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Coronavirus and Business Continuity
Is your organization prepared to ensure operations and core business functions during Coronavirus? Here, we cover threats that Coronavirus poses to business continuity and solutions to minimize disruption.
5 security predictions for 2021
Karen Walsh
Many organizations are planning to continue with remote work until at least late spring 2021 while others will continue to migrate to a distributed workforce as part of their long-term business plans. With all of this in mind, a quick look at the cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance Magic 8 Ball indicates that "all signs point to yes" for continued attacks and digital transformation.
Companies need to enhance cybersecurity amid the continuation of COVID-19 in 2021
Robert R. Ackerman Jr.
Is your company's cybersecurity policy as effective as it should be amid these tumultuous times? And if you're not an employee but the owner of a small business – typically someone with much less sophisticated cybersecurity protection – how does your online security stack up? The answer: Cybersecurity has improved, but markedly more has to be done to secure networks in 2021, the second year of the pandemic, as the number of cyberattacks has become staggering.
Anthony J. Ferrante Matt McManus
As global tensions continue to escalate, the Internet may find itself used as a weapon, something we are already starting to see happen, by nations attempting to exert their influence and enforce greater internal control over digital commerce and communication. Nations must recognize the threat of escalation beyond the point of no return and take steps to ensure that the interconnectivity of the open Internet remains intact long-term. This will prevent a "cyber dark age" in which governments implement national Internet protocols and stop the free flow of data across borders.
Three security trends to watch in 2021 and beyond
Kurt John
It's within this expanded terrain for cyberattacks that the security trends of 2021 and beyond are taking shape. Workers are engaging with company resources from diverse locations. At the same time, businesses have ramped up their digitalization journeys to be more flexible and agile after COVID-19's disruption of supply chains. The result is a dynamic tech environment where the continuity of business operations – and ultimately market competitiveness – will rely on robust cyber protections.
A look ahead to mobile security in 2021
Mike Fong
As organizations continue to adapt to life in the age of COVID-19, smartphones are set to take on additional responsibilities – even as the security limitations of these devices become ever more evident. Below, I've highlighted five key trends that are set to shape mobile security in 2021.
Cybersecurity in 2021 – what can we expect?
Simon Eyre
As we changed the way we work, cybercriminals followed because the modern criminal is constantly evolving in line with shifts in online behavior and trends. As we prepare to welcome 2021, what trends can we expect from the cyber world?
5 tips to weather the winter staffing storm and build a dynamic and flexible bench of reserve staff
Scott Erwin
Matching staff levels to demand has always been one of the toughest gigs, and in an industry sector like security where staffing needs to be set at an adequate level, it becomes even tougher. Right now, the security industry is seeing unprecedented levels of blow-outs - because of illness, lockdown, self-isolation and home schooling. Security businesses have to meet contractual demands with set staffing levels and as a result the sector is under further pressure to ensure they can fill any blow-out shifts. Thanks to COVID-related complications, staff sickness and absence rates could reach as much as 15% this winter.
COVID-19 has enlarged the digital footprint for American businesses: We've never been more at risk for cybercrime
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a new round of digital transformation. But in many cases, the rapid pace of digital acceleration has enlarged the digital footprint of both businesses and consumers beyond the capacity of our cybersecurity infrastructure to keep up. The scary reality is that the business impact of COVID-19 may be creating the perfect storm for a cybercrime pandemic; digital citizens will have to act aggressively to secure their data before it's too late.
Managing security on mobile devices through mobile certificate management
The pandemic accelerated the need for certificate management to enable authentication, encryption, and digital signature from mobile devices
Vinay Purohit
Mobile devices are part and parcel of today's increasingly distributed workforce. Laptops, smartphones, and tablets are provisioned by enterprises to increase employee productivity, while providing flexibility to work remotely. But when the pandemic struck, security teams across industries were challenged by the unprecedented speed and scale of the shift. This disruption created great strain for IT security teams. Pair that with the increase in employee BYOD devices, already-overworked IT teams raced to ensure only authorized devices could connect to corporate assets.
5 minutes with Paul Kohler – Security concerns with contact tracing apps
Maria Henriquez
A recent survey conducted among consumers and IT professionals by SecureAge Technology suggests that a majority of these groups believe COVID-19 contact-tracing technologies put individuals' personally identifiable information (PII) at risk. Generally, however, both these groups believed that these types of tools could help mitigate the spread of the disease, and would support a nationwide rollout of the technology in spite of privacy concerns. So, are contact tracing apps a 'necessary evil'? If so, what can be done to make these apps safer to protect PII and the privacy of the public? Here, we talk to Paul Kohler, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at S3 Consulting.
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Life out of death—dear Master, is it spoken
Of the life here, or in the better land?
Nay, wherefore wait? The vessel marred and broken
Shall now be moulded by the Potter's hand.
Life out of death—oh, wondrous resurrection!
Seed sown in conscious weakness, raised in power;
Thy life lived out in days of toil and friction,
"Not I, but Christ" in me from hour to hour.
Life out of death—a pilgrim path and lonely,
Trodden by those who glory in the Cross.
They live in fellowship with "Jesus only,"
And for His sake count earthly gain but loss.
Life out of death—blest mission to be ever
Bearing the living water brimming o'er.
With life abundant from the clear, pure river,
Telling that thirsty souls need thirst no more.
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This comforted me today after a death in my family. The living water is in Him! Our whole life should be given to bearing this living water to thirsty souls!
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First comes dying to everything else but Christ, then enjoying the triumphant resurection life; in resurection. What a wonderful hymn - Life out of Death! A vessel marred and broken becomes a vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the Master. May it be "'Not I, but Christ' in me from hour to hour."
The first stanza is a question. Is this life out of death something of today, or does one have to wait for the future? Based on what the writer learned and experienced, he answered: "Nay, wherefore wait? The vessel.../Shall now be moulded by the Potter's hand." This is a reference to the words of Jeremiah 18:4. The vessel was marred already. But the potter used the same clay to make another one. This is life out of death; this is resurrection. The emphasis is "here"; it is not the future or tomorrow.
Stanza two tells us how wonderful this resurrection is. "Seed sown in conscious weakness, raised in power." This is according to 1 Corinthians 15:43 which says, "It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power." The power of resurrection will be manifested in the body. On that day the body will be transfigured. But even today this resurrection life will be the strength of our body. "Thy life lived out in days of toil and friction." Many toils and sufferings are beyond what we can bear. If we tried to bear them, we would fail within a minute. Yet His life has sustained us. Indeed, "'Not I, but Christ' in me from hour to hour."
Stanza three includes the phrase "a pilgrim path and lonely." Following this, it says, "Trodden by those who glory in the Cross./They live in fellowship with 'Jesus only.'" This is due to the fact that such a one has known the power of the Lord's resurrection. The resurrection mentioned in Philippians 3 is mentioned here.
Stanza four brings in John 7. On the last day of the feast, our Lord stood up and cried with a loud voice, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water" (vv. 37-38). This refers to the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive. The power of the Holy Spirit is the power of resurrection. Those who have experienced the Lord's resurrection should also supply others with the Lord's resurrection. This resurrection life, this abundant life, will tell thirsty souls that they need thirst no more. What a blessed commission!
If we read this hymn a few more times, it will help us to understand what this life that comes out of death is, and what resurrection is.
The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Set 1, Vol. 19, The Power of Resurrection (LSM)
The Resurrection Life
Life out of Death
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Jeremiah 18:4; 1 Corinthians 15:43; John 7:37-38
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Q: Team site - Different view / web parts based on what stage the team members are in Is there a way to use the same team site to show different:

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*document library(s)

*webparts (show / hide)

*documents

*timeline

*etc

based on different phase / stage the team site is in?
Based on what phase / stage the team members need to view different information, what I was thinking about is to view / show different webpart / documentlibrary based on a filter on the page. Filter is based on URL

A: You can even do it in one webpart using XSLT, switching used templates based on a variable, like this:
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$phase = 'A'">
        <xsl:call-template name="phaseA"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$phase = 'B'">
        <xsl:call-template name="phaseB"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:call-template name="phaseDefault"/>
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with phaseA, phaseB, phaseDefault as templates showing different data / different aspects relevant for the specific phase.

A: I am assuming you want to configure what users see on a particular page, not throughout the whole site.  Given what I know about your problem, here's what I would do:

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*Create a page for each status, and put the relevant content on each page.

*Create a "gateway" page, which users will navigate to

*On your gateway page, query the list that contains the current site's status.  You can do this a number of ways - application page using C#, custom web part, or just a site page using JavaScript. Personally, I'd use the site page/JavaScript approach.

*Fetch the site's status, and in code, redirect the user to the appropriate page.

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Home > Couples > Carrie Underwood
'Self-Involved' Carrie Underwood & 'Paranoid' Mike Fisher's Marriage Is On Thin Ice As She Continues Tour Away From Home
By:Nikki Schuster
Nov. 29 2022, Published 6:30 p.m. ET
Church Bells may have been ringing when Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher promised each other forever, but is seems now all the couple hears is alarm bells as rumors of trouble in paradise continue to mount.
While the "Church Bells" songstress travels around the world for her epic Denim & Rhinestones tour, the retired hockey pro is playing househusband — and he is far from happy with how the "tables have turned," said a source.
"She used to be paranoid about him when he was playing ice hockey and traveling around with the team with all those groupies hanging around," the source told a news publication of the couple's marital woes. "Now he's paranoid about her being so many miles away."
CARRIE UNDERWOOD FACETIMES SONS 'EVERY DAY' WHILE ON TOUR AS INSIDER REVEALS SHE'S 'STRUGGLING WITH MOM GUILT'
Despite putting up a united front at the CMA Awards 2022 last month, Underwood and Fisher's PDA outing seemingly masked their icy behind-the-scenes arguments about their long-distance relationship.
"It's not the happy home they make it out to be," squealed the insider. "Mike's feeling a little under-appreciated. Carrie does tend to be self-involved, so it's up to her to make him feel cherished."
According to the source, the country singer and Fisher made a pact before she hit the road for her 43-stop tour, which runs through March 2023: Underwood promised to regularly head home for family time and Fisher would make sure she honored her word.
Flying Solo! Carrie Underwood Attends BMI Awards While Husband Mike Fisher Is No Where In Sight
Carrie Underwood Takes Break From Touring To Tuck Son Into Bed As Rumored Marriage Troubles Rage On
Marital Woes: Carrie Underwood & Mike Fisher's Marriage Plagued By Jealousy, Spills Source
However, it isn't just Underwood's tour that's putting a strain on the two — who share Isaiah, 7, and Jacob, 3 — but also the act that Fisher has career ambitions of his own.
FINE ON HER OWN! CARRIE UNDERWOOD FLIES SOLO WITHOUT HUSBAND MIKE FISHER AT 2022 AMAS — PHOTOS
After hanging up his skates in 2018 following a 20-year career, OK! learned Fisher has been getting a "lot of offers to go into coaching," a previous source spilled. However, "when he brings it up to Carrie, she says absolutely not."
"She reminds him when he was playing, traveling all over North America, they barely saw each other," the source added, pointing out that Fisher has dreams too, and if they get thrown to the side, their marriage may not last.
"If the two of them can't reach a happy medium in their personal and professional lives, their marriage is doomed!" exclaimed the insider.
Radar spoke to a source about the couple's strained relationship.


