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Team Engagement FAQs
By Kevin McManus, Chief Excellence Officer and Systems Guy, Great Systems
To What Degree are You Engaging All of Your Employees?
When I first entered the world of work more than 38 years ago, employee involvement becoming the rage. Now, it appears that organizations are beginning to realize that both effective individual and team engagement are critical to reaching true, sustainable levels of operational excellence. To me, this is a good thing. I have found that people are the foundation of organizational success AND engagement reflects a degree of connection that goes beyond 'mere' involvement. True, meaningful engagement however is not easy to come by, especially if your prevailing work culture actually encourages employee disengagement. Here are some the most common questions I am asked about the topic of team engagement, and some short answers that I have for each of them.
Why do I really need to engage a high percentage of my people?
Gauging true team engagement involves looking at the degree to each employee is connected. In turn, by looking at the percentage of your workforce that you involve in decision making activities, planning efforts, problem solving, personal development events, customer contacts, and team-based work, you can get a better idea of how engaged your people are and where your engagement deficiencies might be. Unfortunately, most organizations only engage a small percentage of their people in activities that extent beyond the daily processes they are responsible for. If you doubt my opinion, do a self check by looking at how your people, at all levels, spend their time at work and the mix of people that are involved in those activities that have been traditionally reserved for middle and upper management.
If you understand the gear analogy I made in defining the term 'engagement', the need for high engagement percentages is obvious. I believe that there is a direct correlation between engagement levels and organizational success. As engagement levels rise across a variety of activity types, the number of gear teeth and gears that are meshing goes up, in turn leading the organizational machine to higher levels of performance. Greater engagement and stronger relationships create greater levels of understanding and ownership.
If people understand what their customers want and why they want those things, your people are more apt to make decisions and take actions that are consistent with those needs. If your people have a greater understanding of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and how organizational success will affect their own personal success and growth, they are more likely to consistently behave and act in a manner that supports the mission and vision of the organization. Disengaged people work only to support their own personal needs or to keep their boss happy.
LEARN MORE: Do You Have Great Engagement and Compensation Systems?
What is team or workforce engagement?
My definition of team engagement is based both on my personal experience with teams and on the criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Performance Excellence Award. The Baldrige criteria define workforce engagement as the extent to which workforce commitment, both emotional and intellectual, exists relative to accomplishing the work, mission, and vision of the organization. I see team engagement as a heightened level of ownership where each employee wants to do whatever they can for the benefit of their internal and external customers, and for the success of the organization as a whole.
For people to be engaged, they have to be given the time and mechanisms to get involved. They have to believe that their personal contributions matter, and they have to be keenly aware of the connection that exists between their daily personal actions and decisions and the success of the organization. Engagement also implies the existence of strong, meaningful relationships. Sustained organizational success is all about creating effective relationships between customers and team members. Think of your teams like a set of gears – if each of the gear teeth (each person), as well as the gears themselves (your teams), are not properly and consistently engaged, mechanical efficiency will be lost to some degree. How effectively engaged are your teams?
How do I engage more of my people in pursuing the goals of the organization?
To increase engagement levels, you have to do two key things. First, you have to change job designs and job descriptions. In other words, people have to spend their time at work a little bit differently each day. We're not talking about massive changes here. The time required to attend a monthly performance review meeting, participate in an annual improvement or planning day, and attend two to three hours of training or group problem solving a month does not really take that big of a dent out of the 2,000 hours a year the average person spends at work. If only these example activities are used to increase engagement levels, a 3% impact on time will be felt, and if these events are properly designed and facilitated, the benefits realized from these investments will far outweigh the costs.
The second change you have to agree too is perhaps the tougher one to make, even though the costs involved are very low – you have to decide that it makes sense to involve all levels of your workforce in those activities that have traditionally reserved for members of management. Sadly, in many organizations, even the middle and front line leaders are not involved in planning and personal development to the degree that they should be. Upper organizational leadership is often afraid to share what is thought to be sensitive information because they don't trust their people. Unfortunately, without trust, engagement will not occur, but at the same time, trust levels cannot be increased without developing the stronger relationships that are part of true engagement. It is a vicious, systemic circle that can be spinning in either the positive (growth) or negative (erosion) direction.
How can I measure my current level of team engagement?
There are three primary ways in which engagement levels can be measured – employee surveys, personal time investment analysis, and information access analysis. The survey-based measurement approach can be as simple as asking a question on the annual employee opinion survey, but the high performing organizations at minimum will ask multiple questions of an engagement nature to gauge the degree to which each of the approaches that they are using to engage the workforce are effectively working. Those organizations that are willing to give each employee an e-mail address and some form of intranet access are discovering that such connectivity allows for more frequent, and specialized, surveying as well.
Doing a spreadsheet or database-based analysis of how your people spend their 2,000 hours a year also provides an effective means of assessing engagement levels. For example, what percentage of your people spend time on training each year? What percentage of each person's work time is spent attending monthly performance updates or annual planning sessions? How many hours a year does the average employee spend with at least one external customer? Percentages can also be used to gauge the number of people in your workforce that have access to performance information on the company intranet, receive updates on performance to company goals and objectives, or participate in team meetings of some type. A team infrastructure matrix can be used to give you a quick look at team engagement and involvement levels.
How can Great Systems! help me increase my team engagement levels in a meaningful way?
Great Systems can help you assess your current team engagement levels and develop a plan for increasing those levels over time. I can help you design and install more effective work systems to help drive up engagement levels, such as employee opinion survey, recognition, and team infrastructure processes. I can also provide you with workshops that are designed to help you learn more about, and practice, those skills that are needed to effectively lead and facilitate team meetings, build stronger relationships between internal and external customers, or supervise in a manner that helps build more effective teams and higher levels of engagement.
High levels of team engagement are requisite for sustained, best in class performance levels. I believe that this fact will become more and more important as our workforces become more diverse and the expectations of our customers continue to shift and grow. I invite you to learn to do what the high performers have already proven as being effective – change your work systems to foster higher levels of workforce engagement. If you do so, greater results will follow.
LEARN MORE: Are Your Teams Working? – Keys to Team Effectiveness
What is the most "critical factor" for achieving higher levels of team engagement?
Outside of the information access and job design change decisions that upper managers must make, the most critical factor that can help or hinder engagement levels lies in the abilities of EACH of your process owners to promote and increase team engagement levels. In particular, the performance of your front line supervisors in this area is most critical. A very high majority of your people get daily information about what the organization is trying to accomplish from these people, both intentionally and unintentionally. Front line leaders are the key to developing stronger relationships between internal customers. These people also decide how much effort they are willing to make to 'free people up' to attend training or participate in team meetings, and they are often the people that expected to effectively lead most of the training and meetings the bulk of your workforce attends.
In order to develop effective engagement skills in each of your leaders, you have to require them to demonstrate effective facilitation skills and prove the degree to which they are engaging their people in a formal manner on a regular basis. These expectations have to be part of their job description, and they must be expected to demonstrate increased skill proficiency in these areas as time passes. Too many organizations fail to ensure, let alone increase, the skills of their leaders in these key areas. For true team engagement to both exist and improve over time, the front line leaders have to be involved themselves and be capable of demonstrating that they are personally involved and effective in involving their people.
What is the link between compensation practices and team engagement levels?
I want to start off by saying that I have learned that money is much more a demotivator than it is a motivator. In other words, I don't think money is the primary, or even the secondary, reason why people do things that they are expected to do at work. I strongly believe however that people will quickly become demotivated if they get the impression that a compensation system is not fair. That said, one mechanism for increasing engagement levels lies in the structure of your compensation system. What types of compensation differences exist between organizational levels? Who gets the perks and who doesn't, and what perceptions exist relative to what has to be done in order to become one of the haves, instead of being a have not? What types of pay rate, benefit, work environment, and recognition differences exist across the organization, why do they exist, and how do these differences affect team engagement levels?
There are some compensation system best practices that are used by high performing organizations to help drive up team engagement levels. One of the key practices involves extending some form of profit sharing to all employees, not just those at the top. Similarly, formal recognition for team successes should exist for all teams. Most importantly, you should strive to design a compensation system that is fair – one that appropriately recognizes each employee based on the contributions they make to the success of the organization (one that is not based simply on one's job title). Unfair, or poorly deployed, compensation systems will drive down engagement levels. Keep in mind however that while the "What's in it for me?" question is very pervasive and powerful, it also focuses on much more than pay – be sure to look at other forms of compensation, such as work environment, formal recognition opportunities, and benefits, that far too many companies ignore.
Keep improving! Kevin McManus, Chief Excellence Officer and Systems Guy, Great Systems


