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Joburg Film Festival To Return In 2023
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Following a two-year hiatus, and as the global film industry recovers, the organisers of the Joburg Film Festival, in partnership with the MultiChoice Group, today announced the return of this leading film festival.
Now in its fifth year, the Joburg Film Festival was born out of the desire to create an exciting and independent platform that not only tells Africa's stories, but curates, showcases, and rewards local and international excellence in film. Set to showcase some of the finest films from countries across the globe, the Joburg Film festival will run from Thursday, 31st January 2023 to Sunday, 5th February 2023.
The Joburg Film Festival will once again firmly position Joburg as the country's cultural capital, attracting the best of the best in the industry to the city, further growing cultural tourism in not just Johannesburg but the entire country. As in previous years, the Joburg Film Festival is programmed around four key pillars. In addition to the screening over 60 films including a range of African premieres, the Joburg Film Festival includes a dynamic range of audience and industry initiatives including:
The Film Programme
The Industry Programme
Youth and Audience Development Programme
The Film Society
JBX Content Market
As part of its vision, The Joburg Film Festival prioritises the growth and development of South African and African filmmakers. To that end, a comprehensive development programme including The Youth and Audience Development Programme that focuses largely on providing young filmmakers with opportunities through training, skills transfer, and networking with industry leaders during the programme.
The Joburg Film Festival is also excited to announce a new pillar this year, with the launch of The Film Society. Additionally, a complimentary newly developed content and new-media industry market, JBX, a future-proof market that will connect up-and-coming creators and established entertainment brands with investors, distribution channels, and sponsors. JBX will take place alongside the Joburg Film Festival to build momentum. More details on all programmes will be announced at a later stage.
Joburg Film Festival Executive Director Tim Mangwedi has this to say of the 2023 edition of the Joburg Film Festival, "After two years of extremely challenging times for the film industry, the Joburg Film Festival is excited to be back with an in-person event with an expanded programme. The 2023 edition of the festival will once again attract thousands of visitors to Gauteng, with a focal point of activities at Nelson Mandela Square that will include screenings and industry events. The Joburg Film Festival and JBX Market will once again position Joburg as the film capital of South Africa, with the festival celebrating African stories and the talent of our home-grown filmmakers as we showcase their films alongside those of filmmakers from around the world."
Once again, the Joburg Film Festival is supported by the Multichoice Group. Collen Dlamini, Group Executive for Corporate Affairs relays how elated the organisation is to continue this partnership with the festival, "MultiChoice is a truly African brand and, as such, telling stories is part of who we are as an organisation. We are therefore extremely excited to bring back the Joburg Film Festival, this partnership will serve as a platform where storytellers from all over the world will come together, and give a renewed light for African storytelling".
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Paterson Police Officer Charged with Conspiracy to Plant Drugs, False Arrest
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John Harder, Former CEO of Sunwest Management, Indicted on Federal Fraud Offenses
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Rothstein Attorney Sentenced on Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Campaign Act and other Fraud Charges
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Akron Woman Sentenced to Over Two Years in Prison for Stealing $350,000 from Law Firm Where She Worked
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Former Owner of Rest Assure Home Medical Equipment Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Health Care Fraud Charges
Local Podiatrist Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Charges
Former Howard University Hospital Employee Sentenced for Selling Personal Information About Patients
Detroit-Area Doctor Charged for Role in Alleged $40 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Five Individuals Charged in Detroit for Alleged Roles in $24.7 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Leading Oncology Practice to Pay $4.1 Million to Settle False Claims Act Investigation
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Provider of Home Health Care Services Pleads Guilty to $630,000 Medicaid Fraud
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Plymouth Doctor Indicted on Charges of Illegal Drug Distribution and Medicare Fraud
Four Individuals Charged in Detroit for Alleged Roles in Medicare Fraud Scheme
Shelby Woman Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Medicaid of $6.1 Million
Seventeen Charged in Structuring Scheme Involving Nearly $9 Million in Cash Withdrawn from Pharmaceutical Company's Bank Account
Louisiana Resident Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme
Radiology Technician Sentenced to 30 Years for Product Tampering
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Hillsborough County Real Estate Director Indicted for Mortgage Fraud
Owner of a Pasadena Mortgage Company Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison in $30 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Promoters and Real Estate Professionals Indicted in Waxhaw Mortgage Fraud Cell
Former Needham Real Estate Attorney Convicted of Mortgage Fraud
Nine Indicted for Sacramento-Area Builder Bailout Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Folsom Developer Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Investors of $6.9 Million
Chico Mortgage Broker Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud
Principals of Mortgage Brokerage Arrested in Equity-Skimming and Foreclosure Avoidance Scheme Targeting Distressed Homeowners
Former Raleigh Real Estate Entrepreneur James T. Webb Arrested on 50-Count Indictment
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Real Estate Developer Admits to Submitting False Information to Credit Union to Obtain $4 Million in Construction Loan Funds
Eight Charged in $30 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Title Company Owner Pleads Guilty in $1.5 Million Fraud Scheme
Dallas County Man Convicted in Multi-Million-Dollar Mortgage Fraud Scheme Involving Upscale Townhomes in Dallas
Newark Man Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for $40.8 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
President of Property Management Company Sentenced to 10-Year Prison Term for Defrauding Clients, Mortgage Lenders, and Government
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Huntington Woman Sentenced in Connection with Illegal Food Stamp Fraud Scheme
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Bangladesh's Unique War On The Islamic State – Analysis
April 20, 2017 Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray 0 Comments
By Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray and Mantraya
Bangladesh has launched a unique war on home grown militants with clear ideological linkages with the Islamic State, even while dismissing speculations regarding the IS presence in the country. Raids on militant dens, killings and arrests of militants have followed bigger and smaller terror attacks on Bangladeshi soil. Much of these terror neutralisation strategy, however, has remained mired in controversy and laced with allegations that the Awami League government could be attempting to protect its own interests while killing terrorists. This strategy of eliminating terrorism by eliminating terrorists may not be entirely effective, as Dhaka'spast endeavours demonstrate.