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The 1968 National Anthem Performance That Changed José Feliciano's Life10:53
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José Feliciano has won nine Grammy awards. (RCA Records/Getty Images)
José Feliciano's life began in Puerto Rico. Congenital glaucoma left him blind at birth. Five years later, he moved with his family to New York City. He learned to play the accordion and then mastered a $10 Stella guitar.
He says he would practice 14 hours a day.
"To me, it meant everything — because it took me a while to learn to play it, because I taught myself," Feliciano says. "When I would get home from school, that's where I went — to the guitar, immediately. I tuned into American Bandstand, and I would play with whatever records they played at that time."
Feliciano started playing coffee houses in Greenwich Village, then clubs around the country. In 1968, he won two Grammys, and his version of The Doors' "Light my Fire" rocketed to No. 3 on the charts.
That year, he also caught the attention of someone in the Detroit Tigers organization.
The 1968 World Series
"I heard about this young Puerto Rican, blind, who had burst on the scene," says late Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell in a 2009 video recorded by the Detroit Free Press.
Harwell was an amateur songwriter. So Tigers General Manager Jim Campbell had tasked him with recruiting anthem singers for the three 1986 World Series games in Detroit against the St. Louis Cardinals.
For Games 3 and 4, everything went according to plan. First, nightclub singer Margaret Whiting took the field. Then, it was Motown star Marvin Gaye.
"It was a little ironic that Campbell asked me, 'Would you please go to Marvin and ask him not to give too much of a soul rendition?' " Harwell says in the 2009 video. "So I did. And he said, 'Yeah, I'll sing it straight.' "
But Feliciano says Harwell never asked him to sing the anthem straight.
"He didn't have a chance to talk to me, which I'm glad of," Feliciano says. "Because if I'm told not to do something, I'll do it anyway.
"I had been working on a version of the anthem ... oh, at least a year before that. But it was totally radical and different than what I did. And I said, 'Well, José, you know what? Maybe you shouldn't be so radical and do it a little bit easier for them to listen to — and know that you weren't messing around with the anthem.' "
The 23-year-old Feliciano walked with his service dog to center field, settled onto a stool and cradled his guitar.
"That came out of nowhere. We weren't expecting anything different," says former Tigers pitcher John Hiller. "We said, 'Oh, my God, Ernie — what did you do?' "
Former Tigers pitcher John Warden was was standing near Hiller on the third baseline.
" 'Holy cow, what's that? What's he doing?' " Warden remembers thinking. "And everybody's looking around at each other. And you can hear the fans are sort of — you hear that background rumble."
"Well, I heard some cheers, but they were very sparse," Feliciano recalls. "And I heard a lot of boos. And I said, 'Wow, what did I do? Why are they booing me?' "
"I said, 'I'll fix it.' Well, it fixed me for a while."
I asked Feliciano when he really got the idea that there was a controversy.
"Well, when I went to my seat, because I watched a couple of innings," Feliciano says. "I had to head back to the airport and back to Las Vegas. I was thinking to myself, 'Wow, what did I do?' And Tony Kubek, who was a broadcaster then, came to me and said, 'You've caused some commotion here. The phones for NBC at the network have been ringing.' "
A Fan Club
But some people in Detroit, like 14-year-old Susan Omillian, loved hearing a new sound for the same old anthem.
"I was in class. On the way home, I heard that something had happened at the ballpark," Omillian says. "People were talking on the streets, on the porches along the way. When I got home, during the news, they showed a clip of this guy playing the guitar and singing the anthem as no one had ever heard. And it was like, 'Wow, this is cool.'
"There was so much negativity that I thought was unnecessary, uncalled for, unfair. I don't know, a 14-year-old, what do they do? Back in those days, if you're me, you start a fan club."
We'll get back to Susan Omillian later.
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I ask Feliciano why he sang the anthem the way he did.
"Because I was sick and tired of hearing it the old way and the audience, kind of, not being into it," Feliciano says. "Get to the end of the song, and the audience would start clapping as if to say, 'Thank God this thing has passed.' And I got tired of that. I did. I really, really did. And I said, 'I'll fix it.' "
"You sure did," I say.
"Well, it fixed me for a while," he says. "You know, my records were stopped. People at radio stations stopped playing my records. They wanted to deport me. But you can't deport a citizen of the United States. But it was funny to me. I thought, 'Where the hell am I going to go?' "
Fifty Years Later
Fast forward 50 years to Sept. 8, 2018. José Feliciano was in Detroit to sing the anthem again at a Tigers reunion. Before going to the ballpark, he met fans in a crowded room at the Detroit Historical Museum. As Feliciano answered their questions, his wife sat in the front row.
Feliciano improvised a serenade.
"Everything I do, Susan, I do it for you," he sang.
Susan — Susan Omillian — is the same Susan who started the fan club for José Feliciano back in 1968. She met him three years after his historic anthem performance in Detroit.
"By the end of the week, he was having dinner at my house," Omillian says. "And we went to Boblo — the amusement park. My dad was in the hospital at the time, and so he wanted to visit him. So, he brought a guitar and gave him a little concert at the hospital."
They've been married for 36 years.
"We married on our 11th anniversary of having become friends," she says.
José Feliciano and Susan Omillian in 2018. (Courtesy Roger Weber)
They have three children. And Feliciano rebounded after that '68 performance. His long career has produced 45 gold and platinum records.
At The Ballpark
A few hours after his appearance at the Detroit Historical Museum last year, Feliciano arrived at Comerica Park. He walked to a stage near second base to perform before a Tigers regular season game against the Cardinals. He wore a Tigers jersey with "Feliciano 68" on the back.
José Feliciano singing the national anthem at a 2018 Tigers game. (Courtesy Roger Weber)
I ask Susan Omillian what it was like for her to see him perform the anthem 50 years after the 1968 World Series.
"Oh, my goodness," she says. "It was a really important moment, because it defined his life in such a negative way for so long. It was magnificent. I wanted my town to let him know how they really felt — how we all as a people really feel. I think we've grown since 1968. And so we've gone full circle."
The rendition was about the same as the performance from 50 years ago. But Feliciano wasn't using the guitar from 1968. It had been donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of American history a few months earlier.
On that day in Washington, D.C., 20 people from 17 nations took the oath of citizenship. Feliciano gave the new Americans a message. It was in his heart long before his 1968 World Series performance.
"I welcome you all with open arms," he said. "And this is America. America will always be great because of the people who come to it and make their homes here. Thank you so much, and congratulations."
This story was produced by Zak Rosen. A longer version aired on the podcast "Mismatch."
This segment aired on March 23, 2019.
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There's a literal disturbance in the force that alters what physicists have long thought of as a characteristic of superconductivity, according to Rice University scientists.
Rice physicists Pengcheng Dai and Andriy Nevidomskyy and their colleagues used simulations and neutron scattering experiments that show the atomic structure of materials to reveal tiny distortions of the crystal lattice in a so-called iron pnictide compound of sodium, iron, nickel, and arsenic.
The discovery reported this week in Nature Communications is the result of nearly two years of work by the Rice team and collaborators in the U.S., Germany, and China.
Scientists originally found superconductivity at ultracold temperatures that let atoms cooperate in ways that aren't possible at room temperature. Even known "high-temperature" superconductors top out at 134 Kelvin at ambient pressure, equivalent to minus 218 degrees Fahrenheit.
So if there's any hope for widespread practical use of superconductivity, scientists have to find loopholes in the basic physics of how atoms and their constituents behave under a variety of conditions.
That is what the Rice researchers have done with the iron pnictide, an "unconventional superconductor" of sodium, iron, and arsenic, especially when doped with nickel.
To make any material superconductive, it must be cooled. That sends it through three transitions: First, a structural phase transition that changes the lattice; second, a magnetic transition that appears to turn paramagnetic materials to antiferromagnets in which the atoms' spins align in alternate directions; and third, the transition to superconductivity. Sometimes the first and second phases are nearly simultaneous, depending on the material.


