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Month in Review – July 2022
Monthly Review August 08, 2022
July 3: California Ports Piling Up Again: Too Many Containers Sitting Too Long – American Shipper
At the height of last year's "will Christmas be canceled?" supply chain freak-out, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – with the Biden administration's backing – proposed a highly controversial fee on import containers that sat too long in terminal yards.
The mere threat of this fee, announced on October 25 for implementation on November 15, seemed to initially chase more boxes out the gates, as designed. Every week since then, like clockwork, the ports have cited progress and announced that the fee enforcement would be postponed until the following week.
Now, the container dwell numbers are getting worse and becoming increasingly hard to sugarcoat.
July 4: Boxport Congestion Spreads Across the Globe Again – Splash
Boxport congestion is growing across multiple continents. Clarksons' containership port congestion index shows that, as of June 30, 36.2% of the global fleet was at port, up from 31.5% in the pre-pandemic years from 2016 to 2019, with Clarksons observing in its latest weekly report that congestion on the U.S. east coast has recently risen to near-record levels.
An operational update from German carrier Hapag-Lloyd, issued on July 1, highlighted the myriad congestion issues facing carriers and shippers around the world.
Across key Chinese ports such as Ningbo, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, terminals are under pressure with yard and berth congestion thanks to ongoing COVID measures and the typhoon season.
At other key Asian ports, yard density is reported hitting 80% in Singapore and is higher still, at 85%, at South Korea's top port, Busan.
July 4: Market Questions Peak Season Scale as Consumer Sentiment Drops – Hellenic Shipping News
Container freight market participants are looking with unease toward peak import season and beyond as booking inquiries for U.S. imports remain under pressure amid rising inflation and a weak economic outlook.
Trans-Pacific volumes and booking inquiries edged down further in the final weeks of the second quarter as shipowners reported lower vessel utilization out of Asian loading gateways. One shipowner source noted that "spot market space is ample out of China."
In-kind freight on the North Asia-North America run has been under pressure during Q2 as pockets of vessel space have opened up. North Asia-to-West Coast North America slid 10% during Q2, coinciding with a dip in volumes brought on by extensive lockdowns in and around Shanghai, which began to unwind June 1.
But despite easing restrictions in Asia, volumes have failed to rebound to meet prior expectations, while consumer appetite appears to have waned in the U.S., and large retailers have been heard cutting back orders amid an abundance of inventory.
July 5: Average Global D&D Charges Fall, but Are Still Four Times Higher in the U.S. – The Loadstar
Average global demurrage and detention (D&D) charges have fallen this year, but remain around 12% higher than before the pandemic, according to a new survey by online equipment trading and leasing platform Container xChange.
However, the average is skewed by huge D&D fees imposed on shippers in the U.S.
Container xChange collected more than 20,000 data points from publicly available sources, which were then compared against D&D fees imposed on customers by carriers.
According to its findings the global average D&D charge levied by carriers two weeks after containers were discharged (the free time) increased by 38% last year to $868 per container, from $586 in 2020.
So far this year, the average D&D fee has eased to $664 per container.
July 7: Roberts Bank Terminal 2: Project Update and Next Steps
On March 15, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) concluded a public comment period on the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority's information request response and on the draft conditions for the project.
VFPA has provided a final submission to IAAC in several parts that shows how topics raised during the public comment period will be addressed:
On April 22, the VFPA submitted part one of its two-part submission, which included its feedback on the draft conditions and responses to submissions made by Indigenous groups, government and the public during the public comment period on topics like project need, benefits and enhanced mitigation measures to protect key species
On May 13, it submitted supplemental information to part one of the submission, which included the port's response to submissions from Indigenous groups that had not been posted to the public registry in time for consideration in the April 22 submission
On June 10, the port submitted part two of its two-part submission, which included feedback on the draft conditions and responses to comments received during the public comment period related to biofilm and western sandpipers
Next steps in the project development
IAAC is reviewing submissions received during the public comment period to develop recommendations and final conditions for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The minister will then determine whether the project has significant adverse environmental effects and, if so, will refer the decision to cabinet.
The VFPA is hopeful that a decision will be made this year. In the meantime, the port continues to prepare for procurement, a Fisheries Act Authorization and other required permits, as well as ongoing consultation with Indigenous groups, to quickly advance the project if a positive decision is made.
July 7: Win Streak Continues: Container Lines Just Posted More Record Results – American Shipper
Ocean carriers are still posting record or near-record results. Several Asian liner companies have just released preliminary revenues and profits for Q2 2022, as well as monthly operating data through June.
Despite pessimistic sentiment on stocks, the numbers are still huge.
July 8: There's Over $40 Billion in Cargo on Container Ships Waiting Offshore North America – American Shipper
Anchorages continue to fill with waiting container ships off East and Gulf Coast ports, where vessel queues have now far outgrown those off the West Coast. Along all three coasts combined, the number of waiting container vessels remains exceptionally high.
There were 125 container ships waiting off North American ports on July 8, according to an analysis of ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic and queue numbers from California.
Container ships waiting off U.S. and British Columbia ports had a combined capacity of 1,037,164 twenty-foot equivalent units.
July 13: More Than 3,000 Trucks Wait at Bangladesh's Chittagong Port to Unload Exports – The Loadstar
Some 3,300 trucks, laden with export cargo, are waiting at the gates of the 19 off docks in Chittagong to unload goods, while some 9,300 TEU export-ready containers are awaiting vessel designation for shipment.
A seven-day suspension of trucks from highways was imposed in order to facilitate the movement of public buses and other vehicles for people leaving cities to celebrate Eid ul Azha.
The Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association (BICDA) said they were forced to stop receiving cargo from July 6, after several thousand trucks arrived at the port.
The association said that, before shutting down factories for holidays, cargo owners sent all emergency and non-emergency shipments to the depots at once, creating congestion at the gates.
July 14: U.S. Feds Give Shippers New Power to Dispute Ocean Carrier Charges – American Shipper
New guidance issued by federal regulators aimed at fighting unreasonable ocean carrier charges is short on detail but long on historic importance, according to a U.S. exporter group.
The advisory enacts provisions of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA), signed into law last month, by providing a simplified process for container carrier customers who want the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate their complaints.
"Today is a landmark moment in the history of the Federal Maritime Commission and the U.S. shipping public," said Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC), in a statement. "The provisions in OSRA calling for informal processes to facilitate effective FMC enforcement are perfectly implemented in the Commission's Industry Advisory today."
The one-page advisory outlines steps for filing charge complaints against the carriers. Among the steps are identifying the carrier and the alleged violation, submitting documentation, confirming that the disputed charge was incurred after the June 16 enactment of OSRA, and submitting all the materials in one email, if possible, to the FMC.
July 20: Low Water on Rhine Threatens Repeat of 2018 – gCaptain
Low water levels in the Rhine River may have a similar impact on German economic output as they did in 2018, according to Berenberg, a European private bank.
That was the last year in which the river, a key waterway that's critical for moving coal, car parts, food and thousands of other goods, experienced a "dry year," economist Salomon Fiedler said in a report to clients.
Citing analysis by the Kiel Institute, he said that, in a month in which water levels are below the 78-centimetre (31-inch) threshold every day, German industrial production is "about 1% lower than in a month with no low-water days." Delayed effects in the following month brings the overall impact to about 1.5%.
July 22: 'Lines Banging on Our Door' as Spot Rates Tumble and Peak Season Disappoints – The Loadstar
Container spot rates from Asia to Europe and the U.S. are coming under increased pressure, as the peak season appears "muted" at best.
Freight rates from China fell this week on 19 of the 21 routes covered by the Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI), with its China-Europe and China-U.S. components in particular dragged down by "insufficient volume."
The NCFI commentary said most carriers had been obliged to discount as spot rates "continue to decline."
Spot rates for North Europe fell to $9,092 per 40ft this week, according to Drewry's WCI index, although the CEO of a UK forwarder said recently it had been offered a rate of $7,000 per 40ft through August.
"They were not interested a month ago, but now the carriers are banging our door down for business again," he said.
