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A Rare Medium
I wrote this article for the Common Ground News Service to mark Syria Today magazine's third anniversary. Its part of their joint Western-Muslim business venture series. It was republished in Haaretz as well. Here I talk not only about co-founding the magazine with my good friend Kinda Kanbar in Damascus' Free Zone, but the potential such businesses hold for communicating ideas and best practices between Americans and their adversaries in the Middle East.
Magazine engages Syrians and Americans
by Andrew Tabler
Damascus - When I decided to start up a current affairs magazine in Damascus, my friends told me that the first edition would likely also be the last. This October our monthly magazine, Syria Today – a Syrian-American joint venture, celebrated its third anniversary.
Historically, Syria has one of the Middle East's most repressive media environments, so the launch of a private sector, English-language publication by a joint Syrian-American team is a unique and noteworthy endeavour. Syria Today's success to date is based on the common need of both Americans and Syrians for better, more in-depth reporting on and from Syria.
Tensions with the West in the 1980s led the Syrian government to close most foreign media offices, and because of this sweeping action, Syrian contact with the rest of the world – specifically in terms of business and journalism – became limited. As a result of this relative isolation, journalistic standards declined vis-à-vis international standards, and even government ministers called the country's news stories "unreadable". Western readers were also desperate for information on Syria from a source other than the state-run English-language daily, The Syria Times, which continues to churn out convoluted, Orwellian-style propaganda.
Our success is also due to the keen understanding of both our Syrian and American partners of each other's strengths and weaknesses. The Syrian owners – businesswoman Kinda Kanbar and two Damascene businessmen – recognised from the beginning that editorial matters at an English language publication should be left to native English speakers. This gave me and other Anglo-Saxon journalists working at Syria Today a vehicle through which to help Syrian journalists develop writing skills that enable them to reach Western audiences more effectively.
However, savvy journalistic techniques without relevant facts and quotes from local experts is not enough. This is where local knowledge and social penetration are key. Our Syrian partners use their social connections to help Syria Today writers arrange key interviews. They also read writers' articles and suggest edits that help us cover sensitive issues without running foul of Syria's strict media censor.
The fact that we were able to publish each month while Syria's Assad administration struggled under intense international pressure was nothing short of a miracle. As Syria Today's American partner, I focus less on the bottom line and more on the benefits of our joint collaboration. Because Washington lists Syria as a state sponsor of international terrorism, US development assistance is proscribed and US companies shy away from establishing business ventures and partnerships in Syria due to US economic sanctions.
So while the Syrian market is full of smuggled American goods, Americans cannot transfer much-needed professional skills to Syrians in any organised way. More than 40 years of badly administered Soviet-style socialism caused the country's best and brightest to leave, and those left behind were poorly trained and unaccustomed to international norms. Currently, Syria Today is perhaps the only private sector institution in Syria that serves as a vehicle for communicating the ideas and values behind American products on a regular basis, and as such is a rare medium for sharing business news and innovations between the two countries.
Because of the Syrian government's strict adherence to secular politics, we rarely raise the issue of religion in Syria Today. But we are able to engage in rich debate while grounded in very different cultures. American culture is explicit, freedom-loving, and straightforward. Syrian culture is more indirect, nuanced and hierarchical – the latter not only due to Syria's authoritarian system of government, but also because of traditional patriarchal family structures. Perhaps this is why one doesn't hear much in Syria about Western business ventures with Arab entrepreneurs; subtlety suits Syrians because involvement with Westerners could be used against them. In the West, we often shout about such things from the rooftops. It's a matter of style, not substance.
In the past, radical political change in authoritarian countries had to precede American engagement with state-dominated economies. With the advent of globalisation and the movement of states like Syria towards market capitalism, however, the American private sector can now engage Syrian business without going directly through the Syrian regime. But to do so properly, Washington needs to rethink its sanctions policy toward Syria and other such states, and encourage America's private sector to use its soft power to better relations. This approach will go a long way to repairing America's reputation in the world and promote mutual understanding.
Syria Today and ventures like it are more than just businesses – they are vehicles for engaging the public within countries that otherwise have very little contact with one another.
* Andrew Tabler is an outgoing fellow at the Washington-based Institute of Current World Affairs and editor-in-chief of Damascus' Syria Today magazine. This article is part of a series on joint Muslim-Western business ventures distributed by the Common Ground News Service (CGNews) and can be accessed at www.commongroundnews.org.
Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 13 November 2007, www.commongroudnews.org
Copyright permission has been obtained for publication.
Labels: Media, US Middle East Policy, US Syria Policy


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Q: I'm trying to block game "X" from accessing the internet including updating I'm using OS X El Capitan and I'm trying to prevent a game from accessing the internet including blocking it from checking for updates for the launcher or the game itself.
I've gone into Security -> Firewall -> unlocked settings -> Firewall Options -> Found the game in the list and changed it from "Allow incoming connections" to "Block incoming connections" and it still goes out and finds updates and tries to get me to accept them and update the launcher and program.
In my opinion the update has ruined game play so I don't want the update until they either change it back or they fix the game play enough that I want to play it their way. Until then, I want to block it from even checking to see if there are updates. I want to be absolutely, totally, offline like there is no network cable and not wireless internet or any other kind of internet.
Since this didn't work, please don't tell me to buy another product. Tell me what I did wrong and how I can fix it with what came with OS X.

