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Onapsis Research Labs Surpasses 1,000 Critical Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Discovered in Business Applications
Onapsis Research Labs, the only security team dedicated to finding and helping mitigate critical vulnerabilities within business applications, reaches material threat intelligence milestone
BOSTON, November 2, 2022 – Onapsis, the market leader in business application cybersecurity and compliance, today announced it has discovered over 1,000 critical vulnerabilities within SAP and Oracle applications. The team responsible for finding, disclosing, and helping mitigate these vulnerabilities is Onapsis Research Labs. This group of offensive security professionals is the only team dedicated to hunting down vulnerabilities and monitoring how threat actors attack within enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other business applications. Onapsis Threat Intelligence Cloud combined with this team's unique expertise allows Onapsis Research Labs to determine tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actor groups and ultimately arm customers with this information in the Onapsis Platform.
With the increase in cyberattacks directly on ERP and other business applications, global enterprises continue to turn to Onapsis for their vulnerability management, threat detection, and response, change assurance, and continuous compliance needs. Onapsis Research Labs is a core reason close to 30% of the Forbes Global 100 rely on Onapsis' market-leading security solutions to protect their business-critical applications.
"This milestone cannot be overstated for both Onapsis and the ERP security market as a whole," says Mariano Nunez, Co-founder and CEO of Onapsis. "For the last thirteen years, Onapsis Research Labs has contributed so much to the security community, our partners, and our customers. Discovering and helping mitigate 1,000 vulnerabilities quantifiably underscores the team's dedication to keeping ERP applications secure, something that wouldn't be possible without our strategic partnerships with SAP and Oracle."
This announcement is on the heels of Onapsis' launch of its Threat Intel Center and its Network Detection Rule Pack. The Threat Intel Center alleviates the burden placed on already-strained security teams by delivering a comprehensive transfer of knowledge, enabling them to efficiently protect their organization while building their expertise in SAP and Oracle security. The Network Detection Rule Pack extends Onapsis Research Lab-powered threat monitoring to the network layer, giving organizations pre-patch protection for the most critical and network-detectable vulnerabilities in business applications. These innovations are examples of Onapsis Research Labs' threat intelligence providing tangible impact within the Onapsis Platform.
"Our work generates actionable threat intelligence, fueling our technology but also helping us educate the broader communities on how to protect their applications and organizations from growing threats," says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Onapsis. "Discovering over 1,000 vulnerabilities is monumental, and when we also consider the criticality of some of these vulnerabilities, the positive impact is even more vast. I am proud to be a part of this achievement and look forward to our continued work with the SAP Product Security Response Team PSRT and Oracle Product Security team to have a material impact on securing business applications."
"Onapsis is paving the way for the business-critical application security market," said Dave DeWalt, Founder & Managing Director of NightDragon and Onapsis board member. "This news signifies the company's impact on the cybersecurity community and ongoing commitment to protecting the assets that matter most. I look forward to seeing what else the team will accomplish in the months ahead."
To learn more about Onapsis Research Labs, their research, and findings, visit the Onapsis website or engage with us at one of the following industry conferences. Perez-Etchegoyen will be presenting at API Cybersecurity Conference, one of the largest oil and gas conferences in North America, while members of the Onapsis Research Labs will be presenting and instructing at Black Hat Europe in December.
About Onapsis
Onapsis protects the business applications that run the global economy. The Onapsis Platform uniquely delivers vulnerability management, threat detection and response, change assurance, and continuous compliance for business-critical applications from leading vendors such as SAP, Oracle, and others. The Onapsis Platform is powered by the Onapsis Research Labs, the team responsible for the discovery and mitigation of more than 1,000 zero-day vulnerabilities in business-critical applications.
Onapsis is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in Heidelberg, Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and proudly serves hundreds of the world's leading brands, including close to 30% of the Forbes Global 100, six of the top 10 automotive companies, five of the top 10 chemical companies, four of the top 10 technology companies, and three of the top 10 oil and gas companies.
For more information, connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit https://www.onapsis.com.


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Albert Nicholas
For other people named Albert Nicholas, see Albert Nicholas (disambiguation).
Albert Nicholas, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, ca. March 1947. Image: William P. Gottlieb
(1900-05-27)May 27, 1900
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
September 3, 1973(1973-09-03) (aged 73)
1910s–1973
Albert Nicholas (May 27, 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana – September 3, 1973, Basel, Switzerland) was an American jazz reed player.
Nicholas's primary instrument was the clarinet, which he studied with Lorenzo Tio in his hometown of New Orleans. Late in the 1910s he played with Buddy Petit, King Oliver, and Manuel Perez. He spent three years in the Merchant Marines and then joined up again with Oliver in Chicago from 1925 to 1927. After time in East Asia and Egypt, he returned to New York City in 1928 and played with Luis Russell until 1933, playing there with Red Allen, Charlie Holmes, and J. C. Higginbotham. Later he played with Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong (with Russell) and Jelly Roll Morton (recorded 1929, 1939).
The Dixieland jazz revival of the late 1940s reinvigorated his career; he played with Art Hodes, Bunk Johnson, and Kid Ory, and had a regular gig with Ralph Sutton in 1948. In 1953 he moved to France; except for recording sessions in the U.S. in 1959-60, he remained there for the rest of his life.
Nicholas's uncle was Wooden Joe Nicholas.
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Albert Nicholas And Mezz Mezzrow (Jazztone, 1956)
Americans in Europe Vol. 2 (Impulse!, 1963)
Albert Nicholas Featuring Miriam Klein (1971)
Let Me Tell You (EMI, 1974)
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"Eccentric Stomp Albert Nicholas 1964" on YouTube.
"Roger Richard talks to Albert Nicholas". Storyville.
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Human Rights First
Human Rights First was founded in 1978 as the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights to promote laws and policies that advance universal rights and freedoms. We exist to protect and defend the dignity of each individual through respect for human rights and the rule of law.
June 17, 2019 Protecting Refugees and Restoring Order: Real Solutions to the Humanitarian Crisis
By: Eleanor Acer
April 05, 2019 The Real Solution: Regional Response Rather than Border Closures, Mass Incarceration, and Refugee Returns Share
November 09, 2018 How the United States Should Address Refugee Protection at its Border
September 10, 2018 How to Address the Global Refugee Crisis and Safeguard U.S. National Security
February 14, 2017 How to Dismantle the Business of Human Trafficking: Blueprint for Congress
By: Annick Febrey
January 17, 2017 How to Close Guantanamo
By: Human Rights First
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July 20, 2015 How the United States Can Help Counter Violent Extremism and Support Civil Society in Kenya
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By: Richard B. Zabel, James J. Benjamin
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Gerber has been redesigning the Bear Gryll's knife range for years now. This is one of their latest offerings, the Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro Knife. I wonder if it's any better than the rest of range? Let's find out with this full review and field test.
I have been spending most of my free time practising bushcraft on a little island as of late, collecting the canoe from the shed, donning the buoyancy aid and paddling across to reach a distant shore to spend night after night camped out in the backcountry. All of this has been to trial minimal canoeing, that is with as little extra equipment as possible but with the right gear and knowledge. I have been testing the new Gerber Bear Grylls Paracord Knife during this time and here is my review.
Gerber have released a new range of survival tools which I have been testing out recently. They have been co designed by Bear Grylls. This review is on the Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife Serrated, which is their flagship item.
I love well made knives and even if I don't use them specifically for their intended purpose I will always appreciate great design. The Gerber Freeman Folder, let's check it out.
The Gerber LMF II Survival is at home in the toughest of situations. It has so many functions that could save your life it simply boggles the mind! This knife is actually a single bladed multitool! Gerber have managed to include so many different features into a single knife that it becomes equipped for almost any job. If you are venturing into the remote wilderness or just parts unknown then this may be the knife for you.


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Jani Ndoni Zengo (Papajani) (1832–1913) was an Albanian photographer, calligrapher, teacher and priest. He is widely recognized as the first person to practice photography in Albania.

