Rights organization, Ijaw Monitoring Group, on Thursday challenged Christian and Muslim leaders in the country to speak out against the Federal Government in its face-off with the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
According to the IMG, the Sultan of Sokoto, who is also the President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar 111; the President, Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oristsejafor; and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, should not keep quiet, especially when there was a crisis of such magnitude in the education sector.
The Coordinator of IMG, Comrade Joseph Evah, said the silence of the religious leaders was "no longer golden in this instance."
He said, "I am not happy with the silence of the Sultan of Sokoto, Pastor Adeboye and Oristsejafor in the face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities. They are not interested in the ASUU matter because they all have their universities in which they are milking the poor".
"We expect these respected men of God to behave like ArchBishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. If this on-going ASUU strike happens to be in South Africa, Tutu will march down to the seat of power. But in Nigeria, our men of God won't do that because they worship money and every government that comes to power.
"We expect these men of God to intervene and ask President Goodluck Jonathan to go and negotiate with ASUU the way he went to the creeks in the Niger Delta and negotiated with the militants."
Meanwhile, ASUU has maintained that it would not call off the strike until the government implemented the 2009 agreement with it.
The National Treasurer of the union, Dr. Ademola Aremu, and Chairman of the University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, said this at a symposium entitled 'Education, research and development in Nigeria' in Ibadan on Thursday.
They said the claim by the government that their demands could not be met because of paucity of funds was deceitful and insincere.
Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar, Prof. James Epoke, on Thursday urged the government to emulate Ghana by funding the universities with dedication and utmost commitment.
Epoke told journalists in Calabar that funding had always been an issue in the education sector.
According to the vice-chancellor, Ghana is funding her university education with over 31 per cent of its annual budget while Nigeria dedicates only eight per cent of its budget to the sector.


