In 2014, technology will be challenged to provide flexible solutions in an increasingly complex and varied environment. As the business adjusts to changing market demands and needs to move faster and faster, product flexibility and agility become extremely important. Our mantra in IT should be "What got you here won't get you there." The challenge for IT teams will be to simplify the portfolio over time while still delivering enhanced business capabilities.
In our business, we have done a nice job of building consistent and reliable solutions for administering our books of business. We should really focus on simplifying the process of product education, of selling, and submitting business to our enterprise. We need modernized administrative systems, bringing them into the 21st century. I would like to see more tools around legacy system modernization and maintenance, allowing us to create a culture of innovation, spending more on business transformation and less on legacy maintenance and support.
The use of Big Data and the associated data analytics could have significant analytics of consumer transactions, life events, and trends will likely prove to be a game changer as we work to drive smart growth. In addition, we must be vigilant in enhancing and maintaining our cyber security tools and efforts–any breach would have financial and reputational implications.
1. The expectation for innovation is higher than ever. You now have to drive operational efficiency and innovate.
2. Today's CIO needs to be a stronger advocate of the business while at the same time being forward looking enough to blend the required foundational investment in IT/business capabilities with shorter term business priorities.
3. The "consumerization" of IT has changed the perception of what technology can do in the business. Not every solution calls for traditional IT involvement–and IT needs to embrace that idea, not fear it.
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Sorry for the delayed response. I wanted to read through both of those articles you sent me from the Catholic Encyclopedia and then offer my comments. I'm glad you and Mike were able to talk about these things.
I'm confused about the double message I'm hearing. On the one hand you yourself are saying (as was Kreeft) that the whole Protestant/Catholic controversy is based on a misunderstanding, and that we actually believe pretty much the same thing. On the other hand, the two articles (1, 2) you gave me, which draw heavily upon the Council of Trent, denounce what I believe as heresy, and they do so quite unequivocally, in no ambiguous terms. Everything that I read in those articles makes it clear that I do not believe in the Catholic doctrine of justification, and that Catholics do not believe in the Protestant doctrine of justification. We are dealing with two totally different understandings, and I cannot see how they can be reconciled.
"In opposition also to the subtle wits of certain men, who, by pleasing speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of the innocent, it is to be maintained, that the received grace of Justification is lost, not only by infidelity whereby even faith itself is lost, but also by any other mortal sin whatever, though faith be not lost." (Chapter XV)"
Even if the person has faith, and yet sins, they have lost justification. I cannot accept this tenet as Biblical, for Scripture plainly declares, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Rom. 3:23-24, 27-28) Justification is bestowed freely upon the sinner who falls short of the glory of God, and it is bestowed through faith apart from any works whatsoever. Nor is Paul referring to a mere "Jewish Law" or to "pagan good works" but to all moral law whatsoever as is evident from the context. An abundance more Scripture can be cited that simply does not agree with Trent.
These are glorious statements of assurance which makes happy the believer. Far from forgiveness being a thing that is "uncertain", the entire force of the gospel is that it brings to sinners hope, joy and peace in believing, that thereby they may produce good fruits. As I have said before, it is not works that bring assurance, but it is assurance that brings works, and assurance can only come when we cease looking to our own works and righteousness for assurance but look only to the righteousness that is accounted to us by faith in Jesus Christ because of His atoning sacrifice.
Justification is a forensic thing. It is something that is accounted to us in the heavenly books. When the Scripture talks about sins being "blotted out" it does not mean from our behavior but from the books in heaven, where God keeps a record of all men's deeds (Job 10:14, Rev. 20:12). If it were not so, who then is justified? Who can say their sins have been blotted out from their behavior? If one's own personal righteousness is the measure of one's justification before God, then who can stand? This is why the belief in purgatory is a necessity for Roman Catholics, and what a sad dis-annulling of the atonement of Christ it is. If you yourself must pay for your own sins, what is the point of the One who paid for our sins on the cross?
"If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." (Psalm 130:3-4) Indeed, God does not count our sins against us, but forgives us. If He did count our sins against us none would stand. Forgiveness does not mean that if God were to judge us we would be found actually sinless. Forgiveness means that though we can not stand before God, He has not counted our sins against us. This is the glorious truth of the cross of Christ: "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:19, 21) Christ, who was actually not sinful, was treated as a sinner for me on the cross (became sin for us), so that I, who am actually not righteous, can be treated as righteous by faith in Him (made the righteousness of God in Him). This is the mystery of the gospel. We were each treated in the way we did not deserve.
Rather than opening the doors for sin and reckless behavior in the believers, this doctrine of justification by faith actually is the only thing that has the power to put a stop to sinning. This is the entire argument of Paul in Romans 6, 7, and 8 when he is confronted with that most common of all objections: "If this doctrine be true, will we not continue in sin that grace may abound?" Paul's answer is heavenly and mysterious: "Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." (Rom. 6:14) It is precisely because we are not under obligations to keep the commandments that sin shall not have dominion over us, for it isthe law itself that causes us to sin (Rom. 7:5), and grace alone severs that root and arouses in us a life of thankfulness and holiness. This teaching of Paul on sanctification by grace is so profound it is probably even more misunderstood than his teaching on justification by grace, which itself is incredibly profound. They are profound because they grind against our natural religious intuitions and have their source in the cross, which is of God and not of man, whose thoughts are higher than the earth. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are myways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9) God brings the wisdom of man to nothing (1 Cor. 1-2).
As for Luther and how the Catholic Encyclopedia says that he originated the doctrine of justification by faith because of his fearfully convicted conscience, I only have two things to say. One, the doctrine of justification by faith never originated with Luther but, as the article itself testifies, many "heretics" before him had believed it (most of which were persecuted) simply because that is what the Bible itself teaches. As one theologian well-noted: "Protestantism as it emerged in the 16th century was not the beginning of something new, but a return to Bible Christianity and to the simplicity of the Apostolic church from which the Roman church had long since departed." Second, if Luther found peace of conscience through the gospel of grace, that is precisely the point of the gospel! It brings peace of conscience to those who are burdened down by the weight of guilt. One in-obscured look to the crucified Savior and at once the sinner is relieved, just like the Israelites who looked to the bronze snake in the wilderness. That's the whole point. Perhaps this is something self-righteous people who think they are good will never understand. If we saw our sins as Luther saw them, as we should see them, we too would rejoice in the gospel of justification by faith. Luther discovered the truth about the gospel and couldn't help but share it with others. And he was not the only one.
In the 16th century and up to today the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith has set millions of souls free from guilt and set them off worshipping Jehovah with ardent desire. Far from producing slothfulness in holiness, men and women who have known the grace of God in truth (not merely who have been catechized) are witnesses of the freedom from guilt Jesus Christ's blood brings and the transformation of life that accompanies such a faith. It is no small sect that broke off from the Roman Catholic Church, but a movement that continues to grow and bear fruit, though it be not institutionalized. That's because the power is in the good news, not the institution.
Dude, this stuff needs to be preached in Churches! Thanks for your research and work on these articles! I am learning a lot.
Just this morning I was feeling really beat up about some sinful thoughts I have been struggling with. Trying to defeat it through some system of shame and repentance is aweful and ineffective. As I read your article, I was reminded again of God's great love and actually felt myself being loosed from the lies of the enemy. You are right, it is God's great grace that helps us walk in freedom! Amazing... Thanks brother ; ) Keep up the good work and the good fight!


