NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hooray for earnings! The economy may be slowing, but don't expect too much of a hiccup in the upcoming earnings season.
Experts are optimistic that Corporate America's balance sheets will continue to improve, and say earnings for S&P 500 companies are on track to rise 13% this year, according to an exclusive CNNMoney survey.
Of course that's nowhere near the 47% earnings growth companies booked in 2010, but that's to be expected since earnings were lapping the recession-dark quarters of 2009 last year.
Plus, when it comes to earnings and their impact on a company's stock, it's all about how they fare against the market's expectations. So while year-over-year growth may slow, profits are expected to largely be in-line with or ahead of forecasts.
Though the majority of companies don't begin reporting results until the second week of July, a handful of firms that operate on a slightly adjusted calendar have already offered up a glimpse into what may come.
Last week, FedEx (FDX, Fortune 500) delivered earnings and sales that topped analysts' estimates for its fiscal quarter ended in May, and issued a healthy outlook for the next quarter and full year.
Results from used car dealership CarMax (KMX, Fortune 500), supermarket chain Kroger (KR, Fortune 500), homebuilder Lennar (LEN) and retailer Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY, Fortune 500) also beat expectations.
While Oracle's (ORCL, Fortune 500) earnings and sales figures also exceeded forecasts, investors were disappointed by the software giant's hardware sales.
At nearly 9%, profit margins are the fattest since 2007, according to Standard and Poor's data.
Those will inevitably begin to contract, said Tyler Vernon, chief investment officer at Biltmore Capital, but revenues will strengthen so margins will ultimately remain at a healthy level.
But it's not all sunshine and roses. There will be some weak spots.
In particular, companies that rely on commodities will be under pressure since prices for oil, metals, and agricultural products remain strong.
"Food-based companies and apparel retailers have been commenting that the high price of commodities are cutting into margins, and we'll probably hear more comments along those lines in the second quarter reports," said Peter Tuz, president at Chase Investment Counsel.
But even so, investors will likely look at those soaring commodity prices and subsequent economic weakness as short-term strains, and be willing to overlook the shortfalls, said Marc Pado, chief investment strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Except for energy companies. With oil prices above $100 a barrel for the bulk of the quarter, companies like Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) and Chevron (CVX, Fortune 500) will likely enjoy a nice boost to their bottom lines.


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Q: Communication between popup.js and content-script.js throws 'The message port closed before a response was received' in chrome extension popup.html
<button id="go">Go</button>
<script src="assets/js/popup.js"></script>

popup.js
document.getElementById('go').addEventListener('click', async () => {
  let [tab] = await chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true});

  chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tab.id, {go: true}, (response) => {
    if (!chrome.runtime.lastError) {
      console.log('fine');
    } else {
      // This will print the mentioned error in the console
      console.log(chrome.runtime.lastError);
    }
  });
});

content-script.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (request, sender, sendResponse) => {
  // It returns the object correctly // {go: true}
  console.log(request);
  if(request.go) {
    // This causes the error.
    // When I remove this line, `fine` will be printed in the console from the `if` in the `popup.js` file above.
    const go = await chrome.storage.local.get('something');
    console.log(go);
  }
});

And I have nothing in my background.js.
The issue is that it returns the error: The message port closed before a response was received when clicking on the start button.
I have added return true and sendResponse({status: true}) either, but didn't work!
Why do these happen and how to fix them?

A: Check if the content-script is being injected correctly, as shown by the chrome extension docs. If you're injecting statically, make sure your manifest.json looks like this

"content_scripts": [
   {
     "matches": ["https://*.nytimes.com/*"],
     "css": ["my-styles.css"],
     "js": ["content-script.js"]
   }
 ],

if that does not work, then the problem might be with the async function you're calling in the content-script. To use it asynchronously, a return true can be added in the listener.
Doing so, you can remove the async from the function and use
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((request, sender, sendResponse) => {
    console.log(`request: ${request.go}`);
    if(request.go) {
      chrome.storage.local.get('something')
        .then(go => console.log(go))
    }
    return true;
});

With this code, the problem The message port closed before a response was received is solved, but another one pops up -- A listener indicated an asynchronous response by returning true, but the message channel closed before a response was received. This error happens because no response was sent in channel, and you have to add a sendResponse to solve it, like:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((request, sender, sendResponse) => {
    console.log(`request: ${request.go}`);
    if(request.go) {
      chrome.storage.local.get('something')
        .then(go => console.log(go))
    }
    sendResponse('hello from content-script')
    return true;
});

Another solution with the async code:
you could wrap the code in a async function, as in:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((request, sender, sendResponse) => {
    console.log(`request: ${request.go}`);
    if(request.go) {
      getSomething();
    }
    sendResponse('hello from content-script');
    return true;
});

async function getSomething() {
  const go = await chrome.storage.local.get('something');
  console.log(go);
}

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Q: How to Create "Instant Messaging" in Notepad++ - VBScript As a past time with a couple of friends, I'm trying to make a sort of "instant messaging" through notepad++.
The setup is as follows:
Three computers are connected on a network. On computer 2, there is Notepad++ in its directory. On computer 3, there is the VBScript and the text file (which is opened in Notepad++).
The "F5" key in Notepad++ has been rebound to "Reload From Disk" respectively.
The goal is to have Notepad++ refresh every 2 seconds or so, but exclusively in Notepad++, even in the background.  The VBScript is meant to close upon Notepad++ closing.
The VBScript is as follows (keep in mind I have no prior experience with VBScripts; expect major flaws):
strFileName = "\\08-111096-CISCO\Users\Straka.J\Downloads\Notepad++"
Dim oShell

set oShell = CreateObject("wScript.Shell")
oShell.Run "notepad++ ""\\08-111099-CISCO\Users\Javorsky.G\Downloads\New Text Document.txt"""
oShell.AppActivate "\\08-111096-CISCO\Users\Straka.J\Downloads\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
Do
    WScript.Sleep 500
    oShell.SendKeys "{F5}"
    wScript.Sleep 2000
Loop Until Quit

Notepad++ will open the text file and will begin the F5 loop. However, the F5 will continue regardless if Notepad++ is the active window or not, and the script does not close upon Notepad++ closing.
I'm certainly missing something, but after several hours of research and experimenting, I couldn't find a solution.
Is it possible to achieve these results with just a VBScript?

A: AppActivate() returns True if the call was successful (if it found and activated the window). Use that return value to determine whether to continue refreshing or to close your script.
Do While oShell.AppActivate("\\08-111096-CISCO\Users\Straka.J\Downloads\Notepad++\notepad++.exe")

    oShell.SendKeys "{F5}"
    WScript.Sleep 2000

Loop

' Script exit


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Mission Bend residents band against crime
By ABC13
Homeowners say they've seen a change in the neighborhood. They're averaging two break-ins a week. On Tuesday at the town hall meeting, they had a lot of questions for Harris County law enforcement.
Charlie Lewis is a good neighbor. He likes to keep his lawn nice and neat. What frustrates this 25-year resident of Mission Bend in west Harris County is the overgrown number of burglaries plaguing his neighborhood.
"Over the past two months, we have had a spike in burglaries, people holding each other up in the driveways early in the morning," Lewis said.
A patrolman with the Mission Bend contract deputy program says there have been 24 break-ins this year, including nine in September. It's been enough to pack Tuesday night's civic association meeting, and several burglary victims were in attendance.
Alida Washington's home was hit on a Saturday a few weeks ago.
"We actually lost our big screen TV in the family room, as well as a television in the kitchen, and my daughter's camera," Washington said.
Harris County law enforcement assured homeowners they are investigating several credible leads but also added is that now is the time to change any complacent habits.
"My biggest pet peeve that I have is people leaving their garage doors open or leaving their windows open and 'I'm gonna run to the store' and then they come back and somebody has taken advantage of them," Harris County Sheriff's Office Major Silvio said.
That story sounds very familiar to Lewis.
"My neighbor across the street just had his weed eater stolen just Saturday out of his garage, so we can't leave our door up anymore because you don't know if someone is going to get something or not," he said.
So Lewis says all he can do is take care of his property and lookout for the neighborhood.
"We're not going to move out we are going to stay here and hold our own if we can. But its' not really good, doesn't make you feel too comfortable," Lewis said.
Homeowners also pressed investigators at the meeting and they revealed they're tracking a couple of suspects believed to be connected to multiple burglaries in the area.

