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Women's health challenges in post-revolutionary Egypt
Sharmila Devi
Published:May 18, 2013DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61060-0
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There are few signs of women's health improving in Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood's rule, with some observers fearing a worsening of rights and attitudes. Sharmila Devi reports.
When Waleed Hammad, an Egyptian television reporter, wore women's clothes including a head scarf as he covertly filmed the reactions of men as he walked down Cairo's streets, he was taken for a prostitute and offered US$575 for a night. Many men subsequently interviewed by the television programme, Awel el Kheit or The Thread that was viewed by thousands online, blamed women, no matter what they wore, for inviting sexual harassment.
Lena el-Ghadban, senior reporter on the show, which aired on the private station ONTV in early May, said they wanted to show through the eyes of men how all Egyptian women lived daily with the fear of being sexually harassed or abused. "We want them to try to feel how women feel about sexual harassment", she explains. "If the man sees himself as the victim of sexual harassment, maybe this could get him to think, 'What am I doing?'"
More than 99% of hundreds of women surveyed in Egypt reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment, ranging from minor harassment to rape, said a recent UN report.
Egyptian law defines and criminalises assault but not sexual harassment. Amid continued political turmoil since the 2011 overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood denies it is undermining women's rights and health. "It may not be their direct message that harassing women is OK, but when the government keeps silent about these issues, it makes things worse", Someyya Hussein, an Egyptian woman who has twice been seriously sexually assaulted in public, told the BBC. "Clerics appear on TV inciting people, telling men they have the right to touch a girl if she is not 'properly' covered up. They should be stopped and brought to account but they are not."
Isabelle Bruand, regional desk officer for Doctors of the World, tells The Lancet that women's health and health care in general had not been an issue of debate during the revolution 2 years ago.
Women still faced a plethora of health challenges including female genital mutilation, which was officially condemned by Islamic clerics but remains widespread, gender-based violence, poor access to sexual and reproductive health care and mental health services, chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and hepatitis C. "The revolution didn't make any real change in health and it's not a priority for anyone", says Bruand. "Egypt has the characteristic difficulties in terms of access to health [care] of a middle-income country and there's a particular urban-rural divide."
Health-care spending in Egypt as a proportion of gross domestic product was 5% in 2011, similar to other emerging markets but low when compared with the western world. Improvements made in the past few decades have been mostly attributed to immunisation programmes and donor-funded programmes to bring health care to rural areas. Most hospital care takes place in the public sector but it is often under-funded and out of date.
Last month, doctors and pharmacists in Egypt held a vigil to draw attention to long-standing demands for more health funding and regulations that would state terms of employment, salaries, and promotions. They also want a framework that stipulates free health care for poor people and fair compensation for doctors. Doctors went on strike for 3 months late last year and have threatened to do so again.
"Our government needs to revolutionise health services, particularly in the countryside", Ahmed Lutfi, a senior member from Egypt's Medical Association, told IRIN, a UN news service. "There are few hospitals and clinics outside the major cities and the few medical institutions available in these areas offer no services whatsoever to the patients. These medical institutions are cut off [from] whatever it takes to serve these patients."
In March, Egypt's Health Minister Mohamed Mustafa Hamed said that 20% of hospitals in the rural south had no doctors and only 40% of necessary medicines were available in government hospitals and clinics.
A consultation at a reproductive health clinic set up by the UN Population Fund
Copyright © 2013 Teun Voeten/Panos
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Egypt has two major priorities: providing access to care for the most vulnerable populations at two clinics in Cairo and helping to reduce the prevalence of hepatitis C. "Since January to the end of April, we've provided 7000 mother-and-child consultations", said Sameh Kirollos, assistant medical coordinator. "And Egypt has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world with 20% affected across the whole country."
Meanwhile, the country is in deep economic crisis after President Mohamed Morsi and his cabinet of mostly Muslim Brotherhood allies recently failed to agree a $4·8 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund. "The differences in social classes will be strengthened as people with money go to the private sector", warned Doctors of the World's Bruand.
Bruand said all international organisations working in Egypt faced a climate of suspicion and distrust under the Morsi-led government. Her organisation, which works with a number of local partners, had been waiting for months for government approval for a new mental health project. "There's a lot of distrust and this government wants to control everything but they don't want to make any decisions", she said.
In February last year, an Egyptian court charged 43 international and Egyptian non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers with receiving US funding without the appropriate authorisation while working in Egypt. Egyptian NGOs have been warned not to engage with "international entities" without permission and the government is looking to overhaul a law governing NGO work in Egypt ahead of parliamentary elections taking place later this year.
Julien Raickman, head of mission for MSF in Egypt, said he had also been waiting for several months for approval for a hepatitis C pilot project in an Egyptian village that would target entire families, not just individuals. "All the different officials we deal with have welcomed the project but it's been months now", he said. "It's a huge project, €3 million over 3 years, and we run the risk that funds will no longer be available."
Health-care professionals are also worried by a surge in the birth rate that in 2012 reached about 32 for every 1000 people, going above a level last seen in 1991 and before the Mubarak government expanded family planning programmes and publicity programmes. There were 2·6 million births last year bringing the population to about 84 million.
Health workers were surprised when Abeer Barakat, an assistant minister for health responsible for family planning, made no explicit mention of the issue at a UN conference on population and family planning in December. She told the New York Times that Mubarak had been "biased" toward family planning and ignored urgent concerns such as cancer and hepatitis C. "Assigning a number is against reproductive freedoms and against human rights", said Barakat, a former official in the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing. "They are not rabbits, to stop giving birth. Manpower is a treasure."
The US Agency for International Development had spent about $1·5 billion on population and other health programmes over several decades, the newspaper said.
Gamal Serour, director of the International Islamic Centre for Population Studies and Research at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, said a big mistake in previous years had been educating only government officials, and not the opposition, about family planning, reproductive health, and gender issues. His centre, which provides research and information about the compatibility of these issues with Islam was awarded the UN Population Award this year.
"In many countries of the so-called Arab Spring, the opposition is now in power and they were never informed about these issues. It is a problem now and we have to enlighten everyone", says Serour. He was helping to prepare a document on adolescent reproductive and sexual health and all political factions would be invited to its presentation next month, he said.
On the ground, both Doctors of the World and MSF said they had not seen Egyptian women face any difficulties in accessing family planning, which remained widely available and accepted.
Earlier this year, the Muslim Brotherhood attacked a draft UN declaration on combating violence against women, saying it advocated sexual freedoms for women and the right to abortion "under the guise of sexual and reproductive rights".
The Arab Spring that swept away dictatorial regimes and bolstered reform across the Middle East in the past couple of years has a mixed record when it comes to women's rights. In Libya, a senior religious cleric also rejected the UN document on combating violence against women for violating Islamic teachings. In particular, he rejected equality between men and women in matters of inheritance, which Islamic jurisprudence does not accept, and criticised wording on sexual freedoms and rights of children born out of wedlock.
