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Hillary Clinton Slammed for Her Characterization of Supreme Court Gun Ruling
Her comments about the high court Heller case trouble 2nd Amendment advocates.
— -- Hillary Clinton's characterization of a landmark gun decision has Second Amendment advocates crying foul.
The topic arose at Wednesday night's presidential debate during a discussion about issues the Supreme Court could tackle during the next administration, including the Second Amendment, which guarantees "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Debate moderator Chris Wallace mentioned the Heller case, which was the high court's 2008 ruling that residents of Washington, D.C., had the constitutional right to bear arms in their own home for self-defense, for instance, which negated a longtime firearm ban in the city.
Wallace also cited a 2015 audio recording of Clinton where she is heard saying "the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment," a reference to the Heller case.
During her remarks Wednesday night, Clinton touted her years spent in Arkansas and representing upstate New York as senator as proof of her support and "respect" for "the tradition of gun ownership," but then tuned to a specific aspect of the Heller decision.
"I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in that case because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns. And so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others," she said.
Protecting children from access to guns inside the home came up as a question in the Supreme Court's discussion of the D.C. law, but the word "child" was mentioned only six times in the 110 pages of transcript of the court's closed-door session, according to a review of the transcript.
Bob Owens, the editor of Second Amendment news site Bearing Arms, said Clinton's description inaccurately reflected the crux of the case.
"It's kind of like saying that 'Fatal Attraction' was about a woman's hatred of rabbits," Owens told ABC News, referencing the film's infamous bunny-boiling moment.
"Yes, that is a tiny part of the overall story, but it completely missed the main point," he said.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment or clarification.
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said Clinton "was wrong" in her description of the Heller decision.
"I think she's trying to confuse voters and distract them from her position, which is that the Supreme Court got it wrong on the Second Amendment," Baker told ABC News.
As the debate unfolded Wednesday night, the NRA released a new TV ad that included the 2015 audio of Clinton's saying, "the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment." The NRA made a $5 million ad buy for the commercial and will play it on national cable and broadcast stations in battleground states through Oct. 31.
The late justice Antonin Scalia held the deciding vote in the Heller case, so the prospect of the next president's being in a position to appoint a replacement who could tip the balance against the Heller decision is a frightening possibility, should Clinton win, the NRA's Baker said.
"If that is overturned, it paves the way for extreme gun control at all levels of government, including gun bans," she added.
For his part, Donald Trump didn't comment on the specifics of the Heller decision at the debate, but rather about Clinton's reported reaction to the ruling.
"Well, the D.C. vs. Heller decision was very strongly -- and she was extremely angry about it. I watched. I mean, she was very, very angry when upheld. And Justice Scalia was so involved," Trump said. "And it was a well-crafted decision. But Hillary was extremely upset, extremely angry."
Owens, of news site Bearing Arms, said Trump's answer made it "hard for me to get a sense of what he knows there."
"He has a pattern of being so general in his responses that it's really difficult to gauge his understanding," Owens added.
The NRA's Baker said she is not concerned about Trump's understanding of the case or what it would mean for legal gun owners.
"He's been the most outspoken unabashed supporter of the Second Amendment that's run for president in decades," she said of Trump.


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This year's Nintendo E3 showcase focused very heavily on one of its hit series – Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The big reveal with this is that all of the fighters that have ever appeared in the game are coming back now. This even includes some of the non-mainstream fighters like Solid Snake. In total there are well over 60 characters. The below video is a bit long, but you will get to see all of the characters, in depth:
Overall, the game includes some differences. Albeit small, but there have been some changes to the character design itself. Not only that, but Nintendo has added some new final smash attacks and even more facial expressions for all the characters. If you've been playing the game for a long time, you're likely to want to reassess your favorite characters because they have changed. The game system itself has gone through some changes as well. Including being penalized for excessive dodging and a new "perfect shield" technique.
What should really be noted about this game is that while it still pulls a lot out of the past games, it's a totally new game. As I said, all of the characters have been reworked – both in terms of how they look and how they play. This is to provide a better fit for the modern game. For example, Link now wears the tunic that he wears in Breath of the Wild, and he can wield remote bombs. Mario also wears Cappy, which is the sentient hat that introduced a ton of new mechanics.
The game itself, however, wasn't an easy build. In fact, Masahiro Sakurai had an extremely bold vision for the game, which was to include every character from the series' history. That meant a lot of work to be able to cover everything, including – negotiating the rights for characters like Mega Man, as well as Metal Gear's Solid Snake. In addition, Sakurai's team put in a lot of work in order to update the graphics in order to get older characters to look more in-line with the new ones. Not only that, but Sakurai wanted to adjust each fighter in an attempt to speed up the game. When he pitched this idea to his team, he was met with gasps, followed by everyone going quiet as they realized what exactly they had to do.
Ultimately, though, the goal was not to just create the most comprehensive version of the characters, but also to create characters that speak to the audience. This is extremely important considering that Super Smash Brothers has an extremely dedicated, and competitive scene. Which means hardcore payers are very cognizant (and vocal)about changes that might seem minor as these can alter a players experience.
That said, this is a big release for Nintendo. It's a best-seller right next to Zelda and Mario Kart. Sakurai is really trying to find a balance, which is why he's stuck with the franchise since it started. It's been a lot of work for Sakurai and his team, but that's just how dedicated he is to his craft, and it certainly shows in this iteration of Super Smash Bros.


text: Sonja Mollenhoff MASSEY Sonja Massey passed away peacefully on April 8th, 2017, in Issaquah, Washington, at age 75, with her family close by. Sonja was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, shortly before Pearl Harbor, to "E.S." and Madelyn Mollenhoff. She attended Punahou School in Honolulu where she was proud of the fact that she was one the few "13's," those who had attended Punahou for 13 years; from kindergarten through graduation from high school. Her "Class of 59" was also the one that welcomed Hawaii into statehood. After graduation, while studying at the University of California, Berkley, she married Tom Conger, a Punahou graduate and Army officer. During her husband's tour in Germany she contributed many hours of volunteer work as well as developing proficiency in the German language. This marriage gave her three children, Julia, born in Germany; Rand, and Jim, born in Honolulu. Later, in Honolulu, and now a single mother of three, Sonja continued to display the drive, dedication, and loving devotion to her children and others, that played a major role throughout her life. Working in the real estate field she obtained real estate licenses, as well as securities and brokerage licenses that would serve her in her ultimate field of helping people as a Certified Financial Planner. In 1977, Sonja met Cdr. Scott Massey, a naval officer recently transferred to Pearl Harbor; they were married in 1978 in Honolulu. Scott brought three children into the family, Andrea, Richard and Christopher. So true to Sonja's character, she welcomed these three; lovingly, unequivocably, and completely into her family. During their time on Oahu Sonja, Scott, and sometimes recalcitrant children would spend many weekends big-game fishing offshore. This time was highlighted by Sonja's landing a 500 pound blue marlin. Sonja, Scott, and family moved to central Washington in 1982, residing Cashmere; later moving to Fall City, Washington in 1989. She worked as a Certified Financial Planner for over a decade. She was active in the local community, serving six years on the board of the Snoqualmie Valley Senior Center, and served as chairman for their annual plant sale. Sonja loved children, and was always anxious to visit a local school, whether it be in Fall City, South Africa, or Vietnam. One who loved to travel, after she retired in 2006, she and Scott took advantage of many opportunities; traveling throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, as well as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Myanmar, and exotic Borneo. Sonja and Scott were blessed with many grandchildren; Sydney and CJ Evans, Sam and Maile Conger, Finn Conger, CC and Desi Shaw, and Diego and Julieta Massey. Their Fall City home served as a home base for the extended family, with many summers and holiday seasons filled with the sounds of laughter and happy, energetic grandchildren. Sonja was blessed with a warm, loving, personality; she was naturally beautiful, in body, smile and soul. She is remembered as an incredibly inclusive person, with openness and sincerity. She wanted to include everyone, embracing, yet not dominating. An inveterate hostess, as well as an accomplished amateur chef; she would turn out spectacular meals, with seemingly effortless ease. She was loved by those who met her and will be missed by all. Sonja is survived by her husband Scott; children Julia Lee Evans of San Antonio, Texas; Andrea Shaw of Woodside, California; Rand Conger of Seattle, Washington; Richard Massey of Los Angeles, California; Jim Conger of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, and Christopher Massey of London, England, and siblings Karen White of San Antonio, Texas; Jim Mollenhoff of Dallas, Texas; and Molly Light of Rio Medina, Texas. She is predeceased by her parents, "E.S." and Madelyn Mollenhoff. The family would like to thank all of those at the Swedish Cancer Center, Issaquah Campus who cared for her in her final illness. Their warmth and caring through a difficult struggle was greatly appreciated. Sonja will be inurned in the National Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawaii) in a private ceremony. In lieu of flowers or other gifts of remembrance, please consider a donation in her name to a charity of your choice; the American Cancer Society; or the Snoqualmie Valley Senior Center (www.snovalleysenior.org). SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE VIA EMAIL Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased ADVERTISEMENT Explore more Try a 14-day Free Trial today with Ancestry® Save 40%* or more on AncestryDNA® offers Your family story in richer detail: AncestryDNA® + Family Tree Package Sponsored by Ancestry


