Our object in meditation in the love of God is chronicled in Ephesians.
Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Here we are made aware of what is our aim in studying Gods word and going through different topics of truth. Our motive is to understand Gods love that we may be able to comprehend the depth and length and that we might be filled with the fullness of God we are looking at every detail of God's love. There are some aspects of Gods love that may surprise us. Every aspect of God's love needs to be discovered. It is a multi-dimensional figure. Not only the length and depth but also the height. It is four-dimensional and it passes knowledge. If we are going to contemplate Gods love, we are to let it burn into our system. If Gods glory and love was to be here today, we would not be able to contemplate it. Sinful flesh feels uncomfortable with the glory of God. This multi-dimensional picture was revealed in 1844. The message of Gods truth was piece meal. 1844 we read the experience of those who applied themselves to these messages.
Over the years of studying what was shown, I'm to take their word. Everything was in harmony.
When you experience the golden linked chain every item is not an argument but a point of truth. There is no wink link. What happens if you have a strong chain and one of the links is weak? The chain will break. We are only secure in holding fast the truth.
How Did The SDA Church Come To These Truths?
Have you experienced this? Or are there chapters in the bible you can't work out? Christ's lessons will bear close study. What does it require for us to get that picture? Tact, skill, deep laborious searching in order to pick up and link together. It is wonderful when you gain this discovery. There is nothing unimportant. The weakest link will make that chain break.
I must lay down my opinion, and build my repertoire of knowledge based on the pioneers of Adventism knowledge.
This brother was picking to pieces the truth. Shall we receive the truth of one man? Come to the body.
As we surrender our own opinions that have been displayed by Adventism, we continue in the light of all this on the subject of Gods love – another dimension. A segment rarely recognized. What has Gods love to do with the wars of this world? A subject by many laid aside.
Psalms 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
As we come to this topic of wars, who exercises in wars? The wicked – throughout earth's history. When the Babylonian empire arose, it was under King Nebuchadnezzar. He raised the Babylonian empire. Who caused him to rise? God. He was raised by God for the purpose of military action to subdue Israel. It was Nebuchadnezzar used by God to teach Judah a lesson! In his love to teach Israel he did this.
He then used the captives of Judah to lead the captives to God. Daniel introduced Nebuchadnezzar to the God of Israel. When Belshazzar corrupted the kingdom, what did God do to teach him a lesson? He rose up Cyrus. He was raised and brought to the point where God could use him. Cyrus conquered Babylon. They were found wanting. How did God deal with this man? Through war!
Daniel 10:20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? And now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Jesus and Gabriel were working together. He had to preserve Judah so Jesus could be born. God used the activities of this political military nation. God uses evil men. He is known by the way he judges. After Jesus, the nation that fought against him was surrounded by the Roman armies. Was Rome going to get away with it? What would happen to the empire that crushed Jerusalem? The horn power came out of a he goat.
11Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
In this passage of Scripture we see how Rome would be punished and even the people of the most high. The revelation of Jesus Christ has also to do with wars as well.
What was revealed in Revelation 8?
Revelation 8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
8:4 And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
The ministry of Jesus in the sanctuary in his high priestly work. Here is the revelation of Jesus. The angel that took the censer is Jesus. Jesus is also an angel. When the Censer is thrown down, there are thunderings and lightnings. This is the finish of Jesus work in the sanctuary.
18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Here it is the same picture, the revelation of Jesus until the outpouring of Gods wrath upon the nations. It is part of the seven trumpets. Wars continued and the fall of the Roman Empire.
41And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Daniel describes the legs which is Rome. They shall not cleave to one another. The kingdom of iron never ceased, it continues in the feet of the statue.
This is a description of what happened to Rome continued. Rome rose again in the form of the papacy! Rome continued as a kingdom but it is all to do with warfare.
Daniel 7:7-8 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
The eyes of a man speaking great things. It's the Roman power of the papacy.
Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
This we know was the papacy. How will God punish the papacy?
Daniel 7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
We know that the papacy was conquered and wounded by war – Napoleon. God used war to deal with spiritual wickedness. How does Revelation 8 deal with this?
Revelation 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
The fall of the Roman empire came by Barbaric tribes. This is a detailed description of the fall of the Eastern Roman empire. We come to the fall of this image.
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
This is the seventh trumpet. If all the other trumpets were about the fall of the Roman empire, then what is this? Lets establish firstly, what the word trumpet means. It means war.
Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Here the prophet clearly sees war. How long for? Till the world sees total destruction. The end of time! What is the big issue? War. Trumpet after trumpet will continue to sound. War will be part of the judgment.
Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
When we come to Armageddon, what are these three powers? If we are not spiritually alert? They are not in harmony with Gods spirit. I come as a thief. Spirits of devils. The great day of God almighty. If God has done it one way, he will do it again.
John sees the elements of nature and political strife.
Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jeremiah 25:30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. 32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Evil on the city of Jerusalem. Whirlwind means war and strife. The final whirlwind. This is God's love. Where is God's love in this destruction?
Psalms 9:16. The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
I will recompense them he says.
Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Ezekiel 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Jesus is in drenched in blood. Then he comes and says, the year of the wicked and the year of my redeemed. The same breath of Gods fury is his love, they destroy themselves, and this is God's love. God has drawn a picture for us of his love.
None of us are to muddy the waters in the way God has drawn the picture.
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Update on Missing TX Man Jason Landry: A New Search is Underway
Tara Holley Published: March 28, 2022
Credit: Texas EqquSearch/Jason Landry
The question remains unanswered: What happened to Jason Landry?
Since Texas State University student, 21-year-old Jason Landry, went missing in December of 2020, there have seven searches, prayer vigils, and more and more questions as few answers have been given in his mysterious disappearance.
Since then, the Landry family has acquired the services of a former FBI agent-turned private investigator: Abel Pena of Project Absentis based out of San Antonio, Texas. He is working for them for free and has been challenging the Caldwell County authorities in regard to the way this case has been worked.
Recently, the case has been turned over to the office of the Texas Attorney General who has put their Cold Cases department on the task in an effort to find answer regarding this case.
However, it would appear that the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office is back on the case.
KRPC out of Houston, Texas reports that "Saturday, a search team was in Caldwell County, just northeast of the location where Landry's car was found abandoned. They were called in to assist the Sheriff's office in the case."
The team out doing the search? TEXSAR. Who is TEXSAR? This name is short for an organization called Texas Search & Rescue. According to their own website, "TEXSAR, is a professionally trained volunteer, first responder organization that deploys throughout the state of Texas.