On 28 February 2017, 25-year old Amijul Islam was picked up by the Bangladesh police from Rajshahi district. A follow up official statement proclaimed Amijul to be the military chief (northern region) of the neo-Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a militant group Dhaka describes as responsible for a number of terror attacks in the country in the past couple of years. Amijul's family members, however, said that the young man was a petty electrician who struggled to make a living by doing odd jobs. In the wee hours of 1 March, Amijul was killed in Bogra district. Police explained that Amijul who had been taken to the district to recover weapons and arrest his accomplices was shot by extremists who attacked the police van.
Similarly, 30-year old Khaled Hasan alias Badar Mama, the previous chief of neo-JMB's north Bengal division too was killed in a mysterious pre-dawn shootout in Sherpur district on 29 August 2016.Badar Mama was allegedly involved in an attack on a temple and a bid to kill an Italian priest in 2015. In another incident, Hanif Mridha, arrested after the 17 March 2017 suicide attack on the barracks of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB),the country's elite anti-crime and counter-terrorism force, died in custody the next day. While RAB claimed that Hanif, a neo-JMB cadre, was picked up while hiding in a bush, Mridha's family members, however, claimed that he had been picked up by the police personnel on 27 February, three weeks before his death along with another friend Md Sohel Hossain Mantu. They also claimed that RAB personnel forced them to pay Tk 670,000 (US$ 8300) promising Hanif's release. Hanif had a thriving transport business before his arrest. Sohel Hossain Mantu remains untraceable.
Kinetic operations plus
As Dhaka continues its counter-terrorism efforts against Islamist radicalism, especially after the 1 July 2016 terror attack on the popular Holey Artisan restaurant in Dhaka' upmarket Gulshan area that killed 22 people, stories of such raids, encounters, and arrests appear on the front pages of newspapers, narrating the country's progress in dealing with terror with an iron fist. Successive kinetic counter-terror operations- 'Hit back', 'Maximus', 'Twilight', 'Storm 26′-have all been declared successes and have apparently ended up diminishing the strength of the Islamists. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, since the Holey Artisan restaurant attack, 78 Islamist terrorists have been killed and another 907 arrested across Bangladesh.
Arrested militants dying during incidents of crossfire or failed escape attempts, an euphemism for staged encounters, has at least a decade-long history in Bangladesh. The country broke the back of the ragtag left-wing extremism by relying on a similar tactic killing hundreds of so called extremists. Since 2005, the same tactic has been employed to subdue a new crop of militants. And Bangladesh earnestly believes that it can eliminate terrorism by eliminating terrorists. On September 3, 2016, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan had said: "If you do not give yourself up to the law enforcement agencies, you will face what your accomplices have experienced in the immediate past operations."
Killings of Amijul, Badar Mama, Hanif Mridha and others, thus, need to be seen in the wider context of the impunity that anti-terror forces such as the RAB, the police and the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) may have been provided with, to clean up Bangladesh. It is possible that majority of those eliminated were indeed terrorists. Even then, were they neutralised under a regime that promotes excesses and extra judicial killings and what would be the long and medium-term impact of such a strategy remain moot questions. That the 'national' desire to have a stable and trouble free Bangladesh may have eclipsed the principles of law was brought out by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in its 28 March 2017 report which criticised the country for high rates of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, muzzling of dissent and free speech. In addition, Bangladesh based human rights organisations like Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) and Odhikar have documented the unceasing extrajudicial killings despite a 2008 promise by the Awami League in its election manifesto. According to the ASK, between 2010 and 14 March 2017, 793 such killings have taken place. The ASK says that killings have particularly increased since the formation of the RAB in 2004. "The incidence of 'crossfires' and 'gunfights' has increased in the name of 'anti-militant drives', it notes in a number of its documents. In 2017 (between 1 January and 14 March), at least 51 people were killed in gunfights or crossfires. Of them, 38 people were killed by police, six by RAB, five by Detective Branch (DB) police, one by joint forces and one by the army, according to an ASK report.
On 4 April 2017, Sveriges Radio, Sweden's national publicly-funded broadcaster, aired parts of a conversation with a high-ranking RAB official. The official, who himself has been involved in a number of extra judicial killings, confirmed that not all killing of militants are clean. "If you find him – shoot and kill him, wherever he is. And then plant a weapon beside him. This is often the order." The official also said that such weapons are bought out of the money RAB collects from the criminals as bribes. He went on to explain the raison de etre: victims of extrajudicial killings are usually "people who they suspect of serious crimes, but who they consider too difficult to convict in a trial, or impossible to rehabilitate". The RAB dismissed the report as "vague" and "unclear" and affirmed that it operates "in line with law".
A Unique Effort
Notwithstanding the contradictory claims of the human rights groups and the security force establishment, massive operations against the Islamists in Bangladesh remains part of its unique counter terrorism policy. Firstly, as it continues to witness large as well as small terror attacks since past few years, the Awami League government continues to reject the claims and assumptions that the Islamic State could have been responsible for a majority of these attacks. Rejecting the claims made by the IS and evidences of inspirational linkages between the IS and the home grown radicals, Dhaka insists that the home grown neo-JMB is responsible for these terror attacks. Peculiarly, however, official estimates concede that the neo-JMB which surfaced in 2014, "is far more radicalized and fearsome" and is "influenced by the IS ideology". Secondly, the country's leadership genuinely believes that reliance on a kinetic approach alone is sufficient to deal with such brand of terrorism. The official approach is best summed up in the 8 October 2016 statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who said, "Our government has always taken stern action against terrorism and militancy and would continue to curb the twin demons with an iron hand".
IS and Home-grown terror: Evidence of Linkages
Notwithstanding its denial, several pointers prove the ideological, logistical as well as inspirational linkages between the IS and the Islamist radicals within Bangladesh.
Firstly, with regard to an end state, there is little that separates the JMB and the IS-inspired terrorists. Through the pamphlets left at the sites of the explosions in 2005, the JMB proclaimed itself to be the "soldiers of Allah" who have "taken up arms for the implementation of Allah's law the way Prophet, Sahabis and heroic Mujahideen have done for centuries". The Islamic State's proposed caliphate works towards a similar objective, rejecting modernism and embracing anti-secular jihad against the apostates.
Secondly, Bangladeshi nationals have periodically featured in IS-sponsored videos calling for taking forward the group's agenda of making Bangladesh a part of the proposed Islamic caliphate. Attacks have typically followed major IS announcements. The 17 March 2017 attack on the RAB barracks in Dhaka took place two days after the IS' call for suicide attacks within Bangladesh.