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So far over the summer we've been thinking about building.
- We've seen how really it's Jesus who builds his church – our part is to join in.
- We've thought about how we need to inspect our lives to work out where we need a repair job.
- We've thought about making sure Jesus is at the centre when we rebuild.
- We've seen how we need to build with the Word and the Spirit together.
- And last week we thought about the way the same God, the same Spirit, works differently in all of us.
If we compare all this to building a house, we've found the plot, we've drawn up the plans, we've got permission, we've found a builder, we're ready to go.
But what does it cost?
What does it cost to follow Jesus?
At the start of our reading Luke tells us Jesus was hugely popular. Large crowds were travelling with him (25) – crowds that grew and grew until he reached Jerusalem for the last time.
The thing is, though, it's easy to listen, but hard to do. It's easy to hear Jesus' words, but hard to change our lives as a result.
We know, don't we, that a large part of commitment is effort. If I buy my wife some flowers or some chocolates, that's lovely. But if I only ever buy her service station flowers on my way home from work because it's convenient… the gift is cheapened because of my lack of effort.
It's like that with following Jesus. The crowds – literally – followed Jesus. But were they disciples? No. Why? Because the cost was too great.
Love or Hate?
Jesus said:
'If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple.'
Luke 14.26 (NIV)
Now, I don't want to let us off the hook too easily, but Jesus is exaggerating here. Of course he isn't commanding us to hate other people, still less our own families.
No – what he means is that our love for him must be so much greater than our love for others – even our own family – that is seems in comparison like hatred.
My favourite vegetable is the humble carrot. I particularly like them roasted.
My favourite meal is probably pizza. I say 'probably'… of course it's pizza.
If I'm hungry and I have the choice between eating carrots and eating a pizza – which am I going to choose? Pizza. Every time.
It's as if I hate carrots because I will always choose pizza over carrots.
Except I don't, I love carrots – I just love pizza so much more.
That's a silly example – but friends, the truth is, that is how we must love Jesus if we want to be his disciples.
I'm sure most of you will have heard, and maybe even used, the little phrase, 'We all have our cross to bear.' When we say that we're talking about our everyday struggles: they're different for each of us, but we all have them.
That is almost the opposite of what Jesus means here.
The crowds listening to Jesus would not have made our mistake. When they saw a person carrying their cross it meant that person's life was about to end; they were about to be executed on the very cross they were carrying.
So to be ready to 'carry our cross' doesn't mean to put up with our daily troubles. No. It means being ready to give up everything for Jesus. Friends. Family. Money. Home. Security. Everything.
In some countries that is the danger Christians actually face, daily. Here persecution takes a more subtle and less life-threatening form, but it is no more real. It's the undermining of faith, keeping our mouth shut because we're embarrassed to admit we go to church, compromising Jesus' teachings to fit in with those around us, watering down what it means to be a Christian so it's easy for anyone to join in.
That's not what Jesus did. He was totally uncompromising.
'In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.'
Luke 14.33 (NIV)
It may feel like Jesus is being a prima donna, demanding far more than he has a right to. I mean it's pretty bold. If I demanded you hand over your house keys and bank details I suspect you'd say no.
But Jesus is no tinpot despot – he is the Lord of Life. He alone is the way to the Father. If he is the only way, how can it be wrong for him to tell us to abandon all other ways and follow him? If his is the only safe way, is it not love to tell us to follow only him?
Friends, this is a hard teaching. It's hard because we don't want to hear it. There's part of us that doesn't want to put Jesus first: that is called sin. In this life it will always be a struggle, a fight.
But it is one we will win, because he already has.
And that's why this is called the gospel – the good news. And it doesn't depend on us. It depends on him. Jesus has already given up everything he had – twice! First he left his Father's side, he laid aside his majesty and glory and power to live on earth among us, as one of us; then he love us more than his own family, then he carried his cross, then he gave up even the life he had left. For you. So you can live.
He did that for you – this is how he calls us to respond.
Will you hear what Jesus says?
How will you respond to such love?


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It has happened again. As many of our faithful partners have written and told us, yesterday's video content was censored and removed by YouTube. We uploaded the video three different times. With each attempt we made slight changes to look like a different video, even eliminating some of the more sensitive information. But still it was taken down all three times. This is not only about freedom of speech violations, this is life and death information being withheld from God's people.
After five years of successful video releases through YouTube, the gospel of Jesus and relevant "Truth" is being assaulted. Yesterday's most recent attack reminds us again that lines have been drawn. We live in perilous days. Our burden to speak the truth to the body of Christ and all who will listen couldn't be more urgent! Can you help us?
Help us inform and prepare God's people for what lies ahead. The spirit of Antichrist is growing stronger… the Church can no longer remain silent. The Church must wake up, grow stronger and be wise as serpents, yet as harmless as doves, just as Jesus instructed.
In an effort to equip believers for what is coming in the days ahead, we are committing to bring you more teaching like this information. But we need prayer and financial support to bring in some technical help. Your donations can help us get the needed equipment and personnel to fight back and 'up the ante' to preaching last day's messages about what God would want us to know and about what Jesus would do.
This attack against our freedoms has reminded us it is past time to pick a side. There are two sides….right or wrong, God or Satan. Are you now seeing that Truth is being suppressed at an alarming rate?
The devil and his conspirators are waging war. They are targeting your mind and what you believe is true. The fake media in America and beyond is an enemy of the people. Satan is fighting for your beliefs and your allegiance to be swayed away from righteousness. Let us face this battle together, head-on. Help us continue bringing you relevant, new and powerful video content, even if banned on YouTube.
Some of our partners are suggesting that we attempt to set up on a different platform that will allow our content without censorship–which we are now attempting to do. Keep praying for this ministry. With your continued prayers and financial support we'll try to get END TIME DELUSIONS to you later today, Lord willing.
Intercessors keep praying. The left speaks loudly and angrily and could hardly be more ungodly. In response, we are not backing down from the fight. If so many can say anything against America and our president without censorship, so should we be able to speak up for Jesus the Messiah, teach about God and His word, and share truths that bring freedom and strength in righteousness.
The spirit of Antichrist is growing stronger and becoming bolder. As followers of Jesus we must stand against it and become bold for truth and our faith. "Greater is He (our Lord Jesus Christ) Who is in us, than he (Satan) who is in the world!"