Former AC Milan midfielder Kevin Constant has been included in Guinea's Africa Cup of Nations squad despite boycotting the qualifiers.
The French-born 27-year-old, currently playing for Trabzonspor in Turkey, was part of French coach Michel Dussuyer's 23-man squad for the 17 January to 8 February continental extravaganza in Equatorial Guinea.
Dussuyer also included uncapped France-based pair Bouna Sarr, the Metz midfielder, and Bastia forward Francois Kamano.
Guinea are in the Malabo-based Group D alongside Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Mali.


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El Borussia Dortmund balonmano (Borussia Dortmund Handball), en alemán y oficialmente, o Borussia Dortmund de manera abreviada) o por sus siglas BVB, es la sección de balonmano femenino del Borussia Dortmund de la ciudad de Dortmund, Alemania. Fue creada en 1909, en la actualidad disputa la Liga de Alemania de balonmano femenino.

Plantilla 2022-23

Porteras
 12  Sophie Amalie Moth
 15  Madita Kohorst
 16  Yara ten Holte

Extremos izquierdos
 6  Zoë Sprengers
 33  Anna-Lena Hausherr
Extremos derechos
 22  Meret Ossenkopp
Pívots
 9  Lisa Antl
 29  Emma Olsson

Laterales izquierdos
 11  Harma van Kreij
 23  Haruno Sasaki
 66  Dana Bleckmann
Centrales
 4  Alina Grijseels
 30  Frida Nåmo Rønning
Laterales derechos
 37  Anastassija Siwucha
 94  Sara Garović

Palmarés
Bundesliga de balonmano femenina:
Campeón: 2021
Bronce: 2000
DHB-Pokal:
Campeón: 1997
Finalista: 2016
Copa de Europa EHF femenina:
Finalista: 2003

Véase también
 Borussia Dortmund
 Borussia Dortmund II

Referencias

Clubes de balonmano de Alemania

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Join me Wednesday evening for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Sam Chaltain, author of American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community .
Sam Chaltain is a DC-based educator and organizational change consultant. He works with schools, school districts, and public and private sector companies to help them create healthy, high-functioning learning environments. Previously, Sam was the National Director of the Forum for Education & Democracy, an education advocacy organization, and the founding director of the Five Freedoms Project, a national program that helps K-12 educators create more democratic learning communities.
Sam's writings about his work have appeared in both magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Education Week and USA Today. A periodic contributor to CNN and MSNBC, Sam is also the author or co-author of four books: The First Amendment in Schools (ASCD, 2003), First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights (Oxford University Press, 2006), American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community(Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free: Stories Of Free Expression in America (Oxford, 2010).


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Mr H and I have been away for a few days. A 3 day court case in Bournemouth came up and I think I said something like, 'there's no way you're leaving me behind for that one'. In fact it turned out to be the longest break we've had (from the children) since our honeymoon. Four glorious days and three nights without having to organise four people 24/7. It was much needed.
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We had a nice romantic walk through this park. If you stand still for too long you attract a whole scurry of squirrels. We had half a packet of nuts which we thought would be nice to share. The sheer numbers of them gave me the heeby jeebies, they got so close!
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Out doing a little Christmas shopping with Mr.Chafin!
We have taken lots of pics during our shopping spree!
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You may not be an Irish dancer like the woman who sent this question, but if you are a runner, golfer, or you play tennis – or if you are just having chronic hip pain – you'll find answers to the cause of your pain, and what you can do to resolve it!
I am a competitive Irish dancer. I love what I do, it is my passion. I am 40 years old and I have been Irish dancing since I was 35.
The pillar of Irish dancing is core muscles and hamstrings. The better I have gotten with my dancing, the worst my everyday pain in my high hamstrings right at the hip joint (Bicep Femoris). I have been in pain for 4 years now. It only gets worse.can you please advise.
Obviously "Bridget" is overusing all of her muscles. She doesn't have a "chronic hip pain condition" she has overuse syndrome, and it CAN be reversed easily. It's just a matter of discovering what is causing the pain, finding the source of the pain, and then eliminating it with simple self-treatments.
I LOVE Irish dancing, and I've always appreciated how grueling it is for the dancers from their hips to their feet. I'm happy to tell you that it is easy to treat each of the muscles, but it's more than just your hip joint and hamstrings. This chronic hip pain pattern actually starts from your quadriceps, specifically your rectus femoris.
It will help you follow this discussion if you first read my article on hip joint pain relief . You'll see that your quadriceps cause your leg to go straight after you bend your knee, so it is being repetitively strained from all of the dancing.
The rectus femoris is the only one of the four quadriceps that originates on the tip of your pelvis, so when it is being repetitively strained – and therefore shortening – it is pulling DOWN on your pelvis and UP on your knee.
As your pelvis rotates down from this strain, it causes the muscles of your hamstrings to become OVERSTRETCHED. The worst thing to do is to stretch your hamstrings without first treating the muscles that have caused your pelvis to rotate.
The overstretching occurs because the origin of your hamstrings are on the base of your pelvis. So as your posterior pelvis is pulling your hamstrings, which have their own spasms occurring and are tying the fibers into knots, they are now being overstretched as the pelvis moves.
The muscles of your hip become involved because they are twisted as your pelvis pulls them down in the front, and contracts them as your pelvis moves up in the back. This puts a great strain on the top of your thigh bone, called the greater trochanter.
You need to do your self-treatments in a specific way to sequentially release your muscles in a manner that will reverse the domino-effect your rectus femoris is putting on your pelvis. As you release each muscle in what is called the Julstro Protocol , your pelvis will be able to release.
As a dancer, I suggest you self-treat each of the muscles regularly, even daily. This will force out the toxins that are created as you dance for hours, and will enable your muscles to heal while you sleep so you'll be fresh in the morning and not carrying around yesterday's pain.
You can release all of the muscles that are causing your chronic hip pain, and you'll find that you're dancing better, with more flexibility, and you'll also feel stronger.


