Inside: Are you dealing with sleeping problems? Learn how to overcome and find peaceful sleep and relaxation with the use of quality, essential oils. Tips for what oils work and what you can do to start sleeping better.
It was 2:30 a.m., and I was again staring at the clock. The house was silent as it should be with everyone on dreamland, except for me.
I got up to use the bathroom and returned to bed praying that I would fall back asleep.
You see, this wasn't the first night that dreamland evicted me.
It had become a regular visitor.
The next day, I would be plagued with fatigue, low motivation, and the desire to get into bed often, but with a preschooler, it meant I'd need to stay awake.
In the past when I'd suffer from insomnia, I'd try over the counter sleep aids, but they never seemed to make a difference.
The awake nights would still plague me, so I'd resort to calling my doctor for help.
Once I exhausted the usual medications found in the local pharmacy, a stronger prescription would be called in for me.
The problem was, I developed a bad side effect from the prescription sleep meds and had to go off of them.
Besides in my gut, I knew any type of sleep med was just meant for the short-term time frame.
I know I needed to find something better and long-term.
When we're kids, we can usually fall asleep anywhere. I remember sleeping on the hard floor like it was nothing.
I didn't wake up at night, and if I did, I fell back to sleep quickly. Sleeping in on the weekends or till noon had no effect on my sleep patterns.
Sleep problems didn't really start until my mid-thirties.
My sleep woes could be traced to hormonal imbalances. More about that in another post.
As I've gotten older, I've come to the conclusion that getting good, quality sleep is a lifestyle.
So many of us have the mindset that we don't need to prepare our bodies for sleep.
As I said above, my default reaction in the past was to ask my doctor for a prescription.
At the beginning, it did help me sleep better, but every morning I felt like a zombie. After being on the medication for a few days, I had side effects which caused more issues than I wanted.
However, my desire for sleep pushed me into trying anything.
The first thing I learned is that the quality of the oil matters.
In the beginning, I thought this was a sales tactic to buy more expensive oils so I researched it.
This means I research everything before I do anything.
And yes, I fall into paralysis by analysis many times. So glad I have a God that I can draw closer to in prayer because I ask for direction when my analysis tries to take over.
After researching, I sometimes (but should every time) seek God's direction to lead me to what will heal me or guide me to make wise decisions.
Quality matters because we want to make sure that any money we spend is going towards helping with our specific needs.
My need was sleep, so I wanted to make sure I was getting something that was actually going to help me sleep.
Another thing to remember is many oils are sprayed with pesticides and distilled with chemicals.
Many of the problems we are dealing with in regards to stress can be traced back to toxins and chemical exposure to our body systems.
The last thing we want is to add more harmful products to our bodies.
Let me stop right here and say the reason for lack of sleep is that some system in our body is unbalanced.
A balanced body will find the rest it needs; sleep will be deep, and we will awaken feeling good and rested.
Essential oils help our bodies find balance.
If an oil doesn't help, it might take a few weeks, or it might not be the oil your body needs.
Lavender helps a lot of people sleep, but it wasn't strong enough to help me find peaceful sleep.
I use Lavender in tandem with other oils, but it helps my kids sleep!
Through trial and error, I found the oils that help me find peaceful sleep most nights.
Now during that time of the month, it's hit or miss and understanding this and making acceptance of it has been helpful overcoming those nights where sleep doesn't come.
We can ask God to bless our sleep, help us relax, and recover through sleep to begin tomorrow awake and ready to meet the demands of the day by keeping our center on Him and His plans for our day.
If you want to learn more about the products I'm using to get better sleep and a healthier body.
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Thanks for sharing. My best friend was just telling me recently about the power of quality essential oils. I haven't gotten to using specific oils consistently, but I wholeheartedly believe that they help over time. Pinning this so I can use some of these combinations in the not so distant future.
I hear good things about essential oils. I have not tried them but I keep hearing about them.
Thank you. I have wrestled insomnia from youth and it's been out of control lately. My sleep hygiene is pretty good, but the only essential oil I've ever tried was lavender. I have a friend who sells doTerra;will definitely research this more.
I have used lavender before. It really worked. Thank you for the info concerning the oils.
I didn't know that some are sprayed with pesticides and chemicals. It definitely pays to research and ensure we are purchasing quality.
One thing that you mention is our bodies can be unbalanced. I know this to be true. My vitamin D and B12 levels were low; once I started taking the vitamin supplements it was incredible how this one change helped me sleep!
I exercise regularly, walk outside in the afternoon, don't drink caffeinated beverages after 2 pm at the latest. I avoid alcohol, use lavender oil in my diffuser, have all my screens set to go to dim yellow lighting in the early evening, dim the house lights, wear a sleep mask, have on white noise, follow the same evening routine, and take melatonin. All of this helps. Prayer is most significant. Only the Lord can grant what we can't control or achieve through all our efforts. We take sleep for granted when we're young, but insomnia seems to catch up with a significant percentage of women through the years.
This sounds really neat! I've started using essential oils (lemon and peppermint) at the office, and I've found they really help. I don't doubt they help with sleep issues, too!
What wonderful suggestions for overall rest, sleep and good health, all wrapped in Godly encouragement. Beautiful!
I love the Peace by DoTerra. Though I don't have sleep issues, it really helps reduce stress and anxiety. Great information!
Lisa- Yes, essential oils can help with stress and anxiety!


