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How to travel safely during pregnancy
Health By Hemchhaya De Fri, Jun 22, 2018
Are you fantasising about flying to an exotic holiday destination, but scared to do so because you are pregnant? Are you craving for that one final relaxing holiday before you devote yourself completely to motherhood? Well, you can travel, provided you take adequate precautions. There's no need to suffer from maternal guilt or anxiety, if you follow what your doctor would prescribe and proscribe for your trips.
Actor Sonali Kulkarni would know well. "My doctor, Vinita Salvi, had become my best friend during my pregnancy and it was she who supported me when I travelled to Kerala. I was 8 months pregnant at that time," remembers Sonali, who has a five-year-old daughter. "I was actively swimming during this time and I felt so relaxed and comfortable! She kept encouraging me to do so by saying that babies too enjoy water and if this makes me relaxed, then I should go ahead. Mothers should not take unnecessary risks and they must get everything crosschecked with their doctors as we are often fed misconceptions, and not facts."
Doctors say that the safest period for travel is the second trimester. "We normally tell patients not to travel during the first and last trimesters," says Dr Gouri Kumra, gynaecologist-obstetrician, Kothari Medical Centre and Bhagirathi Neotia Woman and Child Care Centre, Kolkata. "There is a risk of miscarriage during the first trimester." Some women complain about nausea and feeling fatigued during the early days.
Precautions during a long journey
Of course, every pregnancy is different. But the need for taking a few basic steps, while travelling for long hours, towards protecting your baby cannot be overemphasised. "Firstly, during long hours of travel, don't try to hold your urine, fearing infection in public lavatories. Don't stop drinking water, empty your bladder frequently. If you don't follow this, you can suffer from headache and vomiting while travelling," warns Dr Kumra.
Long-distance travel also carries a heightened risk of blood clots or deep vein thrombosis (DVT), doctors say. So the general advice is that while flying, drink plenty of water, as women are susceptible to dehydration during this period, and move around at regular intervals. "If the flight was long, I made sure that I kept walking up and down the aisle to stay active, otherwise the feet can swell up," says actress Barkha Bisht Sengupta, who has a five-year-old daughter. "Flights dehydrate you, so I had lots of liquids." Many airlines will have assistance on board for pregnant women. If they don't, stand up for your rights.
Possible health risks
Dr Kumra says that sitting continuously in a particular position for a long stretch of time can impede blood circulation. Stasis can lead to such conditions as pedal edema (swelling of the ankle and feet).
Therefore, if you are travelling to a weekend getaway in a car, change your posture and your seat frequently during the journey. Stop the car regularly for breaks - stretch your ankles or take a walk. Keep the air circulating in your car. If you are wondering how to fasten your seatbelt so that it doesn't harm the baby, try not to strap it across your bump. "Such small interventions can go a long way in preventing pedal edema or even DVT," says Dr Kumra.
It's imperative that you consult your gynaecologist or general practitioner before embarking on a journey during your pregnancy. Check with your doctor whether there would be a need for progesterone to prevent uterine irritability and other conditions. Says Barkha, "I travelled a lot during my pregnancy. I always checked with my doctor before travelling and only after she approved, did I opt for the trips." She also ensured that she took with her basic medicines while travelling so that she didn't have to rush to a medical store during times of emergency.
"Would-be mothers should ideally be carrying doctors' certificates, stating that they are fit to travel after seven months of pregnancy," says Sonali. "Mothers shouldn't be worried about using washrooms. Quite often, we mothers stop drinking water because we hesitate using bathrooms in public places; but that's not right. Would-be moms should also eat healthy and not end up starving or stuffing themselves while travelling."
In fact, doctors say that many women complain about tiredness and dizziness during pregnancy. Hence, it's important during car journeys to drink regularly and consume energy-rich foods (fruits, nuts, etc).
Hygiene matters
With regard to the fear of contracting infections in public lavatories, Dr Kumra says that there would be a risk even in luxury hotels. "Avoid using the toilet seat even in a five-star hotel," says Dr Kumra. Insofar as vaccinations are concerned, a tetanus toxoid dose is normally prescribed in the fifth month and two other doses at a later stage.
During the last trimester, doctors advise sonography before you plan to travel. "We do a thorough screening to check the position and general well-being of the foetus," says Dr Kumra.
On board a ship
Before you book a cruise or something, check what the cruise liner's health policies are. Does it have a doctor or a nurse on board. Please check with your travel agent if the cruise will have a well-equipped medical unit. Also check with your doctor how you will take care of yourself if you suffer from seasickness. In fact, you get your ob-gyn prescribe you medicines for seasickness. Experts say that norovirus infection is another cause of health concern if you are travelling by the sea. Noroviruses can cause severe vomiting that can continue for about a couple of days. So wash your hands frequently to avoid contracting the viruses. If you suffer from diarrhoea and start vomiting while you are on a cruise, immediately seek medical facilities.
Health experts say that during pregnancy, expectant mothers can opt for commercial planes, but flying in smaller, non-pressurised planes can be a bit risky as, according to experts, lower oxygen levels may affect your baby's health. And these non-pressurised planes are not recommended for any stage of pregnancy. Airlines, international or otherwise, usually have a lot of restrictions with regard to flying for pregnant women. In fact, several airlines put restrictions on flying during pregnancy, especially after 36 weeks; most won't allow pregnant women to fly on a flight for over four hours. In such cases, do check with the airlines before boarding a long haul flight.
If you are at an advanced stage of pregnancy, some airlines can ask for a letter from your doctor. Requirements and restrictions can change from airline to airline, so it's always best to check with the airline before buying your tickets during pregnancy. Don't hesitate to call the airline carrier for any queries.
Before you board an international flight, check with your travel insurance company thoroughly. Experts say that some companies will insure a pregnant woman only up to a certain stage (most commonly 24 weeks). What's more, some companies might not cover overseas births. So, read the fine print and then decide.
Beware of complications
Doctors say that pregnant women should avoid travelling altogether if they develop certain health complications. There are certain conditions that can arise during pregnancy. Here are some common issues:
Preeclampsia: This can be accompanied by high blood pressure and possible damage to organs such as the liver and kidneys. This can set in after about 140 days when you become pregnant. If it's not tended to at the early stages, doctors say, the condition can turn fatal for both you and your baby. It can be asymptomatic in the early days of your pregnancy. Experts say that monitoring your blood pressure regularly is the key to curbing preeclampsia. Other symptoms include excess protein in your urine, acute headaches, decreased platelet levels, liver malfunction and breathlessness.
Premature rupture of membranes (PROM): This involves the rupture of the fetal membranes just before labour begins. If the membranes get ruptured before 37 weeks' gestation, it is called preterm premature rupture of membranes. This can lead to several other complications and in rare cases, can cause foetal deaths too. In fact, doctors say that preterm PROM can affect about three per cent pregnancies.
Preterm labour: Also known as premature labour. Usually, if labour occurs more than three months before the due date, it is considered preterm labour. Factors that can raise the risk of premature labour can include being overweight or being excessively underweight, smoking, conditions such as preeclampsia and a family history of this condition.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT): When a really deep blood clot is formed in the deep veins, it's called deep vein thrombosis. You can get intense pain in your legs if this occurs. There could be swelling too. Typically, this can strike when you are confined to a space for a long time and you haven't moved from your position for an extended stretch of time. If not contained, DVT can lead to serious conditions such as pulmonary embolism.
Pulmonary embolism: This occurs when there's a block in one of the pulmonary arteries in the lungs. Experts say the blood clots from the legs (if there's DVT) can travel to the lungs and impede blood flow. In other words, this condition can easily turn fatal. So, if you suddenly experience shortness of breath or a chest pain or uncontrollable cough with spots of blood, you need to seek medical intervention immediately.
Edema during pregnancy: To put it simply, edema occurs when there's fluid retention in the body and this causes ankles or feet or fingers to swell up. Experts say that this can be quite common during pregnancy. Needless to say, this can cause you enough discomfort during your trips. Sometimes, doctors say, the pressure of the womb can also hit blood flow in the lower part of the body, especially you ankles and feet. If you detect such swelling when you are travelling, do seek medical help. In order to curb peda edema, avoid standing in buses for a long stretch of time. Drink plenty of water, in order to get rid of excess water, doctors advise. Also, consult a physiotherapist and learn some basic foot exercises which you can try while travelling.
Depression and mood swings
These issues can be quite common during pregnancy. Add to it the stress of travelling and you can experience a world of pain. Before you travel, be aware of the psychological effects. Here's what Dr Samir Ray, senior consultant, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CK Birla Hospitals, Kolkata, wants you to keep in mind: "Depression and mood swings during pregnancy and puerperium (immediately after delivery) are not uncommon. Some women can be already prone to these disorders before pregnancy and these can become aggravated during pregnancy. Others can suffer from these only during pregnancy. This is more common during puerperium than during pregnancy itself. It is mostly because of some hormonal changes in the body. Sometimes women need the help of psychiatrists during their pregnancy. The incidence of these problems is increasing, maybe because more and more working women are dealing with huge pressure in their worksphere simultaneously. If mood swings and depression go beyond control during pregnancy, they can harm your baby. If there's a need for it, you can be prescribed medications to control these issues."
So, while travelling, make sure that you get someone to accompany you. If there's any kind of panic attack, someone needs to be there to help you cope with these. Try not to stress over travel details. Check into a spa during your journey to enjoy some de-stressing therapies. But do not try therapies because you like them. Inform spa authorities all about your health condition and then choose a relevant therapy that won't harm you in any way. While you are embarking on a long journey, carry books and your music collection. These will help to relax your mind and keep you preoccupied.
Sound the alarm bells
Needless to say, you need to be extra cautious while travelling during your pregnancy. When will you sound the alarm bells? Doctors say that you should immediately call for medical help if, among other things, you spot excessive vaginal bleeding, unbearable abdominal plain, constant vomitting, diarrhoea, pelvic contractions, water breaks or rupture of membranes, unusually high blood pressure and signs of deep vein thrombosis.
All in all, trust your instincts about what you can cope with; take all the precautions advised by your doctor. "My only advice to all would-be mothers is that you should take pregnancy as a normal thing!" says Sonali. "Pregnancy is a beautiful feeling - you should learn to take it easy and not overdo. Overprotection can also harm your fitness."
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Q: jQuery $.post - how to call a callback function if $.post fails and or if the response is not the type you expect Here's the thing, I have a jquery click event handler, that calls a post on click.
The type that it expects (4th parameter of $.post()) is "json". However, on the
server side; there are two responses to the post: it's either json or html response. The problem is, if it returns html, the callback function isn't called (because the $.post expects a json?).
How can I react to this? I want something that if the server side script returns a json, execute callback, otherwise do another. Is that possible? Can I check the response type with $.post?

