Photographer Alex Bartsch has set himself an ambitious mission to track down the locations on the sleeves of iconic UK reggae records.
Photographer Alex Bartsch has set himself an ambitious mission to track down the locations on the sleeves of iconic UK reggae records released over two decades, between 1967 and 1987.
London has had a long and illustrious relationship with the evolution of reggae in the UK. Unlike any other genre through the '60s into the '80s, it has served as a tool to galvanise emerging communities and bridge cultural divides.
Alex Bartsch is a London-based photographer who will be honouring the invisible marks reggae has left on London's landscape by photographing famous record covers, in situ.
Alex's appreciation of reggae was a gift from his father and in addition to living in Brixton – home of Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue – a project was born. Alex will be using his personal record collection, spanning from 1967 to 1987, to launch a Kickstarter campaign to turn these nostalgic photographs into a book.
When did your love of reggae begin?
My dad introduced me to Bob Marley when I was young. About 10 years ago I started collecting records, mostly reggae music. I just like soulful music and reggae fits well in that category.
Why does vinyl still play such an important part to our musical experience today?
For me I just like having the physical form of the music. Just like in photography, negatives are the physical form of the photograph. Vinyl is the same for music; it's something you can hold in your hands.
Have you met any of the original photographers or artists featured on the record sleeves?
I contacted some of the photographers, artists and producers. It was interesting to hear their stories and some helped me find various locations. Richard Holt who photographed some of the Trojan covers told me the location of Jah Woosh's Religious Dread. I had spent months looking for that one and without his help I don't think I would have found it. I also met Desmond Bryan who worked at Black Music/Starlight Records because one of the covers was taken in his back yard and I needed him to let me shoot that cover in his garden.
What methods of detective work did you undertake to find these locations?
Perseverance is a good tool! I have spent hours looking through images on the internet for a place or landmark. It often starts with the information on the record sleeve but many of them don't offer much to go on. I have learned through doing this project that a good place to start is the area where the label was based. Sometimes it was just outside the door of the record label.
What was the most difficult cover to shoot and have there been any individuals unsympathetic to your project?
King Kong's Trouble Again was a difficult one. The cover photo was taken on one of the shop's rooftops on City Road. After tracking down the owner of one of the flats above I was told that she was a difficult woman and wouldn't agree to let me onto her roof. So, I borrowed a ladder to climb onto the roof myself but when I got there I met the owner of a restaurant on the same stretch who agreed to let me through one of the flats above. No ladder needed. Thank you Tas Firin Restaurant!
With London's perpetually changing landscape were there any locations that had ceased to exist?
Surprisingly most of the cover locations I was researching had not changed much. Music House Vol.1 on Trojan has now disappeared. There's a couple of records where I don't know their location, maybe they were replaced by flats or local supermarkets and have disappeared now.
Check out Alex Bartsch's Kickstarter campaign for Covers: Retracing Record Sleeves in London.


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Taxi class :
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A: The problem is findInBackground(), you should change it with find() because you did already an asnc task, "findInBackground()" creates  new background thread, and when your asnc task finished, you probably won't get the results. Because your asnc task will not wait Parse background threads. You should change it with find(). Also Parse suggests findInBackground() in background tasks.

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Aviva has advised its business customers to be aware of the threat of arson because fire damage claims are rising.
Allister Smith, property risk manager at the organisation, made his comments following the release of figures by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
Its report showed that fire damage claims had gone up by 20 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the same time two years ago.
Mr Smith claimed that 40 per cent of the fires that are claimed for at Aviva are started deliberately so businesses need to be wary of the opportunistic nature of arsonists.
He said: "A fire will, at best, be disruptive to a business and, at worst, lead to death of and injury to employees, severe property and business interruption damage."
Last month, Aviva claimed that fraud now costs the UK insurance market around £19 billion a year, according to ABI statistics.


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IFSCC Congress 2022 London, UK
University of Lisbon mapping brain responses to fragrance: 'Sense of smell is the most mysterious'
By Kacey Culliney contact
05-Dec-2022 - Last updated on 06-Dec-2022 at 15:58 GMT
The team are aiming to quantify emotional responses to fragrances, ultimately empowering formulators to predict impact and design to influence [Getty Images]
Related tags: Fragrance, neuroscience, brain, Psychology, scents, Emotion, Research, smell
The University of Lisbon is working to build a database of brain responses to individual fragrances to help industry better predict how consumers will respond to perfumes or scented beauty products.
The team also hoped to use findings to empower smart scent creations that could offer a psychotherapeutic effect for the wearer.
A team at Portugal's University of Lisbon was conducting research to map brain activity and brain response to certain fragrances, working to create a database of results that provided subjective and objective insight into human response to scents.
"The goal is, in effect, to build a database so when you have a fragrance or a blend, you can predict what the response of our customers will be," said Hugo Alexandre-Ferreira PhD, associate professor at the University of Portugal.
Understanding sense of smell
Speaking to attendees at this year's IFSCC Congress in London, UK, back in September, Alexandre-Ferreira said building a database that aimed to quantify sense of smell and fragrance response was important because there was still so much to understand.
"For me, the sense of smell is the most mysterious one," he said. "For instance, with sight and hearing, you can close your eyes and picture an image and hear the voice of your loved one, but for smell this is different. You cannot voluntarily evoke a sense of smell. Why is that?"
Recent research that was "ever more consensual", he said, indicated that sense of smell was managed by an olfactory network comprised of three different network stages: a frontal brain network that processed physical interactions of olfactory molecules and olfactory receptors; a salience network that registered conscious response to stimuli; and a final system that processed emotions and memories related to a smell.
"[Sense of smell] is all to do with how these systems are connected."
Quantifying sense of smell
And so, it was quantifying these connections that was most interesting, Alexandre-Ferreira said.
For more than 100 years, researchers had relied on electroencephalograms (EEG) to record electrical activity of the brain via electrodes affixed to the scalp, he said – a "very powerful technique" that revealed the dynamic workings of the human brain.
However, he said there were a "number of challenges" associated with EEG, namely how researchers could be sure that each brain region response was due to the stimuli being researched. Interpretation of EEG results also remained complex, he said.
What the team at the University of Lisbon was doing, he said, was "looking for quantitative signatures of emotions". They were, therefore, using EEG and assessing how different brain regions were communicating and how synchronised they were, combined with a self-assessment stage whereby study participants were asked to respond to subjective questions after 10 seconds of exposure to a particular fragrance.
Based on these research methods, Alexandre-Ferreira said the team was able to segregate the different fragrances and identify a "number of strong connections" between brain regions upon fragrance exposure. The team had then digitally mapped these connections – between the theta, alpha and gamma regions – and found that a number had "similar patterns", he said.
Fragrances for mental health and wellbeing
Moving forward, beyond the goal of building a database that could be used by formulators to predict fragrance response, he said the team ultimately wanted to create a database that could be used to empower the creation of fragrances that offered a psychotherapeutic effect; to target anxiety and even depression. This could become even more interesting, he said, when working with fragranced skin care products because of additional stimuli and thus larger effect on biofeedback.
At the same Congress, South Korean beauty major Amorepacific outlined its 'mind-linked bathbot' concept, whereby a personalised bath bomb was formulated according to real-time consumer emotional needs. The technology, initially unveiled at CES 2022, used a wireless headset to identify the emotional state of a user when exposed to certain fragrances and colours by tracking brain waves in real-time. An algorithm then identified the current emotion of that user and recommended a fragrance blend and colours to suit individual needs. Whilst still at concept stage, Amorepacific researcher Gusang Kwon said there was huge potential in using real-time brain activity to develop and advance personalised beauty products.
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Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton will celebrate a Respect Life Mass and Candlelight Rosary at 6 p.m., Jan. 26, 2021, at Holy Family Church, Steubenville. All are invited to join in praying for an end to abortion and a greater respect for all human life. For additional information, contact Joseph A. Schmidt, director of the diocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Respect Life by emailing jschmidt@diosteub.org or by telephoning (740) 516-9270. The Mass will be livestreamed on www.holyfamilysteubenville.com and the Holy Family Parish YouTube channel. It will be shared on the Diocese of Steubenville's Facebook page as well.


