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by Malcolm Galt | Oct 16, 2017 | News | 0 comments
What is POPIA?
POPIA is The Protection of Personal Information Act. It was promulgated four years ago in November 2013 in a bid to stop identity scams and stealing from personal bank and other accounts. The main aim is to defend every South African's right to privacy.
POPIA, therefore, is a law that protects a person's private information (or data). It also describes when it is legal for a negotiator, or arbitrator, to have access to that information or data.
When someone contravenes this Act, they are fined. This is in accordance with the Information Regulator who was assigned in October 2016 to inspect cases where individuals have indeed stolen personal identities and committed bank account robbery.
If a company is found guilty of breaching the POPIA, they will suffer noteworthy setbacks both in terms of finances and legalities. Additional consequences include sweeping penalties where reputations are lost and customers and employees leave the company.
Background to POPIA
When South Africa was declared a democracy in 1994, the Bill of Rights was developed to protect the rights of every South African. We have one of the best Constitutions in the world and according to section 14, everyone has a fundamental right to privacy. But in terms of common law, this can only happen when looked at in terms of the rights of others and the public interest.
As a result, the South African Law Reform Commission had to create more legislation to ensure better individual privacy and the Protection of Personal Information Act – POPIA – was born. This new legislation follows on what is happening in Europe according to the European Union Data Privacy Directive and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines.
The purpose of POPIA is:
To give effect to the constitutional right to privacy by safeguarding personal information when processed by a responsible party.
To regulate the manner in which personal information may be processed, by establishing conditions, in harmony with international standards that prescribe the minimum threshold requirements for the lawful processing of personal information.
To provide persons with rights and remedies to protect their personal information from processing that is not in accordance with the Act; and
To establish voluntary and compulsory measures, including the establishment of an Information Regulator, to ensure respect for and to promote, enforce and fulfil the rights protected by the Act.
http://www.banking.org.za/what-we-do/market-conduct/regulatory-framework/popia
Some FAQ we would like to highlight:
Who must obey the POPIA? Any business or any individual who deals with personal information must obey this Act. The POPIA also ensures that other parties comply and these include government departments, financial institutions, learning institutes, medical providers, companies – and all people who are so-called experts and whose job it is to deal with or hold the personal and private data of individuals or other corporations.
Who should be trained in the POPIA? Everyone involved in dealing with private individuals and their personal information should go for training. This means all levels of a company or business, from the bottom up. The CEO should go, compliance officers, information officers, human resources staff, managers, supervisors and employees should go. This will ensure that everyone is on the same page regarding knowledge about the POPIA and how it should be obeyed.


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The One-Ton Turkey: Further Adventures in Slow-Cooked Science
The LoomBy Carl ZimmerApril 4, 2012 10:00 PM
One smoggy afternoon in the summer of 2010, I took a walk down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue in Bejing. The ten-lane thoroughfare was packed with cars, buses, pedalos, and bicycles. But even here, in China's hyperurbanized core, there were birds to keep me company. Sparrows shot around the roadside trees. Black and white magpies perched in the treetops, issuing their rattling calls. I was walking down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue to pay a visit to a museum, where I could take a close look at the fossilized remains of some ancient cousins to the magpies. I was going to see some feathered dinosaurs.
Feathers are one of the marvels of animal evolution--a combination of extreme beauty and extreme usefulness--but for over a century their fossil record stopped with the 145-million-year-old Archaeopteryx. It was a mix of bird anatomy such as wings and older vestiges of a reptilian origins, such as teeth and a long, bony tail. But in the past 20 years, paleontologists have found a series of spectacular fossils of dinosaurs with traces of feathers or feather-like structures on their skin. And most of them have turned up in China. So it only made sense for me to head for Beijing--and in particular, to the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. There, a young paleontologist named Xu Xing and his colleagues have built up the most impressive collection of feathered dinosaur fossils on Earth. When I entered the IVPP, I walked into a badminton game underway on an indoor court. IVPP students sliced at the shuttlecock below the glare of a giant marine reptile fossil bolted high on the wall. I took the elevator to the sixth floor, where I met Xu Xing, a slender middle-aged man. He had just finished playing some badminton himself and was still wearing an IVPP athletic uniform as he sat at his computer, answering email. We shook hands and he ducked out to change into civilian clothes. We then headed into the IVPP's collection room. Xu flipped green curtains from the shelves until he found a tray. A student helped him slide it out and set on the floor. Inside the tray was the fossil of a 125-million-year-old dinosaur called Beipiaosaurus. As I looked at the fossil, Xu explained what I was seeing. There were bones from the animal's legs, skull, spine, and tail. There were also dark streaks surrounding parts of its body. In life, Xu said, they would have been stiff, broad bristles measuring several inches long.
Xu helped me picture Beipiaosaurus in life. "It had a big bulky body, a long neck, and a small head," he said. Walking on its hind legs, it was as tall as a man. But instead of killing to eat, it probably browsed on plants with grinding teeth. Its entire body would have been covered in soft, short filaments, with tufts of broad, long bristles sprouting off its neck and tail. "It's very bizarre," Xu said, smiling. The idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs has been kicking around for over a century, but it wasn't till the 1970s that paleontologists presented a detailed argument based on the anatomy of the animals. John Ostrom of Yale University pointed out a number of similarities in the skeletons of birds and the skeletons of bipedal dinosaurs called theropods. But how feathers evolved during the transition from ground-running theropods to flying birds was a mystery. So Xu was stunned in 1996 when he learned of the discovery of a small theropod in northeast China with bristle-like structures running down its back and tail. The 125-million-year-old fossil was christened Sinosauropteryx: the Chinese lizard bird. Xu, an expert on theropods, thought the name was a mistake. "This is not a bird. It's a dinosaur," he told me. It had typical theropod legs for running, and its arms had no adaptations for flight. Nevertheless, Xu knew that Sinosauropteryx had opened a new age in paleontology. "This was something important that was going to change history," he said. Sinosauropteryx had been discovered by farmers in a province of China called Liaoning. The geological formations in the region turn out to be among the best places on Earth for preserving fossils of complete skeletons, along with traces of skin and other soft tissues. Xu and his IVPP colleagues set out for Liaoning in 1997 to find fossils of their own. Bureaucratic tangles and other delays bogged them down. They didn't get to start digging until October. The days grew cold. It began to snow. Day after day, Xu and his colleagues failed to find anything. Finally, on the last day of their field season, a farmer invited Xu and is colleagues to look at a fossil he had found. The fossil was in fragments, but Xu could tell it was a theropod. When he brought it back to IVPP, he and his colleagues were able to reassemble the pieces. They noticed the fossil preserved bristles as well. They had found the first specimen of Beipiaosaurus. Since then, digging for feathered dinosaurs has become an industry for poor farming communities in Liaoning. "If farmers find a fossil, it can change their life," said Xu. "You couldn't imagine how many people are involved." As a result, IVPP and other Chinese institutions are now packed with new fossils of feathered dinosaurs and early birds. As scientists compare all these fossils, a rough outline of the evolution of feathers is coming into view. It appears that the earliest theropod feathers were simple hollow shafts, which then evolved into more elaborate structures. The sequence of changes gets more complicated as scientists look at more dinosaur fossils. Complex feathers may have evolved more than once. Some dinosaurs may have evolved bizarre feather forms that exist on no bird today. The filaments on the tail of Beipaiosaurus turn out to have been very broad. Another dinosaur called Epidexipteryx sprouted a pair of ribbon-like tail feathers. "The more you look, the more complex the story gets," Xu said. I took notes as Xu talked, and stopped from time to time to take pictures to supplement my memory. I was on assignment for National Geographic, traveling with the photographer Robert Clark
. My job was to tell the story, and Clark's job was to take his typically gorgeous pictures. He wandered up and down the IVPP halls, tracking down fossils in various labs. But there was one fossil that Xu was working on that we would have to take a trip to see. It was too big to fit in the IVPP. It was, in fact, the fossil of the first gigantic feathered dinosaurs ever discovered.
Clark and I climbed into a van one morning with his assistants, and we drove out of Beijing, into what you might call the countryside, except that it was obviously on the cusp of becoming the outskirts of Greater Beijing. It took us an hour to reach a low-slung set of buildings that IVPP uses for storage. The staff lives on the site, keeping a garden plot and raising chickens. When we arrived, they sent off for a local forklift operator. Clarke unfurled a long piece of black cloth he had bought in a Beijing market the previous day. And then, slowly, the IVPP staff hauled out the pieces of the dinosaur. Like most Chinese feathered dinosaur fossils, this one was in a slab, the bones pressed flat. The farmers who found it cut it out in pieces, and those pieces had ended up here at the warehouse. Each piece was about the size of a welcome mat, taking two people to lug it. It must have taken an hour for them to bring all the 125-million-year-old pieces out of storage and then puzzle over how they fit together. What made the puzzle particularly complex was the fact that the fossil included two dinosaurs, facing in opposite directions with their tails overlapping.
As the warehouse staff solved the puzzle, I looked closely at the pieces. These were big dinosaurs. They resembled Tyrannosaurus rex, and the big one of the fossilized pair might have been 25 feet long or longer. I could see the streaked marks of feathers on the tail, and patches on other parts of its body. Feathers don't fossilize easily, and so it's common to find feathered dinosaur fossils with traces of plumage only on some parts of their bodies. Scientists then have to judge whether the dinosaur only had feathers on some of their body in life, or whether they were fully cloaked and then some of their plumage failed to fossilize. It's also possible that the dinosaur had different kinds of feathers, and some types fared better than others. (Even fossil birds, which were definitely covered completely in feathers, sometimes only retain patches of fossil feathers.)
Clark borrowed a piece of plywood, slid it onto the forks of the forklift, and then lay on it to take pictures of the beasts. He showed me the pictures on a laptop, and they were magnificent. This was going to be a crown jewel in the story--the sort of thing you get to write about when you work for National Geographic.
There was just one problem. Xu Xing and his colleagues hadn't finished their study of the fossil. They hadn't given the dinosaur a name. Until they had written a paper and gotten it accepted to a journal, they weren't going to talk about it. And we were only allowed to take the picture on the understanding that we would only use it if our article came out after the fossil had safely entered the scientific literature. I figured--or perhaps I just hoped--that things would work out. I flew back home and got to work on my story. I checked in with Xu by email every now and then, in the hopes that the paper was accepted, or at least written. It wasn't. Xu and his colleagues couldn't decide whether it was a new species, or just a well-preserved fossil of a previously discovered species called Sinotyrannus kazuoensis. When Xu took a look at the fossils of Sinotryannus, he wasn't satisfied with how it had been described, and so he had to make a long, exacting study of that dinosaur, too. Eventually I had to abandon all hope, and went on to write my story without the giant feathered dinosaur. Clark's photograph remained on some magazine hard drive, unpublished. The piece we ended up with
, published in Feburary 2011, came out nicely, I thought, but I was sad to leave about the best part of my trip to Beijing. Yet I had to respect Xu for his fierce loyalty to slow-cooked science
. Just because a discovery is obviously spectacular doesn't mean you should scrimp on the hard, tedious work of making sure you're as right as you can possibly be. In Xu's case, slow-cooked science turned out to be really slow. It's been almost two years since I went to Beijing and saw the fossil puzzle of the gigantic feathered dinosaurs. And only today have Xu and his colleagues published
its details in the journal Nature.
The two fossils I saw, plus a third, all belong to a new species, which Xu has dubbed Yutyrannus huali (a mix of Latin and Mandarin, meaning beautiful feathered tyrannosaur). They had filament-like feathers, reaching several inches in length. Since they are preserved on widely separated parts of Yutyrannus's body, Xu leans towards the dinosaurs being extensively covered with feathers. Still, he can't rule out the possibility that they only had patches. Another tricky question is what this discovery means for related dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex. No one has found T. rex feathers, and, indeed, some researchers have argued that a gigantic dinosaur would trap so much heat in its big body that insulating feathers would be a burden. The discovery of Yutyrannus may mean that's wrong. Or it may mean that Yutyrannus was an unusually feathery dinosaur. Interesting, it lived in a relatively cold period of dinosaur history, and so plumage may have evolved to be thicker. These are all good questions that will keep Xu and other paleontologists busy for a while. But in the meantime, I'm just happy I don't have to keep this experience a secret. PS--Clark's forklifted photograph will be appearing in an upcoming issue of National Geographic.
[Images: Xu Xing, Fossil Wiki. Reconstruction paintings: Brian Choo. Close up of feathers: Zang Hailong. Others are mine.]

