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Great job. Good communication. Fast turnaround time, and willing to work on amends too. Will definitely be using Nuruddin again for these services.
Great person to work with really reliable and trustworthy.
Good strong job!
Very good work and finished on time
Nurruddin was quick and on time. Love the template he designed.
Good and excellent. Will work with him if he keeps providing the same service quality. Thanks
Excellent work. Very patient with me changing my mind on my original instructions. Very professional. Thank you.
Excellent work – very efficient and exactly what I need. Thank you.
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As a company or corporate entity advances in modern society, a key survival factor requires the wisdom gained from IP. For you to properly make your mark in Japan, IP must not only be about what you seek to gain, but the most successful strategy of how to gain it. At Primeworks, we offer you the optimal strategy and support model for successfully achieving your goals.
We at Primeworks file applications for and obtain a multitude of patents and trademarks on behalf of our clients. Our office began as a business engaged in assisting industry-university cooperation with world-renowned scholars. The firm grew exponentially for ten years, and we are now considered to be one of the top IP firms in Japan. Our activities have expanded to support a broad clientele–universities, research institutes, and multinational corporations.
At Primeworks, we place great emphasis on establishing a special understanding through getting to know the client. We are here to serve you, even at a distance of several thousand miles.
Our business continues to be successful in:
- building strong patents
- increasing the scope and value of company trademarks
- protecting our clients’ IP from infringement
- performing contractual work and licensing of IP
Throughout this series of processes, we are able to support our clients with superior performance and reasonable cost.
Patent Prosecution activity is at the heart of our firm. It forms the keystone of our expertise in other fields: patent evaluation, transactions, litigation all start with the firm foundation of prosecution services we provide. Each of our members provides an integral part of the IP puzzle, and each member has both experience and expertise in all areas of patent prosecution before the JPO.
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Implemented End to End ERP Solutions for premiere pharmaceutical companies in India
Primoris Systems, has successfully implemented end-to-end Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for premier pharmaceutical companies in India. Primoris Systems’ ERP solutions encompass various aspects of pharmaceutical operations, including manufacturing, quality control, supply chain management, sales, and finance. These solutions enable pharmaceutical companies to maintain compliance with regulations such as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), and Good Distribution Practices (GDP). Additionally, Primoris Systems’ ERP solutions offer comprehensive supply chain management capabilities, enabling pharmaceutical companies to reduce costs, improve order fulfillment, and enhance customer satisfaction. The implementation of Primoris Systems’ ERP solutions brings numerous benefits to pharmaceutical companies in India. Through its commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, Primoris Systems continues to be a preferred partner for ERP implementation in the pharmaceutical sector.
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Bajaj Dominar 400 Bike Insurance
Bajaj Dominar 400 are great on Indian roads, which is why there are so many of them. But with two-wheeler insurance, you can:
- Be sure that you’re rightfully compensated if your Bajaj Avenger Bikes was stolen or damaged beyond repairs.
- Get coverage for a third party if your bike caused an accident and the third party was injured or their property damaged.
- Get comprehensive coverage for your own two-wheeler, in case damages were caused to your vehicle.
- Be sure that no traffic policeman heavily fines you for not having an insurance policy for your bike. Strictly, say no to bribery!
Inclusions Of Bike Model
You are covered against the following:
- Loss or damage to the vehicle due to an accident
- Loss or Damage caused to third-party life or property
- Theft of insured vehicle
- Damages caused due to natural calamities
- Damages caused due to man-made calamities
Exclusions Of Bike Model
You are NOT covered against the following:
- Regular wear and tear
- Mechanical & Electrical breakdown
- Driving with an Invalid or no license
- Driving under the influence of intoxicants
Add-on Covers For Your Bajaj Dominar 400
Trim your Comprehensive Bike Insurance Premium with these Discounts
- No Claim Bonus: You are eligible for an NCB discount on your own damage premium for every claim-free year. You get 20% for the first year and can go as high as 50% over 5 consecutive claim-free years.
- Installation of Security Devices: A lower IDV demands a lower premium to be paid. (But compute wisely, since IDV is the utmost value the insurer can compensate you with).
- Membership of AAI: A membership to any of the recognized Automobile Associations of India can fetch you an extra discount.
- Choose the Right IDV: If you are in the noble profession of teaching or employed in Govt. Services, you are entitled for an additional discount on your own-damage car insurance premium.
How To File a Claim for Your Bajaj Dominar 400?
About Bajaj Dominar 400
Before Your Next Drive On Bajaj Dominar 400
- Wear Helmet
- Carry this Documents
- DRIVING LICENCE
- INSURANCE POLICY
- RC BOOK
Bajaj Dominar 400 FAQs
Most frequent questions and answers about on Bajaj Dominar 400 bike insurance
An insurance company gives coverage for specific incidents only. The cases for which the Bajaj Dominar 400 can seek coverage are:
- Loss or damage caused by a natural disaster like flood, cyclone, earthquake, etc.
- Loss of Dominar 400 because of man-made incidents like fire, terror activities
- Loss of bike because of theft
- Owner-driver gets an accident coverage
- Own-damage Coverage
- Damages caused to third-party or a third person’s property
You have to do it. The bike-inspection is a must in case the bike policy expires. It may call for a small fee. After that, if the policy provider decides to provide you the insurance coverage, then you have to pay and finally get your policy. Though in some cases, bike inspections are not required.
Every second-hand bike owner’s first and foremost duty is to get the existing name mentioned in the present insurance document transferred to his own name within the mentioned period from the day of transferring the Registration certificate. In case a second-hand owner is not able to do it, his claim in the future will not be taken into consideration.
The names mentioned in the bike Registration certificate and in the insurance documents have to be similar. The first owner can carry on with his No-Claim Bonus to get a premium discount on a new two-wheeler he buys in future. The second-hand owner has to earn his No-Claim bonus with every claim-less year. A new owner can mostly avail of a 50% premium discount for self-damage.
A single-year policy requires to be renewed annually on a particular time every year. You cannot skip a renewal and you have to keep a track of it always. A multiple-year policy creates a chance to save premiums, and along with that, you have to renew the policy plan only once in two or three years.
In case of Third-Party policy, the policy provider gives coverage for harms happened to a third person and some property belonging to a third person by the insured Bajaj Dominar 400.
But in case of a comprehensive policy, policy provider gives coverage not only for the third-party damages but also for harms caused to Bajaj Dominar 400 due to natural calamities such as flood, cyclone and manmade calamities such as theft, fire.
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Do you use City Dance Live?
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Check out the Citizen Swiss & Miyano Fixed Headstock Lathes with a Fiber Laser Option!
Marubeni Citizen is offering the ability to combine a Swiss or fixed headstock lathe with a fiberoptic laser delivery option. The Laser System L2000, available on Cincom A20, L12, L20, L32 and Miyano BNA-42GTY, utilizes IPG Photonics 400-watt, single-mode 10 micron fiber optic system. The L2000 is completely interfaced to the Cincom control.
Citizen Laser System L2000 Benefits
- Laser Cutting, Welding and Etching
- Near Endless Geometric Shape Possibilities
- Minimal Burrs
- Much Faster Than EDM Machining
Productivity has been selling Citizen Swiss-type turning machines since 1990. Marubeni Citizen-Cincom (MCC) was founded in 1984. The Citizen Cincom line consists of a Swiss-type or sliding headstock automatic CNC lathes that are engineered for exceptional cutting performance in the manufacturing of products including medical instruments, electronics, fiber optics, and valves, to name a few. Citizen machines feature Citizen’s unique Cincom software that allows for superimposed and synchronized control of all axes simultaneously. It also provides user friendly operation and simplified programing. All of Citizen’s Cincom machines are designed with both turret and gang block tooling systems and also feature simplified machine start-up/set-up, high speed program check function, multi-lined programs uploaded/downloaded in one file.
They also offers automatic, magazine-style hydrostatic and hydrodynamic bar feeders, specifically designed for Citizen and Miyano Swiss-style turning centers, that share systems and electronics resulting in less components needed to run bar feeder. This effectively cuts cost and reduces the bar feeder’s floor space requirements.
For more reasons why to choose a Swiss-style machine, read our blog on more reasons to choose Citizen.
Click here to see what manufacturers are saying about Citizen Cincom swiss screw turning machines.
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Looking for Gonzales, LA condos for sale? Searching apartments for sale in Gonzales, LA has never been easier on PropertyShark! There are currently 3 condos for sale in Gonzales, LA to browse through, with prices between $110,000 and $155,000. Use the filtering options available (number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage, year built, etc.) to find Gonzales, LA apartments for sale according to your specific needs. Also, if you’re a real estate investor, a good rule of thumb is to look for condos for sale near you because managing apartments for sale nearby is much more time- and cost-effective than managing properties that are located far away.
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How To Become A Public Relations Specialist?
By PR Professionals, July 6, 2022
Public Relations specialist, allows you to manage information flow between organizations and potential clients. This activity has the purpose of creating a positive image for the company in the minds and hearts of customers and other stakeholders. Any firm or individual can communicate its views in society through persuasion, news dissemination and the dissemination.
A PR manager acts as an intermediary between the company’s target audience and the company. This person creates and maintains positive images of the company, which directly impacts sales volumes. This employee, unlike an advertising manager interacts with the outside environment to analyze and evaluate the factors that impact the organization’s image. This profession has many advantages, including its relevance and high salary. It also allows for communication with the media. There is plenty of competition on the labor market.
Learn more about responsibilities
A Public Relations specialist can handle:
- Development and implementation of a PR strategy
- Monitoring the competitive environment
- Formation of a PR-activity plan
- Use social media and SMM to your advantage
- Organisation of diverse events
- Analyse and evaluation of PR campaigns’ effectiveness;
- Writing press releases, news releases and articles for the company’s website.
Specific requirements that a PR specialist must meet
A public relations specialist must have a degree in marketing, public relations or another related field. The specialty “Advertising and Public Relations”, for example, would be a great choice. A public relations specialist should also be skilled in:
- Copywriting skills;
- Competent oral and written speech
- Oratory skills.
A public relations specialist must be confident using a computer and be able to use MS Office, graphic programs, and other software. A strong advantage is the ability to speak a foreign language, especially English.
A little bit of PR history
Public Relations is an area whose origins can be traced back to ancient times. People were persuaded to accept the power and religion of their rulers even during the glory days of Sumer, Babylon and Ancient Greece. Today’s PR techniques were developed in Europe and the USA. Harvard University even had its own publicity bureau in 1900.
The United States saw the rise of departments and companies that worked with the public in the 1920s as a response to expose-oriented reporters. The US experienced a PR boom between 1945 and 1965. PR became an independent direction as a result.
Although PR is a profession that evolved in the 1920s in the USA, India has a long tradition of it from its past. Chanakya wrote the first manual on public relations for a monarch that outlined strategies for the governance of the state by a ruler in 375BC. This was Arthshastra. There are many other historical examples and records of successful communication strategies that different people have used throughout the centuries.
How to get into Public Relations?
A diploma in advertising and public relations can get you a job at a publishing house, PR agency or department of public relations. Many modern companies have this degree. An experienced public relations specialist is in high demand for his or her skills in politics and other projects related to media and the Internet.
A novice PR specialist must be able to communicate well and have a good understanding of the basics of management. Although the initial salary may be modest, many companies offer good opportunities to climb the career ladder.
After 1-2 years of experience in the field, a senior public relations specialist can begin to create advertising materials and press releases, as well as compile information and write articles. This stage is where the specialist gains experience organizing seminars, exhibitions, and press conferences.
After three years of experience, a PR manager starts to earn a better salary. He also understands the principles behind PR strategies and has a list of contacts to help media representatives. A PR manager’s career does not end there. There is the potential to be a leader in your field in the future as large companies vie for your services. These fees will be high.
His portfolio is the best indicator of success for a public relations specialist. To evaluate the work of PR specialists, potential employers use specific mechanisms. For example, they can assess whether the specialist was able bring a new brand onto the market or whether he increased sales or brand awareness.
How much a Public Relations specialist make
A little more than 1,000 vacancies had been opened in India for public relations specialist as of June 2022. Half of the vacancies had salaries in India in the Rs 40k to Rs 43k range.
A PR manager is the high-paid profession in the capital of the country starts with the average salary for this position is Rs 50k. There are many vacancies in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, and Bangalore.
Experienced and qualified PR managers can make a decent living. First, you must choose a university that will give you the best education and practical experience. Your curiosity, hard work, and desire to improve will determine the direction of your career.
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PSL works with our clients to achieve their growth potential
PSL was founded in 1999 and has an enviable client base of successful small, medium-sized and global organisations. We are currently investing in ways that make it easier to access valuable learning and skills development, raising our game in a new world for a diverse range of international private businesses and global corporations. PSL exclusively delivers small or large projects when we know we can deliver exceptional value and our client’s objectives.
Getting the right focus
We really do empower employees
Making it relevant, rewarding and effective for everyone.
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On this page:
This guide provides a list of common issues and instructions for how to troubleshoot it.
Most errors arise from incorrectly placed or loose wires in your circuit. If your sensor isn’t working, try these basic steps first:
1. Check that all wires are actually in the correct position on the breadboard. Breadboard sockets are small so it is easy to make the mistake of inserting wires into the wrong row. Check each connection one by one.
2. If your connections are correct, check to see if any are loose. Sometimes a wire is not pushed completely into place and so the connection in the circuit is not complete. Check for loose connections and tighten them if you find them.
3. Try unplugging the power from your sensor (either the red battery wire or eject from computer power), let your sensor rest for a few seconds and then plug the power back in.
Sometimes it can be difficult to identify exactly which connections might be an issue, so the guide below identifies some common errors and how to fix them.
If the issue you are encountering is not listed below, feel free to post your issue in detail along with any helpful images to our discussion forum.
Introductory Sensor Activities
Problem: The LED in the simple circuit from Activity 1.2 does not light up.
Solution: This most commonly occurs if the LED is not getting powered correctly because it is positioned correctly in the breadboard. Check your connections. The LED has a long end (positive) and a short end (negative). You may have swapped the position of these. Try reversing the position of your LED. This occurs because the LED is not getting power.
Sensor Setup (Temperature, Light or Distance)
Problem: Squares on the LCD screen
Solution: This occurs when there is a loss of power or incorrect ground while the LCD was already on. Ensure jumpers are inserted completely and contacts are clean. Reset the board (soft reset on computer, reset button on microcontroller), or if you are already in the process of collecting samples, press the measure button.
Problem: LCD is light up but no text is displayed.
Solution: The SDA and SCL connections to the LCD are switched or not connected correctly. Double check those specific connections.
Problem: Distance sensor measurement displays -0.1cm and never changes.
Solution: This occurs because there is no information being returned from the sensor, either as a result of insufficient power or wrong connections. Double check that wire positions are correct. If using the battery, charge the battery fully. If using computer power, move the VCC wire for the distance sensor from the positive power rail to a breadboard socket next the USB pin on the microcontroller.
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Mapbox's Directions provides a variety of traffic-aware navigation features, including walking, driving, and cycling directions, ETAs, alternative routes, and turn-by-turn instructions, all laid upon Mapbox's beautiful selection of vector maps.
The Mapbox Directions block, you can build traffic-aware directions and navigation into your real-time applications. For example, if you're building a taxi or ridesharing application, the block lets you stream geolocation coordinates data between users (like a driver and passenger), then provide navigation to connect them. Or for a delivery app, you can send drop off locations to a fleet of trucks based on their current coordinates.
The block requires five inputs: two pairs of latitude, longitude and the type of desired transportation method. Once the response comes from Mapbox, the block appends the directions into the message payload.
Input Channel: mapbox-directions-channel (configurable)lat1, lng1 is the origin coordinateslat2, lng2 is the destination coordinatesprofile represents the type of transporation: mapbox/driving, mapbox/cycling or mapbox/walking
The block appends the directions returned by the Mapbox Directions API into the message payload. Please refer to the Mapbox documentation for field information.
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Vicar's Letter July 2017
There have been many occasions recently when, sitting in my study, I have watched the homing pigeons circling round and round above the Hopsfield gardens in Milborne.
I wonder why they do this? To get a ‘bird’s eye view of the area and to map it out? Or maybe to ride the thermals? Perhaps someone can tell me?
The pigeons have helped me to reflect on journeys through life which sometimes, and you may or may not agree, appear to go round in circles. In July last year my husband Tony and I, with the help of our son and daughter, returned to our bungalow in Milborne, having spent nearly four years back in Tony’s home village in Yorkshire. This was my third move here and my fourth to Dorset, having first arrived in Milborne with my parents in 1979. In fact, I have been circling from Yorkshire to Dorset for each new phase in life for over forty years!
It would also seem that, whatever our beliefs, we need to return to significant places sometimes to give thanks for special events that have happened there, to seek healing of the past, to bring closure, or to complete a circle. Although we as a family were given new and fulfilling tasks in Yorkshire in 2012, making new friends and reconnecting with old ones, for myself and my husband it was only for a time. Sadly, two or three lifelong friends died while we were there. Their passing and Tony’s illness brought closure; and we sensed that it was time to retire home to Dorset. Our son and daughter however, were just beginning their own independent journeys in life and they remained in Yorkshire.
Christians believe that we are called by God to embark on life’s short or lengthy journeys. It sometimes involves taking a leap of faith as we set out; but that faith can be rewarded as God reveals his purpose for us in the place or places that He calls us to. We are also called, wherever we are placed and whatever is happening around us socially and politically, to build strong and loving relationships within our churches, with our neighbours, and with the refugees and immigrants amongst us (cf the bishop’s letter in last month’s magazine).
It was good to return to Yorkshire and to discover God’s purposes for us there, but it is also good to return home to beautiful Dorset and to be able to serve as an ‘active retired’ priest in this benefice. We are discovering how many people are involved in building and in maintaining friendships and strong communities. Perhaps this is a good time for us all to remember and give thanks for past blessings, and then to move on together into the future as we, like the pigeons, continue each circle or journey. May God bless you all on your particular journeys.
Revd. Rosie Coldwell.
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The recent log4j fiasco reminded us that not only is it important to stay updated and current with security news, but it's also critical to have safe ways to deploy configuration updates or orchestrate reporting/remediation scripts across your infrastructure as quickly as possible. Jeremy and Nick join us today to share best practices and automation suggestions.
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Update: the GI Joe quote our hapless host massacred was – "Now you know; and knowing is half the battle."
00:00:22 Ben Ford Hello, everybody, and welcome again to today's episode of the Pulling the Strings podcast, as always, powered by Puppet. My name is Ben Ford. I'm a developer advocate here at Puppet. I'm pretty active in the community as @binford2K. So today we're talking with Jeremy Mill and Nick Burgan about something that probably most of us have had to deal with, maybe a more painful way than we really wanted to. I'm talking about the security incident that we had with log4j. I think there were four rapid succession incidents that just kept happening and it was like at the worst possible time, like they always are. So Jeremy is Puppet's sort of resident white hat hacker. He coordinated the response to this log4j vulnerability storm, and he's got lots of things to say about the best ways to respond to these security threats and incidents and, you know, just any other thing that comes up. So, Jeremy, do you have anything that you'd like to say about yourself or the things you're interested in here?
00:01:26 Jeremy Mill Yeah, sure. I've been in security for quite a while now. I sort of stumbled into it. I have a background, originally as a developer and as a systems administrator, and I worked a little bit doing signals intelligence when I was in the military before that. So, you know, one way or another, I've been a bit involved in cybersecurity for years now, and I've been really lucky to kind of end up where I have.
00:01:54 Ben Ford I saw that you had the Marines background listed, and I was really curious to know, like, what does that signal analysis sort of mean?
00:02:01 Jeremy Mill Yeah. So what that was, I was part of what's called a radio battalion. And we were, you know, small signals intelligence teams who would get attached to Marine infantry units or special operations units. And we would provide what's called indications and warnings to those groups that we are attached with, right? So we'd have people, you know, listening to the enemy and, you know, providing things like, Oh, they're over that way or they're watching us as we walk down this road. Maybe this isn't the road that we want to be on right now and things like that.
00:02:38 Ben Ford That's really fascinating. So it's like sort of sifting through all of the noise and picking out the things that are really relevant. It's almost like the the city at home project where we're trying to find the right kind of space objects or something.
00:02:53 Jeremy Mill Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, think about all of the different ways that people communicate electronically, you know, and obviously, I can't go into too much detail with any of that, right? But you know, they could be a way that we want to, you know that the enemy is communicating. So being able to, you know, listen to it and respond to it in real time or near real time is a pretty cool, pretty challenging field to be working in.
00:03:22 Ben Ford I bet that's fascinating. I bet it really helps kind of like sift out the signal from the noise when we get security vulnerability reports because like some of them are big deal, some of are not a big deal. It's like, I don't know how to tell the difference, but I know that you do.
00:03:35 Jeremy Mill Yeah, yeah, totally. I think the biggest thing is is that attacker mindset, right? Even when you're working on, you know, the blue team, the defenders side of cybersecurity, knowing how to think like the attacker is, right, because when you're doing signals intelligence, you basically are the attacker, as really valuable.
00:03:54 Ben Ford That's really cool. So moving on to Nick, he's an engineer on our Puppet Enterprise team, and this totally isn't his job at all, but once Google released their log4jscanner tool when he realized that it would fit really well, as like a Bolt task or a fact, or fit into the Puppet infrastructure, and he kind of took it on himself to just build and publish that module. So do you want to tell a little bit about that story?
00:04:21 Nick Burgan Yeah, sure. So this all happens, you know, right at the end of the year, like you're saying, the worst possible time when most people are out on vacation and those of us that were here or just, you know, chatting about it and, you know, working in our security channel on Slack and Google released the scanner and someone, in fact, I think it might have been you, Ben said, Wouldn't it be cool if we put this in a module? And I thought, Yeah, yeah, it would. So I just spent a couple of days and just threw something together and started with a task to run this program that Google made a log4jscanner. And it's a really nice tool. It just, you know, it will scan all the directories that you give it and drill down into JAR files and see if any of them are vulnerable and spit out the ones that are. And so it lends itself really well to, you know, running as a task. You can just run the binary across all your infrastructure and get a nice, centralized list of all the vulnerabilities that you have. So yeah, it was fun little project.
00:05:43 Ben Ford Well, I happened to be lucky enough to live real close to to Nick here. And we're doing a backyard kind of miniature communal beer festival this weekend. So I'm pretty excited to see what Nick brings to share. Do you have like any teasers, any hints it can get by? Give me a little excited there.
00:06:04 Nick Burgan Yeah, I've got one of the standbys here in Portland is to shoot, so I've got an old Abyss that I'm going to bring. And then Southern Oregon Brewing is a company that unfortunately went out of business several years ago, and I still have one of their old porters, so I'm looking forward to cracking that open.
00:06:22 Ben Ford I'm really excited about that. Yeah, the Abyss has never really been one of my all time favorites, but it's crazy watching people line up for it every year when it's released. I swear they have like seven bottles, and everybody in Portland just lines up to be like one of the lucky few who could get one of these bottles.
00:06:41 Nick Burgan Yeah, it's definitely a thing. And a few years ago, I did a 10-year-vertical of Abyss where we had one bottle from the last ten years and they were all very different. It was kind of interesting.
00:06:52 Ben Ford That sounds really fun. Well, how about if we kind of move on? And Jeremy, I think you're probably the one who knows the most about like how this thing played out and like how, what happened, and how it turned into the giant storm that it became. So could you tell us a story about the log4j vulnerability and what our response was to it?
00:07:15 Jeremy Mill Yeah, this was sort of the very classic tale of a disastrous zero day being dropped on Twitter, which is sort of everyone's worst fear, right? Which is why this got the response that it did. I was fortunate to be doomscrolling on Twitter at like 9 p.m. when I actually saw the initial vulnerability report and it came out of Alibaba's research team, which was pretty cool to get, right. It wasn't one of the traditional, you know, names that we hear of releasing research, but also maybe part of the reason why it got dropped in the way that it did before anybody had a chance to patch anything. So I kind of started our response, you know, late that Thursday night, realized that I wasn't going to complete it by any stretch of the imagination. So I figured I'd get some sleep and, you know, start really hitting it the next, the next day. But then after that, I mean, it really just sort of it exploded, right? It became, you know, as everybody started to come online, especially through the U.S., and people started to really realize the width and breadth of how widely deployed this library actually is. It just, you know, it sort of it just it took on a life of its own.
00:08:43 Ben Ford Yeah, I heard that Minecraft was actually one of the first ones hit, one of the first things that hit big.
00:08:50 Jeremy Mill So Minecraft is actually the reason why this functionality got added.
00:08:55 Ben Ford Oh, you're kidding.
00:08:56 Jeremy Mill Yeah. So my understanding is that it was a, you know, a feature request or a pull request from some Minecraft developers because they were basically like, Oh, well, log4j has this ability to do, you know, J and DI lookups and wouldn't it be cool if we could just put some commands in the chat and we could, we could run them, right? But that's also just how remote code execution works. And that's, you know, that's the genesis of how all this went down. And that's the reason why, you know, the continuing conversations around this vulnerability are, how do we manage this open source ecosystem that drives so much of our, you know, critical and enterprise systems?
00:09:42 Ben Ford That's crazy. When did you know that it was such a big deal? Because I remember when I read about it, I was like, Oh, wow, this is going to be big. And like, the next day I looked at it and I was like, Oh, no, it's like, really big. And it was like every single day there was another realization of just how much bigger it with it was than I realized.
00:09:59 Jeremy Mill I think I, I can't remember who it was, but somebody pretty quickly went and said, Oh, I'm just going to scrape MAVEN's package repository, right, and take a look for how many vulnerable versions there are out there. And you know, somebody did that pretty quickly and shared the results of it, and it was just a staggering, staggering number of vulnerable libraries. And it was just clear that like that, plus the ease of exploitation, right? You know, just being able to log this malicious string caused RCE was just out of this world. It's like, Oh, this is not this is not good.
00:10:38 Ben Ford Wow. So how do you like like if you see a vulnerability like that go around, like, how do you know if you're affected? How do you know if that's something that you have to jump on and respond to right away?
00:10:50 Jeremy Mill Yeah, that's a super awesome question, and I think you can look at it from from two perspectives, and I'm lucky enough to, you know, being in product security to wear both of these hats a little bit, you know, from like the AppSec perspective and the, you know, developer of a product perspective. You know, in the ideal situation for absolutely all of your software that you produce, you've got a full bill of materials. And, you know, because you're running a software composition analysis tool, you know, like WhiteSource or Synk or one of those, right? And you could very quickly go, is this a first party dependency that I'm bringing in? Is it a transitive dependency, right? A dependency of something else that I'm bringing in, right? And you should be able to respond to it really quickly. And in the situations where you don't have the ability to very quickly search your code base, right? And also, it's a good way to verify your SCA tool as well, you know, to get a good understanding of what's affected and then what the value of those things are that are affected. Right. So knowing what your crown jewels are, what you're most critical assets are, really helps you do that.
00:12:03 Ben Ford Yeah, that value part, that's huge.
00:12:06 Jeremy Mill Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that's a missing piece from a lot of places, which is unfortunate. And then the other side, right, is the sysadmin piece. And I think that's what like this module that we released really helps with because you might install, you do right, it's guaranteed you install software on your system that you don't fully understand.
00:12:29 Ben Ford Sometimes you don't even know that you install it.
00:12:31 Jeremy Mill Exactly, right. And yeah, it's installed by something else you installed or it came down through an update or, you know, any number of ways. And that's what was a lot harder to answer through this.
