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Windies bowler cops ban
7:02 am on 14 February 2019
West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel has been banned for the first four one-day internationals against England after being found guilty of "personal abuse".
Shannon Gabriel of West Indies Photo: PhotoSport
Gabriel, 30, accepted an International Cricket Council charge after he was warned by on-field umpires during the third test in St Lucia for comments made towards England captain Joe Root.
Gabriel's remark was not audible to television viewers but according to Sky Sports the England captain was heard replying to the bowler: "Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay".
The charge was under article 2.13 of the ICC's code of conduct, which relates to the personal abuse of a player, player support personnel, umpire or match referee during an international match.
"Gabriel already had five demerit points against his name for two earlier incidents - three demerit points during the Jamaica test against Pakistan in April 2017 and two demerit points in the Chittagong test against Bangladesh last November," the ICC said in a statement.
"With the addition of these three demerit points, he has reached the threshold of eight demerit points, which, pursuant to article 7.6 of the Code, have been converted into four suspension points."
As per ICC regulations, four suspension points equate to a ban from two tests or four one-day matches, whichever come first for the player.
Gabriel had earlier been suspended from the Mirpur test in November last year when he reached the threshold of four demerit points.
West Indies host England in a five-match ODI series starting on February 20 in Barbados.
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At one time there were three little boys in our neighborhood named Matt. To make it easier to tell which one you were talking about, they were given nicknames: Little Matt, Middle Matt, and Big Matt. When Middle Matt's friend, Little Matt, moved away, Middle Matt didn't have anyone to pal around with.
One afternoon I was at home, working in my office upstairs, when the doorbell rang. The day had gone by so fast that I was wondering how I'd ever get my work finished. I wasn't thrilled at having to go downstairs and answer the door. When I opened it, there stood Middle Matt.
He asked if my daughter could come out and play, and I said no, that she was still at school. He said, "When will she be home?"
I looked at him and tried to put myself in his shoes. What does time mean to him? I gave it a try: "She'll be home in two hours."
He just stared at me for a moment. Then he said, "I'm only four and a half years old."
In that simple way he was saying, Why don't you tell it to me in a way I can understand?
I still didn't know what to say, but he gave me a clue. "Is it before I eat?" It was the middle of the afternoon, and I wondered if he normally got an afternoon snack. But then I figured he probably wouldn't get fed until dinnertime. Finally I said, "She'll be home right before you eat dinner." He looked so disappointed. "That's a long time," he said.
The way my day had been going, two hours had passed in what seemed like ten minutes. Yet for him it would seem to take all day. "Yes," I said, "I guess it is." He turned and headed slowly back to his house, probably wondering how he was going to get through that long desert of an afternoon.
This is how it is when we speak with each other. Although we know what we mean, we don't know how other people think or what's important to them. Often we look for ways to communicate with and understand each other. The point to this story ties in with the writing of Paul Twitchell.
We've been busy interviewing some of the people who knew Paul personally. The purpose is to compile a living history which will provide valuable information to historians of the future. In a hundred years, people are going to be able to say, "This was the foundation of Eckankar." It will answer a lot of questions about how the ECKists of our time thought and felt, how they got through all the different changes which shook the very foundations of ECK—and who got through it and who didn't.
The one thing every single person remembered the most was the great love that Paul had for others. It was described as an overwhelming love, and it touched other people. He showed kindness and consideration for even the smallest concerns of others.
One person told of an instance that took place at a seminar in Chicago in the late sixties. Large groups of youths had come to the seminar by hitchhiking or whatever means they could. When Paul heard about this, he very privately told one of the initiates, "Whatever it takes, just don't let them sleep outside." It was cold outside, and he said, "Make sure they don't have to sleep in the cars." Paul had slept in cars himself when he didn't have enough money, and he knew how uncomfortable it was.
He was such an individualist that when he tried to make a living working for someone else, he generally aggravated his bosses and got himself fired. He found it difficult to make himself fit into this society and to the state of consciousness that was prevalent at the time. Often he barely had enough money to live on.
It's important for us to know that someone like Paul, who reaches the heights of spiritual attainment in this lifetime, doesn't get there the easy way. We somehow knew and felt the great compassion he showed as the Mahanta, but so little has been said about him that we never knew what trials he had to go through before this could develop. I've read letters in which he openly admitted, over and over again, his selfishness and how he had hurt people.
About two years after he separated from his wife, Camille, he had the experience that he later wrote down in The Tiger's Fang. This experience came in late 1956 or early 1957. From the time he and his wife actually separated until about 1963 when he met Gail, Paul tried to find another person with whom he could share his life. He knew he had a mission, and he knew he needed someone to help him with it. He dated a number of different women, but it was a rocky road he traveled.
As late as 1961, the breakup of one of his relationships so distressed him that he spent every night for the better part of a week in church, praying for forgiveness. And this was after he'd had the experience recorded in The Tiger's Fang.
One might think that the instant he had experienced God Consciousness, he could have risen above the human emotions. This is one of the popular myths that has been put upon people by those who don't know any better. When the God Consciousness comes in, it does not immediately dissolve all the habits that have developed over a number of years. Instead, the ECK gradually begins to move the person into circumstances which are best to allow him to grow. It's usually done under great protest. We don't like it. I called my first book The Wind of Change, which refers to the ECK; and when the change comes, we resist. We fight it. This is true whether one has the God Consciousness or whether he has the initiation of the First Circle, which comes in the dream state.
For a few years Paul was a member of Swami Premananda's church in Washington, D.C. When that association ended, he came in contact with the works of Kirpal Singh, who was based in India at the time. Paul had some experiences in which Kirpal Singh came to him in his room. They began to correspond. When Paul wrote to tell Kirpal Singh about the series of discourses he was working on, Kirpal Singh replied: "Let's see what you have. Perhaps we can use them."
Paul was a prolific writer. Kirpal Singh was very interested in Paul's account of his experience in The Tiger's Fang and he even offered suggestions. He said, "When you talk with these Masters, ask them questions like, 'What is the process of death? How did the creation of the worlds come about?' " It was interesting that Kirpal Singh knew Paul had the ability to go into the other worlds, come back, and report on certain things.
Kirpal Singh told several of his close followers that his line of mastership would end with him, and that the mastership would then be picked up in one of the Western countries. But I sincerely wonder if he recognized Paul, a former chela, as being the carrier of this Light and Sound of ECK.
Paul sent his manuscript of The Tiger's Fang to Kirpal Singh in India, which triggered a series of letters back and forth. It caused a very disagreeable situation when Paul wanted the manuscript back later. Paul had admired Kirpal Singh for a long time, but then they had this little falling out. Perhaps they worked it out later.
In about 1961, Paul's father translated. Paul had just moved from Washington, D.C., to the West Coast. At the time of his father's passing in Kentucky, he was not able to be there. He later wrote a letter to the person who had been taking care of his father. He said, "I was in the hospital for some tests, and I simply wasn't able to get there. But I wanted you to know that at the moment it happened, I was lying on my couch when all of a sudden my father appeared in the room. It looked as if he was standing there in the flesh."
When Paul got up to go over and greet him, his father just faded away. This was his way of letting his son know that he had left the physical body. Paul looked at the clock on the mantle and noted the time.
It was an indication of Paul's closeness with his father and of his ability to move out of the body, and see and know things beyond the perceptions of the physical senses. It was something his relatives never recognized in him.
Paul got into his early efforts to present the teachings of ECK even before he called them ECK and Eckankar. He started with weekly lectures to small groups of fifteen to thirty people at the California Parapsychology Foundation in Southern California. In those days he referred to Soul Travel as bilocation, and it was explained as a way to reach the Supreme Oneness. He was trying to express the Sugmad, the Supreme Being, and that the way to It was through the Voice of God, which we know as ECK.
The people were very enthusiastic. They liked his lectures, and as he worked with them, some had success in going out of the body. But Paul ran into problems. Just when everything was going very well, two things happened.
First of all, the people in his audience noticed that Paul would try to put them to work, and they felt uncomfortable about it. He had a message and it worked. It was to show people how to make contact with this mysterious force—which many could observe but very few could really tap into—and learn how to become clear vehicles for this ECK power. So after he showed them how to go out of the body, he would then ask them to set up other meetings for him. Paul had very little money at the time, so if they could meet the expenses, he would go and conduct a workshop. But he found that the people were reluctant to help in this way.
Secondly, when Kirpal Singh found out about Paul doing these Soul Travel workshops, he wrote a letter to the Parapsychology Foundation and informed them that Paul's works were a lot like his own. But Kirpal Singh never mentioned that he, too, had picked them up from someone before him. In a way, he was trying to possess truth. But truth builds upon itself. Kirpal Singh had gathered it from other groups, Paul had taken it and built upon it from many different areas, and he then moved it more than a step further. More than just identifying the mysterious force—which he later called the ECK—that works through all the God worlds, Paul said, "I also know how to begin working with It."
He had figured out the key—how to teach others to become Co-workers with God. This was the major difference between Paul and many of the other teachers. Paul had the ability to work as the Inner Master. Kirpal Singh also did to his chelas, and there are many other teachers who can do the same thing. Each teacher can take his chelas to the level at which he has established himself. Paul began here, and went much further.
In the early years of Eckankar, Paul didn't have enough up-front money to get the new books printed. He couldn't afford to go to the printer and say: Here's the manuscript; go ahead and get it ready for press. Print it, and we'll pay for it upon delivery. To earn the money to pay the printer, he decided to make some of the early books available by subscription. He would write chapter 1 of The Spiritual Notebook, and then he'd send out a notice to the ECK chelas. Those who placed an order would receive the book in serialized form, run off on the copier right from the manuscript. He did the same thing with The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One, and later, Book Two.
A very curious comment was included toward the back of the original version of The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book Two. It said the Mahanta reappears to renew and wage battle against the Kal and to lead Soul out of the lower worlds, and this occurs every five to a thousand years. This was very heartening to me because it meant that in my lifetime, I too would have the opportunity to reach this step of Mastership.
Later, as these serialized chapters were put into books and reprinted, a proofreader or someone else changed the "five to a thousand years" to the impossibly high range of "five hundred to a thousand years." The incorrect version of the sentence was printed in The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book Two, for a number of years.
Earlier this year, for the first time, I was able to read some of the letters that Paul had written, and also see carbon copies of the manuscripts that he had typed. That's when it occurred to me that I could check this sentence on the carbon copy of the original manuscript.
In those days you used nothing but a typewriter. There were no IBM Selectrics with the correcting feature, nor were there yet any word processors where you could correct words right on the screen. Paul would type along as accurately as he could, then all of a sudden there would be xxxxx. Or sometimes there would be a slash mark between words where he would insert something in the space above.
In the manuscript for The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book Two, he had typed, "reappears every thousand years," and then with a little slash mark, he careted in "five to a" thousand years. This copy conforms to the serialized version that he sent out. Some Higher Initiates might still have a copy at home. This is an important point for those who are studying on the path of ECK.
A very significant event in Paul's spiritual evolution took place in the summer of 1970. During a trip to Spain, he was poisoned. A young man, under the influence of the Kal Niranjan, slipped an extremely potent poison into Paul's citrus drink. Paul had walked into this individual's home with complete openness and an abounding love, and when he was handed the juice, he drank it. But he knew it would harm him, in the same way that Buddha did when he ate the tainted rice.
The damage to Paul's body was severe. The doctor who treated him said he consumed enough of this poison to kill three horses. But Paul went on for another year before he dropped the body. Some of the initiates who knew Paul very well said that while the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master went to Spain, only the Mahanta came home. Though this was not accurate, it expressed the spirit of what they were trying to say.
Paul's body had taken such a beating that he was barely able to keep it going, yet he continued to push himself so that he could write the things that had to be said. There were days his body actually looked black, and other days when it would suddenly glow with a pink countenance, just like a child's. Some days he was able to restore the body's vitality, while other days he was close to death. He would periodically drink a special concoction, probably made of extra vitamins and herbs, so that he could carry on. He sought no personal gain from this struggle; he had no personal motive.
The high teachings of ECK had been scattered to the four corners of the world. The different masters each had parts and pieces of it, but they attached little requirements, or strings, to it: You must be a vegetarian, or you have to meditate so many hours a day if you want to really be a true follower on the path to God. And this was wrong for our day and age. It was geared for another culture.
Paul gathered up the whole teaching and took the best. Though it may be a strange thing to say, in this sense I see him as a master compiler. He gathered the golden teachings that were scattered around the world and made them readily available to us. So now we don't have to feel that we must spend ten or fifteen years in an ashram in India, sitting around in the dust with the flies, or locked in a walled-up little cell to keep our attention from the outside world, in order to live the spiritual life.
The consciousness here in the twentieth century is a valid one. We have a family, we go to work, we have recreational activities, we meet with friends after work, and we take the kids to Little League practice. This is the way of our society, and it's a valid consciousness for Soul to gain the experience It needs on Its way back home to God.
All It needs is the linkup with the Light and Sound; and this, of course, always comes through the ECK teachings, through the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. It always comes in this way.
As I was trying to write something about the earthquake of 1811, I read a book about life on the Mississippi. It was a compilation of a series of essays written by a number of people and edited by one man. But I wasn't able to find out who owned the rights to it. No one knew, because as a book gets older, publishing houses are sold, management changes, and records are lost or thrown out. This is only one of many problems encountered in doing research.
It should have taken more than a lifetime for Paul to gather the ECK teachings, and yet he put it all together. This is what Paul did.
Paradoxical as it may seem, my point in bringing out all of this has been to strengthen your faith in the Mahanta—but not at the expense of making a god out of the Mahanta's vehicle, which is the Living ECK Master. It's a price we cannot afford to pay. As soon as we set someone above us, in potential or in fact, we have committed a crime against ourselves: We have limited the opportunity for our own unfoldment.
We recognize that there are some people who have unfolded more; but Soul, in quality, is Soul. The difference in consciousness is the difference in unfoldment. It doesn't make one person bigger or another person smaller—as Soul.
Sometimes we've wondered, Where really is the foundation of ECK for me? And I'm telling you, it's not in the physical writings. It's always within, with the Light and Sound.
The writings inspire us. They can give us words we can understand, but they'll never help us practice the life of ECK. It won't work that way. The books are good, the discourses are good; they inspire, they give us enthusiasm, they show us how to meet the Inner Master as the Blue Light of the Mahanta. But by themselves, they are imperfect translations written in an imperfect world.
Paul encouraged people to read The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad and make their own study. He never said to take the words as holy, as the last word. You take the words and check out the teachings from within: Does this work for me or doesn't it? You have to know. And based upon what you know is how you conduct your life out here. This is what governs your relationship with your friends and your family. It governs every aspect of you in the lower worlds, including your ethics and morality.
Ethics and morality will be different for each one of you. But I do expect more from the leaders of ECK when they're out in public. Whatever you do in private, it's your life. But when you go out in public as an ECK leader, you should epitomize the highest points of these golden teachings of ECK.
And so we have, perhaps, the death of an ideal. This means that no longer can we make a god out of a man. It was never intended. Many of us haven't done this, but some of us have.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross made a study of the cycles or stages a person goes through when he finds he has a terminal illness. These are the same five stages one goes through at the breakup of a relationship or the loss of a job. They affect some people very strongly, while for others, the same five steps come as just a very soft, gentle touch.
The first feeling that comes at the death of an ideal is denial: Tell me it ain't so. The second stage is anger. In the third stage, a person wants to bargain: Maybe we can mediate this—isn't there a way it can be worked out? Next comes depression, and finally, acceptance.
These phases can take place over a period of months; you may go back and forth between the different stages. You may fluctuate between the second and third for a while, and then go into the fourth and come back to the first. The second time you'll get out of the first stage more quickly than you did the first time. And the way you get out is by chanting your word and doing the spiritual exercises.
This is similar to the way it works in the planes of God. The planes of God are not stacked up like pancakes on a plate at breakfast. This is how we illustrate them graphically in the God Worlds chart, but only because it's a convenient way to establish them in our minds.
The Astral Plane has over 150 regions. There are many different words for the Astral Plane that can be used in conjunction with the word you get at the Second Initiation. You can start working with these words in your spiritual exercises. Using your word for the Second Initiation to bring you to the Astral Plane, you just accept that you are here—even though you may not see or know anything at the time. From here, start chanting another word of God. It can be a word such as Mearp, which is found in The ECK-Vidya, or some other word.
Start by chanting your secret word or the ECK word of a plane, and then add another word in conjunction with it. If you want to look at a past life, for instance, start chanting the word for the Causal Plane. Work at this: Try it out for a week or two. If it doesn't work, then try some other word. Keep trying, but in a gentle way. Don't force it. Assume the attitude that someday you know this is going to work—and you just keep trying.
This is another way to use your word. For some initiates, using your word when you first have an initiation will bring many grand and glorious experiences. For others it won't. This word opens you only to a room, such as the one we're in. But as you get established on the plane of your initiation, you begin chanting another word, perhaps for the Mental Plane, or one of the words that you find in The ECK-Vidya or A Cosmic Sea of Words: The ECKANKAR Lexicon. It's a password that will get you through one of the doors. When you get there, the guardian of the door says, "Yes?" Then you chant or say this word to him, and he lets you into the hallway. From there you enter into another room—a whole new dimension.
Begin by working with the creative element that you, yourself, are; because Soul, the creative spark, is the divine aspect that reflects the Sugmad. It's that simple. Begin working with this God power within you. I can only show you how to do it; you are the one who has to develop it and work with it.
This is how you find out for yourself what is truth. You're going to hear so many different versions of what is truth and what is not that finally you can't believe anyone. This is good, because it puts the responsibility back upon you to learn how to get the answer for yourself. Otherwise, you're just going to have to take someone else's word for it—and this is not a position you want to be in as a person who's looking for spiritual freedom.
You're looking for God-Realization, and with this come the attributes of God: wisdom, power, and freedom. But you don't look for the attributes, because when you have the state of God Consciousness, these attributes come with it, as part of the package.
I'd like to conclude by mentioning how the libraries on the inner planes work. On these planes there are main libraries connected to the wisdom temples. But there are also many branch libraries. The main library of each wisdom temple is like the Library of Congress, providing the greatest source of all the books and materials. One particular library I was visiting on the Astral Plane is adjacent to the Temple of Askleposis. In this place, some of the writings of the Shariyat, which then are brought here to the physical and translated, are stored in an archival warehouse. The Astral Plane is an immense world, so the writings are stored in huge rooms.
Back in this archival storeroom are the librarian's staff. These are people who work quickly, efficiently, and know exactly what they're doing. They're quite cheerful as they move here and there, going about their business, compiling things, doing this and that.
In the back room is a metal contraption that has huge sheets laid on it. The stacks of paper look like computer printouts, but these sheets are many times larger than we are used to seeing on earth. These are unprocessed manuscripts; source manuscripts from which writers of the earth world and other places come and take material. The sheets feed up on a sprocket, then run off onto racks that go down the long aisles of the warehouse, carried along on little tracks. If you want to see a certain section, you press a button and the sheets slowly run forward so you can read them.
There are very few writers who can come to this library. Most of the writers from earth go to the branch libraries, so they don't get to use the best sources. But the good researchers—such as Paul, Julian Johnson, Paul Brunton, and others—can come in here and select the paragraphs that suit their audience. A certain key concept will be expressed, such as a certain aspect of spiritual liberation. Then this one idea is written in eight different paragraphs, reflecting eight different levels of consciousness.
In the margin next to the different paragraphs on the manuscript I was reading were notes written in Paul's hand: "Far Country," "Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One," "Shariyat, Book Two," "Spiritual Notebook," and again, "Far Country," and so on. Under his notes a librarian researcher had placed the specific page reference where these ideas could be found in the current manuscripts.
For some reason, these sheets had carbons—they were in sets of four copies. In order to study it further, I loaded this manuscript stack on a handy little cart and took it to another area. Here it was again placed on a sprocket and stretched out in different directions so that you could separate the four copies and walk between them. Then you'd take one off and load it on another sprocket, where it would wind itself up. The manuscript was just in rough form. Later the researchers would compile it into a form that was easier to work with. This may sound complicated, but they really do have a sophisticated system. They're quite a bit ahead of us.
I'm doing all this research in a soundproof booth so it doesn't disturb the other people who are doing research. As I look over at a table, I see Paul—busy as usual, researching and writing. He looks at me and says, kind of gruffly, "What's that?"
"For a lot of the ECK writings to be done on earth," I reply.
"Oh," he says. "Well, we'll have to do something about that someday." Then he picks up his notebook and leaves, heading out into the stacks.
Yeah, I thought to myself, and I know who is going to have to do something about that someday!


