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Black's Blog: Councillor Black reports on Making Renting Right
You are looking for your first rented flat, and a landlord says "give me £200 and I'll keep this flat for you. But back out and the money's mine". Would you know this was an illegal premium? If the landlord then said: "Leave the place in good order and I'll give you back a month's rent", would you know this was an illegal deposit?
To most folks entering the private rented market these terms of business would seem reasonable enough. So dodgy landlords get away with a lot.
There is hope. Shelter Scotland's Make Renting Right conference brought the good private landlords together with their counterparts in housing associations and advice agencies, and there was some good news. 150,000 private rented tenancies are in bona fide tenancy deposit schemes, and that represents real progress. Depressingly, 180,000 tenancies are not participating, which makes you wonder.
Andrew Cowan of TC Young expressed some anguish at new legislation coming from the Scottish Government, which will include a single tenancy agreement for the private sector, and changes to the grounds for repossession. He claimed that we cannot enforce current legislation such as HMO licensing and landlord registration; why would we take on more?
This made me bristle. For example, just this week I had some very effective help from Glasgow's HMO team. And as a member of the Dundee Licensing Committee, I know that we deal robustly with errant landlords. But comments round the hall gave the impression that enforcement varies in quality around the country, and that may be a matter of resources, different interpretations, local Sheriffs who take strange decisions, or flaws in the laws. Whatever it is, it's time to speak up, now. Housing minister Margaret Burgess could sort it, I think, if people give her the information she needs.
Two of the landlord reps present made a very valid point which proves how hard it is to get legislation right. They believe the new tenancy agreement will make it impossible to give students what they often want, which is a ten month tenancy corresponding to the academic year. That leaves the summer for maintenance, short term lets or, in Edinburgh, filling up your flat with thespians. The landlords may have a point, but how do you change things without creating a huge loophole?
I also have some concerns, mainly about the new grounds for repossession. You can get your flat back for refurbishment, or a change of business use, or to sell. Liz Ely from Living Rent was concerned these could easily be abused. As ever, the devil will be in the detail, and I believe the government will welcome the informed scrutiny of our hard bitten housing professionals as the bill makes its way through Parliament.

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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
There are 24 resources from Northern Ireland.
Paper: 29.07.22
UK Democracy Fit for 21st Century
How to reorganise the constitution of the UK to support genuine democracy and good government.
Album: 26.06.22
UK Poverty Data in Graphics
Infographics showing how poverty is created by the unfairness of the UK tax-benefit system.
Article: 28.01.22
Disability Benefits and Suicide
A Channel Four documentary has revealed the cruel nature of the UK's disability system.
Inspiration: 13.01.22
Charter to End Westminster Rule
A working Charter for democratic reform which aims to offer 10 radical and necessary changes to UK democracy.
Article: 16.09.20
Popping the Housing Bubble
The UK's housing market is over-inflated and even progressive policies like basic income cannot solve this without…
Film: 08.04.20
Universal DisCredit
The Canary supported Videoblogg Productions to produce a documentary describing the problems with the Universal…
Article: 06.04.20
Does COVID-19 mark the end for markets in the NHS?
UK Government response to the COVID-19 is an implicit acknowledgement of the limitations and dangers of a marketised…
Article: 06.04.20
COVID-19, The Black Death and Basic Income
Bill Jordan explains why COVID-19, like the Black Death before it, may finally push the current elites to accept the…
Article: 02.04.20
The Upstream Response to COVID-19
Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19…
Film: 25.02.20
A global force for change
Citizen Network is a global non-profit cooperative movement, formed to create a world where everyone matters.
Article: 10.12.19
UK Food Banks in 2019
Lizzie Peck provides an overview of the emergence and rapid growth of food banks since the Coalition Government and the…
Article: 08.12.19
Undercooked Analysis
Steve Griffiths argues that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has failed to be objective in its analysis of Labour's…
Article: 07.12.19
Accountancy is not Economics
Steve Griffiths examines the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) critique of of Labour's 2019 Manifesto and discovers…
Article: 17.08.19
End Parliamentary Sovereignty
Gavin Barker sets out the case for limiting the sovereignty of Parliament.
Project: 14.05.19
Demand for Constitutional Reform 2018
An open letter demanding radical constitutional reform in the UK.
Article: 02.06.18
A Constitution for Disability Rights
8 reasons why disability rights activists should support constitutional reform.
Article: 16.04.18
Elements of a New Constitution
The Centre for Welfare Reform supports the movement for a written constitution, based on radical democratic reform,…
Article: 15.04.18
Open Letter on Constitutional Reform
An Open Letter calling for a Citizen's Convention leading to a written constitution.
Article: 07.02.18
Inequality is a Constitutional Issue
The reasons why the UK has become an increasingly unequal society and what we could do to reverse this trend.
Article: 10.11.17
Why the UK Needs a Written Constitution
Gavin Barker on the issues of democratic accountability and the protections we should build into our welfare system.
Paper: 02.10.17
Progress on Personalised Support
This report builds on an international survey of support organisations to develop a model of personalised support.
Project: 04.01.14
Campaign for a Fair Society
A campaign to provide positive alternatives to the UK's austerity programme.
Article: 14.03.11
How Can We Save the Big Society?
Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller argue that the Big Society project will fail unless it focuses on real community…
Article: 03.02.11
Unfair Cuts in Detail
The current social care system in the UK is deeply unfair and needs reforming; however current efforts by Central…