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Q: Three.js. Finding neighboring vertices within radius I've been looking for a way to find the the vertices within a certain radius from a given point. One way to this is brute force. After selection of a point (raypicking), loop over all vertices, check whether it is within a set radius and voila. However, this tends to get quite slow for models with lots of vertices.
What I would want to do is use raypicking to select a point on the model. This would give me the face this point is on. Then from that face I can get the vertices belonging to that face. These vertices can be "shared" over faces. This might allow me to forward search from this point, flagging visited vertices and stop whenever the distance reaches the set maximum (radius). However, from what I can see from a dump of the geometry I can get the vertices belonging to a face directly, but there's no way to get the faces that a vertex belongs to. That is without preprocessing. Am I right here, or did I miss something?


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Posted on Wed, Apr. 21, 2004
Justin Hayworth/News Tribune
Former Duluth East hockey coach Mike Randolph wraps his arm around Denny Davis (left) as he leaves the Duluth School Board meeting Tuesday night after being reinstated as Duluth East's boys hockey coach for the 2004-05 season. The board voted 5-2 to reinstate Randolph.
Board reinstates Randolph
DULUTH SCHOOLS: The former East High School hockey coach will get his job back.
BY LISA MICHALS
NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The Duluth School Board voted 5-2 to reinstate former East High School boys hockey coach Mike Randolph on Tuesday night.
Board members Mike Akervik, Mary Cameron, Tim Grover, Tom Hustad and Ann Wasson voted in favor of the measure, and board members Laura Condon and Dorothy Neumann voted against it. The move came after 90 minutes of closed-session discussion among board members.
"This is not about hockey," Randolph said in an address to his supporters in the halls of the Central Administration Building after the vote. "They wronged me, and I wanted to make sure that this never happens again."
Citing privacy laws, district administrators have not publicly stated why Randolph wasn't reappointed for the 2003-04 school year. Randolph said he was told it was because of complaints from parents, questions about fund raising and a desire to take the program in a different direction.
An internal audit released in May found that an annual Christmas wreath sale that benefited the East hockey program was mismanaged. In December, the Minnesota state auditor released a review that confirmed the district's findings. Fund-raiser organizers, including assistant coach Terry Johnson, deny intentional wrongdoing.
Duluth school district administrators reiterated citations of policy Tuesday that extracurricular assignments are renewed on an annual basis and can not be renewed with no cause, as is the policy across Minnesota school districts.
The move to reinstate Randolph and assistant coaches Larry Trachsel and Johnson for the 2004-05 hockey season was brought forward this month by board members Cameron, Grover and Hustad.
They said district policies and procedures, such as annual performance reviews and the use of an athletic grievance process to deal with complaints, were not followed.
"I've always looked at this as a fairness issue," Hustad said.
More than 125 people attended Tuesday night's meeting.
"It is in the best interest of students of East High School and East High School that Mike Randolph not be reinstated," East principal Laurie Knapp told board members before the vote.
She beseeched board members to trust and support the administration by standing by the April 2003 nonrenewal of Randolph's coaching assignment. Superintendent Julio Almanza and district human resources director Rob McLachlan repeated Tuesday night that they stand by that decision.
The board's interest and action with an individual employee and position is unusual, but chairwoman Cameron said that board members were exerting one of their most important roles as elected officials.
"If we don't make sure administration is following policies and procedures, who will?" she said.
The revival of the reinstatement effort came after November 2003 School Board elections that changed the board's makeup.
Before those elections, a June 17 reinstatement effort failed 7-2. The makeup of the School Board changed after the November 2003 elections when the board was trimmed from nine members to seven, with three new members -- Grover, Hustad and Wasson.
Those board members bristled and defended themselves from insinuations by other board members and community members that their election was related to Randolph's reinstatement.
"I owe no favors to no one," said Hustad, who worked with Randolph's wife before he retired from dental practice.
"I hope that now, finally, the School Board can move on to bigger issues," said current East hockey coach Todd Wentworth, who has said he won't seek other coaching positions in the district.