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Strong financial performance for Discovery, with significant investment in future growth
Press release • Sep 10, 2015 07:51 GMT
Strong financial performance for Discovery, with significant investment in future growth
Performance highlights for the period include:
New business up by 51% to R17 532 million, boosted by Discovery Health being awarded the business of Bankmed Medical Scheme. Core new business grew by 15%.
Normalised profit from operations up 17% to R5 789 million
Normalised headline earnings increased by 16% to R4 027 million
Embedded value grew by 21% to R52 billion
Return on average equity measured at 18%.
10 September 2015 – Discovery today announced an outstanding set of financial results for the year ending 30 June 2015. Adrian Gore, Discovery Chief Executive, commented that apart from the strong financial performance, Discovery made important headway in paving the way for future growth, "The past six months was significant for Discovery, not only in terms of an excellent financial performance, but also for the sizeable investment made in new initiatives that in our view, positions the Group well for future growth."
One of the key developments for Discovery during the past financial year, was a hugely successful capital raising aimed at funding growth opportunities in the UK and other local market opportunities. Gore continued, "Discovery announced a rights issue in February to ensure our business in the UK is well capitalised for further growth and to fund further opportunities in adjacent industries in South Africa. The response was overwhelmingly positive with the rights issue notably oversubscribed."
Discovery invests further in its unique shared value business model
The year under review has been seminal for Discovery in terms of defining its business model in a disciplined way, and by building and globalising it. A core development in this regard has been Discovery's collaboration with Apple to launch Vitality Active Rewards with Apple Watch, for use by Vitality and the Vitality Network.
Gore explains, "As context, the global insurance landscape is subject to a number of accelerating trends. First, the nature of risk continues to change, becoming increasingly behavioural and complex in nature. Second, technology is becoming foundational to risk management, with the ubiquity of wearable devices providing the opportunity for insurers to better influence and price risk. Third, health promotion and disease prevention continue to be personalised – moving away from one-size-fits-all interventions to individualised treatment and dynamic advice. For insurers to succeed in this environment, there is a growing pressure to build the appropriate assets – from an insurance, behaviour and technology perspective."
Discovery's shared value business model – which incentivises healthier behaviour for the benefit of both members and insurers – is now visibly a global leader in the behavioural-insurance space. In August 2015, Discovery ranked at 17th position in Fortune's new index of 51 companies "changing the world" – a curation of organisations which have made a sizable impact on major global problems as part of their competitive strategy. This has validated Discovery's strategy to invest in the Vitality chassis to make it excellent and as such, globally relevant.
Discovery accelerated this investment with work in the areas of nutrition, preventive screening, and most significantly - physical activity. With the growing evidence of physical inactivity's impact on sickness and death, and the ability of wearable devices to enable better risk management – the case for technology-enabled physical activity in insurance is well made. On the back of this, the team in the UK pioneered Active Rewards – the next frontier in the science of Vitality – where physical activity is rewarded through a real-time rewards chassis, with Starbucks as a reward partner. The results of the UK prototype have been compelling, in terms of Active Rewards being a paradigm for driving significant member engagement and behaviour change.
This informed the intent for Active Rewards to become a chassis that underpins Vitality in all Discovery's markets, as a means of creating a scalable, global capability of benefit to all Discovery's insurance partners and members. During the period, Discovery collaborated with Apple on the development of Vitality Active Rewards with Apple Watch, which is designed to enable Vitality members around the world to be motivated and encouraged to get more active and by achieving their goals, earn their Apple Watch and pay less for their health or life insurance. Vitality Active Rewards with Apple Watch is made possible by the innovative health and fitness features of Apple Watch and Vitality's clinical, actuarial and behavioural economics capability which have delivered demonstrable and sustainable health improvements within its client base over the past 15 years; and the actuarial surplus generated by the insurance products using Vitality at their core.
Aligned to this, Discovery continued to build out its Vitality Network of global insurers. Progress over the year included the launch of AIA Vitality in Hong Kong; the launch of Vitality-integrated insurance through John Hancock Vitality in the United States, and plans to expand into Europe through Generali.
Discovery's South African business driven by strong new business
In Discovery's primary market of South Africa, Discovery Health, Discovery Life, Discovery Invest and Discovery Insure, all posted robust performances. Discovery Health exceeded expectation with operating profit increasing 10% to R2 031 million, with significant investment in new initiatives; and new business growing 92% to R9 598 million with the award of the administration and managed care contract for the Bankmed Medical Scheme. Excluding Bankmed, new business increased 8% to R5 398 million. Lives under management achieved the milestone of three million, just after the reporting period. Discovery Health continues to create a highly-competitive healthcare system for the Discovery Health Medical Scheme and its 16 other schemes under management, through investment and innovation in its core assets.
Discovery Life demonstrated excellent operating profit growth of 15% to R2 968 million over the period (+18% gross of FinRe), driven by new business growth of 11% to R2 231 million, competitive products and innovations in the servicing space. Experience variances were positive at R236 million and the business generated R1 073 million in cash over the period. Discovery Life's strong performance is a testament to the efficacy of the shared value model, with members gaining access to competitive products and exceptional policyholder returns. To date, members have received over R1.3 billion in PayBacks, while the business benefits from a healthier, more integrated base and a lower lapse rate.
Discovery Insure continued to grow rapidly, with new business up 25% to R789 million. Discovery Insure is now ranked in the top three insurers in personal lines new business and is attracting 12%-15% of new business volumes in South Africa. The loss ratio also continues to improve, trending towards the long-term target.
The period saw Discovery Insure's differentiated model being further enhanced and validated, through an evolving reward proposition and measurable behaviour change. The business now covers over 120 000 cars and 7 million kilometres of data are tracked daily, with proven influence on risk and losses through the appropriate rewards. This reaffirms the power of the shared value model, as members are rewarded for safer driving, with loss ratios and lapse rates improving by duration, having a positive impact on the overall safety of South Africa's roads.
Further to this, Discovery announced the intention to expand its business model into banking and to establish an innovative full-service retail bank. The success of the DiscoveryCard has demonstrated the efficacy of the Discovery model which utilises the Vitality capability to leverage behavioural economic insights and incentives to encourage better behavioural choices, when combined with market-leading banking capabilities. This has resulted in a fast-growing, profitable credit card of excellent quality that offers unique value to members, and ongoing value to shareholders. It is this shared value model that Discovery intends to build on.