Ahead of celebrating another year of Canadian music on the West Coast this March, organizers behind the Juno Awards have revealed where they'll be hosting the event in 2019.
Today, organizers revealed London, ON, as the host city for 2019. It marks the first time the southern Ontario city has hosted the awards. The 2019 ceremony will take place March 17 at Budweiser Gardens and will be broadcast on CBC.
This year's Juno Awards will be held in Vancouver, with the Michael Buble-hosted ceremony set to take place March 25. You can find the official 2019 announcement below.


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Crateroscelis est un genre d'oiseaux de la famille des Acanthizidae.

Liste des espèces
Selon :
 Crateroscelis murina (Sclater, PL, 1858)
 Crateroscelis murina capitalis Stresemann & Paludan, 1932
 Crateroscelis murina monacha (Gray, GR, 1858)
 Crateroscelis murina murina (Sclater, PL, 1858)
 Crateroscelis murina pallida Rand, 1938
 Crateroscelis nigrorufa (Salvadori, 1894)
 Crateroscelis nigrorufa nigrorufa (Salvadori, 1894)
 Crateroscelis robusta (De Vis, 1898)
 Crateroscelis robusta bastille Diamond, 1969
 Crateroscelis robusta deficiens Hartert, 1930
 Crateroscelis robusta diamondi Beehler & Prawiradilaga, 2010
 Crateroscelis robusta peninsularis Hartert, 1930
 Crateroscelis robusta robusta (De Vis, 1898)
 Crateroscelis robusta sanfordi Hartert, 1930