A: The issue is that the firewall option stops connections from outside to the app but for an update the app initiates the contact to the suppliers server  so the firewall does not help here.
the program Little Snitch does allow you to control the app starting a conversation with another IP address and so can do what you want.

A: As mentioned, Little Snitch is the ultimate solution here allowing you to identify and block all connections. If that's a little heavy-handed for you though the Radio Silence app offers a simpler way to block specific files from connecting.

A: Another option would be to use HandsOff!. It works similarly to Little Snitch.

A: If this is Minecraft, I have a simpler and free solution. If you run the Minecraft launcher from the command line (java -jar Minecraft.jar) you can add proxy settings with command-line arguments. If you simply add dummy proxy settings, it will attempt to connect via a proxy that does not exist, blocking network connections.
Running java -jar Minecraft.jar -help will list the exact options and their syntax.

A: You can edit /etc/hosts with "sudo nano /etc/hosts" and put 127.0.0.1 as the ip address for whatever domain it is trying to connect to. Alternatively you can block that IP/domain on your home router, but this would only work when you're at home.

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Benefits of Lemongrass | Lemongrass is an herb. It's known as an important ingredient in Thai cuisine and most Thai curry dishes uses lemongrass as do stir-fry, soups and Thai salads and lemongrass tea. It is also used in other Asian cuisine such as Vietnamese Food.
Many people believe that lemongrass offers multiple health benefits, although researchers have not yet conducted enough large-scale studies to prove these benefits.
Lemongrass not only make Thai food authentic and delicious but lemongrass leaves and oil use in medicine. Lemongrass is a plant and perennial herb with a strong lemony aroma smell and flavor. It's rich in nutrients and therapeutic benefits and high in antioxidants and support the immune system; it also helps treat digestion, high blood pleasure, cough and pains!
Lemongrass is a delicious herb that offers a lot of health benefits.
While most of the studies to date on lemongrass are small-scale or lab-based, results show that lemongrass can help to improve oral health, lower cholesterol, and relieve bloating.
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Whether building a new home or considering a facelift on an existing home, there are midrange improvements that you can take to the bank, so to speak, while others may have you depositing some of your hard-earned cash right out the window. Knowing which ones provide the best return on investment (ROI) will make selling time more profitable.
Whether building a new home, remodeling an existing home or simply replacing an entrance door many homeowners think the only place they or their builder can to go for a door is a big box store. After all, there are stacks of pre-made doors ready to be carted off at every one of them. But, there is an award-winning alternative that not only provides high energy efficiency, but handcrafted affordable, durable style in each made-to-order door.
Many businesses start in a garage by one person holding a dream. Some last only long enough to realize that perhaps the car should get its home back for the winter. Others succeed. And of those that succeed, a handful excel due to a strong, in-the-heart commitment to integrity and faith. Such is the legacy of ProVia: A 35-year success story as a leading developer and manufacturer of exterior building products including exterior door systems, windows, super polymer vinyl siding and manufactured stone.
By definition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says green building – also known as sustainable or high performance building – is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the typical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability and comfort.
After striking out with a half-dozen or so door manufacturers who couldn't provide an acceptable solution, McKenna posed a question to his contact at one of the manufacturers he had consulted. "Who's your best competition? Who would give you a run for your money?" he asked. It took a while, but McKenna persisted and got his answer - ProVia.


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Q: Why does XMLHttpRequest work with some websites but not others? Receiving NetworkError The following code works and correctly prints the JSON at the indicated URL:
const req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/", false);
req.send();
console.log(req.responseText);

If you change the website to Google, it does not:
const req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", "https://www.google.com/", false);
req.send();
console.log(req.responseText);

You receive the following error:

This error seems misleading. Usually, when the word "network" is used, I think L3 or maybe L1/L2 but that's not the case here as we just proved the network is up and Google itself is accessible.
Question: Why does this not work?
Bonus: What is a strategy(ies) for obtaining more accurate error information from Javascript in a situation like this? The error seems to be either incorrectly labeled (perhaps that's opinion but at least from a network engineer's perspective you don't say "network" for a L7 problem anywhere I've ever worked) but I'm unsure how to investigate as "step into" doesn't actually work on the debugger.
Update
I noticed that it seems to be a CORS error in the browser console. Currently investigating but it's not clear to me why this happens for one site but not another unless they are returning different CORS headers (maybe that's what's happening here?)

A: A wide range of errors are filed under "Network error" for security reasons.
If Alice visited Mallory's website which used XHR to make a request to http://company-intranet/ then it could fail for numerous reasons including:

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*http://company-intranet/ doesn't exist

*http://company-intranet/ does exist but Mallory's website hasn't been granted permission to access it.

The exception thrown doesn't contain information that allows you to distinguish why because (even if we limit things to just those two failure cases) the different would tell Mallory if the company intranet existed at that URL.
The would then tell Mallory that Alice worked for a company with an intranet at that URL which would let Mallory specifically target Alice for further attacks (both technical and social).

What is a strategy(ies) for obtaining more accurate error information from Javascript in a situation like this?

More details are usually logged to the browser console in the developer tools. Usually as an error report immediately before the Network error that threw the exception.
The Network tab of the browser developer tools allows the full details of the request and response (if any) to be examined.


