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It’s not a new idea: the belief that public education can fuel economic growth. But it’s one that’s gaining traction, especially in Massachusetts. Twenty-four Gateway Cities across the state have pledged to work together to improve their local economies by building stronger schools and communities. Massachusetts has twenty-six so-called “Gateway Cities,” which are considered to be urban regions that have traditionally provided economic pathways to residents and immigrants.
In 2012, an independent think tank called MassINC kicked off the Gateway City Innovation Institute (GCII), which is arming leaders with research and assistance on economic development opportunities. GCII’s first initiative has been the development of the Gateway Cities Education Vision Project, which involves the development of cross-sector initiatives pursued collaboratively by mayors of Gateway Cities. The goal is to create a 21st century education system that better supports students from early education to higher education.
Massachusetts Governor Patrick has stated that, while the state leads the country on national measures and even fares well on international assessments in science and math, achievement gaps persist. Which is why his office is aggressively funding the Gateway Cities Education Agenda, which strives to ensure that all students have access to the same resources and can compete for jobs on an equal footing. Gateway Cities tend to serve a disproportionate number of students living in poverty, students of color, students with disabilities, and students who are English language learners (ELLs), making it a natural priority for these markets to lead the country on innovative new models designed to close achievement gaps. Participating Massachusetts cities include: Barnstable, Brockton, Chelsea, Chicopee, Everett, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Methuen, New Bedford, Pittsfield, Quincy, Revere, Salem, Springfield, Taunton, Westfield, and Worcester.
Research has shown that young readers battling with literacy in third grade will continue to struggle academically, hobbling their ability to graduate high school, go to college or secure high-paying jobs. Which is why gateway cities are focusing on providing the highest-quality literacy instruction possible during students’ early years. Educators at family child care programs and other early education programs will receive additional resources to further build out literacy-rich classrooms.
The effects of poverty can serve as huge impediments to successful learning. A healthy platform can assist such students to attend school regularly, and arrive in an attentive and motivated mindset. Gateway Cities will address this by creating Student Support Councils and hiring Student Support Counselors, which will work together to provide comprehensive services to low-income families and communities. The Counselors will be placed in high-need schools, and connect students, families, and educators with service providers. The Councils and Counselors will help mitigate the problems that impede attendance, as well as student engagement and achievement.
Schools will seek to build a system that accommodates all students, providing every child with the appropriate quantity and quality instruction he/she needs to meet high standards. For example, English language learners may need additional time plus customized instruction to rapidly acquire English skills while keeping pace with their academic subjects. Gateway Cities will seek to operate After-school Enrichment Academies and School Vacation/Saturday Acceleration Academies that provide intensive and targeted instruction to middle and high school English language learners.
A successful public education system guides students toward colleges or careers early on in the academic process, actively works to provide access to internships, and establishes partnerships with higher education institutions and workforce development partners. Therefore, Gateway Cities will establish Education and Industry Coordinating Councils and support the establishment of high school Career Academies. The Councils will create multiple and seamless pathways to employment, and the Academies will improve students’ readiness for job opportunities and successful careers.
Gateway Cities will work to creatively promote best practices and build stronger partnerships through the creation of a Commonwealth Education Innovation Fund, a public-private fundraising partnership providing new resources to develop and implement cutting-edge educational strategies in communities across the state.
And Massachusetts cities aren’t the only Gateway Cities to take similar measures; many of the country’s largest Gateway Cities have homed in on addressing the achievement gap. Los Angeles and New York are implementing comparable programs, which seek to better serve the underserved through differentiated services, aggressive early education initiatives, and career readiness. Education is a fundamental right of every person, but the benefits of education extend beyond the individual. Many economists have noted the high correlation between regional economic growth and higher educational attainment, making innovative, next-generation education systems not only an altruistic pursuit, but a monetary one, as well.

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A refraction is that part of an eye exam where you are placed in front of an instrument containing lenses and dials to determine the need for glasses or a change in your current glasses. During this part of the exam you will look through lenses at an eye chart and help the doctor determine which lenses give you the best possible vision. The doctor will give you a prescription, if needed or desired.
Should I wear my contact lenses to the office for my eye examination?
Yes, especially if you want the doctor to evaluate the fit and vision of the contact lenses in your eyes. You may be asked to take the contact lenses out of your eyes during the examination, so please also bring your glasses with you.
Should I bring my present glasses with to the appointment?
Yes, please bring all recent glasses (reading and distance) with you to your exam.
Your stay for a complete eye examination generally takes from 45 minutes to 1 hour. If you are coming to see our retina physician, the examination may well be longer due to frequent additional testing.
How long will my eyes stay blurry after the examination?
After your eyes have been dilated, the blurriness may last from 2 - 4 hours, with vision improving every hour. This blurriness is for close-up vision, but you will be light sensitive for distance as well. Please bring your sunglasses with you to the office.
Will my insurance cover my eye exam?
It is the responsibility of the patient to know his/her benefits. Most insurance plans will differentiate between a routine eye exam and a medical eye exam. You must decide if the reason you need an eye exam is because you have a specific complaint or just because you would like your eyes examined. Any examination that takes place as a result of a patient's complaint or symptoms(ie: dry eyes, headaches, eye infection, etc.) would be considered medical in nature and should be covered under your medical insurance. Any eye exam conducted at the patient's request without a specific complaint would be considered routine. This type of exam would only be covered if your insurance contact specifically states routine eye coverage is a benefit.
A routine eye examination is much like a routine physical, but for the eyes. Typically, there is no specific problem with the eyes other than the need for lenses to correct your vision. The insurance companies consider the need for corrective lenses to be routine. A complete examination performed by the doctors at Danbury Eye Physicians includes a glaucoma pressure check, a muscle evaluation, observation for external eye disease, examination of the retina and refraction.
What is the difference between a routine and medical examination?
These two terms refer to the way an examination is billed out by the office. Both examinations are performed the same way by the doctor. The diagnosis, which is billed out by the office, depends on the chief complaint of the patient, as related to the doctor or technician.
The patient comes to the office with a history of diabetes. He/she is healthy and has no eye problems, but wants his/her eyes examined. This is considered a medical examination because the patient has a disease which can affect the eyes and the physician needs to evaluate the patient's eyes in light of this disease.
The patient comes to the office with a complaint of difficulty seeing the newspaper, but no problem with distance vision. This would be considered routine in nature because there are no medically related problems.
The patient comes to the office with pain in the eye and tearing. These complaints are considered medical symptoms and the eye examination would be billed as a medical exam.
I have a referral plan. How do I know if I need a referral for my eye exam?
It's safe to say if you have a complaint symptom, it is better to err on the side of caution and call your primary care physician for a referral. There must be a referral on file before a patient is examined for a medical problem.
What should I bring with me for my appointment?

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futuritycastsuponthepresent; thewordswhichexpress what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
 Harold Strauss, from the 1933 Review of Company K for the New York Times.
 The context of this quote was a digression on the media, telecommunication, information technology, and internet industries.
The vastest point, the center, the infinity Faëry, where the gigantic heroes ride across endless landscapes and sail sea upon sea and there is no end to possibility that circle is so tiny it has no doors at all.
Against reason, I thought that the next swell would be it: another rogue wave would roll me again . . .At that moment, a noise from above caught my attention. And I looked up just in time to see a gigantic white airplane fly by.
 Adolf Hitler, as quoted in Mein Kampf, (1925).

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Creating a trust is a useful way to ensure that assets are set aside for your beneficiaries, outside the scope of inheritance tax.
Depending on the type of trust you have, they can be used to fund your children’s education and maintenance, or provide for those who are mentally or physically incapacitated.
Anderson Phillips have in depth knowledge in regard to advising on the most suitable type of trust to suit your circumstances, setting up trusts and assisting individuals with the accountancy issues surrounding trusts.
To find out how we can help you, please get in touch with our team.

