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Mr Dutton, we need help with supplier risk
When we speak with heads of cyber, risk and privacy, eventually there comes a point when brows become more furrowed and the conversation turns to suppliers and the risk they pose.
There are a couple of likely triggers. First, APRA's new CPS 234 regulations require regulated entities to evaluate a supplier's information security controls. Second, there's heightened awareness now in the business community that many data breaches suffered by organisations are ultimately a result of the breach of a supplier.
The problem space
Organisations today use hundreds or even thousands of suppliers for a multitude of services. The data shared and access given to deliver those services is increasingly so extensive that it has blurred the boundaries between organisation and supplier. In many cases, the supplier's risk is the organisation's risk.
Gaining assurance over the risk posed by a large number of suppliers, without using up every dollar of budget allocated to the cyber team, is an increasingly difficult challenge.
To appreciate the scope of the challenge, we first need to understand the concept of "assurance", a term not always well understood outside the worlds of risk and assurance. So let's take a moment to clarify, using DLP (Data Loss Prevention) as an example.
To gain assurance over a control you are required to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of that control. APRA's new information security regulation CPS234 states that regulated entities require both when assessing the information security controls they rely upon to manage their risk, even if that control sits with a supplier. So what would that entail in this example?
Design effectiveness would be confirming that the DLP tool covered all information sources and potential exit points for your data. It would involve making sure data is marked and therefore could be monitored by the tool. Evidence of the control working would be kept.
Operating effectiveness would be the proof (using the evidence above) that the control has been running for the period of time that it was supposed to.
The unfortunate reality of assurance
In previous roles, members of our team have been part of designing and running market-leading supplier risk services. But these services never actually gave any assurance, unlike audit reports (eg. SOC2, ASAE etc). Supplier risk reports typically include a familiar caveat: "this report is not an audit and does not constitute assurance".
This is because the supplier risk service that is delivered involves the consulting firm sending a supplier a spreadsheet, which the supplier fills in, prompting the consulting firm to ask for evidence to support the responses.
This process provides little insight as to the design or operating effectiveness of a control. If the worst case happens and a supplier is breached, the organisation will point to the consulting firm, and the consulting firm will point to that statement in the report that said the service they were providing did not constitute assurance.
We need your help, Mr Dutton
The reality is that every organisation getting actual assurance over every control at each of its suppliers is just not a feasible option.
We believe Australia needs a national scheme to manage supplier risk. A scheme in which baseline security controls are properly audited for their design and operating effectiveness, where assurance is gained and results are shared as needed. This would allow organisations to focus their cyber budget and energies on gaining assurance over the specific controls at suppliers that are unique to their service arrangement.
Last week, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton issued a discussion paper seeking input into the nation's 2020 cyber security strategy. This is a great opportunity for industry to put forward the importance of a national and shared approach to managing supplier risk in this country. We will be putting forward this view, and some of the ideas in this post, in our response.
We encourage those of you struggling with supplier risk to do the same. If you would like to contribute to our response, please drop us a line here.
Tagged APRA, CPS234, CYBER, Cybersecurity, Peter Dutton, supplier risk, supplier security
Up close and personal with the Singaporean Cybersecurity Act
October 23, 2018 October 23, 2018 by news@elevenM
Due to a recent engagement we carried out an in-depth review of the new Singaporean Cybersecurity Act.
The Act is a bold approach to ensuring the security of a nation's most critical infrastructure, which we think will be copied by other countries and may even be a model for large enterprises.
Why bold?
A fundamental challenge is that the level of cybersecurity protecting any piece of infrastructure at any given time is usually heavily dependent on a Chief Information Security Officer's (CISO) ability to present cyber risk to those controlling the purse strings. The result is a varied levels of control and capability across some very important infrastructure.
So what is the answer? Like most things, depends who you ask. Singapore has taken the bold approach to regulate the cybersecurity of the technology infrastructure that the country needs to run smoothly.
Our key takeaways
The Act introduces a Cyber Commissioner who will "respond to cybersecurity incidents that threaten the national security, defence, economy, foreign relations, public health, public order or public safety, or any essential services, of Singapore, whether such cybersecurity incidents occur in or outside Singapore" – Interesting to see how this works in practice. Many global companies in this framework will be hesitant to provide that level of access to a foreign state.
The Act creates Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) in Singapore meaning "the computer or computer system which is necessary for the continuous delivery of an essential service, and the loss or compromise of the computer or computer system will have a debilitating effect on the availability of the essential service in Singapore" – These CIIs span most industries across both the public and private sector. It will be very interesting to see what they determine to be CIIs and how private companies deal with this. Even from an investment perspective, who pays to increase the security posture or the rewrite of the supporting business processes?
Each designated CII will have an owner who will be appointed statutory duties specific to the cybersecurity of the CII. – Yeah, these owners will be held to account by the Commissioner. Failure to fulfil their role will result in personal fines up to $100,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years. Given most companies already struggle defining the 'owner' of a system, will this push the ownership of these business/operational systems to CISOs?
The Act introduces a licencing framework for suppliers where "No person is to provide licensable cybersecurity service without licence". – A very interesting one. The suppliers of cybersecurity services to the CIIs will need to have a license issued by the Commissioner. A sign of things to come in the supplier risk space perhaps?
The Act can be found here: Singapore Cybersecurity Act 2018
Tagged Critical Information Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Singapore Cybersecurity
The journey toward trust – Part 3: Trust through reputational management
October 14, 2018 by news@elevenM
This is the third and final article in a three-part series that explores the notion of trust in today's digital economy, and how organisations can practically build trust. In part 1 we took a deeper look at the meaning and underlying principles of trust. Part two explored best practice approaches to using regulatory compliance to build trust.
In this piece, we look at the role of reputation management in building trust on privacy and security issues.
The way an organisation manages its reputation is unsurprisingly tightly bound up with trust.
While there are many aspects to reputation management, an effective public response is one of, if not the most, critical requirements.
In the era of fast-paced digital media, a poorly managed communications response to a cyber or privacy incident can rapidly damage trust. With a vocal and influential community of highly informed security and privacy experts active on social media, corporate responses that don't meet the mark get pulled apart very quickly.
Accordingly, a bad response produces significantly bad outcomes, including serious financial impacts, executive scalps, and broader repercussions like government and regulatory inquiries and class actions.
A google search will quickly uncover examples of organisations that mishandled their public response. Just in recent weeks we learned Uber will pay US $148m in fines over a 2016 breach, largely because of failures in how it went about disclosing the breach.
