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In early December, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was forced to deny reports that he'd told a group of ambassadors he was personally in favour of the free movement of people across the European Union.
Given his previous negative public statements on the issue, reports of his private support for the principle, which allows all EU citizens to move freely around the bloc, came as a surprise. Speaking to a Czech newspaper in mid-November, he had rubbished the idea that free movement is a central principle of the EU and denied that "every human being has some fundamental God-given right to move wherever they want".
Many were quick to point out that Johnson was confused on a matter of law. The EU parliament's lead Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt quipped on Twitter that he would bring a copy of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the treaty establishing the European Economic Community (later the EU), to the negotiations to correct Johnson. Article 3 of the treaty proposes the abolition of "obstacles to freedom of movement" between member states.
Yet while Johnson's shaky grip of the facts about the EU should not surprise us. His comments inadvertently touch upon a fundamental moral issue that often gets overlooked in debates around immigration: whether there is a fundamental human right to move.
The right to immigrate
Talk of building walls, taking back control and "legitimate concerns" over immigration implicitly assume that states have a right to exclude who they wish. Yet among moral and political philosophers there is no consensus on the legitimacy of border controls and important arguments have been made for a human right to immigrate.
Those who take this position are not necessarily committed to an anarchist perspective that rejects the very idea of states – though free movement was an important demand for radical philosophers linked to what's known as the "alter-globalisation" movement. Instead, some argue for freedom of movement based on the logical and consistent extension of mainstream democratic values.
Under existing international human rights law, Article 13.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains a right to freedom of movement for individuals within states, but there is no such right to freedom of movement between states.
We tend to think of the right to free movement within a state as an essential freedom. If the government banned you from visiting and settling in certain parts of the country you would rightly feel outraged. The government would be denying you the choice of where to live and study, who you can form relationships with, who you can associate with on a religious or political basis, and it would be denying you a range of important economic opportunities. These are fundamental choices that affect how our lives are lived.
But notice that these very same considerations also apply to freedom of movement across borders. In today's globalised world, restricting your right to move across borders is not so very different from confining you to the boundaries of Yorkshire, say, or Seattle.
Citizenship in an age of growing inequality
Perhaps the strongest argument, however, concerns the brute injustice of the world's current border regime. Those born into prosperous states enjoy life prospects virtually unknown to would-be migrants in poorer parts of the world who are condemned to lives of poverty and destitution.
This fact seems morally arbitrary if we accept the basic equality of human beings. In the words of the philosopher Joseph Carens, citizenship in Western liberal democracies is: "The modern equivalent of feudal privilege … an inherited status that greatly enhances one's life chances."
Global inequality has been increasing dramatically over the past few decades. According to World Bank figures, American citizens were 72 times richer than sub-Saharan Africans and 80 times richer than south Asians by the year 2000.
The argument for a right to move is strengthened further when we consider how wealthy Western states have profited from colonial relationships with many of the very same countries migrants are fleeing. These same states are among those who now set the rules of the global economy to their own advantage thanks to power imbalances in the World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Refugee law currently affords no protections to those escaping life-threatening poverty since it limits the definition of "refugee" to those fleeing persecution.
In these circumstances, the "illegal" crossing of borders, which so preoccupies the newly elected Donald Trump and right-wing populists across Europe, might actually be considered a justifiable form of resistance and civil disobedience against the economic injustice of the global order.
Is a right to move plausible?
Many will be tempted to dismiss these arguments as the utopian fantasies of philosophers which fly in the face of basic common sense. Or they might point to the unacceptable level of cost and disruption which they predict will be the consequence of opening borders.
Yet we should reflect on the fact that many previous injustices, such as the institution of slavery, seemed like common sense at the time. The arguments given back then against abolition – based on its likely cost and disruption to slave-owning societies – seem perverse and wholly unconvincing today.
A more principled argument for restrictive border controls could be mounted on the basis of a state's right to self-determination or on the purported rights of a nation to preserve its cultural identity. Some philosophers, such as the British political theorist David Miller, have attempted arguments along these lines.
But I think these philosophical arguments against a right to move are ultimately unconvincing. They fail to give sufficient weight to the essential interest that all of us have in being able to live, love, study, work and settle without being restricted by the coercive and often violent imposition of borders. In the context of massive inequality, the current border regime is even more unjustified, akin to the arbitrary and anti-human character of a global caste system.
Those who believe in more open borders are currently on the political defensive in Britain and elsewhere. With much of the debate framed in narrow terms around migrant "skills" and "economic contributions", it is important not to lose sight of immigration as a moral issue.
If we approach it in this way, we will surely conclude that the current border regime is unjust and indefensible.
Guy Aitchison is a post-doctoral researcher, school of politics and international relations, at the University College Dublin. This article first appeared on The Conversation (theconversation.com)
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Britney Spears Said to Be 'Out of It' While Filming Fragrance Commercial
A week ago, our queen, Britney Spears, released pictures of herself on the set of her new Elizabeth Arden fragrance commercial. In one pic, she was dressed to resemble Cleopatra, and boy did our girl look good. In the second, she went for a more flapper-inspired ensemble, and even her fiance Jason Trawick said she looked like Jean Harlow.
Now that we think about it, everyone was raving about how great Brit looked. But RadarOnline is now reporting that Spears was kind of "out of it" at the shoot; incessantly smoking cigarettes during breaks and appearing "robotic."
"Britney didn't interact with the cast or crew at all during the two day shoot and she seemed to be just going through the motions when the camera was rolling, and seemed out of it," said a source to RadarOnline.