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The Academy Center is renamed to honor Elizabeth Phillips
Betty Luther-Hillman
Exonians gather under a temporary banner announcing the renaming of the building to Elizabeth Phillips Academy Center.
I had not expected to be crying after the Opening Assembly of the 2018-19 school year. But there I was, with tears running down my cheeks and my mouth hanging open, in shock. Interim Principal Bill Rawson had just announced, to the surprise of nearly everyone, that the Phelps Academy Center would be renamed the Elizabeth Phillips Academy Center, to honor the wife of John Phillips, who equally devoted her money and care to establishing Phillips Exeter Academy in 1781. As soon as the assembly concluded, I ran to my classroom to grab my phone for its camera and raced to the academic quad. I felt like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns hugging upon the news that the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote had finally been ratified; I was over the moon.
As a feminist and historian of women and gender, I have long been aware of the countless numbers of women whose contributions were deemed unimportant and whose stories have thus been erased from our telling of the past. Historians have restored some of the stories of women and other individuals whom our traditional historical narratives have marginalized. From Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale, showing how everyday women played leading roles in their communities during the American Revolution, to Catherine Allgor's Parlor Politics, illustrating how the wives of early presidents of the United States participated in politics just as much as their husbands did, women's historians have been rewriting history for decades.
Ironically, Elizabeth Phillips' name had never been erased. It has been in plain sight on the Academy's Deed of Gift for 238 years, and yet, unconsciously, we had chosen to omit her from the telling of the founding of our school. The amount of further detail on her life, according to Academy Archivist Peter Nelson, is small; the daughter of a "prominent citizen" of Portsmouth, she was first married to Eliphalet Hale, an Exeter physician, who died in 1765, leaving her with "a modest inheritance." She married John Phillips in 1767, and jointly signed the Deed of Gift in 1781, which included a release of her inheritance: "Likewise Elizabeth, my wife, doth hereby freely and voluntarily relinquish all right of dower and power of thirds in the premises." After her husband's death, Phillips made other financial contributions to both Exeter and Phillips Academy Andover, the other school she supported in its early years. Additional archival documents suggest that she hosted several dinners and teas for the school in Exeter, and boarded two students at her home, before her death in 1797. An 1888 history of Phillips Exeter Academy wrote of her contributions:
"And here let the generosity of Elizabeth, the wife of John Phillips, be recorded. She relinquished [her own inheritance] in order to share with her husband in this pious and glorious undertaking … . Truly the widow bestowed her mite, and therefore should receive due honor … ."
It seems, however, that the "due honor" she was to receive for her "self-sacrificing generosity" did not materialize until now, which is sadly not surprising. Despite the work of historians to uncover marginalized and oppressed individuals of the past, high school history curriculums (which tend to control our broader societal historical narratives) still mostly focus on elite men who officially controlled political and economic life (no matter how much work their wives, such as Elizabeth Phillips, did behind the scenes). While I think the History Department at PEA has done admirable work in diversifying our curriculum — we offer classes on women's and LGBTQ history, Native American peoples and cultures, and colonial and modern Asia, Africa and India — I still worry that we gravitate too much toward common topics within these classes. It's simply easier to find sources focusing on Andrew Jackson than on the Cherokee Indians whom he vanquished from their lands. We never fail to discuss Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, but we leave out his role in the hanging of 38 Dakota Sioux Indians in 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. We assume that LGBTQ people did not "matter" in history prior to very recent times, when in fact a vibrant queer culture blossomed in major urban areas during the early 20th century.
Even when confronted with evidence to the contrary, it's also hard to get students — ours are still in high school, after all — to recognize how our traditional narratives of history are incomplete. At the end of one U.S. history class, in which we discussed and debated the role of women in politics in the 19th century, I asked my students if they thought we should include more about women in our yearlong course. Although I'm sure the students recognized that I felt otherwise, they bravely said no. "They just weren't that important," one student said. After what I had thought had been a successful class on women's "unrecognized" contributions, hearing that comment made me want to cry.
Perhaps those were some of the tears that trickled down my face that Friday; tears built up from years of trying to teach about the importance of individuals whose stories can't be found because they were forbidden to learn how to write, or excluded from jobs that allowed them to write, or died of AIDS. We may never recover their names and significance, but Elizabeth Phillips can be a reminder of those forgotten, marginalized or untraceable people of the past. And with the permanent recovery of her name, to be chiseled forever on the Academy Center, the history of our school is a little bit closer to complete.
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The third edition of MELBA LIVE gave a great start to the new season of Melba Design Initiatives. We had the honor to present three very successful in their field Bulgarian designers: fashion designer, journalist and professor at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) – Nikolay Pachev, London-based illustrator Dessy Baeva, and the creator of the snowboard stockings Stinky Socks – Hristo Petkov.
MELBA LIVE presents distinctive contemporary projects by local designers from different professional field. In an interesting and inspiring way, they introduce us to the history of their brands and reveal details of their exciting current projects.
The event was organized with support by Fashion Days, thanks to which visitors received a gift bag with an illustration by Dessy Baeva plus a pair of special Stinky socks.
We are thankful for the nice photos to Mikhail Novakov from Twin Pickles.
More about his work told us Nikolay Pachev – a fashion stylist and author of fashion articles. He has made photo sessions for most Bulgarian fashion magazines. In 2003 he was in the top 10 of the Berlin Grand Prix International and in 2004 he won the prize for best young designer in Brno at STYL and KABO. He has won the Mittelmoda The Fashion Award three times. Nikolay has graduated from the New Bulgarian University and is currently assistant professor of Fashion at the NBU Master's program. He told us about his project ALL U Re – a place with an up-to-date and precise selection of world fashion brands and their seasonal visions. You can follow their feed at the ALLUReinwhite instagram page.
Dessy Baeva is an illustrator and designer who lives and works in London. She graduated in Illustration at Southampton Solent University. Her work is inspired by feminism, youth, collage, texture, poetry, video, color, music and Bulgarian mountains. Dessy Baeva's clients include Warner Music; Good Grain Bakery; House of Content; ICU publishing; Collection and Co; Code Hospitality. She walked us through the timeline of her projects, told us what motivates her in her work and from where she draws inspiration for her memorable illustrations.