Typically, examples of poor public responses to breaches include one or more of the following characteristics:
The organisation was slow to reveal the incident to customers (ie. not prioritising truth, safety and reliability)
The organisation was legalistic or defensive (ie. not prioritising the protection of customers)
The organisation pointed the finger at others (ie. not prioritising reliability or accountability)
The organisation provided incorrect or inadequate technical details (ie. not prioritising a show of competence)
As we can see courtesy of the analyses in the brackets, the reason public responses often unravel as they do is that they feature statements that violate the key principles of trust that we outlined in part one of this series.
Achieving a high-quality, trust-building response that reflects and positively communicates principles of trust is not necessarily easy, especially in the intensity of managing an incident.
An organisation's best chance of getting things right is to build communications plans in advance that embed the right messages and behaviours.
Plans and messages will always need to be adapted to suit specific incidents, of course, but this proactive approach allows organisation to develop a foundation of clear, trust-building messages in a calmer context.
It's equally critical to run exercises and simulations around these plans, to ensure the key staff are aware of their roles and are aligned to the objectives of a good public crisis response and that hiccups are addressed before a real crisis occurs.
Tagged CYBER, Cybersecurity, digitial trust, Privacy, trust
The journey toward trust – Part 2: Trust through regulatory compliance
This is the second article in a three-part series that explores the notion of trust in today's digital economy, and how organisations can practically build trust. In part 1 we took a deeper look at what trust means, and uncovered some guiding principles organisations can work towards when seeking to build trust.
In this piece, we look at best practice approaches to using regulatory compliance to build trust.
Privacy laws and regulatory guidance provide a pretty good framework for doing the right thing when it comes to trusted privacy practices (otherwise known as, the proper collection, use and disclosure of personal information).
We are the first to advocate for a compliance-based framework. Every entity bound by the Privacy Act 1988 and equivalent laws should be taking proactive steps to establish and maintain internal practices, procedures and systems that ensure compliance with the Australian Privacy Principles. They should be able to demonstrate appropriate accountabilities, governance and resourcing.
But compliance alone won't build trust.
For one, the majority of Australian businesses are not bound by the Privacy Act because they fall under its $3m threshold. This is one of several reasons why Australian regulation is considered inadequate by EU data protection standards.
Secondly, there is variability in the ways that entities operationalise privacy. The regulator has published guidance and tooling for the public sector to help create some common benchmarks and uplift maturity recognising that some entities are applying the bare minimum. No such guidance exists for the private sector – yet.
Consumer expectations are also higher than the law. It may once have been acceptable for businesses to use and share data to suit their own purposes whilst burying their notices in screeds of legalise. However, the furore over Facebook Cambridge / Analytica shows that sentiment has changed (and also raises a whole bucket of governance issues). Similarly, increasingly global consumers expect to be protected by the high standards set by the GDPR and other stringent frameworks wherever they are, which include rights such as the right to be forgotten and the right to data portability.
Lastly, current compliance frameworks do not help organisations to determine what is ethical when it comes to using and repurposing personal information. In short, an organisation can comply with the Privacy Act and still fall into an ethical hole with its data uses.
Your organisation should be thinking about its approach to building and protecting trust through privacy frameworks. Start with compliance, then seek to bolster weak spots with an ethical framework; a statement of boundaries to which your organisation should adhere.
In the third and final part of this series, we detail how an organisation's approach to reputation management for privacy and cyber security issues can build or damage trust.
The journey toward trust – Part 1: Understanding trust
October 7, 2018 by news@elevenM
Join us for a three-part series that explores the notion of trust in today's digital economy, and how organisations practically can build trust. We also focus on the role of regulatory compliance and reputation management in building trust, and outline best practice approaches.
Be-it users stepping away from the world's biggest social media platform after repeated privacy scandals, a major airline's share price plummeting after a large data breach, or Australia's largest bank issuing a stronger commitment to a stronger focus on privacy and security in rebuilding its image – events in recent weeks provide a strong reminder of the fragility and critical importance of trust to businesses seeking success in the digital economy.
Bodies as illustrious as the World Economic Forum and OECD have written at length about the pivotal role of trust as a driving factor for success today.
But what does trust actually mean in the context of your organisation? And how do you practically go about building it?
At elevenM, we spend considerable time discussing and researching these questions from the perspectives of our skills and experiences across privacy, cyber security, risk, strategy and communications.
A good starting point for any organisation wanting to make trust a competitive differentiator is to gain a deeper understanding of what trust actually means, and specifically, what it means for it.
Trust is a layered concept, and different things are required in different contexts to build trust.
Some basic tenets of trust become obvious when we look to popular dictionaries. Ideas like safety, reliability, truth, competence and consistency stand out as fundamental principles.
Another way to learn what trust means in a practical sense is to look at why brands are trusted. For instance, the most recent Roy Morgan survey listed supermarket ALDI as the most trusted brand in Australia. Roy Morgan explains this is built on ALDI's reputation for reliability and meeting customer needs.
Importantly, the dictionary definitions also emphasise an ethical aspect – trust is built by doing good and protecting customers from harm.
Digging a little deeper, we look to the work of trust expert and business lecturer Rachel Botsman, who describes trust as "a confident relationship with the unknown". This moves us into the digital space in which organisations operate today, and towards a more nuanced understanding.
We can infer that consumers want new digital experiences, and an important part of building trust is for organisations to innovate and help customers step into the novel and unknown, but with safety and confidence.
So, how do we implement these ideas about trust in a practical sense?
With these definitions in mind, organisations should ask themselves some practical and instructive questions that illuminate whether they are building trust.
Do customers feel their data is safe with you?
Can customers see that you seek to protect them from harm?
Are you accurate and transparent in your representations?
Do your behaviours, statements, products and services convey a sense of competence and consistency?
Do you meet expectations of your customers (and not just clear the bar set by regulators)?
Are you innovative and helping customers towards new experiences?
In part two of this series, we will explore how regulatory compliance can be used to build trust.
Tagged CYBER, Cybersecurity, digitial trust, Privacy, supplier, trust
What does the record FCA cyber fine mean for Australia?
October 3, 2018 October 4, 2018 by news@elevenM
First, bit of context: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is the conduct and prudential regulator for financial services in the UK. They are in-part an equivalent to the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA).
Record cyber related fine
This week the FCA handed down a record cyber related fine to the banking arm of the UK's largest supermarket chain Tesco for failing to protect account holders from a "foreseeable" cyber attack two years ago. The fine totalled £23.4 million but due to an agreed early stage discount, the fine was reduced by 30% to £16.4 million.
Cyber attack?
