The Gallup Organization states that there are approximately 100 million full-time workers in the United States. 28% of this workforce is engaged, 53% is not engaged, and 19% is actively disengaged. Jim Clifton, author of The Coming Jobs War and Chairman of Gallup, says, "The 53% of not engaged workers are just there, killing time with little or no concern about customers, productivity, profitability, waste, safety, mission and purpose of teams, or developing customers. They`re essentially checked out."
Do you know people who aren`t engaged, not to mention actively disengaged? I do, and it`s draining when you have someone on your team who is more negative than an undeveloped piece of film.
I became curious to find out how companies could significantly increase engagement in their workforces. I started by reflecting on my seven years at the Happiest Place in the World-Walt Disney World Resort®-and then on my work with over 1,000 organizations over the last ten years. And that`s when it clicked: When I worked at Disney, they sent all cast members to two days of indoctrination at Disney University, and that`s where I learned how to create a magic moment. That`s where I drank the magic potion, sniffed the pixie dust, and got the microchip planted in my head. I was so engaged at Disney that my wife said to me she personally thought Walt Disney himself had come back from the dead and hired me. Engagement, as I describe it, is brilliance (insight, potential, talent) being released; it`s when one experiences The Vujá dé Moment. Engagement happens when an employee has not seen the future and so decides to create it.
Achieving real engagement-seizing the reins and actively creating the future-will only happen when people at work and in business take ownership of their productivity. Think about owning a home: This has, for many decades, been the heart of the American Dream. Being able to own real estate was and is a source of pride and fulfillment. Paying the mortgage on time and in full demonstrates trust and credibility to the lending institution. Over time, as the principal and interest are paid down, there is a transfer of ownership from the lender to the borrower.
However, in business you, the worker, are rewarded for your contribution to a place of business over a number of years of service. Though you may never own the company, you do own how you choose to show up and positively impact the company. I believe that those businesses that want to stay relevant and cause America to remain the number one superpower in the world must instill an ownership mindset in the percentage of the workforce that is disengaged.
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Unleash Brilliance - Gallup Organization asked 5,000 people in 18 industries, "How productive are you?" Let`s assume the goal is 100% productivity in a given 40 - 60 hour work week; what do you think the answer to the Gallup Organization question was? 32%! That`s right! The people asked estimated that they were only being productive at a 32% capacity. Why? According to Gallup, people said, "The organization doesn`t know what I can offer" and "I don`t think I am valued" or "I am not appreciated."
The fact is, if you want to maximize your value, you have to stop waiting for the organization to do something for you. Get up off of your blessed assurance and make something happen. Find a project that no one else will touch, and go for it. Ask your leader what you can take off of his plate. Cross-train in another department. Teach others what you have learned so you can make room inside yourself to learn even more.
Be a Hybrid - Recently I was speaking with a colleague who had grown up in the audit side of the Fortune 500 company she worked for and possessed a deep knowledge of the accounting side of her business. Now she has made a switch to the marketing side of the house and was recently promoted to Account Manager, responsible for a multi-million dollar client. I asked her, "How did that happen?" She said that she was able to leverage both the right brain and left brain aspects of her experience to influence internal and external customers.
Every day is another opportunity for you to own what you do. If you don`t, then someone else will.
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AMC's 'Preacher': Everything We Know (So Far)
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AMC's highly anticipated adaptation of Preacher is set to hit the small screen on May 22. We've already seen the first trailer and now, the network has released new photos and details about the Seth Rogen-produced series. Here's everything we know about the upcoming comic-inspired show so far.
1. It'll stick to the comic's original premise
Like the original 1990s series from Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, the show will center on Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Left with this new power, he hits the road to find God, bringing his ex-girlfriend Tulip O'Hare and the hard-drinking Irish vampire Cassidy along for the ride to find God. Meanwhile, the Saint of Killers, an immortal killer, trails them on their journey, with his sights set on Jesse.
2. The three main stars
Dominic Cooper | Source: AMC
Agent Carter star Dominic Cooper takes on the titular role of Preacher Jesse Custer. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D vet Ruth Negga and Misfits actor Joseph Gilgun round out the unholy trio, playing Tulip and the Irish vampire, Cassidy, respectively.
Fans got a glimpse of the live-action versions of the three characters in March, when Rogen shared the official first-look cast photos, seen above and below.
Ruth Negga | Source: AMC
Joseph Gilgun | Source: AMC
3. The supporting cast
Preacher | Matthias Clamer/AMC
In addition to the core trio of stars, the show will also feature Ian Colletti (above) as Eugene "Arseface" Root, Jackie Earle Haley as Odin Quincannon, W. Earl Brown as Arseface's father, and Elizabeth Perkins as Vyla Quinncannon. Lucy Griffiths, Jamie Anne Allman, and Derek Wilson will also co-star.
4. The creative team
Creators and cast of Preacher | Mike Windle/Getty Images
Rogen and his writing and producing partner, Evan Goldberg, are heading up the adaptation for AMC. The duo will reportedly split directing duties, as well as executive produce via their production banner Point Grey.
The team will also include two Breaking Bad alums. Sam Catlin, who previously worked as a writer and producer on Breaking Bad, penned the script for the pilot and will also serve as both the project's showrunner and a co-executive producer. Meanwhile, Breaking Bad composer Dave Porter will reportedly score the music for Preacher.
5. It'll be just as violent as you imagined
The show will feature plenty of the dark humor and violence that the original comics are famous for. As the trailer showcased, Jesse (who is no stranger to violence or its aftermath) isn't afraid to break a few arms and tends to leave brutal fights, fire, and a number of dead and badly injured bodies in his wake.
But while the show will maintain the edgy and hyper violent tone of Ennis's comic, fans shouldn't expect a completely faithful adaptation of the series. "We are changing the specifics of how the narrative is unfolding," Rogen told CraveOnline in October. "A lot of the building blocks we are not changing, a lot of characters we're keeping, but we want to make a show that if you're a fan of the comic, you don't know what to expect."
6. It's had a long road to screen
The comic book franchise has been a longtime fan favorite, but its storyline has proved too controversial for other networks in the past. Talk of a small-screen adaptation has been going on since as far back as 2006, with Daredevil's Mark Steven Johnson penning a potential script for HBO. The network eventually passed on the project for being too dark and violent.
Following HBO's failure to pick up the series, both the Weinstein Co. and Columbia Pictures made attempts to turn into the comics into a potential feature film. Both efforts to bring Preacher to the big screen were eventually abandoned.
AMC's highly anticipated incarnation has made it this far, but whether it will live up to the original comics remains to be seen.
Preacher| Matthias Clamer/AMC
Preacher is currently expected to premiere on AMC on Sunday, May 22, at 10 p.m. ET.
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Updated March 13, 2018 10:17:27The best way to correct a spine curve in children, especially in children with multiple sclerosis, is to first correct the curvature of the spine and then make the correction, a spine rehabilitation specialist said.
In a study of children who were evaluated in the early stages of MS and spinal cord injury, the National Spine Center in the United Kingdom found that only about one in 10 patients with multiple-sclerosis had a curve that was perfectly straight.
"In children with MS, it is often difficult to make corrections," said Dr. John Mather, chair of spine rehabilitation at the National Center for Spine Rehabilitation in Bethesda, Maryland.
"The correct curvature is one of the first things to correct.
When the curve is perfect, there is no need to make the corrections," he said.
The curve is usually a little more curved in the adult brain than in children because the brain is more developed and the brain needs more time to develop and correct.
To correct the curve, Mather recommends changing the angle of the wrist and placing a small pillow on the back of the child's neck to prevent the spine from bending.
"It is important to be mindful of the curvatures and correct them as soon as possible," Mather said.
Children who have more than one condition can have more problems.
"We find that children with more than two different types of spinal cord injuries have a greater chance of developing the correction and more difficulty correcting the curve," said Mather.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that adults with MS should also try to correct the spine curve as soon and as often as possible, even if they don't have other conditions that may require correction.
"Correcting the curve early is one step towards treating and preventing other problems and the spine curvature that is characteristic of multiple sclerosis," said CDC spokesperson Jessica Schmitz.
"The best approach is to use the corrections and corrective movements as much as possible to correct and correct the spinal cord curvature."
This is an update to an earlier version of this article that was published on March 12, 2018.
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By Alex Alston October 19, 2015
In an antiblack world, black people, even when weaponless, are always considered armed
If "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is an expression of "humanity," as one tweet has it, we must ask for whom that humanity is available.
—Keguro Macharia
Innocuous or insurgent, it makes no difference. You are never innocent, so you waste no breath pleading with a "redeeming adjective."
—Jared Sexton
In a piece entitled "hands up, don't shoot," published via WordPress less than a week after the state sanctioned murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Keguro Macharia deftly examines the raised-hands gesture adopted by protesters—understood as a sign for surrender across the world—as part of a commonly used system of human communication (with the body), or what he calls a "global bodily vernacular." The proliferation of the phrase in print and in various theaters of protest, for Macharia, belies the grim reality that black people in America have no access to this seemingly universal mode of communication. "Blackness becomes the break in this global bodily vernacular," Macharia writes, "the error that makes this bodily action illegible, the disposability that renders the gesture irrelevant." To take part in a globally circulated language of surrender, black people would have to be (seen as) human, and they are not.
The impossibility of black surrender will remain a problem for black politics (and political projects) unless this semiotic exclusion from humanity is understood as a historical phenomenon. What is now commonly referred to as "antiblackness" was the bedrock of the Enlightenment's "Man." Philosopher Sylvia Wynter charts the trajectory by which it became the fossil fuel of the Western discursive construction "humanity." To summarize rather abruptly, Winter's work makes clear that the West defined itself as "human" in contrast to what it identified as blackness; humanity is a fictive category brought into existence through processes of exclusion and othering. Antiblackness, then, is nothing if not the condition of possibility for our very idea of the human.
Such an analysis necessarily reorients, if not throws into crisis altogether, the aforementioned politics and their projects. But such has been and remains the work of the black radical tradition, which openly functions as outlaw culture to the present order of knowledge. And a particularly insidious manifestation of this present order of knowledge is the liberalism that overwhelmingly dominates popular discourse around the execution of black people by police. It is a liberalism that results in black people across the political spectrum resorting (reflexively) to what historian Robin Kelley calls "redeeming adjectives" such as "unarmed," or "innocent," without recognizing that, precisely because they are black, these victims are categorically disallowed from innocence, categorically excluded from humanity.
Macharia follows Wynter as he cautions us to consider that the "insistent repetition" of "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," rather than articulating a humanity that we can take for granted in the context of white (civil) society, might suggest the quotidian ways in which black life forms are barred from access to the vernaculars of the human. It stands to reason that those who are always required to make a ritualized spectacle of the assertions of their humanity or their innocence are neither innocent nor human.
In the weeks following the one-year anniversary of the protests in Ferguson, for example, law enforcement officials and conservative pundits conspired to blame the Black Lives Matter movement(s) for a handful of officer-involved shootings, to reappropriate that commonly used phrase. The reality, of course, is that the overwhelming majority of those involved in said movements dare not even speak of harming cops. But black people's mere refusal to be silent about their slaughter is equated with violence itself in a world that violently denies them access to humanity. State officials have lamented that the shootings of officers represent "an assault on the very fabric of society." But it is not an endorsement of the attacks to question the way they are reflexively denounced, or to look at how clinging to adjectives such as "unarmed" impedes the work of ushering in a new society, unwinding that fabric.
When we use the word "unarmed" and those like it, we seek to communicate a status of nonthreat, to relay the information that one was innocent of the sort of resistance, better known as "crime," that would give the a state reason to execute its own citizens. Redeeming adjectives make sense. It is not unreasonable to desire that our routine interactions with police, including arrests for penal violations, not end in executions. But let us examine the hypothetical situation wherein black people are allowed access to the innocence that this essay argues they cannot presently make a claim to. Let us say that reform-minded approaches such as the institution of body cameras or a change in the demographics of departments made it such that defenseless (an alternative to the redeeming adjective "unarmed") black persons were no longer routinely executed in cold blood. Are our imaginations so famished that this can legitimately be considered an end goal? Is the assertion that "black lives matter" no more than a mask for the timid and modest demand that our lives be taken with a numbing uneventfulness rather than an easily identifiable spectacle of a moment?
