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If you are in Barcelona or anywhere in the Costa Brava or Dorado and are looking for a curious place off the beaten track which has that real Catalonian feel and have an interest in healing springs Caldes de Malavela is a must. It is a town which has been attracting seekers of healing waters since the Roman times and is still a major spa town with waters rich in in sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate and are thermal arising at around 60°C,
In the middle of the 1st century B.C., the Roman settled in the area and constructed the baths. Being located close to the Via Augusta and many would have stopped here for the hot water and thus a Roman town developed. It was in 1897-1902 that archaeologists revealed the remains of the baths. The complex was a simple one, being composed of a central pool surrounded by rooms given over to curative treatments. It was believed to be a simple building, lacking any detail and had a ten metre rectangular swimming pool with changing rooms and massage rooms.. The water itself was delivered to the baths via an aqueduct from Ànimes hill although there is no sign of water in the site now one can see how it flowed. through.
"Sacred water spring The central room in the east wing is one of the most important spaces in the thermae due to the presence, in Roman times, of the thermal water spring that was the raison d'étre of the site. The water emerged from the lower part of the east wall, at the north end, from where it was channelled diagonally into a small square regulator controlling the flow into the pipe that supplied the natatio. The curative and therapeutic properties of the water made this room a sacellum (small sacred space). On the north wall, we can still see the remains of a small altar flanked by two affixed pilasters, which must have housed one or several images of healing divinities. These most likely included Apollo, whose cult has been documented in Caldes from inscriptions found in the locality. A bench on the south wall provided seating for visiting devotees. Furthermore, this was the only room in the whole thermae enclosure where the walls were stuccoed and decorated with polychrome paintings. Later on, but still in the Roman era, several alterations were made to this room; these mainly consisted of walling up the three accesses from the ambulacrum, and adding a small piscina or water deposit in its interior. The altar was no longer used. The spring and the regulator, however, continued to operate as before. In the medieval period, all these structures were "buried" under two new small pools. The water supply now emerged from a different point located one metre higher on the same wall; the pools were drained through a hole in the south wall leading to the adjacent room, which gradually became covered in calcareous concretion.
By the end of the 4th Century the site being developed as a castle and then converted into a hospital for the poor.
A lost pagan cult?
What's in a name? Caldes translates in Catalan as hot mineral spring. This enables non-Catalan speakers to identify spas in the area. The general agreed name of the Roman site was thus Aquae Calidae although some have called it Aquis Voconis. Its modern name Caldes de Malavella is interesting. This second part of the name – "de Malavella" – comes from a local legend, of a local "bad old woman" who lived in the now-ruined castle just outside town. Thus "Malavella" in Catalan comes from two words: mala (bad) and vella (old woman). Thus "The Thermal Springs of the Old evil one"! The story dates back to 1057 which may suggest it has an ancient pagan origin? Was it an attempt for the Christians to demonise the focus of a local cult. Quite often of course, springs are associated with female deities, and it is interesting to consider the Scottish tradition which one assumes descends from the Celtic tradition where there is of course the Old Hag or Cailleachan. This might at first be irrelevant but is worth considering that this region was settled by the Celts too in 1000 – 300 BC in two migratory waves: 900 BC and 700 – 600 BC. It seems likely that this does such record a Celtic or even Roman tradition. Mind you if the intention was to demonise the deity has not really worked as the Evil Old one is everywhere and whilst I was there I was privileged to see a parade of Giants, where she featured prominently.
Taking the waters today
All around the town can be found three natural hot mineral-medicinal fountains: La Mina or Raig d'en Mel, Sant Narcís and Bullidors. In some cases such as La Mina these waters were utilised for safareigs or municipal cloth washing areas and indeed I was informed at the museum that people still use them although generally it was around the 1960s that they generally fell out of favour. However, the Font Raig d'en Mel arises at the base of a large wall of rubble and feeds quite modern looking washing areas.
Around the town there are other springheads/wells- Font de Bullidors of the kettles and Font des Saint Narcis. Both well preserved in a modern setting, although the former is dry. Both lie close to the baths so presumably their source. The later well appears to be a holy well named after the patron saint of Girona. On the subject of holy wells, there is also an unnamed and unheralded well under the church, which surely is something significant but not mentioned in the town maps or guides. There is also the modernist font of Font de la Vac and associated music room and conduit.
The use of the water for medicinal purposes it appears that this did not start to happen until 19th. Three spring sites were tapped: El Puig de Sant Grau (utilising four springs), El Puig de les Ànimes (three springs), and El Puig de les Moleres (two springs). Spas were developing elsewhere and what with its close proximity and easy reaching from Barcelona, it was perfectly situated for the wealthy to visit and those expensive villas and chalets were constructed. The springs themselves were enclosed within splendid spa buildings which provided then and now various hydrothermal therapies and treatments.
In the 1800s, the water was bottled commercially with three brands coming from the town: San Narciso (since 1870), Vichy Catalan (1891) and Agua Malavella, formed by a merger of two companies after the Spanish Civil War and later acquired by Vichy Catalan in 1985. Of the spa the first of these modern spa was built in 1840 and is called Balneari Prats. Here one enters an archway boldly exclaiming the name and there is a large pool and to the side a small white19th century building which is the spring house. Here the spring flows from a wall mounted spring head and can be sampled
Then in 1898, Vichy Catalan was established. This is a far more august and spectacular building done in a classic Spanish art nuovo style, much of the building is private treatment rooms but there is also a chapel. The spring arises in a wall mounted spring head surrounded by an ankh shaped surround. The water appears more iron rich from this spring.
The town is a delightful one full of interest and their spa heritage is well looked after and describe I cannot recommend it enough.
Posted in Catalonia, Roman, Spa, Spain, Well hunting
Holy, healing and ritual waters of Catalonia: Jafre's Pou de Goiges and the Hot water bath
Last month we discussed Jafre's holy well but there at least two other healing springs in the locality. The most peculiar is The Pou de Goiges or Goges or Well of Joys or Well of the witches. The well takes one of its names from the folklore that supernatural feminine beings live in the spring, hiding during the day and appearing at night dancing and screaming – which certainly seems eerie!
Indeed the well is rather eerie. It is enclosed in a concrete small house which was built in 1985 as a place for people to have a picnic and there is a picnic table outside. However, I do not feel this still happens as the site has a derelict and rather abused feel, parts are boarded up and debris and foliage is encroaching. Inside rather graffiti filled and it certainly does not appear to me a place for family picnics.
The spring itself, which was donated to the town as a public resource by the landowner. The spring arises in a stone and concrete lined deep pool, where people used to immerse themselves in and may still do so but by the look of the algae and debris its left to those elemental creatures I feel now. Not sure what joy could be received at the site today though!
Not far away is a better looked after site, the hot water well or 'oil well'; a fairly recent establishment being opened by an Italian company called SISPA whilst they looked for oil in the 60s. When the company reached a depth of 1000 meters they hit hot, sulphurous water. This was at first covered but the pressure repeatedly shattered this cover. So the spout remained permanently open and soon word got around that the water was sulphurous and people came to use it identifying the water as being good for bone diseases such as osteoarthritis or decalcification.
Thus, the base of the drilling tower was thus turned into a small pool of five or six square meters. A decree of the Generalitat recognized the site as having mineral-medicinal potential signifying its role with some bone, rheumatic and arthritic pathologies.
On my visit I first noticed the smell of sulphur which lead me first to the spout and then to the orangey pool. It did not look very enticing and although no one was around it was clear that people did use it. Steps were inserted to one side and a small spent tea light was on the side.
Despite the availability of free mineral water it is clear that commercial enterprises have attempted to utilise it. A company once tried to use to cultivate of algae for medicinal purposes. They failed. However, the same company in 2005, that owns the land still plans to commercially exploit the place and build a spa with complementary facilities. Whether there will be any free access is unlikely and so this rather odd site may be lost to a generic spa!
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Holy, healing and ritual waters of Catalonia: Jafre's Santuari de la Font Santa
De Jafre you are the crown, the joy and the consolation; your love caresses, the region as one; our faith kneels, with your grace and virtue.
The Joys to Our Lady of the Fountains of Jafre by Mn. Francesc Viver and with music by Salvador Dabau. 1945.
Many visit Catalonia in Spain and visit Barcelona, Girona and of course the wonderful coastland, but for those interested in healing, holy and in this case water used for ritual purposes will find Catalonia a very rewarding location. Sites range from thermal springs to ritual mikveh and in at least one holy well. To find this holy well, a journey inland is necessary to locate the Santuari de la Font Santa with its fountain 'dels Horts de Mari'.
Why a holy well here?
Why in this fairly remote location should there be a shrine to Our Lady you may ask. Well unsurprisingly this was due to an apparition of the Virgin seen by a local person. This was a local farmer, Miquel Castelló, who in November 1460, received a warning that the water of the spring would become miraculous. Interestingly, Miquel Castelló written statement and a document collating the witness testimony of a number of people which was commissioned by the Bishop of Girona are preserved. The following account gives fuller details of it:
"on a Friday in the year 1460, when Miquel del mas Castelló was plowing his field in Bosc Gran, a young stranger appeared to him and told him that the water from the spring had healing properties. Faced with the farmer's disbelief, who did not believe his words, the young man prophesied that a child would die in Jafre that very day. Miquel Castelló hadn't finished plowing when he heard knocking. When he returned home he learned that Bernat Dolza's son had just died. Terrified, he told the rector what had happened to him and he immediately exhorted the parishioners to have faith in the waters of that source."
Very soon after this news spread and people begun to visit to spring from all over the country. Its waters were said to be good for eye disorders, especially it is said for blind people. However, it was also good for paralysis, fevers, sore throat and rheumatism. Such was the popularity of the site that on the 25th June 1461 there was a general assembly of the local households and councillors which was presided over in the parish church by the vicar general of the diocese. At the meeting it was decided that a chapel, decided to Our Lady, would be built by the spring and make pools and eye washing places although they appear to have been now lost. The spring was formally then adopted as a holy well. The waters could be spiteful though and it is said if sinful people washed there the water would stop!
The sanctuary complex and springhead.
This 15th century complex consists of unified building made of rough stone and angular ashlars with a central chapel with outbuildings with the different rooms and a large atrium to which a lowered arcade gives access. The chapel has a single nave with a barrel vaulted roof however the cambril is modern having been destroyed in the 1930s Civil War.
The font itself flows from a small barrel vaulted arched structure with the water flowing from a metal pipe into a natural basin of rock covered with moss. One accesses the spring by a small set of stone steps down to the water. On ledges flowers and small offerings were placed indicating still an active shrine. The whole structure is made of undressed stone and pieces of pottery. Above the spring in a niche is a figure of the Virgin Mary.
This figure replaced one lost during the Civil War and is made of plaster with. She has the child Jesus on her knees and holds in her right hand a representation of the spring head and the child carries in his right hand the ball of the world. This figure was blessed on November 11, 1939, after the cult's restoration on the 8th of September.
A place of pilgrimage
When I visited it was quiet and desolate feeling, the chapel was locked but access was easily found to the spring. However, at key dates in the Catholic and local calendar the sanctuary is busy with processions and people taking the water. The year starts with a local mass of thanks giving for the water's role in the local town's cholera epidemic in 1884, on or around the January 20th. Understandably the main days of procession and pilgrimage are those associated with significant feast days of our Lady such as March 25th, Feast of the Virgin Mary of Gràcia when the water from the fountain is blessed. On the May 1 or first Sunday in May there is also a blessing of the fields and of course the whole month of May being Mary's month it is generally a popular day of devotion. The Assumption of Mary in or around the 15th August and perhaps the most significant the 8th of September, the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with the 8th of December being recognised for the feast of The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Another notable day is Corpus Christi when a flower carpet is laid within the chapel's aisle. Today the site is really only of local importance its countrywide fame disappearing over the years, but it remains and important holy well in Catalonia and one well worth visiting.
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Issue No. 103: What is Community Anyway?
Courtney Powell
Community is easy to say, hard to define, and even more difficult to build.
While the power of community is undeniable, explanations that expand upon "I know it when I see it" are in short supply.
At a time when assembling in real life is restricted and virtual connections sustain us, it's worth exploring the meaning of community in the context of our newfound reality.
Sweat & Socialize
In business, community can be a cheat code. And in fitness circles, it's the holy grail.
Sweating together offers benefits that go beyond socializing. Multiple studies point to the power of community as it relates to fitness.
Overweight individuals lose more weight when they spend time with fit friends.
People who work out with friends enjoy exercise more than those who sweat alone.
Working out with a partner significantly increases time spent exercising and performance.
A shining example, with community at their core, boutique studios boomed. Accelerating the growth of the broader fitness industry, boutique memberships surged 121% between 2013 and 2017, compared with 15% for traditional gyms.
Similarly, it was community that transformed CrossFit from a workout protocol into a fitness phenomenon. Fueled by word-of-mouth, one gym has spawned 15K CrossFit affiliates, 4M members, and 175K coaches.
Going a step further, sweating together has become a religion. This sentiment is best represented in How We Gather, a 2015 Harvard Divinity School study.
While exploring religious identity in a secular age, researchers uncovered the power of collective sweat: "People come because they want to lose weight or gain muscle strength, but they stay for the community… It's really the relationships that keep them coming back."
But, even in a world where sweating together is strictly prohibited, fitness communities are evolving, forcing us to question the constructs of community in the first place.
For most of human history, the notion of community was tied to a physical location.
Community: a unified body of individuals, such as the people with common interests living in a particular area. (Merriam-Webster)
Derived from one's literal place in the world, neighborhoods, churches, universities, and countries of origin defined us. But in recent decades, something changed.
In The Big Sort, author Bill Bishop explains: "It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community."
Precipitated by declining participation in civic organizations and increased distrust of institutions, community is increasingly something we choose. And, with the entire [digital] world at our fingertips, place is no longer a limiting factor. As a result, online communities are thriving. Likewise, absent a pandemic, in-person communities are treasured.
Recognizing this fact, brands have been quick to seize the opportunity.
Brand community: a group of ardent consumers organized around the lifestyle, activities, and ethos of the brand. (Harvard Business Review)
A buzzword to some and bellwether to others, community-building is the new social media. While some brands pay lip service to the idea, others engineer their organization around the concept — so much so that, in some instances, the community predates the business itself.
More than a marketing tactic, building community is a business strategy and, when successfully executed, a competitive advantage.
Creating a self-perpetuating flywheel, community members spread the good word, lowering acquisition costs. As brand affinity grows, retention and lifetime value rise along with it. Better still, community members are apt to support one another, creating powerful—and in some cases, viral—network effects.
Easier said than done, community members are often confused with followers, users, subscribers, and customers. While the latter are passive and transient, the former are passionately engaged in a give-and-take with the brand and other members of the community.
Said differently, communities aren't built for people; they're built with them.
The quintessential case study in community, the aptly named H.O.G., or the Harley Owners Group, helped transform the motorcycle brand into a billion-dollar business. Today, there are more than 1,400 H.O.G. chapters.
Turning our attention to brands that empower people to sweat, here are how standout communities come together, online and in real life, to form thriving subcultures.
Rapha. Premium cycling company Rapha has built a global lifestyle brand through community. In addition to content and events, the company boasts 23 physical Clubhouses that play host to the Rapha Cycling Club. With more than 13K cyclists on its RCC app, the brand's community bridges digital and physical worlds.
Tracksmith. Rooted in storytelling and running culture, Tracksmith's authenticity and attention to detail stand out. As Tracksmith CEO Matt Taylor told us on the Fitt Insider podcast, connecting with runners at the Trackhouse, the company's retail store and community hub, has been integral to the apparel brand's success.
Strava. With 70M members, Strava's global athlete community is thriving. And, as Strava co-founder Mark Gainey shared on the Fitt Insider podcast, community has played a pivotal role. The key, by his telling, is getting people to interact with one another. So, unlike other online communities or fitness apps, Strava is a conduit to sweating with others in real life.
YMCA. Founded in 1844, few organizations have had the kind of real, on-the-ground impact as the YMCA. Increasingly aimed at serving young people, some 64M people in 120 countries are beneficiaries of the YMCA's offerings annually. From healthy living to youth sports and social responsibility, The Y could serve as a blueprint for community wellness post-COVID.
lululemon. Heralded for its local ambassador program, lulu has long been a proponent of living the "Sweat Life." From in-store workouts to the annual SeaWheeze Half Marathon, the activewear brand knows how to foster community. But now, with the $500M acquisition of Mirror, the company will flex its community-building muscle, hoping to reimagine the idea of sweating together.
Peloton. From its leaderboard to profile tags, digital high-fives, and a host of community-centric features, Peloton is cultivating connection. The company's official member page on Facebook is filled with brand evangelists. And the community has taken it upon themselves to start subreddits, Instagram accounts, and informal member groups. More impressive, riders are known to make a pilgrimage to the Peloton's NYC studio, signaling their commitment to the brand.
How we engage with others is constantly evolving. And our perception of community will continue to shift. But one thing's for sure: When the world reopens, community will dictate behavior more than ever.
Searching for a sense of belonging, and meaningfully participating in the relationship, consumers won't merely be limited by a monetary budget. Instead, they'll make decisions based on their community bandwidth, where winning brands seek to capture an outsized portion of our time, attention, and spending.
🎙On The Podcast
This week on the Fitt Insider podcast, we're joined by Nick Green, CEO of Thrive Market.
Founded in 2014, Thrive Market bills itself as "Costco meets Whole Foods." By charging an annual membership, the online marketplace is able to offer natural and organic products at a discount.
In this episode, we discuss:
the importance of increasing access to healthy, high-quality foods
raising $250M after getting turned down by countless investors
how Thrive approaches curating its marketplace and selecting brands
Why Nick believes the company is just getting started
Listen to the full episode here.
📵 Disconnected Fitness
Under Armour is selling MyFitnessPal to Francisco Partners for $345M. In related news, the company will shutter Endomondo, another one of its social fitness platforms.
How we got here: In 2015, Under Armour paid $475M for MyFitnessPal and another $85M for Endomondo. Two years earlier, Under Armour forked over $150M for MapMyFitness.
At the time, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said, "Data is the new oil" when explaining the company's focus on fitness apps and hopes of building a data-driven ecosystem.
Right idea, wrong execution. Utilizing digital platforms as a means of building a larger, a more engaged community has paid dividends for retailers like Nike and lululemon. But Under Armour missed the mark.
Although the company describes its core user as "the Focused Performer," it spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire platforms tailor-made for first-time or casual exercisers. Despite the fact that MyFitnessPal has amassed 200M users—up from 80M in 2015—Under Armour failed to create a unified social experience or centralized fitness hub tied to its retail business.
Now, as successful digital fitness platforms boom, and the category attracts new entrants like Apple, Under Armour has elected to cut its losses, selling MyFitnessPal for a steep discount.
Fitness apps aside, Under Armour has bigger issues to confront. Since 2016, growth has slowed. Heading into 2021, the company is retooling operations to prioritize direct-to-consumer sales.
🦄 Unicorn Status
ICYMI: WHOOP raised $100M in funding at a $1.2B valuation.
Led by IVP, the round included participation from a number of prominent athlete-investors, including: Patrick Mahomes, Kevin Durant, Eli Manning, and Larry Fitzgerald.
Perfectly positioned for the rise of recovery, WHOOP's focus on human optimization has propelled it into the billion-dollar unicorn club.
The recovery score: Instead of focusing on steps taken or calories burned, WHOOP helps users answer the question "how recovered are you, and are you ready to perform today?"
The company's wrist-worn device collects 100 measurements per second. More than a heart rate alone, WHOOP analyzes average heart rate, resting heart rate, and heart rate variability. Factoring sleep into the equation, the device also tracks sleep quality, latency, and efficiency.
From the source: As WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed told us on the Fitt Insider podcast, the company was born out of his interest in "training optimally, recovery, sleep, and injury prevention."
In Ahmed's opinion, WHOOP is uniquely positioned in the wearables market:
"WHOOP is unique in that it's designed to live a step ahead of you.
If your recovery score is high, you can take on more strain. If you have a low recovery, it tells you to take on less strain. And at the end of the day, we look at the strain you've accumulated and we tell you how much sleep to recover. Then you wake up with a new recovery score.
In that way, the cycle is quite powerful and pretty different from other products on the market."
📰 News & Notes
Peloton's seed round deck.
An oral history of the StairMaster.
WHOOP was originally called bobo.
Ty Haney on what went wrong at Outdoor Voices.
Eight Sleep's latest launch makes your dumb mattress cool.
The pandemic is crushing youth sports. [Reread: The Kids Aren't Alright]
💰 Money Moves
WHOOP, creator of a recovery-focused fitness tracker, secured $100M in Series E funding at a $1.2B valuation led by IVP with participation from a number of athlete-investors.
More from Fitt Insider: Our conversation with WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed.
Fitness tech startup CLMBR closed an undisclosed seed round led by KBW Ventures to accelerate the launch of its at-home vertical climbing machine.
More from Fitt Insider: The Connected Fitness Wars
Moxie, a digital platform and marketplace for live classes and training, raised $2.1M in seed funding from Tencent, Vectr Ventures, and others.
More from Fitt Insider: Arming the Rebels
India-based Oga Fit, a digital platform for live and on-demand classes, raised an undisclosed pre-Series A round.
Cann, makers of a THC-infused carbonated beverage, secured an undisclosed investment from a group of celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Casey Neistat, and others.
More from Fitt Insider: Erasing Stigmas
Canadian athletic apparel company RYU received $4.2M in new funding.
More from Fitt Insider: The New Athleisure Playbook
The Wanderlust Group, a SaaS startup known for its platform used by boat marinas, raised a $14.2M Series B to enter the RV rental market.
More from Fitt Insider: Glamping, the Next Wave of Wellness
Digital nutrition startup Nutrium, creators of an app linking patients to dietitians, raised €4.25M ($4.9M) in a seed round.
Eat Just, Inc., a plant-based food manufacturer, is pursuing a $200M investment that would value the company north of $2B.
Food and beverage conglomerate Nestlé USA acquired Freshly, a healthy meal delivery service, for $1.5B.
The Protein Brewery, a Dutch producer of high-grade vegan proteins, secured a €22M ($25.7M) Series A round led by Novo Growth.
Early-stage venture fund Founders Factory New York invested in wellness startups Origin, Stix, Frame, Expectful, and rmdy with strategic partner Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Honor, a home healthcare startup coordinating a network of caregivers, received $140M in a Series D round led by Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price Associates.
More from Fitt Insider: Caring for an Aging Nation
In-home primary care provider Nice Healthcare raised $5M in seed funding to scale its virtual physical therapy segment.
HUUB, a British triathlon sportswear company, added £575K ($750K) in a private launch ahead of its public crowdsourcing campaign.
Colorado-based alternative meat producer Meati Foods landed $28M in Series A funding.
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US and Germany control 58% of all Ethereum nodes globally
Justinas Baltrusaitis
Cryptocurrency Mar 9, 2021
The Ethereum network continues to grow globally, but it appears to be more concentrated in selected regions. Data analyzed by Finbold indicates that the United States and Germany control 58.08% of all 6,806 Ethereum nodes globally as of March 9, 2021.
The U.S. accounts for 2,559 nodes, while Germany has 1,467 Ethereum nodes. France ranks third with 380 nodes, followed by Singapore at 329. Ireland closes the top ten countries at 123 nodes. Furthermore, in terms of the percentage share of Ethereum nodes globally, the U.S. accounts for 36.92%. Germany's share stands at 21.16%, while the rest of the world accounts for 41.2%.
In the Ethereum ecosystem, a node refers to a part of software known as the client that connects to other nodes, thus participating in forming the network. A node stores the blockchain and verifies all transactions in each block, keeping the network secure while enhancing data accuracy. The nodes are divided into light, full, and archive.
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The dominance of Ethereum nodes in the U.S. and Germany shows prevalence in the developed countries. The node density goes hand in hand with connectivity, industrialization, and wealth in these regions. This might be backed by the fact that running a full Ethereum node is resource-intensive, and the two countries offer the perfect environment.
Interestingly, countries that are not yet economically advanced have not featured on the top list despite controlling a notable share of crypto usage. Furthermore, countries with more Ethereum nodes are also characterized by more advanced cryptocurrency infrastructure, making it easy to establish the nodes. The countries have invested more in blockchain technology and putting it to a practical test.
The question of Ethereum centralization
The distribution of Ethereum nodes is commendable since it drives the idea of decentralization. However, there have been concerns regarding the hosting of the nodes.
Surveys show that almost a quarter of Ethereum nodes ran on Amazon Web Services at some point. This, therefore, indicates that the management of Amazon holds the potential of deciding the fate of Ethereum nodes which beats the logic of decentralization.
The distribution of nodes comes in the wake of the Ethereum 2.0 launch, which brings more scalability, increased speed, and efficiency onto the Ethereum network. The launch ushers in the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism while moving away from the Proof-of-Work (PoW) model.
The upgrade also eliminates the environmentally wasteful Ethereum mining required to make the blockchain function. With Ethereum 2.0, there is a perfect opportunity for more nodes to emerge in the future.
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Times are hard for outbound telemarketing. Last December, the Information Commissioner's Office served enforcement notices on five companies making persistent calls to consumers without their consent, and January saw four companies fined a total of more than £150,000 for repeated silent calls.
Call centre managers will confirm that consumer opt-outs via the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) have had a significant impact on this branch of marketing. The 2.5 million consumers signed up in 2002 has risen to more than 14.4 million, according to the Direct Marketing Association, and the trend is still upwards.
Stephen Jacobs, general manager at call centre performance consultancy Directexcellence, sees this as a cause for celebration. "Outbound has had to face all sorts of pressures, and the usefulness of cold-calling as a tool has become more limited," he explains. "People have been using cold calling as a machine gun, when all along it should have been a sniper's bullet."
Telemarketing teams and contact centre service suppliers may not see the distinction in such stark (or homicidal) terms, but certainly, major strategic changes are certainly under way.
Answer machine detect (AMD) technology has been blamed for much of the silent-call furore in recent years, and is also responsible for the tell-tale pause at the beginning of outbound calls as the line is routed to an agent. Excell Contact Centres, Scotland, recently announced it was turning off AMD on all outbound campaigns.
System supplier Amcat says this customer has seen no loss in productivity. Excell general manager of IT and telecoms Charles Vincent explains/ "Although numbers of connected calls per hour have declined without AMD, the success of those calls is proportionately much higher."
While much of the technology may be new, other aspects of this strategic rethink in the industry are not.
Jacobs at Directexcellence refers back to a Henley Centre paper from 1998 which called for adherence to the "three Rs" – relevance, relationship and respect for the consumer. If you are not combining either clear relevance or an existing relationship with a respectful approach, then it is best not to make the call, he suggests.
As he puts it: "Before you even pick up the phone, having the right message for the right person is the foundation stone on which everything rests."
So plenty can be done, in terms of technology and targeting, to maximise the likelihood of a positive outcome. Telemarketing teams then need to decide to what extent the call is going to be structured, and how much freedom agents have to vary the message.
The past few years have seen a distinct trend in UK outbound calling away from a rigidly-structured script or call guide. The Telemarketing Company specialises in business-to-business (B2B) campaigns, and says that the tendency has been particularly evident in this sector. In fact, the only occasions when scripting or partial scripting is used, says managing director Niall Habba, is when financial services or pharmaceuticals regulations make it necessary.
For the bulk of the B2B sector, says Habba, the objective is first to get past the gatekeeper to the decision-maker, and then to draw that decision-maker into a conversation. That means having a genuine dialogue, listening and above all adopting a fluid call structure. This is not always the case with companies handling business-to-consumer (B2C) campaigns.
Apart from regulatory reasons, there are other considerations which may favour tighter scripting, especially in B2C telemarketing. Daniel Handforth, sales director at outbound and inbound provider Chorus Direct, says: "Where the outsourcer is paid largely or purely on results, tighter call structures may be required. Otherwise, there may be issues of mis-selling. An agent may be trying to hit a target and step out of line."
Clients themselves may be reassured by reliance on a script – and may even demand it. This seems to be more a part of North American telemarketing culture. Indeed, Converso Contact Centres director Dino Forte says: "A good few US companies live and die by the script."
Call centres that take an unscripted approach will also have to convince the client to accept some additional costs. Handforth admits: "It's not cheap. It takes a lot of training and preparation time to get it right."
Ultimately, the aim is for a call centre supplier to encourage its agent to think as if they were a part of the client's organisation. But the freer the structure for the agent, the more likely the consumer is to take the conversation off at a tangent. In these circumstances, agents will need to have digested, or have easy access to, larger amounts of information.
According to Forte at Converso, once the initial development meeting has taken place with the client, it is important to select the right individuals for a campaign. "Every campaign is different. Some may require soft-selling, almost consultation, and some may need a lot more empathy," he says.
Most call centres will want the client to visit and present the brand and the product. Some of the team may also visit the client's site.
Training itself may take two days or two weeks, says Forte, and will culminate in role plays and recorded calls. In sectors such as financial services, there is likely to be a final knowledge test.
Forte explains some of the benefits of a thorough training from the agent's perspective. "Once they have a high level of knowledge, they are likely to feel more confident about the brand, and will feel more comfortable moving away from a script."
Working with rigid scripts, and without substantial preparation, can contribute to high staff turnover in those call centres that tend to work this way, argues Habba at The Telemarketing Company.
On the other hand, a more flexible approach, especially when accompanied by a slow build-up of knowledge about a brand, allows each agent to personalise their calls. "You get a much better result, and you retain a much higher calibre of agent," he says.
The current emphasis on a disciplined approach to outbound calling has drawn attention away from its many strengths, says Jacobs at Directexcellence.
He complains: "So much telemarketing is treated like a mailshot to be read out over the phone."
He says it has some distinct advantages over direct mail. "You can change a script instantly."
Handforth at Chorus agrees that the script or guide is likely to evolve during a campaign. Even if the quality team does not monitor all or the majority of conversations, the agent will give each call a disposition code indicating consumer interest. "If you keep an eye on that information, you'll see what people respond to," he says. "One particular agent may latch on to a way of talking to consumers which works well."
While The Telemarketing Company does not use scripts as such, there is likely to be some sort of loose guide for the agent. This will rarely be set in stone. "Twenty or 30 hours into a campaign, a new structure or set of cues is likely to be introduced," says Habba.
Many consumer call centre providers would like their clients to show similar flexibility, and grasp the benefits of using more knowledgeable, confident and fluent agents in their outbound campaigns.