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When Nikken introduced Bergisterol a handful of years ago they recommended (and still do) that you take twice the daily amount for the first month you take it then drop back to the regular daily amount. This is called "loading".
Loading is a common practice with medications, and since I don't have much experience with medicine I had never heard the term before.
What is "Loading" About?
When a doctor prescribes a medication for a particular purpose they want you to maintain a certain concentration of the active ingredients in your system. This can also apply to nutritional supplements. When you eat or drink an amount of food, water, medicine or whatever, a percentage of that will be eliminated from your body through the course of the day.
To achieve that, they will have you take more of it at first to build up to that concentration then back off the dosage to just match the amount that your body eliminates between doses to maintain the concentration.
For example, let's say that you want to have a concentration of 50 mg of an active ingredient in your body and your body will eliminate 10 mg of it every day. You might take 15 mg of it each day to start off. On the first day you have 15 mg and your body will eliminated 10 mg. On the second day you still have 5 mg and your 15 mg dose brings you up to 20 mg. On day three you have 10 mg in your body and your next 15 mg brings you up to 25 mg. Each day the loading dosage brings you 5 mg closer to the target concentration.
Finally on day 8 you start off with 35 mg in your body and when you take your loading dose of 15 mg you reach the target of 50 mg. Now on the ninth day and each day thereafter you only take a maintenance dosage of 10mg to replace what was lost over the course of the previous day to maintain the 50 mg.
Why Do Loading?
There may be a variety of reasons to take a loading approach to gradually build up the concentration. It may just be too much to take in through your diet in one day or too much for your body to process in one dose. Any thing that you take orally has to go through your digestive system and that may limit how much can get into your bloodstream at one time.
Another reason is to give your body some time to adapt to the higher concentration of the active ingredient. Your body may have to work up to using it just like it would have to work up to being able to run a marathon or climb Mount Everest.
In the case of Bergisterol, I don't know for certain but I believe the latter is the reason for loading. You take 2 ounces a day for the first month you use Bergisterol to very gradually build up the concentration of the active ingredients in your blood. During that time your body is getting used to the ingredients being more readily available for use and putting them to that use. From the second month on, you are maintaining that concentration and your body knows what you do with it to help maintain your cardiovascular health.
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The data privacy era posed new challenges to businesses around the world. For example, territory-specific data laws were introduced such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was enforced in May 2018. Since then, EU officials have issued at least one fine in each member state, with the highest penalty of €50 million given to French Google.
Not so long after, Californian law enforcement introduced California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2019 with a goal to replicate the key GDPR requirements and increase the safety of personal data that Californians share with multiple companies. California is known for its marvelous Silicon Valley where all greatest platform titans such as Google and Facebook reside. These companies are the pioneers of mass personal data use. Therefore, it doesn't come as a surprise that Californian jurisdiction decided to regulate how these companies, and others that fall under the CCPA requirements, process the data of millions of consumers.
Moreover, they thought that they weren't strict enough, and enacted California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This act amends CCPA clauses in a significant way and adds new ones, bringing Californian privacy rules one step closer to the GDPR ones. Brazil has also recognized the value that GDRP brought to the global privacy table and created their LGDP.
These names are being tossed around frequently these days, increasing the popularity of consumer rights. In this way, they may lead to the wrong conclusion that data privacy is a recent topic. Besides country-based data privacy laws there are industry-specific ones too! This means that some industries carry a larger privacy burden than others, and thus need to be more controlled. Higher control is exactly what draws more data attention to certain industries from the get-go.
Their job is not done by complying with one relevant regulation. Instead, they are expected to comply with all business-related data laws to avoid any possible fines.
However, those industries have the highest responsibility in safeguarding customer data because they collect the largest amount of it. Having millions of data entries at their disposal makes them an attractive target to hackers who want to benefit from this precious commodity.
But what are those industry-specific data privacy compliance rules and on which industries do data privacy regulations have the strongest impact? Let's find out!
1. Data-based businesses
You may have heard about Cambridge Analytica, the data scandal of the century. Since that massive data breach, the public has shifted its focus on the way social media companies handle customer data. We hall all been aware of the fact that Facebook collects our information, but we didn't know how big the damage for data mishandling could be. One of the main tasks of the GDPR force was to tackle issues like this and prevent any future data breach in this area. CCPA and CPRA followed its lead and mandated rigorous rules for social media companies that collect data for marketing purposes.
First, they limited the use of both authorised and third-party data by introducing the following rules:
- Consent-based data sharing and data selling
- The right to opt-out from any data permission
- Customer's request to delete their whole history
- Obligation to deliver customer data in an easily downloadable format
- Data breach notification period of 72 hours since the breach was detected
- Use of plain language is required, meaning there is no more space for complex marketing and legal jargon
However, social media companies are not the only ones seen as third-party data suppliers. Numerous data agencies collect and sell millions of consumer data sets every day. While the GDPR and LGDP don't offer a specific rule related to this industry, CCPA is clear about the requirement that all for-profit organizations who operate with 50K+ consumer data entries and record more than $25 million annual revenue must follow its rules. CPRA expands the CCPA's requirequiregive consent and opt-out from data selling as well. Numerous cloud-computing and remote service providers are in the data business too. Even though they may not collect the data, they transmit it, which is why they are required to comply with the data laws too. They are bound by the strict regulations, but not responsible for a data misuse of their customers. However, they must emphasize that in their compliance.
Now, you can go and comply with each policy or just buy the latest customer support software to do that for you!
2. Educational institutions
If you are in the education industry in the EU, you need to check out the GDPR requirements. However, if you are an educational institution in California, you will not only have to scan the CCPA, but also an industry-specific data law called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)! This law has been in the game for so long! The U.S. federal government enacted it in early 1974 with a goal to protect student files.
The education industry has been known to collect an incredible amount of student data, which can include:
- Educational information: This data category includes all information pertaining to student grades, classes, selected courses and graduation year.
- Personal identifiable information (PII): PII is any student's information related to their data as an individual and citizen, such as their Social Security number.
- Directory information: This kind of data includes information on a student's name, home address, or phone numb. It also includes theirir ID number, which can be used to gain access to a student record.
If student data gets into the wrong hands, the damage for the first type of data won't be huge. However, the data breach of the other two types can be massive! Thus, FERPA declares that student data can't be disclosed without a studentor guardian (in case that student is underaged) consent. When planning to disclose directory information, an institution must send a two day notice to ask for consent. The notice must clearly explain the reasons for disclosure or it will be found illegitimate.
But do all educational institutions fall under the FERPA law? The answer is no. Only the ones that are federally funded, or part of part of programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education.
3. Online financial services
The financial industry is seeing the highest increase in reported data breaches so far! Over the last 5 years it recorded an increase of 67% according to the Annual Cost Of Cybercrime Study. You may assume that the reason is that hackers love the money, right? There was an increase in online financial opportunities as well! To protect the most valuable consumer data (their identification numbers and financial assets), GDPR, CCPA, and LGDP enacted a set of security protocols that the financial industry needs to follow. Those protocols are related to the use of modern tools, such as customer support software, that enable higher data safety but also give consumers more control over tfinancialacial data. Now every customer needs to be educated on the use of financial tools to enjoy easy access to their data and money. The U.S. federal legislation has been protecting consumers' financial data for two decades now.
They imposed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, at the end of the last millennium, in an effort to improve finance in the next one! And they are clearly doing a good job as the GLBA is still the active data privacy law for the financial industry!
The asset and wealth management businesses are deeply affected too as the aforementioned laws greatly influence their data privacy and security policies! The handling of client information through third-party vendors is not the same anymore! Now there needs to be a strict classification between data controller and data processor as well as to employ additional technology that guarantees consumer rights!
4. Medical and healthcare
After financial privacy data, the healthcare industry's data is the second biggest danger! Healthcare organisations process millions of patient records that consist of extremely sensitive information such as their social security and payment numbers. With the shift to the digital age and the emergence of electronic records, the demand for more secure data in the healthcare industry has only been higher. Everyone can now enjoy the benefits of online healthcare, but providers have been put to the test to protect patients' electronic health records or EHRs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized the struggles that thehealthcaree institutions were facing and made a goal to improve the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 by adding a HIPAA privacy rule. HIPAA's role is to limit access to the EHRs, guarantee patient rights, define its electronic use, and propose procedures and measures for safeguarding patient data. However, GDPR goes a step further with a bit stricter approach.Itt broadened data privacy by demanding the protection of digital data such as IP addresses, photos and payment details.
5. Utility sector
Utility sector is seriously affected by data privacy laws too! Utility companies have switched to the use of multiple automation tools that facilitate both production and distribution. They also made the collection of customer data easier by turning all data into a digital footprint. For utilities, data is not only necessary to perform common services such as payment or calculation of monthly electricity use, but also to control the performance of their massive grids, such as managing outages and system maintenance. The utilities sectors in Brazil, EU, and California are now known for their novel privacy laws. However, Californian utilities companies need to comply with the RCW 19.29A and other relevant Washington regulations related to the collection, disclosure, and safety of customer PII.