00:12:42 Ben Ford That's kind of a fascinating point. You brought up Snyk and like analyzing your dependencies and everything. One of the things that seemed like it made this particular vulnerability really, really hard is just kind of the way that Java dependencies are packed inside the JAR file like the package distribution, but not necessarily like something that you could see externally. Like if it were a like a system library, you just query RPM database of something, but JAR files they could contain anything. And if the thing you're looking at isn't an open source tool that you could just like, crawl back and look at all the repositories everywhere, then you're in to the point of like like, how do you analyze every single thing on your system? And it's something that I always see whenever there is a vulnerability is like there's little snippets of shell code or there's like, here's a little like Perl script that I wrote that's going to tell you if you're vulnerable and everything, how do you know when you can trust those things? And why did we wait until Google releases the scanner instead of using any of the other things to build out our module? I suppose that's for both of you. Input into that.
00:14:02 Jeremy Mill Yeah, I think it's a great question because in one way, right, this is harder to detect because it was, you know, part of a JAR, right, and JARs can be nested in all sorts of things like that. But JAR files or ZIP files and you know, we can, you know, recursively search relatively easily. It's possible to imagine an even worse scenario, which is some very popular but always statically linked library is all of a sudden vulnerable, maybe something built with GO or, you know, built with RUST, right? And with a similar, you know, probably wouldn't be as widely deployed, but could still be bad.
00:14:44 Ben Ford Something that you'd have to decompile?
00:14:46 Jeremy Mill Right, exactly right. Or even worse, the detection rate has a really high false positive rate, which makes it harder to definitively go back to a vendor and say, like, no, you are vulnerable, we need you to patch this.
00:15:01 Ben Ford Some years ago, I remember, what was it, Shell Shock, though that was also really huge. This one might have been bigger, but I did some a module kind of similar using M collective in a fact. And it was literally just a bunch of Shell snippets that I found in different places across the internet that were like, if you run this thing in a segfault, then your version of bashes is vulnerable. And I put it all into a fact. To be honest, I think that was a little bit risky because I didn't completely know what each one of those snippets of Shell code was doing.
00:15:47 Jeremy Mill Yeah, no, that's an awesome point. And I think, you know, one of the reasons that we waited where some of the very first scanners, if we want to call them that, that came out for this were really more of like Red team tools, right? They attempted to just exploit the issue, right? And you know, some of them included, you know, like base64 encoded JNTI payloads, and they were like, trust us, it's fine, right? But you know, they might not have been. I try to stay away, you know, it's like a personal philosophy kind of way, from scanners that boil down to, well, let's try and exploit it. And if we get back a valid result, you know, sometimes that's your only option. But there's lots of undefined behavior as soon as you start getting into the world of launching exploits, whether they're supposed to be benign or not.
00:16:41 Ben Ford Yeah, it kind of sounds like you're saying that it mostly boils down to a matter of trust. You know that it was the fact that we could look at who built this log4jscanner tool, and we had a high level of trust with them.
00:16:56 Jeremy Mill Yes, certainly for me, for sure. You know, also the trust in the stability of the tool, right? I trust that if Google's releasing it and it's something that they're running across their infrastructure, they've done some of their due diligence to at least make sure that they're, you know, doing no harm. You know, if we're going to steal that from doctors in, and that's a huge confidence boost, you know, versus maybe to some random, you know, repository. I might trust that to run locally. You know, in a container or, you know, maybe in my machine if I'm desperate. But as soon as you click that deploy all button and you push it out to everything, that's a different level of trust you have to have.
00:17:38 Nick Burgan It helps that the entire tool is open source that you can go in and see exactly what it's doing. And, you know, with our module, too, you can build the binary yourself if you want to have an extra level of confidence that it's, you know, doing what you think it's doing.
00:17:55 Ben Ford It being written in a way that lets you like, actually read the code and understand what it's doing.
00:18:00 Nick Burgan Yeah, for sure.
00:18:02 Ben Ford That was super useful. So how do people normally manage these scans or updates or whatnot when their infrastructure might be thousands of machines? Like how did they even know where to deploy fixes to? I know that like even this log4jscanner tool that Google released, it was written to work on a local machine like you'd be on the machine that you were testing and it would tell you if it was vulnerable or not. But that doesn't scale out to infrastructures.
00:18:33 Nick Burgan Yeah, that can be a challenging problem, and everyone has many different ways that they put together to accomplish things like that. You know, you could just add a base level, you know, you can SAP the binary to all of your nodes and use a SSH to run it on the nodes and collect all that data and read it all yourself. And that's, you know, that's really cumbersome. Something like Puppet makes it really easy. You know, you have a window into all of your nodes in your infrastructure, and you have this avenue for collecting whatever data you want. So you can write a fact like you were saying to collect that data or in the case of this module, you can really easily, you know, just write this module that contains the binary and some code around it and just go run it on your thousands of nodes and collect all the data in a very centralized place that can really help you to get a good understanding of where your infrastructure is at and what's vulnerable and what isn't.
00:19:31 Jeremy Mill Yeah, I've been, you know, on the writing side of some of those very janky SSH to all of my nodes in an organization type scripts, you know, in situations where I wish I had a tool like Puppet or like this module that would have made that response so much easier. And yeah, it is a nightmare. And you know, sometimes you end up running it nine times because you found edge cases as you were running it. It's a terrible, terrible place to be. Preparation is key.
00:20:00 Ben Ford I have definitely been on that and where I run a job and it's like it's going to take four hours to complete and it's like 87 percent done. And I'm like, Oh crap, OK, well, I guess I got another four hours ahead of me. So if you already are running Puppet, that's really useful. It's easy to just classify your machines and distribute whatever is needed from this module, but what about people who aren't running Puppet yet? Is that something that the Bolt task helps out with?
00:20:31 Nick Burgan Yeah. So Bolt is kind of like, you know, your next step up from, you know, writing a bash script and that necessary chain until your notes, right? So Bolt will make it really easy so you can write a task that does what you want for each of your nodes and then go out and run that at scale and collect all that data back in a centralized way. So in fact, when I was developing this module in the first place, the first thing I started with was just very simple task, right. So all it does is download the binary from the primary server, runs it and spits the results back. And the nice thing about this log4jscanner tool is that it's very simple. It just prints it out on each line, each vulnerable JAR file that it finds, including ones inside other JAR files. So, you know, just as a base level, and probably for most people that works really well, you know, you just want to run this tool and see the results. And you know, if everything's blank, then you're good and then you can take it to the next level if you want, you know, if you want to get fancier with it and you want to actually monitor your infrastructure continuously where you know, maybe someone later on down the line installs a new package that hasn't been updated with the new log4j version and is still vulnerable. You can continuously monitor your infrastructure for introduction of these vulnerabilities. And that's where you can, you know, kind of get more of the Puppet code and the module to actually generate facts for you. And you know, that's kind of another level on top of that.
00:21:59 Ben Ford Yeah, that's pretty cool. And to be clear, it's like Bolt isn't the only thing that can orchestrate running tools like this. There are other products out there that do it. I think it's really important that people know that there are ways that you can, that you don't have to sit down and start by writing a shell script to SSH in a four loop across all of your infrastructures.
00:22:22 Nick Burgan Yeah, absolutely. You got to, you know, pick the tool that you're most comfortable with that you can, you know, rapidly develop these kinds of things, especially when you're in these kind of crunch times where there's a very serious vulnerability that you need to figure out if you're exposed to.
00:22:37 Ben Ford One of the things that I like about Puppet and Bolt module, though, is that it's sitting up there on the Forge and you can just install it and use it. You don't have to build it and develop it for yourself. And because it's built by somebody, that going back to the idea of trust, is built by somebody that we hope you trust, us, and other community members are also running the same thing. You're running something that you have a higher level of confidence in when you have other community members that are also running the same thing. So it's kind of like the distribution of such a tool that I think really adds to the value of it.
00:23:13 Nick Burgan It's kind of crowdsourcing this work, right? There's no need to reinvent the wheel 20 times. You know, if someone creates something that does exactly what you need, great, you know, it reduces your response time. So it's very helpful.
00:23:27 Jeremy Mill One thing I would like to add real quick though, I would advocate for people to try doing something like this before an incident happens, right? The time that you want to figure out the gotchas with any of these tools, right, no matter what tool you're using, is not during an active incident. Right. So be a practice like you play and do that tabletop exercise. Run something, right. Get get who am I back from all your machines? You know what I mean? Something that you can replace later. But try something before an incident.
00:24:06 Ben Ford That's a really good point, actually. And it really kind of supports the idea that we should be using an orchestration tool rather than writing a Shell script that will call the raw tool that Google published because that thing didn't exist four weeks ago, or however long, I guess it's been a couple more weeks than that. So it's brand new. And if you're trying to figure out how to use it and what its limitations are and how to invoke it and what you can trust, etcetera, in that active incident, like you're saying, you're bound to make more mistakes or have a higher stress levels or whatnot. But if you have a tool that you're already used to running and you can just say, Hey, we have a scanner, we trust Google built it and this thing is going to orchestrate it for us and we already know how to do that. Go make it happen. Give me a report back. That's a lot less that you have to, like a lot less cognitive load, you have to take on right away.
00:25:05 Jeremy Mill Yeah. And also, I, you know, thinking about who's running it in that situation, right, to that sort of organizational risk, the person who does it on a regular basis might not be there when the event is happening or, you know, it may be a different team who's taking the lead on it and making sure that that institutional knowledge is shared and supported and, you know, resistant to single points of failure will make a world of difference.
00:25:33 Ben Ford I like that a lot.
00:25:34 Nick Burgan Yeah. And having something like the log4jscanner module, if you look at the code and by the way, it's completely open source, you can go look at it on our GitHub. It's actually a pretty good framework for just running whatever binary you want and collecting the results back in a centralized way. So if you have this framework in place before these things happen, you know you can take the specific tool that is scanning for the specific vulnerability and just, you know, copy this module and add your binary in there and you've already got something ready to go.
00:26:05 Ben Ford That's a really cool idea. Now, you sort of mentioned this the other day, the idea of maybe like making that a little bit more generalizable framework, so it wasn't tied just to log4j, but it could be extended for other scanners to detect other things. Do you have any thoughts or plans on extending that? Or is that just a hey, this is a thing that could happen?
00:26:29 Nick Burgan Yeah, for sure. I think it would be a really useful kind of module to make. So, you know, there are, of course, some log4jscanner specific things in this module, for instance, the flags that you pass, the binary and some of the parameters in the class for setting up the continuous scanning. But by and large, it's pretty generic. So I think it would be great to take this module and, you know, go the next step and make it more generic so that you can run anything and pass whatever flags you need into the binary. Yeah, have it ready to go for the next thing that you need to scan your whole infrastructure for.
00:27:07 Ben Ford Almost sounds like a template for security response.
00:27:10 Nick Burgan Yeah, definitely.
00:27:11 Jeremy Mill This actually just came to my mind, but it would almost be really cool if you know you could use things like, you know, YARA rules or things like that. You know, if you had a specific piece of malware, right? Even if you're maybe searching for things like that, right, it could be really pretty extensible and useful for a wide variety of security incidents.
00:27:32 Nick Burgan Yeah, for sure.
00:27:33 Ben Ford That's a really neat idea. I know that when we did the malware scanning on the Forge, one of the things that we can do with VirusTotal is define our own custom YARA rules to detect things that maybe the big scanners don't. And that that could be really helpful being that Puppet modules aren't necessarily the same kind of things like Windows exe, for example. So that was something that we did consider and we may end up doing sometime in the future. We kind of really covered a lot of this and just kind of organic conversation, but what sort of challenges did you have writing this thing? Were there any things that were particularly difficult that we haven't already talked about?
00:28:19 Nick Burgan Yeah. So when I was writing this module, you know, Google hadn't actually published any compiled binaries yet, so we had to compile it ourselves, which is not hard at all. It's a pretty simple go app, but you know, you also want to make sure that you know, this binary that we are distributing is trusted, right? So there is some checking in the module, some checking just to make sure that, you know, the binary that you're sending out is the one that we packaged with the module. And also in the read me, there are instructions on exactly how we built it from what commit we built it from and Google's log4jscanner repo so that there's traceability. So I suppose that's one challenge. Another is just that kind of creating the framework for that kind of next layer where you have the continuous monitoring for your infrastructure, not just running the task, but actually, you know, kind of running this app on a regular basis and collecting that data in a fact. In this case, it actually was not too hard because we have another module that does something similar called The Patch, which is based off the OS patching module by Tony Greene. So we're able to, you know, kind of take a lot of that code and pare it down and apply it here. But, you know, if we hadn't had that, it would be a bit more work to kind of put all that machinery in place.
00:29:49 Jeremy Mill I was going to say I'm really glad that you brought up, you know, the importance of reproducible builds. Security people love reproducible builds and I think everybody should, you know, so regardless of whatever software that you might be writing, right? That's it. It's really nice to be able to provide that as a feature to your users.
00:30:10 Ben Ford That's exactly the same thing I was going to ask about, is just to clarify that we were talking about like how you trust, not only do you trust the thing from Google, but you trust it. We are not sneaking something in nefariously in between and being able to go back and validate this matches that build that I pulled from that repo. This maybe this is a question for Jeremy, I think, as the security expert here, in the having the experience in responding to these things long term. One of the things that this module does is it monitors, like periodically runs the scan like, like Nick was saying and reports back. But that scan itself, it's not a lightweight thing. So I assume that at some point we can say, Hey, we're done with this incident. We no longer need to run this scan and check this thing. How do you make that determination? How do you decide when to pull this back?
00:31:08 Jeremy Mill That's a really good question, and I don't know that there is an easy answer. You know, at the last check, Google actually ran numbers again against Maven. And, you know, fairly a non-trivial percentage of, you know, packages that had log4j in them still have the vulnerable version. So I guess a lot of that would depend on what your change control processes are, right? If you're not confident that somebody in your organization isn't going to pull in untrusted packages or install untrusted software or software that hasn't been checked, you know, as part of some other continuous process, right, then, you know, then it's going to have a lot longer of a tail for you to run this. But if you do have good change control procedures and you do have a high degree of confidence in, you know, who is installing things on your systems and in the processes that check those things that they're installing. You know, it could be a much shorter window right there, orgs out there probably have stopped running this already. And others who are, you know, might be looking at doing this for, you know, a full calendar year or longer.
00:32:30 Ben Ford How annoying must it be to do like a complete audit and like clean all of your infrastructure of this thing. And then for it to just kind of sneak back in at a like a transitive dependency three months later?
00:32:41 Jeremy Mill Regressions happen all the time, and certainly, no one here is is amazed by that. But that's, you know, that's just a fact of life. And I don't have the answer. I've been responsible for regressions by accident before, you know, so it's a hard problem. And it's about building resilient processes, because that's really your best defense.
00:33:07 Nick Burgan And I think that's why you need to have some sort of continuous monitoring of your infrastructure to make sure that these things aren't slipping back in, that you have some way to detect when they slip back in, and you have something in place to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:33:22 Ben Ford It's something that you said, Jeremy, kind of like sparked a thought, and this is sort of like half formed. I don't really have a complete question, but I think you'll probably get the gist of what I'm saying here is, like the idea of taking this scanner and then pulling it back because you have some kind of validation built into your change control. So you know what software is being deployed and where, etcetera, when you have something like Puppet or Ansible, you know, things that deploy software into to your infrastructure, that configuration, it always goes through your CI pipeline. But the software that it actually pulls down and installs doesn't necessarily, like depending on how you have your own policy set up, you might be pulling directly from an install source or a repository on the internet rather than through your own pipelines. So do you have suggestions, maybe on processes or tools or like maybe this is something that can help with and tracking down those transitive dependencies?
00:34:31 Jeremy Mill Yeah. So you know, there's there's a decent number of ways to control for things like that, you know, but this is at the heart of the supply chain attack scenario, which is even if there's something that was previously trusted, right? It can become malicious. Whether that's, you know, we have lots of examples of npm packages recently becoming malicious or being typos squatted, right? So when it got retyped by someone, you know, they accidentally pull in the malicious one. You know, one solution might be that, you know, before we actually deploy this change to prod, you know, we deploy to a staging environment, and that's where we can run our log4jscanner, right? Make sure that this image, this set of what we're pulling in right now is clean from what our rules are, right? And we take that performance hit there because it's not carrying a production workload. And then we can promote it to being our production system, things like that.
00:35:36 Ben Ford Yeah, those are great suggestions. And honestly, that's not limited to just security issues, either. It's like, this is how you validate that you get good changes, that you get trusted changes go out into your infrastructure. That was something that I had intended to ask, and I think I kind of skipped over it and zoomed on to get to some of the more juicy tech details here. But one thing that I remember you saying and I don't remember the exact words, but one thing that I remember having a conversation about early in this vulnerability response is to like, slow down and look at it more methodically and not rush something out before we were certain what the impacts were going to be. Oh, what's the narrative around that? Do you have suggestions about how people can do that at the appropriate speed, like respond as quickly as possible, but also without breaking things in the meantime.
00:36:34 Jeremy Mill Yeah, I think one of the things that's, you know, I think a lot, if not most orgs, probably do this right. But you know, we said before, like first do no harm, right? And I think that's important right, to get it right. But, you know, stop and actually, to the extent that you can figure out what is vulnerable, in what ways you can accurately assess the risk that you're facing, because that's going to drive a lot of your decisions and also being prepared to put mitigations in place, right? So these are things that aren't fixes, they're WAF rules, you know, nobody can block, you know, log4j exploitation with a WAF, right? There's six million bypasses. But you know, in that first day, two days where almost all of the exploits that people were seeing all looked the exact same, you could have a pretty high degree of confidence that you weren't going to get exploited by this so that you could, you know, buy yourself that window to make sure the fix that you're putting out is the right one and that you're actually fixing the issue to the greatest extent possible.
00:37:57 Ben Ford All right. So we're kind of getting closer to the end here. So do either of you have advice for people mitigating things like this in the future? I know this is not going to be the last one that we see. We've already seen another several in the meantime. So how do people respond effectively? Are there suggestions that we haven't already talked about?
00:38:20 Nick Burgan I think just, you know, having something in place to be able to monitor your infrastructure that you know, a framework where you can actually have observability into what's on all of your nodes and be able to run a scanner or whatever to be able to detect issues, new issues that come up. So, you know, having your infrastructure in place to be able to do that.
00:38:46 Jeremy Mill Yeah, I agree. I think step zero for all of these things is inventory, right? Inventory your assets, inventory your software, inventory the bill of materials that makes up, you know, if you're if you're writing software that you can use that, you know. Right. Knowing that is critical and then knowing which ones of those assets are the most critical, right, doing that crown jewels analysis so that you know what's the most important thing to secure first, because not everything can be a critical asset. And then, exactly like what Nick said, practicing and being prepared to respond. You know, you don't want to create an incident response checklist while you're responding to an incident. Right, that's the wrong time. So having that ready ahead of time and having practiced and having playbooks made, combined with that crown jewels and that inventory is going to set you up for success.
00:39:51 Ben Ford Absolutely. One thing that we briefly touched on, and I think we could probably close here is the fact that this was an open source project that made a lot of it easier because we were able to look at the code and we're able to sort of like, see what the problems were and figure out if we were vulnerable. But often we don't have that luxury. And the vulnerability is very deep in some proprietary closed source product. And there's pros and cons to both of those. I mean, like if we look at open source projects, we have that transparency, but we also don't have accountability. We don't have somebody with a support agreement that we can file a ticket with. Whereas with commercial vendors, we usually do. Do you have any suggestions for companies for like navigating either of those?
00:40:52 Nick Burgan From my point of view, community is extremely important. You need to be a member of a community, and maybe that is, you know, a community. No one can detect and mitigate these vulnerabilities on their own in an effective way, right? We all need to work together to develop solutions to help us all out, to see these problems coming and to mitigate them when they arrive. So I think it's very important for us to share tools like the Googles' log4jscanner, like our module, any other tools that are out there so that we can all respond to these as quickly as possible, as effectively as possible.
00:41:35 Jeremy Mill Yeah. I want to second that, for sure. Describing this community, I think, is awesome. And then I also think it's important for organizations to try and donate back, right? You know, like our team, something I've done at other orgs and I'm trying to increase us doing here at Puppet, is we do, you know, hack yourself first Fridays where you know, we try to do security testing against your features of our product, but also right, that also includes like, hey, here's an open source library that we use quite a bit, right? Donating some of our time and expertize to doing some testing on that right, doing some fuzzing and, you know, submitting patches or even just raising issues, right? And if you can't do that, right, if that's not what your org does, donating money can be really useful as well, right? But doing something to give back is really important.
00:42:36 Ben Ford And I absolutely agree with that. I think that we should all be contributing back a lot more than we are. And I don't mean us as Puppet the company, I mean, like the entire industry. I think that we could all do a better job at contributing back and participating in this open source community. So I think as we close up here, I think the lesson I'm hearing is that the real critical parts about any of these sort of security responses is preparation. And that's like having good inventory, knowing what you have in your infrastructure and like practice, expertize, using your tools, the things that deploy, the things that orchestrate, the things that report, etcetera. And then during the response itself, having that ability to move quickly to mitigate issues, but in a safe and intentional controlled manner so that you know exactly what you're deploying and you know where and you have a really good idea of what effects it's going to have and going back to the preparation a bit, having systems that already do this, the inventory and the orchestration and monitoring and observability systems, I think those are, like, absolutely essential. And whether that's Puppet or Bolt or something else, I think that's the thing that we really want to kind of drive home. It's like, have these systems in place already and know how to use them so that you're ready to use them as quickly as you can when when the time comes to that. Do either of you want to extend on that at all?
00:44:18 Jeremy Mill I think you largely nailed it. We try to describe it on our team as time of detection, to time of mitigation, to time of response, right? Or time of fix. Right. And that, you know, that can take a lot of different forms. But like your time of detection, if you have a good bill of materials is really low, your time of mitigation, if you can have a good idea of what the exploit looks like can be really low in the time of response. If you're prepared with something like the log4j, to run something like the log4j module to discover all of your vulnerable assets and fix them can be really low as well. So, you know, preparing to make sure that all of those, you know, time deltas are as small as possible.
00:45:06 Nick Burgan Yeah. And adding on to that is, you know, making sure that the tools work for you, right? If you have a set of tools that are cumbersome within your environment or you have people who don't have the expertize in those tools, are not comfortable with those tools, they're not going to do much good. So make sure that you have the right tools in place. You have the right content in place so that you can very rapidly respond.
00:45:32 Ben Ford So if people have any questions or they want to follow up in conversation with either of you, are you available, maybe in the community Slack or on social media or anything?
00:45:46 Jeremy Mill Yeah, I'm available in the community Slack, especially in the security channel. You know, if you want to talk to me, you can always send me a message and then I'm also on Twitter at @living_syn. Which is a super nerdy and terrible joke.
00:46:03 Ben Ford How many people like, like, reach out to you and make a joke?
00:46:07 Jeremy Mill Not enough. I feel like we need more of that. More nerdy jokes everywhere, please.
00:46:13 Nick Burgan Completely agree. I am also in the community Slack I'm NickB the our Puppet community Slack. I'm kind of a social media Luddite, so it's about all I have. But you can definitely reach me there
00:46:24 Ben Ford Right on, and because this module is open source, so we are accepting contributions to it. So if you look at this module and you have ways to improve it, we would love for you to submit a PR or an issue or even just talk about it like ways that we could use that in other ways, like Nick was saying earlier, making it generic so that we can drop other kind of scanning tools in it. And you don't have to, like, scramble to run, write all these things down because we will attach links to the end of the show notes here. So if you just check it out on the Puppet website, just look for the podcast. You'll see this one listed down at the bottom. There will be a list of all of the links and the things that we talk about. And that's a wrap today. And once again, thanks for being here, thanks for listening, joining us in this conversation. I had a really good time. And even though I thought that I had a pretty decent idea of what the conversation was going to be and what this landscape looks like, I feel like every time I talk to you, it's like my understanding grows just a little bit more. And I love that experience. So thanks for being on here. Thanks for chatting, and thanks for giving me all these wonderful ideas.
00:47:41 Jeremy Mill Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.
00:47:43 Ben Ford Thanks for being here on Pulling the Strings, as always, powered by Puppet.
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Kick off the summer with this week’s triple release. Your favorite murky IPA, DDH United, makes its annual return in time for 4th of July celebrations. Shake the Ground, our triple IPA featuring a new hop—Talus—was such a hit last year that we decided to bring it back as well. And that’s not all…We teamed up with solar-powered Anderson Valley Brewing Company to brew a new pale ale, Sol Power—the perfect sidekick for longer days and shorter nights.
The cans will be released on Thursday, June 16th at all five taproom locations as well as for California shipping. Check out all the details below.
Murky IPA with Citra & Mosaic Hops
A tribute to the American hop, DDH United murky IPA features hand-selected Citra and Mosaic hops from Washington which accentuate the fruity esters of our murky yeast strain. We double dry hopped this beauty to give it a super juicy boost, adding essences of sweet citrus, guava, pineapple and strawberry jam. It’s a pillowy, easy-drinking accompaniment for days at the beach and backyard barbecues.
Price: $22 / 4-pack
Available June 16th at 9am.
Murky Triple IPA with Mosaic, Motueka, & Talus Hops
We’re shaking things up again with this juicy, full-bodied murky triple IPA. Shake the Ground showcases Talus, a new varietal out of the Yakima Chief Hops HBC (Hop Breeding Company), alongside a couple of our go-to hops—Mosaic and Motueka—to complement. Aromas of mango and orange sorbet give way to flavors of pineapple upside down cake, coconut, and clementine.
Price: $25 / 4-pack
*Collaboration with Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Pale Ale with Mosaic, Citra, & Strata Hops
Sol Power comes in hot as our first collaboration with Anderson Valley Brewing Company. Did you know that Anderson Valley is the world’s first solar powered brewery? Inspired by them, we are in the process of installing our own solar power. ☀ Back to the beer…we wanted to brew something hoppy but sessionable as we dip our toes into the summer heat. This gluten-reduced, medium-light bodied pale ale has a heap of Mosaic, Citra, and Strata hops—emitting aromas of passion fruit, watermelon, and blood orange. Flavors of pomelo, pine, and raspberry shine bright on the palate and lead to a dry finish.
Price: $18 / 4-pack
The cans will be released at all five taproom locations on Thursday, June 16th. They will be released online at 9am, and they will be available for pickup at all five taproom locations when our taprooms open at 12pm (Miramar, Balboa Park, North Park, and Carlsbad) and 3pm (Vista). In other words, you can purchase online OR in person, but please note the cans will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis starting with the online orders at 9am.
If you would like to order and pay online for pickup, please place your order at the location where you plan to pickup.
A limited amount of cans will be released online for California shipping at 9am on Thursday, June 16th. They will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Dog breeds have been split into 7 groups. Each group has specific characteristics of each breed and what they were bred to do.
The dogs in this group were originally bred to be watch dogs or to pull carts and sleds. They are extremely intelligent and loyal. Examples of these dogs are:
2. HERDING GROUP
These dogs were originally bred to herd livestock. They are smart and energetic and are able to corral other animals. Examples of these dogs are:
Australian Cattle Dogs
3. HOUND GROUP
The hound was bred for hunting. They have a powerful sense of smell and are affectionate and strong willed. Examples of these dogs are:
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These dogs were bred to assist hunters in retrieving game. They have a high amount of energy and are really well driven. Examples of these dogs are:
5. NON-SPORTING GROUPS
The non-sporting group was not specifically bred for any particular job. They are the dogs that don't really fit into any of the other groups. However, they do make great candidates for pets and have a range of characteristics. Examples are:
6. TOY GROUP
These dogs are small in stature but are big on brains and affection. They make perfect lap dogs. The examples are:
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
7. TERRIER GROUP
The dogs in this group were bred to kill vermin. They are good watchdogs and make good pets. Examples of these dogs are:
Jack Russell Terrier
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Every minute we lose or cast 40,000 skin cells. These tiny flakes of skin fall to the ground like confetti and leave a smelly trail for your dog to follow with their incredible nose.
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You work as a team with your dog to learn and practice problem solving skills such as crossing varied terrain, turns and road crossings. Your dog can learn to sniff something that the ‘missing’ person has touched or worn and be able to search for their unique trail.