Life
Papa Jani Zengo was born on 17 January 1832 in the mountainous village of Dardhë, southeastern Albania, the son of local priest Andon Zengo (Papa Ndoni) and a homemaker. Zengo finished his elementary schooling in Dardhë and later attended the Greek Gymnasium of Korçë. He was sent by his father to Mount Athos, Greece where he learned the craft of xylography which he practiced as a profession. There, the young Zengo became acquainted with the newly formed craft of photography. Two years later he returned to Albania and began work as a carpenter. From 1859 to 1862 he was appointed teacher in Ziçisht and then Pisoder. In a manuscript dated 15.01.1866, Jani is mentioned to have created an alphabet in the Albanian language containing 33 letters. In 1869, he married a local villager by the name of Tushe Gjerazi and shortly thereafter migrated back to Greece, where he worked as a bookkeeper in the city of Larissa and then as a wood decorator and photographer in Thessaly province. Zengo eventually returned to his village of Dardhë in 1882 where after several years is ordained a priest. His first recorded photograph was that of a local school in his village, dated in 1862.

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As I rolled to a stop, facing up, not wanting to move due to intense pain, in my back, I looked around. Big truck at an angle about 25 feet away, Susanna's R100/7 lying on it's side about ten feet from me; I'm in about 6 inches of snow. I'm alone for a long time. Can't really sit up due to pain, quickly discover that I can lift my lower legs and move feet (this is REALLY good news). Cars pull over and the driver of the truck finally realizes he didn't miss me as he thought he had. Never lost consciousness but am starting to feel a little "weird"; shock, perhaps? I ask people to get the sleeping bag off Susanna's bike and to gently lift my legs up a bit. One of the bystanders offers to baptize me and offer last rites; "You never know". I respond that my wife and I have a spiritual path we are comfortable with and besides, "I'm not going to die. Walking again is in question, but I'm pretty sure I'll live."


Many people feel somewhat apprehensive and have numerous questions when they consider the possibility of seeking hypnosis treatment for their problems. If you choose to enroll in the standardized hypnosis treatment program for IBS, you should ask your therapist any questions you have about hypnosis in the first session. However, this page provides an introduction to hypnotherapy and answers to some of the most common questions and concerns that people voice about hypnosis.
Will I do something embarrassing or silly?
Can hypnosis be dangerous to my mental health?
Hypnotherapy, which is also called clinical hypnosis, is a form of psychological treatment that is widely used to treat both physical and psychological problems. It is unique in that it uses hypnosis -- a special mental state of heightened receptivity -- to help make beneficial changes happen in the mind and body.
Entering a hypnotic state is a normal ability of the human mind. However, it only happens under particular mental conditions, and those are exactly the conditions that a hypnotherapist helps make happen systematically through verbal guidance.
More than anything else, hypnosis involves changes in a person's attention and concentration. The focus of attention is narrowed, and the things attended to are experienced more intensely than in the ordinary waking state. Hypnosis has therefore been likened to turning out the lights in a windowless room and looking around with a flashlight. What you focus on holds your entire attention under hypnosis, so you tend to experience whatever you think of, imagine or remember more vividly and clearly than you ordinarily can. At the same time, things that are outside the narrow focus of enhanced attention at the moment may be forgotten. For this reason, people sometimes temporarily become disoriented under hypnosis: Their awareness of where they are, the reality of their life situation, and even occasionally exactly who they are, becomes clouded.
Another characteristic of the hypnotic state is a subjective sense of "involuntariness". People often find that under hypnosis they feel like passive observers of whatever is taking place. For example, if you are asked under hypnosis to raise your hand, you may feel your hand rising like a robot arm, without any conscious effort or even decision on your part. This automaticity is by some considered the hallmark of a true hypnotic experience. This is not really helpless involuntariness, however. Experience shows that if you really need to or want to, you can resist any direct suggestion from the hypnotist. You can even wake yourself up from the hypnotic state if you really want to.
People typically experience both mental tranquility and physical relaxation under hypnosis (relaxation is not a necessary condition for hypnosis, however; one can be both mentally and physically tense and still be in a state of deep hypnosis). Various changes in perception are also common under hypnosis. Some people feel great heaviness coming over their bodies, others feel very light, numb or even disembodied. Subjective floating, sinking, spinning, and tingling sensations are often reported.
Once a person is in a hypnotic state, the treatment implemented by the hypnotherapist consists in large part of hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions, which are carefully crafted specific directions given to people under hypnosis that cause beneficial changes to happen in their mind or body during or after hypnosis. The therapeutic power of these suggestions relies on the mind's markedly enhanced ability to accept and make good use of information in the hypnotic state. Guided imagery is often used along with the suggestions to convey and reinforce the desired therapeutic changes.
The hypnotherapy provided in our standardized IBS hypnosis treatment program on this website follows closely a scripted therapy course that was originally created in 1995 by Olafur Palsson, the author of this article and a member of the MetaMe Scientific Advisory Board. It has been tested and found effective in multiple research studies, and which has been used successfully by hundreds of hypnotherapists to treat IBS sufferers all over the U.S. and in several other countries over the years.
We know based on all of this experience that people treated with this standardized hypnosis course generally experience no uncomfortable effects from the treatment. Not a single adverse effect has been reported by patients participating in the research studies that have been conducted on this hypnosis approach to date. In fact, people generally find the experience enjoyable, comfortable and profoundly relaxing. Many of the patients treated with this method have liked the hypnosis experience so much that they continue to use hypnosis regularly after the treatment course is completed.
There are seven main hypnotherapy sessions with a therapist in this three-month treatment program, as well as a shorter daily hypnosis exercise that you will be asked to use daily in between the main sessions. All the sessions will be by your personal hypnotherapist, who is a licensed health professional who has completed formal training both in clinical hypnosis and specifically in treating IBS.
Each hypnosis session consists of an induction of the hypnotic state, followed by systematic guided physical relaxation and gradual deepening of the hypnotic state through imagery and verbal suggestions. This is followed by gut-directed therapeutic suggestions and imagery to facilitate improvement in your symptoms. And finally, at the end of each session, your mind is gradually guided back into the waking state by the therapist.
How profound or unusual the hypnotherapy experience feels to people receiving it varies a lot from one person to the next, because individuals have different degrees of natural hypnotic responsiveness. You should not expect to have a mind-blowing altered-state experience or to become completely unaware of what is happening (see "How does it feel to be hypnotized?" and "Will I lose consciousness" below). A true hypnotherapy experience is generally more subtle than that, though many people experience the classic mental changes associated with hypnosis vividly enough to realize that something interesting and unique is happening in their minds. And the good news is that you do not have to be profoundly hypnotizable in order for your IBS symptoms to improve from this treatment approach. Experience has shown that the vast majority of people can benefit from hypnotherapy.
Will I lose consciousness? As mentioned above, hypnosis is not sleep. Ordinarily, you will be conscious of everything that goes on when you are in the hypnotic state. However, hypnosis typically involves deep relaxation. Sometimes, you may therefore relax so much under hypnosis that you drift off and lose track of what is happening. There is no need to be concerned if you find yourself not remembering everything that happened in a hypnosis session. It will not affect the therapeutic benefits you get from the session because a part of your mind, separate from your consciousness, continues to keep track of, and make use of, the therapist's words. In contrast, if you simply fall asleep during a session rather than just zoning out mentally, that is likely to limit the gain from the session. You will know the difference between sleeping and a true hypnotic state by whether you easily come back to the ordinary waking state when the therapist re-alerts you. If instead you continue to be unaware even when the session is finished, then you most likely fell asleep. Usually that means that you were more tired than optimal, and in that case you will want to make sure to be better rested for the next session. Falling asleep is also more likely if you are lying down in your hypnosis session, so it is generally recommend that you sit in a comfortable reclined position, but do not lie down during hypnosis.
Will I reveal deep secrets about myself? In some psychotherapeutic applications of hypnosis, it is important to uncover mental material that is related to the problem being treated - material that you have been ignoring or keeping secret from others and even from yourself. However, no such uncovering is needed in many applications of clinical hypnosis, and it is not used at all in our standardized hypnosis program for IBS.
Will I do something embarrassing or silly? A clinical hypnotist will not make you cluck like a chicken or do other things for amusement at your expense. You do, however, sometimes act differently under hypnosis than you do in the normal waking state. You may become more emotional or feel more childlike. If the process involves uncovering of past experiences (which is not a part of our standardized hypnosis program for IBS), these might also feel embarrassing or uncomfortable. Your therapist is used to such things, however, so there is no need to feel embarrassed. And generally, the benefits of the hypnotic intervention will by far outweigh the slight discomfort on your part from any deviation from prim and proper behavior which might occur.
What if I do not want to lose control of myself? Hypnosis does involve a certain amount of letting go of yourself and opening up to a new experience. However, you are not really losing control of yourself when you respond to what the hypnotist suggests. You are making the decision to go along with his or her guidance at every step. You can benefit from hypnosis as long as you are willing to go along with the instructions of your hypnotist. It may be helpful to think of the hypnotist as your personal coach - a person helping you to master new ways to use your own mind.
What if I do not wake up again? There is no need to worry about this. Only in movies and bad novels do people get stuck in the hypnotic state. In the real world, it happens only very rarely that people cannot be immediately brought back into the ordinary waking state at the end of a hypnosis session. When that happens, it may simply take them a little longer to come to, or they slip into ordinary sleep and have a nap, and then wake up. In either case, there is no reason for concern.
Can I be made to do things I do not want to do? Contrary to a popular belief, people under hypnosis are not captive and spellbound. They can resist direct instructions that are at odds with their wishes or moral standards. For this reason, it is not as easy as one might think to make people do things against their will with hypnosis. Unfortunately, however, it has been adequately demonstrated both in experiments and in established rare cases of misconduct, that hypnosis can be deliberately misused by a skilled hypnotist through the use of sophisticated deception. This is the most important reason for seeking a reputable professional whom you feel comfortable as your hypnotist. If you begin to feel uncomfortable with the person you have selected, talk about it. And if you feel you cannot do so, remember that you are the customer and you are always free to leave without making any apologies.
What if I cannot be hypnotized? The odds are against it. While the degree to which people are receptive to hypnosis varies from individual to individual, the great majority of people, perhaps three out of every four individuals, can be hypnotized to a sufficient degree to enjoy the benefits that hypnosis can offer.
Aren't gullible or simple-minded people most easily hypnotizable? Not at all. In fact, researchers have found that more intelligent people are slightly more hypnotizable. It seems that openness to new experiences, rather than gullibility, is related to hypnotic ability.
Are women more hypnotizable than men? Research has conclusively shown that, on average, there is no difference between men and women in their susceptibility to hypnosis.
Can hypnosis be dangerous to my mental health? The state of hypnosis is generally very safe and free from complications - probably no more disturbing to your mind than ordinary sleep. However, in rare cases, people who suffer from mental problems to such degree that they are struggling with their grip on reality may get worse due to the disorientation which is a part of hypnotic experience. Also, hypnosis involves enhanced contact with unconscious material. Individuals hiding something very uncomfortable or traumatic from themselves may therefore occasionally feel agitated after hypnosis as a result of coming too close to their secrets under hypnosis. This is an important reason for choosing only a well-trained and competent clinical hypnotist who would be able to help you deal with such effects. For most people, however, the experience of hypnosis is pleasantly relaxing and refreshing. The only aftereffects you are likely to experience are possible drowsiness and disorientation for the first few minutes afterwards, and possibly stiff neck or (rarely) a minor headache. All these side effects are transient and harmless.
Can people hypnotize themselves? Yes, they can. Entering hypnosis is simply a mental skill, and most hypnotherapists will tell you that formal hypnosis carried out by a hypnotist is in reality nothing more than assisted self-hypnosis. The skill of reliably entering the hypnotic state is just more easily learned initially under the guidance of a hypnotist. However, once you have mastered it, you can do it on your own. This is the goal in many applications of clinical hypnosis, such as for control of certain types of pain, where the benefits of hypnosis need to be available at any time.
One of the best things about hypnotherapy is that it is easier to engage in it than practically any other form of psychological treatment. Your therapist guides you every step of the way in every session, and things tend to simply happen in response to your thoughts without need for much voluntary effort. All you really have to do is to approach the task with an open mind, listen to the therapist and think about what is being said, and then simply allow whatever is going to happen to take place. If you are able to do that, it is highly likely that you will find yourself responding to the treatment, and most likely you will also find the experience to be interesting and enjoyable.


