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Marvel Team-Up #119Issue(s): Marvel Team-Up #119 Review/plot: It starts with Spider-Man and Gargoyle, having just come home from a big Defenders adventure, simply hanging out together. They then break up a mugging in Central Park, and Gargoyle, in standard Marvel monster secret identity mode, decides to walk the victim, and older woman named Sadie, home. She's got bad eyesight but she's dimly aware of what Isaac looks like, and she says that she saw the Hulk once and thinks that Isaac is cuter. She invites him up for "glass tea". Googling glass tea just shows me glass tea cups and glass tea pots, but glass tea sounds like something you bitterly feed your spouse over a series of years in the hopes that his stomach will eventually fall out. And they aren't drinking out of glass tea cups. But in any event, after Sadie's daughter is calmed down, it comes out that Sadie is dying. So Gargyole gives them both a different perspective on life by taking them out for a flight. He then stays with them as she passes away. That line about the "last goodbye" with the picture of her husband's grave hit me pretty hard. Meanwhile, Peter Parker shows up at the nursing home to visit Aunt May, but she's distraught because "Nathan's... gone". Peter immediately assumed "gone" means "dead" and Aunt May doesn't bat an eye correcting him, which tells you what it's like living in a nursing home. In fact, the reason Nathan is "gone" is because a friend of his recently died of cancer. The friend was a former partner from Nathan's vaudeville days, so Nathan has taken a stroll to Times Square. Which at this point in time was a high crime zone, and that's why Aunt May is upset. Times Square is such a Disney-fied tourist zone that it's always hard to relate with the Times Square depicted in books like this and Luke Cage's series. Peter tracks down Nathan as Spider-Man and quietly takes out a group of goons that are harassing him. Nate never sees Spider-Man, and when Aunt May also shows up, he thinks that the kids are running off because of her. Nathan says that Aunt May saved his life in more ways than one, with this incident making him realize he's not ready to die. When it's all over, Spider-Man and Gargoyle get back together to quietly hang out some more. Definitely a nice story. The Gargoyle side is really strong. The Spider-Man side has its problems. The kids harassing Nathan don't seem to have any motivation for doing so; maybe i'm too naive but i can't imagine a gang of kids harassing an old man in a wheelchair just for fun. It's like a Dirty Harry depiction of criminals. At least say they're on drugs or something. And Aunt May showing up is a bit much, too. But taken as a whole it's nice to see the two heroes of the issue dealing with non-Earth shattering threats and instead looking at questions of mortality. And not even Teaming-Up. Just hanging out together. Quality Rating: B Chronological Placement Considerations: This issue begins with Spider-Man and the Defenders having "just returned" from Asgard and Spider-Man and Gargoyle appear here directly after Defenders #109. There are implications from that for Marvel Team-Up #117-118 which is why i've placed them after this story; see the Defenders entry for more details. References:
Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A Inbound References (1): showCharacters Appearing: Aunt May, Gargoyle (Defender), Nate Lubenski, Spider-Man Comments"Time Run Like a Freight Train" is the title to a song by folk-rock artist Eric Andersen. Also, fnord, having lost my own father to Alzheimer's a little more than a year ago, I too can relate to the feeling generated by the mother and only adult child grieving by the gravesite. A simple yet powerful image. Posted by: Brian Coffey | October 7, 2017 9:15 PM Oddly enough, I was working nights in a hotel near NYC and Eric Andersen was staying there. I love the character of Gargoyle and wish the Defenders hadn't have gotten the short end of the stick a few years from now. Posted by: Wis | October 16, 2017 4:52 AM Comments are now closed. |
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JIUNGE NASI WHATSAPP TU FOLLOW. BONYEZA HAPA 2 Job Vacancies at Equity Bank Tanzania January 2023
2 Job Vacancies at Equity Bank Tanzania January 2023 Equity Bank is the region's leading Bank whose purpose is to transform the lives and livelihoods of the people of Africa socially and economically by availing them modern, inclusive financial services that maximize their opportunities. With a strong foot print in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and now in DRC, Equity Bank is now
The Bank seeks to recruit passionate and self-driven individual of to fill the jobs positions below:
New Job Vacancies at Equity Bank Tanzania, 2023
Senior Manager, Agency Banking
Equity Bank Tanzania
Report to: Head of Payment
Function level: Senior Manager
Basic Purpose:
Reporting to the Head of Payments, is responsible for the growth of the Agent Banking business into a significant business line in terms of outreach and profitability and in line with the bank's Alternate Channel game plan.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and oversee the execution of a robust agent on-boarding process (agents' selection, agents' business pitch, document validation, branding, training and provision of business device) in compliance with set out regulatory guidelines.
- Develop and oversee the execution of an agent & Super agent monitoring and support framework– (liquidity management, visits by banks regional/ branch staff as well as Agency RMs) to maintain an active agency channel.
- Work with all stakeholders to ensure stable and effective service delivery on agent banking channel (minimal service downtimes, efficient agent service levels agreements and recourse systems) to maintain an active agent network.
- Initiate and manage relationships with Agency relationship Managers / third parties, to support the Agent
- Channel in line with banks strategic objectives.
- Collect & Consolidate Agency Banking performance business reports to inform a sustainable agent channel, good customer experience and products performance.
- Collect and consolidate reports for Agency Banking for onwarding submission to regulator as per agreed timelines.
- Scope the market for solutions to inform agent banking channel growth and evolution.
- Develop agent banking training curriculum and oversee execution of the training plan (training of trainers for bank staff and agents training).
- Build capacity, manage and coach team members.
- Five years' experience in banking or Telecommunications Enterprise or Agent Network Management
- Enterprise of which 3 years should be in a managerial role.
- Reporting, Analytical and Presentation skills.
- Computer Proficiency especially with Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access.
- Strong networking and relationship management skills
- Ability to identify business opportunities from market intelligence and make value-adding recommendations.
- Excellent communication, inter personal and negotiation skills.
- Exposure to customer service and the ability to handle conflicts and client complaints.
- A team player with ability to lead and work under minimum supervision.
- Logical thinking with creative problem-solving ability.
- Great attention to detail
- Mature disposition in the handling of external stakeholders that support the Alternate Channels.
- Ability to keep abreast on changes in the market, customer requirements, competitors' responses and the bank's ability to use information to identify new business opportunities and threats.
- Strong leadership skills
Personal competencies
- Sound communication and negotiation skills.
- Must be able to work under pressure.
- Demonstrates sound judgement and decision making abilities.
- Self-driven.
- Problem solving.
- Customer and service orientated.
- Have a supportive, solution seeking approach.
- Think proactively.
- Works as part of a team and builds relationships (Team player).
- Demonstrates trustworthiness and integrity.
- Focuses on delivering results.
- Bachelor Degree from any recognized university preferably in Banking, commerce, Economics, Sales &
- Marketing, Accountant or related field.
- Master's Degree in a related field is an added advantage.
- Professional qualifications e.g. CPA, etc. is an added advantage.