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"Congratulations" By POST MALONE Reaches 1 Billion Views On YouTube! - MYX | YOUR CHOICE. YOUR MUSIC.
"Congratulations" By POST MALONE Reaches 1 Billion Views On YouTube!
Congratulations are in order for Post Malone as his music video for "Congratulations" featuring Quavo has reached one billion views on YouTube!
The music video for one of the most infectious hits from the rapper's Grammy-nominated album Beerbongs & Bentleys was unveiled back in January 2017.
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A cacophony of lines and colours greets you – shapes and lines swirl like scattered haystacks, a roiling, bubbling profusion of imagery billowing from the picture frame. Figures appear, spliced with patterns and objects, at once obscured and yet thrown in relief. Women in black crop tops and chunky boots stand, hand on hip, while elsewhere, goats spin in a remorseless vortex. Birds, flowers and pinstripes vie for attention in a strange, otherworldly panorama that can only be described as hysterical.
In this new body of work, the paintings will feature ambiguous figures set against multiple layers of paint. In working with plastic sheeting instead of canvas, Jenkins subverts traditional notions of painting, imbuing a seemingly innocuous and worthless material with the same attention normally given to more traditional media. She works in a series of quick, almost violent, movements, on which she then imposes figures, or alternatively starts by painting the image on itself. As soon as the paint dries she starts to deconstruct it by tearing strips off, before adding more layers and repeating the process until a multi-layered image exists. This results in images featuring dizzying swirls of pattern and colour suggestive of any number of hinterlands to the scene, to be imposed by the viewer him- or herself. Faces and features are not entirely clear: these are anonymous figures set against an anonymous backdrop. The palette is vivid: these are images that command the viewer’s attention and demand to dominate the space they are in.
“Within my own paintings, mannerisms, gestures and marks are repeated, removed and reinstated in an attempt to affirm, escalate, destabilize and analyse the hysterical tendencies that surface, manifest and embed themselves at the site of each and every painting anew,” says Jenkins. “Research generates language, language generates imagery and imagery defies the laws of language and is rendered hysterical.” There is even a sense of menace in the background, unsettling the viewer as presenting as many questions as answers.
In Transplastic, Jenkins is interested in the progression of painting over the centuries as a patriarchal expression, with a remit of how painters – men and women – explore this and make the language their own. “I draw my inspiration from other painters and a lot of the people I admire at the moment just happen to be female,” she says. “I am trying to locate potential differences in the way painters paint.” These differences are important, she believes, and the aesthetic they produce in turn highlights the differing contexts they work in.


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Discussion in 'Strings [BG]' started by Davidoc, Aug 20, 2001.
I use d'adadario slowounds, and don't have experience with any others, so I don't know if it's string related, but my g string sounds bad, very bad when I turn up the trebbles (I like the trebbles high). I can play on my d string higher up and it sounds great, but the g sounds nasty.
Does anyone know what could be the culprit? Should I try different brands/gauges of string?
Maybe. Different basses seem to like different strings. I haven't tried Slowounds, but I'm aware of the "twangy g string syndrome." I found Ernie Ball Slinkys to work well on my P, and Blue Steels also have given me a consistent sound across the fretboard.
Some basses also don't have an even sound from string to string. I have a cheap Washburn bass that tends to have less bass response on the D and G. You can overcome a lot of this with technique.
Playing high on a thicker gauge string always gives notes that have a "fuller" tone - this is why the same notes on the D string sounds better than on the G. This is also why solos done on a piccolo bass sounds better than solos on a guitar even though they have the same octave (in my opinion).
Try a thicker gauge for your G string to see if it helps.
The other thing is if you turn up the treble, you will get a lot of fingernoise and "brightness" on the G compared to the D string too. You can either turn down the treble, or improve your fingerpicking and left-hand technique to minimize this.


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"We see that specialist controls within the subsea and topsides arena is a growing market place for us and is already set to be a core contributor to our business bringing it in line with our current offering of gas turbine control and fire and gas safety systems."
The offshore services firm has partnered with Aberdeen based Helix to develop subsea intervention control systems to be used within the energy sector.
The contract win comes after the firm became the first business to move into the Hethel Engineering Centre's 7.8m expansion, which opened earlier this year.
The two projects will have elements of hardware and software development, which includes testing and manufacturing. It will be carried out at Proeon's facilities at Hethel, before installation and Adidas Energy Boost Review 2018 commissioning begins.
suitable location to build its own headquarters as it looks to bolster its workforce in the months ahead.
Kevin Magee, managing director of Proeon Systems, said "These are exciting projects for us here at Proeon. The engineering team have been collaborating for some time on smaller projects through third parties with this company, and contract awards like these demonstrate that our quality and expertise has great potential. We are committed to supplying the best solutions possible."

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We are always delighted to welcome new patients to Ashburton Family Dental. On your first visit, we know that you will want to discuss your wants and needs and we will take the time to find these out.
We will discuss your past dental experiences to discover anything we need to learn in relation to your future care. This is a two-way conversation in which we find out your concerns about your mouth. When you are happy that we have discussed all these points, we will then examine your mouth.
Each dentist will carry out a careful examination of both your teeth and gums, including an oral cancer mouth screen, and record any observations for future discussion. At this point, if x-rays are required these will be taken now and scanned while you wait.
Based on the clinical examination and x-ray results, together with our previous discussions, we will be able to develop both short and long term treatment plans if appropriate. If required, we will be able to provide you with a clear, itemised treatment plan and a personal appointment time for treatment to begin.
Before your visit, we’ll either send you a new patient form or you can download the form here. Please complete the forms and bring them along to your appointment. To assist us in providing the most appropriate treatment, you may wish to request for a copy of your relevant dental records to be sent to us via this Release Of Records Form.
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There’s a Speed Graphic camera, once standard equipment in newsrooms across the country. You may have seen them in 1930s and ’40s-era movies that featured gaggles of photographers, “Press” placards stuck in there fedora hatbands. Heavy, bulky and requiring light-bulb-sized flashbulbs to shoot at night, a Speed Graphic was the first camera I used professionally, for my high-school yearbook and the paper I worked for part-time while in high school and college.
The one in my office used sheet film -- you’d take a shot, pull out the sheet holder, put in another. By the mid-1960s when I was using one, we’d progressed to a roll-film attachment. You could take eight shots on each roll.
Now, of course, we shoot videos and scores of photos on phones about the size of a deck of cards. A couple of taps on the screen and it’s on its way to a website or to print. Not so long ago, when someone in The Charlotte Observer’s Statesville bureau, for example, took some pictures, he or she would put the film on the bus to Charlotte. We’d send a cab to the bus station to pick it up so our photo staff could develop and print it.
Next to the camera in my office is an old Royal upright typewriter of probably a similar vintage. Pounding (especially for some of us with assertive fingers on the keyboard) stories out on that, keys jamming and their clatter providing newsroom white noise, you dreaded every typo that had to be corrected with whiteout or strike-throughs.
Then came the editing process, with notes scribbled by hand and paragraphs rearranged by, literally, cutting and pasting. My handwriting was (still is) terrible -- a 7th-grade teacher referred to it aptly as “chicken-scratching.” Had computers not arrived in The Raleigh Times newsroom about the time I became an editor on the city desk, an angry Linotype operator (yes, I’ve sent reams of copy to those) might have beaned me with one of the lead ingots melted down to make type.
Today, needless to say, the tools of our trade let us work exponentially faster and reach you quickly, often in real time. We’re stepping that up multiple levels with our changes.
For somebody who lives to gather, verify and disseminate news, it doesn’t get any better than this.