A: You'll most likely want to use the generic jquery.ajax function.  In particular the dataType: 'text' property should allow you to parse your return value in whatever method works for you.  You can also use the parseJSON function
$.ajax({
  url: 'url',
  type: 'post'
  dataType: 'text',
  success: function(text) {
     if  (json) {
         var obj = $.parseJSON(text);
     } else {
         var html = $(text);
     }
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});

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Q: chart.js Multiple Axes Cambiar el color a varios puntos dependiendo del valor He intentado cambiar el color de varios puntos de mi gráfica creada con Chart.js pero no lo he conseguido. Lo que quiero es destacar en color ROJO los puntos que superen un valor dado. El color por defecto es el verde.

<canvas id='grafico' name='grafico' width='250vw' height='80vw'></canvas>

El codigo donde genero el grafico es el siguiente:
var ctx_gp = document.getElementById("grafico");
var chart_datlog = new Chart(ctx_gp, {
    type: 'line',
    data: {
        labels : ["18:21:00","18:26:00","18:31:00","18:36:00","18:41:00","18:46:00","18:51:00","18:56:00","19:01:00","19:06:00","19:11:00","19:16:00","19:21:00","19:26:00","19:31:00","19:36:00","19:41:00","19:46:00","19:51:00",
        datasets: [{
            type: 'line',
            label: "Temperatura",
            yAxisID: 'A',
            data :[21.4,21.3,20.7,20.5,20.3,20.2,20.2,20.1,20,19.9,19.7,19.5,19.3,19.2,19,18.8,18.7,18.5,18.4,18.3],
            fill: false,
            backgroundColor: ['rgba(255, 99, 132, 0.2)'],
            borderColor: ['rgba(255,99,132,1)'],
            hoverBackgroundColor: ['rgba(255,99,132,0.4)'],
            borderWidth: 1
        }, {
            type: 'line',
            label: "Humedad",
            yAxisID: 'B',
            data: [76.9,59.8,61.9,62.4,63,62.9,63.1,63.1,63.2,63.2,63.4,64.1,64.7,65.1,65.6,65.8,66.2,66.4,66.7,67],
            fill: false,
            borderColor: '#71B37C',
            pointBorderColor: '#71B37C',
            pointHoverBackgroundColor: '#71B37C',
            pointHoverBorderColor: '#71B37C'
        }]
    },
    options: {
        responsive: true,
        scales: {
            yAxes: [{
                id: 'A',
                type: 'linear',
                position: 'left',
                scaleLabel: {
                  display: true,
                  labelString: 'ºC'
                }
            }, {
                id: 'B',
                type: 'linear',
                position: 'right',
            }]
        }
    }