Consider the millions of men and women locked away in prisons, or the literally countless number of black people who wither away from the structural lack of access to proper health care, affordable housing, education, employment, living wages, or real food. Consider the black women overwhelmingly murdered and abused by black men, or the thousands of mostly homosexual men and heterosexual women living with HIV. A politics that myopically focuses on the spectacle of police killings, even if it doesn't center black men (though it usually does), cannot be defended as ethical. Nor can the obsessive and uncritical use of qualifiers meant to communicate that we are not, in fact, threats to this world built on violently consuming us.
The atrocities of this antiblack, heteropatriarchal, capitalist system evince the need for a new world entirely. And to bring that world about, we will most certainly have to be armed: with knowledge, with love, with community, with organization, with music, with a politics that threatens "an assault on the very fabric" of this one. We cannot hope to take part in the creation of a new world without threatening the present one. To continue thinking of ourselves as nonthreats by uncritically clinging to redeeming adjectives actively obscures the ontological menace that blackness represents not only to the police or to whites in general but to the coherence of the very category of "human."
Ideologically, if we can accept that blackness bars us from humanity we can begin to move (not without resistance, of course) to other, more ethical, more sustainable ways of being. Moving beyond the position of aspiring to a humanity that was invented with the condition that we could never obtain it opens new possibilities for who we can be and what we can do.
There is a critical, if easily overlooked, distinction between being "defenseless" and being "unarmed." The vast majority of black people are defenseless; they don't carry guns or any other weapons. The impulse to prove as much is something akin to a waste of time. This does not mean we are "unarmed," because in an antiblack world, blackness always has a (negative) power, it is always a threat. Remember that George Zimmerman's defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, told a Florida jury in the summer of 2012 that Trayvon Martin was "armed with concrete." O'Mara, of course, meant that what is otherwise an unremarkable feature of the built environment becomes, in proximity to blackness, a tool for destruction. The black body is endowed with a mythical ability to weaponize any and everything (including itself) to stand in for the guns and knives that police and the public don't give a damn if we actually have or not.
Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival" instructs that it is "better to speak remembering that we were never meant to survive." To rely on redeeming adjectives so compulsively is to go astray from this remembrance. To be sure, every encounter between black people and state agents does not end in execution, but that does nothing to change the reality that each one can. The only conclusion can be that there are for all intents and purposes no "unarmed," no innocent, black folks in America. The phrase, if well intentioned, is a misnomer. And its vilification of armed (literal and not) resistance is ultimately reactionary. Remember the New Jersey Four or the story of Eisha Love, all vilified and hounded by racist, misogynist, reactionary forces for deciding that they would not be murdered in the streets (in these cases by black men enforcing the heteropatriarchal violence of the state). The liberalism that resorts to redeeming adjectives functions to affirm the idea that the wages of certain types of struggle against the state and those who do its bidding should, in fact, be execution. Redeeming adjectives make a distinction between black lives that can and cannot be mourned. They restrict our public weeping, our protest, our rage, for black lives taken in a state of defenselessness. Do black lives only matter, then, when they are proper, passive, victims?
The black Left has long been grappling with the reality that black respectability will neither save us nor clear our names. But to delve deeper is to understand that what respectability politics hinge on is the possibility of incorporating black life forms into a Western idea of humanity configured entirely on the dehumanization of blackness. Redeeming adjectives, then, are also a form of respectability politics. This practice of exclusively making martyrs of "unarmed" black victims is an attempt to join a global vernacular that we simply have no access to in this patriarchal, anti-black hole called the world. And for all the spectacle-of-black-death-driven political currency such thinking garners, it pivots on a fundamental miscalculation. Are we defenseless? Almost always. Are any of us nonthreatening? Never. Are we overwhelmingly weaponless? Absolutely. Does that make us innocent? Absolutely not.
Consider this the case, less for armed resistance (although its arguments are undeniably compelling), and more for doing the intellectual spadework necessary to usher in the beginnings of a shift in thinking, a rupture with ways of seeing ourselves that accommodate the same structures which demand our deaths. Far be it from anyone to ignore the reality that black people carrying weapons draw the unmatched ire of the forces of white supremacy: They are killed swiftly. But perhaps the more sobering observation is that those without weapons are murdered with no less enthusiasm. Such is the nature of a patriarchal, antiblack world. The only way out is to end it, and we can start by terminating our dogged allegiance to redeeming adjectives such as the words "unarmed" and "innocent," along with the liberal ways of thinking they represent. We have to interrogate what it means to only ennoble those who die with hands raised or backs turned. For when the apex of justice is mourning dead black people and crossing our fingers in the hope of that ultra-rare conviction it is past time to reformulate it, to envision it anew.
In the eyes of white (civil) society and those who subscribe to its logics, black people, even when weaponless, are always armed. To shy away from this is misunderstand the structure of white supremacy, at best; at worst, it is to obdurately champion a position that considers black death both necessary and proper. Our very existences are the crime, the threats, and we have no say in those historically overdetermined matters. But what we can decide is whether we will lament our place outside of and against white (civil) society, or whether we will embrace and brandish that place as the source of power that it is.
The moments where we no longer aspire to be innocent or human (like them, at least) are the moments in which we stand at the threshold of new worlds. There is power in understanding innocence as the foundation of complicity, and rejecting it so as to bide our time in the break of vernaculars of the human called blackness. There are benefits as well as costs to accept, however begrudgingly, that what Robin Kelley calls our freedom dreams do render us viable threats, dangerous outlaws, mortal enemies, not just to the police, or the man on the street, but to the modern world. If we take Macharia seriously and accept that black life forms are by rule barred access to humanity, alternative ways of being open up in its place. We may then no longer have use for redeeming adjectives, being instead empowered to liberate ourselves.
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U.S. approves selling ammunition for rocket launchers to Finland for $535 mln
by Zaur Babashov | Thursday, Nov 3, 2022 | 155 views
The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of additional ammunition for Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) to Finland for about $535 million, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday.
According to a statement on 2 November, the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Finland of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $535 million.
"The increased national stock is critical to Finland's defense and deterrence due to the deteriorated security situation in Europe," the agency said in the statement, adding Finland will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces.
The announcements say that the government of Finland has requested to buy 150 M30A1 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead (AW) (Steel Case), or M30A2 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Alternative Warhead (AW) Missile Pods with Insensitive Munitions Propulsion System (IMPS), or a combination of both; and two hundred fifty (250) M31A1 GMLRS Unitary (GMLRS-U) Warhead (Steel Case), or M31A2 GMLRS-U IMPS, or a combination of both.
The principal contractors will be Lockheed Martin Corp, Missile and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, TX. There are no known offset agreements in connection with this potential sale. There is a request pending for diversion of 50% of this procurement from U.S. stock. That final decision will determine which version GMLRS could potentially be procured.
GMLRS postures as a battle-tested, long-range munition and is available to Army division and corps commanders, swiftly delivering a precision strike capability against critical, time-sensitive threats.
The current GMLRS family of munitions consists of three fielded variants: Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) and the Alternative Warhead (AW) variants to service area targets; and the Unitary variant with a single 200-pound-class high-explosive charge to service point targets with low collateral damage.
GMLRS is employed with the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers.
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Competitive balance the theme for AL in 2015
Season could be marked by wide-open races throughout Junior Circuit
By Richard Justice
To understand baseball's competitive balance, the American League is a good place to start.
Let's begin with the big picture. That is, at least 13 of the 15 AL teams believe they're positioned to make the postseason in 2015. (Only the Astros and Twins aren't on my list. That said, both have gotten better this offseason, both have waves of young talent on the way and both expect to play meaningful games this September.)
Go ahead and try to wrap your mind around the seismic change baseball has undergone the last two decades. We've come a long way since the days when payroll size seemed to dictate the standings, and when Bud Selig's legacy as Commissioner is put into a larger context, this would be a good place to start.
On Sept. 1 last season, 17 of baseball's 30 teams were within 5 1/2 games of a postseason berth. In the American League, six franchises have won the pennant in the last seven seasons.
Here's another number to chew on: In the last two postseasons, eight of the 15 AL teams -- that's 53 percent -- have been to the playoffs. Again, that's in the last two seasons.
As for the divisions, the Tigers will end up as slight favorites to win the AL Central. But the Indians and Royals are an eyelash behind.
The Tigers have health issues in Victor Martinez and Miguel Cabrera and don't know what to expect from Justin Verlander. Meanwhile, the Indians added Brandon Moss to their offense and have one of baseball's best young players, shortstop Francisco Lindor, on the fast track to the big leagues.
Video: Tigers still have enough talent to contend in 2015
The Royals will be different without Billy Butler, James Shields and Nori Aoki, but general manager Dayton Moore added Kendrys Morales, Alex Rios and Edinson Volquez.
As long as that bullpen is intact and Yordano Ventura continues to progress toward No. 1 starter status, the Royals will be in the mix. And the White Sox are going to be there, too, with Chris Sale and Jeff Samardzija at the front of the rotation and Adam LaRoche and Melky Cabrera added to the offense.
Video: White Sox add depth to lineup, rotation and bullpen
The AL West is even more muddled. The Mariners are very good. So are the Angels.
And the Athletics seem likely to be in the mix after general manager Billy Beane worked his magic again, retooling his roster to add depth to the rotation and a new look to the offense with the additions of Butler, Ben Zobrist, Brett Lawrie, Ike Davis and Marcus Semien.
It would be a mistake to stop with those three. The Rangers believe they're good enough to play deep into October if Prince Fielder is healthy. And they have enough depth in the farm system that general manager Jon Daniels will have the ability to fill needs along the way.
Video: Rangers look to Fielder, Choo to get back on track
Finally, there's the AL East. The Red Sox will begin Spring Training favored to make another worst-to-first run. There's also a case to be made for the Blue Jays and Rays. Only a knucklehead would count out the Orioles.
As for that other AL East team …
The Yankees believe last season marked the end of a significant drought for their player development system with Dellin Betances, David Phelps, Shane Greene, Vidal Nuno, Adam Warren and Chase Whitley all contributing. Michael Pineda deserves to be on this list as well since he was acquired for Jesus Montero, then the pride of the Yankees' farm system.
There's more on the way: second baseman Rob Refsnyder, left-hander Jacob Lindgren, right-hander Jose Ramirez and outfielders Mason Williams, Tyler Austin and Ramon Flores.
Video: Yankees hope core of stars can have big years in 2015
Nothing is guaranteed, but this is a longer list of potentially big league-ready prospects than the Yankees have had in a while. And the point is a reminder that while the Yankees might be a logical pick for third, fourth or fifth in the AL East, it would be a mistake to overlook them.
So there you go. Welcome to Major League Baseball in 2015. Payroll size still matters, but more than ever before so do smarts, guts and creativity. We're at the end of an offseason in which the Rays and A's were taken apart and put back together, an offseason in which the Red Sox got way, way better and the Mariners filled every need.
Every single AL team will report to Spring Training with reasonable expectations about at least contending. So that's where we begin another new season. It has never been better than this.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.
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Caleb Braughton is pursuing a master's degree in accounting at The University of Texas at Dallas. He is confident a career in internal audit will allow him to stay engaged while continually learning and adding value. He credits the UTD IAEP program with helping him to secure three internships; complete all three CIA exam parts; build a large network of peers and professionals; and gain knowledge of internal audit, IT audit, GRC, fraud examination, and data analytics. Caleb's advice for aspiring internal auditors is to "Network, network, network!" as this provides the perfect practice for a key job requirement — quickly building rapport with auditees.


Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most misunderstood and influential thinkers since his death in 1900. His social criticism is often devastating and full of contradictions. His use of symbols and extreme language is mean to provoke and tear down unexamined assumptions and values. Because of this he is often characterized as a 'nihilist'. Yet also seen by many as one of the most life-affirming philosophers in history of Western thought. How is this possible?
As the name of the group implies, we are dedicated to reading and discussing Nietzsche and many of the people that he has influenced. The main focus of the group sessions is to engage in careful reading of these great writings and ideas and have open conversations, not only with one another, but with the writings themselves. The goal is help us develop our thinking about what it means to be a human being here and now and to experience the excitement these kinds of conversations can bring. You need not have a background in philosophy; only an open mind and willingness to wrestle with some of the great ideas of human history and focus primarily on understanding them and their importance.
We began meeting on December of 2015. It's membership has changed over time, but one version or another has met every Monday afternoon almost every week since it began. The current membership has been fairly stable (from about the same 6-9 people attending each time) since the summer of 2017. We welcome all comers interested in lively conversations about great ideas.


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Jack was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. It was a sad and devastating time for us, because we knew nothing about this disorder or Jack's prognosis. It was months before I learned that each case of autism is different, as each child diagnosed suffers varying degrees of the disorder. Some eventually find their voice, experiencing happiness and variable levels of normalcy. I also learned that it was imperative to find specialized therapy and treatment.
When Jack began treatment at the Autism Center of Tupelo, just days shy of his fifth birthday, he didn't speak a word. He used limited sign language, and had no eye contact or interaction with people or toys. Two weeks into his treatment, I went to pick Jack up from a session when staff member urged me to follow her into the clinic, saying, "Wait. Just wait until you see." Jack was at his work table with a pegboard — calm and serene with a smile on his face. He was counting the pegs, verbally, one to five.
A week later he said, "Mama" for the first time. To hear his voice, to know that he was in there — listening, learning, and actually with us — was the greatest joy and elation I have ever felt. From that moment on, Jack grew. His vocabulary grew, his cognitive abilities grew, and our understanding and respect for his disorder grew. We finally had hope for his future.