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Thousands of people around the world place Finland on their bucket list as this northern country in Europe is famous for its beautiful untouched nature, historical sights, welcoming people, and tasty Nordic cuisine. There’s much to see even if you have as little as one week, regardless of the month of your journey, and the main advice for putting together an incisive trip to Finland is to try to plan out as much as you can in advance. In this piece, we’re happy to share handy tips of places and activities to add to your Finland itinerary for a trip to surely remember!
Most people coming to Finland arrive in the capital city, Helsinki, as this is where the country’s largest international airport is located. Helsinki is a wonderful starting point for discovering Finland, and although the city itself might not be as rich in landmarks and sights when compared to, say, Moscow or Rome, there’s still much to be seen.
It makes sense to save at least one full day for traversing the main highlights of the Finnish capital, and if you’re lucky to arrive not very late in the evening, you can even begin your exploration of the city on your first day. Such landmarks as the Rock Church and the Market Square in the old town for sure deserve a spot on your Helsinki itinerary. A good beginning of your Finland experience would also be stopping by one of the many central cafes and tasting traditional Scandinavian dishes, for instance, Karjalanpaisti stew.
Nature and history are among the significant treasures of Finland. The country is incredibly green and rich in lakes, forests, and wildlife. One of the easiest ways to immerse in this is taking a day trip from Helsinki to the Nuuksio National Park, located in the city outskirts.
To see the Finnish nature in all its glory, it is reasonable to pick in favor of the warmer months of the year. As such, you may spend from one to three days in the Finnish Lakeland region, located close to the borders with Russia. A good match, if you decide to go there, is the city of Savonlinna, boasting numerous historical attractions, including the renown castle.
Another good option for the same number of suggested days is diving into “real Finland” by heading to Turku, among the oldest towns in the entire country. Moreover, if you’re into nature, consider visiting the nearby Archipelago National Park.
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go”! Making your way above the Arctic Circle is an adventure in itself. The intact nature of the chilly Finnish north is extraordinary any time of the year. Those who want to go in the summer may be lucky to observe the natural phenomenon of the Midnight sun. This is when the sun doesn’t set for almost 24 hours straight! A plethora of summer activities to select from, including hiking, will surely keep you entertained. Depending on your preferences, you can spend 2-5 days in the north.
For winter journeys, of course, taking your chances to catch the colorful Northern Lights is among the major reasons for going on a trip to Finland. Those who aren’t on a budget and crave for a one-of-a-kind experience to last a lifetime even book an overnight in specially-designed hotels and properties with glass ceilings, such as the Glass Igloo resort, to witness the aurora lights right from the room. Northern Finland in winter is chilly yet fun to travel to, so the number of days you wish to reserve for your winter fairytale is entirely up to you!
Speaking of travel to Finland in the coldest time of the year, the iconic home of Santa Claus in Rovaniemi cannot be left unmentioned. People from all over the planet make their way to this destination to visit Santa and his elves, meet his helpers and reindeer on the reindeer farms, see sculptures from ice, and more. Of course, the demand is very high and, thus, availability is limited, so to avoid disappointment and skyrocket prices, plan your visit from start to finish ahead of time, even 6 months prior to the trip is an excellent time to start. Note, though, that most likely it will take you a full day (or more) for travel time to the north and back to Helsinki, shortening your overall vacation.
What is more, if you plan your Finland travel during the winter season, take advantage of the opportunity to go husky dog sledding or snowmobiling. A day spent getting acquainted with the local Saami people who preserve their indigenous centuries-old herding lifestyle is an outstanding pastime as well.
Plus, a definitely memorable experience is a stay at one of the many unique properties such as the Snow Hotel which you might have guessed by the name is made entirely out of snow and ice. Sounds fun, huh? Again, the itinerary you put together will in much depend on the number of activities you’d like to have and your budget.
Summing up, depending on the month of your travel it makes sense to know your options in order to make the most of your time in Finland. And here’s another tip: no trip to Finland would be complete without a visit to a traditional Finnish sauna. Actually, the country has more saunas than cars, can you believe it? So make sure to go to at least one for a real insider experience. Finally, plan your time in Finland wisely and, without a doubt, you’ll remember your trip for a long time!
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Introduced in 1987, Italy’s .IT country-code TLD is really popular both locally and in the English-speaking world. The reason is that the domain is a pronoun, which can be used for building inventive and catchy domain names – write.it, youcanmake.it and so on. This is a way to create an easy-to-memorize domain name, so that it will be easier for your visitors to come back to your website or to share it with colleagues and friends. The extension can also be used for a website, which is connected to the technology sector given the fact that IT is an abbreviation, which is known around the world.
Taking into account that dot IT domains are not provided directly by IT-NIC, the Registry organization that handles this top-level domain name extension, such a domain can be booked through a 3rd-party domain registration provider, such as ours. We will handle the registration process for you and take care of submitting your application to the Registry organization. You can acquire a .IT domain for a 1-year period at a time, and the domains are transferable, so you can move your existing domain over to us and we will renew it once the transfer has been finalized. The only restriction is that the person registering such a domain should be located in a country from the European Union.
Because there are existing Second-Level Domains that include names of different regions and localities in Italy reserved for local third-level registrations, new names that consist of geographical areas of any sort are not permitted on any level to avoid any future confusion. We do not support such third-level domains, though, because they can be registered only by locals.
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Ever needed to crop, resize, color-correct, or convert an image from one format to another? That’s a simple operation for something like The GIMP. But What about 10 images? 50 images? 5,000 images? That’s a lot of photos. Wouldn’t it be nice to script that up somehow? Imagemagick is a set of utilities to convert, identify, mogrify, composite, compare, stream, display, animate, import, or “conjure” your images. Jim McQuillan and Tony Bemus will talk about how they use Imagemagick to do their heavy-duty image processing. You’ll never look at your image processing the same way again.
Many of the early computer games were designed to emulate board games. Games like Chess, Go, and Reversi are popular board games that have computer opponents. But what about the latest renaissance in board gaming? What’s the best way to play games like Ascension, Through the Ages, Dominant Species, and more? The VASSAL Engine is not only an open source way to play board games locally or online, but it’s also a way to port games to be played on the computer. Craig Maloney will give a brief introduction to this innovative and fun engine for board gaming, and will introduce some games that you can have fun playing using VASSAL.

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A total of 1.07 billion shares valued at RM1.35 billion changed hands off market, in blocks of at least 490,000 shares from Aug 27 to Sept 02.
Bumi Armada Bhd saw some 7.22% of its shares change hands off market on Aug 28. A total of 211.68 million shares were traded at RM2.96 apiece, for a total of RM626.3 million.
The trades coincided with a disposal of some 215 million shares by Objektif Bersatu Sdn Bhd (OBSB), in line with a book-building exercise that concluded on Aug 27, for a placement of Bumi Armada shares. Ananda Krishnan is deemed to have control of OBSB, through PanOcean Management Ltd.
Over at Berjaya Land Bhd, some 273.37 million shares or a 5.49% stake changed hands off market, during the period under review. The shares were worth RM205.05 million, with the bulk of the trades taking place at 75 sen a share.
A single block of 200 million shares was acquired on Sept 02 by Bizurai Bijak (M) Sdn Bhd, which is controlled by Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun — the largest shareholder of Berjaya Land, with a deemed interest of 68.8%. The announcement to Bursa Malaysia during the week prior to Sept 08, did not disclose the selling party.
At the same time, some 66.5 million shares changed hands in a “left to right hand” transaction, disposed of by Teras Mewah Sdn Bhd and acquired by Bizurai Bijak.
Berjaya Land’s shares have low trading volumes on Bursa. They closed at 85 sen on Aug 28, on a volume of 39,300.
Meanwhile, Destini Bhd saw 11.26% or 89.76 million of its share capital trade off market, through direct trades. Some 75.26 million shares were acquired by BPH Capital Sdn Bhd, which is controlled by Datuk Rozabil Abdul Rahman, at 66 sen apiece on Aug 28, bringing his stake to 32%. Destini closed at 67.5 sen on the same day. The announcement to Bursa, however, did not disclose the seller of the shares.
Another 14.5 million shares changed hands on Sept 02 in a single block, but there wasn’t any announcement on the buyer or seller, as at press time.
Some 11 million Destini Bhd-CW warrants also changed hands at 25 sen apiece on Sept 02, in a single block.
Furniweb Industrial Products Bhd saw some 24.51 million shares trade off market on Aug 29, representing a 16.9% stake. Shareholder Cheah Eng Chuan disposed of 14 million shares at 75 sen a share and 5.4 million warrants at 32 sen apiece.
Pacific Vintage Sdn Bhd also disposed of some 6.85 million shares through a married deal on the same day.
According to an announcement to Bursa, Yeoh Soo Ann emerged as a new shareholder in the loss-making maker of covered elastic yarn and furniture webbing, acquiring some 25.2 million shares or a 17.45 stake.
Note that the transactions took place at a substantial discount to the closing price on the same day, of 87.5 sen.
Other interesting movers during the period under review include SILK Holdings Bhd, which saw a block of 20 million shares change hands at RM1.05 on Aug 29. That makes up a 3.88% stake in the company, which was disposed of by Infra Bumitek Sdn Bhd. The latter is controlled by Datuk Mohamad Azlan Hashim — the executive chairman, and director Johan Zainuddin Dzulkifli.
Mohamad Azlan retains a 15.45% deemed interest in SILK, while Zainuddin retains a 24.3% stake. SILK’s share price closed at 97.5 sen on the same day.