});

Para cambiar el color de los puntos que cumplan la condicion, he creado esta funcion:
for (i = 1; i < chart_datlog.data.datasets[0].data.length - 1; i++) {
    if (chart_datlog.data.datasets[0].data[i] > 20) {
        chart_datlog.data.datasets[0].pointBackgroundColor = "#ea042a";
        chart_datlog.data.datasets[0].pointRadius = 5;
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Lo unico que consigo es cambiar todos los puntos al mismo color (rojo), y lo que yo quiero cambiar son los puntos cuyo valor sea mayor de 20
Gracias a todos por la ayuda.

A: He conseguido el resultado que quería, incluyendo una función de control para pointBackgroundColor:
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Located in the popular World Square Sydney, Margherita and Co taking diners on a trip straight to Italy through its rustic pasta and popular pizzas. Quaintly perched under white and yellow awnings and brightly coloured shutters decorate the windows, this is a fun place where the food is homely and the atmosphere is abuzz. Using flavours of rich tomato, ricotta and truffle the menu is a clever combination of classics with a modern twist.


So I had this argument with an atheist where he said that somebodyhad proved using modal logic that theism is coherent, I didn't understand what that meant since I do not understand modal logic, and that therefore he is no longer be considered irrational for their belief in God and since they have experienced God is names that they can rationally say that God exists.
What I said is that that seems ludicrous because what if I say that I have experienced a unicorn, does this mean I can rationally say that unicorns exist? he replied that I would only be one person and I guess rationality in numbers.
We also talked about this weird thing that theists base their beliefs off of the fact that God exists. which also seemed absurd to me, I don't think most theists have as a premise for each of their beliefs God is real.
What does everyone think of these arguments?
The logic they are using is probably one of them sneeky things. Kind of like the pic seen below.
To put that in perspective, a friend of mine can consistently use modal logic to prove that he does not have "a head". A theist getting to "there is a God" is pretty easy, since all you have to do is make up the rules of the game first, and arrive at the conclusion you want.
Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! […] Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
oddly its not all that different then theists actual defense's.


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Původní gotický kostel Všech svatých byl v Ořechově postaven v roce 1317. V letech 1704 a 1705 byl částečně barokně upraven. Starý chrám postupem času již kapacitně nevyhovoval, proto bylo na konci 19. století rozhodnuto o výstavbě nového kostela. Ten starý byl po poslední bohoslužbě konané dne 26. února 1899 zbořen a na jeho místě byl vybudován novorománský trojlodní chrám. Stavba byla dokončena 11. listopadu 1899, vysvěcen byl 6. července 1900 brněnským biskupem Františkem Saleským Bauerem. U kostela probíhaly na konci druhé světové války nejtěžší boje bitvy u Ořechova, v jeho věži měli němečtí vojáci pozorovatelnu. Podobně jako většina obce byl kostel těžce poničen, po válce byl obnoven.

Byl památkově chráněn, v roce 2017 o tuto ochranu deklaratorním rozhodnutím přišel (v roce 2020 Ministerstvo kultury České republiky rozhodlo, že zápis objektu do státního seznamu kulturních památek z roku 1989 proběhl opožděně, takže památková ochrana skončila 31. prosince 1987). Roku 2019 byla jeho památková ochrana obnovena.

