Dublin City Council is among the worst local authorities in the country when it comes to tackling illegal dumping, a new investigation has found.
RTE Investigates revealed that the council ranked 21st out of the 30 Irish councils in regulating and enforcing waste services per number of waste permits held.
The local authority spent €17.05 per person on waste services, 17c less than the national average of €17.22, despite being the 7th best authority for staffing levels with an above average rate of waste facility inspections.
Meanwhile, just 25 enforcement actions were taken by Dublin City Council against illegal dumpers between 2014 and 2016, 85 fewer than the national average.
In contrast, Fingal County Council ranked 8th overall, while South Dublin County Council ranked 16th.
However, while Fingal was found to have the 2nd staffing levels across the country, it took a paltry 5 enforcement actions against illegal dumpers, more than 100 fewer than the national average.
South Dublin County Council spent €42.09 per person on waste services, €24.87 more than the national average, and also prosecuted 112 waste offenders between 2014 and 2016, over twice the national average.
The council also took 39 enforcement actions over the two-year period examined, 71 less than the average.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown was not included in the rankings because the county holds no local authority waste permits.
The data was released ahead of an RTE One documentary Ireland's Wild Waste , which will be broadcast on Monday evening.
For the purposes of the documentary, RTE Investigates analysed data from the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Housing to determine which councils take illegal dumping seriously.
It examined rates of inspections, enforcements, prosecutions and staffing levels between 2014 and 2016, creating a ranking of the best and worst councils at managing the waste industry.
Donegal proved the poorest performing council in Ireland for its inspection rate of its facilities and for its investment in waste services.
Wicklow came out as the highest performing council in Ireland for managing waste services, completing 6,174 non-routine inspections, four times the national average of 1,371, over the two-year period.