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“In my opinion, the WW1 Battlefields Trip had a lot of importance as you could see with your own eyes what the soldiers of WW1 went through for their country. I learned how fatal the war was on soldiers and their families and just how gruesome the war actually was. When I visited Thiepval I saw how many soldiers hadn’t been found, let alone fought in the war. After this trip, my knowledge of WW1 has improved immensely and now I can relate to what the soldiers experienced”.
“From the early hours of Friday 2nd December until late on Monday 5th February myself, Fawaz and Mr Chew visited the Battlefields of France and Belgium. When we visited the graves the impact on me was huge, seeing the different countries that fought, and the amount of lives that were lost made me feel melancholy. When we saw the crosses, it showed the immensity of the war, families torn apart and the extent of soldiers and civilian lives lost. Overall, it is important that we still remember, over 100 years later the peoples whose lives were lost”.

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Grey skirt or pinafore dress, culottes or uniform trousers (not fashion trousers or jeans); yellow polo shirt; grey cardigan or school grey sweat shirt; black shoes which may be buckled, laced or slip-on and white or grey socks or tights.
Spring/Summer – optional: Yellow checked dress, grey cardigan, white/yellow socks.
(All year round) Yellow polo shirt with school logo or white shirt with school tie. Long or short plain uniform trousers in charcoal grey; school grey sweat shirt; black shoes and plain dark socks.
Girls and boys: black shorts, yellow polo or PE shirt and black plimsolls.
Please make sure that, in the interest of hygiene, children need a separate polo/PE shirt from normal school wear for PE.
All children need PE shoes and socks. Junior children may wear trainers for outdoor PE.
PE kit should normally stay in school throughout the week; we suggest however that it is taken home about half-termly for freshening up!
Please ensure that every article of your child’s clothing is clearly labelled for the sake of our time and your money! It is particularly important to check that clothing is labelled when new items are purchased or when clothes have been washed many times as labels may have come off or faded.
Wearing of jewellery of any kind is discouraged. We are unable to accept responsibility for the care of jewellery or for any personal damage caused by the wearing of jewellery items.


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Polyurethane is known for its high performance properties such as abrasion resistance, tear resistance, slip resistance, durability, flexibility, load bearing and concussion absorbing capabilities far superior than plastic, rubber or metal.
Polyurethane horse shoes are designed to absorb most of the concussion caused by impact, a major contributor and cause of many hoof and leg ailments.
The elasticity of the Polyurethane material minimizes hard impacts and reduces the risk of injury and strain.
The shoes encourage a more natural flexibility and movement of the hoof allowing the lower leg and hoof capsule to better cope with the rigors of exercise.
Polyurethane shoes are all purpose, concussion absorbing horse shoes, suitable for all horses and activities.
If your horse is performing in a discipline where hoof boots are not permitted then the polyurethane shoes may be an option for you.
I use different brands of polyurethane shoes, but my favourite is the Easycare Shoe.These come in different models and can be applied either by glueing or nailing.
Polyurethane shoes are used in many different disciplines.
The Easyshoe is an exceptional tool for horses with hoof problems.
Farriers and professional trimmers alike will find it useful for situations where steel shoes can no longer be kept in place and the hoof capsule is slowly weakening due to lack of hoof mechanism which is usually accommpanied by slow or no hoof growth.
The “spacers” accessory make it invaluable for dealing with contracted heels as they can be changed during the shoeing cycle without removing the shoes.
The EasyShoe can also be filled with various sole support materials.

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Nico Muhly's In As Long As It Takes for Ensemble.
Commissioned by Crash Ensemble with funds provided by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaion. The first performance took place on 17 August 2017 at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland.


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Registration is now open for the annual Sunset Run For The Warriors.
The race will begin at the Huntington Green on Sunday, Aug. 19.
The Sunset Run For The Warriors includes a 10K, 1-mile walk/run and a fun run around the green for kids.
Registration for the 10K and the 1-mile is $20, with special pricing for veterans, military, families and students.
The kids’ run is $7.
To register or for more information, go to hopeforthewarriors.org.


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Many people ask why we are so successful with our lawsuits. Our philosophy in our office, whether the case is large or small is to be professional but constantly aggressive. Learn from our office so that you can direct your attorney on how to win your cases. Question: Dear Mr. Cheng, I know that recently you won several big cases. I know that attorneys are usually pretty private about how they win but can you please share your litigation philosophy? David –Monterey Park Answer: Dear David, thank you for your email. Although our litigation strategy is different for each person we have basic principles we use in every case. The following steps we use are not difficult in concept. In fact, so many people are surprised how successful our firm can be using such simple actions. However, follow the steps I state and you should be able to easily win your case future cases.
Organize your documentation. We are very lucky that our office is in a position to be selective about cases that we represent. It is my belief however, that many cases are lost not because they are not meritorious. It is because attorneys refuse to tell their clients that they cannot make out what is given to them.
Do a background check. Usually, you can find property, relatives, bank accounts, etc., by spending a few hundred dollars to a good private investigator. A background check will allow you to identify potential targets to hit so that when the lawsuit is filed you can be efficient, effective, and brutal in hitting the other side.
Do not focus your litigation against the person that harmed you solely, but instead affect those he cares most about. No one desires to hurt those they care about. As such, I always recommend that if there even a hint that a relative, friend, or associate is related to the lawsuit that you sue them. You always have the right to drop them from the lawsuit later. No pressure is greater than family members and close friends. What is worse, having a person you do not care about sue you or having a person you do not care about sue you and everyone around you (ex. Your daughter in college, your grandmother in another state) so that everyone is affected.
Use a Lis Pendens to lock up property. A lis pendens is a legal remedy that allows one to lock up property if it is the subject of dispute. What a lis pendens does is notify the entire world that if they intend to purchase property then they will buy subject to a pending dispute. The result would be that the property owner will not only be able to sell the property, they will also not be able to obtain any loans on it as well.
Use an injunction to freeze other assets. If a defendant can no longer have access to ready money, it will encourage the defendants to settle much quicker with the plaintiff.
Do not pity your enemy. Many people that come into our office suddenly have a crisis in that they feel we are too aggressive with the defendant. If you suddenly have a crisis about the way your attorney is crushing your opponent, you should not be suing the person.
Do not be afraid to go to trial. So many attorneys have never gone to trial. Some studies show that 97% of cases settle. Most cases settle because attorneys are too scared to put their case before a jury. Indeed, if the case has progressed to a point where trial is imminent and if the defendant is sostupid that they believe they can win, try the case. If your case is meritorious juries in the United States do not look highly on those that steal from innocent people.
It is my hope that those that read this article can use this in instructing their attorney on how to run litigation. It is unfortunate that so many attorneys refuse to be aggressive. Best of luck to those facing this issue.