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Mary Cockburn arrived in Dunedin from Scotland with her husband Alex in 1965. She embarked on another journey in 1976 when she was chosen for training with the Marriage Guidance service in Dunedin. This was the beginning of her career in psychotherapy; her interest and the work have never stopped. Her early learning was from that great combination of experience, supervision, reading and group discussion. This foundation supported her subsequent trainings in Gestalt Therapy, Adolescent and Family Therapy at Dunedin Hospital, and Self Psychology. Mary has continued her professional development ever since at conferences and workshops. Her clinical work continued in the Student Health service at Otago University and for many years with Presbyterian Support Services as a counsellor and psychotherapist. In the very beginning, at Marriage Guidance, they realised they had discovered a true gem. She has been immensely valued by colleagues and clients in her work in the consulting room, organisations and in the community.
Mary became an Ordinary Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in February 1986 in Christchurch. This was a significant event. She is modest and aspiring; her respect for, and commitment to the Association is deep and enduring. Mary took on the combined posts of Executive Officer and Honorary Secretary of Council. With reliable competence and good will she dealt with Council agendas, minutes, correspondence and published the newsletter. She has an open enquiring mind, is attentive and famously well organised. Her capacity for knowing the right way has been generously available to the Association. Mary's legendary knowledge and appreciation of our Constitution has guided many presidents and office bearers over the years. She understands the purpose and value of our founding document and its importance to our principles and practice. In 1994 she became Chairperson of the Admission Committee, and in 2001 she was given one of the first Distinguished Service Awards.
In all her undertakings Mary is wholehearted and thorough. She takes care, and gives it, in its various manifestations of thoughtfulness, planning, generosity and kindness. Her patients and clients know this; so do her colleagues and associates. She is astute in her understanding and has a sharp wit and lively sense of humour. She is courageous with the truth and has the warmth to convey it helpfully. When Mary Cockburn was Chair of the Admission Committee she presided over significant initiatives and developments which include the writing of the 'Orange Book' and the institution of the marking groups. In person she took care of many candidates facing the challenge of assessment for membership of NZAP.
Her qualities as a psychotherapist embrace her sensitivity and respect for the pain and problems of others and an abiding wish to be of service. She is known and appreciated for her deep and persistent commitment to making psychotherapy available to all, and particularly to those of limited means. Her skill, experience and courage underpin her readiness to do difficult work willingly and well. This includes running groups in the community which have been far-reaching in their scope.
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Mary is known for her good Scots sense, sensitivity, and the depth, brilliance and clarity we treasure. Her personal talents, professional skill, generosity and dedication have contributed immensely to NZAP. These esteemed qualities and her long service to the Association are gratefully acknowledged in the bestowing of Honorary Life Membership.


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Alumni, Arena, Athletics and Recreation, Community
Kate Elliot
A piece of Saint Mary's hockey history now lays at the heart of The Dauphinee Centre.
In a ceremony this summer the iconic smoking pipe of the late Bob Boucher was laid at centre ice, connecting Saint Mary's storied hockey past with the future of the sport at The Dauphinee Centre. Bob was rarely seen without his smoking pipe, which became a symbol of the well-loved coach and the tradition of excellence he brought to the university's hockey program.
An inductee of the Saint Mary's University Sport Hall of Fame in 1998, Bob Boucher was the coach of the Saint Mary's men's hockey team for 13 years. During this time, he compiled an astounding record of 231 wins, 33 losses and four ties and led the Huskies to the national championship game in four consecutive seasons from 1970 to 1973. He also coached the Dartmouth Moosehead Mounties who won the Hardy Cup national championship.
Bob came from an illustrious hockey family with connections to numerous NHL teams. A star junior player with the Montreal Junior Canadiens when they won the Memorial Cup in 1957, and with the Toronto Saint Michael's, an eye injury precluded his promising NHL career. Nevertheless, Bob went on to play senior and semi-professional hockey in Europe and the USA before being joining the Saint Mary's community.
He revived hockey at Saint Mary's, and also started the Saint Mary's Hockey Camp of Champions, a summer program for minor hockey players. He left Saint Mary's in 1980 for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers to be an assistant coach to his former teammate, Hockey Hall of Famer Pat Quinn.
"Sharing the rich hockey history and sports tradition of Saint Mary's makes a difference to our student-athletes," said women's hockey coach Chris Larade. "Ceremonies like today for Bob, honouring his contributions to hockey and the Saint Mary's community, show our student-athletes the lasting impacts that we have as a team on our community."
The recognition meant a lot to Anne Boucher and her son Robert. Anne is a former figure skating coach who worked out of the Alumni Arena. It was here that she met her husband, Bob Boucher.
"A lot of memories came flooding back today, it was very special to be able to share it with some of Bob's players and today's coaches," said Anne Boucher. "We have fond memories of the old arena, and we spent a lot of our time there. We actually lived on campus our first two years of marriage."
"The arena has always been a special place at Saint Mary's. The games, the atmosphere, the place was always electric. I am really looking forward to that atmosphere at The Dauphinee Centre. I know Bob would be very happy to see that passion back on-campus and to be a part of it in a new home for hockey."
Newer Post2nd cohort graduates from SMU-BNUZ joint degree program
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By Anders Melin
Sept. 15, 2020, 7:03 PM
Moving out of Bay Area, NYC may come with pay cut of up to 10%
Other tech firms have also mulled cuts for workers who move
Stripe Inc. plans to make a one-time payment of $20,000 to employees who opt to move out of San Francisco, New York or Seattle, but also cut their base salary by as much as 10%, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The payments processor will make the offer available to workers who choose to relocate before the end of the year, said the person, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss private details. But employees opting to move may have to relinquish some of their base pay.
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Bioware has announced new DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition that will be available next week.
Dragon Age: Inqusition: The Descent will be rolling out on August 11th, and will be available on all platforms on day one according to Bioware's Mike Laidlaw, meaning that it won't be a timed exclusive like previous DLC Jaws of Hakkon. However, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players won't be getting The Descent, as Inquisition's DLC is only being released on current-gen platforms moving forward.
The Descent has the Inquisition investigating seismic activity in the Deep Roads, meaning that players will be fighting Darkspawn in the add-on.
For more on Inquisition's DLC, check out Gaming Trend's review of Jaws of Hakkon.