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AK vs AK : Wickedly Clever
A new kind of film in India
By DEVAYUSH CHOWDHARY
The joke going around social media is that the first person to watch AK vs AK was Malaika Arora. Indeed the biggest achievement of this meta-Bollywood film by Vikramaditya Motwane seems to be that it has managed to introduce some self-reflection into an industry that takes itself way too seriously.
With a wickedly clever concept, that of taking real life celebrities and parodying their fame, the film rests on a simple plot: Anurag Kashyap, enfant terrible of the film industry, kidnaps the daughter of iconic superstar Anil Kapoor, and starts filming him as Kapoor rushes to save his daughter's life. It is clearly Motwane's nod to the notion of new age directors like himself and his lead challenging Bollywood's age old structures with their snazzy new moviemaking styles.
There is no doubt that AK vs AK is an entertaining watch – it keeps the viewer hooked and occasionally chuckling throughout its tight run time, with the birthday sequence at Anil Kapoor's home featuring cameos from his son Harshvardhan and elder brother the legendary Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor being a particular highlight. Seeing these personalities, who we only read about in tabloids and gossip columns, fret over the mundanities of their lives in their own quirky ways was pure entertainment.
But this sequence also exposes AK vs AK's biggest flaw – that of missed opportunities. One cannot help but wonder what an epic laughter fest the film could have been had it focused less on the kidnapping plot and more on expanding on its concept which is unique for Indian cinema at least. More self-deprecating cameos from more celebrities, more cleverly veiled digs at Bollywood, more secrets being spilled, more stars mocking their stardom.
Imagine, if you will, a Karan Johar frantically calling and threatening Anil Kapoor with dire consequences if his daughter Sonam is late to his sets again! But alas that was not to be. Perhaps it was harder to get more faces from Bollywood to make fun of themselves.
What the film does well is to stick to the rules created by its outlandish concept, and manages to make every moment a rollercoaster ride – funny, disturbing, thrilling, and thought provoking all at once. It is tightly written and flawlessly put together, it remains true to its ethos throughout, and to Motwane's credit, shooting a film of this nature in an extreme cinema vérité style could not have been easy – especially on the streets of a city as chaotic as Bombay.
The real star of the film though is the big AK himself, Anil Kapoor. While Kashyap turns in a menacing yet hilarious performance, this kind of experimentation and fiddling around with his public image is almost par for the course, but for someone steeped in the traditions of Bollywood superstardom like Anil Kapoor, this sort of self-deprecation was a brave move indeed.
And he fits into this new world of a new kind of filmmaking perfectly. If nothing else, watch it for his infectious energy and to witness a new stage in the evolution of an evergreen star.
DEVAYUSH CHOWDHARY


Postponed to next Monday October 13th!
Paul has developed a seriously bad allergy cold and sounds like a frog. I take that back, frogs sound better than Paul tonight. Next week we'll be live on our Monthly Free Form Show; send us your questions, thoughts and stories. The week after we'll be back with Haunted Movie and TV Sets.
We've rearranged some of our up coming shows to accommodate the timeliness of our topics. We hope you'll tune in next Monday!
October 20 – The Most Paranormal Area In The U.S.
There are two equinoxes every year – in September and March – when the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal. These equinox events vary in date and time by a few hours to a day. Generally they occur on or around September 21st or 22nd. And of course it depends on where you are on the planet for the exact time of the event.
Seasons are opposite on either side of the equator, so the equinox in September is known as the "autumnal (fall) equinox" in the northern hemisphere, and in the southern hemisphere, it's known as the "spring (vernal) equinox".
No Drawing for the remainder of the week..
Emotions are riding high today, don't be afraid to let it out. Allow your feelings to flow and ride the waters with relief. You've been holding back the shadows and trying to keep things from closing in for so long. The Divine in your life understands you're weary of worry. But work has been in progress to help you carry the load. Even though you haven't seen the efforts, its been there all along. A way has been presented for you to climb on the pillar of strength and push back the darkness of stress even more. You're about to be free of all that has held you down.
Your hard work and fortitude is paying off. Slowly things have turned around and you've pushed back on the negative over growth that has long kept you in shadow. The prayers, spiritual work, and allowing Divine Creation to work through you is paying off. You're able to push back and force the veil of shadow to spread apart and release your spirit.