The best thing about mantrailing is that it is so much fun! It can be used to channel excess energy into a constructive skill thereby increasing focus and concentration duration.
Suitable for all dogs, regardless of breed, age or type; it is a great way to spend time with your dog and enhance your relationship.
All dogs work on a long line, individually, making it perfect for dogs with poor recall and reactive dogs.
Detection training (or scent work) is a dog sport teaching dogs to find a specific odour. Scent work harnesses a dog’s natural ability to hunt - all dogs have this ability, we are just harnessing their amazing sense of smell and turning it into a super fun activity to do with our dogs!
One of the many amazing things about this type of training is that it is fully accessible to all people and dogs, regardless of age, breed or disability. Dogs are always worked one at a time which means even dogs with confidence and reactivity issues can take part!
Scent Work also relies heavily on teamwork and it’s important to have a line of communication between you and your dog at all times. Dogs are typically worked on a lead, meaning that even dogs with a poor recall can take part.
Scent Work is also a low impact sport, which unlike some dog sports, means there is less pressure and stress on your dog’s joints allowing puppies, older dogs and those who need more careful exercise management to still join in on the fun.
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Always A Step Ahead
When you are trying to source a big job, everybody is interested. But when you have technically-challenging components or sub-assemblies in low to mid-volumes, interest narrows dramatically. This is because many machine shops find it very difficult to make money on high mix, low volume work…so they just “no quote” them.
At Rable, we believe that part of being a strategic partner with our customers is being there to meet their needs on small jobs as well as bigger ones.
Through lean manufacturing, advanced technology and continuous improvement we’ve perfected our manufacturing processes to the point we know how to make money on low volume, difficult-to-manufacture components.
More specifically our lean manufacturing process can be summed up in three words… “Focused Common Sense”.
Its taken 10 people 3 years to get everything in place and optimized:
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RELAX-ATION & PRIVACY
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He promised one hundred times
Arab pop song with Arab rhythms performed by Diana Haddad, a great song.
I translated the first part of the song, It was hard to translate the other parts...It's really hard to translate Arabic poetry :(
DOWNLOAD the MP3 at 192 KBPS (4shared host)
Song name: Wo Ehlifli Meet Yameen (He promised one hundred times)
Album: Diana 2006
Singer: Diana Haddad
Lyrics by: Mostafa Morsi
Composed by: Tamer Ashoor
Arranged by: Mohammed Mostafa
Translated by: RADIANT GUY (ME)
He promised one hundred times that he will be mine forever!
But the exact moment I dedicated my love to him; he forgot all about his promise!
That's when I found out that he is a great liar...
He always promise but never keep his promises, he only fall in love for very few days then he forget all about his love!
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Yeah, we get it: You can’t technically be clinically paranoid if everything you’re afraid of is actually happening. It’s been a few years since we were scared shitless of letting cell phones anywhere near our crotches and suddenly, the electromagnetic waves mess with our brains big time.
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CANADA: Tens of thousands of people sampled the new Canada Line during eight hours of free rides on August 17, an opening that was more than three months ahead of schedule and within a budget of just over C$2bn.
The crush of passengers, 30 000 just during the first three hours, caused hours-long waits with lines stretching out of some stations and along adjacent streets. There were celebrations with entertainment, food, drink and souvenirs at all 16 stations.
Prior to the public service, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell was joined by national and local officials in a ribbon-cutting at Vancouver International Airport station and a ride on the ceremonial first train to Waterfront station downtown; the fully automated driverless metro, built by a public-private partnership, also serves the suburb of Richmond. A fleet of 20 Rotem two-car trainsets, 41 m long and 3 000 mm wide, will work the line.
The 19 km project was completed three-and-a-half months early due to a combination of factors, according to a statement released by private-sector consortium InTransitBC, which designed, built and will operate and maintain the Canada Line.
‘We were working with an excellent system design, we had very good engineering, a great construction team and very successful testing and commissioning of the trains and control system,’ said the statement. ‘In short, good planning and the hard work of about 2 000 individuals have made it possible for us to finish ahead of schedule and on budget.’
Read the full story in the September edition of Metro Report International.
- For full coverage of the North American urban rail market, subscribe to Rail Transit Online.
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Our day-to-day has changed quite a bit during this past year, and some of us may be experiencing higher stress or a slower paced life. Whatever season you are currently in, showing up for yourself and making time for proper self-care is so important. "When we take the time to do little things that bring us joy, I truly believe it helps to make us overall happier humans. For me, that has been my skincare routine”, says our resident esthetician. I've been enjoying giving myself an at-home facial with our private label skincare products.
There is something so rewarding about taking care of your skin. It's our body's largest organ, and it feels good to show it the proper care and love. With everyone being at home more, there's no better time than now to target those skin concerns. My skin lately has been appreciating clay masks. Clay masks are full of minerals and ingredients like clay that have a reputation for helping to make the skin feel pure and clean. After a clay mask, I feel like my pores appear smaller, and my skin looks so dewy.
I think sometimes clay masks get a reputation for being overly drying and harsh on the skin. I'd disagree with that. It all comes down to the science of the product formulation. Today I will be sharing my top three favorite private label skincare face masks that my skin has been loving and which one might benefit your skin type and concern best.
For an beautiful, clear, and luminous complexion: Saffron Yellow Clay Mask
The kaolin clay in this mask helps diminish the look of congested skin, while turmeric has been used in beautifying practices for years and is still a popular ingredient in skincare. This powerful ingredient has endless skin benefits, from a clear-looking complexion to brighter looking skin, tumeric is generally safe for all skin types. Carrot seed oil is high in Vitamin A and one of our favorite ingredients for a youthful looking complexion.
For a balanced and glowing complexion: Moroccan Pink Clay Mask
Due to the astringent quality of Schizandra Berry we used in this mask, every use helps the skin feel like it's better able to hold its moisture, which in turn helps the skin age beautifully by plumping and firming the skin. This kaolin mask uses a blend of oils rich in vitamin C and super-herbs for the skin. This mask is my favorite go-to face treatment when my skin tone looks uneven and dull - it's so transformative!
For an earthy, invigorating skin treatment rich in stimulating herbs: French Green Clay Mask
French green clay pairs with stimulating herbs to awaken and revive your complexion in this result-driven face mask. When my skin is looking tired and stressed, this is the product I have in mind. I like using face masks because it's as easy as cleansing the skin, applying your mask, and watching an episode of your favorite show!
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Rabbit Rhythms of March - April
Disappearing Wild Cottontails
Rabbit breeding season is in full swing, for both our domestic rabbits, and for wild cottontails.
No matter where you live, there is a chance you may encounter local nesting cottontail rabbits.
Laura, from Petrolia, returned home one day and discovered a nest of 4 baby cottontails in the lawn. On occasion they saw the female bunny there by the nest. But one day, before the kits’ eyes had opened, one of the babies had vanished. The next day a second kit was gone.
Below: Laura's photo of the cottontail nest with just 3 remaining cottontails. Their eyes are not yet open.
What was happening?
It is possible that the kits simply squirmed away from the nest and then did not know how to get back. While you might think they would be lurking nearby, it is possible for them to crawl a dozen or more feet away before nuzzling into a hiding spot and falling asleep. It is likely that the doe would find the missing kit and feed it where it rests without dragging the baby back to the nest.
It is also possible that a predator was making off with the kits one per day. As horrific as this sounds, it is the reality of the ecosystem, and no injustice has been done. 75% of all wild rabbits become prey before the age of 3 months. Because rabbits multiply so prolifically, the remaining rabbits are enough to maintain the balance between prey and predator while ensuring the survival of the species.
What should you do if you find a cottontail nest?
Do what Laura did – watch it from afar while leaving it alone. Hopefully
the kits won't leave as early as they did in Laura's yard, but they will certainly begin to disappear by the age of around 3 or 3.5 weeks old, hopping off happily on their own and doing their best to avoid becoming carnivore dinner.
If you need it, you’ll find excellent instructions for feeding both cottontails and orphan domestic rabbits here.
Adding WORMS Under your Rabbits
- Does your rabbit manure sit in growing piles on the ground under the rabbits?
- Do you empty the drop pans into a back-breaking compost bin?
- Are you loathe to just discard your kitchen scraps?
Then you may wish to add vermiculture to your rabbit raising!
Vermi – what??
Vermiculture refers to raising and growing worm populations. Vermicomposting refers to letting worms compost both animal manure and discarded kitchen scraps, including newspapers and many kinds of cardboard.
Yes, worms will eat it all, and leave you with black gold – an earthy pile of worm castings that is absolutely the best fertilizer in the world.
In the barn, one can build forms out of 2x10 lumber under the rabbit cages, allowing the worms to do their work over weeks or possibly months. Both the worm-processed manure and the excess worms can provide additional income, helping to defray feed and cage
costs, or even more.
For all sorts of guidance about raising worms, this link will take you to the authoritative worm website, Worm Farming Revealed.
Peruse the website for loads of free information, or simply cut to the chase and get their e-book, "The Worm Farming Revolution." (That's what I did, and I'm loving it!)
Rabbits in the News
It’s that time again in Sidney Australia. Without natural predators, the numbers of feral domestic rabbits in Australia have reached “plague proportions.” To address the problem, officials there have baited chopped carrots with the calicivirus (RHD) in hopes of reducing rabbit populations by up to 80%. A second round of contaminated carrots are planned for distribution in May.
RHD is a highly pathogenic virus that has in the past killed up to 99.5% of rabbits.
This approach to the difficult problem will not work forever. What does seem to work are dedicated full-time rabbit hunters, which is the approach that many large farms and ranches in both Australia and New Zealand utilize.
If you have pet rabbits and you live in Australia, the calicivirus vaccine is recommended. (For how much longer will the vaccine work? If 20% of feral rabbits are now immune, the calicivirus itself may be mutating to a form that is not recognized by the vaccine. This is also happening with some human vaccines, for example the pertussis vaccine.)
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She joined STFC in 2000 as an instrument scientist on our first mission to the Moon and was active in defining the UK and European strategies for solar system science, sitting on several national and international advisory panels for the community.
As a Project Manager, she helped to deliver our camera electronics programme for high-profile missions such as Solar Dynamics Observatory, GOES and Solar Orbiter.
From 2014 she served as the Head of the Space Engineering and Technology (SET) Division, overseeing the engineers, technicians and project managers underpinning many of the hardware projects in RAL Space. Sarah was appointed for a one-year secondment as an Associate Director for STFC's National Laboratories in 2021. Following this, Sarah established a new programme for organisational change as RAL Space's first Head of the Continuous Improvement.
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More powerful than any words he could have ever said, it was what my father did without saying a thing that taught me the most about what it means to be a good leader.
Today I want to share those lessons with you in hopes that his example can help us all become better leaders.
Dealing With Adversity
My Dad’s dream was crushed very early on.
Growing up he had always wanted to be a pilot. Not just any pilot; he wanted to fly for the U.S. Air Force. It’s all he thought about. He worked hard in school and did well enough in Air Force ROTC that after graduation, they sent him to pre-flight training. Everything was going great.
But it wasn’t to be. At a routine medical checkup, they told him that his eye sight was no longer 20/20. Back then you couldn’t be a pilot if you wore glasses. Yet he had still signed a commitment with the Air Force and he had to honor it.
What the Air Force said they needed was supply officers. So like it or not, he was going to be flying a desk firmly rooted to the ground.
Without the benefit of any training or preparation, they sent him to a tiny backwater radar base in Texas. In a place he didn’t want to be, in a field he knew nothing about, leading people he didn’t know, he began his career in the Air Force as a supply officer, a job he wanted nothing to do with.
His response? He decided that he was going to be the best supply officer he could possibly be.
He turned himself into a sponge. He read everything in sight, he listened and learned as much as he could a from the more seasoned members of his team He got his hands dirty, building his experience, reflecting on what he was learning and using that new knowledge to make his unit the best it could be.
The hard work paid off. Fast forward a few years and several duty stations later, and he found himself on the receiving end of an award recognizing him as the top supply officer in the entire Air Force. He was promoted ahead of his peers and sent to jobs reserved for people of high potential.
Somewhere along the way he even managed to get his private pilot’s license.
Lesson #1: Play the hand you are dealt and do the best you can.
There are lots of things you can’t control, so don’t waste your time trying. Focus on the things you can control, and do your very best with what you have. He did his best, and that opened up new possibilities.
Fast forward again to when we were living in northern Virginia, and he was serving two back-to-back tours of duty in the Pentagon. After eight years in one place, they told him it was time to move. The powers that be were talking about somewhere way out in the prairie states.
But by this time, we three kids were already in high school, and deeply involved in athletics, band, and the local Boy Scout troop. The move would be hard on the family and put us at a disadvantage when applying for college.
So we didn’t move. He retired, and we stayed. As a result we were able to finish high school in one place, do well in our activities, and get into the colleges we applied to. His sacrifice provided a great launching platform for all three of us.
But not one to sit idle, he continued to lead by example. He started his own business, stepped up to be Scoutmaster for the local troop, volunteered with the Neighborhood Watch, and could often be found involved in any number of volunteer efforts that benefited the local community.
Lesson #2: It’s not about you.
To be a father is to be a leader, and one of a leader’s first responsibilities is to take care of his team. Through his humble service to us and others in so many ways, he showed us what that looked like in real life.
I’m happy to say that today my Dad is still going strong. In fact, as he approached his 80th birthday recently, my mom asked him if there was anything special that he’d like to do. “Yes” was his answer, “as a matter of fact, there is.”
He wanted to fly.
The last time he had flown was in 1962. He stopped the day my older brother was born. To him the thrill of flying was not worth the risk of having an accident and the toll it could take on the family. It had been 54 years since he had been in the cockpit.
Mom made the arrangements with the help of a grandson who had just earned his own pilot’s wings. When the flight instructor saw my dad’s license, he did a double-take. He quipped that he was checking to see whether or not one of the Wright brothers happened to be his instructor pilot!
The flight went well – two take-offs and two landings and a pleasant cross country flight in clear conditions. I could hear the joy in my Dad’s voice as he told me about the experience over the phone.
Lesson #3: Stay positive, keep moving forward.
No matter what, maintain a positive mental attitude, stay active, and keep moving forward. We may not always get what we want, but if we keep striving we can surprise ourselves with what we are capable of.
Did I mention he’s teaching himself how to play violin now?
Leadership Lessons – The Takeaway
My father is a great leader and provider for our family. I clearly remember many of the lessons he taught us with his words.
But some of the strongest, most enduring lessons of all were the ones he taught us without saying a thing.
In our own attempts to lead, the people around us may or may not hear what we say, but they will definitely see what we do.
Perhaps his personal example of leadership by example was the most powerful lesson of all.
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Trying to get off the ground with a new team? Looking for a way to get some bonding going sooner rather than later? Want to make it fun? Developing a sense of team within your group is critical to do early on.
If you dive right into a project without building the team, you may end up experiencing growing pains the hard way, in the middle of your work. People have a need to figure out how they fit into the group. By the end of this post, you will have several ideas for how to get that bonding started, and one very fun way to get from clusters of “me” to the concept of “we” in your group.
“We Will Now Commence Team Building…”
One way to start building a sense of team is with games and exercises. There are lots of options out there. The best ones get people to play or work together to accomplish a goal. These ideas really do work, and they can be fun if presented well. Here is a link to lots of great ideas.
But it’s hard to start right out with a group of people, tell them you will now do a “team building” event, and then get them to buy in to the program. In fact, the minute you put that label on it, you might even start to get a little resistance.
But there is one way that you can use almost immediately to start building your team into a great organization. What’s the ground-breaking idea? Just go have fun.
We recently returned from a week of Scout summer camp in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Fully a third of our group was brand new to the troop and the camp experience. Getting the new guys to the point where they felt a part of the group was a bit of a challenge. Even by the second day, it still felt a lot more like a bunch of individuals than three teams, and the new guys tended to hang with each other instead of with their teams.
Go on an Adventure
What we needed was something that would cause the members of each team to bond. We did it by letting them take an adventure together. Here is how we approached it, and how you can put the same ideas to work for you.
Make it a Team Decision. We presented each of the three group leaders six different adventure options, carved out some time when they could go, and let the team meet to decide what they wanted to do. There were hikes to hill tops, trips to hang out at the lake, and swimming in a river near a water fall, plus several more.
We told them we needed to know by next evening what their decision was. Over the next day it was fun to watch the groups get together to discuss their choice. Some groups decided quickly, others took their time, one group asked to do three of them. This was their own special event, and it was bringing them together to define it.
Make it Exclusive. One of the goals in team building is to develop a sense of identity within the team. To help get there we made the event for that group alone. No one from outside the group could participate. They would be able to feel that they were the only ones doing what they did and could have special stories to tell and experiences to share.
Make it Inclusive. Whatever they chose, all members within the team had to be able to participate. It’s not bonding if a couple people are off doing their own thing or unable to do what everyone else is doing. What they chose to do had to be something they could enjoy together.
Make it Fun and Active. Of course this was critical. They had to want to do it in the first place. But while video games can be fun, they aren’t active, and don’t cause people to work together and relate in the same way as a more physical activity. The point is to increase supportive interaction among teammates in the real world, since that’s where we all live most of the time.
Visualize Success. Before setting out, we talked with the leaders about what success looks like and how they would know they had achieved it. Some of the measures of success they came up with were seeing lots of smiles, everyone interacting with everyone, encouraging each other, and stretching each other in a positive way. And when it was over, recounting stories with each other and others outside the team about what they did and what was great about it.
Model the Goal
It’s one thing to describe what you are looking for; much better if you can show them what you mean. So that’s what we did – I took the leaders to Fossil Rock.
The leaders had heard of this place, where you could climb a short cliff face and jump from a rock ledge into the river. I had told them that it was probably too dangerous to take the whole troop with all the younger Scouts – it would be too crowded, hard to manage. But since they were all older and more experienced and a smaller group, it would be OK to take them. Were they interested? Yes! Fun and Exclusive, yet Inclusive, all in one.
With the senior guy taking charge, we hiked to the river, ate lunch on the rocks, and spent a couple hours climbing and jumping into the river. No structure, no planned events. They did what they as a group thought would be fun to do, and had fun doing it.
Hiking back to camp, we talked about how we were feeling, and what had made it fun. Then we challenged the team leaders to try to achieve the same feeling with their adventures the next day. They were pumped up to do the same with their guys.
Why it worked
Choosing their own adventure forced the teams to work together and get input from everyone; it was what they wanted to do, not what they were being told to do. It gave the leader something he could be in charge of, and it got him away from the rest of the hierarchy that had a tendency to try and tell him what to do; it was his show, and he knew it, and so he stepped up and owned it.
Interestingly, all three groups chose the same adventure – at “Cool Dip” they got to swim in the river, jump off some rocks into the water, and slide down some rapids. To keep it exclusive, we separated the trips by time. One went at noon and took a lunch; one went in mid-afternoon, and a third went in the cool of the evening after dinner. Though the groups went to the same place, they still did things their own way and had their own unique experiences.
By the end of the day, each group had made its own decisions, organized themselves, led themselves, and successfully did what they had chosen to do. And they had fun. In just a couple hours playing in the river, these three groups of individuals had become a bit closer together as a team, the leaders had stepped forward a little more assertively, and for the rest of the week, it was fun to watch the teams grow closer and work better together.
Team Building – The Takeaway
Before trying to tackle a difficult task as a new group, it helps to build a sense of team. People work better on teams when they are comfortable with each other, understand a little bit about who they are working with, and feel that they are a welcome member of the group. This helps with communication, fosters informal interaction, and develops a sense of trust and unity among the members and with the leader.
Before your next event with a new team, try doing something fun together. If you follow the steps above, it will bring everyone closer together, and you just might have some fun in the process.
Question: What are some fun team building activities and adventures closer to home that you could do as a group to get the same effect?
Share your comments below. And be sure to sign up now for twice-monthly Leadership Updates with more tips and exclusive content not available elsewhere on the site!
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2 Story Beautiful home located in the highly desirable area of Lakeview Terrace. This home comes with solar panels, artificial grass front yard, Newly installed dual pane windows, Energy efficient HVAC system, Electric fireplace, Water proof vinyl plank flooring throughout. The 1st floor greets you with a Master bedroom downstairs main floor, Living room, dining room, Kitchen with nook and granite counter tops. The 2nd floor consists of 3 bedrooms and 1 Bathroom. The Backyard invites your family to relax on the patio. The Back yard has a slight slope that gives you the neighborhood view.
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CONDITION: almost like new, worn once or twice
*This pair comes with a Fluevog dust bag and a matching pair of socks.*
A subtle banker's shoe with a trimmed leather sole, The Brandenburg is the shoe for those seeking to be victorious on the battlefield of board meetings (and bowling alleys). Produced in a Vietnamese factory, which is owned by Japanese shoe-makers, who were trained in England using 19th century traditional methods, the Gateways are some of the most classically fabricated (and international) shoes we have made in recent years. Featuring waxy Italian leathers that glow of antiquity on a classic capped toe pattern, the Brandenburg ensures you walk home with your head held high (and hopefully all three points). Just walk on through.
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BARNEY COLLINS presents… LITTER & The Pocket Trio
The brilliance of LITTER’s album is rivalled only by the calibre of artists responsible for it.
The brainchild of Matt Downey (Death Mattel/Cousin Betty) and featuring the arrangements and direction of Andrew Scott (along with The Pocket Trio).
Designed as a concept of uniqueness and limit, this band and this album will play their only two ever JAZZ shows.
Supports include Blue Mountains local acts Simon Turner and Wolf & The New World Disorder
All proceeds from this concert are supporting the Blue Mountains community and will be distributed to local charities.
Event supported by Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains. Located at Two Doctors Whiskey Tavern, 1 Sublime Point Road, Leura.
Date: Thu 6 July 2023
Email: [email protected]
1 Sublime Point Road, Leura
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DeerMan DM-T12 High Simulation RC Shark Boat 2.4G Remote Control Twin Propeller
- It is made of high-quality environmentally friendly ABS material through a variety of processes, which is wear-resistant and scratch-resistant, and has stable anti-drop performance.
- The appearance design resembling a shark is realistic and vivid, which is loved by children.
- Equipped with brushless motor, it has high efficiency, low noise, strong power, smooth operation, energy saving and sensitivity. Double fully enclosed waterproof shell, effectively preventing water seepage.
- The water circulation cooling device is adopted to cool the running motor, reduce motor loss, and extend the service life of the motor.
- The remote control can control the forward, backward, left, right, speed switching and other actions of the simulated shark, which can realize realistic swinging actions, and easily solve the situation of rocking, jamming, and overturning during sailing.
- The 2.4G four-channel high-frequency remote control system has a remote control distance of up to 30-40M, a single machine with a single frequency, and supports multiple simultaneous competitive operations, and signals do not interfere with each other.
- Equipped with 3.7V 300MAH large-capacity rechargeable lithium battery, which can be charged for 30 minutes, can support 20 minutes of smooth play, and the battery replacement is simple and quick.
- It is suitable for outdoor play, as well as floating spoof and tricky toys on water, and can also be used as summer outdoor swimming pool toys.
- There are double electric version, three electric version, and four electric version to choose from, packed in color box.
Battery: 3.7V 300MAH
Charging time: 30 minutes
Package Weight:?0.5kg (1.102lb)
Package Size:?11cm x 15.5cm x 20.5cm (4.33in x 6.10in x 8.07in)
1x rc shark
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Mini Gesture Sensing Levitation Flying Led Light Crystal Ball RC Helicopter Kids Toys
Save Liquid error (snippets/product-badge line 32): Computation results in '-Infinity'%
A key to open,simple operation,easy to play.
Below the sensor automatic induction obstacles,keep flying not fall to the ground.
Abandon the traditional craft characteristics of silent,make flying more interesting.
Automatic power-off protection system,let parents don't worry about their children safe and happy.
Any infrared remote control can control the aircraft,press the remote control switch, start the flying ball.
With the perfect combination of peal modeling,color light make the color infinite changes,more attractive to children.
Built in Dynamic Music.With cool and flash light, more can attract children's attention and interest.Let the children play in the laughter.
Instructions for operation:
Slide switch to "On" position
Release the ball from your hand and let it fly up
After about 2-3 seconds the propellers will begin to spin
When the lights come on, hold the ball in a straight up position
On the bottom of the ball you will find a small black on/off switch
Flying Ball Size: 15 * 11*5.5cm
Flying Ball Color: Transparent, Light color random
Charging time: about 15-30mins
Runing Time Lasted : 6-10mins
Body Material: ABS Plastic.
Suitable for: Ages 8+. USB Charging
Flight Time: Approx. 6-10 minutes.
1x start-stop switch(Optional)
1x acceleration switch(Optional)
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- Cut 6 of the strawberries into 4 slices each. Place 6 strawberry slices in each of 2 parfait glasses. Sprinkle 1/4 cup cereal over strawberries. Pour about 1/3 cup yogurt over cereal.
- Make another layer of strawberries, cereal and yogurt. Top each sundae with whole strawberry. Serve immediately.
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How to Work With an Interior Designer
When most people think about hiring an interior designer, they zero in on aesthetics: wall colors, window treatments, pillow patterns. But that's just scratching the surface of what a designer can add to a home. These pros go beyond cosmetic concerns to ensure that a space feels harmonious through and through, from its floor plan and architectural envelope to the last nailhead, tassel and tuft. Many states have a certification process for interior designers.
What an interior designer does: A designer envisions, plans and outfits spaces in a way that makes them both beautiful and functional. He or she balances aesthetic considerations with structural planning to reflect the clients' lifestyle, set the desired mood, complement the home's architectural features, and ensure that less glamorous details (like electrical outlets and air vents) fit into the scheme. An interior designer also cultivates relationships with trusted artisans, vendors and others who execute the design. When to hire one: You may have a clear vision for your home, but an interior designer can help you bring it to life while making sure it satisfies nitty-gritty considerations such as space planning. A trained eye and a creative mind-set allow for devising solutions that you might never have imagined, and attention to the tiniest details will transform your space into a haven that looks polished and pulled together.
What it will cost: Interior designers have various fee structures. They might charge an hourly rate (anywhere from $50 to $500); a flat fee, which could be as low as several thousand dollars and as high as five figures; or a percentage of total project costs. You may also be asked to pay a retainer before work begins. Some designers take an approach known as cost-plus — they purchase materials, furnishings and more at a discount, then charge you the retail price, keeping the difference as their fee. If yours uses this method, be sure the cost discrepancies are transparent so that you'll know exactly what you're paying for services. If you're on a tight budget, don't assume that hiring a designer is beyond reach. Many will be happy to arrange a few hours of consulting or will help you source furnishings and decorative accents. Where to find one: The directory of interior designers on Houzz is a good starting place, where you can find designers in your area and beyond and view their portfolios. Your local chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is also a good source. If you spot a room you love when browsing Houzz photos and ideabooks, take note of the designer's name. (You'll see a link to professionals' profiles in the lower-right corner of their photos.) Some designers will work with clients who are based in other cities, though travel time and expenses can add up. Friends with fabulous houses are another likely source. You can also visit show houses and home tours to see which spaces strike your fancy.
Be sure the designer is a good match for your style. No two clients are alike, and good interior designers are nimble enough to hop from urban pied-à-terre to rustic farmhouse to beachside getaway without missing a beat. However, almost all of them have a fundamental aesthetic that remains consistent throughout their work. For example, if you want pure whites and pale neutrals, don't choose a designer whose signature is bold color palettes. When interviewing designers, look for parallels between their previous work and the design you want. Collect samples. Even if you have trouble articulating your desired look, pictures of rooms you love can instantly give the designer a sense of what you crave. He or she will ask you about specific points of the design that resonate with you and use those as guidelines. Fabric swatches, paint chips, furniture catalogs and your own Houzz ideabooks are other good sources for showing items you like. On the flip side, pull examples of colors, motifs and furniture styles that turn you off, which can be equally helpful. Find your design style
Rachel Reider Interiors
Decide in advance which pieces must stay. Not willing to get rid of your Biedermeier sideboard or your majolica collection? The process will go more smoothly if you share that information with your designer during the initial site visit and consultation. That way, he or she can plan around the items that you don't want to give up. Involve the designer as early as possible in the building process. If you're remodeling or building from scratch, include the designer in the planning stages with your architect and contractor. This way, the pros involved will all be on the same page and can iron out any potential discrepancies — particularly those that involve the bones of a home, such as doorways, ceiling beams or interior columns. It's one thing to reorient a window on paper; it's another entirely to move it after installation. Find thousands of photos of every style of home.