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Celebrating Two Decades of Transformative Leadership under Lee C. Bollinger
President Bollinger addresses graduating students and their families at Columbia's Commencement in May. (Eileen Barroso)
When Lee C. Bollinger steps down as president at the end of this academic year, after leading Columbia University for more than two decades, he will bring to a close a historic era for the University, one that has brought extraordinary physical and intellectual transformation.
"Building knowledge, creating space for the exploration of new ideas, and examining what is needed for the betterment of future societies are just some of the themes of Lee's tenure," wrote University Trustee co-chairs Lisa Carnoy '89CC and Jonathan Lavine '88CC in a statement about Bollinger's legacy. "But at heart he is an educator, and every new building project, academic initiative, and fundraising campaign that he undertook was in service of creating a world-class environment for learning and teaching … His leadership has had a profound impact on the University and will leave behind a rich foundation upon which a new era for Columbia can flourish."
When Bollinger was inaugurated on the steps of Low Library on October 3, 2002, he shared his vision for what he called "the quintessential great urban university" and spoke of the need for Columbia to engage more deeply with the outside world while retaining its distinctive academic character. He discussed the rich and dynamic history of Upper Manhattan and the University's plans to strengthen its ties with its neighbors. He spoke of his commitment to promoting diversity among students, faculty, and staff and announced his intention to expand the University's physical footprint so that it had the space to grow as a hub for new knowledge and life-changing innovations. Over the next two decades, these goals would fundamentally reshape the University.
Bollinger greets the Dalai Lama at the World Leaders Forum in 2005. (Eileen Barroso)
Under Bollinger's leadership, the University has built on its strengths as a research institution with a thriving liberal-arts program and expanded into new areas. Columbia has invested in the arts and sciences and its celebrated Core Curriculum while also launching ambitious cross-disciplinary programs in areas like data science, neuroscience, the arts, cancer research and care, the humanities, journalism, and precision medicine. Government funding for research at Columbia, including from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has grown considerably during his tenure.
Central to Bollinger's vision for the future was his plan to address the University's space constraints. Careful deliberations early in his tenure resulted in proposals for a campus in a former industrial neighborhood of West Harlem spanning from 125th Street to 133rd Street between Broadway and 12th Avenue. The plan proceeded after Columbia committed to investing tens of millions of dollars in local affordable housing and educational, health, and other benefits, as negotiated with West Harlem residents as part of a community-benefits agreement.
Bollinger, with former mayors David Dinkins and Michael Nutter, welcomes Congressman John Lewis to a SIPA forum in 2017. (Susan Cook)
In 2017, Columbia opened the first two buildings on its Manhattanville campus: the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, which is the home of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the Lenfest Center for the Arts. The Forum, a multi-use venue, followed in 2018, and earlier this year the first phase of construction ended when Columbia Business School moved into Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall.
While the construction of the Manhattanville campus represents Columbia's most ambitious physical expansion in more than a century, the University has also renovated or expanded 2.8 million square feet of educational space on the Morningside Heights and medical-center campuses during Bollinger's presidency.
Bollinger speaks at the dedication of the Manhattanville campus in 2016. (Eileen Barroso)
Bollinger, a lifelong advocate for diversity in higher education, oversaw a $185 million faculty-diversity initiative and has transformed the University's leadership through his appointment of record numbers of women to deanships and other high-level positions. He elevated Columbia's international profile through the establishment of nine overseas research hubs, called Columbia Global Centers, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America and underscored his commitment to deepening academia's engagement with the outside world by championing research programs that address real-world issues like climate change, sustainable development, and the protection of free speech. In 2017, the University launched Columbia World Projects to support partnerships with governments, businesses, and other external organizations with the goal of translating the University's research and scholarship capabilities into tangible benefits for people around the world. And in 2020, the University announced the creation of the Columbia Climate School, the first school in the nation devoted to addressing the global climate crisis.
Under Bollinger, the University has also made major investments in strengthening its relationship with alumni, most notably by establishing the Columbia Alumni Association, a global network that links 375,000 alumni in more than one hundred countries, and by opening the Columbia Alumni Center on West 113th Street, which provides a dedicated space for graduates to meet, relax, and access University resources. Alumni and friends of the University have donated more than $13 billion to Columbia during Bollinger's tenure, supporting undergraduate education and research, student advising, capital projects, new professorships, athletics, and financial aid across Columbia's schools. These efforts now include the Columbia Student Support Initiative, a university-wide plan announced last year to expand access and reduce student debt by raising $1.4 billion by 2025.
Lee and Jean Magnano Bollinger tour Manhattanville with Italian architect Renzo Piano, whose firm developed the campus master plan and designed several new buildings. (Eileen Barroso)
In an e-mail to the Columbia community, Bollinger wrote, "I cannot begin to express what it has meant to me to serve in this role for this magnificent University for over two decades. Certainly, it has been a defining experience of my life. It has also been an especially high pleasure to do so at the beginning of the new century and in a period of rising intellectual excellence across the institution. No university in the world is more committed to the life of the mind or possessed of the will to bring knowledge and ideas to the service of humanity."
The Board of Trustees has established a search committee to oversee the process of selecting Columbia's next president. The committee, led by Lisa Carnoy, includes Nobel laureate neuroscientist Richard Axel '67CC; professor of medicine and University Senate chair Jeanine D'Armiento; English professor and scholar of African-American studies Farah Jasmine Griffin; biomedical-engineering professor X. Edward Guo; Brandeis University president Ronald D. Liebowitz '85GSAS; Trustee Emerita Esta Stecher '82LAW, as well as Jonathan Lavine and seven other Trustees — Rolando T. Acosta '79CC, '82LAW, Abigail Black Elbaum '92CC, '94BUS, Mark Gallogly '86BUS, Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. '78CC, David J. Greenwald '83LAW, Wanda Holland Greene '89CC, '91TC, and Claire Shipman '86CC, '94SIPA.
Manhattanville's first new facilities: the Lenfest Center for the Arts, the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, and the Forum. (Frank Oudeman)
The search committee will manage the recruitment and assessment of candidates, presenting finalists to the full Board of Trustees, whose members will then confer with the Executive Committee of the University Senate to reach consensus on the ultimate nominee. The Trustees have also established several advisory committees representing faculty, students, alumni, and staff from across the University to solicit input on the qualities that Columbia's next president should possess.
Bollinger, who is also the first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and a prominent First Amendment scholar, will continue to teach at the University and pursue his research and scholarship full-time.
Looking ahead to the future, he says: "Columbia is notably agile, creative, fresh, and experimental. I am certain that the conditions are present for an even more brilliant future in the decades ahead. And I will leave confident that our potential and aspirations will be realized."
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David Sawyer responds to the Scottish launch of the PRCA's Digital Report 2015. Digital isn't a regional issue for public relations. It's much bigger. I attended the Scottish launch of the PRCA's new digital report on Tuesday. I'd read Stephen's post and probably wouldn't have bothered going if the event hadn't taken place 10 metres from my office.
The panel discussion was excellent, with great contributions from Ailsa Graham (high up in the sophisticated Scottish Government comms machine), Matt Roper (heads up STV's digital offering) and Thom Watt, a great recent hire from my alma mater Weber Shandwick.
The next morning I was minding my own business finishing a blog post I'd ghost-written for a client, when I got one of those Today Programme open questions via a Tweet, predictably from Stephen himself.
Not wanting to reply in fewer than 140 characters I resorted to email. He asked me to put it in a blog post.
Sample size low at 280.
Mainly relevant to practitioners based in London. Less accurate for the vast majority of the public relations industry (based outside the M25).
The data told me little new but did confirm what I thought (which is sometimes the point of data). Bar a few surprising findings.
I'm a Scottish public relations practitioner who started out when we still posted out press releases. Over the last few years I've overcome the digital fear and worked hard to retrain.
So hard I've become that person who you don't want to bump into at networking events. The zealot with a barely-disguised relish for talking about all things digital.
I write a weekly newsletter sharing my knowledge, blog, and take every opportunity to learn more and meet like-minded practitioners through participating in industry initiatives such as #PRStack.
Setting up my own company 18 months ago has given me a real insight into the minds of businesspeople. It's taught me that I have two purposes in life: to either help clients cut costs, or sell more.
I do SEO, produce websites, content marketing, set company's digital strategies. All the things the PRCA report points to as growth areas.
But my impression is that outside London and small pockets of regional expertise, this is the exception rather than the norm.
And I am talking about traditional public relations agencies here. The ones which a few years ago you'd have viewed as public relations firms before the lines started getting blurry.
Before SEO firms started creaming off the brightest graduates by paying them £10,000 more than traditional public relations agencies, and hiring the best and most adaptable journalists to write content.
Before digital marketing firms set up public relations departments (media relations wings) to aid their SEO and content marketing efforts.
So, in a room full of 40 mainly Scottish PRs, it was with a fair degree of surprise that I viewed some of the PRCA's findings, particularly with regard to agencies.
The biggest digital service offering for agencies remains content creation, which 91% of agencies provide. What does that mean exactly? Press releases? Writing social media updates? Penning blog posts?
47% of agencies offer online ads/PPC. Eh? Really?
54% are offering SEO services. Say what!
Search engine optimisation is the biggest single opportunity for the public relations industry. But it's passing us by. Again.
Regionally in the UK (and while I am only going on anecdotal evidence admittedly compared to a rigorously conducted survey) this figure is so wide of the mark it is almost comical.
It reminds me of a blog post I read this week by Bruce Kasanoff. He draws the analogy of a waitress in Los Angeles who when asked the question "what you do" replies: "I'm going to be an actress".
Fifty-four per cent might be where we want to be as an industry but it's not where we're at.
I ain't saying there's NOT a growing recognition among public relations that we need to get with the SEO programme.
Staff are getting group training courses from digital marketing agencies and there's even the odd SEO hire being made my larger regional public relations outfits.
But more than half of agencies with public relations at their core offering SEO services? Do me a favour. Divide that by 10 for "the regions".
Until agencies invest heavily in SEO training/digital mentoring or give their staff dedicated time to increase their digital knowledge, little progress will be made.
Search engine optimisation is the secret sauce behind this brave new digital world in which we find ourselves.
And it's undergone massive change as a discipline over the past few years. It's what drives clients' sales, and helps the public and third sectors get their message across.
And you can measure it. Properly.
Core public relations consultants – with their storytelling skills, news-sense, and ability to communicate and persuade – are ideally placed to benefit.
But if we accept statistics like this and kid ourselves that everything in the garden is rosy – and perhaps SEO will go away as a half-understood dark art that's on the wane anyway – we are doing ourselves and our clients a disservice.
And nothing is going to change.
David Sawyer FCIPR is director of Glasgow-based Zude PR and a United Nations award-winning PR. He helps SMEs make money.


Today I finished one of my challenges and goals for the year and that was to be a part of Reading For A Cure. I donated money to this foundation for every book I read from the month of January to the end of June. It feels good to pay it forward and be a part of fighting Childhood Cancer. If you want to learn more about Reading For a Cure, please check out the link on how you can make "your reading count" this year or watch the video below. A big thanks to Caribousmom for setting up such a worthwhile reading challenge.