It could be argued that this was not a cyber attack in that it was not a breach of Tesco Bank's network or software but rather a new twist on good old card fraud. But for clarity, the FCA defined the attack which lead to this fine as: "a mass algorithmic fraud attack which affected Tesco Bank's personal current account and debit card customers from 5 to 8 November 2016."
What cyber rules did Tesco break?
Interestingly, the FCA does not have any cyber specific regulation. The FCA exercised powers through provisions published in their Handbook. This Handbook has Principles, which are general statements of the fundamental obligations. Therefore Tesco's fine was issued against the comfortably generic Principle 2: "A firm must conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence"
What does this mean for Australian financial services?
APRA, you may recall from our previous blog. has issued a draft information security regulation CPS 243. This new regulation sets out clear rules on how regulated Australian institutions should be managing their cyber risk.
If we use the Tesco Bank incident as an example, here is how APRA could use CPS 234:
Information security capability: "An APRA-regulated entity must actively maintain its information security capability with respect to changes in vulnerabilities and threats, including those resulting from changes to information assets or its business environment". – Visa provided Tesco Bank with threat intelligence as Visa had noted this threat occurring in Brazil and the US. Whilst Tesco Bank actioned this intelligence against its credit cards, it failed to do so against debit cards which netted the threat actors £2.26 million.
Incident management: "An APRA-regulated entity must have robust mechanisms in place to detect and respond to information security incidents in a timely manner. An APRA-regulated entity must maintain plans to respond to information security incidents that the entity considers could plausibly occur (information security response plans)". – The following incident management failings were noted by the FCA:
Tesco Bank's Financial Crime Operations team failed to follow written procedures;
The Fraud Strategy Team drafted a rule to block the fraudulent transactions, but coded the rule incorrectly.
The Fraud Strategy Team failed to monitor the rule's operation and did not discover until several hours later, that the rule was not working.
The responsible managers should have invoked crisis management procedures earlier.
Do we think APRA will be handing out fines this size?
Short answer, yes. Post the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, there is very little love for the financial services industry in Australia. Our sense is that politicians who want to remain politicians will need to be seen to be tough on financial services and therefore enforcement authorities like APRA will most likely see an increase in their budgets.
Unfortunately for those of you in cyber and risk teams in financial services, it is a bit of a perfect storm. The regulator has a new set of rules to enforce, the money to conduct the investigation and a precedence from within the Commonwealth.
What about the suppliers?
Something that not many are talking about but really should be, is the supplier landscape. Like it or not, the banks in Australia are some of the biggest businesses in the country. They use a lot of suppliers to deliver critical services including cyber security. Under the proposed APRA standard:
Implementation of controls: "Where information assets are managed by a related party or third party, an APRA-regulated entity must evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of that party's information security controls".
Banks are now clearly accountable for the effectiveness of the information security controls operated by their suppliers as they relate to a bank's defences. If you are a supplier (major or otherwise) to the banks, given this new level of oversight from their regulator, we advise you to get your house in order because it is likely that your door will be knocked upon soon.
Tagged APRA, CYBER, Cybersecurity, FCA, supplier, supplier security
8 steps to a threat based defence model
February 27, 2018 September 28, 2018 by news@elevenM
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Tagged cyber threats, Cybersecurity, threat based defence


If you're ready to catalog your book collection, you should know what to look for in a good book program. And it goes without saying, you need to know what qualities are usually found in a bad book program. Though not every program with these qualities is bad, when compared to a book program, they appear bad for organizing books. Save those for your stamp collection or your miniature RC cars. For books, choose a book program dedicated to the printed word.
Let me take that back. Don't just choose a program dedicated to the printed word. Of course, it has to allow you add books that are printed, of course! But if it only works with printed books, where will you list your audiobooks? Some on cassette tape, some on DVD, right? Where would those fit into a book program for only printed books? And what about ebooks? Those are books, too!
You could add the book normally and put a note somewhere that it's on tape or CD (or MP3). If the program lets you add notes. If it doesn't, it probably falls into the bad category anyway, so why are you bothering with it? Choose a program that's as customizable as it can be. It's your program after all. It should reflect the things you like, and the way you think. If you can't make it do that-mark another in the bad column.
And how about customizing right down to how you sort the books? Do you want to sort by publisher, author, title, subject, or some other fact? Fine! But what if you want to sort your books by your favorites, or the ones you liked the least? How will the book program know to do that?
Because, if it's a good book program it will let you add those labels to the books. You should be able to add anything you want. Or nothing. Label a book "snorflehagden" if the mood strikes, and no one or nothing in the book program should pop up and say, "Sorry! Can't do that."
Label your favorites as such, and sort. Label the books that you feel are just one step above firestarters, and sort. You'll never have to worry about forgetting that you read one and accidentally have to slog through that horrible story again!
What about images? Does the book program add the cover for you? It should. Can you add your own images? With the right software you can. Can you turn your book catalog into HTML so it can be uploaded to the Internet? No, that's not science fiction! A good book program does this for you, no fuss, no muss.
What about your mobile devices? You carry everything else on your cell phone or PDA, why not carry your book catalog, too? You'll never be stuck in a bookstore and unable to make sure you don't have that new novel.
A good book program should become your book program, and do just what you want it to.
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"Life is a rainbow of chaos"
Hollywood primarily, but most global cinema has traduced, commodified and cheapened the notion of romantic love for most of the medium's existence, but if proof is needed that cinema can also create a sublime and transcendent statement on the same subject then here it is in 'L'Atalante' . Jean Vigo battled ill-health and an unsympathetic studio to magically assemble one of the most poetic and beautiful films of all time, that he achieved it under such conditions is a miracle, that he didn't live to see it find it's place in the cinematic firmament is a tragedy. Like others of his era, building on Clair and Fedyer, Vigo found poetry in the banal and ordinary, and also a subtle undercurrent of surrealism, then much in vogue in Paris. Indeed Jean Gremillion's dictum of rejecting "mechanical naturalism" and instead focusing on "the discovery of that subtlety which the human eye does not perceive directly but which must be shown by establishing the harmonies, the unknown relations, between objects and beings; it is a vivifying, inexhaustible source of images that strike our imaginations and enchant our hearts." could serve as the paradigm for the entire genre of Poetic Realism, which could happily date it's beginning with 'L'Atalante'.