Try to have all household members present at the outset. Having everyone's input from the get-go helps to avoid potential conflicts down the road. If a spouse or loved one objects to a certain color or reveals that he or she just can't part with Granny's antique dining table, it's easiest to work out those issues right away. Ask the designer to clarify billing procedures. Find out at the beginning when you'll be charged and what for. In addition to the design itself, you may be billed for travel time, site visits, shopping, phone conversations and more. Also, ask whether you'll be getting furnishings, accents, materials or other items at a discounted rate. This way, you'll be able to anticipate fairly closely what and when to pay.
Keep an open mind. It's a rare client who loves 100 percent of a designer's suggestions right off the bat. Your designer might recommend a piece of furniture or a wallpaper pattern that you're iffy about, but don't say no without giving the idea some time to sink in. Chances are that when you ask your designer why he or she chose it, and when you take a little time to live with it, you'll appreciate the reason it works.
Phil Kean Design Group Look toward refreshing down the road. Even the best design doesn't stay current forever. Ask your designer if tune-up visits in the future are an option, whether they involve simply swapping out a few accessories, reupholstering furniture or choosing new paint colors.
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Ask for the creation of a file at the bailiff's office
A bailiff close to your debtor, among our large network, will take charge of your file.
Creation of B2B and B2C files
In B2B, benefit from the RCI/CROS procedure: the fastest and most efficient
Bailiffs' fees are insured for B2B
Real-time follow-up of files
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Updated: Nov 5, 2022
We do not laugh because we have to. Although it would be a great advantage if we could, as the positive aspects of a laugh are enormous. A good mood easily spread to people around you. Unconsciously, people become "infected" by the emotions that people around them carry.
"Laughter is the best medicine in the world" Milton Berle
If we can create a smile, laughter is not far away. Entertaining texts, illustrations and sharing others' mistakes and stories are great tools to achieve this. Most people do not laugh alone or on-demand, but in connection with something or someone.
The meaning of being entertained
A laugh disarms nervousness. Laughing unites you with the person you are laughing with. It does not matter if it is with the top manager of the company. The laughter shows that you have something in common. You have "clicked".
Laughter as well as a smile is something you can build on. Something you tell your colleagues, partners, parents and family. The positive gilds someone's everyday life and you feel good because you interact. Something that starts with a smile, can be shared with someone to laugh together about and to keep building on better relationships.
Are you ready to get a proposal for how your message can get a stronger impact with the power of entertaining texts and pictures? Simply connect with us via an e-mail or make an online appointment to discuss further.
The Red Blueberry team
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez prove that there's more to life than first love. Their love goes beyond these adorable pics.
She'll turn 50 this year. He's 43.
She is a mother to two 10-year-old twins, Max and Emme.
He's a father to Natasha (14) and Ella (10).
They first met when Alex was looking out for his car, back in 2016, and have been together ever since.
One of Hollywood's most-adored couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have been inspiring us with their love.
Take a look at some of their adorable pics.
According to Alex, 'Jennifer is an amazing person.'
In an online interview, he revealed that the singer 'loves sports, is an athlete herself, a great mother, great daughter, great friend.'
He added: 'We understand each other's lives in a way that most other people couldn't.'
They look so good together.
That's them with their children.
It's amazing how well the kids bond. Clearly talks about the awesome relationship JLo and Alex have.
Couple who cook together, stay together. Isn't this a cute pic of the two dressed alike?
Alex's Instagram account is a timeline of all the things JLo does. He lovingly called her 'his favourite Christmas gift' too!
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The bank rating system used by federal financial institution regulators should be “rethought entirely” to emphasize benefits of objective standards over subjective ones, the head of an influential bank lobbying organization will tell a Senate committee Tuesday.
In prepared testimony, Greg Baer, president and CEO of the Bank Policy Institute (a group formed last year by the merger of two older banking lobbying groups, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Clearing House Association) advised the Senate Banking Committee that four key reforms should be made to banking regulation – including a “rethought” of CAMELS.
CAMELS – which stands for Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Sensitivity to market risk – was developed in the late 1970s without the “S” component, which was added in 1997. The federal credit union regulator – the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) – has not yet adopted the S but is considering it; the agency does employ the CAMEL portions of the rating system.
In all cases, the ratings reached by the regulators are typically not shared publicly, but only with the financial institution under examination.
Baer told the Senate panel that a review of the system should “emphasize the benefits of objective, transparent, consistent standards over subjective, opaque, and ad hoc standards.” He suggested that a management component, if retained, “should not be a highly subjective wild card that can be used to deem a bank with solid capital, liquidity, and earnings to be unsafe and unsound, and thereby subject to an expansion ban.” He recommended that assessment of management should focus on financial management, and that a “meaningful appeals process should be instituted.”
Baer outlined three other reforms of the bank supervision system:
- The Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) should return to applying statutory standards for branching, merger, and investment applications, rather than forcing banks to rely on guidance issued by the agencies. He called the approach a “a zero-based review of the application process.” Any resulting application process should emphasize transparency and accountability,” he said, adding that leaders of the Fed, FDIC ,and OCC “personally should receive regular reports on applications that have been pending for more than a given period – say, 75 days – along with the reason for the delay. The pendency of an investigation should not constitute grounds for delay absent extraordinary circumstances.”
- Federal banking regulators should seek public comment on what a regulator means when it issues a “Matters Requiring Attention” (MRA) to a bank following an exam. “If an MRA is an unenforceable suggestion, with no consequences for a company’s ability to grow or invest, then they should make that clear. If it is a de facto order, then it should be issued only when there is a legal basis for it – a violation of law or an unsafe or unsound banking practice – and the bank should receive Administrative Procedures Act (APA)-prescribed process.”
- Banking regulators should confirm that guidance they may issue about regulatory compliance is not binding and will not form the basis for an MRA. He added that “only violations of law (including an unsafe and unsound practice) will form the basis for an MRA. This step is necessary because by numerous accounts their earlier statement is being disregarded in practice.”
However, on that last point, another witness before the committee – Boston College Law School Professor Patricia A. McCoy – argued that guidance by regulators provides needed transparency in regulation. She noted that banks and other regulated entities have “ample recourse if guidances are given binding effect.”
“Criticisms of guidance often assert that examination reports downgrade companies for failure to follow guidance or that enforcement actions are based on guidance violations,” she told the committee. “This might raise concerns that guidances were being given binding effect against third parties without prior public input into their substance through the notice-and-comment process. In the more likely case, federal banking regulators base negative exam ratings, exam citations, and enforcement actions on violations of statutes or rules, on unsafe or unsound practices (in the case of the prudential banking regulators), or on unfair, deceptive or abusive practices (in the case of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), and not on any guidances that happen to overlap.”
The hearing – titled “Guidance, Supervisory Expectations, and the Rule of Law: How do the Banking Agencies Regulate and Supervise Institutions?” – featured no federal financial institution regulators. Banking and credit union agency heads are, however, scheduled to testify before the Banking Committee May 15.
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Easy installation – just peel and stick on any flat surface, such as a wall, door or tabletop. Will not damage surfaces or leave a sticky residue.
Wipes completely clean – no ugly marker stains.
- Perfect for home offices, e-learning spaces, playrooms, etc.
- Made in the USA
Think Board is a peel-and-stick dry erase film that’s easy to install in any setting and on any flat surface, such as a wall, door or tabletop. It’s durable and has the best “erasability” on the market, wiping clean easily with no marker shadows. Perfect for home offices, e-learning spaces, playrooms, and anywhere else where inspiration might strike. Available from Remote Nation in 2’x3’ size, perfect for home use, with the option of traditional white or premium clear. Clear Think Boards are great for transitional spaces where you want the function of a dry erase board without the look of one when it’s time to put your work away. The premium material is designed for tougher use and able to last years without showing significant wear and tear.
In the box: Think Board Kit, black dry erase marker, spray bottle, cleaning cloth (acts as eraser), and velcro dots. Both white and clear options are sized 24"x36" (2'x3')
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(HealthDay News) — Functional iron deficiency (FID), defined as ferritin <100 µg/L, or as ferritin 100 to 299 µg/L and transferrin saturation <20%, is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality, according to a study published online in ESC Heart Failure.
Benedikt Schrage, MD, from the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg in Germany, and colleagues examined the associations of absolute iron deficiency (AID), defined as ferritin <100 µg/L or as ferritin <30 µg/L (severe AID), and FID with incident cardiovascular disease and mortality in the general population using data for 12,164 individuals from three European population-based cohorts.
Overall, AID, severe AID, and FID were prevalent in 60.0%, 16.4%, and 64.3% of patients, respectively. The researchers observed an association for AID with CHD (hazard ratio, 1.20), but not with mortality. An association was seen for severe AID with all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 1.28), but not with cardiovascular mortality or CHD. Associations were seen for FID with CHD, cardiovascular mortality, and all-cause mortality (hazard ratios, 1.24, 1.26, and 1.12, respectively). Within 10 years of follow-up, 10.7% of CHD incidence and 5.4 and 11.7% of all deaths and all cardiovascular deaths, respectively, were attributable to FID.
“The study showed that iron deficiency was highly prevalent in this middle-aged population, with nearly two-thirds having functional iron deficiency,” Schrage said in a statement. “These individuals were more likely to develop heart disease and were also more likely to die during the next 13 years.”
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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Alvimopan speeds gastrointestinal recovery and shortens hospital length of stay after radical cystectomy (RC), according to a recent report.
In a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, the mean time to gastrointestinal recovery was 5.5 days among the 143 alvimopan-treated subjects compared with 6.8 days for the 137 placebo recipients, researchers reported online ahead of print in European Urology. The mean hospital length of stay was 7.4 days in the alvimopan group versus 10.1 days in the placebo arm. The alvimopan group also experienced fewer postoperative ileus-related episodes (8.4% vs. 29.1%). All of these differences between the groups were statistically significantly.
“Adding alvimopan to a standardized care pathway provides further meaningful improvements in early in-hospital postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing RC,” the authors concluded. “As such, alvimopan use represents an important advancement in surgical quality of care with the potential to reduce health care costs.”
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As worship leaders, we want to find the best new songs to introduce to our congregations. I recently wrote at length about places to find new songs and how to filter them to see if they are suitable for your congregation.
Today I want to feature a simple way for you to keep up with new songs. We post every week the TOP 20 WORSHIP SONGS from CCLI, LifeWayWorship.com and PraiseCharts. This will keep you up to date with what is being sung the most in churches across the nation. We update the list each week based on the songs that these companies provide to us of relevant data from the previous week. Most weeks it is our most popular resource with over 2000 hits.
To make the tool more helpful, we link the CCLI songs to Spotify audio and link LifeWayWorship.com and PraiseCharts songs to their product pages.
If you are not familiar with this resource, I encourage you to take a look and make it a regular part of your weekly routine.
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In October 2022, SAMHSA opened the Office of Recovery to ensure that lived experience voice was included in mental health and substance use policy, programs, and support. On this panel, staff from the Office of Recovery discuss the roles of families — including caregivers of children with serious mental illness — and Family Peer Specialists in the recovery journey and how SAMHSA will prioritize the inclusion of family voice in decision-making.
- Paolo del Vecchio, MSW, Director, Office of Recovery
- Dona Dmitrovic, MHS, Senior Advisor, Office of Recovery
- Elizabeth Sweet, Public Health Advisor, Office of Recovery
Contact Eric Weakly with any questions.
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Winterberries is a rather oddly-themed, 5-reel fixed 25-pay line online slot from the relatively new online slots gurus at Yggdrasil Gaming. The theme of the game is berries – blueberries, blackberries … er … red berries – indeed lots of different kinds of berries that you’d have to be a bit of a berry expert to identify. In total, there are seven different kinds of berries available, but unfortunately none of them are Halle Berry. There are no other symbols – no scatters, wilds or bonus symbols of which to speak of.
The 25 pay lines are fixed and in play at all times. You get to choose the size of your coin from 0.01 to 2.00, which is then multiplied by 25 to obtain your stake. Once you’re happy with your wager, you hit the ‘spin’ button to send the berries tumbling. Wins must be at least three identical symbols on one of the pay lines from the left hand reel.
Wins start at 3x your coin value for three red/blackcurrants (we think – we are not berry experts), blueberries or red whortleberries (again, don’t sue us if we are wrong). The biggest winner is five ‘yellow cluster berries’ (this may not be the official name).
One nice feature is the ‘frozen berry’ feature. As soon as you hit a win, ALL of the winning berry type freeze and a free re-spin is triggered. If more of the same symbol appears on the reel, they too freeze and the reels spin again for free. This keeps going until no winning symbols are landed. Once your re-spins are up your total winnings are calculated.
If you manage to freeze at least two entire columns with the same winning berry, then all prizes are doubled. For three columns prizes are tripled, and so on all the way up to five columns.
Winterberries is a unique, fast-paced yet simple game that should please both people whom are berry fans, and like simple online slots without all those fussy bonus games and features.
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The Nokia Corporation started as a conglomerate formed in 1967 as the result of a merger between Finnish Rubber Works, Finnish Cable Works and the Nokia Company. This was the period when Nokia – the name that of actually a small town in Finland – was making bicycle and car tyres, electric cables, machinery for power generators, the M61 gas mask for the Finnish Army in addition to a number of other things. It was in the late 1980s that the tyre business split off into ‘Nokian Tyres’, a company now famed for its winter tyres, with their most recent achievement being that of setting the World’s Fastest On Ice record with a speed of 331.61 km/h in an Audi shod with Nokian Hakkapeliitta 7 studded tyres.
Lest we put off the purists, we should point out that ‘motorized bicycle’ might be a ‘loose’ term. These machines are better known as bicycles with auxiliary engines and thus ‘Auxiliary Cycles’. Diesella, a manufacturer based out of Kolding in Denmark was famed for its revolutionary engine introduced in the late 1940s, that could be mounted on any bicycle. These engines were fondly referred to by the press as “Den revolutionerende lilleput Cyklemotor” or “The revolutionary Lilliputian Cycle Engine“.
Back to the beautiful fuel tank, it would seem the fuel tanks were not made by Diesella itself, but by ‘Brdr. Petersen’ a company that was also known as BP Toys. Yes, a toy maker! Three brothers Svend Aage – Thorkild – and Christian Petersen started out with Brdr. Petersen making some charming toy cars, motorcycles and tractors. While the toy business did fantastically for a period of time, with big names like BP, the London based energy company commissioning BP Toys for scale models of a BP Tanker, BP Petrol Pump and a BP Truck carrying bottles made of wood.
By 1950, the firm was looking to other profitable ventures and soon ended up being a supplier of fuel tanks for Diesella. After the initial batch of 10000 tanks, which were so good, the company is said to have expanded its workforce to 10-12 employees who welded the tanks throughout the day unto the late 1960s.
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Rat beta-NGF Biotinylated Antibody
Rat beta-NGF Biotinylated Antibody Summary
Accession # P25427.2
Rat beta -NGF Sandwich Immunoassay
Please Note: Optimal dilutions should be determined by each laboratory for each application. General Protocols are available in the Technical Information section on our website.
Preparation and Storage
- 12 months from date of receipt, -20 to -70 °C as supplied.
- 1 month, 2 to 8 °C under sterile conditions after reconstitution.
- 6 months, -20 to -70 °C under sterile conditions after reconstitution.
NGF was initially isolated in the mouse submandibular gland over three decades ago as a 7S complex composed of three non-covalently linked subunits, alpha, beta, and gamma. It is now known that both the alpha and gamma subunits of NGF are members of the kallikrein family of serine proteases while the beta subunit, called beta -NGF or 2.5S NGF, exhibits all the biological activities ascribed to NGF. Recombinant rat beta -NGF is a homodimer of two 120-amino acid polypeptides. The human protein shares approximately 90% homology at the amino acid level with both the mouse and rat beta -NGF and exhibits cross-species activity.
NGF is a well-characterized neurotrophic protein that plays a critical role in the development of sympathetic and some sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system. In addition, NGF can also act in the central nervous system as a trophic factor for basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. NGF has also been shown to have biological effects on non-neuronal tissues. NGF is mitogenic for a factor-dependent human erythroleukemic cell line, TF-1. NGF has been found to increase the number of mast cells in neonatal rats and to induce histamine release from peritoneal mast cells. NGF will enhance histamine release and strongly modulate the formation of lipid mediators by basophils in response to various stimuli. NGF will also induce the growth and differentiation of human B lymphocytes as well as suppress apoptosis of murine peritoneal neutrophils. These results, taken together, suggest that NGF is a pleiotropic cytokine which, in addition to its neurotropic activities, may have an important role in the regulation of the immune system.
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Vancouver, April 26, 2023 - Westward Gold Inc. (CSE:WG), (OTC:WGLIF), (FSE:IM50) ("Westward" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from the first 244.4 meters (802 feet) of vertical diamond drill hole T2301 at the Company's Toiyabe Gold Project in Lander County, Nevada ("Toiyabe") (see press releases dated February 15th, 23rd, and April 12th, 2023, for additional information).
Key takeaways from the first 244.4 meters of assays:
The assays confirm and verify near-surface gold mineralization intersected in historical reverse-circulation ("RC") hole T802(1)
The broader gold system remains open to the north and east for additional testing
Gold mineralization extends into the upper plate siliciclastic rock package in the near-surface environment
The system produces high-grade gold (>2 g Au/t)
Figure 1: Significant Gold Assays (Interim Results) - T2301
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Note: Gold intervals reported in Figure 1 were calculated using a 0.14 g Au/t cut-off. Weighted averaging was used to calculate reported intervals. True widths are estimated at 70-90% of drilled thicknesses.
Near-surface gold mineralization was confirmed in the upper plate siliciclastic rock package, traditionally a less-favourable gold host versus lower plate carbonate rocks. Associated with the near-surface upper plate mineralization was oxidation and brecciation, similar to what is observed down-hole in the lower plate carbonate rocks. These lower plate rocks were encountered near the limit of available assays to-date, and continue for the remainder of the hole. One of the key objectives of T2301 was to test carbonate stratigraphy downdip from the near-surface Courtney historical resource(2); it represents a 295-meter northeast step-out from the closest intersection of the deeper SSD Zone - a thick, mineralized deformation zone identified by the Westward technical team.
Steve Koehler, Technical Advisor, noted: "Upper plate gold occurrences along major Nevada gold trends typically form above - or just slightly outboard from - larger, lower plate gold occurrences. Examples of upper plate mineralization occur near deposits including Goldstrike, Leeville / Turf, Deep Star, and Pete Bajo."
In addition to assaying for gold, composite samples were analyzed for 36 additional elements via Aqua Regia ICP-ES/MS (1 multielement composite sample comprised of every 10 gold samples submitted). These multi-pulp composites provide first-pass characterizations of trace element geochemistry. Notably, elevated arsenic values were observed near surface, concurrent with the elevated gold values - a hallmark of Carlin-style deposits along major Nevada gold trends.
Figure 2: Elevated Arsenic Values Near Surface
Arsenic values also increased as the intervals approached the contact zone between the upper plate and lower plate rocks, which speaks to the potential for additional gold mineralization as depth increases.
Figure 3: Elevated Arsenic Values Approaching Lower Plate Contact
Dave Browning, Westward's VP of Exploration, commented: "The elevated arsenic values are some of the highest recorded in drill samples at Toiyabe. Its increased presence in T2301 may support our thesis that the system continues to gain strength to the northeast."
The Company is also pleased to provide additional technical information and visual results from beyond 500 meters (1,640 feet), building upon the last press release on April 12th. The brecciation, decalcification, and oxidation observed and described in that release remains present (see Figure 4 below). Of particular interest is the increased presence of pervasive clay alteration and oxidation observed at significant depth (see Figure 5 below).
Dave Browning added: "This level of oxidation has not been observed in previous drilling that reached these depths. The vertical extent of alteration in T2301 - either as decalcification, silicification, or clay - is impressive in that it is continuous from the contact of the lower plate carbonate unit. This consistent alteration at depth is yet another indication that the hydrothermal system is open to the north and east."
Figure 4: 1755.8 to 1764.3 feet / 535.1-537.8 meters (note units shown in photo are in feet)
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Figure 5: 1904.5 to 1913.5 feet / 580.5 to 583.2 meters (note units shown in photo are in feet)
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An additional 86.9 meters (285 feet) of core from T2301 have been cut and shipped to Bureau Veritas' ("BV") lab in Elko, NV, and Westward expects the quoted turnaround time of ~3 weeks will remain consistent moving forward. BV is operated at arm's length to the Company. At this time, the decision has been made to end the hole at a total depth of 612 meters (2,008 feet), making it the deepest hole ever drilled in the northeast target area, and third deepest on the entire property. Whereas the geological signs point to the hole remaining in potential favourable host rock, logistics and safety have become increasingly challenging with snow-melt impacting the roads and drill rig. The Company would like to extend its gratitude to the Scout Drilling LLC crew for their tireless efforts in completing this hole safely.
Westward believes that the ~365 meters (~1,200 feet) of altered lower plate carbonate rocks encountered in T2301 will be more than sufficient to test the mineralizing potential of the hydrothermal system at depth and to the northeast. Approximately 280 meters (~920 feet) of core remain pending delivery to BV and will be shipped within the next 1-2 weeks. Given the relatively short wait times for assays results, the Company will evaluate next steps in terms of targeting once those results have been received and incorporated into the geological model.
Sampling Methodology, Chain of Custody, Quality Control and Quality Assurance "QA/QC"
The Company has implemented a best-practices QA/QC program during the drilling campaign. All core cutting and sampling is conducted under the supervision of the Company's Vice President Exploration or Project Geologist, and the chain of custody from the project to the sample preparation facility is continuously monitored. Samples are transported directly from the company's core cutting facility in Crescent Valley, NV by Westward Gold personnel to BV's certified preparation facility in Elko, NV, where they are crushed and pulverized. Resulting sample pulps are transported to BV's certified facilities in Sparks, NV for fire assay and Vancouver, BC, for multielement analysis.
Core sample intervals are determined based on geological observations from the technical team. Certified standards and blanks are inserted every 10 samples. All samples will be analyzed for gold, silver, and 35 additional elements. Assays will consist of fire assay / AAS for gold, and Aqua Regia ICP-ES/MS for geochemistry. The data is reviewed and verified by Westward's Qualified Person prior to disclosure in any news releases, including this one.
Drill hole deviation was measured by gyroscopic down-hole surveys with tooling provided by REFLEX of Elko, NV. The deviation surveys will provide accurate data about the true inclination and azimuth of the holes. Obtaining an accurate survey of the drillholes leads to a better contextual understanding of the core samples, and a more robust 3D geological model.
(1) Sources: Toiyabe data room and drill log files inherited from previous operators. The Company and its qualified person have relied on third-party data during its review of the information presented herein, and while it believes the information to be relevant to investors, it cautions readers that it should not be unduly relied upon in drawing inferences on the mineralization at Toiyabe, as additional work is required to confirm drill intercepts and/or soil samples, including (but not limited to): re-sampling and re-assaying of available core and/or pulps, verification of assay certificates where available, review and verification of drillhole geologic logs versus the preserved core and RC cuttings.
(2) Source: NI 43-101 Technical Report, American Consolidated Minerals Corp., Prepared by Paul D. Noland, P. Geo., May 27, 2009 (the "2009 Technical Report"). A qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the Historical Estimate at Toiyabe as current mineral resources and Westward is not treating the Historical Estimate on Toiyabe as a current mineral resource, as defined in National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101"). The Historical Estimate was calculated using mining industry standard practices for estimating Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserves (2005) which was prior to the implementation of the current CIM standards for mineral resource estimation (as defined by the CIM Definition Standard on Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves dated May 10, 2014). The key assumptions, parameters and methods used to prepare the Historical Estimate on Toiyabe are described in the 2009 Technical Report. While Westward considers the Historical Estimate on Toiyabe disclosed in this news release to be relevant to investors, it cautions readers that it should not be unduly relied upon in drawing inferences on the mineralization on Toiyabe, as additional work is required to upgrade or verify the Historical Estimate as a current mineral resource. This additional work includes (but may not be limited to): re-sampling and re-assaying of available core and/or pulps, verification of assay certificates and digital assay data, verification of select drill hole collars, review and verification of drill hole geologic logs versus the preserved core and RC cuttings, incorporation of AuCN assays to provide a general understanding of metallurgical characteristics, review and verification of mineralization controls and modelling techniques.
The technical information contained in this news release was reviewed and approved by Steven R. Koehler, Technical Advisor to the Company, who is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Koehler is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) through the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG).
About Westward Gold
Westward Gold is a mineral exploration company focused on developing the Toiyabe, Turquoise Canyon, and East Saddle Projects located in the Cortez Hills area of Lander County, Nevada, and the Coyote and Rossi Projects located along the Carlin Trend in Elko County, Nevada. From time to time, the Company may also evaluate the acquisition of other mineral exploration assets and opportunities.
For further information contact:
President, CEO & Director
Westward Gold Inc.
The Canadian Securities Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. The Canadian Securities Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
This news release contains or incorporates by reference "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" as defined under applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, which address events, results, outcomes, or developments that the Company expects to occur are, or may be deemed, to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are generally, but not always, identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "intend", "estimate", "potential", "on track", "forecast", "budget", "target", "outlook", "continue", "plan" or variations of such words and phrases and similar expressions or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved or the negative connotation of such terms.
Such statements include, but may not be limited to, information as to strategy, plans or future financial or operating performance, such as the Company's expansion plans, project timelines, expected drilling targets, and other statements that express management's expectations or estimates of future plans and performance.
Forward-looking statements or information are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements or information, including, without limitation, the need for additional capital by the Company through financings, and the risk that such funds may not be raised; the speculative nature of exploration and the stages of the Company's properties; the effect of changes in commodity prices; regulatory risks that development of the Company's material properties will not be acceptable for social, environmental or other reasons, availability of equipment (including drills) and personnel to carry out work programs, that each stage of work will be completed within expected time frames, that current geological models and interpretations prove correct, the results of ongoing work programs may lead to a change of exploration priorities, and the efforts and abilities of the senior management team. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking statements or information. These and other factors may cause the Company to change its exploration and work programs, not proceed with work programs, or change the timing or order of planned work programs. Additional risk factors and details with respect to risk factors that may affect the Company's ability to achieve the expectations set forth in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are set out in the Company's latest management discussion and analysis under "Risks and Uncertainties", which is available under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company's forward-looking statements and information are based on the assumptions, beliefs, expectations, and opinions of management as of the date of this press release, and other than as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements and information if circumstances or management's assumptions, beliefs, expectations or opinions should change, or changes in any other events affecting such statements or information.
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Incredible natural landscapes, warm, lively locals, and game-viewing opportunities like nowhere else in the world! Uganda, the Pearl of Africa, has so much to offer as an internship destination.
Uganda is a hidden gem of a destination with so much to see and a nonprofit internship is the best way to experience it. The internship opportunities in Uganda offer the chance to really get to know this underexplored travel gem. You’ll get the chance to see the remarkable sights and attractions dotted around the country: gorilla trekking, safaris, cultural experiences, and more. You’ll also get the chance to integrate with and contribute to a local community, building deep personal connections with those you work with. Most of all, you’ll get to help towards making positive change in a country that has had more than its fair share of trials and tribulations.