TEXSAR deploys only at the request of law enforcement, public safety or emergency management with Search and Rescue, K-9 units, Flood and Swift water rescue, vertical rescue, emergency relief and disaster response."
Captain Jeff Ferry from the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office said TEXSAR was searching at THEIR request. He said it this search has been planned for weeks prior. However, a representative from TEXSAR said the search was only planned for one day.
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The Bogie Farm 1988
Homestead of Robert Blair Homestead of Robert Blair This farm that Robert settled on, around 1790, was kept in the family up until 1950; passed down from Robert to his son Joseph, then to his grandson Gilbert, and finally to his great grandson Joseph. The farm, now owned by the Bogie's and called Bogie Mountain, is one of the most photographed farms in New England. It has been on several calendars and the covers of Ideal and Yankee magazines. In 1950 there was still no running water or indoor plumbing. The barn and most of the outlying structures are still the original, but the house itself was burned to the ground in the 1970s and rebuilt to the original footprint. The farm is an active dairy farm and also produces Vermont maple syrup.
Homestead of Robert Blair This farm that Robert settled on, around 1790, was kept in the family up until 1950; passed down from Robert to his son Joseph, then to his grandson Gilbert, and finally to his great grandson Joseph.
Hill of Arnmore Homestead of 4th great grandparents, John Blair (1720 - 1799) and Margaret McLuckie
The Homestead of Peter Blair This is a picture of my gr-gr-grandfather Peter's home in Goshen Gore (Stannard) VT. The picture was taken in April 1998. We believe the house was built in the early to mid 1800s. Most of the house is original.
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When Streaming Makes Sense (and When It Doesn't)
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All of which makes streaming an attractive option for casual consumers looking for music that goes where their lifestyle takes them; serious music collectors (aka DJs), however, are less enthusiastic about streaming music, for a number of reasons.
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Flashback to the Gemini FF-1 Flash Former
It's retro-chic at its best - introduced in 1988 by Gemini, the FF-1 Flash Former takes its name from turntable visionary DJ Grandmaster Flash and served to allow those of us who weren't Grandmaster Flash to more easily execute his signature transformer scratch.
If you wanted to go all robot voice with your turntable - and in 1988 we all did - and hadn't yet mastered this complex technique, you wanted this.
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From Gemini's original promotional copy (cassette not included)...
Until now transformer scratching was a complicated technique that required sliding the fader rhythmically back and forth to create a scratching - repeating type effect. Now the same effect can be produced without touching your fader controls! All you do is rhythmically move the record and press the Flash Former Transform button! Standout features include:
Plug between turntable and mixer
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Defeat switch for regular mixer
Can also be used with most any home stereo for creating ultra-hot party tapes
Sticker price in the '88? $399. There are still some around and can be found for $100 - $199.
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TED Talk: Vincent Moon
Hidden music rituals around the world
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2022 will be the 9th year that UKGBC convenes a group of Future Leaders comprised of committed, enthusiastic individuals presented with the challenge of confronting critical issues facing the industry, including the climate crisis, while working collaboratively to address them through the development of innovative ideas to inspire the radical transformation of the built environment.
The five-month Future Leaders programme is designed for forward-thinking professionals with 5-10 years' experience – the cohort will work in teams and develop the capability and skills to drive radical transformation and sustainability, while progressing and boosting confidence in their own individual leadership journeys. They then return to their respective organisations equipped with this new thinking and inspiration, joining a leadership alumni of over 230 individuals and continuing to collaborate through involvement in the Future Leadership Forum.
The 2022 programme
Part 1: Explore and initiate 2.5 day Workshop (London) 31 January-02 February 2022
Sustainability and Radical transformation
Part 2: Develop and refine 2 day Retreat  14 – 15 March (Stroud)
Personal Leadership
Part 3:Action 1 day Showcase event (London) 16 June 2022
There will also be three virtual touch points: 13Jan (Kick-off), 2March, 27 April
Participants will benefit from a range of expert inputs and high profile keynote speakers, and will work to develop an innovation idea on key built environment sustainability challenges which are developed through the programme.
Future Leaders are drawn from a range of backgrounds from the built environment sector, and are selected based on an enthusiasm to learn, an openness to new ways of thinking, and a desire to challenge the status quo. It is not a prerequisite to have sustainability in the job title – in fact the diversity of perspectives is crucial to the programme's success.
£2,999* + VAT for members
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*In recognition of the impact of coronavirus, these prices for the 2022 programme represent 25% off the normal rate.
This programme is designed to inspire the next generation of leaders who will transform the sustainability of the built environment. This transformation will not come about by business as usual, but through a radical and fundamental shift, in which sustainability and innovative thinking are strategic drivers. See below for testimonials and impact stories.
"I have felt incredibly inspired and motivated during the Future Leaders course. It has raised my awareness of sustainability and leadership in the construction industry, what the struggles are, and what the unmet needs are. I am gaining an understanding of how I can help as an architect, identifying the barriers to implementing Net Zero designs, and how to advance decisions in the right direction. I've loved the format and the speakers; it has exceeded my expectations." Andra Antone, Ryder Architecture
UKGBC's Future Leader programme was a fantastic experience that allowed me to develop skills, connect with colleagues from across industry and most importantly, make some fantastic new friends! The course provides the participants with a supportive environment in which you are encouraged and guided in developing new skills and innovative ways to tackle challenges, as well as nurturing personal development activities. Working as part of a team to develop our innovation idea was a brilliant and truly collaborative journey, listening to and learning from other people's perspective, trialing ideas together and ultimately delivering an engaging final product. I'd encourage anyone interested to join the course and enjoy the journey! – Matt Black, World GBC
"The Future Leaders 2020 programme has far exceeded any expectations. From working with a like-minded, supportive cohort of other Future Leaders to listening to a range of engaging speakers and industry professionals, has provided me with the vital skills of confidently and effectively communicating ideas – no matter how abstract! I would recommend the Future Leaders programme to those wanting to make a lasting and sustainable impact to our built environment." – Matt Lindsay, Biotecture
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Salary negotiations can be quite intimidating for job seekers and current employees. To help ease the stress, here are answers to some of your burning questions.
When's the right time to bring up money if you're a finalist for a job? For employees, what's the most polite and professional way to ask for more moolah? Do you even know what your current salary should be?
If any of these questions make you anxious, you're not alone. Many of your fellow creative professionals share the same concerns, and we're here to shed some light on the salary negotiation process.
Following are a handful of questions we received during our Let's Talk Salaries webinar as well as advice to help you navigate compensation-related discussions. Whether you're interviewing for a job or asking your employer for a raise, the key is to diligently prepare for the conversation and then present your case with data and confidence.