Vigo commences with a wedding, as Jean (Jean Dasté) and Juliette (Dita Parlo) exit the church they march towards the titular barge that will carry them away to a life on France's working canals, followed by her family. Vigo gives us no background but it's soon obvious she's from a small village, dreaming of paris and he represents escape for her to the romance of the canals. Jean, however, is a pragmatist, the canals are for working not escape, and even though he's fallen deeply in love with the luminous Juliette he intends to continue the hard working life he's always known, Parisian lights or no. The set up is completed by the marvellous Michel Simon as Jules, the first mate of the L'Atalante, he is a force of nature, a paradoxical brute who can wear a dress, a bear who wrestles with himself but yearns for tender music. Jules and Juliette dance around each other, metaphorically and literally, unsure if either is friend or foe, only to find they are indeed kindred spirits. Jules has lived a full and interesting life, and Juliette realises he is not a man who will die wondering, a condition she earnestly wishes upon herself.
After the first flush of married life starts to wear off, and the playful eroticism of the couple recedes, Juliette sees the monotony and routine of the working barge begin to overwhelm her. Jean is distracted and unaware of the depth of feeling of his new wife, and in the same way Renoir called 'La Bete Humaine' a love triangle with the train as the third party, here the barge fulfills that function too. Juliette attempts to reach Jean by telling him of the fable that 'under water one can see their true love', Jean plays along and puts his head in the river but doesn't fully comprehend the concept. As Jean is consumed by his work Juliette continues to identify with the anarchic spirit she sees in Jules, and once jean registers this connection he becomes jealous, aggressive and sullen. In an attempt to win back his love Jean takes Juliette to a dance club on the outskirts of Paris, only to become jealous again once Juliette is flirting with a peddler who dances with her and fuels her dream of Paris. The peddler promises to take her to Paris, but after arriving at the barge Jean drives him away. Juliette decides to take some time for herself and see Paris on her own, while they are docked on the Sienne.
Juliette walks the Parisian boulevards alone, entranced by the beautiful things on offer, and happy gazing into the store windows. She returns to the river only to find an empty dock, Jean has weighed anchor and left without her in a fit of pique. She stumbles around the streets in a daze, seeing another side to Paris, a not so attractive one. Jean, realising the foolishness of what he's done, spirals into a depression. He dives into the water at one point, seeing the vision of Juliette in accordance with the fable, and yearning to re-connect with his true love. As both of the lovers take to their separate beds Vigo employs one of the most famous sequences in all of cinema as the two mystically feel the absence of each others bodies and then conjure a visceral presence by strength of their love alone. Jean is in danger of losing his contract by his careless behaviour and Jules sees that he needs to act, to find Juliette and return her to the barge. Using the mystical power of music, Juliette plays the Chant of the Mariner in a record shop, only to have it produce Jules in the flesh to take her home.
Any summary of the plot will fail to do justice to what is achieved by Vigo. The remarkable visual world Vigo constructs, with the aid of Russian cinematographer Boris Kaufman (Oscar winner 20 years later for 'On The Waterfront') is a dreamscape of water and desire. The shots of Juliette walking the length of the moving barge in her bridal dress are pure poetry, unforgettable and moving. Water is everywhere, life giving and threatening at the same time, a metaphor for love in it's capacity to consume, obfuscate and devour. The surreal playfulness of Jules' sight gag with a record and his finger, or with the grotesque home drawn tattoo's gives the film a humour and humanity that fills in the realism part of the poetic realism equation. The final shot of the barge from above, intrinsically part of the river with the two lovers safely on board is a fitting frame of nature surrounding and neutralising machinery, of subsuming and contextualising it in relation to the cargo of love it's carrying. Stunning.
The film has found it's champions in the years since Vigo's death, now fully restored and able to be enjoyed for as long as is possible. It's one of Truffaut's 10 favourite films, it's influenced geniuses like Tarkovsky and mavericks like Jarmusch. Once seen it's not hard to see why.


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Elle Pound (nee McLaren 2005)
Living in the United States taught Elle a number of skills. She relearned how to make friends. It was easy in Perth and at school, yet, in New York, and later Portland, she was an outsider, a new mum and quite isolated. However, she built her place in those cities and the friends she made she believes she will have for a lifetime.
An observation she made in her work life was that Americans were very confident and competitive. If she was going to progress in the corporate world, Elle had to learn to sell herself. She needed to honestly assess and recognise her worth and learn to articulate that in an authentic and humble way. This has been a useful skill but not one that came naturally as a typical self-deprecating Australian.
The greatest learning curve for Elle in America was accepting that she had to let go of control. As a working mum she says she had to acknowledge that, "To do it all, I couldn't do it all. I wanted my career and I wanted to be with my children, but I had to let go of parts of each." So, Elle and Luke employed a full-time nanny and leant on the support networks they'd fostered in each city.
After ten weeks of maternity leave after each child, Elle returned to work. She cried in the shower and felt guilty about working full-time. However, she says that decision gave space for Luke to become an amazing dad and empowered them both to share the love and load of parenting.
This month, Elle and Luke have returned to Perth. The pull of extended family was very strong. She still feels unsettled as they begin to put roots back down in Perth, but knows she wants the girls to attend Santa Maria College and, for now, Perth feels like the right decision.
Elle says that her adventures in the world have allowed her to return to Perth "with a huge dose of humility, gratitude for my privilege and consciousness that most of my problems really are not that significant. Living away cemented us as a family unit. We were all we had, and we made it work and we problem-solved. We had so much fun just being the four of us. I don't want us to ever get too comfortable or complacent in life – there are always adventures to be had."
When asked about the impact Santa Maria has had on her life, Elle says it has been massive. When she became a parent and started to consider the moral compass she wanted to instill in her girls, it led her back to the Mercy values that had strongly impacted her. She says it's a special school and she wants her daughters to experience that too.

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Yesterday, I was talking to a friend whose daughter starts high school today. Even on the phone, I could hear the angst in her voice. I am remember that angst well. There is a lot to worry about during the high school years and it's a little scary for parents. So, here is a guide to help you, the parent, survive the next four years. These are my 10 best tips.
1. Your child will be more stressed than in middle school. In high school, classes are more difficult, workload is more intense, teacher expectations are higher. Some teens handle the stress better than others. You may need to step in and come up with ways to help your teen cope. When meltdowns happen, they usually are late at night. Do what it takes to smoothe things over and get your teen to go to bed.
2. In high school, people are annoying. Your teen will come home and talk about how much he or she is annoyed by some teacher, classmate, friend, or maybe even by you. That's just the way it is. Don't take it personally.
3. Phones play a bigger than ever role. Teens take pictures of assignments, share homework, look up answers and of course socialize on their phones. Just get used to your teens staring at their screens.
4. You likely will NOT get the whole story. When teens hit the high school years, they start to keep information from their parents. You may hear part of the story, but it's normal for teens to hold back.
5. Lunch is when big things happen. Arguments, relationships, friendships, cheating…the beginnings of these activities tend to start during lunch. If you are going to ask your teen about his or her day, pay attention to what went on at lunch time.