Meanwhile, Iran is reversing a 20-year birth control policy to promote the benefits of marriage and urging single-child couples to expand their families. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, ordered the abolition of the £10 billion family planning budget last year, saying it was a mistake, and called for the country's population to double from the current 75 million.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61060-0
© 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Public support for Democrats' "Medicare for All" plan has plummeted as voters have begun to learn about some of the scheme's lesser-known features—little things like a $32.6 trillion price-tag, 40 percent payment cuts for doctors and hospitals, and nearly 300 million Americans losing their existing health coverage.
Unfortunately, some Democrats are already falling back to a more viable, and thus more dangerous, position: "Medicare for More." Let's hope Republicans will take advantage of this temporary slowdown to start offering practical proposals that would actually improve American health care.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the GOP did good work on health care in 2017 and 2018. The poor and the sick are already benefiting from its historic repeal of the individual mandate and welcome re-legalization of short term plans. Republicans should now capitalize on that progress by reclaiming the high moral ground in favor of patients and their inalienable right to health care freedom.
A good place to start: defend medical progress. Specifically, stand up for the most important wellspring of medical progress: life-saving pharmaceutical research. Right now the Beltway is focusing madly on the wrong thing—the prices of prescription drugs—while completely ignoring the more important question of where new therapies come from.
Sadly, some Republicans are even drifting toward such wrong-headed "solutions" as Medicare drug price controls and new limits on drug-patent exclusivity. Sigh. With wild-eyed socialists running free in the corridors of Congress, now is not the time go wobbly. Instead of blaming drug companies for high prices and dysfunctional markets, we should be confronting the real culprit: dumb government policies.
Happily, there's no dearth of good reform ideas for lowering drug costs and improving American health care. For example, this one, and these, and these, and these, and these. Keep it simple. Here are four simple and proven ideas.
Forty centuries of experience prove price controls never work and always produce counterproductive scarcity. Oppose them in all their forms.
Innovation is the lifeblood of medical progress, but it does not happen by accident. It requires massive investments, fueled by the prospect of, yes, financial reward. The profit motive saves lives. Defend it.
Drug shortages currently cost Americans an estimated $230 million a year. Instead of creating even more shortages, we should dramatically increase supply by speeding up drug approvals by the federal Food and Drug Administration. For example, reciprocity would go a long way. Requiring the FDA to automatically approve any drug whose safety has been confirmed in a foreign country that employs a modern, high-quality drug-approval system similar to FDA's just makes sense.
Second, the FDA should adjust its rules to emphasize safety only. We should limit FDA's mission to ensuring drugs are safe, rather than the current standard of "safe and effective." After all, effectiveness is something patients and doctors have to discover anyway (plus fraudulent efficacy claims can be policed locally).
Patents are critical to innovation. But to do its job of promoting progress, a patent must rest firmly on two equally important pillars: it must be truly temporary, and it must be well-nigh irrevocable. If either pillar totters, innovation falters.
Occasionally Congress steps in to reinforce a pillar. For example, back in 1984, it passed the Hatch-Waxman reforms, which proved successful not only in speeding up FDA drug approvals but also in jump-starting a market for generics (lower-cost alternatives to branded drugs). As a result, generics' market share has swelled from 19 percent in 1984 to 90 percent today. And thanks to generic competition, consumers have saved a staggering $1.7 trillion over the past decade alone.
Unfortunately, the irrevocability pillar has begun to crumble. A 2011 reform law inadvertently exposed pharma innovators to double-jeopardy patent-validity challenges, rendering them vulnerable to attack in two forums: the special courtroom process established under Hatch-Waxman and a newer, internal patent office process known as "inter partes review" (IPR). Because these two pathways employ wildly different rules and standards—and, amazingly, opposite burdens of proof—malicious "patent trolls" and short-sellers have found broad avenues for mischief.
Today a patent that has been upheld in court will not infrequently go on to be invalidated in IPR, based on the same set of facts! For medical research investment, this uncertainty is devastating.
To fix the problem, Congress should either abolish IPR or at least end the double-jeopardy problem uniquely plaguing pharmaceutical companies. Furthermore, they should enact the recently introduced Tillis-Flores "Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act of 2019," which would force pharma patent challengers to pick one of the two existing legal pathways and stick to it.
Can Republicans save American consumers from the evils of single-payer? Of course! But first they need to claim the high moral ground. It's the innovation, stupid.
Dean Clancy, a former senior Republican official in Congress and the White House, writes on U.S. health reform, budget, and constitutional issues. Follow him at deanclancy.com<,/a> or on Twitter @DeanClancy.


For more than 20 years, artist Karen Hahn has been a respected and award winning artist. She is inspired by the beauty of everyday life, her deep faith and the love of her family. She is dedicated to sharing her uplifting messages to all those who seek comfort, insight and peace. With her unparalleled, imaginative vision and creative talent, Karen has earned the reputation of a truly gifted artist. Inspired to share uplifting words of hope and wisdom in a unique way, the Foundations collection couples her own handwriting with thoughts and prayers that bring meaning to life's wonders. Her desire is that the collection continues to convey inspirational messages that reflect our connections to family, faith and home - the foundations of life. Each message is engraved on the front of the angel and reproduced beneath the picture for clarity. To make a truly special gift, we personalize with engraving on the side or back of the angel (as space allows). Add a short personal message, a name or perhaps a date to make this a truly meaningful gift. Each angel is beautifully gift boxed.


The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire incorporating West Yorkshire for Innovation (WyFi). WyFi, coordinators of Unity, is a research team of police officers and police support staff who identify and capture innovation in policing with the aim of bringing research to operational reality to improve policing practice to keep communities safe and feeling safer. WyFi has experience of working with international consortiums consisting of law enforcement agencies, academics and private industry the team interact at a local, national and international level collaborating to tackle new and emerging crime trends utilising advancing technology and sharing best practice. As well as coordinating the project, WyFi will use their end-user experience to deliver one of the pilot testing events as well as contributing to the communication, dissemination, and training activities.
Serco is a worldwide provider specialised in the management and operation of infrastructure and essential services for the public and private sectors. Serco will lead WP4 – the community policing delivery framework – supporting the delivery of a concept of operations. Serco will also contribute to the Unity integration framework and lead the exploitation strategy.
The Centre of Excellence for Public Safety Management (CESAM) at Erasmus University Rotterdam is a research team which aims to investigate the role of emerging technologies in the management of public safety and the organizational and inter-organizational practices required to support public safety. CESAM's has an interdisciplinary team which integrates approaches from management sciences, organizational behavior, psychology, organizational communication and information systems, criminology, and linguistics. CESAM's goal is to achieve a clear and direct impact for academia, and public and private sector organizations, in the field of public safety. Within Unity, CESAM leads WP3 on Policing and Community requirements and Best/effective practices as well as making significant contributions to the test beds and piloting exercises.
The Police University College of Finland (PUCF), located in Tampere, maintains and improves the skills and knowledge base of the Finnish Police. Under the direction of the Ministry of the Interior, PUCF is the only institute in Finland responsible for police training, recruitment, student selection, and education and further training. PUCF has extensive European contacts through the European Police Research Institute Collaboration (EPIC), European Police College (CEPOL), and Nordic Police Research Network. PUCF will lead the piloting and test beds within Unity.
CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University is a multi-disciplinary and end-user centred research body that aims to develop the intersection between four key stakeholders in the security domain: Citizens, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA's), Industry and Academia. CENTRIC has links with local, national and international LEAs and security specialist groups and collaborates with a number of law enforcement agencies and leading technology providers. CENTRIC will make key contributions across the entire Unity project.
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) is hosted at the University of Dundee. SIPR is a strategic collaboration between twelve of Scotland's universities and Police Scotland, that conducts relevant, applicable research to help the police meet the challenges of the 21st century and for achieving international excellence for policing research in Scotland. SIPR is an interdisciplinary institute which brings together researchers around three broad thematic areas: Police-Community Relations; Evidence & Investigation; and Police Organization. SIPR promotes a collaborative approach to research that involves academics and practitioners working together in the creation, sharing and application of knowledge about policing. Within Unity SIPR is responsible for leading research into the legal and ethical issues surrounding community policing and the Unity project.
Edinburgh Napier University is also a member of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research with a track record of collaborating with both industry and academic on research that has a social and economic impact at local, national and international level. Napier will support the research into the legal, social and ethical issues surrounding community policing in WP2.
The European Institute (EI) is a non profit organisation and one of the leading independent policy centres for matters related to European integration. EI has developed a comprehensive network of external experts in key areas such as European Regional and Social policies, Justice and Home Affairs, Migration policy, Agriculture and Development policy. EI has gained considerable project related experience in topics dealing with law enforcement and migration including the harmonization and implementation of the legislation in the areas of migration, border control and police cooperation, and the creation of effective policies and strategies in the area of crime prevention, based on best practices from other Member States. Within Unity the EI will participate in identifying community policing's requirements and current gaps from both the police and citizen's perspectives.
The Study Department Police trains students for the career of the professional and executive level of the Police Enforcement Service on both law and police management topics. FHVR has a strong connection with the Ministry of Interior and the police in Bavaria. FHVR has experience of being involved in a number of European projects and will lead the dissemination and exploitation activities within Unity as well as providing support on the analysis of the social, cultural, legal, and ethical dimensions in community policing and community policing research.
Rinicom is a leading edge technology company based in Lancaster, UK. Rinicom has many years experience in working on EU funded projects. Within Unity, Rinicom will lead the development of the technology toolkit including both a mobile app and online portal for both citizens and LEAs.
Treelogic is a R&D SME in Information and Communication Technologies. Treelogic is highly specialized in intelligent data processing. Big Data, Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Social Network Analysis, Visual Analytics and Semantics which are used in services and products such as Mobile Apps, Location-Based Services (LBS), Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Treelogic provides solutions in several sectors like transport, healthcare, banking, insurance, and safety and security. Law enforcement, healthcare and emergency management are key sectors in the company's product portfolio. Treelogic will provide Unity's data driven analytics engine and lead the implementations of the Unity Instantiations across the different pilot sites.
The Police College is located in Zagreb and is responsible for police education in Croatia. The Police Academy conducts programs of basic police training, higher police education, professional development, vocational training and specialist training for the needs of the Ministry of the Interior. Police College Croatia will contribute as an end-user to the Unity project and will host the first pilot exercise scheduled for November 2015.
The Belgian Federal Police (BPo) aims to improve security, maintain and develop the democratic principle of the rule of law by carrying out police missions. It carries out specialized and supra-local preventive, public order and judicial police missions. The activities of the BPo are funded by the Federal Government. The BPo acts as an end-user within the Unity project and will contribute to the pilot and test beds and host one of Unity's pilot exercises.
The Estonian Police and Border Guard is responsible for border security, public order, criminal policing and citizenship and migration with Estonia. The Estonian Police and Border Guard will contribute to the Unity project as an end-user and will host one of Unity's piloting exercises designed to test the outputs delivered by Unity.
University St Kliment is responsible for delivering police education as part of the higher education system in Macedonia. These activities include conducting research into the areas of policing and security. St Kliment have experience of participating in previous EU funded projects and within Unity they will make a significant contribution to the development and implementation of the test beds and pilots exercises.
Lauri Stevens is the principal consultant and founder of LAwS Communications. Lauri is also the creator and producer of the SMILE Conference and the creator of the award winning ConnectedCOPS blog. She is an interactive media professional with over 25 years of media experience, including 12 years in higher education as a Department Chair of Interactive Media. She is most well known for having worked with the Toronto Police Department in 2010 in the development of service-wide social media strategy integrating every operational unit. Lauri is passionate about the Internet, the web, social media and helping Law Enforcement leverage these technologies to connect with their communities. She holds an MBA in eB uisness from Bentley University, an MS in Mass Communication/Communication Technology from Boston University, and a BA in Political Science from Clemson University.
Professor Clive Walker, LLB, Ph.D, LL.D, QC (Hon), is the professor emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds. He has served as the founding director of its Centre for Criminal Justice Studies and as head of the School of Law in Leeds, as well as being a visiting professor abroad, such as at George Washington University, Stanford University and the Unversity of New South Wales. In addition to policing, media law and human rights, the key aspects of his research work relate to terrorism legislation and counter-terrorism policies and laws. He has undertaken work for many parlimentary committees and currently is engaged by the Home Office as the Senior Special Advisor to the United Kingdom Independent Reviewer on Terrorism Legislation. For his work in this field, he received an LL.D degree (Manchester) in 2015 and the title of Queen's Counsel honoris causa in 2016. His extensive publications on terrorism and emergency law issues, include leading books such as The Civil Contingencies Act 2004; Risk, Resilience and the Law in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press, 2006); Terrorism and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Anti-Terrorism Legislation, (3rd ed, Oxford University Press, 2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Routledge, 2015).
Francesca Bosco is the current Program Officer at the Emerging Crimes Unit, UNICRI, she is also a member of the Advisory Group of the EC3, Europol. Francesca is the founder and a member of the executive commitee of the Tech & Law Centre. She is also a Fellow of the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at European University Via drina. Francesca earnt a law degree in International Law and joined UNICRI in 2006 as a member of the Emerging Crimes Unit. She is responsible for capacity building and technical assistance projects in the field of crime prevention and human rights protection. Francesca has collobrated in various different Cyber Crime related projects such as the Hackers Profiling Project (HPP), SCADA Security and Multi-level training program for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and security professionals, lawyers, and law enforcement agencies. She has participated as speaker in various conferences and training seminars on the topic of cybercrime, cybersecurity and related issues.
Professor Monique Marks currently heads up the newly established Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology. Initially trained as a social worker, she has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Natal, and writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, poice labour relations, police organisational change and street level drug use. She has published five books: Young Warriors: Youth Identity, Politics and Violence in South Africe, Transforming the Robocops: Changing Police in South Africa: and Police Occupaional Culture: New Debates and Directions (edited with Anne-Marie Singh and Megan O'Neil). She has also published over 47 peer reviewd articles and numerous reports. She sits on a number of journal editorial board as well as the Board of Trustees of the Safer South Africa Foundation. Her reseach is mostly ethnographic and takes place in spaces that are considered compromising or unsafe. She is also the founder of the KwaZulu-Natal Harm Reduction Advocacy Group.