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Sustainability is increasingly becoming a significant part of strategic asset management worldwide. Road agencies are providing guidelines to assess the relative sustainability of road projects. Unfortunately, environmental features of a road project are still considered as stand-alone evaluations, an added value. Very little has been done to integrate environmental impacts as a part of pavement management systems and other decision support tools to choose between different strategies. In this way, being awarded with a "green" certificate for a specific road project could result in the belief that recognition would correspond to the optimal strategy. Furthermore, a road project awarded with a "green" rating during the construction phase does not mean that the project results "green" if a life cycle approach is considered. Indeed, the most environmental friendly strategies may not be the ones with the highest performance. Using "greener" materials or performing recycle-related practices may lead to a lower performance over the life cycle and therefore produce an increase in maintenance needed, which could in turn result into more congestion due to work zones and higher total emissions. Therefore, construction and maintenance strategies should be analyzed according to three main parameters: cost, performance or effectiveness, and environmental impacts.
The cost analysis part takes into account outflows over the service life of the pavement according to the well-known Life Cycle Cost Analysis methodology. The cheapest maintenance technique over the analysis period was expounded and sensitivity analyses to involved factors were conducted. Performance assessment was developed according to experimental on site data gathered and analyzed over several years to develop deterioration pavement models. Effectiveness of maintenance treatments is further provided and compared to the volume of traffic. In addition, environmental impacts related to maintenance and rehabilitation strategies were analyzed. Emissions were computed over the life cycle of the pavement from the manufacture of raw materials for the initial construction, placement, and maintenance phase. Finally, an optimization procedure was developed for including environmental impacts into a Pavement Management System. A methodology to set a multi-attribute approach system, computing costs, performance, and eco-efficiency over the life cycle of the pavement, is therefore proposed.


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Bruno Mars (born October 8, 1985, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) was an American singer and songwriter who was recognized for his catchy pop songs and his dynamic live performances. His music generally had cheerful lyrics, combined numerous genres, and had a vintage flavor.
Early life of Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars was born and raised in the Hawaiian city of Honolulu. His parents are of Filipino and Puerto Rican ancestry. As a kid, he was given the moniker 'Bruno,' after the wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars was the youngest of six children in a musical household. As a result, he was exposed to various musical influences, including Elvis Presley, The Isley Brothers, and Michael Jackson.
He had a cameo appearance in Honeymoon in Vegas, starring James Caan and Nicolas Cage, in 1992. After graduating from President Theodore Roosevelt High School, he traveled to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career.
Career of Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars started After graduating songs for musicians including Alexandra Burke, Brandy, and Sean Kingston. He also composed "Right Round" by Flo Rida and "Get Sexy" by the Sugababes. B.o.'Nothin' B's on You' and Travis McCoy's 'Billionaire' were both top 10 singles worldwide, and he co-wrote both. Mars capitalized on his songwriting success by releasing his first solo EP, 'It's Better If You Don't Understand,' which included the hit 'The Other Side,' featuring B.o.B and Cee Lo Green on vocals.
Bruno Mars performed 'Airplanes' alongside B.o.B and Hayley Williams of Paramore at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars' debut album, was released in October 2010. 'Just the Way You Are,' the first single, charted successfully in the United States.
The song 'Liquor Store Blues' includes Damian Marley. Mars announced a tour with Maroon 5 and dates with Travie McCoy after the album's release. Mars' album Unorthodox Jukebox was published in 2012 to favorable reviews.
Family of Bruno Mars
Mars's brother, Eric Hernandez, has always been the drummer for his backing band, The Hooligans. The Lylas are an all-girl singing group made up of their sisters Tiara, Tahiti, Presley, and their cousin Jamie. Jamie had to move in with her siblings due to parental issues when she was young. Mars began dating the model Jessica Caban in 2011. As of 2019, the two are still together, living in a house in the Hollywood Hills with a Rottweiler called Geronimo.
His mother was of Filipino and Spanish descent and came from the Philippines to Hawaii as a youngster. His father is originally from Brooklyn, New York, and is half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish (from Ukraine and Hungary).
When Mars returned from an international engagement in May 2013, he discovered his mother was dangerously sick in the Los Angeles airport. He boarded a jet to Hawaii right away. The next day, his mother passed away. An Atlantic Records representative confirmed to the Associated Press on June 2, 2013, that Mars' mother had suffered a brain aneurysm. A 55-year-old woman from Honolulu, Hawaii, passed away on June 1, 2013, at Queens Medical Center.
Net worth of Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars ranks among the most successful artists of all time. Because he had already made $51.5 million for the year, the singer was rated number 54 on Forbes' Celebrity 100 List in July 2019. Bruno Mars' net worth is believed to be $175 million.
Physical Appearance of Bruno Mars
Weight | 67 Kg in Pound |
Body Measurements | 32-26-32 |
Hair Color | Dark Brown |
Eye Color | Black |


