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Mental Health Implications Of Long COVID
In the moment, the effects of COVID are significant.
From physical health symptoms to the disruption that self-isolation causes, to the impacts that widespread lockdowns have had, each occurrence linked to COVID has carried tests for the majority.
While some form of normality is returning, where the memory of COVID will soon hopefully become just that, unfortunately for some individuals, long COVID will be a consequence of the ongoing pandemic.
Standing as long-term symptoms and implications of COVID, long COVID is in fact worryingly correlated with ongoing mental health symptoms, concerns over the momentum of COVID, and the chronic disruption of a life we once knew.
Previous pandemics, ranking similarly to COVID have presented just that, a spiralling impact from one crisis, to another, placing focus on the concern of mental health implications.
If you're struggling mentally, the results of COVID could be why, caused by excessive isolation, change, sadness and disruption. Mental health implications of long COVID are expected to include social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, PTSD and depression. If you're experiencing such symptoms, at Cassiobury Court, we're here for you.
Do not ignore your mental health in the midst of COVID, as your cognitive wellbeing matters.
What is long COVID?
In the moment, the effects of COVID are seen at their worst. In fact, such a nightmare will begin to dwindle for many individuals, once normality returns beyond the constraints of COVID as a global pandemic. However, for some, the nightmare of COVID is forecasted to continue, known as long COVID.
Long COVID is the accumulation of impacts, expected to reside for the long-term, including physical health problems, social issues, lifestyle worries and mental health implications.
Significant stress and change, commonly associated with a pandemic are known to incur such impacts, which carries a concern for many who have suffered through COVID.
While we're aware of long COVID, and while coping strategies and management plans can be formed, the unknown of COVID, its end journey and the implications of its occurrence cannot be forecasted, making this a very difficult time for our society.
Long-lasting effects of COVID
There is a range of long-lasting effects of COVID which carry concern when considering the quality of life and wellbeing. The physical impacts of covid are expected to be for the long-term, where those who have experienced ill-health and internal damage may be impacted through ongoing respiratory symptoms and low immunity levels.
A further long-lasting concern of COVID surrounds the damage that it has caused on livelihoods, businesses, financial forecasts, personal insecurities and future stability. Many individuals will be impacted by irreversible consequences of lockdowns and restrictions, which can carry long-term effects.
Long COVID is especially linked to mental health implications, like ill-health, reduced quality and purpose of life, and as the constraints of the last year place pressure on our minds, our tolerances and our internal strength.
From reduced access to mental health services and the increased impacts of loneliness and social isolation to witnessing the front-line impacts of COVID, there are many triggers that are defined as influential, found to cause mental health deterioration.
Returning to normality and the concerns that such processes carry for some individuals showcase what's ahead through long COVID. Readjusting will be tough for some, whether that's on physical, social, financial or psychological scales.
However, the general consensus is, is that without the support and slow readjustment, mental health implications of long COVID are expected, increasing the need for mental health support services.
Expected mental health implications of COVID focus significantly on a range of anxieties, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, and mood disorders. Such symptoms have been experienced by many through the nature of COVID, where the unknown, where a lack of freedom and control and where a rollercoaster of emotions have all incurred.
Social anxiety is expected to be a key mental health implication of long covid, down to the impacts that excessive isolation can have. Many individuals will struggle to come to terms with the re-emergence of social expectations and social schedules, where fear surrounding socialisation and new engagements are common.
Social anxiety can be crippling, to the point where sufferers aim to remain at home, a key reflection of active COVID, soon becoming a result of long COVID.
Obsessive-compulsive behaviours are also forecasted, down to the level of obsession that COVID has caused. Many habits have formed around hygiene, social distancing and checking the news. Such behaviours, if continued can amount to obsessive and compulsive disorders, which if chronic, can be life-consuming.
Depression is also an expected result of long COVID, down to the emotional turmoil that the rollercoaster-like reality that covid has caused. Through a lack of routine, through a lack of social contact, and through a lack of familiarity, the rising rate of mood disorders are seen as one of the mental health implications of long COVID.
Ultimately, the materialisation of new panic, anxiety and obsessive disorders are high on the forecasts of long COVID. However, we must also consider those who've already lived with mental health issues, and who's been impacted through the inaccessibility of mental health services.
Long covid is likely to affect them down to the pre-existing vulnerabilities when focusing on mental health issues.
Sourcing help for long COVID and its impacts
Long-term problems linked to COVID, beyond what we're currently experiencing are likely. PTSD and anxiety are very common post-pandemic, down to the change and unfamiliarity that such events cause. It's imperative that those who are struggling to consider support, as long COVID, imaginably will be testing in some cases.
The likes of cognitive behavioural therapy and exposure therapy can be used to work through the implications of COVID, available here at Cassiobury Court.
69% of people in the UK are already experiencing concerns linked to COVID and its impact on life. A similar number is expected for the worries over long COVID. If you're at all worried, contact our team for mental health support.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201021-coronavirus-the-possible-long-term-mental-health-impacts
https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/blogs/emerging-evidence-on-covid-19s-impact-on-mental-health-and-health

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In this article, we take a look at the shortcomings of async and promise libraries in Node.js, and what you can do to improve the quality of JS in your app.
Specifically, it's a TAX you pay every time you want to separate concerns and give some extra layer of indirection, such as when you apply some basic DDD layering. DAOs, Domain Services, Infrastructure Services, and stuff like that.
You want to add some details-hiding interface, and you end up adding steps in the arrow of the callback.
Another bad side-effect of the Callback TAX is that you have to spread callbacks all over the application, just to be prepared when an implementation goes from sync to async. For instance, say you can have some DAO that is hiding an in-memory, sync I/O, or object cache. If you don't prepare it for an async flow of execution, the migration to an on-disk persistence propagates through all the upstanding layers of indirection.
The other solution, common in many technologies, are Promises, Futures, Promises/A+, etc.
It appears to be a better solution than async. Cleaner, simpler. But also tightly coupled. I have to change all the contracts of my classes, not only the implementations, to use that library of promises. Try to imagine the cost of changing my promises library to another one. From this point of view, promises are a worse solution than async.
But both libraries (async and promises) have an added, deeper, hidden cost that can be dramatic, because of the strong coupling: testability.
There are some more options, like an extensive use of nested closures, or the use of reactive programming extensions, but I think they are solutions to different problems; in fact, I think you should not be forced to use them because of the technology you are programming. And in addition, they could be impractical for everyday programming.
The same is true for a massive use of "Tell, Don't Ask" as an architectural style. Indeed, I see it in the vast majority of the codebases I know, and it's not so clear that it is always the best solution (though it may be in a world of pure theory).
All these solutions make big efforts to make the asynchronicity of Node.js code easier to understand, in order to "mitigate" the problem while at the same time being respectful to the inner nature of the Node.js reactor.
So we can say this is a mere problem of syntaxis, namely, syntactic noise. If we could solve the syntactical problem, the code in its whole would be perfectly portable between sync and async technology or implementations. In fact, in general, we can state that every sync code can be written in async style. The contrary is not true.
Syntaxis encapsulation would give me the chance of changing from a sync implementation to an async one, for instance, inside a DAO class, without changing anything about the client code. Not even the syntaxis.
Besides, in the specific case of Node.js, I could completely avoid a huge (syntactical) problem in testability, and the cost of a bigger codebase.