From a regulatory perspective, the ambition to establish and build a bank involves a lengthy and complex process in which the outcome is not guaranteed. A two-step approval is required: firstly to obtain authorisation to establish a bank – and thereafter, post complying with all the conditions, to apply for registration as a bank. Banking business may only commence once registration as a bank has been granted. Discovery is about to embark on this process.
From a strategic perspective, the first step in this direction was buying up Discovery's economic interest in the DiscoveryCard to 74.99% earlier this year. FirstRand Bank will retain 25.01%. Over the next few years, Discovery will move the Card off FNB's systems and onto Discovery's systems and platform. Discovery will then take operational control of the asset, and eventually build additional banking products on its chassis. This is a multi-year process and Discovery will communicate its progress periodically.
A successful rebrand of UK businesses to VitalityHealth and VitalityLife cements a good financial performance for Discovery
In Discovery's second primary market, the UK, the period was characterised by the successful rebranding of PruHealth and PruProtect to VitalityHealth and VitalityLife. This follows Discovery's acquisition of the remaining shareholding in the joint venture. Gore commented, "The rebrand of Discovery's business in the UK was very important for us as it reflects the integral nature of the Vitality asset to our ambition of building the best protection business in the UK."
Following the rebrand, VitalityLife, Discovery's protection business in this market, recorded three consecutive record sales quarters with new business up 22% to R1 079 million and normalised operating profit up 27% to R542 million.
In VitalityHealth, the health insurance business, the business saw the continuation of the excellent loss ratio and lapse rate performance of the business. It also experienced strong product resonance and member engagement with the Vitality wellness programme – particularly with the new Active Rewards benefit which was pioneered by VitalityHealth and launched at the start of the 2015 calendar year. VitalityHealth made a normalised operating profit of R223 million, up 10% from the previous period.
Further evolution of Discovery's international expansion model to a partner market model
The past financial year saw Discovery Partner Markets restructure its traditional joint venture operating model with insurance partners in foreign markets. Discovery has now adopted a "Partner Market" model where it acts as an intellectual property and service provider, enjoying a further share in performance profits. "Discovery Partner Markets continued to show promising performance as several partner businesses head towards profitability. The performance of Discovery Partner Markets is now on par with our other local and UK businesses at a similar juncture in their respective life cycles," says Gore.
In the United States, The Vitality Group demonstrated improvement in both new membership and engagement, increasing new adult membership by 33% to 774,518 and maintaining an excellent rate of members on the Silver or higher Statuses. "The growth in Vitality membership and engagement in the programme in the US reflects a growing realisation in the market that Vitality is changing the conversation to focus on healthy living," Gore says. The Vitality Group is working on a re-launch of its corporate offering in September, which will align its incentives with those of its corporate members, and make the product more differentiated in an increasingly-competitive market.
Ping An Health had a successful last 12 months and continues to grow the emerging health insurance industry in China. The Chinese private healthcare insurance environment, while still in its infancy, continues to show significant long-term opportunity. The Chinese Ministries of both Health and Finance continue to put forward proposals that encourage the purchase of medical insurance by employers and individuals.
New business more than tripled over the period to R991 million, predominantly driven by individual insurance sales, with white-labelled products continuing to exhibit aggressive growth. In the group market, Ping An Health achieved a year-on-year total revenue growth of 34%, maintaining its market-leading position with 40% share in this market segment. The quality of individual and group businesses remain excellent, with loss ratio and lapse rates continuing within assumptions.
Gore concluded that the Group is well positioned for further growth.
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Khensanimth@Discovery.co.za
About Discovery Limited
Discovery Limited is a South African-founded financial services organisation that operates in the healthcare, life assurance, short-term insurance, savings and investment products and wellness markets. Founded in 1992, Discovery was guided by a clear core purpose – to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. Underpinning this core purpose is the belief that through innovation, Discovery can be a powerful market disruptor.
The company, with headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa, has expanded its operations globally and currently serves over 4.4 million clients across South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Singapore and Australia. Discovery recently announced an intent to partner with Generali, a leading insurer in Europe, and has partnered John Hancock in the US. These new partnerships will bring Discovery's shared-value business model to protection industries in Europe and the US.
Vitality, Discovery's wellness programme, is the world's largest scientific, incentive-based wellness solution for individuals and corporates. The global Vitality membership base now exceeds three million lives in five markets.
Discovery is an authorised financial services provider and trades under the code "DSY" on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange.
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Following the success of the Yorkshire and the Humber group careers seminar at the University of York, The University of Leeds hosted a similar event on 29 November 2012. The event was designed to inform undergraduates, postgraduates and post-docs on the range of careers possible from lab-based to office-based roles.
Rebecca Farnell, from the Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) explained to the audience what knowledge transfer is. She then demonstrated that many different routes are possible to earn a career in the chemical industry and that a PhD is not required, however, experience is essential. She also showed the importance of finding a mentor and having a career development plan.
Paula Tomlin, a senior scientist in pharmaceutical development has the vital job of providing materials for clinical trials, making batches from 500g to 500kg of drug substances. She spoke of how a typical day in the job means moving between lab, office and plant, keeping in touch with people working in a multitude of disciplines, including chemists, process engineers, crystallisation and formulation scientists and project managers. She stressed the importance of working in an extended team, and the variety and enjoyment that brings to a working day.
Dan Woollaston, a trainee patent attorney, was kind enough to give his entertaining talk from the University of York careers options seminar again. He described how the role of the patent attorney is to advise on patentability, filing strategy, prosecution strategy, on freedom to operate/infringement issues, due diligence, litigation and licensing. He highlighted the keys skills required for his role are common sense, empathy, problem solving, communication and the ability to influence.
Harvey Smith, a senior manager from Nufarm UK, gave a talk about manufacturing. He showed that undertaking industrial placements can be very important and offer vital experience in industry. After his placement in quality control he decided to become a process operator, which required shift work. This move was seen by some as a backward step but he made the decision because of the progression opportunities.
This role allowed Harvey to use his chemistry skills whilst developing his man-management skills. He has since moved to shift supervisor and then plant manager. He says it is very important to look for gaps where you can make a contribution and get yourself the knowledge/experience you need to get there.
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Q: log4j not printing the stacktrace for exceptions I am using log4j with tomcat. When I log exceptions in my JSPs, servlets:
private Logger _log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass());
...
try{...} catch (Exception e) {
    _log.error("Error refreshing all prices", e);
}