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Posted on March 28, 2018 by Eugene Chrinian
The conversation about cryptocurrency in the world of philanthropy has grown steadily since Pine emerged as the first major Bitcoin philanthropist. Pine has given away millions of dollars as the founder of the Pineapple Fund, which has promised to give away about $86 million worth of the cryptocurrency to a number of different causes. While Pine may have popularized the idea of giving—and not just getting—when it comes to digital currency, the donor's work is a natural expansion of a growing relationship between charity and cryptocurrency.
The Growing Impact of Cryptocurrency in the World of Philanthropy
For several years now, a number of the biggest charities and foundations have been accepting Bitcoin donations. These organizations include Save the Children, the Red Cross, and the United Way, as well as newer charities such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Furthermore, the number of cryptocurrency donations to charity is rising. In 2015 and 2016 combined, the largest donor-advised fund in the United States, Fidelity Charitable, reported only $7 million in cryptocurrency donations. However, in 2017 that number skyrocketed to $69 million.
Progressive members of the philanthropy community are actively working to make cryptocurrency more entwined with giving. This effort is evident in the crowdfunding platform BitHope, which provides a means for individuals to raise funds for select charities using Bitcoin. In addition to BitHope, new tools have emerged that use Blockchain technology to track giving. Both GiveTrack and Alice provide Blockchain-powered tracking of the flow of donations from the donor to the recipient in order to guarantee complete transparency.
Another way that cryptocurrency has made an impact on giving is through the creation of charity-based currencies. Several different coins have emerged that make it easier than ever to provide support for specific initiatives and even select programs. One of the best examples of this is Clean Water Coin, which was created as a fundraiser for Charity:Water. Clean Water Coin has helped to expand the charity's work in making clean water accessible to people around the globe. Another example is Pinkcoin, which is now listed on the leading cryptocurrency exchanges. Pinkcoin is designed to facilitate support for charities while helping to generate a return on those donations. So far, the currency has performed very well against some of the other digital currencies on these exchanges.
Innovative Ideas about the Future of Digital Currency and Giving
In the future, experts expect individuals to build upon the foundation created by Pine. Some people may see the Pineapple Fund as the first crypto-foundation, although this idea can go much further with the help of Blockchain technology. Many believe that a "distributed autonomous foundation" is one of the models of future philanthropy. With this model, the foundation itself is the autonomous body, and all decisions become decentralized. Individuals who control tokens created by the foundation will have a vote as to how grants are distributed. The governing body would consist of external shareholders who direct funds and even start projects based on the majority vote of token holders. Blockchain technology would hold everyone accountable in this setup.
From a more mainstream perspective, Blockchain could also help to improve relations between charities and the people who support them. Research has shown that as many as a third of Americans have lost faith in nonprofits because they believe that too little money goes toward charity. Blockchain has the ability to improve the transparency of the process so that people gain more faith in charities. At the same time, this is a short-sighted application of Blockchain. The technology could be used to achieve disintermediation, meaning that donations would move directly from donors to the people who will ultimately receive them. As a result, organizational overhead would be reduced, and donors may be encouraged to give money and more often.
Another possibility for the future is the marketization of charitable giving. Charities and foundations create their own cryptocurrencies and—if enough organizations do this—a charity token exchange could develop. Both philanthropists and charities could make money by trading of these tokens in a system that resembles the modern stock market, yet is directed toward doing good. The returns that philanthropists generate could be rolled back into the system to maximize benefits. The system also makes it feasible for charities to raise money through token mining.
What Philanthropists and Charities Can Expect in the Future
While all of these possibilities are exciting since they have so much potential to revitalize giving in the United States and beyond, the path forward is not clear. Most people still do not understand Blockchain, and cryptocurrencies have only recently begun to make a real mark in the world of philanthropy. No disruptive changes are likely to emerge in the next few years, but experimentation and innovation will continue as Bitcoin continues to gain prominence and other cryptocurrencies surface on the market. Perhaps the simplest way for Blockchain to gain prominence in giving is through its ability to make processes completely transparent. The increased confidence that this could inspire would likely drive further innovation.
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Dateline: Granada Hills, CA
It's the start of a brand new year. 2023 is here and 2023 is waiting for you to arrive.
2022 is gone. It was great. It was awesome. It was amazing.
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Or, it friggin sucked. I hated it. And, I never want to go back there again.
Or somewhere in between.
Nonetheless, wearing a brand new year. Everything, let me repeat everything is new. There is no issue about what happened. It happened. Move on.
Insisting on dragging 2022 into 2023 is a losing proposition and yet perhaps not most, but a great many people will do just that. They will carry things on there in the past as though they are happening now. Or, they will not allow things to end that are over. That too, is a losing proposition. Let me correct myself. Many will drag things forward from decades ago, refusing to leave the trash in the past. It even happens on a daily basis.
When the buzzer rings and a basketball game ends, the losing team does not keep playing the same game even though the opposing players have left the court. They would be playing by themselves. That's not how games work. When the game ends, the winning team moves on to another round of the game. The losing team moves on to another round of the game. The game does not keep playing over and over and over and over and over again. But, sometimes you do.
If you brought incomplete business from last year's calendar to this year's calendar, you are still playing last year's game. The calendar moved on to the next game.
Just imagine carrying a sack of sticking, smelly, slimy, trash from your home to everywhere you go? Everything you do, everyone you meet, and everything you experience has the smell and stench of that old, disgusting, rotting, horrible trash. Would you bring it along with you?
OF COURSE NOT! Yet, you do it every day of your life if you're still smoldering over unsatisfied hurts and complaints of years or even decades past. Why don't you just drop that pil of garbage and move on?
I'm sick and tired of hearing whining, crying, wailing, complaining, and regretting from powerful, talented, and capable players.
GET IN THE GAME! Get in your game. Everyone is waiting for you to play.
Minimizing or diminishing your loss or your hurt serves no purpose. I'm not discounting that something may be owed to you. What I'm saying is, GET IN THE GAME!
I know an incredibly powerful and creative person who lets his past run the show.
He's plugged in and yet totally disconnected from his power. But all this person does is complain about their situation and bemoan their circumstances. They are so addicted to what happened that they can't see ways of remedying their problems. They are so blind with "I'm right/they're wrong" that they can't get themselves in gear to move forward. They're so stuck, they can't get themselves unstuck. But why? Why can't people get unstuck? I think I found an answer.
It's something to hold onto. It's a hurt or a loss they refuse to complete, because without it they think the hurt or the loss will be greater.
Quit complaining! It is what it is. Now make it better or different.
The longer you wallow in self pity the worse it gets. This is because the longer you go without taking action the harder it becomes to take action. The more you agree to put up with misery the harder it gets to let go of misery. The more you abide by your addictions and weaknesses the harder it is to conquer them.
When I worked side-by-side with Dr. Wayne Dyer he explained that it's not the result we're addicted to, it's the pattern that creates the result. If you can change or alter your patterns, you can change the outcomes in your life.
By changing the pattern of smoking to one of creating art, of baking, of sewing, or of exercise rather than the pattern of reaching for a cigarette, the result that pattern manifests is thereby transformed and so is your life. A simple pattern adjustment is all that's needed to have a completely different kind of life than the one you are currently experiencing. The more facile you become at changing your patterns the more dynamic and interesting your life will become.
But for god sakes Man, stop your constant complaining and get on the court! 2023 is waiting for you to show up and play. It may be the 4th week of the year, but the New Year is still an infant, and can barely walk. Why don't you teach it? Try taking it out for a spin?
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Most folks I know use credit cards to pay for all sorts of things from groceries to exotic trips and gifts. What I don't know is how many of them pay off that debt each month. If credit card debt is of interest to you, here's a report that may be an eye-opener.
According to The Center for Responsible Lending, more families are using their credit cards to keep their life afloat. And with wages relatively stagnant for the low-and middle-income worker bees in America (while soaring for CEOs), that's not surprising.
Credit card debt in America nearly tripled in the 1990s and has increased 31 percent since 2000. Americans now owe some $800 billion in credit card debt. In addition, owing largely to job instability and medical costs, bankruptcies rose from 616,000 in 1989 to over 1.8 million in 2004.
The average credit card debt of a low- and middle-income indebted household is $8,650.
Seven out of 10 low- and middle-income households surveyed reported using their credit cards as a safety net--relying on credit to pay for car repairs, basic living expenses, medical expenses or house repairs.
20 percent of survey homeowners had paid off some credit card debt with a mortgage refinance in the last three years.
In addition to charging late fees ranging from $30 and $39, most issuers also penalize cardholders for late payments by increasing the interest rate on the account two- or three-fold, often after only one late payment.
So how do we solve the growing debt problems? Two solutions include raises --- as in raising hourly wages and then the interest rates on things like savings accounts. Both could encourage savings and discourage debt.


