the applicable legislation.
8. Your rights
8.1. The Privacy Legislation provides you with a number of rights in relation to your personal data. You have the right, free of charge:
I. to have access to and receive a copy of your personal data;
II. to have your personal data corrected in case of errors;
III. to have your personal data erased in case:
a. your personal data are no longer necessary to achieve the Purpose;
b. you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal ground for the processing of the personal data;
c. you object to the processing of the personal data and there is no other legal ground for the processing of the personal data;
d. the personal data have been unlawfully processed;
e. there is a legal obligation to erase the personal data;
IV. to have the processing of your personal data restricted;
V. to request that your personal data are transferred to a third party;
VI. to object against the processing of your personal data, in particular the processing in light of direct marketing purposes;
VII. to withdraw your consent pursuant to which EDFI is allowed to process your personal data;
VIII. to lodge a complaint with the Commission for the Protection of Privacy (the “Privacy Commission”) if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates the Privacy Legislation.
8.2. In case you want to exercise the above rights, and provided you prove your identity, you can send a written, dated and signed request by ordinary mail to EDFI Asbl, Rue de la Loi 81A, 1040 Brussels, Belgium or by email to email@example.com.
EDFI commits to take (or have) all reasonable measures (taken) to its best ability to safeguard the protection of the personal data through technical safety measures and an appropriate safety policy. The personal data are stored by EDFI, or, if applicable, by the processor of the personal data. You acknowledge and accept that the transfer and storage of personal data is never without risk and consequently, EDFI cannot be held liable for the damages that you may suffer as a result of the unlawful use of your personal data by third parties.
12. Applicable law and competent court
12.1. You agree that all disputes between you and EDFI regarding personal data and privacy issues, are exclusively subject to Belgian law, excluding any conflict of law principles.
12.2. Every dispute regarding personal data and privacy issues should be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Brussels, Belgium, excluding any other court.
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Three Strategies To Improve Reliability
EP Editorial Staff | April 1, 2022
Automating data collection for condition monitoring makes the most of new and existing technologies.
By Drew Mackley, Emerson
All plants strive to operate at peak safety and efficiency. As supply chains are disrupted, resources constrained, and experienced personnel become scarce, reliable operations become even more critical to achieving those goals. As a result, reliability teams are working to make condition monitoring their primary approach to maintenance.
Fortunately, the advanced sensing, analytics, technologies, and software that drive condition monitoring are more cost effective to apply than ever before. It is now easy for plants of any size and experience level to automate reliability strategies across all plant assets for optimal performance and uptime. Plants having the most success implementing partially or fully automated reliability programs are using three key strategies to deliver the most value from their investments.
Leverage automation to increase productivity
Plants of all sizes—especially small- and medium-sized operations—have long relied on manual maintenance rounds, with personnel using handheld analyzers, to monitor the health of rotating equipment. However, walking around the plant to collect routine data from assets is a lower-value task with high overhead.
With this approach, experienced plant personnel, already in short supply, spend most of their time collecting data, rather than performing higher-value tasks such as analysis, root-cause diagnosis, engineering changes, and implementation of other technologies. Or, when consultants are used to gather data, organizations are seeing costs and wait times escalate as retirements mean fewer trained personnel are available.
Manual rounds can also risk putting the plant’s most important asset, its personnel, in harm’s way. Traditional route-based monitoring often requires plant staff, equipped with handheld analyzers, to visit assets located in hazardous areas. Automated monitoring delivers equal or better asset health data while greatly reducing personnel exposure to risk.
Instead of automatically monitoring only the most critical assets in the plant with rack-mounted online monitoring systems, reliability teams are taking advantage of increased wireless bandwidth to install smaller, more cost-effective wireless sensors. When these sensors are properly configured, with measurements tailored to each asset, it becomes easy and efficient to continuously monitor all critical plant assets.
When organizations move to automated monitoring, they see multiple benefits. First, the reliability team collects all asset data regularly, consistently, and reliably because exact points of measurement never change due to variation in personnel technique, and collection occurs regardless of personnel availability.
In addition, continuous monitoring increases the likelihood that other tasks critical to plant performance are completed, helping ensure the plant is always running at peak safety and efficiency. Furthermore, assets that may have gone unmonitored in the past due to limited resources can now be monitored automatically, thus providing complete plant coverage and improved overall reliability. Continuous monitoring also helps plants build a foundation for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platforms.
Implement edge-analytics technologies
Forward-thinking organizations are also providing personnel with the tools to make analytics easier and more effective. To do so, reliability teams are turning to sensing devices capable of converting raw data into actionable information at the edge.
Sensing devices with embedded edge analytics help reliability teams quickly decipher issues on the plant floor. They also provide guidance and workflows to help plant personnel intervene to resolve issues quickly and easily.
Edge-analytics tools gather much more data faster than is possible with manual rounds and also use integrated analytics technologies to quickly identify common issues. Intuitive human machine interfaces are accessible at workstations or can be viewed remotely through secure connections on mobile devices, untethering workers to perform higher-value tasks in the plant, while continuing to monitor asset health.
Today, even the lowest-criticality assets can easily be monitored continuously, affordably, and automatically using small, easy-to-install wireless vibration monitors. Plant personnel can install these devices in minutes and immediately begin collecting data.
Outfitting a wider range of assets with continuous monitors capable of performing analytics typically provides fast return on investment. One multinational manufacturer recently installed Emerson’s AMS Asset Monitor to continuously gather and analyze health data for a series of essential assets. Shortly after the monitor was turned on, it identified a lubrication issue in a forced draft fan and notified the reliability team.
Maintenance personnel were able to immediately resolve the lubrication issue and return the fan to peak performance. Had the team continued to rely on manual rounds, the asset could have continued to run in an under-lubricated state for weeks until the next data-collection cycle. That could have resulted in accelerated bearing wear and consequent downtime.
Take advantage of existing technology
Moving to fully automated monitoring does not mean existing tools become useless. To the contrary, once reliability teams increase data collection through continuous monitoring, tools, such as handheld machinery health analyzers, become even more essential to predictive and scheduled maintenance.
Automatically monitoring several assets will generate alerts. There will be no support for altering or stopping operations every time there is a potential issue. Edge analytics built into sensors will provide the data necessary to diagnose many issues but, in some cases, the reliability team will need higher resolution, higher frequency data, or will want to run some troubleshooting tests to confirm the severity and further pinpoint the nature of the diagnosis.
Often, technicians may need to perform other troubleshooting steps, such as bump testing, coherence testing, cross-channel analysis, order tracking, and time-synchronous averaging, to identify and determine root causes for problems. This need is especially acute with more complex machinery, such as in variable-speed devices, multi-shaft assets, or machines in close proximity to other equipment where diagnosis must compensate for different variables.
When plant personnel need more information, the portable handheld analyzers now become powerful tools. Because they are no longer occupied with data-collection rounds, technicians can use the analyzers, in tandem with their own senses and experience, to further diagnose the most complex problems. Armed with this extra information, teams can plan and prioritize corrective maintenance based on availability of parts, resources, production schedules, delivery times, and planned outages.
As plants move into the future with a closer eye on staffing, supply chains, and remote work, reliability teams will rely more heavily on automated monitoring to ensure efficient delivery of critical information to key personnel, wherever they may be. The technology exists today to cost-effectively move to fully automated monitoring. But, as reliability teams implement those technologies, it is also important not to lose sight of the new role existing technologies can play to build a comprehensive, holistic condition-monitoring program.EP
Drew Mackley is Director of Reliability Solutions at Emerson, St. Louis (emerson.com). He has more than 25 years of experience in the predictive-maintenance industry, working with customers to establish and grow machinery health-management programs in a variety of industries and locations around the world. He earned his BSEE degree at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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We are very happy to know that we are not alone in thinking that our Leva is an engaging and useful product making life healthier and better for anyone anywhere.
Almost six years since the first prototype of Leva saw the light of day the whole modular system reached a point where it is immensely functional in every detail, durable, very versatile, and still provides a great space for personalisation and creativity of the user.
Leva can be used in private gardens as well as in public spaces. It has already served as an outdoor exhibition area, a resting place at petrol stations and by homes for the elderly as well as a public reading room or as outdoor offices. We are excited to see where Leva takes us next.
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Extraordinary measures are being taken to control the spread of COVID-19 in courts and administrative tribunals across British Columbia. As this situation continues to progress, we know you will have many questions and concerns. This post summarizes the latest procedural updates from courts and tribunals across the province and will be updated regularly as this situation continues to unfold.
- Supreme Court of British Columbia
- Provincial Court of British Columbia
- Court of Appeal of British Columbia
- Federal Court of Canada
- Commissioning of Affidavits
- Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia
- Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia
- Employment Standards Tribunal
- Residential Tenancy Branch of British Columbia
- Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia
Supreme Court of British Columbia
I. Suspension of all regular operations
Effective March 19, 2020 and until further notice, all regular operations of the Supreme Court of British Columbia have been suspended at all locations.
II. Adjournment of civil matters
All civil matters scheduled for hearing between March 19, 2020 and May 1, 2020 are adjourned, unless the Court otherwise directs. This automatic adjournment extends to all trials, conferences, and chambers applications or other hearings currently scheduled for hearing before May 1, 2020.