Thirdly, amid IS claims owning responsibilities for a bulk of the attacks, investigations have established that funds, at least on one occasion, was donated to the neo-JMB terrorists by a doctor who fled to Syria. Rokonuddin Khondoker, a paediatrician of Dhaka Shishu Hospital who fled to Syria with his family in 2016 had asked several of his relatives and others who owed him around Taka 8 million (US$ 100,000) to give the money to the radical group instead of paying him back.Only a part of this money, however, reached the outfit. In addition, there have been instances when funds were moved from middle eastern countries into Bangladesh for carrying out terror attacks.
Fourthly, the pattern of attacks, since the attack on the Holey Artisan Cafe, too point at the consolidation of the IS in Bangladesh. Most recent attacks by the neo-JMB have targeted the security forces. This is a common occurring in countries where local outfits have graduated to become IS sympathisers. In Indonesia and Philippines, for instance,the recent IS-inspired attacks have mostly targeted the state structure.
Fifthly, the fact that suicide terrorism, arguably representing the highest state of radicalisation among the recruited, has been regularly employed in Bangladesh further point at a stark likelihood of IS influence over the trend of Islamist radicalism. In a country of moderate Islam, where culture is assigned prominence over religion, the terror formations have been able to recruit a sizeable number of people who are prepared to kill themselves in the name of religion. The neo-JMB carried out its first ever suicide attack on 26 December 2015 on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Rajshahi's Baghmara. Since then a number of such attacks using suicide bombers have been carried out.
Contestations over Name
Even though similar attempts in the past to kill terrorists have not entirely succeeded in eliminating terrorism (the neo-JMB bounced back within few years of the marginalisation of its predecessor), Dhaka's action reflects its concern regarding the rise of radicalism in the country. In this regard, the denial appears strange, although not completely out of place.
Firstly, Dhaka's posture is a legacy of the past. There is an official history to this tactic of denying what is obvious. Even while the JMB carried out over 450 serial explosions in 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts in August 2005, then Home Minister of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) flatly refused to acknowledge the existence of the outfit. BNP's senior policy makers described the bombings as the result of a "conspiracy". Then Industries minister Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), BNP's coalition partner, blamed India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the Israeli Mossad for playing "an important role" in the attacks. It took eight days for the BNP government to admit that the JMB was behind the attack.
Secondly, Dhaka fears that admitting the intrusion of the IS into may affect the investment environment, especially in the country's thriving garment industry, whichhas withstood world economic meltdowns and competitions from rival countries. Garment industry in Bangladesh is worth US$26 billion, represents 80 percent of Bangladesh's exports, and employs four million people.Demonstrating that the terror is perpetrated by local actors who can be curbed effectively by state, the government hopes to prevent steps of the foreign brands who pulled out their staff following the 1 July Holey Artisan restaurant attack.
And thirdly, Dhaka also feels that admitting the IS presence may weaken its ongoing action against the Pakistan collaborators in the 1971 war of liberation. For a good measure the neo-JMB is linked to outfits like the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chattra Shibir many of whose leaders have either already been hanged or are currently facing judicial action. There is some level of pressure from the Americans and the British on Dhaka to go slow on this processes which have been described as hasty and not entirely legal.
There is no denying that Islamist militancy poses a grave danger to Bangladesh's security antid stability. However, the ability of kinetic operations alone to deal with the threat which has deep roots in the country's polarised politics and unhindered mobilisation of radical Islam is limited. Since such efforts in the past against the JMB have only been temporarily successful, there are ample reasons to believe that present efforts, no more than replicas of the past, will only produce limited results. Moreover, with a licence to kill and arrest people, many of whom would probably be innocents, without legal oversight, such operations may actually contribute to the recruitment and mobilisation capacities of the Islamists.
Ahmed Zayeef, "Died in RAB custody, Hanif picked up 20 days ago: Family", Prothom Alo, 20March 2017, http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/142775/Died-in-RAB-custody-Hanif-picked-up-20-days-ago
"Bangladesh police kills JMB commander behind temple attack", The Hindu, 29 August 2016, http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Bangladesh-police-kills-JMB-commander-behind-temple-attack/article14596390.ece
Ben Chapman, "Bangladesh clothing industry hit by terror attack fears as fashion brands pull staff out", Independent, 5 July 2016, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bangladesh-terror-attack-travel-warning-fashion-clothing-companies-marks-and-spencer-uniqlo-h-and-m-a7121066.html
Bibhu Prasad Routray, "The JMB survives", Outlook, 8 February 2007, http://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-jmb-survives/233825
Haroon Habib, "Warning blasts", Frontline, vol. 22, no. 19, 10-23 September 2005, http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2219/stories/20050923001106200.htm
Kamrul Hasan and Tarek Mahmud, "Suicide bomber attacks RAB barracks", Dhaka Tribune, 17 March 2017, http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/03/17/one-killed-blast-near-rab-camp-ashkona/
Mahadi al Hasnat, "Extrajudicial killings: 51 die in three months", Dhaka Tribune, 19 March 2017, http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/03/19/extrajudicial-killings-51-die-three-months/
"Terror Financing: Rokon gave Neo JMB Tk 80 lakh", Daily Star, 19 October 2016, http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/terror-financing-rokon-gave-neo-jmb-tk-80-lakh-1300675
"Swedish radio report on extrajudicial killings vague: RAB", BD News, 5 April 2017, http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2017/04/05/swedish-radio-report-on-extrajudicial-killings-vague-rab
"Terror financing in Bangladesh: Dhaka doctor gave Neo JMB $100,000″, Asia News network, 19 October 2016, http://asianews.network/content/terror-financing-bangladesh-dhaka-doctor-gave-neo-jmb-100000-30783
"UN criticizes Bangladesh over dismal human rights record", UCA News, 4 April 2017, http://www.ucanews.com/news/un-criticizes-bangladesh-over-dismal-human-rights-record/78845
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Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray
Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray served as a Deputy Director in the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Director of the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM)'s Database & Documentation Centre, Guwahati, Assam. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the South Asia programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore between 2010 and 2012. Routray specialises in decision-making, governance, counter-terrorism, force modernisation, intelligence reforms, foreign policy and dissent articulation issues in South and South East Asia. His writings, based on his projects and extensive field based research in Indian conflict theatres of the Northeastern states and the left-wing extremism affected areas, have appeared in a wide range of academic as well policy journals, websites and magazines.