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Sergio Ramos made a mysterious tattoo of numbers on his arm
Real Madrid fans can only guess what they mean.
A strange, slightly mysterious tattoo from the captain of Real, which will certainly appeal to fans of conspiracy theory.
About 10 years ago, many of us watched Lost. The plot of the film was about how a plane crashes on a desert island and many beautiful people are scurrying around their own misunderstanding. In the end, it all ended less than understandable – a strange road to the dungeons.
One of the biggest mysteries in Lost was the sequence of certain numbers (which, in the end, meant nothing at all).
Over the years, fans of the series were obsessed with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, because the regularity with which the number sequence appeared in the film left no doubt – some kind of mystery lies in them.
Now fans of the Spanish Royal Club can become similarly obsessed with the numbers 35, 90, 32 and 19.
Why? Because the captain of the team, Sergio Ramos, recently decorated his brush with these numbers. "The numbers of my life are in solid color," wrote the Spanish striker midfielder, along with an Instagram image. "Guess what they mean?"
In fact, any big fan of Sergio Ramos can probably guess the meaning of the tattoo on their own.
Ramos wore jersey numbers 32 and 35 when he played for Sevilla. He was 19 when he made his debut in Spain. And 90 (with a + sign) can refer to any club in which he played, meaning goals scored.
These are the most likely explanations that we admit.
But something tells us that there will be many other incredible explanations on the net …
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Following the successful launch of issue One, Brand literary magazine, edited by Nina Rapi, is now calling for submissions for the second issue.
Contributing editors include Ali Smith, Yang Lian, Nina Steiger. Poetry Editor is Cherry Smyth.
We focus on the short form (no extracts please) and are looking for writing that takes risks; has a strong voice; is challenging.
We welcome international work and translations.
Send short stories (max. 2.500 words); short plays or performance texts (max. 10 minutes); micro-fiction (up to five pieces and/or a total of 500 words); poetry (up to three poems and max of 40 lines each); creative non-fiction (max 2500 words), artwork (max three images).
Submit only one piece per genre and do make sure title, name, e-mail and phone number are on every page.
We advise you read the magazine before submission. Do visit our website for more details: E-mail submissions will not be considered.
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Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a secure transfer protocol used for communication on the Internet using cryptographic methods. SSL was first developed by Netscape to make its own products secure. After its public release, it was quickly adopted by a number of big players in the IT industry, including Microsoft, and it became the de-facto standard for Internet traffic encryption. So here in this article we will discuss about what is secure socket layer and how ssl works.
The main purpose of the SSL protocol is to guarantee that no one can eavesdrop on or tamper with the communication between a browser and the server where the web application is deployed. When accessing the web sites secured by SSL, a user can be sure that no one can intercept and read the information passed to the remote server; for example, usernames and passwords or credit card information when using e-commerce web sites. In addition, the user is safe to send and receive any sensitive information to and from web server, knowing that no one could have tampered with the information during transport, or can change the transported content in any way.
Another purpose of secure communication is the ability to authenticate the server and its owner based on the SSL information – so that a user can be certain that the server that it's accessing is the one that it's saying it is. This has become very important in today's Internet-dependent society, so that we are sure that we are accessing our bank's web site, for example, and not some malicious web site representing itself as our bank. The term for a site that is masquerading itself as another, tricking a user to pass sensitive information to it, is phishing.
SSL is a cryptographic protocol, using symmetric pair of keys to encrypt and decrypt traffic sent over the Internet. In a common SSL scenario, when the user accesses the web server for the first time, the server sends its SSL certificate, or public key, to the client. The SSL certificate contains the information about the server, its owner, company, and its validity period. A user can reject a certificate if it does not trust its authenticity, effectively terminating the connection.
If the user accepts the certificate, the certificate itself is stored in the browser, and is used to initiate a secure connection with the issuing server. This key is public, as the server sends it to anyone that asks for it. The information encoded using the public key can only be decoded using the symmetric private key. The private key is, as its name suggests, private, and kept safely on the server. A client generates the symmetric key, with which both client and server will encrypt all traffic sent to the other side. With the symmetric key, content is encoded and decoded using the same key known to both parties in the communication, which is less secure than the asymmetric public/private key communication. That's why it's important that the exchange of the symmetric keys is secure. Therefore, a client encodes the symmetric key using the server's public key (received in the certificate), and the server encodes it using its private key.
When a server receives the symmetric key, the connection between server and client is secure, and all traffic sent from the browser to the web application, and response content from the web server to the browser, will be encrypted using the generated symmetric key known to client and server only. The exchanged symmetric key is valid only for the duration of the current session, and needs to be regenerated every time a user initiates a new session. The security of SSL depends on how secure the key used to encrypt data is. SSL is not unbreakable in theory, but with the amount of time required to break standard 128-bit key, in practice it is often assumed as safe from brute-force attacks. For the industry-standard 128-bit key, there are 2128 combinations possible to generate the key. The value of 2128 calculates to 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456, or roughly 240 trillion trillion trillions! To put things into perspective, today's super computers can break the DES encryption algorithm, which uses 56-bit long keys, in around one day. If, in the future, man develops a machine that can perform the same task of breaking a 56-bit key in one second, it would still take 149.7 trillion years to brute force a 128-bit key!
SSL protocol communication over HTTP protocol is referred to as HTTPS (secure HTTP). The web sites that are using SSL encrypted connections display https as the protocol name in the browser's address bar, for example https://www.google.com. Ensuring that the connection is secure from eavesdropping and tampering, using asymmetric and symmetric cryptography methods is the main purpose of using SSL. However, there is another useful purpose of SSL-certificate protected web sites: the ability to authenticate that the site is what it says it is.
SSL certificates, sent by the secure server as public keys to the client, contain basic information about the site to which they belong, such as the domain name, owner name, and company name. Organizations called Certificate Authorities (CA) can authenticate the details of the SSL certificate, so if the user trusts the CA, they can be sure that the secure web site is certified, and its details are correct. There is a number of CAs that can issue a certified SSL certificate. Modern browsers automatically recognize the largest and best-known CAs, and allow connections to the sites providing SSL certificates certified by these organizations automatically.
The secure icon and the registered domain name are displayed in the browser's address bar if the SSL connection is active.
If the SSL certificate is not certified by a CA, or is certified by the CA but not recognized by the user's browser, the user will be presented with a warning screen, where he or she can decide whether to trust the certificate.


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Emily Muller (born 4 April 1999) is a disability rights activist from Chicago, IL.  Her focus revolves largely around psychosocial issues that impact seriously ill children and young adults, and legislation that affects rare disease patients. She began her activism at the age of thirteen after creating the website Emily's Fight. She has spoken at events such as the SHINE conference, Starlight Midwest Gala, Nikki Rich premiere, Rare Disease Legislative Advocates, and has given a TEDx Talk. She is also a contributor to The Mighty.  During the summer of 2016 she advocated the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act by using Internet activism in support of the bill.  When the 21st Century Cures Act passed the Senate in 2016, Muller was recognized by the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce for her work promoting the legislation.

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Seminário con el prof. ROMAN SERGEEVICH PASECHNIK – 26 de octubre de 2018 (viernes) – 10:15 a.m.
In this seminar, I will formulate a novel SUSY-based Grand-unified theory (GUT) framework and overview its recent developments. The suggested approach is capable of explaining seemingly arbitrary features of the SM encoded in the specific structure of its particle spectra and interactions. At the GUT scale, the particle spectra and interactions are governed by the maximal rank-8 exceptional symmetry which, besides the gauge couplings unification, also provides a complete unification of Yukawa interactions. The Higgs, lepton and quark generations of the SM are elegantly united into a single representation of this symmetry. By means of renormalisation group (RG) evolution, the GUT symmetry reduces to that of the SM at low-energy scales in several breaking steps, at which new interactions are generated sequentially by quantum corrections. Among the most exciting new emergent phenomena are the presence of a Z'-boson as the "fifth" force of Nature acting in the space of fermion generations, stable and metastable DM candidates and a number of heavy and light neutrinos whose masses span over 25 orders of magnitude from sub-eV to the GUT scale, as well as additional generations of Higgs states and vector-like fermions with peculiar properties in a TeV-mass range. In Cosmology, this framework predicts multi-step electroweak phase transitions giving rise to a specific multi-peak structure of the primordial gravitational-wave spectrum and thus opening a vast window of opportunities for gravitational-wave astrophysics.
Fecha: 26 de octubre de 2018 – (viernes) Lugar: Sala 212 – Auditorio del Departamento de Física – Horário: 10:15 a.m.