Brooktown High is an amazing dating simulation game, which its developer and publisher are Backbone Entertainment and Konami. This game offers an opportunity for you to re-enjoy your old days in high school. To begin the game, you have to select your gender and customize your character as its hairstyle, eye color, height, etc. In this game, your main goal is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend to go on dates with you in a variety of places, such as beaches, malls, and more. In practice, you are allowed to interact with others, exchange numbers, send messages and take part in many fun-filled mini-games. You can earn coins and use them to unlock other in-game stuff. In addition, the game includes various handsome students such as Rebels, Jocks, and more others. The game also comes with over twenty non-player characters and introduces various mini-games like joke telling, tongue wrestling, and shopping features, etc. Try it out!
Brooktown High is believed to be the best game as compared to other dating simulation games. For this reasons, a lot of people are looking for other games that are similar to it. In this article, we recommend a list of other many different games but have the same type as Brooktown High. These games will please you in every single entertaining second. These articles below will provide more details.


Your Thanksgiving to-do list is already long enough, so planning outfits for the holiday weekends should be as easy as pie. With a few key items that do double duty from the dinner table to Black Friday shopping, you'll be able to focus on the important things like spending time with the fam instead of fussing over your wardrobe. Get inspired with these enviable outfits from the College Fashionista community that focus on simple styling tricks with items you're already planning to pack in your overnight bag.
Lex Kelly, Central Michigan University, Class of 2018, toughed up her motorcycle jacket with elegant extras like dangling earrings and brocade booties that feel special enough for a family get-together. Pairing the look with a lipstick shade that matches your earrings ties the whole outfit together.
Not ready to put away your favorite sandals just yet? Make like Natalie Geisel, George Washington University, Class of 2020, and wear them with wool socks. "I decided to have fun with the shoes and wear socks with my favorite pair of blush clogs, making a simple outfit more holiday-ready," she noted.
There's nothing like a dramatic coat to make a grand entrance, and dresses can do double duty when styled unbuttoned like a duster. Style bonus points if you can find one in season-appropriate cranberry red like Naomi Parris, School of Visual Arts, Class of 2021. If you want to add a bit more shape to the look, try belting it high at your waist.
Thanksgiving is all about comfort, so go for maximum hygge by mixing hard and soft elements like a skater skirt and a knit beanie with a shearling jacket and leather biker boots. "I love wearing skirts year round, so when I came across this drop-waist skirt from Aritzia, I instantly fell in love with it," says Norah Murphy, Parsons School for Design, Class of 2018. By opting for a suede moto jacket over leather, she kept her look luxe rather than all-out edgy.
With the weather finally cooling down, now's the chance to wear that faux-fur coat you had stored in the back of your closet all summer. Pair it with a tie-neck blouse in a bold hue and simple black jeans like Reina Inoguchi, Berkeley College, Class of 2019, to add some edge to your go-to separates. "This jacket completely changed my look, and it's so comfortable," she explained.
What are you planning to wear this Thanksgiving break? Show us your #OOTDs by tagging @CFashionista on Instagram!
This Thanksgiving break I plan to wear faux fur! I plan to wear a shift dress with faux fur because I know once I start eating Thanksgiving dinner my jeans might get a little tighter!


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Q: Can I call TranslateMessage inside the message callback? I don't have the canonical message loop running, so is there a way I can call TranslateMessage (or its equivalent) inside my message proc handler?
Basically I need WM_CHAR messages and unless I can call TranslateMessage I'm not going to get those. Currently I have the message proc setup, but no message loop.
// Static window function called by Windows for message processing. Implementation
// delegates message processing to MemberWndProc.
LRESULT CALLBACK FxPlayerTiny::WindowsMsgStatic(HWND hwnd, UINT iMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{

      msg = PeekMessage(&msg, HWnd, WM_KEYFIRST, WM_KEYLAST, PM_NOREMOVE);

      if (msg type is key down){

            TranslateMessage(&msg);
            //DispatchMessage(&msg); -- needed?

      }
      else process msg normally
}

My message proc handler is the first point of entry of messages, being setup in the following manner:
WNDCLASSEX  wc;
wc.lpfnWndProc    = WindowsMsgStatic;
....
RegisterClassEx(&wc);

A: At some point, in order to get a queued message, you must call a function like GetMessage or PeekMessage. Those functions yield MSG objects and it is those MSG objects that you must pass to TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage.
In the code in the original version of the question, you are trying to call TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage too late. You call them inside your window proc. You should call them at the point where you first receive the MSG object. In other words, call TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage straight after the call to PeekMessage or GetMessage.

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In the streams are we looking at the female model only or have we seen both genders? I think I have only seen the female version based on the shoes and a feminine face I think? Looking forward to this race!
So far we have only seen the female gnome, and it is only a placeholder model at that.


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Update on the UNRWA project to provide psychological support to minors in Homs
Al-Zahria School, Refugee Camp in Aleppo, Siria © 2017 Unrwa, by Ahmad Abu Zaid
After the so-called "Nakba" (a term used to refer to the Palestinian Arabs' displacement from the territories occupied by Israel during the first Arab-Israeli war), which took place in 1948, Syria has hosted refugee camps for Palestinians within its territory. The camps currently host around 16,000 people utterly dependent on humanitarian assistance. Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency) has reported the persisting access restrictions of humanitarian aids due to the figthing. As is the case in every conflict, unfortunately, the youngest people are the most affected. In Syria, this occurs especially to Palestinian refugee children. Many of them have suffered multiple displacements. Others have lost family members and relatives during the conflict. These events have a devastating psychological impact on children: stress, post-traumatic stress disorders, and anxiety can impact on their learning capabilities, behaviour, and social relations with schoolmates, teachers, and family itself. UNRWA has launched a support program for protecting and improving the overall well-being of Palestinian children, families, and communities, in order to help them overcome the crisis and reinforce their psycosocial health. The informal education activities implemented have dealt with themes such as gender-based violence awareness: they aim at developing the students' social abilities and have been carried out both in schools and communities. ANVCG (National Association for Civilian Victims of War), with the contribution of the Observatory, supported UNRWA's psychosocial support program, thorugh a project aimed at mitigating the impact of the crisis on the children of Latakia, Homs, Hama, and in the camp of Neirab (in the area of Aleppo). The project included the realization of leisure activities which have provided children with a safe and protected environment, through art, drawing, music, and sport. A place where they can express their own creative selves and face fears and concerns with the support and under the guidance of trained and specialised staff. The activities carried out between October and November 2017 involved a total amount of 3,722 children from 4 to 14 years of age, among which 24 children with disabilities. Artistic initiative "Il mio sogno" ("My Dream") was implemented in Latakia and Hama; sports activities were carried out in Aleppo; artistic, musical and sports initiatives were promoted in the camp of Neirab. The project also included the construction of a playground in Homs, built thanks to the economic support of ANVCG: it includes seesaws, swings, and roundabouts, which offer Palestinian refugee children a place where they can play and which they can consider safe and far from the war surrounding them.