Q: At what point should I start talking about salary in the interview process? Is it a bad idea to be the first person to bring it up?
The hiring manager should generally be the first to address pay. That way, you can avoid coming across as presumptuous or requesting a figure that's much higher (or lower) than the employer's range. If the hiring manager asks you what you're looking for, explain that you'd like a fair compensation package based on the position, and your skills and experience. If pressed for more details, give a range so there's some leeway to negotiate. (Use our Salary Guide to help determine that range.) If the employer hasn't brought up pay after a second or third interview, it's acceptable to mention it.
Q: Do potential employers have a right to know my previous salary? Are they entitled to ask my former employer for the actual number?
While you shouldn't feel obligated to disclose your salary history, know that a prospective employer may ask. Hiring managers have an offer in mind based on their budget, and they want to make sure it's in line with your expectations.
If you're highly interested in the job and decide to share your compensation history, honesty is the best policy. Stretching numbers even slightly can come back to haunt you. It is possible – but unlikely – that a potential employer will call the human resources department at your last company to ask about your salary. If you feel you were underpaid, make it clear that you're looking for an improved compensation package. Steer the conversation towards your expected range, rather than your previous one.
Q: Where can I find the salary range for a particular city?
You're right that location matters. You wouldn't make a very convincing argument if you live in a small town in the Midwest but request a big city salary. Use our Salary Calculator to quickly determine the average starting salary for your role in your city.
Q: When considering a job in a new city, is it appropriate to ask what the salary range is before traveling for an interview?
Again, as the job candidate, you usually don't want to be the first person to bring up compensation during the hiring process. However, if an interview requires you to fly across the country, it's wise to ask for more details. That could include specifics on job responsibilities and expectations, compensation, benefits, and more. The hiring manager will appreciate that you are seriously considering the opportunity, without wasting anyone's time or travel expenses.
Q: Salary history seems difficult to address as a freelancer. How should I approach the conversation if I'm trying to obtain a full-time position?
Salary history can be tricky to explain if you're a freelancer, but you can still make a convincing case. Use third-party research, like the aforementioned Salary Guide, to find regional data for the full-time position you're seeking. If appropriate, bolster your pitch by explaining why you believe your skills and experience make you deserving of the higher-end of the range. Highlight how you've used your creative abilities to help clients boost the bottom line, using qualitative data when possible.
Q: What's the best thing to say if I feel an offer is too low but want the position and need to start working?
If the employer doesn't budge or only comes up slightly and you can't make it work, you may have to politely bow out. But try not to be discouraged. Finding the right fit can take time. It's rarely a good idea to accept a job offer when you have significant concerns and reservations about anything – particularly money.
Q: I'd like to ask for a raise. What's the best way to approach my manager?
Tact, timing and diplomacy matter here. Steer clear of salary negotiations during the most hectic – or financially unstable – times of year for your department or company.
When you meet with your manager, begin the conversation by saying that you'd like to take your career a step further. Talk about your recent accomplishments and contributions to the company before presenting your salary research. Be confident, not cocky, and never issue ultimatums.
Q: What should I do if I ask for a higher salary and my request is denied?
Remember to be patient. It's likely that your manager can't give a definite answer right away; he or she may have to consult senior management or human resources. If the answer is no, ask if you can revisit the salary conversation in a few months.
If your requests continually get rejected, consider other non-monetary perks you can negotiate. Would greater flexibility in your schedule, the ability to work from home, additional vacation time, more interesting projects or professional development make you happy? Think about alternative forms of compensation that your employer might be open to.
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Cascumpec (ou en français Cascumpèque) est une communauté dans le comté de Prince de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard au nord-est de O'Leary.

Étymologie
Le nom «Cascumpeque» provient du mot micmac Kaskamkek, signifiant «rivage de sable lumineux ou vif». Le navigateur Jacques Cartier la dénommée baie Cascumpèque, lors de son premier voyage au Canada en 1534. La baie Cascumpèque fut colonisée par les Acadiens qui s'installèrent au côté des Amérindiens de la Nation Micmacs qui habitaient ce territoire depuis des siècles.

Géographie
Le village est situé sur la baie Cascumpèque, au Nord-Ouest de l'île-du-Prince-Édouard.

Histoire
Après la déportation des Acadiens et le Grand dérangement, des Acadiens sont revenus s'installer le long de cette baie, au début du , notamment dans le village de Cascumpèque où ils réédifièrent une chapelle qu'ils nommèrent église Saint-Antoine et établirent une paroisse à son nom.

Personnalité
 George Nicol Gordon (1822-1861), missionnaire protestant, y est né.
 James Douglas Gordon (1832-1872), missionnaire protestant, frère du précédent, y est aussi né.

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Histoire de l'Acadie

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Home » HEALTH » Deaths from heart-related disease rising in India, study finds
Deaths from heart-related disease rising in India, study finds
in HEALTH July 15, 2018
Death due to heart-related disease is on the rise in India, causing more than one-fourth of all deaths in the country in 2015 and affecting significantly rural populations and young adults the most, suggests a study.
This work is the first nationally representative study to measure cardiovascular mortality in India, led by Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada. The study found that rates of dying from ischaemic heart disease – cardiac issues caused by a narrowing of the heart's arteries – in populations aged 30 to 69 increased rapidly in rural areas of India and surpassed those in urban areas between the year 2000 and 2015.
In contrast, the probability of dying from stroke decreased overall, but increased in India's northeastern states, where a third of premature stroke deaths occurred and only one sixth of the population lives, said the study. In these states, deaths due to stroke were about 3 times higher than the country's average.
"The finding that cardiac disease rose nationally in India and that stroke rose in some states was surprising," said Dr. Jha, who is also a professor at the University of Toronto. "This study also unearthed an important fact for prevention of death due to cardiovascular disease. Most deaths were among people with previously known cardiac disease, and at least half were not taking any regular medications."
Led by Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, a new study found that rates of dying from ischemic heart disease — cardiac issues caused by a narrowing of the heart's arteries — in populations aged 30 to 69 increased rapidly in rural areas of India and surpassed those in urban areas between the year 2000 and 2015.CREDIT: St. Michael's Hospital
Dr. Jha and his team also showed that younger adults, born after 1970, have the highest rate of death due to heart problems caused by narrowing of the heart's arteries, leading to ischaemic heart failure and stroke. Until now, most of the evidence of cardiovascular mortality in India has come from local studies and the new study has more detailed information that "we couldn't have predicted based on earlier studies," said Dr. Jha.