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In the 2011 case of Powell v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 127 Nev. Adv. Op 14, 252 P.3d 668 (2011) the Nevada Supreme Court struck down the insurance company’s “earth movement” exclusion as ambiguous and unenforceable.
Plaintiffs own a Hallmark shop in Ely, Nevada. Sometime before May 26, 1990, a city water service pipe, running underground to plaintiffs’ shop, ruptured due to old age, rust and corrosion. As a result, water escaped from the pipe, saturating the soil beneath plaintiffs’ building. The water caused the cementing agent in the soil to dissolve and collapse under load. The soil settled downward, causing the building to shift, resulting in damage to plaintiffs’ building. At no time did water enter plaintiffs’ building and cause damage.
In Schroeder, the court ultimately approved the carrier’s use of the earth movement exclusion.
Powell owns a house in Northwest Reno and has a homeowner’s insurance policy through Liberty Mutual. The policy has an earth movement exclusion, which states in pertinent part: “We do not insure for loss caused directly or indirectly by any of the following.” Such loss is excluded regardless of any other cause or event contributing concurrently or in any sequence to the loss.  . . . Earth movement, meaning earthquake including land shock waves or tremors before, during or after a volcanic eruption; landslide, mine subsidence; mudflow; earth sinking, rising or shifting.
In July 2005, a water pipe in Powell’s house exploded, flooding the dirt sub-basement. Powell made a claim to Liberty Mutual because her house had suffered a shift in the foundation and had suffered extensive cracking and separation in the wall and ceiling in the area of the entryway, kitchen, and two bedrooms. She attributed this damage to the burst water pipe.
An expert chosen by Powell and hired by Liberty Mutual inspected the house and concluded that “after many years of relative foundation stability, [the house] is currently being affected by the expansion of supporting clay soils. This expansion, while likely present in lesser degrees in the past, has been severely aggravated by the intrusion of a significant amount of water a short time ago . . . .” Liberty Mutual denied Powell’s claim, citing the earth movement exclusion in her policy. Powell asked Liberty Mutual to reconsider the claim, and it denied that request.
In the end, the Powell decision did not officially overrule the Schroeder decision. Instead, the court found that the Powell earth movement exclusion was ambiguous, because it was not clear as to whether the provision applied only to naturally occurring water or man-made water sources or both. Because the court found the exclusion to be ambiguous, it interpreted the exclusion against Liberty Mutual and refused to enforce it. The court also found that the “settling” clause did not clarify or rectify the ambiguity.
The Supreme Court returned the case to trial at the district court allowing the Plaintiff to argue not only that the company had breached the contract, but that there was a claim for unfair claims practices as well.
If going forward, an insurance company plans to exclude coverage to structures for “earth movement”, the policy will have to be either identical to the Schroeder policy or otherwise very clear and unambiguous. If you have questions about exclusions for damage to structures caused by earth movement, please contact Mills & Associates for an opinion.


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The French twosome Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalte and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) was last heard on the soundtrack for the 2010 Tron reboot. �Random Access Memories� is the duo�s first studio album since �Human After All� in 2005.
Bands that create dance music usually have the life span of whichever club movement they�ve either invented or latched on to. Daft Punk � now entering its second decade as a musical entity � has become like elder statesmen in a genre that usually detests anything older than the morning papers.
�Random Access Memories� pulls off the neat trick of sounding like a Daft Punk record without having to rip off anything that came before it. There are a healthy number of guest stars on board (Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder), but instead of using their guests as crutches Daft Punk seamlessly integrates its collaborators into the proceedings.
Depending on your mental age, �Giorgio by Moroder� is either the worst pun ever or an homage to the 1980s Mirodor�s pioneering work in disco music. Truth is, it�s actually both.
Paul Williams (yes, the guy who wrote �Rainbow Connection�) turns in an earnest performance on �Touch� that shouldn�t work but does. The album�s only misstep comes in the form of �Doin� It Right,� a processed-vocal overload featuring Panda Bear from Animal Collective.
No matter how �Random Access Memory� is received, Daft Punk will probably go into hibernation again while the music industry goes through a few more upheavals. If it does take these guys another eight years to put new work out, at least their fans have this great piece of work to gnaw on �til they return.
Between 1967 and 1971, The Doors released six studio albums, with 1970s �Morrison Hotel� being the fifth.
The band�s previous effort �The Soft Parade� was viewed as a slight letdown, even though it contained the No. 1 single �Touch Me.� That single � like much of the album � was awash in lavish string sections that took up much of the space usually occupied by the sinewy keyboard work of Ray Manzarek.
�Morrison Hotel� was the perfect way for The Doors to right the ship � a 12-song collection of stripped down, sometimes bluesy rock songs that teetered between loutish and sublime.
Being one of rock and roll�s most celebrated drunks, it made sense that singer Jim Morrison�s lyrics for the stomping �Roadhouse Blues� was an homage to the skid row aesthetic. Ever the pickled poet, Morrison sang �I woke up this morning and got myself a beer/the future�s uncertain and the end is always near� like a guy who knew his liver was about to ask for a divorce.
The raucousness continues with �Land Ho!,� �Maggie McGill� and the surging �You Make Me Real.� Mixed in among these tougher songs are a few orphaned tracks from previous album sessions. �Indian Summer� was tracked for the first Doors lp but makes its first appearance here with a newly recorded lead vocal.
Psychedelic masterpiece �Waiting for the Sun� was for some reason left off the album of the same name some two years earlier. Both of these tracks sprinkle in a bit of the dreamy mysticism of The Doors� early work that isn�t present in the �Morrison Hotel� rock songs.
The most unique track on the album is �Peace Frog,� featuring guitarist Robby Krieger doing his best to emulate the funk of James Brown. The lyrics (�blood on the street � it�s up to my knee, blood on the street � it�s up to my thigh�) serve as a concise time capsule as to what was in the air in America in 1970.
Manzarek�s funkified Farfisa and Krieger�s otherworldly guitar solo sound as fresh today as they did when they were first committed to tape.
�Morrison Hotel� didn�t spawn many Top 40 radio hits, but as an album it restored The Doors� reputation as an important band. Forty-three years later, it stands as their most timeless work as a band.
Jon Dawson�s album reviews appear every Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or jon.dawson@kinston.com. Ray Manzarek (1939 - 2013).


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When it was first released in 1997, Turok introduced gamers to a world teeming with cunning enemies, traps, puzzles and deadly weapons all within a vast 3D environment ready to explore. Now the classic game has been restored and enhanced with a new visual engine and exciting new features to sink your teeth into!
To learn more you must enter the world of Turok.
Completely 3-D Virtual World: Run, jump, climb in any direction in a fully 3D world, with the ability to independently look and aim your weapons up, down, or sideways.
Intelligent Enemies Programmed for Ferocity: Variable aggression profiles make each enemy behave uniquely.
14 Monstrous High-tech Weapons: From the Grenade Launcher, Plasma Pulse Rifle and Alien Weapon, to the Quad Rocket Launcher and, the mother of all guns, the Atomic Fusion Cannon!
Advanced Interactive Backgrounds with Particle Technology: Cobwebs sway. Bubbles form rings on the water's surface. Bullets ricochet. Trees explode into flames and crash to the ground. Waterfalls boil with foam.
Bionically Engineered Dinosaurs: Razor-toothed Raptors. Artillery-packing Triceratops. Alien Infantry and a Laser-Guided T-Rex. Following your every move with head-tracking technology.