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package org.keviny.gallery.util;

import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ColorModel;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class ImageUtils {

	public static byte[] scale(InputStream in, int width, int height, String format) {
		return scale(in, width, height, format, 1);
	}

	public static byte[] scale(byte[] b, int width, int height, String format, float quality) {
			ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
			return scale(bis, width, height, format, quality);
	}

	public static byte[] scale(InputStream in, int width, int height, String format, float quality) {
		byte[] buf = null;
		ByteArrayOutputStream out = null;
		try {
			BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(in);
			int _width = bi.getWidth();
			int _height = bi.getHeight();
			BigDecimal _w = new BigDecimal(_width);
			BigDecimal _h = new BigDecimal(_height);
			BigDecimal _ratio = _w.divide(_h, 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
			//FIXME: when height is not set and width < _w
			// it won't be as expected
			if(width <= 0)
				width = _width;
			if(height <= 0)
				height = _height;
			BigDecimal w = new BigDecimal(width);
			BigDecimal h = new BigDecimal(height);
			BigDecimal ratio = w.divide(h, 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
			float _r = _ratio.setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).floatValue();
			if(ratio.compareTo(_ratio) == 1)
				height = Math.round( width / _r);
			else
				width = Math.round(height * _r);
			// Calibrate
			if(width == _width && Math.abs(height - _height) <= 1 )
				height = _height;
			if(height == _height && Math.abs(width - _width) <= 1)
				width = _width;

			BufferedImage dst = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_BGR);
			Graphics2D g = dst.createGraphics();
			g.drawImage(bi.getScaledInstance(width, height, BufferedImage.SCALE_SMOOTH), 0, 0, null);
			g.dispose();

			out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
			// currently compression only supports jpg files
			if (quality > 0 && quality < 1
					&& !format.equalsIgnoreCase("png")
					&& !format.equalsIgnoreCase("gif")) {
				Iterator<ImageWriter> it = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName(format);
				ImageWriter imgWriter = it.next();
				ImageWriteParam param = imgWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();
				param.setCompressionMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
				param.setCompressionQuality(quality);
				param.setProgressiveMode(ImageWriteParam.MODE_DISABLED);
				ColorModel cm = ColorModel.getRGBdefault();
				param.setDestinationType(new ImageTypeSpecifier(cm, cm.createCompatibleSampleModel(16, 16)));
				imgWriter.setOutput(ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(out));
				IIOImage im = new IIOImage(dst, null, null);
				imgWriter.write(null, im, param);
			} else {
				ImageIO.write(dst, format, out);
			}
			buf = out.toByteArray();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			IOUtils.closeQuietly(in);
			IOUtils.closeQuietly(out);
		}
		return buf;
	}

	public static byte[] scale(byte[] b, int width, int height, String format) {
		ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
		return scale(bis, width, height, format);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		int width = 300;
		int height = 400;
		int _width = 400;
		int _height = 300;
		BigDecimal _w = new BigDecimal(_width);
		BigDecimal _h = new BigDecimal(_height);
		BigDecimal _ratio = _w.divide(_h, 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
		if(width <= 0)
			width = _width;
		if(height <= 0)
			height = _height;
		BigDecimal w = new BigDecimal(width);
		BigDecimal h = new BigDecimal(height);
		BigDecimal ratio = w.divide(h, 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
		float _r = _ratio.setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).floatValue();
		if(ratio.compareTo(_ratio) == 1)
			height = Math.round( width / _r);
		else
			width = Math.round(height * _r);

		// Calibrate
		if(width == _width && Math.abs(height - _height) <= 1 )
			height = _height;
		if(height == _height && Math.abs(width - _width) <= 1)
			width = _width;