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Nick - President, Director
Deb - Director
Chris - Director
Nick Baggett, SOCM - Retired
Nick Baggett is a retired SEAL with 28 years active duty service. He retired in 2013 as a Naval Special Warfare SEAL with a disabling illness plus injuries, causing severe neurological problems. When conventional medicine could not offer a satisfactory explanation or a diagnosis that matched the disabilities he was experiencing, he set out to find the answers himself. This proved to be a long and arduous process, with one redeeming side effect--the deeper he looked, the more Special Operation Forces (SOF) people he found who were also looking for answers from similar issues. Each SOF operator seems to find a piece of the puzzle and as they share their successes and dead ends they discover frustrating similarities: Bureaucratic red tape limiting the real causes or solutions while the suffering continues. Nick and his SOF friends refuse to become another veteran statistic but all have friends who committed suicide. They believe this vast number of suicides is due to neurological injuries and the hopelessness of their suffering. Because medical experts, military leaders, politicians and the VA do not have real solutions, time drags on, and more vets commit suicide or live in hell.
In addition, Nick discovered that Fire Fighters, Police and First Responders also have injuries in common, due to absence of neurological function. A side effect of these symptoms is there is a destruction of the family unit, substance addictions, mis-diagnosis leading to over medicating, depression and suicide. It is his personal quest to find solutions for these problems of epidemic proportion, not only for these communities but for many other civilians who suffer from similar problems without answers. He is part of the solution now, while finding answers at the Veteran Wellness Center of Hampton Roads.
Nick is an Alumni of the Honor Foundation and his top FIVE strengths include:
Strategic: Forward thinking provides alternative and unconventional solutions to complex and old problems.
Restorative: Identifies problems, finds solutions and is a problem solver.
Context: Identify trends, study the past and apply it to present and future problems.
Arranger: Organization skills, always develops a "Plan of Action and Milestones." Then sticks to it, but is flexible in the flow and has alternative plans for contingencies.
Learner: Continuously learning and improving. Maintaining a cutting edge knowledge base.
Nick is a local business owner in Virginia Beach (7650), and is currently attaining a degree in Emergency Medical Services. He serves as the Veteran Wellness Center of Hampton Roads Executive Director and is the Founder of the Lewis Baggett Always Faithful Foundation. He has written The Neuro Fusion Work-out Program and authored Blind Navigator, a game that focuses on improving the physical ability, teamwork and self-esteem for disabled veterans and civilians.
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Deb Wood, PhD, ND
Traumas are experiences - they don't define us. Almost everyone has experienced some sort of traumatic event in their lives and 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States alone. Healers of all realms - Eastern and Western, must work non-stop to keep up with these massive numbers. TBI and PTSD are the signature illnesses of our Veteran's and First Responders. These great American warriors and their families give more than their time, energy and money - they give their lives. As a grateful American - it's my duty to give-back. This is why I do this." -Deb Wood
Emphasis in Energy Medicine - 40 years
EVOX Practitioner and Certification (Reframing the Brain)
Best Selling Author: Settling with Power-3 Steps to Master Life
Founded Renova Wellness Center 2011 & Studied with:
Dr. Doug Graham: Costa Rica Fasting Clinic
Dr. Vincent J. Speckhart: Cancer/Energy Medicine
Dr. Lambert T. Parker: Integrative Medicine, Brain Specialist/Internist
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies (Cornell University)
LaSalle University - PhD, ND, Cum Laude
St. Leo University - BS Criminology, Cum Laude
Old Dominion University - Physical Education Major
Stephen Covey Facilitator & Public Speaker:
Principle Centered Leadership
Graduate of Life Sciences Institute - Nutrition & Fasting
Qualifications of Dr. Deb
NEW Book on Suicide Coming Soon:
Warrior Wellness: Antidote to Trauma, Toxins, and Thoughts. ~Deb Cox Wood, PhD, ND
Sergeant C.J. Scallon, MPsy., CCISM
CISM/Peer Support Unit, Director
Norfolk Police Department
Northeastern University/IACP
Vicarious Trauma Fellow
"It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it."
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Sergeant Chris Scallon is a 24+year veteran with the Norfolk Police Department, holds a Masters in Psychology, BS in Criminal Justice, and certified in Critical Incident Stress Management from the University of Maryland BC Emergency Health Services.
He is the current Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) & Peer Support Unit Director, Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Co-Coordinator for the Norfolk Police Department. Sgt. Scallon is a peer for Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program (VALEAP), a certified peer with the West Coast Post Trauma Retreat/First Responder Support Network. Having been involved in multiple shootings he is intimately familiar with trauma and the consequences of exposure.
Chris is an approved instructor for International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) teaching Assisting Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor (Adult/Veteran Modules) through the National Council for Behavioral Health, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran's Association (IAVA), Co-Founder of PsychCops Training and Consulting, and a Master Trainer for Homefront Protective Group teaching across the country and abroad.
Sgt. Scallon is the current Vicarious Trauma Fellow with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Northeastern University working on a national grant from the U.S. Department of Justice-Office of Victims of Crimes, creating an evidence-based vicarious trauma toolkit for first responders (e.g. EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement, and Victim Advocates)
Chris is a U.S. Navy Veteran, served as a line officer in the Port Washington, NY Fire Department, Atlantic Hook & Ladder, Light and Heavy Rescue.
Chris was directly involved in multiple traumatic incidents within the aforementioned fire, military, and police agencies; in addition, to multiple deadly force encounters during his tenure as a police officer, both directly and indirectly. He has first-hand experience with the primary, secondary, and tertiary, effects of trauma related to personal and professional relationships.
Chris has received numerous awards to include the National Top Cop award (NAPO), Virginia's Public Safety Medal of Valor (presented by Former Governor Tim Kaine), and the Norfolk Police Department's Medal of Honor. He has received multiple certifications from the Nassau County Fire Service Academy in Long Island, NY.


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Q: Unable to inject HttpServletRequest via CDI I think I have something wrong with my run configuration or something.  When I try to do
@Context private HttpServletRequest request;
I get the error
There is more than one Bean with type javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestQualifiers: [@javax.ws.rs.core.Context()]
for injection into Field Injection Point, field name :  request, Bean Owner : [xxx, Name:xxx, WebBeans Type:MANAGED, API Types:[java.lang.Object,xxx,xxx], Qualifiers:[javax.enterprise.inject.Default,javax.enterprise.inject.Any,javax.inject.Named]]
found beans:
HttpServletRequest, Name:null, WebBeans Type:THIRDPARTY, API Types:[javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,java.lang.Object], Qualifiers:[javax.ws.rs.core.Context,javax.enterprise.inject.Any] from jar:file:/C:/enterprise-server-dozer-1.6.5/lib/servlet-api.jar!/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.class
Bean1, Name:null, WebBeans Type:THIRDPARTY, API Types:[javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest], Qualifiers:[javax.ws.rs.core.Context] from unknown path

I get a similar error if i try with
javax.ws.rs.core.Request;

With the Request, the error points to finding the same bean in the same jar file.  Like the bean is created twice.  Anything obvious I could check for to resolve this?

A: This bit here
C:/enterprise-server-dozer-1.6.5/lib/servlet-api.jar

looks like you've included the Servlet API JAR in your web application, which is not permitted.
The Servlet API is provided by your servlet container. Using Maven, the dependency should be declared with scope provided.
Having the JAR duplicated in your application may account for the duplicate bean.