July 28: Staff Strike Set to Hit Felixstowe in August – Seatrade Maritime News
Dockworkers at the UK's largest container port voted in favour of strike action over a pay dispute.
The Unite union reported that 92% of workers voted in favour of industrial action on an 81% turnout. The vote comes after the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company offered staff a 5% pay increase while the Retail Price Index (RPI) – a measure of inflation – stood at 11.9%. The latest pay offer adds to an increase last year of 1.4%, again below inflation.
July 28: Record Container Ship Traffic Jam as Backlog Continues to Build – American Shipper
If you only look at Los Angeles and Long Beach – the largest container import gateway in America – you'd think shipping congestion has drastically dropped. The number of ships waiting there has fallen to 26 from a high of 109 in January. But in fact, North American port congestion has just re-entered record territory. The offshore traffic jam is once again as bad as it's ever been.
In January and February, when North American congestion previously peaked, there were just under 150 container vessels waiting off the coastlines. Two-thirds were in the Los Angeles/Long Beach queue.
As of July 28, there were 153, the majority off East and Gulf Coast ports. Whereas the earlier West Coast pileup was centralized, highly publicized and relatively easy to track, the current ship queue is more widely dispersed and attracting less attention.
July 6: Air Canada Bans Pets from Travelling in Cargo Hold Until Mid-September – CBC News
Air Canada has stopped accepting new requests for pets to travel in the baggage compartment of its flights until September 12, as major airports around the country face travel delays, flight cancellations and logistical challenges.
Small animals will still be allowed in the cabins of most flights, provided they can lie down in a carrier under the seat in front of the passenger.
July 22: Airfreight Rates Out of Asia Take a Dive as Demand from the West is 'Subdued' – The Loadstar
Asian forwarders are reporting a large drop in airfreight rates, but don't believe this is the end of elevated prices, nor a significant fall-off in demand.
One Southeast Asian forwarder said: "The demand for airfreight to Europe and the U.S. is looking a bit subdued. However, we note that, this time last year, it wasn't too strong either. Coupled with the fact that there is substantially more capacity this year, I wouldn't say demand has dropped drastically."
July 5: CN Update: IBEW Agrees to Binding Arbitration, Ending Strike
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents approximately 750 employees in Canada, has agreed to binding arbitration with CN, ending its strike effective 00:01 EDT on July 5.
July 8: Railroad Bottleneck at Busiest U.S. West Coast Ports Reaches Inflection Point – CNBC
60% of all long-dwell containers at the Port of Los Angeles are rail-bound.
Container wait for rail is a little over 8 days for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
East Coast ports, including the Port of Norfolk, Port of Savannah, and the Port of New York and New Jersey, are seeing more shipping activity as a result.
July 14: Congestion Hits Rail Flows from Canada's Ports as Boxes Begin to Pile Up – The Loadstar
Rail flows from ports to the Canadian metropolises of Toronto and Montreal are stuck in low gear, with no end of the congestion in sight.
Boxes have piled up at the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, as it takes longer to move them off the docks to urban centres in the east. On July 12, three out of four container facilities at the port of Vancouver (Centerm, Deltaport and Fraser Valley Docks) showed box dwell times in excess of seven days.
For the rail carriers, the port's website indicated dwell times of more than seven days at three of the four facilities served by Canadian National (CN) and one of the three Canadian Pacific (CP) sites.
This is the result of problems in the interior, notably clogged up rail facilities in the Toronto area and Montreal.
July 2: Port of Vancouver Truckers Poised to Withdraw Service over Environmental Mandate that Forces Some to Buy New Trucks – Vancouver Sun
The United Truckers Association voted on July 1 in favour of job action against a recent Port of Vancouver directive that forbids operators from driving vehicles more than 12 years old.
Gagan Singh, spokesperson for the association, said that 639 of the 1,000 members voted to withdraw service, with no votes against.
Singh said the next step is "to consult with our directors and we will talk to the unions about the (job action) date, should we consider it." Meetings are planned for July 5.
The truckers are upset about the Rolling Truck Age Program, which is set to begin on September 15 and will impact about 20 percent of the 1,800 trucks that haul containers to and from the ports in a bid to reduce emissions.
The union has said 360 drivers will need to buy a new or lightly used truck, which can cost more than $200,000.
"These costly measures will put extreme financial burden on container truckers amid the highest rates of inflation and unaffordability in a generation," said Singh.
July 4: Fleets Filling Seats with Flexible Work for Truck Drivers – Today's Trucking
A bird in the hand is said to be worth two in the bush, but two birds in a bush might be even more valuable if you can get them to work for you. Consider fleets that are realizing the benefits to offering part-time flexible work to drivers who don't want full-time positions. Two part-timers can be even more productive than one full-timer.
For rookies, one of the toughest aspects of trucking is adjusting to time away from home. Ask any fleet recruiter or driving school and they will agree that a lot of potential candidates wash out within a year because of family pressures related to time away.
As they age, many truck drivers also want to slow down a little, maybe work locally or regionally rather than longhaul. If these drivers can't find some way to make a job work for them, they head for the door.
July 6: ELD Enforcement Coming January 2023 – Canadian Trucking Alliance press release
There will be no more delays in enforcement of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate for federally regulated carriers, authorities confirm to the Canadian Trucking Alliance. The mandate will take effect on January 1, 2023.
CTA has been advised by the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators that the provinces and territories are firmly committed to enforcing the ELD mandate in January 2023 and no announcements on further delays are expected. If a particular jurisdiction is not able to enforce the rule in January, all others that are ready will proceed with enforcement at that time.
July 11: Feds Announce New Incentives for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles Program – Canadian Trucking Alliance press release
Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra announced on July 11 the Government of Canada will be introducing a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles (iMHZEV) incentive program, which will provide approximately 50% of the cost difference between traditional diesel vehicle and a zero-emission alternative to assist trucking fleets in reducing their carbon footprint.
Businesses will have the option to purchase or lease new vehicles under the iMHZEV program, with a maximum of 10 incentives or $1 million available per calendar year. The incentive will be applied at the point-of-sale by the dealership or other authorized sellers such as original equipment manufacturers and/or vehicle finishers/distributors.
July 21: CRA Announces New Initiative Aimed at PSBs and Driver Inc. – Canadian Trucking Alliance press release
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently released a bulletin outlining efforts to increase oversight on personal services businesses (PSBs) – a technical tax term for what many in the trucking industry believe is used as cover for companies who are engaged in the illicit practices as part of the Driver Inc. scheme.
At its core, the Driver Inc. is a tax evasion practice whereby truck drivers, who would normally be considered employees, are purposefully misclassified – either by choice, force or manipulation – as independent contractors or PSBs through the company they work for. This allows the carrier to avoid paying payroll taxes such as the employer portion for Employment Insurance (EI) while also allowing them to pocket the savings when it comes to paying drivers overtime, vacation pay, paid sick days, etc. It is also often used to shed Workers' Compensation costs (premiums), which are paid by the employer to cover lost wages for workers who are injured on the job like falling at a workplace or an accident on the road.
In its PSB bulletin, CRA outlines tax implications for PSBs and provides examples of Driver Inc.-type arrangements. In addition to releasing these educational materials, the CRA has announced a targeted enforcement pilot against misclassified PSBs in certain sectors like trucking.
July 27: Canada's Spot Market Beginning to Normalize: Loadlink – Today's Trucking
Canada's spot market saw an influx of capacity amid softening freight demand in June, according to Loadlink Technologies.
The shift signals a return to normalization. Spot market loads fell 23% from record May volumes, but remained 7% higher year over year.
Outbound freight to the U.S. dropped 53% from May, but remained up 21% from last June. Inbound cross-border loads fell 34% from May and were down 6% year over year. Domestic loads dipped 21% from May, but remained 25% stronger year over year.
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July 8: Letter to CIFFA from Federal Transport Minister
The Honourable Omar Alghabra, Canada's Minister of Transport, has responded to a letter from CIFFA. He said: "I recognize the important work being advanced by CIFFA and its contribution towards the supply chain efficiency and the vital transportation links between shippers, receivers, and end customers," and has invited CIFFA to participate in coming sectoral and regional roundtables.