Italian hearing aid retailer Amplifon is undertaking a major expansion in the UK and a £10m rebranding exercise.
The company currently trades under the Ultratone, SieTech and Hearing Health names, these will be replaced with the single Amplifon brand – the new branding is being handled by the London-based Saatchi group this July.
The company, which is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, also plans to open an additional 22 stores in the UK, three of which will be in Manchester. They already have 143 shops and 120 day-care centres around the UK.
Enrico Vacca, Amplifon marketing director, said: "This is the biggest investment by any private company in our sector on the UK high street. When people have problems with their ears, we want them to come to us for free advice rather than depending on NHS waiting lists.
Amplifon claims to be the number one private provider of hearing aids in the UK with 23 per cent share of the market and last year had UK sales of £51m last year.


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Burapitant (SSR-240,600) is a drug developed by Sanofi-Aventis which was one of the first compounds developed that acts as a potent and selective antagonist for the NK1 receptor. While burapitant itself did not proceed beyond early clinical trials and was never developed for clinical use in humans, promising animal results from this and related compounds have led to a number of novel drugs from this class that have now been introduced into medical use.

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Prior to joining AMX in 2017, Hayk Yeganyan spent 4 years at the Central Bank of Armenia as the advisor to the Governor covering areas related to capital markets development, accumulative pension savings industry and being in charge of attracting foreign financial institutions into Armenia, covering both business development and relationship management aspects. During his tenure, he also served as member of the Supervisory Board of NASDAQ OMX Armenia for 1 year. Before joining the Central Bank of Armenia, he spent several years in London working within the private banking industry covering Russia and CIS region, and parallel to that also acting as the representative of the Armenian Development Agency in the UK. He started his career at Gazprom Armenia in 2006, where from 2007 to 2010 he served as head of securities market operations department, acting as company's pre-IPO internal lead manager. During that period together with his team, he successfully organised the first two public bond issuances in Armenia in 2007 and 2008. He holds a B.A. in Financial Economics from University of Leicester (UK), and MSc in Management from Imperial College London. Hayk Yeganyan is a member of the Supervisory Board of Central Depository of Armenia, OJSC.
Mikayel Hayrapetyan, CFO
Mikayel Hayrapetyan joined Armenia Securities Exchange in 2017. Mr. Hayrapetyan previously held leading positions in international audit and advisory companies including Baker Tilly Armenia and KPMG Cyprus, as well as provided consultancy in the field of financial and audit capacity building within several international projects with Asian Development Bank, Ameria Consulting and AARC Consultancy Limited. Mr. Hayrapetyan majored in Business Administration, Banking and Finance at European University Cyprus and holds ACCA membership.
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November 22, 2020 Nan Donald Trump, Elections, Politics	2020 presidential election, Electoral College, legal maneuverings, Trump loses election
As most people know, the outcome of the recent presidential election isn't really in doubt, yet Dear Leader continues to dispute the results.
No news there.
But the question becomes: Will he … can he … succeed in his efforts? Or will he FINALLY go down in defeat?
According to Politico, in order for Trump to overcome election results, some unprecedented legal steps would be required.
Republican-led legislatures in states Biden won would need to move to overturn their state's popular vote and appoint a slate of Trump electors when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14.
Since such maneuvers would be certain to meet vetoes from Democratic governors, the lawmakers would also need to secure a legal determination that they hold the sole power to appoint electors — a disputed legal premise that has never been tested.
Both actions are considered long shots; however, as most of us know, Trump is desperate.
So what say you?
No sure? Perhaps try consulting your crystal ball. Or do a bit of ommmm and see what the universe says. Or … I know! Ask your Republican neighbor!
Or better yet, make an educated guess.
Could He? Would He?
November 13, 2020 Nan Donald Trump, Elections, Politics	2020 presidential election, Contested voting results, Fareed Zakaria, Trump vs. Biden
This video is dated at the end of September, but it certainly has a (scary) prophetic ring to it. The brief clip (@ 3.03) where Trump makes reference to "Congress" indicates he actually has a clue about what Fareed is presenting in the video.
What do you think? Is this what Trump has been working on during his absence/silence?
Are We Looking At A Coup?
November 8, 2020 Nan Elections, Politics	2020 presidential election, banana republic, coup, democracy, Donald Trump reelection, Joe Biden
I'm going to let readers consider the following and make your own conclusions.
Coup: A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
From Vox: Trump is Attempting a Coup in Plain Sight
"Joe Biden has won the presidency. But the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, is attempting a coup in plain sight. "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!" he tweeted on Saturday morning. This came after he demanded that states cease counting votes when the total began to turn against him, after his press secretary shocked Fox News anchors by arguing that legally cast votes should be thrown out."
"That this coup probably will not work — that it is being carried out farcically, erratically, ineffectively — does not mean it is not happening, or that it will not have consequences. Millions will believe Trump, will see the election as stolen."
"Democracy works only when losers recognize that they have lost," writes political scientist Henry Farrell.
As some of you may be able to identify, I have relatives that are certain this election was "stolen." They are waiting with baited breath to see what their Dear Leader will do next … and will undoubtedly vigorously applaud his every action.
Image by John Hain from Pixabay
The Afterward
November 3, 2020 November 3, 2020 Nan Donald Trump, Elections, Politics
One last post (I hope) on Trump and the election. This is from Quora.
Mary Trump says her uncle is going to "burn it all down" because he can't face losing the election and deal with criminal charges. She says; "If he's going down, he's going to take us all down with him." What are your thoughts?
Response by Greg Hackney:
I'm sorry, and deeply upset, to have to tell you that I believe every single word Mary Trump has said. trump will lose next Tuesday, and will have three months to do as much damage as possible out of sheer spite because he lost. After Joe Biden is sworn in as our new President, he's going to face a huge problem trying to undo all of trump's national vandalism. Once he's gone from the White House, I can certainly see trump saying "Serves you right America, if you had reelected me, you wouldn't have all these horrible problems to deal with now." And then trump will blame Joe Biden for all the destruction trump himself will have generated. It's what he does.
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A Trump Supporter Viewpoint
October 31, 2020 Nan Donald Trump, Elections, Politics	2020 election, CNN, left bias reporting, Scott Jennings, Trump supporter