This research is part of the Million Death Study, one of the largest studies of premature deaths in the world. In India, most deaths occur at home and without medical attention. Hundreds of specially trained census staff in India knocked on doors to interview household members about deaths. Two physicians independently examined these "verbal autopsies" to establish the most likely cause of death.
"Making progress in fighting the leading cause of death in India is necessary for making progress at the global level," Dr. Jha said. "We demonstrated the unexpected patterns of heart attack and stroke deaths. Both conditions need research and action if the world is going to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of reducing cardiovascular mortality by 2030."
The study was published in The Lancet Global Health.
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News > Medscape Medical News > Psychiatry News
Disrupted Body Clock Linked to Mental Illness
Disruption of normal daily circadian rhythms can take a toll on a persons' mental health and well-being, results from a large observational study show.
Investigators found that disturbances in the body's internal clock, characterized by increased activity during rest periods or inactivity during the day, were associated with increased susceptibility to depression, bipolar disorder, and other problems.
"Our findings indicate an association between altered daily circadian rhythms and mood disorders and well-being," Laura Lyall, PhD, from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland, said in a statement.
The study was published online May 15 in Lancet Psychiatry.
Depression, Bipolar Disorder
Previous research has shown associations between circadian disruption and poor mental health, but these studies were typically based on self-reports of activity and sleep patterns, had small sample sizes, or adjusted for few potential confounders, Lyall noted in a journal podcast.
To address these methodologic problems, the investigators analyzed objective accelerometry-based rest and activity data for 91,105 participants (median age at baseline, 62 years) from the UK Biobank database.
All participants wore accelerometers for 7 days between 2013 and 2015. The researchers used the data to derive a circadian relative amplitude, a measure of the extent to which circadian rhythmicity of rest-activity cycles is disrupted.
They then examined cross-sectional associations between low relative amplitude (reflecting greater activity during rest periods and/or daytime inactivity) and lifetime risk for mood disorder. Well-being and cognitive function were also examined.
The investigators report that a one-quintile reduction in relative amplitude was associated with increased risk for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, as well as greater mood instability, higher neuroticism, more feelings of loneliness, lower happiness, lower health satisfaction, and slower reaction times (a crude measure of cognitive function).
Major depressive disorder OR, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.04 - 1.08 P < .0001
Bipolar disorder OR 1.11; 95% CI, 1.03 - 1.20 P = .007
Mood instability OR 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01 - 1.04 P = .004
Neuroticism IRR 1.01; 95% CI, 1.01 - 1.02 P < .0001
Happiness OR 0.91; 95% CI, 0.90 - 0.93 P < .0001
Health satisfaction OR 0.90; 95% CI, 0.89 - 0.91 P < .0001
Loneliness OR 1.09; 95% CI, 1.07 - 1.11) P < .0001
Reaction time LRC 1.75; 95% CI, 1.05 - 2.45) P < .0001
OR, odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; IRR, incidence rate ratio; LRC, linear regression coefficient
"These associations were independent of wide range of potential confounders," said Lyall, including age, sex, lifestyle, education, and socioeconomic status.
Directionality Unclear
The researchers note that this study provides the first direct evidence of associations between objectively measured circadian disruption and neuroticism and mood instability, both of which have been consistently linked to increased risk for mood disorders. However, the effect sizes for mood instability and neuroticism were small, so the clinical relevance of these associations is unclear, they point out.
The researchers also acknowledge that this cross-sectional study cannot provide insights on causality.
"It could be that there is a direct causal link where circadian disruption causes impaired subjective well-being and increases risk of mood disorder. Or it could be the opposite, that this circadian disruption is a consequence of mood disorder and its associated risk factors," said Lyall.
Despite these limitations, the researchers say accelerometry-derived relative amplitude is "relatively cheaply and easily measured and might be useful for identifying people at greater risk of major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder, or subgroups of patients who might benefit from therapies aimed at improving circadian rhythmicity."
Writing in a linked comment, Aiden Doherty, PhD, from University of Oxford, United Kingdom, notes that although the UK Biobank is "one of the most important medical resources worldwide, the study population (median age at baseline of 62 years, IQR 54-68 years) is not ideal to examine the causes of mental health, given that 75% of disorders start before the age of 24 years."
The circadian system, he points out, "undergoes developmental changes during adolescence, which is also a common time for the onset of mood disorders. It might be that the UK Biobank provides the template and impetus for a resource of a similar scale in adolescents and younger adults to help transform our understanding of the causes and consequences, prevention, and treatment of mental health disorders," says Doherty.
The study was funded by the Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine. Dr Lyall and Dr Doherty have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Lifestyle 7 of the Best Movies to Watch on a Plane
Is there anything better than taking your seat on a long-haul flight and getting settled in for a movie marathon? Okay, to be fair, a movie-watching session is better when you're curled up on your couch rather than trapped in the cramped confines of economy seating and surrounded by strangers who continually invade your personal space. But, I digress!
I think we can all agree that getting to binge-watch films is one of the biggest perks — if not the only perk — about flying. And some movies were just made for watching at 30,000 feet. You know, the ones that are so engrossing they make you forget where you are, and the ones that have been on your "must watch" list for months but you still haven't gotten around to watching.
Without further ado, here they are: seven of the best movies to watch on a plane.
1. My Best Friend's Wedding
I don't know about you, but by the time I board a flight, I'm usually feeling one of two ways: stressed from standing in a ridiculously long security line and having to run to my gate, or utterly exhausted and ready to catch some shut-eye.
In either of these fragile states, I only have the emotional capacity to watch a classic, stand-the-test-of-time rom-com — something like My Best Friend's Wedding. It's the kind of comfort-food-style movie that you can watch again and again — and it's guaranteed to make you feel good.
Can't find My Best Friend's Wedding on your flight? Notting Hill, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, You've Got Mail, and Love Actually are all strong contenders in this category, too.
2. Toy Story
This movie is the cinematic equivalent of a soft, cosy blanket or a really good hug — it just has a way of making you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So, if you get on the plane and you're feeling sad or stressed — or you're in the mood for an easy watch that you've seen before — this is the one to pick.
Toy Story also seems to be one of those films you can easily find on most airlines' in-flight entertainment systems, making it a go-to choice for your next plane journey.
3. Argo
Now, if you're absolutely dreading a flight — whether it's a painful long-haul journey or you're stuck in the abomination that is the middle seat — you'll want a riveting flick that will transport you to another world and make the hours pass by in the blink of an eye. That's where a smart, suspenseful thriller like Argo comes in.
Based on events that took place during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, this movie centres around an outlandish plot cooked up by the CIA to rescue Americans trapped in Tehran. It'll keep you glued to the screen from the get-go, and the ending delivers a hefty dose of suspense.