KJV Matthew 13:37; He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
RSV 4Esdras 6:18 And it said, "Behold, the days are coming, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit the inhabitants of the earth, 19 and when I require from the doers of iniquity the penalty of their iniquity, and when the humiliation of Zion is complete, 20 and when the seal is placed upon the age which is about to pass away, then I will show these signs:22 Sown places shall suddenly appear unsown, and full storehouses shall suddenly be found to be empty; 23 and the trumpet shall sound aloud, and when all hear it, they shall suddenly be terrified.
KJV Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
KJV Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.
.. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
What we have in our HEADLINE are two simultaneous events. The Husbandman will reap the entire earth of human beings as He brings that phase of His education process to a close. At the same time all devils who are in and on the bodies of men will be suddenly dumped back into their curse of falling in circles through all that is solid matter to men. This is the bottomless pit curse. Thus the kingdom of devils or "Babylon" will be primed for their execution, to be dissolved to nothing by fire. This final event cannot and will not take place until all human beings living on earth's surface have been removed. I want to make it clear to all religionists of all persuasions that your Father will "lose nothing" of all the sheep He created! It is not His will that even one sheep shall perish! Therefore all "good seed" (sons of men/children of the kingdom) shall be reaped! Your church doctrines on "the Great Judgment" are moot and VOID! This action by the Supreme Judge and Husbandman exposes your erroneous human surmising and renders your doctrinal "guess work" INVALID! Some in the churches refer to this event as a "rapture", but it will not be a "rapture" in the manner described in their church doctrines. I prefer to call it a "reaping process" in the "fall season" of earth's time. The Husbandman will remove the wheat (sons of men and children of the kingdom) from the field (the world) and all tares (possessing demons) will remain and "fall"! This process will completely strip the earth of all humanity leaving it "empty" of men. This work is totally and completely the work of the Father/Creator, Isaiah 43:13, 44:7. It is the finishing step in His education plan for mankind. There is nothing preachers, churches, and demons can do to stop God from doing this, Romans 8:38-39. He works by time, and this is His time to END man's presence on earth and to raise those remaining to Heaven for perfection and FAMILY REUNION, Ecclesiastes 3:1-2.
KJV Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
"ALL of humanity was symbolized and represented IN ROLE PLAY by the twelve tribes of Israel, Deuteronomy 32:8, III Hermas IX:161-163, LBB. The word, "Israel" is a pen-name meaning a PRINCE OF GOD, Genesis 32:28. Since God is the Father of all nations and KING OF KINGS, every male offspring is a "prince of God", Psalm 82:6-8; Matthew 23:9; Acts 17:24-28. Those of you who are "hard-boiled" eggs who never got out of the shell having carnal minds -- who cannot see the forest for the trees -- you need a scriptural bridge and transition key because you are 2-days (2000 yrs.) behind and spinning your wheels in "natural" thinking. Here is your ALL PURPOSE KEY: Genesis 17:4-6; Hosea 1:10; Galatians 3:28-29; Colossians 3:11. That BRIDGE should help you see that ALL MEN ARE "Princes of the King of Kings", or ISRAEL." (Excerpt from http://www.goodnewsinc.net/v4gn/watitmns.html, Israel and Egypt: "What It All Means").
This light from the mouths of both God and Jesus is SUPERIOR to any lesser light referring to Abraham and Israel after the flesh. Accept no degradation of your heritage, glory, and honor from the Almighty for the backwardness of any religion, church, or preacher! The Father Himself has honored you, John 17:22-24; Hebrews 2:6-8. Therefore you need to honor His Word revealing this to you!
This final "REAPING" by your Father/Judge will be very dramatic. Human life and activity will be "as usual" just before this event.
Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
. but suddenly in a twinkling of an eye all men will be removed from the face of this earth. Airplanes flying on automatic pilot will continue flying without one man on them until they run out of fuel and crash. Cars running on city streets and highways without drivers will careen and crash to a halt. Food cooking on stoves will begin to burn and start fires. Food will be left on dinner tables partially eaten. Newspapers and books will be open and dropped where the readers were standing or sitting. There will be many fires and explosions from volatile fuels burning and gas lines rupturing. The cities where men dwelt will become cauldrons of fire and smoke. The forests and plains will catch fire and burn. There will be a huge firestorm engulfing areas where man dwelt. There will be the roar of wind and fire. The sound of any human voice will be totally absent. This is the world devils will view as they fall through everything. This is the world you will view from Heaven above as God shows you the kingdom of darkness and their condition before He executes them, Isaiah 14:12,15-19; Ezekiel 28:16-19.
Up above all men will be "perfected". God will have gathered all His little "Body cells" to Himself, and we will become a perfect FAMILY. Family reunion will occur and the entire FAMILY will participate in the feast of "wines on the lees", Isaiah 25:6-8, 66:22-23; Revelation 5:13. I will not repeat the great story you can anticipate. You can read all about it at our Reunion-site, http://www.goodnewsinc.net/reunion and in our document, "Addendum: Family Reunion", http://www.goodnewsinc.net/v3gn/fmlyreun.html.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Isaiah 47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Isaiah 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house. 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. 58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Luke 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Isaiah 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. 5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Ode of Solomon 7:1 As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint: 2 My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent: 3 For I have a helper, the Lord. 4 He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness. 5 He became like me, in order that I might receive Him: He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on; 7 And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me: 8 Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him: 9 The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge: 10 He who created wisdom is wiser than His works: 11 And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being: 12 Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice: 13 Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the Father of them. 14 He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves: 15 For knowledge He hath appointed as its way, hath widened it and extended it; and brought to all perfection; 16 And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end. 17 For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, (all sons) and for its (their) salvation He will take hold of everything. 18 And the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord: 19 That they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones: 20 The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him, 21 And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth. 22 And hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned: 23 For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived. (As a reference to this Ode text see "God Is More of Me Than I Am", http://www.goodnewsinc.net/v4gn/godisme.html).
Psalm 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
John 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Enoch 10:13 In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: (and) 14 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all 15 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: ---- And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth 21 destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations 22 shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.
For an in-depth look at what devils have in store go to "Only Demons Are Damned", http://www.goodnewsinc.net/justify/damdemon.html.
Just as these things are written, even so shall they be done! Amen!


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A Primer on JSON Web Tokens
Arek Gil
Processor Web Server
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a data exchange format that can be used to ensure the authenticity of a message. JWTs are widely used in the industry — they were first proposed in 2010 and then standardized in RFC 7519, and they're used in the OpenID Connect specification. In this blog post, I'll explain what they are and why they're useful, along with how we use them at PSPDFKit.
What Are JWTs?
JWTs are text tokens that encode a JSON object containing claims, or statements, that the receiver of a JWT trusts to be true. There are several standardized claims, e.g. expiration time, issuer, and audience (you can find a complete list here). But you can put any kind of data inside a JWT — some kind of identifier, a list of permissions, or even the name of your pet:
"exp": 1601027965,
"user_id": "1acf7e0a-3ac0-4abe-befb-21ed9f83d1de",
"permissions": ["read"],
"pet": "Sparky"
JWTs support verification of the authenticity of a message — you can prove the message has not been tampered with and you can verify the source of the message. Note that authenticity does not imply encryption; encryption means that a clear text representation of the message is hidden, and it's not possible to see it without knowing the cipher and some sort of encryption key. This isn't the case with JWTs. Anyone can decode a JWT token and see its contents.
Compare this to the real world. Imagine you receive a snail mail letter from your friend, and it's been signed with a pen at the bottom. When you see that signature, you know that your friend is the source of that message (or not, if the signature doesn't look right). However, anyone who opens an envelope can also read the letter, because it's not encrypted.
❗ Important: Since JWTs aren't encrypted, it's best not to store any sensitive data (like a credit card number) inside them. It's also a good idea to transfer them over an encrypted medium, like an HTTPS connection.
Verifying JWTs
The authenticity of a JWT can be proven by checking its signature. The signing algorithm used is specified in the JWT header, which is another JSON object:
"typ": "JWT",
"alg": "HS256"
The "alg" field holds the signing algorithm — in this case, HMAC SHA-256.
There are a few standardized signing algorithms that can be used, but we can divide them into two groups:
Symmetric algorithms, where both the message issuer and the recipient share a secret key that's used to sign and verify the signature.
Asymmetric algorithms, where the issuer signs the message with their private key that only they know, and the recipient verifies it with a corresponding public key.
In the first case, the recipient verifies that the message has been created by an issuer who knows the shared secret key. In the second case, the recipient verifies that the message has been signed by someone who holds the private key corresponding to the public key that the recipient knows.
When you have a JWT header, claims, a signing algorithm, and the signing key (either a shared secret or a private key), you can create a JWT using the following algorithm:
payload = base64Url(header) + "." + base64Url(claims)
signature = sign(payload, key)
jwt = payload + "." + base64Url(signature)
base64Url here means base64-encoding in a URL-safe way so that the result can be embedded in URLs without an issue. First you encode the header and the claims, and then you build the payload by concatenating them with a dot. Next, you create the signature by signing the payload. Finally, you append the base64url-encoded signature preceded by a dot to the payload. The result is a JWT:
eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoiMWFjZjdlMGEtM2FjMC00YWJlLWJlZmItMjFlZDlmODNkMWRlIiwicGV0IjoiU3Bhcmt5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjAxMDMyMTc4fQ.UW736TXVkfWx3VLJ7DoUVl3wwTy5rV63MMtj1og1-L0
ℹ Note: Remember that even though the JWT looks obfuscated, it's not encrypted. You can see that by taking a header or claims from the JWT above and running them through base64 decoder (e.g. base64 -d in a shell) or pasting them in the JWT debugger at https://jwt.io. Anyone can read the contents of the JWT.
Let's wrap up this section with a recap of what JWTs are:
A data exchange format
where data is not encrypted
that includes a signature used to prove the authenticity of the message (the source and data integrity)
With that in mind, let's get to the next part where I explain when and how you can use JWTs.
When and How to Use JWTs?
So far I've been presenting JWTs as a data exchange format, although in practice, they're usually used for authorization.
In a typical scenario, we have three parties:
A subject, who wants to access a protected resource.
An issuer, who can verify the identity of the subject (i.e. authenticate them).
An audience, which grants access to the protected resource.
Using simpler terms, the subject is a user, the issuer is an application where the user logs in, and audience is some kind of service the user want to access.
The flow looks like this:
The user logs in to the application by providing credentials, proving they are who they say they are.
The application generates a JWT, which contains claims that define the authorization level for a certain user over specific resources. The application signs the JWT with a shared secret key or its private key.
The JWT is handed to the user.
When accessing the resource, the user presents the JWT to the service.
The service, knowing the shared secret key or the application's public key, can verify the authenticity of the claims in the JWT.
Finally, the service grants the subject access to the resource.
When the signature is valid, the service knows that the JWT has been generated by the application and that a malicious user hasn't changed any of the claims. It grants access to protected resources based on the information in the claims. However, if the signature is invalid, the service knows that either someone modified the claims or it's not the application that issued the JWT. In either case, the message isn't authentic and the user's request is rejected.
This is a lot like when medieval lords sold documents with their seal on them to merchants and travelers. The documents asserted that the person possessing them was under the lord's protection when passing through the lord's lands. The lords didn't know it back then, but they used JWTs (only back then, this concept was known as Geleitrecht, or right of escort).
Notice that the JWT doesn't need to be presented to the service every time the user wants to access a resource. For example, after the JWT has been accepted, the service can return a shortlived access token or a stateful session ID that's used for authenticating additional requests.
Since JWTs are just pieces of data that can be exchanged between parties, and since their verification requires no communication between the audience and the issuing application, they're best applied in situations where you don't control both the issuer and the audience. An example of this would be when you write the code for the issuer, but the audience is a piece of software created by a different team or built by a different organization.
The only thing the audience needs to know is a shared secret key or a public key of the issuer. That's enough to make sure claims in the JWT have been provided by an issuer the audience trusts. This is also why JWTs are widely used in federated authentication schemes like OpenID Connect, wherein a third party is used to validate the subject's identity.
Misuse
The most often cited example of JWT misuse is using them instead of stateful sessions stored in the database. This blog post by Randall Degges highlights the reasons why session IDs stored in a cookie are almost always superior to JWTs. Check it out!
JWTs at PSPDFKit
You now know what JWTs are, why they're great, and why they're not always that great — but what does this have to do with PSPDFKit?
JWTs are an authorization mechanism used in PSPDFKit for Web when used with PSPDFKit Server. To put it in the context of what we've discussed so far, your application is an issuer — it generates JWTs and signs them with its private key. The JWT's claims contain information about which document and layer the user can access, what their permissions are, and for how long the token is valid. It can also include a user ID, which is used to associate annotations created by the user with them:
"document_id": "7KRH488QQWSZVT2X90FFVTB1NE",
"permissions": ["read-document", "download"]
The user is the JWT's subject, who passes the JWT to PSPDFKit for Web:
PSPDFKit.load({
serverUrl: "https://pspdfkit.your-domain.com",
documentId: "7KRH488QQWSZVT2X90FFVTB1NE",
authPayload: { jwt: jwt }
When the Web SDK starts, it sends the JWT to PSPDFKit Server's authentication endpoint for the specified document ID. Server first verifies the authenticity of the JWT by checking the signature using the configured public key. If the signature is valid, it checks that the ID of the document that the Web SDK tries to authenticate against matches the document ID your application stored in the JWT's claims. When they match, the Server sends a more compact access token to the browser, which is then used to authenticate any requests later on.
But the new kid on the PSPDFKit block, Processor, also uses JWTs. Processor allows you to perform all sorts of operations on a document — like editing pages, adding watermarks, and converting images and Office documents to PDF. In contrast to PSPDFKit Server, its HTTP API is not protected by a shared API token, but rather with JWTs. Processor validates the authenticity of the JWT and uses claims to make sure a user was granted permission to process specific files or to apply particular operations. Thanks to this granular authorization scheme, you can expose the Processor endpoint to the internet and call it directly from your Web or mobile applications.
You now know what JWTs are and how we use them at PSPDFKit. I hope this post shed some light on when you might consider using them in software you write. And if you want to try using JWTs in practice, make sure to check out PSPDFKit Processor!
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L1.2 Digital system description
Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors
バルセロナ自治大学(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
This course gives you a complete insight into the modern design of digital systems fundamentals from an eminently practical point of view. Unlike other more "classic" digital circuits courses, our interest focuses more on the system than on the electronics that support it. This approach will allow us to lay the foundation for the design of complex digital systems. You will learn a set of design methodologies and will use a set of (educational-oriented) computer-aided-design tools (CAD) that will allow you not only to design small and medium size circuits, but also to access to higher level courses covering so exciting topics as application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) design or computer architecture, to give just two examples. Course topics are complemented with the design of a simple processor, introduced as a transversal example of a complex digital system. This example will let you understand and feel comfortable with some fundamental computer architecture terms as the instruction set, microprograms and microinstructions. After completing this course you will be able to: * Design medium complexity digital systems. * Understand the description of digital systems using high-level languages such as VHDL. * Understand how computers operate at their most basic level (machine language).
Digital Design, Digital Circuit Design, Boolean Algebra, Processor Design
excellent video lectures combined with a awesome assignment questions which are more about applications oriented.An excellent and must learn course for all ece students.
The Course is interesting and the assignments are challenging which allows the learners to gain great insight into the digital system design.
What Digital Systems are?
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This module is an introduction to Digital Systems. Here you will find:

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Some video-based explanations; a wiki and some FAQs about how VerilUOC_Desktop tool functions.
 You will have to use VerilUOC_Desktop in the next module

 Read the "Lesson Index" in the "Index and PDF files" section and the "README" in the VerilUOC_Desktop section for more information.
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L1.2 Digital system description 10:32
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[MUSIC] In the first lesson we have defined what a digital system is. In the second lesson, we are going to present several methods of specification of the digital system. The specification of the working of the digital system can be done in a functional way, describing the relation between inputs and outputs, but without information about the internal structure. Furthermore, we will make a distinction between explicit functional description and implicit functional description based on an algorithmic description. Let us start with an example of explicit functional description. For that, consider again the boiler controller with two modifications. The desired temperature that is the value of the pos signal is assumed to be a constant equal to 20 celsius degrees. And the measured temperature has been discretized. So that the temp input signal values belong to this set from 0 to 50. Then with those modifications the working of the controller can be described in a completely explicit way by a table that for each value of the term In particular, gives the value of the on off output signal. If temp is between 0 and 19, then or on off is equal to on. If temp is between 21 and 50, on off is equal to off. And if temp is equal to 20, then the state of the boiler, running or not running doesn't change. Now the same specification could be expressed by where we've seen a piece of program. If temp is less than 20 then onoff is equal to ON. Else if is temp is greater than 20, then onoff is equal to OFF. It's a program equivalent to the previous statement and this is an example of implicit functional description by means of an algorithm. Let us see a second example. A systems that adds to 2-digit number x. And Y, a two digit number. So they belong to the set 0,1,2 and so on, up to 99. And the other computes the sum Z=X+Y. So that the output, Z belongs to the set 0, 1, 2, and so on up to 198. And the result is a 3 digit number. The simple, the classical pencil and paper algorithm works as follows. Consider an example, we add 37 and 68, then we say 7 plus 8 equals 15, I write here 5, and we carry one to the next step. After I compute 1 plus 3 plus 6 is 10, I write here 0 and then carry equal to 1. And finally I get the result 105. So we can describe the working of the circuit by means of the following algorithm. The initial carry is 0. Then I add the three number, x0, the less significant bit of x, y0, the less significant bit of y, and a carry, equal to 0. Then if the result of the sum is greater than 9, I must subtract 10 and put the carry that will be sent to the next step, equal to 1. On the contrary case s0 is the output digit corresponding to this first of the computation and carry sent to the next step is = zero. And the second part of the algorithm is the same, but with the most significant digit of X and Y and using, in this case the carry that counts from the preceding step. Finally, the third digits of the result is the carry generated during the last step of the algorithm execution. This is an example of functional description by means of an argument. The second way a digital system can be specified is by description of its internal structure based on the use of previously defined subsystems. That we will call components. Let us see an example. We are going to describe a 4-digit adder. For that we assume that a 1-digit adder has been previously defined. It is accompanied with two decimal inputs, x and y. So that x and y belong to the set 0 to 9. And y binary input carried in belonging to the set 0,1. These components compute x+y+carry in whose maximum value is 9+9+1=19. So that the result of this computation is a two digit number. And the result will be expressed with two output signals carry out equal to 0 or 1 respond to the most significant digit of the result nz. That may be any value between 0 and 9. Then with this component, we can define the structure of a 4-digit adder. Actually, the structure of the 4-digit adder corresponds to the pencil and paper addition method. Each 1-digit adder, this one for example computes the set of two decimal digits plus an incoming carry and expresses the result as an output decimal digit and an outgoing carry. Which is transmitted to the left component. Observe that the maximum value is this one, 19,998. That is to say a 5 digit number was more significant digit is equal to 0 or 1. This 1 will carry out of the last step of the addition. The previous example uses four available component, the 1-digit adders. The 1-digit component, the 1-digit adder could in turn, could be defined by its function. For example, by the following piece of program. This is an example of a 2-level hierarchical description. The first level is a structure of the circuit with four components, and the second level is the functional description of the 1-digit adder. Let us see an example of 3-level hierarchical description. Consider a system that computes the sum z of 3 four digit numbers. You can say that the maximum value is this one, so the result is a five digit number whose most significant number is 0, 1, or 2. The first hierarchical level is a circuit made up of two different components. A four-digit adder like the one we described before, and a five-digit adder. Then both the four-digit adder and a five-digit adder can be described using one-digit adders. This is a second hierarchical level. Finally, a one-digit adder, can be defined by its function. For example, the same is a program as before, and this is the third hierarchical level. To summarize, an hierarchical description is a set of interconnected blocks. Every block, in turn, can be described by its function or by a set of interconnected blocks, and so on, up to the last level. Then the final blocks must correspond to available components defined by their function. So the summary of this second lesson, we have given example description, structural description and hierarchical description.