Hristo Petkov told us about all his various projects, from the beginning and Ninja Squad to the creation of the world-famous Stinky Socks brand based in Bulgaria. We received a huge amount of inspiration and ended with the story that led to Stinky Family's latest project – the movie trailer for the "Stinky Movie", which has been on a world tour since October and the premiere for Bulgaria will take place on October 20 – Stinky Movie Sofia Premiere.
Special thanks to the three guests and all the visitors.
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How does an organization whose mission focuses on professional ethics and ethical leadership respond to the events of the past week? How does an organization that studies the perpetrators in the professions in Nazi Germany respond to the events of the past week?
The murders that took place in Pittsburgh and in Louisville, and the delivery of bombs to individuals and institutions, are not random, inexplicable, unpredictable acts of depraved individuals. We must now acknowledge that these unspeakable acts are part of a progression that began with a conscious rejection of the pluralistic and democratic norms that govern our daily lives and that define the way that we interact with each other.
Hate speech is unacceptable. And speech that promotes hate is dangerous. Yes, perhaps only depraved people actually convert that hate into murderous acts. But, we cannot ignore the reality that promoting hate has the consequence (intended or not) of hateful acts. One leads inexorably to the other.
We expect, we demand, that our leaders practice ethical leadership. They set the tone for our great country. They are our voice, our conscience and our clarion. Words and actions that promote hate reflect the absence of ethical leadership. This is not a partisan statement. We are permitted, even encouraged, to disagree (and argue) about the regulation of weapons, about abortion, about capital punishment, about immigration policy – that is the beauty of a democratic society. If the majority wants tax relief, we have tax relief. If a majority wants weapons regulations, we have weapons regulations.
However, we do not vilify the opposition. We do not criminalize the opposition. We do not intentionally make up facts, i.e. lie, in order to promote our political positions. We do not encourage violence against the opposition. That is unethical leadership.
Back to professional ethics and ethical leadership. Back to the professionals in Nazi Germany. FASPE does not seek analogies to Nazi Germany. To analogize or even to suggest a path of analogies can be destructive and unacceptable. It risks engaging in the demagoguery and hate that has become too much part of the discourse in America.
Instead, FASPE studies the perpetrators in Nazi Germany in order to display the role that our leaders, the professionals, must play in a civil society. The professional class in Nazi Germany did not object, they did not stand in the way. They enabled even by their silence. Staying quiet in the face of unethical behavior, large or small, is unacceptable.
FASPE asks that as a responsibility of professional ethics and ethical leadership, we, as leaders in our respective communities, speak out against the hatred that is clearly being condoned and encouraged. There is a direct line between speech that promotes hate and hateful actions. We must be clear and unequivocal in our non-partisan objection to this behavior. That is the lesson of history: the absolute requirement that the leaders and influencers in our communities, our clergy, doctors, teachers, journalists, lawyers, business executives – those and more – speak out against hatred. We must demand ethical behavior with our own voices and from our own pulpits, bully or otherwise.
We do not have to ask why anyone feels compelled to spew such hate. However, we can ask that we learn from history and demand a return to civility, to the rule of law, to the norms that we expect from our leaders.
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) provides a unique historical lens to study contemporary ethics in the professions.
FASPE Seminary examines the role played by German and international clergy during the period of 1933-1945, underscoring the reality that moral codes governing clergy of all religions can break down or be distorted with devastating consequences. Having demonstrated the power held by religious leaders, FASPE addresses ethical issues now facing individual members of the clergy and religious institutions at large. With the historical background in mind, the FASPE Seminary Fellows are more committed and better positioned to confront contemporary issues.
I am deeply troubled by the horrific massacre that occurred in Florida on Wednesday, February 14th. This was supposed to be a day to honor our humble call to proclaim love in action. Rather we watched this day turn into horror for an entire community of Parkland, Florida, USA. Let us join our hearts together in sending our prayers and condolences to the families who lost their loved ones to yet another school shooting in the USA.
For those chaplains who are near the scene, I encourage you to be part of a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team to assist in the debriefing process through CISM. Likewise, let us all be aware of the need that so many around each and every one of us might need in order to process this horrific event.
For those who live and serve in the United States of America, I pose this question to you. In light of this repeated history of gun violence, how can we/you stand-up and take action to end this in the US? I think we can start by educating people within a process whereby people become thinkers rather than reactors. I believe our pastoral care training can contribute a lot to ending these serious and deadly violent acts. For all of you who regularly counsel those to improve mental health as an LPC, Pastoral Counselor, Psycho-Therapist, or as a person supporting these professionals, thank you for your work! Your commitment to long hours of counseling is extremely valuable to our society as a whole. Keep doing what you're doing. I know you are making a difference! For others who are professional chaplains and pastors of congregations and healthcare organizations, I believe in addition to acute and long-term care, our task is education.
In every educational process it is necessary to start with certain philosophies that respects core beliefs and ethics. These ethical principles, which becomes our reference line is how we determine the philosophy that becomes the foundation to any type of strategy or methodology. As Christian Chaplains, we draw on Christian Ethics, or Ethics developed by Jesus Christ. Interesting enough, as you know, our country was built upon these core ethics of Christ as the center of what our inspired Word of God instructs us in how to live. As you may agree, our country has fallen away from these core values. There has been too much smoothing over our core ethics that has sadly taken our children's lives, it has eroded the future of their lives and will erode their children's lives if we don't take action.
Pastoral Care is a discipline that helps us to think theologically by reflecting ethically in our contexts. We as pastoral care givers are charged to be advocates for what is right according to our core ethics. That may mean to lobby (appropriately) within legislation. That may mean that we take a stand even if it makes the politicians uncomfortable. It means that we lead discussions in small groups, or participate in conferences. Due to the fact that we serve all people, not just Christians, we can make a greater impact. We don't have a selfish/self-centered agenda. Our agenda is to enhance the greater good of people of all races, religions, cultures, genders, and abilities, who live in the USA and other countries around the world.