Now, I got the bigger part of the work done: identifying a logical framework in which to achieve an optimal solution. From here it's only a matter of finding the technology/library/framework nearest to the solution I propose.
Many technologies have a standard solution that goes in this direction. Think for example of C# async/await, Java/Scala continuations, and some Coffee Script solution (IcedCoffeeScript).
Published at DZone with permission of Christian Ciceri . See the original article here.


One of the most celebrated events in American business is the initial public offering (IPO). Many see it as a transforming event that ensures a company's long-term survival, signifies an arrival into the business big leagues and creates wealth – or at least increases liquidity and provides initial investors and founders an opportunity to "cash out" some, or all, of their shares. All of these reasons, and more, have many positive implementations. Currently, in the U.S., there are over 19,000 public companies. So, why would a company actually choose to remain a private company?
Believe it or not, there are many good reasons not to go public, and I offer for consideration some real-world insights that may cause one to reconsider, or at least pause to reflect on some of the reasons why "being private" can also be advantageous.
Many people question whether or not a private company can actually compete against a public company. We have been doing so for decades. Our company, Cincom Systems, is a privately held software company founded in 1968. We have thousands of customers on six continents and specialize in providing software, services and hosting to simplify the management of complex business processes. Cincom employs over 700 people worldwide and competes with mega-companies like Oracle, SAP and others that are more moderately sized.
Throughout Cincom's 41 years, we have steadfastly remained a private company. We've never accepted any form of financing from venture capitalists or other equity investors. Throughout the history of the company, all of our financing has been through cash flow, and when necessary, debt financing through banks.
This often hurt us when competing against our well-branded and publicly funded competitors in the industry. But, it helped us to develop innovative, flexible and adaptive ways of thinking along with well-honed and passionately articulated value propositions. We have continued to pioneer software innovation in our rapidly changing business environment, which focuses upon delivering outstanding value and significant competitive advantages for Cincom customers.
Surrounded by well-financed competitors, Cincom has an impressive list of "firsts" in the software industry. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan hailed Cincom as "the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit of American business," and Cincom was recognized by the Smithsonian Institute as one of "the pioneers and builders" of the software industry.
Remaining a private company gives us the freedom to make decisions based on the needs of our clients and interests of our staff, rather than primarily upon the demands of shareholders. It helps us to make business decisions and to create innovation by acting on those decisions which are believed to best serve both the near and the long-term interests of client, staff and the company itself. We are free from excessive regulatory burdens and free to adjust to the changes in the business environment as we see fit. We have the freedom to innovate without a rigid timetable for a return on investment. We have more freedom to think long-term. We have the freedom to build a corporate culture that reflects the leadership of the organization and to make decisions that make sense, rather than decisions that please the analysts on the quarterly conference call.
By avoiding public financing, we are freer to control our own destiny.
We will never be forced to merge ourselves out of existence or to acquire other companies at excessive prices just to meet revenue or growth expectations like we might at a public company. Because of this we do not face the complexity issues that these mergers and acquisitions create such as disparate product lines; product, process and employee redundancies; integration; employee layoffs; and ultimately, while faced inward trying to cope with these issues, customer service suffers.
Private companies are also freer to celebrate and share their successes as they choose. Public companies must share their successes with outsiders, whereas we are able to invest those successes into R&D, better customer service, better jobs for employees and job creation. Furthermore, there isn't a group of outsiders in place that may be in a position to take over the company and fire the top staff, or even the founder of the company.
Another clear advantage of remaining a private company is that it is much easier to create a unique corporate culture. If one values loyalty, a fair balance between work and family, and community involvement, then you are freer – as a private company – to promote and reward these values. At Cincom, we have created a unique, family-oriented atmosphere that encourages openness and a sense of participation in the organization that we call the "Cincommunity." For this reason, we have attracted an incredibly loyal and committed team, with very low turnover. At the senior-management level, it is not unusual to have decades of tenure with Cincom.
Additionally, our customers remain astoundingly loyal because we base our decisions primarily on customer needs, rather than primarily on those of shareholders. Ultimately, what has made Cincom successful is being a customer-driven organization. As a result, we have an extremely high average tenure among our clients, some for more than 30 years.
The flexibility and freedom of remaining a private company is fundamentally ingrained into a corporate character, culture and commitment. This redounds to the greater benefit for customers, employees and the communities in which they live and serve all around the world.
For over 40 years, we have shown that it is possible to progress nicely and positively as a private company, and we intend to continue to innovate in the software business for decades to come. For now, it is clear that an IPO is a "no-go" for us.


This spacious, penthouse apartment benefits from being separate to the rest of the development. With only a three bedroom apartment beneath it, the home has no other apartment adjacent to it. The private entry staircase helps ensure a sense of seclusion within the developments' community.
Showcasing the latest in stylish and modern living, this home is finished to the highest specification.
Featuring its own staircase which ensures a greater degree of privacy, this contemporary apartment comprises two bedrooms, a spacious open-plan kitchen and living area, family bathroom, large verandas and covered parking. The master bedroom also comes complete with an ensuite bathroom and separate dressing area, creating a luxurious and decadent feel.
The home includes air conditioning/heating units throughout, solar heating and double glazing. Additional touches of luxury include imported Italian internal doors with the front door made of iroko wood.
Troy Legends offers a unique living environment thanks to its combination of modern features and traditional Cypriot design. Set amongst beautiful landscaped gardens, overlooking the stunning communal pool and lagoon and just minutes away from the most attractive beach in Larnaka, life in Cyprus really doesn't get better than this.
Thanks to its stunning beach, sporting activities and facilities such as water sports, gyms and indoor swimming pools and its close proximity to the town centre, the Larnaka-Dhekelia Road is the most sought-after area of Larnaka District. The area plays host to a wide variety of restaurants, bars and cafes, exclusive shops and boutiques as well as numerous amenities including supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and bakeries.
Unlike many other areas of Cyprus, which tend to be very busy during the summer months and extremely quiet during the winter, Larnaka is the same all year round. An attractive and quiet city, its famous Palm Tree Promenade and marina ensure a picturesque coastline. Larnaka also boasts many of the most appealing beaches in Cyprus. Its central location means that other cities and popular areas of Cyprus are within easy reach – Nicosia, the country's capital, is less than 60km away, and Limassol and Paphos are approx 65km and 120km distance.


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Enhances IT Staff Productivity
Provides Secure Remote Access To Critical Resources
Decreases Infrastructure Costs
Enhances Security
Improves Overall Network Efficiency
VPN vs. Remote Desktop
Trusted vs. Untrusted Networks
VPN Configuration or Setup Guide & Policy
The US-CERT, a vital part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, classifies VPNs as a critical infrastructure device.
These devices are considered critical infrastructure devices because they allow remote workers and mobile workers to access a network remotely and securely, from any location in the world with an internet connection.
Virtual Private Networks encrypt traffic between point-to-point, which means that all traffic is encrypted as it travels from one device to another so that no one can see what data is being transmitted over the wire.
VPNs also provide a level of scalability that is always on and available for users without requiring them to have constant network connectivity to the network they're accessing.
Remote access to a VPN allows a mobile user to connect to the network from any location that has an internet connection.
This is extremely helpful for companies with employees who travel or telecommute, and it can allow companies to lower their overall IT costs because they won't need as many physical servers in each location.