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"Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld": A centennial survey of scholarship, artifacts, and translations
- Author(s):
- Boban Dedovic (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Ancient Near East, Religious Studies, Women in Antiquity
- Subject(s):
- Middle East, History, Ancient, Death in literature, Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian, Mythology, Sumerian language, Surveys
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Senior Seminar, Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian mythology, Survey
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/r4pn-ck45
- Abstract:
- An ancient Sumerian proverb may be read as "good fortune [is embedded in] organisation and wisdom." The present centennial survey is solely about organizing the last one hundred years of scholarship for a Sumerian afterlife myth named "Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld." The initial discovery of artifacts with snippets of the myth can be dated to as early as 1889. English translations of the myth emerged around 1920 and were followed by numerous archaeological expeditions and subsequent translation efforts. Such efforts, by many scholars and institutions, resulted in an authoritative 2001 version of the myth published by the University of Oxford via the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL). The 2001 version, titled "Inana's descent to the nether world" is 412 lines long and utilizes over fifty cuneiform artifacts (sources). The impact of this work has been mainstream and interdisciplinary interest in Inanna, the myth, and her role in antiquity. However, the technical nature of studying ancient Sumer may alienate a broader audience. The survey contained herein attempts to organize and explain the key people, concepts, events, and institutions involved with the discovery of "Inanna's Descent." Non-technical readers can expect to learn how and why we arrived at the likely complete translation we have today. Light background information and a chronology of scholarly work are followed by a brief discussion on promising areas of further research. The appendix contains a comprehensive catalog of referenced artifact data.
- Notes:
- For Huey; DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8941445; Location: College Park, MD; Other: © 2019 Boban Dedović; Organization: University of Maryland (College Park); Publication Date: May 22, 2019.
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I really like animals. There are moments when I like animals more than people. I like all animals, mine, yours, the neighbors down the street and the ones I see when I'm out taking a walk. I like the animals at the sanctuaries, at the zoos, in the circus and on the stage.
But that doesn't mean I want to actually own them all. For example, while I have a respect and appreciation for snakes, I do not want one in my house. I enjoy watching the birds around here, taking photos of them, listening to their pretty songs when I'm walking around, but I don't want to put one in a cage in my house. The little lizards in the courtyard feel sort of like pets in a very remote sort of way. I don't have to feed them or take them to the vet, but I like that they are there. I think there are some critters that just feel more pet-like. Cats and dogs of course. Growing up we always had an assortment of both. We do not currently own a pet and it feels odd to not have that furry little face greeting me at the door when I walk in. When I lived on the farm there were cows, chicken, geese, sheep and horses. After awhile, we begin to know each other's personalities, their likes and dislikes, their quirks and charms. Although on the farm it was never wise to get too close to any varmint that was destined to show up on the dinner table. I admire that majesty of the Big Cats, the enormous wisdom and gentleness of the elephants and the silliness of otters whenever we have been to a place where they are kept. But I wouldn't want to own any of these gorgeous creatures. I'm glad they exist and I am delighted that I was fortunate to see them close up, but I'm always ambivalent about zoos of any sort. I enjoy seeing the animals and then I feel guilty because I'm free to walk about and they are held to a confined area regardless of how nicely created that area is. And now I'm going to prove myself to be a big fat liar because earlier I said that I love all animals. That's not true. I don't like monkeys. I just don't. I don't wish them any harm but I also do not care to visit them. I cannot even begin to tell you why because I don't know why. But no. There used to be a television show a very long time ago about a family that had a chimpanzee as a pet that was really more of a family member. Gave me the creeps. There were a series of episodes on the TV show, Friends, that featured a little monkey, Marcel. Every time it was a Marcel episode I had the heebie-jeebies and changed the channel. I had to. The wonderful Jane Goodall and her apes? I admire her work tremendously but I don't care to watch it. Coco the gorilla who could communicate through sign language? What an amazing feat for both Coco and her trainer! Communicating directly with another species, not guessing, but actually having dialogues impressed the socks off of me. Still, no. Can't go there. It makes no sense at all and I've long since stopped trying to figure it out. I don't have to understand it to accept it as truth. Weird, I'm good with snakes, okay with bats except when they surprise me...boo!, mice are cute, and as far as I'm concerned, fish are just fine but keep those monkeys away from me. Unless it's The Monkees and then it's okay. I know all the words to all of the songs. So for those of you keeping score it's Monkees, yes and Monkeys, no. Leave a Reply. |
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Last week I shared that I was going to spend this year working on creating some new healthy habits.
I had gotten really relaxed in all of the following areas of my life, and I really do believe it has impacted my overall health and wellness in negative ways.
I also believe that one of the best ways to make sure that I keep up with these, is to have some accountability. So, I am hoping you will be that for me.
There are 9 Healthy Habits that I am intentionally working to create this year, that I know will benefit my overall wellness.
Each week I will share how I am doing with them, along with what's working and what is not.
Overall, I feel like I am doing just okay with these new habits. Some of them have been really easy for me, like drinking water and reading, but others have been more challenging.
I have not had any trouble drinking all of my water each day.
However I am finding myself running to the bathroom all.day.long. Because of this, I try to get my gallon of water empty by 5 pm so I am not up all night long too.
My friend who has been doing this for a couple years now, assures me that eventually my body will adjust to having more water in it, and I won't have to get used to being in the bathroom all the time.
Healthy Habits Tip: I fill my gallon jug each night before bed, so it is ready and waiting for me in the morning. I pour from the jug into a glass all day, until my jug is empty. Then I refill it for the next day.
This one has been more challenging for me.
Mostly I think it is because I have not chosen a specific time of day for it yet, and I am just trying to fit it in whenever I can.
Unfortunately, this means some nights I go to bed, realizing that I have not made time for it at all.
On nicer days, I also plan to get outside an walk for 30 minutes. I was able to do this once last week, and it was so nice to get out of the house and soak up some sun too.
Healthy Habits Tip: I am going to choose to do my 30 minute stretch video just before bed for now. I will see how it goes this week and adjust it next week, if I see I am still not keeping it up.
I am going a great job with this one. Of course sleeping is one of my favorite things.
Thankfully last week was still basically vacation time for us over here. That means I could sleep in a little later than normal if I needed to, in order to get my full 8 hours of sleep each night.
Healthy Habits Tip: If I am going to get 8 hours of sleep and still be up by 6 am, I need to be in bed with the lights out by 10 pm.
I have managed to plug my phone in and not take it to bed with me every single night. I'm actually really enjoying this one.
Healthy Habits Tip: I am using this time to read instead. So I bought an inexpensive book light off Amazon that works really well and is rechargeable.
My plan was to eliminate sugar from my diet and so far so good.
The only day that I indulged was when I made some banana pancakes (literally a smashed banana, mixed with a scrambled egg, and then fried like a pancake in butter. Topped with cinnamon and pecans). I also had some strawberries and raspberries. So technically sugar, but also fruit – so good for me!
The heartburn and headaches I was dealing with for the last two weeks have already disappeared!
Oh! And the scale says I am down 6 pounds, which is a nice bonus too!
Healthy Habits Tip: Menu planning is going to be a critical thing if I plan to keep this up. I need to make it simple, so I don't have to even think about what I am going to eat each day.
I've been doing this mostly at night as I am waiting to fall asleep. It is not nearly as "intentional" as I had meant to make it.
Healthy Habits Tip: I am going to take the first moments in the morning for this. I usually use that time to scroll Facebook or Instagram, but I am going to start the day with prayer and my gratitude journal instead.
I am the most disappointed by this one.
I was excited to get back to doing this daily. I bought a beautiful journal to keep track of each day…and I have officially done it one day and then forgot all about it.
I thought it would be the easiest one. I used to do it regularly. I tell others how important it is. But I have fallen out of the habit of doing it myself, which makes me feel a bit like a hypocrite.
Healthy Habits Tip: I am adding this daily practice to my morning prayer time, instead of waiting until the end of the day, to write down the things I am grateful for, from that day.
Skin Care
I started the first day off great! Washed my face and put my special cream on at night, before getting into bed.
And then completely forgot to to it again. In fact I completely forgot this was one of the habits I was working on, until I sat down to write this accountability post.
Healthy Habits Tip: I really don't have anything to add.
I am absolutely loving this!
I've always loved reading, but lately it seems I was only reading things that were educational, spiritual or self-help type things. I could not even remember the last time I read anything just for the fun of it.
I went to the library and grabbed a couple books. I also used my library card to access the Libby app, where you can get all kinds of free audio books to listen to while doing menial tasks like laundry of dishes or waiting in the car.
Healthy Habits Tip: Get a library card and take advantage of tall of the books available FREE!
Overall I am happy with the progress that I am making. I am reminding myself that this is indeed a process that will require some work. It will be harder at first, as I am establishing these new healthy habits, but it will get easier as they actually do become habits.
After writing all of this down, I can see where I need to make sure to place my focus this week.
I am determined to not overlook my intentional payer and gratitude time and skin care this week, since those seem to be the things I keep overlooking the most.
I really do appreciate you, and knowing that I can count on you to keep me accountable as I work hard to make these healthy habits something that just comes naturally.
If you are working on creating some new healthy habits too, make sure to grab this free printable Healthy Habits Tracker.