Richie currently leads Police Scotland's Policing Values and Professional Ethics Unit. In this role he has written Police Scotland's Code of Ethics and leads on cultural work across the Service. Richie completed a doctorate in policing in 2012, his thesis examined values based decision making within policing. He is regularly invited to speak on values based leadership at the College of Policing and has spoken on this subject at a number of police services in the UK. He has trained officers and given seminars on values based policing in Malawi and the United States, where he completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in 2014.
Dr Rupali Jeswal is involved in Counterterrorism & Intelligence Analysis. In her field experience she uses applied psychology and behavior science regarding nature, prediction and counter measures for conflicts, terrorism, violent attack cycles, attack profiles, political violence and adversaries' operational mindset. Her research work and trainings are evidence-based and intelligence-supported, made possible due to her strong support network of associates from all over the globe. In Romania, at Vest Timisoara University (UVT), she is a visiting researcher & lecturer, and recently was given the privilege to design her own course in Security & CT studies embedded in the Masters program, which she will conduct after September 2017. Being a fellow of Romania Prison Studies Center (CRSP), she trains law enforcement agents (including Corrections), anti-organised crime units, special units and Counter Terrorism Units in Europe. Between mid 2015 and early 2016 under Romania Ministry of Justice, CRSP & UVT she has conducted needs assessment and then provided sequences of certified trainings to Prison, Police, anti-organised crime units and Intelligence officers from the Balkan States. She is also one of the main architects of their EU Commission research Project R2PRIS (ERASMUS), which is on radicalisation and counter radicalisation in prisons. Dr. Jeswal has a special relation with Japan and continuously assists UNAFEI (United Nations Asia & Far East Institute For the Prevention of Crime & Treatment of Offenders). Dr. Jeswal has authored several articles, which are published sporadically on matters regarding warfare (NATO), homeland security, policing, prisons, insurgency, radicalisation, urban terrorism, conflicts & communities (trauma & mental health), She is a professional mixed-media artist using her work to assist various charities with financial support, who are dedicated to serving the victims of human trafficking, tribal minorities, natural & man-made disasters, AIDS & orphanages.
Brendan's achievements as a Greater Manchester Police Neighbourhood (Community) Inspector have been described as inspirational by local community leaders and senior Government Ministers. Now retired, Brendan continues to pursue his interests around enabling and building stronger communities that are more resistant to crime and disorder. He is currently supporting a number of police forces and councils as they shift their culture from, 'Public Servants' to, 'Citizen Enablers.' One of the pilots Brendan is supporting was described recently by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary as 'promising' in respect of its ability to problem solve alongside communities and to reduce demand.
Tim Curtis is an internationally renowned author on social innovation & entrepreneurship, whose career has been to help people and organisations make decisions in complex and confusing situations. He is also adept at getting decisions made when he is not in charge. He has worked in environmental decision-making, in policy and law and in community development, for governments, major companies and community associations. Now, working at the University of Northampton, his focus is on the nitty-gritty theory and practice of community organising and social innovation. He has taught Entrepreneurship, International Development and Social & Community Development students how to make decisions in and with communities, but also coaches and undertakes paid and pro-bono consulting work for third-sector organisations. Tim is also Changemaker Campus leader at the University of Northampton, now a major institutional strategy and has lead on high profile co-curriculum challenges, summer schools and international conferences on social innovation. He is has also been undertaking PhD level action research on community based social innovation in community policing.


Our PaaMano Performing Arts Company is a fusion of different styles of dance, martial arts, music, acrobatics and storytelling. PM Performing Arts was created to honor the artists, heroes, legends, historical figures and natural treasures of the Philippines as well as to celebrate the Filipino influences on cultures and artistic styles worldwide.
We have a multi-talented group of performers committed to sharing their love and pride of Filipino culture. The individual members of our performing arts company bring a variety of artistic training and background to our shows. We try to incorporate their artistic diversity into our choreography, music and stories. Sharing the martial as well as artistic sides of Eskrima is an integral aspect of our choreography.
We encourage our younger members to incorporate the styles of music, dance and movement that most interest them into our creative process. We strive to include their ideas and choreography into our showpieces. They are the ones that will pass down cultural pride and the ancestral stories to future generations.
Senior members are responsible for incorporating the history, cultural stories, martial arts and biodiversity of the Philippines into our performances. They are tasked with finding stories that inspire or educate audiences. We are grateful to the parents and family of our performing arts company for they are the cornerstones of our organization. Without their belief and support in our mission this would not be possible.
We created our performing arts program to foster creative expression, cultural history, stage presence and confidence in our members.
Our PME and Performing Arts Company has had the honor of sharing the Filipino Martial Arts as well as Filipino national heroes, natural treasures and culture all over California. We have been performing and sharing the Filipino Martial Arts for more that 25 years.
10 years ago we added our Performing Arts Company to help tell the stories of the heroes and legends of the Philippines. We incorporate multiple styles of dance, live music and storytelling in our performances.
We have recently expanded our company to include younger members and now have special pieces and performance opportunities for kids 6 and older.
PME Performing Arts is also important in helping us remember and honor not only the brave Filipino warrior ancestors but also the brave Filipino artist ancestors. Without both the warriors and the artists the Filipino Martial Arts would have been erased.
The Filipino Martial Arts has a unique history. During the Spanish occupation, practicing the Filipino Martial Arts was outlawed. Master had to train in secret. For 300 years they practiced and taught under the penalty of death. Some ingenious masters worked with the arts to hide many foundational movements in dance. Thanks to the warriors and the artists Eskrima was saved for us to practice today.
We honor their legacy and sacrifice by continuing to share the arts with as many people as possible.
PaaMano Eskrima sharing the history of the Filipino Martial Arts and honoring the heroes and natural beauty of the Philippines at the FPac 2017 at Echo Park, CA.
Our amazing PaaMano Eskrima & Performing Arts group sharing the Filipino Martial Arts and culture at Nonosina Polynesia Summerland 2017! Thank you to the Nonosina Family for the opportunity to share our art and thank you to our eskrimadors & eskrimadoras for representing!
Grateful to have honored Jose Rizal, The Philippines Eagle and the Igorot troop of the 2nd Battalion, 11th infantry, WWII.
"Many desperate acts of courage and heroism have fallen under my observation on many fields of battle in many parts of the world. I have seen forlorn hopes become realities. I have seen last-ditch stands and innumerable acts of personal heroism that defy description. but for sheer breathtaking and heart stopping desperation, I have never known the equal of those Igorots riding the tanks. Gentlemen, when you tell the story stand in tribute to those gallant Igorots." _Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Roland is an avid musician and performer. He offers his harp services for fundraising events, shows, weddings, baptisms, graduations, funerals and private events.
Roland offers his services in music composition and musical arrangements. He arranges harp pieces for professional harpists and has composed original pieces used in videos, DVD's and independent films.