You may never see a particular set of patients in your office – the ones who are either afraid of neck adjustments or have had a bad experience. A vast majority of those who had a bad experience did not have a life-threatening vascular event.
They just got hurt; maybe it was mild or maybe it was significant. Either way, they don't want an HVLA adjustment of their neck.
What about your elderly patients with osteoporosis and arthritis? Many of my older patients tell me they used to love cervical adjusting, but as they aged, it stopped working for them. Do you see patients immediately after neck trauma, such as a motor vehicle accident? Do you have something other than HVLA adjustments to offer them?
I am not talking about massage, other soft-tissue methods, ultrasound or laser. I am talking about normalizing joint function, correcting their subluxations, adjusting them. You need to have other tools besides HVLA. Adjusting instruments all fit the bill here, but my personal favorites are manual techniques – mobilization and muscle energy adjusting. My hands can feel what is changing, moment by moment. When I use my hands, I get immediate feedback from the tissues.
I acknowledge there is little evidence that mobilization is better or worse than standard HVLA manipulation. That said, the best doctor has multiple tools and is flexible enough to find the ideal tool for the patient in front of them at that given moment.
The occipito-atlanto (O-A) junction is one of the more challenging areas to assess, and fixations here are easy to miss. Think of patients with cervicogenic headache, vertigo or neck pain. To assess this area, you have to contact the skull and move it on the neck. I suspect most of us have some kind of distraction maneuver we do here. The occiput can get jammed onto the top of the neck. But let's get more specific about the biomechanics.
Here is the muscle energy approach to the occiput: The basic assessment is to take hold of the skull and move it to test its motion on C1. The patient is supine; the doctor sits behind them. Hold the base of their skull in your hands. They should feel well-supported so they can "let go."
First, test the occiput's motion into flexion and extension on the atlas. I prefer to think of the motions as posterior glide (flexion) and anterior glide (extension). This gives me a better image of the convex or concave quality of the motion. Provide slight compression and gently push into these curved glides along the facets. As you might expect, the more common sagittal plane fixation is a lack of posterior glide, which correlates with a forward head position.
Once you have established a relative lack of motion into either posterior glide or anterior glide, hold that positioning at the soft barrier and add side-bending. Don't jam the head all the way to the hard end of the flexion / extension barrier; if you do, you will lose the ability to assess any further motions. Typically, one of the side-bending motions will be much more stuck than the other.
Where is the tender spot? I have always taught that finding tenderness, provoking the pain, is important. That belief has been reinforced by a recent review paper by Triano, et al.1 Their conclusion: The most evidence-based way to determine where to adjust is to find something that provokes pain – ideally the patient's actual pain. You will be more accurate if you include assessment of tenderness.
The tender spot for O-A restriction is going to be somewhere along the base of the skull. The confounding factor here is that it could be on either side. If the O-A resists posterior glide and left side bending, the tender spot could be on the left occiput (the side where the fascia is being stretched) or the right occiput (the side where the joint is jammed).
Muscle energy consists of using the principles of contract-relax applied to the joints. Here is the concept for this adjustment. The patient cannot easily move their head toward one "corner." In the contract phase, they move their eyes toward the opposite corner. In the relax phase, you glide them toward the corner they could not go toward with ease.
In our example, the occiput resists posterior glide and left side-bending. How do we correct this? This particular technique uses eye motion as the way to activate the muscles.
Think about it this way: The patient cannot nod their head forward and cannot side bend to the left. They cannot move toward the left anterior corner. The patient is supine, and you are cradling their occiput and skull with a broad contact with both of your hands. Take your contact, move the occiput first into the posterior glide (flexion) barrier, and then add the left side-bending motion to the barrier.
Once you have reached the combined soft barrier, hold the head at that barrier, and ask the patient to look up and to the right. The eye motion requires more muscle activity than just the eye muscles; you will feel the patient gently pushing against your hands. They should hold their eye motion / contraction for 3-5 seconds; then ask them to look down and left. As they look down and left, follow this motion, moving the occiput farther through the barrier.
Their muscle actions help you unlock the joint with minimal trauma, no sudden motions and minimal risk. Yes, they still may be sore later in the day or the next day, as they will need to re-adapt to a new position and new receptor tone.
I want to make a case for the way adjusting enhances rehab. From a rehab perspective, the patient's head is stuck forward, so you have to change their daily activities, their pattern of motion, their tendency to lead with the chin. I agree completely. But I would add that if their occiput is stuck and can't glide posteriorly, they will have trouble changing their motion patterns.
It's a bit of a chicken-or-egg question. It really does not matter which came first – you need to address both the joint fixation and the movement pattern. Manipulation, soft tissue and rehab all play a role in changing the old pattern.
What are the fascial or soft-tissue restrictions you want to assess and release? The obvious is to release the sub-occipital area. The less obvious: work your way up the skull, onto the occiput itself, and see if that fascia is particularly tender and dense. You also want to check the whole of the neck, including the anterior cervical fascia.
1. Upper Cervical Side-Bending. This is an exercise I developed for one of my patients who kept experiencing upper-cervical jamming and headaches. This is useful for a patient who lacks side-bending at the occiput or has a recurrent atlas fixation. Look at the patient. Is their head "on straight"? If not, here is a way to teach them to straighten it out.
This exercise is a bit tricky and requires decent motor control, so you will need to teach the patient how to do it a few times. We are not trying to get them to stretch or side bend their whole neck. We don't want the motion to occur in the middle or lower cervical spine. We are trying to induce side-bending motion into the upper cervical spine. The visualization is to see their face spinning or rotating around their nose. Think of a clock face with the nose in the middle.
Step one is to straighten the head in the sagittal plane by activating the deep neck flexors. You probably already know this as a stand-alone exercise. This begins to correct the chin poke and lack of posterior glide. Next, the patient should hold this chin tuck position and put their hands on their head and face. One hand is on the temporal region; the other on the opposite side, over the jaw. They are going to resist gently and move their head against the resistance of their hands. Ask the patient to move about 1-2 inches. This is not an isometric exercise; it is about inducing motion.
The usual error is to just push against the top hand, which puts the fulcrum lower in the neck. The patient needs to equally push against the opposite hand, the one on the jaw. Some patients need to start to push with the jaw first to get the right motion started. Caution may be needed if they have a TMJ issue. As always, remind them to gently resist; this is motor control, not a strength contest.
Start by instructing the patient to use their opposite hand to grasp the bulk of the SCM muscle. Aim at the tightest part of the SCM; it could be up high or down near the clavicle. Grasp it between the thumb and fingers. If this proves too challenging, you can have the patient place their opposite hand on the top of the medial clavicle and pull downward, stabilizing the origin of the muscle.
Patient tucks the chin, lifts the sternum and elevates the crown toward the ceiling. This is the basic motion that activates the deep neck flexors and puts the head in the proper start position.
Patient rotates the head about 20 degrees toward the side you want to stretch. This is counterintuitive; the SCM has an obliquely upward path, which lengthens the muscle.
Here are the common errors: They lose the chin tuck. They tend to want to rotate to the same side as they are side-bending, instead of rotating to the opposite side. Some patients have a hard time grasping the muscle; the glide way may work better for them.
Note: Another exercise option for any neck problem would be to focus on thoracic mobility. Think of the thoracic sphinx, foam roller and/or Bruegger's positioning.
In an ideal world, if you adjust the occiput (or whatever joints are stuck) and teach the patient the new patterns of motion, the fixation will not need adjusting over and over. When I have to do the same adjustment repeatedly, I have a set of further queries.
For starters (thanks again, Dr. McGill), what is the patient doing over and over to mess themselves up? One of my neck patients is a 55-year-old practitioner who stares at a computer screen to read and edit his chart notes. His glasses are set for reading between 12-18 inches, and his computer screen is about 27 inches away. So, he ends up pushing his chin and head forward to get closer to the screen, jamming his sub-occipital area.
Other confounding factors: 1) The patient either is not doing their exercises or is doing them wrong. 2) The place I keep finding fixated is secondary; a response to some other sequence of problems. Look further. I might look at the fascia of the skull and neck; I might look for a stiff thoracic kyphosis that keeps the whole upper body stuck in flexion.
Start checking occipital motion as part of your routine screens of the cervical spine. Your patients will appreciate it, as you are addressing a frequently missed and clinically significant problem.
Triano JJ, Budgell B, Bagnulo A, et al. Review of methods used by chiropractors to determine the site for applying manipulation. Chiro & Manual Ther, 2013;21:36.
A video by Dr. Heller demonstrating the muscle energy technique is available on his YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/marchellerdc/videos.
Patient handouts for the SCM and upper-cervical side-bend exercises are available at http://sosas.us/patient-resources/exercises.