I only get the first line of the exception, without a stacktrace.

17-Feb 17:37:45 ERROR AutoContrib:175 - Exception while publishing csv file:
  java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Not very helpful at all!
My log4j.properties file (/tomcat/common/classes/log4j.properties) looks like this:
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MMM HH:mm:ss} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
log4j.appender.stdout.threshold=info

log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.maxFileSize=5000KB
log4j.appender.file.maxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.file.File=${catalina.home}/logs/web.log
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd-MMM HH:mm:ss} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
log4j.appender.file.threshold=info

log4j.rootLogger=debug, stdout, file

A: Like answered by @Luhar above, I struggled with same thing and finally this worked for me;
Good thing about this approach is we don't have to tinker with system level settings like JVM, Log4J since we never know it may lead to new unexpected surprise !
try {

...
..

} catch (Exception er) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        er.printStackTrace(new PrintStream(os));
        LOGGER.error(new String(os.toByteArray()));
        //LOGGER.error(er);
}

A: There are two overloaded methods for error method.

*

*logger.error(ex);

*logger.error("some oops string ", ex);
if you use 1st method , which will only print the name of the Exception.
if you use 2nd method, some message along with exception which will print complete stack trace similar to  e.printStackTrace() method.

A: What you have posted should display the stack trace as stated in the javadoc.
Note that if you don't include a message (and just call logger.error(ex)) then the stack trace is not logged.

A: Actually, it's probably due to a hotspot optimization: after a certain number of the same exception being thrown it stops printing out trace. This can be turned off with a VM arg, see:
From http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/relnotes-139183.html :

The compiler in the server VM now provides correct stack backtraces
  for all "cold" built-in exceptions. For performance purposes, when
  such an exception is thrown a few times, the method may be recompiled.
  After recompilation, the compiler may choose a faster tactic using
  preallocated exceptions that do not provide a stack trace. To disable
  completely the use of preallocated exceptions, use this new flag:
  -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow.

More here:
http://jawspeak.com/2010/05/26/hotspot-caused-exceptions-to-lose-their-stack-traces-in-production-and-the-fix/

A: I don't see anything wrong with your config, so try to upgrade log4j to a newer (not necessarily the latest) version.
Though not the problem in this case, you'd better make your loggers private static final

A: I haven't used the fillStackTrace call, so I cannot comment if that will work.  Another approach is to use a little method that returns the formatted text from an Exception.
public static String getStackTrace(Exception e)
{
    StringWriter sWriter = new StringWriter();
    PrintWriter pWriter = new PrintWriter(sWriter);
    e.printStackTrace(pWriter);
    return sWriter.toString();
}

In your logging code, you could write:
logger.error("An exception occurred: " + Utils.getStackTrace(e));

A: You can add these lines of code in your catch block.
catch (SQLException e) {
            CharArrayWriter cw = new CharArrayWriter();
            PrintWriter w = new PrintWriter(cw);
            e.printStackTrace(w);
            w.close();
            String trace = cw.toString();

    log.error("This is complete stacktrace", trace);
}

A: Using your code sample:
private static final Logger _log = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);
...
try{...} catch (Exception e) {
    //Change
    //_log.error("Error refreshing all prices", e);

   //To
    _log.error("Error refreshing all prices", e.fillInStackTrace());
}

You'll see all the stack trace displayed.
PS. Make Logger a singleton...(check my declaration) just after declaring public class MyClass {