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The Re-Enchantment of Therapy
Barrett L. Dorko, P.T.
The magus of the past was a devout, intelligent, well-read, thoughtful and compassionate individual, sincere in his or her quest to explore all the powers of nature, especially those hidden by our focus on reason and purely mechanical means of control.
Thomas Moore in The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
I ve been thinking about introducing a little magic into my workshops. Years ago I took a course in close-up magic offered during the evening at The University of Akron, joined the International Brotherhood of Magicians and learned all kinds of things. Upon occasion I d perform a trick or two. I found that there was a certain satisfaction in knowing something those around me didn t but that the deception inherent to this art did not emerge from me easily. I don t like to pretend, and fooling others isn t my idea of a good time.
Despite those misgivings I ve been imagining a lecture that begins with the passing of one solid object through another. I can do this several ways, not by defying the laws of physics but because in the performance of magic things are never quite the way they seem and because every magician has a license to lie. If I do this well the class will come to understand that their lack of knowledge of the materials I handle lies at the root of their confusion. Keeping that knowledge to myself is my job as a magician lest I risk being drummed out of the brotherhood.
After this bit of deception I ll place my hand on someone s head and it will soon begin to move of its own accord without this person s plan or willful attempt. This effortless motion will result in growing warmth somewhere in their body, a softening of their musculature and a reduction in their discomfort. Admittedly, it looks like magic, and there have been times in the past when some in the class assumed the patient was a shill employed by me. After all, how else is this response possible?
I address these concerns and questions by explaining very carefully and in a variety of ways how the body normally functions in a self-corrective manner that few in our profession are aware of though the movement itself has been described and studied extensively for 150 years. What I ve done isn t a magic trick and I m not bound by any oath to keep the method a secret. Once explained, the magic is gone and only the knowledge remains. For some, this wrecks the effect. For others, it opens their mind to the possibility of movement long sought for their patients in pain. They realize that with some study and effort on their part this trick could be performed in their own clinic.
All they need to do is learn something more about the materials they re actually handling.
There is no essential conflict between enchanted living and practical, productive activity; they can serve each other: one delighting the spirit of ambition, the other comforting the heart
Thomas Moore in The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
The modern therapy department is full of activity, the sounds that accompany effortful, painful movement and the invisible but nearly palpable sense of judgment that always occurs with the measurement of progress. I think there s a direct correlation between the amount of all this and the billing being done. The more the merrier as far as the administrator is concerned.
I like Moore s phrase the spirit of ambition above. It could be made into a poster and quite appropriately placed on the wall of most departments, and I have no problem with that. But what I m suggesting here is that there should be room and time for something else and although I have some reservations about the word enchantment, Moore describes the concept in ways that, to me, are reminiscent of an essential aspect of care for enduring pain relief. He says that a culture dedicated to enchantment seeks out experiences that quiet our mental ambitions and sharpen our perceptions. The sort of thing that enchants us contains more charm than practicality and appeals strongly to our imagination while offering comfort and attachment. An enchanting activity is distinct from the striving, serious and hardworking environment of the gymnasium, and if you have any appreciation for the subtleties of creativity and art you know what being enchanted is about. A football game may excite us but we are more likely to be enchanted by an actor s performance.
In relation to therapy, I m talking about care that doesn t ask for painful effort yet requires attention and active movement. I think that Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement qualifies and the discipline of Tai Chi does as well. Ideomotor movement fits here perfectly. I know that there s plenty of justification to use these methods in learning theory and the intricacies of neurobiology and biomechanics, but the patient s sense of them and their understanding of how they actually work to produce the desired affect will never match the therapist s. We may in the clinic reserve our reasoned arguments based upon scientific theory for our colleagues and instead offer the patient an image that proves more meaningful and thus more powerful to explain how therapy works. Of course, the image shouldn t include ideas that violate physical law though our examples often become a matter of taking imagination seriously and not literally. The use of metaphor and the simplification of complex topics is part of the therapeutic art of communication with the patient, and when we do it well, they find what we say interesting, engaging and, most importantly, relevant to their own sense of themselves.
When the therapeutic environment creates this kind of connection there is something we might call enchanting about it, and for the patient in pain this alone may provide considerable comfort.
A conjuror is not a juggler; he is an actor playing the part of a magician.
A few years ago I read a book entitled Working in a Very Small Place: The Making of a Neurosurgeon by Mark Shelton and Luann Walther. It was the story of Peter Janetta, the surgeon in Pittsburgh who perfected the technique for operating on the root of the trigeminal nerve in order to relieve the pain associated with tic douloureux (trigeminal neuralgia). It was fascinating throughout but one scene in particular has always stuck with me; a day or so post-surgically the doctor would visit the patients he d last seen while they slept in the recovery room. They were still complaining about various things, certainly of post surgical trauma but also of remnants of their original complaint. Sweeping through the wards full of confidence and a blazing smile, the neurosurgeon said a word or two, gestured meaningfully to the residents in his wake and signed his name to the chart. Immediately afterward there would be a measurable reduction in requests for pain medication and every patient s mood seemed to lift. The nurses called it The Janetta Effect.
I know there s nothing new about such a story and you probably have a few of your own that seem to demonstrate the power of personal contact on painful problems. But I liked this story especially because it followed a careful description of this man s skill and knowledge. I had the feeling that The Janetta Effect wouldn t have been necessary in a less painful and debilitating problem. The important mechanical and physiologic changes had been accomplished but one final, charming appearance by the master was needed in order to banish the mysterious remnants of chronic pain. I think we understand something about how this may happen centrally but it often appears and remains largely mysterious and unpredictable nonetheless.
In the world of manual therapy for painful problems the skills necessary to elicit the movement that will provide pain relief are no less important than those in neurosurgery though clearly they aren t as hard to acquire. In fact, I contend that they aren t really difficult at all, and I speak from experience with thousands of students. What takes time and work is the creation of a manner that charms the patient. Patients tend to respond unexpectedly to our words and manner and this forces us to alter them continuously. The intricate art of charming communication can take years to master unless the therapist is especially gifted. Many are not. Me, for instance.
In the world of magic you can acquire tricks that are self-working and I own a few. When performing these it is your presentation that fascinates the audience and not your skill, though you may convince them you possess some. Other tricks require subtle skills that take a long time to perfect though the effect is seen as the result of something else to the audience. This persistent duplicity is inherent to magic performance and, in fact, it is also common when one is charming another. Maybe that s why I m so awful at it. Many of us are wary of the charming stranger for this reason. For me, correction of neural tension in the body is like performing a self-working trick. I don t need much skill, and if I can just find a way of acting that doesn t violate my own values I might become charming enough to enchant the patient. They ll perform the magic themselves.
In a therapy that uses the qualities of enchantment the therapist plays a role that may at times appear mysterious and magical. However, there is no deception. All questions are answered, nothing hidden from view goes unexplained and there are no sudden surprises.
When this attitude is brought into the clinic what the therapist reveals about the patient s own ability to function will enchant them both.


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According to AARP, 64% of workers have witnessed or experienced age discrimination. For instance, learning opportunities may be offered to younger workers rather than older ones. Or, older workers may be given a significant share of tedious assignments rather than challenging ones. Even though a substantial amount of research proves that common stereotypes about older workers are wrong, new ways of thinking still aren't sinking in. As a result, it's important to watch for signs of age discrimination in the workplace and know how to deal with the issue.
Be Aware of Stereotypes
Know which stereotypes center around older workers to avoid doing things that reinforce them. For instance, older workers tend to be seen as unfamiliar with current technology, afraid of change and innovation, or lacking energy and passion. To combat these beliefs, older workers need to embrace technology to improve job performance and show they're willing to take on new challenges and find solutions to problems. Older workers also need to demonstrate excitement for their work and adding to skill sets as well as continue learning and growing to enhance job performance.
Act as a Coach
Older workers can help younger coworkers move forward in their careers through coaching. Older workers' wealth of experience means they know how to be inclusive, negotiate, influence people, and sell an idea. Working in teams most likely helped them develop a results-focused mindset. Older workers' experience is best shared with younger workers by asking them to identify problems they're facing and helping guide them to a solution. Empowering younger workers to solve their problems will increase their respect for older workers and place additional value on their skills and abilities.
Be Strategic
Older workers should take a strategic approach to secure a job, raise, or promotion. For instance, they should focus on career experiences that demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and success in collaborating and leading teams. Older workers also can showcase examples of how they're agile learners, able to adapt to change and contribute to results or use technology to attain the desired outcome.
Speak Up
If a coworker makes age an issue, speak up about it. This is especially important for older workers if they're in the running for a promotion and sensing that their age may be a problem. Focus the conversation on how the person's experience is an asset, not a liability. They still have plenty of time to continue achieving career goals and providing value to the municipality.
Find a New Municipal Job
Regardless of your age, when it's time to find a new municipal job, ask MuniTemps to be part of your search. We focus on your skills, experience, and contributions that make you best suited for a position, then set up interviews for roles that fit your career goals and interests.
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Steps to Obtaining Your Citizenship
Canadian Citizenship
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- Ensuring you qualify. We will conduct a thorough consultation.
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- Once everything is in order, we will prepare a thorough submission explaining your situation to the officer.
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What Happens After Filing Your Application?
One of the most common mistakes is that many people will forget to attach the photos or the fee receipt along with their application. If these details are wrong or incomplete, then the application will be rejected automatically.
Once the application is correctly filed, we will receive an acknowledgement within a few days. The application will then pass through the assessment phase.
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You might think that once the application passes the first phase and enters the second phase, there will be no problems. Local CIC or Canadian
Immigration and Citizenship Council will then take your application for further study. A citizenship test will be carried out in a step-by-step manner. Those who pass this test will be provided with citizenship status. But this test is a crucial step. Not everyone who submitted the form or not everyone who passed the assessment test will be entitled to citizenship. If you get to know about the various clauses that are used to provide citizenship, you will be quite amazed.
It is surely not an easy achievement. Apart from filling out the form correctly and with original details, it is necessary to meet the eligibility criteria. The more you learn about this process, the better your understanding. We will prepare you for the citizenship test once requested. If you are found eligible, there will be a citizenship ceremony. A letter of invitation will be sent to you to attend this. You can happily attend this after getting the required status.
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Jeddah (UNA-OIC) – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen met on Sunday with Tunisian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Hichem Fourati, who also serves as Tunisia's permanent representative to the OIC.
During the meeting at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah, the permanent representative signed, on behalf of his country, the Statute of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS), a specialized body of the OIC based in Kazakhstan's capital Nur-Sultan.
Also during the meeting, the two sides discussed issues of common interest and ways to develop relations between the OIC and the Republic of Tunisia.