A VPN works to enhance the security within enterprise networks because all traffic traversing them is encrypted so no one outside of the network will be able to monitor the data inside of it.
The future looks promising for VPNs and remote workers everywhere: Cisco predicts that 75 percent of businesses will use some form of the remote worker by 2022.
As more and more users work remotely and need secure connectivity, VPN configuration becomes a vital tool to ensure both safety and productivity.
VPNs allow employees to work remotely without decreasing staff productivity within the office itself.
They also allow access to internal resources like file servers, printers, secure email, and other internal information without the user needing to be physically onsite.
VPNs also allow mobile workers and telecommuters to receive alerts and notifications from all of their business apps while they are out in the field.
And they will cut down on calls and issues related to network connectivity for users who work outside of buildings that provide hard-line connectivity internally.
Overall, VPNs provide a level of flexibility and security that is unmatched by other remote working methods and can be critical for companies with mobile or telecommuting workforces.
VPNs allow remote access to critical resources while maintaining the security and integrity of the organization's network.
VPNs provide secure access at any time, even over unsecured or untrusted networks (like Wi-Fi hotspots), allowing employees to work from anywhere while offloading the technical challenges involved with remote connectivity.
VPNs can also help decrease infrastructure costs. By using a VPN, remote users can connect to the corporate network without the need for a costly Wide Area Network (WAN) connection.
Additionally, by consolidating multiple remote connections into a single VPN connection, organizations can reduce the number of network devices and circuits needed, leading to lower infrastructure costs.
VPNs provide an added layer of security for remote users and their data.
By encrypting traffic between the user and the VPN server, VPNs help protect against eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Additionally, VPNs can help secure data and make it inaccessible to unauthorized users and applications.
VPNs can improve the efficiency of an organization's overall network.
By consolidating multiple remote connections into a single VPN connection, organizations can reduce the number of network devices and circuits needed, leading to lower infrastructure costs.
Additionally, by using a VPN, remote users can connect to the corporate network without the need for a costly Wide Area Network (WAN) connection.
VPNs are becoming an increasingly important tool for businesses with mobile or telecommuting workforces.
They provide secure remote access to critical resources while decreasing infrastructure costs and enhancing security.
With the rapid growth of remote working, VPNs are quickly becoming a staple in any company's networking arsenal.
VPN is different from the Remote Desktop (which is a form of Virtual Network Computing – VNC) in that it is designed for connectivity between two separate private networks, rather than connecting two computers over the Internet.
Running a VPN on a trusted, internal network offers a high degree of privacy.
Traffic will still be encrypted, but your originating IP address is likely to be the same as the one assigned by your ISP.
This means you won't need to worry about being spoofed or blocked from accessing services.
In an untrusted environment, such as a public Wi-Fi hotspot, it's important to use a VPN service that provides strong security features.
Otherwise, your data may be vulnerable to interception and/or manipulation by third parties.
The most common method that people use to gain access into the secure network or computer is using different types of software that allow them to mask their identity and location.
The latest news about Anonymous planning attacks on government websites today led me to think, can someone track down an anonymous user by identifying his/her VPN configuration?
So let's now say, for example, 1000 VPN users are trying to hack into your network.
Out of which, 5% – 250 could be anonymous (using different methods like proxies, TOR) and the rest(95%) are already identified by their assigned subnets, IP addresses, and configuration settings.
What you need to do now is start checking each one of them based on their configurations.
The good thing is, most VPN users don't bother to change their default settings and this will make your work a lot easier.
But if by any chance, the hacker has changed his/her settings, then it could be really difficult to track him/her down.
In such cases, you will need to ask your IT department or security experts to help you out in identifying the hacker.
They can use various methods like traffic analysis, deep packet inspection, or port scanning to track down the user.
Once they have successfully identified the hacker, it's time to take appropriate action and report it to the authorities.
VPN configuration or setup guide & policy is important to protect your online privacy as well as data from malicious attacks. Here are some best practices for configuring your VPN service.
Use a strong and unique password with upper and lower case letters, symbols, and numbers.
Always use the most secure VPN protocol available: OpenVPN is more secure than PPTP which is more secure than L2TP/IPsec.
Use only trustworthy VPN providers that take your privacy seriously. Do some research on the company's website, join their communities in social networks to read what people are saying about them.
It is recommended to use shared IPs when possible because they wisely rotate different users under one identifier thus making it harder for blacklisting services to keep track of who is using the service.
Always keep your software up to date, especially your VPN client and Operating System.
Use a kill switch to protect yourself in case of accidental disconnection from the VPN.
Be aware that not all websites are created equal and some are more likely to track you than others. Avoid logging into your accounts on high-risk websites. Instead, use a burner email address and payment method specifically for those sites.
If you are using a public Wi-Fi network, always use a VPN to protect your data. Do not enter personal information such as passwords or credit card numbers.
Finally, be aware that your VPN service is only as good as your security measures. Use a strong password, turn on two-factor authentication whenever possible, and use a firewall to protect your computer.
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For a short form of writing, stenography has a long and interesting history. Few roles can boast a professional legacy of 5,000 years! From Ancient Rome to America's early history, the art of recording events in a fast and accurate style has drawn the support of Queens and Congress.
The role of the stenographer/court reporter (SCR) is not only a rewarding career but one which plays a vital role at the highest levels of our society. There are a few other names the profession may operate under, but the level of responsibility is always high. The rewards can be, too.
What's more, now may be the best time to consider this job because the country is in dire need of these skills. Demand is high due to factors such as significant retirement of these professionals and a growing number of situations requiring transcription talent.
Here is a more in-depth look at the duties involved and if it is the right path for you.
Stenographers and court reporters are responsible for keeping a written record of events during legal proceedings such as trials, pretrial hearings, depositions (the act of giving sworn evidence), mediations and more. It is essential that words and physical gestures be recorded precisely.
This provides a record of events that can be referred to reliably at a later date by judges, attorneys, jury members, the press or the public. The speed and precision of the job is aided by the stenotype machine. Despite having fewer keys than a standard keyboard (22 compared to 101-104), stenotypes are specialized tools which allow a great level of recorded accuracy.
Words, numbers, phrases and even sounds are coded in shorthand for full transcription later. Increasingly, modern stenographers and court reporters are leaving behind the paper records created by stenotypes in favor of computer-aided records. The benefit here is that digital transcripts are immediately generated from the shorthand.
Stenography also helps people in need as an invaluable aid to those who are deaf or hard of hearing. In any event, where information is being provided via the spoken word, the stenographer's quick transcription skills allow everyone to keep up with events.
Is being a stenographers or court reporter the right path for me?
Here in Florida, we are in the U.S top five for stenographer and court reporter employment. Many enjoy this occupation, so it could very well work for you.
There are several core personality skills needed to be successful in this field. A person must be an excellent listener and able to focus their attention to a superior degree. Outstanding ability in this field is not only a core requirement for every document produced; the outcome of an entire case may rely on accurate transcription.
The ability to retain a cool head under pressure is a benefit anywhere in life; especially when court reporting. Emotions can run high in court, but the stenographer or court reporter must always be able to remain calm and transcribe events as they happen.