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with a visit to the new BB12 house on Media Day. True to form, the producers lock down detailed information every year, only allowing the reporters to speak at length about what they saw, and what they did until just before the season kicks off.
In fact, this Wednesday is the day that everyone can start officially yakking it up about Media Day, and to post pictures of this season's set.
Superfan Matt Maynard, who is one of the writers behind WeLoveBigBrother.com was one of the chosen reporters who got to go into the house and compete in challenges.
Lucky Matt!
Here is the link to the story in Matt's local newspaper. Matt looks kind of exotic, doesn't he?
I am the FeedWatcher and every summer I am a Big Brother addict. Live feed updates, gossip, and other tidbits. Yes, I post spoilers.
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BRAVE Combat Federation, under the leadership of Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, hosted the first ever global mixed martial arts event in Colombia.
The event - Brave 15 - was held at the Coliseo Bicentenario in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
The event featured fighters from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Mexico.
Six of the seven bouts finished in the very first round. Brazil dominated the fight card winning all the seven fights.
Godofredo Pepey won the main event with a 'submission' against UFC's Alexander Torres.
In the co-main event, Gabriel Miranda scored his 13th win in his professional career improving the tally of wins by submission to 12.
Noriega was caught in a guillotine with no chance to escape and finally gave up as he tapped out. Cleiton Silva maintained the distance forcing Marcelo Busto to be on the defensive. Silva went for the RNC to capture his second victory.
Ricardo Tirloni proved yet again his dominance with a ruthless performance against Ramon Cardozo.
During round two, Tirloni charged in with huge shots on his way to the takedown. As Cardozo went down, Tirloni wrapped up an anaconda choke to submit Cardozo.
Geraldo Coelho came back from an armbar attempt in the very first round. Coelho connected a pair of right hands followed by a left hook that left Jaime Cordova knocked out.
Colombian regionals champion Diego Otalora was rocked by a leg kick and right hook in the opening minute against Mauricio Reis.
Reis rolled for a leglock that earned an instant scream of submission from the home favourite.
Brave's next event - Brave 16 - will be held on September 21 at the Mubadala Arena in Abu Dhabi.
Results: Godofredo "Pepey" Castro bt Alex "Rolo" Torres by submission (Armbar) in the first round.
Gabriel Miranda bt Fernando Noriega by submission (Guillotine choke) in the first round.
Cleiton Silva bt Marcelo Bustos by submission (RNC) in the first round.
Ricardo Tirloni bt Ramon Cardozo by submission (Anaconda choke) in the second round.
Geraldo "Luan Santana" bt Jaime "Instinto" Cordova by knock out in the first round.
Mauricio Reis bt Mauricio Otalora by submission (foot lock) in the first round.
Eduardo Garvon bt Matias Juarez by submission (RNC) in the first round.


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The Brain Booster: Podcast with Karl Morris
In this podcast we discuss the connection between mind and body, the subject of many studies over the past forty years and explored more fully in my books.
These books were written to encourage the recognition that the myth about the division between mind and body is of our own making. Our mindsets are what stands between us and the lives we'd like to live.


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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him
William Eggleston's exhibition at MOMA in 1976 is widely considered to be the tipping point in the eventual acceptance of colour photography as a legitimate artistic medium.
Inspired by the visual arts, he has since gone on to inspire a generation of artists with his colourful vivid and sometime uneasy depictions of the everyday.
|Green Dress, 1970
His subject matter is familiar to us. We relate to the images but are unsettled as, through his camera, we now see the familiar through a new light, a new angle and in a new intensity of colour.
There exists a heightened sense of reality. The everyday qualities of the objects, people or landscapes are replaced with an unexpected and unsettling aura through unusual but balanced compositions and real but unnaturally saturated colours.
Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis
|William Eggleston, from William Eggleston in the Real World
The 2005 documentary William Eggleston in the Real World shows us first hand how the artist probes and searches out his subjects; peering into shop windows, front gardens, roaming the streets and buildings as if he had lost something precious. When found, the subject is photographed, once, and the haphazard but exhaustive search continues again.
I believe in taking one picture of one picture
|Green Car, 1965
Colour is the defining characteristic of his work. Through colour, the 'pictures' relate on a sensory and emotional level providing the transformative power to turn the banal and common into the surreal. Without colour the unusual would revert to its common state. If reproduced in back & white Eggleston believes that his images, except for purposes of identification, "might as well not be reproduced" at all.
The following is an exploration into the role colour plays in transforming the world we know in into this world that we thought we knew. It is a journey, under a number of themed headings, through the colourful world of William Eggleston examining his relationship with colour, his influences and his own influence on contemporary visual arts.
To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life
Any discussion relating to Eggleston and his use of colour has to include, or even start with, his discovery of the dye transfer process in 1972, a process exclusively used at that time for the commercial printing of magazines and advertisements.
That is what got me interested. I would look at these advertisements say in Vogue…and I kept thinking, 'I wonder what Eggleston would look like in this process?WILLI AM EGGLESTON
|Cigarette Advertisement, 1970s
It was a complex, expensive and time-consuming process that basically involved the separation of three color negatives, made by photographing the original negative with black & white film through three filters (red, green and blue). The separations (matrices) were in turn soaked in organic dyes of yellow, magenta and cyan and then meticulously aligned and rolled over specialist paper, transferring the dye to paper.
|Two girls on couch, 1976 (separations)
Photographic colour prints were predominately produced at that time as a C-Print (chromogenic coupler print) producing more "faithful" and less dramatic results than that of the dye process. The dye process exaggerated the colour values of an image allowing a photographer to obtain higher saturation in nominated colour fields (e.g. red) without affecting the rest of the colours in the image. It gave a new level of control only provided in recent times by the emergence of digital photography.
Eggleston now had a new lush set of paints allowing an unprecedented influence and control over his pictures. He now had a medium capable of depicting the world he was seeing.
|Green Window, 1993
The dye transfer process helped Eggleston inject the ordinary with a heightened level of colour, intensifying the atmosphere and tension in in the frame and dislocating the viewer form the real world being presented.
|Hot Sauce, 1980
Eggleston's work and career was now transformed. Colour was now not just part of the picture but it was the picture. A process that was being utilised to best show off products for sale was now being used to to show vivid and visceral depictions of common everyday objects, landscapes and people.
|Peaches, 1973
As advertisements were presenting abstracted realities to its audiences so to was Eggleston and both used the dye transfer process to help achieve this abstraction. A process used to seduce, entice and persuade was now being applied to the bland of the everyday. It was this juxtaposition that in some way unsettled the viewer. Eggleston used the seductive, enticing and persuasive colour dye process and applied it to common objects and in doing so made us think about the very nature of his subject matter.
It was also this abstraction of colour that turned what could be deemed photography into art. We were no longer seeing the world through the eyes of a photographer but through that of an artist with a new found medium.
I don't think anything has the seductivity of the dyes…by the time you get into those dyes it doesn't look at all like the scene, which in some cases is what you want
The vivid dyes defamiliarise the objects presented. We are provided a new intensifying filter of Eggleston to see the world through, rendering the ordinary strange.
You're stepping into some kind of jagged world that seems like Eggleston's World
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The beautiful Seychelles islands once hosted several exiles, including criminals who attempted to assassinate Napoleon and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, Malaysia. Sultan Abdullah, one of the most renowned of Seychelles's exiles, spent many years on the islands and enjoyed his time there. Sultan Abdullah was allegedly partly responsible for the murder of James Birch, the British Resident of Perak, so he was sent to the Seychelles as a punishment.
The sultan's troubles began when conflicts arose between the local chiefs and the Chinese migrants over the lucrative tin trade, and it became difficult to restore law and order. Concerned about these problems, the young royal signed a letter to the British governor of the Straits Settlements (now Singapore) asking for Perak to be placed under British settlement. He also requested "a man of sufficient abilities to show (him) a good system of government". In 1874, the British then installed Sultan Abdullah on the throne instead of his rival, Sultan Ismail, and the sultan agreed to the Pangkor Treaty which gave the British extensive powers in Perak. James Birch became the British Resident.
One of the chiefs stabbed Birch to death with a spear. Several historians argue that this was because Birch annoyed the local chiefs by refusing to accept local customs and traditions. For example, he refused to remove his shoes when he entered the palace. Three of the chiefs who planned his murder were sentenced to death, while others allegedly complicit in the assassination were sent with the sultan into exile.
In 1877, Sultan Abdullah arrived in the Seychelles to begin his long years of exile. An entourage of 37 accompanied him, together with their wives, families and servants. The sultan remained in exile for seventeen years.
During Sultan Abdullah's time in the Seychelles, he played cricket, collected fine walking sticks and introduced some Malaysian fruits to the islands. His ability to speak English impressed the British, and he mixed with the elite. He joined the Victoria Cricket Club, and he played cricket with British military officers. He also enjoyed playing football and entering kite-flying competitions.
The enterprising sultan grew many native Malaysian fruits. The Seychelles islanders are especially grateful for his introduction of the plant, banane mille. This Malaysian banana plant sometimes produces 1,000 bananas in a bunch. And as a disease-resistant fruit, it helped to feed the population during the world wars.
Sultan Abdullah endured some sadness during his time in the islands when his beloved wife died. The sultan wrote to John Henniker Heaton, Conservative MP for Canterbury, describing how he resigned himself to "the will of the Almighty", and he bore "in mind the Latin maxim "Per ardua libertas" (freedom through difficulties)". His seven children – four sons and three daughters – comforted him.
The National Anthem of Malaysia
According to legend, the national anthem of Perak originated from Sultan Abdullah's time in the Seychelles. Several versions of the anthem's origins exist.
One version is that Sultan Abdullah's daughters heard the popular tune, La Rosalie in Mahé. They played it for their brother, Raja Chulan, who often visited, and he learned to play it on the violin. He introduced it to his brother, Raja Ngah Mansur. A British official required the national anthem of Perak for the ceremonies when Mansur visited England for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1888. Mansur told the official that he hadn't brought the sheet music of the song. He whistled the tune, and a musician transcribed the notes.
Some historians suggest that the anthem's origins date from Sultan Idris Murshidul'adzam Shah's visit to England for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901. Sultan Idris represented the Malay Rulers of the Federated Malay States. A protocol officer asked him what his state anthem was. The sultan knew that his state didn't have an anthem, so he quickly decided to hum La Rosalie. The popular tune then became the anthem.
According to another tale, the song Terang Bulan was composed by the sultan himself. He based it on the popular French tune, La Rosalie by Pierre Jean de Beranger, and he suggested that it should become the national anthem of Perak. This song was chosen as the national anthem of Malaysia by a committee in 1957 because of the "traditional flavour" of its melody. It's now called Negaraku which means My Country.
Return to Perak
The Sultan always proclaimed his innocence during his exile in the Seychelles. Many of the local people agreed with him, so they signed petitions for his release. Even the Mauritians signed a petition asking for the sultan's release. Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, the former Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements (now Singapore), also lobbied the British government for his release. Henniker Heaton also believed in the innocence of the sultan and fought for his release.
Sultan Abdullah was finally released and given permission to return home in 1894. He died in 1922.