6. Teachers prefer students to resolve their own issues. There is nothing wrong with parents interceding when a situation gets out of hand, but in high school it's best to let your teenager try to fix an issue on his or her own first.
7. You don't get to choose your teenagers' friends. This is a tough one for parents to accept, especially for moms who made playdates for their kids or organized sleepovers. In high school they choose their own friends and they may choose some you don't like.
8. These next four years can get expensive. First there is the clothing. Then there is the car, insurance and gas. There also are class rings, homecomings, proms, clubs fees, club fundraisers, sports fees and uniform costs, entrance to football games, and supplies like computers and calculators. Without realizing it, the costs add up. You may want to budget for additional costs or talk to your teens about contributing for the items they consider most important.
9. If your teens says something you do is nerdy, believe them. My daughter reminds me that I wanted to drive her up to the front of the school and she insisted it was nerdy. Apparently it took me about a week to understand that the further away I dropped her from the front, the better.
10. Every year of high school counts. Encourage your teen to do his or her best every year. Colleges look at rigor, grades and activities starting freshman year. If your teen is not doing well in a course, try to catch it early and get him or her a free in-school tutor or request a transfer into another course.
High school can be as challenging for parents as it is for their children. Hang in there! You will be surprised at how fast four years fly by!
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Which Is Healthier, Drinking Coffee Using White Sugar Or Palm Sugar?
Many people now prefer to mix coffee using palm sugar rather than ordinary sugar. The reason, though, is because people say palm sugar is healthier. Why is palm sugar considered superior to white sugar? Aside from that, you may also want to know about the most recommended site to buy coffee beans online.
White sugar is made from sugar cane, while palm sugar is made from sap (liquid that comes out from the palm tree trunk). White sugar is a food source that is only high in calories but has minimal nutrition, even almost zero, while palm sugar is actually enriched by some minerals needed by the body.
The study found that palm sugar contains potassium, phosphorus, zinc, iron, manganese, copper, to small doses of antioxidants, such as polyphenols, flavonoids, and anthocyanidin. Palm sugar is also rich in vitamin B8 (inositol), folic acid, vitamin B1 (thiamine), and vitamin B2 (riboflavin) which functions to form healthy cells.
Apart from its nutritional content, palm sugar also far outperforms white sugar in terms of glycemic values. From a score range of 0-100, the glycemic index value of white sugar is 100 while palm sugar has a glycemic value of around 35. The higher the glycemic value, the faster the food raises blood sugar.
Palm sugar is one of the alternative sweeteners with a low glycemic index thanks to the content of food fibers in it called inulin. Inulin fiber is known to keep blood sugar levels normal.
So drinking coffee using palm sugar is healthier?
From various aspects, palm sugar is indeed far superior to ordinary white sugar. However, palm sugar is still sugar.
Palm sugar is still sugar which can increase the amount of calorie intake. Excessive calorie intake is associated with the risk of gaining weight, to chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. That's why we must keep limiting the amount of sugar intake in food and drinks daily to prevent unwanted risks.


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Robert Lloyd - a Sir Gar Blog . . . and some Clecs! Random thoughts, news and views from Carmarthenshire and the rest of Wales!
The new 'Why I Love Organic' campaign (see earlier posts) will feature a number of Welsh firms.
One of them will be the Nant Gwyn Faen Organic Farm, specialists in local and organic food in Llandysul.
Nant Gwyn Faen, certified by the Soil Association, is run in accordance with organic standards.
A spokesman said :"We keep poultry and pigs. Welsh black cattle, and sheep graze our pastures during the summer. As well as running our bed and breakfast, an organic farm shop, and making bespoke furniture, we also grow our own vegetables.
The National Botanic Garden of Wales is holding a Woodcraft Festival (Jan 22-23) and it will showcase some of the stars of the craft in action – all under cover in the Great Glasshouse and all FREE of charge.
One of Britain's leading woodturners – Simon Hope – will be demonstrating his own range of tools; Chris Pouncy, of Robert Sorby Tools, Sheffield, will hold woodturning demonstrations; there will be displays by the Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorgan woodturning clubs; and a demonstration by the South Wales Stickmakers' Guild.
Also on the bill are a clock maker, Lovespoon carver willow weaving, woodland craftspeople and hurdle makers.
Paul Roberts, of Isca Timber, will give a talk on working with wood and Les Bryan, Picus Crafts, will give a display of turned chairs.
Also putting on an exhibition are staff for the Garden's library who will be showing – for the first time – some of its new collection of wood samples from around the world.
One of them will be the Calon Wen organic fresh food company in Lampeter.
Calon Wen is a Co-op owned by over 20 farming families from across Wales. Our children and families drink our milk everyday and the rest is bottled or churned giving you a taste of the simple life.
Many dairy farmers want to sell their own milk to local people through their own company. Well that's what Calon Wen is all about.
• Calon Wen was will soon be celebrating its 10th year and is a Co-op owned by over 20 farming families from across Wales. The aim is to secure a long term market for organic milk from Wales by supporting organic processing needs in Wales.
There has been huge interest from private owners seeking to take over an Ammanford £1 million municipal golf course to secure its long-term future.
Carmarthenshire Council wants to lease out Parc Garnant - built on reclaimed land from a former open cast coal site - which will make a loss of around £150,000 this year.
It has invited tenders as part of a review of its leisure services which has attracted widespread interest.
Garnant councillor Kevin Madge said the executive board wanted to ensure it remained open to the public and did not become exclusively a private members club.
The 18-hole course and clubhouse was developed as part of the restoration of the 120-acre site after opencast mining ceased in 1992.
It was named best new course of the year in 2004 by the Golf Union of Wales.
It has a membership but is also open to the public on a pay-per-play basis with green fees from £10 a round.
Residents in Carmarthenshire have recycled 143 Christmas trees.
A Christmas Tree Amnesty was held the council on Saturday with collection points set up in Llandeilo, Llandovery, Pencader, Llanybydder, Tumble and Kidwelly.
Householders were able to take along their real trees to be recycled after the festive season.
The trees were then taken to the In-Vessel Composting Unit at Nantycaws to be turned into compost/soil conditioner.
The aim of the amnesty was to raise awareness of waste and reduce fly-tipping, assist residents with the disposal of their Christmas trees and make sure as many as possible are recycled.
Executive board member for the environment Councillor Philip Hughes said: "Despite the cold weather there was a good turnout of residents. Christmas tree recycling is an eco-friendly, convenient way of getting rid of your real Christmas tree and doing your bit for the environment.