		System.out.println("width=" + width + ", height=" + height);
	}
}

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It's likely that some point in your adulthood you're going to want to switch careers. Maybe what you thought you wanted to do with the rest of your life wasn't what you expected, or a sudden life change has made you re-evaluate how you envision your future. Each time you decide to change fields you'll need to revamp your resume to fit the position you're applying for. Follow these three tips to spruce up your resume as you change professions.
Certain job skills are necessary regardless of what field you're employed in. Highlight these valuable skills on your resume for every position that you apply for. Look at the accomplishments you've had in your current career and elaborate on the skills you utilized to get there. Include basic skills such as time management, organization, and communication since they are valuable traits for any position.
A general statement about wanting a position in a company is very generic and likely to be overlooked. A well thought out opening statement sets a positive tone for the rest of your resume. Use this as an opportunity to explain a bit about yourself and why the position would be a good fit for you. Think of the skills that you'll need to work on and highlight your ability to adapt to a new environment with an open mind.
A chronological resume is standard and shows an individual's work and education history for years. These can be beneficial in some situations, such as when applying for a position in the same field, but changing from one career field to another is more effective with a functional resume. The difference between the two types is that a functional resume examines your experience and skills as they pertain the position. It focuses less on your work history and more on your current accomplishments and what you can bring to the company.
The purpose of your resume is to appeal to the recruiter and secure an interview where you can really showcase your talents. Take extra time to gear your resume in the right direction to increase your chances of making it to the next step and scoring the interview.
People seek career changes for many reasons. Changes in goals and values, new interests and passions, the need for more money or flexibility or just starting fresh are common reasons for a change. Before completely committing to a new job, it is important to evaluate yourself, explore options and choose the proper career path for your future. The following is Dos and Don'ts list on being successful when changing careers.
Evaluate and Assess: Why are you changing careers? What are you passionate about? Which aspects of your current position do you like and dislike? These are three important questions you should ask yourself when looking for a new career path. The answers to these questions can lead you in a better direction.
Upgrade Skills: You should also consider your skillset. After you narrow down with career field you want to enter, determine whether your current skills and values are a match. If not, figure out what you need to do before you begin a new career.
Try It Out: I highly recommend shadowing a professional in the career field you wish to enter. Spending a few hours to a few days in an area that interests you can help you make a decision. Shadowing is a great way to understand whether or not you enjoy a potential job.
Underestimate: It is important to be practical when starting a new career path, but it is also essential to believe in yourself. As previously mentioned, be sure to evaluate your skills. However, this does not mean you should underestimate your value. You can do just about anything to set your mind to. Starting a new career takes determination and risk, but you can do it if you believe in yourself.
Base on Salary: Being financially strategic when choosing a new career is smart, but what isn't smart is basing your decision solely on salary. It's not that you should disregard compensation when evaluating your career options, but you should consider other critical factors in addition to salary.
Rush into a New Field: It's understandable that some want to get out of their current job as quick as possible. However, it is a good idea to take it slow if you decide to enter a new career field. For example, if you need to take classes, take one or two instead of signing up for a full load. Investing time in discovering why you want a career change, what's going to make you more satisfied, and how to get there will pay off in the long run.
Seeking a new career path is exciting and can lead to happiness and success. However, it is important to evaluate yourself, explore options and choose the proper career before completely committing to a new path.
Making a career change will never work unless you believe in yourself. Change is scary and it normal to worry, however, getting too caught up in what you could lose will prevent you from seeing what you can gain. Learning to believe in yourself will open up endless possibilities in your career.
Being practical is important. When beginning a career change, be sure to self-evaluate. Make a list of your skills and competencies, values, and accomplishments. Once you've discovered your passion and skills, spend some time researching the types of careers that center around them. Evaluate the market you want to enter and from here, compile a list of the critical skills and competencies associated with these new career opportunities. This allows you to have a baseline for measuring your fit in the field you want to pursue.
If possible, make your career changes in stages. You may need to upgrade your skills and education, and it is ok to take time to do so. If you'd like to go to back to school, it may be smarter to start by signing up for one night course. You don't have to enroll in a full-course schedule initially. You can add more classes as your direction and motivation become clear.
All careers benefit from networking, but it is especially crucial during a career change. Networking can be hard; it's easier when you're new to an industry. Networking is all about telling your story, asking questions, and getting advice. As someone who wants to change their career, your story is going to be more interesting than most and you'll naturally have questions and require advice. Even if the people you already know are not in your new career sector, you never know who is in their network.
For some, the pursuit of a meaningful life includes turning a passion into work and the challenge of re-envisioning a professional career. It's never too late to take a chance and revamp your professional life.
When it comes to supporting working parents, the United States is still falling far behind other nations. Even under new legislation, new mothers are still only entitled to less than three weeks of paid leave following delivery; as for paid paternity leave, the U.S. is the only wealthy country that doesn't offer it at all to new fathers. At Facebook, employees are offered up to four months of paid parental leave following the birth of a child, and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg made waves in 2015 when he announced he would be taking two full months of paid paternity leave, unheard of in the American work force.
From a global perspective, we're miles behind where we ought to be; however, tech companies are now working to bridge that gap and offer more parental leave for new parents. Working Mother has recently released their 32nd-annual list of the top 100 companies with the best benefits, and the results are telling.
The support that's being offered to working parents now extends far beyond initial post-delivery care and is helping parents, especially those in high-pressure jobs, manage both their family life and their work life. Several companies at the forefront of the top 100 are offering additional services including support for parents with autism (88% of the top 100), gradually letting new mothers phase back into work (70%), college coaching for high schoolers (63%), and even support for homework (25%).
Companies are also offering more resources to parents for childcare. 92% of the top 100 offer daycare and backup care options or compensation for them during busy times like summer and school holidays.
The change is also elicited, in part, by the demands of highly skilled millennials. In 2017, approximately a third of companies in the United States expanded their benefit offerings, citing the 'war for talent' as the primary factor, according to the 2017 Society for Human Resource Management.
There's a lot of stress for women to have the perfect job and the perfect life. But work, and life, aren't perfect, and imagining they could be otherwise will only make you more stressed out. If you're in a high-powered position, you've probably learned the importance of not cutting corners. But know when to prioritize, and know when a project isn't worth the extra time that perfection takes. A finished report is frequently better than a perfect, late one–and no one's ever complained about homemade brownies that were baked from a boxed mix.
Keep your work and home life separate by refusing to answer phone calls from the office during your off hours. If necessary, get two phones (or, two phone numbers). Give one number out only to friends and family; give the other out only to coworkers, clients, and other people who might need to contact you for business purposes. Sync your emails, calendars, and apps accordingly. As you move between the workplace and your home life, power down whichever phone is no longer relevant.
And if you're having a good conversation, watching a cool movie, or enjoying a walk in nature, turn off all your devices and enjoy living in the moment.
Working out regularly is essential to your mental health, and a great way for you to restore your focus after a busy day at the office.If you don't like the gym, try hiking, biking, or swimming. Boss level: work exercise into your social life. Go for a run with friends, a long walk with your partner, or a bike ride with your family.
Sometimes your life just doesn't seem to be working out. You seem to be losing time that you can't afford to waste, you find yourself tired and lacking the energy to keep moving forward, you feel unmotivated at work or crabby at home. In this case, you may need to look at the structure of your life, and try to find changes that could make it easier.
Is your early-morning makeup routine just an annoying hassle? Simplify your look, and cut down the time you spend working on it. Do you hate to cook? Delegate some of the work, choose simpler recipes, or use a crockpot. Do you find yourself constantly scrolling through social media? Limit your access to those sites, and log off when you leave, so that you won't feel tempted to quick check later.
Sometimes you have to ease your way into big changes in your life. If you never eat dinner with your family, don't expect to immediately have family dinners every night of the week. Instead, start with just one or two days weekly and commit to those. If you don't work out, don't force yourself to spend hours at the gym. Instead, pick just a few days, or come up with a short exercise routine that you can do daily from your home.
There are many economic trends occurring. One of these trends making a great impact on the economy today is the number of women in the workforce. In fact, the percentage of women who were of working age and have full-time jobs went from 28.6 percent to 40.7 percent since 1979. With mothers, the percentage has gone from 27.3 percent to 44.1 percent. Also, women are not only working, but they are holding positions with great responsibility like CEO and other board positions. The reports where these statistics also found that had women's involvement in the workforce stayed the same, it would have caused the economy to decrease by 11 percent which would have been about 1.7 trillion dollars lost in economic output. Due to these changes in our society, we see that working mothers are becoming a crucial piece in our economy.
In their own families, mothers contribute to nearly forty percent to the household's income, and with poorer families, this number increases to eighty-six percent of the total income. This statistic can be due to women's presence in the workforce vastly increasing as the years go by. This shows that women's wages have been sustaining family incomes because the incomes of men have stagnated. In fact, men's median income was seven percent lower in 2013 than it was in 1973. It seems that families are doing better when the mother is working. The median income of married-couple families where the mother is in the labor force has increased by twenty-seven percent between 1987 and 2013. When the woman was the head of the household during that same period, the median income of those families increased by about seventeen percent. The benefits this exposes is clear when comparing to the five percent decline in median income that married-couple families faced when the mother stayed at home.
It is good to know that in the United States, this change is gaining more traction, especially when comparing it to a country like Japan. According to the International Monetary Fund, due to its failure to integrate women into the workforce, they have been unable to escape their economic slump. Now, there is still much work to be done. The Center for American Progress says that if more women worked, the US could be stronger. Currently, about one-third of all women and one-quarter of all mothers do not work. There are many structural reasons for this, but with all the data that shows how beneficial women in the workforce boost our economy hopefully, there is a change in this dynamic. With the implementation of a strong parental leave policy that would allow women paid time off after having children, it could influence more women to not only join the workforce but stay as well.
Let's say you're looking at your schedule for the coming week and you notice on Thursday that you have to stay late for a meeting, your one child has soccer practice, your other has piano lessons, and your partner is leaving for a business trip later that night. Are you going to just 'wing it' and assume that things will fall into place, or will take the time to plan out the evening so things can run smoothly?
There is always an element of fine tuning to maintain that balance between professional and domestic lifestyle; this helps to keep things from falling apart in moments when your schedules are tight and detailed planning is necessary for a smooth execution.
Plan out meals ahead of time.
Each weekend, plan out your dinners for the week and prepare anything that you can ahead of time.
If you're cooking a recipe that can easily be frozen, reheated later, and served again, make a double batch of whatever it is and freeze half for another time. This way you get double the cooking done at once while using half the time.
Make a list and shop once a week.
A lot of time is wasted running to and from the store every time you need to grab something. Free up your schedule a bit by making a list of all of the things that you need to get at the store and do one big trip all at once to get everything. The twenty minutes here and twenty minutes there that you spend running to places adds up to time that would be better spent doing other things.
Don't forget the ABC rule.
The ABC rule – Always Be Cleaning – can save you a LOT of time in the long run when you simply straighten up as you go. Embrace this idea wholeheartedly and instill it in the rest of your family, teaching them to pick up after themselves so you don't have to take a 2 hour chunk out of your day to do all of the cleaning.
While all of these opportunities offer expansive knowledge to those willing to grow, it's also possible to refine your leadership ability everyday, in your own office.
Some of the best resources on your path to effective leadership may work right beside you! Whether they're your supervisor or your direct subordinates, learning to listen and mirror the positive behavior around you can be the simplest and best way to slowly change your style over time.
Overtime, these resources will turn into powerful allies. The strengths they possess will become yours. Your strengths will rub off on them. By keeping a sharp eye on the positive growth and behaviors in your office, you'll soon emulate the exact type of leader you wish to be.
While great leadership skills can be sharpened within the walls of your office, it's always helpful to read the advice of others, who may work miles and miles away from you. Take a look at the following posts below related to leadership and positive growth. Many of the posts center on empowerment for professional females, a topic I continue to be passionate working and writing on.
Women face a lot of pressure and obstacles in the rise to becoming an executive. Although it can be difficult to be a woman in charge, here are a few tips to help you succeed.
Women need to be attractive, but not too attractive .. and 4 other popular challenges that make it difficult for women to work and lead.
Alongside the perpetual gender wage gap, women also face difficulty advancing through businesses and climbing the corporate ladder; of the businesses on the Fortune 500 list, only 21 have females currently holding the role of CEO.
Being a working mother can be one of the most rewarding things in the world. You get to raise kids and have a successful and meaningful career. However, nobody said that it would be easy. Being a working mom comes with challenges. Keep in mind though that for many the positives outweigh the challenges and struggles.
Even with Title VII in effect for over 50 years, we still see remnants from the days of discrimination in the workplace. Issues such as the wage gap, the "glass ceiling," and pregnancies are still factors that work to discriminate against women in the workplace.
For many, the argument is to recruit men to join the effort to bring diversity and gender equality to the realm of upper management. From a sheer numbers perspective, a movement to include more women in the upper ranks of a company is an all-hands-on-deck effort. Most men will probably agree that running an inclusive business means ensuring an inclusive team is in charge of the company, and few if any will admit to harboring some deep aversion to having women in leadership. What these men may not know, though is how to go about improving the number of women present at the table.
If the men of your company aren't actively helping promote gender equality, then they're hurting the effort by enforcing the status quo. To grow the number of women who make it to the C-suite, men have to take up an active role in forwarding the agenda of gender inclusivity and equality.
Additionally, as simple as it may sound, men can practice not talking when a woman is talking. Psychological implications of socialization and imposter syndromes aside, men often physically have louder and deeper voices than women do, meaning that, as they wish, they can drown out a woman's input with ease. For many women who are trying to contribute to their place of work, literally having their voices heard is an important step.