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REDD+ in the Mekong Region
All five countries of the Lower Mekong Region are participating in REDD+, but they are at different stages of readiness and implementation. Because REDD+ implementation is fragmented and complex, it is difficult to get a full and accurate sense of all REDD+ related projects and activities. Below are some examples of related projects by country.
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Photo: Mountainous forest Seen from the Mekong River by Klim Levene | CC-BY-2.0.
Data Literacy: If data were an open forest - would anyone use it?
The Open Development Initiative (ODI) has been facilitating the collation and release of data and information for over eleven years now. The demand and need to provide data for our civil society constituents is summarized through a threefold process. Read more
Towards Effective Advocacy in Mekong Region with Data Literacy
The Open Development Initiative (ODI) first began working with our constituents on data literacy in 2019, with a 3-month data literacy programme for journalists in Myanmar. Since then we have localized our Data Literacy Curriculum, adapted from the World Bank Certificate Program, to meet the needs of specific groups, such as forestry advocates, educators, women's networks, and Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.
Mekong Women in Open Data
Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. At the Open Development Initiative, we wanted to understand how this impacted women in the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV) in their access to open data. In 2019, we conducted and completed a study on this topic, the results of which have now been published on the Open Development Mekong platform.
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COVID-19 in the Mekong
The novel coronavirus has triggered a global response of extreme measures. The immediate changes are countable. As of April 15, 2020, over 2 million cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been counted globally, with over 100,000 confirmed deaths. Tech tools to track the movement of infected people are being deployed around the world, from Israel to Singapore, with some of the largest historically rival companies globally – Apple and Google – teaming up to develop a tracking system.
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Infrastructure development has been growing in the Lower Mekong Region, but what does that actually mean? Learn more about the financing and financiers, impacts, and gender issues relevant to infrastructure development in an ever-evolving story feature here.
Irrawaddy Dolphins Near Extinction as Mekong Region Develops
There are only 80 Irrawaddy dolphins left in a loosely-patrolled stretch of the Mekong River in central Cambodia. Hydropower dams are shrinking freshwater pools in their main habitat, leading to more contact with fishermen who threaten their survival. Three dolphins died in December, accounting for about 5% of their ...
Vietnam gets foreign financial backing for decarbonization effort
Three financial institutions in Japan, the United States and Australia have announced that they will support Vietnam's decarbonization effort. The institutions, backed by the governments of the countries mentioned above, would help Vietnam transition into liquefied natural gas plants and step up renewable energy utilization and ...
Myanmar: Abuses Mount Since Military Coup
Myanmar's junta has been responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity since the military coup in February 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. The security forces have been implicated in mass killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, sexual violence, and attacks on civilians in ...
Climate of fear engulfs Vietnam's mainstream media
A fear-cloaked dynamic has increasingly percolated Vietnam's information environment, in both cyberspace and the mainstream media. A decree guiding the controversial Cybersecurity Law, which took effect in October 2022, looks to further empower Vietnamese authorities to censor online content they disfavour and bolster the state's digital surveillance ...
Lost in Laos: Systemic problems are far greater than one new leader can solve
On 30 December, Lao Prime Minster Phankham Viphavanh (72) resigned ostensibly on health grounds, but amidst an economy in sharp decline and saddled in foreign debt. He is succeeded by the scion of one of the country's two political dynasties, Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone (56). Politics in ...
Perspective | Giant Catch in the Mekong Reveals Mysteries of Biodiversity Hot Spot
The Mekong River, the longest waterway in Southeast Asia, is often called the world's most productive river because it holds a greater abundance of freshwater fish than any other river basin on the planet. From an ecological standpoint, there is one stretch of the river, in ...
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Save the Date: APAC Digital Identity unConference
Fostering Innovation and collaboration between emerging digital identity companies across the APAC region. The goal of the event is to foster innovation and collaboration between emerging digital identity companies and projects across the APAC region. unConferences are particularly generative, with a facilitator we will co-create the agenda ...
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13th CD candidate Ronny Jackson, Trump's former doc, speaking to veterans Saturday in WF
Congressional candidate Ronny Jackson, former physician to President Donald Trump, will speak to veterans Saturday in Wichita Falls.
13th CD candidate Ronny Jackson, Trump's former doc, speaking to veterans Saturday in WF Congressional candidate Ronny Jackson, former physician to President Donald Trump, will speak to veterans Saturday in Wichita Falls. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2019/12/27/ronny-jackson-13-th-cd-candidate-trumps-former-doctor-visiting-wf/2757281001/
Trish Choate, Wichita Falls Times Record News Published 2:09 p.m. CT Dec. 27, 2019
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson answers questions from the public during a campaign stop in Bowie as shown this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, Times Record News file photo. Jackson is running for the 13th District Congressional seat. (Photo: TORIN HALSEY/TIMES RECORD NEWS)
Congressional candidate Ronny Jackson will appear Saturday morning in Wichita Falls to speak to local veterans, according to a media release.
The public is invited to hear Jackson speak to veterans at 11 a.m. Saturday at P's Crazy Car Museum at 1602 Midwestern Parkway.
Jackson, formerly White House physician to President Donald Trump, is running in the March 3 Republican Primary for the 13th Congressional District seat.
His campaign website is at www.ronnyjacksonfortexas13.com.
Jackson retired Dec. 1 as a rear admiral after 24 years of active-duty service in the Navy. His roots are in the Lone Star State where he has returned to live in Amarillo.
Jackson is one of 15 Republicans and three Democrats running in March 3 primaries for the seat now held by U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon. Thornberry is retiring from Congress in January 2021.
Born in Levelland, Texas, Jackson has worked full-time since he was 14 years old, according to his campaign bio.
More: Trump's former physician, congressional candidate Ronny Jackson, campaigns in Bowie
He worked at a local grocery store and then a roustabout in the oil field, paying for his undergraduate education while serving as a volunteer firefighter, according to his bio.
Jackson graduated from Texas A&M University at Galveston and served in the Navy Reserves while attending medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch, according to his bio.
After graduating from medical school in 1995, he began his active-duty Navy career, according to his bio.
He was an honor graduate of the Navy's Undersea Medical Officer Program and a fully qualified Navy deep-sea diver trained in hyperbaric and submarine medicine, according to the bio.
He later graduated at the top of his class as an honor graduate from a residency in emergency medicine, according to the bio.
In 2005, he was assigned to the Marine Corps, joining the 2nd Marines, Combat Logistics Regiment 25, in Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, according to the bio.
Then Jackson deployed as the emergency medicine physician in charge of resuscitative medicine for a combat surgical shock trauma platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq, according to the bio. The area was one of the most violently contested regions of Iraq.
While still serving in Iraq, Jackson was selected as a White House physician in 2006 during the President George W. Bush administration.
He served three administrations at the White House over the next 14 years in positions with increasing levels of responsibility, according to the bio.
Jackson directed executive health care for the president's cabinet and senior staff, served as physician supervisor for the Camp David Presidential Retreat, was physician to the White House and commanding officer of the White House Medical Unit, according to the bio.
Trump nominated him in March 2018 for Veterans Administration secretary although Jackson later withdrew his name after some controversy arose, according to a previous Times Record News story.
Trump appointed Jackson in January 2019 to be assistant to the president and to the newly created role of chief medical adviser to the White House and to the Executive Office of the President, according to the bio.
He has been recognized with awards including the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal — four awards, the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal — three awards, as well as other honors, according to the bio.
More: Trump's former White House doctor files to run for 13th Congressional District seat
Jackson has been married to wife Jane 27 years, according to the bio. They have a daughter and two sons.
Daughter Libby has a master's of business administration and works in Virginia, son Ben is a Naval Academy graduate and Navy SEAL, according to the bio. And son Matthew is a junior in high school hoping to attend the Naval Academy and become a fighter pilot.
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There are sixteen bowling lanes at bowling alley De Kegel, creating the possibility for 96 persons in total to bowl. It is the ideal place to have an active party with your family or business colleagues. Discover any of our great bowling packages or come and have a fun hour of bowling! After bowling we welcome you in one of our three theme restaurants: the old Dutch hall ´De Deel´, the garden-like ´Serre´ or the Amstelzaal.
For children's parties we offer special festive arrangements.
De Kegel is easily accessible and free parking is available for guests.
Holiday Bowling during the school holiday!
In this period, we are daily opened from 12 o'clock in the afternoon!
Come and throw some bowling balls on Saturday the 18th of May while enjoying the funky music by DJ Low Five under the glare of the disco balls! You only pay 15 euros per lane, per hour. Up to 6 people can play on one lane!
Book our Package de Kegel, consisting of a sociable hour of bowling and a main course of your choice from our menu. A very good offer, because you only pay € 18.50 per person!
You can choose chicken satay, schnitzel, hamburger, falafel burger, pork entrecote or kibbeling, served with fries and salad.
- children up to 12 years old pay € 11.50 and get their main course in a special children's portion.