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Social care should support people's autonomy and independence, allowing us to control our lives as much as possible.
The allocation of personal budgets for people to spend as they see fit is a step in the right direction.
However, the pervasive culture of suspicion which tries to nudge people to make the 'right' choices must be challenged.
We should not give in to the tendency to see the potential for abuse at every turn, especially when dealing with society's most vulnerable.
Social care for free citizens must begin by defending people's ability to choose for themselves.
The 'personalisation' of social care is a good example of how today's public services can liberate people rather than simply control them. One study estimates that 'within the next five years, 1.5 million people could be using personal budgets to commission and manage their own support.' [1] Promoting people's independence, choice and control (as the rhetoric goes) points the way forwards towards establishing a more fair and just social care system. It ultimately shows how a new public sector ethos can aid the creation of a society of free citizens.
It seems the public service revolution is already underway. The government is dedicated to developing a personalised welfare state. The Conservatives similarly want to allow people to spend the money allocated for their care as they see fit, and 'give some of our most deprived citizens the opportunity to live independent and fulfilling lives.' [2]
Indeed, it is partly the endorsement of conservative critics that lends weight to the suspicion that 'personalisation' is a slippery term used to disguise public services cuts and get tough on benefit claimants. Yet, despite this not entirely unreasonable nervousness, I have found myself warming to the idea.
This Thinkpiece constitutes an argument for a social care policy that truly supports people's autonomy. We should challenge the fretful desire to nudge people into making the 'right' choices and impede people from truly taking control of their lives, and support a genuine personalisation of social services.
A truly active society
There is a sympathy between personalised social care and a personalised welfare system: each can help people play a more active role in society. Indeed, the idea of personalisation is most developed in the field of social care for adults, but has much wider implications for the delivery of a variety of public services.
It is true that in the current economic climate and amidst unprecedented levels of welfare dependency (real and rhetorical), political parties agree that personalisation is a good way forward. Yet whilst the economic recession is not something to be welcomed, it does present a profound challenge to the way we organise public services. It forces us to consider as a society what we, both as individuals and in our communities, can do for ourselves — and what we need from government.
The current government has its own idea of what personalisation might mean. As the Prime Minister puts it in his foreword to Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government, personalisation means creating 'services that are universal to all but personal to each' and that 'strengthen the role of citizens and civic society.'
Indeed, there is a good deal of confusion about the role of the state in our lives today. The fundamental question of when it is appropriate for the state to intervene in our lives is not even being asked, never mind answered. Despite talk of handing over control to people, whether by co-production, co-operatives or user-led organisations, there is a tendency for political parties to offer us 'support' whether we like it or not.
So, whilst we will soon see the introduction of personal health budgets, the prevailing health care culture has done little to promote people truly taking control of their lives. Attempts to shape people's behaviour and nudge them towards making the 'right choices' about how much they drink, eat or smoke doesn't bode well for those of us who want to help people make their own decisions – whether they are ultimately good or bad for them, and whether we like it or not.
That is a reason why these reforms are so badly needed. They could, if developed in the right way, encourage a welcome shift in our expectations of ourselves, and each other.
No suspicion
A headline early last year claimed 'Over 50% of carers admit to elder abuse'. [3] It was based on a study which concludes that instead of suspecting paid carers of abusing older people, authorities should address the 'taboo' of abuse carried out by family members. However, those caring for elderly relatives with dementia were not physically beating their relatives. They were mostly shouting at them. The scary 50% in the headline was 50% of just 220 carers interviewed. A further one third admitted inflicting what they describe as 'significant levels of abuse' but the term 'significant' here was taken to mean 'swearing often or being insulting'. Not nice maybe, but not abuse either.
This and similar studies regularly get picked up by the media, generating considerable anxiety about something that we, not least those doing the research, can only speculate about, giving legitimacy to whatever interventions are deemed necessary.
Even if those convinced we live in an abusive society concede people are not regularly beating up their grandparents, they are nevertheless, we are told, financially abusing them. Levels of theft and fraud affect 'hundreds of thousands of older people' involving 'tens of millions of pounds', according to Action on Elder Abuse. [4]
While there are no doubt instances of financial and elder abuse, although neither term is particularly helpful, these wider claims need to be challenged. Why, despite an apparent lack of evidence to support the view, are we told that elder abuse is widespread? I can only assume that those who make these claims see human relationships as inherently abusive.
The truth is that no matter how vulnerable an older person, it would be wrong to build our approach to safeguarding on a presumption of harm and vulnerability. Doing so would likely undermine those relationships with family, friends and neighbours on which so-called vulnerable adults rely.
And yet passing of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act in 2006 and setting up the Independent Safeguarding Authority to oversee the new vetting and barring arrangements, has given legislative and institutional form to the notion that we're all vulnerable now.
Fewer safeguards
Nevertheless, responses to the consultation on the government's adult safeguarding guidance, No Secrets, do suggest there is some concern about these developments. The use of the terms 'vulnerable adult' and 'abuse' has been questioned. There is an unease about the implicit robbing people of the dignity of being an 'adult', and a concern that what we really need is more support rather than suspicion of those who care for their elderly relatives.
The fact there 'were reportedly few successful prosecutions in relation to safeguarding', as the police responded, should be reason for optimism, not cause for alarm as lobbyists would have us believe. It suggests that elder abuse and financial abuse may be much less prevalent than we are being led to believe.
There is something of a stand-off between safeguarding and personalisation, between choice and risk. And yet there is a clear feeling from those who use services that 'safeguarding decisions should be taken by the individual concerned' and that 'they wanted to retain control and make their own choices'. Too often, we learn, safeguarding is 'experienced as safety at the expense of other qualities of life, such as self determination and the right to family life.' [5]
While safeguards are an important consideration for those of us working with people with disabilities, mental health problems or people who may be ill or frail, the risk-averse response of the authorities is out of all proportion to the actual (and thankfully rare) incidence of abuse itself. Too often seeking to protect 'vulnerable' people from risk is to protect them from life itself and all it brings, both good and bad.
The proliferation of paper exercises may make us sleep safer in our beds, but there is little evidence that risk assessment matrices and safeguarding procedures do anything to prevent things going badly wrong in practice. Indeed, while these tools may have a role to play, they can also generate false positives and a wider sense of anxiety. Relying on them can only distract and inhibit care workers, keeping them from the business of caring and making it more difficult to spot abuse in those exceptional cases where it arises.
Instead of generating safeguarding referrals by promoting 'awareness', which seems the perverse dynamic currently at work in local authorities up and down the land; we should be generating local intelligence about the outcomes of those referrals. We should work out the real and often mundane risks people might face, such as the risk of falls for older people living alone or the risks presented by unscrupulous traders known to be operating in the local area. This is the only rational way to respond to what we actually don't and can't know in advance.
As David Brindle argues in The Guardian, 'Social care has to its surprise turned up in the vanguard of public services reform through personalisation, blazing a trail for other sectors that are now gingerly following suit.' [6] For Charles Leadbeater (the academic most associated with the idea), personalisation is a way 'to mobilise service users' intelligence to find lower-cost ways to improve services.' [7]
In a sense, the personalisation of social care takes the Community Care reforms of the 1980s to their logical conclusion. At the time, reformers were accused of putting vulnerable people (and the public) at risk, using kindly sounding rhetoric as cover for cutting services. There was some truth in this, and yet reforms helped to get 'vulnerable' people out of institutional care and into the community. Likewise, where local authorities are beginning to implement these changes, there are examples of how people are being given the opportunity to escape the confines of traditional services, and find better, more tailored solutions to the problems they face in their day-to-day lives.
For instance, in 2005, Cambridgeshire County Council piloted self-directed-support in their learning disabilities service. [8] By 2008, 56 of their service users were in receipt of personal budgets. In their evaluation they found people tended to spend their money on leisure pursuits, personal assistants and help at home more than anything else.
Alan, a young man with Down's syndrome, 'has taken up running, including completing a half-marathon, and swims at the local pool three times a week'. His mother manages his budget for him, and 'with Alan, recruits his personal assistants'.