"Britney was almost robotic in her movements. Britney's fiance, Jason Trawick, was along for the shoot and everyone thought at first he was her assistant because she spent so much time huddled up with him when not filming," continued the source. "Britney must have smoked at least a pack a day during the two day shoot and was always smoking when not filming. Security was very tight ,and Britney had more bodyguards than usual and was kept out of sight from visitors to the Queen Mary."
We wouldn't necessarily go so far as to say she's "robotic," but our girl has been appearing a little stiff in the public eye as of late. And who could blame her? With her every move being criticized by the public, we'd probably be a little hesitant to relax too.
"She looked amazing though, and her fans will love the commercial. Britney did was what asked of her and the end result worked, but the crew wondered why there was such a heightened presence of security," the source added. "It was just a bit over the top and security even stayed after the shoot to make sure that no one took any pictures of Britney as she left."
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Look up the old saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics," and you'll see this as exhibit A: Women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Politicians use the figure because it fits the "women as victims in need of a savior" narrative and it provides them campaign material during the election season. The statistic serves to justify proposed federal legislation like the Paycheck Fairness Act and as a verbal bludgeon against anyone who dares oppose the bill.
Produced by comparing the median earnings of men and women from Census Bureau data, the 77 cents on the dollar statistic misleads through omission. When one takes into account men and women's choices regarding occupations, college majors, occupational risk and time in the job, the wage gap all but disappears. A 2009 Labor Department study found the wage gap is between 4.8 and 7 cents when such choices are taken into consideration.
What are these choices? Women tend to have fewer accumulated hours and years in their occupation than men who do the same work. A full-time male employee tends to work 8 to 10 percent more hours than a fulltime female employee. Women often take time off or work part-time when caring for young children and this impacts their income.
In short, they choose time over money.
A report by Time magazine found that a single woman in her 20s in Dallas makes $1.18 to a man's $1. I suspect that if these women were tracked into their 30s, the gap would reverse course as their priorities changed.
Time in the job isn't the only factor. A 2009 study found that men choose college majors based primarily on income potential while women consider other attributes in addition to financial benefits such as parental approval and potential enjoyment. Money isn't everything, after all. Many of us consider factors such as emotional fulfillment, contribution to the community, opportunity for creativity and collaboration, and time flexibility when looking at job opportunities. Some jobs which are financially lucrative are, frankly, soulless drudgery.
Other research shows that women are less likely to negotiate for higher pay. One study found that nearly eight times as many male as female MBA graduates from Carnegie Mellon negotiated their salaries. Only 7 percent of women had attempted to negotiate that first salary. Over half of their male peers asked for more; thus their resulting salaries were $4,000 higher. When I graduated from college, I did not know I was supposed to negotiate my pay and I missed several opportunities until I learned that important lesson.
There is a lesson here, as well. It was recently reported that Sen. Mark Udall pays his female staffers 84 cents for every dollar he pays his male staff members. On the surface, it would appear he is discriminating against women. Rep. Cory Gardner, who pays female staffers an average of $1.04 to every dollar that he pays men, appears to be discriminating against men. The statistics could, instead, reflect decisions by individual staffers regarding work hours, work experience and negotiation strategies.
Clearly the situation is more complex than the 77-cent statistic and demagoguery would suggest. While there are still a few sexist dinosaurs out there, most men do not fit that description. Likewise, most women are not hapless victims but are intelligent decision-makers balancing work and life's demands. Could we do a better job coaching women in high school and college to negotiate their salaries? Certainly. Do we need more government regulation, more lawsuits and more misleading statistics? Not if we value the truth and each other.
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Bottom Line: Amazon's Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralizes identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn't go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM) that enterprises need today.
AWS provides a baseline level of support for Identity and Access Management at no charge as part of their AWS instances, as do other public cloud providers. Designed to provide customers with the essentials to support IAM, the free version often doesn't go far enough to support PAM at the enterprise level. To AWS's credit, they continue to invest in IAM features while fine-tuning how Config Rules in their IAM can create alerts using AWS Lambda. AWS's native IAM can also integrate at the API level to HR systems and corporate directories, and suspend users who violate access privileges.
In short, native IAM capabilities offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and more provides enough functionality to help an organization get up and running to control access in their respective homogeneous cloud environments. Often they lack the scale to fully address the more challenging, complex areas of IAM and PAM in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
The Truth about Privileged Access Security on Cloud Providers Like AWS
The essence of the Shared Responsibility Model is assigning responsibility for the security of the cloud itself including the infrastructure, hardware, software, and facilities to AWS and assign the securing of operating systems, platforms, and data to customers. The AWS version of the Shared Responsibility Model, shown below, illustrates how Amazon has defined securing the data itself, management of the platform, applications and how they're accessed, and various configurations as the customers' responsibility:
AWS provides basic IAM support that protects its customers against privileged credential abuse in a homogenous AWS-only environment. Forrester estimates that 80% of data breaches involve compromised privileged credentials, and a recent survey by Centrify found that 74% of all breaches involved privileged access abuse.
The following are the four truths about privileged access security on AWS (and, generally, other public cloud providers):
- Customers of AWS and other public cloud providers should not fall for the myth that cloud service providers can completely protect their customized and highly individualized cloud instances. As the Shared Responsibility Model above illustrates, AWS secures the core areas of their cloud platform, including infrastructure and hosting services. AWS customers are responsible for securing operating systems, platforms, and data and most importantly, privileged access credentials. Organizations need to consider the Shared Responsibility Model the starting point on creating an enterprise-wide security strategy with a Zero Trust Security framework being the long-term goal. AWS's IAM is an interim solution to the long-term challenge of achieving Zero Trust Privilege across an enterprise ecosystem that is going to become more hybrid or multi-cloud as time goes on.