Planning permission has been granted for a new parking facility in Burry Port – to help travellers switch between trains, buses, cars, motorcycles and bicycles.
Carmarthenshire County Council planning committee approved a scheme by the local authority for a multi modal parking facility on land to the south of Sea View Terrace, Burry Port.
It will create a new purpose-built site with designated areas to help travellers switch between different forms of transport.
The proposed scheme will provide 84 car parking spaces (including nine disability spaces), four motorcycle spaces, and 15 cycle spaces. There will be cycle lockers/shelters.
An officers' report said: "At the present time, although Burry Port has bus stops, a railway station and some car parking areas, they are at different locations within the town.
Dog owner fined for foul play!
A dog owner has been fined £75 for foul play on a rugby field in Hendy.
The council's environmental enforcement officers issued the fixed penalty notice to the man in Hendy Park for failing to clean up after his pet.
Failure to pay could lead to prosecution in the magistrates court and a maximum fine of £1,000.
Executive board member for the environment Councillor Philip Hughes said: "Dog mess left anywhere is a serious health risk and these fields are used to play rugby on. There have been instances where people have become extremely ill after falling into dog mess, in extreme cases it can even lead to blindness.
Carmarthenshire County Council is working hard to tackle the problem of dog fouling and enforcement officers regularly carry out patrols across the county.
Planning permission has been granted for a new main entrance to make Amman Valley Leisure Centre more accessible for disabled people.
Carmarthenshire County Council's planning committee approved a scheme by the local authority to build a single storey extension to create a new entrance which complies with the Disability Discrimination Act.
The new entrance at the leisure centre off Margaret Street, Ammanford, will include a lobby area, steps up to a raised level and a platform lift.
Housing can be built opposite Cwmifor Village Hall provided that community benefits are provided.
Carmarthenshire County Council's planning committee yesterday granted outline planning permission for residential development and a community car park on land in Cwmifor, Llandeilo.
Outline permission was originally approved in 2007 and a Section 106 Agreement on community benefits was drafted but not signed. The applicant has now asked to amend it to stagger community benefit payments because of the slowdown in the housing market.
An officers' report to this week's meeting said: "The authority accepts the principle of staggering payments whilst the site is developed as this would allow the applicant to generate the sufficient cash flow required to progress the site through to its completion.
Aberystwyth University is the first in Wales to join UKPASS, the online application service for prospective postgraduate students.
UKPASS was established in 2007 and is run by UCAS, the undergraduate applications service.
It enables prospective postgraduate students anywhere in the world to search online for courses and to apply to study at British universities.
Dr Hywel Davies, Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Aberystwyth University has welcomed the development; "As well as facilitating the system for finding suitable courses and applying for them, the service is free and very flexible.
"It is a rolling service, which allows for several start dates throughout the year, and is done wholly online, which reduces paper costs and avoids delay in submitting applications. Furthermore, applications can be submitted in English or Welsh – the only provider to offer this essential feature."
The leading lights in the UK bakery and confectionery industry are visiting Llanelli next week (January 18 and 19) in honour of one of our oldest businesses.
Jenkins the Bakers, a third generation family business based in Llanelli, has the honour of hosting a meeting of the British Confectioners' Association.
The honour comes as the Jenkins Bakery begins to celebrate its 90th anniversary.
"This year is a very special one for all of us here at Jenkins," said Commercial Director and Company Secretary David Jenkins.
Operations Director Russell Jenkins said the two-day visit by the BCA would include business workshops, tours of the Jenkins Bakery main HQ in Trostre and visits to many Jenkins shops in the area.
Llanelli Rotary Club has announced the date of this year's Rotary Ball - always one of the top social nights of the year in Llanelli.
Llanelli's opening the gateway to Eastern promise that will completely rejuvenate its town centre shopping and leisure experience.
Henry Davidson Developments Ltd could make a start before the end of March on the £15 million East Gate Development.
In two years, the development will blend into the town centre a six-screen multiplex Reel cinema, 53-bedroom Travel Lodge Hotel, a range of pubs and restaurants, nearly 2,000sq metres of new office space, a convenience store and other retail outlets, a ShopMobility facility, increased parking for 239 vehicles, an improved and enhanced bus station and a new town square and other public realm enhancements.
The county's executive board on Monday (January 18) are to recommend a start on the scheme that could be endorsed by full council on February 7 leading to a swift March start on works which could be completed in 2012.
To go to New York on business at the end of 2010 (and to make the mistake of bragging how cheap the flights were) was asking for financial ruin and for what was planned as a boys' outing to turn into a family shopping expedition.
Plainly, I was not aware that the purpose of the trip was to help ailing US exports!
I have just returned from a trip to the Big Apple to sell Welsh Beer to the Americans.
Our new agent based in New York has lined up a series of exciting opportunities for us to be able to export bottle beers to 39 states of the Union, and in the longer term to establish a joint brewing opportunity to brew our award-winning Cwrw brand over there.
The Americans invented small scale brewing, and much that passes for ale in the States is in fact based on European lagers, that have antiseptic tonsil cleansing bitterness – a brewing affliction called TCB.
It's always good to hear about 'old boys' of Carmarthen Town AFC who continue to do well in their footballing careers.
Delaney junior established himself as a fan favourite at Town in the 1990s, becoming club captain at just 20 years of age.
He later moved to Cardiff City and then to Aston Villa in 1999 for £250,000.
He made 193 first appearances for Aston Villa in all competitions. He gained 36 international caps with the Wales team.
Delaney's Aston Villa career was tempered with knee injuries, forcing him to retire from playing in 2007.
Dad Mike was a very interested spectator at the recent Haverfordwest v Carmarthen game and again at Friday night's Town v Neath match at Richmond Park.
In the news today . . .
Nice pic of the Richmond Park, Carmarthen, mini-football match (Peniel v Model schools) in the Carmarthen Journal newspaper today.
Brewer Simon Buckley's latest 'Iechyd Da' beer column is in the Carmarthen Journal newspaper today.
'View from Richmond Park' Carmarthen AFC column in the Carmarthen Journal today.
Nice story about Llanelli Rotary Club's start to the New Year in the Llanelli Star today. First speaker of year at Rotary meet tonight.
One of them will be the Rhug Farm Estate in Corwen, Denbighsbire.
Rhug farm started its organic conversion in 1998 and is now fully certified by the Soil Association.
Rhug has its own nationally award winning flock of 4000 ewes and 500 head of cattle including the special herd of Aberdeen Angus.
Rhug is one of the largest organic farms in Wales, covering 1050 hectares (approx. 2500 acres) including 90 hectares of broadleaved woodland plus 551 hectares of mountain land.