In the end, when tempers have cooled and court is adjourned, it is the transcript that will endure as a vital, impartial record. Integrity and discretion are also bedrock character traits. Stenographers and court reporters can be privy to very private and sensitive information and must be relied upon to maintain the confidentiality inherent in their work.
A keen interest in reading and writing are a great advantage. Having a high school diploma with experience in business or typing can be good preparation; stenographers can reach typing speeds up to 225 words per minute and even 300.
Don't let this figure discourage you. It's a gradual improvement to get there and is achievable when professionals develop their manual skills and stay clear and focused on their environment.
From there it is important to develop talent in shorthand along with familiarity and affinity with stenotype devices and technology. Stenographers and court reporters must have a solid grasp of legal terminology as well as that of other fields, such as business and healthcare, as their work may require.
An Associate or Legal Transcriptionist Degree can be achieved as education progresses. The NVRA (National Verbatim Reporters Association) offers six certificates of merit to help stenographers and court reporters gain respected credentials. The USCRA (United States Court Reporters Association) also offers qualifications.
If you live in Florida and are interested in pursuing a career in stenography, then you can refer to this page. The NCRA acknowledges the commitment of these institutions toward excellence in real-time reporting education.
If you're wondering how much the role pays, recent figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics placed the median salary at over $50k per year. Interestingly, the Bureau predicts particular job growth in helping deaf or hard of hearing people through real-time captioning and CART (Communications Access Realtime Translation) leading up to 2026.
There's no doubt that computer-aided transcription can be made this job even swifter. In some circles, there are concerns that autonomous digital stenographers may replace humans in this role. They cost less to employ and are every bit as quick.
There are two principal concerns that seem certain to secure a lasting place for human stenographers and court reporters. Judges and attorneys alike are aware of the technological risks of digital transcription, namely that files may be prone to corruption, alteration or deletion. The loss of testimony or other vital evidence could spell disaster for a case.
We must also consider the human ability to ask for clarity in the event of an unclear word or phrase. A computerized version lacks that ability and may simply approximate or omit the sound in question. A human providing a written record alongside the digital options is the surest way to guarantee integrity and security.
There has never been a better time for interested individuals to enter this field. Stenographers and court reporters have an opportunity to contribute to the integrity of the nation's legal system while also being a bridge for people with disabilities. America is waking up to how important stenographers and court reporters are, and prospective applicants can be sure they are entering a sector where they will be valued.
At Boss Certified Realtime Reporting, we've been providing nationwide court reporting services for trials, depositions, mediations and more since 1995. If you'd like help or more information, you can call us at 954 467 6867 or complete our contact form to let us know how we can assist you.


Most of us have probably heard or read the term farm-to-table over the past year- aka farm-to-fork- especially as the local food movement has gained so much momentum. There are now many farmers markets around Hong Kong and a plethora of organic farms have popped up all over the New Territories- a testament to the demand for safe, clean food. Families can now spend the day tending to a rented garden plot, picking strawberries, or making jam. But what exactly is the farm-table movement?
The term farm-to-table refers quite simply to the distance food must travel from where it was grown to when it reaches your mouth. It is based on the idea that food is best when freshly harvested and locally produced. It encourages people to swap processed, genetically modified foods for natural local products. The movement has its share of champions, some of the most prominent being Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollen and Alice Waters (many denote her as the doyenne of the whole movement). Below, we explore the reasoning behind this varied but below we explain some of the key elements.
We all know that fruits and vegetables are nutritious, but produce that are in-season, harvested closer to their peak ripeness, and transported shorter distances are fresher and more nutritious. Long storage and long-distance transportation decreases essential nutrients present in your produce due to bruising and temperature fluctuation. Other natural processes, such as respiration (did you know that produce actually continues to breathe after it is picked?) and oxidation (think the browning of an apple) also decrease the nutrient levels in food.
Buying locally-grown and locally-produced food decreases food loss and wastage during the food value chain, AKA the stages the food must pass through from production to storage to processing to distribution. This food loss impacts incomes and can have particularly devastating impact on local farmers. It also drives up the end prices of food, restricting access for poor consumers and contributing to hunger and malnutrition.
Most sustainably-grown produce requires fewer pesticides. This directly translates to your body being exposed to fewer toxic chemicals as well, which has variety of benefits and can potential decrease your risks of cancer. In addition, a know-thy-farmer approach to produce shopping means that you are more likely to be able to ensure your foods are free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
There is growing evidence that monoculture- growing large quantities of a single crop in a field- can lead to a wide range of environmental problems, one of which is a very negative impact on biodiversity. In addition, monoculture farming leaves crops more susceptible to disease, which then increases the need for pesticides. Local, smaller farms are also more likely to grow a larger variety of produce. This in turn protects biodiversity and preserves a wider agricultural gene pool, both important factors in long-term food security.
Harvesting fruits and vegetables in season helps farmers pick produce that is closer to peak ripeness and requires the food to travel shorter distances. This eliminates the need for all that fuel-guzzling transportation and the energy needed to properly store food products. The average truck travels about five miles per gallon of gas – that means about 500 gallons of diesel fuel is needed to haul produce an average distance of 1, 500 miles!
As food production and distribution has become increasingly industrialized and globalized, food safety problems are also on the rise. Foodborne illness and food contamination caused by industrially produced food are difficult to trace and monitor due to international distribution of food products and the increasingly common involvement of multiple farms, food processors, and food distributors in a single outbreak.
When you buy foods that are grown or produced locally, you are directly contributing to local farmers and food producers livelihoods. They can then hire local workers as demand for their products increase, which boosts employment. Since most commercial food producers ship their foods long distances, purchasing from them means money are going to places overseas instead of staying right here in the Hong Kong community.
Our favorite reason of all, and just as important as any other, farm-to-table eating is delicious! Fresh produce is simply tastier. Plus, when you know your farmer and your cook you can taste the love in the food!
With all of these reasons including benefits to the environment and to your health it is no surprise that this movement is on the rise, so what are you waiting for?
This post was co-authored by Michelle Lau, a qualified nutritionist. Follow her nutrition & healthy eating instagram page.


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YouTube TV will lose Disney channels on Friday and get a $15 price drop
YouTube has announced that its distribution deal with Disney will expire on Friday, December 17, and the company is yet to reach an "equitable agreement" with the latter to continue distributing its content on YouTube TV. As a result, YouTube TV will lose all Disney-owned channels once the contract expires later this week.
YouTube TV recently shared this news with subscribers over email and even posted an notice on its website. It states:
We welcome a renewed agreement provided we can reach equitable terms with Disney. However, if we are unable to reach a deal by Friday, the Disney-owned channels will no longer be available on YouTube TV starting December 17, and we will decrease our monthly price by $15, from $64.99 to $49.99 (while Disney content remains off of our platform).
YouTube TV advertises as offering over 85 cable channels at their $64.99 monthly price. Disney owns quite a lot of channels, including 5 ESPN channels, the Disney channel, FX channels, and local ABC network channels. YouTube TV says they are open and willing to work on a new deal with Disney, but their notice implies Disney is attempting to charge more for their channels than they would to equivalent TV provider services.
This isn't the first time disagreements have cropped up between channel providers and TV services this year. YouTube TV itself had a disagreement with NBC recently that was only resolved earlier this year.
On the bright side, if indeed no deal is made by Friday, YouTube TV will drop the price of subscription plans by $15 per month. That may help ease the pain a little bit, but customers would likely prefer to have their Disney-owned channels back instead.