Manager – Industrial Relations
Equity Bank Tanzania
Reports to: Head – Human Resources
Function level: Manager
Basic Purpose:
The Industrial Relations Manager leads and manages labor and employee relations functions, provides solutions and recommendations to management regarding collective bargaining negotiations. The manager will mainly facilitate alignment of the Bank, people and culture to its strategic business plan through the provision of Human Resource services in industrial relations, corrective behavior, wlefare and medical care.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manages the review, design and implementation of the HR policies and procedures to ensure alignment with the business plans and objectives of the Bank;
- Handle all staff complaints, settles disputes, resolves grievances and conflicts in a timely, proper manner and cost effective way;
- Propose recommendations in respect of the labor legislation and case law in order to ensure good employee and labor relations;
- Attend all disciplinary meetings and ensures that disciplinary policies and procedures are followed;
- Provide advice and counsel to managers and supervisors regarding personnel practices, policy and employment laws;
- Manages relocation, immigration and other responsibilities related to staffing administration;
- Facilitates conflict resolution between employees and supervisors to promote a positive, safe, and compliant work environment;
- Acts as a liaison between HR, Heads of Departments and union representatives, and provides advice and counsel to managers and supervisors regarding personnel practices, policy and employment laws;
- Administer unemployment insurance processes and act as the employer representative for same, reviews related reports, respond to related information requests, and monitor program costs;
- Represent the Bank at Labor/Employment-related hearings and investigations;
- Contribute to the Bank's HR management team to ensure the targets set in respect of employee productivity, safe working envornment; cost management; corporate governance are achieved and the values demonstrated;
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Educational Qualifications & Functional / Technical Skills
- 1st degree in Human Resources/Law/Public Administration/Social Sciences/Business or Economics
- A professional qualification/certification in HR is desirable
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Human Resource Job in Tanzania
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Relevant Experience (Type of experience and minimum number of years)
- 3-5 years of solid HR experience on employee relations;
- Negotiation Skills
- Labor Law Knowledge Skills
- Team Player
- Communication Skills
- Project Management and Change Management Skills
- Strong Business Acumen
- Strong Time Management and Priorities Management Skills
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, tight timelines, multiple priorities, and demanding customers, in a fast-moving, constantly changing environment
- High degree of professionalism, maturity and confidentiality
Other requirements (Behavioural etc.)
- Ability to build strong working relationships, internal and external to the organization.
- Good analytical and numerical skills
- High level of discretion
How to Apply
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please submit your application quoting the Job reference and title in the subject field to [email protected]
Deadline: Thursday 7th January, 2023.

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The state of Wisconsin went 0-2 in the 2019 Men's NCAA Tournament. The Wisconsin Badgers followed Marquette's path and lost a matchup as five seed against a 12. The Oregon Ducks knocked off Wisconsin 72-54 as they built their lead entirely in the second half. The game was tied at halftime but the Ducks dominated after the teams came back from the locker room. Oregon was led by Payton Pritchard who scored 19 points and had 8 assists. Wisconsin got 12 points apiece from Ethan Happ and Khalil Iverson.
The only hope for the state of Wisconsin in terms of a long tournament run comes from the Marquette women's team. They actually won their 5/12 matchup beating Rice 58-54 in overtime. The Golden Eagles rallied from down nine points with under three minutes left in regulation. Natisha Hiedeman scored 13 points to lead Marquette. They will take on number four seed Texas A&M on Sunday in Chicago.


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After so much success with original television shows like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Daredevil, BoJack Horseman, and Jessica Jones, it's small wonder that Netflix would also want to expand their catalogue with original movies on top of that. The next step would obviously be to secure big celebrity billing to push a multi-part film deal, similar to the television deal they made with Marvel for Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders. Netflix's choice for such a spearheading of high-profile original film content? Adam Sandler!… Yeah, I don't get it either.
Despite a moderately-sized following of fanatics, even Sandler's seemingly untouchable box office fortunes have plummeted in recent years, particularly with 2012 disaster, That's My Boy, only seeing a slight rebound with 2014's Blended and this year's Pixels, both of which still got scathing feedback from most critics and moviegoers. That's also before Happy Madison stained competing digital streaming service, Crackle with the abysmal Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser this year, which was pretty much the final nail in the coffin of David Spade's career. It seems odd that all of this would be a vote of confidence for Netflix, who signed a four-movie deal with Sandler and his Happy Madison studio, beginning with the recent release of The Ridiculous 6 as a high-profile Netflix Original Film, a comedy-western that Sandler had tried and failed to get green-lit at three different major movie studios. Again, it's baffling as to why Netflix would see that as a vote of confidence.
If you're getting the sinking feeling that this combination of Happy Madison and a comedy-western will inevitably result in a juvenile, lazy, frequently unfunny, and even rather racist disaster, then you're obviously at least as smart as those three studios that rejected Sandler's pitch, before Netflix gave it the green light. Sadly, or perhaps predictably, that is exactly what The Ridiculous 6 turns out to be. If you're not part of Adam Sandler's following, then the movie is a complete waste of time, and you should definitely skip it, especially if you value your precious brain cells.
Things kick off on an immediately shocking note, as we see Adam Sandler portraying a Native American protagonist, White Knife. Sandler is also about as convincing a Native American as you would imagine, which is to say, not very. To be fair, at least Sandler establishes that his character is a Caucasian man that was adopted by Indigenous people on the 1875 frontier, since even Sandler isn't stupid enough to try and pass himself off as a natural-born Indigenous person. Mostly. Sandler still seems to think that all Indigenous people are supernatural fighters and magic users, but that's only the beginning of the movie's rather questionable portrayal of Native Americans.
Now, before I go further, I will say that I understand what Sandler was going for with The Ridiculous 6. He wanted to make a movie that mocked how ill-informed and racist old Western flicks truly were, with The Ridiculous 6 taking blatant inspiration from The Magnificent Seven in particular, among a few other Western classics. The problem is, Sandler and his crew are in way over their heads with this kind of material, and they don't seem to understand what goes into truly effective satire. If you write and act out a bunch of personalities that merely parrot and exaggerate the same thing you're aiming to satirize, then that's just being the thing that you're claiming to be satirizing. That's worse, because it's willful and deliberate, accentuating everything that's wrong with your movie.
There's plenty of things wrong with The Ridiculous 6 too, as you can imagine. Making the fact that Sandler's team are blatantly in over their heads with this project worse, is the fact that it has an ensemble set of leads, none of which are properly developed beyond one or two-note jokes. Rob Schneider, once again taking the cake for being one of the worst characters in a movie full of bad characters, is a dirty Mexican stereotype, meaning that the casual racism isn't limited to Native Americans, apparently. Schneider's character, Ramon also has a burro with explosive diarrhea that it releases on command, because poops and farts are the funniest things in the world to the ten-year-old boys that Sandler primarily markets towards, or so he thinks.
Taylor Lautner is one of the movie's other biggest characters meanwhile, and is a mentally handicapped person, and that's the entire joke, because mentally handicapped people are hilarious to Happy Madison, no doubt endearing them to all prospective viewers here, something I say with the utmost of sarcasm. On the bright side, at least Lautner is actually acting in this movie for once, albeit badly.
The titular ensemble is then rounded off by Luke Wilson's hard-drinking Danny, Jorge Garcia's mute Herm, and Terry Crews' good-natured Chico, who is ashamed to tell people that he's black, because we haven't had enough racist humour in the movie already. Good grief. Making this even worse is that Terry Crews is actually a talented comedy actor, and is way better than this movie, as evidenced by years of great turns on FOX sitcom, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, several amusing "Old Spice" ads, and hell, even the trio of Expendables movies!