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Bible Ladino for Homer: Moshe Ha'elyon's Odyssey
tags: Avner Peretz, Holocaust survivors, Homer, Iliad, Ladino Culture Authority, Moshe Ha'elyon, Odyssey, Yitzhak Navon
by J. K. Gayle
Homer's Greek Odyssey can now be read in Ladino (or judeo-español) and in Shephardic Hebrew in a single volume thanks to Moshe Ha'elyon.
Ha'elyon is a native of Thessaloniki, Greece, where as a boy he studied Ancient Greek in school to read the Odyssey and the Iliad. There, from the mid 1920s up to the early 1940s, he also spoke Ladino in his home and with others in his community. Then, in July 1942, his community and his family were rounded up by the Nazis and taken to Auschwitz. Nir Hasson for Haaretz reports today, "Most of his family was killed on the day they arrived," and Moshe "was the sole survivor in the family"; he "survived 21 months in Auschwitz, two death marches and a number of Nazi concentration camps." Hasson compares Ha'elyon to the epic Greek hero, and we see a comparison to the epic Greek poet Homer as well: "Odyseus was the only survivor of a shipwreck. Ha'elyon tried to reach this country on an illegal immigrants' ship and was caught by the British. He was also wounded in the War of Independence when the jeep he was riding turned over. In recent years, having retired, he wrote his own odyssey in the form of an autobiography and epic poems."
As if his own story isn't incredible enough, here's the story of Ha'elon's passion and practice of translation of the Odyssey. Isn't it fascinating how his Ladino epic finds some of its language in the Bible in Ladino translation?
[H]e divides his time among Holocaust survivors' commemoration groups and writing in Ladino.
The idea to translate "The Odyssey" was given to him by Ladino scholar Avner Peretz. "He said he hadn't finished high school because the war started, but he admitted that he studied ancient Greek, and the seed was planted," Peretz said.
Ha'elyon actually began with "The Iliad," but stopped because the text was longer and "a little more difficult."
The translation took Ha'elyon almost four years, dealing with numerous difficulties along the way. "Ladino is a spoken language. Suddenly I had to find words from realms that don't have words, like agriculture, seafaring, names of trees, etc."
He found the words in Peretz's Hebrew-Ladino dictionary and in the Bible in Ladino, among other books.
"I didn't make up any words. I have documentation for everything," he says.
He also had the challenge of maintaining the rhyming and rhythm of Homer's original. During translation, and even when reading it now, Ha'elyon said he drums his fingers, which helped him maintain the cadence – Dactylic hexameter, lines of six ("hexa" ) feet, each of which is a "dactyl" – i.e., finger-shaped, with one long part, or syllable, and two short ones.
Ha'elyon placed Peretz's translation of "The Odyssey" into Hebrew alongside his Ladino one, which make his work not only the first-ever translation of "The Odyssey" into Ladino, but also the first into Sephardic Hebrew.
Now Ha'elyon plans to return to his Ladino translation of "The Iliad." "I learned how to work; from now on, every line I write, I won't need to touch," he says.
This week is the launch of the first of the book's two volumes, at the Castel Museum in Ma'aleh Adumim. The book is dedicated to Israel's fifth president, Yitzhak Navon [the Founder and Chair of the Ladino Culture Authority], on his 90th birthday.
You can find the rest of Hasson's report on Ha'elyon and this project here.
from → Hebrew, Ladino, Racism, Social justice, Translation
← Clever New Yorker cover
Tina Strobos →
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First of all, thank you for posting this fascinating article. Ha'elyon's story reminded me a bit of the outstanding novel Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels—the story of a young Jewish boy who escapes Poland in 1940 and spends the remainder of the war hidden in Greece, becoming a poet.
When I got to the bottom of the article, I was extremely surprised to see that the book launch is basically around the corner from where I live. Maybe my Hebrew is the problem, but I haven't been able to find the event listed anywhere else, and this mention doesn't include a date and time. I even called the museum this morning and they don't seem to know anything about it. Does anyone have more information on when this talk will be? I would love to go.
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Did you find the answer to your question? I sure hope you were able to go to the talk at the book launch!
Thanks to your mention of it, I've just started reading Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. From the criticism I've read, the novel does seem to be similar to Ha'elyon's life story in several ways.
Unfortunately I never got there.