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Począwszy od XVI wieku powstawały oddziały awanturników ruszających w głąb kontynentu. Trudnili się handlem indiańskimi niewolnikami, byli także poszukiwaczami złóż mineralnych (złoto, diamenty). Oddziały mogły liczyć po kilkuset ludzi, ich główną bazą wypadową było powstałe w roku 1554 São Paulo, dlatego też zwano ich czasami paulistami. Eksplorowali terytoria dzisiejszych stanów Santa Catarina, Parana, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Tocantins oraz Mato Grosso (obu). Szczyt działalności bandeirantes przypadł na XVII wiek. W skład tych grup wchodziło stosunkowo niewielu Portugalczyków, większość stanowili Metysi, murzyńscy wyzwoleńcy, a także indiańscy niewolnicy. Najsławniejszymi dowódcami band byli Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, Fernão Dias Pais, Antônio Raposo Tavares czy Domingos Jorge Velho.

Bandeirantes znacząco przyczynili się do eksterminacji Indian, równocześnie zwiększali zasięg panowania portugalskiej korony (kosztem Hiszpanii) i stanowili forpocztę kolonizacji. Dziś w wielu miastach Brazylii znajdują się ich pomniki.

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My jaw dropped when Dave said this. I was expecting him to agree…and then he quoted Jesus. These words of Christ pierced me to the heart. It is easy to love kids (or people in general) who love me, but true Christ-likeness is to love those who treat me badly. I later read this passage in Luke: If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful (Luke 6:32-33, 35-36). I realized that I have been expecting respect and obedience in return for the service, discipline, and instruction I have rendered towards my son. Granted, God does expect obedience from Elias, but that should not give me a sense of entitlement. Instead, I am to be like God who feeds people who thanklessly breathe his air and eat his food, even cursing him while doing so. In the same way, if the ungrateful in my home are hungry, I am to feed them and expect nothing in return.
Wow, what conviction. So as I have been meditating on this passage, I realized it may be that this trial is not primarily about Elias but instead is about me. Maybe the Lord's purpose is actually my maturity, rather than his. Maybe I am to pray with as much zeal that I would love like Christ than I pray for him to submit and obey. Maybe this is not about him, maybe it is about me. Maybe I am the one who needs prayer.
And, since there is nothing new under the sun, maybe there are those reading this blog who are in a similar situation with a child, roommate, co-worker, family member, or someone who hates you because you are a Christian. Maybe this trial is not just about praying that the Lord would convict and save them (which are noble ways to pray), but maybe this trial is primarily to teach you to love those who hurt you. Maybe it is to challenge you to greet those who snub you, to freely share with those who take from you, to quickly turn bitter thoughts to thoughts of prayer, to do housework for a spouse that expects it but does not appreciate it, to speak kindly to those who make fun of you… Maybe God is holding you under this trial until you reach a certain level of maturity. Maybe the Lord puts us in the families we are in, gives us the spouses we have, causes us to go to church where we go to church and work where we work in order to bring "enemies" into our lives so that he can teach us to really love.
If this is the case, then God help us love and help us grow! When missionary, Ann Judson, was facing a major trial her response was: "We wish to sit down under the rod…till the end for which the affliction was sent shall be accomplished." May all of God's goals in sending affliction into our lives be accomplished and may we love those who hurt us.
Wow, this IS very convicting! I remember many conversations with my kids where I was quoting a verse or talking about a principle with them when God suddenly pierced my heart with conviction about my own behavior! I guess that's why I always say that marriage and parenting are so character-building. It must be a double-whammy when you are doing them in a foreign country, and while you are in an intense language program. I am praying for you all, and I see that I am late in getting to your blog. However, you are now a shortcut on my desktop, so… May you be constantly aware of God's hand holding you and His arms about you, mon ami.