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Send SMS with ActiveCampaign
With ClickSend SMS app, you can now send automated SMS from ActiveCampaign when a trigger takes place.
This article will guide you through steps on how to connect your account and send SMS.
- On your ActiveCampaign dashboard, create an Automation
- Once you enter the flow builder, you will be required to select a trigger. Add a trigger and click 'Continue' to proceed.
- To add Send SMS action, look for CX Apps and select 'Send SMS using ClickSend'
- You will be then required to enter your ClickSend account credentials.- 'username' is the username you use in ClickSend
- 'api_key' is the API key found in the ClickSend dashboard: https://dashboard.clicksend.com/#/account/subaccount - After connecting, compose your SMS.During composing of SMS, you can choose which dedicated number to use as a From. You can leave it blank to automatically use the free shared numbers. The dropdown supports a hundred of numbers.Business name & My Mobile number are not yet supported as a Sender Number/From.You can also add strings on your message like
Contact our chat support team to discuss setting these up as a forced sender ID on your account.%firstName%
to personalise them. These strings are being populated with the contact information within ActiveCampaign. - When you are done, click Finish and it will save your automation automatically.
Be sure you have toggled your automation in 'Active' on the top right corner of the platform so it would run every time the trigger takes place.
So that's it, you can now send automated SMS from ActiveCampaign when triggers take place.
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"Those who complain the most about public education... rarely do anything about it." Anonymous
I passed my State Board Exam for physical therapy 4 years ago and work for a rural subacute hospital in physical therapy working mostly with hip and knee patients. I taught reading at the 6th 7th and 8th grade level for 8 years from 2005-2012. For the 2009-2010 school year I was selected as the teacher of the year for my school. I was extremely honored. There were many deserving talented dedicated teachers at my school who were much deserving and to be considered among them was indeed an honor.
I am still the proud coach of a middle school chess team that, for the first time in school history, won the county chess championship (out of 23 middle schools including 10 academy schools) in 2009. The next year 2010, we did it again, going undefeated in the four monthly team tournaments. In 2011, the team posted three perfect 16-0 tournaments out of the four (This has never been done in any division since Polk Scholastic Chess began in 1989) and defended the county title for a second straight year. The team went on to defend the title for a third straight time (2012) making it 4 years in a row as County Chess Champions. Update 2013/2014: CLMS took the County Championship for the 5th time in 6 years. Update 2014/2015: CLMS took 2nd with players finishing 2, 4,6,7,10,14,15,16 out of 180 players from 24 schools this year. Update 2015/2016: CLMS took 3rd and 2016/2017 we took 2nd again missing first place for the season by a point. Update 2017/2018 season we took 2nd again missing 1st place by a point after leading by a few points the whole year. Update 2018/2019 we had to rebuild after many of our top players graduated but we still took 3rd among 20 teams for the year. That makes it 10 years in a row that our school has finished at least 3rd place. Many of these students come from at risk backgrounds (nearly 79% poverty rate/over 80% single parent homes) and deserve a lot of credit beating the "rich" kids. I am so proud of them.
A side from chess, I'm into mountain biking, raquetball, coin collecting, NBA, NFL and college football, weight lifting and being with my lovely wife and family.
My beautiful wife (photo of her and my family at bottom of activity page) is a heart and lung patient (and miracle, was given 1-3 years to live almost 7 years ago) and is always a light in my life. My wife has converted from a 24/7 mobile pump and I.V. (through a surgically placed port in upper chest) to an inhaler version way to take her medicine. Her quality of life has improved greatly because of it. Update May 2011: we went back to the Mayo Clinic to have tests run on my wife. Her numbers have improved meaning that the new medicine is working. Update Feb 2012: Medicine (Tryveso) still is producing good numbers . Update March 2012: Joy, accompanied by her doctor sister and brother in law, visited the Philippines/her grandmother successfully. I believe to my absolute core of my being that God is healing her.
I have to tell somebody...
I am also the proud son of a WWII Veteran: William E. M. 1925-1997 (USNavy 1944-1947). He was the hardest working man I have ever known. He taught me how to be a man, a loving husband, father and was a good Christian role model. Miss you dad.
My style would probably range from calculated aggressive to outright miscalculated blunder. I competed in my first rated tournys February and again in March and April (2009). All three were game 30s... ugh! On April 24th 2009.. I placed second in my city's game/25 championship. During July 17-19 of 2009 I tied for first in the United States Class Championships for class "C". January (2010), two of my students and myself competed in the Central Florida Class Championships where one of my students won the under 1200 section "E" out of 23 players going 5-0... way to go! I placed 5th (31/2 pts) in the Under 1600 Class "C" Section out of 20. This past January 2011, members of the team participated in the Florida Class championships. They all did well including one player just missing 1st place in the under 1200 section losing in the last round BD #1) and another player winning with literally one second left on his clock. His opponent had over 40 minutes left on his clock. March 26, 2011 Update: In the Polk Scholastic County Chess Championships, my student players took 1st 2nd 4th and 5th all county out of almost a 100 that qualified for the middle school championship. In 2012, a 9th grade student D'... (also made the varsity football team as a freshmen) who I coach won the County high School Chess Championship out over a 100 that qualified. 2013: Another highschool student, Trevorn... also won the County High School Chess Championship. Recently my tournament chess has suffered with my USCF rating plunging to 1467 although at the 2012 Southern open I tied for 3rd going 4/5 with no losses in the under 1500 sec. 2018 Update: Finished 2nd in my city's chess championship... again. Cant seem to win it all. 2019 update: Finished tied for 2nd in the Under 1600 section at a recent annual tournament but did not make the playoffs this year in the city championship cycle winning only once in group play. My favorite players are Fischer and Morphy.
I believe you should love people and not be so quick to judge. This song more than presents that truth.


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The attached video clearly displays the mindset of so many of our "LAW ENFORCEMENT" Officers today (what ever happened to the term "Peace Officer"?). If you have any doubts as to the massive erosion of the power of We The People in the eyes of those who we pay to protect and serve us … read on.
This is not a new video nor is it an isolated incident. The reason I am posting this commentary and video is not so much due to this particular scenario (video), although it does represent a blatant disrespect of guaranteed rights, the reason I am posting this is because of the phrase spoken by the police Sargent first on the scene.
"You Must Be Doing Something Wrong if You Need to Invoke Your Rights"
So it would seem we now live in a country where invoking your constitutional rights is a sign of deception or guilt … This is not a guess but by the very fact he clearly states this, a mindset ingrained into our public servants by massive federal influence via such mechanisms as the 1033 program.
This mindset is validated and reinforced via the many sheep who acquiesce to, or attempt to justify, the NSA's massive public spying programs, or the constant erosion of their rights via these public servants by saying …
"Well if I am doing nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear"
REALLY? And who decides what is right and what is wrong? Obviously NOT you or I, and for that matter the Constitution either! By this very comment you are acquiescing your rights to any and all who would hold power over you, conforming to any unconstitutional statute or law that does not immediately influence your comfort zone. A huge problem in America today is the surrendering of our authority as the true governors of this Republic to those who would govern us in illegal and unconstitutional fashions.
If these are now the standards we must conform to then I, being a patriotic individual who puts great faith in said constitution, will be suspect every remaining day of my life!
When it becomes the practiced rule that exercising our constitutional rights is no longer a guarantee but a privilege granted by a rogue government, and not supported by the people, or questioned and dismissed by a law enforcement officer on any given scene, and the very practice of these rights by invocation brings suspicion and repercussion, then tyranny in America is no longer merely a possibility … it has been institutionalized !!!
Cop on Tape: "You Must Be Doing Something Wrong if You Need to Invoke Your Rights"
Activist Post Author Melissa Melton says:
It has been upheld time and time and time and TIME again that the First Amendment protects one's right to film police officers in public. Period.
That is it. End of story.
It is also not illegal to film locations from public property, even those that have been designated as "secure." A sign is not a law and does not negate the Constitution. It just isn't and it just doesn't, despite an apparent effort to make it seem that way.
Now listen to what this cop says to these guys who recently decided to film prisoners being transported in and out of the Duval County, Florida courthouse's sally port without identifying themselves:
My Parting Shot …
About the Author: Roger Landry (TLB) spent about three decades of his adult life either in, or working for the military, with about two decades working directly for the Military Industrial Complex facilitating DOD contracts. His awakening to Political, Economic, and Health realities was less than seven short years ago. Since that time he has founded The Liberty Beacon Project (TLB) consisting of over a dozen proprietary global websites, media projects such as TLBTV, and partner websites across the planet. He contributes regularly to multiple forums both in and outside of TLB Project. Most of his work can be found on the TLB Flagship website TheLibertyBeacon.com


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If we need a nicotine fix, we tend to reach for toxic cigarettes, pungent cigars, or unsatisfying nicotine patches. But since the 18th century, Sweden has been doing it differently. Snus is a tobacco product that users place in their lower lip and leave there for around 10 minutes while the nicotine is gradually absorbed by their system.
Unlike snuff that is taken through the nose in powdered form and was once fashionable across Europe, or chewing tobacco that requires constant spitting (as memorably captured in dozens of Western movies), snus can simply be placed in the lower lip and left alone. No second hand smoke. No visible external signs whatsoever.
Often given flavors such as berry, mint, liquorice or coffee, users of snus say they first experience a mild tingling sensation when the pouch is inserted, followed soon after by the gently pleasant buzz and that feeling of relaxation familiar to all users of tobacco or nicotine products.
While the sale of snus with tobacco is illegal in the United Kingdom, the product has its high profile British adherents. Pitched as a safer alternative to smoking, the use of snus is very popular in the British Premier Football League, with the Mirror reporting that Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy has used snus and has even been pictured with a tin in of it his hand during the Euro 2016 tournament. In his autobiography From Nowhere, Vardy explained that snus "helped me chill out."
Sale of the tobacco version is now illegal in the UK, but there is no penalty for use or possession. Tobacco free snus, also known as "nicotine pouches,' are however available and easily purchased online. Tobacco free snus products such as Skruf Super White now ship to the United Kingdom and across Europe, and come in a wide variety of flavors and strengths to suit the palette of the user.
Riding the wave of popularity of other tobacco free alternatives to smoking, such as vaping, we may yet see nicotine pouches gaining in popularity through the UK. Perhaps we'll even see them making an appearance at the pubs in Durham! On a rainy day you needn't abandon your friends and head out into the rain and sleet for a puff on a cigarette or a quick vape – you need only pop a nicotine pouch in your mouth. The Swedes have been doing it for hundreds of years – and they may just be onto something.