- Despite what many AWS integrators say, adopting a new cloud platform doesn't require a new Privileged Access Security model. Many organizations who have adopted AWS and other cloud platforms are using the same Privileged Access Security Model they have in place for their existing on-premises systems. The truth is the same Privileged Access Security Model can be used for on-premises and IaaS implementations. Even AWS itself has stated that conventional security and compliance concepts still apply in the cloud. For an overview of the most valuable best practices for securing AWS instances, please see my previous post, 6 Best Practices For Increasing Security In AWS In A Zero Trust World.
- Hybrid cloud architectures that include AWS instances don't need an entirely new identity infrastructure and can rely on advanced technologies, including Multi-Directory Brokering. Creating duplicate identities increases cost, risk, and overhead and the burden of requiring additional licenses. Existing directories (such as Active Directory) can be extended through various deployment options, each with their strengths and weaknesses. Centrify, for example, offers Multi-Directory Brokering to use whatever preferred directory already exists in an organization to authenticate users in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. And while AWS provides key pairs for access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, their security best practices recommend a holistic approach should be used across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, including Active Directory or LDAP in the security architecture.
- It's possible to scale existing Privileged Access Management systems in use for on-premises systems today to hybrid cloud platforms that include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other platforms.There's a tendency on the part of system integrators specializing in cloud security to oversell cloud service providers' native IAM and PAM capabilities, saying that a hybrid cloud strategy requires separate systems. Look for system integrators and experienced security solutions providers who can use a common security model already in place to move workloads to new AWS instances.
The truth is that Identity and Access Management solutions built into public cloud offerings such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are stop-gap solutions to a long-term security challenge many organizations are facing today. Instead of relying only on a public cloud provider's IAM and security solutions, every organization's cloud security goals need to include a holistic approach to identity and access management and not create silos for each cloud environment they are using. While AWS continues to invest in their IAM solution, organizations need to prioritize protecting their privileged access credentials – the "keys to the kingdom" – that if ever compromised would allow hackers to walk in the front door of the most valuable systems an organization has. The four truths defined in this article are essential for building a Zero Trust roadmap for any organization that will scale with them as they grow. By taking a "never trust, always verify, enforce least privilege" strategy when it comes to their hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies, organizations can alleviate costly breaches that harm the long-term operations of any business.


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Matching brain games are characterized as being games that stimulate mental agility. They are usually games based on patterns that we must constantly repeat during the game. Through visual recognition, we must act as soon as possible according to the instructions given.
There are many varieties of matching games, from word games to math and picture games such as Match it!. Taking this type of game as a reference, CogniFit has developed this online game in order to help stimulate different cognitive abilities in a very entertaining way.
How does 'Match it!' improve my cognitive abilities?
Playing games like Match it! by CogniFit stimulates a specific neural activation pattern. Repeating and training this pattern consistently can help create new synapses, and help neural circuits reorganize and regain weakened or damaged cognitive functions.
Match it! helps exercise inhibition and visual perception abilities. Consistently stimulating these skills can help create new synapses, and reorganize neural circuits and improve cognitive functions.
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What happens when I don't train my cognitive abilities?
Our brain is designed to save resources, so it tends to eliminate connections that are not used. In this way, if a cognitive ability is not used normally, the brain does not provide resources for that pattern of neural activation, so it becomes increasingly weak. This makes us less able to use this cognitive function, making us less effective in our day-to-day activities.


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In this class, we will go over the basics of forensic science! We will cover terminology, decomposition, fingerprints, and more. No previous experience is needed to enjoy this quick and easy lesson.
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Llewellyn's diary might have ended on May 28th of 1925, but her life didn't. Neither did her penchant for documenting her life and the lives of those around her.
On June 12, 1926, Llewellyn married William Lawrence Moore at her parents house at 75 Westville Avenue in Caldwell, New Jersey.
The diary even makes the wedding article so much richer. Now I know that Willa Steinhoff, who was mentioned throughout the diary, served as her maid of honor. I know that Llewellyn's dear cousin, Marguerite from Suffern was the flower girl. Roswell was also mentioned frequently, often walking Llewellyn home from church meetings. He served as an usher with Llewellyn's brother, George. Even better, he gets a last name of Winans now. Ernest Smith was also mentioned a few times and he sang at the wedding.
4 years after Llewellyn and William were married, they welcomed their only child, my grandfather, William Thorward Moore.
After their son's birth starts Llewellyn's very, very active hobby of photographing her son.
Yes, she was always that specific with his age!
They would live a long, happy life together. William would give them five grandchildren. Tragically one of those grandchildren was killed in an accident. That shook the family but Llewellyn and William were able to make sure their other grandchildren knew that their grandparents were there for them. Taking them on summer trips and making sure they had what they needed.
William worked at AT&T for over 30 years before he retired. Llewellyn was devoted to the Methodist Church her whole life, and it's one of the characteristics I hear about the most from people I meet. I never knew William or Llewellyn but I can tell they're my kind of people. Even though they had no idea if their children or grandchildren would be interested in it, they kept a record of their lives. I don't know why Llewellyn chronicled that 3 years of her diary without fail. I just know because of it, I can get a glimpse of a woman I never knew. Through the writings and photographs, I've been able to grow the family tree.