Most patients at Texas Children's Hospital who have surgery do well, but sometimes patients develop surgical wound infections at the site of the surgery. We have safe processes in place that reduce the risk of infection. Our goal is for no child to encounter a surgical site infection.
What does surgical site infection (SSI) measure?
The number of surgical cases per 100 trips to the operating room where a patient developed an infection following surgery.
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CLYDE HILL RELEASES FIRST SINGLE FROM UPCOMING EP
Seattle DJ/producer Clyde Hill is releasing his latest track "Cascade," the first single from his new EP that features vocals from New York City-based singer/songwriter Lyon Hart. His first release "Be Your Self" was featured on Hype Machine earlier this year and inspired many of the collaborations slated for his latest album, which is scheduled to be released later this summer.
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Edition #14, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Social Systems, Health Inequalities, ResearchPosted on Dec 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 by John Howie
The Place Standard is a tool to facilitate effective conversation between organisations, businesses and communities to identify both the assets of a place, and areas deemed priority for improvement. It provides a simple framework to structure conversations about place, allowing you to think about physical elements (such as its buildings, spaces, and transport links) as well as social aspects (for example whether people feel they have a say in decision making).
Launched on 10th December 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland, its successful application has now extended across Europe. Today it is used by all 32 municipalities in Scotland, is supported by a national governance framework and a network of place standard leads in each municipality. These are people appointed by each municipality and national park in Scotland to be the first point of contact for the national team and to provide support and advice to colleagues and other local services. The tool continues to be used in new, international settings.
John Howie explains the origins of the tool, and why it is so internationally appealing.
The relationship that exists between the fundamental causes of our physical, social and economic environments and the immediate or eventual impacts these environments or "places" have on population health and inequalities are well documented.
However, discussing these relationships can often become overly complicated, and as a result a conversation accessible to only those with deep knowledge and understanding of public health theory and systems. This is not helpful, given the responsibility of creating healthy places is shared across multiple stakeholders, most of whom have no "formal" public health connections.
Can we simplify the public health conversation?
The Place Standard Compass Diagram (Credit: Scottish Government)
In 2012, Scotland's policy statement on architecture and place 'Creating Places' made a commitment to design a place standard tool. This created two key challenges. The first to design a resource that ensured the foundations of public health and place making theory were fully embedded. The second to design a resource that successfully empowered communities to positively influence and help shape the decisions that impact on their living environments. In other words: an evidence-based tool that could be used by everyone.
In other words: an evidence-based tool that could be used by everyone.
The task brought together a team of public health scientists, architects and town planners who together embarked upon a process of design, testing, redesign and more testing. After 30 months the final outcome was an accessible place making tool with supporting guidance. The tool itself consisted of 14 easy to understand questions. Participants answer by giving a rating on a scale of 1-7. The results shown on a compass diagram which shows, as a glance, the areas where a place is performing well and where there is room for improvement. Prompts are given for agreeing both the priorities for change and the actions required to deliver these improvements.
Can the tool be used by everyone?
In short, yes. In Scotland early momentum was generated by the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. This act placed a legislative requirement on community planning partnerships to engage with the public in the design of local improvement plans. The tool was seen by many municipalities as a meaningful way of delivering on this requirement. Coupled with the early development of a national implementation plan, this meant the use of the tool quickly spread across the nation. In the first 18 months after the launch, the use of the tool ranged from informing city development plans and local neighbourhood priorities to supporting school and university curriculums. These early successes did not go unnoticed. In 2017, the place standard tool won the award for Excellence in Planning for Well-being in the Royal Town Planning Institute's awards for planning excellence.
Not just a paper and online tool (Credit: Here+Now CIC and Planning Aid Scotland)
Taking the tool to new countries and settings.
In July 2016, a Country Exchange Visit to Ljubljana jointly hosted by EuroHealthNet and the Slovenian National Institute of Public Health was linked to the WHO Summer School on "advocacy and translation of evidence for different audiences on intersectoral action for health equity and well-being". The place standard was presented as an emerging practice.
The response was positive and as interest across the region grew the WHO European Network of Healthy Cities and NHS Health Scotland agreed to host the tool's first WHO international masterclass in September 2017. Vital to the success of this 2-day event was the sharing of early international practice. This included the first translation and application of the tool by EuroHealthNet partners in the Netherlands. The positive lessons learned in applying the tool in the town of Sas Van Gent very much mirrored those emerging in Scotland in both processes and outcome. One such important lesson was the need for local flexibility in both the design and the subjects covered in the prompt questions under each dimension. This observation would become a repeating theme.
Pupils in Sas Van Gent using the Place Standard Tool (2017) and the Dutch version of the Place Standard Tool launched in May 2018. (Credit: Terneuzen Town & Municipality and the Author)
A second broader lesson was an acknowledgement that the tool's dimensions clearly aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This was considered a very powerful dynamic as this could offer organisations and communities a product that supports the delivery of global targets through simple conversation and local solutions.
With international transferability tested successfully and a commitment by other masterclass partners to test the tool a new wave of projects began in the UK, Lithuania, Turkey and Denmark. Separately the INHERIT programme selected the tool as a 'Triple Win Case Study' (improving the environment, health, and health equity) and in 2018 approved funding for the application and evaluation of the tool in Riga, Latvia and Skopje, North Macedonia. Similar to previous experiences, the simplicity of the tool both in translation and application proved critical in the successful collaboration of communities, organisations and local politicians in identifying jointly what works and what needs improving upon within their local areas. In follow up in Skopje in November 2018, a visit by NHS Health Scotland witnessed first-hand the political commitment to progressing the results. In Latvia the use of the tool has now been extended to the City of Ogre and by late summer 2019 further translations and application of the tool was underway in Norway, Greece and Germany.
Workshops in Carlisle (UK), Aarhus (Denmark) and Antalya (Turkey) (Credit: Carlisle City Council, Health by Network and the Author)
In view of the tool's widening appeal and Scotland's overall 'place agenda' the WHO European Healthy Cities Network invited NHS Health Scotland to support the implementation of the Copenhagen Consensus of Mayors Healthier and happier cities for all by establishing a new Place, Health, Inequalities and Well-being working group. This forum is now fully operational.
(Credit: World Health Organisation European Healthy Cities Network)
Following the Making Place conference in Glasgow June 2019 that celebrated the tool's first phase of delivery, a new 3-year strategy will be published in December 2019. Year one will launch the Place Standard Tool V2, a toolkit for designers and a children's and a young person's version. The Scottish programme will also focus its national work on supporting 5 key policy areas:
The Climate Change Emergency
Town Centres & Local Services
Movement & Transport
Engaging Diverse Groups
Photography by Jason Kimmings
At an international level, the plan is to combine these new tools and offer as a single resource a new WHO accredited placemaking toolkit. This is also anticipated in 2020.
The place standard tool is a free online resource and a useful product for all professionals and communities interested in improving the quality of places through effective collaboration.
For further information please contact John Howie at john.howie@nhs.net
Organisational Lead (Place) at NHS Health Scotland
John Howie is currently responsible for leading the organisation's place and place standard portfolios. He is public health adviser to the Scotland's Towns Partnership Board and chair of the WHO European Network of Healthy Cities working group for Place, Health, Inequalities and Well-being.
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At Willowbrook Church in Sun City, Arizona we feel blessed to have a dedicated and talented staff to help each of us better understand the Word of God!
As Senior Pastor, Gary oversees the daily operations of Willowbrook, leads in worship and supports the staff in their varied ministries. He is a graduate of U.Cal. Fresno and received a Masters of Divinity degree from The School of Theology at Claremont in CA. Prior to his appointment to Willowbook, Gary served eight years as Central West District Superintendent and was Dean of the Cabinet for the last four years.
Sande is responsible for Spiritual Enrichment through Prayer and Christian Education; Health & Wellness of the Community, Lay Pastoral Care within a network of lay ministry, including Stephen Ministry, and shares preaching assignments.
She is a recent graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary. Her prior degrees include a BA from the University of Colorado and a master's degree in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
Steve's primary responsibility is Evangelism and Membership at Willowbrook as well as participating in worship. He is a graduate of Ottawa University and holds a MDiv. from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Steve entered the ministry after a career in the graphics art field and continues to use his art talents presenting his popular art sermons at Willowbrook and as a guest speaker at churches around the country. You can learn more about his art evangelism at http://www.stevemarshallarts.com.
As Business Manager, Bev's responsibilities include the functions of Financial Secretary and Office Manager. She oversees the day to day running of the office and the recording of all giving to the church. She is a member of the Professional Association of United Methodist Church Secretaries and has completed Certification and Advanced Certification in this organization.
Betty comes to Willowbrook with a history of church office work under her belt. Her duties at Willowbrook include Good News Editor, Membership Secretary, bulletin preparation, and communications to the public.
Cynthia is a CPA and is responsible for maintaining the financial records of the church and of the church foundation. This includes the all important task of paying the bills.
Dr. Robb Butler is our Music Director, whose primary responsibility is leading our 50-voice choir. Dr. Butler is also a composer and has a trained operatic voice.
Robb, as he prefers to be called, has a wealth of knowledge and experience in choral music. He holds a Master's degree in Choral Sacred Music from Duquesne University and a Doctorate in Choral Conducting from Arizona State University.
Carol began playing piano at an early age and played organ for her church while a teen. She has experience in all forms of music from traditional to contemporary. Carol accompanies our choir, plays piano and organ for our traditional worship and electronic keyboard for our Mosaic service. She also teaches music at a Phoenix elementary school and offers lessons on piano and guitar.
Loretta has been an organist and choir master most of her professional life. She has bachelor and master's degrees in sacred music from the Kansas City Conservatory. She continued her studies at Westminster Choir College in Princton, N. J.