Alice, keen to avoid a residential or supported living arrangement, and wanting to stay close to family and friends, used her budget to pay for a place of her own under a shared ownership scheme. With her family, she arranged for a local organisation that specialised in mortgages for people with disabilities, to sort things out for her. According to the sister of Dev, a young disabled man who didn't go out at all until his family were given control of his care, he now gets support and 'goes out horse riding, swimming and for regular walks'. It has, she says 'improved his quality of life immensely', and that of his family.
The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames found that while a quarter of the service users they interviewed continued to use traditional services (ie. day care and residential care), a third paid friends and family members to support them, and half paid for transport. By far the most common use of personal budgets amongst this group of service users was for paying for help in the home, for carers and personal assistants.
One of their disabled residents, Anna, who left her teaching job to have a baby, says 'I couldn't even go to mother and baby groups because I needed someone else to carry my daughter when she was a baby or to help me with a pram. Just knowing I can pay someone to come with me and help me makes a big difference.' Instead of feeling 'trapped and resentful' toward the limitations imposed by her disability, she is now able find new ways of dealing with old problems.
The personalisation of social care has something going for it precisely because it is at odds with so much else that officialdom does these days. It goes against the intrusive, paternalistic grain – but we also need to be on our guard. For all that personalisation promises, many enthusiasts seem oblivious to the counter-trends that threaten to undermine these changes.
Historically, on the political right, says Ken Mclaughlin, an academic and former social worker, social work has been understood as creating a dependency on welfare. On the radical left as doing 'nothing more than supervise the deterioration of people's lives.' He argues that we need to understand people as capable of change.
This is something which even enthusiasts for personalisation seem to struggle with at times. They call for supporting people when they take 'positive' risks, but this is a misnomer. There is no getting around the fact that as we 'allow' people to take risks they will also have to face the consequences. But in most cases the benefits of 'vulnerable' people taking control of their lives far exceed the problems that come with that newfound autonomy.
We have an opportunity to renegotiate where the line is, to dispute the safety-first suspicion of events behind closed doors and assert people's right to make their own decisions and control their own lives. Otherwise, these reforms will only be neutered by the powerful presumption of harm.
Some social workers regard personalisation as the realisation of their core values, as an opportunity to help people live their lives as normally as possible. This is not to deny the public servant's duty of care, or the need to protect those who are genuinely vulnerable or lack capacity. It is to underline where it is legitimate for them to act on that duty of care and where it is not, or (put another way) to have a wider view of what that duty entails.
Social workers should be seeking solidarity with the people they work with. When a service user's personal autonomy is hindered, this is at least in part a consequence of the barriers put in the way when workers could be using their discretion to support people where they need it, and to liberate them where they don't from the dispiriting experience of dependency.
Genuine personalisation
We cannot expect the personalisation philosophy to win out on its own. Personalisation and the choice agenda more broadly have limits. The world cannot simply be reduced to our individual choices.
Our current culture undermines personal freedoms in so many ways, and is already threatening to undermine the promise of personalisation. Fears about the potential for abuse hang over debates about how we look after society's most vulnerable. The prospect of people taking control of their budgets and choosing who to commission services from only heightens these fears. It provokes more prevention strategies, risk assessments, concerns about service users' mental capacity, and possible 'financial abuse' from door-steppers and family members alike.
This is why it is important to join in what the Prime Minister recently described as the 'biggest debate we have ever had on the future of our care system.' [9] Having said that, despite the pre-election bickering about free personal care and funding of the proposed National Care Service, there is a broad consensus that social care (like welfare) needs reforming.
Most agree what those reforms should look like too; there should be a shift to prevention and early intervention, and an extension of choice and control for individuals, they say. And yet it is this pre-emptive aspect of the transformation of adult social care that, until recently at least, has been overshadowed by the controversy over the personalisation of services.
The worry of early intervention
The problem – in adult social care at least – is not early intervention or preventative strategies per se but the broader climate of anxiety, stoked by the proliferation of abuse scandals, in which they take place.
It is this wider culture that is such a formidable opponent for those of us who want to give so-called vulnerable people greater control over their lives. As the obsession with vetting, checks and databases makes all too clear, this isn't just a case of changing the culture in social services; it is about challenging the assumptions held across society but given credence by politicians, commentators and policy makers.
The notion that if somebody develops dementia our first instinct should be to suspect the family of pinching their money or abusing them is despicable. But, it is the logical conclusion of an indiscriminate culture that brands us all as potential abusers, and the cared-for as potentially lacking the capacity to live their lives without official interference.
While early intervention, as an argument for more cost-effective public services and a way of avoiding long term dependency, has a lot going for it, the rhetoric of early intervention in relation to safeguarding is far more problematic, and threatens to derail reforms that have real promise for people who use social care services. There is an undeniable logic to the notion that professionals should 'work together' and intervene early to prevent neglect or abuse.
But we cannot know in advance what goes on 'behind closed doors'. Sometimes we can do more harm than good by intervening. And sometimes the assumptions that underlie interventions in people's lives are themselves problematic.
In practice, early intervention can mean an over-reliance on databases, on checks and procedures, rather than the good practice and judgement of social workers and other professionals. It can mean an obsession with 'awareness' campaigns and generating referrals, rather than responding to known risks in the community. This is a consequence of a culture that tends to exaggerate the extent of society's problems. In reality, social services (and all of the other agencies involved in safeguarding) can only play a limited role in protecting people from abuse or neglect. It is primarily the role of the wider community to look after the welfare of its members.
In so many ways, we cannot afford to continue making these interventions in people's lives. The challenge is to trust communities to get on with things, to recognise that even the most vulnerable are actually quite robust and able, and unlikely to come to significant harm; to build services that are more limited in their remit and yet more effective in their role, by focusing on supporting good practice and only making proportionate interventions.
The only way to transcend our culture of dependency is to launch a more wide-ranging assault on those who would hold people back 'for their own good'. So yes, we need to reform our care and welfare systems to really give people the opportunity to eject the state from their lives, but we need to do more than that.
If the system is to be truly transformed and have a real impact on individuals, their families and the communities of which they are a part; then people must be able to live their lives as they see fit, and have real control over the support that they receive. Such an outlook requires we challenge the exaggerated sense of people's vulnerability and irrational fears and prejudices about what happens when they are left to their own devices. We need to make the rhetoric of empowerment and choice meaningful by rediscovering a sense of people as autonomous and able citizens, not as dependents on an over-protective and intrusive state.
In summary, it is only by reorienting our relationship with, and our view of, ourselves as makers of our own destinies, rather than as victims of circumstance – that we can begin to open up wider possibilities for the transformation of our lives, not just the transformation of the services we receive.
We need to stop standing in people's way, and advocate a public service model that is conducive to promoting a sense of ourselves as autonomous and robust individuals. It may seem modest in the wider scheme of things, but there is nothing more radical today than to stand up for people's personal freedoms and to defend their capacity to run their own lives, whatever disadvantages they face.
[1] http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/at-yourservice
[2] The Conservative Party, Work for Welfare, 2008
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/23/
elder-abuse-dementia
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7601419.stm
[5] http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/
Responsestoconsultations/DH_102764
[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/16/
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[7] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/
joepublic/2009/dec/16/ways-to-protect-publicservices
[8] See: http://www.in-control.org.uk/
[9] http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22402
http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/DavidClements01.pdf
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The 2008 Northeast Conference baseball tournament began on May 22 and ended on May 24, 2008, at Bernie Robbins Stadium in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament.  Fourth-seeded  won their first tournament championship and earned the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Seeding and format
The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular-season winning percentage.