July 12: CIFFA Membership Survey Results Are In
Twenty-five percent of member companies participated in CIFFA's recent membership satisfaction survey.
Highlights of the survey are as follows:
Overall, 87.8% of our members are satisfied with their membership, half of whom indicate that they are very satisfied.
When asked what business concerns CIFFA could assist with, members identified more outreach with government on issues affecting the supply chain and related costs. This was followed by continued work with the younger generation to better secure our future.
Advocacy remains the most important item that we deliver, followed closely by educational courses, the eBulletin and industry communication.
Members are anxious to see a return of networking events, with requests for greater reach outside of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
The majority of respondents were unaware of our Affinity Program, through which some of our valued Associate Members provide discounts or further cost-saving options to all member individuals. Further information can be found on our website under the Membership tab: Why Become a Member?
Our committee work continues to be very well received, receiving a 76% satisfaction rating.
July 20: CIFFA's Canadian Young Logistics Professional of the Year Wins Americas Contest
Congratulations to Karina Daniela Perez Perez, who has won the Americas Region competition in the 2022 Young Logistics Professionals Award competition.
Karina was selected by CIFFA in January as the Canadian Young Logistics Professional of the Year, after a review of her industry experience and a written dissertation demonstrating her technical knowledge.
Next, as the Americas regional winner, Karina will compete at the FIATA World Congress, where she will present her dissertations to the Award Steering Committee that will subsequently announce the global 2022 Young Logistics Professional of the Year.
Karina's dissertations illustrate the transportation of two key products for the Canadian economy, the challenges that freight forwarders must overcome to successfully deliver goods, and the resiliency of the supply chain with a focus on sustainability.
Karina currently works at DSV Air & Sea in the ocean exports department.
July 20: CIFFA Consults with National Supply Chain Task Force
On July 19, CIFFA's Executive Director Bruce Rodgers and Director, Policy and Communications Julia Kuzeljevich consulted with the Secretariat to the National Supply Chain Task Force, appointed by the federal government and mandated with the task of producing a report on the state of Canada's supply chain by end of September 2022.
The National Supply Chain Task Force is chaired by Louise Yako and Jean Gattuso, who were appointed by the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, "to lead a task force of diverse industry experts to recommend government and industry actions designed to increase competition, access, resiliency, redundancy, efficiency, and investment in both the domestic and international linkages of our transportation system and supply chains, as well as examine ways to reduce congestion and improve levels of service."
CIFFA provided input as to member concerns about supply chain fluidity issues, chokepoints, and possible contingencies, short- and longer-term solutions.
CIFFA will also provide a written submission to the Task Force.
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The Government of Canada launched the National Cyber Security Strategy Consultation this summer, requesting feedback to the changing digital landscape and the exposure to cyber threats and cybercrime. An eight-week public consultation ran until August 19, 2022, with contribution from a broad range of Canadians. Canada's National Cyber Security Strategy was initially launched in 2018. […]
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A CIFFA Member to Member Webinar on Cybersecurity – "How to Protect Your Business, Tomorrow", was held June 28, 2022, offered as follow-up to the 10 Best Cybersecurity Practices paper created by CIFFA's Technology Committee. A panel of seasoned professionals provided expert advice and best practices on how to protect your business – both before […]
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Economic instability and household chaos relate to cortisol for children in poverty
Brown, E. D., Anderson, K. E., Garnett, M. L., Hill, E. M.
The present study investigated relations among various aspects of economic adversity and cortisol levels for young children facing economic hardship. Specifically, the study examined relations to cortisol for variables representing family income, material hardship, financial strain, economic instability, and household chaos. Participants were 374 children, ages 3-5 years, who attended a Head Start preschool, as well as their primary caregivers. Nearly all children lived in households classified as poor or low-income, defined as less than two times the federal poverty threshold. Caregivers completed interviews about family demographics and economic adversity at the beginning of the school year. Child salivary cortisol was sampled in duplicate on two weekday mornings at the end of the school year. We hypothesized that economic instability would show direct statistical effects on child cortisol as well as indirect effects via household chaos. A structural equation model that corresponded to this hypothesis showed adequate fit for the sample data and revealed a statistically significant indirect effect of economic adversity on child cortisol via economic instability and household chaos, as well as statistically significant direct effects of economic instability and chaos on child cortisol, and a significant indirect effect of economic instability on cortisol via household chaos. Implications concern understanding mechanisms of poverty risk, including the impact of instability and chaos on stress physiology, and promoting physiological regulation for children facing economic hardship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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'Justice League Action' Interview: Diedrich Bader on Being Booster Gold and Working w/ Kevin Conroy - Duration: 2 minutes, 43 seconds.
'The Flash' Season 3 Interview: Grant Gustin on the 'Flashpoint' Impact [SDCC16] - Duration: 5 minutes, 3 seconds.
'The Flash' star Grant Gustin gives us the goods from the round tables on 'Flashpoint' in Season 3 from Comic-Con 2016.
'Rick and Morty' Interview: Sarah Chalke on Beth in Season 3 from Comic-Con 2016 - Duration: 2 minutes, 55 seconds.
Sarah Chalke, 'Scrubs' actress and voice of Beth on 'Rick and Morty', tells us what Beth is up to in Season 3 of the Adult Swim cult favorite.
'Rick and Morty' Interview: Chris Parnell Teases Jerry and Rick Team Up in Season 3 - Duration: 2 minutes, 45 seconds.
SNL alum Chris Parnell, the voice of Jerry on 'Rick and Morty', talks about his favorite moments from Season 2 and what's to come in Season 3 from Comic-Con 2016.
Comic-Con Interview: Tara Strong Talks 'Batman: The Killing Joke' and 'Teen Titans Go!' - Duration: 4 minutes, 3 seconds.
Voice actress Tara Strong, voice of Raven on 'Teen Titans Go!' and Batgirl in 'Batman: The Killing Joke' talks her projects from Comic-Con 2016 with a special appearance by Greg Cipes, aka Beast Boy.
'Teen Titans Go!' Interview: Scott Menville, Voice of Robin, Talks 'Island Adventures' - Duration: 2 minutes, 33 seconds.
Comic-Con Interview: Ray Wise on Being Commissioner Gordon in 'Batman: The Killing Joke' - Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds.
Veteran actor Ray Wise discusses his love of Batman and what he wanted to bring to the role of Commissioner Gordon in 'Batman: The Killing Joke'.
"Supergirl' Interview: Tyler Hoechlin Talks Superman from SDCC 2016 Roundtable - Duration: 4 minutes, 54 seconds.
New Superman Tyler Hoechlin discusses getting the role of the Man of Steel for the upcoming season of 'Supergirl' on The CW.
The Strain Interview: Kevin Durand, Miguel Gomez, Richard Sammel, Ruta Gedmintas [SDCC 2016] - Duration: 10 minutes.
'The Strain' showrunner Carlton Cuse and cast members Kevin Durand, Miguel Gomez, Richard Sammel and Ruta Gedmintas talk about what to expect from Season 3.
Comic-Con Interview: Dan Harmon Teases Darker 'Rick and Morty' Season 3, Talks Birdperson's Fate - Duration: 3 minutes, 54 seconds.
Dan Harmon fills in on what's come from Comic-Con 2016 in a "darker" 'Rick and Morty' Season 3 , as well as discusses that Birdperson twist from Season 2.


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People walk by the Pfizer world headquarters in New York on November 9, 2020 (AFP / Kena Betancur)
Pfizer's role in Operation Warp Speed misconstrued online
Claire Savage, AFP USA Published on Saturday 14 November 2020 at 07:17
News of promising results from a coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sparked misinformation about the company's role in the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed, an effort to deliver a Covid-19 shot nationwide. While Pfizer benefited from the government's vaccine fund, this was to supply and distribute the vaccine, not to develop it.
"HUGE NEWS," Vice President Mike Pence tweeted on November 9, 2020. "Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers."
