The Gales, a luxury oceanview development in Ladysmith currently has two new patio homes for sale – Units 18 and 19. Suite 18 is available for viewing as a show home.
This side-by-side duplex offers two 1,820 sq. ft. homes, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms in a rancher/bungalow-style with attached double garages. The gourmet kitchen is the central hub of the home, with stainless steel appliances, stone countertops, a large central island and plenty of cabinet space. The master bedroom offers a five-piece ensuite, and access to the patio.
According to the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board's (VIREB) September statistics, sales of single-family homes in their region, which covers from Duncan to Port Hardy, decreased by 32 per cent compared to September 2017 with Nanaimo down 36%, followed in order by Parksville, Campbell River, the Cowichan Valley, Port Alberni, and the Comox Valley at 21%.
Phase II of The Ridge development in Courtenay on Vancouver Island is a busy place with preferred builders now working on custom homes for their clients.
There are currently 12 new homes under construction and many more in the planning stages. Some of these new homes are single-storey ranchers while others feature a second storey or a walkout basement.
Monterra Builders is building an 84 multi-family townhome project in Cumberland. Phase 1, consisting of 12 units is now occupied by the new owners. Phase 2, which includes 11 townhomes will be ready for occupancy in October. Construction is ongoing for Phase 3 through 5 for an additional 35 units. The project is expected to be completed in August of 2019. Prices of the units range from $381,900 to $399,900. Sales have been brisk, with 56 of the 84 units sold. Fifteen units are currently under construction.
Construction of Parkside Lifestyle Homes in Courtenay is well underway. Phases 1 and 2 are sold out Phase 3 townhomes are now selling. A new show home will be open starting Oct. 1 and Realtor Art Meyers invites you to tour the spacious 1,220 sq.ft. two-storey homes for sale.
These West Courtenay townhomes offer three bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, with an open style living room and kitchen, a gas furnace, gas BBQ hookup, six appliances, a window covering package, a garage, two outdoor patios, oversized crawl spaces, landscaping and more. Each townhome features a neighbourly front porch and a backyard, perfect for enjoying the natural park-like setting.
The Gales in Ladysmith, a luxury ocean view development on Vancouver Island, has two new patio homes for sale – Units 18 and 19 – which are both offered at $629,000.
All of the patio and condominium homes at The Gales are finished to exacting standards by award-winning GNB Builders, and are Built Green certified to platinum status. These luxury ocean view homes offer sweeping views, easy access to the historic Ladysmith downtown, and the surrounding beaches, forest trails and more.


Customers often ask me how to migrate their on-premises Active Directory (AD) domain to AWS so they can be free of the operational management of their AD infrastructure. Frequently they are unsure how to make the migration easy. A common approach using the CSVDE utility doesn't migrate attributes such as user passwords. This makes migration difficult and necessitates manual effort for a large part of the migration that can cause operational and security challenges when migrating to a new directory. So what's changed?
You can now use the Active Directory Migration Toolkit (ADMT) along with the Password Export Service (PES) to migrate your self-managed AD to AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD. This enables you to migrate AD objects and encrypted passwords for your users more easily.
AWS Managed Microsoft AD, a managed service built on actual Microsoft Active Directory. AWS provides operational management of the domain controllers and you use standard AD tools to administer users, groups, and computers. AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to take advantage of built-in Active Directory features, such as Group Policy, trusts, and single sign-on and helps make it easy to migrate AD-dependent workloads into the AWS Cloud. With AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you can join Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to a domain, and use AWS Enterprise IT applications, such as Amazon WorkSpaces, and AWS SSO with Active Directory users and groups.
In this blog, I will show you how to migrate your existing AD objects to AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The source of the objects can be your self-managed AD running on EC2, on-premises, co-located, or even another cloud provider. I will show how to use ADMT and PES to migrate objects including users (and their passwords), groups, and computers.
The blog post assumes you are familiar with AD and how to use the Remote Desktop Protocol client to sign and use EC2 Windows instances.
In this post I will migrate user and computer objects, as well as passwords, to a new AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory. The source will be an on-premises domain.
This example migration will be for a fairly simple use case. Large customers with complex source domains or forests may have more complex processes involved to map users, groups, and computers to the single OU structure of AWS Managed Microsoft AD. For example, you may want to migrate an OU at a time. Customers with single domain forests may be able to migrate in fewer steps. Similarly, the options you might select in ADMT will vary based on what you are trying to accomplish.
To perform the migration, I will use the admin user account from my AWS Managed Microsoft AD. AWS creates the admin user account and delegates administrative permissions to the account for an organizational unit (OU) in the AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain. This account has most of the permissions required to manage your domain, and all the permissions required to complete this migration.
In this example, I have a Source domain called source.local that's running in a 10.0.0.0/16 network range, and I want to migrate my users, groups, and computers to a destination domain in AWS Managed Microsoft AD called destination.local that's running in a network range of 192.168.0.0/16.
To migrate users from source.local to destination.local, I need a migration computer that I join to the destination.local domain on which I will run ADMT. I also use this machine to perform administrative tasks on my AWS Managed Microsoft AD. As a prerequisite for ADMT, I must install Microsoft SQL Express 2016 on the migration computer. I also need an administrative account that has permissions in both the source and destination AD domains. To do this, I will use an AD trust and will add my AWS Managed Microsoft AD admin account from destination.local to my source.local domain. Next I will install ADMT on the migration computer, and will run the PES on one of the source.local domain controllers. Finally, I will migrate the users and computers.
Prepare the forests, migration computer, and administrative account.
Install SQL Express and ADMT on the migration computer.
To migrate users and passwords from the source domain to AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you must have a 2-way forest trust. The trust from the source domain to AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to add the admin account from the AWS Managed Microsoft AD to the source domain. This is necessary so you can grant the AWS Managed Microsoft AD admin account permissions in your source AD directory so it can read the attributes to migrate. I've already created a two-way forest trust between these domains. You should do the same by following this guide. Once your trust has been created, it should show up in the AWS console as Verified.
The ADMT tool should be installed on a computer that isn't the domain controller in the destination domain destination.local. For this, I will launch an EC2 instance in the same VPC as my domain controller and I will add it to the destination.local domain using the EC2 seamless domain join feature. This will act as my ADMT transfer machine.
Launch a Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 instance.
Complete a domain join to the target domain destination.local. You can complete this manually, or alternatively you can use AWS Systems Manager to complete a seamless domain join as covered here.
Sign into the instance using RDP and use Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) to add the AWS Managed Microsoft AD admin user from the destination.local domain to the source.local domain's built-in administrators group (you will not be able to add the admin user as a domain admin). For information on how to set up this instance to use ADUC, please see this documentation.
Next, I need to install SQL Express and ADMT on the migration computer by following these steps.
Install Microsoft SQL Express 2016 on this computer with a default install.
Download ADMT version 3.2 from the Microsoft website.
Once it has downloaded, run the installer and, when setting the tool up, on the Database Selection page of the wizard, for Database (Server\Instance), type the local instance of Microsoft SQL Express we previously installed to work with ADMT.
On the Database Import page of the wizard, select No, do not import data from an existing database (Default).
Complete the rest of the installation using all of the default options.
I'll use PES to take care of encrypted password synchronization, but before I configure that, I need to create an encryption key that will be used during this process to encrypt the password migration.
On the ADMT transfer machine, open an elevated Command Prompt and use the following format to create the encryption key.
Note: If you get an error stating that the command is not found, close and reopen Command Prompt to refresh the path locations to the ADMT executable, and then try again.
Now, I can download and start the install for the Password Export Server.
Start the install and, in the ADMT Password Migration DLL Setup window, browse to the encryption file you created in the previous step.
When prompted, enter the password used in the ADMT encryption command.
Run PES using the local system account. Note that this will prompt a restart of the domain controller you're installing PES on.
Once the domain controller has rebooted, open services.msc and start the Password Export Server Service, which is currently set to Manual. You might choose to set this to automatic if it's likely your DC will be rebooted again before the end of your migration.
You can now open the Active Directory Migration Tool: Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Migration Tool.
In the Domain Selection page, select or type the Source and Target domains, and then select Next.
On the User Selection page, select the users to migrate. You can use an include file if you have a large domain. Select Next.
On the Organizational Unit Selection page, select the destination OU that you want to migrate your users across to, and then select Next. AWS Managed Microsoft AD gives you a managed OU where you can create your OU tree structure.
On the Password Options page, select Migrate passwords, and then select Next. This will contact PES running on the source domain controller.
On the Account Transitions Page, decide how to handle the migration of user objects. In this example, I'm going to replicate the state from the source domain. Migrating SID history is beneficial when you're doing long, staged migrations where users may need to access resources in the source and destination domain before migration is complete. At this time, AWS Managed Microsoft AD doesn't support migrating user SIDs. I select Target same as source, and then select Next. Again, what you choose to do might be different.
It's likely you'll have more than one migration pass, so choosing how you handle existing objects is important. This will be a single run for us, but the default behavior is to not migrate if the object already exists (see the image of the Conflict Management page below). If you're running multiple passes, you'll will want to look at options that involve merging conflicting objects. The method you select will depend on your use case. If you don't know where to start, read this article.
In my example, you can see my 3 users, and any groups they were members of, have been migrated.
Now, I'll move on to computer objects.
Open the Active Directory Migration Tool: Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Migration Tool.
Right-click Active Directory Migration Tool and select Computer Migration Wizard.
Select the computers you want to migrate to the new domain. I'll select four computers for migration.
On the Translate Objects page, select which access controls you want to reapply during the migration, and then select Next.
The migration process will quickly show completed, but we need to make sure the entire process worked.
2017-08-11 04:09:29 ERR2:7006 Failed to install agent on \\WIN-IG2V2NAN1MU.source.local, rc=5 Access is denied.
2017-08-11 04:13:29 Post-check passed on the computer 'WIN-SE98KE4Q9CR.source.local'. The new computer name is 'WIN-SE98KE4Q9CR.destination.local'.
2017-08-11 04:13:29 Post-check passed on the computer 'WIN-QKQEJHUEV27.source.local'. The new computer name is 'WIN-QKQEJHUEV27.destination.local'.
2017-08-11 04:13:29 Post-check passed on the computer 'WIN-56SQFFFJCR1.source.local'. The new computer name is 'WIN-56SQFFFJCR1.destination.local'.
You can then view the new computer objects in the destination domain.
Log in to one of the old source.localsource.local computers and, by looking at the computer's System Properties, confirm that the computer is now a member of the new destination.local domain.
In this simple example I showed how to migrate users and their passwords, groups, and computer objects from an on premises deployment of Active Directory, to our fully AWS Managed Microsoft AD. We created a management instance on which we ran SQL Express and ADMT, we created a forest trust to grant permissions for an account to use ADT to move users, I configured ADMT and the PES tool, and then stepped through the migration using ADMT.
The ADMT tool gives us a great way to migrate to our managed Microsoft AD service that allows powerful customization of the migration, and it does so in a more secure way through encrypted password synchronization. You may need to do additional investigation and planning if the complexity of your environment requires a different approach with some of these steps.


