A YouTube channel for your practice is easy to launch and will provide you with a new marketing platform introducing your practice to a new pool of prospective patients. Enable your patients to literally get the picture about what your practice has to offer.
Most doctors have at least heard of YouTube, but many still haven't taken advantage of its marketing potential. Launching your own practice YouTube channel is so simple it is self-explanatory, and the benefits can be broad as YouTube is one of the top sites the public uses to conduct searches. Here is what you need to know about YouTube, including some examples of how my practice has utilized it.
Click HERE or the image above to explore the YouTube channel of Shady Grove Eye and Vision Care, Alan Glazier, OD's, practice.
YouTube enables you to post videos ranging from patient testimonials to educational eyecare videos. You could even post a tour of your office to introduce prospective patients to your practice.
Everyone knows Google is the #1 search engine–and guess who's #2? YouTube! And if that's not enough reason to launch a practice YouTube page, think about the fact that Google owns YouTube, so posting videos adds value to your Google listing, helping you rank higher in searches for the products and services you offer when people in your geographic region search for them. Elevating yourself in search is a key part of the YouTube value proposition.
The second aspect of the value proposition is that a well produced video with a proper description can enhance your reputation. It can also be a way to market your services to patients before they come in or after they leave. One eyeglasses lens video we took of a happy personalized progressive lens patient now has over 3,000 views; I also refer people to video testimonials from happy OrthoK patients. If you search for certain services or products we offer, often our videos show up on page one in Google. People are drawn to videos I have for OrthoK, dry eye and new eyeglasses frames, among other topics.
Straightforward patient testimonials, videos of special events or speakers such as at trunk shows, or the doctor providing instruction on an eye health matter, all make for good YouTube content, meaning it speaks well of your practice thereby generating appointments.
Content that emphasizes social good is always a great way to start. Funny content draws people to your video, or content that is exciting or teaches something can also be a draw. Basically anything that brings value to your audience will be well received. We've posted an I&R instructional video that is quite popular and I have a fun series I call "Smashing Glasses" that has over 5,000 hits. The series features depictions of eyeglasses getting smashed creatively as a way to promote our eyeglasses warranty. We've posted videos of drawings we've held during patient appreciation day and videos of patients happy at dispensing. A video of a patient happy with your products or services can go a long way toward influencing other people to patronize your practice.
You may think of content posted to your channel's YouTube page as belonging to your practice, but that is not the case.
Remember, all videos posted to YouTube belong to YouTube, not to you or your practice.
The best part is it's free to post videos to YouTube! Anyone can do it themselves, and model their page after another YouTube page they like to get started. If you have a cell phone with a video camera, you can make YouTube videos, or you can use a device as simple as a camcorder. Those simple technological devices, and subjects to film, is all you need. You might choose to promote your video on YouTube, so there could be some marketing expenses connected to that if you want professional help to get the word out, but I prefer to put the video up and share the link via my social media feeds, such as on my practice Facebook page, to get people to check it out.
A basic YouTube upload is self explanatory, but writing the description can be an art because you want it to be as inviting as possible from a marketing standpoint and you want to include certain keywords that help the video rank higher in search. I discuss this in detail in my book Searchial Marketing. You also can hire a Google expert to help you choose the right keywords which helps the video get more views, or to help you use Google Adwords to advertise the video. You can use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to determine the best keywords to feature prominently on your YouTube page for search engines to easily find the page.
In addition to patients and prospective patients finding you by typing in search terms such as "Rockville, MD, Eye Doctor," YouTube also allows you to purchase ads to target specific demographic groups.
Equip your staff with a simple camera such as a camcorder and encourage them to take videos of happy patients.
Include a link to your practice web site in the YouTube video description.
Be sure to spread your YouTube channel URL across your social media suites like your practice Facebook page.
Alan N. Glazier, OD, FAAO, is the owner of Shady Grove Eye and Vision Care in Rockville, Md. He also is author of "Searchial Marketing: How Social Media Drives Search Optimization in Web 3.0." To contact him: AGlazier@youreyesite.com. Connect with Dr. Glazier on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alan.glazier.


Our researchers contributed to the discovery that led to genetic tests to see if families have faults in genes linked to breast cancer. Learning this helps people to understand, and take measures to reduce, their chances of getting breast cancer.
But that hasn't always been the case. Some of our scientists and their colleagues were behind the discovery of the BRCA2 gene back in 1995, making this a reality. Our scientists were also behind the discovery that mutations in the PALB2 gene are linked to breast cancer.
The Breast Cancer Now Generations Study has been running for over 14 years now, following more than 113,000 UK women with the sole aim to understand the causes of breast cancer and the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that may influence a woman's chance of developing the disease.
It has helped to uncover more than 160 new genetic variants linked to increased likelihood of developing the disease. It has also shown that the effect of taking hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer risk may have been underestimated by previous studies, among many other findings around smoking, night lights and more.
This takes us a step closer to understanding why and how breast cancer develops. But we're not stopping until we have accurate ways to evaluate a woman's likelihood of developing the disease. We will continue working until we have found tailored ways to reduce the chance of developing breast cancer, so that no one has to hear this devastating diagnosis in the future.