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Welsh supporter representatives meet FAW
Posted by The FSF 12th November 2018
Supporter representatives from FSF Cymru met with the Football Association of Wales (FAW), Welsh police and others last month to talk about upcoming international fixtures and other fan issues. The meeting, held on Tuesday 30th October, covered the upcoming trip to Albania, their first round of UEFA Nations League matches, as well as policing, ticketing and much more. Minutes from that meeting are...
Become a founding member of the new unified national fans' group
Posted by The FSF 7th November 2018
As discussed at July's AGM supporters will meet to finalise the merger of the Football Supporters' Federation and Supporters Direct into one unified organisation at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Thursday 22nd November. At this meeting the organisation's first National Council (NC) will be elected and members are entitled to stand for election. REGISTER: Please visit this link to regist...
Fans for Diversity: England fans in Russia exhibition
A photography exhibition capturing England fans following the Three Lions across Russia during the 2018 World Cup will be launched in London this month. The Fans for Diversity: England fans in Russia exhibition will showcase the work of photographer David Shaw, who spent the duration of this summer's tournament capturing England fans supporting the national team. Commissioned by the Fans for Diver...
Affiliate network voting for new national organisation
At our AGM in the summer, members of the FSF, along with Supporters Direct, voted to set up a new unified national football supporters' organisation. On the 10th October we invited people to step forward to stand for their appropriate affiliate networks, and we can now confirm that there will be a contested election for the following networks: Premier League Championship Leagues One and Two There...
FSF Cymru: guide to Albania
Wales are off to Albania in two weeks time for an international friendly on Tuesday 20th November and FSF Cymru have been busy pulling together all the travel and matchday information that fans will need. They'll be playing against The Eagles at the Elbasan Arena in the country's third largest city and FSF Cymru have also provided an additional information sheet for the British Consulate in the ca...
Fans for Diversity helps older fans reconnect
Posted by The FSF 2nd November 2018
The Fans for Diversity campaign is helping older fans around Worcester who've lost touch with live football reconnect with their club. Free transport will be provided by the Fans for Diversity campaign throughout the 2018/19 season to fans over the age of 50 – this is part of a series of events in conjunction with Worcester City Supporters' Trust to make supporting the Faithful more accessible. Wo...
FSF Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Posted by The FSF 31st October 2018
The Football Supporters' Federation is pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2018 FSF Awards in partnership with Virgin Media – voting is open now, and fans can back their favourites at www.fsf.org.uk/vote. Ninety six shortlisted candidates will battle it out across 16 categories, recognising everything from the best players of 2018 to fans' favourite away days. Vote now - cast your votes for...
Hull City refuse to meet club's major fan group
Hull City have excluded the largest democratic group at the club from its fan engagement meetings this month, contravening national guidelines on supporter dialogue. At the club's recent Supporters Committee meeting, Hull City Supporters' Trust (HCST) were barred from attending - due to a dispute between HCST and the club. Hull City's owners are unhappy with an elected official at the trust and wo...
Sky Sports refuses to compensate Manchester United fans
Posted by The FSF 26th October 2018
Sky Sports have refused to compensate match-going Manchester United fans for a double fixture move that could leave thousands of Old Trafford season ticket holders out of pocket. This weekend Manchester United take on Everton at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon live on Sky Sports, despite the game originally being scheduled for an early Saturday kick-off when the TV selections for the Autumn perio...
Fans meet with Premier League
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Maria Menounos Wiki, Net Worth, Affair, Boyfriend, Married, Husband, Dating, and Bio
Date of Birth/Birthday: Thursday, June 8, 1978
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Multi-talented American personality Maria Menounos was born on 8th June 1978 in Medford, Massachusetts, the United States of America. She is the daughter of Costas and Litsa Menounos. According to Maria Menounos bio, she attended in Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church located in Somerville, Massachusetts. After that, she got enrolled in Medford High School in Medford. Later, she completed her graduate degree from Emerson College situated in Boston in the year 2000. She sang in her church choir from grade school to college. Since her early age, she had the keen interest in modeling. She appeared during various beauty peasants in her young age. In the year 1996, she won the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA. She also competed in Miss Teen USA where her name was listed in the top 15.
By profession, she is an American actress, television host, journalist and occasional professional wrestler. She began her career serving as a reporter for Channel One News. Then, she started working in Entertainment Tonight. In the year 2002, she reported on movies, fashion and music and was featured in the UPN series One on One as Glenda in 2004. Next year, she was hired as a correspondent in Access Hollywood in 2005. In the same year, she acted in the comic book film titled as Fantastic Four as a sexy nurse. She has already worked in more than half a dozen of films including Fweinds.com, Kickin' it Old Skool, Tropic Thunder, Paranormal movie, entourage and so on. She also worked as the television correspondent for the shows like Today, Access Hollywood and Extra. She also co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest at Athens, Greece in 2006. She has also worked in round four dozens of television shows such as Entertainment Tonight, One Tree Hill, The Challenge, The Real World, Extra, Nashville and many more. At present, she is a co-host of the show Live from E! since 2013. According to the recent data of 2017, Maria Menounos net worth is estimated to be more than seven million dollars.
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I absolutely adore stylised boxes. Those that aren't heavily decorated and embellished but pack a load of style into them.
For me, black as a base with a bright colour is super stylish, and I love how this box ended up.
In actual fact though, I was heading in one direction when I started the design process, but decided to add a top that was based on my layering of card fronts, which is how it ended up like this!
It has a slightly different close to my other fold-over type boxes, and as it's pretty instinctive for me to build in a certain way, I almost forgot to remove certain sections in the video. It did make me giggle, and in the subsequent proof viewing of it after, I did laugh at myself again.
I genuinely laugh and smile while I'm crafting. I may be ever so slightly bonkers, as invariably I'm on my own, but you know, if you can't laugh with and at yourself, then who can?
I hope you like the video, and the bit of fun in the middle. It's here online if you'd like to watch via YouTube!
Sam, hello where can the embossing buddy be purchased. Have looked everywhere for this and can't fund it, (hobby lobby, joanns, michaels, online NOWHERE to be found) Can't purchase from you cause your in the UK and u don't sell to texas residents.
Thank you for a great video… Love the Box !