Screenshot of a tweet taken on November 13, 2020
The post followed an announcement that a vaccine jointly developed by US firm Pfizer and German company BioNTech was 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing Phase 3 trials.
Other posts quickly sought to distance the breakthrough from the administration of President Donald Trump, falsely claiming that Pfizer is not part of Operation Warp Speed. The US government partnership with pharmaceutical companies to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine is a signature initiative of Trump's heavily-criticized response to the pandemic.
"In reality, Pfizer was not part of Operation Warp Speed," reads a November 9 tweet by John Fugelsang, a political commentator and actor with more than 450,000 followers.
Screenshot of a Facebook post taken on November 13, 2020
While Operation Warp Speed provided research and development money to several pharmaceutical firms, including Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and AstraZeneca, Pfizer accepted government funds to supply and distribute their shot, not develop it.
"Pfizer is collaborating with BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, to develop COVID-19 investigational vaccines without US government financial support," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a July 22 statement.
The Department at that time announced an agreement with Pfizer "for large-scale production and nationwide delivery" of a Covid-19 vaccine in the US following "successful manufacture and approval," as part of the Warp Speed goal of quickly getting a safe vaccine to the American public.
Pfizer and BioNTech agreed to supply up to 600 million doses of their vaccine as part of the program.
Social media users speculated about Pfizer's involvement in the program here and here.
"Trump has nothing to do with the success of this vaccine which was not a part of his program. Indeed, he continuously undermined and humiliated the scientific community," one user said.
The confusion over the company's participation in Warp Speed likely stemmed from Pfizer senior vice president Kathrin Jansen's misleading statement quoted in The New York Times: "We were never part of the Warp Speed," she said. "We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone."
Another spokesperson later clarified, as did the Times, that the company is involved in Operation Warp Speed "as a supplier of a potential coronavirus vaccine."
Coronavirus cases are surging across the United States and Europe, with governments forced to take more drastic action despite economic crises.
The pandemic and vaccines were major issues in the November 3 presidential election. Trump has clashed repeatedly with his own government experts, often refusing to back restrictions or even wear a mask in public. After the announcement about the effectiveness of Pfizer's vaccine Trump claimed -- without evidence -- that the news was delayed until after the election to damage him.
"They are part" of Operation Warp Speed, Trump said during a November 13 briefing. "It was an unfortunate mistake that they made when they said" that they weren't.
As the pandemic spread, Pfizer in mid-March formed the partnership with BioNTech to develop a vaccine based on new genetic technology. The first tests began quickly in April.
With the product selected -- a two-dose vaccine given over the course of three weeks -- a large clinical trial began in July involving more than 40,000 participants.
If trials continue successfully, Pfizer plans to request authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration by the end of November, 2020.
It plans to produce 50 million doses by the end of the year and 1.3 billion in 2021.
Claire Savage


Perched over the Mediterranean Sea, halfway between the historic towns of Amalfi and Ravello, Villa 996 beckons for an incomparable experience. This sprawling, white, two-story villa has multi-leval terraces and gardens overlooking the sea - drenched in sunlight, blooming with flowers, and shaded by trees, pergolas and awnings. Virtually every angle of the property provides a view of the picturesque Lattari Mountains, lush with lemon trees, descending down toward the coastline and surrounding the valleys of the villages of Maiori and Minori and the coastal inlet, visible up to Capo d'Orso.
Ground Floor: 1 spacious queen bedroom. 1 bathroom with glass door shower. 1 single bedroom with private bathroom with shower and terrace access.
First Floor: 1 queen bedroom with en-suite bathroom with shower and Jacuzzi tub with handheld shower. 1 queen bedroom and 1 twin bedroom share adjacent bathroom with glass door shower. All bedrooms have private access to terrace with ocean views.
Ground Floor: Airy living room with panoramic seaview windows, large, comfortable sofas, elegant marble fireplace, and a wealth of precious lamps, paintings, ceramic vases and collectibles. French doors open onto a furnished terrace with seating for 6, perfect for dining al fresco. Fully-equipped kitchen with dining table and access to awning-shaded terrace for al fresco dining, positioned at a delightful, scenic angle.
The property is blessed with a wealth of lushly landscaped and comfortably accessorized terraces. Breathtaking first-floor terrace with spectacular swimming pool (16 x 7m), 2 outdoor showers, deck chairs, charcoal BBQ, shaded dining area, and bar area. Short private driveway with remote-controlled gate off main road with private parking for up to 3 cars.
A/C (independent remote controls in all bedrooms), satellite TV, DVD, CD player, Wifi Internet, 2 washing machines, ironing facilities, dishwasher, heating, telephone, hairdryers in each bathroom.
An astounding 8,200 sq. ft. of exterior terrace and garden space. There are 19 exterior steps to the main entrance of the villa and 20 more steps lead up to the first floor. To take in the sweeping views, take 45 steps up to a spacious terrace wtih terra-cotta floor and geranium-filled pots. Twenty-one steps up, on an outstanding terrace, a swimming pool overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. A short ride (bus stop is 200 yards from villa) to Amalfi, Ravello, and Atrani for restaurants, bars, shops, and access to the bank and post office. Pick up ferries daily form Maiori and Amalfi for excursions to Capri (1 hour), Positano (30 min.), Ischia (2 hours) and Salerno (1 hour).


Folk wisdom suggests peppermint might aid all sorts of gut problems, ranging from nausea to menstrual cramps, but the most scientific evidence exists for its powerful response to irritable bowel syndrome or IBS. Of those who were given a placebo pill, only 38 percent reported any alleviation, Harvard Women's Health Watch reported.
A 2011 Australian study that set about to show how it "activates an 'anti-pain' channel in the colon, soothing inflammatory pain in the gastrointestinal tract," according to a statement.
Here's a neat trick: Just smelling a candy cane might convince you not to eat one. In a 2011 study, people were asked to smell peppermint oil every two hours. They reported not feeling as hungry as people who didn't use it throughout the week, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Headaches are most often brought on by stress, anxiety and alcohol consumption (during the holidays? Never!), may be quelled by a little topical peppermint oil. The scent of peppermint may also give us a mental perk.
One of the two biggest active ingredients in peppermint is menthol, the compound that gives so many of those over-the-counter cold and cough remedies their minty smell, even if little physically changed after inhaling peppermint products. Sometimes when you're really under the weather, that might be good enough! As noted in the world's healthiest foods.


You want your little Los Angeles fan's first home game experience to be as magical as the first time you saw the Dodgers play. You can remember it like yesterday and you want him to fall in love with the game that you've adored since that very day. Top off his Dodgers attire for his first home game with this 9FORTY Hidden Half Tone hat by New Era. This sporty cap features a 3-D embroidered team logo on the crown and another team logo embroidered on the back. Finishing off this adjustable hat is a contrast team-colored bill with a printed team logo on it. Make sure to sport your little one in this cap as you both make your way to the field for his first nine innings!


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Director of the Vedic Academy, pioneer of Vasati in Europe and successful author
Marcus Schmieke, born in Oldenburg in 1966, is a pioneer of Vedic architecture in Europe and the founder of Vasati with his numerous books. After his studies of physics and philosophy in Hanover and Heidelberg and his initiation into a Vedic student succession, he undertook longer journeys to India. There he studied Vasati, Vedic Astrology, Sanskrit and Vedic Philosophy and Metaphysics in various monasteries.
Study of Vasati and Vedic Astrology in India
He completed his Vasati studies with distinction at the prestigious South Indian institute Vastuvidyapratisthanam and learned Vedic astrology from various masters of Northern India.
Foundation of the Vedic Academy
With the foundation of the Vedic Academy at Schloss Weißenstein in 1996, he created an institute for the integration of science and spirituality that made a name for itself beyond the borders of Germany. Based in the Saxon Switzerland since 1998, the research and teaching of the Vedic Academy focuses mainly on Vasati (Vedic architecture and room design), Ayurveda, Sanskrit and Jyotish (Vedic astrology). Numerous training and distance learning courses have been developed in these areas.