YouTube TV also suggests that customers who want to watch Disney content subscribe to The Disney Bundle. That's a subscription provided by Disney directly and offers Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. The bundle starts at $13.99 per month with ad-supported Hulu. It's interesting to see YouTube TV direct its own customers to a competing service.
Hopefully, the talks don't stall for too long, or YouTube TV might see customers leave and flock to the competition. As mentioned earlier, the loss of channels (and price change) are set to take place on Friday, December 17th.
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Medicaid Expansion after the Midterms: State Stances Unlikely to Change, or New Room for Compromise between the Administration, GOP Governors?
Posted Dec. 2, 2014 | Following a strong Republican showing at the midterm elections and in many gubernatorial races, commentators and experts alike have suggested the states' stances on Medicaid expansion are firm and unlikely to change. Of the 23 states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs, six had contentious gubernatorial races that were won by the Republican candidate: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. All six of those states will have governors in January that either oppose Medicaid expansion outright or have supported it absent a forceful push (Florida). Perhaps preparing for just such an outcome, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell spoke recently at a meeting of states' Medicaid directors, sharing that working "with states that have yet to expand" was among the federal department's "top priorities" (Elise Viebeck, "Health chief 'eager' to expand ObamaCare with new governors," The Hill, November 4).
Perhaps reflecting both the political reality and Burwell's open-door policy, a slew of recent opinion pieces have appeared in the major newspapers of non-expansion states, such as Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, with changes in staff and policy direction in the news in others (Pennsylvania and Wyoming); see below the fold.
What's your take? Will the recent slew of Republican wins freeze state decisionmaking on Medicaid expansion for the next two-to-four years, or has Burwell's statement created new room for compromise and progress on expansion between the Administration and GOP governors?
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Wyoming health department backs plan to expand Medicaid (Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Nov. 27)
The state agency released a report recommending that the State accept a modified version of the optional Medicaid expansion. "The state of Wyoming has thousands of residents without health coverage … and they are out of luck unless the state elects to expand," said Department of Health Director Tom Forslund. "And here is an opportunity for the state to expand at essentially no cost to the state's general fund."
Former Pennsylvania welfare secretary Estelle Richman tapped to lead Governor-elect Tom Wolf's Medicaid expansion pursuit during transition (The Patriot-News, Nov. 21)
Richman's role on the transition team entails leading efforts to fully expand Medicaid and undo changes that were part of outgoing Governor Tom Corbett's version of the Medicaid expansion.
Expanding Medicaid is vital to Missouri's health (Springfield News-Leader, Nov. 16)
"It appears that opponents to Medicaid expansion, after making arguments about costs of the program and need for reform, have simply chosen to not mention it in the upcoming session and hope it will go away. … As it stands now, without Medicaid expansion, our federal tax dollars are now being lost to states in which Medicaid expansion has occurred. Missouri is losing approximately $5 million per day. With Medicaid expansion, the costs of uncompensated care by the state and local governments will decrease markedly." (Dr. John Mihalevich)
Expansion of Medicaid can save rural hospitals (The Tennessean, Nov. 18)
"In Tennessee, inaction on Medicaid has meant the loss of nearly $1 billion in federal funds, a number that grows by $2.5 million each day. This money would not have gone into some unnamed bureaucracy; it would have been used to provide quality, affordable health-care coverage to the 300,000 Tennesseans who fall in the Medicaid gap. The benefits of Medicaid expansion aren't limited to the health of those individuals. Providing this coverage means that 300,000 people can go see a doctor on a regular basis, limiting their need for emergency care at hospitals. When these individuals did need ambulatory care, the admitting hospital would receive a Medicaid reimbursement rate for their services, which currently they have to write off as charity care." (Tennessee state Rep. Craig Fitzhugh and state Sen. Jeff Yarbro)
Hospitals seek a Texas way to expand Medicaid (Dallas Morning News, Nov. 18)
"Expanding Medicaid may be anathema to Texas political leaders. For hospitals, though, it would be a godsend. … Gov. Rick Perry and others have said Texas is not interested in pouring more money into a broken system. One way health care providers agree that Medicaid is broken is in the meager amount this state-federal partnership program pays for care. Hospitals say they lose money on every Medicaid patient they treat." (Jim Landers)
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History of Transcendental Meditation
The History of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Transcendental Meditation movement originated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the organization, and continues beyond his death (2008). In 1955,[1][2][3] the Maharishi began publicly teaching a traditional meditation technique[4] learned from his master Brahmananda Saraswati, which he called Transcendental Deep Meditation,[5] and later renamed Transcendental Meditation.[6]
The Maharishi initiated thousands of people, then developed a TM teacher training program as a way to accelerate the rate of bringing the technique to more people.[7][8] He also inaugurated a series of world tours which promoted Transcendental Meditation.[9] These factors, coupled with endorsements by celebrities who practiced TM, along with scientific research that validated the technique, helped to popularize TM in the 1960s and 1970s. By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of individuals and the Maharishi was overseeing a large multinational movement.[10] Despite organizational changes and the addition of advanced meditative techniques in the 1970s[11] the Transcendental Meditation technique has remained relatively unchanged.