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fronts. They can be very difficult for a dog to learn squarely with no body language cues from you. Set a solid foundation for them early on in your training.
We've begun to learn the "fronts," I forgot to mention that 🙂 Right now we're just doing them with him coming to me while I'm sitting on the very edge of a chair and clicking only when he comes in straight.
I'm not yet sure if I want to do just agility with him and Cessna or also do rally with Canyon, so I will for sure be asking for assistance in "finishes" and the different agility/rally requirements like weaves. With Canyon being so young, I'm just trying to learn all I can and keeping my options open 🙂 As for working with Cessna, I've decided agility will be more her thing since she won't need the perfect heel and she gets to jump and do other more fun things that she will enjoy more.


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Austrian MEPs demand opening of accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania
After the EU Commission issued a recommendation for the opening of accession talks with the two Western Balkan states North Macedonia and Albania, the European parliamentarians of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) Karas and Mandl demand that the "promises" be kept. The decision to open accession talks will be taken by the Member States later in June.
"The European Union must honour its commitments to the countries of the Western Balkans. It is therefore an important and correct step to start accession negotiations with Northern Macedonia and Albania. After careful examination, the European Commission has established that these two countries meet the conditions for accession," says Othmar Karas, MEP, commenting on the recommendation of the European Commission to open accession talks with the two Western Balkan states.
"It is clear that the countries of the Western Balkans must consistently implement far-reaching reforms – especially in the areas of justice, fundamental rights, the protection of minorities, the fight against corruption and organised crime. And they must improve and normalise their neighbourly relations. The settlement of the name dispute between Northern Macedonia and Greece was a shining example of this," says Karas.
"But if they do, the European Union must breathe life into the accession prospects of these states. Only in this way can we permanently anchor European values and mutual friendship in the Western Balkans. If we fail to do so, the influence of Russia, China and elsewhere in our immediate neighbourhood threatens to gain a stronger foothold."
"We must export stability so that we do not import instability. This motto of EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn must continue to be the clear objective of the EU's policy towards South Eastern Europe," says Lukas Mandl, member of the European Parliament's Kosovo delegation.
"For the citizens of Kosovo, freedom to travel is an important step in this direction. Europe can thus show that we see the youngest state in Europe at eye level and reward active reforms. The strengthening of the European identity and the perspective of integration are important prerequisites for a good future in South Eastern Europe, for the entire Union and especially for Austria".
The preservation of peace in the region was a prerequisite for further dialogue and constitutional reforms. "Only if there is peace can the necessary reconciliation continue. In this sense, I hope that worrying developments such as the current ones around Mitrovica will soon be a thing of the past," concluded Mandl.
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Confederate Memorial Statue. Photo by Brantley Meaders.
Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks announced in a statement to the Ole Miss students, staff and faculty on Thursday that the university is moving forward with the relocation of the Confederate statue located in the Circle.
Governing bodies of the university voted on resolutions for the relocation before spring break. The bodies included the Associated Student Body, Graduate Student Council, Faculty Senate and Staff Council.
The university has already submitted a notice of intent of the statue's relocation to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, according to Sparks' statement.
The resolutions the governing bodies voted on highlighted the relocation should be the Confederate cemetery on campus. The cemetery, where experts estimate between 400-700 Confederate and Union soldiers are buried, lies south of the Tad Smith Coliseum.
However, the announcement from Sparks did not clarify the new location for the statue.