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It Felt Like a Kiss – visceral sound effect
Sarah Angliss
A composer working with ancient instruments, electronics and robotics.
Performs live and creates music for film and theatre.
It Felt Like a Kiss: visceral sound effect
Manchester International Festival of Theatre
In a short collaboration in 2009, I worked with Punchdrunk, the encounter theatre company, to research a novel multimodal effect – one that mixed tactile transducers with infrasonics to create a visceral deep bass sound, something the audience would feel rather than hear.
From my own experiments (including an earlier musical collaboration, 2003), I'd say (tenatively!) that infrasound creates a slight sense of 'electricity' or 'aliveness' in the air – sensations we might associate with feelings of awe or underlying dread. It can subtly alter the mood in a room, without the audience being aware of its presence.
We piloted the effect in The Arcola space and deployed it tenatively in the Punchdrunk show: It Felt Like a Kiss. This promenade piece, was devised by Punchdrunk and documentary maker Adam Curtis (featuring music from Damon Albarn). It Felt Like A Kiss was created in summer 2009 for the Manchester International Festival.
Sub-bass, submarine
I returned to tactile transducers and low-frequencies in 2014 when I reanimated HMS Alliance with a multichannel, generative sound piece. Alliance is the UK's last-surviving World War II era submarine. If you go into the engine room of the submarine, you'll experience a powerful sense of the original diesel engines which shake the floorplate of the submarine – just as they would have done when the submarine was underwater.
Photo credit here
Sarah Administrator
portfolio, Theatre
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1. She ran outside and as far away from the house as she could.
2. French people don't drink as much tea as British people do.
3. You can make coffee as strong as you like it.
4. He studied hard to be as much like his father as he could.