On the CNN website, (considered a Left Bias news source), I recently came across a writeup by Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor who is also a Trump supporter and a Republican campaign adviser.
I must say I was impressed by the article because the writer clearly offered his perspective minus the usual rancor, which gave me an opportunity to see the "other side's" point of view without raising my blood pressure.
This is not to say I agree with what Mr. Jennings wrote, but I can see why those who support the more conservative style of government would feel that Trump is in their corner.
See what you think …
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/opinions/donald-trump-deserves-second-term-jennings/index.html
P.S. There are a selection of videos at the top of the page. Your choice if you want to watch any of them — but it's the article itself that I'm referencing.
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Browse: Home / Property Rights
What are Property Rights?
"Laws created by governments in regards to how individuals can control, benefit from and transfer property. Economic theory contends that government enforcement of strong property rights is a determinant regarding the level of economic success seen in the area. Individuals will create new forms of property to generate wealth, only when they are assured that their rights to their property will protect them against unjust and/or unlawful actions by other parties." Read more at: Property Rights Definition | Investopedia
Property Rights "allow people to acquire property and to invest in capital goods – such as houses, factories and equipment that will improve their future lives and make production easier and cheaper – without the threat of being robbed or exploited by other people or by officials." – Eamonn Butler in Foundations of a Free Society
Replace Failed East-European Assumptions with Entrepreneurship
The zero sum-game advanced by some using out-dated economic assumptions that collapsed with the fall of the Berlin Wall views poverty as a consequence of some direct exploitation in which the state must step forward as supreme "custodian" of the country's wealth. Yet the reality of underdevelopment is that it is not exploitation per se, but marginalization from the mainstream of the economic life of the nation. We require a society of ownership by the people, not the state, if we are to provide sources of capital for the citizens.
Ownership for All
Private ownership, property titling and the rule of law must facilitate an open, investor-friendly business environment to stimulate job creation, personal responsibility and an ever-expanding network of opportunity in order to uplift the poorest of the poor. Putting the wealth-creating capacities of our nation into the hands of an elite ruling majority will not create wealth and opportunity. As experience across the world has demonstrated, such measures lead to the exact opposite. State governments have been and continue to be the worst exploiters of human beings.
Ending Apartheid's brutal legacy
The South African government owns much of the land that was forcefully taken by the apartheid state to serve their variant of white-minority statist regime. The land must be returned to the disenfranchised under a system of property-titling and private ownership. With private ownership come the opportunities to obtain loans against what one owns in order to start new enterprises and invest in further training or education. The government's inheritance of apartheid government confiscations must be returned to the people through the privatization of failing state assets and the resources the state currently owns to entrepreneurs, accompanied by a structured transfer of proceeds to those directly exploited and robbed under the apartheid regime.
Perhaps we can look no further than Temba Nolutshungu, a jailed contemporary of the late Steve Biko, who more than anyone else today remains a voice of the past with a solution to fulfilling the dream of a better future: a future in which we can all live not only in freedom by name, but a freedom that translates into decent living standards, fresh opportunities and the dignity that comes with succeeding as Africans on a continent that has so much to offer at precisely a time when global uncertainty calls for new ways of thinking. We showed the world that peace amidst the most trying of circumstances is possible to achieve. Each of us can take confidence in knowing that prosperity in the midst of poverty is a birthright each can obtain.
More about Property Rights in South Africa
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Free Market Foundation secures title deeds to property for apartheid victims
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by Kelly Liyakasa // Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 – 10:16 am
Digital think tank and research consultancy L2 is looking to corner the market on prestige brand and CPG strategy.
A new investment round of $16.5 million from General Catalyst Partners (a HubSpot investor) received Wednesday also underscores the intersection of the management consultancy and digital agency.
"The two primary buckets for this investment will be for technology, since we want to increase our ability to deliver more information across more regions in a more robust way," said L2's founder and CEO, Scott Galloway, a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business. "We [also] plan to have a dozen people in Europe by the end of the year, and some people on the West Coast and in Asia. We see an opportunity to be disruptive to traditional strategy consulting, which is about a $25 billion market."
Paul Sagan, a partner at General Catalyst, has joined L2 as non-executive chairman. Larry Bohn, managing director of General Catalyst, has also joined the board.
Galloway began the company four years ago when he saw a commercial opportunity from data that arose from a research project at NYU in which Galloway and his team applied 850 data points to rank 100 brands' digital footprints.
"We started in 'prestige' brands with L2 because we saw a digital revolution was coming to the luxury space," Galloway said. It was also an area underserved by traditional management consultancies, which had strong clout in verticals such as financial services.
"We've since expanded into CPG, and four years since our founding, our customers now include P&G, Unilever, Hyatt Hotels, Four Seasons, Chanel, and the list goes on from there," Galloway said. "We've now been tracking about 5,000 brands for four years across those 850 data points. We believe we've collected or assembled the largest data set on consumer brands online performance than has ever been collected by an organization that came from academic roots."
Galloway said L2 is similar to a management consultancy because it helps brands and clients prioritize and allocate capital around digital initiatives. The major difference between L2 and a more traditional agency, he said, is because the firm was grounded in academic process, it would avoid the obvious ramifications of an agency one day deciding to rank its clients and compare them to their competitors. L2's roots in brand benchmarking, he said, "sort of gave us a little bit of an unnatural barrier of entry to this because we started with that history of benchmarking."
Still, L2 offers what it calls subscription business intelligence services, through which clients can download research PDFs or sign into an online portal, where L2 actively tracks and reports how a brand is performing digitally relative to its immediate peer group in prestige.
Categories include brand performance in mobile, digital marketing, social, site and ecommerce presence. There's also a human services component, as L2 acts as a strategic consultant in brand briefings and hosts 50 vertically focused events per year. The company also is developing in-store shopper marketing and fulfillment efficiencies components to its services.