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Challenges to the "National Home for the Jewish People" 100 Years After the Balfour Declaration
Thank you for inviting me to join in this centenary celebration of the Balfour Declaration – a celebration of the practical wisdom of a war-time British Government, of the triumph of historical obligation over colonial expediency, of the long-delayed recognition of a people's rightful inheritance.
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Home Europe Cyprus 5 Pounds 1979
5 Pounds 1979, Cyprus
in Krause book Number: 47
Years of issue: 01.06.1979
Edition: A - J 10 000 000
Signatures: Director: Christakis Costas Stephani
Serie: 1977 - 1982 Issue
Specimen of: 01.06.1979
The Cyprus mouflon (Ovis orientalis ophion) - national animal of Cyprus.
The mouflon is the biggest animal of the Cyprus Fauna. Its former scientific name was Ovis orientalis orientalis. However, in recent years following long and in depth studies a new scientific name was given to it, Ovis gmelini ophion.
The Cyprus mouflon is a kind of wild sheep and is found only in Cyprus. Other kinds of mouflon can be found in various Mediterranean countries such as Turkey, Syria, the island of Sardinia etc.
The mouflons are very shy and agile; they move very fast on the steep slopes of the Paphos forest and are very difficult to approach, especially when they are frightened. The mature male mouflon is a strong, well-built and beautiful animal. It has a thick and plentiful hide which in winter is of a light brown colour, with light grey on the back and an elongated black patch round the neck. In summer its hide becomes short and smooth, with a uniform brown colour and white underparts.
The male mouflons have heavy horns in the shape of a sickle. The length of the horns of the mature animals is between 55 and 60 cm. The weight of the male is around 35 kilos while the female weighs around 25 kilos. Its height is around one meter.
Its seasonal activity pattern is considerably variable. During summer, the animal is active in early morning and late afternoon, whereas in winter is active over the entire day.
During the summer, the mouflons live on the high mountains of the Paphos forest, like the Tripilos region. The Tripilos Mountains stand at 1.362 metres and overlook the Cedar valley. In winter, when the high peaks of the mountains are covered with snow, the mouflons come down to lower pastures in search of food. At times, when there is not enough food in the forest, the mouflons venture to move to the edge of the forest to search for food.
The same can happen during summer when available food is very scarce in the forest. During this season mouflon causes considerable damages to various agricultural crops.
In autumn, during the mating period, the mouflons form herds in groups of 10-20 male and female animals. In spring, however, when the delivery time is approaching, the herds are divided into small groups of two to three animals, or even one in the case of male mouflons which roam about alone.
The female mouflons give birth to either one or rarely two young ones in April or May. The newborns are very lively from the moment they are born so that they can face the many dangers that threaten them.
There is enough evidence to prove that in the past, at least in all the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions of the island, mouflons existed in abundance. In excavated mosaics it appears that the mouflon was very well known during the Hellenistic-Roman period.
During the Middle Ages, in the documents of various visitors, the mouflon is also mentioned. The mouflon was generally referred to as ""ram" or "wildsheep" and in several cases it was included in the descriptions of the hunting expeditions organized by the aristocracy of that period. At that time the hunting of the mouflon was carried out with dogs.
The mouflon is an animal that loves the forest. It can be found in small herds in the Paphos forest which covers an area of 60.000 hectares with natural vegetation consisting mainly of pine trees (Pinus brutia), cedar trees (Cedrus brevifolia), golden oaks (Quercus alnifolia), Strawberry trees (Arbutus andrachne etc).
The mouflon feeds on various kinds of wild growth that flourish in the shady valleys of the forest. In summer, when the wild growth tends to wither, the mouflons wander out of the forest to look for food. It is during this time that the passers-by are able to see the mouflons in forests with low vegetation or in fields that are close to the forests.
In 1878, when the island became a British colony, despite the fact that the number of mouflons had been reduced although they concentrated in the Paphos forest, their number was still quite high. Unfortunately, during the years that followed and due to the appearance of hunting guns it became much easier to kill the mouflons. The increase in the number of hunters and the non-existence of a suitable policy for the protection of the mouflon resulted in the drastic reduction of this animal in the Paphos forest. Until 1937, the only people who were worried about the decrease in the number of mouflons were the foresters.
In 1938, the hunting law was revised in order to provide a greater protection to the mouflon. Both the Forestry Department and the police were especially seconded for the protection of the mouflon against poaching. In 1939, the whole of the Paphos forest was declared as Game Protected Area for hunting, primarily for the protection of the mouflon. Later, with the declaration of the Cyprus Republic, additional measures were taken to protect the mouflon. A considerable part of the Paphos Forest has been declared as Nature Reserve under the Forest Law. Additionally, the whole area will be included in the European network of protected areas, the "Natura 2000". Four sites of the forest have been proposed as "Sites of Community Importance" (24.000 ha.), whereas the whole area has been declared as "Special Protected Area". Today, their number has increased to a satisfactory level and any danger of their disappearance has been eliminated. The mouflon is an indispensable part of our natural heritage and one of the symbols of Cyprus. www.aboutcyprus.org.cy
In my collection I also have 1 silver pound 1986 of Cyprus with Cyprus mouflons.
Female head, limestone sculpture, Arsos, Larnaka district, second part of III Century BC, Cyprus. Today is on exposition in Cyprus archaeological museum, Nicosia.
In top center is the coat of arms of Cyprus.
The coat of arms of the Republic of Cyprus depicts a dove carrying an olive branch (a well-known symbol of peace) over "1960", the year of Cypriot independence from British rule. The background is a copper-yellow colour; this symbolises the large deposits of copper ore on Cyprus (chiefly in the form of chalcopyrite, which is yellow in colour). The arms is not violating the rule of tincture, since the dove is not argent (silver) but blazoned as of the colour proper, i.e. it has the colour it would have in nature, in this case white.
The name of the bank in Greek and Turkish languages.
Lower is the island of Cyprus.
Denominations in numerals are in lower left and top right corners. Centered in words.
The ancient theater in Salamis.
The ancient city of Salamis became the capital of Cyprus as far back as 1100 BC. The city shared the destiny of the rest of the island during the successive occupations by the various dominant powers of the Near East, viz. the Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, and Romans. The ancient site covers an area of one square mile extending along the sea shore. There is still a large area awaiting excavation and this is forested with mimosa, pine and eucalyptus trees. The finding of some gold coins bearing the name of Evagoras, 411 to 374 BC, is the first genuine evidence of the city's importance. A severe earthquake destroyed the city in 76 AD after which the Gymnasium with its colonnaded Palaestra was built by Trajan and Hadrian. This is the most monumental part of the site but columns differ in size because after the second great earthquake of 331 AD, the Christians set up new columns which they dragged from the Roman theater.
The theatre with 50 rows of seats and a seating capacity of 15,000 is the second most spectacular sight. All around the buildings that have been excavated are many niches which contained marble statues, and those that can be seen are headless. When Christianity was adopted as a state religion, all these nude statues were to them an abhorence, and were thrown into drains or were broken up. In fact, any indications of Roman pagan religion such as mosaic pictures were effaced or destroyed.
Lower, on the right side, is comic or tragic ancient theatrical mask, which is now in Cyprus archeological museum, in Nicosia. Apparently, was to impersonate one of the gods.
Denominations in numerals are in lower left and top right corners. In center in words.
The British introduced the pound sterling unit to Cyprus in 1879 at a rate of one to 180 Turkish piastres. It remained equal in value to the pound sterling until 1972 and was initially divided into 20 shillings (σελίνι / σελίνια, şilin). The shilling was divided into 9 piastres (γρόσι / γρόσια, kuruş), thus establishing a nomenclature link to the previous currency. The piastre was itself divided into 40 para (like the kuruş). The para denomination did not appear on any coins or banknotes but was used on postage stamps.
In 1955, Cyprus decimalized with 1000 mils (μιλς, mil) to the pound. Colloquially, the 5 mil coin was known as a "piastre" (not an exact equivalence) and the 50 mil coin as a "shilling" (an exact equivalence). The subdivision was changed to 100 cents (σεντ, sent) to the pound on 3 October 1983. At that time, the smallest coin still in circulation was that of 5 mils. This was renamed as ½ cent, but soon was abolished. Mil-denominated coins are no longer legal tender.