All of the land is managed to stringent environmental management principles. The mountain is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and subject to a five-year environmental management plan with the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW).
The lowland is managed under the Tir Gofal (Care of the land) scheme on a ten-year management agreement.
An interactive green technology trail featuring a range of micro-scale renewable energy demonstrators – from a mini wind turbine to pedal powered machines – is to be created at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
The news was announced today by Lesley Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills, during a visit to the Garden with Professor John Harries, Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales.
It is seen as a significant boost to extend and develop the Garden's educational work linked to biodiversity, energy and the environment.
Funding of £28,500 from the Welsh Assembly Government, through the National Science Academy, will support the STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Sustainable Futures technology trail, with an additional £42,000 to host an internationally acclaimed exhibition at the Garden illustrating the vital role that fungi play in the health of people and the planet.
One of them will Abaca Ltd of Tycroes Business Park, Ammanford.
The firm's managing director is Mrs Rhiannon Rowley.
After 15 years of working in the mattress industry, Rhiannon's concern about the chemicals in the fabrics and materials used to create mattresses, led to the development of Abaca Organic.
There was already a clear need for natural bedding for people with a range of conditions including various allergies and ME.
More than just a natural alternative, Rhiannon wanted to create a truly luxurious organic bedding range.
The company produces organic mattresses using the purest organic Welsh wool and organic fabrics.
Unlike other mattresses which use synthetic fabrics, Abaca mattresses are made of natural materials without the need for chemicals.
No pesticides are used in the production of the cotton materials used.
Work is underway to revamp Carmarthen Library in the lead up to the building's 250th anniversary.
Renovation work is being undertaken as a joint project between Carmarthenshire County Council and CyMAL, and is part of an overall investment in the county's three main libraries.
A host of improvements are being made – including a makeover of the Children's Library to reflect the changing needs of younger visitors.
New computers have already been installed in both the IT Suite and the children's section.
The hall and exhibition area is also being revamped to cater for the demand for larger meetings.
Extra meeting spaces and a more user-friendly exhibition space are part of the overall scheme.
Externally, the library will get a fresh lick of paint, access will be improved and external lighting around the building is being upgraded.
Work has also begun to improve the energy efficiency of the building.
The latest issue of Carmarthenshire County Council's popular "Directory of Local Bus Services and Travel Guide" is now available.
Issue 12 of the Guide contains all the usual features which make planning public transport journeys so much easier.
It includes a colour route map, an index to places served by local bus and rail routes, contact addresses and numbers, information on Travel Passes and Rover Tickets, and full timetables for each bus route operating in and around Carmarthenshire.
County executive board member for transport services Cllr Philip Hughes said: "Every county householder would benefit at some time from the information contained in this useful guide.
Scarlets face biggest game in "three years"
The Llanelli Scarlets face "the biggest game in the last three years" when they clash with Leicester Tigers at Parc y Scarlets in a crucial Heineken Cup Pool 5 showdown this Saturday kick off 5.45pm.
Sales were past the 9,000 mark after the weekend with a five-figure crowd expected on Saturday.
The West stand is now open for sales call the ticket office on 0871 871 8088 or book online at www.scarlets.co.uk.
Savings off match day prices can be made if you book before 5pm this Friday. Tickets are priced from just £10, under 8's go free and junior tickets (ages 8-18) are priced from £5.
The National Botanic Garden of Wales in Llanarthne, near Carmarthen, is hosting a Stargazing Live event on Wednesday, January 12.
Join Dr Angharad Thomas and a host of other enthusiasts and discover the sky at night.
There's no charge for the event – though pre-booking is required – and no equipment is required. The evening is suitable for ages 5-95. Wrap up warm.
The event runs from 5.30pm-7pm and is part of BBC 2's Stargazing Live event.
The National Botanic Garden of Wales has earned another top accolade from a leading garden expert.
Tony Russell, writing in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, has ranked the Carmarthenshire attraction among his top "five best winter gardens in the UK".
Tony goes on to sing the praises of the Tropical House "bursting at the seams with palms, pineapples, coconuts and orchids" and also gives an honourable mention to the lakes, streams and walks "through the magnificent Regency water park".
Former Scarlets and Wales rugby star Dafydd Jones will reveal the heart-breaking decision to retire early from the sport in an extensive televised interview on S4C's live magazine programme, Wedi 7.
Jones, who won 42 caps for Wales, had been forced to retire earlier this week after a serious shoulder injury kept him out of the game for fourteen months.
On the Monday, 10 January edition of Wedi 7 (7pm, English subtitles available), Dafydd joins presenter John Hardy in the Llanelli-based studio to discuss his career highs and lows and his new role coaching the Scarlets' Academy squad.
Llanelli Rotary members held their first meeting of the New Year at the Stradey Park Hotel, Llanelli, on Friday.
President Melanie Carroll-Cliffe was in the chair and the meeting heard that New Year greetings had been received from retired member Dr Cledwyn Thomas, who now lives in Cardiff.
The next meeting of Llanelli Rotary Club will be held on Wednesday, January 12 at the Stradey Park Hotel. The speaker for the evening is Robert Quinn of the Carmarthenshire Command of the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
On Friday, January 21, there will be a Club Fellowship meeting at 1pm at the Stradey Park Hotel. The following Wednesday, January 26, will be a Club Committees meeting, starting at 7.30pm.
The popular Youth Speaks junior public speaking competition is due to take place on January 17 at Llanelli Town Hall.
The Young Musician competition is scheduled for February 10.
Carmarthen Town AFC are delighted to be able to offer club supporters the opportunity to purchase tickets for the forthcoming Wales versus England Euro 2012 qualifying match which will be played in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday 26th March.
We have been advised by the FAW that while tickets have been made available to members of the Wales Supporters Club there are NO tickets on sale to the general public.
As such if you are not members of the Supporters Club this is an excellent way to obtaining tickets for what will be undoubtedly a full house.
She had a 9-2 winner at Fontwell on Friday with Can't Remember.
Tonight sees the launch of the referendum Yes for Wales campaign in Llanelli. The Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Dr Barry Morgan, will speak at 7pm at the Selwyn Samuel Centre, Llanelli.
One of them will be Farmhouse Freedom Eggs of Great House, Gwehelog, Usk, Monmouthshire.
The business was founded by Gerry and Linda Tuffs who started free-range egg production at Great House Farm in 1985.
In fact, they were the first sub-contract producers for Daylay Eggs which was subsequently bought by Deans Farms.
In 1999, they acquired the Martin Pitt free-range egg business based in Marlborough, Wiltshire and expanded the sales of eggs throughout London and the M4 corridor.