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Neural event extraction

This is a version of baseline (Using purely Bi-lstm to encode sentence, then do trigger classification.)
Could yield 66% f1 on liqi data. 58% on qin data. 70% on feng data.

Note: Could not yield 73% by adding cnn feature on feng data. Maybe needs tuning or code-checking.

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Frankenstein's Creature is alive and well and coming to a community near you.
That is the premise of the Nick Dear play of Frankenstein.
Of course, Frankenstein is based on the original Mary Shelly character, the mad scientist who creates The Creature in his laboratory.
In Dear's adaptation for the National Theatre in London, one which scored success as a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Jonny Lee Miller, The Creature finds himself out in the big wide world trying to make sense of things.
It is a far cry from the classic yarn and it has stirred director Kerrin White and the Adelaide Repertory Theatre into producing it for a season starting April 5 in The Arts Theatre.
According to the British critics, it is a wild ride through an intriguing path of horror and also innocence.
The Creature would like to help people but they are horrified by him. He finds refuge and builds relationships not knowing who he is or why he is as he is. It is a turn-around of the classic story, compelling, electrifying and moving.
Kerrin White plans to give it a wild, Gothic atmosphere.
He has cast Steve Parker and Patrick Clements in the principal roles of The Creature and Victor Frankenstein.
Clements describes his character of Frankenstein as a man compelled to find ways to beat death since his own mother's early death.
"Why does God get to be the only one to play God?" he asks.
Parker was surprised when first he read the play and discovered that The Creature was the star and not the support character as we have all previously understood it.
He thinks audience members will relate to The Creature as depicted in this thrilling work.
"We all start innocent, but it's not long before the realities of life place larger and harsher demands on ourselves," he explains.
The Rep's production of Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley and adapted for the stage by Nick Dear runs at The Arts Theatre from 5 to 7 and 11 to 14 April, 2018.


Our hut is located within an important European security zone that aims to create an ecological network of areas for the conservation of biological diversity ("Rete Natura 2000"). The Special Protection Area (SPA) "Valle Formazza" covers an area of more than 22,000 hectares with the conservation objectives of bird wildlife and its natural habitat. The Site of European Importance (SEI) "Maria Luisa", of almost 6000 hectares, was created to protect the natural habitats and the animal and plant species of particular interest for biodiversity. The territory around the hut offers the opportunity to learn about different environments rich of features: geology, flora and vegetation, fauna, anthropological.
The presence of chalk and limestone in the area between S. Giacomo pass, the Toggia lake and the lake Kastel, is made evident outcropping of the "Rock Chalk" that encloses in the north the Boden lakes. Also beautiful from a landscape point of view, occupy two large sinkholes and are fed by groundwater.
The limestone soil allows the development of extremely beautiful and rare flower species, such as the Edelweiss (Stella Alpina), the blue-green Saxifrage, the blue Vedovella, and even the flashy Astro Alpine, the tiny Saxifrage from opposite leaves. And an endemic species: the Saponaria lutea.
Moving towards the alp Ghighel meets a wetland, a real bog, characterized by other species very particular how the Cotton grass (Eriofori), the beautiful white plumes that stand out conspicuously among the dark green; the Primula powdery, deep pink; the Bavarian Gentian, and Pinguicola, insectivorous seedling that captures invertebrates through sticky leaves.
There is no need to stray far from the hut to cross the green pastures and observe these small jewels that nature has to offer!