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In the year just past the world saw tragic epidemics (and we don't just mean Ebola), millions of Americans gaining health insurance, a silly campaign for a serious cause, groundbreaking, and sometimes weird, advances in medicine (poop pills, anyone?), and more. Here's a look back at the top health stories of 2014.
1. West Africa Experiences Deadliest Ebola Epidemic on Record
A fast-spreading outbreak of Ebola in West Africa dominated health news headlines for much of 2014. As the disease ravaged countries with few health care resources, international aid groups scrambled to provide relief. The year ended with a US military presence based in Liberia, trials on a new vaccine, and over 7,000 deaths. Here's a look back at major developments.
After the shaky roll-out of the Healthcare.gov website in the fall of 2013, individual healthcare plans subsidized by the federal government became available in January in all 50 states. About 6.7 million people enrolled through the exchanges in 2014, with the biggest increases over the previous year among young adults, people of color, low-income individuals, and people in rural areas. Twenty-three states opted to expand Medicaid to all individuals below the federal poverty line, with costs covered by the federal government for the first three years.
But the rollout of the law continues to be challenged. In November, House Republicans filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration, arguing that the language of the Affordable Care Act only legalizes subsidies for exchanges run by states, not those run by the federal government. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case in the spring.
3. Ice Bucket Challenge Raises over $100 Million for ALS Research
When Peter Frates, a Massachusetts man with the degenerative condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, challenged his friends to dump a bucket of ice-water over their heads or donate $100 to the ALS Association, he set off a viral internet charity campaign. The Ice Bucket Challenge brought about a massive spike in funds and awareness to this "orphan disease."
4. Rare Enterovirus-68 Sickens Children across the United States
A rare strain of enterovirus—a common type of virus that usually only causes mild respiratory illness—this year caused a spate of hospitalizations and a even a few deaths. 2014 broke the record for enterovirus-68 infections, most of them in children and teenagers, and many with a history of asthma.
5. FDA Recommends Preventative Drug for People at Risk for HIV
For the first time, the FDA recommends those at high risk for contracting HIV take a preventative medication. The antiretroviral Truvada had been used to treat HIV infections for several years and has been shown to be effective at preventing the illness.
6. Brittany Maynard's Death Reignites Right-to-Die Debate
After diagnosis with terminal brain cancer, twenty-nine year-old Brittany Maynard moved from her home state of California to Oregon to take advantage of that state's law permitting physician-assisted suicide. As planned, she ended her life on November 1. The publicity her story gained reignited the public debate around physician-assisted suicide, which is legal in only three states.
7. Measles Makes a Comeback
2014 saw 594 cases of measles in the United States and 18 outbreaks, the highest number since 2000. Concerned that some families are skipping the vaccine, the American Academy of Pediatrics evenhired a children's book illustrator to help spread raise awareness of the importance of vaccination. Numbers are also rising in the developing world and in Europe, with a jump from 122,000 measles deaths in 2012 to 145,000 this year, .
8. Silicon Valley Companies Offer Egg-Freezing Benefit to Female Employees
In a time when women have a growing interest in medical solutions to extend their childbearing years, Facebook and Apple announced this October that they would pay for female employees to cryogenically freeze their eggs. The benefit covers $20,000 worth of procedures - typically two rounds of egg retrieval.
9. "Text Neck" Takes a Toll on our Spines
Delivering a wake-up call about how our digital device use is straining our bodies, a study published this year in Surgical Technology International noted that tilting the head forward to peer at a smartphone can exert up to 60 pounds of pressure on the spine, leading to wear and tear and possible injury over time.
10. We Get Friendlier with our Bacteria
In 2014, scientists made discoveries and medical breakthroughs related to the beneficial bacteria that naturally inhabit our bodies. For example, immunologists at Georgia State University discovered that friendly bacteria may help fight off dangerous viruses. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital ran a successful trial of a frozen poop pill that can cure Clostridium difficile, a debilitating and sometimes fatal illness. And researchers in Ireland found out that regular exercise may increase levels of health-promoting gut bacteria. And you can ease up on the yogurt: New research from the Netherlands suggests that a long French kiss could be a way to pick up some probiotics.


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Dam: Polar Bear (Heat Wave x 419) |
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Mother is a full sib to the Grand Steer at Fort Worth in 2012. This silver calf is complete, dense, and balanced. All his feet point forward. When we washed him, he was overly impressive in the wash rack and will make an outstanding slick shear steer for an earlier show.
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Dam: Beat The Heat |
D.O.B.: April |
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This yellow calf has the best set of feet and legs that you will find. He also is the color that everyone is searching for. Extremely good haired for a colored calf. He is comfortable on the move, and holds his head high while he walks. When you go watch a fat steer show, it is hard to find one that still walks good. This one should walk good as a fat steer.
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Sire: MAB |
Dam: Angus |
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I really like this steer. He covers a lot of the basics that good cattle should . His declaws are down, he walks wide and square from behind, has a groove down his back, great rib shape (not a saggy belly but really good rib shape.) This calf has an Angus mother. He does not have scurs, bumps or swirls. He has a smooth round head. He has wrinkles in his forehead. We also took additional pictures of just his head for those who are interested. Please contact us and we will send them to you. I can email them to You. email@example.com