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Differentiate between strategic management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
Due Week 7 and worth 300 points
For this assignment, continue your role as the administrator of the organization you created for Assignment 1.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Create a mission and vision statement for your organization. Determine three (3) specific strategic goals that align with the ideals in those two (2) statements.
- Recommend one (1) specific adaptive strategy or combination of adaptive strategies that would be most effective in ensuring that the organization achieves its strategic goals. Support your recommendation with examples of the successful application of the recommended strategy or strategies.
- Outline three (3) service delivery and three (3) support components that will be necessary elements of the organization's value chain geared toward achieving the strategic goals that you identified. Examine, in detail, the main reasons why the delivery and support components of the value chain that you identified are essential to the achievement of the organization's goals.
- Suggest one (1) specific approach to maintaining the selected adaptive strategy or strategies in order to ensure that the organization achieves its mission and vision.
- Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites to not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Differentiate between strategic management, strategic thinking, strategic planning, and managing strategic momentum.
- Examine the organizational value chain, including the components of the service delivery and support activities.
- Analyze the roles of and the relationships among organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic goals, and why they are called directional strategies.
- Apply analytic skills to define strategic problems, generate and evaluate strategic alternatives, and develop implementation tactics.
- Examine the nature of directional, adaptive, market entry, and competitive strategies.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in the strategic management of health care organizations.
- Write clearly and concisely about strategic management of health care organizations using proper writing mechanics.
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A Brighton graduate who started work life as a tube train driver has been made a Fellow of one of the world's most prestigious science programmes.
22 April 2020
Jacqueline Campbell graduated with an Earth and Ocean Sciences degree from the University of Brighton's School of Environment and Technology in 2016 and later won a PhD studentship at UCL where she is studying planetary science.
She has now been appointed one of just 22 Fellows on the Schmidt Science Fellows programme which aims "to give the world's best aspiring scientific minds a broader perspective, the ability to engage in an interdisciplinary way, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact in society". It encourages emerging scientists to develop novel solutions to society's challenges and to become "scientific and societal thought leaders and accelerate ground-breaking discoveries".
Jacqueline praised the University of Brighton: "I am very grateful to the university as I started my degree there as a mature student having been a tube train driver and care worker for many years.
"It was a difficult transition into science, made much easier by all the wonderful staff at Brighton."
Jacqueline plans to go on to study ocean acidification using satellite data, and to make scientific data easier to access and interpret: "The hope is to make a global map anyone can use to find information and data, whether that's fellow scientists, students, journalists, policy makers or anyone with an interest."
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The empty building at 1483 Newton is going to be empty for a lot longer. Even though someone sighted some scaffolding around the building it turns out it was just to secure it from unwanted visitors. The current owners, who inherited the building, apparently can't agree on what to do with it so it still sits in limbo waiting for someone to decide. [NCH]
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2021 is the year of Tadao Ando for Domus, which thus welcomes the fourth of the ten internationally renowned architects to lead the contents of 10 issues of the magazine for a whole year. The 10x10x10 program, which accompanies Domus towards its 100th anniversary, thus sees the first Pritzker Prize among its editors. Coming out with the December issue, edited by Fulvio Irace and entitled Recovering Italy, are the monograph of the Japanese architect (Osaka, born in 1941) and his Manifesto, dedicated to eternity.
"All things must one day weather and crumble. It could be said that architectural history is a trajectory of challenges against this truth in search of the eternal," says Tadao Ando in his Manifesto. "I would like to make eternity, an idea that humans have been pursuing since time immemorial, the theme of Domus 2021."
The architect of the Church of Light in Ibaraki, Punta della Dogana in Venice, the Armani Silos in Milan and the more recent Bourse de Commerce in Paris, thus gives a first impression of what he will tell in his Domus, together with the complexities of the contemporary world, in the relationship of architecture, design and art with society, technology and the most recent pandemic. "We are in the middle of an upward sloping graph of significant change (...). These shifts will likely continue to intensify and create a new world that we cannot even begin to fathom".
But Ando tells how we human beings are fragile, made of flesh and bone, and we are part of nature. Ando will speak through the magazine of eternity precisely because in the uncertainty of the future we must approach what remains unchanged in architecture, its essential value: "to create a habitat for the human spirit, to hold memory and history, and to foster culture through the urban landscape".
"We are honoured to have Tadao Ando become part of our team ," says Maria Giovanna Mazzocchi, President of Editoriale Domus welcoming the Pritzker Prize 1995. "I am certain that the lucid world-view Tadao Ando has held throughout his career will be a great opportunity for Domus readers and the civic society that gathers around our publication. Like Ando, we too are convinced that architecture is able to change society".
Walter Mariotti, editorial director of Domus, states that "2020 has further reminded us how necessary and urgent it is to rethink the ways and forms of associated life, from the management of public space to the way we work and move around. To be able to count on the vision of Tadao Ando, who besides being an architect of immense success is an all-round intellectual, is a great honour for Domus".
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Unless you've lived in another city, you may not truly understand just how lucky we are to live in Cincinnati, a place where we can share the arts with our children at such a young age. Our city has so many opportunities for everyone to experience concerts, musicals, plays, and other types of artistic performances and one of our absolute favorites is The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati. I've taken my three-year-old and four-year-old to a few of their performances in the past and they are always a hit. But we may have a new favorite, as we just saw their new winter show – Cinderella. The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati's Cinderella is a fun remix on a favorite classic that everyone in the family will enjoy!
My daughter is in the heart of the "princess stage" right now, so when I heard that our favorite Children's Theatre was going to do their version of Cinderella, I knew we had to go. She donned her well-loved Cinderella dress, and my son put on a smile and we headed to the Taft Theatre for a matinee performance.
One of the many reasons I love The Children's Theatre is that it is completely geared toward young guests. The performances are only about an hour long, with no intermission, and they are always so well done with vibrant characters, detailed sets, and creative costuming. The acting and singing is incredible, as well! Cinderella was no exception and we were, once again, very impressed.
This performance is done in a holiday panto style, which makes it a little different than the fairy tale you're used to. I had prepared my kids, telling them it would be a different than the movies they know, and they were immediately engaged and entertained. This hilarious rendition includes modern music, local references, cross-dressing step-sisters (who steal the show), and a few twists on the story that will bring a smile to your face. There is also audience participation, which really kept my little ones on their toes.
This particular performance by The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati is absolutely perfect for the entire family. Young children will love the story and characters, and older kids and adults will definitely be entertained by the music and modern twist. Tickets to Cinderella, or any of the upcoming shows, would make a great gift this season. Keep the talented and innovative Children's Theatre in mind all year long for gifts, a special outing and plenty of quality family fun!
For more information on The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati, including show times and tickets, visit their website here. Cinderella runs now through December 17th!
About Andrea:
A native Cincinnatian, Andrea has experienced life in all four corners of this city. After growing up on the west side, she headed north to attend Miami University, then moved east to Hyde Park and now lives in Northern Kentucky with her family.
When she's not playing trains and doing the "hot dog dance" as a stay-at-home mom to her two toddlers, Andrea is busy writing for Cincinnati (and, ahem, Kentucky!) publications and brainstorming ideas for her next children's book! With a newfound passion for fitness and overall health, she spends a lot of time at her family gym and loves to play outside.
Andrea worked in education for several years and has a special love for children's literature. She loves showing her children all our city has to offer and enjoys sharing her finds with other parents. Her favorite spots include the Cincinnati Zoo (although she steers clear of the bird house), her local library and any playground.