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Lafayette-based medical club pivots and expands to address health disparities across the region
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Sep 5, 2020 - 8:00 pm
This story is brought to you by the CLI and Limb Salvage Club.
For much of his four-decade career as a heart surgeon, Dr. David Allie had always focused heavily on continuing education, attending conferences, sharing experience and advice with other physicians and teaching and training a younger generation. But in the last few years, those efforts had taken a backseat.
About three years ago, Allie decided to refocus his career and his life focus. He had always enjoyed attending or speaking to larger meetings of medical professionals and decided to put a local spin on that concept. So, 16 months ago, Allie launched the CLI and Limb Salvage Club in Lafayette.
"There have been many changes in the industry, and the biggest change was that there was a whole new generation of health caregivers in Lafayette," Allie said. "I felt there was an opportunity for a community education club."
Allie began calling his fellow medical professionals and found a high interest for such a club. Initially, the main focus was on cardiovascular disease and prevention of limb amputations, but the topics quickly broadened to include other health care diseases and community educational opportunities.
In addition, Allie wanted to include people from other professions as well. He began inviting bankers, education leaders, lawyers and more to learn more about local medical issues, treatment options and prevention.
"We began 16 months ago with 100 people at a dinner," Allie said. "It was obvious there was a place for this, and it grew rapidly. We grew to 600 to 700 people a month quickly at our educational events. Our club grew to more than 3,000 members from all specialties and some who don't work in health care. We included a lot of students. We made connections across the city."
As the club's education component grew, Allie wanted to continue that work as well as add a larger community service component. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Allie and others in the club created a 10-member club task force within the club to study and work to address health disparities among different racial and ethnic groups.
"That was discussed quite a bit once COVID hit, but we were already seeing those disparities before COVID," Allie said. "We've seen it in heart disease, high blood pressure, limb loss and many other issues. We know it's something we need to continue to research and work to improve through the club."
Once the pandemic hit, the club had to cancel its dinners and other in-person events. The education has now shifted to call-in shows on Acadiana Open Channel, KATC and local radio. Allie said the club has worked with local nonprofits and churches to distribute flyers and other medical information about COVID-19 and other health problems. Club volunteers have administered more than 5,000 free COVID-19 tests as well.
"COVID really caused us to pivot," Allie said. "We did focus more on service than ever before because that's what was needed. We've had to change the way we are educating. Now, it's taking place online instead of in ballrooms."
Allie and his partner, Dr. Raghotham Patlola, have also written a textbook about cardiovascular diseases, symptoms and treatment. The book is geared toward a general audience and will soon be available at no charge for club members and the community.
As he looks to the future, Allie said he plans to continue the club with a primary focus on education while creating a new foundation with Dr. Patlola that will focus more on community service and obtaining grants to help citizens throughout the Lafayette area.
"COVID has made me realize that we need to have even more of a presence," Allie said. "The club will continue and do exactly what it is doing now. It will continue to have a great place in this community in terms of education. The Allie & Patlola Foundation will allow us to provide more funding to the community and create some great opportunities to address health disparities, health problems and community service."
For more information, visit www.limbsalvageclub.com.
What is the CLI and Limb Salvage Club?
The club is a way for medical professionals to connect with one another and other members of the community to address health issues. Initially, the education focused on critical limb ischemia (CLI) and limb salvage, with the ultimate goal of reducing limb amputation rates in Louisiana. Since then, the education has broadened to include other cardiac and health issues as well as COVID-19 and community service needs.
How have club members helped other medical professionals?
Club volunteers have trained more than 5,000 medical professionals in cath lab techniques and procedures to treat CLI, peripheral vascular disease and venous disease. In addition, club members are in constant communication with doctors and other medical professionals across the region to discuss new treatment options and techniques including ULL innovation research projects and ULL College of Nursing Initiatives.
How have club members helped the community?
Each month, club members host a one-hour hour live call-in program on Acadiana Open Channel. They also provide medical information on KATC-TV3 and a radio program on News Talk 98.5 FM/1520 AM. Other information is available online and on social media.
In addition, club members provide free COVID-19 testing across the region, as well as funding for PPE, face masks, food, housing and community education.
The club is also a sponsor of the annual American Heart Association Heart Walk in Lafayette and has brought nationally-known authors and speakers to local schools.
What's next for the club?
With COVID-19 causing restrictions on gatherings, the club will continue to shift much of its message to websites, social media and television. To complement and extend the reach of the club concept into community service, the Allie & Patlola Foundation is now being created as a total community service organization (CSO). The club will also soon distribute a free textbook across the area that will provide guidance on overcoming and preventing health problems.
How can I learn more about the club?
To join or for more information, visit their website at www.limbsalvageclub.com.
Meet the Leader
Dr. David Allie, founder of CLI and Limb Salvage Club
Growing up in West Virginia, Dr. David Allie never anticipated a career in the medical field. His focus was on fitness and sports, and he excelled as a baseball player at both the college and professional levels. But just as he was hitting his stride, an arm injury ended his playing days.
"My life completely changed when I was 21," Allie said. "I was lucky in the sense that I was able to finish a P.E. degree and was maybe one of the last guys to try to get into medical school. I applied and was accepted. I knew some people had a different background than me, but nobody could outwork me."
In 1980, Allie graduated from the West Virginia University School of Medicine with his new mission to become a heart surgeon. The following year, he completed an internship at Charleston Area Medical Center. In the mid and late 1980s, Allie completed residencies at Charitable Memorial Hospital and Charleston Area Medical Center.
"God really put me in a position to receive a lot of the older, traditional training, plus the newer techniques," Allie said. "I've been blessed in many ways because my training as a heart surgeon really allowed me to do many innovative things."
Allie's career brought him to Louisiana, where he helped launch a heart clinic in Houma 38 years ago. A few years later, he moved to Lafayette, where his career has thrived ever since.
"I knew that in Lafayette, I could use some of the older techniques, but also introduce new techniques and develop some new things myself," he said. "I was always interested in being at the forefront of these innovations, and that worked well in Lafayette. That has been the basis of my career all of these years."
Four decades into his career, Allie is still focused on growth and helping his profession evolve. In addition to the CLI and Limb Salvage Club and his nonprofit work, Allie and his partner, Dr. Raghotham Patlola, purchased the former Park Place Medical Center in the Oil Center, renovated it and opened it as a new medical facility.
"We're looking at having 50,000 square feet in our building," Allie said. "This kind of care used to only be available in a hospital. Now we can do all of this with outpatients. No single physician or group has been able to put all of this together in one place. That was my focus and my purpose. I would love my legacy to be this facility and helping the Oil Center become a new medical hub for not just Lafayette, but the country."
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Timothée Chalamet Is Willy Wonka?? OK, Sure.
The Jewish actor is set to play antisemite Roald Dahl's most famous character — and people have some *thoughts.*
By Emily Burack	 May 24, 2021
Design by Emily Burack. Illustration of Willy Wonka by Quentin Blake/Penguin Classics. Timothée Chalamet by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images. Gene Wilder via Everett Collection.
Three things: Roald Dahl, creator of Willy Wonka, was an antisemite (see: "The Witches"). Timothée Chalamet, actor, is Jewish. And Timothée is set to play a young Willy Wonka in a new musical about the chocolatier's early life.
We, along with many others, have some thoughts and feelings on the matter.
Timothée, 25, is set to star in the third adaptation of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Dahl's 1964 children's book. The first and most iconic was "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder back in 1971, and the second was 2005's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring Johnny Depp.
Per Deadline, "While plot details are unknown, the new pic will be an origin tale of the character and mark the first time Charlie Bucket will not be featured." Reportedly, this will also "mark the first time Chalamet gets to show off his singing and dancing skills with several musical numbers set to appear in the film."
But why are we still adapting Roald Dahl's work who was, again, an antisemite? In a 1983 interview with the New Statesman, Dahl stated, "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason." Cool cool cool.
In a 2020 essay for Alma, in response to news of yet another adaptation of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" being created by Māori Jewish filmmaker Taika Waititi, A.R. Vishny wrote that it's actually exactly what we need: "What better way to insult Roald Dahl? Dahl was always tetchy about film adaptations. He notoriously disliked the 1971 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' (starring Gene Wilder, who yes, was Jewish!). What would he have had to say about Waititi? What would he have had to say about a reimagining of the Oompa-Loompas? Perhaps this is the solution for the kinds of bigot too entrenched in the cultural narrative to condemn to obscurity. Perhaps this is the way to honor a beloved story while dishonoring dishonorable creators and righting a text's worst failures." Waititi is set to executive produce two animated series based on the books for Netflix.
So, a Jewish actor (once again) portraying Wonka? That can be a nice big f*ck you to Dahl!
People are complaining that Timothee Chalamet is going to start in a new Willy Wonka but personally I love it wherever a Jew gets cast in a film based on antisemite Roald Dahl's work
— Baby Boy Monaghan (@babyboymonaghan) May 24, 2021
Beyond that, Twitter users' feelings on Timothée's casting — and the concept of a Willy Wonka origin story in general — are, well, very mixed:
1. Unfortunately, this is real.
ok but timmy ch*lamet plays young wonka is like a joke on 30 rock right
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) May 24, 2021
2. It's potentially creating even more villain origin stories.
timothée chalamet being casted as willy fucking wonka is my villain origin story
— ariana🖤 (@wickedlyariana) May 24, 2021
3. We nominate Haim.
The big question now about the Timothée Chalamet Wonka prequel is who's going to record the slowed-down, pensive version of Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo for the trailer.
— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 24, 2021
4. Truly what is 2021??
timothee chalamet being in a willy wonka origin story movie musical feels like a simulation glitch but i'm happy for him
— 👺 (@horrordyke666) May 24, 2021
5. Who would've thought!!
timothée as young willy wonka???????? pic.twitter.com/FyWCPf1RN9
— martina (@sharethelovs) May 24, 2021
6. *Logging off*
i will simply choose to not process the timothée as willy wonka news pic.twitter.com/HzBahJN89Q
— haley. (@suspeeria) May 24, 2021
7. Once again, Roald Dahl was super fucking problematic.
Excited to learn about the labor dispute that led Wonka to fire his employees and enslave the Oompa Loompas. https://t.co/tK24ukDmsg
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) May 24, 2021
8. Like, for real, terrible.
"Why do they keep rebooting Wonka?" pic.twitter.com/70AYaXHIWR
— Danny Neary (@itsdannyneary) May 24, 2021
9. We don't want it!!
Can't wait for the song & dance number where he enslaves an entire ethnic group to make chocolate for him https://t.co/7DeqhRB09G
— phoebe bridgerton (@coolsandstorm) May 24, 2021
11. Because really, not everyone needs a backstory!!
Say it with me: NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS AN ORIGIN STORY https://t.co/6qoJFXHPHn
— Amber Sparks (@ambernoelle) May 24, 2021
12. How fast do we think they said yes to this?
WRITER: Okay so it's Willy Wonka, right? But get this:
STUDIO EXEC: Go on
WRITER: He's young, he's hot,
[STUDIO EXEC raises eyebrows]
WRITER: And he fucks
[STUDIO EXEC tips over backward out of chair]
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 24, 2021
13. This isn't funny but just true:
Nobody wants this. It's another franchise exploitation that exists not because audiences want it but because shareholders demand it. https://t.co/ZqC8NNmYSO
— Scott Mendelson (@ScottMendelson) May 24, 2021
14. But, uh, we are obviously going to watch.
them: we are making a willy wonka prequel,
me: BOOOOOOO
them: and it will feature timothee chalamet singing
me: …ok I guess I have no choice but to watch https://t.co/wDZG0t3ToH
— Mark White (@markhw_) May 24, 2021
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Emily Burack (she/her) is Alma's deputy managing editor.