Our most famous schools have been around for centuries, some are fictional like Hogwarts others exist in collective folklore like Rugby with William Webb Ellis and Tom Brown. Whether you like them or not the famous independent schools and not so famous ones have a culture that is recognisable throughout the world.
Our research shows that your chances of reaching the top in so many areas of British life are very much greater if you went to an independent school… The key to improving social mobility at the top is to open up independent schools to all pupils based on merit not money … as well as support for highly able students in state schools.
For Theresa May looking at setting up more grammar schools this might offer an interesting quandary, if we are to take her at her word that she wants the UK to be "the great meritocracy of the world," does she intend to ignore the great bastions of paid for privilege that the Independent sector undoubtedly is? Over the past 25 years fees in this sector have increased by 553% meaning that those who once felt able to pay for this type of education have effectively been priced out. Therefore those who attend these schools are more likely to be ultra privileged than those in the past and an increasing number are from abroad, including the sons and daughters of Chinese and Russian oligarchs. Is this tolerable in May's great meritocracy of the world?
At the 1953 Labour Conference Hugh Gaitskell pointed out that having 4 to 5% of Independent School places free would bring scant rewards, instead he proposed 50% of the places should be free; maybe this is something Theresa could consider, in fact she could go one step further and instead of imposing grammar schools onto the public sector, she could in one fell swoop prove that she means it when she states that the UK should be the world's great meritocracy by turning our private Independent schools into her beloved state grammar schools.
I want Britain to be a place where advantage is based on merit not privilege; where it is your talent and hard work that matter not where you were born, who your parents are or what your accent sounds like.
I want to encourage some of our biggest independent schools to bring their knowledge, expertise and resources to bear to help improve the quality and capacity of schools for those who cannot afford to pay.
This is entirely in keeping with the ethos that lies at the heart of many of these institutions. Most of the major public schools started out as the route by which poor boys could reach the professions. The nature of their intake may have changed today – indeed these schools have become more and more divorced from normal life.
These are great schools with a lot to offer and I certainly don't believe you solve the divide between the rich and the rest by abolishing or demolishing them. You do it by extending their reach and asking them to do more as a condition of their privileged position to help all children.
If working class children find themselves, on merit, being educated in our 'top' schools instead of the wealthy then that would be a sign that Theresa May was being serious. If 'extending the reach' of the Independent sector meant that they stop just educating people of wealth with a small number of bursaries and assisted places for poorer children, she could go the full Gaitskell and ask that they educate the children of 'ordinary working parents' by merit through opening up 50% of their places or she could go the whole hog and do a double Gaitskell and in one fell swoop abolish fee paying in the independent sector and bring them fully into the state sector as Independent Grammar Schools with the full rights for self governance that academies currently have.
This would mean that Theresa can have her cake and eat it, it would show that she is serious about creating a meritocracy in which: "advantage is based on merit not privilege," whilst at the same time disarming many of those who are arguing against her green paper. How many on the left would need to pause to contemplate the ramifications of such a policy before they argued against her abolishing private education?
Now, I don't pretend that there are no problems with this scenario, for a start many involved in the independent sector might object but if the Government promised to pay the same for each child that these schools currently receive it might go some way to alleviate these concerns, though I have no idea how much it would impact on the Government's coffers. There is talk that some private schools would welcome the possibility of becoming a state grammar school but there would be an ideological problem if all schools had to operate under the auspices of the State. Other objections might be along the lines of those that currently bedevil this debate, how would the children be selected, is there such a thing as a 'tutor-proof test', should we have a segregated education system at all? None of my proposals here address these very real concerns and objections, though neither would keeping things as they are.
Over the past 25 years fees in this sector have increased by 553% meaning that those who once felt able to pay for this type of education have effectively been priced out.
What does it say about the state sector, that people have become so much more desperate to escape from it?
What does it say about the charitable sector, that supply has so little increased to meet demand?
This is definitely an idea worth investigating. I've always thought that the grammar/comprehensive debate in the UK context needs to include independent schools. As you say, if Theresa May was serious about social mobility she would look at this issue in more detail.
Martin, independent schools have never been about education, but about maintaning privilege for those with wealth and power. Doing what you suggest would rob them of their rationale and purpose.The Tories, of all people, would never do it. You don't really buy May's line on social mobility do you? Even if she means it, social mobility is about individual improvement. We should be seeking to reduce inequality so the majority have access to the kinds of things currently only accessible to the few.
However, how do you think we should reduce inequality?
Personally, I can find it easier to believe that May cares about social mobility than the Left does. As you said yourself, it is about individual achievement, not equality.
I'm not convinced that a private (public?) education is necessarily about the excellence of the education as opposed to the friends you make – the social circles you move in.
Though many of those in the 'higher' echelons mix in those social circles regardless of school etc.