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RTSA has failed to pay its employees august 2018 salaries what a shame the employees are wandering how a big institution like RTSA can fail to pay them salaries they have bills to pay their pay day is 25th it's 2nd September 2018 today they have been told that they should wait as they look for monies to pay them.
Landlords are knocking at their doors with embarrassment their tenants who are working for RTSA are unpaid they have to pay school fees for their children.
This is very embarrassing the agency preaches and practices corruption free working environment but how can one be corruption free when you fail to pay them salaries one can wander.
This is very disappointing the RTSA makes a lot of money for the government if this trend continues on we get to see a lot of corrupt RTSA officer's because they are being put in a bad position hence people should not blame them it's hard reporting for work without getting paid for almost 9 days this has never happened in the history of RTSA.
This is very disappointing and embarrassing for RTSA.


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Q: ionic 4 capacitor not working with ionic/angular i need to add Event In ionic 4, capacitor ionic/angular is not working.
I need to add an Event and subscribe to it to track login and logout time
Does anyone know of a more detailed documentation for capacitor plugin with implementation example similar to the ionic documentation.
I have checked the capacitor homepage but the documentation is scarce and lists only a few plugins?

A: Event at angular has been depracated, so you need to create you own service to achieve the event and to do so , do as below:
Create event service.
In the EventService.ts:
export class EventService {
            private dataObserved = new BehaviorSubject<any>('');
            currentEvent = this.dataObserved.asObservable();
            constructo(){}

            publish(param):void {
              this.dataObserved.next(param);
            }
}

For publishing the event from example page1:
constructor(public eventService:EventService){}
        updatePost(){
        this.eventService.publish('post:updated');
        // or
        this.eventService.publish({name: 'postupdate', value: 'value you need to pass'});
}

In page 2:
constructor(public eventService:EventService){
          this.eventService.currentEvent.subscribe(data=>{
         // here you can get the data or do whatever you want or data.name or data.value

        });
}

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The formation of wave  of 5 is about to finish. The forecast of the price movement is shown on the chart. Most likely, the price will reach new minimum during the day. In the future we can expect the correction, which may last several days.
More detailed wave markings are shown on the H1 chart. We may assume that the fourth wave inside wave  has been completed and the fifth wave may start within the next several hours.
We may assume that a long wave  started with wave (3) being formed inside it. The forecast remains bullish. Most likely, the market will reach new maximum of wave .
More detailed wave markings are shown on the H1 chart. Right now we can see an extension forming in wave 3. The forecast of the price movement is shown on the chart. In the near term, the price may continue growing even higher.