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It's long been widely accepted throughout the security industry that email is the number one attack vector exploited by fraudsters. While enterprises have been working to seal off this channel, government entities have been slower to act. In fact, a survey in August of last year found that only 10 percent of federal email domains were protected by a DMARC policy.
That's about to change. Toward the end of 2017, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new mandate requiring that all federal agencies implement DMARC to protect their email domains. The mandate gave agencies 90 days in which to implement a minimum policy of "p=none," a basic step where the domain owner is not asking the receiver to take action if a DMARC check fails, and one year to reach a DMARC policy of "p=reject," the highest level of protection where emails that fail the DMARC check are rejected.
As with any project deadline, you'll find those that jump right in to meet the deadline, while others may procrastinate or simply lack the tools needed to complete the assignment. The 90-day mandate ended on January 15, 2018, so we thought we'd take a look at how the government's implementation is going, and what it means for the rest of us.
The first step in our investigation was to compile a list of 311 government agencies that are included in the mandate. Once our list was ready, we put their domains to the test using DMARC Compass Explorer, a tool that allows you to check whether a domain has a DMARC policy implemented and, if so, to what extent they are protected. From there, we were able to determine which government agencies are complying with the mandate and, conversely, which are receiving a failing grade.
Here's our government agency report card with a look at which sectors move to the head of the class and which might need to repeat a grade. Or two.
F is for Fail
No one was winning high marks at the start of the 12-week period. In fact, almost 75 percent of the agencies we examined lacked a DMARC policy. And while serious inroads were made by the end of the 12-week study by numerous agencies, there was still a significant number (134) that had yet to implement anything whatsoever. (See Figure 1 below.)
Given the amount of advanced warning offered to achieve even the bare minimum of protection, the fact that 43 percent of government agencies failed to do anything doesn't speak well.
A Passing Grade
A closer look at the agencies that did (and didn't) make the grade finds that by the end of the 12-week period, the vast majority (81 percent) were only able to implement a policy level of p=none, the lowest level. (See Figure 2 below.) A few agencies were able to take it a step further and implement a policy level of p=quarantine, while almost 17 percent hit the mark with a policy level of p=reject, the highest level of protection. Move to the head of the class.
A is for Excellent?
All told, while about half of the agencies we examined get a passing grade, few are what might be called high achievers. Certain sectors definitely come out the winners when we take a deeper dive.
Overall, enforcement agencies, for example, went to the head of the class for their efforts in implementing a DMARC policy. (See Figure 3 above.) This is good and perhaps not surprising to see, given this class of agencies includes the likes of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Of particular note within that category were the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), US Postal Service, the Selective Service System, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which all achieved a level of p=reject. Other agencies achieving the same high level of DMARC policy include the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Customs and Border Protection, Dept. of Labor, the U.S. Senate, and the Federal Reserve.
Honorable mentions go to the Social Security Administration and Amtrak for achieving a p=quarantine policy level.
Surprisingly, and somewhat disconcertingly, some agencies that fall into the Economic and Health sectors shook out near the bottom of the pack. Most egregious is the fact that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which suffered a rather catastrophic breach in 2015 to the tune of 21.5 million stolen records failed to achieve even the bare minimum of p=none.
Move to the Head of the Class
You might be thinking "So what, these are government agencies we're talking about. Their move to implement DMARC doesn't affect me or my business." And while most agencies don't have frequent (or any) dealings with private enterprises, there are certainly those that do. Consider some of the agencies already adopting a p=reject stance, and with which your company may have to interact. Today, those that fall into that category include the FTC, OSHA, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Savvy companies already know that implementing policies that protect the confidentiality and privacy of email exchanges and data is smart business. Government agencies, which traditionally have been slow to respond to such policies, are also recognizing the importance of an email authentication protocol and are making inroads to putting DMARC into place. Private companies that have not already begun the process of implementing DMARC would be well-advised to follow their example and act now.
A quote frequently--and incorrectly-- attributed to Charles Darwin states that it's not the strongest of a species that survives, but those that are most able to adaptable to change. This holds just as true for businesses as it does for living creatures. Organizations that cannot adapt to a world in which even government organizations are adopting changes in order to protect themselves, their employees, and their constituents, will soon find themselves locked out of communication with government agencies, other organizations, and the customers they most wish to communicate with.
Implementing DMARC is a strong first step in leveraging the power of a proactive, multi-layered approach that addresses the entire fraud lifecycle.
Worried about how to get started? We've made it as "Easy" as 1-2-3.