Among the first organizations to promote TM were the Spiritual Regeneration Movement and the International Meditation Society. In present times, the movement has grown to encompass schools and universities that teach the practice,[12] and includes many associated programs offering health and well-being based on the Maharishi's interpretation of the Vedic traditions. In the U.S., major organizations included Students International Meditation Society,[13] AFSCI,[14] World Plan Executive Council, Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation, and Global Country of World Peace. The successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and head of the Global Country of World Peace, is Tony Nader.[15]
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In 1955,[1][2][3] Brahmachari Mahesh left Uttarkashi and began publicly teaching what he stated was a traditional meditation technique[4] learned from his master Brahmananda Saraswati, which he called Transcendental Deep Meditation.[5] Later the technique was renamed Transcendental Meditation.[6]
In 1958, Brahmachari Mahesh, now called Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, began a number of worldwide tours promoting and disseminating Transcendental Meditation.[9] The first tour began in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar). The Maharishi remained in the Far East for about six months teaching his meditation.[7]
In 1959, the Maharishi taught the Transcendental Meditation technique in Hawaii,[7] San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Germany.[16] He founded the Spiritual Regeneration Movement in Los Angeles, in 1959[16] and established an office there, which was the only place where TM was taught in the USA between 1959 and 1965.[13][17]
In 1960, the Maharishi founded the International Meditation Society (IMS) and trained his first TM teacher, Henry Nyburg of England.[7] During the tour Maharishi made Henry Nyburg his personal representative in Europe and gave him the training and authority to teach Transcendental Meditation, thus making him the first European teacher.[8][18]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
On 13 March 1961, a meeting called "1961 World Congress" was organised for the Maharishi in the Royal Albert Hall by Leon MacLaren of The School of Economic Science and Dr Frances Roles of the Study Society. Two smaller meetings were held at Caxton Hall prior to the main event.The Royal Albert Hall meeting was attended by 5,000 people.[19][20][21][22] The School of Economic Science was instrumental in promoting TM in the UK from the 1960s.[22]
In collaboration with The Study Society and the School of Economic Science, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established The School of Meditation in London in 1961,[23][24] under the direction of Bill Whiting its purpose was, and remains, to study and teach the principles and practical application of meditation.[21][25][26] Many of the subsequent leaders of The School of Meditation were students of the Maharishi.[23] The School of Meditation is now an independent, self-governing organisation. By 2011, SoM had initiated 15,332 people into the practice of meditation, it has branches in several parts of the UK as well as in Greece and Holland.[27][25]
The Maharishi lectured at Caxton Hall in London and the talk was attended by Leon MacLaren.[13] In the 1950s, he first TM teacher in the U.S. was a who was joined by a male instructor in 1966.[28]
The first international Teacher Training Course (TTC) was held near Rishikesh, India, in 1961, to train teachers of Transcendental Meditation. Over 60 meditators from India, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Britain, Malaya, Norway, the United States, Australia, Greece, Italy and the West Indies attended the course.[29] Teachers continued to be trained as time progressed and by 1978, there were 7,000 TM teachers in the U.S alone.[30][31] The Maharishi appeared on BBC television and gave a lecture to 5,000 people at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1974.[32]
According to a history written by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 21 members of the Indian Parliament issued a public statement endorsing TM in 1963.[33] According to the Maharishi, news articles on the technique appeared in Canadian newspapers such as the Daily Colonist, Calgary Herald, and The Albertan.[34]
The Students International Meditation Society (SIMS) began in Germany in 1964,[16] was incorporated in the USA in 1965 and continues to function in some countries.[13][35] Another organization, the American Foundation for the Science of Creative Intelligence (AFSC) taught TM to business people at Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., General Foods, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and AT&T.[14] In 1967, the TM movement "really took off" when the Maharishi became the "spiritual advisor to The Beatles".[36] In 1968, the Maharishi announced that he would stop his "public activities" and instead begin the training of TM teachers at his new global headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland.[37]
In 1970, the Maharishi held a TM teacher training course at a Victorian hotel located in Poland Springs, Maine with 1,200 participants. Later that year, he held a similar four-week course at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California. About 1,500 people attended and the course was described as a "sort of a crash program to train transcendental teachers".[38] Following tax troubles in India, the Maharishi moved his headquarters to Italy and then to Austria.[39]
Maharishi University in Seelisberg
In 1970, the first scientific study on the Transcendental Meditation technique was published in the journal Science. In the early 1970s, courses on the Science of Creative Intelligence, Maharishi's unified theory of life,[40] were offered at universities such as Stanford University, Yale, the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and Oregon State University.[12]
In 1972 in Mallorca, Spain, the Maharishi announced his World Plan to establish one Transcendental Meditation teaching center for each million of the world's population.[41]
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the TM movement began to shed its identity as part of the hippie counterculture, making incursions into the US American cultural mainstream. From the mid-1970s, the Maharishi began to target business professionals, adapting his message to promise "increased creativity and flexibility, increased productivity, improved job satisfaction, improved relations with supervisors and co-workers". His TM movement came to be increasingly structured along the lines of a multinational corporation.[42] The Maharishi International University was founded in 1974 in Goleta California.[16]
In 1975, Maharishi European University was found in Lake Lucerne Switzerland.[16] That year TM practitioner Merv Griffin invited the Maharishi to appear on his talk show, thereby aiding Transcendental Meditation in becoming a "full blown craze" during that era (according to Time Magazine) and in eventually becoming a global phenomenon with centers in some 130 countries.[14][43][44][45] In 1975 Transcendental Meditation received favorable testimony in the Congressional Record and was advocated by Major-General Franklin M. Davis Jr. of the US Army.[46] Maharishi appeared on the Merv Griffin Show again in 1977.[47]
In 1975, the Maharishi began teaching advanced mental techniques, called the TM-Sidhi Program, which included a technique for the development of what he termed Yogic Flying.[48] The program was said to create the Maharishi Effect, based on studies which reported that in US cities where 1 percent of the population meditated, the crime rate dropped.[11] As early as 1968, the Maharishi stated that 30 minutes of TM morning and evening by 1 percent of the population would "dispel the clouds of war for thousands of years."[49]
In 1976 the headquarters of the US movement moved to the former Santa Ynez Inn, a block from the ocean in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles[50] and published a seven-hundred-page compilation of Transcendental Meditation research, generated by 51 institutions from 13 countries.[51]
A Gallup Poll conducted in August 1976 said that four percent (4 percent) of those Americans questioned had engaged in TM.[52] This was despite the fact that, according to movement records, only .5 percent of Americans had been initiated.[53] The average number of people learning TM fell from a peak of approximately 40,000 a month in 1975 to approximately 3,000 in November 1977.[54][55][need quotation to verify][56]William Sims Bainbridge wrote that, as of 1977, "Most of the million who had been initiated either ceased meditating or did so informally and irregularly without continuing connections to the TM Movement."[54]
The Maharishi Foundation in the UK purchased the historic Mentmore Towers in 1978 for £240,000 for use as a headquarters and college. The stately home, on 81 acres, was built in 1855 and had 60 bedrooms. A spokesman said that repairs could be done cheaply by students in exchange for meditation classes.[57] It was the headquarters of the Natural Law Party and campus of Maharishi University of Natural Law.[58] By 1997, the movement was seeking a larger facility and placed the home on the market for £10 million.[59] It sold two years later for £3 million.[60] During this period[when?] the Maharishi's personal residence and international headquarters were located in Seelisberg, Switzerland, in a former hotel on the shore of Lake Lucerne.[61]
Mentmore Towers
In 1979, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the 1977 decision of the US District Court of New Jersey stating that a course in Transcendental Meditation and the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) was religious activity within the meaning of the Establishment Clause and that the teaching of SCI/TM in the New Jersey public high schools was prohibited by the First Amendment.[62][63]
At that time, according to Humes, the movement directed itself inward, offering additional products and practices to its committed practitioners beyond Transcendental Meditation in order to help them achieve Cosmic Consciousness.[64] According to Bainbridge, the most dedicated movement members were TM teachers whose financial and social status depended on a flow of new students. After the number of new initiations collapsed those teachers lost the promise of success and the movement increasingly emphasized unusual supernatural compensators.[54] During this period, the movement began making increasing claims about the powers of TM and the TM-Sidhi program, including the reduction of crime by the practice of "Yogic flying". According to Nancy Cooke de Herrera, an early teacher of TM and a TM-Sidhi practitioner, Charlie Lutes, former President of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, saw the introduction of the TM-Sidhi program as a financial ploy to increase income in the wake of declining public interest in TM.[65][66]
In England, the Maharishi Foundation bought Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, Roydon Hall in Maidstone, Swythamley Park in the Peak District and a Georgian rectory in Suffolk,[67] and his[who?] income was reported at six million GBP per year in 2008.[37]