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Q: Argument 'expression' cannot be converted to type 'DBNull' I have an app by vb for taking a list of doneators in Dvg and have about 17 forum and local mssql db and using if not is dbnull expression and by pressing the button some calculation happened and the answer appears in labels on the fourm..  But A strange problem happened when I run this app by the visual studio 2017 it run perfectly  and there is no error..  But when converting it to exe file and setup it the following error appear when pressing this button " Argument 'expression' cannot be converted to type 'DBNull'
" although it's not appear when run it with visual studio..  What could the problem be..?
here is the code but i don't think the problem in it because it works fine in visual studio
its long code so i will put a part of it and the rest is repeated for 12 months and 10 yearsthis is pic of the error
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            ' total kfalat
            If TextBox1.Text = "1" Then

                Form5.total.Text = Form1.Table1DataGridView.Rows.Count - 1

                Dim HoN As Integer = 0
                ' total done
                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form2.TableDataGridView.Rows
                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) Then

                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(1).Value) Then
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                                If strNgheo = "1" Then
                                    HoN = HoN + 1
                                End If
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
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                'undone
                Form5.notdone.Text = Val(Form5.total.Text) - Val(Form5.done.Text)

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                Dim HoN11 As Integer = 0

                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form2.TableDataGridView.Rows
                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) Then

                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(1).Value) Then
                                Dim strNgheo As String = gvRow.Cells(1).Value
                                If strNgheo = "لم يرد" Then
                                    HoN11 = HoN11 + 1
                                End If
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
                Form5.Label69.Text = HoN11.ToString

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                Dim HoN12 As Integer = 0

                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form2.TableDataGridView.Rows
                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) Then

                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(1).Value) Then
                                Dim strNgheo As String = gvRow.Cells(1).Value
                                If strNgheo = "مؤجل" Then
                                    HoN12 = HoN12 + 1
                                End If
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
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                Dim HoN13 As Integer = 0

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                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) Then

                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(1).Value) Then
                                Dim strNgheo As String = gvRow.Cells(1).Value
                                If strNgheo = "سيحضر " Then
                                    HoN13 = HoN13 + 1
                                End If
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
                Form5.Label65.Text = HoN13.ToString

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                Dim money As Integer = 0
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                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form1.Table1DataGridView.Rows
                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(8).Value) Then

                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(8).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(8).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(15).Value) Then
                                'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                                ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                                If gvRow.Cells(15).Value > 0 Then

                                    HoN10 = HoN10 + 1
                                    ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                                    '    End
                                    money = money + Val(gvRow.Cells(15).Value)

                                End If
                            End If
                        End If
                    End If
                Next
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                Form5.Label58.Text = money.ToString

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                Dim HoN1 As Integer = 0

                Dim familiesmoney1 As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN2 As Integer = 0

                Dim sicksmoney1 As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN3 As Integer = 0

                Dim studentsmoney1 As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN4 As Integer = 0
                ' alkafalat almotwagda belf3l
                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form1.Table1DataGridView.Rows

                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(19).Value) Then
                        'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                        ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                        If gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True Then

                            HoN1 = HoN1 + 1
                            ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                            '    End
                            orphensmoney1 = orphensmoney1 + Val(gvRow.Cells(23).Value)

                        End If
                    End If
                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(20).Value) Then
                        'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                        ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                        If gvRow.Cells(20).Value = True Then

                            HoN2 = HoN2 + 1
                            ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                            '    End
                            familiesmoney1 = familiesmoney1 + Val(gvRow.Cells(24).Value)

                        End If
                    End If

                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(21).Value) Then
                        'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                        ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                        If gvRow.Cells(21).Value = True Then

                            HoN3 = HoN3 + 1
                            ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                            '    End
                            sicksmoney1 = sicksmoney1 + Val(gvRow.Cells(25).Value)

                        End If
                    End If

                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(22).Value) Then
                        'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                        ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                        If gvRow.Cells(22).Value = True Then

                            HoN4 = HoN4 + 1
                            ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                            '    End
                            studentsmoney1 = studentsmoney1 + Val(gvRow.Cells(26).Value)

                        End If
                    End If

                Next
                Form5.Label11.Text = HoN1.ToString
                Form5.Label10.Text = orphensmoney1.ToString
                Form5.Label14.Text = HoN2.ToString
                Form5.Label13.Text = familiesmoney1.ToString
                Form5.Label17.Text = HoN3.ToString
                Form5.Label16.Text = sicksmoney1.ToString
                Form5.Label20.Text = HoN4.ToString
                Form5.Label19.Text = studentsmoney1.ToString

                Form5.Label8.Text = (Val(HoN1) + Val(HoN2) + Val(HoN3) + Val(HoN4)).ToString
                Form5.Label9.Text = (Val(orphensmoney1) + Val(familiesmoney1) + Val(sicksmoney1) + Val(studentsmoney1)).ToString

                Dim HoN5 As Integer = 0
                Dim ORPHENS As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN6 As Integer = 0
                Dim families As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN7 As Integer = 0
                Dim sicks As Integer = 0
                Dim HoN8 As Integer = 0
                Dim students As Integer = 0

                ' almo7asal fe kol band

                For Each gvRow As DataGridViewRow In Form2.TableDataGridView.Rows

                    If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) Then
                        If Val(Me.TextBox2.Text) <= Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) AndAlso Val(gvRow.Cells(13).Value) <= Val(Me.TextBox3.Text) Then

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(14).Value) Then
                                'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                                ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                                If gvRow.Cells(14).Value > 0 Then

                                    HoN5 = HoN5 + 1
                                    ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                                    '    End
                                    ORPHENS = ORPHENS + Val(gvRow.Cells(14).Value)

                                End If
                            End If

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(16).Value) Then
                                'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                                ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                                If gvRow.Cells(16).Value > 0 Then

                                    HoN6 = HoN6 + 1
                                    ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                                    '    End
                                    families = families + Val(gvRow.Cells(16).Value)

                                End If
                            End If

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(18).Value) Then
                                'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                                ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                                If gvRow.Cells(18).Value > 0 Then

                                    HoN7 = HoN7 + 1
                                    ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                                    '    End
                                    sicks = sicks + Val(gvRow.Cells(18).Value)

                                End If
                            End If

                            If Not IsDBNull(gvRow.Cells(20).Value) Then
                                'Dim strNgheo As Integer = gvRow.Cells(19).Value
                                ' If strNgheo = (gvRow.Cells(19).Value = True) Then
                                If gvRow.Cells(20).Value > 0 Then

                                    HoN8 = HoN8 + 1
                                    ' ElseIf gvRow.Cells(19).Value = False Then
                                    '    End
                                    students = students + Val(gvRow.Cells(20).Value)

                                End If
                            End If
                        End If

                    End If
                Next

                Form5.Label32.Text = HoN5.ToString
                Form5.Label31.Text = ORPHENS.ToString

                Form5.Label29.Text = HoN6.ToString
                Form5.Label28.Text = families.ToString

                Form5.Label26.Text = HoN7.ToString
                Form5.Label25.Text = sicks.ToString

                Form5.Label23.Text = HoN8.ToString
                Form5.Label22.Text = students.ToString

                Form5.Label35.Text = Val(HoN8.ToString) + Val(HoN7.ToString) + Val(HoN6.ToString) + Val(HoN5.ToString)
                Form5.Label34.Text = Val(ORPHENS.ToString) + Val(families.ToString) + Val(sicks.ToString) + Val(students.ToString)

                Form5.Label53.Text = Val(Form5.Label8.Text) - Val(Form5.Label35.Text)
                Form5.Label52.Text = Val(Form5.Label9.Text) - Val(Form5.Label34.Text)

                Form5.Label50.Text = Val(Form5.Label11.Text) - Val(Form5.Label32.Text)
                Form5.Label49.Text = Val(Form5.Label10.Text) - Val(Form5.Label31.Text)