The bureau has issued a extreme climate warning for damaging winds.
Some Canberrans had been anticipated to be nonetheless with out electrical energy on Wednesday morning after damaging winds introduced down powerlines and induced outages across the metropolis, additionally bringing a dramatic mud storm on Tuesday.
Robust winds blanket Parliament Home in mud on Tuesday afternoon.
By 8pm on Tuesday, about 230 prospects remained with out energy, with some to be with out electrical energy all night time, Evoenergy mentioned. At its peak, the storm noticed practically 6000 prospects lower off, with visitors lights out and disruption to peak hour visitors on Tuesday afternoon.
Robert Agostino from O'Connor rides house as robust winds whip up waves alongside the lake entrance in Parkes.
The hearth ban was delaying restoration of energy as a result of crews needed to make further security patrols to take care of fireplace threat, a spokesperson mentioned.
Evoenergy mentioned all out there crews could be working by way of the night time to revive electrical energy.
Robust northwesterly winds had been behind a extreme climate warning and a complete fireplace ban on Tuesday, additionally prompting a well being warning.
"The ACT is experiencing dry circumstances and powerful winds, and the degrees of mud particles are rising throughout town lowering the air high quality," the well being directorate mentioned in a press release.
The mud storm over Canberra from a Virgin Australia flight, which needed to abort its first touchdown try on Tuesday afternoon due to wind.
The mud that blanketed town for a lot of the afternoon persevered into the night regardless of winds dying down.
A spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology mentioned the mud, from dry areas within the Riverina and South Australia, was monitoring north on Tuesday night and dissipating, with no extra mud anticipated on this climate occasion. On Wednesday morning, the damaging northwesterly winds would turn out to be lighter and extra variable, with a excessive of 24 levels, earlier than temperatures returned to the 30s from Friday.
A aircraft touchdown at Canberra Airport on a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday afternoon needed to abort its first touchdown try due to the wind.
Virgin Australia flight VA1218 circled the airport for 20 minutes earlier than touchdown efficiently on the second try, Sarah Curby, who was on board on the time, instructed The Canberra Instances.
"We went to land, virtually hit the bottom and needed to fly again up because it was unsafe to land. We did a circle within the air, after which got here again down at a special angle," she mentioned.
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The nursing role of caring in a bicameral society involves implementing Et Trait o Waiting into practice to form a basis for understanding the partnership, participation and retention principles of nursing (Nursing Council New Zealand [NANCY, 2011). Cultural safety is a vital concept in nursing and refers to the effective nursing of patients from other cultures by nurses who have undertaken a process of reflection on their own cultural identity and recognize the effect of their culture on their nursing practice (NC, 2011).
The student nurse will apply the nursing concept of cultural safety into contemporary nursing practice in a bicameral mental health setting. Cultural safety implies more than sensitivity to otherwise marginal's cultures or ethnic groups in healthcare practice Woods, 2010). The concept of cultural safety arose from the colonial context of New Zealand society in response to the poor health status of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, and their insistence that service delivery change profoundly (Woods,2010).
During placement, the student nurse noticed that Maori have a higher emphasis on Hannah and community whereas European or non- Maori have a higher emphasis on western medicine when it comes to health. Maori beliefs regard health as being influenced by four domains called Et Where Tap Ha, which consist of partiality, family, mind and the physical world (Ministry of Health, 2014).
As a Fijian student nurse, when caring for European patients in the mental health setting as in practice the decisions about mental healthcare and treatment for a person with an independent mind-set is decided by an individual and not by the extended family as it is done in Maori culture, which is similar to the student nurse's culture. The health status of indigenous people varies according to their unique historical, political and social circumstances.
Disparities between Maori and Nan-Maori have been evident or all of colonial history in New Zealand; these differences involve factors such as lifestyle, socioeconomics, availability of healthcare and discrimination (Thinness, 201 1). The student nurse has noticed these cultural differences in the mental health setting when caring for Maori and Nan-Maori. During a previous clinical placement in the mental health ward, the student nurse encountered "Mel", a European woman in her mid-thirties.
Mel was admitted to the ward voluntarily as she had been feeling deeply depressed and was expressing suicidal ideation. Mel came into the hospital alone and did not ant her family involved in her care as she stated they are not a close family. This was evident as Mel was the first person to notice her decline in mental health and was very vulnerable. Mel chose to have her meeting with the healthcare team alone and did not want to involve her family as she did not want to inconvenience them or have them feel ashamed of her for suffering from a mental illness.
In that same clinical week the student nurse also encountered 'Tina" a Maori woman who is also in her mid-thirties. Titan's admission to the mental health ward was a stark contrast to Meld's. Tina was roughs in to the emergency department by her parents and partner as they had noticed her decline in mental health and had been concerned for her safety for some time. Tina has a diagnosis of specification disorder and had been displaying very odd behavior such as doing the Hake whenever she was distressed or being sexually disinherited with strangers.
Tina is from a very close Maori family and this is evident as her family were the first to notice her decline in mental health and were the ones to bring her into the emergency department for help. Tina was adamant about having her family tend all her meetings with the healthcare team and having them fully involved in every aspect of her care. These differences in the approach to health care between a Maori woman and a European woman of the same age are evident as cultural differences.
The student nurse recognized Titan's culture as Maori with strong cultural beliefs, female and of a low socioeconomic demographic whereas Mel; who is a European, working class, single female. The student nurse was welcome at both patients' admissions meetings with the healthcare team after asking permission and gaining onset from patients and preceptor (Nursing Council of New Zealand [NC], Bibb).
The student nurse noticed that Mel was confidently asking many question pertaining to her admission on the ward whereas Tina and her Hannah remained very quiet and allowed the healthcare team to explain what would occur during Titan's admission. Maori are less likely to challenge treatment plans or ask questions than many non-Maori are but their silence does not necessarily imply understanding or agreement on their part, so it is important for the healthcare team to fully explain what they are doing and why (Davis, Lay-Ye, Deadly & Brian, 2010).