4. Bridesmaids
Are you an anxious flyer? Getting stuck into a hilarious, feel-good film is the best way to distract yourself from the fact that you're hurtling through the sky in a pressurised metal tube travelling at twenty million miles per hour.
Naturally, you'll want to choose something like Bridesmaids to keep your flight-induced anxiety at bay. This movie is laugh-out-loud funny — and it'll keep you from looking over at the flight attendants to see whether they've secretly signalled to one another that something is terribly wrong with the plane.
5. The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada might just be the ultimate plane movie. Not only does it feature Meryl Streep as an icy, tyrannical Anna Wintour-esque character, but it somehow gets better with every viewing.
Plus, the dialogue is witty and the film offers viewers a glimpse into the inner workings of the fashion industry (albeit one that's rife with stereotypes).
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Home » Politics » Canadian Politics » Policy and prejudice: De-funding Canadian aid projects
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Policy and prejudice: De-funding Canadian aid projects
by Bahija Réghaï January 18, 2010 October 5, 2021
Canada's recent de-funding of advocacy organization, KAIROS, is just the latest in the Canadian government's vigilant efforts to disempower groups critical of Israel.
Late last year, Minister of International Cooperation Bev Oda cut Canada's 30 years of association with non-profit advocacy group, KAIROS, without explanation. When pressed, Oda said that the program didn't meet CIDA's current priorities. Another less pragmatic reason surfaced later when Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney explained to the audience at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem: "We have articulated and implemented a zero tolerance approach to anti-semitism. What does this mean? It means that we eliminated the government funding relationship with organizations… who promote hatred, in particular anti-semitism. We have de-funded organizations, most recently like KAIROS."
The "de-funding" itself is worrisome, but the reasons given are even more so because they seem to be driven not by truth or by what's best for Canada, but by demagoguery and partisanship.
Kenney's office justified the "defunding" by citing "critical comments" made by NGO Monitor (NGOM) and demands from B'nai Brith and Canadian Christian College (CCC) president Charles McVety (Toronto Sun). All three of Kenney's sources are politically motivated and interconnected. They recycle and repeat one another's single lens views without consideration to other perspectives or narratives. Their primary concern is to remain on message with Israeli foreign policy and support the ultra-far-right Israeli parties no matter what Israeli government is in power.
NGOM started as a joint project of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and B'nai Brith International, with funds from the Wechsler Family Foundation (U.S.). It operates out of the JCPA whose president is U.S.-born Dore Gold, former Foreign Policy Adviser to both Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, and former ambassador to the United Nations for Israel. NGOM's editor is Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at right-wing Bar-Ilan University and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.
Although using language that would appear neutral, NGOM is a highly partisan organization that weakens universal human rights by its fixation on shielding Israel from accountability and charging some of the most respected international human rights organizations with bias against Israel. According to NGOM, these include Christian Aid, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Turning its attention to NGOs within Israel, NGOM is no less unyielding in its hardline position, as illustrated by the recent release of a joint report with the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) entitled "Trojan Horse: The Impact of European Government Funding for Israeli NGOs." This report targets Israeli organizations such as B'Tselem, Machsom Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, Breaking the Silence (army veterans), Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and others, because they "oppose the policies of the democratically elected government on many issues." Political dissent, which flourishes in Israel, is considered rebellion by NGOM.
Complaining that these NGOs receive funding from European governments, NGOM demands transparency, although there is little transparency about the origin of its own funding. Gershon Baskin, Director of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, found that the discussion during the follow-up NGOM/IZS conference had anti-democratic elements in that options considered were either to make it illegal for foreign governments to fund "political" organizations in Israel or to force these NGOs to declare themselves as "agents of a foreign government." Baskin remarked: "I do not know who made them [NGOM] judge and jury on the matter. NGOM is clearly politically motivated, and I believe that there is no element of transparency in their political agenda."
B'nai Brith (BB) presents itself as a Jewish advocacy and community volunteer service organization, but on their website, "advocacy for Israel" is their number two "prime issue." BB allied itself to extremists within the evangelical right because in the pursuit of its religious goals it does not recognize the applicability of UN resolutions, international treaties or, for that matter, Canadian (or U.S.) law and policy.
In 2006, Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College hosted the first event (Israel You're Not Alone) of a newly created coalition called Christians United for Israel (CUFI). CUFI counts amongst its members such extremists as John Hagee, Pat Roberston and the late Jerry Falwell. In fact, Frank Dimant, BB Canada's Executive Vice President, shared the podium with McVety and Hagee, and thanked them both in these terms: "But we (Jews) and Israel are not alone because of you and the tremendous leadership of Dr. McVety and Dr. Hagee" (Jewish Tribune, May 25, 2006).
Hagee's expressed views on Islam are ignorant and hateful. He stated on National Public Radio, that "those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews… it teaches that very clearly…. There are 1.3 billion people who follow the Islamic faith, so if you're saying there's only 15 per cent that want to come to America or invade Israel to crush it, you're only talking about 200 million people. That's far more than Hitler and Japan and Italy and all of the Axis powers in World War II had under arms."
Being vocal in his support of Israel doesn't mean that Hagee's view of Jews is any less offensive. He has made numerous statements that could be interpreted as antisemitic. Hagee believes that Adolf Hitler carried out a divine plan to lead Jews back to Palestine to form the state of Israel:
"Theodore Herzl is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust."
All Jews belong nowhere else but in Israel, says Hagee. This racist (anti-semitic?) notion of an imposed residence to suit the eschatological views of millennialists stands in contradiction to the freedom of choice that Canadians take for granted, as well as the human rights and multiculturalism values that Canadian society has embraced.
McVety's support for Israel-right-or-wrong is a Bible mandate. Like other Christian Zionists, he sees the two-state solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict as anathema; he supports the expansionist policies of the Israeli government and directs funding and assistance toward the political agenda of the most extreme settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
On May 4, 2008, McVety appointed Dimant as the Department's inaugural chair for the new CCC department "dedicated exclusively to the study of the modern State of Israel." In the audience sat Kenney, representing the Conservative government. Dimant asked God "to save us from those who want to divide the Land of Israel, who want to divide Jerusalem, who want to take Jews out of Judea and Samaria. We look to God and to you, our friends, to keep Israel modern and united, with a united Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel." Dimant was amongst the government's 2008 appointees to the Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security.
Kenney did attempt to backtrack on the KAIROS anti-semitism connection, but he didn't seem serious when he quoted from Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno's misleading translation of his own words: "Cutting through the semantics and carefully couched language, that all adds up to a federally funded humanitarian agency taking a leading role in divestment, sanctions and targeted boycotts of Israel — which is what Kenney said."