III. Essential and urgent matters to be heard
While regular operations are suspended the Court will hear only essential and urgent matters. The Court has discretion to hear urgent matters other than those listed, and to decline to hear a matter listed. The following matters have been deemed to be essential and urgent proceedings:
a. Matters related to public health and safety and COVID-19, including:
- orders under the Quarantine Act; and
- orders under the Public Health Act.
b. Matters where there is a prima facie urgency, including:
- refusal of treatment and end of life matters, including applications under the Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act;
- detention of individuals, including under the Mental Health Act and the Adult Guardianship Act;
- emergency adult guardianship and committeeship orders, including under the Adult Guardianship Act and Patients Property Act;
- housing evictions, including interim stays of orders of possession under the Residential Tenancy Act; civil restraining orders; preservation orders; urgent injunction applications; and urgent orders in the nature of habeas corpus, certiorari, mandamus and prohibition.
- civil restraining orders;
- preservation orders;
- urgent injunction applications; and
- urgent orders in the nature of habeas corpus, certiorari, mandamus and prohibition.
c. Essential and urgent insolvency matters, including:
- shareholder disputes or oppressive conduct that may require some immediate relief under the CBCA/BCA;
- an application for an interim and/or final order for an arrangement under the CBCA/BCA;
- the appointment of a liquidator, receive, interim receiver or receiver-manager under the CBCA/BCA/BIA/Law and Equity Act of BC;
- an application for a bankruptcy order under the BIA;
- an application for an initial order under the CCAA or the extension of a stay of proceedings under the CCAA;
- an application for relief specific to restructuring procedures in a context of proceedings under the BIA or CCAA, such as authorization of a sale of assets, interim financing, claims process orders, adjudication of claims, meeting orders and sanction orders; and
- a time-sensitive application in a foreclosure proceeding, such as approval of a sale.
IV. Procedures for essential or urgent matters
The Court has established procedures to allow for parties to request the hearing of essential or urgent matters. A judge will first review the applicant’s unfiled materials to determine if a hearing is required. If the judge determines that a hearing is required, the Court will give directions to both the applicant and the respondent(s) to provide filed materials for the hearing. Parties will appear at the hearing by telephone where possible and appropriate or by video where appropriate and available.
V. Limitation periods and filing deadlines
A. Filing timelines under the Supreme Court Rules
Effective March 18, 2020, filing deadlines under the Supreme Court Civil Rules are suspended until May 1, 2020. The suspension of regular operations and adjournment of trials scheduled up to May 1, 2020 necessarily suspends the usual time frames under the Rules for holding Trial Management Conferences, for filing Trial Briefs, and for filing Trial Certificates, as these time frames all count back from the scheduled trial date. Trials scheduled for hearing following May 1, 2020 will also be affected.
B. Filing with the Supreme Court
Effective March 26, 2020, limitation periods and mandatory time periods for the commencement of a civil or family proceeding have been suspended pursuant to Ministerial Order No. M086.
C. Changes to registry services
Courthouse registries are no longer providing in-person services during the suspension of the Court’s regular operations. However, all courthouses will continue to receive documents for any civil matters. Requests for an urgent hearing should, where possible, be made using the online process.
VI. Hearings will be scheduled at seven centralized registries
- Vancouver Law Courts
- New Westminster
- Prince George
Hearings will occur by telephone or video where appropriate and available, unless otherwise directed by the Court.
Other registries will continue to receive documents in the manner set out in this notice.
Provincial Court of British Columbia
I. Court closures
Effective March 25, 2020 regular operations of the Provincial Court of British Columbia at all of its locations have been suspended.
II. Small Claims
Small claims settlement conferences and small claims trial conferences scheduled between March 16 and May 16, 2020 will not proceed and parties should not attend court. Parties whose appearances have been adjourned will receive notification by May 4, 2020 regarding the next date they must attend Court.
All non-urgent small claims matters, including trials and Rule 9.1 Simplified Trials, scheduled to proceed between March 18, 2020 and May 16, 2020 are adjourned without the parties having to attend court. Only urgent small claims matters as determined by a judge will be heard by telephone.
Small claims trials that are currently scheduled to continue between March 23 and May 16, 2020 are adjourned and parties will be notified of new dates.
No new non-urgent small claims filings will be accepted by the Provincial Court registries between March 18, 2020 and May 16, 2020. In person filings at all court locations are suspended.
Court of Appeal of British Columbia
The Court of Appeal is limiting its operations effective March 18, 2020 and until further notice.
I. New Appeals and Applications for Leave to Appeal in civil appeals
Effective March 26, 2020 the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General issued an order suspending the required time periods to commence civil or family proceedings in the Court of Appeal. These will remain in effect until the state of emergency declared under s. 9(1) of the Emergency Program Act on March 18, 2020 expires or is cancelled.
II. Required Time Periods to Commence Civil or Family Proceedings between March 18, 2020 and March 26, 2020
Any notice of appeal or application for leave to appeal that needed to be filed prior to March 26, 2020 is still subject to the usual timeline to initiate. Ministerial Order No. M086 does not apply to required time periods for commencing civil and family proceedings in the Court of Appeal between March 18, 2020 and March 26, 2020.
III. Existing Appeals and Applications
The filing and service deadlines for all existing appeals, existing applications for leave to appeal, or other existing matters before the Court are suspended and will start to run again beginning May 4, 2020, except for those matters designated as matters that must proceed or unless otherwise directed.
New materials related to existing appeals, existing applications for leave to appeal, or other existing matters must not be filed prior to May 4, 2020, unless the Court has advised that the appeal is a matter that must proceed or unless otherwise directed.
IV. Appeal Hearings and Chambers Applications Currently Scheduled to occur between 18 March 2020 and May 1, 2020
All appeal hearings, chambers applications and other matters currently scheduled to occur between March 18, 2020 and May 1, 2020 are adjourned unless designated as matters that must proceed. For matters that are not designated as matters that must proceed, parties who consent to have their appeal, chambers application, or other matter heard by teleconference or in writing may contact the registrar in writing to request the permission of the Chief Justice, or his delegate, to proceed by alternative means.
Federal Court of Canada
On April 4, 2020, the Federal Court provided an updated Practice direction which supersedes the Practice Direction and Order date March 17, 2020.
I. Extended Suspension Period
All Federal Court hearings previously scheduled to be heard between March 16 and May 15, 2020 (the “Suspension Period”) are being adjourned indefinitely. This includes hearings that were scheduled to proceed by way of a telephone conference.
Likewise, all General Sittings falling within the Suspension Period are cancelled. Matters already made returnable at a General Sittings during that time will be placed on the roll of the first General Sittings that is scheduled to be held at least two weeks after the end of the Suspension Period, for that city.
II. Timelines and Hearings during the Suspension Period
A. Suspension of Timelines
During the Suspension Period, and subject to the caveat and the three exceptions discussed below, the running of all timelines established pursuant to the following instruments is suspended:
- Orders and Directions of the Court made prior to March 16, 2020;
- the Federal Courts Rules;
- the Federal Courts Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection Rules;
- subsection 18.1(2) of the Federal Courts Act;
- subsection 72(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; and
- subsection 22.1(2) of the Citizenship Act.
Parties will pick up from where things stood before the Suspension Period, as if the intervening period never existed. A party who requires an extension of a deadline may make an informal request for such extension. Timelines set out in any Orders or Directions issued since (and including) March 16, 2020 remain in effect.
However, deadlines for commencing actions, appeals or applications under other statutes continue to apply and cannot be extended or varied unless permitted under the terms of and in the manner prescribed by those statutes. Parties will be able to request an extension of time for deadlines set out in other applicable statutes if they are unable to meet the filing deadlines in light of current circumstances. However, they should refrain from doing so until after the Suspension Period.
B. Suspension of Hearings
Aside from urgent or exceptional matters, case management hearings and by request of a party, all hearings that had previously been scheduled to take place during the Suspension Period are adjourned indefinitely and all General Sittings are cancelled. Parties are responsible for contacting the Court to request that their matters be placed upon a General Sittings list once the Suspension Period is lifted and General Sittings have resumed.
If, by May 1, 2020, the Court has not extended the Suspension Period beyond May 15, 2020, then parties will need to provide the Judicial Administrator with their mutual dates of non-availability up to December 18, 2020 for the rescheduling of hearings that have been adjourned, or may be adjourned as a result of the Suspension Period. Unless a matter is urgent or otherwise time-sensitive, and subject to the availability of the parties, the scheduling of matters that have been or will be adjourned due to the Suspension Period will be broadly undertaken on a first-in first-out basis.
IV. Adjudication in Writing
During the Suspension Period, the Court will continue to adjudicate motions in writing made pursuant to Rule 369, as well as any other matters that the Court is requested to determine in writing, provided the following conditions are met:
- All parties consent; and
- All documents required for the matter to be determined have been or will be filed electronically.
V. Service and Filing of Documents (including affidavits) during suspension period
A. Court Fees
Effective April 6, 2020, for the duration of the Suspension Period, all fees payable on filing or issuance under item 1 of Tariff A of the Federal Courts Rules are waived. With respect to fees relating to a proceeding against the Crown, the statutory filing fee ($2.00) contemplated by section 48 of the Federal Courts Act is to be paid only after registry operations return to normal. In the meantime, the Registry will accept the documents for filing.
B. Electronic Filing
Parties should use the Court’s E-filing portal to file all documents that do not contain confidential information. Parties who are not able to submit documents electronically may contact the Registry.
C. Service of Documents between Parties
A party may serve a document electronically pursuant to the Federal Courts Rules.
D. Timelines for service
Where service of a document that is required to be served personally cannot practicably be effected, parties may apply informally by letter (sent electronically) for an order for substituted service (Rule 136) or to validate service (Rule 147).
E. Commissioning of Affidavits.
Affidavits sworn or affirmed remotely using modes deemed acceptable in any Superior Court of any province will be accepted for filing during the Suspension Period. A scanned version of an affidavit may be accepted for filing, provided that the original version is filed with the Court within two weeks (14 days) of the resumption of its regular operations.