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Kansas City Chiefs 'Clearly The Team To Beat,' Says CBS Denver's Michael Spencer – CBS DC
(CBS Denver) — The Kansas City Chiefs have owned the AFC West the last five seasons. And much of that time coincides with Patrick Mahomes occupying the starting quarterback position. With largely the same lineup around the NFL's best player, Kansas City is favored to win another division title and possibly return to a third straight Super Bowl. The Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders, and Los Angeles Chargers, of course, don't see it that way. But have any of those teams improved enough to unseat the Chiefs?
"I would love to go contrarian and give you somebody other than the Kansas City Chiefs, but I just can't do that," CBS Denver sports anchor Michael Spencer said. "I think that they are clearly the team to beat, not only in the AFC West, but in the AFC. They've won the division five straight times. Anytime Patrick Mahomes is your starting quarterback, your team is going to be in a really good spot, not only to win the division, but to compete for Super Bowls. So the Chiefs are the class of this division. They have been ever since Peyton Manning retired, following the 2015 season, and I don't see that changing heading into 2021."
And Kansas City may actually be better in 2021, particularly along the offensive line, where they've struggled in past years. Orlando Brown Jr. comes over from the Baltimore Ravens to play left tackle. Joe Thuney arrives from the New England Patriots to take over the left guard spot. Third-round pick Lucan Niang out of Texas Christian seems set to start at right tackle. In fact, the current depth chart has new starters at all five positions.
"Can the Chiefs actually get better," Spencer wonders. "I think they spent a lot of capital this offseason bulking up their offensive line, which is a scary thought, because you're talking about a Chiefs offense that's already at the top of the league, maybe even being better heading into 2021, if they can protect Patrick Mahomes."
The Chargers have a budding star quarterback of their own in Justin Herbert. The Offensive Rookie of the Year threw for 4,336 yards and 31 touchdowns, both among the top 10 in those categories. "With the Chargers, you feel like you know what you have with Justin Herbert," said Spencer. "The question is can he continue to take steps forward in year two after what we saw in his rookie season last year? And what does their defense do? I think that might be the hang-up for Los Angeles moving forward."
The Chargers brought in Brandon Staley as the new head coach. Staley was previously the defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, who boasted the NFL's top defense last season. Whether his presence and the team's added focus on defense provides a boost to the unit remains to be seen. But going from a 4-3 scheme to a 3-4 scheme, as the Chargers are doing, always leads to some growing pains. They will welcome back Derwin James, who missed the entire 2020 season due to injury.
The Broncos are going all in on defense after a season in which they allowed nearly 28 points per game. They allowed 130 yards per game on the ground, which was among the worst in the league. Their pass defense was a little better. This year finds Pro Bowl veterans like Von Miller and Kyle Fuller in contract years. Coming off one of his better seasons, Bradley Chubb should be in good form, if he can stay healthy. Denver also added cornerback Patrick Surtain II at cornerback in first round.
"Two games, and the Broncos defense has only allowed nine points," Spencer points out. "The team is hoping that that is a sign of things to come."
Despite being a defense-first team, a lot of training camp speculation has surrounded the quarterback battle between Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock. According to Spencer, "both guys have played well, so I guess that's a good thing, heading into the regular season, despite the fact that neither guy — Teddy Bridgewater nor Drew Lock — is really separating himself in that competition just yet." (Note: after recording the above video, Bridgewater was named the Broncos' starting quarterback.)
Bridgewater will lead a young, talented offensive unit that returns Courtland Sutton and Jerry Jeudy. Denver could also have a strong running game. "Rookie Javonte Williams could have himself a good season," Spencer thinks. "I'll be interested to see what Melvin Gordon does too, because there's been a lot of hype around Javonte Williams in training camp. I think he is going to be a fantasy darling this year for teams, especially early in the season."
The Raiders started last season strong and then collapsed in the second half. They still managed an 8-8 record and a second-place finish in the division. Derek Carr has passed for 4,000-plus yards the last three seasons, and Darren Waller has emerged as one of the league's best playmakers from the tight end position. Henry Ruggs III and Bryan Edwards will be looking to build upon their rookie seasons. The key to everyone's success on this side of the ball may be how the Raiders' revamped offensive line comes together.
"It seems like there's always hype around the Raiders," Spencer notes. "They never live up to that hype. I have a feeling that might be the case again."
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As far as construction is concerned, it is a principle which should dominate the thinking of everyone concerned in any project. That starts with the Client getting their needs and their Brief sorted; to their Architects and Consultants preparing their drawings and specifications and then to their contractors once the project starts.
Now for the Clients, this can be difficult, we know. Usually the people they have involved to do this have never been involved in a construction project in their lives. To them it is just a complication added to their Change Management project.
For now, though, I'll just talk about the contractors. This topic, really, is a continuation of "De-Snag as you go". It is an argument that de-snagging should be made totally unnecessary. – well, almost, because we all make genuine mistakes. However, if a little extra thought and attention is given to it before each and every Task is started, those mistakes can be almost eliminated.
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Three academic chairs at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women work collaboratively and tirelessly to take research from the lab bench to where it matters – the bedside.