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You know that it's the right time and you have the right idea when you can write 10 pages about your customer's persona. Then link that persona to a product, service, attribute combination that gives you some idea of the pricing power of (ideally) each feature or at least the product in total.
What is holding them back from following their dreams?
What is the one question that they would like to know the answer to after they are done with the course?
How do I know this is the right idea and this is the right time?
This year it wasn’t any different. Starting in early July I ran two back to back groups of students through the entrepreneurial crash course. Out of a hundred student polled, about 60 said that they felt that this was not the right time or they were not ready or confident enough to take that bet. Another 20 mentioned that they didn’t know if their idea was a good idea or the right idea to start up with?
And then the inevitable happened. They asked me how would you know that you were ready or your idea was a great idea? Of all the businesses that I have sunk and the down cycles I have weathered the common theme has always been my inability to sell. The inability to sell was linked to not understanding what drives the sales process for my products and the mindset of my customers.
So my answer after two weeks of working with a 100 bright and driven kids (some with fully grown up kids of their own) was this.
You know that it’s the right time and you have the right idea when you can write 10 pages about your customer’s persona. Then link that persona to a product, service, attribute combination that gives you some idea of the pricing power of (ideally) each feature or at least the product in total.
Till you get to that point you are not ready. So get those customer personas out.
Obviously the next question that followed from the group was how and where do we start with these customer personas? Do you have a simpler name and an even simpler process? Why don’t we start with you building one in front of us?
The first persona we built was for the investment advisory business. This is work that I have been doing with InvestCap over the last 18 months and the idea was to figure out how to pitch or who to pitch the advisory business to within an organization. The pitch is simple, we run money for employee benefit funds without taking custody of the funds. Our advice allows customers to earn a higher return than the market benchmark. The primary decision maker is either the CEO or the CFO who is also the Chairman of the board of trustees of the benefit fund trust.
I picked up someone I had pitched risk solutions to in another life who was also a great candidate for the Investment advisory pitch. The profiled picture was important because it allows you to put a face on the segment.
The first question we asked ourselves was if you found yourself in the same room with this individual what topics would you touch upon as part of your social chit chat? The list started off with schools for kids, the state of the economy and markets, politics, our mutual peer group and friends within our network, the central bank stand on common issues and travel plans for summer and winter vacations.
But to get to common interests we had to build a more detailed profile that covered education, professional experience, personality and demographic of the individual involved.
We then had to figure out why would this person buy the product we were selling. What drove the purchase decision and what were the primary pain points he wanted addresses via/through this purchase.
The first profile was easy because this was a product I have been working with for the last few years.
The second was more interesting. One of my students was all set to explore the concept of a recruitment practice. With him we looked at setting up a high quality talent acquisition firm in the Middle East .To start with we had to figure out what do heads of HR look for when selecting a firm to represent them in the hiring process.
The initial list included the following core pain points. That were described and became the basis of the product attributes used to sell the product to the customer.
Closing the deal in face of competing offers, requires the right approach and mindset and is an art that cannot be executed by everyone.
The only thing missing now was a detailed profile of the customer which we filled in piece by piece.
Plays Golf every alternate Saturday excluding the summer months.
Now that we have all the pieces, it’s a simple extension to go out and create a pitch that works in the best elements of the above profile, the pain points and the product attributes.


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Top tier banking organisation who are heavily investing in their data analytics practice. They are looking for high calibre and ambitious data focused professionals with a proven track record of involvement in innovative and impactful change within banking space. This is an exciting opportunity with strong career growth and autonomy to work on some of the most disruptive challenges in the market.
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To leverage ICT as a strategic resource to enable government to improve service delivery and to meet the challenges faced by a developmental state.
Provides decentralised, On-Site management & On-Site support to the LAN infrastructure on the client’s environment, but not limiting it to decentralised management & support that encompasses the integrated control, operational support, monitoring and maintenance of the local area network.
To be recognised as the wholesale provider of choice for backhaul connectivity.


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Whether someone is having an elevator installed in a home or business, it’s always important to work with a professional they can rely on. Choosing the right elevator company in Washington for the project is essential. The company a person chooses for their installation will be the same one they rely on for maintenance, so making the right choice is important.
There are many things a person can do to make sure they are choosing the right elevator company in Washington, DC. Making the wrong choice could mean the elevator is not installed or maintained properly, which could lead to dangers. With these tips, individuals will know what to look for.
• Experience is incredibly important when it comes to elevator installation and maintenance. This is not the time to hire a new company. It is wise for a person to choose a company that has been in business for at least five years.
• A person needs to make sure they read reviews and learn as much as they possibly can about the company. They should also learn about the education and training of the employees so they can rest assured their elevator will be installed or maintained as it should be.
• It is a wise idea for a person to get at least three different quotes from local elevator companies so they can compare the services and the prices offered. Although price should not be the leading reason for choosing a particular company, it will certainly be an important part of the decision process.
• Elevator companies need to keep exact records to ensure their customer’s needs are met. If careful records are not being kept by the company, it is wise a person looks elsewhere for their elevator service needs.
If you are in need of installation or maintenance services, it is important to make the right choice. For more information on these services, visit the website. Contact Elevator Technologies Inc. right away. They will be happy to answer any questions or provide you with information. Call them for an appointment to get started.


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Bring your Team Together. Small business owner’s typically shoulder the stress of a business. But many times they have a team they can rely on. Not only can a SWOT produce ideas for your business it can also boost morale in your team by giving them a voice and ownership in their ideas. They may also see things that an owner does not see.
If you are a solopreneur consider bringing outside connections together to help you perform a SWOT so you will have multiple perspectives. Ask your CPA, business coach, banker, or advisor.
Reinforce What you’re Great At. Listing your Strengths is important. These are the internal things you are great at and do better than your competition. These items cannot be easily copied by a competitor. Consider how you can use this list in a new marketing campaign to generate new business.
Analyze your Weak Points. No one likes to admit their weaknesses but in order to overcome them it’s important to be realistic. Consider the things you do poorly, something you are doing now but shouldn’t be, a broken business process, how you hire, poor cash flow, unreliable financial information, etc.
The upside of making this list is you have complete control to make improvements. This has nothing to do with outside influence, the market, or the economy. It is solely internal and can be fixed. The sooner a weakness is fixed the better.
Concentrate on New Opportunities. Making a list of external opportunities is a great way to spark new ideas. Thinking about your market, what has recently changed that you can take advantage of? Has a competitor closed, a new government policy, technology advances, or an upcoming event?
Many times you are too busy in the day to day operations that you don’t make time to innovate and develop new services or new products. By doing that you can slowly become obsolete because you’re not keeping up with changes in what your customers need or want.
Prepare for Threats Beyond your Control. Although you may not like it, there are external issues beyond your control. You may not be able to change them but you should definitely be aware and have a plan to overcome or work around these threats. Are there new competitors in your market, a new law that effects your business, or changes in the economy?
It’s important to not let these threats paralyze you. Doing nothing or ignoring is not a good plan. A good plan would be to match these threats with a current strength you have already identified. Can any of your strengths help avoid or lessen a threat? For example, if there is a new competitor coming into your market, what do you do better than this competitor (something they can’t easily replicate)? If you don’t have an answer to that, you better get to planning!