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WWE Raw: Previews
WWE Raw preview (Dec. 20, 2021): Kevin Owens' new contract changes the equation
By Cain A. Knight Dec 20, 2021, 9:00am EST
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Raw airs tonight (Dec. 20) with a live show from the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is the fifth Raw episode during the six week build towards Day 1 on January 1, 2022.
Kevin Owens' new contract changes the equation
The WWE championship match at Day 1 has been changed multiple times. It was originally booked as a singles match, with Seth Rollins earning a shot at Big E's gold after winning a ladder match on Raw in November. Kevin Owens was then added to the match after he played the system and outsmarted Rollins, turning it into a triple threat. Bobby Lashley joined the party last week when he actually defeated all three of those men in three separate singles matches in the same night. Therefore the title match at Day 1 is now a Fatal 4-way.
The booking of the match at Day 1 seemed fairly straightforward. No matter which wrestler was winning, Kevin Owens was going to take the fall. That's because his WWE contract was expiring and many people, this writer included, believed he was on his way out the door. Well, that equation changed after last week's big news that Owens has signed a new contract with WWE.
Now that Owens is back in the fold, it's really anyone's match to win at Day 1. The Royal Rumble event is coming up just a few weeks later, so WWE can do a quick title change at Day 1 and just swap it back at Royal Rumble. This is exactly what WWE did at New Year's Revolution 2006, for example, by putting the WWE championship on Edge, only for him to drop it right back to John Cena later in the month at Royal Rumble. I don't anticipate that Kevin Owens will be competing in the WWE championship match at WrestleMania 38, but that doesn't mean he can't win the title at Day 1.
As far as tonight's episode of Raw is concerned, Bobby Lashley and MVP are going to speak their minds about the upcoming championship match. Of course there's a very good chance their speech will be interrupted by some or all of the other three wrestlers who Bob will be wrestling against at Day 1, and some sort of related match will be booked for the Raw main event.
Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin were nowhere to be found when Lashley needed their help last week, and they never interact with Bob and MVP anymore, so I'm not sure why the former two guys still walk to the ring with the Hurt Business theme song. At any rate, Lashley has shown that he doesn't need their help anyway. He may be moving towards the babyface side after overcoming the odds last week, so perhaps WWE will book a tag team match tonight pitting Lashley and Big E versus Owens and Rollins? I guess you'll have to tune in to find out.
The rest of the title scene
After pinning Finn Balor last week, Dolph Ziggler gets a Championship Contender match against United States champion Damian Priest tonight. As usual, winning this type of match doesn't guarantee that Ziggler will earn a future title shot. It's just WWE's fancy way of trying to make a non-title match sound more meaningful than it actually is. I don't think Priest has ever been pinned in a singles match on Raw. If Ziggler is going over here, it will likely be as a result of Priest channeling his angry split personality and getting himself disqualified.
Carmella and Zelina Vega are the Women's tag team champions. Queen Vega defeated Rhea Ripley in less than a minute last week in a singles match, because Rhea was distracted by Nikki A.S.H and Carmella. It wouldn't be an episode of Raw without a rematch, so we'll see if Vega can take Ripley down even faster tonight when they wrestle again.
Becky Lynch will defend the Raw women's championship against Liv Morgan at Day 1. After injuring Morgan's wrist last week, Liv tried to ambush Becky during a training session over the weekend. I'm starting to think the championship match at Day 1 won't just be a standard singles match. We'll see if WWE announces any gimmick or stipulation for it tonight.
The Street Profits will take on the Mysterios next week in the final match of the RK-Bro-nament. The winner gets a future shot at Randy Orton and Matt Riddle for the Raw tag team titles. That tournament match was originally supposed to happen last week, but the rumor mill suggests something is up with Montez Ford. In the meantime, Otis beat Riddle last week, and the champs could be seeing more of Alpha Academy tonight. There's really nothing for RK-Bro to worry about, though, since Chad Gable is a jobber and exists to be pinned by an RKO.
Reggie is smitten with Dana Brooke and is trying to give her pointers on how to run away from jobbers and retain the 24/7 championship. R-Truth, Tamina, and Akira Tozawa are the primary jobbers trying to find a way to take the title from Brooke. Will they succeed tonight?
Other stuff to keep an eye on
- Maryse will be Edge's guest tonight on his talk show, The Cutting Edge. She slapped The Miz in the face last week, but it's likely a ruse to make Edge think there is a rift between them. Edge should know better than to fall for their tricks and schemes.
- The talk show fun doesn't end there, because Omos and AJ Styles will be guests tonight on Miz TV. The relationship between AJ and Omos isn't great right now, but both men have expressed optimism about their future together. Does Miz have any reason to try to create a bigger divide between them, or will he try to manipulate them into helping him deal with Edge?
- Styles and Omos are busy tonight, as they will also be taking on Rey and Dominik Mysterio in tag team action. We'll see if Omos has learned how to not get himself counted out like a big dummy.
- Bianca Belair pinned Doudrop last week in a singles match, but Dou was a sore loser and laid out Bianca after the match was over. They'll have a rematch tonight. Yes, both women's matches from last week's Raw are getting rematches tonight.
- Austin Theory has spent some awkward quality time with Vince McMahon in recent weeks, and it has led to him getting involved in Finn Balor's business. Balor has had enough of this dork and will try to get some revenge in a singles match tonight.
- Apollo Crews was actually defeated by T-BAR last week on Main Event. Yikes.
- Veer Mahaan is still coming (back) to Raw soon, in case you didn't know. Hopefully he finds his way to Raw sooner than repackaged Elias.
What will you be looking for on Raw tonight?
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Malawi (formally known as Nyasaland) is a beautiful landlocked country in South East Africa bordered by Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. The name "Malawi" is derived from the name Maravi who were a tribe of people who migrated to the country from the southern Congo region around 1400 AD.
The country is globally renowned for the arrival of the famous Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone in 1859, who established Christian ministries throughout the country. A large part of their work at that time was to help bring about the end of slavery in Malawi, which was finally abolished in the country in 1897. From Livingstone's arrival, Malawi proceeded to be under British colonial rule for approximately 80 years until the country finally gained its independence in 1964. Due to a struggling economy and a lack of bio-diversity matched with an ever-increasing population, Malawi is now one of the poorest countries in the world with a long way to go in establishing itself without the need for foreign aid.
The economy of Malawi is very much based around agriculture with a very high dependency on tobacco. The top export is Raw Tobacco (59%) followed by Gold (8.9%) Raw sugar (8.1%) & Tea (7.9%) plus others.
One of the main problems most Malawian tobacco farmers are facing at the moment stem from the global decline in the tobacco industry, leaving them working tirelessly for a very small if any profit to buy food. As such, the country is looking towards other crops to grow in order to sustain the growth of the economy and the country.
The life expectancy in Malawi is only 61 years old and just under half the population are under 14 years old.
30% of people living in the increasingly congested towns and cities are suffering from HIV or AIDS, and most are living in extremely challenging situations worsened by a lack of clean water and poor sanitation.
The population which once stood at 4 million in the late 1960's now stands at a staggering 19 million (64th in the world) and world health organisations have predicted the growth of the population to reach 40 million by 2050 which is a frightening prospect for a country with such limited resources.
As with most counties throughout the world, it is easy to find people living with very little while also somehow managing to find a way to get by. This is what most Malawians are doing right now with over 50% of the population living on less than £1 a day.


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Q: Normalizing Grayscale image magnitude to one I want to normalize the magnitude of grayscale images to one on MATLAB (reference)
Slide 18 shows what the result should look like, but for some reason when I run my code I get a complete black image output, here's my code:
 % Load images
 f1 = (imread('f1.jpg'));
 f2 = (imread('f2.jpg'));

 %compute 2D FT of F1 and F2

 F1 = fft2(double(f1));
 F2 = fft2(double(f2));

 % Find magnitude and phase of the two images

 F1Mag = abs(F1);
 F1Phase = angle(F1);

 F2Mag = abs(F2);
 F2Phase = angle(F2);

 % set magnitudes to 1

 Gone = exp(1j*F1Phase);
 Gtwo = exp(1j*F2Phase);

 %invert to image

 gone = uint8(ifft2(Gone));
 gtwo = uint8(ifft2(Gtwo));

I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, any help/suggestions would be amazing. Thank you

A: You are casting your data (which consists of negative numbers as well as numbers < 1) to a uint8 which is effectively causing all of your values to be set to 0 resulting in a black image. You want to instead keep the image as a double and use imagesc to display the result.
f1 = imread('cameraman.tif');
F1 = fft2(f1);