In 1984, about 1,200 members of the movement moved into Manila at the invitation of Ferdinand Marcos, the President of the Philippines. They named him the president and founding father of the Unified Field Based Civilization. Marcos praised Maharishi's plan to use the Philippines as the base for "this new kingdom of enlightenment" and, in a public ceremony, rang the "Maharishi bell".[68] Imelda Marcos was given the "crown of consciousness of the royal order of the age of enlightenment".[69] The members rented an entire floor of Manila's finest hotel, along with hundreds of rooms in other hotels. They bought a large but financially troubled university, the University of the East, for $1 million, leading to a boycott by students and attacks on the Maharishi as an imperialist.[70] A government cabinet member reported that the movement members had deposited millions of dollars in Philippine bank accounts and were negotiating to buy several more colleges and universities in the area, plus hotels and other buildings. Posters promoting the benefits of Transcendental Meditation were posted across the city and the members spread out across the city to promote the technique, leading to a response from Catholic Cardinal Jaime Sin. The movement took responsibility for the lack of violence at a large anti-government rally protesting the assassination of Benigno Aquino, but not for violent attacks by the military on rioters, two typhoons, or an eruption of Mount Mayon, which also occurred during their stay.[71] The University of the East was purchased back by its stakeholders, and the movement characterized the entire transaction as a $250,000 loan.[72]
In the 1980s the TM movement's US national offices and the Maharishi International University College of Natural Law were located in Washington D.C. five blocks from the White House.[73] From 1981 to 1987 this was also the location for the organization's "administrative headquarters" for North America as well as a national organization of 6,000 American medical doctors who practiced TM, a private school, a clinic, and a TM meditation center.[73] In 1991, The Washington Post reported that the Maharishi, referring to Washington DC, had advised TM practitioners: "save yourself from the criminal atmosphere". As a result, 20 to 40 TM practitioners put their homes up for sale in an effort to move away from the city.[74] According to the Sunday Times, the movement continued to expand during this period despite accusations of fraud by former practitioners and claims that extraordinary powers could be gained through TM and its advance programs.[37]
TM teachers began teaching meditation in Romania in 1982, Poland in 1985 and in Yugoslavia in 1987.[75]
In 1990, a delegation of Transcendental Meditation teachers from Maharishi International University traveled to the former Soviet Union to provide instruction in Transcendental Meditation. The trip, initially scheduled to last ten days, was extended to six months and resulted in the training of 35,000 people in the technique.[76]
In 1990, the Maharishi moved his headquarters to MERU, Holland, a wooded area outside of Vlodrop, Netherlands, near the German border. The 65-acre (260,000 m2) grounds of a former monastery became the capital of his Global Country of World Peace (GCWP).[77]
The late dictator of Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu, tried to purge all practitioners of Transcendental Meditation from the government.[78]
In 1993, the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation (MVED), a non-profit corporation, was formed to oversee the teaching of Transcendental Meditation and related courses in the United States.[41][79] The terms "Transcendental Meditation" and "TM" are service marks owned by Maharishi Foundation Ltd., a UK non-profit organization[80] and licensed to the MVED.[81][82] In 1993 Maharishi Vedic University awarded an honorary doctorate degree to then newly reelected President Joaquim Chissano. In his acceptance speech, Chissano said he credited TM as being the source of all positive changes in his country.[83] he said the results of inviting the Maharishi to Maputo in 1992 were balance and peace.[84] Maharishi called Chissano "a guiding light for all heads of state".[85]
In 1995, the Maharishi changed the name of Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa to Maharishi University of Management.[86]
Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence, Bhopal, India.
The Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools (MVMS), an educational system established in 16 Indian states and affiliated with the New Delhi Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), was founded the same year.[87][88] Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools has 148 branches in 118 cities with 90,000 to 100,000 students and 5,500 teaching and support staff.[89]
By 1998, the global TM organization had an estimated four million disciples, 1,000 teaching centers and property assets valued at $3.5 billion.[10]
Meditation chambers at the former Academy of Meditation in Rishikesh, now owned by the Indian Government.[90][91]
In 2004, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi directed Transcendental Meditation practitioners at the Maharishi village at Skelmersdale, Lancashire in England to beam peace-loving thoughts to the British electorate with the aim of overturning the Labour government. The Maharishi said: "The good effects of transcendental meditation — increased creativity and long life — should not be given to a dangerous country that is constantly busy destroying the world." After Tony Blair's Labour Party won reelection in May 2005, the Maharishi withdrew all instruction in Transcendental Meditation in the UK.[92][93] The ban was lifted about the same time that Tony Blair left office as Prime Minister.[94]
In 2006, The Columbian newspaper reported that according to the TM movement 6 million people had learned the technique worldwide.[95] In 2007 and 2008, the government of Kyrgyzstan announced a crackdown on illegal religious groups operating in the country, including the "Maharishi cult".[96][97]
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi died on 5 February 2008[98] and the leadership of the global Transcendental Meditation movement passed to Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaraam, who is also head of the Global Country of World Peace.[99]
In July 2008, Brahmachari Girish Varma, a nephew of the Maharishi, announced the formation of the Maharishi World Peace Movement in Jabalpur to accomplish the Maharishi's plan for India and to achieve world peace. Varma serves as chairman. The movement's principles include practicing the Maharishi's Vedic Health Rituals, daily practice of yoga, and the construction of Vastu-style homes. Varma also announced the creation of a media news source and portal.[100][101]
The New York Times reported in 2011 that according to the "national Transcendental Meditation program" enrollment had tripled over the last prior three years. The organization attributes the increased enrollment to reduced course fees and recent research studies.[102] The Hindu reported in 2011 that "nearly 10 million practitioners in 50 countries" had learned the technique.[103]
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Sociologist Roy Wallis wrote about the three stages of the development of TM through 1977, as identified by Eric Woodrum. The "Spiritual-Mystical Period", from 1959 to 1965, identified Transcendental Meditation as the primary component of a holistic approach to spiritual evolution. The "Voguish, Self-Sufficiency Period", from 1966 to 1969, saw a rapid expansion through identification with "aspects of the counter-culture" as the organization simultaneously adapted to its changing image. The "Secularized, Popular Religious Phase", from 1970 through 1977, when the movement identified the "practical physiological, material and social benefits" of TM to mainstream people with virtually no references to non-worldly topics. Wallis writes that according to a former follower, TM had dropped its "distinctly religious rhetoric" over time "except for an inner core of followers" until the late 1970s when TM developed the TM-Sidhi program to develop "occult powers".[104]
According to sociology of religion scholar, Lorne L. Dawason, the change from religious terms in the 1950s to an emphasis on scientific verification in the 1970s was to improve public relations[105] and bring the TM technique into American public schools.[106] In Gurus in America, Cynthia Humes characterizes the TM movement as meandering from "plastic export Hinduism" to a non-devotional meditation method marketed as a "scientific technique" and then back to a "multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion", zig-zagging back and forth, depending on the receptivity of the target audience.[64]
Author Peter Russell states that the Maharishi believed the knowledge of the Vedas had been lost and found many times and its recurrence is outlined in the Bhagavad-Gita and the teachings of Buddha and Shankara.[107] Bromley writes that "TM incorporates the teachings of Krishna, the Buddha, and Shankara" and that the Maharishi says he has "rediscovered a lost form of meditation that traces back to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.[108]
Alternative medicine author Vimal Patel writes that the Maharishi derived TM from Patanjali's Yoga.[109] Chryssides writes that the Maharishi and his teacher, Brahmananda Saraswati, were from the Shankara tradition of Advaita Vedanta and that the TM-Sidhi program is "based on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras".[13]
According to religious scholar and evangelist Kenneth Boa's book, Cults, World Religions and the Occult, the view that the Transcendental Meditation technique is rooted in the "Vedantic Hinduism" is "repeatedly confirmed" by the Maharishi's writings including Science of Being and the Art of Living and his Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.[110] Boa writes that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi "makes it clear" that Transcendental Meditation was delivered to man about 5,000 years ago by the Hindu god Krishna, then repeatedly lost and restored by Buddha, Adi Shankara and Brahmananda Saraswati.[110] Religious studies author Carl Olson writes that the Maharishi himself "discovered" Transcendental Meditation.[111] According to religious scholar Cynthia Humes, Maharishi said TM "was his own guru's meditation practice" and that he was preserving teachings "enlivened by his master Brahmananda Saraswati" (Guru Dev).[112] Another scholar says that the TM technique was derived from an old Hindu technique.[113] Author Patricia Drake writes that "when Guru Dev was about to die he charged Maharishi with teaching laymen, including the Western World, a simple means to meditate".[114] Author John White says "Guru Dev taught Maharishi both the technique and the philosophy that have resulted in the current phenomenon called transcendental meditation". [sic] [115]
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French yachtsman Alain Thebault wants to turn a boat design he used to break a world speed sailing record in 2009 into a clean, fast taxi service for the waterways of major cities.