Nicola Jones is a freelance journalist based in Pemberton, British Columbia, just outside of Vancouver. With a background in chemistry and oceanography, she writes about the physical sciences, most often for the journal Nature. She has also contributed to Scientific American, Globe and Mail, and New Scientist and serves as the science journalist in residence at the University of British Columbia. Previously for Yale Environment 360, she wrote about the challenges ofpredicting sea level rise far into the future.
In the wake of the Paris agreement, developing countries find themselves in need of analysts to monitor their emissions. An NGO steps forward offering online courses.
Numerous technologies extract CO2 from the atmosphere, and new companies are entering the field.
A shortage of "rare earth" metals is hampering the growth of renewable energy technologies. Now, researchers are working to find solutions to the problem.


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The devious paradox of American inequality: How the rich get richer by staying hidden
In the United States, visions of poverty are much more commonplace than extreme wealth. And that's an issue
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/01/04/the_devious_paradox_of_american_inequality_how_the_rich_get_richer_by_staying_hidden/
Henry Grabar
January 4, 2015 4:58PM (UTC)
The southernmost road from Miami Beach to Miami is called the MacArthur Causeway. In good weather, it's a blissful drive. Biscayne Bay is so near and bright that you can almost imagine you're at the wheel of a boat instead of a car. The mainland greets the highway with a crowded comb of skyscrapers, a fine and sharp introduction to the city of Miami.
Perhaps the most remarkable sight, though, is of the three pill-shaped islands just north of the causeway. Dredged to life in the 1920s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, these tiny isles boast some of America's most extravagant houses. On Star Island, the westernmost of the three, a vacant lot sold for $10 million this summer. Homes command two to three times that much; neighbors include Sean Combs and Rosie O'Donnell.
What's unusual about Star Island, though, isn't the concentration of luxury, but its proximity to a busy highway. The alabaster colonnades and turquoise pools are there for the gawking, just 200 yards across the bay.
It's rare to come face to face with such heights of personal wealth in this country. The grandest homes are squired away, Biltmore-style, on large estates. The next class of mansions hides behind walls, gates or dense horticulture. Most wealthy Americans simply live in the suburbs, in the subtle but no less certain privacy of the periphery.
This is a relative peculiarity of the American city, whose gradual abandonment by the rich has little equivalent elsewhere in the world. By the late 20th century, cities like Cincinnati and Memphis had been abandoned by their downtown residential elite (and much of the middle class, too). In younger cities, like Phoenix and Houston, the rich never lived downtown to begin with. The economic historian Richard F. Muth has estimated that median income in American cities rises by 8 percent for every mile one moves away from downtown. Ten miles out, it has doubled.
This donut effect gives the American city a unique psychic aura: Poverty is more visible than wealth. When Jacob Riis wrote, a century ago, that one half of the world didn't know how the other half lived, he meant the rich didn't know much about the poor.
Today, that statement could easily be inverted. For decades, the deteriorating brick hulks of public housing projects have broadcast the despair of inner-city poverty to suburban commuters. But the top end of the country's wealth spectrum has grown more and more obscure.
Of course, Americans have for years tuned their televisions to shows like Cribs, Real Housewives, Keeping up with the Kardashians, and the rest. But those programs portray wealth as spectacle, as a kind of surreal fiction.
Everyday extravagance is much less visible. The typical American city has no billion-dollar, 27-story residence looming over the skyline (like in Mumbai); few exclusive, central neighborhoods (like in London or Paris). The skylines here aren't dotted with private pools, like in Kuala Lumpur or Lima. Opulence lurks unseen.
That may be one reason Americans don't seem to rally around inequality as a political issue: It's hard to see. The tremendous concentration of wealth at the upper end of America's income spectrum isn't reflected in our daily experience of the world. On paper, this may be another Gilded Age. In person, it doesn't look like it.
"The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us today," Andrew Carnegie wrote in 1889, "measures the change which has come with civilization." Carnegie, Frick, and the other industrialists of the era built their palaces along busy New York avenues, just a walk from some of the world's greatest concentrations of poverty. The contrast was obvious to any city-dweller.
In subsequent generations, though, the wealthiest families would opt for a decidedly more private display on wealth. Today, segregation by income has become the dominant ordering force in American settlement. "If poor people knew how rich rich people are," Chris Rock quipped last month, "there would be riots in the streets."
You can understand wealth from the water, as in Biscayne Bay, or from the coves of Maryland's Eastern Shore, where houses hidden from roads open up to the estuaries of the Chesapeake. You can see it from the air, too: On a satellite image of Long Island's Nassau County, income appears to be color-coded by green and gray. (The wealthiest neighborhoods have more tree cover and open land.)
And, of course, you're never far from the display of money in New York City. (Here, as in other things, New York more resembles other world cities than its American peers.) The city's new, hotly discussed residential skyscraper, 432 Park Avenue, contains 104 apartments whose total price is greater than all the homes in Hartford, Connecticut.
Again, though, what's striking is its visibility. Like the fortress in some medieval hill town, it so dominates the view of Midtown that it almost appears to be a trompe d'oeil. The building's developer compared it to the Mona Lisa, "except instead of it looking at you, you're looking at it wherever you are. You can't escape it."
It's no accident that Bill de Blasio's political rhetoric on inequality, with its revolutionary allusions, resonated here, in a city where the contrast between the haves and the have-nots is evident to anyone who looks up.
But as a national Democratic slogan, it's not clear such a message has much fuel.
After touring the United States in the 1830s, the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville discerned the "love of well-being" to be the "national and dominant taste." "I did not encounter a citizen in America so poor that he did not cast a glance of hope and longing on the enjoyments of the rich," he wrote.
But de Tocqueville also believed that democracy tended to ward off the ostentatious display of riches; that the tastes of the wealthy did not reflect their holdings but instead conformed to a more broadly accessible idea of success.
Surely the Frenchman would change his tune if he could visit some of Los Angeles' 21st-century homes. One has five swimming pools and a cantilevered tennis court. Another has a Turkish hammam and a ballroom that fits 250. A third has an operating room in the basement.
But Americans don't see that on their way to work.
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Cockles, with their distinctive flavour and lovely curved shell, are traditionally eaten in Ireland with Oatcakes. If you can only find mussels, this chowder will be just as good.
Serve either as a substantial starter or with chunks of crusty bread as a meal in its own right.
Heat the sunflower oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and sauté for about 1 minute, until crisp and golden. Add the butter to the pan and melt. Then add the leek, carrot and potato. Reduce the heat to low and sauté gently for 4–5 minutes, until soft but not browned.
Meanwhile, prepare the cockles and mussels. Scrub the shells clean and discard any that remain open when you tap them against a hard surface. Remove the beard – the little fibrous tuft – from each mussel. Bring the wine to a boil in a large saucepan and add the cockles and mussels. Cover with a tight-fi tting lid and cook for 3–4 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally, until the shells have opened.
Remove from the heat, drain the shellfi sh in a colander, reserving the cooking juices, and discard any shells that remain closed. Return the shellfi sh to the empty pan to keep warm. Place a fine sieve over a measuring jug and strain the cooking liquid. You should have at least 600ml (1 pint); if not, add water to make up that quantity.
Add the pan juices and the milk to the bacon and vegetable mixture and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 6–8 minutes, until the potato is tender. Add the cream and simmer for another 2–3 minutes, until the soup is reduced and thickened slightly. Season with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, remove half of the cockles and mussels from their shells and add them with the remaining cockles and mussels still in their shells to the chowder. Stir in the parsley and serve at once.