The reigning verizon indycar series champ, Team Penske's Will Power, laughed derisively at the theory put forward by many – that now he's finally broken into the ranks of indycar title winners, the dam has been breached and a flood of glory will follow.
it can tip either way so easily. scott dixon as well – how many years has that guy finished top three in the championship?
that's why you have to attack all the time.
the ultimate showdown of his career.
"My heart was coming out of my chest knowing the biggest race in the world was on the line," Hunter-reay confessed to david Letterman on The Late Show a few days later, as he described his final pass for the lead at Turn 1 on the final lap.
as reigning indycar champion, Will Power expects it to get harder, not easier, in 2015.
in the lineup for simon Pagenaud.
• For Will Power's guide to making passing maneuvers, turn to page 56.
11 winners from 18 races, and no driver won more than three times.
as there are obvious additions to the ranks of potential winners. Sebastien Bourdais (BELOW) has proven KVSH Racing is capable of victory, but in pre-season tests, rookie teammate Stefano Coletti showed he could match Seabass. And newly combined Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing could include three winners from its two cars. Co-owner Ed Carpenter (ABOVE) is an ace on ovals, his new road course ringer Luca Filippi can be blindingly fast, and in the other entry, America's Josef Newgarden is clearly ready to start winning.
ge T CrAzier in 2015?
No more looking back at what might have been or what eventually came to be. Power's focus is entirely forward.
winner since al Unser in 1970-'71.
no one starts an indy 500 as favorite, especially not now the indycar series cars are so evenly matched. equally, though, no one will be surprised if Hunter-reay's second sterling silver portrait appears on the Borg-Warner Trophy right alongside the last one. He's that good.
• Read Ryan Hunter-Reay's reflections on his amazing 2014 win on page 20.