Sometimes I look at the things that survived, and I know I probably could have found those branches of the family tree eventually. It just wouldn't have been as cool as finding it written on the back of a diner menu.
My plan for the diary entries is to move them to their own section of the website. There I can make an index, add pictures and links back to my database. I tried to do that during the initial transcription but at the rate Llewellyn was writing, I just couldn't keep up with the pictures! I'll be working on that and when it's ready, I'll make sure and let everyone know to get it linked to from the main website! I hope you've enjoyed meeting Llewellyn as much as I have!


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The Club Review
The setting for Pablo Larrain's The Club is a quiet coastal town in Chile, in which there sits a small home inhabited by a group of men and one woman. As the film opens, these men appear to simply be retirees, living out their twilight years watching greyhound races and sharing each other's company. But … Read more
Arrival Review
Denis Villeneuve's stunning new science fiction film, Arrival, begins with the appearance of 12 alien spacecraft on Earth. They land – albeit by actually hovering slightly above the ground in an eerie fashion – in 12 seemingly random points around the world and as governments in each country struggle to decide what to to do, … Read more
Train to Busan Review
Already a runaway box office success domestically in South Korea, Train To Busan is exactly the kind of blockbuster that gives blockbusters a good name, with entertaining action, effective characterisation and enough smart ideas to chew on for those looking for a little more from their big budget spectacles. Train To Busan opens with an … Read more
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The Conjuring 2 begins with a cold open which does a quick job of portraying some of the infamous Amityville case which made the real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren so famous. The Warrens, played by the ever reliable Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, are the focus of director James Wan's The Conjuring … Read more


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More than 220 thinkers, politicians, secularists and non-secularists, and Muslims from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Tunisia, Bahrain, Libya, Europe, the United States, and Australia, convened to study and discuss the status of the minorities in the Middle East and Islamic countries.
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Fox's Biscuits Streamlines Production and Service Levels After Deploying FuturMaster Supply Chain Technology
Fox's, the £250 million UK biscuit company, has improved its forecasting, manufacturing and promotions planning practices after implementing new supply chain technology from specialist vendor FuturMaster. The software has helped the manufacturer boost its service levels and manage up to 150 deliveries a week to retailers including Tesco, M&S and Aldi, while customer service levels have increased from 96% to 99% on over 30 million cases sold each year.
Since starting out in 1853 in West Yorkshire, Fox's has made around 1,450 billion biscuits from its three manufacturing bakeries in Batley, Kirkham and Uttoxeter. Enjoyed across the UK, Fox's Biscuits are also exported to Europe, North America and the Far East. Since 2011, Fox's has been part of the 2 Sisters Food Group, the UK's third leading food manufacturer.
Batley has eight ovens and up to 26 lines operating, using 9,300 tonnes of flour and 6,000 tonnes of chocolate to produce 25,000 tonnes of biscuits every year. Average weekly production at Uttoxeter is 1,000 tonnes or 50,000 tonnes per annum. Kirkham is the home of the Rocky biscuit range, producing 1,700 chocolate biscuit bars per minute, equating to over 10 million per week. Kirkham also produces 10 million party rings each week – stacked on top of each other they would reach 50 miles high.
Overall, Fox's makes around 400 million packets of biscuits a year and relies on FuturMaster's forecasting technology for more accurately planning production needs and managing peaks and troughs throughout the year. For instance, preparing popular assortment ranges (which account for around a fifth of sales) for Christmas starts as early as January, when important ingredients like chocolate are frozen (chocolate can't be stored in a warm environment). The company employs more than 2,000 people, with many extra hands brought in between June and November to prepare for peak production during the run up to Christmas.
It works closely with all the major UK retailers, as well as many abroad, to plan weekly requirements so that shelves remain fully stocked with the best selling ranges. Popular brands include Rocky, Classic and the hugely popular tinned assortments. Fox's provides biscuits across a range of price points to ensure broad consumer appeal. The company has also grown its own-label business, which, given the significant number of extra units sold with various retailers' own labels on the packaging, now accounts for around half its annual sales.
The Challenge
Fox's product range presents many challenges for demand and supply planning. On the demand side, there are over 350 branded and own-label products and many promotional and seasonal lines. The products are distributed through a range of trade channels including export and independent distributors and all UK retailers.
The supply side is no easier. In addition to well-known packets such as Crinkle Crunch and Rocky, a high proportion of the volume is made up of Christmas assortment tins and packets. These have up to 20 different biscuits inside, each of which needs to be produced and ready for assembly at exactly the right time. If you consider that some of the components are made from plain biscuits baked in a different site, and others are made on the same production lines as the finished products, then you are starting to understand the complexity of the Fox's production process.
Prior to FuturMaster there was poor demand visibility from a time-consuming forecasting process. The planning process took the best part of a month to complete due to the multiple iterations and assumptions within the spreadsheets. This was viewed as a significant business risk.
Planning promotions (with retailers) has also become an important part of the day-to-day business. FuturMaster's software helps evaluate the impact of, say, running a two-for-one offer by determining what would be the resulting sales uplift and the extra volumes that need producing. It also shows when would be a good time to do these promotions based on analysing production line requirements and demand.
"It's crucial for us to produce exactly the right volumes and get sell-through with retailers," says Bill Dales, Demand Planning Controller at Fox's. "The demand planning software predicts what's needed in terms of sales units to shift for the coming days, months or year. This helps us plan ahead and make sure we can deliver on what's promised."