VI. Access to Court during Suspension Period
While Federal Court facilities are closed to members of the general public, the Court remains accessible through electronic means.
Commissioning of Affidavits
Effective March 20, 2020 and until further notice the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and the Law Society of British Columbia have made accommodations for the commissioning of affidavits in circumstances where it is not possible or is medically unsafe for the deponent to attend before a commissioner. All three levels of court will follow the same processes for the commissioning of affidavits as outlined below:
- Any affidavit to be sworn using video technology must contain a paragraph at the end of the body of the affidavit describing that the deponent was not physically present before the commissioner, but was linked with the commissioner utilizing video technology and that the process described below for remote commissioning of affidavits was utilized.
- While connected via video technology, the deponent must show the commissioner the front and back of the deponent’s current government-issued photo identification and the commissioner must compare the video image of the deponent and information in the deponent’s government-issued photo identity document to be reasonably satisfied that it is the same person and that the document is valid and current. The commissioner must also take a screenshot of the front and back of the deponent’s government-issued photo identity document and retain it.
- The commissioner and the deponent are both required to have a copy of the affidavit, including all exhibits, before each of them while connected via video technology.
- The commissioner and the deponent must review each page of the affidavit and exhibits to verify that the pages are identical and if so, must initial each page in the lower right corner.
- At the conclusion of the review, the commissioner will administer the oath, the deponent will state what needs to be said to swear or affirm the truth of the facts, and the commissioner must watch the deponent sign his or her name to the affidavit.
- The deponent will then send the signed affidavit with exhibits electronically to the commissioner.
- Before completing the affidavit, the commissioner must compare each page of the copy received from the deponent against the initialed copy that was before him or her in the video conference and may affix his or her name to the jurat only upon being satisfied that the two copies are identical.
- The two copies will then be attached together with a certificate signed by the commissioner stating that the commissioner was satisfied that the process was necessary because it was impossible or unsafe, for medical reasons, for the deponent and the commissioner to be physically present together.
- The completed package would then be permitted to be filed.
Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia
I. 1-Year time limit to file a complaint
If parties are unable to file a complaint within the 1-Year time limit, parties are asked to explain this on their complaint form.
II. Urgent complaints
If Complaints are considered urgent because of COVID-19 or any another reason parties are asked to mention this on the complaint by way of letter or email and to file an application in Form 7.1 – General Application for an Expedited Process.
III. How to file materials
Parties are asked to file materials by mail, fax or email as the reception desk is closed to the public.
IV. Mediations and hearings
Hearing and mediation rooms are currently closed to the public. Parties which have an in-person mediation or hearing in the near future will be contacted by the Tribunal to discuss alternative methods of proceeding.
The Tribunal will accept affidavits executed following the process identified by the BC Courts and approved by the Law Society of BC.
Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia
Effective March 17, 2020, the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA) is restricting access in all Land Title Offices to only its employees, direct access pass holders and Registry Agents until further notice. Land Title Office front counters will be closed but all other office operations will continue as usual. Individuals are asked to do the following electronically:
- file claim of builders lien;
- transmit title to surviving joint tenant; and
- transmit interest to an executor.
For less urgent requests such as changing information on title and changing addresses, applications can be mailed to the LTSA.
I. LTSA guidance on execution requirements
Part 5 of the Land Title Act is prescriptive and sections 42 to 48 require an individual executing an instrument to appear before an officer. However, to maintain social distance and prevent COVID-19 transmission, the Registrar of Land Titles will accept an affidavit of Execution sworn under section 49 of the Land Title Act.
II. Instruments executed and witnessed contemporaneously in counterpart
The Registrar will not be taking issue with instruments that are executed and witnessed contemporaneously in counterpart, where the transferor’s signature is on a different page from that of the officer. If the Registrar requires the applicant to produce the execution copy under section 168.57 of the Land Title Act, having the two signatures on separate pages will not trigger any action against the designate who certified the document.
III. Remote or videoconference witnessing
On March 31, 2020 the British Columbia Land Title and Survey Authority issued Practice Bulletin 01-20 Process for Remote Witnessing of Affidavits for use in Land Title Applications. This practice direction was approved by the Law Society of British Columbia and enables only BC lawyers and notaries who represent the parties to a property transaction to remotely witness affidavits. Lawyer and notaries who choose to remotely witness affidavits must first review the Law Society of British Columbia’s (LSBC) directions on best practices for using video-conferencing when providing legal advice or services, and must incorporate a statement in the jurat of the affidavit confirming this process was used and the best practices were followed.
In order to comply with the practice bulletin, the LTSA has set out the following requirements:
- Any affidavit to be sworn using video technology must incorporate a statement into the jurat describing that the deponent was not physically present before the lawyer or notary public, but was linked with the lawyer or notary public utilizing video technology, that the process described below for remote commissioning of affidavits was utilized and that the lawyer or notary complied with the Law Society of British Columbia best practices for using video-conferencing when providing legal advice or services issued by the Law Society of BC.
- While connected via video technology, the deponent must show the lawyer or notary public the front and back of the deponent’s current provincial or federal government-issued photo identification. The lawyer or notary public must compare the video image of the deponent and information in the deponent’s government-issued photo identity document to be reasonably satisfied that it is the same person and that the document is valid and current. The lawyer or notary public must also take a screenshot of the front and back of the deponent’s government-issued photo identity document and retain it.
- The lawyer or notary public and the deponent are both required to have a copy of the affidavit, including all exhibits, before each of them while connected via video technology.
- The lawyer or notary public and the deponent must review each page of the affidavit and exhibits to verify that the pages are identical and if so, must initial each page in the lower right corner.
- At the conclusion of the review, the lawyer or notary public will administer the oath, the deponent will state what needs to be said to swear or affirm the truth of the facts, and the lawyer or notary public must watch the deponent sign his or her name to the affidavit.
- The deponent will then send the signed affidavit with exhibits electronically to the lawyer or notary public.
- Before completing the affidavit, the lawyer or notary public must compare each page of the copy received from the deponent against the initialed copy that was before him or her in the video conference and may affix his or her name to the jurat only upon being satisfied that the two copies are identical.
- The two copies will then be attached together with a certificate signed by the lawyer or notary public stating that the lawyer or notary public was satisfied that the process was necessary because it was impossible or unsafe, for COVID-19 medical reasons, for the deponent and the lawyer or notary public to be physically present together.
- The completed affidavit would then be permitted to be submitted to the land title office with the rest of the land title package.
Employment Standards Tribunal of British Columbia
Staff of the Employment Standards Tribunal are primarily working remotely and there are no in person meetings taking place until further notice.
Residential Tenancy Branch of British Columbia
I. Options for filing applications and evidence
While both Service BC and the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) offices are currently open, parties are encouraged to file applications and evidence online.
Parties are expected to make reasonable efforts to file applications within the timelines set out in the legislation. For documents that cannot be filed online, parties are asked to email these documents. There are certain time limits the Director cannot extend and parties are asked to refer Policy Guideline 36: Extending a Time Period.
II. Options for serving applications and evidence
Service of documents in person is suspended. All other existing methods of service remain available. A Director’s Order has been issued for the length of the state of emergency allowing parties to use email to give or serve documents in order to minimize interactions between people.
III. Missing time limits set out by the Act or Rules of Procedure
The Director will consider the circumstances and impacts of COVID-19 for parties who are unable to meet the time limits set out in the Residential Tenancy Act or Rules of Procedure when deciding whether to grant an order extending a time limit or adjourning a proceeding. Where there is authority to extend time limits, arbitrators are directed to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as an exceptional circumstance.
A party will need to provide a reasonable explanation why they or someone on their behalf was unable to file an application within the legislated timelines. If a party does so, arbitrators should exercise their discretion to ensure a party affected by COVID-19 is not prejudiced. Arbitrators will also consider circumstances, set out in the practice directive, when deciding whether to accept evidence that has been filed outside of the time-frames of the Rules of Procedure.
There may be circumstances where parties agree an adjournment is necessary. Parties can consent to rescheduling a hearing if they file written consent with the RTB not less than three days prior to the hearing.
If parties cannot consent to rescheduling the matter, arbitrators may adjourn a hearing to another date. Where parties have consented to reschedule a hearing, but consent is received less than 3 days before the hearing, both parties must phone in to the hearing. If a party is unable to phone into the hearing themselves, they may have someone call into the teleconference hearing on their behalf to request the adjournment. The arbitrator may grant an adjournment at the time of the hearing if the parties are impacted by COVID-19. Arbitrators are directed to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a factor that is beyond the party’s control when determining if an adjournment is appropriate.
Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia
Effective March 16, 2020, Access Pro Bono is in the process of moving nearly all services from in-person delivery to telephone and online delivery. The court-based Civil Chambers Program is being shut-down indefinitely. Other representation services are continuing for the time-being depending upon the willingness and availability of volunteer lawyers and the availability of court and tribunal resources.
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Editor's Note: This story was inspired by Paroxysm Bloom II, by Crystal Wagner, not by the art shown above. Click here to see the work.
Let me tell you about the way I died.
Let me tell you about the moment of my death, how my body shivered and split apart at the junctions to release a cumulus of colour, a cacophony of azure-ebony-moss-magenta-gold. Let me tell you that my dying was beautiful.
No need to feel sad about what happened. It’s okay to remember joyfully the sight of me unravelling, my fingernails forming a thousand scales, my sinews bundled into sheaves of wheat, my open mouth like a honeycomb. It’s okay to be amazed. I know you’ve never seen anything like that before, and you probably never will again. It’s okay.