Foundation of the European Academy of Vedic Sciences
In 2004 he also founded the European Academy of Vedic Sciences, which taught Vedic Sciences worldwide via the Internet and through local seminars in the local languages. The online courses developed during this time are still being continued in English by the Vedic Academy.
Successful publications in the field of Vasati
Marcus Schmieke's most comprehensive Vasati book The Power of Living Space (Kraft lebendiger Räume, 2000) has become a standard work of Vastu in German. In his book The 12 success laws of proper living (Die 12 Erfolgsgesetze des richtigen Wohnens, 2001), he formulated for the first time an open system of architecture based on twelve universal laws of nature. On this basis he developed the first Vasati training and the first Vasati distance learning course in Europe. He supervised Vasati students in more than twenty countries. His seven books on this subject have been translated into more than 15 languages and have even been published in India, the country of origin of Vastu.
Books on science and consciousness
In 1994 Marcus Schmieke co-founded the magazine Tattva Viveka as a forum for science, philosophy and spiritual culture. This was followed by various book publications on science, life processes and consciousness. Important works from this period are Das letzte Geheimnis (1995), Das Lebensfeld (1997) and Feinstoffliche Energien in Naturwissenschaft und Medizin (1997).
President of the German Department of the International Institute for Predictive Astrology
In 2002, the International Institute for Predictive Astrology (Fairfield, USA) appointed Marcus Schmieke as President of the German Department. The Institute authorized him to train in Systemic-Vedic Astrology and to award degrees.
Numerous Vasati plans
From 2001 to 2004, together with a group of architects, he planned a Vasati housing estate for the Gartenheim housing association in Hanover with more than 100 residential units, which was completed at the beginning of 2005. During the same period he also implemented Vasati in the construction of more than 100 new homes, Ayurveda clinics, nursing homes, hotels, production buildings, commercial buildings and in the redesign and correction of many buildings.
Research and Publications in Vedic Astrology
Marcus Schmieke has also conducted intensive research and published in Vedic astrology. With his textbook on Systemic-Vedic Astrology he combines the teachings of two of the greatest contemporary masters of Vedic astrology into a practical system that can be taught and understood in one to two weeks and at the same time has a deep spiritual background.
His books Vedische Astrologie in 7 Tagen (2002 & 2016), Dein kosmischer Bodyguard (2002), Das Edelsteinorakel (2002) and Planeten Essenzen (2003) deal mainly with the implementation of Vedic Astrology in practical life. The very simple Burmese astrological system described in the book MaHaBote (2004) is also interesting.
Research and publications in the field of information
In his book "The Second Way", published in 2015, Marcus Schmieke describes his insights and realizations on the topic of inner transformation and spirituality with reference to the concept of the ubiquitous information field. In this work he summarizes his research on information fields in the natural sciences and medicine, which has been ongoing since the mid-1990s, and describes his path to the practical implementation of these findings.
Based on the concept of the information field, TimeWaver, developed by Marcus Schmieke, is a medical diagnosis and therapy system based on quantum-physical modes of action. The TimeWaver group founded by him is internationally successful and now serves more than 2000 doctors, therapists and professional users worldwide. With the Healy, he developed the first medical wearable that can treat a wide range of diseases under the control of a smartphone and is intended to serve holistic health care. Although these systems are not recognized by conventional medicine, he sees them as an important addition with the goal of integrative medicine. One goal of his work in this field is to lead energy and information field medicine to scientific and social recognition in the future.
The inner path
In 2017 Marcus Schmieke's book "Follow the Inner Path" has been published, in which he brings quantum physics and depth psychology together to describe a human consciousness and to develop a path to inner wholeness. It represents the most up-to-date and comprehensive insight into his philosophical thinking and practical work to date.
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My Life in the Information Field
Marcus Schmieke is a philosopher, scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. This book describes, in his own words, his achievements so far and most everything he has seen, realized and been gifted with in his inner and outer world.
The core assumption of this book is the transformation of every human being during his or her lifetime: the transition from the material to the spiritual phase, the "Second Path" that often comes with painful changes and experiences.
The all-encompassing Information Field and its practical applications are the tools and the pivot of a story that will leave many readers incredulous or in awe, but all with new ideas and a substantially altered outlook on life, the universe and everything.
160 pages, hardbound
Our Agenda Towards Enlightenment
A Journey to Our Self With Quantum Physics and Depth Psychology
This book is about The Four Pillars of the Inner Path. It guides the reader on his or her way to dissolving the disruption within themselves, this being the prerequisite for dissolving the disruption in the outer world. Other central points of the plot are the tension between mind, matter and self, the secrets of life and death and a detailed description of the levels of our consciousness.
From a fascinating and novel perspective, the author recounts the legend of the Holy Grail and Parsifal in a compelling way, the history of the Golden Age of science, from the very beginnings of quantum physics and modern psychology until the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
An entire chapter is dedicated to discovering the functions of our consciousness, leading to a strikingly detailed description of the reader's own personality.


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Harassed at Wayanad Govt School, 13-year-old beekeeper moves to Hyderabad to be a 'researcher'
Oli Aman Jodha, a trained apiarist also bagged a job as a researcher in The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad
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Oli Aman Jodha will begin her classes on April 1 (Pic: Facebook)
Five months ago, when we spoke to Oli Aman Jodha, she was distressed and clueless about what to do and how to continue her education. A trained apiarist, this 13-year-old from Wayanad had alleged harassment by her teachers, that eventually stopped her from going to school. They reportedly credited another student for Oli's apiculture project and destroyed the bee hives that she'd set up in the premises of the Government Vocational Higher Secondary High School, Ambalavayal, Wayanad.
But all that's history. Today, Oli is gearing up to start her IX grade classes in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Bhavan's Vidyashram, NIRD, Hyderabad. The classes will begin on April 1 and Oli is now moving from Wayanad to Hyderabad, with her mother. "I have enrolled in class IX. This will be my second year in class IX. Last year, I could not attend classes, because of the hostile atmosphere in school," she says. The school authorities who allegedly locked Oli up and threatened to throw acid on her mother's face have previously told us that she was not in a mental situation to understand what was going on. "The school authorities created a lot of trouble even now. Getting my Transfer Certificate was no piece of cake," she says.
Oli has also bagged a job as a researcher in The National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR)'s apiculture department. "I was working their part-time and now that I'm moving to Hyderabad, I'll be able to concentrate on my work more. I'd like to thank the IAS officers who are running the institute. They helped me a lot to get the admission in the school too," she says, enthusiastically. What about her beehives and the honeybees, we sought. "Where do I go without them? They're also coming to Hyderabad with us," she says.
For someone who's been around honey bees since she was three, Oli has bagged a lot of awards for apiculture. She was also the winner of Doordarshan's Haritha Vidyalayam in 2017, a reality show for school students. While we neared the end of the conversation, we couldn't help but ask Oli one last question — do these bees sting? "Not at all. It all depends on the way you behave. If you're good to them, they're good to you," she signs off.
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And a return to our regular scheduled WI program.
The event is held in and around the center of town adjacent to the gorgeous Sunnyside Mansion presently owned by David Bailey. This year, David has invited Women Inspiring Women WI to host an Open House and Victorian Fair during the St. George Applefest. The public will get a rare opportunity to take in some history in one of Brant County's most historic homes.
The Sunnyside Mansion was built at 13 Main St. South, St. George in 1888 and is very rarely opened to the public. Events on September 19th will include a partial home tour, Victorian-style games, music in the parlour room, tea & refreshments and a silent auction. The event will be open to the public, with admission by donation at the door. Proceeds are in support of the Brant Community Foundation's David Bailey Legacy Fund and Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead, home to the founder of the Women's Institute. The event holds special significance for Brant County WI members as the very first meeting of the St. George Branch was hosted here in 1903.
The mansion gained recent notoriety as a film set for the popular Canadian detective drama Murdoch Mysteries. Members of the Women Inspiring Women W.I, local historians in period costumes, local dignitaries, and the public will be on hand to celebrate the unique peek back in time.