~ written by Lyndsie Bourgon
The Lois Hole Hospital for Women – and its clinics, patient rooms and hallways – are where many of Alberta's women experience the most difficult moments of their lives. But this is also a place of hope and change, where developments and commitments in research are improving maternal and women's health in direct ways. Of these developments, none is more significant than the addition of three research chairs, led by three remarkable women who bring a revelatory focus to women's health and set new best practices in the field, garnering national attention at the same time they are increasing the depth of local care.
Committed to advancing findings in women's health, these researchers are Dr. Sue Ross, Dr. Lynne-Marie Postovit and Dr. Radha Chari. All three have all been working to bring about change in women's medicine and how it is delivered to patients. In short: it's all about making women feel better.
"The goal is to consider patient experience," says Dr. Ross, chatting over tea at the kitchen table in her weekend home. All around her is a mess from a remodelling project that Ross is hoping to see the end of soon, but for now, it's a work in progress. At work, it's the tangible effects of research on the lives of women that matters most to Ross. "To me it doesn't matter if you provide perfect clinical treatment, it doesn't matter if it doesn't help women to feel better in some way, shape or form."
Dr. Ross made her way to Alberta and the Lois Hole Hospital for Women via her upbringing and education and in Scotland where she originally trained as a pharmacist. After earning her PhD in health services research, studying how patients access health care and how they respond to treatment, she began doing clinical trials in surgery and family medicine. Since moving to Canada in 1999, her research has focused on obstetrics and gynecology. She now spends the majority of her working time in Edmonton, with three or four days a month in Calgary, maintaining research projects in both cities. "My goal is to lead Alberta- and Canada-wide research," says Ross, adding that the Cavarzan Chair in Mature Women's Health Research at the Lois Hole, "has been the most fantastic experience I could have imagined in many ways." She was awarded the chair in 2012, and until then she had been balancing her time between research and teaching responsibilities. Her position at the hospital means she is able to focus on research and writing full-time.
"To me it doesn't matter if you provide perfect clinical treatment, it doesn't matter if it doesn't help women to feel better in some way, shape or form." ~ Dr. Sue Ross
Ross's research aims to ensure that clinical treatments are safe and effective for problems that commonly affect mature women, such as pelvic floor disorders that including leaking urine and feces and pelvic organ prolapse (where the uterus or other pelvic organs bulge into the vagina), and problems associated with menopause. These disorders cause women significant distress and adversely affect quality of life. Ross's goal is to help women and their doctors to make the best treatment decisions.
Ross has led clinical trials, testing the efficacy and safety of new treatments for pelvic floor disorders, but her work is now taking a different approach "I want to look at the prevalence, cost and impact of pelvic floor disorders in Canada," she says. "There are some vague numbers, but you cannot get an idea of how widespread pelvic floor disorders really are, and people feel stigmatized if their symptoms are severe." This is also a work in progress for Ross. Recently, she and her multidisciplinary research team were given access to national data from family physician clinics across the country in regards to this research. "When you work at a hospital, you get the impression that it's a really big deal, but of course the people who come in are only the tip of the iceberg," she says. The study helps target treatments and provides estimates of increase to the clinical workload as the population ages and the number of women with these disorders increases.
Ross and her research team have been working with the multidisciplinary menopause clinics in Edmonton to introduce a quality of life measurement, adding this to existing symptom measurements. The added questionnaire will provide insight into if and how much menopause impacts a woman's quality of life, and builds on the team's other research to explore the best types of treatment for women with difficult menopause.
Dr. Ross currently has a number of papers in development with various other researchers and scholars across Canada, and she is designing studies and guiding them through to funding, research and publishing. "It's the writing that takes the time," she says, noting that she's interested in learning more about communicating her work with the public. She says her time at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women has been eye-opening. "I get to work with lots of interesting people and learn new things every day," she says. She makes sure that researchers ask questions that generate novel and useful answers. "It's important that I'm present at the hospital interacting every day with clinicians and patients."
While it might seem that Ross is stretched thin between projects, it's this all-encompassing work ethic that makes her work stand out. "Sticking to your passions against all the odds can really pay off," she says.
Following your passions is a sentiment that everyone at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women can get behind. The foundation's research chairs all conduct their work from the hospital, and they are all dedicated to women's health, and bringing to the forefront a field that has been traditionally underfunded. Part of how they stick to their guns is through a commitment to community, and working together to create an atmosphere that embraces multi-disciplinary solutions.
"When we're asking big questions, the only way we'll get answers is by working as a team and bringing all of our expertise into the fold," says Dr. Lynne-Marie Postovit.
Dr. Postovit has done groundbreaking research in the field of tumour progression, and has been the Sawin-Baldwin Chair in Ovarian Cancer at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women since taking up the post in 2013. She also holds positions at the University of Alberta, the Cancer Institute of Northern Alberta and is the Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions Translational Health Chair in Cancer. Postovit has a PhD in anatomy and cell biology, and has spent her time considering how the environment surrounding a tumour might promote its progression. "We're trying to understand what causes that, so that we can get in there and prevent it," she says. As her career progressed she moved her lab from London, Ontario to Edmonton, and started looking at how the stem cell system and cancer cells share similarities. "The focus of our entire program is understanding how an environment can push cancer progression," she says.