As ludicrous and yet as unremarkable as the leads are though, the rest of the movie is stuffed with names, rather inexplicably. I understand the cameos by David Spade, Vanilla Ice and Jon Lovitz, in a poker scene that feels like it was only written to give the three of them something to do, but why are great actors and comedians like Will Forte, Harvey Keitel, Whitney Cummings, John Turturro, Chris Parnell, and Danny Trejo degrading themselves by being in this trainwreck?! Did they all owe Sandler favours?! Like Terry Crews, who was unfortunate enough to get a lead part, they're all way better than this movie! Not all of them have small parts either. Will Forte headlines a gang of outlaws that methodically scoop out their right eyes for membership, and said gang shows up continually throughout the movie, mainly as a lazy plot device to keep the thin story moving forward. They actually almost have a funny running gag too, when they force Steve Zahn's character, Clem, who is almost blind in his left eye, to scoop out the one eye that works to be an outlaw. Too bad most of the movie doesn't do much with this.
I will also say that John Turturro actually has a standout cameo as well, portraying Abner Doubleday, in a genuinely funny re-telling of the Doubleday baseball invention myth that incorporates the title characters. This is the one point where The Ridiculous 6 actually becomes funny and clever, as Doubleday makes up seemingly inexplicable rules to secure victory against the opposing team of his made-up sport called "Sticky McSchnickens", which obviously soon after evolves into the sport of baseball. In fact, you can maximize your entertainment value from The Ridiculous 6 by simply looking up this scene on YouTube, as it's the only one that truly gets any real laughs.
By far the most shocking cast addition in The Ridiculous 6 however is Nick Nolte, who plays the loose father of the six half-brother leads (oh yeah, they're all related, because Nolte's character slept around rather indiscriminately), famous outlaw, Frank Stockburn. Nolte doesn't have all that much screentime, but he's a key character in the movie, since the band of outlaws led by Danny Trejo's character will kill him, should he not find a stash of $50,000 that he buried somewhere. Apparently, Stockburn is trusting his favoured son, White Knife to find the money, with White Knife stumbling on his absurd cast of brothers along the way, to be bumbling outlaws, or brilliant outlaws. The movie can't decide which.
It's amazing that the cast of The Ridiculous 6 is as large as it is, especially since it leads to the movie quickly becoming overstuffed, and overlong, stretching itself to an agonizing two-hour runtime. Because there's way too many characters, the movie almost unfolds like a bad sketch for most of the middle portion, but then goes back to having a feature film-style plot at the beginning and end. None of the personalities are well-developed beyond their one or two running jokes, and even if you can tell that most of the actors are having fun, Sandler himself is boring, despite supposing to be the head of the ensemble. It's like even Sandler knows on some level that this fiasco is dead-on-arrival.
Despite the lengthy runtime and robust cast, the plot of The Ridiculous 6 is, naturally, not all that deep. The entire movie revolves around aging outlaw, Frank Stockburn tracking down his lost son, raised by the Apache tribe, and beseeching him to find a stash of $50,000, right as Frank is kidnapped by a particularly dangerous band of outlaws that will kill him, if they don't get the money. As the son, called White Knife (and born Tommy Stockburn), tries to track down the money, he gradually discovers that he has five half-brothers of varying backgrounds, and the group decides to come together to find the money with each other's help, in order to meet their long-lost father.
Like I said, the plot sounds like a thin excuse to string together the movie's selection of lazy and frequently offensive humour. Even then, considering that Happy Madison so often skews to a younger, or at least less mature audience, who relish in lowest-common-denominator humour, why in the world would those people respond to a western backdrop? Westerns come from an older generation of movies, and chances are, most of Happy Madison's target audience hasn't seen them. That means that, even when The Ridiculous 6 does try to parody specific movies, those jokes will inevitably go over the heads of most viewers, since they no doubt haven't seen the movies that inspired these parodies.
This leads to a feeling of The Ridiculous 6 being immediately mis-conceived, and that's before it's confirmed as lazy, mostly unfunny shlock. The entire movie just feels like a complete waste of time, devoid of laughs, or any real substance beyond the cheapest of apathetic silliness.
The Ridiculous 6 is helmed by Frank Coraci, another yes man director in the Happy Madison stables, best known for misfires like Click, Zookeeper, Here Comes the Boom and Blended most recently, and a couple of better movies like The Waterboy and particularly The Wedding Singer, which is arguably Coraci's high point. It feels like Coraci is another Dennis Dugan-style director who simply allows Sandler to do whatever he wants on set, especially since Sandler wrote most of the movie's script in this case. Yes, Sandler had a co-writer, regular Happy Madison scribe, Tim Herlihy, but it's obvious who had the most creative control over The Ridiculous 6.
Worse still is that Netflix has a very hands-off approach to content production in contrast to major studios and TV networks, which means that Sandler is allowed to run even more wild on the set, making a bad movie even worse, since Netflix doesn't provide the same oversight that other parties do. This leads to The Ridiculous 6 ranging wildly in comedic styles, and not really being consistent in the slightest, beyond almost every joke falling flat on its face. Its direction is barely-existent, and that derails the production even further at every turn.
After the bold and inspired Beasts of No Nation, The Ridiculous 6 feels like an enormous step backwards for Netflix's aspirations of expanding into original films. Currently, it seems like the streaming service understands how to make good TV shows a lot better than how to make good movies, though hopefully, The Ridiculous 6 is an isolated incident. That would mean nixing the four-movie deal with Happy Madison however, which chances are, won't happen.
If you love Happy Madison movies, then you'll probably find the same low-brow ludicrousness to savour in The Ridiculous 6, but everyone else should steer clear of it, and avoid it like the plague. Putting the word, "Ridiculous" in the title does not give you a free pass to make lazy, unfunny and offensive garbage. Accentuating that something shouldn't be taken seriously is not an excuse for a movie that so fatally misunderstands how to properly satirize something. Like I said, simply doing the same things with more reckless abandon and silliness isn't satire. It's just being the thing that you're claiming to be spoofing.
Beyond one good scene, and some good actors that are slumming it for a cheque, there are absolutely no redeeming qualities in The Ridiculous 6. It was better off on the shelf that so many wiser movie studios condemned it to, for good reason. Hopefully, the next collaboration between Adam Sandler and Netflix aims at least a little higher than this dreck.


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Injections for spider and varicose vein removal
What is Sclerotherapy?
Sclerotherapy treatment involves the injection of special solutions called sclerosants into unwanted vessels such as varicose and reticular veins. The sclerosant causes the vessels to shrink and be removed by the body's cleansing system.
What are Sclerosants?
Sclerosants are solutions that act as irritants to blood or lymphatic vessels. This solution can be injected into unwanted vessels, irritating the vessel lining. Ultimately, the vessels are then effectively signaled for removal by the immune system. There are different types of sclerosants, all with unique properties but with similar effects on the vessels. Dr. Brandish uses a specific sclerosant that is almost painless with injections.
Sclerotherapy for Veins
By using sclerosants to induce vascular shrinking, sclerotherapy can be a great way to treat the presence of unwanted spider or varicose veins. As blood vessel walls and valves weaken, they tend to dilate and blood begins to pool within them. These unwanted veins tend to bulge and become more visible beneath the skin which can create
undesirable cosmetic appearances. With sclerotherapy, the sclerosant solutions can help the affected veins and vessels constrict and shrink, which helps to reduce their appearance and bulge in the skin. This will achieve a more smooth and even appeared in the skin, and it may even help alleviate symptoms that are common with varicose veins, such as aching discomfort, soreness, etc.
How long do results last?
Sclerotherapy Is a very effective treatment for varicose veins but longevity can vary depending on multiple factors. Some conditions that predispose to varices include genetics, hormones, trauma, and lifestyle habits such as smoking, etc., and will therefore have a great effect on longevity.