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Delivering on the promise of meaningful, sustainable work
Mission-driven sustainability jobs are more desired by younger generations and more needed as climate change hits harder — so let's create them.
Excerpt from The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future by Justine Burt
One night in October 2017, as a fast-growing wildfire burned near Napa, California, Pete Gavitte and his first mate, paramedic Whitney Lowe, flew continuous helicopter flights to save as many people as they could. An 18-year veteran with the California Highway Patrol, Gavitte wore night vision goggles to find people fleeing the fires. At one point, he saw residents throwing their belongings into their cars, jumping in and heading down Atlas Peak Road, the only way out of the rural community.
The helicopters made about 20 trips, which became slower and bumpier as conditions deteriorated. "I'd tell them, 'Sit down, sit on the floor, it's going to be bumpy,'" Gavitte said. There was little talk on board. Some took photos of the fire as they soared overhead. "I've never been shaken so much in a helicopter in six years of flying with the highway patrol," said Lowe. By the end of the night, the two helicopter crews saved 42 people, five dogs and a cat from the wildfire, which over the next few days would kill 21 people and destroy 3,500 homes and businesses.
Wildfires in California, which used to occur primarily in fall at the end of the dry season, now happen year-round. Throughout the country, increasingly severe natural disasters fueled by climate change are negatively impacting state budgets. States are looking to the federal government for financial help, but federal emergency response funding isn't enough; cities and states need to upgrade their infrastructure to be able to bounce back from the shocks imposed by future natural disasters.
Over the past few decades, the destructive power of droughts and storms has increased. In October 1994, some areas of Houston received up to 29 inches of rain during Hurricane Rosa. The storm shut down the city, turning the highways into bathtubs. In an attempt to contain fires from broken pipes at oil refineries and chemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel, emergency responders called on the plants to shut down their pipelines.
When one executive claimed they could not, as the plant would lose $1 million per hour, the emergency responder told the executive to turn on the news. "Which channel?" the executive asked. "Any channel," the emergency responder said calmly. All three news stations at the time were running live coverage of the aflame Houston Ship Channel. "Shutting them down, sir," was the response.
At the time, that storm seemed devastating. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey rainfall in Nederland, Texas, east of Houston, peaked at 60 inches.
Funding and program pivots to build a sustainable future
The main reason I wanted to write this book is that each time I finish teaching my 15-hour course, "Managing Sustainable Change in an Organization," at the University of California Berkeley Extension, a few students approach me and ask for advice about how to get into sustainability work. While thinking to myself, I wish there were more sustainability jobs, so everyone who wants one could have one, I proceed to tell them about the openings of which I am aware.
I meet so many people who dislike their jobs and want to switch to sustainability work. One time, I was working on my laptop in a café while wearing a Women in Cleantech and Sustainability T-shirt when a stranger approached. She said she worked in tech but didn't like her job. She asked where Women in Cleantech and Sustainability met and how she could find a job in cleantech. Another person I met was working as a full-time contractor at Facebook but really wanted to be doing sustainability work. I needed help with a sustainability research project, so she worked for me part-time for a few months, which later helped her secure a sustainability job. People like these hunger for meaningful work that gives their lives purpose.
To accomplish this important transition and create these meaningful jobs, we first need to allocate funding. The search for such funding starts in some of the most well-funded areas of the public and private sectors. By reallocating just a fraction of this funding, we will ignite the creation of millions of meaningful jobs in the private, public and non-profit sectors.
Pivot and create externality fees to fund work
Externality fees can be a key source of funding for meaningful jobs. A seal that becomes entangled in a fishing net is an example of a negative externality. Litter on the side of the road is another example. When fossil fuels are burned, they accumulate in the global atmosphere and cause climate change, which is a burden on victims of hurricanes and wildfires as well as the future generations who will be affected. These are all externalities where the victims did not ask to bear the costs imposed on them.
Externality fees can address these problems by accomplishing three things:
1. Cleaning up the problem caused by the negative behavior
2. Paying for green jobs to create a more sustainable alternative
3. Discouraging negative behavior
Externality fees already exist. Ten states have deposit-refund systems for bottles and cans; these deposits deter littering and provide funds for equipment and systems to ensure bottle and can recycling. Some states and cities levy plastic bag fees. A 5-cent, 10-cent or 25-cent fee on a plastic bag at the grocery store encourages people to avoid taking a plastic bag and bring their own reusable bag. California has a Cap & Trade system that levies fees on large emitters of greenhouse gases; these fees go into a fund used for projects that will result in greenhouse gas reductions and improved environmental health.
Expanding the number of externality fees similar to California's Cap & Trade fee would discourage environmentally destructive behavior, fund vital sustainability projects, and help us create meaningful jobs. We can apply the idea of externality fees to many environmental problems that negatively affect people, wildlife, air quality, water quality and land.


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The Senate GOP has picked up the slack of President Donald Trump's attempt to bribe Ukraine into investigating the Bidens after his impeachment over the scheme — most of them have, at least. Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) quite directly criticized his fellow Senate Republicans' investigations of the Bidens during a conversation with CNN's Manu Raju this Thursday. Trump and Republicans have alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden acted corruptly in trying to get Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who'd supposedly been looking into a company that Biden's son worked for — but in reality, many world leaders at the time had concluded that the prosecutor was too lenient on corruption cases. The evidence of nefarious Biden plotting simply is not there.
Referring to the company that VP'e Joe's son Hunter worked for, Romney told the CNN reporter:
'There's no question but the appearance of looking at Burisma appears political. And I think people are tired of these kind of political investigations… We also have a lot of work to do on matters that are not related to Burisma. We probably ought to focus on those things.'
Mitt Romney, a member of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, told me of Chairman Ron Johnson's Burisma probe: "There's no question but the appearance of looking at Burisma appears political. And I think people are tired of these kind of political investigations"
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 5, 2020
Romney added: "We also have a lot of work to do on matters that are not related to Burisma. We probably ought to focus on those things."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 5, 2020
Remarkably, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has seemingly directly tied his own panel's investigation into Burisma and the Bidens to the ongoing Democratic presidential primary race, which Joe Biden is currently leading. On Wednesday, he said that his committee — which Romney is a member of — is preparing to release a so-called "interim report" about their probe within one to two months or so. He claimed:
'These are questions that Joe Biden has not adequately answered. And if I were a Democrat primary voter, I'd want these questions satisfactorily answered before I cast my final vote.'
Johnson's work has driven Democrats to "brace for an all-out GOP assault on Biden and his son over an issue that was litigated at length during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial," POLITICO notes. Biden has already answered the questions that Johnson is referring to, and importantly, there's still no actual apparent evidence that the then-vice president had any kind of secret ulterior motive! It's just not there. Yet, in the name of solving where all the metaphorical smoke is coming from that they're just blowing out of their own investigations, Johnson and other Republicans are pressing on.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) insisted, referring to the documented Russian conspiracy theory that Ukrainian authorities led 2016 election meddling rather than Russia's own team:
'I am concerned to see that in the Senate there seems to be a renewed interest in furthering these bogus Russian narratives through the use of their investigative powers. I just think it's so deeply destructive to be effectively working in a concert with Russian propaganda artists.'
Yet, they are.
The Biden investigations — which have included the transfer of documents from the Treasury and State Departments, who, under Trump, flatly refused to comply with recent Congressional investigations when they happened to be led by Dems — coincide with another Senate GOP push to investigate the investigators of the Russia investigation. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced just the other day that his panel held their first closed door deposition in that probe.


text: Do you have an ad insertion or management team? And if so do they work on weekends? If not, they probably should. The web isn't a Monday-Friday deal like the business world, just like the news isn't just for 9am-5pm or 3 telecasts a day. Even if the economy wasn't in a recession, it makes sense to make sure you are able to make as many ad spots sold as possible. So why cut the insertion time off on Friday at 5pm? If a sale comes in late Friday and it could be sold for the weekend, why not have staff to do it? And with Yahoo APT's BT on Yahoo's sites everyone is competing with each other to get the impressions sold against each other. So if you could snatch those impressions on a Sunday before the others get around to it on Monday, it might make a big difference.


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09/02/2017 9:00am
Because of the holiday weekend, we have canceled the September Walk. Our next Walk With a Doc is scheduled for October 7 in conjuctions with our VIVA Vine Trail event.
Walk with a Doc is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. What better way to start your weekend than on your feet making strides to help your heart and improve your general health to live longer! While you walk at your own pace, you'll have the opportunity to have questions answered by a local physician.
Walk With A Doc on the Napa Valley Vine Trail will meet at the Hartle Court Vine Trail Shelter just north of the Napa Century Theater adjacent to the Napa County Animal Shelter. The walk will proceed from the Hartle Court Shelter to the end of the Cul-de-Sac which leads to the Vine Trail, then will head out on the Vine Trail for a 2-3 mile round trip walk. The walk will take less than 2 hours.
Event participants will be asked to sign a liability waiver before starting on the walk.
Please visit our Facebook Event Page to RSVP. For more information contact Elizabeth at elizabethglennbottari@outl
Walk With a Doc on the Napa Valley Vine Trail the first Saturday of every month.