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The World's Greatest Job
This is how a helicopter rescue swimmer is made
Mario Vittone
Jumping out of a helicopter is just another day in the office.
Adam Egg / uscg
I don't know what makes a person want to be a helicopter rescue swimmer. There must be different reasons for everyone. Personally, I wanted to do the job because I was lazy. Answering the question, "What did you do today?" was easy: "I went out with my friends and brought people home." And the feedback was immediate. The rewards were the job.
Becoming a helicopter rescue swimmer is usually much more difficult than actually being one, but for those who make it through the training, the job becomes one of delivering hope. All rescue crews are teams, but when swimmers leave the helicopter in an attempt to save someone, the outcome is in their court, and they know it. That burden is the real price they pay for the job: There's praise if they save you, or a lifetime of guilt if they don't.
But whatever pushes someone to go through the pain of getting the world's greatest job, as a potential customer of their service, you should understand a few things about their training and what they went through to be there, shouting at you over the wind and waves and screaming engine noise.
The U.S. Coast Guard allows anyone who is qualified to sign up for any job they want. If you qualify, are willing to wait and willing to go to the school, you can. Of course, you have to make it into the Coast Guard first and graduate from boot camp.
Staying fit and swimming in horrible conditions are all part of the routine.
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Candidates typically spend six months at their first duty station waiting on the list to get orders to "A-School"—the job-specific training for any Coast Guard position. Open to enlisted members only, Aviation Survival Technician Class "A" School is in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and lasts six months. (When I went through it was four.) It's difficult to put into writing how tough it is. No, it is not as hard as Navy SEAL training, and anyone who says it is hasn't been through either training. But for certain, it is likely the most difficult physical and mental challenge you can imagine that doesn't end in a permanent disability.
The training is meant to do more than teach tactics and procedures. That can be done easily. The unwritten goal is to show students their limits. Most search-and-rescue cases will not require significant exertion, but some cases may require extreme discomfort and effort. The school is not designed to push students to see whether they break; it is designed to push students until they break, so they know where that line is.
The most valuable thing I learned during my training—which I would not have learned otherwise—is that when I am underwater and my oxygen-deprived lungs begin lurching for air, I'm a good minute away from being in real trouble. How that translated into safety became clear more than a year later on a case that had me underwater longer than I wanted to be there. What would panic me before the school—lurching for air—instead calmed me down. You're okay, I thought. Plenty of time.
When things get bad out there, having been through worse keeps rescue swimmers calm. More than half who are pushed that hard find their personal comfort limits short of where they need to be, and they quit or fail. (I had to talk myself out of quitting four times, in one day.)
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You would think six months of training would be enough, but it isn't. After A-School, students are assigned to their first unit, where they spend another six months or so, and then they earn the right to become air crew on either the H-60 or H-65 helicopter, or both. Then they have to learn every system and its functions, memorize emergency procedures and spout them from memory to instructors and examiners to prove to the crews already flying rescue that they belong in the plane with them.
Sometime during that training, while doing the full-time work of maintaining and repairing rescue and survival equipment, new swimmers have to attend seven weeks of Emergency Medical Technician School in Petaluma, California. Before he or she becomes a duty-standing rescue swimmer and member of a ready crew, a rescue swimmer has been in one form of training or another for more than a year—months of that in full-time training.
As if all that training wasn't enough, sometime after a rescue swimmer becomes qualified, he or she has to attend Advanced Helicopter Rescue School (AHRS). This is where they learn, along with the rest of the helicopter crew, how to handle cliff rescues, cave rescues (it's a thing) and, with the help of the Columbia River Bar (the most consistently rough water in the United States) how to handle themselves while free-swimming in 10-foot-high breaking waves. AHRS offers lessons in advanced rescue tactics, and helicopter crews often attend several times during a career to really hone their skills.
There is no such thing as a typical rescue swimmer. I've worked with 250-pound masses of humanity who lived in the gym, and with 5-foot, 5-inch, 140-pound rescue swimmers who had the imposing physical presence of my first accountant. If you think the job is manly, then you're missing the point. The ocean is stronger than everyone.
While the job is hard, most of the challenge is about mental toughness. I don't know if I've met anyone as mentally tough as my friend Sara Faulkner. Though not the first female helicopter rescue swimmer, she was the first to get the job, do the job and then retire from the job after a full Coast Guard career.
Faulkner was on the very short list of swimmers I would most want to be with in the helicopter if I needed saving out there. No one on the list looked like what you envision when you think macho. There are plenty of men-of-steel rescue swimmers, but trust me, that kind of toughness is just a side effect from the lifestyle that led them to become swimmers. Deadlifting 400 pounds is not a job requirement. Staying cool under pressure is.
So, if you find yourself unlucky enough to need a rescue swimmer and lucky enough to be talking with one while they are on the job, listen up and do whatever the nice rescue swimmer tells you to do. They have spent a long time training, learning, pushing limits and learning the job, which is to get you out of whatever mess you happen to be in at the time.
You may be at the end of the worst day of your life, but the rescue swimmers are having the time of their life and they appear calm for a reason: they are.
This article originally appeared in the January 2019 issue.
The World's Greatest Job: How Rescue Swimmers Are Made
You don't have to be able to deadlift 400 pounds, but you do need to be able to keep your cool under pressure if you want to become a Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer, writes Mario Vittone in this week's Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At Sea blog.
The Company You Keep
Mario Vittone says boating with certain people can be a recipe for disaster, so choose your crew carefully.
The Truth About Survival Training
Helicopter rescue swimmer Mario Vittone sheds some light on offshore survival training, and the importance of getting schooled on boating safety.
The Wrong Argument - Why Experience Doesn't Matter
No one likes to change when it comes to new rules or regulations that restrict free will. Professionals should decide for themselves what is right or wrong, based on their knowledge and experience, and apply it to operate their vessel safely and effectively. The only problem is just how often that model fails. Mario Vittone explains why experience is a rotten teacher in this week's installment of Lifelines: Safety And Rescue at Sea.
A Good Fire: The Best Tools For The Job
What would you do if you found yourself cold and alone on this desolate stretch of beach overnight? Lighting a fire is a good place to start.
The Case That Changed My Thinking
A heartbreaking event on a river in Virginia taught this rescue swimmer a life-changing lesson about boating safety.
The Truth About Cold Water Recovery
Victims of cold-water immersion aren't out of trouble after being rescued. In his latest installment of Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At Sea, Mario Vittone discusses what to do — and what not to do — when treating someone with hypothermia.
Can You Tell When a Person is Drowning?
Mention drowning and we all tend to envision a person in the water waving his hands, splashing and screaming for help. That's not even remotely close to what a drowning person looks like, writes Mario Vittone in this week's Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At Sea blog.