Giving back is the cornerstone of Sound of Zero and of Roland's musical inspiration. He plays free harp concerts for the public at local parks. He also donates his time and talent to nursing homes, children's hospitals, and charities.
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QuBit started its journey as an idea. That idea came to life in 2014, when the first QuBit Conference was organized by its founders Ondrej and Maria, with the first 25 attendees onboard. They created the core of the community and attended each year ever since. In 2019 the 6th annual conference attracted almost 250 professionals.
Ondrej's vision of creating a cybersecurity community event in Central Europe symbolizes his gratitude towards the Central European region. After all, this is where he grew up and received his world-class computer science and informatics education, which opened the doors to the United States for him. After two decades of a successful cyber career in New York City, he met Maria, an open-minded and hardworking professional, and the dream was ready to become a reality. Together, they created a small team of enthusiastic and highly motivated people with a clear vision and a very strong mission.
QuBit strive to bring together and build a cybersecurity community of like-minded fellows.
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Our idea is to connect regional communities to become one united international cybersecurity community, so the world becomes a safer place to live in. We listen to the community needs and use the valuable feedback to constantly improve. We keep doing our best to create a space where cybersecurity experts can share their knowledge and build long-lasting relationships in an environment of trust and comradery.
We listened to the needs of experts in the field and filled in the missing gap by creating a place where cybersecurity professionals can share their knowledge and establish business relationships with the feeling of trust and a higher sense of growing the community they are a part of.
After the praise we received following the first QuBit Conference organized in Prague in 2014, we knew we were on the right path. The reception of the event was overwhelmingly positive, and the community was ready to grow.
As the interest throughout Central and Eastern Europe grew, our Serbian colleagues invited us to their home country. We accepted the offer and organized the first QuBit Conference in Belgrade in 2017 with 100+ professionals in attendance. Different culture, different stage of development, but the same hunger for education and knowledge sharing.
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Lucy has again failed in maths. The third grader cannot cope with her math lesson efficiently as she does with other subjects. Frequent complains come from the school for her low grades.
Is the similar incident is happening with your child too?
No wonder, everyone can't be perfect in all the subjects. Some are good at language, while some can solve puzzles in a jiffy. Again, sometimes, the child's imaginative mind want to run away from the barriers of literacy and wish to indulge in the fantasy world that he/she has shaped for his/her own.
Again, it often happens that parents give immense pressure on the little souls and compromise their sleep and rest. It regularly hacks the studies. As per a Ph.D. professor of Psychology, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, of Philadelphia's Temple University, advised the parents that if the child behaves poorly in the classroom, check if he/she is getting the proper sleep.
Many parents opt for approaching private tutors for their kids. Several schools couldn't afford to hire more teachers due to the budget cuts. Thus, each child can't be minutely taken care of. If your kid is getting shallow marks, you can fix a collegiate to give him/her some extra attention regarding the studies. It works better with kids of 6-10 years as they respond better to the young adults rather than strict old teachers.
But, you need to make sure your kid and the young teacher are comfortable with each other. As your small bee is very young and new to his/her tuition teacher, you sit in the same study room and monitor the session. Again, physical and verbal abusements are on the significant rise nowadays. So, be careful about your innocent child.
If your ward is a bit grown up like over 10 or has entered teenage, and having a hard time in a solo subject like chemistry or history, consult with the school teacher. Several schools have the facility of the extra classes to the weak students after the scheduled school hours. If admitted to such courses, your child can have the required attention on the particular subject by the school teacher only. You don't have to seek outside for better option.
If it doesn't work, then consider employing a private tutor. You can ask the school educators for more recommendations and freelance specialists who are equally qualified and educate children outside the school.
The most effective way to master your kids in specific subjects is to train them by yourself. You are their parents and the closest person. You know their strengths and weaknesses better than anyone else. If you can take out a couple of hours in between your busy schedule for your pretty souls and guide them on the subjects, it will be the best education for them.
A study done by the University of Miami revealed that small group and one-on-one tutoring helped in boosting the children's reading skills. Taking tips from it, you can call your child's friends to your home and conduct a full session that will benefit all the kids together.
But, considering the high price of the private tuition, it is hard to manage. If we take the experimentation in general; in major cities, a single hour costs near to $35 to $ 300 depending on the lifestyle. As per a prediction of the Global Industry Analysts, California, the tutoring market is continuously growing at the rate of approximately 7-8% each year, and it is expected to exceed around $100 billion by the end of 2018.
Unfortunately, a private tutor's capability can't be proven in written other than the result of his/her students. Millions of highly educated people are turning to private tutoring as their only profession and earning good packages. Some are indulging in providing coaching classes to the students as freelancers or part-timers.
Therefore, it becomes very hectic for the guardians to decide whether they are getting the actual value for their investment on coaching centers. Many parents wish to get into the high headed competition with the kids' peers, and hence, they put their children into reputed coaching institutions.
One positive aspect of the tuition centers is mock tests. The multiple numbers of mock tests give a learner the preview of the upcoming exam and the question types. They also get the knowledge of proper time management. They are enlightened with the grading patterns that they will face in the finals.
Shy and nervous kids can benefit from the tuition classes due to the exposure in groups and engagement of the whole class. The one-on-one discussion is allowed in some tutoring organizations that help the introvert child to open up with the specific problems regarding the subjects.
We can summarize by saying that opting for private tuition classes is solely depending upon the needs of the children. Think before you do. Take help from the academic counselors.


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Please note that I will not be replaying to job-related e-mails when it is evident that the sender did not consult this page, or is mass-sending it to a large number of academics.
There will be a number of summer internship opportunities in my group for registered University of Cambridge students. The list of the internships can be checked on the UROP web-site.
The Computer Laboratory generally does offer internships for non-registered (non-Cambridge) students, so please do not contact me asking for such. The Computer Laboratory also does not take part in Erasmus exchange programs. We make exceptions from that rule only when the research interest of a visitor are well aligned with the interests of the group, or there is on-going collaboration between our group and visitor's home institution.
The studentship above is advertised at the Research Assistant level. It offers compensation comparable to a PhD bursary but with the benefits of employment.
P. Hedman, J. Philip, T. Price, J.-M. Frahm, G. Drettakis, and G. Brostow, "Deep blending for free-viewpoint image-based rendering," ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1–15, Dec. 2018.
R. S. Overbeck, D. Erickson, D. Evangelakos, M. Pharr, and P. Debevec, "A system for acquiring, processing, and rendering panoramic light field stills for virtual reality," ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 1–15, Dec. 2018.
The project may involve a combination of Image-Based-Rendering techniques with deep-learning. There will be also an emphasis on modeling perceptual limitations and using those to guide the solution.
Strong candidates can apply to the general PhD admission program link. The candidates need to secure their own funding, for example from one of the scholarships offered by the University of the Department. Note that you are recommended to consult the topic of your proposal with a potential supervisor before submitting the application.
We are looking for very strong candidates with background in Computer Graphics or Computer Vision, and with the interest aligned with the interests of my group. The candidates should preferably have an established track record of publications in good venues (SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV). If you are interested in applying for such a position, please contact me. The positions are either listed below or they will be officially advertised in due time. In either case, I am happy to discuss them informally.


Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Griffith and research student Logan Vine '17 collect wastewater samples from the Willamette River.
Keeton Nance '19 clicked on the title page of a well-known environmental science journal in his inbox and excitedly scanned the text.
He spotted a familiar name — Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Griffith — then his own, along with students Reid Milstead '18, Kulananalu Tarnas '16, Kira Egelhofer '15. Nance was looking at the first draft of an 11-page research paper he and the others co-authored — the culmination of years of work.
On Sept. 13, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts published their paper, titled "Photochemical degradation of halogenated estrogens under natural solar irradiance," and featured the title inside its front cover alongside artwork by Eurydice Chen '19.
Griffith says, "At Willamette, undergraduates play a more central role in the research overall — from conducting experiments to data analysis and presenting information at conferences — and can interact more directly with faculty than they can at larger institutions."
The students benefited in other ways, too. National Public Radio featured their research Nov. 2 during a segment for PRI's environment podcast, "Living on Earth," and Nance last month presented his research at the Murdock College Science Research Conference in Vancouver, Washington.
Over the past few years, Griffith's students have been studying halogenated estrogen, a form of the hormone created during the chlorine disinfection stage at treatment plants, with the help of a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Scientists are concerned about the impact of estrogen on the environment. Even small amounts of it can disrupt the growth and development of aquatic organisms, causing some male fish to develop ovaries — and little is known of its impact on humans.
For the research paper, students focused on how quickly this form of estrogen degrades under sunlight to better understand the overall impact of estrogen contamination. On sunny days last summer, students set tubes holding different types of halogenated estrogen on the roof of Collins Hall then measured the amount of the hormone over time.
Students discovered halogenated estrogen degrades more quickly in the sun, which means that exposing it to solar rays could ameliorate its rapid formation during the waste treatment disinfection process.
Their research has great potential beyond possibly shaping how wastewater facilities treat water in the future. Griffith says it also sheds light on the behavior of a range of other pharmaceuticals and contaminants that share similar structural features with estrogens.
Several natural and manufactured chemicals, including ones found in microwavable dishes, Tylenol and some types of detergents, possess the same feature that make estrogens susceptible to degradation by sunlight. So, sunlight can also cause a quicker degradation of these chemicals when they turn up in wastewater.
Research at Willamette opens doors to students' future. Experiments Nance conducted last summer through the university's Science Collaborative Research Program, similar to his work for Griffith's grant, made him eligible for the Murdock conference and others.


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Former rebel chief denies getting arms from Charles Taylor
A former rebel chief in Sierra Leone told a special court on Monday that he never received weapons from the former president of neighbouring Liberia, Charles Taylor, who is on trial for war crimes.
"No," answered Issa Hassan Sesay to a question from Taylor's lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths, about whether the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) had ever accepted weapons or ammunition from the Liberian former leader and warlord.
The 40-year-old Sesay, himself a convicted war criminal, was called as a defence witness for Taylor, who has been accused of covertly supplying weapons to the RUF in exchange for rough diamonds during Sierra Leone's brutal 1991 to 2001 civil war.
Taylor is on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was to moved to The Hague from Freetown for security reasons.
Asked by the lawyer if he had ever given diamonds to Taylor, Sesay replied: "No, I don't remember giving diamonds to Mister Charles Taylor."
Sesay was convicted by the same court — which was set up to try suspected war criminals from Sierra Leone's conflict, war crimes and crimes against humanity — and sentenced to 52 years in prison in October 2009.
He also claimed the first time he ever met Taylor was in May 2000.
Taylor (62) has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from Sierra Leone's civil war, including charges of murder, rape, conscripting child soldiers, enslavement and pillaging.
The RUF is blamed for the mutilation of thousands of civilians who had their hands and arms severed in one of the most brutal wars in modern history, which claimed about 120 000 lives.
The court last week ordered supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify on July 29 about a "blood diamond" she was allegedly given by Taylor in 1997. — AFP


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Le mot canonique est un adjectif d'origine grecque (κανονικός « kanonikos », « relatif aux règles » - κανόνες, « kanones », « les règles ») et latine (canonicus « conforme aux règles, régulier »).

Cet adjectif est employé dans plusieurs domaines :

 Dans les religions, il est formé à partir du mot canon « règle ». Il s'agit d'une règle disciplinaire interne à une religion (par exemple : le droit canonique de l'Église catholique romaine).
 En mathématiques, canonique qualifie des objets qui semblent être naturels et instinctifs et qui permettent de faciliter des manipulations ultérieures. Exemples : base canonique,  produit scalaire canonique.
 En physique, plus particulièrement en physique statistique, les ensembles microcanonique, canonique et grand-canonique sont les trois ensembles statistiques utilisés dans l'étude des différents systèmes.
 En informatique, le passage à la forme canonique permet de transformer des données dont plusieurs représentations sont possibles vers un format 'standard'.

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As the church grows we are having special church services that includes lunch immediately following our morning service!
We have had a wonderful time this past year getting to know each other, enjoying great food and encouraging each other's walk with and growth in Jesus Christ.
Thanks to all who've helped make these special services even more special by preparing dishes and sharing extended time with us.
Come meet the One who says I've come to give you life and life more abundantly (John 10:10)!


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From The Left: Messages From The Election
November 6, 2014 Rob Port
Well, the election is over, and now we know who will be governing us in Washington for the last two years of President Obama's term and who will be serving us in Bismarck come January. The North Dakota voters have also spoken on eight amendments and initiatives. Like many people over the next few weeks, I thought I would take a crack at some post election analysis of the issues I find most important.
The Defeat of Measure 1: Measure 1 (M1) was the so called "Right to Life" amendment. This Amendment was a cookie cutter "Personhood Amendment" that was pushed by national anti-abortion activists on North Dakota. As I wrote in the weeks leading up to the vote, I was undecided on this issue for a long time. However, by the time the election came around, I had lost any trust in the supporters of the bill, and honestly I was not sure what the purpose of the amendment was. We were told by M1 supporters that the bill would not make abortion illegal, would not affect end of life issues, would not affect IVF, and would not affect birth control. The supporters of the bill went so far as to release a memo stating that the bill was not a "personhood amendment".
We were told that the amendment was needed because there was a possible future activist judge who may make abortions easier to get, and we needed a constitutional amendment to stop this possibility.
However, even though I am pro-life, I really felt the intention of M1 was to create an amendment that would allow for an activist right wing judge to limit abortions, to limit birth control, to stop IVF, and to limit end of life options. In fact when the personhood bill passed the Senate last year, Sen. Margaret Sitte said "We are intending that it be a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, since Scalia said that the Supreme Court is waiting for states to raise a case."
The bottom line is that M1 was a "Personhood Amendment" and it was an effort to end abortion. Those who claimed otherwise in the weeks leading up to the vote were being dishonest to the voters, and the voters punished them and their movement because of their dishonesty. If the Pro-life movement is ever going to recover in North Dakota, it is going to need new leadership and a new approach.