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Mosquito-borne Disease in NH 2017
On June 16, 2017, NH DHHS issued a health alert regarding mosquito-borne disease in NH for the current year.
Key Points and Recommendations:
- Be vigilant during the summer months to consider mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), among patients with compatible clinical features.
- Remind patients to avoid mosquito bites by use of insect repellents and wearing protective clothing, and environmental reduction of mosquito populations.
- Laboratory confirmation of WNV and EEE can be arranged by calling (603) 271-4496 during business hours or (603) 271-5300 after hours. Forms and human testing information
- Report all arboviral illnesses, confirmed or suspected, to the Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) within 24 hours at 603-271-4496 (after hours, 603-271-5300).


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Community Development
Summary of course: Fundraising continues to be a number one priority for the majority of organisations and it is a very competitive arena out there; public sector cuts are putting increased pressure on voluntary and community organisations, leading to increased competition when it comes to funding.
This course is for anyone involved in fundraising within a voluntary or community organisation. The skills and understanding developed will enable you to improve your approach to fundraising and in turn increase your success with funding applications.
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I was looking for some ideas to refresh my knowledge and look for new fundraising ideas when I came across this course. It had some really practical ideas like where to find funding and how to write a funding bid, things we could use day to day. It used plain language and gave me the tools to go away and relook at our fundraising strategy.