I don’t think it really matters why I died because the how was so spectacular. No one was to blame, I’m sure of that. If someone was to blame, if someone caused me to explode like a star at the end of its lifespan, surrendering its molecules to cosmic judgment, then I hope that person is proud of what they accomplished. I hope they shout it on the street corner and sing it in church and whisper it to their loved ones before bed.
I know that this blast of turquoise-amber-scarlet, this multihued inferno blazing into a sudden void, is not the end. I know that someday my scattered spirit will reintegrate in a new vessel. Perhaps I’ll come back as a dandelion. Perhaps as a clay urn holding the ashes of someone important. It doesn’t matter. What matters is the look on your face when you witnessed my glorious dissolution: surprise, a hint of terror, and then—like a sunrise—awe. You couldn’t believe your eyes. To be fair, you were expecting a normal first date. Some getting-to-know-you conversation, a few genuine chuckles, awkward quibbling over who was going to pay. Not this radiant display, but aren’t you glad you were here to see it? Aren’t you glad to have that memory forever obscuring other, less extraordinary moments of your life? Aren’t you glad to have known me for that blink of time?
I was glad to know you, friend. I liked seeing your smile when you noticed that the dessert section of the menu offered green tea ice cream. I liked the flamingo-beaded purse that you slung casually over your shoulder. I liked how you kept wiping your hands on your pants like this whole casual dating thing made you nervous, but you were showing up for it anyway. If I hadn’t gone off like a firework halfway through lunch, I think we could have meant something to each other. Instead you were left with dazzling loops and whorls burned into your retinas so that when you close your eyes, the image will replay over and over.
So that you’ll never forget me.
So that I’ll never fade away.
Desiree Remick (she/her) is a student at Southern Oregon University. Growing up in the Rogue Valley, she learned to love nature, literature, and fencing: three passions that remain with her to this day. Her debut short story was the runner-up for Kallisto Gaia Press’ 2020 Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize. Her work has also appeared in the Nude Bruce Review and Unlost.
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Writing is a physical as well as a mental act.
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Writing is a physical as well as a mental act, and you should keep an eye on how you are using your body as you work. Learn and follow ergonomic recommendations such as keeping your wrists straight, your hands at or slightly below the height of your elbows, and your monitor at eye level.
Consider buying a standing desk or creating a makeshift standing desk. In my home office, for example, I have two cheap or homemade standing desks: an empty bookshelf and a laptop stand. Be sure to buy an anti-fatigue standing mat to use as well. If you work while seated, take frequent breaks in which you stand up and walk around.
Another suggestion is to work outdoors or otherwise vary your writing environment. Nature can calm your mind, and any change of scenery can stimulate you and make you more alert. Variations like that can trick your brain into overcoming writing block and generating new ideas.
You can also find something to do with your hands and feet while at your desk. I carry a stress ball around and hold it when I’m thinking but not typing. I also keep a rolling foot massager nearby to keep my feet busy.
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Skala Eresou, Lesbos Prefecture, Greece
The long-running International Women's Festival is the highlight of the season for the lesbian community of Skala Eressos. Taking place over two weeks in early September, the festival promotes local lesbian-owned businesses and provides a wide array of events including live concerts, parties, art exhibitions, excursions, a triathlon and a fashion show. Hotels will book up early so plan to reserve at least three months out.
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A hint of glam, a whisper of gorgeous...beads of faceted and polished agate flank a vintage rhinestone chain, creating an elegant arrangement in soft sparkle. Measuring 18.5" in length, a silvered copper hook clasps the strands at back.
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Twobirds is the co-founder of the Anam Cara Retreat Centre where she lives and works full time as a shamanic practitioner and teacher of cross-cultural and Toltec Shamanism. All the workshops are held at Anam Cara, unless otherwise stated.
Anam Cara is a Gaelic word meaning “soul friend”. It symbolises a spiritual friendship that is not affected by time, distance, or separation. In the old Celtic tradition, the Anam Cara was someone you could share your innermost self, mind and heart. This soul friendship was an act of recognition and belonging helping us return to the heart of our spirit. We have chosen this name as a symbol for the “circle of belonging” – that inner friendship which embraces nature, divinity, spirit and human world as one.
Anam Cara lies 600 feet above sea level and overlooks the city of Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, with stunning southerly views towards the Monadhliath Mountains. We are only three miles from Inverness city centre yet surrounded by farm and woodland. The scope for walking is endless. The centre is set in seven acres of land which offers a delightful network of paths through a rich and varied landscape. There is also an extensive wooded area and a sheltered fruit and vegetable garden embodying permaculture principles.
Workshops and retreats are fully residential with nutritious, wholesome, vegetarian meals provided; with special diets catered for on request. We use organic produce as availability allows – an ever-growing proportion of which is produced in our own garden. All meals are prepared by our experienced cooks, with participants assisting in the ‘Helping Hands’ wash up rota.
We endeavour to keep the cost of our courses as low as possible, which we hope you will find reflected in our prices. Please note course fees are inclusive of all meals and accommodation.
The guest living space comprises of three large wooden clad caravans, which are literally set into the hillside each with marvelous southerly views. The caravans accommodate up to five people in three single and one twin room all with electric heating. A refurbished toilet / shower room adjoins the caravans. The turf roof ‘pavilion’ offers comfortable communal space for both relaxation and eating. All food is prepared in our galley kitchen adjacent to the pavilion.
Accommodation comprises of three caravans which have been significantly modified. Two of the caravans have been set into the hillside and bordered with a live ‘fence’ of willow…two very grounded structures. All three buildings have been insulated and externally clad with timber and can accommodate five people mostly in single rooms. Electric heating in all rooms makes for a cosy and very intimate atmosphere. Refurbishment and enlargement of the toilet and shower room completes the facility.
Additional accommodation comes in the form of a wooden cabin sleeping another five over three rooms, also with shower and toilet facilities.
The main venue affectionately known as the ‘Tufty’ is a purpose built octagon, constructed from locally grown timber with large patio windows looking south over Inverness and the mountains beyond. The log burning stove, oak floor, and turf roof creates a unique and lovely space. The building also has a kitchen and library for general use. There is a range of additional buildings including a secluded shrine room for meditation and prayer, plus a ‘barrel’ therapy room.
Our Earthlodge awaits discovery in an isolated corner of the ‘raspberry wood’. This venue, which is commonly used for shamanic ceremony and ritual, has been dug into the hill side, built with stone walls, forest poles and turf roof – a very quiet and atmospheric place.
Built in 2008, the Earthlodge might best be described as a cave in the hillside. The structure is supported by a thick stone ‘dyke’ wall which was built in an excavated hole. The turf roof which is level with the lie of the land, renders the building near invisible.
Forest pole roof and wooden floor give this building an exceptional atmosphere and is used for both meditation and more particularly shamanic ritual and ceremonies.
The Earthlodge is the most recent construction at Anam Cara, which was built with the help of many volunteers. Building started in the April of 2008 and with a team of 15 hands the building quickly took shape as 60 tonnes of stone were placed on top of each other. The roof is a reciprocal based system using locally cut timber from Muir of Ord and then covered with straw, heather and finally turf to allow it to disappear. With one metre thick stone walls, turf roof and wood floor, this ‘cave in the hillside’ is practically invisible. The Earthlodge is heated with an appropriate wood burning device called a Rocket Mass Heater.
Barrel Treatment Room
The barrel formally used to store ‘whiskey mash’ is now a place of healing, where a range of therapies are undertaken.
The Shrine Room
The shrine room is one of Anam Cara’s oldest buildings. Nestled in a secluded spot it is a tranquil enclosed space that is frequently used and is always available for meditation practice.
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Canker sores, or mouth ulcers, are mostly harmless and resolve on their own within a couple of weeks. (1) They are not contagious like fever blisters or cold sores since they are not caused by a virus, but other noninfectious factors.
They may develop due to skin trauma or injury, hormonal fluctuations, food sensitivity, vitamin deficiency, dehydration, emotional stress, genetics, and compromised immunity.
While these ulcers don’t pose any serious risk to your health, they can be quite painful, make it difficult for you to eat or speak, and keep coming back.
You may try some home remedies, dietary changes, and other self-care measures to reduce the discomfort caused by these ulcers and speed up their healing.
Home Remedies for Canker Sores
Here are some natural ways to get rid of a canker sore fast:
1. Try echinacea herb
Echinacea is a medicinal herb that has been proven effective in reducing the pain, duration, and recurrence of mouth ulcers. (2) It does so by boosting your immunity, which leads to faster and better healing. Plus, it is quite inexpensive and readily available.
How to use:
- Start taking 200 mg of Echinacea twice or thrice a day as soon as the sore first appears.
- Mix 1 teaspoon each of liquid echinacea in the same amount of warm water, swish this solution inside your mouth for at least 2 minutes, and then gulp it down or spit it out.
2. Apply alum powder to the affected area
Alum powder works as an astringent that helps dry out the canker sore faster. It draws out the fluid from the lesion and shrinks the tissues to facilitate quick wound healing.
Moreover, it exhibits anti-inflammatory properties that help relieve the pain, swelling, redness, and tenderness associated with mouth ulcers.
How to use:
- Directly apply the alum powder to the canker sore using a cotton swab.
- Let it sit for 1–2 minutes.
- Rinse it off your mouth.
- Do this one to two times daily.
3. Use coconut oil
Applying coconut oil to a canker sore helps curb the underlying inflammation, make it hurt less, and reduce its size. It is also known to possess antimicrobial properties that can help remove any germs from the sore to keep it from getting infected while it heals. (3)
It’s best to use organic, extra-virgin, cold-pressed coconut oil, which has the highest nutrient value and minimum adulteration and therefore exhibits maximum healing effects.