The trend of liquid lipsticks is ruling the beauty world these days. One of my favorite Youtubers once mentioned this brand and that's when Dose of Colors caught my attention. I got this liquid lipstick in the shade Cork. Read on to know more about it.
⦁ Exfoliate lips before use.
The liquid lipstick comes in a cardboard packaging with the name of the lipper along with the shade name and ingredients list. The bottle of the lipstick is frosty and transparent with a white colored cap. Again, the name of the brand is printed on the bottle. The applicator is quite sturdy and makes application precise and easy.
The shade I chose is 'Cork' which is a muddy brown kind of shade. I feel this one is a unique brown color. Lately, I am loving browns for my lips and this is one of my favorite shades. It's a unique shade of brown and most women do not have this shade in their collection.
The texture of the liquid lipstick is very comfortable and easy to carry. Once you apply this one, it feels very light and velvety. But after a few minutes, it sets to a completely matte finish. The formula is very lightweight and will not dry your lips, which most of the liquid lipsticks tend to do.
It has an amazing pigmentation. One swipe is enough to give you full coverage.
I am quite impressed with the staying power of this lipper. It stays on me until I remove it and that too without making my lips dry. However, if I eat something oily, the color tends to fade away from the inner corners.
I am in love with this lipper and I see myself going for this one a lot. It's a very unique shade yet it is easy to carry. Plus, I am quite happy and impressed with the formulation of this one as it's quite lightweight and comfortable.
⦁ Non–drying on the lips.
⦁ Not available in India.
Would I Repurchase/Recommend Dose of Colors Cork Matte Liquid Lipstick?


The QWERTY style keyboard used today can be traced back to 1873, according to a recent blog post at UltimateTyping.com, the website sponsored by eReflect, developer of the well-reviewed software Ultimate Typing 2013. The post highlights that despite technological advancements, typists continue to use the QWERTY style keyboard even though it was actually originally designed with the intent of slowing the user's typing speed.
As the blog post points out, such a keyboard style may not be ideal for helping typists to type at maximum speed. Recent technological advancements and innovations in this area reflect attempts being made to introduce new keyboard layouts and additional features that will allow typist to type with precision and high speed. During a recent briefing by the eReflect team, a spokesperson highlighted the various initiatives currently being introduced regarding keyboard layout and style.
One such innovation is the launch of SnapKey's Si Evolution Keyboard. The keyboard takes a contemporary approach; rather than providing a QWERTY style keyboard, it breaks down the alphabet into four groups. As the eReflect team explained, the keyboard "guesses" the words that the typist needs to type and users can switch between numbers and alphabets through a small key displayed on the left corner.
For eReflect, such innovations within the keyboard are a step forward on the path to discovering new alternatives that can allow a typist to type faster. However, the success of such keyboards is often dependent on the ability of the user to adapt to the new style and layout after years of using a QWERTY style keyboard. In addition, the availability of a new keyboard is highly dependent on market forces. The eReflect team stressed that despite the innovations in keyboard design, the conventional QWERTY style will continue to remain popular with computer users as well as computer manufacturers. The team suggests that rather than focusing on innovative design, researchers should concentrate on ways to use the existing layout and still find ways to improve the keyboard so that typing speed is enhanced.
The team concluded that their own latest innovation, Ultimate Typing, uses the QWERTY layout as part of a typing tutor software which can allow individuals to learn to type within two weeks. The team believes that the QWERTY layout is here to stay and therefore typists must learn to type in this configuration with speed and accuracy. The drills and exercises offered by Ultimate Typing can prove to be the ideal method for keyboard training which can allow even a beginning typist to become a typing expert.
For more details on Ultimate Typing™ please visit http://www.ultimatetyping.com/.
Ultimate Typing™ software is designed specifically for the improvement of typing skills. Created by eReflect, a world leader in e-learning and self-development software, Ultimate Typing™ has been informed by the latest developments in the science of touch typing.
Since its creation in 2006 by Marc Slater, the company has already catered to over 112 countries all over the world, offering products with the latest cutting-edge technology, some of which are among the world's most recognized and awarded in the industry.


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Lacklustre Lancers 'let themselves down'
Lewis Finney flashed an effort wide as Lancing exited the Peter Bentley Cup last night. Picture by Kyle Hemsley
Lewis Mason
Published: 11:56 Wednesday 22 November 2017
Lancing Football Club manager John Sharman cursed a below-par performance as his side slipped to a Peter Bentley Cup quarter-final defeat last night.
Johden de Meyer's brace and a goal from Amaraldo Glloga sealed a surprise 3-0 success for Lancers' fellow Southern Combination League Premier Division opposition Crawley Down Gatwick.
Lancing have been one of the most in-form teams in the SCFL Premier Division over the past couple of months. A fine recent run has seen them collect back-to-back team of the month awards, though, that counted for little as they missed out the chance to book a semi-final spot.
Lancers boss Sharman was left bemused by such a below-par performance and said: "It was such a frustrating evening. We weren't professional enough on the night and Crawley Down were excellent.
"Speaking to them afterwards, they seemed to really enjoy the surface. There are no excuses - best of luck to them in the semi-final. If they play like that again they'll have a great chance.
"We really let ourselves down on the night, it wasn't an acceptable performance. Maybe it was just one game too many, we've been on such a good run and we can't afford to feel sorry for ourselves after this."
Crawley Down made a flying start, finding themselves two goals to the good inside the opening 20 minutes.
De Meyer struck after eight minutes, while Glloga made it two nine minutes after. Lewis Finney flashed a shot wide late in the half but that was as good as it got for Lancers.
Facing a Peter Bentley Cup quarter-final exit, Sharman went with three at the back as the home side looked for a way back in it. The change in system left them susceptible to a counter and Crawley Down rounded off the scoring four minutes from time.
De Meyer bagged his second of the match to seal Crawley Down's spot in the semi-final.
Lancers make the trip to Broadbridge Heath in the league on Saturday.
LANCING: D'Cruz; Marsh, Bygraves, Sharman, Boughton; Dramis, Berry, Williamson, E.Finney, L.Finney; Tredrea. Subs: Fair (Berry), Goldson (Dramis), Adams (Sharman), Donaldson, Pittock.
Local football legend Peter Huggett passes away aged 90


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Q: How do I get the domain of the page that's loading my swf when I don't have script access? I need my swf to be able to see the domain of the page that it's loaded on. Normally to to this I would just look at window.location over ExternalInterface, but in this particular case the swf is going to be embedded with allowscriptaccess="never", so that's not going to work. Is there an actual api that will give me that or do I have to resort to ugly hacks?

A: Actionscript 3 actually has a property you can query straight, in flash.system.Security(http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/Security.html#pageDomain), like so:
import flash.system.Security;
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var domain:String = Security.pageDomain;

It will give you "[t]he domain portion of the HTML page containing the swf."

A: Have you tried this :
var pageURL:String = stage.loaderInfo.url;

A: loaderInfo.loaderURL

A: It turns out that there's no direct way to do this. However, you can do the following:

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*Have the path to the swf go to a script on your server

*Have that script read the referer [sic] header and 302 to the static file server where the swf file is, putting the value of the referer in a get variable

*Parse the url (gotten from loaderInfo.url), and extract the variable you added.

In order to prevent this value from being forged (by people linking directly to the static file server, skipping the redirect) you have to have your static file server verify that the value of the get variable is the same as the value in the referer header before serving the file (which I know you can do in nginx).

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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cherry Blossom organizers are disappointed with turn out to the festival this week.
With many of the events taking place outside, they say they blame high powered winds and chilly temperatures over the last few days and nights for the drop in attendance compared to previous years.
Festival Chair Marvel Burgess is hopeful numbers will pick back up this weekend with warmer temperatures.
"It's going to be beautiful this weekend it's supposed to be in the 70's, the wind is supposed to die down, the blossoms are supposed to come out thanks to the cold snap. But we've got so much. We've got 3rd street park going on tomorrow, our founders day celebration," said Burgess.
There are plenty of events this weekend including the Easter egg hunt on Saturday at Middle Georgia State. You'll definitely want to come out to that and other events with warmer weather on the way.