Importantly, once the veins begin to respond to the sclerosant solutions, results generally last for years. It is important to know that sclerotherapy does not prevent new veins from forming and therefore maintenance treatments may be necessary.
Multiple treatments may be required over a series of weeks to months for optimal results. Sclerotherapy offers a powerful solution for different cosmetic vein conditions that lasts a long time.
What should I expect with the treatment?
To start, you and Dr. Brandish will develop an individualized treatment plan to determine if Sclerotherapy is the best tool for the desired result. She is an expert injector with years of experience using sclerotherapy injections to treat varicose veins.
Once sclerotherapy is identified as the right treatment, Dr. Brandish will cleanse and prep the skin for injection. To minimize any discomfort, a small needle is used to inject the sclerosant agent into visualized unwanted veins. Devices such as a vein light and /or Accuvein light may be used to directly visualize these vessels in the tissue for safe, precise, and effective treatment results. That being said, most often the veins being treated are usually quite visible without assistive measures.
After the treatment, it is recommended to wear a high-pressure supportive hose for 1-2 weeks post-treatment for more effective results.
Results of sclerotherapy with smaller veins may be noticeable within a few days to weeks. More significant varices may require more time elapsed before results begin to show.
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More information about side effects can be found on the Mayo Clinic's website.
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Sclerotherapy is a common cosmetic procedure that uses injectable sclerosant solutions to restrict veins, reducing their bulge and unwanted appearance beneath the skin. It can also help clear up other symptoms of varicose veins, such as pain, soreness, and more, as the veins begin to respond to the treatment within a few days to weeks. The sclerosant solutions act as a mild irritant on the blood and lymphatic vessels, causing them to constrict. As they shrink, the vascular supply to these vessels gets restrained, and they no longer bulge from holding excess blood. The body's cleansing system is then signaled to respond and remove the treated vessels. This procedure is a safe and effective way to get rid of varicose and spider veins, restoring your youthful smooth skin for years to come!
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Michael F. Pezzulli, a board-certified* Dallas trial lawyer, has an outstanding track record of favorable results with complex commercial litigation, divorce, personal injury lawsuits, and a wide range of other civil lawsuits and appeals. His law firm serves individuals, businesses and institutions in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex from offices in Dallas and Collin County.
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When comparing Dallas civil trial lawyers' qualifications, two factors to consider are the number of years in practice, and if the attorney has attained board certification in civil trial law, an accomplishment fewer than one percent of Texas lawyers have achieved. But in civil trial law, a critical indicator of a trial lawyer's competence is their depth of experience as the lead attorney trying and winning cases in court. A surprising number of litigators in established law firms have only observed trials from second or third chair, and have no experience facing a jury or judge.
That real-world trial experience has a significant impact on a lawyer's ability to serve their clients effectively. As the lead attorney for countless jury and bench trials over four decades, Pezzulli develops the strategic approach for each case armed with valuable insight into how a jury might respond to certain issues, or how courts tend to rule in other cases. In civil trial law, an attorney's personality and communication style is another critical factor in the handling of a case. Momentum can shift quickly in and out of court, and a talented litigator must have finely tuned instincts with every party. Pezzulli is a personable, persuasive communicator whether negotiating with opposing counsel, deposing a witness, reading a jury's reaction as a case unfolds, or presenting oral arguments to a judge.
Although many civil lawsuits are settled before trial, a great trial lawyer prepares every case as though it is headed to court. Many of Pezzulli's successful cases can be credited to his encyclopedic knowledge of case law and procedural requirements, honed over many years. In the early stages of litigation – discovery, investigation, and analysis of records produced by opposing counsel – Pezzulli has frequently identified critical evidence or an advantageous point of law that wins a case before he even enters the courtroom.
In Civil Litigation, Preparation CountsFew attorneys are as prepared for trials and appeals as Michael Pezzulli. He knows the record cold, and stands ready to answer any question a judge may ask, and is a persuasive advocate. When the strategy calls for clients to testify in court, Pezzulli is attentive and thorough in preparing them for every potential scenario. The record-breaking verdicts he has obtained in high-profile civil lawsuits are well known to attorneys on the opposing side, making Pezzulli a formidable negotiator and advocate for his clients.
Pezzulli has been board certified in Civil Trial Law for 33 years by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. For twelve years, he served the State Bar of Texas, Board of Legal Specialization, Civil Trial Examination as an examiner, writing examinations for other attorneys in Texas seeking to become Board Certified in Civil Trial Law. He has conducted hundreds of depositions, and is exceptionally savvy at questioning and selecting a strong jury. to give your case the fair shot it deserves.
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Child Abuse in a National Day Care CenterPezzulli represented a five-year-old boy who was the victim of child abuse at a national day care center. After a six-week trial, the jury awarded the five-year old boy an eight-figure award, finding that the day care center was both negligent and grossly negligent in its care of the victim.
* Michael Pezzulli has been Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization continuously since 1986. To read more about the stringent qualification process for board certification in Texas, go to Texas Board of Legal Specialization Website.


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2011 Articles
A Comprehensive Survey of Voice over IP Security Research
We present a comprehensive survey of Voice over IP security academic research, using a set of 245 publications forming a closed cross-citation set. We classify these papers according to an extended version of the VoIP Security Alliance (VoIPSA) Threat Taxonomy. Our goal is to provide a roadmap for researchers seeking to understand existing capabilities and to identify gaps in addressing the numerous threats and vulnerabilities present in VoIP systems. We discuss the implications of our findings with respect to vulnerabilities reported in a variety of VoIP products. We identify two specific problem areas (denial of service, and service abuse) as requiring significant more attention from the research community. We also find that the overwhelming majority of the surveyed work takes a black box view of VoIP systems that avoids examining their internal structure and implementation. Such an approach may miss the mark in terms of addressing the main sources of vulnerabilities, i.e., implementation bugs and misconfigurations. Finally, we argue for further work on understanding cross-protocol and cross-mechanism vulnerabilities (emergent properties), which are the byproduct of a highly complex system-of-systems and an indication of the issues in future large-scale systems.
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Revocable identity-based encryption with server-aided ciphertext evolution
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Sun, Y., Mu, Y., Susilo, W., Zhang, F. & Fu, A. (2020). Revocable identity-based encryption with server-aided ciphertext evolution. Theoretical Computer Science,
© 2020 The utmost important problem in identity-based cryptosystems is the issue of user revocation. One of the existing solutions in the literature is to issue extra time keys periodically for every non-revoked user over public channels. Unfortunately, this solution is inefficient and very impractical when applying to the cloud. Because the scheme requires different time keys to allow data decryption for different time periods, and therefore the user has to keep a long list of time keys, which grows linearly with time. Furthermore, it is worth noting that ciphertexts produced prior to the revocation will remain available to the revoked users, which is undesirable for most application scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work that can solve both the aforementioned problems simultaneously in a practical manner. In this paper, we present an efficient solution called ciphertext evolution. The ciphertexts evolve to new ones with cloud's aid and the old ones are deleted. At any time, the data user has to utilize its current decryption key to decrypt ciphertexts in the cloud. So, all the past time keys become invalid and the user only needs to keep the current one. If the user is revoked, it cannot decrypt any ciphertext in the cloud because it does not have the current time key. We present generic and concrete constructions of revocable identity-based encryption with ciphertext evolution (RIBE-CE), which are proven based on the IND-CPA security model. Subsequently, we also extend RIBE-CE to the broadcast setting by giving generic and concrete constructions of revocable identity-based broadcast encryption with ciphertext evolution, which are secure under the IND-sID-CPA security model. Our schemes can be applied to the (group) data sharing, which is very practical and applicable to the cloud setting.