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The untapped potential of plastic: turning a problem into a solution
Article3 mins17 March 2020By Amy Cooper
Australia is one of the world's biggest plastics polluters, but our waste surplus could be the key to a brighter, more sustainable future.
The world is facing a plastic pollution crisis. As the production of disposable plastic products continues to escalate, our ability to deal with the deluge of plastic waste remains woefully inadequate.
Every year, eight million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans. If this rate continues, it's estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea.
Australia is one of the world's most prolific plastic litterers, generating around 2.5 million tonnes of plastics waste annually, with as little as 12 per cent of it recycled.
"We need t build a sustainable, long-term re-manufacturing sector in Australia and find homes right here for our recyclables."
Gayle Sloan Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association Australia
The problem with plastic
For a remarkably durable material designed to last forever, plastic is discarded with almost criminal abandon. It takes hundreds of years for plastic to break down, and yet everyday plastic items such as water bottles, straws and cups enter our lives just once, for a moment, before becoming eternal waste.
It's a reality that deeply troubles Gayle Sloan, CEO of Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association Australia (WMRR), the peak body for the waste management industry. "Even now, 95 per cent of plastic packaging is single use," she says. "We are effectively designing waste."
Just over two years ago China stopped accepting and reprocessing foreign recyclable waste, sending our domestic waste management industry into a tailspin.
Australia had relied heavily upon China (and India, which has also since locked the door) to purchase and process around half of our vast volumes of plastic waste.
Without adequate domestic reprocessing infrastructure, plastics have been stockpiling at overstretched Australian facilities. There are, quite literally, mountains of plastic – and they're growing.
"Australia simply does not have enough manufacturing pull to absorb all the domestic recycled material we are collecting," says Gayle Sloan.
"We need to build a sustainable, long-term re-manufacturing sector in Australia and find homes right here for our recyclables."
Although the plastics crisis has been a wake-up call, Sloan sees rich opportunity, too.
"We can create 9.2 jobs for every 10,000 tonnes that we resource recover in Australia, compared with 2.8 jobs for export. So waste is potentially creating great value in society," she says.
Turning a problem into an opportunity
Gayle Sloan and many others see Australia's plastic waste as fuel for an entirely new sustainable, more competitive economy with opportunities for growth and job creation.
The WMRR and fellow representative bodies are lobbying the federal government for a $150 million action plan to invest in infrastructure and improvements in recycling quality, and for governments to buy recycled products.
"There's so much upside to this," Sloan says.
"We need bright young industrial designers to reinvent infrastructure and systems so we can actually be a smart economy too."
Innovators are already leading the way. In Victoria, recycled plastics manufacturer Replas transforms waste into more than 200 products including furniture, bollards, decking and traffic signage.
Close The Loop, Victoria, utilises plastic waste in pens and high performance road surfacing while Plastic Forests in NSW repurposes soft plastics into products such as mini wheel stops, garden equipment and air conditioner mounting blocks.
Corporates are starting to step up, too. Sloan praises Nespresso's collection system for used coffee pods. "This is exactly what we want to see from a public stewardship and extended producer responsibility point of view," she says.
The role of business
Corporates can lead from the front, says Rob Sims, Senior Manager, Group Sustainability and Energy at Dexus.
Dexus has instigated a range of new initiatives aimed at embedding sustainability across the company's entire ecosystem – and beyond, although improving waste recycling remains an ongoing challenge.
The country's largest office landlord has been collecting and processing soft plastics ('scrunch-able' plastics such as food wrapping) in its Sydney head office for over a year, Sims says.
"Unlike other waste streams there is no turn-key service from our cleaning contractors to separate and take that waste offsite for recycling, so we do this on our own."
The waste is recycled through the soft plastics REDcycle programme at Coles and Woolworths.
Dexus also actively advocates for use of sustainable materials across its portfolio.
"With our customers we can play a positive influencing role in key areas such as our food courts, as we talk to our retailers about offering sustainable packaging options, eventually phasing out single use plastics.
"We've seen positive examples with major players such as McDonalds looking to move away from single-use packaging," says Sims.
The company also seeks to scale influence externally, via the Property Council and the environment-focussed Better Buildings Partnership (BBP).
Sims supports advocating for change alongside the wider property industry, rather than as individual companies acting in isolation.
"We can push for government level policy discussions about elimination of single use plastics, improving facilities for recycling materials or mandating products that have recycling content as part of their materials," he says.
Dexus is also in the third year of implementing the BBP's 'strip out' waste guidelines for tenancy de-fit projects, with a goal of consistently meeting an 80 per cent waste recovery rate.
Sims is optimistic about the potential for change but agrees with Gayle Sloan that the nationwide system needs drastic overhaul.
"Unless we have the mechanisms and facilities in place to recover reusable materials and for suppliers to embed them in new products, there's still going to be a gap between ambition and reality," he says.