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The Urban Herbal Apothecary
Foraging has been Josie Weber's practice since she was a little girl. In the deep, dank darkness of the forest interior, Josie would gather her loot: soft clusters of green moss, jagged pinecones, and sleek forgotten feathers. At home, she would display these treasures in Mason jars for safe-keeping. As homage to the calm and quiet of nature, these "nests" would help her find peace in a tumultuous household.
"I struggled with anxiety and depression in my adolescence. I had a traumatic childhood, and nature always made me feel grounded," she explains as we sit at the dining table in her Craftsman-style bungalow in Schnitzelburg. On the table is a basket of pinecones, and an altar of owls peers down from the credenza to my left. Despite the five o'clock traffic outside this urban home, the feeling inside is that of the forest: dimly lit, quiet, and spiritual.
"I still collect crystals, stones, feathers, and create little nests all around the house. Over there," she points into the fireplace, "I have a pot with a blue stone inside, and on the shelf across from it, I have a black obsidian [known for protective qualities] and a quartz crystal beside it to cleanse and recharge its energy. Together, they balance the energy and protect my home. When one of them is moved or missing, I can feel it," she says with a smile.
The grid, placed by the home's entryway, is curated with intention, like the rest of the home, for protective and healing properties. Outside, lavender adorns the front porch, a symbol of luck and devotion, planted as a welcome to her guests. Inside the doorway, rosemary hangs to ward off evil spirits. In the kitchen, open shelves display various jars of dried flowers and herbs, a natural apothecary Josie has cultivated through her practice in herbalism. A dried tea wreath of rosehips, sage, white pine, and black cherry hangs in the center, a circular portal to Josie's memory of foraging in the Appalachian Mountains
In the next room, another "nest" of tiny feathers (the small ones, Josie was once told by a medium, symbolize wishes), moss, her son's baby teeth, and two iron nails held in cross formation by bright red string (a pagan folklore practice intended to dispel negative energy and protect loved ones). In the basement one finds a complete apothecary of dried flowers, rows of brown bottles for tinctures, and concoctions of flowers and stones stored in giant glass jars.
This is the home of a modern herbalist. Josie has spent the past five years immersing herself in the world of herbal medicine, mostly in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. There, natural medicine and witchery are part of the culture and it's where she began her study.
Josie, a recent graduate of The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine in Weaverville, North Carolina, says she has found her purpose. A few years ago she was struggling to feel fulfilled.She had too long waited tables and was looking for a change. Scott, her husband, suggested that she make a list of what makes her happy. "Everything I wrote down had to do with nature: gardening, hiking, flowers, and healing. So I did some research and enrolled in The Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism in Asheville."
There, she hiked through the forest in total silence and sat with the plantlife, communing with the flowers and plants on the program's plant walks. "I was at a place in my life where I was really listening to myself, so I was also able to listen to the plants and flowers."
Out of this path, Josie has planted the seeds of a small business. Hearth + Moon is a small batch, local herbal apothecary that makes tinctures, tonics, salves, and stone or floral essences geared toward a variety of ailments: stress, anxiety, sleep, sexual and hormonal support, etc. She grows the plants herself in two community gardens and makes the medicines in her home while her owls and bundles of sage surround her with protection.
Through the use of herbalism, Josie has weaned herself off of antidepressants and anti-anxiety pharmaceuticals, she treats her family's coughs and winter maladies, and continues the matriarchal practice of natural healing.
"Witchery is a trend now, but these folk practices, passed down from hundreds of years, have kept people alive. All women had back then was what grew around them, the ability to cook, and the instinct for survival," Josie says. She shows me the beginning stage of her flower essence cider. As she rolls the jar around, revealing the meaty magenta flowers inside, I can see that Josie is living beautifully despite the city noise outside. Inside her urban herbal apothecary, the spirit of nature protects her clan.
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The Helpline Center serves as the "front door" for people who are in need of assistance. Our staff and volunteers are equipped with handling calls with compassion and dignity. We manage about 40,000 calls annually from various neighborhoods throughout the Seattle and King County area. People call us when they are in dire circumstances such as the threat of eviction, utility shut off notices, hunger, and other basic needs.
The Helpline Center connects those in need with our neighborhood volunteer groups (or "Conferences"). Our Conferences follow up the individual or family with a home visit.
This is the heart of our service. Neighborhood group volunteers that belong to our Conferences (or Vincentians) serve over 40,000 individuals annually through in-home, person-to-person visits. Home visits give us a true assessment of the needs of the individuals and families requesting help. By visiting people in their homes, they do not have to take time off from work, arrange for childcare, or find transportation.
Our neighborhood Vincentians are the soul of our organization. We have more than 50 neighborhood-based groups with over 1,200 volunteers travelling in pairs to provide neighbor-to-neighbor assistance. St. Vincent de Paul helps people avoid eviction by providing rent and utility assistance as well as vouchers for gasoline, food, and other basic supplies. We also refer callers to other agencies and services when necessary and appropriate. A combination of donations, grants, funds raised by our Conference Parishes, and our thrift store revenues fund this direct assistance.


A VPN effectively prevents even a network operator from peeping your activities.
When you connect to a free or paid public Wi-Fi network, you may notice that some redirection takes place. Instead of taking you to a website you intended to visit or retrieving your email, Apple cleverly inserts a Wi-Fi portal pop-up or screen in both iOS and macOS. On that screen, you can login or agree to terms and conditions for use of the network and proceed.
Apple makes this portal page appear when your iPhone, iPad, or Mac can't reach an Apple site directly after you joined that network. The operating system understands that something is standing in your way, and it's almost always a portal page that Apple can repackage to make it easier for you to spot.
Apple tests whether it can connect to one of its domains to see whether there's a portal in place on a Wi-Fi network.
But should you worry that the network operator—whether a mom-and-pop coffeeshop, a hotel chain, or a corporate entity offering free access—can peep your data as it flows over what is, truly, their network?
Not really, and I'll explain why. However, if you have lingering concerns, a virtual private network (VPN) subscription will alleviate them. Let me first explain why you have little to fear, and then go into VPNs.
The redirection at a Wi-Fi portal happens at a very coarse level. Whoever is running the network blocks devices it doesn't know about until they prove themselves, effectively cutting off the internet. However, once you pass the test—clicking a button, logging in, or entering payment—the redirection ends, and you have unfettered internet access.
But it's also worth considering whether these unprotected and often barely-managed or barely-monitored networks might have snoopers on them. That could be someone sitting in the corner of a café, though that's unlikely. It's more probably that if you're on a compromised network, it's a computer on the network with malware installed that's trying to grab details, or a router has been updated to include virus-laden firmware.
If you get such a warning more than once at a physical location on its Wi-Fi connection, if you have the time and can find someone there who cares, let them know.
Some people simply don't want the potential for any of their networked data to be examined, whether the contents of it are secured or not. For instance, a third party scanning a network could determine what sites you're visiting, even if they can't figure out what pages you retrieve or see the information you submit or get back in return.
That's where a VPN comes in. A VPN typically encrypts all the data entering and leaving your computer or mobile device by routing it all to a server elsewhere on the internet in a secure data center. Even if most or all of what you do already uses an encrypted connection, the VPN wraps another layer around it, providing more anonymity in the location you're in and more privacy overall.
You can configure most VPNs to turn on automatically whenever you're on an unknown network, or one you've marked as public or untrusted.
A VPN typically costs from about $4 to $10 a month depending on features and how much bandwidth you think you'll consume. If you spend a lot of time on networks that you don't control or ones run by your work, unlimited plans are available.
Fellow Macworld writer Seamus Bellamy rounded up the best VPN services for Mac and iOS users earlier this year, and our colleague Ian Paul at PCWorld took a slightly different look at criteria in October 2018.
This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Åse.