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All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Most Valuable Player
Josh Vittek was named Tournament Most Valuable Player.  Vittek hit .458 with eight runs scored, five home runs and 12 RBI for the Tournament.

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text: The first-ever Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells originally became a star when she recorded an "answer song" to Hank Thompson's 1952 hit, "The Wild Side of Life." Wells championed the female point of view on her plaintive "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," which became the first song by a woman to reach Number One on the country charts. No one was more shocked by the song's success than Wells, born Muriel Deason in Nashville in 1919. The wife of Johnny Wright (one-half of the duo Johnny and Jack), she'd been playing guitar and singing since she was a young girl, but had just about given up on becoming a professional entertainer when her song became a smash. She went on to have a Top Ten C&W hit for 161 weeks straight. She only recently retired from the road, at the age of 81.


In the wake of the election results and the formation of a new government in New Delhi, Vineet Agarwal, Managing Director, TCI, presents his wish list for the Indian logistics industry.
Logistics itself is a large industry but is plagued with various inefficiencies and high costs. An integrated approach across multiple stakeholders across central and state governments is required. TCI suggests setting up a separate regulatory authority for the logistics sector on the lines of the Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority or Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Logistics infrastructure is a critical enabler of India's economic development. The country's network of roads, rail and waterways will be insufficient as freight movement is set to increase about threefold in the coming decade. This shortfall in logistics infrastructure will put India's growth at risk. Since a large part of India's future logistics network is still to be built, an integrated and coordinated approach in which the development of each mode, railways, waterways and roads, is matched to the needs is the need of the hour.
Presently, transportation and logistics companies are not eligible to go for cheaper foreign currency funding by way of external commercial borrowing. ECB should be allowed to transportation and logistics companies for the purpose of investment in commercial vehicles, ships, construction of logistics warehouses etc. Access to ECB will help save on interest part as margins in this highly competitive and fragmented industry are already too low and under pressure.
There is also a need to treat warehousing for non-agricultural commodities at par with infrastructure projects to encourage investment in warehousing industry.
GST should be implemented with immediate effect to enable the creation of the common market to permit free and unimpeded movement of goods and services across the country.
The expansion of social media and online shopping is driving change in logistics; surges in demand may mean sudden increases or reductions as a product receives widespread exposure through the internet, whether good or bad. As new consumers gain power in emerging economies, the desire for brands will become ever more global. For logistics this means increased unpredictability as supply chains adjust to become more flexible. Phenomena that may emerge from supply chain reconfiguration, such as near sourcing and reshoring, present opportunities for national economies that can offer a competitive trading environment and for logistics to be part of the growth (Reshoring means bringing outsourced personnel and services back to the location from which they were originally outsourced).
Reshoring of production has been identified as a possibility for several sectors, including textiles, computer manufacturing, electronics and machinery, business support services, telecommunications and research and development. The circumstances leading to this are a reduction of the wage gap with emerging markets (which is likely to continue); higher and/or volatile international transport costs; and an increasing understanding of the downsides of offshoring – problems related to factors such as quality assurance, supply chain security, responsiveness to changing UK consumer tastes and increased costs of managing remote overseas operations.


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package GtsSoftware.personal;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

public class PersonalBeanData implements Serializable{

	private Integer idPersonal;
	private String nombre;
	private String apellidoPaterno;
	private String apellidoMaterno;
	private Integer dni;
	private Date fechaNacimiento;
	private Integer telefono1;
	private String correoElectronico;

	public Integer getIdPersonal() {
		return idPersonal;
	}
	public void setIdPersonal(Integer idPersonal) {
		this.idPersonal = idPersonal;
	}
	public String getNombre() {
		return nombre;
	}
	public void setNombre(String nombre) {
		this.nombre = nombre;
	}
	public String getApellidoPaterno() {
		return apellidoPaterno;
	}
	public void setApellidoPaterno(String apellidoPaterno) {
		this.apellidoPaterno = apellidoPaterno;
	}
	public String getApellidoMaterno() {
		return apellidoMaterno;
	}
	public void setApellidoMaterno(String apellidoMaterno) {
		this.apellidoMaterno = apellidoMaterno;
	}
	public Integer getDni() {
		return dni;
	}
	public void setDni(Integer dni) {
		this.dni = dni;
	}
	public Date getFechaNacimiento() {
		return fechaNacimiento;
	}
	public void setFechaNacimiento(Date fechaNacimiento) {
		this.fechaNacimiento = fechaNacimiento;
	}
	public Integer getTelefono1() {
		return telefono1;
	}
	public void setTelefono1(Integer telefono1) {
		this.telefono1 = telefono1;
	}
	public String getCorreoElectronico() {
		return correoElectronico;
	}
	public void setCorreoElectronico(String correoElectronico) {
		this.correoElectronico = correoElectronico;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Kadabora is a village situated in Ghall Khurd Block of Firozpur district in Punjab. Placed in rural part of Firozpur district of Punjab, it is one of the 98 villages of Ghall Khurd Block of Firozpur district. According to the administration records, the village code of Kadabora is 9534498. The village has 185 homes.
According to Census 2011, Kadabora 's population is 1075. Out of this, 562 are males while the females count 513 here. This village has 112 kids in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 70 are boys and 42 are girls.
Literacy ratio in Kadabora village is 59%. 635 out of total 1075 population is educated here. Among males the literacy rate is 60% as 342 males out of total 562 are educated while female literacy ratio is 57% as 293 out of total 513 females are literate in this Village.
The dark portion is that illiteracy ratio of Kadabora village is 40%. Here 440 out of total 1075 individuals are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 39% as 220 males out of total 562 are illiterate. Among the females the illiteracy rate is 42% and 220 out of total 513 females are illiterate in this village.
The count of occupied people of Kadabora village is 377 yet 698 are un-employed. And out of 377 working person 214 persons are fully dependent on cultivation.