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The mission of St. Francis' Care and Wellness Ministries – rooted in our community's vision statement that "we are one family, living in community, confronted, challenged, and comforted by the Word of God, reaching out to all persons and their families" – is to be a pastoral presence, offer emotional support, provide opportunities to find balance in life, and remain attentive to the spiritual needs of those facing unsettling circumstances in our community.
As Christians, we are one body in Christ. During times of adversity and suffering, we help one another to heal, to move on, and to change more into who God is asking us to become.
Seeks to offer a path to a more balanced approach to life through the offering of seminars and courses.
Addressing the stigma associated with Mental Illness, offering support and bringing awareness, resources, education and offering a better understanding of Mental Illness. Mental illness is a medical condition not a weakness.
Is a small Christian Community guide to understanding that you have a purpose and are essential to God's plan. Discover your two word purpose statement, "I exist to serve God by ." (Click here) for more information.
Walk with those who have lost a loved one. From helping plan the funeral to coping with grief, these ministries offer hope and pastoral presence.
Reaches out with God's healing love and compassion to those grieving the death of a loved one. (Click here) for more information.
Assists parishioners in dealing with the death of a loved one by helping them with funeral preparations and "walking" with them in their time of sorrow. (Click here) for more information.
It's hard to enjoy the holidays when you're grieving. Come spend an afternoon with us and learn how to develop a plan for getting through the holiday season. (Click here) for more information.
Makes shawls as expression of our community's care and concern for those struggling with difficulties in life. (Click here) for more information.
Lay ministers trained in active listening to walk with those dealing with stress, grief, life transitions or other concerns. (Click here) for more information.
Sometimes we find ourselves going threw a life transition, these can be happy occasions or it can be when surgery or illness strikes. Regardless of the reason, If you need someone to talk to, or a little help please call the Coordinator of Care and Wellness so members of these ministries can share our community of faith, hope and hospitality with you.
Via our community partner, the Center for Volunteer Caregiving. They can provides help with rides to medical appointments, grocery stores and respite visits to those who can't drive. (Click here) for more information.
Volunteers bring freezer ready casseroles to the Feed the Need refrigerator on the first weekend of each month. Meals are used to help those dealing with life's challenges. (Click here) for more information.
This ministry provides cooked meals to members of our community who are dealing with significant life issues.
Provides friendly visits to parishioners in area hospitals and care facilities. (Click here) for more information.
Provides transportation to parishioners who have no means of getting to church for weekend liturgies. (Click here) for more information.
An International Catholic lay organization in unity with the Church was founded in France in 1843 to minister to the poor and vulnerable.
Sometimes health or mobility make it impossible to come to church, and sometimes we find ourselves in need of someone to talk to. If that happens, please call the Coordinator of Care and Wellness so members of these ministries can come to you to share our community of faith with you.
Provides rides to medical appointments, grocery stores and respite visits to those who can't drive. (Click here) for more information.
Ministers bring the Holy Eucharist to those who cannot attend Sunday liturgies at St. Francis: the homebound, hospitalized and residents of retirement communities and nursing homes such as Abbotswood, Magnolia Glen, the Meadows, and Springmoor. (Click here) for more information.
Parishioners who are medical professionals identify themselves to the head usher and wear name tags. In the event of a medical event during Mass, they can be easily identified as someone who can help. (Click here) for more information.
When life changes we are sometimes confronted with circumstances that cause us stress. Part of the challenge is fear and facing the unknown. The following ministries help by listening, sharing their experience and offering area resources.
Reaches out both to those suffering from Alzheimer's and other related dementia and to their caregivers. (Click here) for more information.
Support for those dealing with cancer. (Click Here) for more information.
Provides support and comfort to those experiencing the pain of separation and divorce. (Click here) for more information.
Help for the divorced and separated during the holidays.
Provides encouragement, education, and job search skills training in a Catholic setting. (Click here) for more information.
A Catholic community program that aims to provide hope and healing after abortion. (Click here) for more information.
The bigger you see God and the more intimately you know God, the more you yearn to see how God is working in your life through your cancer. Yet cancer can lead to frustration and questions as you try to make sense of your struggle. This 9 week book/video bible study that leads you through scriptures to explore how the Christian faith can support you on your cancer journey. (Click here) to find out more about this bible study and to register.
Reaches out to parents/caregivers of special needs children and adults, offering support and encouragement for the journey. (Click here) for more information.
Cultivates spiritual life through contemplation.
Volunteers prays for the intentions of parishioners. (Click here) for more information.
Promotes devotion to the Holy Rosary of the Virgin Mary. (Click here) for more information.
Compassionate Friends of Wake County – A support group that is comprised solely of bereaved parents.
GriefCare – Grief support groups (offered for adults, children, teens, and families) is to provide a safe place for individuals and/or families to explore and express their grief in a manner that is comfortable and healing in nature. Talking about grief with others who are also coping with the death of a loved one often helps to reduce feelings of isolation and of not being understood. Groups offer an opportunity for persons to connect with others who 'get it.' Please note location and registration information for each event.
Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit organization that provides free-of-charge therapeutic grief programs for young people ages 7-25 who have experienced the death of a parent, guardian, or sibling. The program include confidence-building activities that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Ultimately, Comfort Zone Camp provides a safe and fun place fro grieving youth to heal and grow.