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As the path to economic recovery remains uncertain, a new book from Yale University Press brings together the world's top economic experts, looking closely at the major economies of the world and predicting how each will fare over the next several years.
In the run-up to the 2010 UK General Election, the major topic of debate was the economy. The three main political parties each offered their own positions on how to tackle the deficit, but the debate often came down to two central issues: how much public money do we need to cut, and how fast do we need to cut it? Today we are still asking ourselves those questions. The coalition government have set in motion a programme of austerity measures that has been met with fierce opposition from students, public sector workers and those on left of British politics. Yesterday the International Monetary Fund came out in support of chancellor George Osborne's cuts, despite repeatedly downgrading the UK growth forecast for this year (down to 1.5% from 2.5% forecast in April 2010). With so many opposing views from academics, politicians and financial institutions it often seems as though no-one really knows what the future holds for the British economy. And with the continuing trend in EU and IMF bailouts, civilian opposition to austerity measures and the growing dominance of China and India in the international market, it looks as though the future for economies abroad is even less certain.
What's Next? A View from the World's Leading Economists aims to tackle this uncertainty. David and Lyric Hale, themselves economic advisers to world leaders, have assembled a prestigious group of more than twenty leading economists and experts, each rendering thorough, rigorously researched prognoses for the world's major economies over the next five years. Factoring in such varied issues as the price of oil, the strength of the U.S. dollar, geopolitics, tax policies and new developments in investment decision-making, the contributors ground their predictions in the realities of current events, political conditions, and the health of financial institutions in each national economy. This comprehensive book presents up-to-date research on Russia, Australia, Europe, sub-Saharan and South Africa, the major Asian economies, North America and the largest economies of Latin America. Using their expertise, the authors explain what's going on in individual countries, how important current global issues will impact them, and what economic scenarios they most likely will face in upcoming years.
For those looking to gain a better understanding of what lies ahead for global economics but are tired of wading through political rhetoric, this book provides an clear, intelligent and thought-provoking response to that exasperating question: What's Next?
What's Next? is out this month from Yale University Press.


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Plenty of political figures preach about the importance of civility. There's even a Congressional Civility Caucus. Even first lady Melania Trump promotes something of the sort with her "Be Best" campaign. Yet it is relatively rare these days to see a high-profile figure pull the brakes on a debate in order to urge their allies to be civil toward someone with whom they disagree on matters of partisanship, ideology or legislative strategy.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did just that last week, when she appeared on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes to discuss the Green New Deal. The New York Democrat joined former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis for a robust discussion of the legislation she has proposed to address climate change while investing in 21st-century job creation.
Ocasio-Cortez and Inglis, a South Carolinian who has been described as "a Republican believer in climate change [who] is out to convert his party," agreed on some things. But they differed on how hard to push for the Green New Deal. Inglis, who has argued for free-market responses to the crisis, warned that pushing too energetically for government action might create a circumstance where "we have basically the mirror image of a Trump rally on climate change." He suggested that ardent advocacy on the issue might "drive all the people away that could come our way and solve this thing now."
That assessment did not go over well with the crowd, which was enthusiastic about Ocasio-Cortez and her activist approach.
Then Inglis said: "You can't do it in a single Congress, the entire Green New Deal. It is literally impossible." He went on to suggest that legislation action on universal basic income and single-payer health care might need to be delayed in order to focus on the climate debate.
His analysis was greeted with chorus of "No! No! No!" And someone shouted "Moron!"
That's where Ocasio-Cortez jumped in.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" she said. "That's unacceptable."
The crowd quieted quickly, as the congresswoman turned to Inglis and said, "That's the difference between me and Trump."
Ocasio-Cortez is signaling that she does not believe that she must destroy those who differ with her, or that she must divide people against one another in order to gain an advantage in the battle of ideas. She places her faith in information and insights. Ocasio-Cortez puts her energy into forming arguments that connect with people, even people who might not be on the same page politically. The seriousness with which she approaches her work as a member of Congress, and as a leader of new discussions and new debates, allows her to be confident without being arrogant.
There is no question that this confidence distinguishes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Donald Trump, whose recent rally in Michigan featured anti-AOC chants. But there's more to it than that. A confidence rooted in an understanding of the importance of the issues that are being debated, and of the necessity to move beyond pettiness and get to the heart of the matter, distinguishes AOC from a lot of our politicians. She practices genuine civility because she understands the importance of focusing on big ideas rather than personal disputes. And because she recognizes that an it is this emphasis on ideas that can and must animate our politics if we are ever going to progress as a nation.


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Confederate groups marched in Oxford singing 'Dixie' as counter protesters sing 'This Little Light of Mine'
Published 8:06 am Sunday, February 24, 2019
Confederate flag supporters marched through Oxford and onto the campus of the University of Mississippi Saturday without much fanfare.
The Confederate-901 and Hiwaymen neo-Confederate groups gathered at the Lafayette County Courthouse in the early afternoon and marched though downtown to the University of Mississippi's campus.
K-Rack Johnson, one of the the rally organizers with Confederate-901, said the rally came to Oxford because of how UM has been slowly removing parts of the university that had Confederate backgrounds.
"We've lost so much at the university already," Johnson said. "The mascot, the fight song, the contextualization."
"We're here to try and see if we can make it stop."
The rally started at the Confederate monument in front of the courthouse and ended in front of the second Confederate Monument on UM's campus near The Grove.
Only about 20 protestors were present when the rally began at 1 p.m.
By the time the march toward campus began just after 2 p.m., approximately 80 attendees were there for the march.
Both groups marched south down Lamar Avenue, and then west on University Avenue.
All three members of the LOU law enforcement – Oxford Police, University Police and the Lafayette County Sheriff – all signed an agreement earlier this week that allowed each body to share officers in an emergency situation.
While this wasn't needed, UM intern Chancellor Larry Sparks thanked all three bodies of law enforcement in a statement.
"We are grateful for everything you do to protect our community," Sparks said in the statement. "We are thankful for our strong partnership worth the LOU community."
The rally circled around the square's monument to begin, where counter protesters held up signs and chanted at the rally. Pro-Confederate attendees began their own chants back, and sang "Dixie." The counter protesters sang "This Little Light of Mine" in response.
When the Confederate-901 and Hiwaymen march turned onto University Avenue, bystanders began heckling the march.
"They can have their opinion all they want to," Johnson said.
The marchers had to walk through a metal detector in order to get the monument on UM's campus. When they were on campus, they were met by more counter protesters.
When the march got to campus, both groups were led in front of the campus monument and in an area that was sectioned off by metal gates.
About 100 counter protesters, blocked off by metal gates about 50 yards away from the Confederate-901 and Hiwaymen.
The groups and the counter protestors traded chants and shouts at each other. The Confederate-901 and Hiwaymen were only permitted to converge on campus until 3:30 p.m.
The permit allowing the groups to converge at the square was from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., but as soon as they left the permit expired and they weren't allowed to re-converge.
Both statues are Confederate monuments built originally to honor those from Lafayette County who died fighting in the Civil War were constructed on the University of Mississippi campus in 1906, and in front of the Lafayette County Courthouse in 1907.
Johnson said the monuments are dedicated to Confederate soldiers that were killed in action, but were never able to get a proper burial. Through the monuments, families can get closure
"That's what those monuments are for," Johnson said. "So those families can have somewhere to go."
However, to the counter protestors, the monuments are symbols of oppression, and belong in a museum.
Kate Gluckman, executive director of the Sunflower County Freedom Program, said monuments in Oxford should be immortalized elsewhere to remember the history, but they shouldn't be celebrated.
Gluckman, who lives in Cleveland, also said many of her students from the Sunflower County Freedom Program attend Ole Miss after graduating from her program.
"Our students were afraid to be on campus today because of the presence of that group," Gluckman said. "I felt it's my duty and my responsibility and my privilege to come here and say that this is not what we represent here in Mississippi "
Counter protesters also noted the Confederate-901 and Hiwaymen, who are based in Tennessee and Arkansas, respectively, were not from Mississippi and don't reflect the state's views.
"They are not Mississippians," Gluckman said. "They do not represent where our state is going."
During the march to campus, just before the Ole Miss and Georgia men's basketball game, five Rebel men's basketball players also knelt during the playing of the national anthem.
After the game, Ole Miss basketball coach Kermit Davis said he didn't know the players were going to kneel before the game.
According to Oxford Police, the Oxford Board of Aldermen is planning on releasing a joint statement concerning Saturday's march.