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MQTT-C is an MQTT v3.1.1 client written in C. MQTT is a lightweight publisher-subscriber-based messaging protocol that is commonly used in IoT and networking applications where high-latency and low data-rate links are expected. The purpose of MQTT-C is to provide a portable MQTT client, written in C, for embedded systems and PC's alike. MQTT-C does this by providing a transparent Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL) which makes porting to new platforms easy. MQTT-C is completely thread-safe but can also run perfectly fine on single-threaded systems making MQTT-C well-suited for embedded systems and microcontrollers. Finally, MQTT-C is small; there are only two source files totalling less than 2000 lines.
A note from the author
It's been great to hear about all the places MQTT-C is being used! Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me or submit issues on GitHub!
Getting Started
To use MQTT-C you first instantiate a struct mqtt_client
and initialize it by calling
@ref mqtt_init.
struct mqtt_client client; /* instantiate the client */
mqtt_init(&client, ...); /* initialize the client */
Once your client is initialized you need to connect to an MQTT broker.
mqtt_connect(&client, ...); /* send a connection request to the broker. */
At this point the client is ready to use! For example, we can subscribe to a topic like so:
/* subscribe to "toaster/temperature" with a max QoS level of 0 */
mqtt_subscribe(&client, "toaster/temperature", 0);
And we can publish to a topic like so:
/* publish coffee temperature with a QoS level of 1 */
int temperature = 67;
mqtt_publish(&client, "coffee/temperature", &temperature, sizeof(int), MQTT_PUBLISH_QOS_1);
Those are the basics! From here the examples and API documentation are good places to get started.
There are only two source files that need to be built, mqtt.c
and mqtt_pal.c
These files are ANSI C (C89) compatible, and should compile with any C compiler.
Then, simply #include <mqtt.h>
Alternatively, you can build MQTT-C with CMake or the provided Makefile. These are provided for convenience.
Pre-built documentation can be found here: https://liambindle.ca/MQTT-C. Be sure to check out the examples too.
The @ref api documentation contains all the documentation application programmers should need. The @ref pal documentation contains everything you should need to port MQTT-C to a new platform, and the other modules contain documentation for MQTT-C developers.
Testing and Building the Tests
The MQTT-C unit tests use the cmocka unit testing framework.
Therefore, cmocka must be installed on your machine to build and run
the unit tests. For convenience, a simple "makefile"
is included to build the unit tests and
examples on UNIX-like machines. The unit tests and examples can be built as follows:
$ make all
The unit tests and examples will be built in the "bin/"
directory. The unit tests can be run
like so:
$ ./bin/tests [address [port]]
Note that the \c address and \c port arguments are both optional to specify the location of the MQTT broker that is to be used for the tests. If no \c address is given then the Mosquitto MQTT Test Server will be used. If no \c port is given, port 1883 will be used.
MQTT-C provides a transparent platform abstraction layer (PAL) in mqtt_pal.h
and mqtt_pal.c
These files declare and implement the types and calls that MQTT-C requires. Refer to
@ref pal for the complete documentation of the PAL.
Please feel free to submit issues and pull-requests here. When submitting a pull-request please ensure you have fully documented your changes and added the appropriate unit tests.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the
file for more details.
MQTT-C was initially developed as a CMPT 434 (Winter Term, 2018) final project at the University of Saskatchewan by:
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- Demilade Adeoye


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Topics Map > Software Guides > Google Drive
Google Drive: Organizing & Searching
This article covers instructions for using the web version of Google Drive. Be aware that other versions, such as the mobile app, will vary in functionality.
Maintaining an organized Google Drive with easily identifiable document and folder names will make it easier to find files.
Expand each section below to see its content.
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- Navigate to the desired storage location of the new folder (My Drive, a Shared Drive, etc).
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- Enter a search term into the search bar at the top of the page.
- (Optional) Click the down-arrow to the right of the search field to open advanced search options, including:
- Type: file type, such as images, PDFs, and Google Docs.
- Owner: owner of the file.
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- Date modified: recently edited files (today, yesterday, etc).
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- Has the words: terms within the file content.
- Shared with: users, other than yourself, who have access to the file.
- Follow up: files that you own which contain suggestions or action items.
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Debunking the Flat Earth Admiral Byrd Conspiracy. Part 3 of 4: The Flat Earth Antarctica Conspiracy.
Welcome to part 3 of this 4 part series on the Flat Earth Antarctica Conspiracy Theory. Here are the other parts in this 4 part series. And we'll have one article that is a compilation article if you prefer to read or link to all 4 parts at once:
Part 1: Debunking the Flat Earth Ice Wall
Part 2: Debunking the Antarctic Treaty Conspiracy
Part 4: Debunking the "No 24 Hour Sunlight in Antarctica" Myth
Flat earthers are so desperate to find evidence of this ice wall they have somehow latched onto Admiral Byrd as providing not only evidence of an ice wall and flat earth, but evidence there are lands BEYOND this ice wall the Antarctic Treaty is designed to hide! They claim part of the massive conspiracy to hide flat earth from us is because there is much more land to be explored, and that governments are secretly exploiting these lands and using the resources to make themselves rich! And Admiral Byrd is proof of this.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
But Admiral Byrd neither said nor implied any such thing. Flat earthers simply make ridiculous claims that are merely passed on and repeated like a game of telephone by people who are unable or unwilling to do their own research, or who take things out of context to either confirm their own bias or be dishonest.
You can watch An Interview with Admiral Byrd here, and what he actually said, at 1:41 is, "Strangely enough, there is left in the world today, an area as big as the United States, that's never been seen by a human being. And that's beyond the pole, on the other side of the south pole from Little America [his base on Antarctica]". Flat earthers take this to mean that there is land BEYOND Antarctica, and modern day Americans who don't understand the context of the time might be excused from misunderstanding or being confused about that statement, however just a bit of fact checking would clarify what he meant.
Byrd was referring TO Antarctica, as the vast majority had not been explored yet. At the time, Admiral Byrd was hugely popular, and people had followed his exploits in Antarctic and certainly knew that Little America was his base, which is why neither he nor the interviewers felt the need to explain what Little America was. But to many, it sounds like he said, "Middle America", and it makes it a bit confusing.
However, what he meant by "The other side of the pole from Little America" is easily discerned when looking at this map of Antarctica with his Little America base on it. He was simply being specific as to the unexplored region of Antarctica that was on the opposite side of the South Pole from his base. No conspiracy, just specificity.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hilariously for flat earthers, who obviously have not watched the video themselves, later in the interview, Byrd uses the phrase, "The bottom of the world" many times. The time stamps are at approximately:
- 2:00
- 3:27
- 4:45
- 7:25
- 10:25
The 'bottom of the world? How could a flat earther latch onto someone who talks about 'the bottom of the world' as someone who is talking about a flat earth? Antarctica being the bottom of the world would be much more consistent with the current model of a sphere than of a flat plane where Antarctica is an ice rim.
Additionally, in the first part of the interview, he refers to Antarctica as "the size of the United States". He was actually pretty close, as you can see in the image below, to the size of the continent as we know it that is approximately 14,000-15,000 miles in circumference, and not an 'ice rim' that is the circumference of the entire world. If an explorer had found an ice rim so large, it circled the earth and was at least 60,000 miles long (as we go over in Part 1: Debunking the Flat Earth Ice Wall to show how we arrived at that figure), referring to such a find as "the size of the United States" would be patently underestimating the vast unimaginable size of the area, and would just not be how one would describe an ice rim that circled the world.