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Q: DbUp SqlConnection AAD outh? Due to security reason SQL authentication is disabled, only through Azure SPN can I login. From below link, in C#, we are able to connect:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-database/azure-ad-service-principal-authentication-to-sql-db-code-sample/ba-p/481467
How to pass the above successful access token authentication connection in below DbUp program.cs ?
var upgrader = DeployChanges.To.AzureSqlDataWarehouse(connectionString)
                            .WithScriptsEmbeddedInAssembly(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())
                            .LogToConsole()
                            .LogScriptOutput().WithExecutionTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60))
                            .Build();
var result = upgrader.PerformUpgrade();

A: Not sure if you have resolved this issue but wanted to provide a suitable answer as it may assist others looking for the same or similar solution. Firstly, in looking at DbUp, I didn't see any native support for Azure AD authentication but I think the following is what you are looking for.
Token-based authentication support for Azure SQL DB using Azure AD auth
The linked Tech Community Blog discusses all the Azure AD methods you can leverage to authenticate with Azure SQL. It contains a sample application (TokenReadme.Zip) demonstrating token based authentication, where the included program.cs example in the TokenReadme.docx is as follows:
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace ClinicService
  {
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder();
        builder["Data Source"] = "aad-managed-demo.database.windows.net"; // replace with your server name
        builder["Initial Catalog"] = "demo"; // replace with your database name
        builder["Connect Timeout"] = 30;

        string accessToken = TokenFactory.GetAccessToken();
        if (accessToken == null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Fail to acuire the token to the database.");
        }
        using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(builder.ConnectionString))
        {
            try
            {
                connection.AccessToken = accessToken;
                connection.Open();
                Console.WriteLine("Connected to the database");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Please press any key to stop");
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
  }
}

You should be able to leverage the TokenReadme example to modify your DbUp .NET Library solution to leverage token based authentication. Regards, Mike

A: DbUp should expose a Boolean in the DeployChanges.To.AzureSqlDataWarehouse call to internally use token authentication. You cannot pass in a token you already have unfortunately.
DeployChanges.To.AzureSqlDataWarehouse(connectionString,true)

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Norfolk State University All-Clear After Campus Bomb Threat
By Ambie Renee Jan 5, 2022
Norfolk State University (NSU) has been given the all-clear after several law enforcement agencies including the Norfolk FBI and Norfolk Police Department investigated a bomb threat made to the campus Tuesday night.
NSU sent out an email to staff and students alerting them of the threats as well as their Twitter:
All staff and students were evacuated to a safe location while authorities worked to clear the campus.
Other schools affected by the string of bomb threats include North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and Howard University. Law enforcement agencies are still investigating and asking anyone that has any info to call 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
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Rep. Massie Says Coronavirus Relief Bill is Largely a Gift to Wall Street
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WASHINGTON, DC — Many members of Congress argue the roughly $500 billion for large corporations in the massive coronavirus relief stimulus package signed into law last week by President Donald Trump was critical to saving jobs and stabilizing the economy.
But one lawmaker is not so convinced.
These days conservative-libertarian Thomas Massie sounds a lot more like progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than he does his Republican colleagues.
"It's going to Wall Street. It's going to the banks and it's going to big companies and it's also going to go to some small companies and some medium companies but most of it is going to the banks and to Wall Street," said Massie.
Massie gained nationwide attention last week when he demanded members of Congress return to Washington to be held accountable for approving the more than two trillion dollar stimulus relief bill, the largest-ever economic stimulus package this nation has ever seen. He failed in his effort to secure a roll call vote. The Northern Kentucky Congressman argues the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act is riddled with problems.
"I've been saying the 1,200 dollars is the cheese in the trap here and it might sound good and people will be glad to get that check and it will be helpful I'm sure but most of the money is going somewhere else," said Massie.
"One troubling thing is they could take an equity stake in these companies and that doesn't seem like capitalism to me if the government is going to end up owning the means of production. That's not a good thing. That's the opposite of a free market company," he added.
Reached by Skype, Spectrum News asked Massie if instituting remote voting could be the answer to getting members on the record during this uncertain time.
"I'm not really that opposed to remote voting. I haven't thought it all the way through but I know why Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy are opposed to it. It's hard to twist arms 2,000 miles away. I've seen votes on the floor where members of Congress take a vote and before the clock expires, the leadership comes to them and whispers something in their ear or shakes their fist at them and the member goes and changes their vote and the outcome is different," he said.
McCarthy and Pelosi declined to respond to this accusation.
Massie plans to continue being a thorn in their sides in the coming weeks as he calls for free-market solutions to the global pandemic, testing everyone who wants to be tested, limited spending and deregulation.
"I don't think we throw out the constitution because we have an emergency," said Massie.
"We need to have hearings. We really do. Congress needs to get its act together. There's nothing in the constitution that says you can't have hearings by teleconference. We need to establish that quickly. The doctors all have different opinions. The economists all have different opinions. We need to get three or four doctors and three or four economists in a hearing and say look we need a strategy that doesn't shut down the economy and also doesn't spread this virus."
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Fox Factory, Inc. (FOX) has committed to a long-term sponsorship extension and advancement with Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, which will further the partnership forged in 2017 and continue Fox Factory's entitlement of the FOX Factory 120. It will also retain the existing prominent track signage and branding, among other annual activations.
Fox Factory, Inc., a leader in performance defining suspension products, has signed on to extend the existing partnership with Michelin Raceway for many years to come in an effort to strengthen roots at the northeast Georgia race track. Since 2017, FOX has served as the entitlement sponsor of the FOX Factory 120, a 120-minute sprint race and the season finale for the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge as part of the Motul Petit Le Mans weekend. The new agreement maintains that entitlement.
FOX will also continue to serve as the naming rights entitlement partner of the off-road trails on the western edge of Michelin Raceway's 750-acre property, known as the FOX Race Face XC Course and the FOX Off-Road Proving Grounds. FOX Factory will also activate at Michelin Raceway's largest annual event, Motul Petit Le Mans, with a substantial vendor display and an expansive hospitality suite in the all-new Michelin Tower. "We had a great event at the 2018 Motul Petit Le Mans and the FOX Factory 120 and look forward to building on that success in years to come," said Mike Dennison, president of the Fox Factory Powered Vehicle Group.
New for 2019, FOX also will take over the former Building D on Michelin Raceway's property, with plans to renovate it over the next few months. This long-term lease will serve as the new Research and Design headquarters for a portion of FOX's development initiatives and will house a full laboratory and testing equipment. The 12,000-square-foot building is located just to the right of the main entrance gate, which provides easy access to both off-road courses directly behind the building for FOX Factory's use to test new technologies.
"Having Road Atlanta so close to our corporate headquarters allows for a great proving ground for our portfolio of products while offering a sales and marketing platform to share with customer, athletes and performance partners," said Tony Pauly, Fox's vice president of marketing, Powered Vehicles Group.
The FOX Factory 120 takes place on Friday, October 11 as part of the 22nd Annual Motul Petit Le Mans championship weekend.
Fox Factory Holding Corp. designs and manufactures performance-defining products primarily for bicycles, on-road and off-road vehicles and trucks, side-by-side vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, specialty vehicles and applications, and motorcycles. The Company is a direct supplier to leading power vehicle original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs"). Additionally, the Company supplies top bicycle OEMs and their contract manufacturers and provides aftermarket products to retailers and distributors.
Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta opened in 1970 and is recognized as one of the finest road racing circuits in North America. Located less than an hour north of downtown Atlanta, the track hosts several major events during the year including the world-famous Motul Petit Le Mans, Drift Atlanta, The HSR Mitty vintage classic, MotoAmerica superbike event and numerous club and corporate events.