Upon caring for Mel and Tina in the mental health ward, the student nurse was mindful to apply the cultural safety principle of Taking to both women. Taking relates to values, principles and spirituality and is a process as well as a fixed attitude or knowledge (Tirana District Health Board [TPTB], 201 1). Taking must be applied to all patients regardless of their culture and ethnicity. As it is Titan's culture, the student nurse applied the concept of tape and NOAA, which were essential for Titan's nursing care.
Bodily substances are tape and food is NOAA, o when caring for Tina the student nurse ensured that she refrained from passing food over her head, gave her separate wash clothes for her face and body and did not place her medications or food tray on her bed or any place that would be used for seating. The cultural aspects of caring for Mel were similar to caring for Tina; the student nurse still applied the cultural safety principle of Taking and the concept of tape and NOAA to Meld's nursing care. While caring for Mel, the student nurse noticed the cultural differences between the two patients.
In caring for Mel, there was a minimal interaction, ND Mel was independent and did not want to be assisted whereas working with Tina, the student nurse found she was more confident. This may be because the student nurse related to Titan's culture as it is similar to her own which made the student nurse feel more confident in the cultural aspects of her nursing care. By adopting patients cultures in nursing praxis, the student nurse ensured that she would not offend patients' and Hannah in any way and would remain culturally safe.
In considering Meld's culture, it has allowed the student nurse to understand a great deal about European culture, so that he student nurse could gain a better understanding of how culturally diverse New Slanderer are. While working with Tina, the student nurse gathered that Titan's Hannah could not attend every one of her meetings with the healthcare team, therefore the student nurse's preceptor and the healthcare team assisted her to gain appropriate support and representation from those who understand her culture and needs (NC, 2011).
The services of a Caiman Horror Were offered to Tina, Caiman Horror work in the hospital and assist in the care of patients identifying as Maori. The healthcare team irked together with Tina and the Caiman Horror with an agreed common purpose to achieve the outcome of Tina getting well again. Tina and the Caiman Horror always performed a Karakas (prayer) during the meetings, as this appeared to calm Tina down when she was feeling distressed. The patient and Hannah are offered karakas during care processes, particularly in distressing situations (TPTB, 2011).
Tina was also under the care of the TU ROR organization for her mental health issues, TU ROR provides a range of health and social services across Tirana, with a focus on supporting Maori ND people with high needs to access the care they want, when and where they need it (Ministry of Health, 2014). While working with Mel and Tina, the student nurse continued to notice more cultural differences. In Meld's culture, family do not hold as much importance as Titan's. Mel made the decision to attend her meetings with the healthcare team alone and to keep her mental health issues a private matter.
The healthcare team respected Meld's wishes as every consumer has the right to have their privacy respected (Health and Disability Commissioner, 1996). The healthcare team suggested respite care o Mel or access to a service such as the acute home base team to follow up on her progress after discharge. These were the same services that Tina was offered upon her discharge as it is the responsibility of the healthcare team to facilitate the same access and opportunities for Maori as there are for Non- Maori (NC, 201 1).
Mel made the decision to go into respite care for five days until she was well enough to return to work as she wanted her independence back. Tina, however, decided to Stay in the mental health ward and be cared for by the healthcare team. A therapeutic level of immunization is important with all patients especially those suffering from a mental health illness. In the mental health ward the student nurse noticed that when speaking to patients you must allow adequate time for listening so that you can better understand where the patients are coming from and how they perceive their illness.
The model of communication most effective when interacting with a patient in the mental health ward is the transactional model. The transactional model shows that the elements in communication are interdependent. Each person in the communication act is both a speaker ND a listener, and can be simultaneously sending and receiving messages; the transactional model of communication reacts depending on factors such as background, prior experiences, attitudes, cultural beliefs and self-esteem (Defiler, Carney & Plan, 2009).
There are many barriers to effective communication in the mental health setting, many of the patients in the ward have a distorted view of reality and can suffer from delusions, hallucinations and paranoia. For a chichi-affective patient like Tina, she knows very well that other people have minds but she has lost the ability to infer the contents of Hess minds, she has lost the ability to reflect the contents of her own mind but will still have some ritual and behavioral routines for interacting with people (Hills, 2013).
Meld's mind however is cognitively intact and she had a very bleak yet rational way of thinking. Mel expressed suicidal ideation but without intent to act upon these thoughts, the student nurse was mindful to stay away from topics that may upset Mel such as her family, money and relationship issues. The student nurse would just sit with Mel and let her direct the conversation into any topic she chose. By just sitting and taking the time to listen to someone experiencing a mental health illness such as depression or chichi-affective disorder, you will gain their trust.
By allowing the patient to tell their story will help them to break the distress of their illness (Hills, 2013). The student nurse found herself doing a lot of listening and not much talking in the mental health setting as the care is more patient focused which means the needs and expectations of patients are placed at the heart of communication and their voice in decision making is heard and heeded. Mel and Tina were two examples of bicameralism in New Zealand.
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This year, son Ben wanted to be Goddard, the robot dog in "Jimmy Neutron". He never wants to be a simple ghost or pirate or anything.
Here's a video of the final costume. Sorry it's sideways - I forgot that my camera can rotate stills but not video. It's a shame you can't see the glowing and blinking lights inside the clear dome on his head. They really made the costume.
The body is a box covered in strips of duct tape (so they look like metal strips). The head is constructed from a cardboard box, mangled and shaped and cut and taped and screwed and painted. The arms and legs are dryer vent tubing with aluminum pie pans on the end (painted copper, since Goddard has copper-colored feet). The clear dome on the head is a plastic bowl with a bolt and taped cardboard circles for the antenna. Inside the dome were glow sticks and a blinking fiber-optic toy that looked quite awesome in the dark.
Ben won best costume at the neighborhood block party. This will only encourage him. I can't wait to see what he comes up with for next year.
There are more photos at our Shutterfly page. I may try to copy them over here later.