DiManno's research is obviously limited to those sites that support Israel-right-or-wrong, in other words highly partisan, something she accuses KAIROS of being… a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
KAIROS has denied having "a leading role in divestment, sanctions and targeted boycotts of Israel." In fact, DiManno probably mistakenly attributed to the NGO KAIROS The Kairos Palestine Document written by Palestinian Christians who call for "divestment and… an economic and commercial boycott of everything produced by the occupation" as a form of peaceful resistance to liberate "both the perpetrators and the victims of injustice."
But even if Kenney's office is correct, Canadians should worry that Canadian policy could be developed using the opinions of highly prejudiced organizations and individuals instead of through careful consultation with experts whose agenda is not tainted and/or with experts having different viewpoints. The intricate and ideologically driven alliance between the political elites, Israel's unconditional supporters and Christian Zionists (with their armageddonian plan for the world) leads ultimately to a non-rational basis for policy formulation in that it forgoes pragmatic analysis in favour of partisanship, ideology and religious belief.
Given all the facts, most Canadians would favour a saner, more even-handed approach.
Bahija Réghaï is former president of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations — NCCAR.
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Ever wish you could make that new text box have a certain style applied to it? Or maybe you're constantly re-aligning that stroke to the inside, day in, and day out. Well, Indesign comes shipped with a fairly blank set up of defaults, and they remain that way for most people who use it.


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Health Data Breach Tally: A Mid-Year Update
What Trends Does the Breach List Reveal So Far in 2019? Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • July 2, 2019
With half of 2019 in the rear-view mirror, what are the emerging healthcare data breach trends so far this year? Hacker/IT incidents continue to be the dominant cause of breaches, while another formerly common cause – lost or stolen devices – has become relatively rare, according to the federal tally.
A July 2 snapshot of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website shows all of the 10 largest health data breaches added to the tally so far this year involve "hacker/IT" incidents. The tally lists breaches affecting 500 or more individuals
"Hacker/IT incidents" include hacker incidents or other cyberattacks as well as incidents involving various IT mishaps, such as misconfigured computer settings that leave protected health information exposed on the web.
The largest breach added to the tally so far this year is a hacking incident affecting almost 3 million individuals reported June 21 by Dominion Dental Services, a Virginia-based insurer.
The company said in a breach notification statement that the incident was first discovered in April but is believed to have started nine years ago.
The second largest breach on the tally – reported by Puerto Rico-based Inmediata Health Group – was reported as an "unauthorized access/disclosure" breach. But that incident actually involved a misconfigured IT setting that left protected health information of nearly 1.6 million individuals exposed on the internet, according to Inmediata.
Misconfigured IT settings – most often reported by entities as "hacking/IT incidents" – have been involved in several other large health data breaches reported so far this year.
That includes the third largest health data breach reported: An incident at UW Medicine involving a misconfigured database setting that left PHI of 974,000 individuals exposed on the internet.
Breach Trends
As of July 2, 218 breaches affecting a total of nearly 10 million individuals have been added to the HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website - commonly called the "wall of shame" - so far this year.
Of those, 127 breaches impacting 7.7 million individuals – or about 77 percent of those affected - are described as hacking/IT incidents.
Since the tally's inception in September 2009, 2,776 breaches impacting a total of about 201 million individuals have been listed.
10 Largest Health Data Breaches, Mid-Year 2019
Individuals Affected*
Dominion Dental Services 2,965,000
Inmediata Health Group 1,600,000
UW Medicine 973,000
Columbia Surgical Specialist of Spokane 400,000
UConn Health 327,000
Metro Santurce 306,000
Navicent Health 278,000
ZOLL Services 277,300
Doctors Management Services 207,000
Centrelake Medical Group 198,000
*Numbers rounded
Disturbing Trend
The number of hacking/IT incidents reported so far this year "is not a good trend," says Tom Walsh, president of consulting firm tw-Security.
"According to Roger Severino, the HHS director of the Office for Civil Rights, and the stats he shared at HIMSS 2019, there were 149 hacking/IT incidents in all of 2018," Walsh adds. "We're already at 85 percent of last year's number and we're only half way through 2019."
Meanwhile, breaches stemming from the loss or theft of computing devices, which in the initial years dominated the tally, continue to decline.
So far this year, only 15 loss/theft incidents affecting a total of about 145,000 individuals have been posted on the federal tally.
"The reduced number of breaches due to loss or theft of devices is a good sign, most likely due to the widespread adoption of encryption on portable devices and media," says Kate Borten, president of privacy and consulting firm, The Marblehead Group. Losses or thefts of encrypted devices are not reportable breaches under HIPAA.
But, Walsh argues, "The number of reportable breaches involving loss/theft of electronic gear such as laptops is still too high."
Business Associate Breaches
So far this year, business associates have been reported as "present" in 47 breaches affecting nearly 1.25 million individuals that have been added to the tally.
"There is wide variation among BAs in terms of their security and privacy expertise and awareness," Borten notes. "Some do an excellent job, but many fall short, especially in understanding and meeting the full scope of their regulatory obligations."
The largest health data breach involving a business associate added to the tally was reported by Pennsylvania-based Zoll Services, which provides emergency medical products, such as wearable heart defibrillators. That incident, which impacted more than 277,300 individuals, involved a third-party vendor migrating a server containing archived email of Zoll.
Walsh says he's hopeful BA-related incidents will fall as the year goes on.
"A trend we are seeing is that more covered entities are vetting their vendors before signing a contract as well as asking current business associates to demonstrate how they are handling risk and HIPAA compliance, mainly through the completion of questionnaires and evidence collection," he notes.
"This is a good trend which should hopefully reduce the number of breaches involving business associates."
Coming Soon to the Federal Tally?
Not reflected on the federal tally as of July 2 is the mega-breach revealed last month by American Medical Collection Agency, which reportedly affected at least 20 million patients of several medical laboratory testing firms, including Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp.
Once details of that business associate incident are confirmed by HHS, the AMCA incident could be the largest health data breach revealed so far this year.
"It's time for business associates to improve their security posture and maturity," Walsh says. "They have skin in the game. While the number of breaches are slowly on the decline, the number of patient lives affected by a breach related to business associates remains high."
Tips on Mitigating the Insider Threat
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Cybercriminals Are Resilient. How About You?