The Defeats of Sen. Margaret Sitteand Rep. Bette Grande: The defeat of these two social conservative stalwarts is a sign of hope for North Dakota Dem-NPL that really need some hope (more on that later). I think Pamela Anderson and Erin Oban ran their campaigns in a way more Democrats need to do. First off, both were skilled campaigners who were able to run effective campaigns. Second, they were able to effectively define themselves and not allow their Republican opponents to define them, and finally, they exposed their opponent's extreme positions and voting records.
I know everybody likes to pretend that they dislike negative campaigning; however, trying to be nice at the cost of not exposing your opponent harms our system.
With all that being said, you cannot run an effective campaign without a bunch of money. Fundraising for 2016 must start now.
Dem-NPL Swept in Statewide Races: You think I would be used to this by now, however to be honest, this one hurts a little bit. I am spitting mad that the Dem-NPL candidates could not run effective campaigns against flawed candidates like Kevin Cramer, Ryan Rauschenberger and Doug Goehring. This ineptitude year after year has destroyed the ability of the party to raise money and to attract candidates. I remember talking to a current North Dakota State Senator a few years back about what made him decide to run for office. He said that he had been a community leader for many years but had always considered himself to be an independent voter. He told me he was approached by both the Dem-NPL and the GOP about running for State senate. He chose to run as a Republican, because he wanted to win. (Don't worry Republicans, he has proven to be a consistent conservative vote.)
Why would anybody who actually has the skills to win from the Dem-NPL side want to associate themselves with this mess of a party?
The voters have spoken in North Dakota. However, the message they told us should not fall on deaf ears. We need new leadership in the Pro-life movement, we need to learn from Pamela Anderson and Erin Oban on how to win state legislative races, and we need a new direction on the state party level.
Tags: Abortion, election 2014, ND Dem-NPL
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How to care for your plants through winter
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Worried about your garden surviving winter? Here's what you need to know.
Maintaining a garden takes a lot of TLC, especially through extreme temperatures whether it be summer or winter. But as the frosty air rolls in, it's important to know the preparation and care involved to keep your garden thriving into spring. Thankfully, Melissa King, horticulturalist and ambassador for Nylex and Northcote Pottery has the answers.
While the winter can be harsh on some plants, you can still grow a garden all year round - as long as you prepare. Melissa says autumn is the best season, but as long as the weather is mild your garden will still benefit from the preparation.
The first step to prepararing your garden is to rip out the last of summer's crops and reinvigorate the soil.
As she explains, "Work plenty of compost and rich organic matter into the soil. It helps to improve soil structure, replace lost nutrients and aid drainage. The addition of organic matter also encourages beneficial soil microbes and earthworms, to promote a healthy living soil environment."
Particular species will feel the cold more than others, and will show in your garden. Melissa refers to this as when the bones of the garden are revealed.
Here, the horticulturist shares her tips on how to avoid a sad looking garden: "Replace poor performers with a selection of robust, cool-season annuals. If your garden is needing a bit of brightening, add some colour with winter flowering plants like Daphne, Hellebores, Correas and Grevilleas."
For the more delicate species like tropical and frost-tender plants, Melissa reccommends to put them in Urbanlite pots so they're able to be moved into sheltered positions or warmer spots where there is risk of frost.
"If you live in a frosty area, now's the time to move tender plants to a warm spot and protect young vulnerable growth," she says.
"If you're new to gardening, pots are a great place to start," Melissa says. "Try growing leafy greens like lettuce or silverbeet, which are fast growing and productive in pots and can be harvested leaf by leaf as you need them for garden fresh sides and salads."
If you have a smaller space, you can also fill decorative containers with annuals like pansies, violas, polyanthus and cinerarias to provide splashes of cheery colour throughout the cooler months.
While the outside temperature is cold, Melissa says that it's important to remember that it doesn't necessarily mean it's wet.
Even though soil loses less moisture to evaporation in winter than in summer, you still need to keep the water up. As Melissa explains, "Anything that's actively growing and flowering will benefit from regular doses of plant food throughout the growing season. Look out for a fertiliser with added beneficial soil microbes so that you are looking after your plants above and below the soil."
To track how much water the garden is receiving, the horticulturist recommends implementing a rain gauge like the Nylex digital rain gauge which monitors hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly rainfall. Then you'll be able to know when to get the hose out.
Make sure to keep a special eye out for deciduous fruit trees and roses, which will need a good prune through winter to establish a strong framework and encourage healthy growth.
While your focus is maintaining the planted species, it's also important to look out for weeds that will try to grow after rainfall. Melissa encourages to do a 'weed sweep' after a wet period for a better chance of getting the root system.
If you have a larger garden, investing in appropriate tools will help. "I like to use Cyclones 5 in 1 multi-tool with a long trowel and sharp edge to help dislodge stubborn weeds or a two-prong hoe to quickly cover bigger areas," Melissa shares.
Look out for the warning signs
If your garden is still not looking healthy, Melissa advises to check the soil. "If water isn't getting down to the roots, you might need to apply a wetting agent. On the other hand, if your soil isn't draining properly, work plenty of compost and organic matter through the soil and use a clay breaker if necessary. It's also important to keep an eye out for pest and disease problems so you can treat them early," she tells.
"If a plant needs to be resuscitated, I often turn to a seaweed-based plant tonic. It helps to promote healthy root and top growth, reduce stress on plants and aid plant recovery."
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Joe Messina Net Worth: How Rich was American Guitarist?
April 5, 2022 by Madhuri Shetty
Joe Messina was an American guitarist has, died at the age of 93; he died on Monday at his son Joel Messina's Northville home. Following Joe Messina's death, tributes began pouring in online for the American guitarist, fans offering condolences to friends and family. One user said, "It is with a heavy heart that Motown Museum announces the passing of one of Motown's original Funk Brothers, Joe Messina. We send our sincere condolences to the Messina family and Joe's friends and fans worldwide." Another user said, "RIP to one of the original members of the best band in history. The Funk Brothers were the backbone of Motown. They were on all those songs you love and adore. Joe Messina, you will be missed, but your music will continue forever! Thank you!." While another user tweeted, "Another legend gone. If Joe Messina's name doesn't ring a bell, listen to a bunch of classic Motown cuts on which he and the Funk Brothers played. Then check the excellent Standing in the Shadows of Motown documentary."
What was Joe Messina's Net Worth?
Joe Messina Net Worth
$3 Million USD
Joe Messina was an American guitarist. Although he was born on 13 December 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, United States, he was 93 years old at the time of his demise. Messina won two Grammys in 2003 for the soundtrack to the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." He was also front and center on the Four Tops' "Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," and Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life." Messina was also known for playing in Soupy Sales' nighttime jazz band, where he backed up Dizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams, and Miles Davis. Robin Terry, chairwoman, and CEO said in an email Monday, "As one of the original Funk Brothers, Joe Messina leaves a lasting legacy as one of the creators of the Motown Sound," added "A powerhouse talent, he was personally recruited by Berry Gordy and made a massive impact during the label's most formative years. We are thinking of his family and fans, and will continue to celebrate his musical contributions for generations to come."