Farmhouse Freedom Eggs is still based at Great House Farm and boasts a modern packing station with state of the art grading and packing machines.
The mayonnaise production has increased in volume and the business has added a new modern production facility to handle this growth.
 Organic products are available from all major supermarkets, farm shops and farmers markets, vegetable box schemes, specialist independent stores, direct from producers and online.
This Top 10 list has been produced as part of the launch of a high profile three-year campaign that is set to deliver sales growth by increasing consumer demand for organic food in the UK.
Match funded by the EU, the aim of the £2m 'Why I Love Organic' campaign is to invite consumers to discover what organic means, by challenging their perceptions and discovering their own reason for loving it.
Good Food Readers' Restaurant of the Year awards.
Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station.


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Jinns - A Scientific Perspective
By Zaid Shah
A modern investigation & analysis
Published in: Self, Science
Date: 07 / 07 / 19
Chris Line in his article 'Jinn from a Scientific Viewpoint' says that jinns dwell in a parallel level to man, but due to their existing at a different vibratory rate, they are normally invisible to us. He suggests their belonging to the infrared part of our electromagnetic spectrum. Though no clear evidence of this theory exists yet it could be related in many ways to our knowledge of Jinns in Islam. Electromagnetic radiation is a transmission of waves or particles at different wavelengths and frequencies within electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared radiation, is part of this spectrum, a type of radiant energy invisible to human eyes but can be felt as heat. All objects in the universe emit some level of IR radiation, but two of the most obvious sources are Sun and Fire. Our earth absorbs radiation from the sunlight throughout the day and emits it at night. Chris suggests that if a being had a body of low-frequency Infra-red, it could live deep down inside the Earth, interpenetrating what we consider to be solid materiality. If correct, it explains the fact jinns dwelling inside the ground and their influence in the night as suggested in Quran and hadith: "...from the mischief of created things and from the evil of night's darkness when it spreads." The Prophet ﷺ said: "Gather your children when darkness spreads..., for the jinn are abroad and seize them."
The Quranic terms maarijin-min-naar <wbr></wbr>meaning 'smokeless fire' and nar as-samum meaning 'fire of scorching winds' implies their fiery nature and invisibility because smoke releases from a burning physical object but their fire does not involve heating of any objects.
Chris also suggests they dwell and connect at a possible point where electromagnetic energy meets our psychic perceptions. This implies their influencing our dreams at certain moments when our soul is connected with the spiritual world, such as the Prophet ﷺ said about a dream from satan: "... the evil dream which causes pain is from satan...". The suggestion of their belonging to an electromagnetic radiation may also explain the hadith: "..and when you hear the braying of donkeys, seek refuge with Allah from satan for (their braying indicates) that they have seen a satan." According to Helmut Tributsch of the Free University of Berlin, human skin is quite damp, due to sweat gland secretion as compared to animals who have relatively dry skin. Electromagnetic disturbances precede an earthquake and large amounts of static electricity build up in the air electrifies animals fur with static charge. Often survivors have witnessed unusual behavior in the animals preceding an earthquake. This suggests ability of certain animals sense perceptions to determine jinn activity as opposed to ours. Moreover a donkey's ability to detect jinn radiation or energy is similar to the ability of a snake to detect infrared radiation emitting from their prey whom they can strike even in the absence of physical light.
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EOH Professor Inducted into Prestigious Environmental and Occupational Public Health Academy
EOH Professor and Chair Melissa Perry, shown with (left to right) Alberto Bellelli, the Mayor of Carpi, Italy; the Collegium Ramazzini's Secretary General Morando Soffritti; and Philip J Landrigan, the organization's President
Professor Perry at the induction ceremony
Professor and EOH Chair Melissa Perry was recently inducted as Fellow of the prestigious Collegium Ramazzini. The international organization, which is headquartered in Italy, includes 180 members who are elected in recognition of their contributions to advancing occupational and environmental health.
"I'm honored to be a Fellow of this esteemed organization dedicated to the health of workers," says Dr. Perry, whose research over the past decades at George Washington, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins Universities has drawn international attention to the health effects of pesticide exposure on farming communities, agricultural workers, and the general public. She has also developed engineering and behavioral interventions to address risks her work has identified for workers at meat-packing plants, construction sites, and agricultural operations.
Perry attended this year's induction ceremony held in Carpi, Italy, which is located in the northern Italian province of Modena. She was presented with a silver medal by the city's mayor. Also present at the organization's annual meeting were Michael and Lori Milken Dean of Milken Institute School of Public Health Lynn Goldman, who became a member in 1999, and Laurie Welch, a former chair of the EOH department.
Emeritus EOH and Pediatrics Professor Jerome Paulson was also elected to membership last year, but he was unable to attend the induction ceremony. He is considered to be a Fellow-elect. Dr. Paulson's decades of service as a clinician, an educator and an advocate have enhanced children's health by identifying and mitigating the impacts of environmental hazards on pediatric populations. In addition to serving as an emeritus professor in the Milken Institute School of Public Health's EOH department and George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences's Pediatrics Department, he is the Medical Director for National & Global Affairs of the Child Health Advocacy Institute and director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Children's National Health System.
Professorial Lecturer Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH was elected as a fellow this year and is eligible to participate in next year's induction ceremony.
The Collegium Ramazzini was founded in 1982 as an independent academy with the mission of advancing the study of occupational and environmental health issues. It serves as a bridge between the world of scientific discovery and the social and political centers which must act on such discoveries to protect public health. The organization's name honors the father of occupational medicine, Bernardino Ramazzini, who was a professor at the Universities of Modena and Padua in the late 1600s and early 1700s.
Members must be elected into the Collegium, and the criteria include personal and professional integrity. The academy's members assess present and future risks of injury and disease attributable to the workplace and the environment. The organization focuses on identifying preventable risk factors and communicating information about these hazards and their prevention to policy-making bodies, authorities, agencies and the public.
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Mooventure is a series of small games for the pico 8.
My goal is to have many small games, to eventually make into a collection.
They aim at a couple of minutes of fun at a time (or more if you like), being easy to learn and just in general games to relax with.
Also they are supposed to be cute!
Icy Dreams is the first entry. Moo fell asleep and is dreaming of sliding over an icy lake now. You have to collect snacks and pet pupper!
But you only have a limited amount of zooms, which get consumed when changing directions or accelerating.
X is for picking a level as well as going back to level select.
If you want to support me and gain access to nice perks, please do so on my Patreon.
Please consider donating to this game in general, if you can. A lot of work goes into every one of these games and some monetary appreciation also helps me a lot.
Other ways to help, is to spread the word about my games. It helps a lot!