Located in east Africa, Uganda is a landlocked country with diverse scenery, encompassing lush forests, rolling hills, expansive savannas, and towering mountains. The country’s culture is a rich tapestry of over 56 ethnic groups, each contributing to its vibrant traditions, music, dance, and cuisine. The nation has faced many challenges since claiming its independence in 1962. In recent years, however. it has stabilized, building strong democratic governance and focussing on economic development. A tourist destination it has some truly remarkable highlights to offer. NGO Internships in Uganda offer a uniquely immersive experience of African life, an untouched natural setting, and a cause worth contributing to.
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Charity Development Internship
- Min. 8 weeks
- Mbarara, Uganda
- Communication, Fundraising, Music
Help with fundraising, communications strategy, monitoring and evaluation.
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- 1-4 Months
- Mbarara, Uganda
- Music, Education, Youth programs
Use your music skills for good by offering a variety of music lessons to kids in rural Uganda.
Important information about Uganda
Internship locations in Uganda
Mbarara, a vibrant city in southwestern Uganda, offers a mix of modern amenities and cultural richness. As well as its own attractions, it’s a great gateway to national parks like Queen Elizabeth. Within the city, explore local markets, taste Ugandan food, and experience the warm hospitality of this bustling regional hub.
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Weather and Climate
Uganda’s diverse weather is mild and pleasant in the highlands, and warm in the lowlands, with two rainy seasons. The wet season spans from March to May, and the dry season, from June to September and December. Mbarara specifically, experiences a tropical rainforest climate with a distinct change in the seasons. Average temperatures range from 17°C (63°F) to 26°C (79°F) across the year. Visitors can enjoy lush green landscapes during the wet season and pleasant conditions for outdoor activities in the dry season.
Safety and Support
Throughout your internship in Uganda we’re here to support you. Uganda is mostly safe for travelers. Interns will have to exercise caution though. Mbarara is generally considered safe for travel, but like any destination, it’s important to be aware of your surroundings, follow local advice, and avoid walking alone at night. We’ll help you stay updated on current travel advisories. Our host organization will offer advice on respecting local customs. As with any travel, having common-sense safety measures in place will help you to have a positive and secure experience in Mbarara.
Uganda Travel Requirements
- Visa – If your internship is shorter than 3 months, the most convenient choice is the tourist visa which can be easily acquired online. For 3 and 6 months, we recommend the volunteer visa (Class G1). Extending this visa for longer stays is also relatively straightforward.
- Travel Insurance – You want to have a carefree experience during your internship in Uganda, so it’s important to get the right travel insurance; a package that is suited for your upcoming trip. Check out our page with more information on flights and insurance.
- Police Clearance / Background Check – This is a standard policy for most of our internships, as you are often working with vulnerable individuals. The procedure on how to obtain a police clearance/background check varies per country.
- Vaccinations – We always recommend seeking professional medical advice for vaccinations but the generally recommended vaccinations for Uganda are: Diphtheria, Hepatitis A, Poliomyelitis, Tetanus, and Yellow Fever. You may also want to ask about Hepatitis B, Meningococcal Meningitis, Rabies, and Typhoid.
Uganda is generally considered to be more budget-friendly than many Western countries. Accommodation, food, and transportation are often affordable, making it a relatively cost-effective destination for Western travelers. However, expenses can add up depending on the kind of activities you want to do during your trip.
Uganda is a linguistically diverse country with over 56 ethnic groups. English is the official language and is widely spoken, especially in urban areas, in government, and in education. Additionally, there are several indigenous languages spoken throughout the country, including Luganda, Swahili, Runyankole-Rukiga, and many others.
It depends, of course, on how many extra activities you do and souvenirs you buy, but you can get an estimate of the total cost of the internship based on the “fees” that are noted in the listing.Yes, it’s relatively easy to travel around Eastern Africa from Uganda. The country has a central location and well-connected transportation networks. Uganda shares borders with several Eastern African countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This proximity allows for convenient road trips, bus journeys, and even flights to neighboring countries. Local meals cost around $2 and day trips range between $10-50 depending on the activity. Keep in mind, accommodations costs and a one month food package are included in the fees, so you don’t have to budget for that!
HOW TO APPLY
If you’re ready to apply for this internship, here’s what to do:
Only once we receive payment of the deposit your placement will be confirmed.
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Or if you’d just like to ask us some questions about this internship first, just fill in the contact form below. We’ll be happy to assist!
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When you think of South America, the first country that probably comes to mind is Brazil, and for good reason! Brazil is one of the most recognized countries in the world, mainly due to its rich culture—for example, its cuisine, historical landmarks, and traditions. Apart from being one of the best vacation destinations, Brazil can also be your next internship destination!
But why intern in Brazil? As you navigate through the bustling cities, explore the prime tourist locations, and engage with warm-hearted locals, you’ll not only develop your career prospects but also a broader global perspective that comes from living and working in a country as dynamic and multifaceted as Brazil!
Why Brazil is a Great Destination for Internships
There are probably a million reasons to do an internship in Brazil, but in the following section, we’ll give you six reasons why Brazil is a perfect destination for internships!
1. Global Perspective
Living and working in Brazil will present you with a very unique opportunity to gain a broader and deeper understanding of the world from a global perspective. As you navigate through everyday life in a diverse and multifaceted country, you’ll expose yourself to a whole different culture. Through these experiences during your internship, you’ll gain a better awareness of the interconnectedness of our world.
This new perspective isn’t just a one-dimensional skill, but a dynamic transformation that will enhance your professional skill set while developing an adaptable and open-minded mindset, which is very important in a world that’s growing more connected year after year. Whether you decide to intern in a community internship in Bahia or a biodiversity internship in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, these experiences are just one of the reasons to do internships in Brazil, since they will help you learn a lot about the work life in Brazil and shape you into a global-ready individual, equipped to thrive in a very diverse and evolving global landscape.
2. Cultural Experience
Brazil stands as a hotspot of diversity, inviting you to immerse yourself in a rich culture, filled with traditions and delicious cuisine. As an intern in Brazil, you’ll feel as if you’re part of the coveted Brazilian culture, engaging with the locals whose warmth and hospitality reflect Brazil’s vibrant culture. From the busy cities to the beautiful Amazon rainforest, every corner of Brazil offers you a chance to experience the one-of-a-kind culture of this country.
During your internship, you’ll not just be gaining professional experience, but you’ll also be immersing yourself in a completely new lifestyle! Each day becomes an opportunity to uncover a layer of Brazil’s famous culture, shaping your perspective in ways that you can only experience if you live or work in the country.
3. Natural and Artificial Beauty
The natural beauty of Brazil, from the remarkable Amazon rainforest to Iguazu Falls, is one of the best reasons to do internships in Brazil. Brazil is also home to plenty of iconic artificial beauty, such as the Christ The Redeemer statue or the São Paulo Cathedral. Make sure you get the opportunity to go and experience these amazing landmarks that have made Brazil one of the most iconic countries in the world!
During your internship, take the opportunity to uncover the country’s captivating landscapes and embrace a multitude of outdoor adventures. Whether you’re hiking through the Amazon rainforest or just taking in the sights of the Christ The Redeemer statue, you’ll discover why Brazil’s natural beauty is one of the best in the world!
4. Social Impact
Brazil’s cities are filled with energy, but they also face tough environmental issues such as deforestation and biodiversity loss. As an intern, you can dive right into projects that fight these problems and involve yourself in important charity work in Brazil.
While you’re in Brazil doing your NGO internship, you’ll get to see how people come together to make things better. You’ll also learn skills that help you grow, no matter what career path you choose later on. Plus, you’ll make friends and memories that’ll stick with you long after you leave Brazil! So, if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, learn, and contribute, a nonprofit internship in Brazil could be your ticket to a world of adventure and positive change!
5. Networking Opportunities
The ability to network with people from all around the globe is another reason why people intern in Brazil. It offers a remarkable chance to not only gain professional experience but also build a diverse and broad global network. Due to Brazil’s international popularity, many interns travel to the country each year. This means that you’ll get the chance to connect with professionals from all over the world, creating a unique environment where ideas and cultures collide in a beautiful way.
By forging bonds with international and local interns during your internship, you’re not just learning about the work life in Brazil, but you’re also creating bridges that can lead to exciting international opportunities down the road. Even if, at the moment, you don’t think these connections will lead to anything, it’s always a good idea to leave doors open for whatever opportunities arise in your professional future.
6. Internship Diversity
Brazil’s NGO internship landscape is very varied, offering a wide range of opportunities that cater to any of your specific interests. Whether you’re drawn towards marketing or content creation internships, or perhaps you’re interested in helping nature and biodiversity, Brazil has a spot for you! The diverse array of options ensures that you’ll find a placement that perfectly resonates with your passions and professional ambitions.
The variety of internships will make you understand why Brazil is one of the best destinations for internships of all kinds. Also, the variety of internships don’t just provide a platform for skill development, but also an opportunity to see what interests you, make meaningful contributions, and chart a course towards a future that aligns with your aspirations.
Top Brazil NGO Internships
Now that we have hopefully convinced you why you should intern in Brazil, we’ll give you a list of the internship opportunities that Roots offers! Remember that whatever internship you ultimately decide on, you’ll be making a great impact on the local communities in Brazil.
As an intern, you’ll assist Iracambi’s (an accomplished conservation and sustainability focused NGO) flagship reforestation project. With this project, they aim to combat water shortages in the area while reversing the effects of the climate crisis globally through ecological conservation. You’ll contribute to the project by helping with data collection, assisting with strategizing, planting trees, monitoring their growth, and tending to their seedling nurseries.
As an intern, you’ll use your skills in graphic design, photography, videography, and marketing strategy as you document and promote the organization’s achievements. You’ll also get the chance to understand their work firsthand as you contribute to and participate in their various conservation and sustainability projects.
As an intern, you’ll work with local community members, inviting them to share traditional knowledge of medicinal plants, as well as conducting independent research. Your work will help develop new ways to distill essential oils, create natural cosmetic products, produce aromatherapy remedies, and find viable ways for locals to profit from these products.
As an intern, you’ll help devise, coordinate, and facilitate ETIV’s (a nonprofit NGO with a focus on youth development) educational programs . You’ll work on weekly environmental classes on topics like recycling, growing your own food, and living sustainably in a marine protected area. As well as this, you can get involved with language exchange programs, computer literacy classes, and, for interns with advanced Portuguese skills, a female empowerment girl’s club.
As an intern, your main goal will be to promote ETIV’s work both locally and globally, connecting the organization with crucial support and raising awareness in the communities of the region. This could involve heading up your own fundraising drives, coordinating marketing strategies, creating content for social media and other online platforms, working on intern and volunteer recruitment, or expanding and solidifying partnerships with supporting organizations.
Choosing an Internship in Brazil with Roots
There you have our reasons to do internships in Brazil and our offered internship opportunities! Choosing to do an internship with us and our partners will offer you a once-in-a-lifetime experience that you’ll never forget! You’ll get to visit some of the most iconic places in Brazil and immerse yourself in its magnificent culture, as well as do some meaningful charity work in Brazil! You’ll also gain a valuable network of people who will help you reach your goals and ambitions!
This blog was written by Gabriel Ruiz
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Virtual Trivia Challenge 2020
Trivia Master Francois Jacques of Mack Flash Entertainment has hosted the fun filled Trivia Challenge since its inception in 2018. The event includes a Chicken and Pasta buffet dinner and delicious dessert trays. A cash bar is available throughout the evening.
Because of the pandemic in 2020, we pivoted and held our trivia fundraiser online and it became the Virtual Trivia Challenge
Trivia Challenge & Chicken and Pasta Dinner 2019
Trivia Challenge and chicken dinner was held at the Legion Branch 594. The Interactors did a fantastic job by selling raffle tickets and as answer checkers.
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Only you can change your life. Only you can change you.
I was jogging back from the gym the other day and it reminded me of something. I absolutely hate going to the gym. I’ve talked about it before, but I do – I hate it.
So then why do I do it?
Because I want to be a better me.
That’s it. That’s the only reason. It would be so much easier to sit on the couch and drink beer all day (and more appealing!) but that’s not going to help me become an improved me.
I want to be better than that – healthier and stronger. And the only way to do it is to change my habits. No one else is going to do that for me… it’s 100% up to me to realize what I want and to make it happen.
My mind wandered from there.
The milestones I’ve reached in life were all because I didn’t accept the norm. I didn’t take the easy road of complacency. I took the initiative to make the changes – as easy or as hard as they might be – to reach those points in life…
My wife and I joined the millionaire club and I retired at age 43. Why did that happen?
It’s not because I started off with a lot of help or had some nice windfall. I didn’t. And although I made a good income, as a household, we weren’t bringing in fistfuls of dough.
Instead, it was because I saw the power of what money could provide… freedom to be with my family.
We all understand how valuable money can be in our lives. But I took it a step further. I wanted that end result bad enough that I thought to myself, “It’s time to change your life.” And then I made the adjustments needed to make it happen.
Listen, it would have been a lot more fun to just continue spending money in all the wrong places. Instead, it was time to go against the grain and do something different:
- Stop spending money on crap that wasn’t important
- Increasing our income (rentals and side hustles)
- Saving a lot more money (a real lot!)
- Learning some of the basics of personal finance
- Making some changes like these to invest more intelligently
Honestly, this sounds a lot harder than it actually is. FIRE (financial independence / retire early) may have seemed like a daunting task or even something unfathomable at the beginning. But once I started learning, it really all just fell into place – with some discipline, of course.
It took several years, but the dream became more and more attainable and I was able to retire from my job at the end of 2018.
Only you can change your life.
The idea of moving to Panama started out as a possible way to reach financial independence sooner (geoarbitrage). Over time though, we decided that we needed to prepare our finances for living in the U.S. in case things didn’t work out living in another country.
However, the idea of moving abroad still intrigued us. Besides the allure of the lower cost-of-living, a new adventure to go with early retirement was still fascinating.
So many of us have had that thought of what it would be like to live somewhere else in the world. Maybe you’re on a great vacation on a beach somewhere with family or friends and think out loud “You know, I could see myself living here…”
You and your fellow vacationers start brainstorming ideas of going in together and buying a property to rent out to vacationers like yourself. The thoughts of what you could do for a job start spilling out and how you could spend the rest of your time enjoying the beach and doing some more fishing.
Or maybe it’s the daydream of living on a tropical island somewhere where you don’t have all the hustle-bustle throughout each day. It would be wonderful to live a much simpler lifestyle, wouldn’t it?
Perhaps it’s the thought of selling off everything you have, buying an RV, and just traveling across the country. There are so many different places, it would great to take our time and just explore them all!
It’s exciting and honestly, it’s really not that crazy of a dream.
So why don’t most of us ever make it happen?
We tend to immediately start talking ourselves out of it. We think of every reason why it can’t work… job, family, friends, money, whatever. It suddenly becomes too overwhelming until finally… we just give up on the thought.
And just like that, the dream gets swept back to the back of our minds. We convince ourselves that maybe it’ll happen “someday” which will likely never come.
Making our move to Panama was an uphill battle for us with every step of the way…
- Questioning ourselves constantly on whether we were doing the right thing
- Friends didn’t want us to move
- Our families (though supportive) didn’t want us to move
- We were pulling our daughter out of a school she loved
- Homeschooling research had to be done
- There was also so much research to do on every detail of living in Panama – so time-consuming!
- We had to sell our home in a neighborhood we loved
- We had to sell almost everything we owned
Sure, early retirement gave us more flexibility to do this, but that’s not the point. Moving to another country was hard on so many levels. We uprooted and fought against every emotion and self-doubt in order to follow a dream.
Who knows how long we’ll be here – another year, a handful of years, a lifetime? It’s hard being away from friends and family – but it’s also wonderful here in just so many other ways.
Regardless, we’ll always be able to look back on what a fantastic experience this has been. It’s truly amazing and all because we didn’t just take the easy way out and continue doing what we were doing.
Only you can change your life.
I don’t have a goal to be Lou Ferrigno, but I do want to be in better shape. Unfortunately, sitting on the couch, watching TV, and drinking beer won’t do the job. How great would be if it did though?!
I’ve never liked working out, but as we all know, that’s the way to get in better shape (along with eating right).
So why do so many people not do it? I mean, we all want to be in good shape, right?
We make New Year’s resolutions to do it. I remember working as a manager at Walmart decades ago and how we’d stock up and sell more fitness equipment every January than any other month.
The gyms are also jam-packed with new members at the beginning of each year.
But then it usually fades. The exercise equipment we bought gathers dust. People start selling it off after years of inactivity. And the regulars at the gyms go back to being able to enjoy the less-packed facilities.
So what happened?
It’s an effort to do it. Maybe we get frustrated by not seeing results immediately so why bother? Life gets in the way and we start giving everything else more priority than working out. And in a nutshell, it’s just more enjoyable for most of us not to do it. Watching Netflix and playing games on our phones is so much easier and more fun.
But the gym nuts know the mantra that only you can change your life. Many of them actually enjoy their workouts!
I’m far from loving it, but I’ve been on a roll with going five days a week now. I’ve added some more exercises and I’m hoping to start using an app soon to help me out more. Fitbod seems to be exactly what I’m looking for – I’m just waiting for the Android version to be released before I sign up.
UPDATE 02/20/2022: The Android version has been up and running for quite a while now and I’ve been using and loving it for years now! And, of course, there’s an iPhone version as well. You can read my review and why I like it so much in my post, Here’s Why I’m Liking… The Fitbod App.
The regular pricing for a Fitbod subscription is currently $79.99 per year or $12.99 per month. However, I’ve worked out an arrangement with Fitbod to be able to offer you 25% off!!
Just head to fitbod.me/redeem and enter in code RETIRE (in all caps). Enjoy!!
And guess what – I’m starting to see some results (slight results!) but it’s still emotionally satisfying. Those results are encouraging and suddenly working out becomes more of a priority in my mind. In other words, it becomes a little less of a task to go. I even went to the hotel gym while on a mini beach vacation recently!
Over time, I can see how this can snowball and one day, I might be able to beat big-guns Jim Wang in an arm-wrestling match!
Don’t take the easy way out. Make it happen.
Only you can change your life.
Only you can change your life
I could rattle off other things in life that I want to do or am doing now (like learning Spanish) but these are just my personal goals. Each of you has your own dreams, big or small, that get tabled in life for whatever reason.
You have to fight inertia and realize that you only get one chance at life. You need to figure out what’s important to you and make it a reality. Push past the hurdles that’ll try to get in your way and make it happen.
I consider myself just a regular guy, but I do continue to make changes that enrich my life in the long run – and that differentiates me. Think about your own existence – if you’re motivated and willing to take action, you can improve your life in so many ways.
A Gallup study of 6,600 workers found that about 60% considered themselves in bad or mediocre jobs. If you’re in that boat and don’t enjoy your job, do something about it. Take the initiative to figure out the next steps to do something you do enjoy…
- Change companies if you love your field but not your current employer
- If you want a different position with your current employer, find out what it would take to make that a reality
- Get training or more education to move into a new field if that would make you happy
- Start a small business doing something you love that you can grow to replace your current job
If financial independence is your big wish, stop dreaming about it and make it happen…
- Educate yourself – read books, listen to podcasts, follow blogs (like mine!)
- Figure out a plan to change your life based on what you learn
- Then actually do it – make small changes that will have big effects in your life
Change is good.
You can’t expect life to change for you. Doing the same thing every day won’t make the course of your life any different. Only you can change your life… but you just need to do it.
Stop dreaming about what you want and do it. Get started. Even small steps will get you moving in the right direction.
Know that things aren’t always going to go 100% according to plan, but if you keep at it, you will get there.
Only you can change your life… so do it!
Is there anything you want in life that you’ve just put on the back burner because well, you know – if it’s meant to be, it’ll happen one day? Or maybe it’s the “I’ll get to it later” lie we tell ourselves?
Thanks for reading!!
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Following the red donor car photo are photos of the body showing test fitment of the flares and removal of the sunroof. Car was then prepped for the addition of the Carbon Fiber roof panel. Rick Hartbrodt only added the CF roof panel after extensive work on the roof allowing a space for the CF panel to sit in a depression so it is flush with original roof slope. This is unusual as most backdates are done by bonding the new roof panel on to the top of the original roof creating an unnatural curvature of the roof (if the heavy sunroof apparatus is even removed in the first place) . Most builders use the less expensive fiberglass rather than the expensive carbon fiber if they remove the sunroof weight at all. Removal of the sunroof panel allows for 35 lbs of machinery to be removed from the very top of the car resulting in significant lowing of the center of gravity creating significant increase in handling performance.
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Light out of Deep Darkness: Trachoma in Egypt
Ghana and Nepal are the latest countries to confirm that they have eliminated trachoma; this is indeed testimony to the dedication and efforts exerted by the international community over many years to ensure that this debilitating and highly infectious disease is consigned to history.
With this increasing success, it is perhaps salutary to reflect on the warriors from a previous era who fought the plague of ophthalmia and, in particular, the inspirational achievements of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan which I have recorded in the second edition of Light out of Deep Darkness.
As Arthur’s grandson, I am honoured to tell his story, bringing it to life through original letters, clinical reports recently discovered, colourful anecdotes and over 160 photographs.
In 1903, Arthur (1872-1955) accepted a position in Egypt to establish the country’s first travelling ophthalmic hospital (TOH), funded by the British philanthropist Sir Ernest Cassel.
Cassel had been shocked by the extent of ophthalmia among the workforce constructing the first Aswan Dam (1892-1902) and established a Trust to “teach the principles of ophthalmic surgery to Egyptian surgeons” to ameliorate the suffering among the local population.
Estimates at that time suggested that 90% of the population of Egypt (of some 10 million people) suffered from ophthalmia, of which between 7% to 10% were blind in one or both eyes. Unfortunately, there were only four, badly equipped, hospitals treating few patients.
The ophthalmic campaign in Egypt
The first TOH, consisting of some 12 tents, was established at Menouf and opened in January 1904. Initially, there was reluctance by the local population to attend but this rapidly changed when the results of his operations became apparent.
Patients could literally “see” the benefits of Arthur’s work; demand for treatment became overwhelming as patients flocked to the camp (pictured left). In his early days, Arthur had to have police escort to control the over-enthusiastic crowd fighting for his attention!
During the first three months, he treated 6,157 patients and performed 615 operations, treating both men and women with equal consideration. Working conditions were harsh with the heat, sand, flies, lice and “mosquitoes as big as sparrows, very bony and strong”.
This combination of work and the environment put great strain on Arthur personally and he admitted that “the work is now very onerous” and “I don’t know how long I shall be able to stand this sort of life”.
Nevertheless, he persevered, recognising the overwhelming need by the population for ophthalmic treatment. Indeed, so successful were the results from the first TOH that, in 1904, Cassel provided the funds for a second one, initially established at Fayoum.
These TOHs were versatile. Generally, they spent six months at one location and then relocated to where essential ophthalmic treatment was also required. This versatility also proved extremely effective during the Ankylostomiasis (hookworm) campaign (1913) and during World War I, when they were converted to military hospitals treating casualties from the campaigns at the Suez Canal, Gallipoli and Salonica.
However, TOHs themselves were not a long-term solution and, given the high incidence of ophthalmia, Arthur devised a more robust and permanent solution to “create a stable central ophthalmic administration with the best possible clinical and scientific teaching adjuncts”, along with establishing a permanent ophthalmic hospital in each of Egypt’s 14 provinces. The first of these was opened in Tanta in 1908, funded by the government.
Over the following years, Arthur worked tirelessly to achieve his self-imposed goals. By the time he departed in 1923, there were 23 ophthalmic hospital units, including five TOHs, attending to 1.5 million patient visits and performing 76,000 operations, with a further two hospitals planned. He also trained some 100 surgeons to resource the expanding hospital network.
Lord Cromer (British Consul General, Egypt 1883-1907) made an insightful observation when he wrote to Arthur that “I regard the campaign against ophthalmia as one of the most important and useful works undertaken in Egypt.”
Arthur is probably best known among the international ophthalmic profession for his research into and “classification of the stages of trachoma”. He analysed trachoma by identifying its component parts in a structured manner which enabled patients’ symptoms to be more readily identified and thus more readily treatable.
Arthur’s approach was to “convert the human suffering from trachoma into a concrete scientific and administrative problem”.
As early as 1905, he was using his classification internally; this was further developed in his books “Trachoma and its Complications in Egypt” (1913) and “Trachoma” (1936). In 1952, the WHO adopted “MacCallan’s Classification” as its then standard.
To support his research work, Arthur established the first ophthalmic laboratory in Assiut in 1913. Later Arthur founded the Giza Memorial Ophthalmic Laboratory, for research and pathological examinations.
This was opened in 1925, after his departure but he considered it to be “the coping stone of my work”. The laboratory is now known as the Giza Memorial Institute for Ophthalmic Research (MIOR) and continues to play a pivotal role in ophthalmic care today.
In 1931, Arthur’s work was recognised for his ophthalmic work with a commemorative bust being unveiled at Giza. This was a significant and rare honour for the Egyptians to bestow, particularly to a foreigner. Only two such commemorative busts were dedicated in that era, the other one was to Saad Zaghlul Pasha, the leader of the Egyptian independence movement.
Hygiene education to prevent trachoma
Arthur recognised the key drivers in the fight to prevent and eliminate ophthalmia; he was effectively using what is now known today as the WHO “SAFE” strategy but in a less structured manner.
He performed Surgery, insisted on Facial cleanliness and hygiene and was cognisant on the Environmental improvements required, particularly in the home and in the local community, to minimise the spread of disease. Unfortunately, this was the era before antibiotics.
With regard to hygiene and facial cleanliness, Arthur believed that if children could be educated in these disciplines from an early age, with particular emphasis on clean hands, faces and towels, then this could help reduce the transmission of the disease between people, both at school and in the home environment.
Indeed, one of his first initiatives was in 1903, when he visited the local school at Menouf to examine the pupils’ eyes.
“Perhaps the most important work carried out was the institution of ophthalmic treatment in all Government Primary Schools throughout Egypt.”
Arthur Ferguson MacCallan
Arthur always wanted to write a book of his time in Egypt; unfortunately, this never happened. So I have taken up this mantle and tried to capture his experiences through his letters home, clinical reports recently discovered and his photographs of that era.
Potentially, the first TOH was a high-risk experiment and could have easily been spurned by the local population. It was due to Arthur’s personal qualities, including perseverance, empathy with his patients and skill as an ophthalmic surgeon, that led to the success of the TOH at Menouf.
The pent-up demand for ophthalmic treatment grew rapidly thereafter. Arthur became his own ambassador in promoting and ensuring the implementation of his plans for the ophthalmic infrastructure which included persuading both government and local notables to provide the required funding.
Arthur’s legacy may be found in the many hospitals, established by him, which remain operational in Egypt today. For example, Fayoum has recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
The MIOR at Giza also continues to play a pivotal role in ophthalmic care, with Arthur’s bust displayed inside. Furthermore, whilst the MacCallan Classification might have been overtaken by advances in medicine and science, it is still recognised today as a major contribution in the fight against trachoma.
Arthur’s pioneering spirit continues to resonate with the ophthalmic profession, as may be evidenced by the recent recognition of his accomplishments by the International Coalition for Trachoma Control (The ICTC MacCallan Medal) in 2014 and, for his services with military hospitals, the Moorfields Eye Hospital Commemorative World War I History Board, also 2014.
These are fitting tributes recognising that Arthur’s humanitarian campaign for the relief of suffering is still an inspiration to today’s profession as they continue their increasingly successful fight to eliminate trachoma.
Light out of Deep Darkness, a biography of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan, the trachoma pioneer – Second edition is published by The Choir Press, 2018 and is available from Amazon UK.
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The people and town of Coachford in County Cork are the stars in this opening sequence for 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.
The people of Coachford go about their daily business, cycling, dog walking, beer deliveries, shopping, or simply just out to pose for the cameras.