Image Credit: Antarctica.gov.au
Even more, the interviewer asks Byrd at 2:10, "Since you've been to both extremities of earth..." and Byrd merely answers the question without correcting the interviewer. What would "both extremities of the earth" mean on a flat earth?
Even later, at approximately 5:30, the interviewer asks, tongue in cheek, "I've heard it said there are 7 continents in the world and the only one that has never been seen by a woman is Antarctica. Is that really true". Byrd answers by saying, "As far as I know, that's true."
Even more interestingly is that an Admiral Byrd stamp was released in 1934, very much while Admiral Byrd was still alive, and the stamp features a globe with Antarctica at the bottom of the earth, right where he suggested it would be, and right where maps show it to be today. There is nothing to suggest that Byrd would have been dismayed or amused by this stamp. It was intended as a tribute to him, and there is no reason to believe that he thought otherwise about it.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If anything, these show that Byrd is a sphere earther, talking about the bottom of the world, both extremities of the earth, a globe stamp in his honor, and the seven continents that we still know today. Certainly, it does not suggest a HIDDEN continent that, of course no woman would have stepped on either. Byrd also conducted long range reconnaissance missions by plane over Antarctica, mapping over a million square miles, giving us much of the shape of the continent as we know it today.
Was Admiral Byrd a Friend or Foe?
To add even more color to this conspiracy, there are flat earthers in another camp, who believe that Admiral Byrd is not telling us about the lands beyond Antarctica, but that he's part of the conspiracy to hide the ice wall from us. And his expeditions FOUND the ice wall and subsequently started this whole multinational conspiracy to cover up this truth from us! Their 'proof' of this is that Admiral Byrd was a freemason!
Other evidence they cite is that in later expeditions, he was financed by the US Government, and this, too, means he was lying. On the expedition financed by the government, it was concluded 6 months early, and that is proof that they found something so important, so secret that they were forced to end the expedition. The truth is not so sexy or mysterious. The expedition was plagued with mechanical issues and incredibly harsh weather.
So, which is it, is he a friend of flat earthers, talking about "lands beyond" Antarctica, and telling the world the earth is flat? Or is he a nefarious freemason illuminati who is lying in order to hide flat earth? Flat earthers are divided on the topic.
But something about Admiral Byrd seems to incite conspiracy theories of one sort or another. There are conspiracies about him giving testimony of having seen UFO's by the UFO conspiracy folks, and hollow earth theorists claim he did a 'secret' flight over either the north or south pole (the sources are divided on this) in 1947, where he found the opening to the center of the earth and met people who lived there. This claim has been around for so long that as far back as 1961, The New York Times put out a challenge for anyone who had evidence to bring it forth for publication; and even The Hollow Earth Insider website did a long, well-researched piece that debunks this claim, believes it was actually a lie intended to discredit hollow earthers, and, again, offered a challenge to anyone with evidence to bring it forward.
But instead of this Byrd flat earth conspiracy dying due to lack of evidence, flat earthers have revitalized it, probably because they are desperate to find something, anything, to back up their wild claims. Rather than providing evidence of flat earth, this conspiracy, along with the Antarctic Treaty Conspiracy just gives more weight to the bizarre mentality and desperation of flat earthers.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In order to get scientific recognition of their flat world, they could go about commissioning a satellite, plane, boat, exploration party, or some such thing that the growing group of multiple tens of thousands of flat earthers could fund with a Kickstarter campaign. Instead, they avoid getting any real evidence, like doing an expedition to Antarctica, or even just sending up a satellite, and instead revitalize long-dead conspiracy theories by taking words of a man long-since dead, take them out of context, don't research anything, make wild claims, and expect you to believe in massive conspiracy theories of which there is no evidence. Unfortunately, it seems that there are many gullible people falling for this nonsense, and their cult seems to be growing by leaps and bounds.
Please read the continuation of this 4 part series here:
Part 1: Debunking the Flat Earth Ice Wall
Part 2: Debunking the Antarctic Treaty Conspiracy
Part 4: Debunking the "No 24 Hour Sunlight in Antarctica" Myth
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I posted this on a Flat Earther facebook group. I was kicked out. xD I'm planning to write my stay on the group, but nah. I was kicked out.
Enjoyable well written post, if I may suggest, please link images sources in future posts:)
Thank you for the suggestion and the upvote. I'm curious as to why, though, since I've never been asked that before. I get most of my images from Wikimedia Commons that don't require attribution, or I purchase them from a stock photo company (so that I never violate copyrights), and when I get them from stock photos, it would be strange to link to the source. I don't even think they give you the source in stock photos that I purchase!
I'm unsure of the 'etiquette' on this, so I'd appreciate the tips. Maybe even do an article on it, if it might benefit others.
By linking the images it will help you qualify for curie review. You read up more on @curie. I was only trying to assist:)
I'm just trying to learn. I had no idea about curie, so I'm happy you are letting me know about it. I'll check into it.
What do you mean? I don't. Flat earthers do. I'm thinking you might be asking about why flat earthers think he was talking about flat earth? Because he was talking about 'lands beyond' Antarctica, and they imagine that means unexplored lands on a flat earth that could not exist on a sphere because a sphere is finite and a flat plane could, theoretically, have more land on it that we've not explored yet.
But I mean he could also believe in spherical earth. And he could go explore the south pole from that perspective and than he could make a conclusion that it is flat.
You are right about the size of Antarctica and US almost the same but he is saying that the part he found is "the size of the United States".
Everything is unexplored and will be to eternity
Vox, your point is not very clear to me. He said that it's the size of the United States, and it is (close). What I'm saying is that no one would describe an 'ice rim' as 'the size of the United States'. That's simply not how you would describe a 60,000 mile long WALL of ice.
And there would not BE any 'part' that he found that could possibly be as large in mass as the United States if it were an Ice Rim. Because the rim would have to be only several hundred miles wide at the most, as you can see on the flat earth map.
Byrd and his crew did aerial surveys over it, logging hundreds of hours of flight time, and included camera footage of the continent. If he had found an ice rim, with the data that he had, he simply would not have described it the way that he did.
Then he also says, "The bottom of the earth" many times, as I pointed out in an actual interview, and mentions "The two extremities of the earth". That is simply not consistent with a flat earth.
So, I'm a bit unclear as to what you are saying or suggesting. It seems a bit like you are supporting Byrd MAY have been a flat earther, and I'm unclear as to why and how someone could support that view from anything Byrd said or did in his lifetime.
Would you care to explain? Because there have been two challenges posted since 1961 for anyone to provide evidence on the subject of Byrd supporting a flat or hollow earth viewpoint, and no one to date has come forward to provide such evidence.
The Earth is not what we are told but I do agree that many flat earthers tend to take things out of context.
Thank you for your diligence on this topic. People must have the Fox Moulder syndrome... Hehe


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Work plays an important role in our lives. As adults, we tend to spend the majority of our time at our jobs. And not just time, but our precious mindspace too. Some of us get so caught up in our work that we miss out on cherishing the little things in our personal sphere.
How can we ensure that our time, energy, and attention is used in a balanced and effective manner? What is the best way to support ourselves in creating an effective work-life balance?
Mindfulness and meditation are known to provide the most sustainable support for balancing work and the other things in our life.
Try these strategies to use mindfulness and meditation to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance:
1. Cultivate calmness and tranquility. In order to make wiser decisions and work smarter instead of harder, it's important to be calm and composed. This quality can be cultivated through a simple practice of meditation.