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Skoda Octavia vRS Shown in Design Sketches, 242bhp Hybrid System Confirmed
Skoda has confirmed its fourth-generation Octavia vRS will feature a plug-in hybrid powertrain providing 242bhp
The Skoda vRS Octavia's rumoured hybrid powertrain is now official. The Czech, VW Group-owned brand has released a bunch of sketches to tease the new hot hatch and estate, while also confirming it'll be the first plug-in vRS, featuring a total system output of 242bhp.
That matches the power figure of the VW Golf GTE, which uses the same 'MQB Evo' platform. We're expecting the components of the hybrid powertrain to be shared too: a 1.4-litre inline-four turbo petrol engine, a single electric motor, and a 13kWh battery.
That pack of cells won't be light, so although the output of the setup matches the most powerful Octavia vRS built by Skoda thus far (the imaginatively-named vRS 245), it won't accelerate as quickly. We'd anticipate a 0-62mph time starting with a seven, rather than a six.
But for anyone wanting to go quicker, there will almost certainly be a pure petrol version on the menu. We'd expect it to at least match the output of the Golf 8 GTI, which will develop 242bhp according to a recent leak.
Despite diesel falling out of favour, we'd be surprised if there doesn't end up being a derv option too. With sister brand VW having already confirmed a Golf GTD - thought to be good for 197bhp - Skoda should follow suit. It'll be in the company's interests - the last diesel Octavia vRS was a big driver behind the popularity of the designation. Skoda proudly states that "every fifth Octavia delivered to customers is a vRS model" in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.
We'll know more when the car is revealed in full at the Geneva Motor Show on 3 March.
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Ed Sheeran has uploaded a photo of what appears to be his latest tattoo.
The British singer, whose second album 'X' was released last year, is well-known for his inked collection. Among other images, Sheeran has tattoos of the Heinz tomato ketchup logo, the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air typography and a teddy bear, after his childhood nickname of 'Teddy'.
Now Sheeran has revealed a chest tattoo of a giant lion's head. See that picture below, via Sheeran's Instagram account.
Sheeran writes in the caption: "Halfway and ouch".
Ed Sheeran recently revealed that he once "sharted" onstage. The singer told the crowd at an intimate gig in Dublin last month (July 23) that his messy mishap occurred after he "misjudged a fart" midway through a live set.


Frederick Forsyth is the author of eleven bestselling novels: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God, Icon, Avenger and The Afghan.His other works include The Biafra Story, The Shepherd; two short story collections, No Comebacks and The Veteran; and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of Manhattan. He has also compiled an anthology of flying tales, Great Flying Stories, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len Deighton and H.G. Wells.He lives in Hertfordshire, England.


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Rains dampen Diwali celebration in Odisha, MeT predicts more downpour
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau On Oct 19, 2017 - 5:06 PM
Bhubaneswar: Diwali celebrations in the state came to a nought after heavy rains lashed many parts of Odisha today, as low pressure over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression, sources from the regional meteorological department said.
Director of the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Bhubaneswar SC Sahu said,"The well marked low pressure has concentrated into a depression, which was located around 370 km south-southeast of Puri."
He further said that the mild depression is likely to intensify into a deep depression and cross the Odisha coast between Puri and Chandbali by midnight today or tomorrow morning.
Under the impact of deep depression, rains and thundershowers are likely to occur at most places in coastal Odisha as well as in the interior parts of the state in the next 24 hours, the MeT office said.
This apart, there is a possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall in some places of south Odisha and heavy rainfall at some places in the northern districts of the state.
"Strong and gusty surface winds, reaching up to 65 kmph, from the north-easterly direction would blow along the Odisha coast. Sea condition is likely to be rough to very rough and fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea," a release from the MeT office said.


Q. Reaching China Open final is your best performance on hard courts this year. We can feel that you're getting better on court. What is your plan for tomorrow, especially when it may be that you're up against Novak?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, yes, happy to be in the final obviously. Is a good result for me, very positive one. And tomorrow is a match to enjoy.
I know today Novak is not my league, is a different level of me this year. So for me be in the final is a great news and tomorrow is a match to try to enjoy and try to play the way that I want to play, and we'll see.
Q. How do you assess your level today in the first set and the second? Also, the handshake wasn't friendly with Fabio. Was there any issue during the match or before?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, no issues during the match.
I played a little bit better in the second set, but in the first set I played well, too. The only thing that was in the first, I didn't return as well. In the second set, the return was much better. In the first set, I was playing well, but I had my opportunity to go before with 3‑1, point for 4‑1, and I missed that point. Then was close.
He's a great player, a great and talented player. Was tough first set, as I expected. Tough match in general. But I think I played well. I played much closer to the baseline than the previous days. That's very important for me, very important for my game. The position for me on the court today was more aggressive, and that's why I was able to beat him today after a couple of defeats.
Q. During the match, your Uncle Toni seemed to show his frustration at something Fabio was doing. You've played Fabio five times this year. Do you sense there's an extra edge to your rivalry, something between you?
RAFAEL NADAL: No rivalry at all. No, no, no. I don't know what's going on, seriously. We had the issue that we had in Hamburg, and that's it. No problems. At the US Open no problems. No problems today. Very easy match in terms of attitude for both of us. No problem at all. Very, very easy I think for the umpire.
Q. Are you also working with something on the second serve? You had some unusual double‑faults today.
RAFAEL NADAL: No, not unusual double‑faults. How many double‑faults I have? Three, four. I was having more double‑faults during this year for a lot of moments, no?
No, I worked a lot on second serve the last couple weeks. My speed of the second serve is a little bit higher today, so happy with my second serve. Even if I had two double‑faults and two breakpoints, that can happen. Is not a problem of the serve sometimes.
No, I happy the way I'm serving. Especially the second serve is working better.
Q. Can you talk a little about playing Novak in the final, in case he comes through.
RAFAEL NADAL: We'll see which one going to be the opponent, no? Novak is the favorite because he's winning almost everything this year. But any opponent will be very tough.
For me, be in the final is a great event. Very happy with that result. Lot of important points for the Masters Cup for me, too. I don't say that I am qualified, but with that result I am much closer to be qualified for the World Tour Finals.
At the same time, as I said the other day, the goal for me is try to find a good level at this end of the season. Playing matches is the best practice possible, trying to do things on the matches, to have better feelings, practice the things that I need to do next year.
I think today was an important victory. I really played the way that I wanted to play, no? Having some mistakes with the forehand down the line, but that's something that is usual. I need to get used again to do it.
But I didn't lose court, I didn't lose meters behind the baseline. That's very important for me, very satisfied with that. And tomorrow is a match I know is going to be very, very difficult.
But I am here to try my best. My goal is try to play the way that I want to play. I know this year Novak, as I say before, is a different league of my one. But still happy with the final. I going to fight tomorrow and we'll see.
Q. When you play Fognini, do you do something special to prepare for today?
RAFAEL NADAL: No one special preparation, no. Is another match for me. I lost against Fognini, yes, in the US Open. He played great. At the same time I had a lot of opportunities to win the match. I didn't had to change a lot of things.
In the US Open for moments he had too many times the advantage of the point from the baseline. Today he didn't have the advantage of the point that often. That makes the difference.
As I say before, US Open I lost court, I lost meters behind the baseline. Was not the case of today. That makes the court a little bit smaller for him.
I feel that my movements were good today. So happy the way that I played. Obviously is an important victory for me against a player I lost last time. Happy for that. I going to keep working.