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Bruce Willis Refutes Claims He Sold Likeness For Deepfake Technology
Bruce Willis' representatives have denied that his likeness rights have been sold.
By Charlene Badasie | Published 4 months ago
Russian firm Deepcake used an authorized deepfake of the Bruce Willis in the commercial for telecoms company Megafon. The company uses an artificial neural network to impose Willis' image onto the face of a Russian actor pic.twitter.com/7bizoLsk2S
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 22, 2021
Bruce Willis has denied reports that he sold the rights to his likeness to a deepfake company. Last week, the internet was abuzz with rumors that the actor authorized the creation of a digital twin to appear in projects following his illness-related retirement from acting. But in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, a representative for the 67-year-old said he has "no partnership or agreement with this Deepcake company."
In general, deepfakes use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to create realistic videos of celebrities or politicians. For actors that can no longer work, the technology has the potential to be game-changing. However, a publicist for Deepcake told the publication that the rights to Bruce Willis' likeness can't be sold as they belong to him by default. The spokesperson added that their involvement with the star was set up through his management at Creative Artists Agency.
Deepcake's spokesperson also explained that the company previously created a digital twin for Bruce Willis in 2021. But its use was specifically intended for an advertising campaign, and any future use of the likeness would be up to the Die Hard alum. The site prominently features quotes from the action star about the commercial which aired in Russia for mobile phone carrier MegaFon
"I liked the precision of my character," Bruce Willis said in a mini testimonial on the Deepcake site. He added that filming the commercial was a great opportunity to go back in time. The AI's neural network was trained on content from Die Hard and The Fifth Element, so the character in the advert is similar to the images from that time. However, the confusion about his likeness ownership proves just how new this technology is, and the lack of clear rules around it.
Meanwhile, Bruse Willis' family posted a statement to The Hollywood Reporter in March, announcing that the star would be stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia. In advanced stages, the illness limits a person's ability to understand or express speech. And sadly, it has impacted the star's cognitive abilities. The family added that they appreciate everyone's continued love, compassion, and support at this difficult time.
Bruce Willis has had an incredible acting career since his small screen debut in the 1980s comedy-drama series Moonlighting opposite Cybill Shepherd. Over the years, he has appeared in over 70 films, gaining widespread recognition as an action hero following his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise. Then for about two decades, he dominated the box office with hits like Armageddon, The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, and The Whole Nine Yards.
Although his star has faded due to roles in various direct-to-video action films, Bruce Willis is still a cinematic icon. His roles in M. Night Shyamalan's Glass in 2019, Eli Roth's Death Wish remake in 2018, and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For in 2014 are a shining testament to his acting ability. Although he may have stepped away from acting, he still has a few movies set for release. This includes American Siege, Gasoline Alley, A Day to Die, Corrective Measures, Fortress: Sniper's Eye, Vendetta, White Elephant, Wrong Place, and Wire Room.
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Warner Bros. & HBO Upcoming Releases
Action Pop Culture News News Movies Adventure Family Horror TV Warner Bros
Andrew Day July 2, 2013 No Comments
Are you looking for something to keep you entertained over the next few months? If so, then Warner Bros. and HBO have got you covered. Starting in July, the duo have a veritable cornucopia of content being released on DVD and Blu Ray. So much stuff is being released that no matter who you are, you would be hard pressed to not find something to keep you busy.
July will be a big month, with two incredible movies for you to pick up and enjoy. July 17th will see the release of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey). If you are looking for something that the whole family will enjoy, Jack the Giant Slayer will be climbing beanstalks on July 24th.
Moving into August, we will see the the emotional story of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his stand against racism and the colour line, with the home release of 42 (starring Harrison Ford) on August 14th. From there, it is time to get down and dirty in the seedy underbelly of 1930s prohibition-era New Jersey with HBO's Boardwalk Empire Season 3 hitting store shelves on August 21st.
Ok, so there's no doubt about it – July and August are big, but September will be absolutely massive! So many DVDs and Blu Rays will be hitting the shelves that it is almost impossible to keep track of them all, but here goes:
Comic Book fans can check out Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (One of the most important comic-book stories of the modern era, and one that has reshaped the entire DC Universe) on September 11th. The story will feature two different versions of Batman, but if that isn't enough cape and cowl for you, then you can also grab Batman: The Brave & The Bold Season 3 Volume 2 on September 18th.
Looking for something to keep your kids entertained? How about a double helping of Scooby Doo on September 18th, with Scooby Doo! Stage Fright, and Scooby Doo! Mystery Inc Season 2 Volume 1. If your kids aren't into dogs, and they prefer the chaos of a manic cat and mouse, then be sure to grab Tom & Jerry's Giant Adventure and/or Tom & Jerry Around The World, both hitting shelves alongside Scooby Doo on September 18th.
Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats! Do you remember that battle-cry from your childhood? If so then get excited, as Thundercat is also hitting shelves on the 18th.. Thundercats: Season 1 Volume 1 begins the story of a young Lion-O and his feline companions in a reboot to the old 1980s classic.
So we've covered September's youthful offerings, but now let's move on to what the adults can sit back and enjoy. September 18th will show the release of two hugely-popular sitcoms, as the foul-mouthed, money making duo of Max and Caroline are back in 2 Broke Girls: The Complete Second Season, while Dr. Sheldon Cooper leads the socially awkward, intellectual antics in The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Sixth Season.
Taking our attention away from comedy, Warner Bros will also release Supernatural: The Complete Eighth Season on September 18th, as well as Fringe: The Complete First Season on the 25th. Rounding off the television releases is JJ Abrams' Revolution: The Complete First Season on September 25th.
Massive release schedule right? Well we're not done yet! September 25th will also see the release of two fantastic movies; Red Lights and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There is so much going on over the next three months that it is hard to believe anyone will be thinking "I don't have anything to watch." We will be getting out a few reviews for some of the upcoming releases, so for our thoughts, and for all the Warner Bros. and HBO news, be sure to stay tuned to Capsule Computers.
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ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FILM INDUSTRY RESEARCH
30 November 2016: The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an Agency of the Department of Arts and Culture has commissioned Urban Econ Development Economists to conduct research on the Economic Impact of the South African Film Industry on the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over a three year period (2013 – 2015).
The purpose of the study is not limited to investigating the overall economic impact, but to also provide accurate and current data on the state of the industry and create a strategic focus toward developing the South African film and video industry.
A similar study, published in 2013, highlighted the following key findings:
The South African film industry contributed R3.5 billion to South Africa's GDP (both direct and indirect spend).
The industry created over 25 175 FTE jobs.
It earned over R670 million towards the South African GDP.
The industry encompassed over 2 500 direct service providers.
It delivered an economic multiplier of 2.89, i.e. for every R1 spent in the industry, another R1.89 was generated within the South African economy.
The scope of the new study includes:
A full value chain analysis of the film industry – development, production, post production and distribution.
Definitions of films – feature films, documentaries, TV series (including broadcaster commissions), TV films (including broadcast commissions), animation series, films and shots (films, documentaries, animation).
Looking at films produced during the period 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
Legitimate film distribution across traditional and new distribution platforms.
Films that are either completely or partially produced in South Africa, including foreign films that have been shot and/or post produced in South Africa in so far as it relates to the Qualifying South African Expenditure.
A 3 year analysis of the following indicators:
Size of the industry – contribution to GDP.
Number of companies that are doing business in the industry.
Number of individuals employed in the industry (permanent employees and freelancers).
Direct and indirect taxes paid by the industry.
Economic multiplier.
NFVF CEO, Ms Zama Mkosi, believes that the research will help create an understanding of the business of film in South Africa and prove the industry as a lucrative contributor to the GDP and hopefully attract more investors. "The NFVF aims to give a true reflection of the film and audio visual industry through the Economic Impact of the South African Film Industry Research, and to ensure strategies and programs that are responsive and effective as well as to identify audience trends with a specific focus on local content."
The research methodology will be both quantitative and qualitative using primary and secondary data collection methods. Results from the research will be published in 2017 and for more information on the project, please contact Mr Tsietsi Themane, tsietsit@nfvf.co.za.
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Handmade Fresh Pasta with heritage and ancient varieties of wheat.
As an artisan producer heritage, ancient, rare breed and heirloom are the words that we are hearing more and more in the world of producers and artisan food makers… as breeds and varieties that often taste better, are more distinctive as well as helping to preserve biodiversity in our countryside.
Whilst we use rare breed Oxford Sandy and Black Pork in our Cuddington Special Lasagna and are exploring Heirloom tomatoes in our sauces (giving each one its own sweetness rating) we were excited when were introduced to ancient and heritage varieties of wheat, by John Letts.
We met John about two years ago at a local apple festival; he spoke about ancient varieties of wheat that he was working with and we discussed how these might work in pasta making as an alternative to the more traditional wheat varieties.
Two years later we met John again and have been making our own fresh pasta using his flour since. We experimented with various different varieties of ancient and heritage wheat flours but have settled on our own unique mix of spelt and rivet wheat flour to make our pasta.
The heritage rivet flour is milled from rare species of wheat that was first grown in England in the Norman period and became popular because of its high yield and exceptional flavour. The spelt is the parent of modern wheat flour and was first grown in Britain in the Bronze Age (2,000BC) before disappearing from the farmer's fields in the Saxon period.
John Letts has been working with local farmers in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to grow a limited supply of these wheat varieties and mills the wheat into the most amazing flour.
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As John McCain was laid to rest a few weeks ago, we were reminded of his heroism, his life of service to our country and one of his last acts a sitting Senator: delivering the final blow to the proposed healthcare legislation in 2017, known as the Graham-Cassidy bill. Regardless of where you stand on McCain's politics or the state of healthcare in America, it's important to understand why McCain, one of four Republican Senators to vote "no" on the bill, did so.
McCain's objection was not to the bill itself, but to the process. A longtime proponent of "regular order," McCain's opposition stemmed in large part from how the bill was being pushed through the Senate in an effort to meet a procedural deadline. "I would consider supporting legislation similar to that offered by my friends Senators Graham and Cassidy were it the product of extensive hearings, debate and amendment. But that has not been the case," McCain said.
John Mccain speaking on Capitol Hill.
Process is important because choosing to follow or ignore a process can drastically alter a desired outcome. Think about what happens when a surgeon fails to follow process during a routine surgical procedure. The outcome can be anything but routine. It's also why our military incorporates layers of redundant checks and balances. Lives are lost when proper procedures aren't followed. Process also applies to our investment strategies and is a leading reason why the most successful investors tend to be the most disciplined investors – they understand the importance of process.
As multiple industry and academic studies have shown, investment success is largely influenced by two factors: 1) investor behavior and emotion, and 2) adherence to a disciplined process over time. To understand why, we need to start with a basic premise: while financial markets are unpredictable in the short-term, they offer the potential to generate wealth over the long-term. As such, investing has historically paid the greatest rewards to those adhering to a consistent and disciplined approach that seeks to remove emotion from the investment decision-making process. In fact, according to DALBAR, a leading financial services market research firm, investment results are more dependent on investor behavior than on investment performance. The company's 24th Annual Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior ("QAIB") states that "no matter what the state of the mutual fund industry, boom or bust: investment results are more dependent on investor behavior than on fund performance. Mutual fund investors who hold on to their investments are more successful than those who try to time the market." That's why having a disciplined investment process in place is your first line of defense against emotional and reactive decisions making.
Investment results are more dependent on investor behavior than on investment performance.
The investment process provides an orderly way to create and maintain a portfolio aligned with specific goals and objectives while seeking to manage investment risk. It outlines the steps required to create an investment portfolio and the sequence of actions involved from defining risk parameters to asset allocation, due diligence, investment selection, buy/sell discipline and performance evaluation. More importantly, it provides a structure for implementing a strategy tailored to your specific goals, objectives, timeframe, risk tolerance and values that seeks to manage risk over time. And finally, it's the framework for evaluating your strategy and tracking progress toward your goals.
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Process prevents poor decision-making. Whether you agreed with McCain's politics or not, we can all agree that he was not afraid to fight for what he thought was right and make himself heard. He was passionate about his beliefs and his principles, one of which was the belief that regular order and process were necessary for driving desired outcomes.
Find an advisor who shares a passion for the process. Without it, emotion takes over and you become the biggest obstacle in attaining your life's goals. Understand how and why your individual investment strategy ties back to the pursuit of your personal goals. Rely on a repeatable, research-driven process that focuses on identifying your risk tolerance, your financial priorities, and most importantly, removes emotion from investment performance. If your advisor isn't following this mantra, find one that does. There may be nothing more crucial to keeping your financial future on-track.
I am founder and CEO of Inc. 5000 firm Carson Group, Barron's Hall-of-Fame wealth advisor, one of Forbes top wealth advisors in America, radio talk show host, and author of The Sustainable Edge.