Given limited storage capacity and the perishable nature of foodstuffs, the company clearly doesn't want to produce too much too soon, so relies on data to help manage the production line as well. For example, to meet increased demand on certain types of chocolate biscuits, Fox's might need to split production between different machines and run for an extra eight hours before cleaning and switching to other ingredients. It can also use the data to see if it meets its human resources needs and to plan the buying of raw materials.
Most retailers now share forecasts on a daily basis. A team of eight people at Fox's use FuturMaster as a process tool and for trend analysis. They can then fine-tune weekly booking forecasts, using retailers' Epos data to go back two to three years to work out what sells, at what price, and so on. These forecasts are used for procurement purposes and to set budgets for purchasing and labour requirements up to two years ahead. With around 3,500 live forecasts to deal with each week, FuturMaster's production and inventory management tool ensures the process is optimised.
The role of the central demand planning team has changed from one of administration to one of being a strategically important function to the business. For production planning, the process has moved from being a process taking many days to one in which a new plan can be created within 90 minutes of a new forecast being available.
Since deploying the FuturMaster software, forecast accuracy (measured as the Mean Absolute Percent Error, or MAPE) has improved from 48% to 74%, customer service levels have improved by 3%, while the number of products experiencing service issues (defined by a shortage above 10 cases in any month) has fallen by 65%.
"Before, around a fifth of products had service level issues. Now it's down to just five percent a month," says Dales.
Whilst boosting supply and maintaining service levels to retailers at an impressive 99 percent, Fox's has also managed to bring down working capital and reduce costs for the business. Wastage has been minimised and storage costs kept down. With a shelf life of around 40 weeks typically for its biscuits, Fox's has reduced its average stock holding to just two to three weeks.
"Over the last few years stock has moved to the right place to ensure a streamlined supply chain," concludes Dales. "And thanks to significantly improving the accuracy of our forecasts, we're now able to maintain ideal safety stocks and we're running on an optimum level right now."


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Thanks to granular privacy controls and a unique interface for controlled sharing, schools that have previously banned social networks are looking at Google+ as a viable alternative.
K-12 districts have had to tread softly in the social media universe, largely because of the need to safeguard the personal information of their students. In a world where privacy is frequently considered an antiquated concept, students are vulnerable, and that open-to-everyone networking model has led some districts to block student access to the likes of Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter.
But thanks to features that give users control over how their information is shared, Google's new social networking service, Google+, may inspire even the most privacy-conscious districts to open their virtual doors.
Google+ has accumulated more than 25 million users since it was launched at the end of June--an impressive adoption rate when you consider that it was released as an invitation-only beta project. The new social network generated immediate and intense interest, and the Web was, and still is, rife with blogs and tweets about how to secure one of the 150 invitations given to each of the project's initial beta users.
The key to Google+'s early popularity may be a feature called circles, which allows users to divide their contacts into groups and to control what information they share in those groups. Facebook now offers a similar feature, called friend lists, but for more than three years of its life the social network required you to share virtually all information with all contacts. And employing the Facebook feature is much more complicated than adding people to a Google+ circle, which is a built-in, not added-on, capability. In July, the San Jose Mercury News reported that Google claimed Google+ users are two to three times more likely to share privately with one of their circles than to post publicly.
"I think it's fantastic," said Esther Wojcicki, who teaches journalism and English at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, CA. "I can put my students in a circle and we don't have to share everything with everybody, like you have to do on Facebook. That's a huge differentiator, and it's why I can use it in my classes."
Wojcicki, a well-known social media maven (she serves as chair of the board of Creative Commons and blogs on educational topics for The Huffington Post), was an initial beta user. She will be using 82 of her 150 Google+ invitations this fall to get all of her students on the social network, she said.
Mark Lamson, director of IT at Westerly Public Schools in Westerly, RI, said he got his invitation shortly after the beta program was announced from a former summer intern now working at Google. Google+ has some features with the potential to "trump" Facebook in educational environments, he said, but the decision to adopt or reject the nascent social network may hinge on which of two cloud-based educational platforms--Google Apps or Microsoft's Live@edu--a district or school adopts.
"We chose Microsoft Live.edu because of its tight integration with our Office 2010 and Microsoft network infrastructure," he said in an email. "However, although as a practical matter I understand the need to use one system or the other for management of calendar, mail, files, and even apps, our goal is to have our cake and eat it too by giving students, and eventually staff, accounts for both. By giving access to, and supporting both [systems], we also allow our students and staff to take advantage of access to the latest and greatest apps, resources, and developments."
The Irving Independent School District in Irving, TX, had been blocking some social networking sites, such as Facebook, because they mixed too much personal information if teachers connected with students or other colleagues, said Alice E. Owen, the district's executive director of technology. "Too many opportunities for problems," she said.
But this year the district began implementing Google Apps for Education, which Owen said may give Irving Independent an opportunity to reconsider its social network policy.
Aley Vaughan, interactive marketing specialist at the Florida Virtual School, said her school is currently exploring the potential of Google+ for its students--which was kind of a no-brainer, because the online school sees social media as an essential part of its educational technology mix.
"As an online school, our teachers interact with students in a completely different way than in traditional schools, "Vaughan said. "We actually encourage teachers to utilize social media tools to stay in contact with students. Each and every FLVS teacher is required to complete a social media training in order to represent FLVS and interact with students via social media channels. In addition, each employee is required to follow a strict social media policy. The reality is, students are using social networks like Facebook and Twitter every day. In order to really get their attention, you have to be where they already are. Social media can be an invaluable tool in the classroom."