Companies that own free trade zones, which are areas designated by the government for duty-free entry of goods. The free trade zones are either general or industry-specific zones that host companies in various sectors (including media, financial services, education, health care, and other industries). Free trade zones generally offer tax incentives, full ownership rights, and simplified regulations to tenants.


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2020 World Fellow Allen Fung: Social Media and Democracy
The speaker event was hosted by the International Students Organization.
By Faisal Al Saud
"We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. Social media platforms have amplified biases and enabled us to shut all of the voices and positions that we do not agree with," claims 2020 World Fellow Allen Fung.
On October 29, 2020, in a seminar hosted by the Yale International Students' Organization (ISO), Mr. Fung assessed the significant effects of social media on political discourse within China and globally. Throughout his remarks, Mr. Fung presented a stark paradox of social media's rise. Technological interconnectedness has been a democratizing force, but at the same time it has facilitated the rise of populism and fringe ideologies. At its best, social media provides all who can access it with a platform to espouse their ideas, theories, and claims. And at its worst, social media provides all who can access it with a platform to espouse their ideas, theories, and claims. This element of universal accessibility has been revolutionary. As Mr. Fung stated, "Content creation is no longer dominated by professionals and institutions. Everybody can be a content creator."
Mr. Fung commented on the ubiquity of social media through the example of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement in Hong Kong during 2014. He commented on how this protest movement marked a turning point in political activism in Hong Kong. No longer did people have to rely upon traditional organizational modes to rally support and organize. Rather, protest organizers utilized social media platforms such as Fire Chat, Telegram, and Zello. Moreover, the protestors' inherent mistrust of democratic opposition party leaders fueled the use of social media. The use of these platforms mitigated government surveillance and tracing while allowing for organizers to create truly city-wide demonstrations. This campaign lasted for 79 days, and it was ultimately unsuccessful in its goal of attaining universal suffrage. However, as Mr. Fung argues, the movement inspired a new age of socio-political activism in Hong Kong and internationally. Many of the same technological tactics were used during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill movement. When speaking about the influence of social media on politics more generally, Mr. Fung further claimed that "by empowering citizens, social media can help keep the government in check and it can also help heighten public awareness of political issues."
While social networking has been a tool for democratic development, it cannot be disregarded that it has also contributed to the rise of extreme ideologies and hate speech. Mr. Fung believes that one of the main reasons for this reality is that "idiosyncratic and niche content can be generated and shared and may actually become mainstream." He went on to say that controversial content tends to garner more user interactions through likes, comments, and shares. Due to this reality, content that is provocative can find its way into the realm of conventional discourse. Social media algorithms tend mostly to expose people to perspectives they have already shown interest in. In this way, social media does not always function as a digital marketplace of ideas. While, yes, diverse perspectives are available, people are not necessarily directly exposed to views that are contrary to their own. Mr. Fung elucidated that "already divisive societies have seen their divisions widen because of the heated encounters both online and offline."
The use of media to stoke division is not unprecedented, however. Mr. Fung commented on the use of media by political leaders in the twentieth century, explaining that "charismatic leaders made use of the new mass media at the time to gain power. They employed fake news and hate speech to group like-minded people together. This is the process that turned populism to fascism." Mr. Fung highlights a stark parallel between the role of media in exacerbating divisions in both the past and the present. The current ascendance of populism globally begs the question: what is to come next? And what should be done?
Mr. Fung said that while the future of social media is not preordained, if it remains in its current state, it will continue to further political divides. He emphasized that social media platforms have yet to create an effective way to keep user behavior in check. Preventing the spread of fake news and hate speech is especially difficult due to the potential infringement of free speech rights. Nevertheless, Mr. Fung calls on social media organizations to reimagine content moderation to reign in hate speech. He does not disregard the importance of free speech but maintains that we must find a balance between free speech and content regulation. Societies must find this equilibrium together through open engagement for the sake of democratic and social cohesion. Mr. Fung proposes that social media platforms should also reevaluate their algorithms to prevent the omnipresence of ideological echo chambers. Also, technologies that created deepfake can help us detecting deepfake also. With the correct mechanisms, we can detect, flag up, and moderate the effects of fake news, hate speech, and echo chambers.
Social media has a complex relationship with democracy. On the one hand, it has inspired burgeoning socio-political activism. On the other hand, it has led to the denigration of political discourse. Mr. Fung believes that the role of social media in politics will depend on whether societies can work together to agree on how social media platforms should be operating, and how individuals should behave on those platforms to protect productive political discourse and communication.
Faisal Al Saud is a first year in Berkeley College. You can contact him at faisal.alsaud@yale.edu.
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The Epic Origin of SA's Citywide Scavenger Hunt for Health
by Amanda Merck June 4, 2017 June 7, 2017
A Fit Pass participant shows off her Fit Pass passport at the 2016 kickoff event a Pearsall Park. Credit: Courtesy / Salud America!
Did you know San Antonio is the first city in the United States to conduct a citywide scavenger hunt for free health, wellness, and physical activity events?
It's called Fit Pass.
You can pick up a pass or download a bilingual Fit Pass app to earn points by attending cool summer wellness activities, starting with a free 5K run and fitness expo at Pearsall Park on Saturday, June 10. You can earn points and prizes throughout the seven-week program that concludes on July 29 with the Fit Pass Finale 5K on Aug. 19 at Lady Bird Johnson Park.
Fit Pass is important because it connects residents to physical activity options in areas that lack such options. When it comes to your health and how long you will live, your zip code is more important than your genetic code, because where you live determines your opportunities.
The origin of Fit Pass demonstrates how our city is making a big difference for residents.
The Big Idea: Scavenging for Health
Michael Baldwin, a former special projects manager for the City, saw alarming local rates of physical inactivity, which spurred unhealthy increases in weight and disease. Latino residents especially lacked access to city parks, gyms, programs, fields, and pools.
Indeed, Latinos all across the nation struggle to access physical activity options. They face barriers like cost, logistics, lack of transportation and childcare, programming that is not linguistically or culturally relevant, and poor marketing and educational outreach, according to research by Salud America!, a healthy weight promotion network based at UT Health San Antonio.
Baldwin looked for new ways to remove barriers in San Antonio.
"There's so many great programs, so many great locations available to people in San Antonio when it comes to health and wellness, but the question is how we get people motivated and excited to participate in these programs and visit these parks," Baldwin said.
In 2010, Baldwin and his team had tossed around a playful idea: start a health scavenger hunt in city parks to attract more people into parks for healthy activities. But, with no funding, it remained only an idea.
The Opportunity: "We had to develop it from scratch."
In 2012, Baldwin and his team learned the City had money for a health and physical activity program. The catch? Any proposed program had to be ready to go immediately.
Baldwin and his team dusted off their scavenger hunt idea. They searched for large-scale wellness scavenger hunts in other cities. They found none.
"There wasn't anything like this," Baldwin said. "We had to develop it from scratch."
The team brainstormed how to pull it off.
Start it in summer to engage out-of-school kids and families. Use a downloadable, stamp-and-passport booklet to track participation. Fill passports with already existing free and low-cost fitness, wellness, and nutrition activities provided by the city, like Fitness in the Park, and partners, like YMCA of Greater San Antonio, H-E-B, San Antonio Sports, and the Witte Museum. Offer prizes for accrued stamps or points.
"It was easy to develop partnerships with groups implementing health and physical activity initiatives because we were already at the table with many of them," Baldwin said.
The city manager approved the City funds for the Parks and Recreation department's pilot program for the scavenger hunt, which they eventually called Fit Pass.
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The Test: Prizes for Healthy Behaviors
Baldwin and his team tested Fit Pass in 2013. For several months starting that summer, Fit Pass awarded points to individuals and families for attending Fitness in the Park classes and using city pools, trails, and outdoor fitness equipment.
"[A point system with prizes for healthy behaviors] is a great incentive for some people, whether you're aiming to win something, setting goals for yourself, or just competitive by nature," Baldwin said.
The pilot program raised park attendance. Baldwin said public and private organizations also benefited from extra publicity, and families benefited from access to many free or low-cost health and wellness activities.
"[Fit Pass] gives people that incentive, that motivation, to go out and try something new, maybe something they haven't tried before," said Travis Davey, Parks department program manager.
The City agreed to fund Fit Pass again in 2014 and 2015. In 2016, the program was included in the Parks Department budget, enhancing its permanence. They also added FitPass as a mobile app so people can easily download it.
The Results: New and Improved Fit Pass
Program participation has grown every year, with more than 6,072 participants submitting their passports in 2016.
Davey has taken over the program for Baldwin, who has taken a new position as the City's acting manager overseeing Clean and Green in the sanitation and horticulture division.
This year, Fit Pass also has expanded to include several new fitness activities and new prizes, as well as including a team participation option for offices, families, and friends.
The Parks department also responded to participant feedback and tweaked the scoring system to allow participants to only earn points for two fitness classes a day.
Fit Pass is an excellent opportunity to try something new and June is an excellent opportunity to spread the word about health because it is Men's Health Month.
Spread the word and come to Pearsall Park for the kickoff event on Saturday, June 10, with a free 5K dash (register here) and wellness expo at 4838 Old Pearsall Rd. This will be the one year anniversary of the grand opening of Pearsall Park, which, under Councilman Rey Saldaña (D4)'s leadership, was transformed from a landfill into the biggest park in San Antonio.
Fit Pass participants hug the San Antonio Silver Stars mascot at the 2016 kickoff event at Pearsall Park. Credit: Courtesy / Salud America!
The 505-acre Pearsall Park includes a dog park, zip line, disc golf course, 40-yard sprint timers, shared workout pavilion, traveling rings, and two basketball courts; the largest playground, skate park, and two splash pads in the city; and a 5K, 10K, and single loop half-marathon course that do not cross city streets or park roads.
Baldwin said Fit Pass has a bright future — and so do residents.
"We'd like to increase the amount of people participating, so we can continue to change lives in San Antonio," Baldwin said.
The Future: Health by Zip Code
To even further change lives in San Antonio, we also need to look at opportunities at the zip code level, because health is not about pumping iron at a gym, it is about moving more and sitting less where you live, learn, work, play, and pray.
Physical activity should be the medicine of the masses, but often gets confused with exercise for the privileged.
Think about physical activity like food – you need it every day and you need it throughout the day. You wouldn't cram all your meals and snacks in at one time. We need to move beyond the perception that you should cram all of your physical activity in at one time.
Despite conflicting health messages over the past few decades regarding exercise, it is important not to discredit the ridiculously simple, astonishingly powerful, scientifically proven benefits of walking.
Unfortunately, we all know that opportunities for walking vary by zip code. For example, people of color and low-income populations are disproportionately burdened by pedestrian injuries and deaths.
"We won't save the number of lives we aim to without shifting our understanding of traffic violence from an individual behavior problem to a design, policy, and organizational practices problem," according to the Vision Zero Network.
Transportation and public health agencies should reform transportation spending at all levels to tie it to larger goals for health, safety, equity, and the environment, rather than to a focus only on traffic volumes and speeds, according to the National Physical Activity Plan.
The National Physical Activity Plan provides the most up-to-date, relevant strategies and tactics to improve active living across eight sectors of society: business and industry; education; healthcare; mass media; public health; faith-based settings; community, recreation, fitness and parks; sport; and transportation, land use, and community design.
The Active Living Council of San Antonio — a public-private partnership of policymakers, business leaders, school administrators, program providers, and community members — adapted the national plan at the local level and developed the Active Living Plan for a Healthier San Antonio.
Supportive policies, funding, and programs can positively influence participation in physical activity across the entire city and, thus, reduce obesity and obesity-related disease and improve overall health and wellbeing.
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Amanda Merck is a content curator/research area specialist for Salud America! at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She also is a VIA board member. More by Amanda Merck