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The Nasdaq Inside Trader by Alex Steele is a scam automated binary options software, and we blacklisted this fake app and trading robot in our fair and impartial review and investigation. A word of caution, if you have received any form of SPAM email communication in regards to this thieving, fraudulent offer make sure to unsubscribe immediately and never click on any links since we have already received initial reports of Spyware being illegally installed. We have it from our most trusted sources that Nasdaq Inside Trader, and the unscrupulous affiliate marketers behind it are directly responsible for defrauding and victimizing thousands of day traders. This offer is considered to be very deceptive, misleading, and particularly geared towards opportunity seekers looking to make an extra buck trading binary options online. Still, our staff easily detected the red flags and connected all the dots. Our evidence and findings are conclusive and leave no room for doubt. Keep reading to see how we exposed this band of internet crooks and why Nasdaq Inside Trader is a confirmed financial SCAM.
Official Scam Website, Login Page, and Members Area: http://nasdaqinsidetrader.com/?
Update: Nasdaq Inside Trader is now being marketed as the Nasdaq Method.
As you can see Alex Steele is a fictional character and does not exist. His image was scraped from the internet or purchased from an image bank and used to "put a face" on this evil scheme. There is a lot more evidence and proof we have collected but we believe the image below is enough to demonstrate who and what we are dealing with here.
How would you like to make over $180,000 this month, and then every month for life? Sounds realistic to you? Well Alex Steele is here to make it possible as he has created 34 millionaires during the past 18 months. Even more so, he will give you $2,000 just for filling our your details and signing up in the registration form. In the sales video we then see a parade of fake testimonials where the actors are all "totally blown away" by the amazing success this system has, and the massive amounts of money they have made with it.
The narrative (which is riddled with holes, lies, fabrications, and inconsistencies) explains how Steele walked away from a job on the Nasdaq stock exchange that paid him over $6,000,000 a year. However, now he is making much more, and you are about to get access to his top secret inside methods, but the window of opportunity is closing and if you don't signup today and get started you would have missed out on an easy and guaranteed way to make millions of dollars on auto-pilot from the comfort of your home.
In reality this app is a rehash of older fraudulent software. It is designed with pure malice and with the sole intent of defrauding you and stealing your money. Don't say we didn't warn you and never give out your credit card details because we will not be able to assist you in getting a refund.
No, it is not. It's gonna cost you at least $250 to get started and that money will be charged to your credit card by offshore and unregulated brokers.
The ones to watch out for are Tesler App, and Orion Code.
Its sad but there are plenty of so called "honest" review sites that produce favorable reviews for outright bribes. The staff and management at Binary Scam Alerts has set very high standards, and our credibility tests are extremely hard to pass. The amounts of requests to endorse fake apps has grown exponentially during the last few months, and so has the temptation. Fortunately we have placed our professional integrity and the welfare of our viewers and subscribers first. This is why only the best and most reputable apps receive our seal of approval.
If you are considering your options and deliberating what system is better for you then look no further. We have scrounged the internet looking for consistent money-making machines, and have found a few worthy apps. These systems are proudly showcased in our recommended section. Needless to say we are always looking for feedback, so please let us know after you try out our recommended software solutions.
The Nasdaq Inside Trader by Alex Steele is a bona fide investment scam and rightfully blacklisted in our fair and impartial review. Get ready for annoying popups, badgering sales agents with foreign accents, overcharged credit cards, and hefty dose of grief and frustration. Nasdaq Inside Trader has all the classic scam tactics associated with it. Inflated bank accounts, hyped up and exaggerated claims of easy money, stolen image bank photos, and fake testimonials are just the obvious tells, but something much more sinister and crafty is happening behind the scenes. This fake trading robot is some criminal's personal cash cow. It is a far cry from being a genuine trading app and has nothing to do with legitimate investing. It is a bogus app designed in collusion with scheming affiliate marketers and unlicensed AKA "deposit only" brokers that will steal your money in a New York minute if you simply give them your credit card information. In light of all these findings and proof of foul play, we have decided once more to advise our members and subscribers to seek alternative investment channels. To learn more join our Facebook Page and YouTube channel.


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Phenacolimax is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinidae.

Species
The genus Phenacolimax includes the following species:
 Phenacolimax atlantica
 Phenacolimax blanci (Pollonera, 1884)
 † Phenacolimax crassitesta (Andreae, 1902)
 † Phenacolimax intermedius (Reuss in Reuss & Meyer, 1849)
 † Phenacolimax kochi (Andreae, 1884)
 Phenacolimax locardi (Pollonera, 1884)
 Phenacolimax major (A. Férussac, 1807)
 Phenacolimax stabilei  (Lessona, 1880)
 † Phenacolimax suevica (F. Sandberger, 1872)
 Synonyms
 Phenacolimax annularis (S. Studer, 1820): synonym of Oligolimax annularis (S. Studer, 1820à)(unaccepted combination)
 Phenacolimax austrasiae A. J. Wagner, 1915: synonym of Phenacolimax major (A. Férussac, 1807) (junior synonym)
 Phenacolimax retyezati A. J. Wagner, 1915: synonym of Semilimacella bonellii reitteri (O. Boettger, 1880) (junior synonym)

References

 Stabile, G. (1859). Description de quelques coquilles nouvelles ou peu connues. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2 (11): 419-433. Paris.
 Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.