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replacing MediaCom, to build the in-house offering and embed it within the brand.
As part of the new set-up, CUB will also take its programmatic buying in-house.
Speaking to AdNews, CMO Richard Oppy says the in-house agency will only "slightly" impact the scope of work carried out by its creative agency, Clemenger Melbourne, as well as PHD.
He's confident Speakeasy studio will allow CUB to be quicker and more agile with its marketing communications.
The company is currently in the process of recruiting, collaborating with PHD, to recruit talent across the social, content, data and technology remit.
"We know our consumers are evolving, and the way they engage with brands and each other is changing. Speakeasy Studio will help us keep pace with our consumers and ensure the way our brands go to market evolves too", CUB marketing director Chris Maxwell says.
"We're excited that our new in-house team will take CUB digital to the next level, with more innovative, engaging and targeted communications. Our new Speakeasy Studio team will work on some of Australia's most iconic brands. We're combining the scale of Australia's leading brewer with all the speed, agility and excitement of an agency."
CUB launches in-house digital agency
By Josh McDonnell | 16 May 2018
Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) has launched an in-house digital agency, Speakeasy Studio.
CUB partnered with PHD, which it appointed in October last year, replacing MediaCom, to build the in-house offering and embed it within the brand.
Carlton United Breweries (CUB)
CUB CMO Richard Oppy cracks open Carlton Draught's return to TV
PHD wins $30m CUB media account in global review
'Disgraceful' CUB ad banned for discrimination against rangas