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Assessing Cyber Risk for the Defense Industrial Base
Get Hands-On with Closed-Loop Email Analysis and Response
Stronger Security Through Context-aware Change Management: A Case Study
Beginners Guide to Observability
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Watch now: Madison students return to in-person classes amid pandemic
MADISON SCHOOLS | BACK TO THE CLASSROOM
Elizabeth Beyer | Wisconsin State Journal , Molly DeVore
Brianna Allen watched her son, a kindergartner, walk into Lake View Elementary on Madison's North Side for the first time Thursday after weighing the pros and cons of sending him to in-person schooling during a pandemic.
"He has asthma, and it's chronic, so that's what I'm nervous about," she said, adding that another of her children, her 1-year-old son, is immunocompromised after receiving a heart transplant.
"I don't want him to get admitted back into the hospital," she said. "I'm very nervous and cautious, but I'm taking the steps to do the social distancing and the hand-washing and keeping it bacteria free."
Kindergartner Ahmad Gam gives his family one last wave before entering Lake View Elementary School for his first day of school Thursday.
KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
The Madison School District on Thursday welcomed roughly half of its students back into school buildings for the first time since buildings shuttered roughly 18 months ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students in grades 4K, kindergarten, 1, 6, 7, 9 and 10 and in early childhood programs returned to school amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases driven by the more transmissible delta variant. Students in the remaining grades are due to return to classrooms on Friday.
The district announced a last-minute online school option for students in grades K-5 last week, and about 750 families — five times the number the district had originally planned for — applied to have their children enrolled. Allen said she thought about enrolling her kindergartner in the online program but thought it would be better for him to get experience with in-person schooling and to make new friends.
On the Near East Side, masked parents lined up outside of Lapham Elementary with their children, also masked, before the 7:30 a.m. start time. Nearby, a staff member dressed as the school's mascot, a dolphin named Splash, greeted students with cheerful waves and high fives as parents handed off their children to staff, who spritzed their hands with sanitizer before they walked in.
Madisen Clark walks daughter Penelope to the front door of Lapham Elementary for her first day of kindergarten.
Parents were not allowed inside of the building to help their children find their classrooms and teachers, something that would happen in a non-pandemic year. Instead, they congregated on the playground for a coffee-fueled meet-and-greet with other families.
Among them were Madisen Clark and Daniel Bowser, who had just dropped off their kindergarten-age daughter, who was ready and excited for school.
"She didn't even say goodbye; she just ran right in," Clark said, laughing. "I'm excited to get to see her at the end of the day and hear how things went from her."
"I was like 'Penelope, Penelope!' and she just looked back, kind of," Bowser said. "It went way better than I thought it was going to go."
Both Clark and Bowser said they were nervous about sending their daughter to in-person learning, but they're confident with how she has been handling mitigation strategies such as masking.
Kindergartners Penelope Clark, left, and Thea Ryanjoy pose for a first day of school photo as Alyssa Ryanjoy captures the moment.
Jenny and Melissa Fish, whose son started 4K at Orchard Ridge Elementary on the city's West Side, said they were nervous about sending him to school but agreed that he needed the social aspect of in-person learning.
Melissa Fish said their son was exposed to COVID when she contracted it earlier, and they plan to get him vaccinated as soon as he is eligible.
Parents interviewed Thursday cited the district's mask mandate for students, staff and visitors to school grounds — including outside — regardless of vaccination status as well as the School Board's decision on Monday to consider a vaccination requirement for teachers and staff as a deciding factor in sending their children to classrooms.
"If there wasn't that, we wouldn't be sending him," Evan Wells, father of a 4K student at Leopold Elementary School on the city's South Side, said.
The Gam family -- from left, Muhammad, Ahmad, Abraham and Asma -- take a first-day-of-school selfie before Ahmad's first day of kindergarten Thursday at Lake View Elementary School.
The board voted unanimously to pursue a vaccine mandate for teachers and staff Monday, just days before school was scheduled to start. Some speakers urged the board to move quickly.
The resolution, by board member Cris Carusi, directed district administrators to put together a plan to require vaccinations, which will be taken up by the board's Operations Work Group on Sept. 20 and voted on by the full board on Sept. 27. A deadline for teachers and staff who have yet to be vaccinated has yet to be determined. The district has not yet collected data on the number of teachers and staff who have been vaccinated.
'This is scary'
Students at Toki Middle School on the Southwest Side were both excited and nervous as they entered the building, most for the first time.
Lona Hassett attended school online throughout the 2020-21 school year. "Virtual was OK. I usually prefer in-person, but this is scary," the incoming sixth-grader said. "There's too many people here. I'm not used to it."
State Rep. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, kisses son George Morris goodbye on his first day of kindergarten at Lapham Elementary School Thursday. Parents said they were encouraged by a mask mandate and plans to require vaccinations as they sent their children off amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Kobe Singvongsa, who started seventh grade, said he was feeling "really good" and was excited to meet new people in person. "And get to see some of my old friends and get to do some fun activities in person," he said.
Jatavia Waller, who will be starting eighth grade, said she's looking forward to socializing with classmates through in-person learning, even though she said she appreciated online learning last year because, she said, she's also an introvert.
She plans to get vaccinated on Sept. 11 and said she didn't mind wearing a mask while in school because "it's kind of like second nature."
Cathy Prozanski, who is in her fourth year as principal at Lapham Elementary, said the teachers and staff were ready to welcome students back into the classroom.
"I would say 95% of our students already met their teacher," she said. "I feel good. The kids are excited. It's amazing how even the littles can go to the door and say goodbye to mom and dad and there's no crying. … There's always more tears among the parents."
Prozanski said that independence among even the youngest learners suggests one positive effect of the pandemic.
Physical education teacher James Kersten guards the crosswalk as Pao Xiong walks children Ethan, Ricky and Evan to Lake View Elementary.
Still, the highly transmissible delta variant has people like Prozanski worried. Students will take off their masks during meal times, for example, she said. To lessen the possible spread, students will remain socially distanced during lunches and snack times, and teachers at Lapham will encourage quiet meal times by reading to students or putting on an educational video or audio book, she said.
If the school were to experience an outbreak, Lapham nurses would conduct contact tracing to determine which students, teachers or staff need to quarantine — the same approach that will be practiced districtwide — as well as which close contacts were wearing masks and their vaccination status.
"We've really been intentional" about COVID mitigation efforts, Prozanski said. "I think we'll be fine."
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Madison Catholic school refuses to say whether it will follow mask mandate
Public Health said it had so far received one complaint about a school not following the order, although it declined to release the school's name.
Back to school: Hundreds of parents, some teachers seek online option amid COVID resurgence
About 750 families applied to have their children enrolled in a last-minute online elementary school option — five times the number the Madison School District was prepared to accommodate.