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ADHD therapy to aid children
By BENEDICT CAREY
William E. Pelham helped lead a new study about treatment options for children with attention-deficit problems. Above, Dr. Pelham at a summer camp focusing on social skills training. Credit Florida International
Children with attention-deficit problems improve faster when the first treatment they receive is behavioral — like instruction in basic social skills — than when they start immediately on medication, a new study has found. Beginning with behavioral therapy is also a less expensive option over time, according to a related analysis.
Experts said the efficacy of this behavior-first approach, if replicated in larger studies, could change standard medical practice, which favors stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin as first-line treatments, for the more than four million children and adolescents in the United States with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D.
The new research, published in two papers by the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, found that stimulants were most effective as a supplemental, second-line treatment for those who needed it — and often at doses that were lower than normally prescribed.
The study is thought to be the first of its kind in the field to evaluate the effect of altering the types of treatment midcourse — adding a drug to behavior therapy, for example, or vice versa.
"We showed that the sequence in which you give treatments makes a big difference in outcomes," said William E. Pelham of Florida International University, a leader of the study with Susan Murphy of the University of Michigan. "The children who started with behavioral modification were doing significantly better than those who began with medication by the end, no matter what treatment combination they ended up with."
Other experts cautioned that the study tracked behavior but not other abilities that medication can quickly improve, like attention and academic performance, and said that drugs remained the first-line treatment for those core issues.
"I think this is a very important study, and the take-home is that low-cost behavioral treatment is very effective," said Mark Stein, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Washington, "but the irony is that that option is seldom available to parents."
The study enrolled 146 children with an A.D.H.D. diagnosis from ages 5 to 12 and randomly assigned half on a low dose of generic Ritalin. The other half received no medication, but their parents began attending group meetings to learn behavior-modification techniques.
Behavior modification for A.D.H.D. is based on a fairly simple system of rewards and consequences. Parents reward the good or cooperative acts they see; subtle things, like paying attention for a few moments, can earn a pat on the back or a "good boy." Completing homework without complaint might earn time on a smartphone. Parents withhold privileges, like playtime or video games, or enforce a "time out" in response to defiance and other misbehavior.
And they learn to ignore irritating but harmless bids to win attention, like making weird noises, tapping or acting like a baby.
The researchers had the children's parents and teachers rate their behaviors, including recording disciplinary problems. The school evaluation included a "daily report card" describing the child's day.
Jacqueline Vaquer of Miami and her husband took their son Alec, who received an A.D.H.D. diagnosis at age 5, to a behavior-modification course and learned, among other things, how to reduce his wandering in class.
"We created a boundary around his desk with tape, and the teacher kept track of how often he crossed it," Ms. Vaquer said. Each week, she said, "if he reduced the number of checks, he got a small reward, like a toy or his favorite dessert — frozen yogurt with M&Ms," she said. Alec, 6, is now able to sit still for long periods in class and has not gone on medication, his mother said.
After two months, the yearlong study took an innovative turn. If a child had not improved, he or she was randomly assigned one of two courses: a more intense version of the same treatment, or an added supplement, like adding a daily dose of medication to the behavior modification. About two-thirds of the children who began with the behavior therapy needed a booster, and about 45 percent of those who started on medication did.
But the behavior-first group had an average of four fewer rules violations an hour at school than the medication-first group.
One likely reason, the study authors wrote, was parents of children who started on drug treatment were less interested in following up with the behavior classes, which involved eight group sessions over the year and one individualized lesson. "The behavioral modification is a lot of work, and they may have thought, 'Well, it won't make that much difference,'" Dr. Pelham said.
In a separate paper, Dr. Pelham and a different set of authors compared the costs of the different treatment sequences, taking into account the price of drugs, doctors' time and parents' time.
Having children and their parents begin with behavioral treatment and follow with medication, if needed, cost an average of $700 less annually per child than treatment as usual, in which a doctor writes prescriptions and periodically monitors behavior, the team found.
The analysis did not account for the psychological cost to parents — in terms of a child's tantrums, slammed doors and hurled tableware — of carrying out behavioral techniques.


"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion?"- Job 38:31.
Blessed be the Lord, we cannot have sunk so low but he can lift us up; we cannot be so barren and so comfortless but what he can make us fruitful and give us joy and peace again. There is no church, which he cannot revive. Are you members of congregations, which are slumbering? Do not despair. You will go home after the day's service, and say, "I wish I could do some good here, but I am only one." No, dear brother, you cannot loose the bands of Orion, but God can. The great Head of his church can suddenly come into his temple, and fill it with his glory. He can rake together the almost expiring ashes, and kindle the fire anew, and bring the sacrifice, and make your church yet to be a temple to his praise. Glorify the name of God, the all-powerful One: never let despair cross your soul.
While he lives who made heaven and earth; while he works who bears up the pillars of the universe; while he loves who once gave up his Son to redeem us, there can be no cause for trembling. Zion shall be comforted; her days of gladness shall dawn; her winter of sorrow shall flee away: God is on her side, and Orion relaxes his bonds.
From a sermon entitled "The Pleiades And Orion," delivered June 28, 1868. Image by s58y under Creative Commons License.


I have different brushes, all good quality and I have tried acrylic paints, gel polish and nail art gels but never get that perfect finish I'm hoping for.
I rarely work with gel or do this kind or nail art so it may just be inexperience but I'd appreciate any tips or advice please.
That's very kind, thank you but when I compare it to others I've seen I know I can improve. Just not sure how!
Wow I think they're amazing don't be so hard on yourself. I also enjoy hand painting and it's easy to fall into the trap where you compare yourself to people who have been honing their specific hand painting skill for years. I was so so close to flying out to Belgium to attend a class with Sarah Elmaz /Get buffed nails but I was too slow and spaces filled up in 24 hours. I still am eager to attend classes of the people I look up to, I'm sure it would be very valuable no matter what level I'm at.
It's so unique and really difficult to do . I am no artist (pretty rubbish actually ) but I would say they are very, very good. Can I please book you if I need any cutting in when decorating ? LOL. Your lines are deffo straighter than mine.
Some of those other pictures you compare youself to may well be photoshopped. Yours are honest!!
Keep up lovely art work and don't be so hard on yourself.
I know I could do straighter with acrylic though lol.
They're amazing, I'd say the only thing that draws my eye is the 'fluffy' edges around the cuticle, specifically the pinkie on top, middle finger on top and the forefinger on the bottom. All of those are easily remedied with a quick swipe round with CND's Nail Fresh which would remove the blurred edges and define those fab black lines. Any others you see wouldn't be noticed by clients or anyone else looking at them, you are specifically looking for flaws, clients are looking for pretty and 'wow'. I'd love to produce work that good.
The the edges I'm struggling with, I did try to clean it up but it was also along the edge of the L&P (I won't say acrylic to you lol) so it caught up in the edge.
I think I need to do finer lines but I'm not sure how to get such a blunt edge at the start and finish with such a fine brush as they taper to one or two hairs.
I am looking for flaws. These were my daughters nails and she loves them but I'd like to do more gel and hand painted nail art.
I can't really see what's wrong with your lines! You've done great!
I think you might really like Robin Moses brushes. They are excellent to work with. I often use a variety of art brushes without concern but when something tricky comes up, out come my Wand and my Unicorn.
What do you girls use to do painted nail art?


I Received your Favor of the 18th. of this month and note the Contents. Upon Examining the Records, I find I was mistaken in the Information, I gave Mr. Skipworth in Respect to Mr. Shorts Judgment. Indeed at any Rate, I think the prospect I mentioned is so distant and uncertain, that I believe there is very little hope of obtaining any thing from that Quarter, I shall therefore decline it on my part. I am with the greatest Esteem & Regard Dr. Sr. yr mo Obdt. huml Sevt.
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Dec. 1794 and so recorded in SJL. PrC of Tr (DLC: William Short Papers); entirely in TJ's hand; at head of text: "Copy"; at foot of text: "To Th: Jefferson"; endorsed in ink by TJ: "Skipwith Henry." Enclosed in TJ to Henry Skipwith, 4 Jan. 1795.
Adams also wrote a letter to TJ on 20 Mch. 1798, which is recorded in SJL as received 27 Mch. 1798, but has not been found.