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The idea to form a national group was first considered in 1912. In 1914, however, when the war began the idea was abandoned. At the war's end, Miss Mary MacIsaac, Superintendent of Alberta Women's Institute, revived the idea. She realized the importance of organizing the rural women of Canada so they might speak as one voice for needed reforms, and the value of co-ordinating provincial groups for a more consistent organization. In February 1919, representatives of the provinces met in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to form the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada.
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UN Women Tanzania, as part of the United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP), focuses on women's leadership and participation in decision making at all levels; elimination of violence against women and girls; ensuring gender equality and accountability in governance and national planning; and women's economic empowerment.
Under its Strategic Note for 2017-2021, UN Women in Tanzania focuses on three major areas: 1) ensuring priority policies and strategies for women's economic empowerment are adopted and strengthened; 2) ensuring financial intermediation services for women entrepreneurs are strengthened; 3) Skill, information and social norm barriers for women entrepreneurs are removed. This approach is based on the assumption that in order for women entrepreneurs to be successful the appropriate gender responsive policies need to be in place; women need systematic access to financing and financial services; and women need the appropriate entrepreneurial skills and business development services to support them.
UN Women's work supports both the regulatory and enabling environment as well as strengthening government and other systems that will enhance skills and services of women entrepreneurs. Particular emphasis is placed on increasing and improving employment opportunities for young women across the priority sectors. UN Women works with public and private sectors to support women entrepreneurs both with financial and business development services as well as with the development of entrepreneurial skills.
Finally, UN Women also partners with other UN partners and the Government of Tanzania on ensuring that social protection safety nets are in place and the poor can also benefit from development paying specific attention to gender inequalities. UN Women's work will be focused at the macro and meso levels to ensure that the systems being developed in these areas are responsive to women entrepreneurs' needs.
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Training in the Hakomi method begins by establishing a focus on self-study and assisted self-discovery and moves on to developing effective communication and relational skills based on embodied mindfulness, loving presence, compassionate witnessing, and perceptual wisdom. Studies have shown the importance of "personhood" and presence in creating a context for healing. Hakomi is an experiential method. In the Hakomi Basics and Personhood program participants are introduced to Hakomi through a variety of experiential practices to cultivate self-awareness and a genuine appreciation for oneself and others. You'll begin to learn and practise some powerful ways Hakomi has to respond more effectively to suffering. This is like an immersion program to learn a language. By being immersed in an experiential Hakomi way of bringing conscious awareness to the habits and beliefs that are organizing experience, you develop a feel for this way of working and learn to cultivate the skills that will make you a better therapist (or helping role). This is also an excellent review of the basics of Hakomi for anyone and in particular, for anyone thinking of becoming a Hakomi teacher.
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This video is posted on Wendy Wildfong's YouTube channel at THIS LINK. If you wish to view it directly on YouTube, there are also some other interviews there between Donna and Wendy, illuminating aspects of the Hakomi Method.
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The Hakomi Method of psychotherapy has been described by its creator, Ron Kurtz, as a method of assisted self-study.
What Hakomi is interested in studying is the organization of experience. To do this, Hakomi uses mindfulness – a kind of quiet, non-interfering attention to present moment experience – and little experiments to evoke experiences to study. The attention in Hakomi is on present experience.
The Hakomi practitioner is trained to pay attention to two things about present experience: first, what it is (i.e. what is happening now); and second, how it is being organized. We call this way of paying attention "tracking". First, we are tracking signsof the client's present experience. Secondly, we are tracking for indicators (that may be signs) of how the client is organizing present experience. Continue reading →
is a Hakomi practitioner, senior trainer and legacy holder. Georgia was trained in the Hakomi tradition with Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin for twelve years. She loves the Hakomi method because it blends subtle and masterful tools of modern sciences of the mind with Buddhist principles of mindfulness and compassion to provide its students with a life long practice of self study. Georgia leads the training team in Vancouver and Powell River, BC, contributes to the development of Hakomi trainings in Canada, Mexico, Norway, Japan and Spain, and is creating opportunities for Hakomi to be taught worldwide. Her intention is to mentor new teachers and trainers to carry Ron's legacy forward.
Click here to visit Georgia Marvin's website.
Donna Martin,
from Kamloops, BC, Canada, is a certified Hakomi therapist and international trainer who worked closely with Ron Kurtz (the creator of the Hakomi Method) for twenty years. She was named in his will as one of seven "legacy holders" of his work and is a senior person in the international training association he created before his death, now called the Hakomi Network. Donna has many years of experience as a body psychotherapist, stress management specialist, yoga and meditation teacher, and addictions counsellor. Donna has led Hakomi trainings and/or yoga retreats throughout Canada and the United States, Hawaii, Japan, Europe, Indonesia, South America, and Mexico. She has developed an original approach she now calls "psoma yoga therapy" which integrates yoga and Hakomi (mindfulness-based assisted self-discovery).
For more about Donna please vist her website.
To view a video of Donna talking about Hakomi please click here.
Susan Dempsey
Hakomi practitioner and trainer
Victoria and Vancouver, BC, Canada
Associated with Vancouver Hakomi Education Network
Susan Dempsey became a certified Hakomi practitioner in 2014 after studying for 5 years in Vancouver, Salt Spring Island, Ashland, Hawaii, and Mexico with brilliant teachers and trainers. She holds a BA in Psychology, an MA in Counselling Psychology, and is a Certified Canadian Counsellor.
Susan has worked in the counseling and psychotherapy field for over 25 years, in community and post-secondary settings. She brings a strong intuitive and elective approach to her work, incorporating the compassion and wisdom of Hakomi into her practice.
Please click here for more about Susan
Roland Bérard
Roland Bérard is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer. He has been studying with Donna Martin, Ron Kurtz and Greg Johanson, since 2002. In 2003, in collaboration with Donna Martin, he introduced Hakomi to the Montreal area and has assisted Donna and served as organizer of these bilingual trainings for the last 6 years. He continues to support the Hakomi community in the area.
Roland is also a graduate of Barbara Brennan School of Healing practitioner and teacher training programs, a graduate of Core Energetics, a Reiki Master/Teacher, Fasciatherapist (Danis Bois' Method) and a practitioner of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Roland worked as an engineer and project manager for over 25 years before making the career change to therapist and healing practitioner in 2001.
Roland is totally bilingual and has a private practice in Montreal, Québec, Canada. His passion for healing and his unique way of combining these different approaches help his clients move towards health and well-being.
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Angela has been studying Hakomi since 2004 with the Vancouver Hakomi Education Network and has also had the honour of learning from Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin. She was certified as a Hakomi therapist in 2007 and as a Hakomi Trainer in 2015.
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Financial Management applications, Supply chain management, Customer relationship management, Business intelligence, Human resources, and other types of applications typically cannot communicate with one another in order to share data or business rules. For this reason, such applications are sometimes referred to as islands of automation or information silos.
This lack of communication leads to inefficiencies - Identical data stored in multiple locations, processes are unable to be automated, etc..
WSIS consist of Workspace Pipes software and systems connectivity consultancy Services.
Workspace Pipes is a general purpose data movement software which is highly configurable and can read and write to different databases. Different database objects such as data tables and views are represented as schema objects. Schema objects are database connection aware and knows where to read and write data.
The schema objects are used to configure the data pipes and the transformation contained therein, including any source or destination look-up.


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We started off the year with field work in which two disease categories were identified. Below are the figures showing the various affected vegetables. Afrisol aims to ensure that African Indigenous Vegetables are accessible and disease free.


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Q: Configuring Azure SQL Server firewall - is allowing all IP's to connect a red flag? I just created my first Azure SQL Server and Database and now am trying to configure the firewall so that my web application can connect and make changes to the single database on the server.
I see that you can allow all clients to connect by allowing a rule such:

However is this bad practice? I see my Client IP address is listed in the Azure portal can I get clarification that I should allow just that single IP address access for now, and then later when I publish my web application to Azure I will be given an IP address of where that web app lives and only restrict access to that (assuming that people can only make database changes through my front end application).
Thanks

A: Yes, this is bad practice.  There are other layers they'd have to get through (e.g., the server login), but this opens the front door and allows anyone to pick away at it at their leisure.