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1836-1910, American landscape, marine, and genre painter. Homer was born in Boston, where he later worked as a lithographer and illustrator. In 1861 he was sent to the battlefront as correspondent for Harper's Weekly, his work winning international acclaim. Many of his postwar studies of everyday life, such as Crack the Whip (Metropolitan Mus.), date from this period, during which he was a popular magazine illustrator. In 1876, Homer abandoned illustration to devote himself to painting. He found his inspiration in the American scene and, eventually, in the sea, which he painted at Prouts Neck, Maine, in the summer and in Florida or the Bahamas in the winter. His oils and watercolors alike are characterized by their directness, realism, objectivity, and splendid color. But it is above all as a watercolorist that Homer excelled.
After 1884 he lived the life of a recluse. His powerful and dramatic interpretations of the sea in watercolor have never been surpassed and hold a unique place in American art. They are in leading museums throughout the United States. Characteristic watercolors are Breaking Storm and Maine Coast (both: Art Inst. of Chicago) and The Hurricane (Metropolitan Mus.). Characteristic oils include The Gulf Stream (1899) and Moonlight-Wood's Island Light (both: Metropolitan Mus.), and Eight Bells (1886; Addison Gall., Andover, Mass.).
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'There's a Lot of Potential for Quick Action.'
Rachael Riggs, Manager Meeting and Convention Sales Midwest U.S., Tourism Vancouver
When Hurricane Harvey struck last year, Riggs saw a startling post on the PCMA Catalyst listserv from a meeting planner in Houston. A woman's entire company had just been affected — 2,000 people displaced from their homes, as well as their corporate headquarters, by the storm and flooding damage.
"I responded to her, 'Are you ok?' And we kept up this email conversation, and I learned what they were going through," Riggs said. "This was during the first 24 hours and they were in shock. They needed everything."
Riggs and her colleagues at the PCMA Greater Midwest Chapter struggled to think of ways to help. They wanted to rush to Texas and help on the ground, but on such short notice, didn't know where to go, what to do, or whether it was even safe to be there. Riggs heard that the Red Cross was doing an excellent job with food and water, but that residents found themselves without the most basic of belongings. So they came up with the idea of creating an Amazon wish list, and having the items sent to be distributed from the garage of a resident whose home hadn't been affected.
"There were kids going to school with no shoes or socks, and just the one set of clothes on their back for five days. They needed everything," she recalled. "It was a total grassroots effort and it was totally nimble, which I love. I was proud of our chapter being able to move so quickly. If you think about it, in the travel industry we have a really cool network of people who have the pulse of what's going on in crisis situations, and the connections to be in touch and act fast. There's a lot of potential for quick action there."
Hurricane Harvey wasn't the first time Riggs and her colleagues had mobilized for a worthy cause. Incorporating humanitarian projects in conference itineraries has been a longstanding part of Tourism Vancouver's philanthropic outreach program, VanGiving, which once collected 36,000 diapers in a fundraising drive for a Chicago-based adoption agency. "People can make a difference when they attend a meeting," Riggs said. "When I go to events and speak about charitable giving, I say, 'Make sure your meeting has a way to give back. That's how you'll see members, especially millennials, moved to attend your conferences.'"
Learn more about Tourism Vancouver's VanGiving initiative at tourismvancouver.com/meetings/why-vancouver/vangiving/.


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Язовир "Гуен" (; ) е 2-рото по големина езеро в провинция Квебек. Площта му, заедно с островите в него е 1570 км2, коeто му отрежда 27-о място сред езерата на Канада. Площта само на водното огледало без островите е 1239 км2. Надморската височина на водата е 404 м.

Водохранилището се намира в централната част на провинцията, на около 340 км северно от Монреал. С построяването на язовирната стена през 1916-1918 г. нивото на водата се покачва и обхваща стотици малки и големи езера, свързани помежду си с безброй заливи, полуострови и острови. Общата площ на островите е 331 км2, а дължината на бреговата линия е огромна – 5650 км в сравнение с площта му. Водосборен басейн – 8570 км2.

Дължината на язовира Гуен е 102 км, а ширината му – 48 км. Максимална дълбочина – 26 м, средна дълбочина – 5 м.

От стената на язовира, построена на , изтича река Сен Морис (ляв приток на река Сейнт Лорънс), по която е построена каскада от 12 ВЕЦ-а (вкл. 2 закрити) с обща мощност от 2041 МВ.

След построяването си язовирът е наречен в чест на Жан Ломе Гуен (1861-1929) - премиер-министър на провинция Квебек в периода 1905-1920 г.

Хилядите километри брегова линия и обилието на риба в язовира предлагат важни дестинации за туризъм, летуване и риболов.

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Let $S$ be a given matrix belonging to some matrix space over a ring. I wonder if SAGE can find matrices, say $A, B, $ in such a space, satisfying the equations $A + B = S$ and $AB = S$. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!
on what structures is possible to iterate?