It's quite difficult to know who is the most appropriate patient for immunotherapy because there are conflicting data.
Another potential limitation is uncertainty as to whether archived material, perhaps from years ago, can be used for PD-L1 testing or a new biopsy sample is needed. "The data would suggest that the archived material's okay, but there are scientific questions as to how valid that is," Dr. Popat said. The scalability and reliability of the assays when performed in different institutions are yet to be defined as well.
Currently, at least four assays are used or in late development for PD-L1 testing, each paired with a specific PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor. Each assay is performed with its own antibody clone and must be run on a dedicated platform, raising concern about the comparability of results.
Of note, for some tumors, this assay yielded negative PD-L1 results, where the others yielded positive results, which may have implications for interpretation of findings of trials of atezolizumab, such as the OAK trial, in which even patients with no PD-L1 expression, as assessed with this assay, saw a benefit.3 "One could be provocative and wonder how many of these negative patients who are deriving a benefit from atezolizumab would have been considered positive by other assays," he proposed.
About one-third of patients given a lung cancer diagnosis already have brain metastases at their initial presentation, according to Dr. Popat. Would it be safe to give these patients immunotherapy?
"We really don't know because patients with active brain metastases couldn't go onto these trials," admitted Dr. Popat. "They had to have them treated with radiotherapy before they could go onto the trials," he added.
These toxicities are predominantly grade 1 or 2.8 However, the grading system typically used, the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), was designed for chemotherapy toxicities, not immune-related toxicities. "So immune-related grade 2 diarrhea is actually clinically serious compared to grade 2 anemia," he noted.
Although the immune-related toxicities with the PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors mainly occur in the first 3 months, they can still occur as far out as a 1 or 2 years into therapy.9 Educating patients is key. They need to know about these toxicities and the importance of telling other providers that they are on immunotherapy, so they receive appropriate treatment.
"We shouldn't underestimate financial toxicity," Dr. Popat commented, noting estimates suggest that a month of immunotherapy in the United States can cost $10,000 or more. "And when you've got co-pays, it really is quite crippling," he admitted.
Disclosure: Dr. Popat is a consultant for AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis, Ariad, and Clovis Oncology; has received honoraria from Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Roche, Novartis and AstraZeneca; institutional research funding from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Roche; and travel expenses from Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Pfizer.
1. Popat S: Immunotherapy challenges in lung cancer and mesothelioma. 2016 World Conference on Lung Cancer. Abstract WS07.05. Presented December 4, 2016.
2. European Medicines Agency: Assessment report EMA/246304/2016. February 25, 2016. Available at http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/EPAR_-_Assessment_Report_-_Variation/human/003985/WC500205973.pdf. Accessed February 22, 2017.
3. Barlesi F, Park K, Ciardiello F, et al: Primary analysis from OAK, a randomized phase III study comparing atezolizumab with docetaxel in 2L/3L NSCLC. 2016 European Society for Medical Oncology. Abstract 4380. Presented December 18, 2016.
5. Hui R, Gandhi L, Costa EC, et al: Long-term OS for patients with advanced NSCLC enrolled in the KEYNOTE-001 study of pembrolizumab. 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting. Abstract 9026.
6. Hirsch FR: The Blueprint Project: Harmonizing companion diagnostics across a class of targeted therapies. 2016 American Association for Cancer Research. Presented April 19, 2016.
7. Goldberg SB, Gettinger SN, Mahajan A, et al: A phase II trial of pembrolizumab for untreated brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer. 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer. Abstract ORAL31.07.
8. Leighl N: Discussion. 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer. Mini Oral Session MINI04.05.
9. Reckamp K: Discussion. 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer. Mini Oral Session MINI04.10.


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The Electro-Harmonix Black Finger Compressor Pedal uses the same professional-grade techniques that the most revered, vintage and mega-thousand dollar, high-end studio compressors use, except that it's in the form of an affordable, compact foot pedal! 2 different light sources (LED and lamp) provide distinctly different readings and offer uniquely varied compressions. One tube handles the compression stage while the other manages the gain stage. And unlike other "tube" hyped products on the market, which use 9 to 50 volts, the Black Finger's design allows a full 300 volts of swing to be utilized. This makes it a true tube compressor in every sense.
Whether used as part of an effects loop or with direct guitar, bass or voice, the Black Finger will give music the type of treatment that simply cannot be achieved via plug-in emulation or with any other analog or digital product that doesn't cost thousands of dollars.


Green Tea Benefits: A Boost To Your Immune System?
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Is Green Tea Better Than Coffee?
Coffee is the go-to pick-me-up for many of us in the morning. Besides giving us the jitters, however, what has coffee done for our immune system lately? Shake up your morning beverage and trade your cup of Joe for a mug of steamy green tea. Green tea is an excellent way to warm up, and it might also increase immunity and prevent diseases. However, before you dump your coffee beans, let's find out if switching to green tea is as beneficial as some believe.
Green tea is a native of China but is now found all over the world. With many different varieties, green tea remains one of the most easily accessible, and most popularly consumed, teas. We know that different teas can help with different ailments, but green tea is often called a "Super Tea" – and with much reason.
Green tea has been thought to help with skin care, weight loss, and increase life expectancy; that being said the claim that it can ward off illness might be a more universal remedy. According to a natural health remedy website, Home Remedies, green tea is loaded with "flavonoids and polyphenols [which are both] highly powerful antioxidants." Consuming foods and drinks that are high in antioxidants gives our bodies the defense they need from fighting illnesses—like the common cold—and serious diseases—like cancer. Health Castle, a nutrition advice website, explains that antioxidants "can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to our body. When our body cells use oxygen, they naturally produce free radicals (by-products) which can cause damage." Incorporating foods like green tea into our diet will help strengthen our bodies by raising our immune system, which may actually prevent some illnesses from flaring up.
The way green tea is made also affects the health benefits it yields. Health Castle points out that "green tea leaves are slightly steamed before drying and so the nutrients are preserved intact [unlike] black and other varieties of tea [which] are all fermented," and, therefore, lose a lot of their benefits. National Geographic discusses a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which "shows how chemicals—known as alkylamines—that are commonly present in tea, are also present in some bacteria, cancerous cells, parasites, fungi, and other disease-causing agents." The study focused on determining if, by drinking tea filled with alkyalmines, the body could "recognize and remember alkylamines" and, in turn, help the immune system fight off diseases, National Geographic states. Jack. F. Bukowski, an immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and coworkers "carried out experiments which revealed that exposing blood to these chemicals in the test tube could increase the size of one type of defensive response to simulated infection by up to five times [whereas] blood cells not exposed to alkylamines showed a much less significant response to simulated bacterial infection," National Geographic concludes.
Verdict: Truth. Research suggests that green tea will help keep illnesses at bay at this winter. Talk to your doctor to see if drinking green tea is a healthy choice for you to incorporate into your diet. Remember, green tea is caffeinated, so drink in moderation or consider buying a decaffeinated version. If caffeine is not off-putting for you drink 3x daily!
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Hi, thanks alot for these wonderful information! i really learnt alot! my question is, currently I am trying to gain weight by consuming whey and caused acne on my face and body, so does green tea helps in this situation to cure acne? and long time back i was coffee addict too ..is it the reason for my breakout??
I feel like I am pretty much immune to the affects of caffeine and so I am sure that I could easily get away with drinking as much green tea as I wanted to. However, I never would have thought that it would be something that I should drink 3x daily. I'm not sure that I would call that moderation and so I might just start trying to drink just once a day and incorporate it into one of my meals. What time of day do you think that it would be best to drink it at?