If you have a web server hosting your web application on some server (which you must be), whitelist that server's IP address (and perhaps your own, for development/admin purposes), but allowing all IPs is not considered good practice, no.
One particular case where you may really want to allow this is if you are distributing a desktop application to unknown clients that must connect to the backend.  It becomes extremely enticing at that point, but even so, the recommended practice (or at least, my recommended practice) would be to utilize a web service that will accept an application registration upon startup of the app, register the client IP temporarily through that, and then have a background server (think WebJobs) that will flush the firewall rules say, every night or so (or for a more elaborate setup, accept the registration with a timeout and use a continuous WebJob to poll for the timeout and refresh/revoke as necessary)

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Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, political columnist and noted author, set out to examine the latest developments in humankind's pursuit of the ultimate 'vanity' - the desire to defeat death itself.
What follows is an edited excerpt from Dowd's larger essay on the subject.
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading British artificial intelligence researcher and neuroscientist, and a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc. about the perils of artificial intelligence.
Hassabis and Musk are two of the most consequential and intriguing men in Silicon Valley who don't live there. Hassabis, a co-founder of the mysterious London laboratory DeepMind, had come to Musk's SpaceX rocket factory, outside Los Angeles. They were in the canteen, talking, as a massive rocket part traversed overhead. Musk explained that his ultimate goal at SpaceX was the most important project in the world: interplanetary colonization.
You'd think that anytime Musk, not to mention Stephen Hawking (the theoretical physicist and cosmologist), and even tech titan Bill Gates are all raising the same warning about A.I.—as all of them are—it would be a 10-alarm fire. But, for a long time, the fog of fatalism over the Bay Area was thick. The paradox is this: Many tech oligarchs see everything they are doing to help us, and all their benevolent manifestos, as streetlamps on the road to a future where, as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says, humans are the family pets.
Ray Kurzweil is the author of The Singularity Is Near, a Utopian vision of what an A.I. future holds. The 69-year-old eats strange health concoctions and takes 90 pills a day, eager to achieve immortality—or "indefinite extensions to the existence of our mind file"—which means merging with machines. Kurzweil has predicted that we are only 28 years away from the Rapture-like "Singularity"—the moment when the spiraling capabilities of self-improving artificial super-intelligence will far exceed human intelligence, and human beings will merge with A.I. to create the "god-like" hybrid beings of the future.
Just as, two hundred million years ago, mammalian brains developed a neocortex that eventually enabled humans to "invent language and science and art and technology," by the 2030s, Kurzweil predicts, we will be cyborgs, with nanobots the size of blood cells connecting us to synthetic neocortices in the cloud, giving us access to virtual reality and augmented reality from within our own nervous systems. "We will be funnier; we will be more musical; we will increase our wisdom," he said, ultimately producing a herd of Beethovens and Einsteins. Nanobots in our veins and arteries will cure diseases and heal our bodies from the inside.


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Articles Posted in Paternity
Salvador Dali and the paternity lawsuit post mortem
A Spanish judge on Monday ordered the remains of artist Salvador Dali to be exhumed to settle a paternity suit, despite opposition from the state-run foundation that manages the artist's estate. Obviously there must be a lot at stake here in order to exhume a body that was burried in 1989. A paternity test is normally done to determine parentage in California Courts. Usually it is called a DNA test. Pilar the alleged daughter had done two paternity tests in the past. However, both came up inconclusive. She did not take any sample directly from Dali's body as she is getting now.
Dali's most famous painting was called the "persistance of clocks."
Dali, considered one of the fathers of surrealist art, died in 1989 and is buried in his museum in the northeastern town of Figueres.
Posted in: Paternity and Uncategorized
Updated: June 30, 2017 10:24 pm
Writs and child custody cases
Often during the litigation of the a highly contested child custody case the judicial officer has to make very quick and emotionally charged orders in order to effectuate custody results that are correct and effective to all parties involved. The main objective for the judge is to achieve the best interest of the child standard. To achieve this result the judge often hears arguments and evidence from both parents including experts who determine the best interest of the child. When the Judge gets his order of change of custody wrong there is a remedy. The remedy is called a peremptory writ which can be sought by either parent contesting the Judges descision. A party can use a writ if they feel that the Judge based his legal analysis on faulty law.
A recent case in Georgia labeled Dass v Markle illustrated the usage of the peremptory writ in a child custody family law case. The dispute between the parties Donald Markle and Katrina Dass arose out of the dispute about where the home state of the minor child was established. When there is an interstate child custody dispute and or a move away dispute that arises in the Family Law Courts an error of law is often likely to occur. In the the case of Das v Markle the father left Georgia for New Mexico leaving behind Dasd, the mother the with the child in Georgia. The mother lived in Georgia for another year until 2011 and then Headed to New Mexico and lived their with the father for another year before returning home to Georgia until 2015. From 2012 to 2015 the child visited with Markle, the father, in New Mexico during the summers. After 2015 to 2016 the child went back to New Mexico and lived with father. The father then filed a Paternity action in New Mexico to establish who the father and the mother were legally of the child. In addtion, the New Mexico Court ordered that in order to move the child from New Mexico both parents needed to consent to the move.
The mother, Dass therein filed the writ of habeous Corpus and an emergency custody motion in Georgia Superior Court asking for immediate removal of the child from New Mexico and declaring that Georgia was the home state. The mother needed to show under the peremtory writ law that the Judges in New Mexico did not use "best Interest" standard but used "changed circumstances" standard to determine the custody order. The Georgia Superior Court granted her writ of habeus corpus. The father however, filed an appeal in Georgia appealing the granting of the Writ. The Georgia appeals Court overturned the Superior Court ruling of the return of the child to Georgia.
Posted in: Custody & Visitation, Paternity, Residency Requirements and Uncategorized
Updated: March 11, 2017 9:54 pm
How Marvin v Marvin works in Court
Often parties find themselves involved in a long term relationships and acquire a lot of real and personal property together. They cannot file divorce petition with the court and go to Family Court however, they may seek an alternative approach and head to Civil Court to resolve all there property issues. If the parties head to Civil Court the law that would apply is that of Contracts. There can be several different methods to prove a case under Marvin v Marvin case law. There are express contracts and there are implied contracts.
The Family Law Code does not apply therefore the parties must head to court and find other means to go to Court and resolve all property disputes. One such way is through a legal term call "quantum meruit." This can be considered an implied contract. To prove that quantum meruit exists the parties must prove that Action there were reasonable services rendered during the relationship. Often it is argued there must be sexual relationship involved to recover under quantum meruit but the Courts have stated that it is not necessary as long as the person gave certain services to the other party during the relationship. Once it is proven that the party gave services to the other party the Court must then look at what services and support the other party returned in favor such as the reasonable value of support received. Courts have gone further to explain that the parties need not have lived together however, in order to prove a case in Court based on a Implied or Express contract there would be no consideration found if the parties did not live together.
The act of Consideration is the key element to proving a Marvin case in the state of California. Because often there is no consideration and the party seeking monetary compensation for living with the other party will fail in court. A big hang up the party will find in Court is that just because they had meretricious relationship it does not mean that they can get compensation for that alone. That means that sexual relationships alone cannot be the single factor for going to Court to get a financial reward in a Marvin case. There has to be some sort of services rendered in the relationship to warrant a financial payment as a result.
Posted in: Court System, Marvin v Marvin and Paternity
Orange County Paternity Lawsuit
What is meant by filing a paternity lawsuit in Orange County or Los Angeles County? Well, you will need to file a paternity action if you have child with another person and are not legally married in California.
If you and your boyfriend/girlfriend have a child out of wedlock and you suddenly break off the relationship, you will need to file a Petition to Establish Parental Relationship. You will likely request child custody, child visitation and child support orders. Some parents request that the costs of the pregnancy be paid as well.
If you believe that you are not the child's father, you will need to request a DNA test to determine the biological father. If you have been determined to not be the father (after undergoing DNA testing) and the mother has already filed a Department of Child Support Services claim, you will be absolved of all child support due and owing. If you are found to be the father, you will owe that child support.