The SeaBubble won the backing of private investors - Thebault expects to raise between 50 to 100 million euros by the end of September.
Emmanuel Macron, France's pro-business president who wants to create a "startup nation", even championed the idea when he was economy minister. His office did not respond to requests for a comment about whether he still backed the project.
SeaBubbles faces specific regulatory hurdles, not least trying to convince Parisian authorities to raise the speed limit of the River Seine.
But like other startups, he fears his company will be held back by administrative bureaucracy if the idea takes off and he needs to grow fast.
"It's a road full of obstacles for two seabirds like Anders (Bringdal) and me," he said of his business partner, a Swedish windsurfing champion. "If it's getting too complicated… we'll go where it's the easiest."
He said it took two months for SeaBubbles to arrange a contract to lease two cars and a month for lawyers to register the company, a job he said could have been done in a few hours in some other countries.
The SeaBubbles prototype preserves its battery by rising out of the water on legs at speed. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo gave support to the idea with a ride up the River Seine in June.
But the Bubble only has a chance of running in Paris if the authorities raise the Seine speed limit so it can go fast enough to rise out of the water, a request they have rejected so far. Hidalgo's office did not respond to a request for comments on the project, including whether she thought the Paris speed limit should be changed.
And while he got some initial funding from the state investment bank, it was demoralizing when two applications for 200,000 euros in government subsidies were turned down. A spokeswoman said the money could only go to companies with a "proven business case".
Thebault says "about 5" cities from around the world are interested in exploring whether the SeaBubble could become part of their public transport systems but he declined to name them.
The state investment bank Bpifrance, has been one of the driving forces behind the bursting startup scene with investments of 191 million euros in 2016.
Growing investor confidence after this year's election of Macron who has portrayed himself as a business-friendly president, has also helped.
At the current pace, 2017 is on track to reach more than 700 deals by the end of the year, a jump of around 40 percent over 2016, according to venture tracking firm CB Insights. About $2.03 billion was invested in the first-half of the year compared with $2.1 billion for all of 2016. That makes France the second best-funded tech start-up scene after Britain, CB Insights said.
Investors say startups are not being held up by financial concerns, rather by bureaucracy and labor laws that are designed to protect employees but can be cumbersome and expensive for businesses as they get going.
"It's not a matter of money. There's plenty, plenty, plenty of money," said Romain Lavault, a partner at Partech Ventures, a venture capital fund that also invested in SeaBubbles.
France ranks 21st in this year's World Economic Forum's competitiveness report based on business sophistication, technology and innovation readiness.
But it ranked 115 out of total of 138 countries in terms of the "burden of government regulation" and holds the 129th position for hiring and firing practices, based on 2015 data.
"It's more complicated to create a company in France," said Charles Gorintin, the co-founder of successful Paris-based digital insurance startup Alan.
Restrictive labor laws are at the top of investors' list of complaints. Any France-based company with 50 employees or more has to create a works council, organize labor unions elections and go through regular structured regulations with workers. Redundancies and layoffs can be expensive.
Very few French startups, have become a "unicorn," or a company valued $1 billion or more.
Criteo (CRTO.O), a French startup currently listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, is now worth $3.4 billion.
"In France, even today, when you build a company, people tell you: it's great, but you're taking a huge risk," said Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, its chief executive.
"Silicon Valley has been around for 50 years. We'll need at least 10 to 15 years before the French (startup) ecosystem can compete with it."
Nevertheless, Criteo is still based in Paris. Rudelle stays out of loyalty to the country where his business grew and because it produces top engineers, has a developing startup scene and good living standards.
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Online takeaway service Just Eat has confirmed its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange, in a move that could see it raise as much as £100m.
By Sam Shead | Mar 17, 2014
The Danish firm, which turned over £96.8 million last year through commissions charged to restaurants on the value of orders placed through its platform, joins an increasingly long queue of tech companies looking to list in London.
Just Eat said it would use the money to expand into new countries and acquire complementary businesses. It currently operates in 13 countries and the UK is one of its largest markets.
Just Eat CEO David Buttress said: "The listing of Just Eat on the London Stock Exchange marks the beginning of the next stage of our growth and development."
The announcement will provide a boost to the London Stock Exchange after London-based Candy Crush creator King dealt a blow last month when it announced it is hoping to raise $500 million in New York.
The London Stock Exchange declined to comment on the announcement, but earlier this year, Marcus Stuttard who heads up the UK Primary Markets and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) at the 213-year-old London Stock Exchange, told Techworld that start-ups can raise just as much money in London as they can in New York.
"I simply don't accept that there is more capital available elsewhere for UK tech businesses," he said at the time, after critics said tech firms can raise up to three times as much in the US.
Other tech companies to list, or announce plans to list, on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 include mobile phone operator Manx Telecom,
Last year, a number of reforms were introduced by government, the London Stock Exchange and Tech City UK to make London a more desirable place to list for fast-growing technology companies.
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SAIL first CPSE to signs MoU with GeM for more efficient public procurement
By IW News Service | Jul 19, 2019 | Economics, Nation |
New Delhi: Steel Authority of India Limited (Sail) has signed an MoU with Government e-Marketplace (GeM), an electronic platform by the union ministry of commerce and industry, for procurement of Goods & Services, here on Thursday. Sail, which is the first CPSE to enter into an MoU with GeM, is aiming at maximising the procurement of Goods & Services on GeM Portal with a view to promote inclusiveness, broadening of base, transparency and efficiency in public procurement and achieve cashless, and paperless transaction.
Sail chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary and GeM Additional CEO S.Suresh Kumar signed the MoU documents in the presence of union steel secretary BinoyKumar and union commerce secretary AnupWadhawan.
Speaking on the occasion, Anil Kumar Chaudhary said, "We have always remained in the forefront of implementing government's digital endeavours.Sail will make all efforts to use this portal extensively for its wide range of procurements."
The GeMis a national public procurement portal providing end to end online marketplace for procurement of common Goods & Services by Central & State government ministries/ departments /PSUs, autonomous institutions and local bodies through its authorized office(s). It is managed by GeM – Special Purpose Vehicle(SPV), which is a non-profit registered company.The entire gamut of procurement activities would be managed by GeM –SPVwith deployment of a GeM Organisation Transformation Team (GOTT) Project Management Unit (PMU) in Sail for a period of one year.
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