La Madre Mountain Wilderness contains 47,180 acres in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area complex, about 12 miles west of Las Vegas. The Mt. Charleston Wilderness is to the north and the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness to the south. Elevations range from 3,600' to 9,600' at the summit of La Madre Mountain. La Madre Mountain itself dominates this area of rugged canyons, ridges and peaks with steep canyons and spectacular cliffs on its' own southeastern flanks.
The Keystone thrust above Brownstone Basin is a great example of thrust faulting where older limestone formations have been pushed up and over younger layers of sandstone. The cross-bedded, red and buff colored sandstone in the Calico Hills, Little Red Rock, Brownstone Basin and White Rock Hills areas is composed of fossilized sand dunes.
Vegetation in the area includes everything from Southern Mohave desert shrubbery (yucca, cacti, Joshua tree) to sagebrush to pinon pine and juniper to sub-alpine environments with ponderosa pine and white fir. Wildlife includes bighorn sheep, mule deer, elk, mountain lion, coyote and jackrabbit.
La Madre Mountain Wilderness is also filled with ancient cultural sites (rock shelters, agave roasting pits, milling sites, camp sites, lithic scatters and rock art panels), many of which are included in the Brownstone Canyon Archaeological District.


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Country star Thomas Rhett, Crown Royal team up to benefit military
Posted: Oct 31, 2018 / 12:29 PM UTC / Updated: Oct 31, 2018 / 10:51 PM UTC
Country music superstar Thomas Rhett has teamed up with Crown Royal to give back to America's military men and women overseas.
The Purple Bag Project involves packing purple bags with notes, food and personal items that are shipped overseas to members of the military.
Crown Royal has done this project since 2010 but the company has teamed up with Rhett for its largest venture yet.
"The goal is to be able to pack a million purple bags by the year 2020 to be able to send overseas to servicemen and women," Rhett told News 2.
The bags will also be sent to people affected by hurricanes and other natural disasters, Rhett added.
"It's really cool to be a part of that," Rhett described. "It's just a really cool partnering because I feel like our goals and values align as far as the charitable component. My wife and I take pride in that being a big way that we live our lives."
"We are asking everyone to come and help us pack bags and write notes and drop them in this mailbox to send out," Rhett said.
The project kicks off Tuesday, November 13 in Nashville ahead of the CMA Awards on Wednesday, November 14.
More: Full coverage of the 2018 CMA Awards
Rhett is nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year at the CMA Awards. He will also perform at the awards show. You can watch the CMA awards on News 2 or your local ABC station on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 8/7c.
Click here for more information on The Purple Bag Project.
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Keith Urban won Entertainer of the Year at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards. He appeared to be genuinely shocked and brought to tears by the honor. This the second time he has won the big award.
"I feel very, very blessed and very, very grateful to be able to do what I do," said Urban.
CMA Awards about celebrating 'with country music family' for some artists
Before the 52nd annual CMA Awards competition heated up many of the artists and nominees made their way onto the red carpet.
Country artist Cole Swindell gushed about how great the talent around him was, "Anytime you're on the carpet with you know this much talent and you're not star struck, I don't know man."
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Apache Solr is an open source search platform built on top of Apache Lucene™. Its fast and powerful and has many search patterns to manipulate and deliver most relevant results in your application.
Solr is a portable and platform independent search, which means you can move it to any operating system like Ubuntu, Debian, Windows, MacOS and run it with absolutely nothing or very less configuration changes. This contest covers installing Apache Solr in Debian.
This installation procedure has been tested on Debian 7 and Debian 8. It may also work on other versions or other variants of Debian derivatives like Ubuntu.
Apache Solr in executed in Java VM. The latest version of Solr requires Java Run-time Environment (JRE) v8.0+. In Debian repository you can find open-sourced JVM OpenJDK, but its still on version 7. So, you have to install Oracle JVM into your Debian. The following steps will install you both JDK8 and JRE8.
If you don't have Java 8 installed on your system then follow the instruction on how to install oracle java in Debian or Ubuntu before you proceed. To check you have the required version of JRE use command java -version in your terminal.
Now, open your terminal and follow the instructions below.
Thats it, you are done. The default port of Apache Solr is 8983.
This will stop all instances of Solr running on your system.


Members sewed up Rare Bears for children with rare diseases, quilts for the children of migrant workers in Arcadia (delivered through the Catholic Charity program), blankets for babies in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH) and quilts, pillows & hats for cancer patients at SMH.
Below is Donna showing her Strip Quilt method for their charity quilts and photos of the Rare Bears.
Members made hundreds of kits to introduce children to sewing on machines and guiding them through to project completion. They supported our youth summer sewing camps by cutting out their classroom kits.
Members made pillows for the Manatee County Hospital Breast Care Unit needed by patients undergoing breast biopsies and procedures. They also sewed up totes and pillowcases for Manatee County Young Life, a faith based organization helping teens grow spiritually in an environment of caring adults and made ditty bags for Hope Family Services.
Members made infant layettes and toddler clothing for the Englewood Home for Mothers and the Venice Area Pregnancy Care Center which serves families in Sarasota county. The Layette Program is open to anyone needing assistance and provides expectant parents with a portable crib and layette.
Members make tote bags for the Beneva Christian Food Pantry. Every year they donate nearly 80 tote bags.
Sew Chic hosted an annual sewing bee in their community to turn out 35 quilts for Project Linus. They also made 72 items for the Venice Area Pregnancy Center.
Pins & Needles made hundreds of pillows for patients in the Breast Care Unit of Manatee Memorial and beautiful blankets for the Women's Center & Pediatric Unit at Lakewood Ranch.
Anything Sews made pillow cases for heart/cough pillows for Sarasota Memorial Hospital's cardiac unit and dressed up Charity Care Bears for the Salvation Army.
Creative Sassy Sewers made hundreds of kits for the youth sewing camp classes needed by the 30 students in our June sewing camps.
Sew What's New made tote bags for the Beneva Christian Church Food Pantry. (A Special THANKS to Greg, Owner of Creech & Co for donating all the fabric and cutting them into the size needed). Members donated hundreds of hours sewing for the KIDZ Quilts.
Individual members, Paulette & Sandi sewed costumes for a Bradenton theater and Riverview HS Performing Arts students.
Sew Chic hosted an annual sewing bee in their community to turn out hundreds of pillow case dresses for the Little Dresses for Africa program. In 2014 they also made dog beds & bandanas for Royal Pet Rescue in Sarasota.
Every year Pins & Needles makes hundreds of pillows for patients in the Breast Care Unit of Manatee Memorial.
In 2013 Anything Sews made pillowcase dresses for local programs and sewed checkerboard lap quilts for the veterans at the Pines Bay VA Center in Tampa. In 2014 they made heart pillows.
Creative Sassy Sewers make hundreds of pillowcase kits which our young camp sewers finish up and distribute under the Conkerr Cancer program to Lakewood Ranch's Pediatric Oncology unit. They also cut out the kits used in summer camp.
Sew What's New spends hundreds of hours sewing for the KIDZ Quilts and in 2014 they also sewed medical dolls to help young children understand medical procedures they are facing.


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Sen. Specter talks about Pols at Pitt
By Lindsay Carroll
It all started with a Polish joke.
And Thursday night, five months after Sen. Arlen Specter… It all started with a Polish joke.
And Thursday night, five months after Sen. Arlen Specter made remarks at a public luncheon insinuating that Polish people were slow, Pittsburgh's Polish-American community received a personal apology.
Specter, the longest-serving senator in Pennsylvania's history, who ran for president in 1996, offered to hold a town-hall meeting after leaders of local Polish heritage organizations objected to his comments.
At the town hall in the lower lounge of the William Pitt Union on Thursday night, Specter said that despite his comments, he has 'great respect for the ethnic composition of America.'
Timothy Kuzma, president of the Polish Falcons of America, which is headquartered in Pittsburgh, said that he met personally with the senator when he had heard about the remarks.
'It's not an appropriate thing for anyone to do, let alone an elected official,' said Kuzma.
Kuzma and leaders from the Polish American Congress, the Polish Cultural Council and Pitt's Office of Governmental Relations organized the event. Specter lectured about the various ways he has supported the Polish community and answered questions for about one hour in front of an audience of 50 community members.
He emphasized that his remark was a 'misstep.'
'I made a mistake. I apologized. That's what happened,' he said.
For Helen Fronko, a retired Pitt alumna, Specter's apology did not seem fully sincere.
'I think he's a tired, old man,' she said. '[His comments] offend anyone of any sensibilities. So this was a political exercise for Sen. Specter.'
Fronko said she disagreed with Specter because he doesn't conform to the Republican platform and is pro-choice.
Specter, born in Kansas to immigrant parents, answered questions from the audience about seeking waivers for visas to make it easier for Polish people to come to the United States. He also talked about the Polish nuclear program.
Many in the audience asked questions about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Because Specter voted in favor of the bill, several people asked for explanations and expressed concerns over high taxes and earmarks.
Specter said he voted against a proposed year-long moratorium on earmarks.
'If the earmarks are properly directed, they ought to be maintained,' he said. 'I thought I knew more about Pittsburgh than the bureaucrats in Washington. With Sen. Bob Casey, Specter legislated $95,000 from the federal budget for the new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, according to Specter's Web site.
Pitt students Alison Zellis and Jim Price, both political science majors, came to the event because they intern for Specter at his Pittsburgh office.
'We hardly get to see him, so we decided we should come,' said Price.
Last year, Specter finished a second round of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin's disease. He said that at the time, people asked him more about his hairstyle than his policies.
'Some said I should shave my head to become a sex symbol,' he said with a laugh.
Specter faces Republican opponent Pat Toomey in the 2010 senatorial election.