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Cambodian Museum Protects Clothing Worn by Khmer Rouge Victims
Meng Bou, ex-prisoner at S-21, talked to VOA about his memories of the clothing he once wore while imprisoned and tortured at S-21. (Ten Soksreinith/VOA Khmer)
During the 21 months he spent in a Cambodian prison, Bou Meng strangely felt at ease in the clothing he wore.
Bou Meng was jailed in the late 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia. He was held at a secret, but now infamous Khmer Rouge prison called S-21.
Prison officials gave him black cotton shorts and, when he was lucky, a shirt for the upper half of his body.
"It was very cold at night, as I remember," Bou Meng told VOA. Prisoners had no blankets to keep warm. Officials refused to let them have personal belongings.
The prisoners spent most of their days and nights tied to beds inside small rooms. Often they were released only to be tortured. About 14,000 people jailed at S-21 were later executed.
Bou Meng was one of the few prisoners to have survived. For him, the clothing brings back intense memories. They smelled really bad, he said. When he was tortured, "they would strip my shirt off," he remembered. "My body was covered with blood."
Cambodia's Genocide Museum Conserves Clothing of Khmer Rouge Victims
A museum shows objects from Cambodia's genocide
Clothing similar to what Bou Meng once wore was left behind when the guards fled the prison. They left just before the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, in January 1979. Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge government that year.
Later, Vietnamese administrators set up a genocide museum inside the former prison. They saved evidence of mass crimes, devices once used to torture prisoners and documents. But, the clothing was largely ignored.
All the prison uniforms sat untouched for 40 years. Many began to break down because of the effects of age, heat and wet weather.
Now all that is changing, as more Cambodians are recognizing the uniforms' value.
The Cambodian Ministry of Culture now administers the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Last month, the museum launched a project to protect up to 5,000 pieces of clothing. The United States government provided a grant of $55,000 to support the program.
For the first time, the clothes will be sorted, protected and, in some cases, shown to the public. They are part of the memorial to the 1.7 million Cambodians who were killed during Khmer Rouge rule, from 1975 to 1979. That number represents 25 percent of the country's population at the time.
Julia Brennan, an American textile conservation expert, is leading training on basic textile conservation to Cambodian cultural heritage conservators at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh. (Khan Sokummono/VOA Khmer)
American Julia Brennan is heading the conservation project. She said the effort would use technology to ensure the uniforms are protected without removing the blood and other markings.
Brennan also helped Rwanda's National Commission for the Fight against Genocide protect 45,000 cloth artifacts belonging to Rwandan genocide victims.
Brennan is working to set up a long-term storage system at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. She plans to use a technology called DryStore -- a see-through plastic container with two built-in hygrometers. These instruments help to keep objects dry and relative humidity levels low.
DryStore was developed in 2012 by Rhino, a technology provider for the agricultural industry. The company is based in Thailand.
The system uses desiccant beads that take in water while killing mold and insects. Until now, the beads have mainly been used for seed drying and storage.
Brennan has named the technology a "heritage box." The museum is using the U.S. grant money to buy about 50 containers. Each one is large enough to protect 72 liters of cloth artifacts.
Remaining textiles of Toul Sleng victims are shown during the signing off ceremony on the conservation of ethnographic objects at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum on 11th December, 2017. (Tum Malis/ VOA Khmer)
The first step of the project, Brennan says, is to test the heritage box system and develop a plan that can be followed after she leaves Cambodia. "The storage system is efficient, low cost, and simple to use," she said. She added that if it is successful, it could show that the drying technology "can be applied everywhere for cultural heritage preservation, especially in humid climates."
Every piece of clothing or textile item in the museum will also be photographed and documented. A detailed description of the clothing and its condition will also be included before being stored in the heritage box. All this information will be entered into a computerized collection database.
The textiles have been organized and are sitting in blue and red baskets, waiting to be documented and preserved.
Bou Meng said the program is important to him because it will allow future generations of Cambodians to see exactly what his uniform looked like. Although they are long gone from his possession, he still remembers the black shorts he wore.
He said, "They [the clothes] are a testimony to the genocide. Younger generations are going to certainly benefit from it, so that they know what happened here."
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Soksreinth Ten reported this story for VOANews.com. George Grow adapted the report for Learning English. Mario Ritter was the editor.
blanket – n. a piece of cloth used as a bed covering
item – n. object
strip – v. to remove clothing
grant – an amount of money that is given by a government or company to be used for a purpose
conservation – n. a careful protection of something
humidity – n. the amount of wetness in the air, or in the atmosphere
desiccant bead – n. something that causes a substance to dry out
mold – n. a growth caused by a fungus, usually caused by water or a break-down of organic material
preservation – n. the protection or safety of something or someone
database – n. a collection of information that is stored on a computer
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Libraries for Health
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS:
St. David's Foundation is pleased to announce the Libraries for Health Initiative to address some of the most pressing health needs facing communities: depression, anxiety, and other types of mental health conditions. This initiative recognizes and elevates the opportunity for an anchor institution that is woven into our social infrastructure—a local public library—to purposefully support and tackle mental wellness. Further, it seeks to provide the requisite capacity-building skills and collaborative learning for libraries to be broadly successful in community mental wellness endeavors. Beyond traditional grantmaking, the Libraries for Health initiative will involve identifying new and innovative ways to bring health initiatives where they are needed most – particularly in rural and under-resourced communities.
This Request for Proposal (RFP) process seeks to support public libraries as integral community hubs and gathering spaces that offer access to resources for those who may be at risk for mental health conditions and who may experience the greatest barriers in receiving appropriate care. This funding opportunity builds on the Foundation's existing investments in the Thriving Rural Communities strategic goal area, as well as other goal areas.
Total funding for this initiative is $1.5 million allocated over a two-year period. Up to $1 million will be utilized in the first year for grants made to awardees from a pool of potential public library applicants in Central Texas. The remaining balance will be utilized to engage additional grantee supports, including the services of a technical service advisor/intermediary.
Click here to download the full RFP.
The Foundation hosted a virtual information session on August 4 to assist applicants in understanding the goals of this funding opportunity and how to prepare their submissions. The session also included a question and answer portion.
Download the Question & Answer document here.
Curious about what this work might look like in action? See the graphic below.
Libraries for Health seeks to collaborate and learn from each public library, and thus, there is no "perfect" applicant. Instead, there are organizational characteristics that strengthen an applicant's case for participation. At the most basic level, applicants should be:
Located in one of the following counties: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson
Willing to work to close health equity gaps in their service area's communities
Open to being part of a cohort-learning environment and receiving mentoring and coaching
Willing to set goals to strengthen the library's contributions to improve adult mental health
Excited to collaborate with lay mental health workers/community health workers and licensed mental health providers
Devoted to meaningful engagement of patrons to support their journeys to improved mental wellness
Motivated to model approaches that address the root causes of barriers to mental health care
Willing to use public data and patron feedback to drive decision-making and share insights as appropriate
Open to trying new ways to enhance existing library programs to better support adult patrons' mental health
Eager to be part of an effective training, coaching and peer-mentoring process
Ready to adapt best practices that are relevant to its community's mental health and wellness
Has the capacity to fully participate in all aspects of Libraries for Health (including various forms of training during dedicated sessions) and actively apply learnings in between trainings to progress (in partnership with the licensed MHP and lay MHW)
Timeline and Important Dates
RFP Issue Date: August 2, 2021
RFP Information Session: August 4, 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Central Time.
Attendance is optional. Session will be recorded and available to anyone registered.
Register via this link here.
RFP response date (by electronic submission): September 14, 2021 by 5 p.m. Central Time.
The Senior Program Officer reserves the right to accept late applications.
Review and Negotiations: Fall 2021
Notice of decision: December 2021
Questions regarding the intent of this RFP, applicant eligibility or technical questions/issues may be directed to the RFP information inbox, please email: RFP@stdavidsfoundation.org
Applications must be submitted to the Foundation by 5 PM Central Time Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Applications that do not conform to the requirements described will not be accepted. The Senior Program Officer reserves the right to accept late applications.
Contact RFP@stdavidsfoundation.org with any technical issues with the online application.
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We produced 2 teasers to raise awareness on the opening of the new store, and to communicate about the Horse Exhibition that took place on the 2nd floor of the event. We also covered the opening event with a video report and photos, shared live on the Hermès Instagram.
2D animation movie. This teaser was sent to guests one month before the opening party as a save the date. The entire 2D graphic charter has been applied on flyers and invitations.
Production of the opening party movie report.
A second teaser was then created to attract people to the Horse exhibition, present on the top floor of the new flagship.
Live social media coverage during the event.