Mortality coding is a complex process. Coders are expected to apply and reapply mortality coding rules until the final UCOD can be selected. To correctly select the UCOD, coders need to understand the causal relationships among the conditions reported on death certificates. For each case, the ICD selection and modification rules have to be applied in a logical sequence, beginning with the 'general principle' and reapplying the rules until a final UCOD is determined.
Most countries manually code death certificates, and this can be a slow and costly process, delaying the tion of national mortality statistics by many years. Automating the coding process with coding software can lead to significant improvements in the quality and timeliness of COD data.
Using computerised or paper-based mortality coding tools enables coders to better determine causal relationships, and ensures the consistent application of ICD selection and modification rules, resulting in comparable COD data. These tools also minimise the number of subjective decisions made by coders when selecting the UCOD. Moreover, the use of automated mortality coding reduces the workload for the coders and improves the timeliness of mortality data. It can also reduce the costs for human resources. The US National Center for Health Statistics (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, CDC) has been a world-wide leader in the field of mortality coding and has developed mechanisms to code data in more-efficient ways.
An electronic tool currently in use in some countries to facilitate coding and selection of UCOD is Iris, an interactive computer-based system for coding multiple causes of death and selecting UCOD. Iris is a language-independent software system based on the use of national dictionaries and can be operated from a laptop. The main objective of Iris is to increase the quality and comparability of mortality data at the international level. Automated coding systems such as Iris cannot successfully code all causes of death, so manual coding skills will continue to be needed, especially for external causes of death and with complex cases.
Although computerisation can help to overcome numerous problems and speed up the coding process, a computer program cannot be a substitute for an experienced ICD coder. Complex cases as well as external causes of death will still have to be coded manually irrespective of which automated coding tool is used.
WHO has developed a start-up mortality list ( SMoL ), an automated tool that is in line with the ICD and informs the setting of health priorities and helps track progress towards national and international targets and goals such as the SDGs. This list is designed to be a first step towards standardised reporting of causes of death in low-resource settings, where capacities to code causes of death to three or four ICD digits are lacking.
Although the SMoL is a useful tool for countries in the early stages of ICD implementation, in the longer term all countries will wish to proceed to the use of the more-detailed ICD listing as their skills and capacities for certification and coding improve.
Pavillon G (1998). Algorithm for application of Cause of Death rules. Paper prepared for the Meeting of Heads of the WHO Collaborating Centres for the Classification of Diseases. Paris, France.
Pavillon G et al (2007). Selecting the cause of death on a death certificate. Paper prepared for the WHO Family of International Classifications Network Meeting. Trieste, Italy.
World Health Organization (2014). The Start-up Mortality List (ICD-10-SMoL) WHO/HIS/HSI/2014.6.