How to use:
- Put some coconut oil on the sore several times a day using a clean cotton ball or a clean finger
- Rinse your mouth with 1 tablespoon of coconut oil for 15 minutes, two times a day.
4. Honey application can help
Honey is credited with multiple healing properties that can help treat a canker sore.
It is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that can ease the pain, redness, and swelling of the lesion while also curbing its size. (4) It is also a natural antiseptic that protects the wound from infection during the healing process.
Lastly, it is deeply moisturizing and full of nutrients that help the skin heal better and faster.
How to use:
- Apply some raw organic honey to and around the mouth ulcer.
- Leave it on for a couple of minutes before rinsing it off with water.
- Repeat twice daily.
5. Use milk of magnesia
Milk of magnesia is traditionally used as a laxative, but it may also be useful in treating a canker sore due to its magnesium hydroxide content. Magnesium hydroxide works as a natural acid neutralizer that helps dry out the ulcer, keeps it from spreading, and makes it hurt less.
Once the sore shrinks, it will heal quickly.
How to use:
- Dip a clean cotton swab in 1 teaspoon of milk of magnesia and gently dab it all over the canker sore.
- Keep your mouth open for 5–10 seconds so that it gets properly absorbed.
- Reapply 7–8 times a day.
6. Try using deglycyrrhizinated licorice
Deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL) is an herbal licorice extract with strong anti-inflammatory effects that can help shrink the canker sore to speed up healing while also alleviating the pain, swelling, and redness associated with it. (5)
How to use:
- Place a DGL lozenge on the canker sore until it dissolves.
- Crack open a 200 mg DGL capsule, empty its contents in a cup of warm water, give it a good mix, and then swish the mixture inside your mouth for 3 minutes or so before spitting it out. (6)
Note: DGL lozenges are not recommended for children as they can be a choking hazard.
7. Give hydrogen peroxide a try
Hydrogen peroxide is a widely used antiseptic that can kill any germs present on the mouth ulcer to prevent infection. (7)
If the sore gets infected, it will become more painful, red, and swollen, and it will take longer to heal. So, this kind of sanitization of the wound is important to ensure timely recovery.
But bear in mind, hydrogen peroxide is quite potent and might sting a little when applied to the lesion.
How to use:
- Mix 1 teaspoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution with an equal amount of water. Soak a cotton swab into the solution and gently dab it on the sore. Reapply a few times every day until the sore heals.
- You can also use this solution as a mouthwash once a day.
8. Prepare and use a sage mouthwash
Sage can facilitate faster healing of a canker sore through two mechanisms.
First, sage contains antimicrobial properties that protect the canker sore from infection-causing germs. Infection can make the lesion grow bigger and hurt more while also delaying skin healing.
Second, sage helps bring down the pain, swelling, and redness associated with the sore due to its inherent anti-inflammatory nature.
How to use:
- To make a sage mouthwash, simply steep about 2 teaspoons of dried sage in some boiling water with the pot covered.
- Let the solution cool.
- Use the solution to rinse your mouth about two or three times a day.
9. Apply black tea bag
Tea is full of antioxidant compounds such as tannins that help reduce the inflammation and pain associated with a canker sore while also promoting skin healing. (8)
Given its high pH, tea may also help neutralize acids to shrink the ulcer quickly. It also contains astringent compounds, which may help relieve the pain.
How to use:
- Soak a tea bag in boiled water and then let it cool.
- Apply the tea to the canker sore for a few minutes.
10. Consume yogurt
H. pylori bacteria and inflammatory bowel disease can upset your digestive system and trigger the development of canker sores. In such cases, eating yogurt may help restore healthy gut flora to facilitate better digestion and thereby rid you of the canker sores fast.
Yogurt is one of the best sources of probiotics or good bacteria that keep the bad bacteria in check. (9)
How to use:
Consume a cup of yogurt daily to make the cankers go away.
Dietary Changes for Canker Sores
Here are a few dietary recommendations to promote healing of canker sores:
- In general, it is important to get enough vitamins and minerals in your diet, including folic acid, vitamin B12, zinc, and iron.
- B12 (folate) and iron are essential for making healthy red blood cells that are, in turn, needed to repair nerve or tissue damage. Thus, you need to get enough of these vital nutrients to heal the ulcers inside your mouth. (10)(11) Foods rich in iron include leafy greens such as spinach and asparagus, beans, lentils, seafood, turkey, chicken, and ham.
- Zinc is crucial for proper wound healing, blood clotting, and immunity. Thus, you should consume more of this essential mineral to get rid of a canker sore. Foods rich in zinc include lentils, pumpkin, cashew, and sesame.
- Give up smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco as they are known to trigger canker sores.
- Avoid crispy, hard, spicy, salty, or acidic foods that can further irritate the inflamed mucous membranes in your mouth. The same goes for fizzy beverages, coffee, and alcohol. (12) Instead, consume soft bland foods that don’t require a lot of chewing and can be easily gulped down without hurting the sore. Yogurt is a perfect example.
Preventive Tips for Canker Sores
Here are a few measures that can help prevent canker sores in the future while also healing the current ones:
- Make sure to brush and floss your teeth daily. Use a soft-bristled toothbrush to prevent gum injuries that can later evolve into canker sores.
- Use a saline solution (5 mL of salt in 240 mL of water) to rinse your oral cavity thoroughly.
- Certain medications such as chemotherapy drugs, phenytoin, and beta blockers are known to cause canker sores as a side effect. If you experience this problem while taking such medications, ask your doctor for a better alternative.
- Avoid touching the ulcer as much as you can to protect it from further damage and infection. When you do need to touch the sore, always wash your hands before and after.
- Certain oral hygiene products contain alcohol and sodium lauryl sulfate, which can aggravate the pain of a canker sore. So, go through the ingredient list before buying such products.
- Stress is also a prime contributor to the development of canker sores. So, it is important to manage your stress levels through yoga, relaxation therapies, regular exercise, and other calming activities.
Most-Asked Questions About Canker Sores
How do I know if I have canker sores?
Canker sores are described as small round lesions that have a red outline with a yellow, white, or gray fluid-filled center. They are benign but can be quite painful.
They can appear:
Is treatment always necessary?
Canker sores generally heal on their own without treatment. Nearly 85 out of every 100 cases of canker sores are classified as minor, which means they are:
- Only a few millimeters in diameter
- Hurt for 3–5 days only
- Disappear completely after about two weeks
But if the pain and discomfort are unbearable, you may consult a doctor for proper medication.
How do I know if the lesion is a canker sore or a cold sore?
There are two key differences between cold sores and canker sores:
- Cold sores form outside the mouth on the external surface of the lips, whereas canker sores tend to occur inside the mouth.
- Cold sores are caused by a virus and are therefore contagious, but canker sores are not triggered by any pathogen and therefore do not spread from one person to another.
Mouth ulcers are benign and self-resolving, but you can follow the above-mentioned tips and remedies to manage your symptoms, promote healing, and prevent recurrence.
However, canker sores can sometimes be the result of systemic abnormalities that require proper medical diagnosis and treatment. Moreover, other pathologic conditions can give rise to ulcers that may be mistaken for a canker sore.
So, if your lesion persists for longer than 2 weeks, seek professional medical attention.
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Copyright © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
Opinion of W. W. Deloitte, Accountant, on the General Statement of Receipts and Payments to the 31st December 1849, of the Great Western Railway, dated 8th February 1850:
EY’s report dated October 26, 2016 on Apple’s financial statements for the year ended September 24, 2016 (page 70 of the Form 10-K of Apple Inc.):
Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders of Apple Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Apple Inc. as of September 24, 2016 and September 26, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 24, 2016. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Apple Inc. at September 24, 2016 and September 26, 2015, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 24, 2016, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Apple Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of September 24, 2016, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and our report dated October 26, 2016 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
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San Jose, California
October 26, 2016
- I Introduction — The Past — History and Context
- II The Present State of Big Audit
- III A Taxonomy of the Non-Solutions
- IV The Acts and Attitudes of the Players in Big Audit
- V The Uncertain Future of the Big Four
- Timeline: An Abbreviated History — The Origins of the Big Eight, and How They Shrank to Four
- Glossary — Abbreviations, Acronyms and Cast of Central Characters
- Note on Sources
- Thanks and Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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From 1933-1945, the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) was the sole official youth organization in Nazi Germany.
This quasi-paramilitary organization was made up of:
– Hitlerjugend proper) for male youth aged 14-18 yrs.
– Deutsches Jungvolk (German Youth) for boys 10-14 yrs.
With emphasis on physical training and Nazi indoctrination, Hitler Youth were viewed as future “Aryan“ leaders who would fight faithfully for the Third Reich.
The Bund Deutscher Mädel (Band of German Maidens), the only female youth organization allowed in Nazi Germany, was composed of:
– Jungmädel Bund (Young Girls’ League) for girls ages 10-14 yrs.
– Bund Deutscher Mädel proper for girls ages 14-18 yrs.
– BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (Faith & Beauty Society) open to girls 17- 21 yrs.
The BDM used campfire romanticism, summer camps, folklorism, tradition, and sports to indoctrinate girls in Nazism and train them for their roles in German society as wives, mothers and homemakers.
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It has been nearly 60 years since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last worked on constructing a major veterans' hospital, but the agency may be coming back to that line of work.
For months, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has been hit by strong Capitol Hill criticism for poor management of big hospital projects. Now, the VA is considering the possibility of transferring that part of its construction program to the Corps, says VA Deputy Secretary Sloan D. Gibson.