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Podcast #9 | Heidi Maurer and Sophie Vériter on the Future of Diplomacy in Europe
The Hague Diplomacy Podcast aims at bringing the themes of the journal's research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience within their practice of or research on diplomacy. Available via SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
In our ninth episode, our host Sophie Vériter talks to Heidi Maurer to discuss their recent contributions to the "Diplomacy After COVID" Forum, which both focus on the European Union. Heidi and Sophie talk us through their papers' relevance, key points, avenues for research, and takeaways for practitioners - highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has generated for the EU and its member states. They discuss how the virtual negotiations of the Council of the EU may bring about change and questions related to the role of physical presence in diplomacy, as well as the internal and external challenges that the EU faces in tackling COVID-19-related disinformation. Listen to hear our contributors' reflections on the future of diplomacy in Europe.


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Dierks Bentley to Throw Pre-Grammy Bash in L.A.
Dierks Bentley has certainly had an incredible year. His innovative bluegrass album, 'Up on the Ridge,' reached No. 2 on the charts and spawned two Top 40 hits, and throughout 2010, he took his music on the road for the hugely successful Up on the Ridge tour. In addition, the Arizona native garnered three Grammy nominations and three CMA Awards nods, was honored at the prestigious ASCAP Awards with the trophy for Songwriter/Artist of the Year and saw 'Up on the Ridge' named as one of the Best Albums of the Year by iTunes. Now, the tireless entertainer looks ahead to 2011 with a show at Los Angeles' legendary Troubadour club in February.
Dierks will celebrate his success with a pre-Grammy concert on February 12, one night before the star-studded awards ceremony, bringing his noteworthy Dierks Bentley and Friends show to the storied venue. Guests such as Pearl Jam, Miranda Lambert, Dwight Yoakam and Brad Paisley have joined him for previous Dierks and Friends shows, so it's likely next year's event will have its share of musical surprises.
Dierks admits he was unsure how the 'Up on the Ridge' album would be received, considering its bluegrass theme, but says the experience was liberating. "When I went in to make this record, I really threw away all of my expectations for ... country radio airplay, just anything," Dierks tells The Boot. "I went into it with no expectations, and that's what freed me up to make the album we wanted to make. And on the backside of that, to actually be recognized, to have country radio play the song ... there are no words for it. I'm still taking it all in."
The year has been a memorable one for Dierks for reasons other than music. He announced over the summer that he and his wife, Cassidy, are expecting another girl around Christmas. She'll join two-year-old Evie just in time for the holidays.
Already back at work on another album, Dierks will spend some time at home in 2011 before playing several festivals over the spring and summer. See his schedule here.
A Day in the Life of Dierks


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text: David Corfield's book raises an important question for philosophers of maths: why focus so strongly on so few questions about maths (typically concerning mathematical truth, metaphysics and foundations), when there are so many other interesting questions to be addressed? E.g. what counts as a good concept in maths? what role does analogy play in mathematical reasoning? what role does uncertainty play? Stephen G Simpson: > Could you please [1] provide an example of the kind of non-foundational > mathematical work that Corfield is talking about, and [2] explain why it > is allegedly philosophically interesting? In particular, [3] what are the > philosophical questions that it addresses? Taking the three questions in reverse order: 3. E.g. what counts as a good concept in maths? what role does analogy play in mathematical reasoning? what role does uncertainty play? 2. One would hope that the study of mathematical conceptualisation and mathematical reasoning would be of interest to philosophers of maths. 1. I recommend that you take a look at the book. Philosophers of maths have devoted much of their attention to foundational issues. A hundred years ago there was very good reason for this - it looked like intuitively compelling foundations of maths might be feasible (simple logical axioms, simple set-theoretic axioms or a formalist consistency proof). For a while now it has become clear that any philosophical foundations that arise out of FOM are not going to be very intuitive and are likely to satisfy few people. FOM has moved on - the subject is now largely studied for its own intrinsic interest and to elucidate more subtle logical relationships between mathematical propositions than those required for intuitively compelling philosophical foundations of maths. Why haven't philosophers of maths moved on too? Why don't they study interesting new questions about maths? Corfield appears to be one of the very few who are trying to open up new areas. Surely no FOMer would claim that their subject should be the sole focus of philosophers of maths? Jon ------------------- Jon Williamson Department of Philosophy, King's College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK http://www.kcl.ac.uk/jw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen G Simpson" <simpson at math.psu.edu> To: <fom at cs.nyu.edu> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: [FOM] John Baez on David Corfield's book > Charles A Stewart writes: > > > empiricist or pragmatist about mathematical entities); rather while > > I guessed that Stephen would dislike Corfield's work, I expected > > him to dislike its "list-2" mindset. > > I'm not sure that I would dislike Corfield's book. I would probably > find something of value in it. From Corfield's web site, it appears > that the book contains extended quotations from distinguished > contemporary mathematicians. This material could be quite > interesting, e.g., for the history of mathematics, to document for > future generations how these mathematicians view their own work and > that of their colleagues. > > Furthermore, I don't think Corfield represents what I have called the > "list 2 mindset". > > Let me explain about "list 2". > > Back in the Golden Age, I defined f.o.m. as the study of the logical > structure and most basic concepts of mathematics, with an eye to the > unity of human knowledge. I then made a tentative list of the most > basic mathematical concepts. The list that I came up with was: > number, shape, set, function, algorithm, mathematical definition, > mathematical proof, mathematical axiom, mathematical theorem. Call > this List 1. > > Some distinguished applied model theorists replied that List 1 is too > narrow and ought to be supplemented by other mathematical concepts > which they claimed to regard as equally basic: cohomology, Riemannian > manifolds, etc etc. This is List 2. > > This idea seemed absurd to me. The concepts on List 2, while > interesting and important, are of a very different character than > those on List 1. > > Furthermore, it seemed to me that, by inflating and distorting the > notion of "basic mathematical concept" as used in f.o.m., the applied > model theorists were trying to subvert and strangle f.o.m. by allowing > it no room to exist as a subject distinct from pure mathematics. I > referred to this as the "list 2 mindset". > > It appears that Corfield's deprecation of f.o.m. is of a somewhat > different and less subtle nature. His idea is to blatantly assert > that f.o.m. is irrelevant to "the pulse of contemporary mathematics". > As crude evidence for this, he points to the fact that nobody in > f.o.m. has won a Fields Medal subsequent to Cohen in 1964. Of course > he is overlooking the fact that many top mathematicians are quite > interested in things like the G"odel incompleteness phenomenon. > > I think I know why the applied model theorists are hostile to f.o.m., > but I have no idea why Corfield is. > > > my interpretation is not that Corfield is trying to put across a > > new set of fundamental mathematical concepts, > > Yes, I agree. In fact, Corfield doesn't appear to be trying to > introduce any new mathematical concepts or mathematics of any kind. > > > but rather is saying that philosophers of mathematics are ignoring > > philosophically interesting work because it is not about > > fundamental concepts. > > OK. You are saying that Corfield is not attacking f.o.m. as such. > Rather, he is criticizing certain philosophers of mathematics, for > paying too much attention to f.o.m. and not enough to other > mathematical work which he claims is philosophically interesting. > > Could you please provide an example of the kind of non-foundational > mathematical work that Corfield is talking about, and explain why it > is allegedly philosophically interesting? In particular, what are the > philosophical questions that it addresses? > > > I think also the inflammatory nature of the book for some FOMers > > would be reduced if we were to read "core mathematics" for "real > > mathematics". > > Not really. It wouldn't make any difference. We f.o.m. researchers > are by now quite used to hearing ignorant people deprecate our > mathematical work by saying that it is not "core mathematics" or "real > mathematics". This kind of carping doesn't matter. > > ---- > > Stephen G. Simpson > Professor of Mathematics > Pennsylvania State University > http://www.math.psu.edu/simpson/ > >