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In the Sexual Awareness Month series this year you may have noticed I took a more biblical approach and the Ruth & Naomi story is the latest one I'll try to tackle. Thanks to the bloggers who joined in the discussion which at times got rather vibrant. There had been some speculation about the closeness of the relationship between the two women suggestion there had some lesbian contact but the evidence of that is simply not there as some more persons where a more liberal reading still hold on to that thinking but it was more about women in their version of a support system given how women were treated. Chapter three of Ruth is where it is in this installment as two widows interact with each other in the patriarchal society in Jewish culture. Human relations and choices made either due to finding themselves in position of power and advantage or disadvantage who often end up in the line of abuse on many levels. Effectively Naomi an elderly widowed mother-in-law who encourages her widowed daughter-in-law to make herself available to a powerful rich man named Boaz to marry her.
The book of Ruth is a short story recording an incident during the period of the Judges. An Israelite family moved from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine, the husband died, the two sons married foreign women but also die and she (Ruth) accompanied her mother-in-law and adopted Israelite faith as her own. Ruth eventually marry Boaz but not after a series of seductions as instructed or groomed by Naomi and she ended becoming the grandmother of David. The book of Ruth also shows the absorption of foreigners into Israelite culture thus pre-configuring the Christian gospel by which Gentiles are brought into God's church. Ruth is a Gentile (Moabitess) in the ancestry of Jesus.
Ruth 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
10 And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
12 And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth: lie down until the morning.
14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
15 Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.
16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
Naomi has been effective being seen as a 'pimp' by grooming and encouraging Ruth towards Boaz but bearing in mind that a kind of permitted incest was the order of the day despite the laws that protected strangers and widows but with all that her body was still the route to access. To again access to Boaz did not come as easy as today it came by women availing themselves sexually; sex used as transactionally some have said and although Boaz ended up marrying Ruth the assault in my eyes is an older woman pushing a younger woman on a rich man to secure. Naomi knew how to work the system even though laws then offered some protection to widows and strangers coming from the Sodom & Gomorrah days.
(Un)intended seduction may be the challenge here of the benefactor, the search specific nature of the grooming exercise by Naomi pushing on Ruth using femininity; unlike the Lot story of the 'rape' of him by his own daughters for purposes of continuing the bloodline here in this episode is about gaining wealth and security on the pretext of a seductress or in supplication, to bring it forward to today for a moment how many times have we seen mothers or guardians literally pimping out those in their charge to gain or take in income for the household. Ruth may have not even wanted to go to Boaz but in obedience to the older woman (Naomi) she obeyed the instructions, consent is another layer in this while she may have 'offered' herself to Boaz to eventually seduce him and the outcome showed no outright abuse.
The continuation of the bloodline so to speak and or to provide the kind of security similar to the Lot and his daughters case comes into play, the oldest male or closest male in the family has the responsibility even in a kind of permitted incest to interact with female, Naomi therefore understood the cultural nuances and encouraged Ruth albeit a foreigner into the culture. Naomi obviously was no fool in as far as the grooming of Ruth was concerned, she was looking out for what was supposedly best for her daughter in law; Ruth had done so much for Naomi prior that Naomi may have felt obligated in a sense and also knowing full well that she would get some spin-offs from the arrangement, Boaz was not the first choice so to speak but Naomi seemed sure that arrangement would have worked; I don't think she was malicious but to instruct Ruth as to the very actions ought to do when she encouraged her to effectively seduce her; Boaz had already found some favour in Ruth as outlined in Chapter 2 of Ruth. How does someone who does not have access directly to their rights via a decision making process.
The business of survival comes into play and that women effectively had to do what they had to do; bearing in mind that the very translators of the bible wrote the thing from a patriarchal perspective.
The levirate marriage concept comes into play, a practice outlined in Deuteronomy 25 v 5 – 10 if a woman is childless after a previous marriage or with children and the husband dies the brothers of the dead husband is obligated to marry her and carry on the heritage and the children as products if that marriage legitimises the respect in the community.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 New International Version (NIV)
5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me."
8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"
9 his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line."
10 That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
Boaz in a sense realised he got caught or 'ketch' and he tried to worm his way out of it by differing Ruth to the other choice as he was closer in the lineage to the bloodline' even after Ruth spends the night with Boaz he asks her not to let the other women in the circle know as if to suggest that at risk will be some compromised integrity or ethics, despite the cultural customs called for the powerful man to ensure his heritage. His strategy however was not an aggressive one and he seem to have tried to play it cool even though he knew that there was someone else with a superior claim. While Ruth did not end up in an abusive relationship how many times in contemporary reports we have heard of the pimping aspect of older women sending out their own daughters to bring in the bacon.
The rapid succession of disturbing reports of privileged pastors and church leaders who prey on vulnerable can easily be cited in this story hundreds of years old. The attachment to materialism is a major factor and some feel justified to lay themselves bare to 'eat-a-food' and easiest way to get to some wealth; this is not only limited to lower classes but professional persons as well for the most part to keep up appearances, the nice apartment must be maintained, the car must look a certain way or even the tertiary level fees have to be found somewhere, trouble is that sometimes the arrangement gets abusive and the privileged individual turns into a monster thinking he has a right so to do. In what are supposed to be legitimate marriages the power differentials play out, the wife may have married for some sort of security especially if she is expected to be a housewife or a stay at home mother and she must know her place; no talk of a job or continuing education under pain of losing certain benefits or gifts or how she in treated in the marriage, and sex by the way is a given whether or not she is in the mood.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Announces Partnership With Huna Totem Corporation to Construct New Pier at Icy Strait Point Near Hoonah, Alaska
Company to Receive Preferential Berthing Rights in Popular Port Destination
Demonstrates Company's Long-Term Commitment to Alaska Market
The pier is scheduled to be completed for the summer 2020 Alaska cruise season and will be built to accommodate Norwegian Cruise Line's Breakaway Plus-class ships. The partnership will provide Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings' brands with preferential berthing rights in the popular port destination and allow the Company to increase its calls to
In addition, the new pier will provide more cruise passengers with access to Icy Strait's newly upgraded retail, restaurant and shore excursion amenities, including the world's largest ZipRider zip line, the most accessible coastal brown bear viewing platforms in
"We are thrilled to partner with the
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The Fellowship enables English-speaking members of the several Orthodox Church Traditions in the British Isles and Ireland to come together, and through prayer, discussion and mutual friendship, deepen their commitment to, and understanding of, the Orthodox Christian faith.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ —
World's fourth largest and Asia's largest sugar producer Mitr Phol enters strategic partnership to boost Indonesia sugar production
Mitr Phol to acquire 50% stake of Olam's sugar refinery in Indonesia
JV will then jointly explore developing new sugar mill that would source 1.2 million metric tonnes annually
Potential new mill will help Indonesia reduce imports of raw sugar, boost livelihoods for farmers and generate wider economic benefits
Olam International Limited ("Olam"), a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 70 countries, and Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation ("Mitr Phol"), the world's fourth largest and Asia's largest sugar producer, have announced that they will jointly explore the development of a new greenfield sugarcane milling facility in Indonesia.
If plans for the greenfield sugar milling facility proceed, it could source up to 1.2 million metric tonnes of cane from local farmers upon its completion in 2020.
This exploration of a new sugar mill forms part of a broader strategic partnership between Mitr Phol and Olam announced today to boost sugar production in Indonesia. The tie-up sees Mitr Phol investing in a 50.0% stake in Olam's wholly-owned subsidiary Far East Agri, which operates PT Dharmapala Usaha Sukses — a sugar refinery in Cilacap, Central Java.
The new mill, if plans proceed, will leverage on the joint strengths of Mitr Phol and Olam to simultaneously improve operating efficiencies while enhancing livelihoods by ensuring farmers have sustainable incomes. Sourcing activities will be matched with initiatives to help growers improve yields via upskilling support and the introduction of cutting-edge initiatives such as ModernFarm and DTF Cocoa. In addition to the joint venture, Mitr Phol will join Olam's programme of extending Good Agricultural Practices to farmers across Indonesia, which has been in place since Olam entered the country in 1996.
Joe Kenny, Managing Director and CEO for Sugar & Dairy, Olam International, explained the rationale for the partnership: "This partnership brings together two responsible, leading sugar players with long-term ties in Indonesia. We are fully committed to support the government's goal for self-reliance in sugar production and will deliver quality, safe products to customers and create value for all stakeholders; in particular, we would focus on continuing to improve the livelihood of farmers we source from by introducing cutting-edge technology, and working with them to improve yields and practices to ensure they generate sustainable incomes."
Krisda Monthienvichienchai, CEO of Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, also highlighted Mitr Phol's commitment to Indonesia: "We are excited to begin our journey in the country by partnering with an established player in Olam. Our shared belief in Indonesia's potential and in creating long-term value will underpin our growth strategy here. We look forward to playing a meaningful role in helping Indonesia become self-sufficient in sugar production by working closely with Olam, the authorities, farmers and all stakeholders."
About Olam International Limited
Olam International is a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 70 countries, supplying various products across 18 platforms to 23,000 customers worldwide. From a direct sourcing and processing presence in most major producing countries, Olam has built a global leadership position in many of its businesses. Headquartered in Singapore and listed on the SGX-ST on February 11, 2005, Olam currently ranks among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in Singapore in terms of market capitalisation. In 2016, Fortune magazine recognised Olam at #23 in its 'Change the World' list. More information on Olam can be found at www.olamgroup.com. Olam is located at 7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower #20-01, Singapore 018936. Telephone: +65 63394100, Facsimile: +65 63399755
About Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation
Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation is the world's fourth largest and Asia's largest sugar producer with 16 sugar mills, eight power plants and four ethanol distilleries, contracting 143,000 farmers across Thailand, Laos, China and Australia. It is also Asia's largest bio-energy producer and has business interests in wood substitute materials, fertilisers and agriculture-related logistics.
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UQ has received a merit award at this year's Queensland iAwards in the category 'Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year'.
RCC Director Prof. David Abramson personally received the certificate at the state gala in Brisbane on Wednesday, 7 June.
UQ received the award for significant innovations around data-intensive infrastructure, in particular the FlashLite high performance computer and the Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure (MeDiCI), a high performance storage fabric. Together these systems provide unprecedented ability to store and process large amounts of research data, involving computers and instruments on campus, and computers and storage off-site.
MeDiCI delivers ultra-fast multi-site data access on demand without user involvement, saving researchers valuable time to focus on their work.
FlashLite, the RCC-designed specialist high performance computer for data-intensive science, has a novel storage and processing hierarchy that includes large amounts of main memory and solid-state disk (flash memory).
The Australian Information Industry Association hosts the iAwards annually, with state awards preceding a national final. Receiving a merit award puts UQ and RCC in the running for a national iAward, announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on Wednesday, 30 August.
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TOWN OF NIAGARA – The preliminary budget for 2014 was tabled Tuesday by the Town Board for more discussion.
Following a public hearing during which more questions were asked by the councilmen than by the public, the board voted, 3-2, to put off passage until questions regarding funds to help alleviate flooding and to repair roads in the Belden Center area could be addressed.
Councilman Marc M. Carpenter was joined by Councilmen Robert A. Clark and Charles F. Teixeira in his motion to table the $7,730,597 tentative budget so the board could discuss the sewer and water lines in Belden Center, along with the roads, many of which are in bad shape, it was noted.
The councilmen plan to meet with those department heads to come up with answers.
Several questions regarding Belden Center had been raised during the hearing and the councilmen could offer no firm answers. "I'm not ready to vote on the budget," Carpenter said.
The tentative budget for 2014 submitted early this month by Supervisor Steven C. Richards would carry a tax-rate decrease of 3.5 percent for business owners and 5.6 percent for homeowners while maintaining funding for various town projects and purchases, according to the supervisor.
About $1,853,184 of the budget needs to be raised by taxes, which is $78,808 less than had to be collected this year. The new tax rates would be $4.45 per $1,000 of assessed valuation for homestead properties and $8.40 for non-homestead in 2014. The rates are $4.71 and $8.71, respectively, in 2013, Richards said in a news release.
The hearing took on a formal structure almost immediately when Deputy Supervisor Danny W. Sklarski read a list of budget questions for Richards from the other board members.
The questions from the board included items such as $50,000 being put away to save for a new town garage roof and $3,675 for baseball uniforms.
In past years, the supervisor met with the rest of the board at budget work sessions to discuss items in the general fund in the same manner as department heads presented their spending packages to the councilmen. At the Monday night session, the councilmen told Sklarski they wanted to meet with Richards at a work session instead of during the public hearing.
"What night can we meet?, Clark asked Richards on Tuesday.
"I'm here right now," Richards responded.
Sklarski, who voted with Richards not to table the budget, recommended its approval because of the tax rate decreases and the fact that the board did not have to make any significant changes as a result of its meetings with department heads.
The only member of the public to address the board, Tom Tierney of Rhode Island Avenue in Belden Center, wanted to know what was being done to prevent the flooding that hit the area last July when sewer lines backed up into homes and intersections were impassable. He was one of about seven people, including three town employees, who attended the hearing.
Clark said the board is looking at modernizing the Belden pump house rather than replacing just the pump, which would run about $100,000.
Tierney questioned why other roads in the town have been repaired while the ones in Belden Center are never touched. Highway Superintendent Robert Herman told him that the town has applied for a grant to fix more roads including Rhode Island Street. If the grant is turned down, Herman said, the board could borrow money for the project. Teixeira said no final numbers were available yet for the work.
Carpenter said Richards has a five-year plan for road replacement and repair but has not shared the details with the board. Because the sewer lines would need to be repaired first, the roads might not be touched for another three years, it was noted.
No future meeting dates have been set, and Sklarski said there would be no further public forums. Town Clerk Sylvia Virtuoso said that the budget needs to be passed by Nov. 20 and that the board has scheduled its monthly meeting for Nov. 19.