The IPAF Harness Use and Inspection course is for MEWP operatives and their co-workers who work from boom type platforms (1b + 3b). Wearing a suitable safety harness as per IPAF's Technical Guidance Note (TGN H1/08/12) provides protection against platform ejection. This essential course educates safe use, fitting and personal pre-use inspection of a safety harness.
Understand relevant Regulations, Guidance and Standards. Be able to identify, select, inspect, adjust, maintain and store the correct safety harness and lanyard for use in boom type MEWPs.
Introduction – Facilities, Objectives, Health and Fitness Statement.
Legislation, Standards and Guidance – HSWA 1974, MHSWR 1974, PUWER 1998, LOLER 1998, WAHR 2005, PPE 2002, CHSWR, CE Markings, and How often should you inspect your harness.
Hierarchy of Fall Protection Measures – Safe work at height, Avoidance, Work Restraint, Work Position and Fall Arrest.
IPAF Harness Statement – Technical Guidance Note (TGN H1/08/12).
Harness, Lanyard and Fittings – Harness Types, Lanyard Types, Fall Factors, Fixed vs. Adjustable, Loops vs. Sliders, Inertia Devices, Different Connects, Captive Webbing.
Pre-Use Checks (Includes a practical Exercise) – How to do Pre-use checks and Fitting.
Usage and Anchor Points – Typical Anchorage Points.
Theory Test – Individual written tests with explanation of pass requirements.
Upon successful completion of the course, applicants will receive an IPAF certificate. Those who hold a valid Powered Access Licence (PAL Card) for operating equipment, can have the Harness Use & Inspection (H) category added to their PAL Card. It remains valid for five years.


Motorcycle flags are a cool way to advertise a business or brand. Imagine cruising around on your ride with a motorcycle flag to grab attention. With the addition of a motorcycle flag, your motorbike could be an effective way to advertise. They are great for community barbecues or charity rides or cruising with your motorcycle friends. Our motorcycle flags are completely customizable. The colors, shape and size can all be fit to either match your bike or make it standout. Ranging from the size to the shape and color are all up to you! Your bike will be looking great and stylish from a flag from TALLMAN.PROMO.
The standard size for Motorcycle flags are 10.5" x 7". Custom sizes are also available.
Motorcycle flag is made out of 100D Polyester or 110g Knitted Polyester.


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Brónnitsa (en rus: Бронница) és un poble de la província de Nóvgorod, a Rússia, segons el cens del 2010 tenia 2.627 habitants.

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John, the facility manager at a metal processing and assembly facility, had a complex building management system that tracked the performance of many building systems including his compressed air system. From his desk the system looked to be producing some strange readings, and he suspected a measurement error on the flow meter measuring total compressed air output. When he compared the air compressor amps to flow, there were times when the system showed no air compressors running, yet the flow meter was still reading significant output into the plant. Replacement of the meter did not correct the situation.
Subsequent investigation by a compressed air auditor revealed an unexpected cause of the problem: John's company had not followed one of the rules of a good energy management system, which is capturing the readings in a complete measurement boundary.
This article discusses the challenges faced by this particular facility and the need for accurate Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
Figure 1. This pressure gauge is an example of a simple KPI with upper and lower limits.
Compressed air is an expensive utility to use to transmit energy to industrial machines. If one measures the power input to a system's air compressors and compares the power output delivered by various compressed air consuming machines or tools, we usually find that typically only one tenth of the energy input is transferred to the output of the tool. Part of the problem is physics, making compressed air creates heat, and the energy within the heat is lost to the atmosphere, but a significant part of the problem is the way compressed air operators make and use (or abuse) their compressed air.
All industrial facilities use some form of compressed air, and in most, the air compressors consume a significant amount of the total energy bill. A facility with a good energy management system is likely to identify their compressed air system as a significant energy user (SEU). If the facility were using an energy management standard, such as ISO 50001, they would be required to assess and track the energy consumption of all their SEU's. In the case of the metal processing facility, they were measuring the output of more than 250 devices within the plant, including building heaters, RTU's, dust collectors, and also tracking the consumption of their electricity, natural gas and water.
The results of their energy management efforts to date have been impressive. Since 2012 this facility achieved a 25% reduction in their electrical costs, enough to win a prestigious award from their local energy utility. Knowing there were problems with their compressed air measurement system, and knowing good potential efficiency gains could be achieved in better measuring their performance, John called in a compressed air auditor to have a look. And it paid off with significant potential savings identified.
Often success is simply the repeated, periodic achievement of some levels of operational goal.
Sometimes success is defined in terms of making progress toward strategic goals.
Accordingly, choosing the right KPI's relies upon a good understanding of what is important.
What is deemed important often depends on the department measuring the performance.
KPI assessments often lead to the identification of potential improvements, so performance indicators are routinely associated with performance improvement initiatives.
One of the most important, but often overlooked, aspects of KPIs is that they are a form of communication. As such, they abide by the same rules and best-practices as any other form of communication. Succinct, clear and relevant information is much more likely to be absorbed and acted upon.
Key performance measurement is important to compressed air systems due to the high cost of operation. An industry norm is for very little performance measurement on these systems, but we know through experience that a significant number of compressed air systems run very inefficiently with high levels of waste. We also know owners and operators of these system are often unaware of the problems. Measuring key performance of these systems raises awareness of the problems and brings it to the forefront. Thus a good system of measuring and evaluating compressed air-related KPI's could lead to substantial improvements in the cost of operation, reliability and quality of compressed air.
What KPIs are Most Important?
By far, the most important thing to care about in a compressed air system is air pressure. In fact it is so important many users will sacrifice energy efficiency for good system pressure. In a typical system there are usually hundreds of pressure measurement devices throughout the facility showing the state of the air pressure, which is also an indication of its importance.
And more importantly, as taught by the Compressed Air Challenge in their Fundamentals training seminars, compressed air producers should ensure they have "a clean dry stable flow of compressed air, delivered at the appropriate pressure, in a cost effective manner." Further, the owners and operators of the systems need to minimize waste caused by leakage, artificial demand and inappropriate use of compressed air.
But how do we know we are achieving these objectives? This is where measurement comes in, as any auditor of compressed air systems knows. Without some sort of measurement the system cannot be properly managed. In measuring compressed air systems and comparing to typical benchmarks, a good compressed air auditor (or energy manager) can very quickly determine if a particular system has the potential for improvement. Often this involves placing temporary meters on the air compressors, but more valuable is a good permanent system of monitoring that allows operators to ensure their system is running correctly, and stays that way in the long term.
Let's look at some ways to measure pressure performance. The simplest way could have system operators regularly spot check the pressure gauge on their particular production machinery, an example of which is shown in Figure 1.
If the needle on the gauge is sitting between the high and low marks, all is good. But if the operator isn't always looking at the gauge, he may miss times where this key parameter is out of normal range. A better way of monitoring to ensure pressure performance is to data log and plot the pressure over time. An example of this is depicted in Figure 2. This is a pressure chart of a typical week in the metal processing and assembly plant.
Figure 2: A simple-time based pressure chart is used to determine system performance. Click here to enlarge.
The plant's goal was to always have the pressure at critical assembly tools above 90 psi, which is the rating of the tools. We can see from the chart it appears this goal was met over this measurement period, but was it? In this time the plant was reporting trouble at the tools. If we dig further we find this measured pressure is at the discharge of the air compressor, not the tools.
As shown in Figure 3, an additional trace with a measurement of the actual pressure at the input of the tools shows the pressure is indeed falling below 90 psi. If operators took a spot reading at the wrong time, they would miss the low-pressure events that occurred later, during a peak production period. It is interesting to note that despite the hundreds of measurement points in their building, and the importance of air pressure to the plant assembly tools, the compressed air pressure was not a parameter being monitored.
Figure 3: Added measurement at the correct point shows the pressure goal not being met. Click here to enlarge.
Figure 4: Added flow and amps traces show additional system problems. Click here to enlarge.
Installing some additional metering for flow and air compressor/dryer amps gives more information about this system. We can see in Figure 4 the pressure issues are being caused by transient high-flow events, and a large pressure drop is occurring across some components at high flow (this was determined to be an air dryer filter).
Power consumption appears to be excessive for the level of flow, the system is consuming an average of 27 kW per 100 cfm while producing 500 cfm. This differs from an optimum value of about 20 kW per 100 cfm. And it is interesting to note there appeared to have been a step change in low-level flow during non-production hours at the beginning and end of the measurement (weekend flow).
Despite an extensive system of monitoring this site was having pressure problems, had high levels of system waste, and poor compressed air production efficiency. The compressed air management system had no clear target KPI's and lacked a good system of communication to energy managers to make them aware of these problems.
In all fairness, confusion is not uncommon about key performance in the industry. In an attempt to improve this problem the Canadian Standards Association developed the CSA C837 standard "Monitoring and Energy Performance of Compressed Air Systems". To learn more, visit: https://www.airbestpractices.com/standards/energy-management/new-csa-c837-16-compressed-air-efficiency-standard.
Dewpoint spikes – Sometimes the failure of the air dryers, or poor system design, will cause water to reach thermal mass flow meters. Since this flow meter type cannot work on wet compressed air the KPI calculations will be in error.
Placement of flow meter – Sometimes flow meters are not installed to manufacturer's specifications, causing measurement error. Most flow meters installed on compressed air systems are thermal mass devices placed on the output of the system after the dryer. If the dryer is a desiccant style unit, this placement will not capture the purge flow into the dryer making it look like the air compressor is consuming more power than it should. This placement would not capture flows consumed by leakage or drainage waste in the compressor room. For this reason it is important to use both calculated flow (based on compressor status) and measured flow as a comparison, and sometimes install flow meters that measure directly at the discharge of each air compressor.
Highly varying flows – If a flow meter is placed on the discharge of a load-unload air compressor, and the data is plotted, the result will be a thick fuzzy line that is hard to interpret. In these cases applying a moving average on the data is required to bring system trends to light.
Change in flow direction – Sometimes, depending on the placement of a flow meter, the flow direction will change. An example of this might be the flow into and out of a receiver that is placed on the discharge of an air compressor that is not running. The flow meter will capture flow in and out of the receiver as the system pressure changes. Most thermal mass flow meters have no way of telling the direction of flow, so negative flow will be recorded as positive flow, and this will throw the off calculation of KPI's. Similar things can happen if a flow meter is installed in a looped piping system. For this reason special calculations will be required to process the data. There are flow direction switches that can be used to correct this situation. There are also flow meters available that can measure flow direction to solve this issue.
This metal processing and assembly plant in the story has an excellent building management system on which to build a much-needed dashboard screen that displays important compressed air KPI's. Over the years the author of this article put together quite a few moderately successful compressed air monitoring systems, but the biggest challenge faced is communicating the data from the system to the user in an understandable way.
To be honest, watching the parameters of a compressed air system is boring, like watching paint dry. In a properly running system there will be a whole lot of nothing to be concerned about most of the time. In a busy plant, the operators and managers of the compressed air systems have many other tasks to capture their attention and efforts; they can't usually afford the time to constantly watch their compressed air system. A successful monitoring system, therefore, needs to be simple to use, create understandable data, and have a system of warning so problems with the system can be quickly detected.
Because compressed air users have become more interested in energy efficiency some innovative companies have started to develop tools that can be used to monitor important compressed air KPI's and have created either local or web-based platforms with dashboard and data analysis tools.
One example dashboard product that tracks various compressed air parameters is shown in Figure 5. This system uses the same terminology as the CSA standard C837-16. Users can tell at a glance how their system has been performing through user selectable measurement periods. Instantaneous values, parameter minimum and maximum, energy and flow are all displayed for the information of the viewer. The system has a good warning system and a well-developed reporting structure, which is important to users.
Figure 5: A main dashboard should show important KPI's in a time-based manner (Source: CALMS.EU). Click here to enlarge.
Shown in Figure 5 is a screen from this system with some analysis tools that can be used to track the system curve, which is the energy versus air consumption. A perfect system has a proportional energy response with a change in flow, with the terminus of the trend line at zero, similar to the data shown in Figure 6.
An inefficient system would have a plot that looks like a shotgun pattern, with very poor energy response to change in flow. This system curve can be used to predict the savings that could be gained by reducing compressed air leakage, changing pressure, or changing the way the compressed air is produced (more efficient compressors or control). This dashboard and analysis system is designed with the user in mind, but has tools and analysis methods that can be used by advanced auditors to help with energy conservation measures, including leakage detection and management module.
Figure 6: Analysis tools are important to help detect problems and predict savings due to other energy efficiency measures (Source: CALMS.EU). Click here to enlarge.
Having a tool for monitoring compressed air systems is a valuable asset for plant energy managers, but it is important the output of this system is clear and simple to use. A best practice is to monitor the specific power of a system to ensure the production of compressed air is and remains efficient.
Tracking flow and energy consumption over time and comparing measurement periods can tell plant operators how the compressed air system is trending in terms of the appropriate or inappropriate use of compressed air and levels of waste. It is important to have a system that raises the operator's attention if the KPIs start to show abnormal readings. In this way adjustments and improvements can be made in a timely manner.
To read more System Assessment articles please visit www.airbestpractices.com/system-assessments.