James Yap, director of instructional technology at the Ramapo Central School District in New York City, said his school has yet to decide about Google+, mainly because it's still early days for the beta program. But the district sees it as promising technology, and Yap says he thinks it's likely to be adopted at Ramapo in some way.
"I think Google is still trying to decide where it will take it," he said in an email. "Is it going to be more like Facebook or more like LinkedIn? Because of the power of their search engine, [Google] could run into problems with privacy due to search results. I believe it to be a double edge sword . . . They want to harness the power of the data that they do have on a user without overstepping their bounds. For K-12 this will also be a huge layer of complexity."
Everyone interested in Google+ should keep in mind that these are early days, said Google spokesperson Iska Hain. "We're still in a limited field trial, and this is just the beginning," she said in an email. "But obviously Google+ has some really interesting features for educational purposes, including Circles and Hangouts."
"As educators and technologists we want to and should provide access to any app or service that may inform and improve instruction," Lamson added. "It's all about teaching and learning for students, not this or that company. And certainly this includes social media apps, albeit in a controlled and educationally appropriate environment."
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by Rep Ron Paul
Congress is poised to pass the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) authorizing up to $50 million in unconstitutional foreign aid. The bill passed out of the Foreign Affairs Committee with a bipartisan agreement to nearly double the President's requested amount.
It is always distressing to see officials in our government reach across the aisle to disregard Constitutional limitations.
Much of this aid will run through government-to-government channels and will be vulnerable to corruption. Some of the aid will be sent to faith-based organizations who, along with accepting government largess, will now be subject to governmental controls and will soon become more dependent on taxpayer funding than private funds.
If they accept the aid, they must be careful of the vague language regarding what types of programs they can run. For example, the requirement that 33% of any funding received must go toward abstinence-only programs has been dropped and replaced with a 50% requirement toward behavior change.
Many humanitarian organizations are incensed by the politicized requirements placed on their work, and feel they are being forced to continue failed programs at the expense of more effective ones.
The obvious question remains: Why are politicians in the United States deciding what is best for people in Africa ? And why are taxpayers in the United States being forced to fund –for example – family planning facilities that perform abortions?
In fact, Afrobarometer, a leading source of data on public attitudes in Africa asked Africans what their main developmental concerns were. They found that Africans are much more concerned about jobs, agriculture and basic infrastructure than they are about health issues like AIDS.
Africans should decide what is best for Africa . American taxpayers should decide what charities deserve their money.
Forcibly taking money from the United States and sending it overseas is unconstitutional and immoral.
The energy that lobbying groups and celebrities expend for charitable causes here on the Hill could be better put to use actually addressing problems. It is sadly symptomatic of the trend toward bigger government that instead of private fundraising efforts, people put their hand out to Congress.
It is unfortunate that some activists prefer funding taken by force, to donations freely given.
These efforts, though well-meaning, are misguided. The truth is all the foreign aid in the world will not transform Africa into a thriving, healthy continent. The economic growth of Africa depends on African entrepreneurs, liberalized trade policies, and political and economic freedom.
The best thing we could possibly do for Africa and for our own country, is to stop sending misguided aid, and stop protectionist trade practices that prevent African farmers and producers from competing in our markets.
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Like many his age, Johnny Lee grew up on the music of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Raised on a dairy farm in Alta Loma, TX, he formed his first band, Johnny Lee & the Road Runners, during high school. He tricked his way into playing on-stage with Mickey Gilley at a Houston club called the Nesadel, and that shot brought him a long-term run at Gilley's clubs. When Urban Cowboy was shot at Gilley's, record executive Irving Azoff offered Lee an opportunity to sing in the picture, and he ended up with a song that more than 20 artists had previously rejected. In his hands, that song — "Lookin' for Love" — became a million-seller and the musical centerpiece of the movie. Stardom occurred practically overnight for Lee, but it was a mixed bag. He and Gilley toured steadily; Lee got a substantial string of hits for about three years and ended up marrying Dallas starlet Charlene Tilton. But when the marriage soured, he found his name constantly in the tabloids, and he was forced to record a large amount of same-sounding material. Nevertheless, Lee had an important role in a huge era for country music, and his easygoing vocal style still makes him very listenable.
Following the demise of his high-school band, the Road Runners, Lee enlisted in the Navy, serving in Southeast Asia (including Vietnam) during the mid-'60s. After his discharge, he floated between California and Texas before settling near Houston. Lee convinced Gilley into letting him join his band as a backup singer and trumpeter in 1968, telling the pianist that they had previously met in Galveston, when in fact they hadn't. For the next ten years, Lee worked closely with Gilley, becoming an integral party of the pianist's Pasadena club, Gilley's. When Gilley was on tour, Lee acted as the headliner at the club. Lee decided to go solo in 1973, but his records for the independent label Astro were unsuccessful, so he returned to the club within a year.