Gibson, testifying at a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Jan. 21, said he's "perfectly willing" for the VA to examine shifting its major hospital construction portfolio to the Corps. The decision on whether to make such a dramatic change has not yet been made, however.
The tipping point has been a troubled Denver-area replacement hospital project. Its construction began in 2010 and was to be finished in 2013, said Dennis Milsten, an associate executive director in VA's office of construction and facilities management. Its total cost was estimated at $800 million, including $604 million for construction.
"It is a mess," said Gibson, VA's No. 2 official since last year. "One of the biggest problems we ran into ... is we tried to push to a firm target price before we had everything locked in," adding, "We rushed to get there. We were anxious. We were impatient."
The project's construction team, a Kiewit-Turner joint venture, stopped work on the project on Dec. 10, one day after a federal appeals board ruled that VA had breached its contract with the firms. In August, Kiewit-Turner submitted a request to exit the project, claiming VA owed the team as much as $100 million for work and materials.
On Dec. 22, VA and Kiewit-Turner signed an interim agreement to allow work to proceed on the job. That pact included a provision allowing Corps officials to be on-site in Aurora to provide technical and management advice, Gibson said.
To finish the hospital, the Corps is reviewing the project and aiming to formulate final plans and a long-term agreement. Lloyd Caldwell, the Corps' director of military programs, told the committee, "We are confident that we can bring the project to a successful completion." Tom Janssen, a spokesman for Kiewit-Turner, said via email, "We felt it was important to bring in the [Corps] to help finish this important project."
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Germany Singapore Business Forum
Join business leaders to discuss growth opportunities in Africa and Asia.
29-30 AUGUST 2023 | Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Singapore
How can businesses build a sustainable and effective supply chain strategy in today’s environment? The first ever hybrid GSBF Connect at Hannover Messe on 17 April 2023 will deep dive into sustainable manufacturing and supply chains opportunities in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Beyond advanced manufacturing insights from top German and Singapore corporates, the World Economic Forum, and the International Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCIT), explore partnership opportunities with like-minded German and Singapore companies over networking drinks and business matching.
Global supply chain disruption is a major challenge faced by many businesses today. As economies reopen, forward-looking manufacturing companies see an opportunity to revitalise and rebuild for longer-term resilience and optimisation. Many companies are rethinking where and how they make and source their goods, with the pandemic intensifying diversification away from single sources and to produce closer to market. EU is slated to see a 28% increase in trade with ASEAN from 2019 to 2023 – the 2nd largest increase in the world (Boston Consulting Group).
In its 28th year, this edition of GSBF Connect brought together industry experts to share insights on key supply chain movements, challenges and strategies. Learn about how Singapore and Southeast Asia can play a role in the transformation of your advanced manufacturing and supply chain activities.
In case you missed it, get your copy of the keynote presentation on redefining supply chains through Singapore and the Southeast Asia region here. You can also view a summary of insights from the session below:
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Singapore has been ranked as the top technology innovation hub outside Silicon Valley/San Francisco in KPMG’s 2021 global technology innovation survey, and named one of the top 10 countries worldwide that show the most promise for developing disruptive technologies. From ideation, to test-bedding and scaling, Singapore’s robust ecosystem fully supports the co-creation of innovative technologies.
This edition of Germany Singapore Business Forum Connect: Singapore as a Global Gateway for Innovation, will spotlight Singapore’s global innovation landscape and emerging business opportunities. Join us in this 2-hour virtual event and discover partnership opportunities at the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH), Asia’s largest tech and innovation festival.
With the increasing attention on the global effects of climate change, governments and businesses around the world are working together to tackle this with innovation to transform the way our economies operate.
The upcoming edition of Germany Singapore Business Forum (GSBF) Connect, will highlight the sustainability opportunities and co-innovation possibilities between German and Singapore companies. Come join us at GSBF Connect as we share Germany and Singapore’s plans to support sustainable development, and facilitate important conversations on the opportunities arising from the green transitions.
GSBF Connect: Pathways and Partnerships for the Green Transition
Hear from leading industry experts as they share Germany and Singapore’s plans to support sustainable development, and facilitate important conversations on the opportunities arising from the green transitions.
Breakout Discussion: Plastic Waste
Learn about the best practices in tackling plastic waste, and explore how German and Singapore businesses can work together to address the issue of plastic waste.
As the world moves towards recovery, some regions are recovering more quickly than others. Amidst continued uncertainty, Southeast Asia is a bright spot, with ASEAN economies poised for 6% real GDP growth in 2021. The region remains an attractive investment destination and a source of partnership opportunities for foreign companies looking to access the Indo-Pacific.
APA and ESG jointly present Germany Singapore Business Forum Connect: Manufacturing and Innovation in Southeast Asia. This 2-hour virtual event will start with a spotlight on the manufacturing landscape in Southeast Asia, and the investment and partnership opportunities open to German manufacturing companies in the region. German corporates will share on their specific innovation interests and the co-innovation opportunities open to Singapore companies.
2020 has brought on a lot of challenges and change for businesses. In this period of uncertainty, open innovation is a priority for companies to come together to co-create solutions and unlock new opportunities for growth.
This edition of GSBF Connect, held in conjunction with the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH), Asia’s largest tech and innovation festival, allowed German and Singaporean companies to jointly celebrate open innovation as a driver of growth, and discover new opportunities for innovation collaboration.
GSBF Connect x SWITCH 2020: Keynote Addresses by Co-Chairs
Hear about the Co-chairs’ experience and perspectives on open innovation.
Plenary: Open Innovation as a Driver of Growth
Learn from industry veterans about what to expect, and how to get started, on your own open innovation journey.
As Southeast Asian and European economies re-open for business, manufacturers in these two regions are seeking to form partnerships to build resilience and emerge stronger from the pandemic. Engagements and partnerships between German and Singapore companies are set to increase as companies diversify their supply chains and look for new markets in the changing business environment.
This 1-hour virtual event featured a plenary session on supply chain resilience and the manufacturing landscape in Southeast Asia.
GSBF Connect x ITAP 2020: Manufacturing in Southeast Asia in the COVID-19 world
Learn about how manufacturers in Southeast Asia and Europe can form partnerships and emerge from the pandemic stronger together.
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De-mystifying Value Retail in the Indian Context Value retail does not mean that consumers have to compromise in terms of the shopping experience, ambience and customer service
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
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A decade ago if a product was sold in the market at a discounted rate, it would arouse suspicions in the consumers' minds. However today, this behaviour has changed with the emergence of the Value Retailing concept.
The buying behaviour for any segment can be divided into utility and luxury. Commercialization, however, offers the consumer a plethora of different options wherein goods bought for utility can also be categorised based on quality and price. The concept of "Value Retail" caters to this aspirational and pocket-friendly requirement of the buyers, bringing high street designs at affordable prices for the multitude while premium brands maintain their exclusive tag by maintaining presence in select areas. In this scenario, value retail stores meet their profits by virtue of large scale reach and unique target audience segmentation. What is noteworthy here is that value retailers manage to maintain quality products at affordable prices.
Shift in the consumer behaviour
The genesis of value retailing can be linked to market recession times where innovation was key to survive the market downturn. The recession had caused a shift in consumer buying habits triggering a negative growth in the retail sector. Consumers restricted their shopping budgets, and opted to buy goods at discount sales, and during promotional offers. As the world recovered from recession, the consumers who were used to buying products on discounts and offers still continue to seek the same. They preferred to buy quality items at prices that are comparatively less than branded ones. This helped in the resurgence of retail and larger format value retail concept stores. Today, value retailing is a big format store concept, where branded products and accessories are sold under best deals. Unlike premium brands which use 3x multipliers to recover their cost, value retailing use only 1.5x multipliers to provide the customers with maximum cost benefit. This concept is planned mainly for tier II and III cities wherein retail stores offer products with an inexpensive price tag.
Consumers, today, are seeking for options to reduce their apparel purchase expenditures demanding and expecting good quality at inexpensive pricing. They are seeking value. There is a noticeable shift in their shopping preferences with more importance given to product pricing. The success of the value retailing concept works on the approach of providing quality goods at factory prices. The products on display in any value retail store are on par with the ongoing fashion for that season in any premium brand. The value retailers bring the latest trends and styles from across the globe and make it accessible to the tier-II & III segment. The market for the tier-II & III segment in India has been penetrated by a few players in the retail sector.
How to deal with the situation
The key to the operational success of value retail stores is the consistent product outreach & demand and managing supply chain. Since the stores cater to the tier-II & III segment, the product segment caters to the demands that are specific to the region. India being a multicultural land, different cultures have different festivities for various seasons, while South of India celebrates Onam, North India is celebrating Baisakhi. Adhering to the niche requirement, value retailers serve the segment with choicest goods that are the need of the hour. Adding more flavour, colours and joy to the myriads of festivities in India, making the most of the opportune moment.
Growth in the retail sector
The surge of ideas in the retail sector has brought an upsurge on the economic front as well. The retail sector in India contributes to 10% of the GDP. Until 2010, rural India was facing a lack of organised sector players. Retail in rural India largely comprised of local corner shops, owner manned general stores, convenience stores, departmental stores, hand cart and pavement vendors, etc. Lack of innovation and new-age infrastructure has hindered the rise of organised retail in rural areas.
India's retail market is expected to increase by 60 per cent to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2020, on the back of factors like rising incomes and lifestyle changes by middle class and increased digital connectivity. While the overall retail market is expected to grow at 12 per cent per annum, modern trade would expand twice as fast at 20 per cent per annum and traditional trade at 10 per cent. Indian retail market is divided into "Organised Retail Market" which is valued at $60 billion which is only 9 per cent of the total sector and "Unorganised Retail Market" constitutes the rest which is 91 per cent of the sector.