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One hundred ninety-four member nations turn to the World Health Organization (WHO) for guidance and assistance during disasters. Purposes of disaster communication include preventing panic, promoting appropriate health behaviors, coordinating response among stakeholders, advocating for affected populations, and mobilizing resources.
A quality improvement project was undertaken to gather expert consensus on best practices that could be used to improve WHO protocols for disaster communication. Open-ended surveys of 26 WHO Communications Officers with disaster response experience were conducted. Responses were categorized to determine the common themes of disaster response communication and areas for practice improvement.
Disasters where the participants had experience included 29 outbreaks of 13 different diseases in 16 countries, 18 natural disasters of 6 different types in 15 countries, 2 technical disasters in 2 countries, and ten conflicts in 10 countries.
Recommendations to build communications capacity prior to a disaster include pre-writing public service announcements in multiple languages on questions that frequently arise during disasters; maintaining a database of statistics for different regions and types of disaster; maintaining lists of the locally trusted sources of information for frequently affected countries and regions; maintaining email listservs of employees, international media outlet contacts, and government and non-governmental organization contacts that can be used to rapidly disseminate information; developing a global network with 24-h cross-coverage by participants from each time zone; and creating a central electronic sharepoint where all of these materials can be accessed by communications officers around the globe.
During and after a disaster, effective communications must coordinate response efforts in order to limit secondary morbidity and disease . Organizations must communicate early and frequently with multiple stakeholders to prevent panic and implement an orderly response plan . The government and other decision makers need to know what response efforts are ongoing, and what type of further assistance is required where in order to coordinate relief. Health professionals want to know which health risks or diseases are increased in the current environment, how best to advise their patients, and how they can stay informed of emerging disease trends while working in the field. The public wants to know how to obtain assistance, what ongoing personal risks they face, and how they can protect themselves and their families . Platforms for this type of health messaging include press releases and media interviews, Internet articles and social media, town hall forums, and frequent timely communication among responders.
Each disaster serves as a learning opportunity for how to communicate better in the next disaster. Several retrospective studies have tried to document these lessons by determining how the public understood the messages that were communicated to them during a recent disaster [4–11]. Gaps in a disaster communication plan such as technical or complex instructions  can leave groups vulnerable to misunderstanding the message, while methods of dissemination [5–8] and demographics [7, 9] can result in the message never reaching certain target populations. Other studies have focused on learning lessons from the groups responding to the disaster, including healthcare professionals [8, 10] and US governmental agencies .
A large body of risk communications literature has gone beyond the piecemeal focus on each individual disaster to educate on overarching best methods of health messaging [12, 13]. However disaster communications has been criticized because communications preparedness remains underdeveloped . An expert Delphi study published in 2012 came to the consensus that despite all the existing literature, there is still a lack of understanding about communication, identifying communication as a top three priority area for further disaster management research .
The primary author interviewed WHO Communications Officers who had responded to prior disasters using an open-ended survey. The primary author was employed by WHO and based in Switzerland at the time of survey administration and data review. This quality improvement project represents a non-sensitive survey approved by the WHO Communications Department Head, which was used for internal evaluation and improvement of existing WHO procedures, and as such was subject to the regulations of WHO, which does not have an IRB for internal projects.
A communications officer at WHO is responsible for developing and publishing communication and advocacy material for the organization, serving as a spokesperson for the organization, developing and implementing a strategic corporate communication plan, and supporting member countries to develop and implement communications. The communications officers work for WHO offices primarily leading daily communications activities (e.g., World Health Day campaign, release of new WHO guidelines, etc.), but in the case of a disaster may be deployed to support disaster communications in the affected area.
A senior WHO employee with extensive communications and disaster experience at WHO contributed an initial list of 15 potential participants. Participants were then asked to refer other participants with disaster experience using snowball sampling methodology. A total of 31 potential participants were identified and contacted via corporate email to request their participation. Twenty-eight people responded; 2 were excluded due to scheduling conflicts and 26 were formally interviewed by phone, by video conference, or in person.
In-depth interviews were conducted in English. Participants were asked a series of closed- and open-ended questions from a structured survey template about their experiences responding to disasters as communications officers on behalf of WHO (Additional file 1). Interviews lasted approximately 75-90 min. All of the interviews were digitally audio-recorded with the participants’ permission. Data were entered into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, version 14.0.6129.5000 (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA).
Analysis included: (1) descriptive statistical analysis to objectively characterize the incidence of different types of disaster experience; (2) a careful re-listening to the interview recording to fully understand participant’s perspectives; (3) coding of the responses to each open-ended question into different thematic categories based on word repetitions and key words in context ; (4) extraction of data using pawing  to determine the most frequently reported barriers and augmenters of effective disaster communication; (5) extraction of data using pawing to determine the most commonly reported themes of disaster communications that represent transferable knowledge between different disasters. Some participants gave responses that did not fit into the key word themes of any other participants; these were recorded as new themes at a frequency of one to exhaust all possible themes. Themes were ranked in importance based on their frequency of appearance in the responses, with the addition of one single-frequency recommendation theme determined to be important based on the researchers’ prior literature review of the topic and knowledge of the structure of the WHO. Results were used by the WHO Communications Department to develop new protocols for future WHO disaster response communications.
Twenty-six WHO Communication Officers from Headquarters (HQ) in Geneva, all 6 regional offices (RO), and 11 country offices (CO) participated. The majority (N = 22; 85%) had experience in multiple disasters. Participants had responded to both acute and chronic disasters, defined as whether the disaster had happened less or more than 3 months prior to deployment. Most communications officers were deployed close to the disaster epicenter: to the field, to the nearest country office, or to a combination of both. Half were deployed within 3 days to 1 month after the disaster began, but just three arrived within the first 72 h after the disaster (Table 1). The disasters where they had worked included 29 disease outbreaks of 13 different diseases in 5 regions and 16 countries, 18 natural disasters of 6 different types (e.g., tsunami, earthquake, flood, etc.) in 5 regions and 15 countries, 2 technical disasters in 2 regions and 2 countries, and 10 conflicts in 3 regions and 10 countries.
Qualitative responses from the communications officers resulted in a list of core communications priorities for WHO during a disaster response (Table 2), recommendations for hiring a competent communications officer who can be deployed for disaster response (Table 3), and recommendations for trainings a communications officer should receive prior to deployment (Table 4). In addition, the communications officers provided recommendations for methods to build communications capacity that could be undertaken prior to a disaster to improve preparedness (Table 5).
One hundred ninety-four member states turn to WHO for guidance and assistance in response to disasters that include not only disease outbreaks, but also natural disasters, man-made disasters, and conflicts . Post-disaster communication is one area of expertise for which WHO provides support to member countries. WHO also convenes international experts to reach public consensus on priority topics, and it recently convened an expert panel on the topic of communications during disease outbreaks .
WHO Headquarters is subdivided into clusters that operate relatively independently . Different clusters respond to different types of disasters and sometimes even to different aspects of the same disaster. For example, the Humanitarian Action in Crisis (HAC) cluster responds to natural disasters and conflicts, while the Global Alert and Response Network (GAR) responds to disease outbreaks. After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, HAC initially responded, but GAR joined relief efforts later that year when a cholera outbreak began. In addition, WHO consists of six regions each coordinated from a RO (Figure 1) . At the regional level there are also clusters, although their specific titles and functions vary from region to region. Finally, COs have large variations in the number and specialized scope of staff. Countries with larger WHO operations have larger offices, while some countries do not house an in-country office at all.
Location of WHO regions and headquarters.
A small number of communications officers working at different levels (country, regional, or headquarters) and in the different clusters are consistently deployed throughout this global network to respond to disasters. Usually the CO where the disaster occurred requests additional support from their RO or HQ if they do not have their own communications officer or if there is too much work for one officer. Each individual officer possesses vast experiential knowledge about disaster response and communications during disasters in particular. This study was organized by the Department of Communications (DCO) cluster, which leads communications at HQ. Its objective was to gather and utilize this experiential knowledge to formulate best practices for communication during a disaster that could be used to develop WHO policies and procedures, as well as to develop a training program to improve preparedness for deployment of WHO Communications Officers to disasters.
WHO’s main role during a disaster is to support the local government’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and to co-chair the United Nations Health Cluster along with the local MoH. In this role, WHO communications officers are responsible for sharing information about the response efforts among the different member organizations of the Health Cluster. They create and update a detailed situation report and distribute it frequently to all cluster members. The report maps which organizations are providing which health services to each affected area, where gaps still remain in services, and the joint action plan to fill those gaps. For this role, it is helpful to have the contacts at each major health cluster organization included in electronic listservs so that a communications leader can rapidly send an internal message to government partners at the Ministry of Health and to non-governmental organization partners who are participating in the response effort.
Where possible and depending on the size of an organization, additional team members can be assigned to support the communications activities of those in the field through a global network with 24-h cross-coverage from offices in other time zones. While those working in the field sleep, communications officers at a headquarters in another time zone where it is still daylight can respond to international media queries on their behalf. Current WHO practice is to hold daily teleconferences between the communications officer in the field or CO and the other communications officers supporting them from the RO and/or HQ to summarize the situation and assign the work that needs to be completed. Additional communications occur as needed throughout the day via email and/or telephone. Raw photo or video footage from the field can be emailed to the office-based staff for editing prior to further distribution.
Perhaps the most interesting and broadly applicable finding of this study is the recommendation for how to prepare disaster communications ahead of time, which included several useful and novel methods that can be adapted by any organization. Respondents noted that similar questions arose in seemingly different disasters and suggested preparing the answers to the most common problems in advance. One example is allaying the public’s fear of dead bodies spreading disease, since several experts pointed out that bodies do not pose an imminent risk when killed by a natural disaster or conflict rather than an infectious disease. Another example is a message to the international public to refrain from sending bulk donations of used goods and instead to wait for a request of which specific goods are needed and where. Additional examples include warnings about generator use to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, and messages about safe handling of waste and how to sanitize water when plumbing has been compromised. Such public health messages could be written and recorded for television, radio, and social media in multiple languages ahead of time (Table 6).
Developing a databank of basic statistics about the local population, health status, and disaster risk for areas most frequently affected by disaster was also suggested. Pairing each statistic with a brief descriptor written in human factor terminology makes it ready for immediate use in communications. As an example of human factor terminology, in an area commonly afflicted by flooding, rather than stating that the incidence of floods is 21% per lifetime, it is better to state that one of every five persons will be affected by a flood in their lifetime.
For those regions frequently affected by particular disaster types, media surveillance should be undertaken regularly as to which sources of information the local public trusts. These sources may include a particular television network, radio station, or even a community leader or religious authority. Text messaging and/or social media can also augment the number of people reached. During a disaster, these trusted sources are the outlets that should be targeted when disseminating health messages to the public to ensure that no group misses the message. Listservs of these local media and community contacts should be created and maintained in advance of any disaster for quick dissemination of press releases and public health messages.
Another recommendation to improve future coordination within WHO was to store all of the documents mentioned above including common messages, statistics, and listservs with important contacts in a central electronic repository utilizing “cloud technology” such as Sharepoint, Google Docs, or Dropbox where they can be readily accessed and updated by all of the organization’s officers working from around the globe. Other areas which were identified for improvement that are more specific to internal WHO processes included the lack of a defined on-call system for deployment and the lack of a formal briefing or debriefing process. The need to develop more formal training to expand the list of experts qualified for deployment led to a list of suggested trainings that would help prepare a communications officer for first-time deployment (Table 4).
This is a retrospective study composed of a convenience snowball sample rather than a randomized sample of all possible participants. Because people were asked very open-ended questions without prompting, the few responses that were offered by nearly 100% of respondents likely indicate a very strong relevance, but it is difficult to draw scientific conclusions about responses given by <50% of respondents since other respondents might have agreed had they been specifically questioned on the value of these ideas. This is a preliminary data-gathering project that presents interesting ideas that should be further evaluated in a more rigorous study, ideally convening disaster communications experts from a variety of organizations.
Many communications tasks can and should be undertaken prior to a disaster to improve preparedness. Some of these tasks represent common sense, while others may be more novel. Investing time and manpower now to improve an organization’s communications capacity can save time in disseminating key messages to minimize chaos and coordinate stakeholders once disaster strikes.
LMD is Chief Resident at the BCM Emergency Medicine residency program and has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow for 2014.
GBK is the founding emergency medicine residency program director at BCM and is the founding director of the Center for Globalization at BCM.
Global alert and response network.
The authors will like to acknowledge Carey S. Kyer, Gustav Asp, and William Frank Peacock. While the cost of this project was minimal, all funding was provided by WHO Department of Communications.
LMD performed the surveys and theme-generating data analysis. GBK contributed to the project methodology and design. LMD and GBK wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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It's only the second round of the 2019 Formula 1 season, but the development race is as hotly contested as the action on track.
There's already plenty of new parts to examine as we work out what directions the individual teams are exploring.
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WHAT was once an "underground" garage gym is now a worldwide phenomenon that is now exploding into the Rockhampton fitness scene.
Rockhampton's new CrossFit CQ centre will be holding an inclusive Central Queensland competition this Saturday.
The event will welcome CrossFitters from all over Central Queensland, up to Mackay, out to Emerald and Clermont and down to Hervey Bay and Bundaberg.
Athletes that attend the day will be registered at the centre.
"They will receive an athlete pack and will be given an hour to set up, and at 8am we will brief everyone on the day, the workouts and the standards of the workouts and explain the logistics and how the day will be run," owner Sean O'Neill said.
"From there, everyone will get on board and the workouts will start. There will be 3 workouts for day."
However, the day will have an added layer of meaning for the centre, with the theme of inclusiveness the major draw card for the day.
The concept of a "mash up" will see pairs of athletes being teamed up with another pair from a different gym.
"The concept behind that is to get the wider CrossFit community engaging with each other and it's a cool way to meet other people and form relationships and friendship with other CrossFitters from other towns and help people train and reach their goals," O'Neill said.
CrossFit CQ is the dream child of Rockhampton born O'Neill who left behind his career as a Brisbane East Tiger player after developing a taste for the high intensity training.
After discovering CrossFit at his gym, he decided to launch himself into a new field of fitness.
"I had an internship in Brisbane over 8 years ago and spent another two at another local CrossFit facility called CrossFit Resolve," O'Neill said.
"From there me and my business partner --- moved back and started CrossFit Gladstone in Gladstone.
"It's been running for six years now and a year ago we trained Tia-Clair Eoomeyand and her coach Shane Orr. We sold that over a year ago.
Mr O'Neill's CrossFit CQ has been in the pipeline quite a long time and has finally come to fruition.
"A lot of people are really excited about the opening along with the other businesses in the complex," he said.
"It's been a talking topic for lot of people for long time and we've all come together this week."
Foot traffic poured through the doors of the Central Queensland Newest Health, Fitness and Well Being Centre on the corner of Kent and Archer St on Monday.
"We sent a survey text to everyone who came this week for feedback," O'Neill said.
"A majority of the responses were they love the site, the premise, and said it's 'so exiting', but they finished by saying 'to be honest, it doesn't matter where you are, as long as the people and the programming and the methodology stays the same."
The methodology behind CrossFit CQ is what O'Neill is most influenced by and he said at this complex, he and the coaches are "always using functional movement and varying those" so it's relate to every individual's fitness level.
"Our methodology is about making people better across all ten component of fitness," he said.
"They range from speed, power to agility, balance, coordination, accuracy, and flexibility. All these things we take very serious and that comes out in our programming.
After becoming a personal training in Brisbane, O'Neill's eye were opened to the complexity of the CrossFit world.
"I got to learn a lot early on," he said.
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"A lot of people think the high intensity stuff is only done with really fit people, but someone of any fitness level can do it."