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'use strict'

const response = require('../../test-helpers/context').response
const request = require('supertest')
const statuses = require('statuses')
const assert = require('assert')
const Koa = require('../..')

describe('res.status=', () => {
  describe('when a status code', () => {
    describe('and valid', () => {
      it('should set the status', () => {
        const res = response()
        res.status = 403
        assert.strictEqual(res.status, 403)
      })

      it('should not throw', () => {
        response().status = 403
      })
    })

    describe('and invalid', () => {
      it('should throw', () => {
        assert.throws(() => {
          response().status = 99
        }, /invalid status code: 99/)
      })
    })

    describe('and custom status', () => {
      beforeEach(() => { statuses['700'] = 'custom status' })

      it('should set the status', () => {
        const res = response()
        res.status = 700
        assert.strictEqual(res.status, 700)
      })

      it('should not throw', () => {
        response().status = 700
      })
    })

    describe('and HTTP/2', () => {
      it('should not set the status message', () => {
        const res = response({
          httpVersionMajor: 2,
          httpVersion: '2.0'
        })
        res.status = 200
        assert(!res.res.statusMessage)
      })
    })
  })

  describe('when a status string', () => {
    it('should throw', () => {
      assert.throws(() => { response().status = 'forbidden' }, /status code must be a number/)
    })
  })

  function strip (status){
    it('should strip content related header fields', async () => {
      const app = new Koa()

      app.use(ctx => {
        ctx.body = { foo: 'bar' }
        ctx.set('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
        ctx.set('Content-Length', '15')
        ctx.set('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')
        ctx.status = status
        assert(ctx.response.header['content-type'] == null)
        assert(ctx.response.header['content-length'] == null)
        assert(ctx.response.header['transfer-encoding'] == null)
      })

      const res = await request(app.callback())
        .get('/')
        .expect(status)

      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-type'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-length'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-encoding'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.text.length, 0)
    })

    it('should strip content related header fields after status set', async () => {
      const app = new Koa()

      app.use(ctx => {
        ctx.status = status
        ctx.body = { foo: 'bar' }
        ctx.set('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
        ctx.set('Content-Length', '15')
        ctx.set('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')
      })

      const res = await request(app.callback())
        .get('/')
        .expect(status)

      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-type'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-length'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.headers.hasOwnProperty('content-encoding'), false)
      assert.strictEqual(res.text.length, 0)
    })
  }

  describe('when 204', () => strip(204))

  describe('when 205', () => strip(205))

  describe('when 304', () => strip(304))
})

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The Artery PAL II Starter Kit is a new collaboration effort between the rekowned vape reviewer Tony B and Artery. Inspired by a card case, the PAL 2 is thin, portable and fits as confortably in the hand as it does in the pocket. With a generous 3ml liquid capacity and a built-in 1000mAh battery, the Artery PAL 2 will keep you vaping for a surprising amount of time.This compact yet powerful little pod style vape comes with two excellent coils, 1.2ohm regular MTL coil, and 0.6ohm mesh coil, to bring great flavor and decent vapor production. These coils are replaceable which makes this. The innovative slide refilling system upgrades the juice filling to a new level! This kit caters for the entry level vaper who wants a no fuss, easy to use vape, as well as the seasoned vaper who wants a stealth mod for those occasions when you dont want to take your tripple 18650 mod out with you.