Kitchen witches focus their magic around their home and hearth. Their magical tools are those commonly found in any kitchen such as wooden spoons, cooking pans and stove. The rituals and practices of a kitchen witch tend to be less ceremonial than some others and involve cooking, baking, cleaning and commonly the brewing of various health giving and healing items such as teas, balms and tinctures.
A kitchen witch may infuse her magic in foods using the beneficial and magical properties of foods such as herbs, spices, vegetables and grains. They may enjoy experimenting with new recipes or sticking to a tried and tested few. Cooking and brewing with the aim of restoring health to those around them may also be a focus of this branch of witchery and herbal teas is one way that this can be achieved.
Herbal teas, also known as tisanes are drinks made using herbs, spices and other plant materials that have been infused in hot water. They are commonly drunk while hot but can be consumed cold and generally do not contain caffeine or any true tea. Many varieties of these delicious drinks can be bought in shops and are sometimes combined with true teas for example as mint and other flavoured green teas. For the most part they are found in tea bag just like regular tea and are prepared in the same way. You can also buy loose tea teas in some shops. However they are also relativity simple to make at home especially if you have a stock of dried herbs of fresh growing in your garden.
Homemade herbal teas can be prepared in a number of ways. The loose herbs can be infused in hot water and then the resulting liquid is strained and drunk. It is also possible to buy small tea filters (sometimes known as infusers or strainers) to place the herbs inside of. This is then placed into a cup of hot water and removed after the desired infusion time. The filter can then be washed and reused and as they are commonly made of metal or silicone they will last for many years. Another option is to buy empty drawstring teabags that can be filled with the herbs of your choice and then sealed. These are a useful option if you drink a lot of herbal tea and would like to make up a batch in advance for quick and easy use later. For more common teas such as peppermint and chamomile it is also possible to buy ready prepared tea bags in shops or online.
You may also wish to grow your own herbs for use in herbal teas and this can be done easily in many cases. These can be used fresh or dried for future use and blended to suit your personal tastes. Common culinary herb plants and seeds can be bought easily and can be a good place to start, especially if you are new to gardening.
Peppermint tea is a soothing drink that can be used to help with a range of digestive issues. It can ease the symptoms of IBS, relieve indigestion and help to lessen bloating and trapped wind. Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) helps to relax the digestive system promoting optimum function and relieves spasms and cramps. This common herbal tea is also useful in relieving stress and in helping you to sleep.
Peppermint is a common tea that can be bought in most supermarkets and some smaller shops or ordered online. Some teas combine different varieties of mint such as Pukka's Three Mint tea which is a blend of peppermint, spearmint and fieldmint or combine mint with other ingredients such as liquorice or green tea. It can also be bought in loose form or if you wish you could grow your own peppermint and harvest leaves to use from your plants. These can be used fresh or dried. Mints are a herb that has a tendency to spread very quickly so you may prefer to grow it in pots and containers rather than directly in the ground.
Lemon balm is a relaxing herb that can help you sleep as well as easing feelings on anxiety and nervousness. It helps to support the nervous system and was called the sunshine herb by Herbalist Jim McDonald. Lemon balm is a great tea to help reduce stress and unwind at the end of the day.
Although it is not as common as some herbal teas, lemon balm tea can be bought either on its own or blended with other herbs. These blends are often aimed at relaxation or aiding sleep so are a great way to benefit from the healing properties of lemon balm.
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is a member of the mint family and like other mints grows profusely. The leaves from your own plants can be used fresh or dried and the plant possesses a beautiful lemon scent whenever brushed against.
Chamomile is an excellent herb for calming the nerves and easing stress and tension. It is often used in combating insomnia and is beneficial for the digestive system, relieving nausea and general digestive upsets. As well as being a delicious and soothing hot drink, the cooled tea can be used to ease skin conditions such as sunburn, hives and eczema.
German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) is grown for use in tea and is a highly fragrant perennial plant. Chamomile is often grown as a scented lawn but can also be grown in pots and flower beds. This is a popular commercially produced herbal tea and can be bought on its own or blended with other herbs.
Most people will be familiar with this yellow sunny plant but many do not realise that it is so much more than it appears. Although often regarded as an annoying weed, dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) has a range of medicinal benefits and contains vitamins A, B, C and D. This plant is an effective diuretic and liver and digestive tonic that has been shown to reduce bloating and water retention. It is also high in potassium which helps to replenish electrolytes lost through increased urination quickly.
Dandelions are an easy to grow plant and can often be foraged for in parks, woodland and other open spaces. If you do pick plants growing wild it is vital that you are certain you have identified it correctly and should avoid picking near traffic and heavily industrial areas to avoid pollution. It is also possible to buy ready-made dandelion tea bags or loose tea online but it may be difficult to finding everyday shops.
Nettle can be used to help prevent and reduce the symptoms of seasonal allergies such as hay fever. Drinking this tea daily can help reduce issues such as itching, allergic rhinitis and sneezing as it limits the amount of histamine produced by the body.
Nettles (Urtica dioica) are generally considered to be a nuisance, especially for those unfortunate enough to experience their sting. If you wish to forage for nettles they are often found on wasteland, woodland and other open spaces and though not a common practice seeds can be bought to grow them at home. They grow fast so it is good to confine them to a pot or other container in your garden to prevent excessive spread. They should also be grown away from where children and pet may touch them to avoid stings. Pick the leaves using rubber gloves or harvest the whole plant and hang it to dry. Once dry the stinging hairs are no longer active. Nettle tea bags and loose tea can be bought ready to use and it makes a nice hot drink on its own or combined with peppermint.
If you have purchased tea bags or loose tea then they may be are supplies with preparation instructions. In the case of tea bags, they are used just as you would with standard bags but are left to infuse for longer. Simply place one bag into a cup or mug and fill with boiling water. Leave this to seep for around five minutes before removing the bag and disposing of it. If you are using loose herbs then amounts can be catered to your personal tastes but generally 1tbsp of dried herb per cup of boiling water is a good starting point.
If you find that your tea is very bitter tasting or harshly flavoured this can be prevented by reducing the seeping time. As herbs are natural and each plant varies, the taste and flavours will also vary. If you find that your teas lack taste this can be remedied by using more of the herb per cup. Keep a note of how much used so that you will remember for next time, especially if you make lots of varieties of herbal tea. In some cases lack of flavour can also be caused by too short a brewing time. If you are growing your own herbs then you will be able to learn what works best with your plants. When buying teas you may have to try a few varieties to find one that you like.
Herbal tea blends can be created by adding more than one tea bag to a cup but bare in mind that this may create a stronger flavour than you'd like. One solution to this is to brew a larger quantity of tea at once. Tea bags can also be torn open, the contents mixed and then used as loose tea. If there is a particular blend that you like to drink then it is more practical (and probably cheaper) to buy loose teas and mix these in a glass jar or similar container. Label the jar with the teas details and seeping time so you will have it ready any time you need.
You're welcome. I hope you find some teas you enjoy and benefit you.
You're so right although I feel like it is become more well known in recent years. I hope it continues giving people the opportunity to treat and heal themselves. I like peppermint or fennel tea for digestion. My son suffered badly with wind as a baby and a tsp of weak fennel tea really helped.
Great hub. Many people run for prescriptions for ailments because they don't know that natural healing can help even better. I have stomach problems often because of a prescription I take for diabetes so I often drink ginger tea.