People in Coachford gather to pose for the cameras during filming for Hall's Pictorial Weekly (1976)
Once a week, from June to September, the 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly’ film crew would arrive at a town or village in any county in Ireland. They would film the people and the place and return to RTÉ where the footage was edited and put to music.
This short film of around one minute’s duration formed part of the opening sequence for that week’s episode. But no one knew which location had been chosen, and it was not advertised as part of the programme billings in the RTÉ Guide or newspapers.
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The series allowed Frank Hall to follow his own interest in the lives of viewers throughout the country.
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The show ran for nine series until 1980.
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Donald Trump has not donned one. Emmanuel Macron boasted a small French flag on his. Slovakia's president made a fashion statement by sporting a fuchsia-coloured one to match her outfit.
As the world starts emerging from coronavirus lockdowns, political leaders are being closely scrutinised over their choice to wear a mask - or not - as many people question seemingly mixed messages about the value of face coverings as infection barriers.
Many Western governments counselled against face masks for the general public at the start of the outbreak, which has now claimed more than a quarter of a million lives worldwide.
But as people start returning to work despite the absence of a treatment or vaccine, masks are now being encouraged or even required as a critical anti-virus tool, along with hand washing and social distancing.
As government advice has changed, leaders have had to decide: to cover up or not?
"The decision to wear or forgo a mask in public is based on what message the leader wants to convey," behavioural scientist Jacqueline Gollan of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, told AFP.
"They are more likely to wear a mask if the leader believes in promoting public health. They may forgo the mask if the leader believes that they should convey that the risk of transmission is low and things are normalised," she said.
Some have started to appear in public in simple medical masks or more protective N95 or FFP2 masks, others are opting for the washable fabric ones that many governments are encouraging the public to wear.
But a handful, including US President Trump and Brazil's leader Jair Bolsonaro, are bucking the trend and going about bare-faced.
Whatever a leader's motivation, "it sets an example that many people will follow, whether that is to comply with or ignore the advice" on mask-wearing, said Claudia Pagliari, an eHealth researcher at the University of Edinburgh.
Over 50 countries now require people to cover their faces when they leave home, especially on public transport and in shops.
But in many places, there are still not enough medical-grade masks to go around without eating into stocks needed to shield frontline doctors and nurses.
This has caused many - more than three quarters in France according to a recent poll - to suspect their governments lied about the efficacy of mask-wearing at the outset to avoid a run on stocks.
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KK Cheng, director of the Institute of Applied Health Research at Birmingham University, said politicians' initial stance was largely based on the lack of clinical trials to prove that masks do work.
The World Health Organization also does not recommend compulsory mask-wearing by all.
Governments "misunderstood, or haven't appreciated... the nature of evidence needed for an intervention like this," said Mr Cheng, an early proponent of the role of masks in combating the epidemic who insists: "It's simple physics."
"If it doesn't work, why on Earth do we ask people to cover their mouth when they cough? There's no clinical trials on that either but we've never questioned that," he said.
As a consensus has emerged that masks, even homemade ones, do help - though levels of protection vary - political leaders have had to adjust their messaging.
Among those embracing the change is French President Macron, who met primary school children this week in a dark blue fabric mask that matched his suit and featured a label in the red, white and blue colours of the national flag.
He admitted he was still getting used to the item as he explained its role in preventing asymptomatic virus-carriers passing on the virus.
"I'm going to clean my hands now because I keep touching my mask," the president told the youngsters as he reached for a large bottle of sanitising hand gel.
Last month, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa provoked ridicule when he fumbled with his mask, made of an African-print fabric, at a briefing - awkwardly pulling it over his eyes at one point.
But some commentators said the fumble made him endearingly human.
In March, Slovakian leader Zuzana Caputova stole the limelight when she swore in a new government sporting a stylish fabric mask that matched her dress and shoes.
Mr Trump, in contrast, has consistently flouted the advice of the US Centers for Disease Control to cover up in public.
This week, he visited a factory that makes masks but pointedly ignored signs at the facility urging: "Please wear your mask at all times."
Instead he sported a pair of clear goggles.
In April, the president said about masks: "Somehow, I don't see it for myself."
"Unfortunately the coronavirus pandemic is taking place alongside a global populist movement, which has brought a generation of political 'hard men' into power," Ms Pagliari said.
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JASON: Before we get to all the news of the day, this just in from the National Association of Scholars. They are tired of white privilege. They are tired of a lack of diversity. They are tired of discrimination, they are tired of it all, and that’s why they say that Asian-Americans need to be kept out of Harvard. I have no idea how that works, but, apparently, that’s the policy of the higher ed. folks at Harvard. Isn’t that great? I mean, the Supreme Court should take up this decision. Harvard is discriminating against Asian-Americans based on the color of their skin, their ethnicity. for diversity reasons. This is what equity is, not equality.
Anyway, welcome to the great state, the Great Lakes State of Minnesota from whence this program is being broadcast today. So glad, again, to be guiding you through the program. And, you know, don’t let all of the riots over the last year discourage you, because the tourism folks here in the great state of Minnesota are handing out bulletproof vests for free when you arrive; so just in case you go downtown, you’re safe. Don’t worry about it.
Friends, if you didn’t live through Jimmy Carter in the 1970s and the inflation, the taxes, the stagflation, and the crime, you’re gonna get a second chance, because that is what’s happening one year after the riot that devastated America, and they started here in Minneapolis. You know, a lot of the people on the left are now saying that, “Well, Jason, you don’t understand. There’s a great injustice that was perpetrated, and that unleashed this sort of collective outrage. And we have to honor that. Has to be a racial reckoning,” and all of that. Where was the lack of justice? This was the swiftest prosecution of police officers in history, the history of Minnesota. The Hennepin County district attorney, before he was removed for not being woke enough — and he’s a liberal Democrat, by Attorney General Keith Ellison, before he took over the case — before he was removed he said this was the swiftest prosecution in history.
He was found guilty. Derek Chauvin was found guilty. Now, there were so many errors in the trial, I think it will be overturned. But nevertheless where was the lack of justice here? So that can’t explain the continuing violence, the continuing outrage, the continuing chaos that’s engulfed America. It is the policy of liberalism that has turned our cities loose.
As Heather Mac Donald says in today’s Wall Street Journal, it’s open season in Minneapolis. Well, it’s open season across the country. Minneapolis homicides between January 1 and last week, according to Mac Donald, were up 108% compared with the same period in 2020. Shootings up 153%. Carjackings, 222%. This has nothing to do with the fact that they didn’t put Derek Chauvin to death yesterday. This has everything to do with what happens when you fail to defend the 3rd Precinct to prevent torching and looting and arson and you let the criminals run free, and the criminals were part of the BLM, they were part of Antifa.
They were not all of them, but they were part of them. That’s why they keep advocating for abolishing the police, for abolishing capitalism, private property. This is not the civil rights protests of the 1960s. This is a revolution that a means to attack law and order, private property, capitalism, and basically substitute race for class in their Marxist theory. That’s what we’re up against here. And yet they still don’t get it, do they? They still don’t get it on the left. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on the tragic death of George Floyd a year ago. Here’s what she said.
PSAKI: Certainly the tragic death of George Floyd has unfortunately elevated into the public eye ,thanks to the reporting from many of you, the need to put reforms into place, the need to rebuild trust in communities, and we’re certainly hopeful that — that activism, that engagement will help move this legislation across the finish line.
JASON: Good Lord. Jen Psaki is living proof we have not won the war on drugs. I’m telling you friends, the idea that we need to put reforms in place, what the hell do you think the last year was about in reforms, abolish the police, defund the police, let criminals go? Look at the D.A. in L.A. The D.A. in L.A., the district attorney, is every single gang member, every single criminal, every single thug’s favorite cop. He’s letting them go. Newsom is letting 76,000 criminals out. We are refusing to keep private property, the first duty of government, safe from arson. Those are the reforms, Jen Psaki, you’re talking about? ‘Cause we’ve tried ’em. How’s it working out for you so far?
You know, it’d be easy to blame the city of Minneapolis which started this nonsense, the city council that said, oh, we gotta defund the police in the wake of George Floyd. Well, it’s easy to blame them, but don’t fall for that. This is not just the fault of the city council of Minneapolis, which makes the Politburo look sane. This is the fault of every single Democrat in America and every single media hack who backs them in America. They have got their wish, and they have destroyed the country. Our cities are out of control, and they ought to pay. I’m talking about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, talking about Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy and Tim Walz, and the lunatic governor of Washington.
I’m talking about each and every one of them that have wreaked havoc on this country like we have not seen since the 1960s, except in the 1960s there were adults in the room who said it was wrong when they were putting bombs under cop cars. Today they endorse it. This is so bizarre, it’s almost Orwellian. And I’m telling you what’s happening, what’s happening is more chaos. Listen to Steve Dykstra. He’s a former Minneapolis police officer who left.
DYKSTRA: When police don’t have any tools to use anymore, they feel pretty helpless out there. We take away loitering laws, pursuit, the ability to pursue vehicles, you don’t have to stop for the police in Minneapolis anymore, thanks to Mayor Frey and the city council. And what you see is chaos, violence, and recurring crime.
JASON: Think about that. You don’t have to stop for the police anymore. I mean, the homicides that have occurred, the hundred-plus homicides in Minneapolis since this nonsense started a year ago, I think one was at the hands of a police officer. Well, of course. There was a shoot-out downtown over the weekend in the land of 10,000 guns. And that’s the problem, of course, guns. Now, understand this. What I’m saying here, when you basically neuter the police department, what do you think you’re going to get? That’s what Governor Walz and Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter and Tina Smith — I ran a campaign for the U.S. Senate all through this last year. And during my campaign, we tried to make law and order a central feature. I toured south Minneapolis where this occurred. I toured north Minneapolis.
I toured Frogtown and the east side of St. Paul, all these areas where you have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of buildings demolished or burned. Family hairstyle shops that were gone, all of them minority-owned businesses, they wanted more police. But yet, but yet when I say blame Democrats, I want you to listen to me. I made law and order a center feature of my campaign for the U.S. Senate. My opponent, Tina Smith, made riots and chaos a feature. She was basically adding fuel to the fire, encouraging more rioting, encouraging more chaos. She sided with the thugs, and she won. Well, ahem. We think she won. I got more votes than any Republican in the state history. But nevertheless she won, according to the tally that Steve Simon decided to use, the secretary of state.
What does that say about half the people of Minnesota who voted for more chaos, who voted for more arson, who voted for more crime so they could virtue signal with their stupid masks on while their neighbor’s business was burning? That’s why I blame the liberal intelligentsia. Rush has got a great clip. I want to get to that. Mike, do we have time? Let’s go ahead. Yes or no? Yeah, yeah. We got three minutes here. Let’s play Rush’s audio, then we’ll come back with Heather Mac Donald in the next segment.
RUSH: Stop and think. It wasn’t that long ago that our police and first responders were seen as American heroes. You remember the iconic images, police officers, men and women, firefighters running toward the Twin Towers on 9/11, purposely. They were going in, trying to save as many lives as they could. Athletes were proud to hoist the American flag on the field of play. Everybody rallied around the flag, and it wasn’t that long ago. And the police and first responders were the heroes of the day.
Everybody appreciated and loved them and hoisted them, held them up on pedestals. Now, today, policemen and women are all being lumped into a pool of evil villains. They’re yelled at. They are attacked, demeaned. By who? Groups of rioters. Now, let me tell you something, folks. It’s not ideas targeting police officers. “Oh, yeah, Antifa, it’s an idea. It’s not. It’s people.
Ideas are not burning down buildings, killing innocent Americans. It’s not ideas that are attacking law enforcement in their patrol cars and then laughing about it. Policemen and women are being lumped into a pool of evil villains. They’re being yelled at. They’re being attacked. They’re being demeaned by groups of rioters. It’s terrible what’s going on. In our cities, even our small towns. And to us here, it’s not acceptable, period.
On the contrary, it’s time we made them heroes again, because they always have been, and they always will be. Law enforcement, plainclothes, uniform, whatever, first responders, firefighters, they are heroes. They do jobs that most of us would not do. It’s time we support them again. It’s time to make safety and security for all Americans a top priority. There was no way our society could function without them. And now we’ve got defund the cop movements which, by the way, fell flat in Minneapolis. There’s actual advocacy of wounding and killing law enforcement by left-wing political groups to the approval of the Democrat Party. Unacceptable. It’s not who we are, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, this is not who we are. Who we are is the way we were 15, 18, 19 years ago, after 9/11.
And look how quickly, look how quickly the political movement behind all this has been able to effect this kind of change. They’ve turned a bunch of white, Millennial young people into people that hate law enforcement on the basis that — it’s white supremacy, it’s white privilege or what have you. Nothing could be further from the truth. But that’s how successful they have been in their political efforts.
JASON: And that’s exactly right. Rush talked about their political effort. I want everybody to understand what’s going on, whether it’s the New York Times, 1619, whether it’s critical race theory, which we’ll talk about a little bit later, whether it’s the riots over George Floyd, this is a political movement. It’s not about justice. Not about racial harmony. It is about substituting race for class. Marxism-fomented revolution based on class. These Marxists are fomenting revolution based on racial division, and they’re getting it in the streets.
JASON: Heather Mac Donald has really been focused, zeroed in — she’s the scholar at the Manhattan Institute. And she wrote a book, The War on Cops. She’s been very, very much a law-and-order person for many, many years. And she’s got the data. She shared a little bit of that in the Wall Street Journal today, but also I believe she was on Fox. And here’s what she had to say.
MAC DONALD: The political attack on the police, the cops are backing off, and criminals are emboldened. And if we don’t turn this around, this is gonna be a very bad summer. The fact of the matter is the mainstream media is profoundly racist. It’s does not give a damn about Black Lives Matter. Nineteen children have been shot in Minneapolis this year have not been covered.
If those were white children I can guarantee you there would be a national revolution, the coverage would be around the clock. The media only cares about black lives when they’re killed by a cop.
JASON: It’s true. I mean if Harvard were to say, “Guess what? We’re gonna have a higher SAT score threshold for black Americans than white Americans, than Asian-Americans,” there would be all hell to pay, as there should be. But that’s exactly what they’re doing to Asian-Americans, and nobody says a word about it. There was the NFL the coach who was Korean who said didn’t get the job and said I wasn’t the right minority. What we’re dealing with is racism on the left.
I don’t care whether it’s white privilege or whether it’s the mayor of Chicago not giving interviews to white people or whether it’s Harvard or whether it’s black-on-black crime that’s ignored, the single biggest racists in the country are liberals. They are obsessed with race. They don’t want to a colorblind society. They want favored races depending on how they feel at the time. And they hide behind their little virtue signaling masks and their trust funds, and they’re guided by these rich, white Millennials and these soccer moms who are white, wealthy, and liberal joining Indivisible and pretend they care about things. And it’s high time we get serious about this and start giving as good as we get. Because this is a direct threat to equality under the law, to a — quite frankly, a constitutional republic.
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Development of Machine Communication startegies to fulfill demands of Industrie 4.0 concepts.
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New Industrie 4.0 concepts demand machines to get upgraded in cyberphysical Systems, which are able to communicate with other machines or devices. Focus of this Project is developing a unified communication Strategy for interconnections of Production and Quality Control devices in different levels of Automation Pyramid.
Programming and Implementation of a Machine communication System, Programing an App for Process Monitoring
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Ryan is a product of the Rocky Mountains. Born in New Mexico and raised in Colorado, he feels at home wherever mountains scratch the sky. After graduating from the University of Colorado, in 1999, he worked for a decade in the ranching and outfitting industries. That career took him from the Andes Mountains of Argentina, to the Northern Rockies of Montana, even to the Sayan Mountains of Mongolia. Along the way, he moonlit as a writer for Western Horseman Magazine, a cowboy culture magazine founded in 1932.
Today, Ryan works full-time as a journalist and documentary photographer based in north-central Washington State. In 2015, Ryan was named a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellow for a project in Russia and Kazakhstan, and in 2018 was recognized as a National Geographic Explorer for an ongoing project in Uzbekistan.
Ryan's editorial work has appeared in National Geographic, Bloomberg, VICE, Town & Country, Columbia Journalism Review, Outside, Men's Journal, among others. His writing has been awarded at the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards (2012, 2014, 2016), the Equine Media Awards, and the Newhouse Mirror Awards (2020). His photography has been shortlisted for the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year (2016, 2017).
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The elections of Pan-African Parliament’s (PAP) leadership could be further delayed after the body’s legal entity found that the current system was unlawful.
Last week, members in PAP were engaged in fierce debate over the issue of rotational leadership instead of direct elections.
The vote which was scheduled for last Thursday was abandoned after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.
The legal directorate says the candidacy process might need to be started over.
The fifth Pan-African Parliament had a tough start to the fourth session with heated debate over the Presidency with threats being exchanged by some members of Parliament.
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Official opening of the 4th session of 5th Pan-African Parliament
The Pan-African Parliament is set to elect a new leadership on 31 May 2021. Here’s a look back at the previous bureaux pic.twitter.com/AvDEpxqSRJ
— PanAfricanParliament (@AfrikParliament) May 29, 2021
Communiqué from the Pan-African Parliament on the resumption of the business of Parliament tomorrow.
Communiqué du Parlement panafricain sur la reprise des travaux du Parlement demain. pic.twitter.com/csH9lkWCaP
— PanAfricanParliament (@AfrikParliament) May 30, 2021
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How to prevent exposure.
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How a conference session evolved into a published collection of essays
In 2022, Leuven University Press published The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place, edited by Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou. The book came out of an SAH conference session organized by the two scholars. We interviewed the two collaborators to find out how an SAH session became an edited volume.
Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou have been friends since 1999, when they met during the first year of their bachelor’s program at the University of Thessaly. After graduation, they pursued PhDs at different schools—Sioli in the history and theory of architecture at McGill University and Kiourtsoglou in architecture from Université Paris 8—but kept in close contact through weekly Skype calls. It wasn’t until 2018, however, that they decided to collaborate professionally.
“At some point we were like, ‘Why don’t we try something together?’ So, we tried to bring together our interests,” Sioli explains. Sioli, now an assistant professor in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, and Kiourtsoglou, an assistant professor in the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries at the University of Thessaly, decided to submit a session proposal for the Society of Architectural Historians’ 2019 Annual International Conference.
The session, “The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place,” was included in the call for papers distributed by SAH in April 2018. According to Sioli, the two friends and collaborators were interested in examining “how the experience of sound within particular locations, in situ, very specifically, could actually allow us to study and understand space differently.” This, adds Kiourtsoglou, is because “sound is an element of our memory, that comes into our understanding and experience of the place. Atmosphere is also part of our history in a way.”
The topic struck a chord with other scholars. More than 25 abstracts were submitted for consideration and Sioli and Kiourtsoglou had the difficult and unenviable task of whittling them down to the few that would ultimately comprise their session. To make their selections, the pair booked a two-week stay at a rental house on the island of Aegina in the summer of 2018. “We already knew that there was interesting material, so there were some options and ideas, but at that moment we were focused on figuring out how we could put them together and what would be the best grouping,” Sioli explains. “It was quite hard,” Kiourtsoglou continues, “we had all the abstracts on the wall, trying to figure out which is the best, what we have to pull out… It was kind of a puzzle.”
As Sioli and Kiourtsoglou were close to making their final decisions, they got an email from Mirjam Truwant, acquisitions editor at Leuven University Press. Truwant had read their session description in SAH’s call for papers, knew the topic was of interest to the press, and asked if they would be interested in developing the session into a book.
Sioli and Kiourtsoglou were excited by the request. Says Sioli, “The beauty is that Leuven University Press really follows SAH.”
Sioli and Kourtsoglou told Truwant that they were interested in developing the session into a book proposal. “For us it was very helpful and very honoring to have this proposal from Leuven University Press,” Kiourtsoglou says. “This took us on a very long journey of two years.”
In April 2019, Sioli and Kiourtsoglou traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, to co-chair their session at the SAH conference. It was Sioli’s second SAH conference and Kiourtsoglou’s first. Despite having just broken her leg, Kiourtsoglou said that there was no way she would have missed the conference. She found the variety of topics at the conference appealing. Having been trained as an architect and not an architectural historian, Kiourtsoglou felt “it was a window to a totally different way of working.”
“There is a high level of rigor and quality in the discourse that is super refreshing and, of course, that is why you want to be a part of it,” Sioli notes. Sioli added that social events such as the breakfast for session chairs and speakers are an important part of the conference. “There is a very beautiful social aspect that the conference provides. That is really valuable.”
Their session was well received, but Sioli and Kiourtsoglou decided to wait until the summer of 2019 to start work on the book proposal. “We wanted to wait to see the outcomes of the conference, because at the conference we had four fully developed papers. We knew of the quality,” Sioli says. “And that’s why we started with the book proposal afterwards, because we wanted to make sure that we had something strong.”
Their advice to those looking to publish is to start with the book proposal and work from there. “Check online, because most presses have a template for what they need when it comes to book proposals,” Sioli suggests. While there are some similarities between what presses are looking for—such as how a book will fit into the existing bibliography—they each have specific areas that are of interest to them. Sioli found that looking at the requested format for the book proposal before drafting it “worked for me in a very imaginative way,” and helped shape the manuscript. “I think it would be a different book if it were addressed to a different press.”
Sioli and Kiourtsoglou submitted the book proposal in December 2020 and spent a year working on the manuscript. They invited some of the contributors who submitted abstracts for their session as well as others who specialized in the field to be a part of the publication. The editors and contributors faced many challenges during the pandemic, including limited access to archives.
“I have to say, people were very determined,” Sioli says. With contributors throughout Europe and the U.S., constant communication was vital to let everyone know how the project was progressing. “We didn’t know all these people in person, but after all this it felt like we knew them so well.” Kiourtsoglou says, “It was like a family.”
Even still, “editing a book like that, it was also learning about managing people,” Kiourtsoglou points out. It was about learning how to go through texts and critique people’s work in a very tactful way. “If diplomacy’s not your strong suit, you shouldn’t try it at all. Write a monograph!” Sioli adds with a laugh.
Their edited volume, The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place, was published by Leuven University Press in 2022. The collection of essays explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments and examines how sound and its atmospheres transform architecture and space. Contributors to The Sound of Architecture include Anna Ulrikke Andersen (University of Oxford), Timothy Carey (Independent Scholar), Ricardo L. Castro (McGill University), Joseph L. Clarke (University of Toronto), Carlotta Darò (ENSA Paris-Malaquais), Michael de Beer (Independent Scholar), James Deaville (Carleton University), Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College), Clemens Finkelstein (Princeton University), Federica Goffi (Carleton University), Klaske Havik (TU Delft), Paul Holmquist (Louisiana State University), Pamela Jordan (University of Amsterdam), Elisavet Kiourtsoglou (University of Thessaly), Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University), Cécile Regnault (Lyon School of Architecture), Angeliki Sioli (TU Delft), Karen Van Lengen (University of Virginia), and Michael Windover (Carleton University).
When Sioli and Kiourtsoglou first proposed their session five years ago, they had no idea that their collaboration would evolve into a published collection of essays by a group of international contributors. Reflecting on their journey, Kiourtsoglou shares that “what this process also taught us is that small steps make a big difference.”
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Change at the Helm of Irish Sailing
The Board of Irish Sailing, the national governing body for sailing, powerboating and windsurfing, are delighted to commence the New Year with the appointment of their new CEO, Tim Bourke.
Tim is well regarded in both business and sailing circles, bringing a discerning blend of commercial and sporting experience, to lead the organisation.
Tim has a life-long passion for sailing which started with dinghies and continued with instructing, racing keelboats, cruising and volunteering. In sailing administration he ran a sailing school in the US, co-founded the SB20 class, recently rebuilt the Feva class and re-started an Adult Sailing programme locally. Commercially, Tim has successfully led large digital change management programmes in multinational environments for many years and looks forward to combining this experience with his passion for the sport in this role.
Irish Sailing was delighted with such high demand for this role, attracting great interest from exceptional fields of expertise.
Commenting on the announcement Irish Sailing President John Twomey said
"We thank outgoing CEO Harry Hermon for his tireless efforts over the years. We are delighted to have Tim to take up the helm. With his previous experience in business and his vision for the future of Irish Sailing, we have every confidence in his ability to lead the organisation, support all stakeholders and sailors throughout Ireland and internationally".
Commenting in his appointment, Tim added “I really look forward to working with the Board, the dedicated members of staff and our sailing community to accelerate participation, accessibility and the reputation of our sport. Let's go sailing."
Irish Sailing has c. 24,000 members across 100 Clubs, 45 Affiliated Classes, 35 Affiliated and 40 Commercial Training/Activity Centres running accredited training programs. There is a team of over 20 including full, part-time and contract coaches working with the many volunteers who drive the sport on the water. It's focus is on supporting two complimentary elements in the sport - Core activities, the grass roots of learning, participation, cruising and racing in both clubs and centres, and Performance, Irish elite athlete's execution at international events.
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We are really passionate about working with fellow hospitality businesses, and are proud that our in-house roasted coffee can be enjoyed at some of the best spots around London and beyond...
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In 1940, the Navy acquired 640 acres about three miles northwest of Bostwick in Putnam County. The Navy created a 40-acre circular target in the middle of the site, and aircrews from Naval Air Station Jacksonville used it for practice dive bombing. The target became known as both the Bostwick Bomb Target and Putnam Bombing Range, and the Navy used it until 1977 when the Navy determined it no longer needed the site.
The Navy terminated the lease and returned the land to the property owner, but restoration work was required. The Navy searched 70 acres in the center of the site (including the 40 acre target). The Navy personnel dug down as far as two feet and removed any munitions that did not function properly. The land is now owned by two corporations and they use the land for timber.
Over the years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has conducted a number of investigations of the former Bostwick Bomb Target. During the Site Inspection, completed in 2010, teams found pieces from munitions, known as munitions debris. Because it is possible items containing explosive materials could remain at the site, USACE is conducting a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study. The purpose of the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study is to characterize the nature and extent of impacts to the environment caused by the military's use of the land. USACE wants to determine what may be present, in what locations and concentrations.
The Remedial Investigation involves a number of steps designed to confirm the target location and to determine if any munitions remain from the Navy's training. USACE's contractor will tow a cart with a digital metal detector on it along paths (or transects) to locate buried metallic objects. Then technicians will analyze the data to create maps showing the location and amount of buried metal. These are called density maps. The density maps will indicate where crews need to dig "grids" based on the low, medium and high density of metals. Grids are square or rectangular areas of various sizes (such as 25' x 25' or 50' x 50') where munitions experts will dig selected metallic objects within the grids to determine what the metallic debris is. If teams find munitions or munitions debris, they will collect soil samples in those locations.
Once the fieldwork is complete, the team will analyze the data, draft a report and make recommendations. The results will be summarized in a document called a Proposed Plan which will present the alternatives to address what, if anything, remains on the site associated with the former Navy operations. The alternatives can range from no further action being necessary, to educating the public about the site, to remedial action. When the Proposed Plan is ready, USACE will present it at a public meeting, and the public will have at least 30 days to review and submit comments on the plan.
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Following on from the fairly rapid translation I made of the Fondation Macif interview with Stiegler, a few emerging thoughts have been rattling around that I thought I’d post here. I want to think about the centrality of an ethos of care to Stiegler’s proposition of the economy of contribution and the kind of ethics this suggests for Stiegler’s philosophy.
In elucidating the economy of contribution Stiegler refocusses the understanding of an economy, zooming out from the contemporary (capitalist) focus on exchange value–exemplified by fast moving consumer goods and speculative financial markets–to reconsider broader understandings of value. As the Ars Industrialis glossary entry denotes, in an economy of contribution not only is the separation between production and consumption collapsed but ‘the value produced by contributors is not totally monetisable’.
Through contributive technologies, such as open source software and 3D printing, production is not a separate form of labour but mixed in with activities of consumption; the results of which are ‘positive externalities‘–value that exceeds the immediate state of affairs. A contributor is not (simply) a labourer, a subsistence crafts person or a passive consumer but rather someone that cooperates and collaborates to both produce and receive (something of) value.