It's official. For 2018, the estate and gift tax exemption is $5.6 million per individual, up from $5.49 million in 2017. That means an individual can leave $5.6 million to heirs and pay no federal estate or gift tax. A married couple will be able to shield north of $11 million ($11.2 million) from federal estate and gift taxes. And the annual gift exclusion amount is $15,000 for 2018—up from $14,000 where it's been stuck since 2013.
Meanwhile, Congress and the President are in the midst of tax reform, and the elimination of the federal estate tax is a topic for discussion. It's anyone's bet how it will be resolved.
What's a person to do? The first thing to do is to figure out whether any of this applies to you. Do you have more than $5.6M? If you don't, then federal estate taxes should not be a worry. However, if you live in one of 18 states and the District of Columbia with some kind of death tax, you should be paying attention to your state's inheritance or estate tax.
To complicate matters, the state exemption amounts have been changing recently as some states seek to align their exemptions with the federal amounts. Eight out of the 18 states and DC ushered in death tax changes for 2017. The good news is that they are all changes that lessen the tax bite.
But the key here is to revisit your plan if you live in a state that is making changes or has made changes recently, even if the change is tax repeal/reduction. Your will may be drafted using the older, lower thresholds and there may be unintended consequences. In other words, you may be trying to avoid taxes that you no longer need to avoid.
Here are the states with death taxes: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Illinois, Maryland, D.C, Kentucky, Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii.
These states have changed their exemptions in 2017: New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Minnesota. Inflation adjustments to the exemption are taking place in Delaware, Rhode Island, Maine, Hawaii and Washington.
If you live in a state with recent tax reform, or if your estate documents are more than five years old, it might be time to review them. The good news is that exemptions are up, and a little planning can go a long way to saving tax dollars.
With over twenty years of experience, Robin assists clients in maximizing their financial well-being. She counsels clients in the areas of retirement, taxes, investments and estate planning.
Robin is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner and a registered member of NAPFA. She has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Colby College.


Our "Meet the Doctor" night is just for you. Every month, our new patients have an opportunity to meet our providers and find who's personality fit them best. After the providers introduce themselves, they give a tour of the clinic while answering any questions.
We look forward to meeting and hope to see you there!
We encourage you to please take the time to complete our Patient Registration Form.
Please be sure to bring in your current health insurance card and driver's license.
This will help smooth along the registration process and prepare for the first visit with your provider.
If you are bringing in your newborn for their first 3-day weight-check, we ask that you bring in the discharge paperwork provided to you by the hospital or birthing center.
This gives us an accurate weight for your baby and other important information we need to make sure your new addition is healthy and happy!


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Reminisce – "Omo…
Reminisce – "Omo X 100" ft. Olamide
Drops a new tune featuring Olamide Baddo, titled "Omo x 100".
Indigenous rapper, Reminisce aka Oja Daddy kick start 2021 with this AfroHip-pop record titled "Omo x 100" which features Olamide. This song is the lead single for his forthcoming album which he announced last week.
His new project, album is "Alaye Toh Se Gogo" and it would be live August, 2021. The title of this forthcoming album is taken from his Sarz produced hit song, "Fantasi" which was released in 2013 and when translated means Big Boss or Action Chairman.
Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, known by his stage names Reminisce and ALAGA IBILE, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, and songwriter from Ogun State. He performs in both English and his native language, Yoruba.
Olamide Adedeji, known as Olamide is a Hip-Hop recording artist/songwriter signed to his record label YBNL. His success in the entertainment industry has earned him several awards including Best Rap Album and Album of the Year, Best Male Artiste in Africa AFRIMA and numerous other awards.
Both veteran rappers joined force to bless hip-pop fans with "Omo x 100", A short song with dope bars. On the record Reminisce state that he didn't quit Rap music and his still an OG.
Produced by @eskeezondbeat
Additional vocals by @sesstheprblm
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Pipeline transportation is one of the safest methods of delivering natural gas and hazardous liquids. Ensuring pipelines are operated and maintained in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations is critical to ensure the safety of pipeline operations and the surrounding public. EN Engineering provides comprehensive compliance review services to ensure conformance with applicable regulations including 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195.
Following a restructuring of their infrastructure and integrity management responsibilities, a pipeline operator was struggling to confirm critical pipeline records, including integrity assessments. The records were not organized, nor were they available to all pipeline integrity stakeholders. Our client wished to establish traceable, verifiable, and complete records containing reliable information and to confirm the maximum operating pressure (MOP) for each pipeline. In addition, the client requested an Information Analysis to evaluate the integrity of each pipeline segment in compliance with 49 CFR 195.
EN Engineering was retained to support the improvement of the client's pipeline integrity management and confirm pipeline features with traceable, verifiable, and complete (TVC) records. This included creating a guidance document defining key components and assumptions, developing guidance to track pipeline characteristics, pressure test data, operating pressure, document quality, pipeline repair sleeves, casings and other related features; performing line "builds" to capture fittings and other important pipeline characteristic changes; conducting thorough quality control and quality assurance checks; validating the MOP based on verifiable information; identifying features requiring additional investigation to confirm properties and characteristics; updating the company database with TVC data; and performing an Information Analysis about the integrity of the entire pipeline and the consequences of a failure to determine if any changes to future integrity assessment plans may be needed.
EN Engineering successfully completed the project, providing the client updated TVC data in their database with linked pipeline records, as well as a detailed process for establishing records supporting MOP. In addition, the team confirmed MOP for each pipeline segment and completed an information analysis of each pipeline segment.
The team enhanced the pipeline integrity management system and confirmed pipeline features with traceable, verifiable, and complete (TVC) records.


What is the definition of a good software engineer?
"What is the definition of a good software engineer" - I like to ask this question everybody who somehow connects to software development. And I always got different answer. It depends on the people and their positions: managers see good software engineers to have a good understanding of the tasks, respect deadlines and soft skills. Middle/Senior software engineers always start with the words passion, good tools, hard skills etc. QA engineers see them as a programming guru which can produce testable, bug-free code. Team leads start their description with the mix of soft/hard skills, their ideal software engineer should do everything in time and report any problems they face.
Somebody(even mature engineers or architects) starts with words: "Oh, it's a very wide question...". No, it is not. This question's aim is to be personal, it focuses on the thoughts of the people you're asking it.
I will show you my thoughts in this post.
Programming is all about solving problems and a software engineer should have problem-solving skills. At first, I thought that maybe " Problem-solving skills" will be the right heading for the first feature of the good software engineer but it carries a different meaning. I wrote - "They do really think", and I include here not only the fact that they solving problems but also how they solve them and whether they solve the right problem. It is the sequence of logical reflections, the problem decomposition, the digging in the documentation and the final architecture of the solution that shows how good they are.
And the final word about "the right problem". The most productive engineers I've ever worked with aren't the engineers who pull all-nighters or clock in 80 hour work weeks. Nor are they the engineers who can effortlessly craft an elegant five lines of x86 assembly to succinctly and efficiently solve a problem. They are the engineers who always seem to be solving the right problem in the first place. To borrow an idea voiced by Tyler Treat, Phil Haack, and likely many others, software engineers aren't paid to simply produce lines of code. If we take a step back, we're really paid to build features, make things more efficient, making them scale bigger and bigger, and fix issues or prevent outages. The code is a byproduct of solving these problems, but the problems we need to solve are primary.
Yes, it's the second feature of great software engineer for me. Technology is always evolving and the skills and abilities a software engineer has today will likely to be outdated in a few years the same counts for problems engineers have to face. A good software engineer has the instinct to seek knowledge, and he is aware that his field is always changing. Robert C. Martin wrote in The Clean Coder that you should give 40 hours a week for your employer and spend 20 hours for reading, learning and practicing.
Also, that made me more comfortable in my own programmer skin when I was realizing that geniuses still have struggles, get frustrated, feel inadequate, forget, learn, and make mistakes. The difference is, a genius keeps going, keeps leaning, admits to - and learns from mistakes. Failure is an opportunity to be used, not feared.
Don't be afraid if it's not a language you're super familiar with – if you're primarily a Python engineer and you suspect there's an error in one of Python's C libraries, go crack it open and have a look. Yes, you might not get it. But who knows? You just might, and you stand a way better chance than if you didn't try at all! If you're in a closed-source environment then this becomes a lot harder, unfortunately, but the principle still applies. Poor engineers have little interest in viewing source, and as result problems flummox them much longer than those who are willing to do some research.
Here I want to tell that they have this strive for excellence, always not for themselves but for their team and their company as well. Despite a lifetime of TV and Hollywood movies glorifying the lone hacker, the reality is all development in all companies happens in teams.
The sooner you begin writing code with others, the better you'll become. You can start by pulling code from GitHub on OpenSource projects, contributing and getting feedback from the community. In training, participating in team challenges and code reviews is a good way to get some experience.
So good software engineers don't work in a vacuum, they try to communicate with others to get new knowledge or to share their experience. They try to mentor and teach others if they see that they can help. Also, they want to know the product, the business plan, the direction where the development of the product is headed in order to help.
Among software engineers, I see a common disease per se - disease of "Not my problem" where engineer finish his task from over here to over there and then he is done. It doesn't matter for him that this is a bad interface or it's clearly a bad design, or the arguments of the function are messed up. It is not his problem. But it is, there are some quality gates, some definition of done, some dev guidelines etc. A good engineer understands that any problem with our product is our problem to fix.
All of the above skills are generic – none of them are specific to any one language, framework, technology or level. If you have them, you can quickly learn a new language or tool, and write good software in any environment. Furthermore, because they are general in nature, they will not become obsolete in a couple of years.
These are my answers to what makes a good programmer. What do you think makes a good programmer? Let me know in the comments.