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I’ve been thinking through the issue of failure and the Biblical examples of it, they’re all over the place.
Moses failed by committing murder and was exiled for 40 years, but came back to Egypt and was used of God in a powerful way.
David the king failed by committing adultery with Bathsheba and conspiring to have her husband killed, but was restored and was used of God in a powerful way.
Peter the apostle failed by denying that he knew Jesus three times, but was used of God in a powerful way.
Judas failed by betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver and hung himself in despair.
Three utter failures who were restored and one failure who lost all hope and was destroyed.
These were Jesus’ words to Peter, even before he was to fail later that same night, "Simon, stay on your toes. Satan has tried his best to separate all of you from me, like chaff from wheat. Simon, I've prayed for you in particular that you not give in or give out. When you have come through the time of testing, turn to your companions and give them a fresh start."
The point seems to be that failure is the human condition, but that we can press through it, we can be restored and emerge better than we were before the failure. That has certainly been my experience through 53 years. I have failed plenty, but I trust God to make me better through the experience.
Baseball is built on failure and recovery. A hitter goes to the hall of fame if he fails 2/3 of the time. Hitting is one player vs. nine, a perfect design for failure. It takes 4 balls to walk, but only 3 strikes for an out. Just throwing strikes is terribly challenging for pitchers.
It seems that the ones who deal best with failure are the ones who don’t treat it as an enemy, but as an ally. They strongly pursue success and excellence, but know that short-term failure is inevitable and they learn from it and improve. The batter who strikes out his first three at bats can come up in his 4th and get the game winning hit. Suddenly successful in the midst of failure.
Thank you so much, Roger. I have read this, and I am going to save it and reread it on occasion. I have to remind myself that failure in baseball is inevitable. I just do not like it; and because of that, I take the losses way too personally and way harder than I accept the wins. Thanks for caring.
Sadly failure is not only a part of baseball, but life in general. I also take losses in sport personally and feel them at the heart. To do otherwise feels like betrayal to me. I feel I owe it to my teammates to care deeply and to feel the sting of loss as acutely as I feel the exhilaration of victory.
I believe that's a part of what Christ Jesus has done for us, to give us hope beyond the failure and to fuel our hearts for competing our hearts out again in the next game, the next day, the next treatment. Let's both commit ourselves to pressing through life's failures to experience Christ's gift of hope and faith.
I believe the Lord uses such communication, simple and direct, in a similar way to the way He uses epistles in the New Testament. Paul wrote to his disciples and churches he had founded very directly, whereas he was much more gentle when face to face. Let’s prayerfully consider the power of the written word as a way to communicate God’s heart for the people of sport and then we can follow up those words with face to face, compassionate and caring relationship building.


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