It's happened a couple of times at the yoga studio where someone will tell me that they enjoy reading my blog. I always react the same way - surprised and flattered. This is genuine shock because I don't update my blog as much as I used to but I guess it's still out there and it makes me happy that people are taking the time out to read a post or two and find something to relate to, regardless of how old it might be.
Embracing vulnerabilities...working with your handicaps - it seems like this has been an ongoing theme that keeps popping up in different places this past week for me.
I had my physical last week. I brought up my lower back issues with my doctor. It stiffens up if I'm still for a long time or walking really slow for a while - this always happens when I go to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It gets especially bad in the middle of night. I could be laying on my back and if my body turns, the pain wakes me up, and it is painful! Waking up is just bad but once I move around and exaggerate my hips when I walk, things loosen up and I feel better. I have to be mindful going into Savasana at the end of a yoga class because if I'm laying flat for too long, it's gonna HURT when it comes time to come out of it.
I had x-rays done and learned that I have arthritis from my L4 to S1 which is pretty much the end of my spine to my sacrum, lovely. I posted this news on Facebook and some people responded like I just announced my death sentence LOL! I'm still doing yoga and exercising and I'm still doing yoga teacher training this Fall. Nothing is changing that.
The only thing I can really do to relieve myself of this pain is to build my core strength and drop some weight. Easy right? Not when you hate core work as much as I DO! I brought this on myself. I sometimes cheat. I don't "engage my core" as much as I should, I also don't move as much once I'm off the mat - that's the hard part about working from home. You get your workout in the AM, and then the rest of the day you're on the couch with your laptop, you may occasionally switch to your desk, or sit on the floor using the coffee table, but that't it. So I gotta make a new plan to add more movement to my daily routine.
I'm just glad I don't need to make any changes to my practice. I've already been mindful of my twisting because sometimes I feel like there's a brake keeping me from twisting further, especially if I'm twisting to the right in Triangle Pose (Trikonasana). I love using a block, I love using a strap, I hate using my core - so that's what I need to do more of! I refuse to let my back get any worse. I gotta learn to love core or just not hate it so much. There's always something new to pay attention to.