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Gemstones have never played any significant economic role in the long history and rich culture of Ethiopia. It is only in the last two decades that Ethiopia has emerged in the gem trade. Rondeau et al. reported the discovery of large gemstone deposits in the country only recently.
The first high-quality emeralds from southern Ethiopia and sapphire from the north reached the market in the past few years.
With all of these new materials reaching the market, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) collaborated with the Ethiopian government to set up an expedition to the sapphire, opal, and emerald sources. Here, we focus only on sapphire.
Rumors of the sapphire discovery reached the Asian markets where the first stones were displayed. Since the initial discovery, sapphires have been found in many localities throughout northern Ethiopia.
The sapphires are mined and traded in the vicinity of Aksum. Since the mining area is remote and road access is limited, most of the transportation is carried out using camels and donkeys.
For the rest of this article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202101080471.html


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What employees get up to in their own time is their own business… right? Kerri-Ann Allen, Senior Employment Relations Adviser at Employsure explains all.
The story of a Qantas flight attendant who was sacked after an off-duty drinking session resulted in a missed shift and a $20,000 hospital stay, has many employers wondering: can I dismiss staff for their out-of-hours conduct?
The attendant in question was on a stopover in New York, where they spent an evening drinking at a popular bar. The attendant was later hospitalised, recording a blood-alcohol reading of .205 and racking up a medical bill topping $20,000. Not surprisingly, they were unable to attend their shift the next day, a 5.10pm flight to Los Angeles.
Upon their return to Australia the attendant was stood down and then red following a disciplinary process for breaching Qantas's code of conduct and safety policies due to 'drinking excessively'.
Unfair dismissal?
The Fair Work Commission found the dismissal was not unfair as the employee had a duty to be 'ready and able' to work, and although the conduct occurred out of hours, it had significantly impacted the business. An additional consideration was that the employee worked in a 'safety critical' position.
The commission stated that although flight attendants are on slip in an overseas port, despite being off duty, they remain subject to their employer's policies and requirements regarding their conduct: "….the obligation to be ready and able to work at the requisite time is greater when an organisation clearly relies on the employee in circumstances where his or her absence cannot be properly remedied by a substitute person or the transfer of duties to others," the commission said.
The ruling found that the dismissal was valid. The finding begs the question: do small business employers have the same ability to dismiss staff for their out-of- hours conduct?
Yes, but…
The short answer is yes, you can dismiss a staff member for their out-of-hours conduct. But as in most workplaces, it is rarely so straightforward. Dismissing an employee for their out-of-hours behaviour means making sure their conduct only falls within certain parameters: the conduct must be such that, viewed objectively, it is likely to cause serious damage to the relationship between the employer and employee; or the conduct damages the employer's interests; or the conduct is incompatible with the employee's duty as an employee.
What employers need to consider
Do your employees have provisions in their contracts or relevant policies outlining acceptable conduct outside the workplace? Are they aware that they are not to engage in conduct that could a affect your businesses reputation or the employee's ability to work?
Is there a clear connection between the misconduct and the employee's employment and does the out-of-hours conduct impact directly upon the business?
Can the situation be remedied by a substitute person or transfer of duties to another; has the conduct impacted upon the employee's ability to fulfil their contractual obligations or safety responsibilities; how honestly and openly did the employee disclose the misconduct, and answer your questions about it? And lastly, have you followed fair process and given the employee an opportunity to respond?
Get advice
Dismissal of any kind is a difficult issue for any small business, and serious misconduct based on off-duty behaviour is especially complex. Consider talking to an employment relations advisor to get the most up-to- date advice. Employsure provides a useful range of human resources services to small businesses.
Kerri-Ann Allen, Senior Employment Relations Adviser, Employsure


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MONTREAL — Aldo Group Inc. says its North American creditors have voted in favour of its restructuring plan and settlement, almost two years after the footwear company filed for creditor protection.
The Montreal-based company says the vote is a crucial step in its effort to exit protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
Some additional legal and administrative steps remain over the next few weeks, including the finalization and approval of an agreement in Switzerland, before the company can completely emerge from court proceedings.
Martin Rosenthal, of the court-appointed monitor E&Y, says it was pleased to find a fair settlement with creditors.
The restructuring proceedings allowed the company to stabilize the business as it underwent a transformation of the organization to focus on profitable core competencies.
CEO David Bensadoun, whose father, Aldo, founded the chain in 1972, has said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic put too much pressure on business and cash flows.
"Today, after a thorough restructuring process out of which we are announcing our imminent exit, we know that the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act was the right path to take to solidify the Aldo Group's financial foundation and ensure the long-term sustainability of the business," he stated in a news release.
The retail fashion industry, already undergoing a sweeping shift amid the migration to online shopping, has been hit hard by a pandemic that has shuttered storefronts across the globe and sent apparel revenues plummeting.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2022.
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IntaForensics are delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, which takes place from September 17th – 19th 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. The event features product demonstrations, industry keynotes and a robust line up of educational seminars within the following primary tracks:
- Audit/Risk Management
- Forensics
- Investigations
- Information Security
The Conference will take place in the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio. The program will feature over 65 educational sessions led by more than 70 industry professionals. For further information visit http://www.technosecurity.us
Speaking Slot
IntaForensics CEO, Andrew Frowen (who has been invited to speak at the conference) commented "As a leading Digital Forensics, Expert Witness, Cyber Security, Incident Response and Data Recovery provider it is important that IntaForensics gets in front of decision makers. The conference is a must-attend event for corporate network security professionals, law enforcement digital forensic specialists, and cyber security industry leaders from around the world."
Andrew's presentation will focus on the main features of IntaForensics' world leading Digital and Cyber Forensic Case Management software. This will be a particularly relevant session for examiners as he will tackle the following:
- Continuity of evidence
- Automated reports
- Data indexing
- Operating in a paperless environment
- The new features in version 3
- Lima management of the largest laboratories, Worldwide
The Lima system achieves full continuity of evidence during case work through contemporaneous notes, evidence tracking and automatic full disclosure. The software has received a 5-star review from SC magazine who have stated "Lima is the most solid, complete digital forensics case management tool available. We cannot imagine running a Digital Forensics lab of any size without it".
Social Media Competition
Andrew commented "The Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference develops a unique education experience that blends together the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security industries." As a Gold Sponsor of the conference, IntaForensics have a limited amount of tickets for the 3-day duration worth $1,695* to give away. Follow our Twitter feed @IntaForensics for further information.
Conference Details
Throughout the conference, IntaForensics will have a presence on stand 204, this will enable delegates to discuss their requirements and garner further information on all our services including the Lima Forensic Case Management system. Damian Walton, Director of Professional Services at IntaForensics will also be on the stand.
The 2018 conference programme will feature over 65 educational sessions by more than 70 industry professionals. Conference sessions cover a wide range of topics relevant to industry professionals and offer opportunities for discussion, networking and additionally CPE credit hours. The event aims to raise international awareness of developments, teaching, responsibilities and ethics in the field of IT Security and Digital Forensics.
Further Information
IntaForensics provides the following services for Law Enforcement and Commercial organisations:
- Independent, Advanced Digital Forensic Investigations – which can provide accurate, legally admissible reports and evidence delivered by expert witnesses
- Cyber Security to include Payment Card Industry forensic investigations (PFI)
- Instant Response Forensic Analyst Service – enables us to provide forensic analysts working remotely who can be deployed within minutes or hours rather than days
- Data Recovery
- Lima – our world leading Forensic Case Management Software
Accreditations, Awards and Certifications
IntaForensics have achieved the following:
- Certified by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI-SSC) as a Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSA)
- Certified by the PCI-SSC as a PCI Forensic Investigations company (PFI)
- Accredited to – ISO 17025:2005
- Compliant to the Forensics Science Regulators Code of Practice and Conduct
- Certified against – ISO 9001:2015 – ISO 27001:2013
- Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Body
- Operate from our secure, ISO 17025 accredited laboratory
- Our portfolio of services is delivered by National Security Cleared staff
- Lima Forensic Case Management – This product is the winner of Awards in 2013/14/15 and 2016 including SC Magazine 'Lab Approved' in the Digital Forensic Tools Group Test.
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Quinoa Black Bean Burger
1 cup canned black beans, drained & coarsely mashed
1⁄4 cup quinoa, cooked
1⁄4 cup yellow pepper, diced
2 tbsp. red onion, minced
1 clove garlic, peeled & minced
1⁄4 tsp. coriander
1⁄4 tsp. cumin
1⁄2 tbsp. chili powder
1 egg
Chipotle Aioli
1⁄4 cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp. chipotle hot sauce
1 tsp. lime juice
For Serving
2 sandwich buns
2 slices tomato
2 leaves of lettuce
1⁄4 cup feta, optional
1. In a bowl, mix burger ingredients. Shape into 2 patties. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Set time and temperature to 18 minutes at 400o F. Allow the AirFryer to preheat for 2 minutes.
3. Place patties into the Fry Basket. Cook for remaining 16 minutes. Flip halfway through.
4. Make the chipotle aioli: mix together 1⁄4 cup mayonnaise, 2 tbsp. chipotle hot sauce, and 1 tsp. lime juice. Set aside.
5. Arrange quinoa black bean burgers on buns.
6. Top with lettuce, tomato, and chipotle aioli or optional feta before serving.