% Set the magnitude to 1
G1 = exp(1j * angle(F1));

% Convert back to image domain and take the real component
g1 = real(ifft2(G1));

% Display the result using imagesc so it's scaled
imagesc(g1);
colormap gray;

If you really want the output to be uint8, you'll want to first use mat2gray to normalize the image, and then scale it by 255 before casting it as a uint8.
g2 = uint8(mat2gray(g1) * 255);


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I believe families are happier when each member is thriving and can do what they love! I have seen many families struggle to find solutions to their health concerns, or give up doing the things they love because of their health. My passion is helping people help themselves, and get them feeling well so they can truly live their lives. I have a knack for finding obstacles to health, whether physical, mental, or emotional. I am convinced that everyone can feel better and with the proper tools and support, you can stay feeling better. I believe the mind, body, and spirit must all work in harmony to promote healing. I am passionate about living and promoting a healthy lifestyle and motivating others to do the same!
I believe when we are given support we can accomplish anything we put our minds to. I am interested in keeping you at your best so you can live the fulfilling life you aspire to. I know the path to health is not straight; that is why I take the time to hear where you have come from and where it is you want to go. To learn more about how I can help you get your life back on track, book a complimentary 15 minute meet and greet.
Let me worry about your health so you can spend more time with your family, creating memories that will last a lifetime.
In my first year in Kinesiology at Western University, my goal was to enter the health profession, but I was unsure what form this would take. It was not until I met with a Naturopathic Doctor that everything changed. I had never even heard of naturopathic medicine before, but after only a few minutes of conversation, I realized that this was my fit. Naturopathic medicine treats the individual person, not just their condition. Naturopathic Doctors are medically trained to find the root cause of each condition and use natural therapies to find solutions. We work with you to better your health and become your best self. Naturopathic medicine combines my love of teaching and health with my passion of truly making a difference in people's lives!
Laura grew up on a farm outside of Petrolia where she spent her summers on the soccer field and winters at the hockey rink. She completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology at Western University where she was honoured to receive the Gold Medal for graduating at the top of her class. She went on to complete her Doctor of Naturopathy degree at The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) in Toronto. While at CCNM she was part of the Naturopathic Student Association and was the student representative for the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors. Laura completed her internship at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic and the Brampton Naturopathic Teaching Clinic at Brampton Civic Hospital. She has also completed additional certification as a Naturopathic Doula, and is in the process of completing training to become a Lactation Consultant. Laura's family practice focuses on fertility, breastfeeding, and women's health. Laura also has a special interest in headaches, joint pain, and digestive disorders.


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Home / About Us / Our People
Denise Cosgrove
PSN Chief Executive Officer
Denise has broad experience as an accomplished senior executive with commercial and public sector experience in New Zealand and Australia. Her previous roles have included being Chief Executive at the Victorian Work Cover Authority in Australia, a general manager at the Accident Compensation Corporation and an assistant auditor general. As well as contributing to various NGO organisations and actively supporting socially-minded entrepreneurs, Denise supports New Zealand's contemporary art and design sector, especially new and emerging talent.
Wendy Hoskin
Chief Operating Officer / Deputy CEO
Wendy has worked at PSN since 2014 originally as General Manager Development and currently as Chief Operating Officer. Her role includes responsibility for Finance, Information Services, Contract Management and Evaluation and Human Resources. She has more than 20 years' experience in the health and social sectors working in management positions in Auckland DHB and Waikato DHB in both Operational Management and Funding and Planning Management. Wendy is also member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Andrea McLeod
General Manager, Strategic Change
Andrea McLeod is responsible for Strategic Change at Presbyterian Support Northern. She represents the home and community health sector on a number of forums including the role of Chair of the Home and Community Health Association, and is a director on the board of Careerforce - the Industry Training Organisation. Andrea's background is as a Registered Nurse and she brings over 20 years of experience and knowledge in health and community services management to the role.
Jane Drumm
Shine General Manager
Before Shine joined PSN in July 2016, Jane Drumm had served as Shine's Executive Director since 1998. Under her leadership, Shine grew from four staff and a budget of $180,000 to an organisation with a national profile, more than 30 staff and a budget of more than $3 million. Jane has undertaken two major overseas study trips to study what works to stop domestic abuse in the United Kingdom (under a Winston Churchill Fellowship) and in North America. Using what she learned, Jane initiated a number of Shine's innovative and unique services. Previously, Jane worked as a Victim Advisor for Auckland District Court for one year and as a Probation Officer for thirteen years.
Susanne Ritzenhoff
General Manager Communications & Fundraising
Susanne was a director at Creative Pathways before joining PSN in March 2016. Before this, she was the fundraising manager for Youthline Auckland. Between 2007 and 2011 Susanne was the General Manager for Q Theatre, responsible for raising funds to build the theatre, then overseeing its construction. Susanne has also held other roles in investment and the arts, including business manager for Sparkbox Ltd, and the Auckland Theatre Company.


Electrolux new Chief Marketing Officer Lars Hygrell, who stepped into his new role earlier this month, talks about what's first on his agenda, his mission to make marketing more 'impactful' and why connectivity gives Electrolux a fantastic opportunity to be invaluable to the consumer.
So what's first on the agenda in your CMO Role?
We have a big opportunity at Electrolux to really set ourselves apart from the competition, delivering a truly best-in-class consumer experience. Marketing has a big role in making this happen. At a time when consumer expectations are evolving fast with the rise of the Internet of Things and digitalization, it's more important than ever before to make marketing more impactful and data-driven.
A key objective for me and for Electrolux to meet this challenge is to build the best team to establish a way of working that builds strong collaboration and engagement across all markets – a competitive strength to Electrolux. We need to identify and where needed, add the right expertise and competence to support the transformational marketing agenda for the coming years. So whether it's in digital transformation, consumer experience, brand strategy, ownership or marketing effectiveness, to mention a few areas, we need to make sure we have the absolute best team in the industry to win in the market.
Why should the world's sharpest marketers be attracted to Electrolux?
We come from a heritage of entrepreneurship and innovation. There's an enormous level of creativity in our team, and the willingness to change and take on the challenges ahead of us – especially through the digital transformation – makes this an extremely interesting place to develop and grow. Here you can fully develop and collaborate with the best people in the industry to help us in becoming the number one appliance company in the world.
What can you tell us so far about the marketing agenda you hope to drive?
The mission is to make marketing more impactful, both commercially and from a brand perspective. This means we need to bring more science to marketing, to become data-driven, and there are certain focus areas to deliver on this.
Firstly, I want to evolve how we build brand desirability. We must better understand the role that each main brand plays in the portfolio and to define the branded consumer experience, the brand positioning, values and promise.
Another area of focus is of course the 360 digital transformation. Marketing is going through a tremendous transformation, becoming fully digital, with the consumer in charge, expecting full and relevant brand and product information anytime and anywhere.
Some great work has already been done at Electrolux to understand this transformation not only in our industry but also in the consumer world in terms of their purchase journey. I now hope to apply these learnings and leverage best practices around the world. This way we can take our consumers on a seamless and rewarding path to purchase using our digital tools and technology to drive conversion more effectively.
Finally, not a new area but a new focus area where we see enormous potential is through the ownership experience. If we can find ways of incentivizing our customers and making it easier and more valuable to register with us, we can start to have very valuable discussions – offering maintenance, warranty, add-on sales, recipes and so on.
We know from research that the cost of acquiring a new consumer is five to six times higher than retaining an owner to continue to stay with us and buy more of our products. We have 300-400 million appliances in people's home around the world so there is a huge opportunity in focusing on improving loyalty.
And as connectivity develops and product registration becomes automated, we can have more individualized personal dialogues with consumers so they get more value both from the products and their relationship with us.
You mention the role of connectivity – how will this change the role of an appliance company?
With leisure time dropping, priorities have changed and our research tells us people are placing more value than ever before on the home experience. Electrolux is absolutely at the heart of this consumer need.
Our strategy is to provide remarkable experiences in the home to help people create great-tasting food, care for the clothes they wear and achieve a sense of healthy wellbeing for themselves and their loved ones. And now with the rise of the Internet of Things, this offers Electrolux a huge opportunity to shape the future of connected living.
If we at Electrolux build our brands and partnerships to be part of this connected system – and focus on our insights and our strengths to deliver an outstanding consumer experience – we will be invaluable to the consumer. We will be a part of their most important place in the world, their happy place.