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How impact entrepreneurship can help drive sustainable and inclusive growth
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Related topics Entrepreneurship Purpose Inclusive growth Growth
Discover 12 companies demonstrating how scaling entrepreneurship can create lasting impact for communities around the world.
Impact entrepreneurs are making it their business to tackle the causes and symptoms of deepening inequality.
Whether by accelerating creation of quality jobs, expanding affordable access to vital goods and services or advancing the economic participation of underrepresented groups, scaling impact entrepreneurship creates ripples that can change millions of lives.
By working alongside these businesses on a not-for-profit basis, at EY we are collectively driving inclusive growth and accelerating progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We're extending our knowledge, skills and experience to their businesses to help these impact entrepreneurs to improve their resilience, productivity and capacity for sustainable growth.
We're learning from our work with these individual businesses, and building insights that can help the entire impact entrepreneurship sector achieve greater scale, for example by overcoming the challenges of last-mile distribution.
Helping impact entrepreneurs change lives
From creating more rewarding jobs in the United States to extending quality maternal health care in Kenya, these impact entrepreneurs all share one goal in common: empowering as many people as possible to contribute to, and share in the benefits of, sustainable economic growth.
They may only be a tiny fraction of the many life-changing businesses out there; nevertheless even this small sample shows that the impact of this work can be felt by people all around the world, in both mature and emerging economies.
Discover the impact entrepreneurs changing lives around the world:
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AgDevCo
Building African agribusiness
Algo Consulting Group
Transforming how citizens connect with government services
The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP)
Improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers
Spreading access to quality health care across Latin America
AccuHealth's telemedicine services make it easier for underserved patients to access professional medical advice and self-manage chronic conditions at home. With help from EY to plan expansion beyond Chile into Mexico and Columbia, it aims to be serving a million people by 2020.
AgDevCo provides long-term capital to help early-stage enterprises such as Talian — a family-run maize and cassava milling business — reach profitability and scale. With AgDevCo investment and EY's help to strengthen financial and operational controls, Talian aims to grow its operations six-fold over the next five years, creating hundreds of skilled jobs and linking thousands of small scale farmers to export and premium markets.
Notarizing important documents used to take months and was susceptible to fraud; however, the biometric technology in Algo's electronic kiosks can verify a person's identity in seconds and with 99% accuracy. EY's support to improve Algo's operational processes is fueling the growth of a business that helps rebuild trust between governments and their citizens.
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Powering homes and businesses off the grid
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Empowering women entrepreneurs as change agents in Rwanda and Afghanistan Photo credit: Right Seat
International Development Enterprises (IDE)
Strengthening women's economic participation in Bangladesh
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Husk provides rural communities with affordable power from entirely renewable sources — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Poised to add more than 300 mini-grids across India and Tanzania over the next 4 years, serving almost 65,000 homes and small businesses, EY helped Husk design an organization structure and IT infrastructure capable of supporting this ambitious growth.
Empowering women entrepreneurs as change agents in Rwanda and Afghanistan
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Strengthening women's economic participation in Bangladesh
iDE is on a journey to transform 20 million lives, with a focus on empowering women. With EY's help to strengthen women-led microenterprises in its development programs in Bangladesh, iDE is better able to support these life-changing businesses.
Driving down maternal mortality
Mothers at Jacaranda clinics experience fewer birth complications and far surpass national rates for lifesaving behaviors, such as exclusive breastfeeding. Aided by EY's support to streamline patient management and financial processes, Jacaranda aims to become East Africa's first truly sustainable and scalable provider of high-quality maternal health care for low-income women.
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M-KOPA
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Pincho Factory
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Reclamador
Defending consumer rights
Connecting the disconnected
M-KOPA has already connected more than 500,000 homes to affordable solar power in East Africa. With EY's help to streamline operations and lower the cost of supporting its growing customer base, the business aims to reach 3 million of Kenya's 5 million off-grid households by 2025, helping them save hundreds of millions of dollars in avoided fuel costs.
Incubating youth-led business
Already the fastest-growing social enterprise of its type in the UK, Orbit provides the next generation of entrepreneurs with the mentoring and technical support they need to launch their own businesses. Aided by EY's support to strengthen its operational processes and financial management, Orbit aims to scale across 10 UK cities over the next 5 years.
Turning food service jobs into rewarding careers
With its focus on fresh, sustainable produce, and investment in skills, Flordia-based restaurant chain Pincho Factory is a breeding ground for the next generation of responsible restaurateurs. With EY's help to streamline financial processes and improve its ability to raise capital, the business aims to grow its quality jobs five-fold by 2020.
For those who fall victim to breaches of consumer protection laws in Spain, Reclamador's user-friendly online platform provides a quick, easy and effective way for customers to seek redress. EY helped strengthen its culture, processes and organizational structure, empowering the business to help thousands more people achieve access to justice.
These impact entrepreneurs are making their communities a better place to live and work in every day. And their combined efforts are driving sustainable and inclusive growth. By helping to scale impact entrepreneurship, organizations can help these businesses to create long-term value for their people and communities around the world.
By helping to scale impact entrepreneurship, organizations can drive sustainable and inclusive growth.


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Un de nos avions n'est pas rentré (titre original : ) est un film britannique réalisé par Michael Powell, sorti en 1942.

Synopsis
Après que leur bombardier B for Bertie a été touché au-dessus des Pays-Bas, l'équipage saute en parachute. Des résistants néerlandais vont les aider à retourner en Grande-Bretagne.

Fiche technique
 Titre original :
 Titre français : Un de nos avions n'est pas rentré
 Réalisation : Michael Powell
 Scénario : Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
 Direction artistique : David Rawnsley
 Photographie : Ronald Neame
 Son : A.W. Watkins
 Montage : David Lean
 Production : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, John Corfield
 Production associée : Stanley Haynes
 Société de production : Archers Film Productions
 Société de distribution : Anglo-American Film Corporation
 Pays d'origine :
 Langues originales : anglais, néerlandais, allemand
 Format : noir et blanc — 35 mm — 1,37:1 — son Mono
 Genre : Film de guerre, Film de propagande
 Durée : 102 minutes (82 minutes dans la version américaine)
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Godfrey Tearle : Sir George Corbett, mitrailleur arrière du B for Bertie
 Eric Portman : Tom Earnshaw, copilote du B for Bertie
 Hugh Williams : Frank Shelley, navigateur du B for Bertie
 Bernard Miles : Geoff Hickman, mitrailleur avant du B for Bertie
 Hugh Burden : John Glyn Haggard, pilote du B for Bertie
 Emrys Jones : Bob Ashley, opérateur radio du B for Bertie
 Pamela Brown : Els Meertens
 Joyce Redman : Jet van Dieren
 Googie Withers : Jo de Vries
 Hay Petrie : le bourgmestre
 Selma Vaz Dias : la femme du bourgmestre
 Arnold Marlé : Pieter Sluys
 Robert Helpmann : De Jong
 Peter Ustinov : le prêtre
 Alec Clunes : l'organiste

Récompenses et distinctions
Nominations
Oscars 1943
 Oscar des meilleurs effets visuels : Ronald Neame
 Oscar des meilleurs effets sonores : C.C. Stevens
 Oscar du meilleur scénario original : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Film britannique sorti en 1942
Film de guerre britannique
Film de propagande britannique
Film réalisé par Michael Powell
Film se déroulant dans les années 1940
Film se déroulant aux Pays-Bas
Film tourné dans le Lincolnshire
Film tourné dans le Cambridgeshire
Film tourné en Angleterre de l'Est
Film tourné aux Riverside Studios
Film tourné aux Denham Film Studios
Film sur le front ouest de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Film britannique en noir et blanc
Film sur l'aviation pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Film en anglais
Film de propagande de la Seconde Guerre mondiale


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India, Singapore enter into strategic partnership
India and Singapore have signed a joint declaration envisaging a Strategic Partnership to elevate bilateral relations of both countries.
It was signed along with 10 bilateral agreements during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official visit to Singapore as part of his second leg of two nation's visit of South-East Asia viz. Malaysia and Singapore.
The focus of the visit included 'five S plank' i.e. scaling up trade and investment, smart cities, speeding up connectivity, skills development and state focus.
The strategic partnership aims to catalyse the strategic relations between both countries ranging from political, defence and security cooperation to economic, cultural and people-to-people contacts.
It would broaden and deepen engagement in existing areas of cooperation between both countries in various sectors.
The various sectors are defence relations, economic and cultural cooperation, skill development and capacity building.
Bilateral agreements signed are
MoUs on curtailing drug trafficking and improving cybersecurity.
Collaboration in urban planning and wastewater management.
Extending of long-term loan of Indian artefacts to the Asian Civilisations Museum of Singapore.
Cooperation in the fields of arts, museums, archives and monuments.
MoU for cooperation in civil aviation services and airport management beginning with Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports.
Operationalization of the Technical Agreement on sharing white-shipping information to enhance bilateral maritime security.
Singapore-India Relations
Singapore, one of the fastest growing economy is Southeast Asia region has approximately 3.5 lakh-strong Indian diaspora out of its total population of 5.5 million.
India's bilateral trade with Singapore is about 17 billion dollars and number of Singaporean companies are active in India since early 1990s.
Singapore is the second-largest source of Foreign Direct Investment into India at about 35.9 billion dollars (from 2000 to 2015), which is about 13.9 per cent of India's total inbound FDI.
Singapore's strategic location in Southeast Asia along with status as a financial, aviation and maritime hub is important aspect for India.
Thus, presence of a large Indian diaspora, flow of investments and its expertise in urban development and skill development make it a very valued strategic partner for India.
Month:Current Affairs – November, 2015
Categories: International
Tags: Current Affairs 2016 • Defence • Economic Cooperation • India-International Relations • India-Singapore