The estimated Net Worth of Joe Messina is around $3 Million USD.
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As a coach for the past five years, Jazmine has had quite a long history with Beachbody programs... Check out the list of all the programs she's done along the way: TurboFire, Chalean Extreme, PiYo, 22 Minute Hard Corps, Focus: T25, Insanity Max:30, 80 Day Obsession, YOUv2, Cize, Country Heat, Core de Force, Shift Shop, 3 Day Refresh, 3 Week Yoga retreat, 21 Day Fix, Shaun Week, Body Beast, Double Time, Brazil Butt Lift. Wow!!!
Most recently she completed LIIFT4 and I think you'll agree with me that her results (as shown in this picture) were seriously amazing... Right?! She lost 2 inches each from her waist, chest, hips, and each thigh, and 1.5 inches from each arm, for a total of 13 inches lost in all! She gained 1 pound but that might be expected when adding muscle... and I think it's important to note that if she were only looking at the scale and not taking pictures or measuring, she might completely miss out on noticing and celebrating the changes to her body!!
Every program leaves a mark on us. Jazmine's first experience with TurboFire taught her that she COULD complete a program (even if it meant coming back to it after quitting). "PiYo taught me patience. Focus: T25 taught me that you can ALWAYS make time to work out—which I did while living in the dorms!" she says. "80 Day Obsession and Shift Shop really taught me a lot about nutrition and listening to my body. Cize and Country Heat taught me that it's OK to dance your heart out and have fun. I think before LIIFT4 came out, the one that helped me the most was Core de Force. Joel and Jericho spoke in a way that really resonated with me and my inner voice realized it was okay to be a badass and to push yourself to do uncomfortable things because you'll only get stronger."
With its mix of strength (lifting) and intervals (HIIT)—and 3 rest days per week, with 4 intense but relatively short workouts—LIIFT4 turned out to work really well for her body. "It wasn't the typical lifting-style program I was used to, but I can tell my core is stronger in my everyday activities and I'm so thankful for that," she says. "Even working out just 4 days a week, I still saw results, which surprised me because it's been hard for me to lose weight."
Jazmine says she would recommend LIIFT4 for anyone! Due to the fact that the program has a low-impact modifier and all of the weighted moves can be done with lighter weights to dial down the intensity, it's appropriate and easily accessible for beginners, but can also be made super challenging by using heavier weights and crushing the HIITs at maximum intensity. As with any program, Jazmine notes, "my main caution would be to listen to your body. If you are trying to go up in weight and you struggle with lifting it up for the first rep, do NOT continue. Only lift as heavy as you can do with great form. This will help you avoid injury."
Jazmine recently completed her Insanity instructor training and is now doing Insanity Max:30 to get ready for the launch of Shaun T's Transform:20 program in January! More info coming up on that soon!!!
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I. Who Shouldn't Be a Fiduciary?
Before selecting a person as a fiduciary, one should eliminate those who are not qualified to serve. All fiduciaries should be trustworthy and unlikely to engage in self-dealing. This may sound obvious, but frequently, people overlook dishonest behavior in those who they want to trust. Misuse of a POA can bankrupt the principal. Decisions made under HCPs could mean the difference between life and death. Wills name guardians to raise orphaned children. Wishful thinking will not make irresponsible people act responsibly in an emergency.
New York law disqualifies certain people from serving. Infants, felons, and people with substance abuse problems are excluded. Those deemed to be incompetent, dishonest, or improvident, and people who suffer from "want of understanding" are excluded. (These legal terms merit a full discussion that is beyond the scope of this column.) The court has limited discretion to appoint out of state residents. Essentially, though, one should select fiduciaries who do not exhibit mental illness, appreciate the value of money, act responsibly, and live locally. Also, one should confirm that the proposed fiduciary is capable of and willing to serve. Some people do not want the responsibility.
II. What are the Roles?
A testator executes a will to leave assets to beneficiaries. A will identifies (1) beneficiaries to inherit assets; (2) an executor to administer the estate; and (3) a guardian to take custody of the testator's minor, orphaned children.
The executor initiates a probate proceeding in the Surrogate's Court ("Court") to settle the estate. (Estate planning is discussed in another column.) An executor should be organized, competent, and capable of maintaining detailed records. The executor inventories and values estate property, satisfies creditors, distributes property to beneficiaries, and files estate income tax returns. Inaccuracies and doubts are resolved against the executor.
Guardians are appointed to care for the testator's orphaned, minor children. Testators should select guardians who can maintain a suitable environment to care for children and be good parents and role models.
A trust is a legal device. It is a property interest held by a trustee at the request of a grantor for the benefit of a beneficiary. Essentially, the grantor places a piece of property in a trust where it is held for someone's benefit according to the terms of a document known as a "declaration of trust." The trustee is the fiduciary who manages the property.
In a revocable living trust, the grantor, trustee, and beneficiary may be the same person. In other types of trusts, usually, the trustee and beneficiary are different people. Examples include (1) testamentary trusts created in wills; (2) supplemental needs trusts designed to provide supplemental support for people who receive disability benefits from the government; and (3) irrevocable trusts designed to hold assets for seniors who seek to qualify for Medicaid if they need to go into a nursing home.
The trustee owes a fiduciary duty to the beneficiary. Trustees should be organized, competent, and capable of making sound financial decisions.
A principal uses a POA to authorize an agent to make financial or business decisions on the principal's behalf. It is one of the most powerful documents a person can execute. The principal can grant the agent many powers including the ability to buy and sell property and open and close accounts. Thus, an irresponsible agent could bankrupt a principal. An agent should be highly astute with regard to money matters.
Under New York's new POA law, a principal can appoint a monitor to oversee an agent, who is usually paid. A monitor should be competent to review the power that the agent is exercising. Attorneys, accountants, or other professionals may be good choices.
A principal uses a HCP to appoint a health care agent to make medical decisions if the principal becomes incapacitated. The health care agent should be calm and capable of making decisions under stress.
Often, parents select multiple children to act as their co-executors, co-trustees, or co-agents. In some instances, fiduciaries are authorized to act separately. Sometimes, they must act together. If the fiduciaries cannot agree, there will be a problem and, potentially, a stalemate that delays action. Historically, if siblings or others have been hostile to one another, the estate plan is not the place for a team-building exercise. People should be realistic and practical when choosing fiduciaries.


It's going to be a very busy Halloween afternoon in downtown Bozeman with the free Trick or Treat event from 4pm to 6pm on Main Street. Candy will be handed out from the local businesses!
Let your kids enjoy the brisk outdoors for a little Halloween fun in Downtown Bozeman and gather goodies at over 150 businesses!
Hot drinks will be available outside the Downtown Visitor's Center at 8 East Main Street.
We also have Bozeman Police Officers and "Safety Sams" at each main intersection, Patrol Cars at entry points and additional visible volunteers to help make this event as safe as possible.
Downtown Trick or Treating is FREE and open to the public and will go on rain, snow or shine. For more information please call 586-4008.
If you are driving in the downtown area this afternoon PLEASE USE EXTRA CAUTION as there will be TONS of little kids on the prowl for candy!