1: The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing.
2: They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
3: In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
4: Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.
5: My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
6: For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
8: For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim.
9: For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and on the remnant of the land.


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7/10/18 | 10:02AM: Tampa Bay has announced that Kucherov has signed an eight-year extension that will carry a cap hit of $9.5 million.
The extension starts following this coming season.
Callahan has been mentioned as someone that the Rangers could acquire to ease cap issues, both relating to a possible Erik Karlsson deal with Tampa as well as just for cap clearing purposes.
The Rangers traded Callahan, a pending UFA, as part of a package to Tampa Bay at the trade deadline in 2014 in exchange for a package including Marty St. Louis.
In 255 regular season games with Tampa, Callahan has 47 goals and 68 assists while averaging 16:23 per game. He has played in 60 playoff games with Tampa, registering 15 points.
Jeff Gorton said that the Rangers are interested in adding character players that can help the Rangers develop their young players.
Callahan's cap hit has also been mentioned as a potential hurdle towards the Rangers keeping cap flexibility for next summer.
Adam Rotter: The biggest question that keeps coming up around Callahan is why the Rangers would do this. Why would they, as a rebuilding team, help a potential Eastern Rival by taking on the final two-years of an oft-injured player and taking away a potential roster spot from a young player? Is a guarantee of a first round pick, up from the conditional second round pick they currently own, worth it for Callahan? I think, to some degree, it depends on how the Rangers expect Tampa to use that cap space. If the Lightning are landing Erik Karlsson as part of this, I think the Rangers need at least one more, maybe two conditional picks in addition to the first rounder. If Tampa is making this move with the intention to use their new cap space to keep Kucherov, I think maybe one other conditional pick would work. So that would be one reason why the Rangers would take on Callahan, the addition of a prime asset, but the other reason is that Callahan can add something to this team. If Ryan Callahan is healthy he would likely bring the same kind of style of play he brought when he was initially with the Rangers and worked his way up to being captain. Callahan would set a tone and example for the young players and those are things that the Rangers want as part next years team. Is he the best person to for that? That is debatable, especially since he has two-years left, but he is also a known quantity to the organization. If the Rangers bring back Ryan Callahan, and very likely put the "C" back on him, they will know exactly what they are getting on and off the ice. As long as the Rangers can get something, in addition to a guaranteed first round pick, and still retain flexibility to be a player in the UFA market next summer, adding Callahan would not be a bad thing.


Paul has extensive leadership experience across a number of industry sectors including financial services, aquaculture and agriculture.
Paul has extensive leadership experience across a number of industry sectors including financial services, aquaculture and agriculture. He has managed and led business through significant growth phases and transformational change. Paul is a Director of Australian Regional Health Group and represents St.LukesHealth as a member of Private Healthcare Australia and Members Health Fund Alliance.
Phillip is responsible for the finance function including strategic and commercial advice on behalf of the fund.
Phillip is responsible for the finance function including strategic and commercial advice on behalf of the fund. Phillip also assists the Board by undertaking the Company Secretary role ensuring compliance with the fund rules and associated Acts. Phillip previously worked with KPMG in Tasmania for 23 years, specialising in management accounting including management report development that includes enhancing current accounting software to produce meaningful management reports, budget projections, strategic advice etc. Phillip is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.
Darren has worked with St.LukesHealth for the past 18 years, starting in the area of finance before moving to analytics.
Darren has worked with St.LukesHealth for the past 18 years, starting in the area of finance before moving to analytics. He now leads the operational team at St.LukesHealth, ensuring that the fund remains competitive while meeting the reporting requirements as an APRA-regulated organisation. At an industry level, Darren has held committee positions with Private Healthcare Australia and within St.LukesHealth where he has helped establish high-level sponsorship with Cycling Tasmania. Darren also established the fund's staff charity Foundation33 and led this for 10 years. During this time, the charity raised almost $200,000 for the community.
Shaw's depth of health insurance industry knowledge, IT risk management, as well as extensive skills in Information Technology and digital vision.
Shaw's depth of health insurance industry knowledge, IT risk management, as well as extensive skills in Information Technology and digital vision, delivers a collaborative business strategy partner that enables high value transformational change and leadership. Shaw's involvement at industry level includes an advisory role spanning 13 years in the development of a significant health insurance application platform which services 24 health insurance funds around Australia. He is also a member of the Private Healthcare Australia's "eHealth" committee.
As General Manager People and Culture, Barbara designs and delivers workforce strategies across the multi-disciplinary functions of the organisation, underpinned by demonstrated experience in developing workforce plans and capability frameworks. Her previous experience in human resources with more than 20 years in the aged care sector and as a Senior Advisor with KPMG, has given Barbara the skills and knowledge to motivate the workforce towards a continuous learning culture which results in high performing teams. As a member of the Executive team, Barbara brings a 'workforce' focus and ensures our people are well equipped to meet the needs of our members to help them stay healthy, get well and live better lives and deliver peace of mind. She is a member of AHRI and Institute of Leaders and Managers.
Nina is passionate in her belief that good risk management strategy plays a vital role in achieving desired outcomes in both a business and personal sense.
Nina is passionate in her belief that good risk management strategy plays a vital role in achieving desired outcomes in both a business and personal sense. With her extensive experience in risk management leadership roles in APRA regulated entities including financial services and superannuation over the past 18 years, Nina is fervently committed to embedding value-added risk management and compliance strategies throughout St.LukesHealth and fostering a strong risk and compliance culture at all levels within the business.
James is a Registered Nurse by profession, initially specialising in Perioperative Nursing. He holds a range of professional offices including president of his local Tasmanian association, followed by presidency of both the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses and the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses. James has held executive roles with St.LukesHealth for a number of years and more recently was appointed General Manager of Salveo Healthcare Services – a healthcare service delivery division of St.LukesHealth. Salveo Healthcare Services provides a private post-natal service to the fund's Northern Tasmanian members through a partnership with the Mantra Charles Hotel. The service has also launched an in-home preventative care service for St.LukesHealth members living with chronic disease.
Phillip is responsible for the finance function including strategic and commercial advice on behalf of the fund. Phillip also assists the Board by undertaking the Company Secretary role ensuring compliance with the fund rules and associated Acts Phillip previously worked with KPMG in Tasmania for 23 years, specialising in management accounting including management report development that includes enhancing current accounting software to produce meaningful management reports, budget projections, strategic advice etc. Phillip is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.
James is a Registered Nurse by profession, initially specialising in Perioperative Nursing. He holds a range of professional offices including president of his local Tasmanian association, followed by presidency of both the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses and the International Federation of Perioperative Nurses. James has held executive roles with St.LukesHealth and more recently was appointed General Manager of Salveo Healthcare Services – a healthcare service delivery division of St.LukesHealth. Salveo Healthcare Services provides a private post-natal service to the fund's Northern Tasmanian members through a partnership with the Mantra Charles Hotel. The service has also launched an in-home preventive care service for St.LukesHealth members living with chronic disease.