By the end of 1975, he signed a contract with ABC/Dot and his first single for the label, "Sometimes," became a minor hit. The following year, he moved to GRT, where he released several minor hits in the next two years, highlighted by the number 15 placing of "Country Party" in 1977; the song was a reworking of Rick Nelson's hit "Garden Party." In 1979, he appeared in a made-for-television film, The Girls in the Office, which paved the way for his appearance in the 1980 film, Urban Cowboy. Starring John Travolta, Urban Cowboy glamorized the sound and style of modern honky tonks like Gilley's, and the movie and its soundtrack became huge hits. Lee contributed "Lookin' for Love" to the soundtrack, and the single became a gigantic crossover success, spending three weeks at the top of the country charts in the summer of 1980 while peaking at number five on the pop charts. Lee became a star thanks to Urban Cowboy, and his records for his new label, Full Moon, began appearing in the country Top Ten with regularity. "One in a Million" became another number one hit late in 1980, followed by "Pickin' Up Strangers" early the next year.
In the wake of the success of "Lookin' for Love" and Urban Cowboy, Lee officially left Gilley's band in 1981, forming not only his own group, the Western Union Band, but also his own rival nightclub, Johnny Lee's, which was located just down the road from Gilley's. Throughout 1981 and 1982, Lee's star burned bright, as the Academy of Country Music named him the Best New Artist of 1980, and he had Top Ten hits like "Prisoner of Hope" (1981), the number one "Bet Your Heart on Me" (1981), and "Be There for Me Baby" (1982). In 1982, he married actress Charlene Tilton, one of the stars of the nighttime soap opera Dallas. Lee's success continued in 1983 and 1984 with Top Ten singles like "Sounds Like Love" (1983), "Hey Bartender" (1983), and the number one singles "The Yellow Rose" (1984) and "You Could've Heard a Heart Break" (1984).
Lee's career cooled down as quickly as it heated up. Though he had one Top Ten single, "Rollin' Lonely," in 1985, by the beginning of 1986 he had trouble reaching the Top 40. Warner, who inherited his Full Moon contract in 1984, dropped him from their roster in 1986, and his marriage to Tilton collapsed in 1987. Over the next two years, he struggled to find a contract, as he came to the realization his management took most of his earnings from his hitmaking days. During this time, he released a single and three EPs on his own Lee record label as well as an independent record on JMS. In 1989, he signed to Curb Records, but none of his records for the label were hits. By the end of the decade, he published his autobiography, Lookin' for Love.
During the '90s, Lee continued to tour across the country, playing clubs and honky tonks. He lacked a record contract, and he had long been estranged from his mentor, Gilley, due to his management problems and his rival club, but he continued to draw sizable crowds at his concerts. By the new millennium, Lee issued two hits collections and a stunning live effort, Live at Billy Bob's Texas. 13th of July, which appeared in 2003, officially brought Lee back to the forefront thanks to the chart success of "Stand by Me." ~ Tom Roland, Rovi


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Wild Souls India:
Adventures with the Tiger Goddess
8th to 16th April 2023
9 days, 8 nights.
New Delhi –Raipur- Kanha – Bandhavgarh – Jabalpur – New Delhi
"Otherwise, he would be far away in the jungle; tasting, touching, seeing, and feeling new things."
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
There are places in the world so beautiful, so mythic, that writers and artists, both ancient and modern, create whole works around them.
There are places on the planet that allow us to unfurl our wildness and seek our own courage and bravery once again amongst their profound beauty.
There are places where power animals still walk and SEE you within their own realms.
There are places where Goddesses still live and where they inspire us to let go of the burden of the everyday.
This adventure will take you deep into such places.
Wild Souls India will be centred around taking authentic safaris into two of India's most stunning national parks, Kanha and Bandhavgarh, in search of the Royal Bengal Tiger. The tigers have special power and significance in Hindu and Indian culture, and the Goddesses Durga (She who rides the Tiger) and Kali-Ma are specifically aligned with these rare and mysterious animals.
Both parks are outrageously beautiful and you will have the best naturalist guides to explore them with you. You'll also be staying in fantastic accommodation that reflects the area and gives you a point of luxury to balance out all that hard-core jungle!
After meeting in Delhi, we will fly into Raipur and then drive to Kanha. Kanha National Park is pure "Jungle Book' territory, and is where Rudyard Kipling found his inspiration for his famous work. Yes, here is Shere Kahn territory, with high densities of tigers and the ability to spot animals that are found nowhere else.
Kanha boasts of about 38 species of mammals. Some of the inhabitants of this park are the gaur, the largest of the world's cattle; the sambar, the largest Indian deer; and the chausingha, the only four-horned antelope in the world. Other frequent visitors include the Nilgai antelope, the sloth bear, the dhole, or Indian wild dog, and an occasional Leopard. Some 300 species of birds inhabit the park, that includes the storks, egrets, black ibis, raptors, owls, and the red- wattled lapwings.
Kanha is located right in the heart of India, and is a quieter area which also gives you an opportunity to experience the rural, tribal, and agricultural parts of India- the true India.
After spending 3 nights in Kanha, after our morning safari and lunch we depart by road for the magnificent national park of Bandhavgarh where we will also spend 3 nights. As well as world famous tigers, other wild attractions in the park include Leopards, Blue Bulls, Indian Gaur (Bison) Chausingha (Four Horned Antelopes), Spotted Deers, Sambar Deer, Wild Boar, Sloth Bears Fox, Jackals, Wild Dogs, etc. There are at least 22 mammal species and about 250 bird species in the Park. There are also Ratel, Porcupine, Small Indian Civet, Palm Squirrel, Lesser Bandicoot rat, the Jungle Cat, and the shy Hyenas. The reptile population in the park includes Cobras, Kraits, Vipers, Ratsnakes, Pythons, Monitor Lizards and turtles. The two primate species – the rhesus macaque and the Hanuman langur are seen and heard!