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Features | Order in the Court: The Films of Masayuki Suo
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By Scott Foundas
When a programmer from a prestigious fall film festival confided to me that he had passed on Masayuki Suo's I Just Didn't Do It sight unseen after a buyer in Cannes forewarned him that the movie was "too Japanese" to appeal to international audiences, I was hardly surprised. After all, by mid-way through Cannes, Variety, in an otherwise positive review that compared Suo's courtroom drama favourably to Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), had already issued a similar verdict: "The minutiae of Japanese legalities and film's length [143 minutes] will make commercial prospects an open-and-shut case." Those words no doubt also landed a particularly stinging blow on the ears of one Harvey Weinstein, who had pumped a powerhouse $10 million North American gross out of Suo's 1996 Shall We Dance? (albeit in a re-edited, Miramax-ized version). Yet, if one's cognitive abilities are in full working order, it becomes immediately apparent upon seeing I Just Didn't Do It that the film's fetishistic attention to the policies and procedures of the Japanese court system is precisely what gives it an added layer of perverse fascination if you happen to be watching it through foreign eyes.
No Western equivalent of the movie's central dilemma springs immediately to mind, unless you think of the O.J. Simpson trial and then imagine that the Juice had been arrested not for murder but rather ill-advisedly groping his ex-wife's ass. In the opening scenes, we see 26-year-old Kaneko Teppei (Letters from Iwo Jima star Kase Ryo) pondering whether or not to board a crowded subway train. At the last moment, he does, squeezing so tightly into the cramped car that physicists in the audience may feel compelled to question the conventional wisdom that two pieces of matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time. It is then that the offending incident occurs, or doesn't, for it is a scene filmed by Suo with all the deliberate obfuscation of the "murder" in Michael Snow's Wavelength (1967) and the toilet bowl in The Conversation (1974). All we know for certain is that, at some point during the brief journey, a 15-year-old schoolgirl standing next to Teppei shoots him a disconcerting glance, he apologizes, and when they arrive at their mutual destination she accuses him of having molested her.
Teppei is promptly arrested and whisked off to a police station where we witness a detective systematically breaking down another man accused of a similar crime until the suspect volunteers his shameful confession. This is, we gather, all in a day's work, and in a judicial system that boasts of a greater than 99% conviction rate, few dare to protest their innocence. But as the film's title suggests, Teppei insists on doing just that, and with a skilled advocate (Yakusho Koji) at his side, he embarks on an Odyssean voyage towards hoped-for acquittal. What follows is Law & Order by way of Kafka: more conflicting testimonies than the Warren Commission; elaborate re-enactments staged not for the jury (as there isn't one), but for an unwaveringly poker-faced judge; and a steadfast defendant (played brilliantly by Kase) gradually worn down by the system, like granite by water.
Did Teppei really manhandle the alleged victim, or was he merely attempting to dislodge his jacket from the subway doors? If he was, as he claims, en route to a job interview, why was he boarding the train at a station halfway in-between his home and his destination in the first place? And whatever became of the eyewitness who corroborated Teppei's innocence at the scene but disappeared before police could question her? I hope it's not giving too much away to say that most of those questions remain unanswered at the end of the film, and that if Suo answered them, I Just Didn't Do It would be a great deal less compelling for it. Like Suo's three previous feature films (not including the hour-long "pink" movie Abnormal Family, made in 1983), it is less about an outcome than a process, for Suo's Japan is a series of microcosms—a monastery, a wrestling pit, a dance studio, a courtroom—that hold within them some larger truth about Japanese national identity. What little has been written about I Just Didn't Do It thus far has concentrated on what sets it apart from Suo's earlier work—that it is less broadly comedic, that it represents a slight detour from audience-pleasing commercial entertainment towards a kind of socially conscious realism. All of which, it must be said, is true, and yet in nearly all other respects it is an entirely characteristic work. Indeed, if one subscribes to Renoir's immortal dictum that each director makes only one film, then Suo's is the story of a rag-tag group of characters united behind a common goal, usually having to do with some totemic Japanese sport, custom or institution, the progress towards which inevitably involves significant amounts of embarrassment and humiliation.
Of course, the same could be said of the Police Academy series or any of those inspirational underdog stories in which unlikely iconoclasts manage to beat the system without actually joining it. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, the log lines of Suo's films read like Adam Sandler movies waiting to happen: A punk rock star must become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit his father's temple (1989's Fancy Dance); a preening college jock is blackmailed by a professor into joining the university's deplorably bad sumo wrestling team (1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't); a reserved businessman moonlights as a ballroom dancer and ends up vying for a contest title (1996's Shall We Dance?). But beneath those high-concept exteriors, these are all witty, revealing, and deeply nationalistic parables of life in a society predicated on conformity and submission, which helps to explain why, on the one occasion when Suo was remade in the US—the deplorable Richard Gere-J. Lo cover version of Shall We Dance? (2004)—almost everything meaningful about the original film was lost in translation. How, after all, could one ever find an American context for the endemic shame Suo's characters feel at daring to enjoy themselves, or their fear (in what might be considered a prequel of sorts to I Just Didn't Do It) of potentially placing one's hand improperly on one's partner?
As if to prove that he was less interested in specific stories and characters than in social currents and the peril by which one swims against them, Suo's first two features—Fancy Dance and Sumo Do, Sumo Don't—told effectively the exact same story with nearly the exact same actors playing variations on the exact same roles. Both feature the boyishly handsome leading man Motoki Masahiro as a vain, overly cocky hedonist who is unwittingly thrown into an environment that thrives on rigorous self-discipline and punishment. In Fancy Dance, that means a gauntlet of floor scrubbings, toilet cleanings, sitting meditations, and nightly canings with a bamboo pole. In Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, it's the familiar regiment of training exercises and implacable coaches, all while suffering the physical embarrassment of the sumos' diaper-like "mawashi" uniforms. In each case, Motoki's character is surrounded by a group of equally ill-suited journeymen, including an overweight lummox (played both times by Taguchi Hiromasa) with zero self-confidence, and an androgynous younger brother (played in Fancy Dance by Ken Osawa and in Sumo by Takari Masaaki) who eventually becomes a pin-up of sorts for hordes of screaming teenage-girl fans. (Another important member of the Suo stock company, though permitted to play a slightly greater variety of roles, is the superb sad-sack Takenaka Naoto—a sort of Japanese Oscar Levant—who appears in Fancy Dance as a conniving elder monk, and in Sumo as a skilled competitor bedeviled by nerve-driven diarrhea.)
Both films—commercial hits for Suo at the domestic box office—are conceived in slapstick terms, with more than enough fat jokes, fart jokes, and humiliations in front of the fairer sex to go around. But like the late Itami Juzo (who Suo documented on the sets of A Taxing Woman and its sequel), Suo uses "low" comedy to proffer a subversive critique of Japanese society's conformist façade, whether it's giving us gaseous monks who frequent strip clubs and horde sweets in their spartan quarters, or a sumo championship bout hinged on a Yentl-like act of deception. Routinely, Suo's characters must bend or break "the rules" in order to preserve the supposedly seamless integrity of the institution at hand. That is even true of Shall We Dance? in which it is only by arousing his wife's suspicions of infidelity that the main character emerges with a stronger, healthier marriage. Yet, even when Suo's films end with ostensible triumph over intimidating odds, we're left to contemplate whether the characters have really managed to maintain their individuality, or if the system has ever so slightly recalibrated itself to absorb them into it. Thus Fancy Dance climaxes with Motoki's character opting to stay on in the monastery past his minimum one year of service, while Sumo ends with a similarly uncharacteristic act of willful submission. And while there are no bamboo poles per se in I Just Didn't Do It, it can be argued that, before the verdict is ever read, Teppei has had every ounce of fight beaten out of him.
In interviews, Suo is described as taciturn and shy, and from looking at his movies it could be said that he is the sort of director who disappears into his work. Abnormal Family is said to be a kind of homage to Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953), and the influence of the old master looms large over Suo's subsequent films too. Fancy Dance is shot full-frame, with tatami-mat angles and a reticence towards moving the camera—or moving outside of the monastery—except when absolutely necessary. Sumo, Shall We Dance?, and I Just Didn't Do It similarly favour fixed frames and locations, in the last case turning a familiar courtroom set into a kind of absurdist crucible, wherein the walls seem to be slowly encroaching on Teppei with each successive hearing. Some reports to the contrary, Suo's latest is often sly and funny, but in a subtler, more under-the-skin way than its predecessors. Yet there's no mistaking Teppei's impassioned intoning of the title line for anything other than a soul-shattering cry for help—a signal flare shot up over a lonely sea. Where does an enterprising subversive like Suo turn his attention next? The Yakuza, dare I suggest?
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Stiff fabric applied to the inside of the garment to keep the embroidery stitches stable through embroidery, wear, and wash.
The digital process of separating an image into its individual color components to be printed as film positives, then burned onto screens for printing.
Inks must be set or dried after printing. Unlike water-based inks, plastisol inks will not dry on their own and must be ran through a high temperature dryer to set. For standard plastisol inks we run the garments through a large dryer on a belt for 2.5 minutes at a temperature of 350°F. Water-based inks will dry on their own if left to sit, but are also cured to speed production time. Water-based inks require higher temperatures and/or longer dry time than plastisols in order to evaporate all water from the ink.
Cut away is used on softer materials that we embroider. This type of backing eliminates the tendency of a fabric to pull away from the embroidered logo when using tear away. We use cut away backing on knit fabrics such as pique.
Discharge is a water-based ink developed for dark garments. It is mixed with an activator that bleaches the fabric threads while depositing pigment. Discharge has a different aesthetic than standard plastisol inks. Be sure to discuss limitations of water-based printing with a screen print artist or custom service representative.
Halftones are frequently used to blend colors and create fades and shades in digital art . When ink is pushed through a screen stencil using halftone dots, the ink spreads making the dot larger on the print than on the film. The amount of increase is referred to as dot gain. For example, inks that are more viscous or "watery" have a tendency to have more dot gain.
Durometer refers to the hardness of a squeegee used for screen printing. In general the higher the number, the harder the plastic that makes the squeegee. Softer squeegees assist in applying more screen print ink, whereas harder squeegees deposit a lighter layer of ink and are often used to assist in capturing detail and lower halftones.
Dye migration is when the dye from a garment contaminates the screen print ink color causing the print color to appear tinted. For example, white ink on a red shirt will appear pink when dye migration occurs. Dye migration is likely on poly-cotton blends and 100% polyester garments. Performance garments, such as running shirts are very likely to have issues with dye migration. Other highly pigmented t-shirt colors likely to experience dye migration are bright royal, red, purple, teal, and black, but other colors can migrate as well. We often test swatch shirt samples for the likelihood of dye migration, however, migration can take up to a week to occur and cannot always be identified before hand. The instance of dye migration can vary through a production run. We use inks to reduce the possibility of dye migration, however none are 100% effective in our experience.
This backing is used only when requested as there is an additional cost. Cut away and tear away backings are sometimes a little visible on light colored garments or very thin material. Fabric backing is silky, super light and barely visible on even the most fragile materials.
Used to burn a stencil onto a screen for printing, the film positive is created by printing black ink on a clear plastic surface. Each design has one film positive per color.
When screen printers talk about gradients, we are referring to a series of halftones created when a digital graphic transitions from a darker to lighter shade. These gradients can be layered to create printed blends when transitioning from one color to another.
Halftones are dots or ellipses used to create lighter shades of a print color without changing the actual ink color to something lighter. Smaller dots spaced farther apart, create a lighter shade. Larger dots spaced closer create a darker shade. The density or darkness of halftones is referred to in percentages. For example, a completely solid fill is 100%. A dark shade would be around 80% and a lighter shade around 20%. When printing designs that are photographic or a lot of colors, color separators layer different halftone percentages of different inks to blend colors.
This rather unknown piece of screen print equipment is invaluable! On occasion a pinhole will develop in a screen and print unwanted marks on shirts before the spot is realized. A kreb gun is used to spray out small unwanted spots of cured plastisol.
Line count refers to the number of vertical lines of halftone spots per inch or lines per inch. Line counts are measured in lpi (lines per inch) and/or dpi (dots per inch). Most shops will use anywhere from 45 lpi to 85 lpi depending on the desired affect. Higher line counts can hold more detail, but tend to print with less saturation than lower line counts.
Mesh is the fabric stretched over a frame to make the screens used in screen printing. The mesh is a grid weave of synthetic nylon or polyester thread. The process of screen print used to be called silk screen because silk threads were used.
Mesh count refers to the frequency of threads per inch making up the fabric for screen print. A higher mesh means more threads that are closer together. Higher mesh counts are better for holding detail, but also print inks with less saturation. Lower mesh has larger openings between the threads and allow more ink to pass through. This means the stencil created on the screen can be printed with more saturation, but cannot hold as much detail.
Off contact is an air gap between the bottom of the screen (print side) and the top of the item you are printing. This gap allows the screen to snap off the garment after a squeegee pass.
A pallet is the flat surface onto which a t-shirt or article of clothing is loaded for screen printing. Pallets are also referred to as tables by screen printers.
A light spray adhesive is used to stabilize a t-shirt or article of clothing on a screen print table or pallet. The adhesive is referred to as tack or spray tack. Sometimes the tack will leave a slight residue that causes the t-shirt to appear slightly discolored. The discoloration is called a pallet mark because it is in the shape of the pallet. This is a common occurrence in the industry. Although we make every effort to avoid pallet marks, sometimes they are inevitable. The spray tack is water soluble and disappears upon washing.
PC stands for pigment concentrate. Pigment concentrate combinations are measured out by gram and mixed with a base to create Pantone ink colors used for screen printing.
Phthalates are esters of phthalic acid and are mainly used as plasticizers (substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability, and longevity). They are used primarily to soften polyvinyl chloride. Phthalates are being phased out of many products in the United States, Canada, and European Union over health concerns.
A pin hole is a teeny hole - the size of a pin head - in a stencil on a screen for print. These pin holes allow ink to pass through the stencil printing small dots on a garment in unwanted areas. Pin holes can occur for a number of reasons. The most common is a natural breakdown of the stencil emulsion during long production runs. Under exposure of a screen during the burning process is another cause of pin holes.
Plastisol is a type of screen printing ink that is not water-soluble. The ink is composed of PVC particles suspended in a plasticizing emulsion, and will not dry if left in the screen for extended periods. Because of the convenience of not needing to wash a screen after printing, plastisol inks can be used without a source of running water. Plastisol inks are recommended for printing on colored fabric. On lighter fabric, plastisol is extremely opaque and can retain a bright image for many years with proper care.
PVC free ink has been formulated without toxic phthalate plasticizers.
Digital art composed of pixels (as opposed to paths) is a raster file. Raster files for screen print are best created in Adobe Photoshop at a minimum resolution of 150 dpi at print size.
Resolution refers to the quality and clarity of raster art files. The higher the resolution, the cleaner and more clearly a print can be produced. The acceptable minimum resolution for screen print is 150 dpi at print size. Files must be created at the minimum resolution for screen print and cannot be up-sampled. Web graphics are 72 dpi and can never be used for screen print. If a digital file with 72 dpi resolution is submitted for printing, it is likely the logo can be redrawn for an art charge.
The "hand" of a print is the tactile nature of a print. A print with soft hand is more flexible, less noticeable, and softer than a standard print. Soft hand prints are achieved by using ink additive, higher mesh counts, or water-based inks.
The squeegee is the piece of equipment that moves ink across the screen. It is composed of two parts. Part one is a rectangular piece of rubber. The rubber used is specially manufactured for screen printing and can have varying degrees of flexibility notated by durometer. Part two is a handle or casing that holds the rubber. On automatic presses the casing is metal and attaches to the press arm. Squeegee handles for manual presses are usually wood and are hand pulled by the press operator.
Starching is the term used when referring to the t-shirt preparation for all-over printing. A starch-like mist is sprayed inside of the garment. This mist has a tack to it, keeping the garment flat and closed while printing on top of a flat table.
Shirts are loaded onto a flat surface that moves around the press stopping at each color station for printing. The pallet we pull the shirt over is often referred to as a table.
A light adhesive is sprayed on the press pallet to stabilize the t-shirt and keep it from lifting up in the printing process. This adhesive is often referred to as tack or spray tack. Although a residue may be left in the shirt, the tack is water soluble and comes out easily when washed.
Tear away is the most common type of backing used. It is the quickest and easiest to remove for the most common types of embroidered garments ordered by our customer. Tear away backing is used on the sturdy, strong fabrics such as caps, dress shirts, back packs etc.
When printing on dark colored garments, a layer of white ink must be printed first, so the actual logo or design print colors are visible. Some screen printing inks are more transparent than others and will be over powered altogether or visually contaminated by the garment color. The under base is also commonly referred to as underlay, white underlay, white under base, flash white, or simply base white.
Up-sampling is taking a piece of low resolution digital art and merely re-assigning the dpi value to a higher resolution in Photoshop. This does not actually increase the size or quality of the image. Low resolution art files must be completely redrawn or created in an acceptable file type for use in screen printing.
Vector, in the screen print industry, refers to a type of digital file that is acceptable for use. The images are created using paths instead of pixels. Pixels are used in raster files. Vector programs include Adobe Illustrator (preferred) and Corel Draw.
Water-based inks are defined as those that utilize water as the main solvent. That does not mean, however that water is the only solvent. It is significant to note that many water base inks contain "co-solvents" which may even be petroleum based solvents. The reason these co-solvents are used varies, but one of the key reasons is to decrease the time and heat necessary to cure the ink film on the fabric. Water-based has a different aesthetic than standard plastisol inks. Be sure to discuss limitations of water-based printing with a screen print artist or custom service representative.
Wet-on-wet is a screen print technique used most often when a design has a large number of colors and uses simulated process separations. For simpler design and spot color designs, the under base is flashed to cure inline on press. By voiding the flash, the underbase print remains wet - wet inks printed on top of a wet underbase. Printing wet-on-wet allows for better blending.