                Form5.Label47.Text = Val(Form5.Label14.Text) - Val(Form5.Label29.Text)
                Form5.Label46.Text = Val(Form5.Label13.Text) - Val(Form5.Label28.Text)

                Form5.Label44.Text = Val(Form5.Label17.Text) - Val(Form5.Label26.Text)
                Form5.Label43.Text = Val(Form5.Label16.Text) - Val(Form5.Label25.Text)

                Form5.Label41.Text = Val(Form5.Label20.Text) - Val(Form5.Label23.Text)
                Form5.Label40.Text = Val(Form5.Label19.Text) - Val(Form5.Label22.Text)

            End If

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David Price To Prove He Will Be World Champ After 20 Fights
PRICE TO PROVE HE'LL BE WORLD CHAMP AFTER 20 FIGHTS
DAVID PRICE is out to show why he predicted he'll be world heavyweight champion after20 fights.
The Olympic bronze medallist bids for his 10th straight professional win in his hometown at Liverpool Olympia on Wednesday night (27/4) when he faces good American Raphael Butler (35-9)
Price, 27, caused a storm recently, claiming that he'll be fighting for a global crown after 20 fights.
He added: "You can be fast-tracked quicker than in previous eras and Butler shows I want to step up a gear.
"I think I can go all the way and I want to fight for a world title by the time I have had 20 fights. That is a realistic target.
"Solis only had 17 fights when he fought Vitali Klitschko, Chisora was going to fight Wladimir Klitschko with just 14 fights and David Haye became WBA champion after 24 fights.
"When the Klitschkos and Haye retire it is going to open up the heavyweight scene. Although there might be the quality of the Klitschkos there is going to be a lot more competition."
Price's first American test is the chief support to the double title rematch between British featherweight champion John Simpson (22-7) and Liverpool's Commonwealth king Stephen Smith (11-0).
The rest of the undercard is stacked with local talent including Liam Vaughan (1-0), John Quigley (1-0), Kevin Satchell (4-0), Ryan Farrag (2-0), and Steve Harkin (5-1-1).
Weigh In, Tuesday April 26th 2011, 3.00pm
Liverpool (West Derby)
Queens Drive
West Derby
L13 0DL
The show will be televised live by Sky Sports.
Tickets priced £35 and £65 are available0871 226 1508 or www.frankmaloney.com.
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BARK Expands in the Columbus Region, Tripling Workforce with 500 New Jobs Over the Next Four Years
Columbus, Ohio – The Original BARK Company (NYSE:BARK), a leading global omnichannel brand for dogs and their parents, today announced plans to further expand in Columbus, Ohio, creating 500 new full-time jobs over the next four years, pending local approvals. The planned new hire will triple the headcount at BARK's Columbus office and enable the company to further scale its growing product offerings. The company is hiring across product, operations, management, technical and development positions, which began in the fall of 2021.
BARK achieved tremendous growth throughout the last year and is expanding to meet increased demand for its products and services. In 2020, BARK created two new business lines to serve dog parents and their needs, such as personalized meals through BARK Eats and wellness products through BARK Bright. The company went public in June 2021 through a merger with Northern Star Acquisition Group. After committing to 120 jobs in 2015, the company currently has 250 full-time employees in Columbus and will triple its workforce with its latest investment by the end of 2025.
"The incredible company culture we established in Columbus allows us to address more product demand and enhance direct-to-consumer support through high-quality care from our customer service team, 'Happy,'" said BARK CEO Manish Joneja. "The Columbus Region's startup ecosystem and central U.S. location are two key factors that have continued to help us scale while serving our existing customers so well."
Founded in 2012, BARK loyally serves dogs nationwide with themed toys and treats subscriptions, BarkBox and BARK Super Chewer; custom product collections through its retail partner network, including Target and Amazon; its high-quality, personalized nutrition and meal plans with BARK Eats; and health and wellness products that meet dogs' needs with BARK Bright. In 2015, the company opened its first CX (customer service/experience), also known as the "Happy team" center in Columbus' Carlisle Building before relocating to 500 W Broad St in Franklinton's Gravity I building. In addition to competitive wages and great benefits, BARK offers a unique and fun work environment in its dog-friendly office.
"BARK is a high-growth company that sets a strong example by thriving in Columbus' business ecosystem, creating more jobs and expanding close to home," said City of Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther. "In addition to a vibrant business community, Columbus is home to some of the most educated young talent in the country." The Columbus Region is an ideal location for distribution and fulfillment operations due to its geographic location, providing unmatched market access to U.S. consumers. Within a day's drive, companies can reach over 150 million people – approximately 46% of the country's population – which is larger than any other U.S. metro. The City of Columbus is located in Franklin County, which is home to an estimated 1,316,756 residents.
"BARK's incredible growth story, culminating in its recent decision to go public, illustrates how Ohio is where innovative, online companies can thrive," said JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef. "The combination of an ideal business climate and homegrown talent from the Columbus Region continues be a formula where fast-growing companies like BARK can scale up and create hundreds of new jobs."
About BARK
BARK is the world's most dog-centric company, devoted to making dogs happy with the best products, services and content. BARK's dog-obsessed team applies its unique, data-driven understanding of what makes each dog special to design playstyle-specific toys, wildly satisfying treats, personalized meal plans and supplements, and dog-first experiences that foster the health and happiness of dogs everywhere. Founded in 2012, BARK loyally serves dogs nationwide with themed toys and treats subscriptions, BarkBox and BARK Super Chewer; custom product collections through its retail partner network, including Target and Amazon; its high-quality, personalized nutrition and meal plans with BARK Eats; and health and wellness products that meet dogs' needs with BARK Bright. At BARK, we want to make dogs as happy as they make us because dogs and humans are better together. Sniff around at bark.co for more information.
About the City of Columbus, Ohio
The City of Columbus is the 14th largest city in the United States with a population of 879,170 residents. The Columbus economy is balanced with a combination of education, technology, government, research, insurance and health care entities as major employers within the City. Columbus is gaining nationwide recognition for its booming downtown, historic neighborhoods, arts and sporting districts, open attitude and a noticeably affordable quality of life. Learn more about the City of Columbus at columbus.gov/development/Economic-Development.
JobsOhio is a private nonprofit economic development corporation designed to drive job creation and new capital investment in Ohio through business attraction, retention and expansion. The organization also works to seed talent production in its targeted industries and to attract talent to Ohio through Find Your Ohio. JobsOhio works with six regional partners across Ohio: Dayton Development Coalition, Ohio Southeast, One Columbus, REDI Cincinnati, Regional Growth Partnership and Team NEO. Learn more at www.jobsohio.com. Follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
About One Columbus
As the economic development organization for the 11-county Columbus Region, One Columbus' mission is to lead a comprehensive regional growth strategy that develops and attracts the world's most competitive companies, grows a highly adaptive workforce, prepares our communities for the future, and inspires corporate, academic and public innovation throughout the Columbus Region. One Columbus expertly guides companies through the location decision process. Through strategic business outreach and customized research, the One Columbus team leverages public, private and institutional partnerships to grow the Columbus Region's economy and strengthen its national and international competitiveness. Funding is received from more than 300 private organizations, local governments, academic institutions and JobsOhio. Learn more at ColumbusRegion.com.
One Columbus Media Contact
BARK Media Contact
Jeanne Montone
press@barkbox.com