The mass (over)consumption of capitalism forges the apparently passive consumer that no longer desires–in the sense that the embodied subject is no longer motivated by the creative and connective capacities of the pre/sub-conscious that promote long-term engagement and care–but instead is motivated by drives, short-term impulses for particular things in the moment that are then set aside or thrown away. For Steigler, this is a form of dis-individuation an inhibition of becoming, in and with the world, that constitutes forms of selfishness and carelessness, in some ways analogous to Freud’s notion of an inability to pass beyond primary narcissism.
The argument goes, following Marx, that the automation of industry and the market-driven detachment of the consumer, encouraging passivity and carelessness, separates individuals from the ‘means of production’, and thus the facility to creatively engage with the world, and divorces them from expertise [savoir-faire]. Furthermore, for Stiegler, this ‘proletarianisation’ extends beyond traditional understandings of labour into consumption itself: we not only lose expertise [savoir-faire] but also life skills [savoir-vivre]. It is not only, then, the de-skilling of the workforce, in the sense of Fordism, but also, more importantly, the inhibition of the populus as a passive and ‘careless’ mass of (over)consumers. Furthermore, for Stiegler, this short-termist drive-based overconsumption is recursively addictive, or ‘addictogenic’-addictions lead to further addiction. Consumers thus no longer create ways of living for themselves, they simply follow the examples of branded ‘lifestyles’. So far, so Adorno–perhaps.
To answer this dilemma Stiegler proposes the economy of contribution as an alternative mode of economic operation that, rather than somehow functioning outside of capitalism-in a communist revolutionary manner for example, works within and alongside the existing market economy, composing production and consumption into contribution. At the heart of this formulation is the proposition that ‘to economize means first of all and before anything else to take care‘ . To contribute then means to care: for oneself, for creativity and knowledge, for society and for the planet/world.
At the heart of the economy and society of contribution proposed by Stiegler and Ars Industrialis is digital technology. It is the digital that affords the kind of contributive activities that are called for. Turning again to the Ars Industrialis manifesto, we can see the centrality of the digital: ‘digital technology opens a reticulated space of contributors, who develop and share knowledge, and who form what one calls an associated milieu‘ . The digital as the latest phase of grammatisation, which is ‘all technical processes that enable behavioural fluxes and flows to be made discrete’ , it is therefore a pharmakon–that is, it is both potentially harmful or beneficial (‘poison’ or ‘cure’ following Plato), resolved in particular states of affairs–“it can lead either to the destruction of the mind, or to its rebirth” .
So, finally, we arrive at the question that has been rattling around my head. If the pharmakon is the conceptual device by which we are invited (by Stiegler) to wrestle with the ethical and political import of digital technology as the most recent and most important phase of grammatisation, then how do we conceive of an ethics for an economy of contribution?
I think I would currently argue that the ethics proposed is itself centred on an ethos of care, and to a lesser degree, perhaps, effort. Care, here, is not only for others but for the self, for knowledge, for society and for the world. In particular care is a pedagogical concern. Stiegler engages with Foucault’s later work in a number of places and in particular draws upon his reading of biopolitics, the techniques of the self and indeed care as epimÄ“leia. We are accordingly compelled, in Taking Care of Youth and the Generations (henceforth TC), not to know ourselves (following the Delphic principal) but to care for ourselves. To return again to the manifesto, we can see that care is the principal concern for a rethinking and rehabilitation of political economy:
It is in such a context that the question of care can be posed in a new and political way, not confined to the medical field or the ethical field: the question of care must go to the heart of political economy–and with it, clearly, a new cultural, educational, scientific and industrial political culture capable of taking care of the world. This is why we propose as an axiom of our reflections that–as the first meaning of the verb “economiser” says, and as at bottom each of us knows–to economize means first of all and before anything else to take care .
And, further, in Stiegler’s 2010 book For a New Critique of Political Economy (henceforth FNC):
a pathway to genuine growth must be refound, a growth running counter to the mis-growth [mécroissance] that consumerism has become, and a growth which would consist in a renaissance of desire. Such a rebirth would be achieved by implementing an economy of contribution, an economy for which “to economize“ means “to take care,“ and an economy within which care cultivates associated milieus .
This form of care is significantly drawn from Stiegler’s reading of Freud, found in both TC and FNC. As Richard Beardsworth observes, Stiegler’s critical engagement with ‘cognitive’ capitalism argues that capitalism increasingly reduces desire to its constituent drives, which he calls ‘negative sublimation’. The complex processes of sublimation that displace our primary narcissistic tendencies (placing ourselves as the centre of the world), opening up identifications with other generations, ‘towards a… libidinal economy of commodity fetishism’ . Rather than ‘deep’, prolonged and careful engagements with ideas, literature and the arts the ‘shallow’ attention of always on media pumped out by the ‘programming industries’ engenders a carelessness and ‘I-don’t-give-a-damnism’ amongst the (current) younger generations .
‘Careful’ cultivation of knowledge and practices form culture–understood as the recorded, shared and transmitted forms of retained knowledge or hypomnemata. As Stiegler argues in The Decadence of Industrial Democracies:
‘These engrammes form hypomnemata as supports of cultivated practices… that, in democratic society, must be systematically cultivated and, in particular, cultivated from specific possibilities offered by the digital stage of the industrial development of grammatisation’ .
These forms of culture are precisely forms of care . Another conceptual basis for this cultivation of culture, and I think a foundation of the ethos of care I’m trying to explore as an ethics here, is Stiegler’s use of the Roman idea of otium. Literally ‘free time’, otium consists in ‘practices free of all the worries of subsistence’ , it is the time and space of vocation (in the historical sense of clerics) – of careful practice of expertise. In contradistinction, Stiegler conceptualises negotium as the ethos of capitalism: the proletarian obsession with (short-term) need, which we can assume leads to carelessness.
Through his activist-oriented writing, I think we can see Stiegler developing an ethics founded in a particular understanding of care as a normative morality: careful attention to knowledge, the assiduous practice of skills and the collaborative contribution to the cultivation of culture are good. In this sense, Stiegler’s argument for an economy of contribution can be seen not only as a political economic argument but perhaps also a pedagogical and, dare I say, moral argument too . To coin a clumsy phrase then: to participate in an economy of contribution is to (collaboratively) ‘carefully make’ and to ‘make care’.
These are quite sketchy notes towards thinking about what might constitute a ‘Stiegler-ian ethics’ and are very much written as a way to think. I would certainly welcome comments and critical responses! I hope to push this line of thinking a bit further as I continue to read the Disbelief and Discredit series of books and the new translations to be released this year, namely The Re-enchantment of the World and What Makes Life Worth Living.
1. Ars Industrialis Manifesto 2010 (henceforth AIM), section §2.
3. Stiegler, Bernard. 2012. “Die Aufklärung in the Age of Philosophical Engineering” Computational Culture 2. trans. Ross, Daniel. n.p. (henceforth: DA).
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Selecting a storage facility for your belongings isn’t always simple. Whether your items will be in storage long-term or briefly, you want to make sure you choose a quality facility. There are a few things to consider when making your choice.
If you’re searching for a public storage facility Petaluma, make sure you find an appropriately sized unit. Websites give you dimensions and an approximation of how many rooms worth of items will fit. However, you will need a larger unit if you have several large or unstackable items. Consider if you will need to access boxes while in storage. A small unit could leave your things packed in too tightly to reach.
You should verify that the accessibility of the self storage meets your needs. Some facilities allow around-the-clock access, while others have set hours of operation. Check what the layout of the facility is. If you have many large items, you may desire outdoor access. Bringing certain items into a building, down staircases, or into elevators can be impractical.
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Ultra rugged systems, flexible power interconnects and rugged contact systems combined with rugged signal integrity offerings, create the foundation of Samtec’s rugged/power solutions for high cycle, high power, high speed and harsh environment applications. Samtec’s rugged/power products are offered in conjunction with full engineering support, online tools and a service attitude that is unmatched in the connector industry.
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Bobby N. Turnage, Jr. joins the firm as Cybersecurity & Technology Team Leader
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (January 3, 2019) — Bobby N. Turnage, Jr. has joined Sands Anderson PC bringing with him an extensive background in high-tech industries, announced firm president Margaret F. Hardy. Turnage will lead Sands Anderson’s Cybersecurity and Technology Team, and will work out of Sands Anderson’s Richmond and McLean offices.
“We welcome Bobby to the firm and are pleased he has chosen Sands Anderson as his professional home,” said Hardy. “Bobby is an exceptional addition to our Business Group. He has a substantial practice in Cybersecurity and Technology, and we are pleased to add him to our team and expand the services we offer as a firm.”
Turnage primarily represents and advises clients concerning technology and data-related matters, including cybersecurity, data security and privacy, technology contracts, intellectual property, and general legal counseling.
Turnage was most recently partner at Venable LLP. Prior to Venable he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for Network Solutions LLC, a leading web-presence services company. Before Network Solutions, his legal experience includes serving as Associate General Counsel for Verisign, Inc., a high-tech internet services company, and working as a prosecutor and defense attorney in the U.S. Army Reserve JAG Corps.
Turnage received his undergraduate degree in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University and his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Within the world of fashion, a timeless charm prevails, one that surpasses fleeting trends and seasonal shifts. Handcrafted sarees, known for their artisanal elegance and exquisite craftsmanship, have stood the test of time. This article delves into the mesmerizing world of handcrafted sarees, showcasing their intrinsic beauty and unique appeal.
Elegance in Every Thread
Handcrafted sarees, a quintessential part of Indian culture and tradition, embody a rich heritage that has been passed down through generations. These exquisite garments are a testament to the artistry and dedication of skilled artisans. With a focus on showcasing the aesthetic and quality of handcrafted sarees, we’ll explore the various facets that make them a cherished choice for both special occasions and everyday wear.
Craftsmanship That Transcends Time
Handcrafted sarees are more than just clothing; they are a work of art. Meticulously woven by skilled artisans, each saree tells a story through its intricate patterns and designs. The craftsmanship that goes into creating these garments is a labor of love, where attention to detail is paramount. These sarees are not mass-produced; they are born from the hands of artisans who pour their heart and soul into every piece.
The Allure of Handwoven Fabrics
One of the defining features of handcrafted sarees is the use of handwoven fabrics. These fabrics are made with care and precision, ensuring durability and comfort. Handwoven sarees often use natural fibers like silk, cotton, or linen, resulting in breathable and luxurious textiles that drape beautifully. The tactile experience of wearing a handcrafted saree is unparalleled, making it a popular choice for various occasions.
Endless Variety in Saree Styles
Handcrafted sarees come in a breathtaking array of styles, catering to diverse tastes and preferences. From the opulent Banarasi silk sarees to the understated elegance of Khadi cotton sarees, there is a handcrafted saree to suit every occasion. The versatility of these sarees allows them to seamlessly transition from formal events to casual gatherings, making them a wardrobe essential for many.
The Timeless Appeal of Traditional Clothing
In an era dominated by fast fashion, handcrafted sarees offer a welcome departure from the norm. They are a celebration of tradition and heritage, a way of preserving cultural identities. When you don a handcrafted saree, you not only adorn yourself with exquisite attire but also carry forward a legacy that dates back centuries.
Elevate Your Style with Artisanal Elegance
Artisanal elegance is not limited to the rich history of handcrafted sarees; it is also about the contemporary relevance of these garments. Modern fashionistas are increasingly drawn to the timeless charm of handwoven sarees, recognizing their unique ability to blend tradition with style.
The Joy of Owning a Handcrafted Saree
Owning a handcrafted saree is akin to possessing a piece of art. It’s not just about wearing it; it’s about cherishing the craftsmanship and the stories woven into every thread. Handcrafted sarees become treasured heirlooms, passed down from one generation to the next, carrying with them the memories of special occasions.
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Conclusion: Embrace the Timeless Beauty
In a world where fashion trends come and go, the allure of handcrafted sarees remains unwavering. These garments are more than just clothing; they are a testament to the enduring craftsmanship of artisans who infuse their passion into every thread. Embrace the timeless beauty of handcrafted sarees and experience artisanal elegance in its purest form.
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An adventure towards remembering..
In 2009 I had my first contact with a more holistic approach towards personal healing.
At that time crystals were the first thing to shake the world that I knew back then.
They led me to go within, which gave me the insight into the importance of how we breathe and the way the body expresses how one feels inside. Our body can tell us a lot more about ourselves than we often want to admit or that we are conscious of.
Practicing mindfulness brought me to Eastern traditions on meditation and breathwork, which I combined with working on the body with kung fu. Thanks to these tools and philosophy I managed to heal myself from scoliosis, with the help of a specialist who helped me to correct my body, so I could strengthen my body through physical exercises to develop muscles to walk straight without any discomfort. By correcting my physical body, I noticed that trauma and behavioral patterns came to light by re-aligning the physical body. I understood that our emotional and mental wellbeing was connected to our physical state of being. This was a slow process that took years to understand.
Around the time that I started to work with crystals for myself, mushrooms also entered my life and opened the door towards plant medicines and more ancient ways of healing the mind and spirit. They helped me to conquer old traumas and face depression by rearranging the way I thought and perceived the world around me.
In 2016, I took my first solo trip to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, to explore the world of plant medicines, where the knowledge was still available on how to work with plants like our ancestors once did. Here I had the opportunity to sit with two amazing healers from the Shipibo lineage at Dreamglade's retreat center in Iquitos.
After my first retreat, in early 2018 I found my maestro Don Ronald Joe Wheelock with whom I started an apprenticeship working with plant medicines without knowing where this would lead. It's here that I discovered the love for trees and learning directly from them alongside my maestra Ayahuasca. After this intense opening into the world of plant medicines , through a following dieta I was directed to a Mestizo family (Panduro Navarro) in Iquitos coming from Llamas (Region Tarapoto/Peru), where up until this day, I'm still a student at Pedrito's University and walking my own direction. Learning never stops!
In 2021, I decided to let go of everything. I left my life in my native country of Belgium, and took myself as far as possible out of the system. Went off to the Peruvian jungle, with only three backpacks, containing my most precious items. There was a piece of land needing to be taken care of, belonging to a friend and an opportunity to disappear into the jungle. So I let go of everything I ever lived by. Surrendering myself to the jungle. And then the day came that I ran out of money and other luxury items to have any comfort. The only things remaining were plants and basic jungle food, my cat, chickens and a dog belonging to the property.
During this adventure I started to remember who I am as a soul, why I am here, what my mission and work on this planet is. Coming from a very rational and logical upbringing, I now can no longer deny that living a life in alignment with my higher self is essential. Triggered by seeing a lot more and discovering very intimate sides of life and our universe.
It's almost unimaginable how beautiful and loving this whole life experience can be and is at all times.
After spending six months in the jungle, and some time in Iquitos city, I ended up back in Belgium, this brings me to the second part of my journey, my twin flame, Debra. I never wanted to go back to Belgium. But the call to reconnect was bigger than my personal soul-quest. We initially connected professionally. I contacted her for an akashic records reading for myself, wanting to gain some extra insights to prepare for the jungle adventure and coming dietas. As Debra jumped into my records, she surprisingly discovered many images and memories including her presence. These insights brought more questions and Debra asked if she was allowed to dive deeper into my records, to find out what was going on. So she discovered that we've been together as one, twin flames, a truth that deeply resonated with me, the moment she shared this information with me. Initially from a distance we explored and discovered how deep this connection went in spirit and intuition. Being granted these new insights in being one within and without. After connecting and doing long distance work between Belgium and Peru. We are now on our mission together, traveling as a family, on our way back to the Amazon. Sharing and helping out where we land and flow.
First stop Mallorca!
In 2021, after 7 transformative years of intense work (most importantly the integration aspect) I gained a lot of knowledge on integration work with plant medicine experiences and traumas. Ever since gaining these insights, my mission has been to guide people further into transforming the insights that they've gained during plant medicine journeys and/or other big life changing experiences into knowledge that they can apply in their day to day life, with the goal of connecting to their essence.
My goal is to make you remember who you are, and who you can be. I’m continuing this process of growth and learned now that this is a natural part of life, which we can become more comfortable with by recognizing these cycles for what they are and to learn from them.
A very intense period of
integration passed by…
2023, we are still in Spain and have been through a huge amount of layers and transformation within our family, and on a personal level. These past years, after waking up, I had my work on my body, but mostly the last 7 years have been dedicated mainly to the development of mind and spirit. Only this process didn’t feel like a complete picture and I had a sense that I was lacking a part in order to offer my own unique service to guide people that are experiencing their own awakening.
This year I had the opportunity to connect to a very powerful tree in Europe that holds a lot of wisdom about harmony and discipline. And it brought me back where I started this story, my body. After such a long time working with the mind and the spirit it guided me back to the full spectrum. I wasn’t even looking for this and this came as a gift through my dieta with the olive tree. “Pick up kung fu again!” But where and with whom? My experience with kung fu masters in the Western world was not so good when it came to being authentic and combining it with the wisdom of plants. Until the Shaolin temple in Yunnan crossed my path… Another blessing thanks to Covid is that many things are available in online courses these days. And this specific direction will allow me the opportunity to become a disciple at an official temple recognized by the Wushu Federation and the temple themselves as a coach.
July 2023, I started to reconnect to Chinese traditions and so I found a master to continue the path of kung fu. Starting all over from scratch in the Shaolin tradition to rebuild my foundation and learn from a new master, Shifu Shi Yanjun, headmaster at the Shaolin temple in Yunnan (Kunming China). He is the 34th generation disciple Shaolin warrior monk & 17th generation disciple of the traditional heritage of Meihua Quan. Which is an ancient style that has been kept secret for 1000’s of years. These body movements and stances connect you to the power of the life force which they call Qi. Through these movements we learn to harness the essence of natural energy and gain the wisdom to find harmony and balance within. These techniques also help to rejuvenate our body and spirit and guide us through life with the fiery energy of a dragon and the calmness of a monk.
So you see, life is a never ending story of growth and potential where one that is dedicated can continue to learn for the rest of their life. For me there is no more search in what direction my life needs to go. To where I want to grow… I walk the path of a healer within the Amazonian traditions, which is a lifetime of learning and which will never stop. So it is with my new direction of joining the temple in Yunnan as a disciple under Shifu Shi Yanjun. In a way I see this for myself as bringing heaven and earth together. Spirit, mind and body… Both paths offer deep wisdom and a never ending path of growth and learning.
Just like a tree…
Roots will continue to grow deeper while the branches will continue to reach out to the sky and each year I will be enjoying more and more fruits from the hard work and joy that I discovered for myself in these practices and the unique combination of both of them to guide other people.
To bring people back to simplicity and knowledge that can guide you to grow your own tree in a healthy and balanced way in the full spectrum of life’s lessons and blessings.
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Supporting millions of parking entries each year, SCAN is the largest provider in Greece in automated parking facilities. Its experience spans over 100 projects, from small and medium size parking spaces, to multi-storey installations with thousands of lots in the largest shopping malls in the country.
SCAN has four major advantages in the sector:
- Total solutions: the company offers integrated solutions suitable for any type of parking facilities, open air or indoor, paid or free, with or without personnel. SCAN can undertake the project from the initial design and provide installation, training, and follow-up support for:
- Entry/exit terminals and automated pay stations
- Entry/exit barriers, sensors and inductive loop detectors
- Centralised control systems
- License plate detection systems
- Occupancy signs
- Advanced management and information
Of course SCAN can develop any specialized solution, from a retail store offering parking discounts to clients, to a logistics installation with constant vehicle monitoring and traffic management for minimizing waiting times.
- Compliance and ease of use: Every SCAN solution is fully compliant with local legislation including tax provisions. Also, in daily usage, all payment methods are supported (cash, debit/credit cards etc.), the automated pay stations and signs use native language prerecorded messages and posts, and the whole experience is extremely simple for the driver, even on first try.
- Global know-how inclusion: SCAN has an exclusive partnership with Scheidt & Bachmann (S&B), a leading German supplier of automated parking solutions and one of the largest in the world. S&B has created more than 10.000 parking facilities in 50 countries, including the gigantic 20.000-lot parking at Dusseldorf airport, and continues to develop the most innovative solutions like the unique management platform “entervo”. The strategic partnership with SCAN dates from 2002, providing Greek customers with extremely efficient parking facilities, with continuous operation and with heavy daily loads (up to ten thousand entries per day).
- Support: An efficient parking facility requires systematic support. One more comparative advantage of SCAN, that can offer its own specialized and certified support team, an extensive inventory of spare parts, and longstanding experience in addressing any maintenance issue.
SCAN: In a parking near you!
Designing and creating a fully automated parking facility is a core activity for SCAN, and as a sector leader in Greece, it can undertake any kind of project, irrelevant of complexity and specialized requirements. And already each year, millions of Greeks have a firsthand experience of SCAN’s expertise, using parking spaces of some of its biggest clients, among them:
Golden Hall, The Mall, Polis Park, Thessaloniki Airport, Thessaloniki International Fair, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Supermarket Gountsidis, Athens Metro Mall, Urban Rail Transport (STASY) and many others.
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4 Ways to Stay in Touch With High School Friends in College
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4 Tax-Smart Moves You Can Still Make for 2021
When it comes to finances, taxes are often overlooked as a ripe area for savings. Setting aside money in tax-advantaged accounts, for example, can drop you into a lower tax bracket and help you keep more of what you’ve earned—even if you wait until tax time to do it.
“As an investor, it’s important to take advantage of every factor you can influence, and your tax situation certainly qualifies,” says Hayden Adams, CPA, CFP®, and director of tax and financial planning at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. “Taxes are one of those areas where even a little forethought can yield significant savings.”
We’ve already started the new year, but it’s not too late to impact your 2021 tax situation. Here are four tax-smart moves you can still make between now and April 18 (or April 19 for taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts), the IRS filing deadline this year.1
1. Consider contributing to a traditional IRA
One way to potentially save on your 2021 taxes and put away money for later is to contribute to a traditional individual retirement account (IRA).
If you qualify, these accounts can give you upfront tax deductibility on your contributions, plus tax-deferred growth of your earnings. For 2021, you can contribute up to $6,000 to a traditional IRA (plus a $1,000 catch-up if you’re age 50 and over), and you have until Tax Day to do so.
Because contributions to a traditional IRA reduce your taxable income dollar for dollar, they could be enough to drop you into a lower tax bracket. Given that some gaps between tax brackets are quite large—for instance, the drop from 22% to 12%—those savings can be significant.
Contributing to a Roth IRA, on the other hand, won’t lower your taxable income today. But it might help you save on taxes in retirement, depending on your goals. “In some cases, a Roth may make more sense than a traditional IRA,” Hayden explains, “for example, if you’re in a low tax bracket today but expect to be in a higher tax bracket when you withdraw the money.”
2. Consider a SEP IRA, if you’re self-employed
As a small business owner, you may be eligible for a traditional or Roth IRA. But you might be able to save even more by opening a Simplified Employee Pension (known as a SEP IRA), if you meet certain requirements.
Like a traditional IRA, contributions to SEP IRAs are made with pre-tax dollars. So, they reduce your taxable income up front, and you won’t pay taxes until you withdraw the money. For 2021, you can set aside up to 20% of your net income from self-employment or $58,000, whichever is less. If you have employees, you can contribute retirement savings for them as well—up to 25% of their compensation or $58,000.
You have until the due date of your return (including any extensions) to make contributions and get a tax deduction for 2021.
3. Max out your HSA
Health savings accounts (HSAs) have risen in popularity in recent years to help offset the costs of high-deductible health plans.2 These accounts offer a triple tax advantage: Contributions generally reduce your taxable income, any growth on money invested in the HSA is tax-free, and withdrawals are tax-free as long as they’re used for qualified medical expenses.
Some savers may not realize they have until Tax Day to contribute to their HSA for the 2021 tax year. For 2021, individuals can sock away up to $3,600 in tax-free HSA contributions and up to $7,200 for families. If you’re over age 55, you can set aside an additional $1,000.
If you haven’t maxed out your HSA for 2021, closing the gap before the filing deadline could result in a lower tax bill.
“Because HSAs let you roll over your savings from year to year, that money will be available to you if you need it for medical expenses,” Hayden says. “And if you don’t need the money right now, you can invest a portion of it and potentially enjoy tax-free growth.”
4. Don’t rule out itemizing too quickly
The tax-code changes from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) raised the standard deduction while reducing expenses taxpayers can itemize. Despite these changes, itemizing your deductions could still make sense.
One of the biggest deductions, for mortgage interest, is still on the table. If you bought your home after December 15, 2017, you can deduct interest on up to $750,000 of indebtedness. And the limit for homes bought on or before that date is still $1 million.
You may also be able to deduct a combined total of $10,000 in property tax, state and local income tax, or sales tax paid in 2021. The sales tax deduction applies to all purchases made during the year, including food, clothing, home improvements, or a new car. If you live in a state with no or lower income tax, sales tax might get you a bigger tax break than the state and local tax deduction.
Don’t overlook other opportunities to itemize. For instance, medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income (AGI) can be deducted. And under the CARES Act and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, individuals may deduct 100% of AGI on cash donations to qualifying operating charities for 2021.
If you’re a single filer and your deductions exceed $12,550 (or $25,100 for married couples filing jointly), then itemizing would save you more money than the standard deduction. Just be sure to keep receipts for each expense you’re itemizing, and check with an accountant if you’re not sure which costs are deductible.
With taxes, it’s always best to double-check your math and assumptions. If you have questions, talk to a tax professional. Mistakes can quickly erode the potential benefits of tax-saving moves, especially if you miss IRS deadlines. Well before Tax Day, be sure to:
- Determine if a traditional IRA, Roth IRA, or SEP IRA is right for you and how to get the most out of one.
- Check with your employer or healthcare/HSA provider to find out about opening an HSA account if you’re part of a qualified high-deductible health plan or increasing your contributions if you haven’t hit the 2021 limit.
- Gather any documents, forms, or receipts you’ll need to help you decide if you should itemize your deductions.
1Washington, D.C., will recognize the Emancipation Day holiday on April 15 in 2022, so the tax deadline moves to April 18 except for taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts, who have until April 19 because of the Patriots’ Day holiday in those states.
2A high-deductible health plan is defined as having a minimum annual deductible of $1,400 for individuals and $2,800 for families. The insured can’t be enrolled in Medicare, claimed as a dependent on someone else’s tax return, or covered by another health plan without a high deductible.
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The US still has distinct advantages, including, critically, a growing population. But it must ease off sanctions and its single-minded focus on security.
Domestic instability could make New Delhi less willing to commit support to Washington against Beijing, which in turn could decrease US congressional support for a defence partnership with India.
Unlike India, South Korea is in lockstep with the US on Russian sanctions, Xinjiang and even Taiwan, and talk is turning to Quad membership. As the US-India gulf grows, the danger is that China might seek a thaw with India – and a weakening of the US alliance.
The frenzy and panic over such a minor threat leave question marks over how the US will respond to a more serious military crisis in Asia. The rapid breakdown in US-China dialogue also suggests allies such as Japan and South Korea would be left more vulnerable in case of conflict.
Attempts by the US to isolate rivals like China and Russia while reasserting its global leadership have led to protectionism in trade and questionable defence ties. The US should conversely be championing economic globalisation while being tougher on military partners who fail to uphold democratic values.
Tensions with the US and in the region, whether with India or in the South China Sea, will limit China’s ability to exert influence far and wide. These tensions must be managed well or Beijing may opt for a more muscular projection of its power.
For years, China focused on economic matters both at home and abroad, with the Belt and Road Initiative exemplifying that approach. But as its economic influence encounters roadblocks, there are signs of a pivot in Chinese diplomacy towards geopolitical wrangling and militarism.
Not only is Putin far from being universally shunned, his sympathisers include those suffering most from the food and energy crisis sparked by his war. Through well-placed propaganda, he has blamed Western sanctions for rising global poverty, a claim reinforced by the West’s own neglect of struggling nations.