Postovit's work focuses on ovarian and breast cancers because often they are the hardest to identify in time to treat them successfully. In her ovarian cancer research, Postovit is hunting for a way to diagnose the disease earlier – most ovarian cancers go undetected until they are diagnosed in stage three or four, and that point they have a low cure rate. "So we need a way to be able to detect this earlier, at stage one, for example. One of the things we're doing is trying to find biomarkers for ovarian cancer," she says, noting that it's a team of researchers working together on this work. "We're doing this by looking at patient samples and using high-end techniques to try to discover what these cells might be secreting into their micro-environment so we might detect it as an early marker." She also notes that, for now, there will always be women who have their cancers detected too late. "We're trying to find targets that might prevent occurrence," she says.
"I want the work we're doing to make a difference. That might mean finding a eureka moment, or it might mean slowly improving outcomes." ~ Dr. Lynne-Marie Postovit
It's the teamwork that Dr. Postovit finds most imperative. "When you're asking large questions, the only way to get answers is by working as a team and bringing our expertise into the fold," she says. "This ranges from understanding the progression of the disease to surgically removing it to analyzing it and designing clinical trials."
She is motivated by her patients, and she enjoys interacting with them through her findings. "It's a reminder of how much needs to be done," she says. "I want the work we're doing to make a difference. That might mean finding a eureka moment, or it might mean slowly improving outcomes."
Slowly improving outcomes seems to be the case. And because it's the kind of work that takes a long-haul commitment, all of the researchers associated with the Lois Hole Hospital for Women need to be incredibly self-motivated, each of them wearing so many hats (or occupying so many positions, it seems) that it can be hard to keep them straight.
Dr. Radha Chari has taken on so many projects that she keeps them in a bullet point list. She is the head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, based at the at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, a university associate professor and a zone clinical department head for women's health for Alberta Health Services in Edmonton. Her work stretches across northern Alberta and into the Northwest Territories, and she has numerous research projects underway.
A maternal-fetal medicine specialist for two decades, high-risk pregnancies are Dr. Chari's realm, and she has worked to develop consultation programs in northern and central Alberta with cardiology, urology and neurology experts in pediatrics. "To me, it's a real growing opportunity, also working with neonatologists and pediatricians in Edmonton and Calgary," she says.
Collaboration is key to Dr. Chari's work. She recently began working with researchers from the University of Alberta's physical education and recreation faculty, considering the effects of exercise on fetal growth. "This is beyond the faculty of medicine, which I am finding exciting," she says. As a vice president for the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Canada, Chari is helping to revamp the process the society follows when it comes to implementing guidelines for its ob-gyn members. She sees this as a way to contribute directly to women's health, as it targets not only ob-gyns but also family physicians, midwives, nurses and administrators. "I have always had a real interest in women's health, and am hoping to contribute to it," she says. "I want to make a difference in improving how we do things."
"I have always had a real interest in women's health, and am hoping to contribute to it. I want to make a difference in improving how we do things." ~ Dr. Radha Chari
It's this quest for new knowledge that she hopes to apply directly to advancements in patient care. Chari was involved in applying new technology to determine fetal prognosis, and was part of a team that developed MRI reference ranges to help predict newborn lung function. She has also been the lead researcher on a national trial looking at the management of preterm pre-labour rupture of the membranes (PPROM) in patients between 32 and 37 weeks' gestation, and its impact on neonatal outcome. She currently works with basic scientists in pediatrics to evaluate perinatal management and pediatric health outcomes.
Working together at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women will give the research chairs an opportunity to strengthen their research and collaborate at the regional and provincial level. "We're all different, we all have different areas of interest, which I think is a really great thing," says Dr. Chari. "Obstetrics and gynecology is vast and covers a broad area. It's becoming more important that we link our research to clinical practice." She believes that when everyone works together, from basic scientists to clinicians, the findings are stronger and more relevant than research that exists in isolation.
The goal is to apply their knowledge to patient care, improving the work that happens at the hospital. "There are things that are going to be relevant to clinical practice," says Chari. Working that knowledge into practice is her goal. "It's connecting across a continuum, taking research to the bedside."
The support that an institution like the Lois Hole Hospital for Women can give to researchers like Drs. Ross, Chari and Postovit is invaluable. "We hope that we can be one of the leading centres nationally, and even internationally," Postovit says. All three researchers are deepening the expertise of the institution and the field. Postovit says she was excited to come to community that demonstrates leadership in valuing women's health.
They want to make a difference. "We're representing early discovery all the way through to translation," says Postovit. "We come up with a lot of great ideas and leads, but eventually we need to be able to help the patients."