Forgive me for giving Michael O'Leary more of what he wants - that being ink - but note the coincidence of his latest ridiculous statement in the Telegraph, "seatbelts don't matter" which was published the day after 130 passengers and crew members on Southwest Airlines flight 1905 to Denver were happily restrained by their seat belts as their Boeing 737 careened off the taxiway after hitting a patch of ice.
I think I know of 130 people for whom seat belts matter very much.
This is the same sort of nonsensical obliviousness demonstrated by gadget-happy air travelers who think because they are tech savvy, they are safety savvy. They agitate for eliminating the restrictions on using EMI emitting devices during critical phases of flight by concluding if planes aren't falling out of the sky, everything is hunky dory.
Digital nomads can be forgiven for a lack of nuanced understanding of the complexities of air safety but what's O'Leary's excuse? The man is running an airline. Certainly he has some appreciation for the fact that there are frequent aviation safety events from which passengers walk away in one piece and for that they can credit thousands of designs and procedures learned one-by-one and often at the cost of human lives.
In addition to having my own seat cradled for far too many hours in airplanes this fall, I have also spent a good amount of time visiting the folks who deserve some of the praise for the state of seat safety.
From Jasti, the crash test dummy lab in Numazu, Japan presided over by Yoshi Ozawa to the beehive seating center of BE Aerospace in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where Tom Plant dazzled me with an exciting tale of the complexities of seat design (really!) I'm smart enough to know that great minds are at work each and every day and dismissing the products of all that gray matter is just moronic.
But that's not why I'm spending some of my extremely limited time trying to counter O'Leary's hot air. The third airplane seat coincidence is based on a personal conversation I had just last week. A smart young woman of about 32, told me flat out she didn't worry about any of that safety briefing guff because airplane crashes weren't survivable. If a high profile airline executive spouts the same thing, who can fault her for her doubts?
Every day there's some story in the news about an emergency landing, or runway event like Southwest's little episode in Denver this past weekend. People like my friend hear it, heck, it's on You Tube before the plane is at the gate, but they fail to make the connection between the anchorman's "moments of terror" characterization and happy ending that is the story's conclusion.
Chalk up survival success to egg heads like Ozawa and Plant and thousands of others who crunch numbers and smash doll heads so we can purchase a plane ticket knowing that the chances our own heads will crack open are infinitesimal.
Now if all those great minds could just come up with a plan to smack some sense into O'Leary's noggin, we'd be all set.
As you noted, every time he makes one of these broad pronouncements, he gets lots of attention. Not only does he keep Ryanair in the news but he gets a chance to again set expectations (essentially none) for his customers. He is constantly updating the image that he wants to put forward, and that is of one opposed to the status quo. Most of the things he proposes are just for shock value, but he has hundreds of airplanes and when he gets annoyed with, say an airport and their charges, he makes good on his threats. While many may view him as a nutcase, he has built a huge organization on his own terms and that counts for something.
O'Leary's strategy reminds me of Akbar Al Baker, Qatar's boss who told me he'd sleep with the devil if it would help his airline. (See my previous post Holy Matrimony) Everybody charts their own course, and success is a subjective term. Ryanair is certainly a bigger airline, but is it a better one? Has O'Leary done much about which the aviation industry can say, "Thanks Mike, you made us all better."?
In terms of passenger experience, it is worth mentioning that Qatar and RyanAir are at completely opposite ends of the spectrum. So the objectives of the respective CEOs' bombast are quite different.
Great points, Christine. Thank you. This displays a flagrant ignorance of or disdain for a culture of safety at Ryanair. Do they teach this drivel to cabin crew? Mr. O'Leary is a caricature of Coneilius "Commodore" Vanderbildt, the robber baron who built the New York Central and his infamous "the public be damned" business model. Truly the guy does a lot of this to set the low standard of cheapness (you get what you pay for) of his airline. Unfortunately a lot of legacy airlines and even LCCs, in an effort to develop a market with the world's lager louts and those for whom the absolute cheapest fare is all that matters, are following some of his baits and switches and "ancillary fees" (think Spirit and now even formerly proud and classy carriers) are immitating some of his poor example when it comes to customer service. More importantly, Mr. O'Leary's spouting off becomes a real issue when it regards setting standards and a culture at Ryanair for safety and security. It can be argued that when the CEO of a big airline, a person who is supposed to be the leader of an airline, states something like "seat belts don't matter," his fitness to manage and lead that airline should be called into question as well as the safety standards and culture of that airline.
Mark, I think your post misses the point of O'Leary's pronouncements, one that Christine hit straight on the nose: he wants the publicity.
He wants it for its own sake, but also because he wants people to write about how Ryanair is a cheapskate, cutting every corner it can, from staff charging their cellphones to a pound for the loo to standing room.
Why does he want that? Because whenever punters hear RYANAIR CHEAPSKATE they'll think "hmm, Ryanair's cheap". And when they're hunting for a flight, they'll consider it.
I should note that I've used Ryanair myself for point-to-point flying. It's a miserable experience, but it's cheap, and as you point out the legacy carriers are getting into the same game.
It all adds up to an interesting set of variables for flying around Europe, that's for sure.


In late December, KP High School welcomed back fourteen graduates of the school's DECA program. The students returned to reflect on their time as DECA members and share the impact the program has had on their college experiences.
During the annual event, dubbed a round table, graduates shared insights about how DECA had prepared them for college and future careers. Time management and communication skills were valuable lessons honed from their DECA experience, agreed the graduates, equipping them to meet the challenges of higher education.
KPHS business teacher and DECA advisor James Dow said the round table event began in 2011, and has had a tremendous impact on the program.
Among the visiting grads were Business Operations representatives Jeff Yatsuhashi (freshman at Notre Dame), Nick Simmons (freshman at UMass Amherst), and Tori Desmond (freshman at Bridgewater State University). Returning International Champions included Nick Sammarco (freshman at Suffolk University), and Luke Eldridge (freshman at Grove City College). Representatives for Chapter Team events included Lauren Chandler (sophomore at University of New Hampshire), Jenn Hutynyan (sophomore at Merrimack College), and International champions Abby Melanson (freshman at Savannah College of Art and Design), Alex Welsh (freshman at University of Denver), and Ashley Guertin (sophomore at UMass). Representatives for Entrepreneurship events included Julianne Rando (freshman at Bentley University) and Brianna Lacy (freshman at Babson College), as well as International champions Emalee Buckley (junior at Pace University) and Tess McGrory (junior at Bryant University).
DECA, once known as Distributive Education Clubs of America, began between 1937 and 1942 as clubs for students and teachers of distributive education (now known as marketing education). In 1947, the clubs voted to form a national organization. DECA's mission is to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in both high schools and colleges around the world.