- At least 15 minutes of this practice, if performed consistently, can make a significant difference in the way we do things at our homes and offices.
- Being calm enables us to obtain confidence and to develop trust within ourselves, others, and the world in general.
- This powerful resource serves us in making better choices about how we spend our time, energy and attention, leading to better work-life balance.
- What makes you lose your calm? What kind of consequences are you facing when you make decisions that are rushed and made under the influence of stress? What can you do to cultivate more inner peace at work? And at your home?
2. Become a master of your mind. We tend to pay more attention to taking care of our bodies than our minds. In fact, we often take our mind for granted. The result is that we end up living a life where the mind is in control of our lives instead of the other way around.
- What we experience as life is basically just a creation of our minds. Even though it may seem that our destiny depends on external circumstances, the truth is that the way we perceive those circumstances determines our experience.
- Being a master of your mind allows you to create your own desirable circumstances and to place them into a balance that works for you. Mind mastery can be achieved through a daily mindfulness and meditation practice, which costs nothing except some time and dedication.
3. Observe and express your needs. A significant part of our frustration, stress, and suffering in life comes from our unmet needs. When we work too much, or too little, we can end up neglecting our well-being. Greater awareness of our needs brings a better balance and more satisfaction in our lives.
- What unmet needs do you experience at your workplace? What can you do about meeting them? What is your current state of wellbeing from 1-10 (1 being poor. 10 excellent)? What can you do to make it a 10?
- When you're balanced and can meet the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your energy levels rise and vitality increases, so you can start living in tune with your values, principles, and purpose.
4. Respond instead of react. The highest level of mastery over mind can be seen as an ability to respond instead of react.
- There's a huge difference between the two. Reacting is like being on autopilot, letting your emotions control what you say or do next. Responding, on the other hand, presents a conscious, calm, and constructive action that promotes resolutions of conflicts.
- To respond means to be in control of your own thoughts and behaviors. It helps you to be in charge of your life and supports you to set and stick to your priorities, such as a healthy work-life balance.
- An ability to respond requires you to be present in the moment as much as possible. There are many online resources on mindfulness and meditation that can support you in embracing the power of now.
5. Save some time for self-care. Our work, friends, partners, and kids all need our care, energy, and attention. But where does this energy come from? How can we keep on giving?
- If you want to be there for others in a healthy and sustainable way, it's crucial for you to save some time for self-care: to slow down, relax, and engage in pleasurable activities that renew your energy and restore your spirit.
- "Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch." ― Parker J. Palmer
Caring about your wellbeing and incorporating a few of these mindful ideas can support you in achieving greater levels of harmony in your personal and professional life. Which one will you try first?
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This is a Friday only service, departs Durness at 16.55 to Ardgay and meets the 18.39 train from Inverness at Ardgay and the two evening trains heading South to Inverness at 18.52pm and 19.28pm. The bus returns to Durness with request stops for Scourie and Kinlochbervie.
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Cytonn Money Market Fund is the fastest-growing unit trust scheme, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has indicated in its quarterly statistical bulletin.
The CMA bulletin shows that Cytonn Money Market Fund's assets under management (AUM) increased by 67.44 percent, to hit Ksh720 million in Q4 of 2019 from Ksh430 million in Q3 2019. The industry average stood at 6.58 percent, according to CMA data.
Zimele Unit Trust Scheme was the second with a growth of 50.0 percent of assets under management, while Sanlam Unit Trust Scheme was third with a growth of 37.0 percent.
As at September 30, 2019, the Authority had 24 approved collective investment schemes. However, only 19 CIS are currently active while five are inactive.
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In the review period, the total asset under management by the CIS amounted to Ksh76.10 billion, being a 6.58 percent increase from Ksh71.40 billion reported in the previous period (Q3 2019).
CIC Unit Trust Scheme managed the highest AUM of Ksh29.72 billion which represents 39.05 percent of the total AUM. The least portion of the total AUM stood at Ksh5.26 million, managed by Coop Trust which started operation in Q2, 2019
In the quarter ended December 2019, 52.10 percent of the total assets under management was invested in government securities. The government securities include; treasury bond, treasury bills and infrastructure bonds. The least amount of the AUM at 0.452 percent was invested in immovable property.
During Q1 of 2020, the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) recorded a net foreign portfolio outflow of Ksh11.183 billion compared to an inflow of Ksh601 million in Q1 of 2019.This drastic change can be attributed to the panic trading brought about by the COVID-19.
Equity turnover at the bourse stood at Ksh43.70 billion, compared to Ksh45.01 billion registered in Q4 of 2019, even as volume of shares traded rose by 5.45 percent to 1.36 billion; while end of quarter market capitalization recorded a 7.94 percent decrease to Ksh2.02 trillion.
In the primary debt market, a quarterly analysis indicates that in Q1 of 2020, six Treasury bonds were issued, with the Government seeking to raise Ksh150 billion; receiving subscriptions worth
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The derivatives market, likewise, performed relatively well with 302 contracts traded, reflecting a 47.32 percent increase over the 205 contracts traded in Q4 of 2019, with KCB Group Futures the most liquid with 138 contracts, followed by Safaricom with 47 contracts. Other contracts traded included Equity Bank, Absa Bank, British American Tobacco and the NSE 25-Share index Futures.
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How to Follow Email Etiquette for a Successful Mail Merge Campaign
When you start your mail merge campaign, crafting your email message is essential to a successful campaign. Your message is the meat of the campaign and can make the difference between a successful sale or a potential fail. There are basic dos and don'ts when it comes to developing an email, which everyone should follow. No matter your brand voice or target audience, these are the email etiquette techniques you should consider.
Follow Email Etiquette for Your Next Mail Merge Campaign
Use a Professional Email Address
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Be Clear in Your Subject Line
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Always Spell Check
Sending an email with spelling errors and grammatical mistakes will have recipients immediately adding it to their trash folder. Read over your email multiple times and have others on your team read it over as well. Spelling errors could imply that you are lazy or careless, which is not the image you want to portray. Along with reviewing your spelling, consider the meaning of the emojis that you are choosing. If you are using emojis in your email, they could have various meanings for different target audiences. Some audiences may see the use of any emojis as incompetent, so it is crucial to keep your target audience in mind and tread lightly with emojis.
Use Exclamation Marks Sparingly
The use of exclamation marks can come across as hyper and overexcited, which is not always the mood in every email. In general, exclamation marks are not considered professional, so keep them out of your writing as much as possible. An exception would be if you are targeting a younger audience and want to get them excited about something regarding your brand. As a rule of thumb, try to use exclamation marks as little as possible or leave them out altogether.
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LUSAKA — The United States has continued to demonstrate its global leadership in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, recently committing an additional K230 billion ($11 billion) to respond to the threat worldwide. Since the start of the pandemic in Zambia, the U.S. government, through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has provided over K500 million ($24 million) in support of Zambia's efforts to combat COVID-19. Every day, U.S. government agencies work directly with the Zambian government and other partners across health, education, and other sectors to protect public health and save lives.
Support Vaccinations:
- The U.S. government, through USAID and CDC, has committed funding and critical technical and logistical support to the Ministry of Health to assist with planning, coordination, and delivery of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for Zambians.
Establish and Strengthen Testing Capacity:
- In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government moved quickly to help establish laboratory testing for COVID-19 in Zambia. Using the infrastructure CDC has supported for influenza surveillance and HIV and tuberculosis testing at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and Tropical Disease Research Center, CDC and USAID have provided technical assistance, quality controls, reagents, and other testing commodities to enable accurate COVID-19 results and high levels of testing throughout the pandemic.