Bandhavgarh has been a centre of human activity and settlement for over 2000 years, and there are references to it in the ancient books, the Narad-Panch Ratra and the Shiva Purana. We will have the opportunity to walk to local villages and experience the culture here.
Both areas are rooted deeply in mythos. We will do ritual and workings in each. For example" the fort in Bandhavgarhwa is said to date back to the mythos of Hanuman and Rama from the Hindu sacred epic the 'Ramayana". The mythos tells of the two monkeys that created the setu (bridge) between India and Lanka to vanquish evil demons, built the protective fort here.
We will then travel back to Delhi for our farewell celebration and the next day, we have a morning tour of the city and will visit a Durga temple for a final blessing. Our service to you ends after the tour on the 26th.
"Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,"
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
What's included in your Wild Souls India experience?
– Internal return flights from Delhi to Raipur
– Road transfers from Raipur, from Kanha, and from Bandhavgarh
– All Accommodation:
2 nights accommodation (1st and last night) in the very cool Roseate House in New Delhi.
3 nights accommodation at the Singinawa Jungle Lodge. Kanha.
This is a true safari-style lodge geared up specifically to support explorers. It is luxurious and bespoke with a 1,000 square foot museum onsite which is an ode to the spectacular work of the local indigenous Gond and Baiga artisans. In between our safaris and sessions, swim in the pool, book a spa treatment, go for a walk with a naturalist- it's all available here.
3 nights at the Bandhav Villas, Bandavgarh.
This is a carefully designed, highly authentic 5-star safari lodge. Again, a venue geared up to support your adventures but the kind of place you can return home to muddy and dirty from your safari and then delve into some luxury. Weather permitting, we will eat dinner under the stars one night and tell stories around the fire.
– Your Meals: Nourishing meals from our first evening in Delhi through to our last breakfast back in Delhi are included. Our meals will reflect the cuisine of the areas we travel within and please discuss any specialised dietary requirements with us.
– Our activities and adventures:
As always on a Wild Souls Retreat, we immerse ourselves with the natural environment and the people who live there. As we will be travelling to jungle environments that are remote and deeply mythic, we have the services of some experts and naturalist guides who will assist us to get the most out of our visit.
– We start with a welcome dinner and briefing in the modern Roseate Hotel in Delhi. Please book your flights to be present for this event.
– We will be on safari almost every morning and night whilst in the parks (weather permitting).
For those that haven't experienced safari life, you are in for a treat!
Days start early normally around dawn, with a chai, tea or coffee and snack and we journey into the park in our jeeps. Here our naturalist experts will guide us through the jungle in search of tigers, leopards and other amazing wildlife and birdlife. You will soak in the power and beauty of the area!
Dependant on the park, we will normally have breakfast as a picnic out in the wilderness. After the morning safari we will come back to our lodge for lunch and leisure time. We may have an activity planned or a teaching or meditation with Stacey.
As the light begins to change, we will go out into the park again for the late afternoon safari. Many animals come out to hunt at dusk and we get our chance to see these animals here. Again, we are in the hands of expert guides who know the local area intimately and who will give us the best chance of spotting wildlife.
At sunset, we travel back to our lodge, swapping photos and stories and get ready for dinner. Dinner may well be outdoors under a night sky clear of outside light sources and amongst the chorus of nature.
Here is a video taken by a very lucky person in Kanha. They are demonstrating good safari etiquette of turning off the engine of the jeep/moving away from the animal and its path and whispering/ keeping voices down when close to an animal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm7v5f5ruiE
And it doesn't end there! Also:
A beautiful in-depth spiritual programme with Stacey designed to inspire you, connect you with your healthy fierceness and open your heart to your wilder self. Sometimes, the world can make us feel very small- the tiger goddesses help us wake up to our power!
Every day you'll learn something new – whether it will be through the power of nature as teacher, sessions with Stacey or the local people, or through the specific strength of the tiger goddesses.
- Services of all our expert local guides
- Return transfers from the hotel on the last day to the international airport should you wish it.
- All entrance fees to National Parks and guide fees
- Monument fees in New Delhi
- City tour on the last day
- Surprise activities and gifts.
***Remember, this is your retreat- all activities are optional.***
What's not included:
- Some beverages and all alcoholic drinks
- Your return flights from Australia (or where ever home is!)
- Transport to the Roseate Hotel on the first day
- Tips and items of a personal nature
- Your Travel Insurance (compulsory for a journey of this type)
Please also note, we will never support animal cruelty or poor safari etiquette. Our local guide supplier and our Wild Souls group will not involve themselves in activities like elephant back safaris or tours involving captive or caged animals. We advise you not to include these activities on your own personal activities if you are staying on longer in these areas.
As always, you will be supplied with a packing list and further details well ahead of time and of course the useful and beautiful gifts you have come to expect.
This retreat requires an average fitness level and the ability to be able to walk on uneven ground. Please ask us about this further if you wish.
Again, this is a remote, bespoke retreat and as such, this is a small group only. We are able to secure a very small number of single rooms but so please ask us early. Confirmation of your place is guaranteed only by payment of the non-refundable deposit.
ALL INCLUSIVE PRICE: AUD$4855 twin share (international airfare not included).
Single Room supplement: AUD$900
Deposit is $A1250 to confirm your place.
FREQUENT RETREATERS BONUS! If you have been on any of my retreats before, you will receive a bonus discount of $200 off the price.
(Yes, you can save $300 if you are a frequent retreater and an early bird.)
For further information or bookings please contact: Richard Martin on 0400 345113 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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