Following last week's post about yoga's 'bird' poses, I thought I'd share a few of the animal ones with you. The ancient yogis took inspiration from the world around them and tried to emulate the strength, power, focus, movement and grace of the animals they saw.
And following on from my post at the beginning of January where I talked about 'putting my head above the parapet' and generally being braver and putting myself out there a bit more, the pictures below are all of me doing the poses! It's very interesting to study them many weeks and months after they've been taken - not in a critical or judgemental way but from an anatomical and alignment point of view. Here are a few poses where it is possible to see the animal influencing how they got their names. And I've added a few alignment pointers too - for your information.
Camel Pose - there are two possibilities as to why this pose is so-called - it might be because the lift and curve of the chest resembles the camel's hump, but it might also refer to the folding of the legs as the camel kneels down with its neck arched forward and up. Alignment-wise, I could have lifted my thoraccic spine more between the shoulder blades here - there's a little too much bend in my lower spine. Can you see? Although the front of my body has a nice even curve, the back line is a little pinched at the lumbar.
Cobra Pose - it's easy to see how this one got its name. A cobra rears up, gathering its energy ready to strike. In this pose we gather the energy up, lifting the chest and rolling the shoulders back. My alignment looks ok here - maybe I could have drawn my chin in a little more to lengthen the back of the neck very slightly and there's always room to lift the heart, draw the shoulderblades onto the back and expand the chest more.
The words 'bekha' and 'mandukha' both mean 'frog' in Sanskrit. There are 3 frog poses that I know of. This first picture is of Ardha Bekhasana - half frog pose. There is a full version of this with both legs and both arms bent at the same time but that one's a bit beyond me so you'll have to imagine it! Alignment-wise, I could have pressed the front of my left hip down towards the floor a bit more and also softened my shoulders away from my ears (especially my right one). The second photo is of Adho Mukha Mandukasana - Downward Facing Frog Pose. It's easy to see that it resembles the very bent back legs of a frog. Alignment-wise I just need to widen my knees, and therefore open the front of the hips more - something I don't find easy - and ease the hips back while extending the spine forward. More practice required for this one!
Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana) and Upward Facing Dog Pose (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana) are also obvious animal poses. I see my own dog stretching like this on a daily basis every time she gets off her beanbag. My back is straight and extending well in the first picture - I'm not letting my ribcage flare outwards allowing my spine to dip - but I could have pressed my thighbones more and pressed my heels towards the floor. In the second picture my shoulders are slightly forward of my wrists, which really isn't ideal - too much pressure in them. I could have drawn my hips forward a fraction and rolled my shoulders back more. My legs are working nice and strongly, hovering just off the floor.
Maybe you could get someone to take photos of you doing your yoga and then you can check your alignment in each pose - it's quite revealing. But don't be too hard on yourself and get critical - use the information to improve your yoga - and therefore your health. And when it looks good, acknowledge that too. Practicing in front of a mirror is a good way to check your alignment too.
This 5 Pose Flow will strengthen the arms, shoulders and core muscles and the last pose will be a nice stretch out for your back. Repeat the flow as many times as you like and/or incorporate it into your own sequence.
As always, use this practice as a guide but listen to your body and don't force or over-stretch anything. Notice the sensations and never move into strain or pain.
I fancied something sweet this weekend. Something chocolate-y but still as healthy as possible. I've made this recipe a few times and it's delicious, and much healthier than a shop-bought mousse with loads of sugar or artificial sweeteners in it. It's vegan and dairy-free and it's soooo easy!
Cut the banana and avocado into chunks and put into the blender with the cacao powder, the maple syrup and half of the milk. Blend well until smooth and glossy. Check the consistency and add more milk until you have the desired consistency (it does depend on the size of the avocado and the banana). Spoon into ramekins and chill in the fridge for at least an hour. Sprinkle with a little cacao powder, add a strawberry, raspberry or spoonful of soya yoghurt if desired and enjoy.
This Week's Musical Offering... I'm sure I've shared this one with you before but it's a lovely tune with a great rhythm for your Sun Salutations - Deva Premal chanting and singing Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu, which means 'May all beings be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all'.
Well, it had to have animals didn't it. You might have seen these before but they're worth watching again just to make you smile on a grey January day. You have to admire the yogis focus in the face of such distraction!
Namaste, enjoy your yoga and thanks for reading.


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The State of COVID-19 in U.S. Prisons
By Kayla Hui, MPH
Kayla Hui, MPH
Kayla Hui, MPH is the health and wellness commerce writer at Dotdash Meredith. She writes for Verywell Health.
Fact checked by Nick Blackmer
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As the Delta variant circulates throughout the U.S., incarcerated people are at high risk for infection.
Over 2,000 people incarcerated in state and federal prisons have died from COVID-19, and recent reports show those numbers may be undercounted.
Carceral facility staff members are getting vaccinated at much lower rates than incarcerated people.
Due to overcrowding, lack of resources, and little access to medical care, incarcerated people have been at high risk for contracting COVID-19. Now, as the highly transmissible Delta variant circulates widely, they may be even more susceptible to the virus.
Josh Manson, a researcher at the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project, tells Verywell that there have been few efforts to curb the Delta variant and COVID-19 overall, making prisons deadly places for transmission. "When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, prisons were not taking the situation seriously," Manson says. "We know that it's even more transmissible than it was the first time a year and a half ago. We've seen thousands of people die in jails and prisons."
So far, at least 2,718 people incarcerated in state and federal prisons, including ICE custody, have died of COVID-19, making prisons a lethal setting during the pandemic.
According to Manson, the current death count is an underestimate. "There's evidence emerging that the counts that have been recorded are actually undercounted," Manson explains. "So we don't even know the true totals of how many people died."
For Prisoners, Vaccine Trial Participation May Do More Harm Than Good
Early on, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified people in prison as vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. At the height of the pandemic, public health practitioners and civil rights organizations demanded the release of people in prison due to overcrowding and the lack of access to medical care.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the Federal Bureau of Prisons released over 24,000 people over the course of the pandemic, with sentences to be served in home confinement.
While some prisoners were released, a portion of the releases were deathbed releases—or the release of incarcerated individuals who are near death.
Delta Variant Is Creating a Web of Regional COVID-19 Epidemics
"It's basically just taking the handcuffs off while they're [incarcerated people] on a ventilator and then saying, 'oh, you're free,' and then they die," Manson explains.
Deathbed releases have made it difficult to determine the number of deaths that occurred within prisons, Manson adds. In fact, the New York Times reported this week that dozens of these cases around the country have been excluded from official counts.
Collecting COVID-19 Data From Prisons Remains Challenging
Data collection within prisons has been no easy feat, according to Manson.
Homer Venters, MD, epidemiologist, clinical associate professor at New York University's College of Global Public Health, and former chief medical officer for the New York City jail system, tells Verywell that to track and promote better health outcomes, he believes data should be collected by the CDC and state departments of health.
"Some of the recommendations that I really advocated for in the Biden Harris task force have explicitly called on the CDC and the state department's of health to become much more involved in tracking health outcomes," Venters says.
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"All health data from prisons right now is really all over the place," Manson adds.
For example, prison systems report vaccination differently. Some prisons have reported the number of incarcerated people who have received only the first dose, while other systems have reported the number of staff and incarcerated people who received both doses.
Vaccination Rates for Staff Lags Behind
Manson says that vaccine efforts within prisons aren't as robust as they should be. While 446,079 incarcerated individuals (or 66%) have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, carceral facility staff are vaccinated at much lower rates.
Across all U.S. prisons, only 110,946 correctional staff (45%) have been vaccinated in comparison. Venters says that low vaccination rates among carceral staff are a national problem.
"You'll see that the vaccination rate for incarcerated people is higher than for staff," Manson says. "That is not because incarcerated people have had easier access, but because staff refusal rates have been high." Because the Delta variant is highly transmissible, staff can serve as transmitters of the virus if they are unvaccinated.
"When you have such an overcrowded facility, which these facilities are right now, it only takes one case," Manson says. "So if a member is not vaccinated, they can very easily transmit the virus."
To request protection for incarcerated people, you can reach out to your state's governor or Department of Corrections. For a sample script, visit the Last Prisoner Project to learn how to initiate the conversation.
Experts Say More Needs to Be Done to Curb Hesitancy
According to Venters, the most basic strategies for curbing vaccine hesitancy—like addressing people's concerns about safety—are not being employed.
Incarcerated people have declined vaccinations because their questions about the vaccines were left unanswered, Venters says.
"Often behind bars, the way that the vaccine is offered is through these big mass events, there's very little attention to finding the people who have questions, and really sitting down and talking to them," Venters adds.
Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Could Produce Years of Immunity
These questions typically arise for people in prison who have complicated health problems. "We have this paradoxical situation where some of the sickest people who really just had a lot of normal, genuine questions about vaccinations remain unvaccinated because of the way in which the vaccine has been offered," Venters stresses.
For correctional officers, some have rejected the vaccine because they were worried about not having enough paid time off, Venters notes.
"Correctional settings decided they were going to give people five or 10 days of COVID off, and that would include if they got sick from COVID, or if they had a side effect of the vaccine," he adds. "But many correctional officers blew through that time a year ago when they got sick."
WHO Urges Fully Vaccinated People to Wear Masks Due to Delta Variant Spread
Correctional officers expressed worry to Venters that if they experienced side effects, they wouldn't have any sick time, underscoring the financial concerns for carceral staff and their families. This suggests a need for policy change within the prison system, Venters says.
Regardless of a vaccine mandate, curbing the Delta variant will require engaging with carceral staff.
"I think the first step that most places have failed to do is to figure out what the issues are," Venters says. "It starts with a survey to ask what are the problems people have?"
The information in this article is current as of the date listed, which means newer information may be available when you read this. For the most recent updates on COVID-19, visit our coronavirus news page.
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Alongside cash, car, credit card and country club membership, the condominium is one of the five Cs of the Singaporean Dream. And when you can afford your dream property, some homeowners prefer not to stick to the default interior design. Homeowners definitely want to dapper it up and make it look as impressive and avant-garde as possible, employing interior designers and contractors to transform their living spaces from shoebox to showroom. Here are some condo interior design Singapore renovation tips for you to heed before you find inspiration and take the first step to create your dream home.
Due to the limited space and governing condo rules, condominium interior design in Singapore presents a different, more complicated challenge to interior designs altogether. Condo homeowners should fully understand the entire process or the size of the project that they are committing to, whether or not it is a great idea that would add value to their property and most importantly, it is within their budget.
While it is ideal for homeowners to budget wisely, it is also better for homeowners to allocate an additional five to ten per cent revenue to the interior design's original estimate or quotation. Renovation projects will almost always encounter hidden problems that need to be addressed immediately. The extra allocated amount could act as a safety net for the unexpected expenses, a contingency plan when the renovation fees get out of control or a bumper if and when you feel like making changes to your original condo interior design Singapore plan.
If your condominium is an investment project that you plan to sell or rent out in the future, it will make more financial sense if homeowners go for a contemporary condominium interior design Singapore so that future buyers or tenants have room to personalise it to their liking. The clean lines that are congenial to the contemporary look give your space a modern and voguish vibe.
Prior to the makeover of your grand residence, homeowners have to seek the necessary permits and carefully review the association documents as each condominium has its own set of renovation rules and regulations. Homeowners need to be aware and understand that there might be restrictions on what you can and cannot do that might hinder your condo renovation plans.
Homeowners should also find and hire an Singapore interior design firm that is accredited, credible and has had years of renovation experience under their belt in condominium interior design Singapore. Dependable and reliable interior design Singapore would also help to guide homeowners to check if there are any defects to their condominium, whether it is resale or a new condo. As a gesture of goodwill and a matter of courtesy, homeowners should also at least inform the neighbours about the upcoming renovation.
Keep a record of the renovation timeline. Track the renovation progress of your condo interior design Singapore to see if things are done up to the proposed schedule, earlier than expected or delayed. Most importantly, homeowners should not rush or be hasty with decisions. Take your time to think the decisions over as you want to live in your dream home, not settle in a living space.