TRANSIT ( a poem dedicated to my admired sufi community in India, Syed Salman Chishty-Chairman-Chishty foundation Ajmer Sharif, Rajasthan–World forum "Sufi Love and serve all" ) / Poem by Susana Roberts | Galaktika Poetike "ATUNIS"
"Luminous is the Garden that keeps its soul pure" .S.Roberts.
* fana: Sufis tell us that there are two worlds: this world and the other. In Christianity, in contrast,the two worlds that are spoken of are this world and the next world,the world that pass over when we die. Devout Christians believe that if they lead a good life, they will reach God when they die. Sufis therefore do not wait so long, why not go to God now, before the physical body decays and dies?. For the Sufis, Fana is the direct experience of the divine while the body is still alive.


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Qutaiba is a researcher, social entrepreneur, and refugee advocate. His past research experiences include analyzing education and security policy in the Middle East as a non-resident fellow at the Global Policy Institute, and developing governance and security atmospheric reports for the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command as a Senior Consultant with Pechter Polls, and for USAID Office of Transitional Initiatives as an Associate with Caerus Associates. Qutaiba is a Co-Founder and former Vice President of People Demand Change (PDC) where he established an enterprise to develop, fund, and implement solutions to humanitarian, social, and political issues. He designed, managed and evaluated programs on governance and civil society strengthening, and peacebuilding. His time at PDC included directing survey research programs and managing monitoring and evaluation efforts in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, and leading PDC's long-term strategy and mission.
Qutaiba has extensive refugee experience, advancing national engagement efforts as a Research Assistant with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services; promoting refugee awareness through speaking engagements across the U.S, acting as Associate Producer for the Red Lines documentary; and volunteering for refugee relief organizations in Lebanon and Egypt. He currently serves as a board member of Paper Airplanes, an organization facilitating online language and skills instruction for refugees across the Middle East. Qutaiba is completing his bachelor's degree in Political Science at Columbia University.


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Read caption A Covid-19 information session taking place for displaced communities in Western Afghanistan
Coronavirus will decimate refugee communities if we don't act now
Published 16. Mar 2020
Global Camp management Water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH) Coronavirus
Statement from Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council:
"As world leaders brace for the worst within their borders, they must not abandon those living outside them. We must turbocharge our humanity and stand in international solidarity with refugees and displaced people during this time of widespread uncertainty.
Millions of conflict-affected people are living in cramped refugee and displacement sites with desperately poor hygiene and sanitation facilities. When the virus hits overcrowded settlements in places like Iran, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Greece, the consequences will be devastating. We must act now.
There will also be carnage when the virus reaches parts of Syria, Yemen and Venezuela where hospitals have been demolished and health systems have collapsed.
Contingency planning for all countries must include vulnerable communities inside their borders. There must be flexibility from donors so that humanitarian organisations can scale up water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, improve the health response and take other necessary actions to help avoid a catastrophe.
We are now stepping up our work to provide sanitation and hygiene facilities and information in Afghanistan and Iran, but more is needed to ensure the most vulnerable are protected. In Iran, we are deeply concerned about the millions of Afghan refugees living in areas with extremely poor hygiene facilities and limited access to services. The country needs greater support.
Coronavirus doesn't discriminate or play politics, and neither should the world when it comes to supporting those most at risk of contracting the illness. We must stay and deliver and not turn our backs on people living in countries that need the most support during these extraordinarily challenging times."
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Nearly 40 million at heightened risk of violence, discrimination and rights abuses as Covid spawns a 'coping crisis'
A new report reveals a severe deterioration in international efforts to protect the world's most vulnerable people, with human rights violations including gender-based violence, trafficking and child recruitment on the rise.