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Blu-ray Release: Mississippi Burning
– April 1, 2015Find Others: Blu-ray, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: Drama, Frances McDormand, Gene Hackman, Twilight Time, Willem Dafoe
Blu-ray Release Date: May 12, 2015
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Mississippi Burning (1988) tells the real-life tale of three young Civil Rights workers murdered in deep-South Mississippi.
Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning
The drama focuses on the FBI agents (The Conversation's great Gene Hackman and John Wick's Willem Dafoe) who arrive to investigate the crime among the region's shacks and chicken coops, on Main Street, Mississippi, and in the dark backwaters where the Klan takes care of its own.
Directed by Alan Parker (The Commitments), the movie also stars Frances McDormand (Moonrise Kingdom) and Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), the film features a lacerating screenplay by Chris Gerolmo, Oscar-winning cinematography by Peter Biziou (Richard III), and a score by Trevor Jones, which is available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.
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Q: Adding a .pem certificate to flask (dev server) I have a developed a flask app (i am rookie in flask dev). I have hosted on my test server, now the requirement is to establish a secured https connection . I have a .pem file from my organizations's CA. I am not able to use it in my flask app. Most solutions i find on the net are with cert and key file. I just have a pem file, how do i go about it? I am new to certificates. The code i am using is something like this:

if name == 'main':
context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2)
context = ('/apps/axiom_app/flask/cert_root.pem','/apps/axiom_app/flask/cert.org.com.cer')
app.secret_key = os.urandom(12)
app.run(ssl_context=context, host=so.gethostbyname(so.gethostname()), >port=v_port, debug=True, use_reloader=True)

AND the error i get is:
context.load_cert_chain(certfile, keyfile)
ssl.SSLError: [SSL] PEM lib (_ssl.c:3837)
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Q: SCons: mark target as built I have a build script which I can't control that builds everything (shell command that generates lot's of files), but most of the time it's sufficient to build just a few files, instead of running the whole script.
My SConstruct file looks like this:
cmd1 = env.Command(<main executable file path>, [], <build everything shell command>)

cmd2 = env.Command(<target file path 1>, <source file path 1>, <build file 1>)
cmd3 = env.Command(<target file path 2>, <source file path 2>, <build file 2>)

What I want is to mark cmd2 and cmd2 command targets as built, without actually building it if cmd1 target was built, is it possible ?

A: Do you mean that the command1 builds target 1 and target2?
that's really back to front if so.
the idea of a build system is it builds from the bottom up. It builds each piece you need, then puts all the pieces together to get a bigger piece, and so on.
It doesn't consists of one huge script to build everything and lots of little scripts to part build some of the things that the big script builds anyway.
You should be considering some structure like:
cmd2 = env.Command(<target file path 1>, <source file path 1>, <build command 1>)
cmd3 = env.Command(<target file path 2>, <source file path 2>, <build command 2>)
cmd1 = env.Command(<main executable file path>, [cmd2, cmd3], <link everything command>)


I am not alone in craving dark walls lately. But something about the light blue details in this dark blue room has me tripping over a smile I didn't realize was there. Okay, the salmon pink is pretty happy too.
One of my favorite parts of this room is the chandelier. Naturally it's "vintage" meaning "good luck finding anything like it." I tried anyway.
Foremost is the Ochre "Light Drizzle Chandelier" Available only to the trade, and probably thousands of dollars.
There's also a small knockoff on ebay - looks like a knockoff though.
I'm wondering how hard it would be to DIY something like this with teardrop chandelier crystals?
Or you could easily go with a more traditional rug like a Kilim with a similar color scheme. It would un-retro the feel of the room considerably, but could still work.
I love the white credenza in an otherwise color-filled room. And it wouldn't be hard come up with one if you were willing to replace the hardware yourself. With a little imagination all sorts of statement pieces could happen.
Cover the seats in something fabulous and you're set.
Myy favorite think in the room may be the little decanter and glasses. Something about them makes me feel spot-on. And luckily such a thing is not hard to find.
And the pale blue tapers in the lotus candlesticks top it off perfectly!
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21: Victor Brick: Building A Fitness Empire and Changing the Perception of Mental Health
"I want everyone to know that you are not alone" – Victor Brick. Victor Brick is the co-founder and CEO of Planet Fitness Growth Partners and the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation. Driven by his competitive spirit and alongside his wife, Victor has been able to expand his health and fitness empire all across …
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20: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann and her view of the future of health, public health, happiness and wellbeing
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09: Susie Ellis: Empowering Wellness World Wide
Susie Ellis grew up with an interest in health and wellness. As a gymnast, it was a regular part of her life. She's built a career focused on helping others take care of themselves"I feel I have been called to help empower wellness worldwide," says Ellis "and I've been doing that for four decades – …
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"When I am in my passion, I am co-creating global movements." – Charlie Hartwell. Charlie is a passionate investor who wants to elevate humanity and increase awareness through supporting entrepreneurs and companies in the health and wellness industries. If you are an entrepreneur interested in talking with investors, you don't want to miss today's conversation …
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15: Dr. Shauna Shapiro: Integrate Mindfulness into Your Life with 3 Key Elements
"I think that attention is our most valuable resource. I think that where we put our attention becomes our life. As a scientist, I've seen how these practices can literally re-architect our brain for greater clarity, greater peace, greater innovation, and greater compassion." — Dr. Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, clinical psychologist and …
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Karen Guggenheim is a strong advocate of the science of happiness. Her life's work has focused on bringing and sharing the tools and the science behind happiness. Her commitment to happiness was born from overcoming challenges and experiencing grief after her husband passed away. In episode 4 of Happiness 2.02, Guggenheim shares the stories of …
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"I'm very, very passionate about helping individuals, teams and leaders to be able to bring out even more potential than they could without me." – Jamie Sale, Olympic Gold medalist and founder of Jamie Sale International. After her career as an Olympic athlete, Jamie wanted to keep impacting other people's lives, so she dedicated her …
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21 Jan 2019 / 20:27 H.
KANGAR: Perlis is free of the Chikungunya virus that reportedly detected in Hat Yai, Thailand last week, said state Health Department director Dr Sirajuddin Hashim.
However, he said the department had implemented precautionary measures by putting up related posters as well as installing body temperature scanners at the Padang Besar Immigration, Customs and Quarantine Complex (ICQ) to facilitate those travelling from Thailand to check their body temperature to detect the virus.
"Chikungunya is just a mild illness due to the vector borne by Aedes mosquitoes," Sirajuddin told the media on the case's development here today.


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