Rachel Ann Jensen ♥: Gingham and Goats || Farm with Pretty Dress Co.
Gingham and Goats || Farm with Pretty Dress Co.
Balmy days may not inspire decked out glitz as much as fall and winter, but it is a fun time for prints, cotton, and easy updo's. Thankfully, The Pretty Dress Company provides for the glamour girl in every season, even for a day at the farm! My signature style "Fatale" happens to have a version with my favorite warm weather print, gingham. Being one to overdress, I absolutely love the combination of comfortable cotton with a classic old hollywood elegance. This beauty could go from farm frolics to decadent drinks, all in a summer's day!
Speaking of farm frolics, you may be surprised to learn that the country life runs in my veins, with today's 40's/50's nostalgia being more than appropriate to my history. We spent this warm day at Chicago's Farm at the Zoo, visiting the shetland & pinto ponies, goats, European rabbits, piglets, and Holstein cows. I'm always filled with joy and reminiscence in a setting of barns, hay and farmstead fluffs. If you're curious about my family past in la campagna, stay tuned as I'll be sharing more soon!


Danielle Rogers of Weddings Unlimited recently planned a beautiful wedding recently in Nashville, TN. She loved using AllSeated as part of the wedding planning process and is here to share some of the wedding details with us today!
This wedding was most exciting because of the wedding theme: 50 Shades of Mr. and Mrs. Gray!
The wedding was held at Schrader Lane Church in the heart of Nashville with a reception at the Musicians Hall of Fame Museum.
The bride and groom (Demetria and Joshua Gray) were featured as the stars of their own movie and the wedding party as the co-stars.
As the wedding planner, there were many details to organize including the seating of 225 guests, two color palettes of purple and blue, a red carpet entrance and much more. I do not know how I would have accomplished the tasks so easily without using AllSeated to organize the floorplan and seating, not to mention map out the right spot for the photo booth area.
My clients are always so impressed when they are able to see their floor plan come to life as it definitely provides an impressive visual before the wedding day.
Also, we love using the AllSeated App with mobile check-in! The AllSeated App definitely helps my team to easily work together on the day of a wedding especially when we have a guest list of over 200 people.
We were able to use our tablets to properly set up the floorplan for this wedding per the layout we previously designed in our AllSeated account.
All pictures in this post are courtesy of Dream Film Company, located in Memphis, TN.


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FNF Coaches Talk — Ohio will play fall football, Double Wing Offense, early enrollment fallout
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Welcome back, Coaches. We've got some exciting stories for you.
1. Ohio Governor: High school football will be allowed in the fall (WTOV FOX 9)
Good news for Ohio high school football fans. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Tuesday confirmed that contact and non-contact sports will be allowed in the fall.
He says this decision comes after hearing from doctors, local coaches, parents and athletes. However, there will be no fans in the seats for high school football games.
"It's also important, I believe, that the young person has someone there, if possible, to support them. Many times it's family members, sometimes it may be someone else who is very close to them. When our order comes out what you will see is, we will not have spectators other than family members very close to that child," DeWine said.
Check out the FNF Coaches state-by-state dashboard of postponements and start dates.
DeWine says this decision comes knowing that there is a risk to bringing sports back, but he says sports provides a number of things for students like discipline, order, structure and joy.
DeWine also says that this decision is ultimately up to the schools, even if they are having remote learning or hybrid-style schooling.
Ohio is pushing forward with fall football. https://t.co/ir1VemfyvA
— FNF Coaches (@fnfcoaches) August 18, 2020
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What is your preferred plan for a high school football season? Would you like to see it postponed to a later season?
2. South Carolina coach shares the origins of the Double Wing Offense (Spartansburg Herald-Journal)
We love stories like this — with coaches landing on new innovative offenses as a means of ending a a long losing stretch in program history.
Jet Turner was hired as the head coach of Ware Shoals (S.C.) in 1999, and he needed some offensive answers. The Hornets had held the dubious distinction of having the state's longest losing streak when he got the job. Offensively, the Pro-I and what Turner called a mixed bag of other approaches weren't working. So, he started looking for answers.
"I got on the internet and started looking," Turner, now in his first year as head coach at Blacksburg, said. "I didn't even care about gaining yards. I just wanted to not lose yards."
What he found changed his coaching career.
"I stumbled across the double wing and started researching it, and I decided that's what we needed to do," he said. "That's how it was born."
The formation is simple at first glance, with linemen stationed foot-to-foot, a pair of tight ends, a fullback (called a B back), quarterback, and two wingbacks. The options are anything but.
On the day we learned of the death of the inventor of the option, no better time for a deep dive into the double wing.https://t.co/UAip8z1mTu
— Jed Blackwell (@JedBlackwell) August 17, 2020
3. Alabama coach Nick Saban thinks opt-outs would turn spring football into JV (ESPN)
We know this is a college story, but it makes us think of a topic that has come up with high school coaches over the last few weeks.
If the season is pushed to the spring, what does that mean for your best players? At the high school level, the top commits often head off to college for the second semester of their senior seasons for early enrollment. Saban's point is that coaches will also lose their best players at the college level.
"I think one of the real consequences of this is, if you're a junior or a senior and you have an NFL grade, are you going to play in the spring?" Saban said. "Or is that going to become sort of a JV season with a lot of these juniors and seniors opting out?"
Nick Saban thinks any upperclassman with an NFL grade would opt out of playing spring college football, which would become "sort of a JV season." https://t.co/ad6ro69a7O
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— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) August 18, 2020
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Europe's dangerous Holocaust revisionism
DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EURACTIV.COM Ltd.
By William Echikson | Centre for European Policy Studies' Digital Forum
07-02-2018 (updated: 23-08-2018 )
Protesters gather for a counter demonstration against Polish nationalist and supporters of controversial Holocaust bill in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, 05 February 2018. [EPA-EFE/JACEK TURCZYK POLAND OUT]
Holocaust revisionism isn't just about rewriting history, it's about curbing some of today's basic democratic freedoms like the rule of law and freedom of expression, warns William Echikson.
William Echikson, a former senior policy manager at Google, heads the Centre for European Policy Studies' Digital Forum.
A new Polish law bans the phrase "Polish death camps" – or face three years in prison. The Hungarian government honours a journalist who has referred to Jews as "stinking excrement" and described Roma as "animals" that "should not be allowed to exist." A former Croatian Culture Minister praises the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustase movement – and questions the number of killings at the regime's Jasenovac concentration camp.
In the wake of marking United Nations Holocaust Remembrance day on January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp – these are just some recent examples of a rising tide of dangerous revisionism sweeping the Holocaust's blood-stained lands. Nationalist politicians and governments are rewriting history, rehabilitating war criminals and minimizing their nations' participation in genocide.
The rewriting of the past carries important implications for Europe's present. Today's revisionism coincides with a rise of extreme nationalist and far-right political movements dedicated to rolling back democracy, the rule of law, and its modern-day beacon, the multi-ethnic, tolerant European Union.
Are we returning to the horrors of the 1930s? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda," opening at the Parliamentarium Museum in Brussels on January 25, offers some alarming parallels. Full disclosure: I arranged for the exhibit to be shown in Brussels.
In the 1930s Germany, Nazi Party leaders understood the power of mass communication to disseminate hatred and anti-Semitism – and shape public opinion and behavior. They deployed sophisticated modern technologies, including radio and film, to win the battle of ideas among a well-educated population in a fledgling democracy. Importantly, the Nazis also rewrote history into a battle between the superior Aryan race and inferior Semite – with the Aryans always triumphant and the locomotive of civilization.
Nazi-style propaganda remains all too relevant today in the very land of the Holocaust. More and more politicians are descending into xenophobic language reminiscent of the 1930s and the 1940s. In Britain's Brexit campaign, the Leave camp unveiled a poster of contemporary Middle Eastern migrants that bore a striking resemblance to a Nazi propaganda that maligns Jews, Poles, Roma, as "parasites" who "undermin[e] their host countries."
Often, migrants are denigrated in terms reserved in the 1930s for Jews. Jarosław
Kaczyński, head of Poland's governing Law and Justice Party, has warned that migrants are "parasites" that carry "very dangerous diseases long absent from Europe." In the same vein, French right wing extremist Marine Le Pen called for the "eradication of bacterial immigration," proclaiming that immigration was causing an "alarming presence of contagious diseases" in France. In his Mein Kampf, Hitler repeatedly refers to Jews as parasites.
To be fair, some European countries have made gigantic strides in recognizing their own culpability. For decades, many French have held onto the idea that their ancestors had been either victims or resisters of Nazis, or of the collaborationist regime that was set up in Vichy. This past July, standing at a site from which thousands of French Jews were sent to their deaths during the Holocaust, President Emmanuel Macron of France deplored his nation's wartime role in abetting murder and pledged to fight a renewed tide of anti-Semitism.
Romania represents another star student. During the war, its Army organized the deportation of Jews. In response, President Klaus Iohannis has made Holocaust training mandatory for the country's military General Staff. Until March 2017, Romania held the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), composed of 31 nations.
Unfortunately, though, history is often being forgotten or rewritten. Consider Hungary. Its government is minimizing its country's participation in the genocide, rehabilitating war criminals, and introducing anti-Semitic writers into the national curriculum. According to Paul Shapiro of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the truth is that Miklos Horthy's Hungary was the first European country after World War 1 to put in place numerus clausus legislation which restricted Jewish participation in high education. Hungary passed racial laws similar to Nazi Germany in 1938 and 1939. With war came the systematic theft of Jewish property and mass murder. In 1944, Hungarian police identified and concentrated the Jews, loaded them onto trains, and delivered them into the hands of German SS units for execution at Auschwitz.
Today, Hungary's right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban has described the arrival of asylum seekers in Europe as "a poison", saying his country did not want or need "a single migrant". Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees trekked through Hungary and Austria in 2015 as they sought to reach wealthy European nations. But the flow slowed to a trickle after Orban's government erected razor wire and fences along the southern borders last autumn and brought in tough anti-migrant laws.
The new Polish law raises similar issues. Anger is understandable when foreigners refer to Auschwitz and other extermination centers the Nazis set up in Poland as "Polish death camps." They were Nazi death camps. Along with three million Polish Jews, at least 1.9 million Polish gentiles were killed.
Yet many Poles were complicit in the crimes committed on their land. When a Polish minister questions Polish participation in the murder of hundreds of their Jewish neighbours during a Holocaust-era program, he is wrong. Will the new law allow such lies to spread? Like other countries conquered by Germany, Poland too must face up to all aspects of its World War II history – without the threat of sending historians to prison.
Perhaps it is no surprise that a Polish nationalist government is behind the new revisionist bill.
The same government is waging an offensive on the rule of law and freedom of expression, imposing new repressive bills to control the media and attacking the independence of the country's courts.
The threat from Holocaust Revisionism is not just about rewriting history. Above all, it is about curbing today's democratic freedoms.
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4 responses to "Europe's dangerous Holocaust revisionism"
anders says:
@editor what about Austria? or maybe the cat ate your tongue on that? What an obvious and lame propaganda…i saw also your video regarding air quality where you compared Sweden with Poland… just a few days after you were painting Sweden as a disaster for forests….lame, lame, uninspiring lame…..
m vinthund says:
"Kaczyński, head of Poland's governing Law and Justice Party, has warned that migrants are "parasites""
Fake news.
Pole77 says:
The report contains many errors regarding Poland. The Auschwitz Museum has published its critical opinion, but the author doesn't accept any critics. He criticizes fake news, but he produces ones himself.
Cristiano del Mar says:
Only total idiot and and ignorant could produce such a bullshit article. How dare you talking about Polish history and Polish contemporary issues if your knowledge seems to be based on mainstream media?! And who you are former Policy manager form Google – the epicenter of the manipulation of the news?!