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We recently exhibited at the Affiliate Summit East 2011 Meet Market in New York City and as always, the event was fantastic. We exhibit at several events throughout the year, and Affiliate Summit is one we try not to miss. The event is always busy, fun, and worthwhile for us to participate in, and this year was no exception.
Of course, no event is ever pulled off perfectly, and this was also no exception. This go-around, our display stand got lost somewhere between Berlin and New York. So yes, we exhibited at ASE without a display, but we did have business cards, great give-aways, and our lovely selves to more than make up for the slightly bare space that was our Meet Market Table. And in the end, the event worked out well and was worth being a part of.
We've posted pictures of the event on our Flickr page, so take a look if you'd like to see some of the event happenings and, of course,the City.


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Art for Art's sake – Rebecca's hidden talent revealed
Many of you will have spoken to Rebecca in recent times. She is one of the mainstays of our Customer Care team. Her co-workers already know Rebecca to be a woman of many talents but just recently she let us in on a little known secret.
"A few weeks ago I attended a Graffiti Workshop in East London (Shoreditch) and we were asked to try a bit of our own "DIY" street art. We were also given a tour of the area and managed to see some original Banksy pieces. As Banksy uses stencils we were asked to create stencils of our on. Following the recent events in Manchester I decided to draw a stencil of the Manchester Bee. I'd had the Bee Tattoo done and I thought it would be nice to use this image as it had personal meaning for me and it was my way of showing strength and solidarity. Once the stencils had been cut, we were asked to experiment with colours that made a statement but allowed us to be creative at the same time. People seem to like the results (Interestingly enough the friends that I was with said they thought it looked like the bee had drums under the wings – that hadn't been the intention but I can see that now in the pictures)."


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Dates to Remember: Quick Pick Overview, stay with me!
9/26-9/29 – Seattle Int'l Fashion Week 2007
9/28 – Crystal Method, DJ Icey @ Showbox
9/29 – Redbull Soap Box Race in Freemont
10/2-10/6 – Seattle Fashion (with a Conscience) Week 2007
10/4 – Kuhlman Fall Fashion Preview @ Veil
10/4 – Clutch Grand Opening Gala @ Fairmont Hotel
10/6 – Kaskade @ LSC
10/6 – FurBall2007
It's hard to keep track of all the fashion related events happening in the next two weeks, I know, but if I had to choose, I would choose the following:
Seattle Int'l Fashion Week Finale Event: September 29, Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm, EMP Skychurch. SIFW promises a fashion event to remember, featuring International and local high-end designers and a performance by Grammy nominee Maryline Blackburn!
Kuhlman's Fall Fashion Preview: October 4th, Doors at 6pm, Show at 8pm, Veil. Scope out your favorite Men + Women's pieces from Kuhlman while indulging on complimentary sparkling Wine and hors d'oeuvres.
Clutch Grand Opening Gala: October 4th, 5pm-9pm, Fairmont Hotel. Handbags +Champagne + Chocolate + Shopping = a girls dream. Only thing missing? Firefighters offering free massages….(Chat Party has this covered). RSVP HERE.
Fashion Week Runway Event & Wrap Up Party: October 6th, 8pm, Bell Harbor. Take part in Seattle's largest runway event at The Grand Finale of Seattle's Green Fashion week with party immediately to follow. Sponsored by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, tickets to Hawaii will be given away. Need I say more…?
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Standing before hundreds of red-clad supporters in Sabaneta, Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro sought to rally party faithful yesterday afternoon as he paid homage to his late predecessor.
Events marking what would have been former President Hugo Chávez's 59th birthday were held throughout the Andean nation on Sunday. Mr. Maduro traveled to the fallen leader's birthplace in the western state of Barinas to personally commemorate his memory and to shore up support in this politically divided nation.
"It has not been easy," Maduro said of his first 100 days as president. "On behalf of our Comandante …[we must] become more united and prepare for new battles and new victories."
Maduro's short time in office has been marred by a stumbling economy and allegations of fraud in his April 14 Election Day victory. Strife in the streets appears to have settled, but recent poll data suggest that public opinion of Maduro has reached new lows. With as much as half of the country disapproving of his policies, observers say Venezuela's political divide is hampering actions to correct the nation's distressed economy.
"It seems what might be most characteristic of Chávez's legacy is a divided nation," says Carlos Romero, a political scientist at the University of Central Venezuela. "We have reached a point of status quo where neither side, government or opposition, is able to pull the country out of its current crisis."
'Benefit of the doubt'
Well before Maduro was elected to office, Venezuelans were feeling the fallout of a liquidity crunch – gripped by nagging shortages of everything from toilet paper to toothpaste – due to strict currency controls and lavish spending before the October 2012 presidential election.
Companies are struggling to stock store shelves as dollars have dried up on official exchange markets and inflation has surged to a five year high, making it one of the world's highest at just under 40 percent.
A recent poll from the firm Datanálisis found that 58 percent of the country now view his handling of the economy negatively and believe corrective measures are needed. Negative perceptions of his government have climbed from roughly 40 percent to 48 percent over the first two months in office, as well.
Despite unhappiness with Maduro's government, his popularity as a politician is still virtually tied with opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Maduro beat Mr. Capriles by a razor-thin margin of less than 2 percentage points in last spring's presidential election. "The numbers are now essentially the same as they were during the April presidential election," says pollster Luis Vicente Leon, president of Datanálisis, noting that "many of Maduro's base supporters are likely to be giving him the benefit of the doubt."
Reconciling with the private sector?
Maduro has taken steps to stem widespread shortages of basic goods by promising wider access to hard currency for cash-strapped businesses. Venezuela's currency controls have been in effect for more than a decade, and are vigorously opposed by business leaders who say it makes meeting import demands nearly impossible. The controls have been kept intact, but the government reactivated the Complementary System for the Administration of Foreign Currency (SICAD), which works as a type of currency auction selling dollars for bolívares and serving as a legal workaround of currency controls and alternative to the black market.
The move has been seen by some as an easing of controls as companies and individuals can now buy and sell dollars (and dollar denominated debt) on the exchange. But due to its sparse and infrequent offerings, SICAD has thus far failed to restore market confidence. Greenbacks are still fetching five times their official worth on the black market.
"The underlying problems of high fiscal deficit, inflation, scarcity of basic goods and lack of competitiveness the Venezuelan economy faces are likely to persist," wrote Barclay's analysts Alejandro Arreaza and Alejando Grisanti in a client note.
"SICAD might provide some temporary relief, but more adjustments will likely be needed sooner rather than later."
Looking to the past to move forward
By dusk Maduro had returned to the Venezuelan capital to finish yesterday's events in the Caracas hillside slum 23 de Enero.
"We will consolidate economic recovery and finish overcoming the economic sabotage that remains," Maduro shouted out from the military barracks overlooking the slum and all of Caracas, where Chávez's tomb is held.
Leon from Datanálisis agrees that additional unpopular adjustments are needed to remedy the country's ailing economy. Yet lacking the popular support of his predecessor, Maduro is caught between a rock and a hard place. If he fails to push forward with tough economic changes, it "would be extremely costly for Maduro's popularity," Leon says.
When Maduro's final speech transitioned to painting an image of the "road ahead," he asked his followers to, in fact, look to the past. Recalling Chávez's life he asked Venezuelans to "turn this pain into strength" in order to create "energy for the future."