a drawing of Shaun Ryder to go in the next issue of Belle Vue, a nice little zine full of lotsa different articles about manchester. make sure you buy it! theres a few different drawings by manchester based artists and plenty of different articles about places, experiences and other cool things about the rainy city.
It's sold in places like the cornerhouse, make sure to pick up a copy!


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With summer quickly approaching, there's nothing like a good book to lose yourself in – and why not get lost in the colour and culture of the ancient past? Many of our former lecturers have been very busy in recent months researching and writing their latest publications. To celebrate their place in our Classics Community, here is a quick guide to some of our favourites:
Caroline Lawrence: The Time Travel Diaries
Bestselling author of the Roman Mysteries and Roman Quests series, Caroline has just published her eagerly awaited new novel The Time Travel Diaries. Set in the heart of Roman London at the Mithraeum, in which there is actually a portal to the past, her tale follows Alex who must step back in time to solve a mystery… whilst making sure he doesn't eat anything and doesn't get into too much trouble! Recently selected by the Times as their Children's Book of the Week, the Time Travel Diaries is another example of Lawrence's infectious passion for bringing the ancient world to life for children (and adults too!). Caroline speaks and engages with children at a range of school and public events (follow her on twitter to keep updated) and you can even get lost in this universe by visiting the Mithraeum itself – mind you don't step into the portal!
Michael Scott: Life in Ancient Greece (KS2)
As part of his commitment to making the ancient world interesting and accessible to everyone of all ages, our President Professor Scott has turned from the small screen to children's publishing with a new History Essentials guide to Life in Ancient Greece. This fabulous introduction focuses on a range of topics such as childhood, explorers, religion, and architecture as well as some of the most famous Greek 'inventions' such as democracy and the Olympic Games. A great way to get young people hooked on the similarities and differences between ancient and modern cultures, you can find the book and the rest of the series here.
Armand D'Angour: Socrates in Love
Professor D'Angour, already a highly respected fellow in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford, rose to international prominence after composing the Pindaric Ode for the London 2012 Olympics and producing the video that went viral following the ground-breaking discoveries and reconstructions of ancient Greek music he made in 2017. 2019 has seen him move in a different direction but once again he has uncovered fresh evidence, this time to help us reimagine and rethink our understanding of the life and character of Socrates. Socrates in Love: The making of a philosopher focuses on the passions and motivations of the young Socrates and finds that his influential thinking was developed and influenced by a powerful woman by the name of Aspasia…
Simon Elliott: Roman Legionaries: Soldiers of Empire
Historian and archaeologist Simon Elliott came to Lytham St Annes last October where he shared with us the findings from his wonderful book Septimius Severus in Scotland and in the few short months since he has published Roman Legionaries: Soldiers of Empire for the Casemate Short History series. A prolific researcher and speaker (and tweeter), Simon has been busy working on Old Testament Warriors, a fascinatingly eclectic survey of innovation in warfare across the ancient world, and he has been whetting our appetite by announcing on twitter the title of his latest work Pertinax: The Slave's Son Who Became Emperor of Rome.
Natalie Haynes: A Thousand Ships (May 2019)
After the tremendous success of the Children of Jocasta, a retelling of the Theban myths and a fascinating insight into the minds of the female characters from these stories, broadcaster, journalist and stand up comedian Natalie has turned her attention to arguably one of the most famous stories ever told – that of the Trojan War and its origins with the theft of Helen – and she ensures that we view it not as the story of one woman, or even two, but as 'the story of all of them'. She restores the lost voices of the women, girls and goddesses who have remained silent for millennia and were, within the Homeric tale, restricted to lamentation or silent weaving. You only have a few days to wait until you can read this exciting novel!
Tom Holland: Dominion (forthcoming)
For the last few years, historian and broadcaster Tom Holland has been channelling his energies into his latest passion project – no longer Herodotus, whose Histories he has so lovingly translated and talked to us about this month – but an equally small topic, the history of Christianity! His awe-inspiring zeal for research and his deep curiosity in the history of humanity at the broadest and deepest levels have led him to trace the legacy of ancient Christianity and its role in the transformative development of the Western world and the Western mind in Dominion. Ranging from 480BC to the present day, it is colossal in its scope, but highly pertinent in its analysis, and promises to be a fascinating read for anyone interested in the influence of religion across millennia and in understanding the issues that we face today.
Paul Cartledge: Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World (forthcoming, editor)
Like Tom Holland, Paul Cartledge, Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor at Clare College, Cambridge, has been busy working on a mammoth task: he is co-editor of a brand new History of the Archaic Greek World which brings together contributions from more than twenty eminent scholars to capture the cultural, demographic, geographic, linguistic diversity and communality of this world using detailed studies of 29 sites, sanctuaries, and regions in Greece during the Archaic period. The work is notable not just for its breadth but as each essay in OHAGW will be built around the same set of eleven rubrics, it will be possible to read either vertically (reading a complete study of a single site) or horizontally (reading, for example, about the economic history of a number of different sites) to form a more diverse yet coherent (rather than over-homogenised) picture of the ancient world. We can't wait to read this ground-breaking research when it is published!
A Fabulous Fifth


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Примусова стерилізація — державна програма яка змушує людей зробити хірургічну або хімічну стерилізацію. Може бути відкритою або прихованою. Найбільшого поширення набула в країнах, які запроваджували методи євгеніки.