With China’s economy bogged down amid Covid-19 lockdowns, now is the time for the US to reach out to Asia’s trade-dependent nations that are seeking help out of the pandemic-fuelled economic crisis.
Under Macron, France has championed an independent European foreign policy and expanded its footprint as an arms supplier. As the US frames its geopolitical battles in ideological terms, France could provide Asia’s illiberal democracies with a less difficult alternative.
Not only have US and European sanctions largely failed to make authoritarian governments toe the line, they have further entrenched those regimes and fuelled an East-West geopolitical rift. With the West’s influence waning, reviving multilateral dialogue with countries that do not share its norms may be the only way out.
For all the talk of bonhomie and cooperation, sources of tension remain between the two nations. Russia’s threats over Ukraine and activities in Central Asia risk instability in areas where China has significant economic interests.
With Washington distracted by political crisis at home, Beijing has steadily invested in the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels towards green energy. China’s control today of key minerals such as lithium and cobalt leaves the world with little option but to depend on it for at least the medium term.
India’s difficulties at home and strategic hedging abroad threaten to engender a trust deficit with Washington. If Delhi wants to increase its relevance in the region and guard against being overshadowed within the US-led security sphere, it must first fix its domestic failings.
Overtures to Pakistan, Kashmir and the Taliban are a significant shift in Modi’s foreign and security policy. If he is to sustain peace for any length of time, he will have to overcome significant trust deficits with groups Hindu nationalists have vilified.
At a time when India needs all the help it can get, its insecure, aggressive posturing is bizarre and counterproductive. India should focus on building its state capacity, and its foreign policy should make the world a partner in that effort.
The Quad’s investment in India’s vaccine manufacturing capacity shows the grouping could be a long-term partner in solving India’s developmental challenges. But New Delhi’s multi-alignment strategy might undermine the Quad’s willingness to invest in India.
India’s inconsistent foreign policy has alienated neighbours, with China becoming the default option for counterbalancing its primacy in South Asia. The lack of advocates for state-building gives India a chance to lead efforts in Myanmar and solidify its global standing.
India’s challenge will be to keep Biden committed to the Indo-Pacific, which means it must make itself more relevant to the US and its allies. Delhi should consider a more proactive policy in the South China Sea and vocally oppose Chinese militarisation.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was an opportunity to recapture India’s success through economic liberalisation. Instead, it now finds itself isolated and has compromised its influence in the region.
India is using cautious rhetoric in the hope of easing tensions with China and maintaining the East-West balancing act. However, public outrage over a number of issues, including Indian soldiers dying in Ladakh, is complicating diplomacy.
Asian nations, for whom the Chinese threat is closer to home, would welcome a return to the US’ long-standing foreign policy traditions and global leadership instead of the transactional approach favoured by Trump.
Russian involvement in the Indo-Pacific will help India avoid making tough choices in the US-China face-off and could induce a split between Moscow and Beijing. However, given close Russia-China military and economic ties, this is unlikely to happen.
The recent border stand-off has prompted India to rethink its policy on China. As the US proves to be an unpredictable ally, India must speak up for other Asia-Pacific nations while eschewing the trade protectionism that has curtailed its influence.
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NO. 3 GALLAGHER DALLARA/CHEVROLET
START – 2ND FINISH – 6TH POINTS – 6TH (-159)
RACE RUNDOWN: Scott McLaughlin and the No. 3 Gallagher Chevrolet team had the pace to win Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto, but the delicate strategy balance did not go their way in a sixth-place finish for the New Zealander. After matching his season-best starting position of second on Saturday afternoon, McLaughlin and team elected for a slightly different, two-stop strategy. Their goal was to “overcut” the field by running longer, but an extended first pit stop and an ill-timed caution flag later in the event wiped away any gains made. Following his final pit stop, McLaughlin found himself in the 15th position. Gradually, he worked his way through the field and put himself in position to capitalize on several cars that had to make late pit stops for fuel, eventually coming home in the sixth position.
MCLAUGHLIN’S THOUGHTS: “It was an up-and-down day for us here at Toronto. We had a really fast Gallagher Chevrolet, probably a winning car but things just didn’t go our way with the strategy. I will back my guys always and I think we had the right strategy. It is what it is. We are in this together, and we’ll push on with another solid finish. It’s hard not to feel a bit frustrated when I think we could have easily won that race.”
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This creamy Greek tzatziki is drained in the fridge which gives it great texture. It is a great summer dip that I have so much fun making!
Preparing Tzatziki Ingredients
Before putting the ingredients together for this creamy Greek tzatziki, we need to take a few steps to prepare them:
Greek Yogurt: you want to find a brand of 0% non-fat Greek yogurt that is relatively thick to reach the right consistency for the dip. You will also need to drain the yogurt. This is done by placing the Greek yogurt in a kitchen towel inside a strainer over a medium mixing bowl. Let the yogurt drain like this in the fridge for one to two and a half hours.
Cucumber: you need to shred a small cucumber about ten minutes before you are ready to combine all of the ingredients because it makes it easier for you to drain the cucumber of water. Once you have shredded the cucumber and let it sit, take another kitchen towel and squeeze any remaining water from it.
Garlic: my favorite trick when using garlic is to zap it in the microwave for ten to fifteen seconds. This makes the cloves pop right out of their papery outer layer. Once you have done this, crush the garlic in a garlic press.
Lemon Juice: you will need to juice approximately one lemon for this recipe. I recommend heating the lemon in the microwave for twenty to thirty seconds and then rolling it on the counter before cutting it in half - be careful, it will be hot! This method helps you get more juice out of your lemons easier.
Ways to Serve Tzatziki
This creamy Greek tzatziki is super versatile and can be served many ways, these are a few of my favorites:
with toasted pita bread for an appetizer or snack
as a topper to curry or stews at dinner
in place of calorie dense sauces such as mayonnaise on sandwiches
as a dip for grilled zucchini wedges
I even love it with steak! Use your imagination and the possibilities are endless for how you can serve this dip!
1 small container (500g) 0% fat plain Greek yogurt
1 small cucumber (approximately 8-inches long)
2 cloves garlic, crushed in a garlic press
2 tbsp lemon juice, approximately 1 lemon
salt and pepper, to taste
1 tbsp olive oil, plus more for serving
Place a kitchen towel in a strainer over a medium mixing bowl. Put Greek yogurt on the towel. Drain in the fridge for one to two and a half hours. Once drained, dispose of water in the bowl and add drained yogurt to the mixing bowl.
Shred cucumber and let sit for 10 minutes to drain water. Using another kitchen towel, squeeze any remaining water out of the cucumber and add to the mixing bowl with the drained yogurt.
Add crushed garlic, lemon juice, and 1 tbsp olive oil to the bowl. Crack salt and pepper over the bowl to taste. Mix all ingredients together well.
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Board of Trustees Vacancy Update
During the November 3, 2020, election, Sean Elo-Rivera was elected to the San Diego City Council. On December 10, 2020, he was sworn in to office, at which time he resigned from the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees, where he represented Trustee Area E.
On November 12, 2020, the Board indicated (pursuant to education code section 5091) its intent to develop a process for receiving community applications, conducting interviews, and making a provisional appointment of a registered voter from Trustee Area E to fill the vacancy and serve for the remainder of former Trustee Elo-Rivera’s term. Trustees Mary Graham and Craig Milgrim were selected as the Board subcommittee to advise staff and oversee this process, with the understanding that all aspects of the process will be conducted in public.
At its meeting of December 17, 2020, the Board approved a timeline, a Board candidate application packet, and the proposed interview questions. The following day, the approved materials were posted on the District's website. The final applications were due January 15, 2021. Applications were solicited publicly through notices in the local press and the District website.
On January 28, 2021, the Board reviewed the applications and decided to interview all eligible applicants at a Special public Board meeting on February 4, 2021, 1:00 p.m. These interviews are being held to allow the Board to interview applicants for this provisional appointment in compliance with Administrative Procedure AP 2110 Vacancies on the Board. Following the interviews, the Board will adjourn and will reconvene at a Special public Board meeting on February 8, 4:00 p.m.
The Board approved the following process:
The Board of Trustees wants every aspect of the process to fill the trustee vacancy spot, formerly held by Sean Elo-Rivera, in a manner that is as public, as open, and as transparent as possible. At any time in the process, we invite the public to express opinions and suggestions about any aspect of the process or any candidates being considered by the Board by email to email@example.com, by going to https://www.sdccd.edu/board_comments/, or by voicemail at 619-388-6957. Comments will be read aloud by staff prior to each candidate interview. For the February 4 meeting, public comments must be submitted by 11:00 a.m. the day of the meeting; for the February 8 meeting, public comments must be submitted by 2:00 p.m. the day of the meeting.
interview and selection process
Each candidate will be invited to make a five-minute opening statement. Each Board member (including the student trustee) will have up to five minutes to ask any follow-up questions, for a total of thirty minutes for each candidate.
The candidates will be interviewed in the following order, which was determined by lot:
Following the interviews, the Board will adjourn and will reconvene at a Special public Board meeting on February 8, 4:00 p.m. At that time, additional comments from the public to express opinions and suggestions about any aspect of the process or any candidates being considered by the Board will be read aloud by staff. Following public comments, the Board will consider the candidates and will vote to appoint an applicant to fill the Governing Board Vacancy created by the resignation of Sean Elo-Rivera.
The appointed candidate will be sworn in at the February 11, 2021, Board meeting.
APPLICATION process FOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES VACANCY
Applications are now closed
The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) is inviting applications for the position of appointed member of the Board of Trustees (Trustee District E) in compliance with applicable Education Codes until the next regularly scheduled election for governing board members, which is November 8, 2022.
Candidates must live in Area E, which includes Golden Hill, City Heights, Logan Heights, Downtown, Normal Heights, Barrio Logan, Mountain View, and South Park.
- Participating fully in the work of the Board, which includes attending all Board meetings and key events, studying and discussing policy issues, and participating in trustee orientation, training, and professional development programs.
- Being knowledgeable about the communities served by the District.
- Being committed to the mission and functions of community colleges; understanding the educational, social, and economic policy issues pertaining to community colleges.
- Engaging in balancing the needs of many diverse groups and be able to contribute to and build consensus.
- Contributing to effective Board functioning and supporting the authority of the Board as a whole. The Board of Trustees meets twice monthly on Thursdays unless noted otherwise. Please see the following link to access remaining meeting dates in Fiscal Year 2020-21.
In order to be considered for appointment to the vacant position, the following application materials must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 15, 2021:
Application materials include the following:
- A one-page letter of interest addressed to the president of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Maria Nieto Senour
- A completed application, including Board of Trustees Temporary Appointment Application Questions (link below)
- At least two (2) and up to five (5) letters of reference
Email all application materials to firstname.lastname@example.org. These materials will be considered by members of the Board of Trustees in determining who will be invited to be interviewed at a special public Board meeting on February 4, 2021. Further information will be provided to those candidates about the Board meeting and interview process. The Board will make a selection/appointment on February 4, 2021 (with February 8 as additional special meeting date if needed). The individual will be sworn in at the public Board meeting on February 11, 2021.
The Board encourages you to review Board Policies that outline Governing Board responsibilities and expectations for trustees.
If you have questions, please contact the Board Office by email, email@example.com, or leave a message at the office number (619) 388-6957. Due to COVID-19, the SDCCD is in remote operation status for an indefinite period of time. Classes are being held online and essential services are continuing, although all District campuses and facilities are closed with a few exceptions for hybrid classes.
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Integrates strategic design with inventory management to power demand-driven supply networks
Boston — September 29, 2005 — Supply chain solution provider Optiant today announced the availability of PowerChain Planner 2.0, a solution that the company said bridges the gap between sales, manufacturing and supply.
Optiant said the upgraded optimization solution was developed and tested in deployments by Optiant's customer base of manufacturers. It can be integrated with manufacturing execution systems, including SAP environments, via the recently released SAP-certified PowerChain Connector. Optiant explained that because it drives day-to-day engines of production, PowerChain Planner ties together the strategic stage, where decisions are made about where and how much inventory and associated inventory types should be placed to meet service level requirements, with the daily execution horizon that drives replenishment signals.
Supply chain planners, on the front lines of operational management, can use the solution to determine and implement optimal inventory levels, even for components with highly volatile supply and demand patterns, according to Optiant. With PowerChain Planner, manufacturers also have access to real-time information from up and down the supply network to modify inventory levels for each stock-keeping unit (SKU) as frequently as needed.
"Freeing up our planners and product champions to focus on more strategic product-centric initiatives, such as new product introductions and end-of-life transitions, means we are making the most of every resource," said Peter Smith, director of supply chain planning processes at Mass.-based Cabot Corp., $1.9 billion chemical manufacturer. "With PowerChain Planner, we can plan and deploy inventories to better manage working capital while providing superior levels of customer service — a critical strategy to achieve our performance goals."
Optiant said PowerChain Planner can be integrated into any existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) or advanced planning system for transfer of inventory planning data across the entire supply chain. PowerChain Planner also shares its data model with all other Optiant solutions.
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Enjoy an exclusive and luxurious lunch for six (6) people with wine service & champagne in the Dining Club at the Rainbow Room, in the iconic Rockefeller Center.
The Rainbow Room is known for legendary occasions. Graced by presidents, dignitaries, and the brightest stars in entertainment, events held here have defined what it means to celebrate in New York City. Add yours to the list! Located sixty-five stories above Midtown Manhattan, the private Dining Club offers personalized attention and walls of windows with striking views of New York City to the south and west.
The Rainbow Room offers seasonal, locally sourced, always unique menus will delight every palate and enhance every moment.
*Availability is based on Rainbow Room’s event schedule.
Generously donated by The Rainbow Room
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This 250mL size (40g) is a premium green tea with a nutty twist!
Ingredients: High grade Sencha, apples, almonds & beetroot. Low caffeine.
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These Netflix documentaries about travel will pacify your wanderlust between trips as you explore the world from the comfort of your couch.
Here are some of the best travel documentaries on Netflix in the US as of July 24, 2023. Many are also available in other countries. Watch them while you can, because content disappears as licensing agreements expire.
Also, don’t miss the bonus list of travel documentaries on Amazon Prime below.
Table of Contents
Netflix Travel Documentaries
1. Dark Tourist
Netflix meets Vice in this travelogue by New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier, who sets his sights on the world of dark tourism.
From a nuclear lake to a haunted forest, he visits macabre — and sometimes dangerous — tourist destinations around the world.
Experiencing street food culture is one of the joys of travel. This mouth-watering docuseries travels to Latin America to meet the local stars of street food.
Countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia
This inspiring series from the makers of Chef’s Table is as much about the compelling survival stories of these talented street chefs as it is about their signature dishes.
The first season takes the viewer to nine Asian destinations.
Countries: Thailand, Japan, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, and Vietnam
Over the course of one memorable and adventure-filled year, German-born Felix Starck documents his 18,000-kilometer bicycle journey across 22 countries.
The Oscar-nominated heart-rending true story of the rangers risking their lives to save Africa’s most precious national park and its endangered gorillas.
6. Chef’s Table
Each episode of this Emmy-nominated docuseries visits a different international location for an in-depth interview with one of the world’s most renowned chefs.
Creator David Gelb also directed the critically acclaimed Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and the two productions share a similar emotional and artistic sensibility hallmarked by compelling narratives and mesmerizingly beautiful cinematography.
No English subtitles available for trailer – but you don’t need them to admire the stunning photography
From Argentina to Colombia, this inspiring documentary follows five characters who share their deep connection to South America’s majestic mountains.
Countries: Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
Chef David Chang brings his trademark irreverent humor and curiosity to Vancouver, Marrakech, Los Angeles, and Phnom Penh as he explores the culture and food accompanied by various celebrity guests.
Countries: Canada, Morocco, US, Cambodia
At only 23 minutes, this award-winning documentary short provides a fascinating and poignant window into impoverished rural life in post-Soviet Georgia.
The camera follows a traveling trader as he sells secondhand goods in exchange for potatoes. Beautiful cinematography that captures the stark Georgian landscape.
10. Ugly Delicious
Smart-ass chef David Chang leads his buddies on a mouthwatering, cross-cultural hunt for the world’s most satisfying grub.
Each episode of this highly original show tackles a topic like tacos, pizza, or dumplings, examining its cultural and culinary history and visiting different countries to compare how it’s made.
Warning: Chang can be obnoxious, and racial and political commentary is liberally sprinkled throughout the show, which may not be to everyone’s taste.
This Oscar-winning documentary short takes us to rural India, where local women fight the stigma surrounding menstruation by manufacturing low-cost sanitary pads.
Based on Samin Nosrat’s best-selling book, this visually stunning series travels to the home kitchens of Italy, the southern islands of Japan, the heat of the Yucatán, and to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse.
Samin’s contagious laugh and genuine passion for cooking inspire as she explores the central principles of what makes food delicious.
Countries: Italy, Japan, Mexico, United States
13. Taco Chronicles
Note: No English subtitles available for YouTube trailer; click to watch subtitled trailer on Netflix
Warning: Don’t watch if you’re hungry. Explore the complex histories of the world’s most beloved tacos in this love letter to the iconic handheld food.
Travel Documentaries on Amazon Prime
See below for some of the best travel documentaries on Amazon Prime Video. I’ve indicated whether each is free to Prime members or available for rental.
Note that these films may also be found at your local library.
Not a Prime member yet? Click here to start your free 30-day trial.
Classic travel documentary that follows a variety of solo budget travelers — from teens to seniors — through 26 countries on four continents.
Young filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga trains his inquisitive lens on backpackers lending a hand to tsunami victims, trekkers forming brief but intense relationships, and fascinating moments of self-discovery and adventure.
Available for rental on Amazon Prime.
This inspiring documentary follows the record-breaking round-the-world voyage of Dutch teen Laura Dekker, youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.
Available for free to Prime members on Amazon Prime.
This beautifully filmed docu follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey to Patagonia of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins, legendary founders of The North Face and Patagonia sportswear and pioneering conservationists.
Along the way Johnson gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life, and attempts to climb a Patagonian peak.
Available for free to Prime members on Amazon Prime.
Countries: Mexico, Chile
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North Fairfield, Ohio 4/19/2005 11:00:00
Clinton Sparkman, age 74, resident of Shiloh, Ohio passed away April 15, 2005 in MedCentral Shelby Hospital. He was born August 28, 1930 in Wayland, Kentucky to the late Wesley and Alice (Hughes) Sparkman and had been a Shiloh area resident since 1956. Mr. Sparkman retired in 1999 from the Shiloh Corporation after 27 years of service. He is a member of the House of Prayer Church in North Fairfield and enjoyed gardening, fishing and his family.
He is survived by his wife, Ruby (Cook) Sparkman whom he married August 24, 1965; two daughters, Rose Mullins of Mansfield; Lisa McGlothlin of Oleana; four sons and a daughter-in-law, Sam Deskins of Mansfield; Johnie Deskins of Shenandoah; Dewayne and Lori Sparkman of Shelby; Roger Alan Deskins of Kentucky; 18 grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren; nieces, nephews and other relatives. In addidtion to his parents he was preceded in death by a son, Ernie Deskins; a daughter, Juanita Oney; three brothers and one sister.
Friends may call at the House of Prayer Church, State Route 162, North Fairfield, Ohio on Monday beginning at 1:00 PM and continuing until the funeral service on Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday at the church with Pastor Dan Clouse officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Shiloh, Ohio. Secor Funeral Home in Plymouth is assisting the family with arrangements.
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202 W. Maple Street Willard OH 44890 8/3/2012 14:00:00
202 W. Maple Street Willard OH 44890 8/4/2012 11:00:00
Vance D. and Melissa A. Hawley, ages 51 and 44, residents of Willard, Ohio, passed away on Monday, July 30, 2012, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Vance was born on December 18, 1960 in New London, Ohio, to the late Arthur and Joan (Hanes) Hawley. Melissa was born on July 16, 1968 in Fremont, Ohio, to Billy Sr. and Sylvia Kelley.
Vance served in the Army National Guard. He worked as an assembler for 33 years at Midwest Industries in Willard. He was a lifelong fan of the Cleveland Browns and Indians. Vance enjoyed playing softball, bowling and pool. Melissa loved listening to music and taking pictures of people.
Vance is survived by his four children, Ariel Fry of Attica, Stevie Hawley, Arthur Hawley, and Dylan Hawley, all of New Washington; four grandchildren, Mackenzie, John, Chance and Peyton; two brothers, Lawrence Warren and Frank Hawley; two sisters, Cheryl Painter and Suzanne Sumerau; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Melissa is survived by her two daughters, Amburr Lucius of Florida, and Kelley Lucius of Bucyrus; three grandchildren, Kaydence, Lydia and Alec; parents, Billy Sr. and Sylvia Kelley of Plymouth; three sisters, Maria “Lolie”, Nena and Billie Jo; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Vance is preceded in death by his parents; and grandson, Jacob.
Melissa is preceded in death by her two brothers, Ricky “Taco” and Billy Kelley Jr. “BK”; and niece, Sylvia.
Visitation for both, Vance and Melissa, will be held on Friday, August 3, 2012 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Secor Funeral Home in Willard, where the funeral service will be on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM, with Pastor Pete Bellamy officiating. Burial will follow in the Attica-Venice Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the family. Online condolences can be left for the family at www.secorfuneralhomes.com
Heart felt condolences go out from us to both families. A person couldn’t ask for nicer people to know and be friends with.
So sorry to both families. Would like to extend my prayers to all. Sylvia, for all youve been thru and your previous loses we send you all the love. God Bless and Prayers being said.
(Love Ya Sylvia)
Jim and Brenda Fox
Very sad news. Vance was a good friend from childhood. Spiritual blessings to the entire Hawley family.
Learned alot with Vance we spent much of the teen years Running the roads Learning the ropes of life . Volumes of memories ,and most would begin “You are not gonna believe this”
my sympathy goes out to the children and family. my daughter went to school with stevie years ago. my prayers for strength.
I got to know the Hawley Family when schools joined and I meet My Best Friend Cheryl. You all our in my thouhjts and prayersI know how hard it is to lose family in a tragic accident. There is truly no words to describe it. You all have my condolences.
I am so sorry to hear about Vance. I knew him from our National Guard days in the 1486th, we served in Desert Storm together. I will always remember his smiling face and great attitude as he cooked the meals to sustain many Soldiers. May God show his Mercy and Grace during this most difficult time.
I am so saddened to hear about Vance and wish heart felt thoughts to his family. I knew Vance well from our National Guard days. We cooks always had a great time on weekend drills&summer camps and Vance was always right there with his jokes & smiling face. It’s been 25 years & I can distinctly remember him proudly showing me little Stevie& Ariel’s pictures in his wallet! Vance was a master prankster, a brave soldier, and loving family man!
My thoughts go out to Stevie, Arthur, and Ariel at this moment in time. I love you guys, and I hope you find the strength to get through this seemingly impossible time.
So sad to hear of Vance and Melissa’s tragic passing. I haven’t seen Vance in years but we went to school together many years ago and he left a warm footprint on my heart with his gentle and funny personality! His family is in my prayers.
My thoughts and prayers are with all of you at this time. I worked with both of them at mtd. Vance helped me out alot he was a good person. I worked some with melissa to she was nice and fun.
I am so sorry for the loss of Vance and Melissa, my thoughts are with the whole family, and especially my step-daughters Amburr and Kelley. I luv u guys so much and my prayers and luv r with u both always. Melissa thank u so much 4 treating me like a friend and not a stranger u were the best, luv u always.
I DON’T HAVE THE WORDS TO RELIEVE THE HURT BOTH FAMILIES ARE GOING THRU.JUST WISH I COULD BE THERE.MELISSA WAS A TRUE FRIEND TO ME AND VANCE WAS MY BUDDY.IM HURTING TOO…I LOST MY BFF OF TEN YEARS EVEN THOUGH WE WERE APART WE ALWAYS KEPT IN TOUCH.WE WILL HEAR MUSIC AND DANCE AGAIN SOMEDAY IN HEAVEN,MEL. SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MY BFF A KISS FROM ME! THANX. MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES FOR BOTH FAMILIES.
It seems strange reading this page, and even stranger writing on it. First I want to thank everyone for the kind words and thoughtfulness toward our family in this very tragic time. Vance will live forever in my heart without a doubt. I could not ask for a kinder more loving brother. He was always there in times of need, and always had a way of making my world a happy place to be. Melissa was a bubbly fun loving woman. She always found a way to make me laugh. Their deaths have left a void in my world that can never be refilled, but their memories will live with me forever. I love you Vance and Melissa…
OUR LOVE GOES OUT TO YOU BOTH AMBURR AN KELLY OUR HEARTS ARE WITH YOU IN THIS TIME OF LOSS AN SORROW WE WILL BE HERE FOR YOU BOTH AN KNOW THAT WE WILL PRAY THAT GOD HELPS YOU AN YOUR FAMILY DURING THIS TIME OF NEED
Vance was a very friendly person i went to school with wance.he will be missed
It has been a long time but I have good thoughts of vance. I’m so sorry for your familys loss
May they ride thru eternity together.
My condolences and prayers go out to both families. I knew Vance in school and he was just as wonderful as he was back then. RIP Vance and Melissa.
Sorry to hear about Vance and Melissa. Worked with Vance many years. He was a friend.My condolences go out to his family. May God bless.
I miss you both already and will love you forever… RIP!!! Missy we have been like sisters since 1st grade no matter where we were we saved a seat for each other so you save me a seat and I will c u as soon as I get there c u in heaven. Love always Marlena
You have my utmost sympathy. God be with you all and give you strength. Don’t be afraid to lean on him. We all know he is the one in control.
What a tragic loss to our family. Vance was one of my many first cousins. I don’t think I ever had the pleasure of meeting Melissa, but my prayers go out to both families in this most difficult time.
I keep coming back to this page. Maybe if I keep visiting, one time this won’t be here and I’ll know it was all just a nightmare.
I appreciate all the kind words. I know my Dad would appreciate it all too. I remember almost all of you either from meeting you myself or hearing my Dad speak of you. He cared very much for all his friends and co-workers. You were all like a 2nd family to him. And for that I’m very grateful. Although his life was cut far too short, the life he lived was full and happy.
I am so sorry for the loss of two wonderful people!! I pray for God to wrap his loving arms around you all during this time of grief! God Bless!!
STEVIE , I AM SO VERY SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR FATHER, I RECENTLY LOST MY MOM AND IT WAS THE HARDEST THING I HAVE EVER WENT THRU…. JUST KEEP ALL THE MEMORIES IN YOUR HEART AND REMEMBER THE TIME YOU HAD…..
TO THE REST OF THE FAMILY I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS I MET VANCE A FEW TIMES BUT DID NOT KNOW HIM WELL…MELLISSA I MET YEARS A GO THRU DARRELL VASQUEZ SHE WAS A GOOD PERSON AND SO VERY FUNNY…. our thoughts and prayers will be with you thru this and many days that follow………
I went to school with vance he was a very good man rest in peace my thoughts go out to all of his children we will pray for you
No words can help with what you are going through I what to send our condolences.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Vance was a great friend to Perry and was truly a great guy. He will be missed by many.
would like to extend my heartfelt condolences to both families on this tragedy-vance was a very nice man that i had the privledge of working with and for- while at mtd and melissa i have known for a long time thru working with her mom and dad when i was younger-both are going to be missed by so many-my prayers go out to both families in this difficult time…..
On behalf of my family, I offer my sincerest & deepest condolences to all families of Melissa & Vance. They were very special people to me. Having known Missy since we were kids & Vance from Midwest , it breaks my heart to hear of such a tragedy. Sylvia, Billy, Maria & Nena-my heart truly breaks to not be able to be there to offer a hug & what little words of comfort to you all! My prayers are with all of you! May God’s peace & comfort embrace you all thru this difficult time. Psalm 91 — with love from Julie Rodriguez Ruiz & family
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