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NYC Off-Track Betting threatens shutdown
Aaron Elstein
Elisabeth Butler Cordova
The New York City Off-Track Betting Corp., which filed for bankruptcy reorganization last month, said it would close its doors by March 30 unless it gets financial help soon.
"Cash flow continues to deteriorate," said Sandy Frucher, chairman of the state-controlled outfit, during a board meeting Monday, adding that "with serious trepidation and sadness" the OTB would send layoff notices to its nearly 1,500 employees.
The announcement is apparently an effort to get the attention of the state, city and the agency's business partners, which share in about $1 billion of annual revenue generated at the parlors. The OTB claims that divvying up the cash between the racing industry and governments has left it without enough money to invest in the upkeep or modernization of the city's 65 betting parlors. Same-store sales are down more than 5% through the first few weeks of the year, the company said Monday. Mr. Frucher has argued that if the OTB were able to retain more cash, it could borrow money from private investors to update operations.
Closing the OTB would stick the state with about $600 million in pension and benefit obligations, Mr. Frucher said. The company threatened to close itself down in early 2008, which resulted in the state taking it over. Early last month, the company filed for bankruptcy, a rare case of a state agency putting its fate in the hands of bankruptcy-court judge.
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Atherosclerosis is driven by three main elements: the concentration of lipoproteins that contain Apolipoprotein B (Apo B), which adhere and diffuse into the vascular endothelium by mass gradient transfer; the loss of endothelial integrity (hypertension and reactive oxygen species); and a supra-physiologic inflammatory response.
For at-risk patients, aggressive statin treatment to goal lowers the incidence of cardiovascular events by 30%, but unfortunately these individuals are still exposed to 70% of their pretreatment risk.
In an effort to understand this so-called residual risk, additional components of blood lipids have been investigated and are now easily obtained in clinical practice. This report reviews the rationale for considering the use of these advanced markers as part of global cardiovascular risk reduction.
Cholesterol serves as a precursor for sterol hormones and bile salts, and is also required for synthesis of cellular membranes. Triglycerides provide energy for cellular metabolism and energy storage. This constant need to deliver lipids to peripheral tissues is satisfied by hepatic manufacture of very-low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
Under the influence of microsomal transfer protein, the liver combines triglyceride, phospholipids, apolipoproteins B and E, and cholesterol ester to produce the VLDL particle, comprised of 60% triglyceride and 12% cholesterol.
VLDL is the 'grandparent particle' of low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C). The newly minted VLDL particle is released from the liver and is acted upon by lipoprotein lipase (LPL), releasing its component parts for the body's needs. As a result of LPL hydrolysis, the VLDL particle becomes smaller and intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL) is formed. The fate of IDL is either uptake by the hepatic receptor (for bile salt excretion or recycling into another VLDL particle), or further hydrolysis into LDL.
On one hand, LDL – now laden with excess triglycerides – becomes an attractive target for hepatic lipase which aggressively hydrolyzes the particle and imparts such a change in conformation that the hepatic receptor fails to recognize it with the same affinity. This failure further extends the particle's already prolonged circulation time to several days, which increases the opportunity for it to be bound to endothelium and accelerate atherosclerosis. But since total LDL concentration does not change with this CETP-mediated alteration in chemistry, one might be lulled into a false sense of security that LDL may be at or close to goal.
The other edge of the sword involves the CETP mediated transfer of triglycerides to HDL. Similar to the situation with triglyceride-laden LDL-C, hydrolysis of the laden HDL particle creates a misshapen particle. This results in the loss of the anti-atherogenic particle apolipoprotein A-1 (Apo A-1) which breaks off and is ultimately lost by renal excretion. Apo A-1 is the mediator of reverse cholesterol transport which serves to remove oxidized cholesterol from the subendothelial space; loss of this favorable effect also accelerates atherosclerosis.
To summarize the deleterious sequence of events in reverse: CETP drives an increase in LDL circulation time and loss of the athero-protective Apo A-1; hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance drive CETP activation; visceral adiposity, (afflicting two-thirds of the US population) drives insulin resistance and hypertriglyceridemia. Of note, alcohol suppresses CETP activity and is the likely explanation for the favorable effect on atherosclerosis when used in moderation.
WHAT CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CLUES SUGGEST INCREASED CETP ACTIVITY?
Visceral adiposity is invariably present when the waistline increases above 35 inches in women and 40 inches in men. Visceral adiposity differs from superficial adiposity as it is highly active metabolically; inflammatory cytokines are produced, triglycerides rise, and the host becomes insulin resistant. Measuring the patient's waistline is without cost, and when it exceeds the above-mentioned parameters it strongly suggests heightened CETP activity.
The presence of triglycerides over 200 and an HDL below 50 in women and 40 in men also suggests increased CETP activity.
All atherogenic lipoproteins contain Apo B. Measurement of Apo B captures all of the potentially atherogenic lipoproteins and is superior to measurement of LDL for CV risk assessment. This is especially true in patients with metabolic syndrome who often have high triglycerides.
The LDL particle number (LDL-P), like Apo B, reflects the concentration of atherogenic particles available for attachment and diffusion into the sub-endothelial space. Particle number is also superior to LDL for estimating CV risk.2 Data from the Framingham Offspring Study3 show good correlation between LDL particle number and LDL-C until triglycerides rise above 100, because the greater the triglycerides the more discordant the correlation between LDL-C and LDL-P. In many patients the LDL often appears close to goal yet the particle number can be markedly elevated as a result of CETP activity.
At the Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Apheresis Clinic, we target LDL-P as < 1000 for our high risk patients.
More commonly referred to as 'L-P little a,' abbreviated Lp(a), this is an LDL particle which has formed a disulfide bond with Lipoprotein a. This process is inherited in autosomal dominant fashion and is relevant only when LDL is elevated.5This particle is both atherogenic and prothrombotic, as it has sequence homology to plasminogen and competes for its receptor, thereby promoting ongoing thrombosis rather then thrombolysis. If LDL-C is elevated, Lp(a) levels above 50 are associated with an increased incidence of vascular events.
WHO SHOULD RECEIVE ADVANCED LIPID TESTING?
the knowledge that LDL-C is less predictive in this group.
The routine measurement of Apo B in low risk patients (<5% 10 year CV event risk) is not recommended.
Given the large number of individuals in whom LDL-C does not accurately reflect CV risk (diabetics and those with metabolic syndrome), measuring LDL-P is 'reasonable for many patients' and the finding of discordantly elevated LDL-P should warrant consideration of LDL-lowering therapy. Also, it is reasonable to measure LDL-P in those at intermediate risk, those with a premature family history of CHD, and those with recurrent events.
In low risk individuals, measuring LDL-P is not recommended as it not likely change treatment. To insure that LDL has been adequately lowered, on-treatment measurement of LDL-P is felt reasonable in many patients at intermediate risk who are treated to their LDL and Non-HDL goal; in individuals with CHD or CHD risk-equivalent on therapy; and in those with recurrent events. If LDL-P is discordantly elevated, intensification of therapy should be considered. The expert panel also felt it appropriate to consider measuring LDL-P to insure adequacy of therapy in selected patients with a family history of premature CHD.
In low risk patients, measurement of Lp(a) is not recommended.
Lp(a) levels are additive to CHD risk, and it is therefore reasonable to measure its level in those with a premature family history of CHD, and in those with established CHD with recurrent events despite appropriate therapy.
In those with CHD or CHD risk equivalent, and in those at intermediate risk, measuring Lp(a) can be considered for selected patients.
There is insufficient evidence at this time to warrant the measurement of Lp(a) in those at low or intermediate risk.
Citing the fact that aggressive LDL-C reduction is helpful in patients with elevated Lp(a) and LDL-C, the expert panel recommended that on-treatment Lp(a) measurement may be considered in those with CHD and CHD risk equivalent, premature family history of CHD, or recurrent events despite treatment.
Our practice at the Preventive Cardiology and Apheresis clinic is to calculate the individual's risk, typically with either the Framingham Risk Score7, or for women, the Reynolds Risk Score8 which incorporates measures of inflammation and considers family history. This latter metric was developed in an effort to address Framingham Risk Score's tendency to underestimate risk in women, and it proved more predictive when validated prospectively.
Once we understand the risk, we treat as best we can to goal, based on the National Cholesterol Education Program recommendations. Goals vary with risk so our treatment must be individualized.
It is important to remember that a triglyceride level greater then 500 mg/dl takes therapeutic priority over LDL-C. At this level, all of the available lipases are saturated and the risk of pancreatitis rises steeply.
Consider advanced lipid testing in those who struggle with excess weight or metabolic syndrome, are diabetic, or have a family history of premature CHD.
Pharma clearly understands the economic benefit of direct marketing to patients, as evidenced by numerous multimedia advertisements. After practicing medicine for nearly 25 years, I believe this phenomenon has made our job more difficult.
First, the requirement to divulge side effects during the advertisements often produces 'pharmacophobes.' Every practitioner has encountered the not-infrequent patient who recites side-effects before we finish discussing why expanded medical therapy might be appropriate for their condition. They tout the benefits of a 'natural approach' (I let them know snake venom is natural) pitched on television shows and web sites where potions can be purchased that treat almost any ailment - usually without any data from well-designed clinical trials.
Second, the intense marketing barrage provides the subliminal message that there is a pill or procedure for whatever ails us. Such reliance on techno-pharmacology often lulls the consumer into suboptimal self-care.
Many think the stent or CABG has 'fixed the problem' and their life can go on in the same manner. We are obligated to educate and empower our patients to optimal health. I inform these patients they have an incurable disease whose nature is to recur, I tell them poor lifestyle choices always beat our best pills and procedures in the long run. Dedicating one's self to an appropriate diet and a vigorous lifestyle with social connections often leads to graceful aging.
Advances in cardiovascular medicine often abort the MI and ready the patient for discharge in short order. I believe one of the reasons cardiac rehab has shown a mortality benefit is its reinforcement of the self-care message.
If we providers don't reinforce the reality that the foundation of the patient's care and survival is in their hands, they will think otherwise.