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Vivo Investment Group
What we're about- Building Resilient Communities
Vivo Living was founded in 2020 at the onset of the global pandemic. Even before the pandemic, there was a serious shortage of affordably priced housing across the country. Sudden job and income loss from the Covid-19 imposed shutdown, left even more people unable to pay their rent and at risk for becoming unhoused. At the same time, business and vacation travel came to a sudden halt, putting many hotels on unstable financial footing and pushing many hotel owners to consider leaving the business. That is when Vivo Living's founders decided that these empty hotels could be reimagined and repurposed into critically needed, affordably priced rental housing.
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Dan Norville
Dan has a long career in the real estate industry as an investor and developer and has also served in various roles in Real Estate Investment Banking and Private Equity. Dan founded his first company (also in Real Estate) in 2012 and subsequently three more companies since then, and is responsible for overseeing underwriting, research, institutional capital raising, business development and deal negotiation. Dan is also responsible for sourcing and establishing new transactions for the firm. His career has encompassed the structuring, financing, acquisition, disposition, leveraged buyout, valuation and due diligence of over $1.0 billion in completed real estate as well as corporate M&A transactions.
Rick Skinner
Rick is an accomplished senior operations executive with extensive experience building synergy among operations, finance, and marketing to support strategic business objectives. He has been successful in start-up, turnaround, and high-growth organizations. Rick's primary responsibilities at Vivo include identifying business opportunities, leveraging team competencies to drive growth, reduce costs, improve market positioning, and strengthen bottom-line financial performance for the Vivo portfolio.
Rick has been in a management role for over 30 years; during this time, he has overseen 11 properties, ranging in size from 60-200+ units, all of which were in initial lease up stages. He successfully achieved stabilization of all assets in lease-up within 6-8 months.
Jodi Freed
Director of Revenue and Performance
Jodi brings a dynamic and unique approach to apartment property management. As Director of Revenue, Jodi has been successful in the oversight of apartment properties, ranging in size from 64-210 units, seeing them through from lease up to stabilization. In conjunction with her revenue management responsibilities, Jodi has overseen traditional and digital marketing campaigns. She utilizes her hotel revenue background to incrementally achieve revenue milestones and exceeds KPI's for all revenue streams, ensuring NOI growth.
Jena Davis
Vice President of Apartments
Jena boasts over 20 years of Property Management experience ranging from Leasing Consultant to Senior Regional Property Manager. Her portfolio was comprised of 3,000 units ranging from California to Texas. Her focus has encompassed quick lease up results, interior renovations, as well achieving ROI on projects with multi-million-dollar budgets. During her tenure she has spearheaded initial lease up of over 320 units at once, achieving stabilization within 8 months. She has a strong focus on leading a team to achieve maximum results in Customer Service and NOI.
Megan Gibbon
Director, Transactions and Portfolio Operations
Megan Gibbon has a diverse background in finance and operations. During her time with Vivo, she has been given the unique opportunity to build systems for accounting, operations, and property management. Prior to joining Vivo, Megan spent 5 years in Fund Accounting at Oaktree Capital Management. Megan holds a B.A. in Theatre from the University of California, San Diego. She is grateful every day for the skills she gained from the Performing Arts.
Emily Gordon
Regional Property Manager
Emily's career consists of 13 years experience in property management to include a variety of market, compliance, and program-based multifamily housing. During this time, she was directing onsite operations for renovation projects, new construction, and lease up projects. She has worked in a range of positions from on site to portfolio management bringing a passion for people in the forefront of operations. This same passion gave her the opportunity to partner in creating policies and training programs at several of the companies that she worked with. Prior to the start of her property management career she earned a B.S. in Business Management and Operations. Emily is excited to utilize both her skill set and passion to aid the success of Vivo Living through strong people-centric operational management, problem solving capabilities, and producing financial results.
Adam Contreras
Adam has been in the Property Management field for over a decade; starting out in Patchogue, Long Island NY with multiple single-family homes, Adam and his wife left the cold winters in New York and relocated to Florida where he made the switch to commercial property rentals. His commercial property oversight included office and warehouse flex space on seven properties located throughout Central Florida. Adam happily found his "home" at Vivo in December of 2021. Initially overseeing Vivo Living Kissimmee during the transition to multifamily units, Adam was heavily involved in the development aspect of the transition before accepting a promotion to Regional Property Manager.
Jennifer Burks
Jennifer Burks, better known as Jaye, is a real estate professional who holds over 20 years' experience in the real estate industry including multi-family property management, commercial Property management, Single family, and Student housing. Jaye has extensive and diverse experience working in the Texas and Oklahoma markets working on a range of asset types from New Construction, renovation and value-add to affordable and luxury Class - A assets. During her career, she has demonstrated strong leadership and has a proven track record building dynamic and performance driven teams. Jaye has a knack for communicating with all types of individuals based on their unique personalities or learning styles and she has a strong desire to see others reach their professional goals.
Devin Lamp
Area Property Manager
Devin Lamp's journey in property management started 9 years ago in Oregon for a local real estate company. She has worked in a range of positions from leasing agent to managing multiple sites as an onsite manager. Her focus has been in multi-family housing in Oregon, California, and now across the continental United States. Before her career in property management, she received her B.A in History from the University of Oregon. With a passion for history and learning Devin always strives to utilize all the skills learned over the years to bring new and constructive ways to her management and property goals.
Caniece Padilla
Director, Training and Development
Caniece Padilla has been in the Multi Family industry for 15 years, she has diverse experience in multi-family housing. She has experience in all aspects in Onsite Property Management levels. Starting out as a Leasing Agent and working her way up to Community Manager. Caniece has worked on complete renovation projects as well as Lease Up properties. Caniece has worked on properties from 39 units to over 1100 units. She has worked with many programs such as Bond, Income qualified and Housing Authority Programs. Caniece has a strong work ethic and a drive to teach others. Caniece became a Mentor Manger in 2019 and would oversee all new managers, would work one on one with them to training on company policies and overall job duties. During that time Caniece learned her true passion in the industry is in the training and development department.
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public final class VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction extends com.google.api.client.json.GenericJson {

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is viewable. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is blocked from appearing in
   * that country. If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is blocked in
   * all countries.
   * The value may be {@code null}.
   */
  @com.google.api.client.util.Key
  private java.util.List<java.lang.String> allowed;

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is blocked. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is viewable in that country.
   * If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is viewable in all countries.
   * The value may be {@code null}.
   */
  @com.google.api.client.util.Key
  private java.util.List<java.lang.String> blocked;

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is viewable. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is blocked from appearing in
   * that country. If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is blocked in
   * all countries.
   * @return value or {@code null} for none
   */
  public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getAllowed() {
    return allowed;
  }

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is viewable. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is blocked from appearing in
   * that country. If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is blocked in
   * all countries.
   * @param allowed allowed or {@code null} for none
   */
  public VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction setAllowed(java.util.List<java.lang.String> allowed) {
    this.allowed = allowed;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is blocked. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is viewable in that country.
   * If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is viewable in all countries.
   * @return value or {@code null} for none
   */
  public java.util.List<java.lang.String> getBlocked() {
    return blocked;
  }

  /**
   * A list of region codes that identify countries where the video is blocked. If this property is
   * present and a country is not listed in its value, then the video is viewable in that country.
   * If this property is present and contains an empty list, the video is viewable in all countries.
   * @param blocked blocked or {@code null} for none
   */
  public VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction setBlocked(java.util.List<java.lang.String> blocked) {
    this.blocked = blocked;
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  public VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction set(String fieldName, Object value) {
    return (VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction) super.set(fieldName, value);
  }

  @Override
  public VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction clone() {
    return (VideoContentDetailsRegionRestriction) super.clone();
  }

}


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Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (né le  à Staten Island dans l'État de New York aux États-Unis et décédé le  à Vienna en Virginie aux États-Unis) est un colonel et historien militaire américain.