Masks required outdoors for Madison School District elementary and middle school students
Students will be required to wear masks on playgrounds and all outdoor school property for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year, district spokesman Tim LeMonds said in an email.
Required vaccinations for teachers in Madison School District one step closer to reality
Madison-area state lawmakers called on Madison School Board members to move forward with mandatory vaccines for all district staff.
Madison School District to offer online learning for grades 4K-5
"This decision comes after considering concerns over the rising incidence of the Delta variant; children under 12 years old not being eligible for vaccinations; and associated risks with family members who are immunocompromised," district spokesperson Tim LeMonds said in a statement.
Madison School District shifts student schedules to accommodate for bus driver shortage
School day start and end times will change to accommodate for the shortage, in an effort to accommodate for a bus driver shortage that has affected school districts across the country.
Gov. Tony Evers expresses support for mandatory teacher vaccinations
A teacher vaccine mandate is not part of the Madison School District's current plan for the upcoming school year, but "that could change."
Light showers likely Friday for southern Wisconsin, then improving weather over the weekend
Sunny skies should be the rule for several days starting Sunday, with seasonable temperatures, according to forecasters.
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty in thick of culture war fights in schools
A loose network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks that includes the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is quietly lending firepower to local activists engaged in culture war fights in schools across the country.
With 45 COVID cases and nurse staffing concerns, Madison schools seek outside testing help
The district plans sometime in the next 15 days to begin COVID-19 testing for students and staff with symptoms through COVID Clinic.
Madison School District to partner with UW Health on COVID testing study
UW Health plans to launch the study next week and will use a sample group of about 400 students, staff and teachers from Leopold and Lincoln elementary schools who display COVID symptoms in an effort to determine a more accessible method of testing.
2 classrooms quarantined due to COVID-19 in the Madison School District
District spokesman Tim LeMonds said the effort was done out of an abundance of caution to mitigate the possible spread of COVID-19 after one or more students, teachers or staff tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Madison's new superintendent faces steep challenge as he tackles the 'two pandemics'
Madison School District Superintendent Carlton Jenkins returned to Madison amid a turbulent year, fraught with social unrest amid what he calls two pandemics: COVID-19 and racism.
Families express frustration with Madison's K-5 online learning option
Some worry about class sizes growing, though the district said other classes shrank as a result of students learning online.
In Madison visit, NEA president predicts COVID vaccine requirement coming for students
"That's where we're going, I know that's where we're going, eventually we'll get there but we need to remember that this is not new. Requiring vaccinations goes back," NEA President Becky Pringle said.
Number of students, staff quarantines increased 4-fold in Madison School District
The district also recorded nearly double the number of COVID-19 cases among students, staff and teachers.
4 finalists remain for Madison Memorial High School name change
The Madison School Board will seek public feedback during a hearing Sept. 29 on the final four new names for James Madison Memorial High School.
Madison School District enrollment up 162 students over last year
But enrollment is still significantly down from two years ago before the district lost 1,000 students during last year's COVID-interrupted school year.
More than 82% of Madison School District teachers and staff vaccinated against COVID-19
The district expects staff vaccination rates to continue to rise in response to vaccine mandate deadlines, spokesperson Tim LeMonds said in a statement.


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Can abortion ever be banned, while maintaining female rights?
Allallt was asked and in return he has asked his audience that these adjoined subjects of abortion, genocide, and female rights be broadcast among a wider atheist audience. Since I am not atheist and he has welcomed my visits and comments, I believe anyone can participate who feel these three topics are of great importance. However, a word of caution: Though obviously the three subjects are paramount and controversial, and as would be expected some comments and Commentors get… umm, how can I say(?)… highly energetic with their word and grammar choices, try to see beyond the saber-rattling and contribute meaningful dialogue and discussion. I hope you'll take the time to at least read Allallt's post, and if inclined Madblog's post for some context.
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We must roll back regulations on public life.
Public social life in London is boisterous, often ingenious and always surprising. Yet, for the past decade or more, it has come up against a force entirely hostile to its very existence: a swathe of sanitising and officious regulation springing up from local authorities and industry bodies.
A few months ago, a pair of bebop champions were prosecuted for practising their art on a Camden crossroads. Their offence was busking without a licence, which, in the borough of Camden, is a crime. The beboppers had not applied for a licence because one of the licence conditions was a de facto prohibition on amplification, which precludes not only bebopping but also the music of quiet instruments, such as the flute.
Here we see the jarring between street culture and official culture. Camden, a borough renowned for street music and origin of artists like Amy Winehouse, is run by officials who are entirely hostile to the hubbub of their own urban streets and snooty about the culture of people pitching up and playing their thing.
A similar trend affects so many parts of urban life, where it always seems that the authorities are trying to squeeze out the best bits. Two years ago, the band King's Parade (winners of the London Mayor's busking competition) were arrested for busking in Leicester Square as part of a Met Police initiative funded by the private business association, the Heart of London.
A few years ago our Manifesto Club website Banned in London highlighted the 435 zones within the capital where otherwise legal activities were banned, including handing out leaflets, drinking, walking dogs and even protesting. These measures go against longstanding and traditional practices that defined London's public life. Nineteenth-century streets were bustling with pamphleteers and sandwich-board men, the walls plastered with posters and the floors with pavement art. It was in these streets that trades were plied and events and causes won their audiences. The character of public places came from the spontaneous meeting and hawking of members of the public.
Now you have to buy a council licence to hand out leaflets in many areas, posters are banned, and pavement art is frowned upon. Things have got worse since our Banned in London map. New powers (public spaces protection orders, or PSPOs) allow local authorities to ban any activity they judge to have a 'detrimental effect on the quality of life' of Londoners. This has meant a series of crackdowns on the everyday life of boroughs.
Hillingdon criminalised people standing in pairs in certain areas (unless they are waiting at a bus-stop); it also restricted noisy remote-control cars and feeding the pigeons. Brent has criminalised offering casual work or running casual-work minibuses. Here, the spontaneous self-organisation of urban life – from hanging out to looking for work, which is far better than the job centre – is short-circuited by council officials who think that groups of waiting people look messy.
We need to roll back this swathe of official rules and regulations.
That would mean: no booze bans; no leafleting zones; no dispersal zones; no busking licences; and no public spaces protection orders. The police should enforce the criminal law, but aside from responding to the commission of genuine crimes, London's public spaces should be left to find their groove and to find out how people want to use them. The result would produce the most interesting and startling public spaces in the world.
Right now, London's public life is having to fight regulation to breathe, and it often loses the battle or gets squeezed out. If public life was allowed to be itself, then walking these streets would be a marvel indeed.