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Hiring in Singapore
After registering your company, you need to source high-calibre employees who are qualified to work for you in Singapore. Strict guidelines must be followed to ensure you adhere to relevant legal protocols and the Singapore Employment Act.
The Employment Act contains the terms and conditions for employment in Singapore as well as an outline of the duties you need to follow as an employer. It applies for all employees across all industries, except for:
Managers and executives who have the power to hire, fire, promote or discipline other employees, and those with specialist skills such as lawyers, doctors and accountants
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Employees earning less than S$2,000 qualify for additional protection concerning rest days, annual leave, sick leave, overtime, retirement benefits and more under Part IV of the Employment Act.
As an employer, you need to consider where your employees fall under the Employment Act. You may also need to consider additional labour laws that affect your employees, as well as any restrictions on the number of foreign employees and costs incurred for work pass applications.
Employment Pass and Personalised Employment Pass
The Singapore Employment Pass is designed for managers, executives, specialists and skilled professionals. Entrepreneurs who incorporate their company in Singapore may also apply for an EP if they wish to relocate for the management of operations. There is no limit on the number of EPs one business can apply for, but individual candidates must earn at least S$3,600 (effective 1 January 2017).
The Personalised Employment Pass (PEP) is only issued to candidates at the highest level. Pass holders will enjoy the freedom to switch between jobs and pursue new opportunities, as long as their minimum salary is at least S$144,000 per annum.
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Have funding from a government accredited VC or business angel
Hold an intellectual property
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For basic-skilled workers earning $2,200 or less, employers may apply for a Work Permit (WP) with a maximum duration of two years, subject to the employee's passport validity and a Banker's Guarantee. Employees may only be selected from approved source countries.
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Spouses of DP holders can apply for a Letter of Consent (LOC) to entitle them to work in Singapore. They must have secured a job offer from a Singapore employer first.
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For executives planning to travel to and from Singapore on business, the Multiple Journey Business Visa is designed to allow for multiple visits that last up to 30 days each.
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Wildflower Excites with Upscale Italian at the New Life House Hotel in LoHi
Caroline Kennedy December 2, 2020 Food + Booze
Upon walking into Wildflower — once indoor dining is no longer restricted — you'll be welcomed by the antique decor, moody lighting and nutty scent of smoked pecan. The leather-backed chairs, hand-drawn wallpaper and floral patterns evoke a sense of mystique that draws you in and a familiarity that makes you want to stay for a while. The new LoHi restaurant pays homage to Denver's Mexican and Italian heritage through its elegant cocktail program, vegetable-forward menu and amicable hospitality.
Photo Courtesy of Matt Kisiday for Life House
After the pandemic caused the cocktail bar and restaurant There… to close several months ago, former owner Oren Cohen was approached by the owners of the Life House hotel group to manage the new LoHi concept. The hotel group creates artfully designed hotels that include community-driven restaurants meant to tell the story of the neighborhood. The LoHi hotel and restaurant was built to illustrate the American frontier in the Victorian era. The building's simple exterior is a nod to the industrialists who built the city while the interior tells the story of Victorian opulence through floral patterns, textured glass and vintage keepsakes.
The hotel itself is meant to be a house — rather than a traditional hotel — with the warm hospitality of home. "We want to make sure we are connecting and engaging with every one of our guests when they enter and leave the space," said Cohen. The restaurant acts as a living room that guests — and the public — can lounge in once restrictions are lifted. "The dining room feels like grandma's house — it's petite and soulful. When the chef is cooking you're smelling the garlic and everything pouring into the space and that's comforting," said Cohen.
Life House was intentionally designed to be an intimate place for travelers to stay while exploring all that Colorado has to offer. It has 16 rooms ranging from spacious suites to bunk rooms for group travel. The bunk rooms at Life House aren't your typical bunk room though — the beds are all custom made, with full-size mattresses and privacy curtains, not the rickety twin bunk beds from your childhood. The idea is for group travelers to have affordable accommodations that are high-quality, clean and comfortable. "We want the stay to be intimate so our staff can get to know the guests when they are staying at the hotel or dining with us," Cohen explained, "We want it to feel like home."
Wildflower's cocktails are standouts, to say the least. The drinks highlight aromas and flavors from the Western landscape of Colorado like orange blossom, lavender, thyme and cherry. "The wildflower is the backdrop of Colorado, so we've incorporated floral elements into the drinks and food," said Cohen.
The Smoked Old Fashioned ($14) is a must-try for not only the sophisticated mixology but for the presentation as well. It is served with Old Forester Bourbon and your choice of timber — maple cherry, oak or pecan — that is smoked and held around the cocktail by a glass dome until it's served. The server wafts the smoke around the guest, leaving a pleasant lingering aroma.
Since you can't enjoy the cocktails at the bar right now, Wildflower has altered the menu to be more takeout-friendly and now offers four to-go cocktails: the Wildflower Negroni ($15), Spicy Grapefruit ($14), Chamomile Sour ($14) and Lavender Kiss ($14). The Negroni celebrate's Wildflower's Mexican and Italian roots with mezcal instead of gin while the Spicy Grapefruit brings together tequila, grapefruit and jalapeño for a quirky and refreshing drink with a spicy kick. The Lavender Kiss is the older, more sophisticated cousin of the kamikaze with house-made lavender liquor and the Chamomile Sour is made with mead from Dragon Meadery and drinks like a whiskey sour with floral, warm notes of chamomile and honey. "We're making fun, delicious cocktails that you're stoked to drink at home," said Cohen. You'll also find several natural wines, local beer and locally fermented mead to round out the drink menu.
The Italian-inspired menu impresses with a new focus on "tasteful value" according to Cohen, "We had to change our menu to be more approachable for takeout and we're excited to still be here to serve the community." With Chef William Harris — former executive chef of Linger — at the lead, the kitchen does a wonderful job of incorporating Wildflower's natural floral elements with rich Italian cuisine. The burrata in the Burrata Puglise and Beet Salad ($16) is flown in from Puglia, Italy within two days of being made. It tastes incredible when coupled with the rosemary toast and fresh beet salad and has an extraordinary, melt-in-your-mouth flavor you'll be thinking about for a while. The house-made pasta in the Hand Cut Pappardelle ($19) makes the perfect backdrop for the rabbit sugo that pairs beautifully with orange gremolata.
Whether you want to rent out the entire Life House hotel for a future wedding or spend an evening at home enjoying Wildflower's cocktails and seasonal plates, you'll be greeted with warm hospitality that makes you feel welcome, even if it is a quick exchange through a takeout window.
Due to the current restrictions on indoor dining, Wildflower is offering food to-go as well as in-room service for guests. Wildflower requests that you place your order over the phone by calling 720-706-6615.
Life House and Wildflower are located at 3638 Navajo St, Denver. Open Tuesday – Sunday 5 – 9 p.m. All Photography Courtesy of Life House.
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I don't want to keep you long because I know you have a great many things to do in preparation for the upcoming school year tomorrow, but I did want to be sure to share what's on my mind.
I hope you had a relaxing, restful summer because you deserve it. The more time I spend in education, the more difficult I realize the job of parenting has become. Providing and caring for children in today's world is taxing. The opportunity to relax together is a key component to your family being healthy and your kids doing great work in school. I hope your summer was great.
As we all know and appreciate, school is one of those rare places where each child gets a clean slate every year. That always brings hope and possibility. You all expect great things from your children and we, in turn, do all we can to make those great things come true.
Our job at the leadership level is to provide and support the very best teachers, who, in turn, empower students. We provide our teachers with the tools and resources they need to do great things. We provide them with appreciation and respect for all they do, and we know they do the same for their students.
Schools can be complicated places. We look at university requirements, then independent school standards, then set up our curriculum, and then teachers interpret them and add their own style and expectations and finally parents get their say. As much as we'd like all these to align perfectly, we recognize that sometimes they don't. At the end of the day what is most important is what happens in the classroom between teacher and student. A teacher with a passion can ignite a student for a week, a year and even a lifetime.
We know not every day will be awesome. We work with kids. They are much like we are, only at the beginning of their learning journey. It's our working together – school and home – that they need.
So we will help your kids to learn, to smile and to belong. We'll ask hard and interesting questions. We'll try new things. We'll ask for your help as parents and as members of our community. We'll work hard to empower them as people and learners and we do it with love in our hearts.
It's time for new stories and new adventures at school. It begins tomorrow. Let's have an awesome year together.