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Vanguard Campaign Cast: Voice Actors, Warzone Operators, and More
Here's who you'll be hearing for the next year - at least
By Kyle Wilson
Call of Duty Vanguard is all about the biggest and best heroes of the Second World War - they might be fictional characters but they're very much based on real-life individuals. They're also being portrayed by real-life indivisuals. Here's everything we know about who's being brought together to take on the Nazi forces trying to scramble together in the wake of Hitler's death.
Vanguard Campaign Cast - Who's who in Call of Duty?
Below, we have everything you need to know about all the Campaign cast members in Call of Duty Vanguard - there are a few hidden gems in there!
Firstly, let's start with the supporting cast...
Boris Petrov - Elya Baskin (Spider-Man 2)
Henry Baker - Steven Brand (Teen Wolf)
James "Booker" Washington - Terrel Clayton (How To Get Away With Murder)
Tommy Jones - Max Deacon (Into the Storm)
Hermann Freisinger - Dan Donohue (Star Wars Battlefront II)
Oliver Hamms - James Frain (Tron Legacy)
Misha Petrov - Mark Ivanir (Schindler's List)
Jannick Richter - Domonic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings)
Desmond "Des" Wilmot - Nikolai Nikolaeff (Daredevil)
Leo Steiner - Ray Proscia (Suits)
Richard Webb - Simon Quarterman (Westworld)
Lewis Howard - Russell Richardson (Spider-Man Miles Morales)
Mateo Hernandez - Christopher Rivas (2 Broke Girls)
Now, onto the big four! Here's who voices Arthur, Polina, Wade, and Lucas.
Arthur Kingsley Voice Actor - Chike Okonkwo
Okonkwo lends his talents to SOTF 1's lead, Arthur Kingsley. He is also known for his roles in Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda - however, he has also appeared in La Brea, Birth of a Nation, and Being Mary Jane.
ARTHUR KINGSLEY - Portrayed by Chike Okonkwo
Polina Petrova Voice Actor - Laura Bailey
Laura Bailey is a giant of the industry, featuring as Black Widow in multiple iterations of Marvel's Avenger and as Abby in The Last of Us Part II. She's also a regular on Critical Role and voices Mary Jane Watson in Insomniac Games' Spider-Man and Kait Diaz in the Gears franchise.
POLINA PETROVA - Portrayed by Laura Bailey
Lucas Riggs Voice Actor - Martin Copping
Copping has found his feet in the industry through performances as Mozzie in Siege and Sipes in Infinite Warfare. You'll also be able to see him in Zombie Hunter and The Dunes - a movie in post-production.
LUCAS RIGGS - Portrayed by Marcus Copping
Wade Jackson - Derek Phillips
Wade Jackson is being brought to life by Derek Phillips, an actor with a few serious roles behind him. You will be able to find Phillips in Friday Night Lights, Raptor One in Black Ops Cold War, and in the lead role of Shooter - a TV series based on a movie of the same name.
WADE JACKSON - Portrayed by Derek Phillips
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The olive tree is an important symbol of Israel, and of the Jewish and Christian faiths and history. Olives themselves have had a major role to play, not only in the economy of Israel for thousands of years but also in the traditions of the two faiths.
It is an interesting fact that olives in Israel have long held an unusually high oil content, which makes them especially excellent for the production of olive oils. The olive trees in this region blossom in the spring and bear fruit in the fall, with the peak season for harvest being in October and November.
In ancient times, olives were harvested in very rudimentary ways—either by beating the branches with poles or simply by stripping the fruit by hand. In many cases, the olives that were to be eaten rather than pressed for oil would be handpicked to prevent bruising. Some olives were picked while still green, and then pickled in vinegar and salt and eaten fresh, as were some of the black olives. That process continued on throughout the ensuing generations. In addition, some of the green fruits were boiled, dried and used throughout the year for various purposes. However, the black, ripened olives were the best for olive oil, as they often contained more than 50 percent oil by volume.
During the ancient Old Testament times, ripe olives were ground to a pulp in pestles, as described in Isaiah 17:6, or smashed underfoot similar to grapes for wine, as described in Micah 6:15. The pulp from the olives was collected in reed baskets, which would allow the oil to drain off. The first oil collected was the highest-quality oil. Additional oil would then be extracted through a system of heating and re-pressing the pulp.
As time and technology progressed, around the time of the New Testament, Israelis had invented new systems of pressing olives. In one such system, olives were put inside a large circular basin where a large millstone rolled around in a circle. The stone would be turned by an animal (such as a donkey) or by people, and the pulp would be collected in baskets layered on top of each other. A stone weight would be placed on those baskets, and a heavy wooden beam was placed across the pile. Stone weights hung from the beam would apply tremendous pressure to the olives to squeeze out the oil.
Another method in those days involved a large stone pillar being placed directly on top of the olives to press out the oil. The oil would then run through the basket layers and into a pit beneath. The oil would eventually be collected in jars and stored in a cool place.
These are just a few examples of how the olive fruit in ancient days were picked and pressed. For more information about how we accomplish these processes today, contact us at My Olive Tree!