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My D will be living in Jennings in the fall & I'm not sure what size mini-fridge to buy. Any suggestions?
I recommend used and cheap. Most students move off campus after their first year, and don't need or have room for a mini-fridge once they are out of the dorms. We bought one for 25 bucks from our neighbors whose daughter was at UF. After their d moved out of the dorm, it sat in their garage til we bought it. Once my d moved off campus, it is now in my office. I'd peruse craiglist or local yard sales, and also, have your d get in touch with her roomate to make sure that she isn't bringing one also. The rooms in Jennings are small, and two fridges are not necessary.
4.5/7 is a good size. Depends on needs, but some decide to go smaller or bigger.


Stone veneer is the generic name for cladding products that are cast using molds and colors to replicate natural stone. It adds character to a home's exterior or interior for a reasonable price. It is typically used to accent traditional exterior siding materials like wood, stucco, aluminum or vinyl. Unlike natural stone, you're not limited to "what's on hand" with stone veneer. A wide variety of designs and colors are readily available, providing more design options than full dimensional masonry – all at a fraction of the cost.
Created in the 1960's in the form we know it in today, stone veneer products have increased in popularity and availability over the past 15 years. Today, stone veneer represents the fastest-growing segment of all exterior building products sold. It is easy to find through masonry or building products distributors, contractors, big box stores or resellers such as fireplace dealers or landscape suppliers.
When coupled with vinyl siding, manufactured stone veneer delivers a virtually maintenance-free exterior that is architecturally enhanced, durable and environmentally friendly – at a terrific value. These products provide a practical way to enhance interiors, bringing the rustic warmth of the outside to the inside as well, including bathrooms, basements, kitchens, entries and more.
At 10–15 lbs per square foot, masonry veneer is more lightweight than natural stone – the thin surface material can be applied directly to a solid facing without special engineering or footings. While full-dimension stone or brick masonry can be four inches or more in depth, thin veneer stone is just 3/4″ – 1–1/4″ thick. Its lighter weight, ease of installation, variety of styles and colors, and affordable cost makes stone veneer the choice preferred by homeowners, builders and remodelers over conventional masonry and natural products like thin stone veneer.
According to RemodelingCenter.com, a Better Homes and Gardens website, adding manufactured stone on the front of the home is one of the top five remodeling jobs for adding curb appeal.
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Cover Story Gender LGBTQ Sports Posted on June 3, 2019 June 3, 2019
Dutee Chand: Breaks Hurdles and Taboos Against Odds
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The struggle of Dutee Chand, a prominent woman athelete, reads like a thriller. She had to fight discrimination. She is the first Indan sportsperson to come out of the closet about her homosexuality. Vijayhardik profiles her exclusively for Different Truths.
In a society where stigma and dogma run rampant, conformity to social mores is the norm. Choosing to stand out is such an atmosphere is akin to sticking out like a sore thumb. But at times, it takes courage to stand your ground and chase your dreams. The story of Indian sportsperson and athlete Dutee Chand is one such saga.
She burst onto the national sports scene in the year 2012 where she clocked an impressive 11.8 seconds in the track and field event of 100m sprint at the national level in the Under-18 category.
Born into an impoverished family in rural Orissa, on 3 February 1996, the journey to becoming an athlete definitely was not easy for Dutee Chand.
Born into an impoverished family in rural Orissa, on 3 February 1996, the journey to becoming an athlete definitely was not easy for Dutee Chand. Considering the socio-economic reality of the time the women in rural areas did not have access to individual freedoms and the journey into the professional arena had just begun for women in urban areas. To persevere despite the social fabric of the community takes courage. The story of the Phogat sisters depicted in the movie Dangal strikes a resemblance to the struggles Dutee Chand might have faced.
One of the common features among sportsperson who have made it big in sports other than cricket and to certain extent badminton in recent years, many of them had to fight the system as well. Lack of infrastructure and training equipment are a major hurdle even today. To overcome such difficulties and claiming a name in the field of athletics is no mean feat.
After her initial successes on the national stage, she made her mark on the world and blazed a trail creating new records on the way.
After her initial successes on the national stage, she made her mark on the world and blazed a trail creating new records on the way. At the Asian Athletics Champions, in 2013, at Pune, she clinched the bronze in the women's 200 metres event. In the same year, she wrote her name in history, by becoming the first Indian to reach a global athletics 100 metres final at the 2013 World Youth Championships. She continued her reign at the national level winning the 100m event and 200m event in 11.73 seconds and a career-best 23.73 seconds respectively.
2014 was shaping up to be a year where she could take giant strides in the sporting arena. Dutee Chand was a part of the Indian contingent at Glasgow Commonwealth Games. However, at the eleventh hour, she was dropped from the Indian contingent after the Athletic Federation of India stated she had a medical condition labelled 'hyperandrogenism'.
'Hyperandrogenism' to the layman is just a fancy term. What does 'hyperandrogenism' mean? It is a medical condition characterised by high levels of androgens in females. To make it clear, it is not doping. In simpler terms, it means that a female has higher natural levels of testosterone. As per the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regulations, hyperandrogenism was supposed to give the athletes afflicted with the medical condition a perceived advantage over the rest of their competitors.
In accordance with regulations, she was barred from competing in any championships and tournaments. The suspension brought her professional career to a screeching halt. It also adversely affected her personal life as well.
Former athlete Santhi Soundarajan came out in support of Dutee Chand and chastised the administrative bodies for handling the issue without any sensitivity
Former athlete Santhi Soundarajan came out in support of Dutee Chand and chastised the administrative bodies for handling the issue without any sensitivity and made a request to allow Dutee back on to the track. Also, she made a statement on how the insensitivity shown by the officials in the handling of the issue would affect Dutee's social life.
"They have tested her at the last minute, humiliated her and broken her heart," she told The Hindu. "All sorts of things have been written about her. Now, if she re-enters the sports field, things will not be normal. Even if she takes treatment, people will kill her with their suspicious gaze."
Santhi felt the matter could have been dealt with discreetly.
Santhi felt the matter could have been dealt with discreetly. "That things became public, is wrong. Would they have done it if it was their daughter?" she asked. "Who is responsible for her future now? The job and money are secondary problems. Think about how much she would have suffered. She is not from a wealthy or powerful family; just another ordinary family.
"Even if she gets help from the State association, can she stay in peace in her village? She will find it tough to get married," said Santhi Soundarajan about Dutee Chand.
The judgement handed out by CAS in her case is considered to be a landmark verdict as it suspended the IAAF policy on hyperandrogenism paving the way for her to make a comeback in the sport.
Withstanding a professional setback and holding her composure facing a trying period of social interaction, she was fighting an appeal against her suspension in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She was facing a legal battle against both the Athletic Federation of India and the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF). The judgement handed out by CAS in her case is considered to be a landmark verdict as it suspended the IAAF policy on hyperandrogenism paving the way for her to make a comeback in the sport.
Recalling the trauma, she underwent talking to a BBC journalist after the judgement she said, "I lost all my honour in the landmark gender case." Going a bit deeper into the details she reflected on the ordeal and ostracisation she had to go through in the wake of her suspension and during her battle for her career. "I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned, I lost," Chand said.
Continuing, she said, "My friends used to start asking what's wrong with me, and started to avoid me. In training centres, where girls used to share rooms, I was kept separately."
After her harrowing older, Dutee returned to the sporting the arena making up for her lost time. And as a testament to her passion and courage, she was back on course creating new records.
Dutee Chand announced her return to the sport by breaking the national record held by Rachita Mistry for 16 long years after clocking a time of 11.33 seconds.
She created a host of records on her return. Dutee Chand announced her return to the sport by breaking the national record held by Rachita Mistry for 16 long years after clocking a time of 11.33 seconds. In the same year, she once again, had her name etched in history by becoming the third Indian woman to participate in the Woman's 100 metres at the Olympics in 2016.
Accolades kept coming her way. Clawing her way back into the world of sport, she won two bronze medals at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2017 in the Women's 100 metres and Women's 4 x 100-metre relay respectively. Last year, she made an indelible mark on Indian sporting history bagging two silver medals. One in the Women's 100m ending a 32-year drought at the Asian games after PT Usha last won it in 1986 and the other in Women's 200-metre event.
Recently she hit the headlines for the turmoil in her personal life. She opened up about her sexuality and her personal life of being in a relationship with another woman after facing harassment and blackmail from her family members.
As has been the template of her of life, she has once again stood her ground and blazed a new trail becoming the first Indian sportsperson to come out as 'homosexual'.
As has been the template of her of life, she has once again stood her ground and blazed a new trail becoming the first Indian sportsperson to come out as 'homosexual'. Dutee Chand slowly but surely is turning out to be an icon.
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Last week, suddenly My Global Administrator account stopped connecting to Exchange Online management Shell.
Below is the error that I received, that says access denied.
I have checked RemotePowerShellEnabled is True for my account, nothing has changed.
I researched and found that Microsoft has pushed a conditional access policy for below office 365 admin roles that might be causing it.
This was not the case for our tenant as we have already disabled that policy.
I worked with Microsoft Office 365 team but found no resolution but to use the MFA shell, I am still searching why my account is not working while for other administrator is working fine.
In my next post, I will merge this as a function to my All in one office 365 Powershell connect to make it usable as a part of powershell profile.