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Every so often, a student writes something which moves me. Last week my year 10s completed their final mock papers ahead of their English Language exam this Summer and one piece of writing in particular caught my attention.
With my student's permission, I'm sharing the story she crafted in exam conditions. I'm not sharing it as an example representative of a particular mark, it's not perfect, but I'm sharing it because I think it's lovely. I'm sharing it because it shows how imaginatively a student can respond to a task in exam conditions. I'm sharing it because it shows how our work on vocabulary and narrative structure is having a real impact on how our students are crafting their narrative writing. I'm sharing it because I think you might quite enjoy it too.
Lamp posts begin to flicker on, like struck matchsticks, as the suburban street is cloaked in darkness. A cat made from midnight slinks down the granite pavement rubbing its bottle brush tail against them.
Turning into a darkened alley, the ebony cat noticed a moving lump under a thick ragged blanket and immediately launched at it. The lump revealed itself to be a small boy as he jumped up hastily. Trying to mollify the hissing cat, he reached out to stroke it but the cat tore off into the darkness.
The boy shot off after it, ensnared by the idea of keeping the cat as a companion. The lamp posts pointed the boy in the right direction by showing the cat cowering beneath a bench. The boy industriously made tutting noises and rubbed his finger and thumb together as he endeavoured to beckon the cat. Eventually, the cat strutted over and entwined its tail around the boy's legs.
It then slinked off again, the boy close at is heels as if he were being charmed by the Pied Piper. He followed the cat through a plethora of darkened streets even as raindrops danced through the night sky and as a gust of wind stole his hat.
Eventually, they stopped outside of a Victorian building which the boy knew was an orphanage.
'What are we doing here?' the boy asked.
In reply the cat stared transfixed at the door of the aging building. The boy waited and waited for what felt like a decade with the midnight sky changing from orange to pink and finally to blue.
The boy went to sleep again the next night, not under a ragged blanket in a dark alley but underneath a soft duvet in his new home. As sleep took over his dreams were filled with a cat made of midnight and matchstick lamp posts.


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Colobothea varia är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Fabricius 1787. Colobothea varia ingår i släktet Colobothea och familjen långhorningar.

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It's May, and that means we're celebrating one of the most famous Mexican holidays in the United States – Cinco de Mayo! The holiday originated in Mexico following a victory against French forces in 1862. We gather for the holiday annually to enjoy the company of our friends, families, and loved ones (often eating tacos) in celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. This year is no different!
On May 5, 2016, Univision will host Cinco de Mayo at Six Bends featuring authentic food, drinks, and music from 5:00 to 9:00pm. Five local restaurants will compete to win a $1,000 cash prize and bragging rights for having the best Cinco de Mayo dish of the day. Enjoy tacos and other delectable offerings, then cast your vote for the most flavorful option.
If you eat and still have a taste for tacos (after all, who doesn't?), join thousands of people in helping us break the world record for the longest line of tacos in the world! Participation is simple – just stand in a designated area, grab your taco, and wait for the official count. Then, once we've reached our goal of 2,100 tacos in a row, the hard shell delicacy is yours to eat! Don't worry, no taco will be left behind. We'll donate the rest to our amazing first responders in the area, including police, firefighters, and EMS workers.
Ready for a flavorful outing with your family and friends? Whether you're all about soft shell or love a deep-fried flauta, meet us at Six Bends on Thus., May 5!


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Art of Autism Projects, Mentorship Project June 10, 2016 September 14, 2018
The Art of Autism Mentorship Project – a new way for kids to cultivate their inner artist
All kids should have a safe place to express themselves through art. SO many parents we know are always looking for new ways to nurture their kids' interests, talents and skills.
We are very excited to announce The Art Of Autism Mentorship Project. An opportunity for kids on the autism spectrum to express themselves through all kinds of art, amongst like-minded peers, supported by professional artists from all over the world.
We are partnering with Squag ™ to bring all of this together through interactive, creative expression at no cost to participants.
Squag ™ {skwag} is a visual communication tool for kids to self-reflect and explore their concepts of self, encouraging them to dive deep into their interests, and develop their inner dialogue.
1) Sign up
2) Starting in June our mentors in residence will send you an email at least once a month, detailing an art challenge for your child.
3) Kids noodle around in their Squagpads™, create their art and post their submissions into the private SquagSocial space.
4) Our mentors and curators will take questions from you and your kids all summer long!
5) Kids will have a chance to get input from our artists, and be inspired by work that other kids are creating across the country!
6) Throughout the summer, we will select submissions to highlight on our social media and website. Kids will get the encouragement and boost they need to continue to develop their talent and skills.
7) At the end of the summer, we will be excited to hear feedback from you and your kids about the experience.
Please spread the word! The more young artists we reach with this project, the more exciting it will be for all of the kids involved.
Art of Autism artists if you would like to join our mentors, please email us a bio at theartofautism@gmail.com and we will add you to our list.
Mentors will email their assigned kid or kids – projects each month for them to complete. Here are some of our mentors:
Keri Bowers, co-founder of the Art of Autism, parent, film maker, artist and art instructor. Keri has many years experience working with children developing creative projects and curriculum.
Joel Anderson of Joels Vision Arts is an animator, artist, philanthropist, public speaker, and author. Joel has spoken to thousands of students across the country about autism. His passion is to educate other's about autism so kids on the spectrum will be accepted. Joel is very excited to be a mentor artist for this project.
CarolAnn Edscorn is a mom, an artist, an educator, and on the ASD spectrum herself. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in the performing arts–acting and directing for the theater and a Master's Degree in Urban Affairs Management and Public Policy Analysis with a focus on Education and Health Issues.
April Dawn Griffin is an artist, a business woman, and a single parent on the autism spectrum who resides in Nipawin, Saskatchewan.
J.A. Tan is an artist and a black-belt in Tae Kwon Do. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Class of 2010) in Vancouver, Canada. He resides in Vancouver. His website is www.artofjatan.com
Luis Tirado is a fifteen-year old entrepreneur on a mission to be independent and help others on the ASD Spectrum. Luis is a musician, an artist and an advocate for people on the ASD spectrum. Luis is fluent in Spanish and Italian. His website is EpicLuisArt
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This sounds like a wonderful project! I am interested for my child, but do I have to provide credit card info in order to sign up? I tried to register using the free offer code, but my form could not be accepted as the credit card info fields were blank.
As you know, there is often quite a difference between the chronological age and developmental age of a person with autism. That being said, does the mentorship project apply to adults (18 and over)? My 18-year-old son would love to be a part of this.
Diana, yes he can definitely participate. We are starting this project next week.
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Made this cute little tag using some twine and a 3d flower I made with my cricut and accent essentials.. I inked the edges in black and added a pearl to the middle.
Fabulous tag! love the inked edges of the flower too! Thanks for playing with us at My Creative Time ~ Designer Challenge!


The Center for Research of Kartvelian Civilization aims to preserve records of all major religious holidays still celebrated in Georgia.
Even today, a number of ancient rites and rituals can be found in Georgia, especially its mountainous regions. The documentation and preservation of these traditions in different image and sound media is one of CRKC's major projects. The collected material will be made available for scholarly examination and educational purposes.
The Kartvelian evidence can be used in comparative Oriental and Indo-European ethnological studies, throwing fresh light on a number of unresolved problems. Furthermore, the same data can be highly effective in preserving a record of Kartvelian ethno-psychology, which is being threatened by global political, economic, and social trends.
The project of recording ancient Kartvelian rites has advanced slowly since 1998, when Berikaoba - an archaic fertility rite, was recorded in Sabue, a village in Kakheti. The lack of financial means prevents a smooth running of the project and many ancient religious holidays, now on the decline, may for ever be lost to posterity.
An ancient fertility rite, Kakheti, the Village of Sabue, 1998.