Clearly this APT is interested in encrypted data and communications. The tools targeted by this group enable practices for securing secrecy and integrity of data. For example, WinRAR packs and encrypts files with strong suites like AES-256, and TrueCrypt encrypts full hard drives all in one swoop. Both WinRAR and TrueCrypt help provide strong and reliable encryption. WinRAR enables a person to encrypt a file with AES-256 in CBC mode with a strong PBKDF2 HMAC-SHA256 based key. And, TrueCrypt provides an effective open-source full disk encryption solution for Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android systems. Using both of these tools together, a sort of one off, poor man's end-to-end encryption can be maintained for free by putting these two solutions together with free file sharing services.
Other software applications help to support encrypted sessions and communications. Well known applications supporting end-to-end encryption are used by hundreds of millions of folks, sometimes unknowingly, every day. IM clients like Microsoft's Skype implement 256-bit AES encrypted communications, while Putty, Winscp and Windows Remote Desktop help provide private communications and sessions with fully encrypted communications as well. Most of these communications across the wire are currently unbreakable when intercepted, at least, when the applications are configured properly.
This actor set up a particularly clever site to deliver trojanized WinRAR installers in the summer of 2016, appears to have compromised another, and this activity reminds us somewhat of the early 2014 Crouching Yeti activity. Much of the Crouching Yeti intrusions were enabled by trojanizing legitimate ICS-related IT software installers like SCADA environment vpn client installers and industrial camera software driver installers. Then, they would compromise the legitimate company software distribution sites and replace the legitimate installers with the Crouching Yeti trojanized versions. The tactics effectively compromised ICS and SCADA related facilities and networks around the world. Simply put, even when visiting a legitimate company distribution site, IT staff was downloading and installing ICS-focused malware. StrongPity's efforts did much the same.
The site started serving these executables a couple of days earlier on 5/24, where a large majority of Italian visitors where affected.
Quite simply, the download links on this site directed visitors to trojanized WinRAR installers hosted from the winrar.it site itself. It's interesting to note that both of the sites are "distributors", where the sites are owned and managed not by rarlabs, but by local owners in individual countries.
StrongPity also directed specific visitors from popular, localized software sharing sites directly to their trojanized installers. This activity continued into late September 2016. In particular, the group redirected visitors from software aggregation and sharing site tamindir[.]com to their attacker-controlled site at true-crypt[.]com. The StrongPity controlled Truecrypt site is a complete rip of the legitimate site, now hosted by Sourceforge. Here is the Tamindir truecrypt page, looks harmless enough.
Unlike the newer poisoned WinRAR installers, StrongPity hosted several Much like the poisoned WinRAR installers, multiple filenames have been used to keep up with visitor interests. Visitors may have been directed to the site by other means and downloaded directly from the ripped and persuasive site.
It's interesting that Ksn recorded appearance of the the file on two unique systems in December 2015, a third in January 2016, all in Turkey, and then nothing until May 2016. Then, deployment of the installers continued mostly within Turkey in July and September 2016.
Over the course of a little over a week, malware delivered from winrar.it appeared on over 600 systems throughout Europe and Northern Africa/Middle East. Likely, many more infections actually occurred. Accordingly, the country with the overwhelming number of detections was in Italy followed by Belgium and Algeria. The top countries with StrongPity malware from the winrar.it site from May 25th through the first few days of June are Italy, Belgium, Algeria, Cote D'Ivoire, Morroco, France, and Tunisia.
In a similar time-span, the over sixty visitors redirected from winrar.be to ralrab.com for malicious file download were overwhelmingly located in one country. The top countries directed to StrongPity malware from the winrar.be site from May 25th through the first few days of June are Belgium, Algeria, Morroco, Netherlands, Canada, Cote D'Ivoire, and Tunisia.
StrongPity previously set up TrueCrypt themed watering holes in late 2015. But their offensive activity surged in late summer 2016. The group set up a site directly pulled from the contents of the legitimate TrueCrypt website. From mid July to early September, dozens of visitors were redirected from tamindir[.]com to true-crypt[.]com with unsurprisingly almost all of the focus on systems in Turkey, with victims in the Netherlands as well.
The StrongPity droppers were often signed with unusual digital certificates, dropping multiple components that not only provide complete control of the victim system, but effectively steal disk contents, and can download components for further collection of various communications and contacts. Because we are talking about StrongPity watering holes, let's take a quick look at what is being delivered by the group from these sites.
When we count all systems from 2016 infected with any one of the StrongPity components or a dropper, we see a more expansive picture. This data includes over 1,000 systems infected with a StrongPity component. The top five countries include Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Algeria, and France.
Using that cipher in the ralrab[.]com malware, the package is configured to seek out several crypto-enabled software applications, highlighting the group's interest in users of more encryption-supported software suites.
Also included in StrongPity components are keyloggers and additional data stealers.
Widely available, strong cryptography software tools help provide secure and private communications that are now easily obtained and usable. In the summer of 2016, multiple encryption-enabled software applications were targeted with watering hole, social engineering tactics, and spyware by the StrongPity APT. While watering holes and poisoned installers are tactics that have been effectively used by other APT, we have never seen the same focus on cryptographic-enabled software. When visiting sites and downloading encryption-enabled software, it has become necessary to verify the validity of the distribution site and the integrity of the downloaded file itself. Download sites not using PGP or strong digital code signing certificates need to re-examine the necessity of doing so for their own customers. We have seen other APT such as Crouching Yeti and Darkhotel distribute poisoned installers and poisoned executable code, then redistribute them through similar tactics and over p2p networks. Hopefully, simpler verification systems than the current batch of PGP and SSL applications will arise to be adopted in larger numbers. Until then, strong anti-malware and dynamic whitelisting solutions will be more necessary than ever.


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Gare de Dannemarie – stacja kolejowa w Dannemarie, w departamencie Górny Ren, w regionie Grand Est, we Francji. Jest zarządzany przez SNCF (budynek dworca) i przez RFF (infrastruktura).

Przystanek jest obsługiwany przez pociągi TER Alsace i TER Franche-Comté.

Położenie
Znajduje się na linii Paryż – Miluza, w km 464,916, między stacjami Valdieu i Ballersdorf, na wysokości 318 m n.p.m.

Historia
Przystanek został otwarty 15 października 1857 przez Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est.

Linie kolejowe
 Paryż – Miluza
 Dannemarie – Pfetterhouse

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Linki zewnętrzne
 ter.sncf.com Alsace

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Published: September 11, 2020, 10:59 pm Updated: September 11, 2020, 11:04 pm
Tags: Terry Branstad, politics, Government
China announces new restrictions on US diplomats' activities
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Chinese staffers adjust a U.S. flag before the opening session of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. China is delaying the renewal of press cards for at least five journalists working at four U.S. media outlets, an organization of foreign correspondents said Monday, Sept. 7, 2020 making them vulnerable to expulsion in apparent retribution for Washington's targeting of Chinese reporters working in the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)
BEIJING – China has announced new restrictions on the activities of U.S. diplomats working in mainland China and Hong Kong, in what it called a justified response to similar measures imposed on Chinese diplomats in the U.S. last year.
In a statement posted online late Friday, a foreign ministry spokesperson said the rules would apply to senior diplomats and all other personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and consulates throughout China.
However, the spokesperson said that China supported "normal exchanges and cooperation between all sectors of the two countries," and that the restrictions could be lifted if the U.S. were to revoke the measures it imposed last October.
"Once again we urge the U.S. side to immediately correct its mistakes and lift the unreasonable restrictions imposed on the Chinese Embassy and consulates and their staff," said the spokesperson, who wasn't identified. "China will make reciprocal responses to U.S. actions."
No details were given about the new restrictions. U.S. diplomats already face limits on which parts of China they can visit, even college campuses. The U.S. rules require Chinese diplomats to report travel and meetings in what was seen as an attempt to prevent interference within the overseas Chinese community and foreign students.
The rules were recently tightened further to require that Chinese diplomats not only notify the State Department of their plans to travel and meet with academics or state and local government officials, but also first obtain its permission to do so.
The U.S. argued that China already imposed the same requirements on American diplomats.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing said it had no immediate comment on the new regulations.
Washington has also complained about a lack of reciprocity in access to media, saying Chinese diplomats are able to put their views across U.S. outlets while America's representatives are shunned by Chinese state media.
Most recently, the State Department protested over the refusal by the Communist Party's flagship newspaper People's Daily to publish an op-ed by the U.S. ambassador to China, Terry Branstad. The paper responded that the piece did not meet its editorial standards.
China-U.S. tensions over trade, technology and a multitude of other issues have increasingly spilled over into the areas of diplomacy and media, with the U.S. ordering the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston in July. China responded by ordering the closure of the U.S. Consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu, a double blow because of the mission's key role in monitoring activities in the restive Himalayan region of Tibet.
The U.S. also capped the number of Chinese citizens working for state media outlets in the U.S., leading to the effective expulsion of 60 reporters, and has reduced the length of visas for others from one year to three months. That has brought renewed pressure on U.S. outlets in China, and Beijing has delayed renewing credentials for several of their journalists pending a positive response from Washington.


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You must have seen this error while installing some packages though apt-get or aptitude in Ubuntu. The reason for the error is the the GPG keys for that package is not available in your system DB, hence the package can't be verified. The fix is pretty much simple, you just need to download the GPG keys for the package and then re-install the package.


Overactive bladder (OAB) is not a condition as such but rather a group of urinary symptoms defined by a problem with bladder storage where the bladder muscle (detrusor) contracts too often or spontaneously and involuntarily. It often includes, and is therefore closely related to, incontinence.
There is a reported incidence of OAB ranging between 12-17% in Europe alone and a suggested 1 in 6 people is suffering from symptoms in the UK. The incidence of OAB increases with age but should not be accepted as a normal part of the ageing process.
How is overactive bladder diagnosed?
A diagnosis is usually based on a complete history, a physical examination and urinalysis (urine flow and capacity). It is also a diagnosis of exclusion.