Posted in: Father's Rights and Paternity
Updated: November 28, 2016 9:10 am
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis Split
After a 14 year relationship, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have decided to split.
Depp, 49, and Paradis, 39, first started their relationship in 1998. Their romance began in June of 1998. The couple have two minor children together.
From an Orange County child custody lawyer's perspective, although the parties were never married, the couple will still have to work out a reasonable parenting plan for their kids. The kids were raised in the South of France but reports state that they have moved to Los Angeles.
Posted in: Child Support, Custody & Visitation and Paternity
Rapper DMX involved in Los Angeles Child Custody Dispute
Rapper, DMX, will be going to court with a woman who claims he fathered a child with her 10 years ago.
DMX has been sued by Patricia Trejo over allegations that he failed to pay his child support payments to her for his alleged daughter. It should also be noted that DMX also has ten (10!) other children with several different women. Yikes! This father has a lot of child support to cough up.
She appeared at Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday as part of the ongoing case, according to TMZ.com, claiming she is owed more than $1 million in back payments.
Justin Bieber Paternity Suit Dropped
Well this comes as no surprise. We all knew this woman was looking to extort Justin Bieber and gain publicity. Reports have now surfaced that Mariah Yeater dismissed her paternity lawsuit last week. Yeater's lawyers apparently dropped the case after receiving a call from Bieber's lawyer threatening to sue.
Additionally, Bieber was prepared to take a DNA test to disprove Yeater's claims.
What is also interesting to note is that Yeater may have also faced statutory rape charges. In the State of California, the age of consent is 18, and Bieber would have been 16 at that time of the alleged sexual encounter, according to Yeater's accusation.
Paternity: Justin Bieber to take DNA Test
Last week I blogged about a potential paternity lawsuit involving pop star Justin Bieber. Now, sources close to the star claim that he will submit to a DNA test to determine whether he is the father of Mariah Yeater's child. Bieber plans to take the test when he returns to the United States from Europe next week.
Additionally, according to the source, Bieber & Co. intend to not only take legal action against his 20-year-old accuser but also hold her lawyers accountable for what the singer's reps have previously described as "malicious, defamatory and demonstrably false claims."
"We will vigorously pursue all available legal remedies to defend and protect Justin against these allegations," the Bieber camp said in a statement last Tuesday.
Posted in: Paternity
Potential Paternity Lawsuit for Justin Bieber
The internet and media was a buzz last week about a claiming that the father of her newborn baby girl is pop star, Justin Bieber. Maria Yeater, age 20, gave birth to a baby and claims that they had a quick sexual encounter after a concert, resulting in Bieber being the father of her child. However, Bieber quickly denied said claim, claiming that he has never met the young girl.
Reports are surfacing as to whether Bieber will be forced to submit to a DNA test to prove or disprove whether or not he is the father of the child.
From an Orange County divorce lawyer's perspective, it is possible that the court could order Bieber to submit to a DNA test to get the issue out of the way. Indeed, if Bieber indeed never met Yeater, a DNA test may be the only way to clear his name.
Los Angeles Paternity: Mel Gibson settles child custody and child support issues
The Los Angeles County child custody and child support battle between Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva has been resolved (at last!). According to reports, Mel will pay Oksana the sum of $750,000 over the next five years. Further, Oksana will continue to live in the house owned by Mel until the minor child turns the age of 18. Thereafter, the house will be sold and the proceeds placed in a trust for the child. Additional provisions of the order preclude the parties from publicly discussing each other or their relationship. The Judge also specifically stated that they also cannot write books about each other.
With respect to the Los Angeles child custody issues, the parties will share joint legal and joint physical custody of the child. As part of the parties' duties in sharing joint legal custody, for example purposes only, they must jointly make decisions regarding the following:
1. Enrollment or termination in a particular private or public school;


Jonathan Rosenberg, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, discusses results from the Phase I/II CheckMate 032 trial (NCT01928394), where the nivolumab/ipilimumab combination was compared with nivolumab monotherapy in urothelial carcinoma. A higher dose of ipilimumab in the combination therapy seemed to result in improved anti-cancer activity compared to nivolumab alone; however, Dr Rosenberg advises caution as the data is immature. This video was recorded at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2018 Congress, in Munich, Germany.


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Patrick Beverley hasn't reached out to Kawhi Leonard, says players know what Clippers bring to the table
Ashish Mathur
Los Angeles Clippers combo guard Patrick Beverley hasn't reached out to Kawhi Leonard because he says players know what the Clippers bring to the table.
Leonard is said to be deciding between the Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers and Toronto Raptors. Beverley says he doesn't need to recruit Leonard if the two-time Finals MVP wants to get his hands dirty and win some games.
Patrick Beverley's pitch to Kawhi Leonard- "If you played against us, you know what we bring. We're gonna play hard & we're gonna leave it all on the line. You wanna go glitz & glamor? That's fine. If you wanna come & get your hands dirty & do some dirty work…?"#Clippers pic.twitter.com/fquYv8Cjsg
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) July 3, 2019
The Clippers would have two of the best defenders in the NBA on their roster if Leonard signs with them. Beverley is an elite perimeter defender and Leonard is arguably the best two-way player in the NBA. Needless to say, opponents would have nightmares going up against the Clips if Leonard joins them.
The Clippers won 48 games this past season without having a single All-Star on the squad. Imagine how deadly the team would be with Leonard on it. Fans of the Clips have been fantasizing about this summer ever since the Tobias Harris trade. It would be a buzzkill if LAC isn't able to land Leonard, who is from California.
LeBron James has been recruiting Kawhi to the Lakers. Beverley is fully confident in Steve Ballmer and Doc Rivers to get Leonard to the Clippers. If it doesn't happen, life goes on for the Chicago native.
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Barry Snakes kicks off the season at Almond Sports Lounge
By kyreniacatkin on March 30, 2013
Barry Snakes kicks off the season at Almond Lodge
By Margaret Sheard
There was a nice crowd at The Almond Lodge Sports Lounge in
Alsancak on the 29th March to see Barry Snakes kick off the season with a selection of his brilliant music.
The event started at 9pm and on arrival we were greeted with a complimentary Sizzlin' Snakes cocktail and took our places for a great evening's entertainment. Barry took to the stage and gave a brilliant performance of well-known music from such great artists as Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton and Gary Moore.
Barry had an announcement to make and this was to let everyone know about a forthcoming event of his "protégés" The Foreign Nationals who he feels are young men with extraordinary talent. They will be performing at Jasmine Court on
8th June from 8.30pm to 11.30pm and will be performing music by Nirvana and Metallica, there will also be an acoustic set and drum session and much more. Entry fee will be 15TL per person and the event will be in aid of Help Those with Cancer Association (Tulips). There will also be food available and this is going to be a really good evening's entertainment so Barry asked everyone to try and go along and encourage others to go as well to give support to this very promising new young group.
The Foreign Nationals are very aptly named as the 5 members are 2 from England, 1 from Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus and Russia and they have joined together with Barry Snakes as their mentor to create brilliant m
usic.
Taking a well earned break Barry introduced a special guest to entertain us, this was Richard Bradley (Brad) who told us not to expect too much as he merely strums the guitar and sings! Well, Brad gave us an excellent rendition of some of the Rolling Stones songs, finishing off with one of my favourites – Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. He received resounding applause for all of his songs so I am sure he was happy with the reaction of the audience to his performance.
Barry returned to the stage and continued
with many more popular pieces which encouraged people to get up and dance and soon the floor was filled with dancers who were really enjoying themselves.
All too soon the evening came to an end and the audience started to drift away after an excellent night's entertainment.
I mentioned Nights in White Satin, and thought it would be nice for our readers to see the original video by The Moody Blues, which is shown below.
Categories: Entertainment, Restaurants/Bars
Tagged as: Almond Sports Lounge Alsancak, Barry Snakes, Entertainment, Foreign Nationals, North Cyprus
Trevor's Tips April 2013
Kyrenia Animal Rescue Dog Show 2013- Two names, two shows