Empower Health Care Workers:
- In partnership with the Ministry of Health, USAID, CDC, and DOD supported and trained health care workers to treat COVID-19, provided personal protective equipment to keep them safe, and assisted with temporary human resource surge capacity.
- USAID and CDC health experts leveraged the U.S. government-supported tele-mentoring platform, Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) to provide high quality training and mentorship to the Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI), Ministry of Health staff, and public and private health clinics in Zambia's ten provinces.
Support Medical Treatment:
- Through CDC, USAID, and DOD, the U.S. government provided critically needed medical supplies and equipment, including oxygen, pulse oximeters, personal protective equipment, life-saving medications, and other equipment. Support provided through PEPFAR helped meet the critical COVID-19 response needs of people living with HIV and health care workers.
- Through PEPFAR, the U.S. government worked with the Ministry of Health to establish systems allowing people living with HIV to collect six months of anti-retroviral drugs at once, limiting their potential exposure to COVID-19.
Strengthen Surveillance Capacity:
- Through CDC, USAID, and Zambian partners such as the Ministry of Health, ZNPHI, and UTH, the U.S. government helped establish a functional call center at the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit, develop standard operation procedures and guidance on screening, testing and isolation of persons with suspected COVID-19 infection, and supported contact tracing, home-based care, and quarantine procedures.
- Through CDC, the U.S. government is helping to strengthen the field epidemiology capacity and outbreak response and surveillance system at district and provincial levels.
Advocate and Educate to Prevent the Spread:
- The U.S. government worked with the Zambian Ministry of Health, religious and traditional leaders, entertainers, and the private sector to mobilize the Zambian Partners against COVID-19 (ZPAC-19) campaign, which promoted ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and flatten the curve.
- Through USAID, the U.S. government printed over 600,000 COVID-19 prevention leaflets, brochures, and posters for traditional leaders to communicate COVID-19 prevention messages across all ten of Zambia's provinces.
Generate Local Data to Inform Zambia's Response:
- Through CDC, the U.S. government supported studies to identify new COVID-19 variants and deepen health responders' understanding of COVID-19 transmission within Zambian communities and among health care workers.
Expand Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services:
- Through USAID and CDC, the U.S. government established infection prevention and control systems in health facilities and communities by improving water and sanitation services, including supporting water utility companies to mitigate COVID-19 impacts and continue providing a safe water supply.
Support Students and Teachers:
- Through USAID, the U.S. government helped the Ministry of General Education adapt literacy programming for a radio audience while schools remained closed, providing instruction for young learners and distance learning for teacher training.
Support Local Authorities
- Through USAID, the U.S. government increased the resilience and preparedness of local government authorities, supporting a national center of experts that customized USAID pandemic guidance and best practices for Zambian conditions, provided on-call support to district officials across the nation, and funded outreach including radio public service messages on health safety measures in markets and other public settings.


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Stainless Steel
What is Stainless Steel?
Stainless steel differs from carbon steel by the amount of chromium present. Unprotected carbon steel rusts readily when exposed to air and moisture. This iron oxide film (the rust) is active and accelerates corrosion by making it easier for more iron oxide to form. Since iron oxide has lower density than steel, the film expands and tends to flake and fall away. In comparison, stainless steels contain sufficient chromium to undergo passivation, forming an inert film of chromium oxide on the surface. This layer prevents further corrosion by blocking oxygen diffusion to the steel surface and stops corrosion from spreading into the bulk of the metal. Passivation occurs only if the proportion of chromium is high enough and oxygen is present in it.
What is The Difference between Type 304 and Type 316 Stainless Steel?
316 stainless steel has molybdenum added to its alloy content during production. Molybdenum provides an even higher degree of corrosion resistance than 304 stainless steel. This is an advantage for objects that require resistance to extreme environmental conditions such as salt water, de-icing salts, brine solutions, or other chemical forms of chemical exposure. In laboratory and pharmaceutical settings, 316 stainless steel excels in resistance to acids, bromides, and iodides at high temperature.
It is difficult to tell the difference between 304 and 316 stainless steel by simply looking at the two. They both offer the same polished, chromed, grained, colored, or blasted appearance but 316 stainless steel costs more due to its enhanced chemical and production properties.
Because it is Stainless Steel, Doesn't That Mean it is also Non-Magnetic?
Not necessarily so. In fact, Type 304ss often has a detectable magnetic draw. And it is possible for Type 316ss to have a very slight magnetic draw.
The reason for this is fairly technical, but it has to do with the amount of chromium in the alloy and the process in which the part was made. Type 304ss has less chromium than Type 316ss, and it is the chromium that affects the microstructure of the surface of the steel. Because Type 316ss has more nickel in it and the presence of this additional nickel serves to enhance the affect of the chromium in the steel, Type 316ss will have little to no detectable magnetic draw.
What typically can create a magnetic draw is cold working or welding of the metal. Cold working in the form of bending, forming or machining can cause a change in the microstructure on the surface of the metal and reduce the effect of the chromium layer that exists on the surface. And again, because Type 304ss has less nickel than Type 316ss, it is more susceptible to developing a degree of magnetism.
How Can "Stainless Steel" Rust?
Although stainless steel is much more resistant to corrosion than ordinary carbon or alloy steels, in some circumstances it can corrode. It is "stainless" not "stain-impossible."
Type 304ss is more susceptible to forming rust than Type 316ss. This is due to the presence of higher levels of both nickel and molybdenum. Stamping, forming and welding can disrupt the surface microstructure of stainless steel and this is more so the case for Type 304ss.
Salt water, salt in the aire and chemicals can attack Type 304ss causing pitting to occur. The additional nickel and molybdenum in Type 316ss make it less likely for corrosion to occur when exposed to these same elements.
Galvanic corrosion can occur when stainless comes into contact with dissimilar metals when an electrolyte, water or other solution is present.


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I can't link to any news articles as none have been published yet… but King Kev is back in the Toon!
I honestly don't know how I feel about this. The football we played under him all those years ago was certainly the best in living memory, and he's the last manager (aside from Bobby) in many years who didn't leave under a cloud. There's no doubting that pretty much every Magpie loves the guy.
Yet the Premiership has moved on. Back then, we were a rarity in having a manager like him coupled with a rich, spend-happy chairman. Now that's almost par for the course. Plus it'll take him at least till the start of next season to gather us up a squad of his own to play that type of football – unless he can find 15-16 Bosmans.
I look forward to seeing what his contract conditions are, and the term he's signed up for. Not that those kind of things count for **** these days. Do I sound less than excited? I guess it's just the way things have gone over recent years – I'm not prepared to build myself up for another fall.
Fingers crossed for now. And at least he's a welcome signing. We know the guy, we like him and that at the very least will get the Geordie crowd behind us again.


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Power outage reported at Busch Gardens
TAMPA, Fla. (FOX 13) - Busch Gardens experienced a power outage today that left some guests stuck on rides.
The power went out around 1 this afternoon. Busch Gardens says it affected various locations throughout the park.
The park posted on its Twitter page that power was restored in less than an hour and they were able to safely evacuate guests from attractions.
"While we were reaching the halfway point, the ride halted. Then right after that, there was a loud noise and explosion -- smoke came up next to Falcon's Fury. All the rides stopped. I saw Shiekra stop, and it was deadly silent," recalled Meghan Byrd, who was on the sky ride when the power went out.
The park says all of the major attractions underwent safety checks before starting up again.