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Help for the Little Guy
Bob Keaveney
Practices can't afford to ignore HIPAA legislation anymore
With most physicians already struggling under the burdens of managed care - juggling mass amounts of paperwork and patients while facing dwindling reimbursement - few seem to have the time or desire to find out what the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will require of them.
However, according to expert Tom Hanks, practices can't afford to ignore the legislation anymore. Specifically, says Hanks, practice director of enterprise security and HIPAA compliance with Boston-based Beacon Partners Inc., a national management-consulting firm that helps large healthcare providers become HIPAA compliant, it's the smaller practices he is most worried about. Physicians in solo and small group practices don't have the resources the larger organizations have and they can't afford to bring in consultants to do the necessary assessment work. What are the options? Complying with HIPAA is not a choice - it's a must.
Recently, Hanks talked to Physicians Practice about how tough HIPAA will be and the obstacles small healthcare providers face to effectively work their way toward compliance.
PPD: While most physicians are just getting to know HIPAA, you have been involved with the legislation since before it was even a bill, contributing to the development of the security and standards regulations. How did you get introduced to the legislation?
HANKS: I was vice president of strategic systems for the largest single provider of healthcare services in the country at the time. In 1995, one of our lobbyists saw the bill and said, "Wow, you might want to take a look at this." So I did and got on a couple of committees. At the time, I was already a member of AFEHCT, the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions, and we were working with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to actually educate them on what the impact of this legislation was going to be to the provider community. From there I got on the board of Work Group for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and currently co-chair their privacy policy action group.
What's significant about WEDI is that it's a work group that's actually named in the legislation- the HHS actually has to consult with us in order to write the regulations.
PPD: It is generally understood that many physicians aren't familiar with HIPAA legislation. What would you tell them about the impact this act will have on their practices?
HANKS: Explaining the impact of HIPAA on practices is a two- or three-hour conversation, but there are things that are real important that we need to get across to the provider community. First, you don't have to be Fort Knox. One of the things that's been real distressing to me is all of the hardware and software vendors out there and people who aren't involved in the healthcare community deciding that all healthcare practices have to have high levels of encryption or whatever. These companies are telling doctors they can go out and buy products that will make a practice HIPAA compliant. A message I want to get across is that there is no such thing as HIPAA-compliant software or hardware - it simply doesn't exist. It is totally up to the individual practice to be compliant - it's their responsibility, not their vendors'. Practices need to understand their own organization and to develop security and privacy policies and procedures. Then -and only then - should they select the technology that supports the policies and procedures in their operations.
PPD: What physicians are probably the most concerned about is the cost and degree of difficulty associated with HIPAA compliance. Can you shed any light on just how costly or troublesome complying is going to be?
HANKS: I think what we really need to get across to these folks is that HIPAA isn't going to be as tough on you as you think it is. Cost-wise, if you are talking about a small practice, physical security is a lock on the door. For a larger environment, physical security may mean that you need to separate your computer systems and put them in a separate room and lock that door. In an even larger healthcare system, like a Mayo Clinic-type environment, you may need card access and the establishment of "perimeters of protection." But a good thing about HIPAA is it's designed to be extremely scalable.
Physicians are going to have to expend some time and energy on this - that's without question. But is it going to put them out of business? Only if they let it. HIPAA is very clear. There's a portion in the preamble of the security regulations that specifically says it's up to the individual [practice] to apply appropriate protections to patient information, taking into account the type of entity and its assessment of the size and cost of remediation. The assessment phase will probably be where small practices put most of their attention. And that's looking at where they are and comparing it to where they need to be to be compliant.
PPD: Many doctors are already overburdened by the financial and time constraints placed on them by managed care. Are you concerned that HIPAA compliance will add yet another layer of bureaucracy?
HANKS: I'm very concerned about how these smaller providers are going to become educated and how they're going to be able to do the assessment work. Many don't have the resources the larger organizations have and they can't afford to bring in consultants. Smaller healthcare providers are going to have to figure out how to do it on their own, but the upside is HIPAA will let them do that.
It's my understanding that HHS doesn't have an educational program in their budget, but they do have a rollout plan that will help with the education. Part of the problem is the providers have simply been ignoring HIPAA, but there have been tons of resources for them to learn about the act and how it impacts them. The whole attitude is that, "This may go away, so we don't really need to worry about it." Now, larger organizations finally have HIPAA on their radar screens, but the smaller organizations haven't woken up and smelled the roses yet.
PPD: What would you say to the physicians who haven't woken up or are just plain intimidated when it comes to preparing to meet HIPAA requirements?
HANKS: Physicians need to realize HIPAA isn't going to go away and that there are significant ramifications if you fail to comply. Practices are going to have to expend some time and energy. It will be aggravating, but in the end you're probably going to come away with a better-run business than what you have now.
PPD: What will be aggravating about preparing for HIPAA? Is it merely the time physicians will have to invest or the changes they'll have to make?
HANKS: Most people don't like change, and there will be some changes where practices will have to do things differently. Some office functions won't change; physicians will just have to document what they're doing. I say aggravating because practices are going to have to spend time and energy doing the assessment process and really putting thought into it. That's where the conflict with the smaller provider organizations is going to be because it's not like doctors have a lot of time to throw away. I believe that is going to be one of the biggest issues with the small practices - just the attention that is going to have to be given to it and the distraction factor. But it's not going to be nearly as difficult for the small practices as they think it is. Physicians need to get over the denial phase though, because if you don't you're going to be making it real tough on yourself in the future.
PPD: You usually counsel large healthcare providers on getting ready for HIPAA, yet you've put a lot of energy into educating small providers, even going so far as to write a white paper. Why are you so worried about smaller practices in relation to HIPAA?
HANKS: My main concern is that there is no evidence that smaller providers are paying attention to what's going on. And I think that's a real problem because they're not aware of HIPAA and its ramifications. I really hope they pay attention because they can meet compliance regulations, but there is nothing out there that they can buy off the shelf to solve this with. Physicians have to get educated on HIPAA and get to work. The time to act is now, but the beauty of being a smaller provider is that you get stuff done in less time, so the time for education is now, too.
This artcile originally appeared in the January/February 2001 issue of Physicians Practice.


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FDI Up 15% to $30 Billion During April-Sept 2020: Govt Data
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Inflow of FDI during April-September 2019-20 stood at $26 billion, as per the data of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
PTI New Delhi
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into India grew by 15 per cent to $30 billion during the first half of the current fiscal, according to official data.
In July, the country had attracted $17.5 billion worth of foreign investments. Sectors which attracted maximum foreign inflows during April-September 2020-21 included computer software and hardware ($17.55 billion), services ($2.25 billion), trading ($949 billion), chemicals ($437 million) and automobile ($417 million). Singapore emerged as the largest source of FDI in India during the period with $8.3 billion investments.
It was followed by the US ($7.12 billion), Cayman Islands ($2.1 billion), Mauritius ($2 billion), the Netherlands ($1.5 billion), UK ($1.35 billion), France ($1.13 billion) and Japan ($653 million). Further, according to DPIIT, total FDI (including reinvested earnings) stood at about $40 billion.
FDI is a major driver of economic growth and an important source of non-debt finance for the economic development of the country. The government has carried out FDI reforms in various sectors, including contract manufacturing and coal mining.
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Here is an archive of all of the 'comedy' themed radio drama shows we have played over the years. All shows are free to download, however if you like it we hope you'll explore more shows by the artist and support them. Our sense of humor is pretty odd, there are plenty of 'satire' shows that fall into this category as well as crossover (i.e. 'sci fi comedy') that you'll find it. You won't find much in the way of stand-up comedy or spoken word.
Episode 452 – Ryan Estrada's Big Data, and 10 years of RDR!
Can you believe it? This podcast has been around for A DECADE! I'm so grateful for the trust you've put in me, that Fred and the team have put in me, to helm this show. And what better way to honor our tenth anniversary than with a star-studded funstravaganza? I play an episode of Ryan Estrada's brilliant stumbleheist adventure, BIG DATA. Then, I sit down with Ryan, a cartoonist who made his way to audio fiction. Here's to ten more years of Radio Drama Revival! Thanks for sticking with us. … [Read more...] about Episode 452 – Ryan Estrada's Big Data, and 10 years of RDR!