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Nahom Girmai (Kristianstad, 1994. október 14. –) svéd labdarúgó, a Kalmar középpályása.

Pályafutása
Girmai a svédországi Kristianstad városában született. Az ifjúsági pályafutását a helyi Kristianstad akadémiájánál kezdte.

2013-ban mutatkozott be a Kristianstad felnőtt keretében. 2018-ban a másodosztályban szereplő Varbergs BoIS szerződtette. 2020-ban az első osztályban érdekelt Siriushoz igazolt. 2022. január 8-án szerződést kötött a Kalmar együttesével. Először a 2022. április 3-ai, Malmö ellen 1–0-ra elvesztett mérkőzésen lépett pályára. Első gólját 2022. április 10-én, a Varbergs BoIS ellen idegenben 3–0-ás győzelemmel zárult találkozón szerezte meg.

Statisztikák
2022. november 6. szerint

Sikerei, díjai
Varbergs BoIS
 Superettan
 Feljutó (1): 2019

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1994-ben született személyek
Svéd labdarúgók
Labdarúgó-középpályások
A Varbergs BoIS labdarúgói
Az IK Sirius labdarúgói
A Kalmar FF labdarúgói
Az Allsvenskan labdarúgói
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Dhruvi Acharya (b. 1971) earned an MFA in painting at the esteemed Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and worked in New York for ten years. She was awarded the Aditya Birla KalaKiran Puraskar and nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2006, and was featured on the cover of India Today in 2005. Her work continues to be exhibited widely in international galleries and institutions such as the Queens Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Acharya's paintings mix motifs from Indian miniature painting, comic books, and even street art, to achieve a universality of human experience in her images. Text is an important part of Acharya's work, and she brilliantly plays text and image against each other to tell riveting stories with energy and imagination. The motif of an empty speech bubble is common in Acharya's works, and she often lets the figures visually tell her story and allows viewers to fill in the blanks.
by Dhruvi Acharya
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The Furture is the Past
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Dhruvi Acharya: "I have come to truly believe that it's all in the mind"
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Critical Collective: You create a spectrum for the female body to occupy different registers, from the young to the older body, in which you emphasize shapelessness, and also a solitary state. It is the aging body which also becomes the bearer of environmental and physical concerns, the polluting
by Jitish Kallat
Keywords: Dhruvi Acharya, Jitish Kallat, drawings, paintings, sexuality
A Story Teller's Cellar
At a time when artists are, without hierarchy, employing every possible medium from pencil to pixel, contemporary painting has reinvented itself in dialogue with the changing crop of


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