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Publication Date
Spring 2-22-2011
Quick Facts
- Folkens, who is still a serving Trustee for the university, wants to make sure the gift provides assistance to students engaging in programs with an international experience component.
- Folkens' daughters, Anna Folkens and Elizabeth Folkens Dinndorf, Winthrop Class of 2007, motivated this most recent gift, as their international experiences were a distinctive part of their collegiate educations.
Recommended Citation
Winthrop University, "Trustee's Gift to Winthrop Supports International Experiences for Students" (2011). Winthrop News 2011. 33.


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I've been thinking about programming exercises lately, because I want to move into teaching people skills. But what makes a good programming exercise? I asked about this on Twitter today and got some useful responses so here are some criteria:
it's fun
This one is sort of self-explanatory and I think it's really important. Programming is fun and learning is fun so I can't see why programming exercises would need to be boring.
it teaches you something you care about
I don't think this has to strictly mean "relevant to your job right this second" – people don't just have jobs, we also want to make art and games and fun personal projects and sometimes just understand the world around us. But it's important to know what goals the exercise can help you with and what it's related to!
Some arbitrary examples:
- take an image of something from a website and reproduce it from scratch with CSS (towards using CSS to make your own websites that look awesome)
- write a webserver from scratch without any frameworks (to learn the HTTP protocol, so that you can debug issues with a real webserver more easily)
- write a small raytracer (so you can make cool art with raytracing techniques on shaderhub!)
- write a tiny bit of assembly (as a very initial step towards understanding of what Spectre and Meltdown are even about and why we need to make all our computers run slower to prevent them)
it's a challenge
I don't know if this is everyone's experience but I often start programming exercises and get bored quickly ("oh, I know how to do this, this is boring"). For me it's really important for the exercise to teach me something I really don't know how to do and that's a little bit hard for me.
My favourite set of programming exercises is the cryptopals crypto challenges because they get harder pretty fast – by exercise #6, you're already breaking toy encryption protocols, and by #12 you're breaking an Actual Encryption Protocol (AES in ECB mode)!
you can tell if you succeeded
It's easy to write exercises that are too vaguely specified ("write a toy tcp stack!"). But what does that mean? How much of a TCP stack am I supposed to write? Having test cases and clear criteria for "yay! you did it! congratulations!" is really important.
you can do it quickly
In less than 2-3 hours (an evening after work), say. It's hard to find time to spend like 8 hours on an exercise unless it's REALLY exciting.
I also think that giving some specific real-world benchmark data seems nice ("I did this from scratch in 97 minutes").
the author believes in you
This is a bit fuzzier but very lovely – this person on Twitter wrote:
Similar to that, the writing is patient and gives me the impression that it believes in my ability to accomplish the task. … I learned a ton in the early days from Linux HOWTOs. Some gave me the sense that it was impossible to fail. Just follow the steps. It's all there.
Especially if you're doing a somewhat challenging exercise like we talked about above, I think it's nice for the author to believe in your! (and of course it's crucial that they've actually written the exercises so that they're right and you can likely do the thing!)
it's been tested
I read the (great) biography Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child recently and one thing that stood out to me is that she tested all of the recipes in Mastering the Art Of French Cooking. It took her years to write the book and test the recipes and make sure that American home cooks actually had access to all the ingredients and had the.
I don't think all cookbook authors test their recipes, but I think testing really improves cookbooks.
I started writing some SQL exercises (like this prototype of one on GROUP BY) a while back, and at some point I realized the big thing holding me back was that I didn't have testers! I couldn't find out if people were actually learning from them or not!
This is a new thing for me because when I write blog posts I don't test them (I barely even proofread them!). I just write them and publish and people often like them and that's it! I said to Amy Hoy (who is amazing) on Twitter that I didn't understand why you have to test exercises if you don't have to test blog posts and she pointed out that people have much higher expectations for exercises than for blog posts – with the blog posts you maybe expect to learn 1-2 new facts, but with exercises you expect to actually develop a new skill!
Also, people are often investing a lot more time in exercises (especially if they have to set up a dev environment or something!), so it's extra important to make sure that they actually work.
you won't get stuck
It's SO EASY to get stuck on some random irrelevant point in a programming exercise that's totally unrelated to the skill you're trying to learn. For example there might be an easily-avoidable mistake that you can make with the exercise and spend a lot of time debugging but it doesn't actually teach you a lot.
it's easy to get help
If you're doing a challenging exercise, you might want to get help from your friends / colleagues / the internet!
Some things that can go wrong:
- None of your friends have ever heard of the thing the exercise is teaching so you can't talk about it with them
- The exercise expects you to be using the newest version of some software, but actually all the examples on the internet are for some older version so it's difficult to search for help even though the exercise is technically correct
- The community around the tech used in the exercise is hostile/unhelpful
One obvious way to accomplish this is by letting people use the programming language they're most comfortable in, because they probably already know how to Google for help in that environment.
no time-consuming setup required
Installing software is boring, and a lot of programming projects require installing software! A few things that can go wrong with this (though there are a lot more than this!)
- I get a compiler error when I try to install this package on my computer
- The example actually requires some very specific package versions to work properly and if you don't have those exact versions installed you get a bunch of cryptic errors and need to google for 3 hours to fix them
This kind of thing is a huge waste of time and super demoralizing. And it's not trivial to avoid! If you're trying to teach someone a specific piece of software, often that software
A few options I've seen or used to manage this:
- tell people what you know works ("I've tested this in Mac/Linux but not Windows")
- avoid requiring any software to be installed ("just use python")
- use Docker to run everything
- run all the code in the person's browser (because browsers usually do about the same thing)
- use a cloud system (so everything runs on someone else's computer). This is what I do for my pandas cookbook, which lets you run it in Binder, this really great free service for hosting Jupyter notebooks.
it's easy to extend
@tef has this great talk on Scratch A million things to do with a computer! which explains the 3 ideas of Scratch:
- low floors
- wide walls
- high ceilings
It sucks when you start learning something and then learn that what you can do with the Thing is very limited! It's exciting when you learn something and see "oh, wow, there are SO MANY POSSIBILITIES, what if I did X instead?"
that's a lot of things!
The criteria we arrived at:
- fun exercises
- that teach you something you care about
- that are challenging
- with clear success criteria
- that can be done quickly
- with no complicated setup
- and few hidden gotchas
- using a tech stack that's easy for you to get help with
- where there's a lot of room to grow
That seems pretty hard, but it seems like a good goal to aspire to! I'm going to keep very slowly working on exercises!