Примусовій стерилізації в основному піддаються люди, які мають спадкові, психічні захворювання, використовується також для зменшення рівня народжуваності, бідності, при зміні гендеру. Прихована стерилізація може бути використана для зменшення чисельності окремих народів.

Міжнародне законодавство вважає примусову стерилізацію злочином проти людяності. Зокрема це зазначено у статті 7 Римського статуту Міжнародного кримінального суду.

Вперше примусова стерилізація була впроваджена законами штатів США починаючи з 1907 року. У ряді країн Європи програми про примусову стерилізацію були прийняті починаючи з 1925 року (Данія). Поширення програми примусової стерилізації у багатьох країнах занепокоїло католицьку церкву. У 1930 році Папа Пій XI в буллі  засудив примусову стерилізацію.

За країнами

Данія
Данія у 1929 році прийняла закон «Про стерилізацію». У 1934 році його було значно посилено через вплив економічних проблем періоду Великої депресії.

Індія
У 1975 році була прийнята урядова програма контролю за населенням. У перший рік було настильно стерилізовано 6,2 мільйона бідних індійських чоловіків, з яких близько 2 тисяч померли. Через масовий гнів громадськості компанія стерилізації чоловіків була припинена. Уряди штатів організовують спеціальні табори для стерилізації. Жінкам пропонують грошову винагороду за процедуру. Стерилізуються в переважній більшості жінки. На початку 2010-х років в Індії щороку стерилізується близько двох мільйони жінок, а чоловіків десятки тисяч. Сотні жінок помирають щороку під час цієї процедури. Як наслідок у ці роки більше третини заміжніх жінок було стерилізованими.

Китай
За твердженням активістів та експертів ООН з прав людини влада КНР здійснює у Синьцзян-Уйгурському автономному районі примусову стерилізацію жінок уйгурської національності. За повідомленням агентства Associated Press та Австралійського інституту стратегічної політики (ASPI) рівень народжуваності в цьому районі в 2015—2019 роках зменшився вдвічі, а в місцях компактного проживання значно більше. Влада КНР заперечує ці факти.

Нідерланди
До 2014 року в Нідерландах при зміні статті обов'язковою була стерилізація. У 2020 році уряд країни прийняв рішення про виплату компенсації у розмірі 5 000 євро трансгердерним людям, яки пройшли стерилізацію. За період з 1984 по 2014 рік в Нідерландах змінили стать приблизно 2 тисячі людей.

Німеччина
У 1933 році в Німеччині, нацисти, які прийшли до влади, почали запроваджувати євгеніку, яка була більш відомою під назвою «расова гігієна». У рамках цієї політики у 1933 році був прийняти  (Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses). На підставі цього закону була дозволена стерилізацію будь-якого громадянина, який згідно висновку «Суду генетичного здоров'я» страждав від списку генетичних розладів. До 1945 року примусовій примусовій стерилізації було піддано 400 тисяч різноманітних «неповноцінних осіб»: євреї, цигани, люди з відхиленнями розвитку, душевнохворі, комуністи і та інші. далі. Пізніше було прийняте рішення про більшу доцільність їх фізичного знищення.

Перу
Наприкінці 1990-х років протягом чотирьох років у рамках урядової програми планування сім'ї для зменшення бідності було стерилізовано близько 300 тисяч жінок, більшість з яких не давали згоду на процедуру.

Словаччина, Чехія
У 1970-х роках у Чехословаччині розпочалася урядова програма стерилізація жінок ромської національності, яка була скасована у 1993 році. Хоча стерилізація продовжувалася у Чехії до 2007 року. Міжнародні правозахисні організації встановили, що примусово було стерилізовано сотні жінок як в Чехії так і Словаччині. Уряди цих країн офіційно не визнавали програму стерилізації. Лікарі, які проводили цю процедуру, отримували згоду від жінок, яким робили кесарів розтин при пологах, перед початком операції або після, коли вони були під дією наркозу і у такому становищі не зовсім усвідомлювали свої дії. Часто про те, що вони були стерилізовані, дізнавалися значно пізніше. Експерти вважають, що стерилізація була «частиною ширшого соціального наративу, спрямованого на дискримінацію, ізоляцію і викорінення ромського населення».

США
США першими у світі запровадили закони про примусову стерилізацію. У 1907 році закон був прийнятий у штаті Індіана, до 1917 року закони діяли у 16 штатах. Стерилізували психічно хворих і розумово відсталих, а в деяких штатах стерилізації підлягали також глухі, сліпі, епілептики та особи з фізичними каліцтвами, хронічні алкоголіки. У 1927 році політика стерилізації генетично «дефективних» людей була підтримана Верховним судом США у справі мешканки штату Вірджинія Керрі Бак (Carrie Buck), яка намагалася оскаржити рішення влади про її примусову стерилізацію. Програма стерилізації здійснювалася до 1974 року.

Узбекистан
Результати розслідування, проведеного у 2012 році журналістами BBC, показали, що Узбекистані про велику кількість стерилізацій жінок. Журналісти отримали інформацію, що лікарям доводяться плани щодо кількості операцій з стерилізації. У 2010 році міжнародна правозахисна організація Expert Working Group опитавши медиків, зібрала докази про приблизно 80 тисяч випадків стерилізації. Джерела стверджують, що стерилізації призначена для контролю за демографічною ситуацією в Узбекистані, зменшення кількості випадків материнської і дитячої смертності. Ці результати допоможуть країні піднятися в міжнародній таблиці дитячої і материнської смертності. Урядовці стверджують, всі стерилізації проводяться тільки за згодою жінок.

Швеція
У 1934 році був прийнятий закон яким стерилізація «неповноцінних» рас визнавалася бажаною, але виключно добровільною. Стерилізація здійснювалася щодо осіб, які проявляли «стійку нездатність до навчання» або володіли зовнішністю, що не відповідала визнаним арійським стандартам шведської нації. Якщо хтось відмовлявся, то його залякували: погрожували ув'язненням у лікарні для душевнохворих, позбавленням батьківських прав або пільг. У 1941 році був скасований мінімальний вік для стерилізації. Згодом додалася кастрація небезпечних злочинців, а також «чоловіків з незвичайними або надмірними сексуальними бажаннями». За різними даними, протягом 1935—1975 років було стерилізовано близько 63000 осіб, з них 27 тисяч — насильно.

Японія
У Японії з 1948 по 1996 рік діяв закон про євгенічний захист, який дозволяв стерилізацію людей з вадами розумового розвитку, психічними захворюваннями або спадковими розладами для запобігання народження «нижчого» потомства. За час дії закону було стерилізовано близько 25 000 інвалідів, з них 16 500 осіб без їх згоди. Остання примусова стерилізація була проведена у 1993 році.

У 2019 році Верховний суд Японії підтвердив конституційність закону про обов'язковість стерилізації для зміни статті в офіційних документах. Правозахисники з Human Rights Watch заявили, що постанова Верховного суду несумісна з міжнародними стандартами прав людини.