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Estonian National Ballet to give performances at La Fenice theatre in Venice
On the 9th of December, Estonian National Ballet lead by the artistic director Thomas Edur, assembled at the Tallinn Airport in order to set out for the five performances of "La Bayadère" in La Fenice theatre in Venice. The estimated number of visitors to the performances is 6000. The leading roles will be danced by Alena Shkatula, Denis Klimuk, Ekaterina Oleynik, Luana Georg, Jonatan Davidsson, Nanae Maruyama and Sergei Upkin. The performances will be conducted by Risto Joost. This is the company's second visit to the historic theatre after three years, when they performed "The Nutcracker" and it was broadcast on Mezzo TV.
Teatro La Fenice (The Phoenix) is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of three theatres to fire, the first in 1774 after the city's leading house was destroyed and rebuilt but not opened until 1792; the second fire came in 1836, but rebuilding was completed within a year. However, the third fire was the result of arson. It destroyed the house in 1996 leaving only the exterior walls, but it was rebuilt and re-opened in November 2004. Many famous composers, such as Rossini, Bellini and Verdi have written for this theatre.
The first time the Estonian National Ballet visited Italy was in June 1989, when an Amicable Intentions Agreement was signed by the Estonian SSR and Trento Province. The company performed Mai Murdmaa's choreography and the stars of the evening were Kaie Kõrb and Thomas Edur.


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Affirming God
Today's reading: Psalm 52:1-9
Psalm 52 is David's response to Saul's ordering, and Doeg's carrying out of, the slaying of Ahimelech and the priests at Nob because they had given provisions to David and his men (see 1 Samuel 21-22). I can only imagine the heavy heart David must have had knowing that it was his actions that led to this tragedy. Because David is on the run from Saul, he is powerless to take action. So in this time of grief and distress, he turns to God reaffirming his trust and dependence on Him.
How has God been your comfort and refuge in a time of grief or distress? What impact does focusing on God and declaring and affirming your trust in Him have when you're troubled, worried or distraught? Tami
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At one point or another, we've all been guilty of the occasional nude snapshot. Whether it be the much maligned dick pic or a photo of a pair of voluptuous breasts. Dudes and dames alike have partaken of the shameless acts of voyeurism and exhibitionism that characterize these heady times, which is why I'm here to tell you—keep that shit locked up!
First, let me dispense some old-fashioned advice, the kind a chill teacher or cool aunt/uncle might tell you. If you don't want some pimply Russian hacker laying his grubby talons on your racy images, don't take any! I know, I know, practical advice, but not the most realistic.
Seriously though, info sec (information security) professionals will tell you that the best way to protect those explicit digital images is to not have them. Stick to polaroids.
But, if, like me, you have a rebellious streak and prefer to do what you want, best advice be damned, there are a couple nifty apps out there that'll keep your erotica on the DL.
Private Photo Vault is a free app that's available for all iOS devices. Besides providing a PIN lock for uploaded photos you want to protect, it has a "break-in report," which will photograph whoever was trying to access your albums and provide you with their GPD coordinates. Plus, its nifty "decoy password" will launch a different set of pictures, fooling any would-be peeping Toms.
For Android, there's Gallery Lock (also a free, though ads are included). With similar offerings to Private Photo Vault, Gallery Lock operates in stealth mode, so you can't see its icon. Upon a third failed password attempt, the app's "Watchdog" setting will automatically have your phone's camera take a photo of the invader.
Plenty of smartphones also have built-in privacy settings. Samsung, for instance, has its own "Private Mode", which allows you to tap any photos you'd like to hide and toggle password, PIN, fingerprint, or pattern protection. iPhone offers a "Hide" setting, which removes images from your "Moments, Collections and Years" section. Be careful though, those same images will still be in your albums section…
Beyond all the apps and security settings, you can MacGyver your own info sec techniques, too. For instance, couch your nude selfies in a labyrinthine assortment of subfolders or crop them so that your previews don't appear too risqué. And don't back-up your nudies on the cloud! Clouds can be hacked for nudes – just look at the Jennifer Lawrence leak.
While implementing these strategies will go a long way to securing your private information, keep in mind that none of them are sure things. If someone is absolutely determined to get at your private information (i.e you're someone famous, or someone sexy as hell), there are ways for them to go about doing it. Also, it's worth noting that these methods protect your phone and yours alone. If you send images out to lovers (or strangers), you no longer have control over their security, or where they end up. That's why you should practice safe sexting, always.


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Written by ι Stock Market Media Group Staff — April 3, 2014
NEW YORK, NY–(Apr 3, 2014) – That loud noise you hear coming from Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX) this week is the collective excitement of many investors after the company stated it would be working with Translational Drug Development or TD2 and Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, the world's leading figure in pancreatic cancer, to develop its pancreatic cancer and other treatments utilizing Cell-in-a-Box® technology. Quite honestly Nuvilex may have just announced what might be one of the biggest stories in the biotechnology sector in all of 2014, and investors may not even realize it yet.
- Translational Drug Development or TD2 will conduct preclinical and clinical studies for Nuvilex that seem aimed at the overall management of pancreatic cancer (further explanation below)
- Dr. Daniel Von Hoff who just led NASDAQ's Celgene to FDA approval for its advanced inoperable pancreatic cancer treatment will now play a pivotal role in these studies done for Nuvilex at TD2
- Nuvilex now has access to TD2's Pancreatic Cancer Research Team (PCRT) which consists of 65 Oncology Clinicians, Surgeons and Researchers who are member-investigators of the PCRT and who represent 45 clinical research sites worldwide
These are amazing headlines for any biotechnology firm, but for Nuvilex and its investors they represent a blockbuster achievement. The company has attracted world renowned oncologist Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, and that is no small feat given he's likely extremely selective about the projects he works with in pancreatic cancer, a field he's basically been writing the textbook in for years.
But, let's pay close attention to this week's press release for what it said and didn't say. At Stock Market Media Group, a full service investment relations firm focused on research and content development, we surmise the release is actually bigger than first thought. Here's what the company did say.
"TD2 will conduct preclinical and clinical studies in support of the development of Nuvilex's pancreatic cancer and other treatments utilizing Cell-in-a-Box technology."
We first thought the company was naming its Contract Research Organization (CRO), but at second glance it doesn't seem to be saying that at all. If that were the case, why would the company say "in support of the development of Nuvilex's pancreatic cancer and other treatments"? It is the use of "other treatments" that leads us to believe there is something even bigger going on here.
Then we took a longer look at Dr. Von Hoff's quote from the release:
"The Nuvilex team presents us with a new tool to employ against the symptoms and invasive properties of this very challenging cancer," said Daniel D. Von Hoff, M.D., Chief Development Officer of TD2. "Our Pancreatic Cancer Research Team (PCRT) colleagues are enthusiastic to begin clinical trials with this approach."
From this quote, we don't see words like survival rate, or median survival time, so we think Dr. Von Hoff and TD2 feel like Nuvilex has a treatment that can do more than first thought from the results of two independent Phase II clinical trials. It appears that when Dr. Von Hoff says "a new tool to employ against the symptoms and invasive properties," he may have other ideas that make Nuvilex's pancreatic cancer treatment an even broader remedy than even Nuvilex or Austrianova imagined.
What is clear is that Nuvilex is attracting some of the biggest names in cancer treatment development. Nuvilex's news is as good as it gets for a biotech with hopes of furthering a pancreatic cancer treatment, and investors couldn't have asked for a more impressive group to support the development of the company's treatment.
Dr. Daniel Von Hoff along with his team at TD2 have been shaping the path of cancer drugs at an alarming rate. With Dr. Von Hoff, Nuvilex gets a man who has been called the "voice of pancreatic cancer," and yes, he's the very same Dr. Daniel Von Hoff who just led Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) to FDA approval with its drug Abraxane® plus gemcitabine, and the same Dr. Von Hoff who began Eli Lilly's (NYSE: LLY) clinical trials with Gemzar® (gemcitabine) both for advanced inoperable pancreatic cancer, and both became the "gold standard" for the disease.
TD2 is a world-class drug development service, specializing in getting the newest and best oncology treatments to cancer patients as quickly as possible. TD2 calls itself The Precision Oncology CRO™ and uses the slogan "Your Drug's Journey Begins Here." TD2 has managed and conducted more than 60 early-mid phase clinical studies and has worked with more than 350 biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide, so its interest in Nuvilex is great news for the Maryland biotech's future.
And, when a leading figure in pancreatic cancer, does in fact, choose to work with Nuvilex, he must feel the company's treatment can have an impact on the overall management of a disease that he's played a pivotal role in fighting against for many years now.
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SMMG is a full service IR firm specializing in Research and Content Development. It offers a platform for corporate stories to unfold through the media with Reports, Interviews and Articles. SMMG is compensated for Nuvilex articles, reports and interviews by a third party who reserves the right to buy, sell or remain neutral on securities at any time before, during, or after the publication of this article. To date, SMMG has received total compensation of $74,115 for content related to Nuvilex. Additionally, a principal at SMMG currently owns 200,000 total shares of Nuvilex issued by the company through a consulting agreement which has since ended for work unrelated to its content work. 100,000 of those shares have been held for the requisite period under Rule 144 as of October 31, 2013, and are eligible to be sold immediately. To date, none of the Rule 144 eligible shares have been sold; however, the principal reserves the right to sell all or part of those shares in Nuvilex at any time without further notice. For more information and to read full disclaimers and disclosures: www.stockmarketmediagroup.com/disclaimer.