Last but not the least, value retail does not mean that consumers have to compromise in terms of the shopping experience, ambience and customer service. Value retail offers the very same experience to shoppers who walk into departmental stores in Tier I cities.
As Sir Philip Green said, "People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just, "How do we make the retail experience a great one".
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Know more about Anemia
Feeling tired? You could be anemic.
Some times we go about life happily so. Some days are as we would rather stay in bed. Somehow we continue doing things without putting much thought to it. Until…something stops us! It could be a cold, a pain, a migraine, thinks floating in our eyesight, inflammation, dizziness, depression, low libido, etc. These symptoms are classic for a number of ailments and it is worth checking what is going on.
If you visit your doctor, ask for a blood test to be done to check your iron levels and you might discover you are anemic.
Read on for dietary guidance on how to boost your iron intake with food.
Causes iron deficiency
Iron deficiency can be the result of numerous and multiple causes. These fall into two broad categories: an increased need for iron and/or decreased intake or absorption of iron.
Iron deficiency can occur during rapid periods of growth. For this reason nature makes certain that developing fetuses, newborns and infants up until the age of about six months have an ample supply of iron. Conditions that result in iron deficiency include blood loss from heavy menstruation, pregnancy, frequent or excessive blood donation, fibroids, digestive tract disease (including infections), as well as surgeries and accidents. Iron deficiency can also be caused by IUDs, certain medications, some dietary supplements or substances that cause bleeding such as pain relievers with aspirin, and also as a result of poisoning from lead, toxic chemicals or alcohol abuse.
Decreased intake or absorption
Decreased intake or absorption can occur in diets that do not include heme iron, the iron in meat and shellfish. Heme iron is absorbed more efficiently than non-heme iron found in plants and dietary supplements. Other nutrients, however, such as vitamins C and B12, folate or zinc can facilitate sufficient non-heme iron absorption. Consuming certain foods and medications can interfere with the absorption of iron. These include dairy products, coffee, tea, chocolate, eggs, and fiber. Medication that inhibit iron absorption include antacids, proton pump inhibitors (to treat acid reflux) or calcium supplements. Diseases conditions can also limit iron absorption; this can happen as a result of insufficient stomach acid, lack of intrinsic factor (hormone needed to absorb vitamin B12), celiac disease, inflammatory conditions such as Crohn’s disease, and in autoimmune diseases and hormone imbalances.
Most at risk for iron deficiency
Women, children and the elderly are most at risk. African American and Hispanic women and their young children are prone to iron deficiency, possibly because of diet or perhaps different hemoglobin needs. Men are rarely iron deficient; but when they are, it is generally due to blood loss from the digestive tract (sometimes indicating disease), diseases that affect iron absorption, and in some cases, alcohol abuse. Except for those who are strict vegetarians, men rarely have dietary iron deficiency.
How iron deficiency is detected and diagnosed
The tests used most often to detect iron deficiency include hemoglobin (the iron-containing protein in the blood that carries iron and oxygen to cells), hematocrit which provides the percentage measures of red blood cells in the blood, serum ferritin, which indicates the amount of iron stored in the body, and serum iron and iron-binding capacity (IBC, UIBC or TIBC). The latter measures are used to calculate transferrin-iron saturation percentage (TS%), a measure of iron in transit in the serum. Serum ferritin is a very important test because it helps distinguish between iron deficiency anemia and anemia of chronic disease (also called anemia of inflammatory response). In cases of iron deficiency anemia, iron supplements can be helpful; but in cases of anemia of chronic disease, iron supplements could be harmful.
A diagnosis of iron deficiency can be made when a person has both low hemoglobin and hematocrit and low serum ferritin. Serum iron and, transferrin-iron saturation percentage will also be low in a person who is iron deficient. Iron deficiency without anemia can occur when a person has a normal hemoglobin, but below normal serum ferritin and/or transferrin saturation. Iron deficiency with anemia can occur when a person has low values of both serum ferritin and hemoglobin.
How to treat iron deficiency
Some approaches are as simple as dietary changes and others involve taking iron supplements, which are available in heme and non heme form. Some people with significant iron deficiency might require iron infusions or whole blood transfusions to restore iron sufficiency.
• Inadequate dietary intake. This is also a common cause of deficiency. It is good to remember that plant-based sources of iron are a little harder for the body to absorb and that vitamin C will aid in absorption of all forms of iron. Typical infant diets, which are high in milk and cereals, can also be low in iron. Try a cereal fortified with iron to up intake.
• Diminished iron absorption. This is often due to reduced gastric acid secretion in the stomach; such as atrophic gastritis (common in the elderly), chronic diarrhoea or prolonged use of antacids.
Dietary Changes and Supplements
You may need iron supplements to build up your iron levels as quickly as possible. Iron supplements can correct low iron levels within months. Supplements come in pill form or in drops for children.
Large amounts of iron can be harmful, so take iron supplements only as your doctor prescribes. Keep iron supplements out of reach from children. This will prevent them from taking an overdose of iron.
Iron supplements can cause side effects, such as dark stools, stomach irritation, and heartburn. Iron also can cause constipation, so your doctor may suggest that you use a stool softener.
Eat more foods that are rich in iron. The best source of iron is red meat, especially beef and liver. Chicken, turkey, pork, fish, and shellfish also are good sources of iron.
The body will absorb iron from meat (heme iron) better than vegetarian iron rich foods (non-heme plant iron), such as:
• Iron-fortified breads and cereals
• Peas; lentils; white, red, and baked beans; soybeans; and chickpeas
• Dried fruits, such as prunes, raisins, and apricots
• Spinach and other dark green leafy vegetables (kale, bok chou, collard greens, watercress)
• Sunflower seeds, nuts
The Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods will show how much iron the items contain. The amount is given as a percentage of the total amount of iron you need every day. The current daily value (DV) for iron is 18 milligrams (mg).
Vitamin C helps the body absorb iron. Include good sources of vitamin C in your plate. Good sources are vegetables and fruits, especially citrus fruits. Citrus fruits include oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, kiwi fruit, strawberries, and cantaloupes.
Fresh and frozen fruits, vegetables, and juices usually have more vitamin C than canned ones. Vegetables rich in vitamin C include broccoli, peppers, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes, and leafy green vegetables like turnip greens and spinach.
Iron Rich Recipes
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This GDPR Compliance Document outlines the measures and practices implemented by Erikamasterson.com to ensure compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is a comprehensive data protection law that safeguards the rights and privacy of individuals in relation to the processing of their personal data. This document explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data obtained from users visiting our website.
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Q: “…Where has the dialogue with Catholic Church
A: To describe the situation I think we could use a paradigm
that former Italian Centre party used to express: Catholic Church and Freemasonry
are “two parallel convergences”. It’s a paradox telling that
two similar realities will never meet, because they’re too similar, unless
one of them (Catholic hierarchy) will “democratically” accept the
existence of the other.
But history teaches that Catholicism is founded on dogmatic features being
anything but liberal. So the only possible truth is one’s own, able to
smear any other interpretation except his way to read “facts and truths”.
Such politicized interpretations change according to historical and social
times, as they’re doing today. By mending the text of Paternoster, they
do like in past times: they care about believers just for “practical”
reasons and keep on twisting Jesus’ main teaching.
Q: “…What was the historical reason driving Popes
to excommunicate?... Shouldn’t it be time to cancel this excommunication?
A: The themes you’re suggesting have been discussed
in our Website in the work called: Initiatory morals or apostasy and especially
in: Part two, Description of a supposed spiritual disrespectfulness.
Q: “Why many exponents of Catholic Church hierarchy
still confirm an “excommunication” for Catholics registered in lodges?...”
A: I think that religious excommunication or political repression
are the most evident signs of uncertainty a “Power” can show. When
man has no other way to state his ideas, he resorts to violence.
So when “men” of ecclesial hierarchies have been no more able
to hide their “deep human nature” to people, and when they veiled
it under a supposed “infallibility”, then a reaction of uncertainty
started up. It has reached a so deep intolerance, to even more “reveal”
their “excessive humanity” and… their fear.
The time of “Myths” is waning, and “legendary” cultures
too. So in our present Era of “unstoppable” Communication, a big
crisis is taking place in “oneiric cultures”. This is not happening
in the peace of reason, but in the explicit violence of emotional fundamentalism.
So I don’t agree as much of what comes from “oneiric cultures”,
but I think it’s still the lesser evil. I think that who “sells”
his principles through “Faith fairs”, rock concerts or festivals
with “jubilating” audiences is still better than anyone “claiming
the world’s attention” to his own religious mythologies, resorting
to medieval “holy wars” and keeping raising his own God to “Bloody
We hope that this “mutation” process we’re looking at with
painful starts, will be soon defeated by the light of reason. That’s not
an unbeliever’s materialistic reason, which is just the opposite of credulity.
It’s a Reason that belongs to an intellect enlightened by “science
and conscience”. This couple refers to: the initiatory Path. It’s
an inner path leading to Self-discover (Know Thyself), that isn’t made
up of belief, or either disbelief, being both two faces of the same “uncertainty”.
Between the two opposites, belief and disbelief, we can find a Middle Course,
shown in the “mosaic” (Mosaic law) of Masonic floor. Like many other
hermetic symbols understandable only by who’s able to, the mosaic reveals
awkward truths to those who’d like to keep humanity in a “state
of subjection” and oppose anyone not feeling like a sheep in the “flock”.
So a New universal Model comes to be necessary. It’s the child of an inner
conviction, and not the lesser child of a blind subjection to dogmas in favour
of few people.