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Interview with Gary Towne: Part 1
March 2, 2013 By Joel Minden, PhD Leave a Comment
Gary is the distance coach for the highly successful Chico State cross country and track and field teams. His cross country teams have achieved D2 top 10 national rankings an amazing 24 times (11 for women, 13 for men)!
Gary is also a highly accomplished distance runner with a 2:29 marathon PR. Gary was kind enough to share his coaching philosophies and training strategies in an interview conducted on 2/27/13.
In Part 1, we'll learn about Gary's teams and his athletes' competitive events, the challenge of competing in both cross country and track events, his use of periodization, how strength training plays a role in the development of distance athletes, Gary's approach to speed work, and the use of specificity in training.
JM: I understand you're not only the cross country coach but also the distance coach for the track team. Could you tell me a little about your teams, your role as a distance coach, and your athletes' competitive events?
GT: Basically, cross country and track are two different sports, but a lot of the same ingredients are needed in both, such as the type of work you need to do to have success. But the fall is our cross country season. The distances in cross country–for the men, 10k is the championship distance and for the women, 6k is the championship distance. In the fall, that's our primary goal, to be training to be successful at those distances.
Track is a different animal because I coach athletes that race as low as 800 meters and all the way up to the 10k. Even though I'm the head cross country and only technically the assistant coach for track and field, track season is maybe a bigger challenge for me because of the uniqueness of the training and the athlete and the events they're doing. As part of track you have the steeplechase event which requires hurdle work and some of the same things the other kids are doing, but also specific stuff that you need to do as a steeplechaser. It keeps me busy and it's a neat challenge working with different athletes. In the fall we're shooting for the same goals; in the spring it kind of branches out.
JM: Do you have some athletes who do track and cross country?
GT: Oh yeah. Pretty much everyone. It's rare that we have an athlete that would do only one of the two sports. Some of the kids are more successful maybe in one discipline than the other but they all understand the importance of both seasons and how one season can help the other. If you've got intermediate goals to have success in the season that's in front of you at that time, it really motivates you to get in the work you need. I've got kids who are very focused in the fall and spring. In the big picture, it helps them develop into a better runner versus if they were just doing one discipline and the rest of the year was focused on getting ready for the next year in that discipline. There'd be a larger window between competitive cycles and their commitment level might wane a little bit.
JM: Is periodization something you use?
GT: Oh yeah, definitely. You pretty much have to–both with how we put together volumes per week or per training cycle and of course how we put together workouts. Periodization's part of the whole process. You have to gently change training and the training's got to evolve as a training cycle goes along and as you're reaching for peaking at the right time of year.
JM: if you were training your cross country athletes to peak during the competitive season, how long would the season be and what would your periodization approach be?
GT: That's a really broad question because there's a lot to it, but in general they start training for cross country two weeks after their track season ends. For us, it's the first of June. By mid-June, after a two week break from track, they'll get their running going again. I set up plans for each person, individualized mileage plans that take them through each week of the summer, eventually leading up to our competitive season, which begins in the middle of September. That's when we start competition for cross country.
The summer is a lot of base building, just gradually building the mileage. Basically we integrate harder workouts, intervals and tempo running as we get further into the summer. By the time we get back into the school year, that's when our competitive season starts for cross country. Most of our athletes are not training together during the summer months. They're home or working summer jobs or internships but we're all back together by late August for the training camp in the late summer. Then we come back from camp and start official training together in early September. We build our training into the month of November, which is when our championships are for cross country.
Things transition from focusing on building mileage over the summer, to adding elements of harder running, to balancing the two by the time we're back in September–both high volumes and some really tough workouts. We hold the volume for the good portion of the fall season. Even while we're in the competitive season, we really focus our training on the month of November and getting ready for that. We work through a lot of the big invitationals that we compete at. We understand that the most important thing is having success at the national championships every year.
JM: What kind of mileage are your athletes looking at when building a base?
GT: That depends on the person's background, how many years they've been in our program, and what their background in the sport is like. We have some kids that come into our program having run maybe 30 or 40 miles a week, which is not that much, given what we need to be doing to have success at the national level in college. And then we have others who've reached up to 70 or 75–or even 80–miles a week at their high schools or community colleges before they got here. It's important that I don't take everyone and put them in the same training plan as far as how much they're doing per week because I might be undertraining one person or overtraining another person.
I have individual meetings with all the athletes before each season and I'm very aware of their background in the sport and lifetime mileage and what their strengths and weaknesses are. We create a training plan for each person. Volumes per week can really vary. For the men, they're racing 10k over tough cross country courses. The type of training to have success at the 10k cross country distance is similar to the fitness that it takes to have success for the half marathon. You need to be really strong to handle running a difficult 10k cross country course—strong, not like muscular strong, but aerobically strong. You need to be very aerobically sound. So a lot of our training is geared around training the aerobic system.
Our top guys are averaging in their bigger weeks like 80 to 90 miles per week. Some get a little further up; some maybe a little under that if they're newer to the program. For the women, since they're only racing 6k, it doesn't require quite as much aerobic background to have success. They're still putting in some good volumes, even though things can really vary, depending on the person. A lot of our top runners who've been in the program for quite some time are getting into the 60-80 mile a week range in the bigger weeks. But that's kind of a rough idea. Some are below those numbers and a few maybe above.
JM: is there a strength training component?
GT: Yeah, like weight training? We do some of the ancillary stuff that could be considered strength training. We do a core routine after easy days or recovery days of running. One of my former assistant coaches developed a plan that we've been following, and we have a weight training routine that one of my assistant coaches and I have worked on. They lift a good 2 or 3 days a week during the good majority of the season and they're doing a core routine during the same window.
JM: Are you having them do basic squats and deadlifts–things like that–or Olympic lifts?
GT: Not so much the Olympic lifts. More stuff that's a little controlled. I always worry with Olympic lifting; we have a lot of kids who aren't the most gifted at movements—they're good at running but I cringe at the thought of a kid getting injured because they're having a really difficult time. Our lifts are a little more safe and a little less strenuous on the joints, especially knee joints. One of my fears is that I don't want to injure ourselves doing something that isn't going to help us or isn't going to help us as much as the act of running. I've had athletes injure themselves by doing too much in the weight room and from doing ancillary stuff that put them too at-risk for injury. We steer them away from Olympic lifts but there are a variety of exercises we do in the weight room that touch on different muscle groups. Some are directly linked to the act of the running and maybe others that work on the outside muscles, maybe stabilizers that may be neglected a bit in the act of running. But yeah, that's a little of our routine.
JM: Do you have any concerns about hypertrophy, developing too much muscle mass?
GT: Generally that's not too big of an issue with our group. It's funny because, as our team has gotten better, the athletes have gotten smaller. Years ago, the fastest runners in distance running, the fastest marathon runners in the world, the average weight was like 115 pounds. You don't have to be a small athlete to be successful in our sport but a lot of the better runners are pretty small. They're not in the weight room to get huge; they know they're not trying to put on mass. We get a few that we have to temper the way they're lifting. The way we have it set up with the reps and resistances is so they're not maxing out in anything they're doing. But yeah, you don't want to carry any extra weight that you don't have to. They're pretty in tune with that.
Speed Work
JM: Can you tell me a little more about the speed work you do in training? How frequently and, like you said, you have athletes who are doing 800m to 10k, so how does the speed training vary?
GT: In the fall a lot of our faster running is done in the park because it's more specific to the element that they're running in cross country races. So trying to get used to running faster on the road and trails in Bidwell Park is going to help us more than doing our faster running on the track. And of course the element of actual speed, top end speed isn't as much of an issue when you're looking at cross country and having success over a 10k course or over a 6k course when their average paces are not going to be nearly as fast as what they run in track. The two seasons, the elements of speed can be quite a bit different, but then there are similarities.
I kind of operate in different systems and cycle though different systems with respect to the faster running we do throughout the year. One day we might be working on the lactate threshold system, which is, as far as exact pace, it's roughly 10-15 seconds per mile slower than your current 10k race pace. The idea is to do 4-6 or even up to 8 miles of work within that window or that pace. The idea is that spending a good amount of time operating at that intense speed teaches the body to operate with lactic acid in the system, so it's sort of that cusp where the body produces lactic acid but doesn't flood the system with it. By training through that system, over the course of the season, then you're able to race at a faster speed and deal with lactic acid more effectively.
VO2 max is another pace threshold that we work within. That's stuff we do at a race pace, say 3k to 10k race pace, we call VO2 max work. We integrate some workouts at those paces. We'll do 3 to maybe 5k to 10k of hard running at like VO2 max pace kind of broken up into parts, like mile repeats or kilometer repeats. But that's another system that we try to touch on fairly regularly.
And then we'll do anaerobic work, that's meant to touch on the neuromuscular side of things, maybe 400 to 800 pace, that real fast stuff. Then we have some stuff that's even higher up, like long 8-10 mile tempo runs that are maybe 20-25 seconds per mile slower than lactate threshold pace. We'll do those (tempo) runs every so many weeks. We just kind of recycle through those systems. As we get more efficient and work through those different systems we get more and more fit.
In track, when we get to training mid distance runners, as opposed to our 5k and 10k runners, then things are even more split apart. With our 800 and 1500 runners we're not gonna train them at the lactate threshold or aerobic threshold as much; we're gonna touch more on the neuromuscular side, kind of lactate buffering type workouts that train them to deal with the quicker speeds. Generally we touch on faster running–well almost daily if you count strides after easy runs, but typically three days a week we'll have a dedicated interval session or a race can certainly act as a workout within a week. It's pretty typical to have 3 days a week with faster running and then we surround that with have aerobic runs. And we do a weekly long run, which is a big staple of our program. There's a lot to it and we're training quite a few systems and we cycle through the different systems. As we get into better shape through the course of the year, the paces will get faster through each of the systems.
I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my interview with Gary. Stay tuned for Part 2! Please share this article with others and like my Facebook page. I welcome your comments below.


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