When it comes to the weekend, I always get a bit more excited. It's the days that have breathing room, the moments to embrace the fresh early summer days, and to the ability to enjoy all that comes with a more relaxed pace. Whether enjoying a good book, a cup of coffee with friends, or going for a hike, we discover the beauty of pressing pause. For me this weekend will be full as I finish out school next week. It's been a marathon and is one worth celebrating as the end is in sight.
This week has been a full one. One with ebbs and flows. I've embraced the hot (and I do mean hot) temperatures that Redding summer brings. I've found the sunshine and the freckles have completely popped on my shoulder unlike ever before. There's been inevitable transition that comes with the month of May and I'm sure I'll continue to process that as time moves on, but until then we're embracing the lasts that come with the season.
– Abstract Documentary on Netflix. We shared a quote from this docuseries on Monday and are rewatching it. It keeps us inspired and ideas fresh.
– We've been looking at properties for a while and am saving to purchase my own little fixer upper. Scandinavian modern design is our absolute favorite and we can't stop pinning items to this board.
– With May brings Derby and this weekend, more than ever, I'm missing the energy of my hometown. To celebrate we're thinking about making this stunning gluten-free Derby pie.
-We absolutely love nachos. They are our favorite. With some fresh blue corn chips and homemade salsa, we couldn't love this snack any more. Lately we've been trying out variations. The sweet potato nachos from the Whole Food Diary are a game changer, as are the apple nachos from a local shop. (We'll be making some of these this weekend.
– For those of you who won't be at Derby parties this weekend, happy Cinco de Mayo to you. Here's a few of our favorite mexican recipes to celebrate. We love the blood orange margarita, peach margarita, and shrimp ceviche dip.
-There's something about Darling magazine. We think they're brilliant. From their writing to the way they express their core values, we love their blog posts and this one articulated a subject I've processed through over the years. Rejection. We all face it, but how do you deal with it? Go read this article. It just might change your life.
-The perfect pair of silk PJs. There's something about a great pair of pajamas and we love the way these fit from Grana. They have ease, while being simple, ethically sourced, and elegant. We hope you find a favorite pair here as well.
-Want an extra something special for springtime that's ethically sourced fashion? Grana is offering 15% off this weekend. We recommend the linen tee and turkish denim. They're classic pieces you'll wear again and again. That and they're stunningly beautiful. Get shopping here.
This post was sponsored by our friends at Grana. All thoughts and opinions are our own. Thank you for continuing to support the brands that support Glisten and Grace.