My Little Kitchen: My 250th Post... and a GIVEAWAY!
So here it is guys! I can't believe this is my 250th post. I can't believe I even had 250 things to write about! I still feel like a complete newbie blogger and like my journey has only just begun.
Anyway, I thought I'd do a little giveaway to say thank you to all my wonderful blog followers, Facebook likers, Instagram followers and Twitter followers. And also to everyone who's ever read or commented on my little piece of the blogosphere!
I couldn't think of anything better to giveaway than a brand spanking new copy of one of my favourite recipe books... The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days. It contains my all time favourite recipe for Chocolate orange cupcakes. There are still so many more recipes I want to try like tiramisu cupcakes, summer berry cheesecake and sweet and salty chocolate cake.
Complete the Rafflecopter form below to confirm your entries made via blog comments, Twitter, Facebook etc.. Only open to people who live in the UK, over the age of 18. Sorry to those who are younger or who live further afield. Closing date Sunday 10th March 2013.Good Luck!
Or bbc good food cakes and bakes - has loads of yummy recipes and it has my favourite blueberry muffin recipe in!


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What is equine facilitated learning?
Trying to define equine facilitated learning is like trying to ask a horse to stand still in a hurricane. Even those in the industry have a hard time agreeing on whether or not it is equine assisted, facilitated, integrated and experiential or guided. This author has been exploring that question for well over a year now, and it is still cream cheese green hairy mold fuzzy. There is something potentially good underneath if you scrape on the fuzz on top. If you Google it, you will find lots of different opinions across the board of people trying to boil it down and put it into a nice neat little package to sell. It gets a little scary if you watch YouTube videos of professionals who film sessions with some questionable practices. So where is the regulation? Where can one go to find answers and a clear cut path to certification? Unfortunately there is no "one stop shopping" on this one, but there are some really good options to start with depending on which area you want to focus on. If you are wondering why you should care, think about the fact that every incident that occurs at the barn as a result of someone with more heart than experience can affect your insurance premiums or for every not so good facilitator there are strikes against the credibility of the really good facilitators. By giving framework, common language and guidelines to professionals, we help to ensure the future of our business. So let's take a closer look by examining what we can all agree on.
After several conversations with those you might consider the leaders in our industry including Linda Kohanov, Barbara Rector, the folks at E3A, and others, we find that we can all agree that this is a growing slice of the equine assisted pie. Discussions on those conversations are coming soon. We can also conclude that there are many traditional therapeutic riding instructors that are moving into a more EFL focus based on the early findings of an industry survey conducted by PATH Intl. However, if you boil down the primordial soup that makes up this industry and get to the essence of the EFL work, we find some common elements to help us build a framework around equine facilitated learning. The first is that EFL is the inclusive home to a diverse group of professionals. EFL can be applied to so many settings that it is impossible to come to a definitive list. But the short list includes coaching, education, leadership development, corporate coaching, recreation therapy, ministry and much more. The point is that is can really be applied by any professional. Another point we can agree on is that the nature of the session is determined by the goal of the client and the purpose of your session. If you are operating as a life coach, then your session would be focused on a developing the skills the clients need to achieve their life goals. If you are in leadership development then the session is focused on developing a leadership trait. All of this is through horse interaction.
We can also agree that the horse is a partner, not a tool. This is a point that varies across the board as far as what language we use to describe the work. It is generally accepted that one never says they "use" a horse as it does not honor their part in the process. As Shannon Knapp, author of More than a Mirror: Horses, Humans and Therapeutic Practices says "If you can substitute a bale of hay for a horse in any activity without a significant change to the activity, then it's not EFP/EFL. Why have a horse there?" Ethically we have to shift our mindset on how we view the horse in relation to our work. The deeper we go we find out more on the horse's sensitivities and the grand consequences that happen. The horse can experience stress and if we as facilitators aren't in tune enough to the signals and behavior the horse I communicating, we can do more harm than good for both client and horse. The horse is a partner in the process with the client and facilitator.
Facilitating is a great word for what we do. When people talk about horse work it really is a shift from teaching in the traditional sense to facilitating. You are facilitating the conversation that is happening when in session with the horse. Yes there are times when we are teaching when we review safety and the nature of horses with our clients, but it is knowing the difference between teaching and facilitating and knowing when to use on or the other that is key.
The nature of an EFL session is one that deals with the development of life skills and growth. There are those who would argue that they are teaching horsemanship skills and that is EFL. Yes that is coming from a learning point of view but it is not EFL unless the goal is development of a life skill. EFL is a session where clients or clients achieve goals through learning to work with horses. Through that interaction and learning how to communicate with them we are learning skills that help improve quality of life such as trust, honesty, connection, self-regulation and self-confidence.
And the last point we can agree on is that it is not therapy and understanding scope of practice is paramount. One cannot just start facilitating EFL if they are a therapeutic riding instructor or certified equine specialist. The key is to satisfy the two primary competencies: training in facilitating groups and individuals and advanced knowledge of the horse behavior and horsemanship. This does not mean that you have to be an expert in both areas. If you are facilitating the session alone then you would need to be the expert in the horsemanship side of things and have to be the expert in whatever the purpose of the session in whether it be leadership or education. If you don't have the expertise then you bring someone else in to co-facilitate with you. This is not therapy but things come up for clients all the time. It cannot be stressed enough that advanced knowledge is required to know when you are entering the grey area between learning and therapy. You have to know when to intervene and stop the process before it goes too far and when not to intervene. And if someone opens up about something that is beyond your scope of practice, you need to know how to handle that situation. Processing and debriefing for learning is different than processing for therapy. The facilitator or co-facilitators need to understand that line to keep the horses safe and their clients safe.
As far as getting certified to offer equine facilitated learning, there are a few options. PATH has an equine specialist certification that certifies a professional in partnering with someone. But it does not teach facilitation skills. The Certified Equine Interaction Professional in Education is a competency based certification that certifies mental health professionals and education professionals for the work. It tests both horsemanship and facilitation but does not offer training. Equine Facilitated Coaching and Learning offered by Kathy Pike is a coaching based certification that is a yearlong commitment and covers both competency areas in a strength based approach. Epona Quest offers a yearlong apprenticeship training as well. It's a bit pricey but it thorough and like Kathy explores more of the self-growth side of the work. E3A offers training in leadership and corporate work. Their foundation is experiential education and leadership development and some of the training can be done online. EAGALA is a great gateway to the work but certifies mental health professionals and horse professionals to work in teams. It does not focus on the learning side of facilitation but the therapeutic side.
The deeper this rabbit hole goes the more we discover the impact of working with horses and how powerful it can be. But we are still in our infancy of truly understanding the nature of it. We know it works and it has amazing benefits but we are like children with a new toy as people set off to brand it and package it up to sell to the mass market. But like any other power it must be respected first. The horse must be honored first as a sentient catalyst for change. Those of us who are drawn to work with horses and live the horse life understand this power and how it holds us to the work. It is our job to make sure that everyone in this industry can make a living doing what they love and be responsible for protecting our horses and the clients we work with.


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