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Taika Waititi Set To Take On Flash Gordon Animated Movie
Just when the God of Thunder and bringing Neo-Tokyo to life wasn't enough. Director Taika Waititi has struck yet again with another venture into the weird and wonderful, this time with another iconic franchise in the form of Flash Gordon.
As it appears, Disney/Fox are planning to do a remake of Flash Gordon into an animated feature film, with the eccentric filmmaker reportedly set to spearhead the project. Aiding Waititi apparently is John Davis of Predator and I, Robot fame.
Taika Waititi at it again with Flash Gordon.
Despite Flash Gordon being synonymous with the iconic 1980s live-action film featuring the legendary soundtrack starring Queen, the animated film is set to take cues from the original 1934 comic strip instead. In a way, this will be a return to basics for the franchise.
However, who is to say one can't hope for the Queen-led soundtrack to make a reprisal in the upcoming animated remake? If anything, Taika Waititi is the best man for performing such a feat, considering his stellar work in Thor: Ragnarok.
Flash Gordon would then add on to a growing number of high-profile science fiction projects under Waititi's belt, including the 2021 Akira live-action feature adaptation, the upcoming Mandalorian TV series on Disney+, as well as a potential fourth Thor movie.
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namespace PhpTry;

use Exception;
use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase;

abstract class FailedAttemptTestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    protected $exception;
    protected $failure;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->exception = new TestException();
        $this->failure   = $this->createFailure($this->exception);
    }

    abstract protected function createFailure($exception);

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function it_is_not_success()
    {
        $this->assertFalse($this->failure->isSuccess());
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function it_is_failure()
    {
        $this->assertTrue($this->failure->isFailure());
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException PhpTry\TestException
     */
    public function it_throws_when_getting_the_value()
    {
        $this->failure->get();
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function it_returns_the_other_value_on_getOrElse()
    {
        $this->assertEquals(21, $this->failure->getOrElse(21));

    }

    /**
     * @test
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    public function it_returns_the_value_returned_by_the_callable_on_getOrCall()
    {
        $this->assertEquals(21, $this->failure->getOrCall(function(){ return 21; }));
    }

    /**
     * @test
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     */
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    {
        $this->failure->getOrCall(function(){ throw new TestException(); });
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    /**
     * @test
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    {
        $other = new Success(42);
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    }

    /**
     * @test
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    {
        $this->assertEquals(new Success(21), $this->failure->orElseCall(function (){ return new Success(21); }));
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    /**
     * @test
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    {
        $result = $this->failure->orElseCall(function (){ return 21; });
        $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpTry\\Failure', $result);
    }

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    public function it_returns_Failure_if_the_callable_throws_on_orElseCall()
    {
        $result = $this->failure->orElseCall(function (){ throw new TestException(); });
        $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpTry\\Failure', $result);
    }

    /**
     * @test
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    public function it_does_not_return_an_element_in_foreach()
    {
        $called = false;
        foreach ($this->failure as $elem) {
            $called = true;
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        $this->assertFalse($called);
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    /**
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    {
        $this->assertSame($attempt, $this->failure->recoverWith(function() use ($attempt) { return $attempt; }));
    }

    public function attemptValues()
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            array(new Success(42)),
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     * @test
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    {
        $value = null;

        $this->failure->recoverWith(function($elem) use (&$value) { $value = $elem; return new Success(21); });

        $this->assertSame($this->exception, $value);
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    /**
     * @test
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    public function it_returns_Failure_if_the_recoverWith_callable_throws()
    {
        $result = $this->failure->recoverWith(function() { throw new Exception('meh.'); });

        $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpTry\\Failure', $result);
    }

    /**
     * @test
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    {
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        $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpTry\\Failure', $result);
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    {
        $this->assertEquals(new Success(21), $this->failure->recover(function() { return 21; }));
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    {
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        $this->failure->recover(function($elem) use (&$value) { $value = $elem; return 21; });

        $this->assertSame($this->exception, $value);
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        $this->failure->onFailure(function($elem) use (&$value) { $value = $elem; });

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Boy Meets Girl ( Ben Loke'ah Bat) is a 1982 Israeli drama directed by Michal Bat-Adam. It was filmed on location at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi.

The story is a semi-autobiographical account of Bat-Adams' own upbringing at a kibbutz boarding school. Her 1994 film, Aya: Imagined Autobiography (), revisits the character of Aya, who is now a married woman haunted by her past.

Plot
Aya (Einat Helfman) is a shy 10-year-old girl who has grown up in Tel Aviv.  When her parents, who are both doctors, travel to Thailand as part of their work, Aya is placed in a boarding school on a kibbutz.  As an outsider, she has difficulty adjusting to the insularity and unfamiliar values and practices of kibbutz society.  She struggles to cope with the challenges of living with dozens of her peers in a communal children's dormitory where there is no separation according to gender.

Cast
Einat Helfman as Aya
 as Ina
 as Aya's father
Shai Golan as Zvika
Gill Dontchevzky as Neni
Ayala Fiszel as Hanna's Mother
Erella Ashkenazi as Teacher
Andrea Sade as English Teacher
Dina Limon as Teacher
Assaf Zur as Giora
Osnat Farago as Hanna
Eyal Fox as Dodo
Boaz Rekiewicz as Roni
Amalya Dayan as Amalya

References

External links

1982 films
1980s Hebrew-language films
Films about the kibbutz
1982 drama films
Films directed by Michal Bat-Adam
Israeli drama films


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Duško Bunić (born December 4, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player. He is a 2.07 center who last played for KK Krka.

International career
Bunić was member of the team that represented Serbia at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, finishing as the gold medal winners.

References

External links
 Duško Bunić at aba-liga.com
 Duško Bunić at eurobasket.com
 Duško Bunić at fiba.com

1989 births
Living people
ABA League players
Basketball League of Serbia players
Centers (basketball)
KK Budućnost players
KK Igokea players
KK Krka players
KK Novi Sad players
KK Metalac Valjevo players
KK MZT Skopje players
KK Vojvodina Srbijagas players
KK Spartak Subotica players
People from Bihać
Serbian men's basketball players
Serbian expatriate basketball people in North Macedonia
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Montenegro
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Slovenia
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Universiade medalists in basketball
Universiade gold medalists for Serbia
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade


South African Director/ DOP Vicci Turpin started out in the industry working for fashion photographer Louis Fouche. Initially working within an advertising agency, Vicci then trained as an editor and camera operator. In the features world, she worked her way up through the ranks on set to become a Director of Photography, specialising in under water sequences.
Alongside her commercials directing career, she is one of the leading DOPs in South Africa with a showreel that includes many award-winning commercials. Vicci is well-respected for her work with children and beauty in particular, with brands such as Pampers, Bio Oil and Avon forming a large part of her personal directing reel.


Company D.K.C., s.r.o. started its transport activities in 1996 in Zvolen with over 60 year experiences in the former state tranport company. The core line of our business is road transport and forwarding, offering a wide range of services in national and international transport. Except of road transport the company offers petrol station, repear services, parking places, and rents offices and stores. The company is ideally located at the crossroad of the main routes Bratislava – B.Bystrica - Kosice, on almost 40 thousand m2.
Currently we are employing over 60 skilled employees, whose we regularly educate and with our social program we aim to strenghten stability and loyalty in the company.
We constantly strive to improve our quality in order to satisfy needs and demands of our customers even more successfully. Our slogan thus follows "Your satisafaction is our goal".
Our company possesses the ISO 9001 certificate as well as a prestigious brand "relialible freight forwarder"