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On January 26, 2016, a temporary error in the data upload system for the US Air Force Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) caused incorrect data to be transmitted from the satellites on the commercial L1 band channel used by most commercial GPS receivers. A statement released by the US Air Force is shown below:
50th Space Wing Public Affairs press release on the 26 Jan 2016 event follows:
On 26 January at 12:49 a.m. MST, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at the 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., verified users were experiencing GPS timing issues. Further investigation revealed an issue in the Global Positioning System ground software which only affected the time on legacy L-band signals. This change occurred when the oldest vehicle, SVN 23, was removed from the constellation. While the core navigation systems were working normally, the coordinated universal time timing signal was off by 13 microseconds which exceeded the design specifications. The issue was resolved at 6:10 a.m. MST, however global users may have experienced GPS timing issues for several hours. U.S. Strategic Command's Commercial Integration Cell, operating out of the Joint Space Operations Center, effectively served as the portal to determine the scope of commercial user impacts. Additionally, the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB has not received any reports of issues with GPS-aided munitions, and has determined that the timing error is not attributable to any type of outside interference such as jamming or spoofing. Operator procedures were modified to preclude a repeat of this issue until the ground system software is corrected, and the 50th Space Wing will conduct an Operational Review Board to review procedures and impacts on users. Commercial and Civil users who experienced impacts can contact the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center at (703) 313-5900.
GPS Operations Center, GPS User Operations
There are 24 satellites in the "baseline" GPS constellation, although the total number of satellites in the constellation varies from time to time (actually as of today there are 32 satellites total in the constellation).
Each satellite orbits the earth twice per day in a medium earth orbit (MEO) at an altitude of approximately 20,200 kilometers (12,550 miles) and independently broadcasts navigation and timing information. The main control center for the satellites is located at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado and it is from here that corrections are uploaded to each satellite nominally twice per day.
The reported issue related to the UTC timing portion of the GPS L band message, and to definitively determine the exact impact that the stated issue had on individual receivers would require an analysis of which satellites had corrections uploaded at exactly what time between 12: 49 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. on January 26th, and which of those satellites were in turn in use by a specific GPS receiver to calculate timing corrections at a particular location around the globe.
While this is technically feasible, the task is probably a fruitless one, however, a generalized analysis of the impact may be useful.
As the anomaly was in place for around 6 hours, and each satellite orbits once every twelve hours, and on the assumption the spacing of the satellites in orbit is fairly even, a rough estimate of the number of satellites affected would yield :
(6 / 12) x 24 i.e. 12 satellites affected.
First, the observed impact would almost certainly vary from receiver to receiver, dependent upon the location and particular receiver type. Many GPS timing receivers like the ptf 3203A, utilize a receiver engine that incorporates a TRAIM (Time Range Autonomous Integrity Monitoring) algorithm. This algorithm is designed to take the data received from all "tracked" satellites, calculate a statistical mean value, and compare this mean to the data received from each individual satellite to insure that none of the data received from individual satellites varies from the mean by more than a set limit.
If a satellite's data is in variance by more than the set limit, that data is rejected and the mean is re-calculated using just the good data. This technique works well in rejecting a "rogue" satellite, however when a number (or all!) of the satellites included in the solution are transmitting bad data, this technique clearly is not sufficient to detect/correct the error.
In this case, where at its peak twelve satellites were affected, a TRAIM algorithm would have soon become ineffective, albeit providing at least some small mitigation of the problem for the first and last approximately 45 minutes of the anomaly.
After this, the receivers would have exhibited a jump of approximately 13 micro seconds on the position of the 1PPS output. The error between the received 1PPS output, and a 1PPS output generated from the receiver's internal RF reference ( usually 10MHz) is typically used to control the frequency of the receiver, by driving the error to zero, and maintaining it there.
A step change would have the impact of increasing this error by the amount of the step (13 micro seconds in this case) with the effect of causing the receiver control loop to change the frequency of the receiver in an effort to drive the error back down to zero.
The rate of change of the frequency is a function of the loop time constant of the control loop which is in turn dependent upon the type of internal oscillator used (usually a TCXO, OCXO, or rubidium based oscillator) and the particular manufacturers' control implementation.
For the ptf 3203A instruments, most of which utilize a high quality OCXO, the loop time constant is around 159 seconds, and so the instrument would have exhibited a frequency offset of around 1E-10 for several hours as it endeavored to drive the phase error back down to zero. Once the anomaly was removed, the effect would have been observed in the opposite direction as the instrument endeavored to remove the inadvertently applied offset.
An issue of this type is very unusual and is difficult to predict, but when it arises the impact can be substantial as the use of GPS disciplined timing receivers around the world is prolific. The latest addition to the ptf family of GNS receivers, the ptf 3207A has the potential to provide a degree of mitigation to this type of problem by monitoring additional satellite systems and comparing solutions provided by each.


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The great thing about PB over the almond/cashew etc varieties is that it is very cheap. I reccomend any of the varieties which are at least 97% peanuts (99% if you can). I know Aldi does a 97% version for just over £1.
Snack cookies are brilliant for taking to work or for a day out. You can adjust them and be creative without risking them 'not working', because as long as you have the base ingredients binding it all together, it will be fine!
These are super simple but admittedly Sam didn't spend too much time 'perfecting them'. They may not look a million dollars but they taste spot on!
How to make (for apx 15 small cookies)
1. Combine 4 heaped tbsp smooth peanut butter, 4 tbsp maple syrup, 2 tbsp plant based milk of your choice and optional: 2 tbsp raw cacoa powder – and mix well
2. Add 1.5 cups of whole rolled oats and mix until it is in a thick batter
3. Use a little coconut oil to grease your baking trays
4. Place batter into small cookie shapes (of your choice) on baking tray and bung in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 mins (or until slightly crispy.
Voila you have a batch of PBC's!!
The entire batch costed about £3 and that's using mostly organic ingredients. If you can't afford organic, you could make this batch for apx £2 xxxx


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LAKESHORE, Ont. — A Windsor, Ont., man is facing charges after a stolen pickup truck got stuck in the mud.
Provincial police say they got a call Saturday night about a vehicle stuck in the mud in Lakeshore, Ont.
Investigators say a witness told them the driver had been trying to free the vehicle, but left the area on foot after failing to do so.
They say the pickup had been reported stolen in Kingsville, Ont., earlier that evening.
A police canine unit located a suspect a short time later.
A 30-year-old man is to appear in court in Windsor on Nov. 16 facing charges of theft over $5,000 and possession of stolen property over $5,000.


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Sometimes we are blessed to be heard and to receive the absolution of friendship. Of love. We are left more human, more forgivable and yes, lovable even. We may spend the rest of our lives discovering and re-discovering this. We will forget and re-learn over and over again that once we speak those fears, their power over us is diminished.
But the love between us? It increases beyond our greatest hopes. Oh to remember this. Stay, sweet Insight, stay just a moment longer.
Happy anniversary to my husband — that friend with whom I can share my secrets and fears and find acceptance there.