Biographie

Jeunesse
Né à Staten Island, New York, Trevor N. Dupuy est le fils de Laura Nevitt Dupuy, illustratrice et artiste, et de R. Ernest Dupuy, historien militaire. Trevor décida de suivre un parcours professionnel similaire à celui de son père.

Carrière militaire
Trevor Dupuy est diplômé de l'Académie militaire de West Point et est de la promotion de 1938. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il commande un bataillon d'artillerie américain, un groupe d'artillerie chinois et le détachement d'artillerie de la 36e division d'infanterie britannique. Il a toujours été fier du fait qu'il a servi plus longtemps au combat en Birmanie que n'importe quel autre américain et qu'il ait reçu des distinctions militaires de la part des gouvernements britanniques et chinois. Après la guerre, Dupuy sert dans le département de la Défense des États-Unis dans la division chargée des opérations entre 1945 et 1947. Il est assistant militaire au sous-secrétaire aux armées entre 1947 et 1948. Il a été membre du personnel original Grand Quartier général des puissances alliées en Europe sous les généraux Dwight D. Eisenhower et Matthew Ridgway entre 1950 et 1952.

C'est cependant dans la fonction d'historien et théoricien militaire que Dupuy marquera le plus l'histoire. Il est principalement connu pour le livre The Encyclopedia Of Military History rédigé avec son père R. Ernest Dupuy. L'ouvrage couvre l'histoire militaire en détail du début de l'Antiquité jusqu'à l'ère contemporaine. Généralement chaque entrée (organisée de façon chronologique et régional) donne généralement que le nom du commandant et des estimations des forces en présences. Dupuy est enclin à exprimer ses opinions dans ses textes et à qualifier certains commandants de Great Captains (liste qui inclut Alexandre le Grand, Hannibal Barca, Jules César, Gustave II Adolphe, Frédéric II et Napoléon Ier). Le livre focus principalement sur l'histoire militaire occidentale, mais inclut également un résumé des événements du reste de la planète.

Carrière académique
Après la fin de sa carrière militaire en 1952, il devient professeur en science et tactiques militaires à l'Université Harvard. C'est là-bas qu'il aide à financer le Harvard Defense Studies Program. Il quitte Harvard en 1956 pour devenir directeur du programme d'études militaires Université d'État de l'Ohio. Il quitte définitivement l'armée en 1958, il devient alors professeur invité dans le programme de relations internationales de l'Université de Yangon en Birmanie. Entre 1960 et 1962, Dupuy travaille pour le think tank Institute for Defense Analyses.

En 1962, il forme la première de ses compagnies de recherche consacrées à l'étude et l'analyse des conflits armées, la Historical Evaluation and Research Organization, où il est président et directeur exécutif jusqu'en 1983. Il est également président de la société mère, T. N. Dupuy Associates Inc. (TNDA), entre 1967 et 1983. En 1983, il vend ses parts dans ses compagnies à Data Memory Systems, Inc. (DMSI). Trevor était à l'époque président et principale actionnaire de DMSI. En 1990, Dupuy quitte DMSI et refonde TNDA. En 1992, TNDA disparait à nouveau. Dupuy établit alors l'organisme à but non-lucratif The Dupuy Institute (TDI).

La contribution principale de Dupuy à l'analyse des opérations militaires et la méthode quantitative du Quantified Judgment Method, où le résultat d'une bataille est prédit par une formule mathématique où des éléments incluant les forces en présences, la puissance de feu et les influences externes sont prient en compte. Dupuy et ses associés ajustent les paramètres avec les statistiques connus de batailles passées.

Vie familiale et mort
Dupuy se suicide par arme à feu dans son domicile de Vienna en Virginie le . Il avait pris connaissance trois semaines plus tôt qu'il était atteint d'un cancer du pancréas en phase terminale. Il est mis en terre au Cimetière national d'Arlington. Durant sa vie, il a écrit plus de 50 livres.

Durant sa vie, il a été marié à cinq reprises, sa dernière femme étant Zhang Yun. Il est le père de neuf enfants, six garçons, Trevor, Ernest, George, Charles, Arnold et Fielding, et 3 filles, Laura, Mirande et Signe.

Publications
 To the Colors: The Way of Life of an Army Officer (avec R.E. Dupuy), Chicago, 1942
 Faithful and True: History of the 5th Field Artillery, Schwabisch-Hall, Allemagne, 1949
Campaigns of the French Revolution and of Napoleon, Cambridge, Ma, 1956
 Brave Men and Great Captains (With R. E. Dupuy), New York, 1960, 1984, 1993
 Compact History of the Civil War (with R.E. Dupuy), New York, 1960, 1991
 Civil War Land Battles, New York, 1960
 Civil War Naval Actions, New York, 1961
Military History Of World War II, New York, 1962–65 :

Compact History of the Revolutionary War (avec R. E. Dupuy), New York, 1963
Holidays, Editor, Contributor., New York, 1965
Military Heritage Of America (avec R. E. Dupuy et Paul Braim), 2 Vols., New York, 1966, 1986, 1992
Military History Of World War I, New York, 1967  :

The Battle Of Austerlitz, New York, 1968
Modern Libraries For Modern Colleges: Research Strategies For Design And Development, Washington, D.C., 1968
Ferment In College Libraries: The Impact Of Information Technology, Washington, D.C., 1968
Mediapower: A College Plans For An Integrated Media Service System, Washington, D.C., 1968
Military History Of The Chinese Civil War, New York, 1969
The Military Lives Series (publier entre 1969 et 1970) :

 Revolutionary War Naval Battles (avec Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1970
 Revolutionary War Land Battles (avec Gay M. Hammerman), New York, 1970
 Mongolia, Foreign Area Studies Handbook, Washington, D.C., 1970
 Almanac Of World Military Power 1970 (avec John A. Andrews et Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1970
 Almanac Of World Military Power 1972 (avec John A. Andrews et Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1972
 Documentary History Of Arms Control And Disarmament (avec Gay M. Hammerman), New York, 1974
 World Military Leaders (avec Grace P. Hayes et Paul Martell), 1974
 Almanac Of World Military Power 1974 (avec John A. Andrews et Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1974
 People And Events Of The American Revolution (avec Gay M. Hammerman), New York, 1974
 An Outline History Of The American Revolution (avec R.E. Dupuy), New York, 1975
 Encyclopedia Of Military History (avec R.E. Dupuy), New York, 1975, 1986, 1993
 A Genius For War: The German Army And General Staff, 1807–1945, New Jersey, 1977, 1984, 1989, 1993
 Numbers, Predictions and War, New York, 1978, 1985
 Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947–1974, New York, 1978, 1984, 1989, 1992
 Almanac Of World Military Power 1980 (avec John A. Andrews et Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1980
 The Evolution Of Weapons And Warfare, New York, 1980, 1984, 1986
 Great Battles Of The Eastern Front (avec Paul Martell), New York, 1982
 Options Of Command, New York, 1984
 Flawed Victory: The Arab-Israeli Conflict And The 1982 War In Lebanon (avec Paul Martell), Virginia, 1986
 Understanding War: Military History And The Theory Of Combat, New York, 1986
 Dictionary Of Military Terms (avec Curt Johnson et Grace P. Hayes), New York, 1987
 Understanding Defeat: How to Recover from Loss in Battle to Gain Victory in War, New York, 1990
 Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties And Equipment Losses In Modern War, Virginia, 1990
 If War Comes, How To Defeat Saddam Hussein, Virginia, 1991; issued as a paperback with the title How To Defeat Saddam Hussein
 Future Wars: The World's Most Dangerous Flashpoints, New York, 1992
 Encyclopedia Of Military Biography (avec Curt Johnson et David L. Bongard), New York, 1992
 International Military And Defense Encyclopedia, (Brassey's) 6 Vols., Editor In Chief, New York, 1992
 Hitler's Last Gamble (avec David L. Bongard et Richard C. Anderson), New York, 1994
 Great Captains And Modern War
 Military Myths (Incomplet)
 Documentary History Of The U.S. Armed Forces (Incomplet)