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At least it takes a village to dress this child! This is a three person project. A friend started the smocking for a second friend that had twins about seven years ago. She sent it to her to finish. Well the girl had twins, she ran out of time. She discovers the UFO recently, finishes the smocking and sends it to me. I finished the construction. And that is the story of a well traveled UFO.
It is a cozy, warm, brushed twill probably from Heirloom Imports. (Funny thing is, I have this same print in a lawn in the "want to do" pile.) It is Chery Williams bishop smocked with floche. I don't know the name of the smocking plate.
I piped the neckline. Horror of horrors, I had to do it without my #10 foot!! After the workshop a couple weeks ago, I have lost my #10 foot. I about can't function without it. I had a heck of time making and attaching this piping without my favorite foot. One of the classes we took from Gail D. was Beautiful Bias. She has a great way to attach a prefinished bias to the neckline. I couldn't quickly figure out how to do it with the piping. So I will have to play with that some to work it out.
I have no idea what the original plan for the placket was, but I took out a few stitches on either side and made a full length placket down the back. That is the beauty of a bishop, it does have some forgiveness factor, especially in a heavier fabric. I had the leeway to do that and still have enough fullness to make it fit.
I used buttons from Hill Creek in a soft pink. I wanted to attach the buttons with the darker floche for contrast. Floche is a very soft twist fiber and I was afraid it wouldn't be able to withstand the wear and tear of a button in use. So I attached the button first with sewing thread and then ran the floche just through the holes on top covering the sewing thread. Perfect for the contrast without the need for sturdiness. Best of both worlds. The buttons really are on straight but they look wonky in this picture. It is probably the tulle under the dress to "puff it" for the picture that is making it hang cotcheyed.
So thank you Robin and Lori for your help in dressing this child. Hopefully we will have a model shot soon though I am sure we won't see baby girl today. The weather here has been horrid. My son is out there now trying to dig his mother out. Bless his heart, he is good to his momma!
Oh, I love that! And, with all 3 of you working on it, it is chock full of love! Beautiful. I wondered about smocking with floche....wear and tear and all. Obviously, not an issue. That yellow and pink is loverly!
This is darling! Just in time for Valentines day. Perhaps when you talk to the smocker of the project you could inquire as to it's name. I love the way it comes down into a point. In any case I'll be watching for it when I'm looking at smocking patterns.
Thanks for all I have learn from you.
Beautiful collaberation! I believe the smocking plate is Tiny Baby Bishops by Kathy Crisp. I used it for a new baby in our church a few years ago....still one of my favorite things I've every made!
Sweet bishop, a great collaboration !!
It is precious!!! I love the history behind it. That sweet baby is certainly well-dressed!!!
I love the yellow and pink. It is so sweet. Everyone did a great job to make this dress so adorable.
Lori Anne is correct, it is Tiny Baby Bishops!
I love this baby dressing village! A beautiful bishop for a beautiful baby!
Gorgeous dress! I love it! You must obtain another #10 foot and soon!!
I know all about that village business. With two little girls, it keeps us all going, doing, making all the time but I love it and love for them to be adorable!!!
I am crazy about the pink and yellow combination. Just beautiful!!!
Thank you for the name of the smocking plate Lori Anne and the confirmation Anonymous. I've been able to find it online.
Yes, it is tiny baby bishops plate. One of my all time favs. I probably (i have slept since that was pleated) was not going to have it button down the back. That was in my placket faze of bishops. Lori took that one with me as she knew she could finish it... I forget how many rows I had smocked. I think there is a road... but I am sooo glad someone is getting to wear that! I have a Maggie in a size 5 if you need it... same fabric,same floss. Just saying.
I should add that I need to find the pattern so I can tell you which one I used. I am thinking it was the Ellen McCarn but not sure.
Very sweet! Love the color choices! Nice to see it on the hanger, once it is on the baby I only have eyes for her.
I love the yellow and pink! Enjoyed your blog... will be back!
LOVE the pink and yellow dress. Could you do a tutorial on that bishop placket? I learned how doing the much more bulky placket that makes the placket just too full. Also, what bishop pattern do you use?
Laurie... beware... this plate has been OOP for a long long long time. I seriously doubt that any one that has the plate online has an original. I bought this one on ebay 13 yrs ago after hunting for it for awhile.
Now if it does not bother you to pay top dollar for an unauthorized color copy... :) I could make a fortune that way!


This wikiHow teaches you how to change font color in your HTML document. While the HTML font tag is obsolete in HTML5, you can use CSS to add color to your HTML page's text. If you're working with an older version of HTML, you can use the HTML font color tag as needed.
Go to https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp in your computer's web browser.
Select the base color you want to use in the hexagon at the top of the page.
Scroll to the shade you want to use on the right side of the page.
Note the six-character code to the right of the shade.
Open your HTML document. This should be the document for which you want to change the font color.
If you don't yet have an HTML document, create one before proceeding.
Find the text you want to color. Scroll through your document until you find the paragraph, header, or other form of text that you want to color.
Note the text's tags. For example, if the text is a header, you'll see "<h1>" in front of it.
Close the "font" tag. Click the space to the right of the end of the text you're coloring, then type </font> there.
How do I use a color codes?
You can use hex codes (e.g. #ff00ff), rgb codes (e.g. rgb(255,100,309) ), or web safe colors (colors that are just their name like 'red' or 'black'). You can use colorhexa.com to get color codes.
How do I change color:red to color:blue?
As long as you are using a normal editor such as notepad, you can just go in and replace the word 'red' with the word 'blue'.
What C.S.S. codes can I use to change font aspects in Word Processor?
HTML color codes are broken up as follows: the first two characters refer to red hues, the second two refer to green, and the last two refer to blue. You can use anything from "00" to "99" to indicate how much of each color you want; using "FF" instead of a number calls the maximum amount of that color (for example, "0000FF" would be as blue as possible).
Try to make your page easy to read. Bright colors are hard to read on a white background, and dark colors are hard to read on a black background.
Old computer displays are limited to about 65,000 colors, and very old displays are limited to 256. However, over 99% of internet users will be able to see any color you specify.
The font element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.
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