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police have released the name of 17-year-old who was killed Sunday night in a northeast Albuquerque neighborhood.
Albuquerque police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said officers found Adrian Martinez with "trauma" to his head on the 700 block of Monroe NE, near Washington and Lomas, after reports of gunfire in the area.
Police say officers talked to several witnesses and are now looking for a white SUV that was seen leaving the area.
Gallegos would not give Martinez' cause of death or say if police had any suspects in custody.


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All necessary means to what ends? The unintended consequences of the 'robust turn' in UN peace operations
Hunt, C 2017, 'All necessary means to what ends? The unintended consequences of the 'robust turn' in UN peace operations', International Peacekeeping, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 108-131.
Hunt, C
International Peacekeeping
A 'robust turn' in UN peace operations has ushered in a new generation of missions that are epitomized by increased authorization and willingness to use force towards the protection of vulnerable civilians and the implementation of stabilization strategies. This forceful transformation has important implications for not only particular components of the peace support effort but the overall endeavour. However, the potential unintended consequences remain underexplored and require further attention. This article examines the impacts of this so-called 'robust turn' in UN peace operations. The first section maps trends in modern peace operations that comprise the 'robust turn'. It proceeds to explore a range of repercussions precipitated by these trends with particular focus on unintended consequences. The article concludes by identifying the associated implications for specific missions as well as the peacekeeping endeavour as a whole. It argues that the unintended consequences of the robust turn present significant principled and practical challenges for mission architects and managers, as well as their political masters, in achieving unity of effort in UN peace operations. It further argues that this could have ramifications for the future reputation, substance and viability of UN peacekeeping.
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Q: JSF2 - Primefaces - Partial update with command button not works when updating a nested panel I'm trying to update a part of my page using the following command:
<p:commandButton id="bntNewAddress" immediate="true"
value="New Address" disabled="false" icon="ui-icon-document"
process="@this" update=":main_form:createPanelDetailsAddress"
action="#{issuerComponent.initAddNewAddress}">
</p:commandButton>

When I click the button, the panel "createPanelDetailsAddress" is not updated. On the other side when I use update=":main_form", the panel is updated (but all other panels inside the main_form are updated also)
The panel I want to update is included in a panel named "createPanel".
Could anyone have idea why update=":main_form:createPanelDetailsAddress" doesn't  work in my case ?
I use primefaces3.5 and Mojarra JSF 2.1.7
Here is the code I used:
public String initAddNewAddress(){
 renderCreatePanelDetailsAddress = true;
 return null;
}

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui" template="/template.xhtml">

<ui:define name="content">
    <h:form id="main_form">
        <p:panel id="createPanel" rendered="true">

            <p:messages id="msgCreate" />

            <p:panel id="createPanelDetails"
                header="#{issuerMsgs['issuer.createArea.title']}">

                <h:panelGrid border="0" columns="6">

                    <h:outputText value="#{issuerMsgs['issuer.issuerCode.title']}:" />
                    <p:inputText required="true"
                        value="#{issuerComponent.updateIssuer.issuerCode}"
                        label="issuer_issuerCode">

                    </p:inputText>
                    <h:outputText value="#{issuerMsgs['issuer.description.title']}:" />
                    <p:inputText required="true"
                        value="#{issuerComponent.updateIssuer.description}"
                        label="issuer_description">

                    </p:inputText>
                </h:panelGrid>
            </p:panel>

            <p:spacer height="10" />

            <p:panel id="panelListAddress"
                header="#{addressMsgs['address.createArea.title']}">

                <p:dataTable id="addresslist" var="address"
                    value="#{issuerComponent.addressList}" paginator="false" rows="10">
                    <p:column>
                        <f:facet name="header">
                            <h:outputText value="#{addressMsgs['address.tel.title']}" />
                        </f:facet>
                        <h:outputText value="#{address.tel}" />
                    </p:column>

                </p:dataTable>

                <p:spacer height="22" width="0" />

                <p:commandButton  id="bntNewAddress" immediate="true"
                    value="New Address" disabled="false" icon="ui-icon-document"
                    process="@this" update=":main_form:createPanelDetailsAddress"
                    action="#{issuerComponent.initAddNewAddress}">
                </p:commandButton>

            </p:panel>

            <p:panel id="createPanelDetailsAddress"
                header="#{addressMsgs['address.createArea.title']}"
                rendered="#{issuerComponent.renderCreatePanelDetailsAddress}">

                <ui:include src="createAddress.xhtml"></ui:include>

                <p:commandButton value="Add"
                    rendered="#{issuerComponent.renderBtnAddAddress}" disabled="false"
                    icon="ui-icon-document" process="@this,createPanelDetailsAddress"
                    update=":main_form" action="#{issuerComponent.addNewAddress}"
                    actionListener="#{addressComponent.addNewComposite}">

                    <f:setPropertyActionListener
                        value="#{addressComponent.updateAddress}"
                        target="#{issuerComponent.address}" />
                </p:commandButton>
            </p:panel>

        </p:panel>
    </h:form>
</ui:define>
</ui:composition>

A: Your update will fail because
 rendered="#{issuerComponent.renderCreatePanelDetailsAddress}"

will evaluate to false the first time the view is rendered. As a result the component is not in the DOM tree the first time the view is rendered.
Ajax updates work by locating a specific component (by id) in the DOM and replacing it with new markup. Your panel was never in the DOM to begin with, so there's nothing to update with ajax.
To remedy, you need to wrap the <p:panel/>with another component and make that component the target of your ajax update
    <p:outputPanel id="container" layout="none">
       <p:panel id="createPanelDetailsAddress" header="# addressMsgs['address.createArea.title']}" rendered="#issuerComponent.renderCreatePanelDetailsAddress}">
            <ui:include src="createAddress.xhtml"></ui:include>
            <p:commandButton value="Add"
                rendered="#{issuerComponent.renderBtnAddAddress}" disabled="false"
                icon="ui-icon-document" process="@this,createPanelDetailsAddress"
                update=":main_form" action="#{issuerComponent.addNewAddress}"
                actionListener="#{addressComponent.addNewComposite}">

                <f:setPropertyActionListener
                    value="#{addressComponent.updateAddress}"
                    target="#{issuerComponent.address}" />
            </p:commandButton>
        </p:panel>
    </p:outputPanel>

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Bigdeal (benedict okolo) is an 18 yr old rapper currently studying in the uk who's passionate about music and is set to storm the music industry . Peep his new single Jofumi feat. Skales who does some bit of singing as opposed to rapping, something for the ladies. Enjoy!