I was talking with a couple of relatives this weekend at a family Christmas get together. Normally, this isn't OSN news worthy, but one of the people is a senior person at one of the major insurance companies, another is an internal medicine physician and the last is my cousin that is due to graduate medical school in May (needless to say they are a pretty bright group). The topic of healthcare reform came up and I thought it was interesting that we had a representative from each of the major arms of the medical device industry: physician, insurance provider and the industry (me). The dialogue was interesting.
My cousin that works for a major insurance company said that they are prepared to move away from being an insurance provider as a primary business strategy and move towards being a wellness service provider. Since Obamacare offers access to care, their new role will be to work with major companies to manage their wellness programs for their employers to help keep costs down. That was interesting and, for me, frightening. I'm not suggesting that the medical insurance industry is flawless, however, the idea of a government program making a major insurance provider change their entire business strategy and focus makes me more than nervous.
Now I'd be curious to have some debate/comments on this. I have my opinions, but would like to hear yours as well.


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Q: Dependency Injection as a Language Feature? Are there any existing modern-day programming languages that explicitly have dependency injection as a language feature, and if so, are there any examples of how such programming languages use their syntax to separate program dependencies from their concrete implementations?
(Please Note: I'm not looking for an DI/IOC framework--I'm actually looking for a programming language that actually has this feature built into the language).

A: I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but every OO language supports dependency injection. No special syntax is required. Just construct your object with their dependencies (or set their dependencies later).
You can actually wire up all your dependencies somewhere near the top of the program - not necessarily main(), but close to the top.

A: Noop supposedly does this, but I haven't seen the language specification (my patience ran out before I found it).

A: One could say that Scala supports dependency injection out of the box with the help of traits and self-type annotations. Take a look on a Cake Pattern:
http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/06/real-world-scala-dependency-injection-di/
Basically, this approach uses traits with declared dependencies (by using self-types) to let the compiler do the work of wiring them together.
This is the declaration registry:
object ComponentRegistry extends
  UserServiceComponent with
  UserRepositoryComponent
{
  val userRepository = new UserRepository
  val userService = new UserService
}

...registering the user repository:
trait UserRepositoryComponent {
  val userRepository: UserRepository

  class UserRepository {
    ...
  }
}

...and the user service component that depends on the repository:
trait UserServiceComponent {
  this: UserRepositoryComponent =>

  val userService: UserService

  class UserService {
    ...
  }
}

A: You won't find dependency injection as a language feature, as it's generally seen as a design pattern. Design patterns arise as workarounds for missing language features - for example if you have first class types as a language feature you don't need the factory pattern ( see p12 of Norvig's presentation ), if you have multi-methods as a language feature you don't need the double dispatch pattern.
The language feature for which DI is the design pattern is "parametric modules". See the discussion of modules vs DI relating to Gilad Bracha's language Newspeak