« Liberté – Fraternité – Égalité
» are the seeds the new model comes from. And even if his path won’t
be short or easy, there will always be someone who prefers to die for a Big
Flag, rather than live dying of fear.
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Friday 21st May 2021 to
Saturday 12th June 2021
Focal Point Gallery and Metal are delighted to announce a public art commission by US artist Mary Mattingly as part of Estuary 2021. Vanishing Point, an ambitious two-part installation, comprising of a learning centre located on Southend Pier, and a floating sculpture moored in nearby waters considers how the plant life of the Thames Estuary has evolved and responded to a changing climate over millions of years, and how this knowledge might be used as a prediction for a nearing future.
While the earth currently supports approximately 415 parts of CO2 per million (the highest level recorded in human history), climate models predict that the concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere will reach one thousand parts per million before the end of this century if industrialised nations don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One thousand parts per million would match the level of CO2 found in geologic records during the early Eocene in the Cenozoic Era, around 50 million years ago.
Vanishing Point revisits Southend’s plant life during this period; a learning centre on the Pier presents a place where visitors can discover more of the Estuary's flora through time, as filled with plants that inhabited during the Eocene, as well as those still present today. Viewable from the Pier and Southend shore, a mysterious new inhabitant emerges from the Estuary mud, rising and falling with the tides. A sculpture depicting the Nipa palm, a plant familiar to these waters from the Eocene era retakes its place, supported by scaffolding as if being regrown to support the future of the Southend.
Today, we can witness slow geologic time because the speed of change has increased so much that it can be recognised during a human's lifetime. By studying the fossil records of plants that faced major climate changes in the past, we can help interpret similar processes occurring today, as our community imagines the regenerative fauna for tomorrow.
Vanishing Point is commissioned as part of Estuary 2021 through a partnership between Focal Point Gallery and Metal, with additional funding from Essex 2020 and The National Lottery Community Fund, and supported by local organisations The Old Waterworks and Grrrl Zine Fair.
Saturday 27 March
14:00 and 16:00
We have commissioned Grrrl Zine Fair to produce a zine to document the making of Vanishing Point, which through a series of artist workshops led by Lu Williams and Mary Mattingly, will include input from the Southend Community on the relevance of the project, and what residents imagine for Southend regarding the precarity of Southend being in the top 10% of places in the UK that will disappear as the sea levels rise.
These two workshops have already taken place.
Thursday 3 June
Book your ticket HERE
Join Mary Mattingly online, with an opportunity to listen to her discuss her artistic practice and journey to producing Vanishing Point.
Mary Mattingly is a visual artist. She founded Swale, an edible landscape on a barge in New York City to circumvent public land laws that make it illegal to pick food on public land. Swale co-created the “foodway”, a permanent edible landscape in Concrete Plant Park, the Bronx in 2017. The “foodway” is the first time New York City Parks is allowing people to publicly forage in over 100 years. Mary is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Public Library building an ‘Ecotopian Library’. She recently completed a sculpture Pull with the International Havana Biennial with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade.
In 2018 she worked with BRIC Arts to build What Happens After which involved dismantling a military vehicle and deconstructing its mineral supply chain, focusing on the mineral cobalt. Mary led a similar project at the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also been exhibited at Storm King, the International Center of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo. It has been included in books such as Whitechapel MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled Nature, and Henry Sayre’s A World of Art, published by Pearson Education Inc.
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Memory RAM 1x 4GB Dell - Precision T3610 DDR3 1866MHz ECC REGISTERED DIMM |
- 4GB RAM memory upgrade kit dedicated for Dell - Precision T3610 consisting of 1x 4GB PC3-14900 DDR3 1866MHz ECC REGISTERED DIMM | . ESUS IT gives you 100% guarantee that our product is compatible with your device.
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Featured RAM module expands Dell Precision T3610 capacity by 1x 4GB. Precision T3610 can support up to 128GB of RAM memory. The memory is 240 pin DIMM module working with voltage of 1.5 . It is an EQUIVALENT , matching it's technical specification to - DDR3 ECC REGISTERED PC3-14900 with frequency of 1866MHz and Cycle Latency 13 . Memory upgrade drastically improves upon server speed, stability and efficiency.
Server dedicated memory
1866MHz frequency memory expansion for DellPrecision T3610 massively increases system performance. Upgrading RAM by either replacing modules with higher capacity or adding additional ones, will in majority of cases directly translate to significant improvement in speed and stability of Dell server. This is especially true when already installed memory is used extensively, or there is demand for having additional applications running. Aforementioned memory is designed for server use only..
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Full compatibility guarantee
We give full assurance that the memory is EQUIVALENT of certified Dell Precision T3610 memory, so that no compatibility issues ever arise for you. Furthermore, we guarantee that the delivered modules will be 100% matched to memory already used by Dell. Memory upgrades for Precision T3610 family are usually readily avaliable and ready for immediate dispatch. We only handpick modules passing full tests within first try and meet our rigorous standards.
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Human Rights Violations Report on the Azerbaijani Turks in Iran
Click here to download and read the report
This report covers human rights violations against Azerbaijani Turks in Iran during the first quarter of 2023 (January, February, and March).
This report focuses on human rights violations, specifically in the Azerbaijani region of Iran. There is inadequate access to human rights organizations in Azerbaijani-populated cities. The Iranian government continues to deliberately ignore and deny the existence of any human rights violations within the country despite the existence of overwhelming evidence.
In the first quarter of this year, despite the amnesty that the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei issued, more people have been sentenced and arrested throughout the country. School students, particularly girls, have been targeted through chemical poisoning. The government has taken no action to end these attacks or even begin an investigation into the perpetrators of these crimes.
The first part of this report focuses on 20 arrested individuals. Fifteen of these individuals were released, while five remain arrested. 5 out of 20 of them are women. This report will focus on the cases of sentenced and acquitted individuals. The report’s last section will emphasize the poisoned students in the Azerbaijani-populated area.
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Group of Vittorio Limongelli
Head: Vittorio Limongelli
Researchers: Paolo Conflitti
The Limongelli’s Research Group (LRG) focuses on investigation of biomolecular systems with relevant pharmacological activity and impact via advanced computational tools, such as docking, molecular dynamics (MD) and metadynamics (MetaD) calculations.
By employing state-of-art techniques, the LRG is able to identify new targets and drugs for potential application in medical treatments. The decade-long experience in computational pharmacology allows development of new molecular models and the shaping of inter-molecular interactions for investigation of drug-target complexes for which limited experimental evidences are available.
Furthermore, methodological innovation is pursued via application of hybrid techniques, such as coarse-grained metadynamics calculations, and development of new simulative protocols, like the Funnel-MetaD approach, or machine learning-based methods for improved sampling of molecular motions or exploration of free-energy landscape.
The LRG benefits from a strict ethics, which has been awarded with the prestigious ERC Consolidator, and concern for the collective well-being, as demonstrated by the PRACE-winner REDAC project in contribution to the world-wide efforts against the COVID-19 pandemics.
In the following you find a non-exhaustive list of the current research topics of the group:
- Computational pharmacology (e.g. Development of molecular binding model - Drug design - Virtual Screening)
- Development and application of a multiscale computational approach which combines Coarse-Grained and Metadynamics (CG-Meta) to describe long time-scale processes in very large biosystems (e.g. GPCRs, Transporters, Membrane Receptors)
- Application of advanced computational techniques (metadynamics, umbrella sampling etc.) for computing free energy surface of processes of biological interest
- Use of advanced computational techniques for computing binding free energy and kinetics of systems of biological interest
- Study of the conformational changes in biosystems (e.g. kinases, GltPh, adrenergic receptors) in their apo states and during the ligand binding
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On the eve of a new round of peace talks, the US has warned the Assad regime and its allies against testing the boundaries of Syria’s fragile truce
On the eve of a new round of peace talks, the US has warned the Assad regime and its allies against testing the boundaries of Syria’s fragile truce or disrupting the negotiations.
Meeting fellow top diplomats in Paris on Sunday, John Kerry slammed Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem’s latest remarks in which he rejected any transition in power and called President Assad a “red line”.
“We look forward to the resumption of talks in Geneva on Monday,” the US Secretary of State told reporters.
“And there isn’t a person standing here who doesn’t understand how difficult it is. Witness the comments made just yesterday by the foreign minister of Syria, clearly trying to disrupt the process, clearly trying to send the message of deterrence to others.”
Kerry’s comments were echoed by his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault who accused the Syrian foreign minister of a provocation.
Ayrault said those meeting in Paris, also including the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany, Italy and their EU counterparts, had agreed that in order to guarantee the credibility of the peace talks, the ceasefire should be fully maintained and humanitarian access unhindered.
But as Syrian government envoys arrived in Geneva for the talks, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict, the signs are not good with opposition negotiators saying the country’s political transition can only start once Bashar al-Assad is no longer president.
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Sun, Apr 02|
Stanley Park Rose garden
Cherry Blossoms Mini- Stanley Park
$220 for 1/2 hour session, max 6 people Minimum 20 images delivered via online gallery
Time & Location
Apr 02, 9:30 AM PDT – Apr 03, 12:30 PM PDT
Stanley Park Rose garden, 610 Pipeline Rd, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada
About the event
Come and join us in the Rosegarden to embrace the most beautfiul season of the year at Stanely Park. Several tall cherry trees touching each other form a sea of cherry bloossms. Bring your lunch to picnic after the photoshoot at kids playground, or on the beach to enjoy this special time with your family.
Parking: paid parking availble near the rosegarden. Lots of parking at the stanley park train station (google), you can walk over to rosegarden.
+CA$5.50 service fee
+CA$5.50 service fee0
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