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Working with a tax attorney can provide ample benefits to any client who needs tax help — but the more debt your business holds, the more beneficial it can be to partner with a legal tax consultant. It's understandable to turn to a tax attorney for legal defense of a case going before the U.S. Tax Court, but in many instances, it is far more valuable to initiate a tax attorney partnership before reaching that point.
There is no need to wait until litigation is necessary to bring on a tax attorney. It can be highly beneficial to you and your business to instead start a tax consulting relationship early on. Here at Business Tax Settlement Corp., our highly specialized tax consulting services help throughout every stage of the process, whether you are preparing for a court date or looking to achieve tax relief without litigation. High-debt cases, in particular, are complex and typically come with legal questions at every turn. Whether it's dealing with a tax lien or navigating a business audit, our tax consulting services provide the confidentiality and support to help you throughout the process. Of course, if a client is going to court, we provide representation as well as guidance.
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It's really great when you can chat to members of your local community and discover that there is something out there for those of us who love what we do with our arts and crafts and vivid imaginations!
Arts Link is a Knox Council initiative and they're compiling a register of local people who are interested in, or create art. It's all about linking artists with others and a great way to stay informed and up to date about what's going on around town.
Knox City Council is compiling a register of local people who are interested in or create art. The purpose of this register is to link artists with others who are interested in or in some way participate in the creation of art.
'Arts Link' is for any artist who is interested in being involved in art projects, programs or initiatives including visual, performing or literary.
If you are an artist and interested in working on or being informed of creative projects, programs or initiatives please register your details. These details will be maintained by Council.
So, isn't it about time you indulged in a massage of sorts? Could be remedial, deep tissue, head massage, foot massage, hand massage or all of the above! Do you know someone who is studying such an art and needs a test dummy? Guess what? You're it! Take some time out for yourself and lift your feet up, remind yourself of how good it feels to get that blood circulating again.
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I get asked this question all the time… seriously ALL the time. How did that name come about? I needed something to tell my graphic designer when I was first planning my logo when she asked me "What is it you want to do?" After much verbal diarrhea finally I said, "It's about thinking in pictures! I want people to be able to imagine how great things can be, to really imagine, to form pictures in their own minds and then make those pictures a reality". Finally, there it was, in living colour, in my own mind.
That was back in 2007. Now… in 2014….my imagination is running wild. It needs taming, and badly. My head spins with ideas and I need 100 clones to make them all happen. Thing is, that's the impossible. The reality is really to concentrate on what pushes the right buttons and what's going to yield the results that I want most of all.
So, it's a balancing act. Money, passion, stability, consistency, fulfillment – they're all factors. What pushes your buttons? What drives you bonkers?


The diocotron instability (also called the slipping stream plasma instability), is "one of the most ubiquitous instabilities in low density nonneutral plasmas with shear in the flow velocity [.. that can ..] occur in propagating nonneutral electron beams and layers".  It may give rise to electron vortices,, which resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz fluid dynamical shear instability, and occurs when charge neutrality is not locally maintained. The term diocotron derives from the Greek, meaning "pursue."
Although usually attributed to Kelvin Helmholtz instabilities, the diocotron instability has been associated with the aurora (where they are known as auroral curls or auroral vortices), the mechanism having been proposed by Hannes Alfvén in 1950.
Since Ez is out of the plane of the page, the column electrons spiral downward in counter-clockwise rotation while the column ions spiral upward in clockwise rotation. A polarization induced charge separation also occurs in each arm, which, as it thins out, produces a radial electric field across the arm. Because of this field, the arm is susceptible to the diocotron instability. This instability appears as a wave motion in each arm.
The Diocotron instability has also been associated with a pulsar's electrosphere.
... A plasma instability is created by two sheets of charge slipping past each other. Energy is dissipated in the form of two surface waves propagating in opposite directions, with one flowing over the other... Wind creates fluid dynamic instabilities of its own and it's important not to confuse the two. Diocotron instabilities are inherently short-lived because plasma discharges are short-lived.
Diocotron instability: If for some reason a separation of electric charge in the radial direction of the pinch occures, there appears a non-zero electric field which, together with the axial magnetic field Bz produces a drift of the azimuthal velocity v?. The entire pinch then begins to rotate with differential rotation (the zones at different distances from the axis rotate with different velocity). In the surface of the pinch two zones, with different velocity, become neighbors (the pinch which rotates and its surrounding media) and can lead into an instability known from observations in fluids. We call this diocotron instability. The typical consequence is a modification of the pinch surface into a vortex structure.
4. Saturn's north polar hot spot and the Electric Universe "experimentum crucis."
In Science, Feb 4, 2005, the W. M. Keck Observatory reported the discovery of a south polar hot spot on Saturn. See The Spiral Galaxy at Saturn's Pole. Saturn's south pole is presently lit by the Sun but it was not expected to be the hottest place on the planet! Saturn's north pole has been in darkness since 1995, which prompted Dr. Orton to remark: "One of the obvious questions is whether Saturn's north pole is anomalously cold and whether a cold polar vortex has been established there."
>> Saturn's North Pole Hexagon and Aurora. This night-time view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini orbiter reveals a dynamic, active planet at least 75 kilometers (47 miles) below the normal cloud tops seen in visible light. Clearly revealed is the bizarre six-sided hexagon feature present at the north pole. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
"The Electric Universe predicts, experimentum crucis, that BOTH poles should be hot, not one hot and the other cold." That extraordinary prediction was confirmed in a report in Science on Jan 4. Such unusual predictions have become a hallmark of the Electric Universe paradigm and establish it as a first class theory. The bizarre long-lived hexagonal feature is a mystery to astronomers. Ground-based observations published in Science, April 16, 1993, prompted the remark, "The large lifetime of cloud features poleward of ~74?N seems amazing in view of the strong seasonal insolation cycle at these latitudes."
>> Orthographic projection of Saturn's north polar temperatures in the troposphere at 100 mbar. The polar hot spot is clearly visible along with the hexagonal structure at 79?N. Credit: L. N. Fletcher et al., U. of Oxford, UK.
The polar hot spot and long-lived hexagonal feature results from a continuous electric current flowing from the Sun into the pole of Saturn. The hot spot will remain for as long as the Sun shines electrically. The blue (false color) auroral ring shows that the current flows into Saturn via a cylindrical electron beam propagating along Saturn's magnetic field and magnetically pinching (known as a Z-pinch) down to the polar region.
>>Depiction of an intense auroral funnel. The oblique upward view shows both down-flowing and up-flowing Birkeland current filaments contained within two concentric cylindrical sheets. The Z-pinch core is shown (purple).
"The auroral plasma column is susceptible to two plasma instabilities; hollowing of the relativistic electron beam to form the sheets and the diocotron instability that cause the sheets to filament into individual current strands causing the "swirls" or "curtains." These instabilities also produce the radiation observed over a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum."
— A. Peratt. Characteristics For The Occurrence Of A High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora, (PDF 6.6 Mb) IEEE Transactions On Plasma Science, Vol. 31, No. 6, December 2003.
It is important to note that Jupiter has been found to have a hexagonal cloud collar at its north pole. And Neptune, the most distant planet from the Sun, has a hot pole. These discoveries show that these planets are connected electrically to the Sun's circuit and real power source—the galaxy. Jupiter's Great Red Spot occasionally shows clear hexagonal morphology too, which indicates that it is an electrical tornado connected to some surface electrical anomaly beneath the clouds.


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