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Naomi Osaka's indefinite tennis hiatus may end up being over sooner than expected because the athlete is already starting to miss the sport.
Following a surprising loss to Leylah Fernandez during the third round of the U.S. Open earlier this month, Osaka, 23, told the press that she would be taking a break from competing in matches "for a while." "I feel like for me recently when I win I don't feel happy," she explained. "I feel more like a relief. And then when I lose, I feel very sad. I don't think that's normal."
She closed out her conference in tears, adding, "I honestly don't know when I'm gonna play my next tennis match. I think I'm gonna take a break from playing for a while."
Many have been wondering how long "a while" could actually mean, and Osaka hinted that she's leaning toward a return sooner, rather than later now that she's beginning to feel "the itch" to play for "joy" as opposed to having to play out of obligation.
"I just needed a break to go within myself and reclaim what was it that [provided motivation]," she told hosts Paul Rivera and Maverick Carter during the fifth episode of HBO series "The Shop." "You know, I've been playing tennis since I was 3 years old; for sure I love the sport, I know I'm going to play again. Probably soon, because I kind of have that itch again, but it wouldn't really matter to me if I won or lost. I'd just have the joy of being back on the court."
"I want to feel like I'm playing for myself," she explained. "And I started to feel like that power was being taken away from me in the way that I felt like I wasn't playing to make myself happy and I was more concerned about like, if I won or lost, what would people say about me. And I just used to love, like, the competition and just being competitive."
The four-time Grand Slam champion knew that it was time to step away when her usual feelings of excitement about playing matches were increasingly replaced by stress. "If I were to play a long match, the longer it was, the more fun it was for me. And then I just started to feel, like recently, the longer it was, the more stressed out I became," she said.
While she has yet to share any specific details about when she plans to make her return to the sport, Osaka being open to coming back just weeks after announcing her hiatus is a step in the right direction.


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A few years ago I was driving home from a friend's house on a Wednesday afternoon, and I called my grandmother to check in. When she answered she sounded off, her voice strange, and she couldn't talk long. Prior to a previous heart attack her voice had been higher than usual, weaker, and that's what it sounded like on that Wednesday. My aunt, who had spent years helping care for my grandmother, let us know she'd been sick. Two days later my grandmother had a heart attack.
I'm telling you that because one of the greatest gifts I've been given with both of my grandmothers is the gift of saying goodbye. It seems morbid, but in the years since their deaths I've been reminded time and time again that we don't always get the honor of saying goodbye to those we love, but we do get the opportunity to be there for them until their time comes.
We left the next morning to go visit my grandmother in the hospital, and when we arrived she had taken a turn for the better, and the family visited a bit throughout the afternoon. The first night, I stayed with her in the hospital. I slept in a recliner at the foot of her bed, listening to her breathing and the beeps of the machines. I fell asleep at some point, and woke to the sounds of 2 nurses in the room doing morning checks. I could hear the confusion in my grandmother's voice, as they explained to her where she was and why she was there. I wiggled myself out of the recliner and got into her line of sight. We reminded her again where she was, and she let the nurses do their checks.
After they left, she looked at me and said "I got a little confused there but then I saw you and knew I was ok." When I think about that moment I can't help but think about how many stages we cycle through in our lives. How many times as a child staying at my grandparents house must I have been afraid in the night and when I saw my grandmother realized, "I'm ok. I'm not home, but I'm safe".
That morning started a day of decline. We didn't know it at the time, but the day before had been the last good day. We still reminisced, still tried to get her to drink, still made plans for when she could go back home. But, as people came and went that day I watched as they said their goodbyes in their own ways. While a room full of family chatted and carried on, they each took their own moment with her. When her sister hugged her before leaving, I watched them both tear up, and hold each other's hands just a little longer, knowing what letting go meant. I had to look away.
I should tell you my grandmother had heart attacks before this, and being the fighter she was, had survived more times than she should have. That Saturday afternoon when my mom and I walked into her room, happy to see her alive, she lightheartedly-but-not-really made it clear she wasn't as thrilled as we were. She was tired, and she was ready.
My mom and I were supposed to head back to Virginia the next morning, but, after much deliberation, decided that she would stay a little while longer.
I went to the hospital that Monday morning and said goodbye to my grandmother. She was still coherent, still aware of what was going on, and I sat by her bed, held her hand, and said goodbye. I thanked her for being so great, and I let her know it was ok to go. That I knew she was ready. It's crazy to look at a person who is weak, yet coherent and carrying a conversation, and tell them you know they have to go. I got in the car alone thankful for the chance to say goodbye, sad for the days to come, and grateful for the 6 hour drive to process it all. Two days later my grandmother passed away, and my mother got to be with her in those last few days. There are moments in our lives where the tables turn and we find ourselves being the adult to those who have always been the adults.
Since that weekend, I've thought often about that moment at 6:00 AM in a hospital room in West Virginia. There is no feeling quite like having a person you can look to and instantly feel peace, and that's the presence I want to foster in my life. To be a person whose presence helps calms others when everything feels crazy. I'm not great at it, because my motto tends to be "if you panic first, I'll be brave, but if I get to panic first YOU have to be the brave one". I am who I am.
But, as I've navigated the last 4 years, I've thought about the people in my life who I look to when things feel upside down. Who are the people who I see and whisper "This doesn't feel like home right now, but they're here, and I'm ok."
I often struggle with the meaning of life, but narrowing it down to this helps me focus: Am I a safe place for others, and am I willing to let others be a safe place for me? Ultimately, that's what matters as we go through life. By letting others be safe places for us, we normalize vulnerability. By being there for others, we normalize caring deeply about people, in a world that tells us to care only for our own needs.


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Each workshop is fully interactive and children will engage in a mixture of components including some or all of the elements of writing, exploring topics through discussion, problem-solving, creating/making and drawing.
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We build bespoke workshops to tie in with your area of learning. Just tell us the time period or subject and we will build a workshop tailored to your requirements, always focussing in on what was happening right here in Bedford at that time.
- The Henge Builders Of Bedford
- Bedford in the Bronze Age
AD Onwards
- The Romans Rule Bedford
- King Offa - Bedford's Lost King
- The Vikings of Bedford
- The No Nonsense Normans
- Knight's Tournaments, The King's Charter And The Reformation
- Bedford's Witches & 17th Century Superstitions
- Fun, Food & Frivolity in John Bunyan's Bedford
- Bedford Hoists Its Parliamentarian Flag
- Bedford's Industrial Revolution
Modern History
- WW1 - The Friendly Invasion Of Bedford
- WW2 - Bedford's Secrets & Spies
- Bedford And The Brickyards - Our Multi-Cultural Heritage
Across History
- Bedford - A Town Built By Its River
- The Goals, Hangings and Highway Men of Bedford
- The King's Ditch to the High Street - How Bedford Was Built
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Nov 22, 2021
In which ingenious filmmaker Trent Harris stops by to chat about filming in the Utah desert, working with Karen Black and Crispin Glover, and creating movies such as RUBIN & ED (1991), PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE (1995), and ECHO PEOPLE (2021).
Nov 17, 2021
In which we learn from Charlie Ahearn's WILD STYLE (1982) that graffiti is art, Zorro (or Zoro) is real, and every movie should have an old-school hip hop soundtrack. (Warning: contains spoilers and some content may be triggering.)
Nov 1, 2021
In which Kathy McCarty stops by to introduce us to songs from her upcoming solo album Apotheosis, to regale us with old favorites, and to chat about her future plans.