My name's Lane, I'm 23, a Taurus and I like long walks through Sephora but short walks to the kitchen. I started this blog in conjunction with an independent study I was doing for my studio art minor in college. Now it's a collection of my thoughts, feelings, and opinions on the cosmetics industry and potentially life in general because the internet needs another lifestyle blogger.


27 Apr 2017 by Dani Grant.
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP's, mostly hacked CCTV cameras.
We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks, and so we started to put together a security solution to protect the devices from becoming part of the botnet in the first place. Today we're announcing it: Cloudflare Orbit.
As we talked to IoT companies, over and over again we heard the same thing. In the consumer electronics space, IoT manufacturers were telling us that they were shipping patches to their devices, but their end users didn't always download and install them. (Reserve your judgment, how many times have you pressed ignore when your phone asked you to update its operating system?) In the industrial control, medical and automotive spaces, where devices are used in life-critical functions, we heard a different story. Even if someone wanted to apply a patch, it just wasn't that easy. For example, even if the manager of a nuclear power plant wants to update software on their thermostats, shutting down operations long enough to do that means the update has to be scheduled.
This is if the device can be patched at all - most devices are patchable, but up to a point. When Jeep was shown to be vulnerable to remote code execution, Chrysler had to recall 1.4 million vehicles.
This model where the end user is responsible for the security of the overall device is a relic of the PC age, where users knew and understood that their computers could have vulnerabilities, and as their software vendors released patches ––on so called "Patch Tuesdays," for example––users knew to go and download them.
PC security does not work for IoT. Consumers do not share that similar understanding that they need to update their toasters, lightbulbs and cars, because they've never needed to in the past. And since we will never write perfect code, we need a better way of securing devices without waiting for users to do it for us.
Thinking about this challenge, we were reminded of when the ShellShock vulnerability was discovered, Cloudflare was able to automatically keep the requests that would trigger the vulnerability from reaching our customers. With Orbit, Cloudflare can do the same thing, only for devices. For example, when Jeep was shown to be vulnerable, instead of recalling 1.4 million vehicles, Fiat Chrysler could have patched the bug in all the vehicles with just a simple rule in Cloudflare's firewall restricting access to the vulnerable DBUS service listening on port 6667 of every Jeep.
Orbit sits one layer before the device and provides a shield of security, so even if the device is running past its operating system's expiration date, Cloudflare protects it from exploits. And while devices may be seldom patched, the Cloudflare security team is shipping code every day, adding new firewall rules to Cloudflare's edge. Think of it like changing IoT to I*oT — devices can still access the Internet, but only after passing through Cloudflare where malicious requests can be filtered.
Plus, with requests going through Cloudflare, Cloudflare can compress transmitted data and speed up traffic, meaning less time is spent waiting on open connections and more time left in battery.
A common challenge we heard from IoT device manufacturers was how to authenticate devices and know which connecting clients were authorized company devices, and which were bots only pretending to be. Starting today, Cloudflare now offers Enterprise domains TLS Client Authentication, a TLS handshake where the client authenticates the server's certificate (as with any TLS handshake) and also the client has a certificate that the server authenticates.
Some IoT vendors already implement their own Client Authentication, but do so at the same origin servers that handle the rest of their IoT infrastructure. Not only is this computationally expensive, but any invalid traffic flood causes a burden on the whole server.
With Client Authentication on Cloudflare, Cloudflare's edge handles the load of the TLS handshakes, validating the device client certificates and only sending the IoT infrastructure traffic from authorized devices.
"This approach of adding security to the network is extremely important for industrial manufacturers. Being able to patch vulnerabilities from the network rather than at the device level is a major shift in the way we secure IoT devices, and one that is completely necessary." — Sam Cece, CEO of Swift Sensors, an industrial IoT company.
"Car controllers are IoT devices. Karamba Security hardens these devices and prevents cyberattacks with zero false positives to maintain driver and passenger safety. We view Cloudflare's Orbit as a complementary solution that enables secure connectivity between the cars' hardened controllers and the car company's data center for trusted, over-the-air updates." — Ami Dotan, CEO of Karamba Security, which is building secure platforms for smart automobiles.
"We are at the beginning of a new era in which a vast number of devices will be connecting to the Internet and security will play a critical role in the successful roll-out and adoption of IoT devices. Cloudflare's Orbit adds another layer of defense that compliments other security measures such as strong hardware-based device security and helps ensure a safer Internet of Things." — Quinn Li, VP and global head of Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, the leading supplier of components for IoT devices.
"IoT devices create a distinct security challenge both because of the inability of most end users to update their software, as well as the cost that manufacturers bear if they release an update that bricks devices. This is even worse for legacy devices, many of which are effectively unpatchable. Cloudflare's Orbit provides a unique approach to help with these challenges, by deploying a defensive layer in the network where security updates can be safely made without end-user intervention or on-device changes." — Michael Freedman, professor of computer science at Princeton University and CTO of Timescale.
Orbit is available now to all IoT device companies. To learn more or get started, visit the site, or get in touch. We're excited to hear from you.


In an age of digital disruption, the Business-to-Business (B2B) market represents the greatest opportunity for Communications, Media and Tech (CMT) companies. Profitable growth is dependent on becoming an Intelligent Enterprise. Human-machine collaboration will be the defining factor of the Intelligent Enterprise, giving customers experiences that keep them engaged, increasing the efficiency of front office teams, and focusing on new digital channels and data services.
Whilst the Digital/Cloud industry has the potential to grow revenues by 18% (2016-2022), the IT and Communications market face concerning forecasts at 3% and 0% respectively. Digitally native brands are outcompeting industry incumbents by recognising shifting customer expectations, with 82% of customers increasing their expectations of tailored offerings.
Mark Rogers, Managing Director in Customer & Channels, explains the challenges facing B2B companies in Communications, Media and Technology today and the scale of the opportunity to grow as a B2B Enterprise.
Michelle Katz, Manager in Customer & Channels, explores how B2B companies can shift to become Intelligent Enterprises and take competitive advantage in a market dominated by digital natives.
The move towards an Intelligent Enterprise, with the right blend of machine and human intervention will reinvent the way in which CMT companies market, sell and service their B2B customers.
On average, the top 20% of your sales force brings in 50% of revenue. By understanding the behaviours of your top performers you can transform your sales organisation through a roadmap of training, coaching and operating model re-design, and even augmenting these characteristics through human-machine collaboration.
Similarly, customers expect you to understand their journey as they experience it, not after. Aggregating data on the behaviours of your customers at key interaction points allows you to pro-actively intervene in real time, and intelligently transform those experiences.
The greatest transformation will be achieved by using the Intelligent Enterprise to transform the experience of all stakeholders at once, both internal and external. Aligning understanding of your customers and customer facing teams allows you to identify and unlock the greatest pockets of value, re-imaging the experiences of all stakeholders through augmentation as an ecosystem of Intelligent Enterprise tools.
In order to build the case for human-machine collaboration, Accenture has used itself to test and prove the benefits of augmenting required behaviours and tasks.
Accenture has embraced disruption and realized the benefits – demonstrating to our clients that they should be the disrupter, not the disrupted.
From thinking to doing – Heena Patel and Luke Mills discuss the Omnichannel landscape in your business is changing.
The B2B market represents the largest opportunity for Communication, Media and Technology (CMT) companies. Find out leveraging human-AI collaboration can help you to capture this growth opportunity.
To find new growth in an era of disruption, Communications Services Providers must play by new rules and lead - or lose.