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BIIF baseball: Ka'u, Pahoa not just playing pushover this season
By MATT GERHART Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Monday, April 4, 2022, 12:05 a.m.
Ka'u High's Pomai Kajiwara-Ke was not the likeliest candidate to play walk-off baseball hero, his coach said. But one swing of the bat can change a lot for a player and team.
This is not your pre-pandemic BIIF Division II baseball playoff race. Not with Pahoa primed to grab a berth and not with the Trojans now also in contention after storming back to beat Hawaii Prep 7-6 on Saturday at Wong Stadium. Kajiwara-Ke capped a four-run rally with a two-out single that brought home Ocean Nihipali-Sesson with the winning run.
Ka'u coach Rolland Alcoran used one word to describe the bottom of the seventh: "Pandemonium."
It produced his team's first win, came before an excited cheering section and came after he gave Kajiwara-Ke a little pep talk.
"Pomai's been struggling all year and not confident," Alcoran said. "That last inning, I told him to just be confident, get the bat on the ball. Good things happen when you hit it, and, sure enough, he hit it.
"This was our championship, to get out of the cellar, and they bought in. They were down (five), but they weren't giving up."
But he's also hopeful Kajiwara-Ke's newfound confidence can become contagious. The Trojans were handled in their first two games this season by Pahoa (1-2) and Honokaa (4-1), but they might have a new look for their remaining contests: at Kamehameha (2-0) on Monday and against Konawaena (2-2) on April 16.
"Our players, they are kind of unsure of themselves," Alcoran said. "They have the talent, they are used to playing sports, this is just new to them. This game right here, we're going to have a different outlook."
The mindset is also different with the Daggers, who are fielding a team for the first time since a winless 2017 campaign after Gavien DeMello helped resurrect the program.
"I knew I was going to have a team. I knew I was going to have at least 10 to 12 players," DeMello said. "It actually surprised me, 16 came out. It was really nice to see."
Pahoa's 10-0 win against Ka'u on March 5 was its first victory since 2015, and another one Monday at Hawaii Prep (0-3) would go a long way toward gaining a spot in the semifinals.
"My goal from the start was making the playoffs," DeMello said. "Big game for us (Monday)."
In their last game March 29, Pahoa battled back to tie Konawaena before falling 6-5.
DeMello has had himself a full school year. He also was an assistant on the Daggers' football team and coached the basketball team.
"I need a vacation after this," he said with a laugh.
When he comes back, one of his goals is to continue to grow the baseball program. Pahoa has five club players: Tripp Kahsen, Donivan Lynch, Brayden Conda-Tolle, Angus Johnston and Shane Sale-Silva. All but Sale-Silva played under DeMello with the Waiakea Uka Tigers.
"The good thing is I only have four upperclassmen," he said. "My goal, down the line, is for a lot of the guys that go to (play at) Hilo and Waiakea and stuff, who live on this side, is for them to come back after seeing that we have a good program."
Because of its location, Ka'u has it even tougher to make baseball ends meet. The Trojans revived their program in 2019, winning a game, before the pandemic shut down play the next season.
Alcoran calls it an "all-hands-on-deck effort" to field a team.
"These kids, they show up every day, they work hard," he said. "Some of them never played baseball. I had a handful of them that kind of showed up this year. Worked hard and it paid off for them."
Others, such as senior Jonah Beck, came up with Ka'u's youth baseball program.
In the bottom of the seventh Saturday at Wong, Beck drew a walk to put runners first and second after Keenan Toriano coaxed a walk to open the frame. The key at-bat of the inning, the coach said, was when the next batter, Jocyiah Mukini, hit a ball to third that was misplayed for an error, allowing Toriano to score.
Nihipali-Sesson's hit made it 6-5 and Cyrus Eder's grounder scored the tying run, setting the stage for Kajiwara-Ke, who was able to impress some younger fans.
"What was so awesome was we had our feeder programs, our Mustangs and our Pony, and they were playing down at the other field," Alcoran said. "They got done, and they got to come and watch the last three innings. They were excited and cheering. It was great."
Toriano came on in the fifth to limit Ka Makani and was the winning pitcher.
Trailing 6-1, the Trojans chipped away at their deficit in the sixth, scoring two runs.
Ka Makani lost despite outhitting Ka'u 7-3. Hudson Mangold, Alex Goodman and Krystof Kalina collected two hits apiece for HPA.
Hilo 13, Keaau 0: Xaige Lancaster hit a three-run, inside-the-park homer Saturday at Wong Stadium, and the Vikings used four pitchers and got every position player an at-bat against the winless Cougars.
Eli Yamanaka, Jayden Geraci, Braycen Furuli and Dylan Villanueva pitched for Hilo (3-1).
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In its government-wide Statement of Net Position, a government
reported assets of $165 million, including $50 million in capital
assets (net of depreciation), and liabilities of $80 million,
including long-term debt of $60 million, $40 million of which was
issued to acquire capital assets. In addition, $30 million was
restricted for debt service and other purposes. The government's
Unrestricted Net Position would be reported as:
A) $85 million.
B) $55 million.
C) $45 million.
D) $35 million.
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