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Becoming a self-employed entrepreneur and running all aspects of a business can be very difficult. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered. After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived." People do not know where to start, and they do not have the tools and confidence to give it a try. However, Lalpiang Lawmi '22 made it her goal to start her own business and she did it all through the Entrepreneurship class at the high school.
Entrepreneurship is a year–long course taught by Business Teacher Tim Brickley. The class is an elective and students can earn three University of Iowa credits. The Course Registration website provides a detailed description of the class, "Entrepreneurship provides students with the opportunity to run a student-designed, student-produced, and student-led business. Students work together to effectively run all aspects of the business including marketing, finance, design, management, communications and operations."
Through this class, Lawmi learned all the proper skills to successfully launch her small business. "My business is basically decorating tote bags…and where I got this idea from is I love to go to libraries and so I was like, 'well, I should try making something to carry my books and stuff','"said Lawmi. "Since we were doing projects in Entrepreneurship I was like, 'I should come up with something that will be useful for me.'"
Lawmi had never used tote bags prior to her launching her business. "I haven't and so I saw a lot of aesthetic on social media and stuff so that kinda inspired me to make it into a reality," said Lawmi. Tote bags have been on the rise for a while and are a great way to be stylish and eco friendly.
Lawmi started working to sell her decorated totes right away. She used her own money for all her materials and is already making a profit. "I charge $18 for one bag, but you get to choose 1-3 patches to put on the bag and letters, like anything. You can customize it anyway you want it," said Lawmi. "If they want an extra patch I charge them $1 per extra patch." She originally ordered 31 plain totes and is hoping to sell out soon. " I have made about roughly $250 and if I sold all of them, I'm supposed to make $558 but since I spent about $218 to buy the products and stuff… that's $339 profit." Lawmi said.
Being an entrepreneur is Lawmi's passion in life, after graduating she is planning on attending Iowa State. "I'm going to major in Entrepreneurship and International Business at ISU. I wanted to have some background of what it was like to have a small business." Lawmi said. She has only gotten positive feedback and loves seeing her totes out in public. "A friend of mine uses it for church and she puts her bibles and other materials, essential stuff in it." Lawmi said.
Her goal moving forward is to continue the business and possibly expand. "I want to do this as a side hustle…maybe I can change it into a different style and stuff but I'm thinking about doing it after Entrepreneurship but I'm not sure yet, it depends," Lawmi said. The class gave her the platform she needed to start a business from the ground up. She spent weeks brainstorming ideas and researching the best materials to make the highest quality tote bags. "The material is very thick and other tote bags my friend bought from other websites are very thin, and this one is strong. It's canvas too so I think that makes it a bit more valuable." said Lawmi.
Entrepreneurship is a great opportunity for students to explore business and to work creatively with others and independently. "I am very into business and I think it challenges me out of my comfort zone." Lawmi said. She recommends this class to everyone even if they are not passionate about business. "It's very good for trying out new things, and seeing what you're good at and seeing your potential and it's really good to explore." Lawmi said.
Check out her Instagram for her small business and DM her to place an order @piangpiang_tote!
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