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Evolab in Canadian Marijuana Partnership That Could Go Global
Thomas Mitchell | May 23, 2018 | 6:59am
Evolab is currently sold in over 270 dispensaries in Colorado, according to the company, but it's not active in any other states.
Courtesy of Evolab
Colorado marijuana extraction company Evolab has partnered with one of Canada's heavily funded public pot companies, according to a joint announcement from Canadian marijuana firm The Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD) and Evolab. The licensing deal will take Denver-based Evolab's production technology as well as its CBx Sciences brand into Canada after that country implements federal marijuana legalization, which could come as early as August.
Having a presence in Canada also gives Evolab a chance to jump across the Atlantic Ocean, according to Nicole Smith, CEO of Evolab and CBx Sciences. Canada, already a global exporter of the plant's medical products, will be shipping out even more marijuana products after new businesses open in July, she says, with the potential for Canadian marijuana companies to distribute their products in up to fifteen countries that allow medical THC products — not including America, where medical marijuana is still federally prohibited.
"It certainly expands our breadth and reach of products. The cool part about working with Canada is those [other] countries have reciprocity, meaning you can ship THC or cannabis products to other countries," Smith explains. "We don't have that opportunity here in the States."
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As part of the partnership, Evolab will provide TGOD with extraction technology, branding and product lineup from its recreational and medical lines, though Smith notes that they will look different because of Canada's stricter product regulations. However, the products will also be sold online, as much of the country's legal cannabis products are purchased on the Internet. "Initially, as the Canadian laws allow the evolution of products, we'll be manufacturing some of the ones we do here and developing some products that will fit Canada," Smith says. "They're much more limited in what they currently allow, but that's changing."
Nicole Smith became the CEO of Evolab and CBx Sciences in 2017 after serving in the same role for Mary's Medicinals.
Both sides had expressed interest in working together, she adds, but talks didn't heat up until a few weeks ago, after TGOD's initial public offering on the Canadian stock market on May 2. Unlike America, where marijuana is classified as a Schedule I substance with no medical value in the eyes of the federal government, Canada allows IPOs for medical marijuana companies and soon-to-be recreational businesses that directly handle the plant. According to TGOD's website, the company has raised $160 million in funding with over 4,000 shareholders so far.
"The team at CBx has vast experience in researching and commercializing new and novel consumer products and cannabinoids, and we are excited to be able to offer a platform to take their cutting-edge technologies and advanced formulations worldwide," TGOD co-chairman and CEO Rob Anderson says in a statement regarding the partnership. "This licensing partnership for industry-leading technologies and formulations will further allow TGOD to execute on its plans of offering novel and safer delivery methods of both non-psychoactive and psychoactive cannabinoids to patients and consumers around the globe."
Evolab has been experimenting with other cannabinoids instead of just THC — the psychoactive compound in marijuana — such as cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN) and cannabigerol (CBG) in its Cbx Sciences line of topical and vaporizer products. Each cannabinoid has shown potential for medical benefits that range from pain relief to sleep induction, and scientists are discovering more as they continue their studies.
The Denver-based extractor also introduces fruit flavors like blueberry and peach into its CO2-derived hash oil for new and novice recreational users.
Evolab follows a short list of major Colorado marijuana companies jumping into the Canadian market; Dixie Elixirs, Incredibles, LivWell Enlightened Health, Native Roots and O.penVape recently inked deals to operate north of the border.


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Q: Amazon S3 standalone stub server I seem to recall reading about an Amazon S3-compatible test server that you could run on your own server for unit tests or whatever. However, I've just exhausted my patience looking for this with both Google and AWS. Does such a thing exist? If not, I think I'll write one.
Note: I'm asking about Amazon S3 (the storage system) rather than Amazon EC2 (cloud computing).

A: Are you thinking of Park Place?
FYI, its old home page is offline now.

A: I think moto (https://github.com/spulec/moto) is the perfect tool for your unittests. Moto mocks all accesses to S3, SQS, etc. and can be used in any programming language using their web server.
It is trivial to setup, lightweight and fast.
From moto's README:
Imagine you have the following code that you want to test:
import boto
from boto.s3.key import Key

class MyModel(object):
    def __init__(self, name, value):
        self.name = name
        self.value = value

    def save(self):
        conn = boto.connect_s3()
        bucket = conn.get_bucket('mybucket')
        k = Key(bucket)
        k.key = self.name
        k.set_contents_from_string(self.value)

Take a minute to think how you would have tested that in the past. Now see how you could test it with Moto:
import boto
from moto import mock_s3
from mymodule import MyModel

@mock_s3
def test_my_model_save():
    model_instance = MyModel('steve', 'is awesome')
    model_instance.save()

    conn = boto.connect_s3()
    assert conn.get_bucket('mybucket').get_key('steve') == 'is awesome'

A: Park Place has moved to github:
http://github.com/technoweenie/parkplace

A: Eucalyptus http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/

EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing
  Architecture for Linking Your Programs
  To Useful Systems - is an open-source
  software infrastructure for
  implementing "cloud computing" on
  clusters. The current interface to
  EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's
  EC2 interface, but the infrastructure
  is designed to support multiple
  client-side interfaces.

Note that, according to the documentation, Eucalypus includes a reimplementation not only of the EC2 interface but also the S3 storage system. That storage component is called Walrus. (http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusUserGuide_v1.5.2)

A: Fake S3 appears to be an up-to-date reimplementation of S3, specifically designed for use in testing.

A: We ran into the problem of testing our S3 based code locally and actually implemented a small Java server, which emulates the S3 object API. As it might be useful to others, we setup a github repo along with a small website: http://s3ninja.net - all OpenSource under the MIT license.
It's quite small and simple and can be setup in minutes. (Being a SIRIUS based application, statup on a moderate server takes less than a second).

A: Amazon uses Xen, so you can probably just run your AMI in your own Xen installation. I'd just fire up an instance and run the tests there, though. It doesn't cost much and you should usually be fine with developing locally and infrequently testing it on their system.

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