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Naissance à Staten Island
Naissance en mai 1916
Décès dans le comté de Fairfax (Virginie)
Décès en juin 1995
Décès à 79 ans
Suicide par arme à feu aux États-Unis
Politologue américain
Historien militaire
Historien américain du XXe siècle
Militaire américain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière national d'Arlington
Élève de l'Académie militaire de West Point
Professeur à l'université Harvard
Professeur à l'université d'État de l'Ohio
Colonel de l'United States Army

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Negative role of Greece in new Middle Eastern order: Will Iran leverage Cyprus against Athens
Masoud Sadrmohammadi
The pace of regional and global developments accelerated dramatically and it will gradually become impossible to prevent seemingly unrelated cases from interacting with each other. While no one thought before that Greece would become an effective actor in the Middle East game, in recent weeks the country has suddenly become one of the main figures in politics of world imperialist order.
This behavior of Greece is more than a cross-sectional move and an action ordered or influenced by Washington. It can be considered as a piece of a large and strategic puzzle in Athens' foreign policy created by more intense interactions with Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. In this great puzzle, Greece tries to move as an American infantry force in the region. Traditionally, before it was thought that Greece's purpose, with this new attitude in the Middle East and Europe, was to create a political bloc to oppose and balance Turkey's national and territorial interests in the Mediterranean and the Aegean. However, with such behavior on the issue of Iran, it turned out that Greece had defined much more roles for itself than a mere political act against Ankara.
Greece's enmity with Iran: improper but effective
Without any political tensions between Tehran and Athens, Greece seized an Iranian oil tanker, and then Iran had to balance the move by seizing two Greek ships in the Persian Gulf. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, used the phrase "vital enmity" in his speech on the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's passing away on June 5. Referring to the incident, he blatantly called the Greek seizure of Iranian tankers as a "theft".
However, the tensions between Iran and Greece did not remain at this level. In recent weeks, Greece has crossed one of Iran's most vital red lines by letting Israel to simulate the attack model on Iran in Roman Cyprus. Although this Israeli military drill was accompanied by a great deal of scandal and the Israeli operation against Iran was practically unsuccessful even in the maneuver, Greece once again showed that without any hostilities between Tehran and Athens, it can be counted among the enemies of Iran. Moreover, according to military reports released last week, Israeli Air Force drills in the region indicate that Tel Aviv has opened a special account to use the airspace of Greece and Cyprus to attack Iran. This is not an issue that Iran can easily ignore.
The US may push Greece to "more aggressive action" to change Turkey's stance in Ukraine conflict
Greece seems to intend to create a new attitude of foreign policy based on its non-European diplomacy in order to change traditional regional dynamics by operating in new balances. In the meantime, while the issue of energy and efforts to create a Mediterranean bloc to balance Turkey is of a great importance, Greece's behavior reflects the fact that Athens regional policy revisions are not limited to Turkey, and that Greece, relying on Israel and the GCC states, is trying to become a play-making actor in the Middle East.
Iran's response to Greece: The Cyprus case?
Naturally, all these incidents cannot be ignored by Iran. Greece, in response to its persecution, should expect a strong reaction from Iran. Taking into account the activities of foreign policy think tanks in Iran, it shows that Tehran is seriously seeking to review of its regional policies and is trying to start a new season of foreign relations, after the period of intense shadowing over the nuclear issue and the Syrian Crisis. Greece's motivations at such a stage will undoubtedly change the perceptions of Iranian policymakers to assess Athens' role in Iran's policies in the Middle East and the West, and lead Iran to a more strategic partnership with Ankara. As can be seen in some Iranian think tanks, Cyprus is one of the cases that Iran intends to use, either to improve its relations with Ankara and to show its goodwill towards Turkey, or to strike a balance with Greece.
Iran has so far not taken any significant political action on the Cyprus issue and has tried to silence the case, but we now see that some Iranian think tanks are seriously considering the Cyprus case. This attention of Iranian think tanks on the Cyprus issue shows the willingness of the Iranian decision makers to pay attention on the Cyprus issue and move in a constructive direction with Ankara by using the Cyprus card, and we can expect to see Iranian public diplomacy on the issue in the near future.
Tehran's strategic integration and such a coalition with Ankara was an unexpected result that Greece has faced. Perhaps the coldness of relations regarding the Syrian crisis and the political tensions between the two countries on the other regional issues led Athens to the conclusion that the two countries are not cooperating on Greece's role. However, considering the past, the relations between Iran and Turkey show that both countries are aware of their strategic interests. Also, it is not possible to disrupt these relations, regardless of the sedition of the Persian Gulf countries or the role of a country like Greece. On the contrary, it will make the relations closer.
Greek aggression
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Journalist and Researcher in Middle East studies, Former editor of "Eurasia and Turkey" in Tasnimnews, P.h.D candidate in Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
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The Pope's "Common Good" Will Compel All to False Worship as in Revelation 13:14-18.
"Only those who recognize that The COMMON GOOD concerns a man's soul can explain why we should legislate rest on Sunday: to honor the God who on that day rose. This is why we call Sunday the Lord's Day…For this reason…the Sabbath is the heart of all social legislation. Christian politics begins with the Sabbath. Our task is to secure it in law." Catholic Herald, May 24, 2018. Leave it to Rome to confuse the issue, calling Sunday the Sabbath.
When Christ was asked about the end of the world, He said to read and understand the book of Daniel. The Protestant reformers held believed the little horn that grew out of the 4th beast [Rome Empire in Daniel 7 after Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece] was the papacy that persecuted the saints, changed the Bible's laws (vs 25) and claimed the title, 'Lord God the Pope.' His title, Vicarius Filii Dei (Vicar of Son of God, adds up to 666, Rev 13: (Google).
The Catholic Church boasts their change of Sabbath in the 4th Commandment to Sunday, the day of pagan sun worship, from the time of Constantine wishing to unite his empire. The Catholic Church acknowledges that there is no biblical authority for Sunday worship--they its basis is tradition.
But that's also not true. The first day of the week is mentioned only once in the book of Acts, but Sabbath is mentioned NINE times--three of them as "every Sabbath" or from Sabbath to Sabbath as any concordance in print or online can show.
American pioneers gave a Constitution saying "Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion." Whether we observe the Sabbath or not is between us and God.
We "render to Caesar the things that are Caesars (like taxes for roads) and unto God, the things that are God's," Matt 22:21. Caesar has no authority to define our duty to God.
Rome's appeal for "the Common Good" is a ruse. The Sabbath is what God gave for the common good, but God wants our worship from a free will, not to be forced by the "Mother of Abominations," like ancient Caesars commanded worship or death. Rev 17:5.
To worship contrary to the Bible's clear warning under a coming New World Order with the pope in charge will bring the plagues, Rev 14:9,10. The imagery is a harlot riding the beast of NWO in Rev 17. The clues can only fit Rome, city of 7 hills, mother church and drunken with the blood of saints.
None of this is against honest Catholic Christians who aren't part of their church's secret societies and don't know the Vatican's plan to rule the world. The word Vatican means divining serpent (Google) and they worship Lucifer (search YouTube). Those who go along to get along with NWO will suffer the plagues, Rev 14:9,10.
Readers can get a well-illustrated 90-page condensation of above "Great Controversy," postage paid for a $3 donation, http://RichardRuhling.com Click Donate, option 3.
Richard Ruhling is a physician whose focus in retirement is current events and Bible prophecy. His books/ebooks are on Amazon/Kindle, a non-denominational perspective.


Jason Callahan, private investigator, and his pyschic partner, Trina Dane, return in the second installment of the Jason Callahan Mysteries.
Chloe Marsh is found at the scene of an accident and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Half an hour later, as she is being taken to the morgue, Chloe suddenly sits up. But this isn't the first time Chloe has died and it certainly won't be the last.
Enter Trina and Jason. They've worked on cases together before but nothing like this. Investigator Jason Callahan doesn't believe for a minute that Chloe has special powers, but psychic Trina Dane does, and she thinks she knows why. But what of the other people across the country who have had the same experiences? How did they really die? And how did one boy (and Chloe) manage to survive? Only Trina and Jason can find the answers, but they must do so before Chloe runs out of lives.