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The 'Little Packet', A Clandestine Rival For The 'Weekly Packet'
Activists who travel abroad and download material from YouTube or other social networks also contribute to the little packet. (14ymedio)
14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 5 May 2017 — Uncensored, fun and with many varied themes — this defines the producers of the paketito (little packet), a new compendium of audiovisual material that aims to fill the gaps left by the popular weekly packet.
Unlike its predecessor, which is made and distributed publicly, the paketito lurks in the underground, so as to be able to offer materials that the organizers of the weekly packet don't include in order to avoid problems with the authorities. This choice to play it safe annoys a growing number of viewers, who find the weekly packet "traditional," "comfortable," and "domesticated."
Carlitos, who preferred to use a pseudonym in speaking with 14ymedio, is one of the managers of the paketito and proudly recounts the emergence and evolution of this initiative that its creators distribute with a determined content, but the users enrich it during its circulation.
The creators distribute it with a determined content, but the users enrich it during its circulation
The compendium was born just over three years ago, in an informal way when a group of friends began to exchange files. "From the beginning we passed censored material, such as documentaries and news," he recalls. "We also included old Cuban publications that had been forgotten," adds Carlitos.
The audio content included every week occupies 5 gigabytes of memory, although there are larger versions that may contain a much larger offering.
The young man believes that many of these magazines are not currently known due to "the lack of historical memory" on the island because of censorship. So the first editions of the paketito had copies of "those pages from [the magazine] Bohemia of 1959 in which Fidel Castro affirmed that he was not a communist."
Along with articles from the national press from more than half a century ago, the producers of the selection decided to include "photos of our parents and grandparents from before the Revolution."
Among the materials that circulated from the beginning were songs impossible to find in the stores or to listen to on official media, such as those of the Los Aldeanos duo and the punk rock group Porno para Ricardo.
Carlitos clarifies that his audio-visual extract is smaller than the weekly packet, but "brings everything" that is not included in the version circulated by his 'first cousin'
The obstacles soon appeared. The restless transgressors were a little frustrated at first because they could not update their deliveries regularly, but since the beginning of this year they have achieved a weekly frequency. Carlitos clarifies that his audio-visual extract is smaller than the weekly packet, but "brings everything" that is not included in the version circulated by his 'first cousin.'
Meanwhile, a great distance separates the paketito from its official counterpart, La Mochila (the Backpack), created by the Youth Club to counteract the influence of the weekly packet, and which, in its latest installments, included numerous materials about the late president Fidel Castro.
Unlike this institutional imitation, every week the paketito contains a folder with written press prohibited on the island. "We load the PDF or summaries of web pages such as Diario de Cuba, 14ymedio and Cubanet," adds Carlitos. There are also cartoons, news, movies, documentaries and courses. The documents from decades ago also continue to have an important presence in the weekly compilation.
The information comes from many sources. Some of it is downloaded over the internet. "In our team some of us work in state institutions and we have internet in our offices and we download what we need there. Other files we download in the public wifi points."
A new and growing source of information comes from people who simply send a video that they recorded with their cellphone somewhere, when a significant event occurs
A new and growing source of information comes from people who simply send a video that they recorded with their cell phones somewhere, when a significant event occurs. Activists who travel abroad and download materials from YouTube or other social networks also contribute.
The clandestineness with which the paketito is assembled affects the expansion of its distribution, which has been restricted to customers who are as 'transgressive' as it creators. Through USB memory sticks and external hard drives, the files pass from hand to hand.
The compilation circulated the film Hands of Stone that was not shown at the last Havana Film Festival because its director, Jonathan Jakubowicz, was in solidarity with Carlos Lechuga's censored film Santa and Andrés. Right now, the paketito is offering this latter film, along with the also stigmatized chapters of Miguel Coyula's documentary Nadie about the poet Rafael Alcides.
The paketito only appears through contacts within the distribution network that demand a lot of discretion, not unlike the challenges of buying shrimp or cheese on Cuba's black market.
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Is Middle East heading towards another bloody war?
*TEHRAN: *Analysts fear a wider Middle Eastern war is brewing between Iran and its rivals, Israel and Saudi Arabia , warning that their failure to understand each other's intentions threatens to tear the region apart.
"We will not allow Iranian entrenchment in Syria, no matter the price to pay," Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared this month. His comments followed air strikes on Syria's T-4 airbase, which killed seven Iranian personnel.
Israel did not claim responsibility, but the raid was widely seen as its first direct attack on Iranian assets and a worrying sign of how Syria's seven-year conflict could escalate into a wider regional war.
The Middle East is mired in what the International Crisis Group calls a dangerous "gap in perceptions that has locked Iran and its rivals in an escalatory spiral of proxy fights that is destroying the region".
With Iranian-backed militias entrenched in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, Iran's rivals worry it is seeking to dominate the region and gather forces for an attack on Israel.
But the ICG said Iran sees quite the opposite, "a region dominated by powers with superior military capabilities", and only supported the Syrian government because it feared losing one of its few allies and being encircled by jihadist forces.
Many Iranians find the idea they are the destabilising force in the region hard to stomach, given recent actions by Saudi Arabia .
"It's not Iran who imprisons foreign prime ministers like Saudi Arabia does," University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi told *AFP*, referring to Lebanese premier Saad Hariri who announced his resignation from Riyadh last year, followed by a lengthy stay in the Saudi capital.
"And in Yemen, despite three years of imposing starvation and war with Western help, the Saudis have failed to gain any significant victory," Marandi added.
The Saudi position on Iran can appear contradictory.
Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman told *CBS News* last month that Iran's army and economy were greatly inferior to those of the Sunni kingdom, but he also presents Shiite-dominated Iran as seeking control of the whole region.
"Critics may downplay Saudi concerns about Iranian expansionism, accusing Riyadh of 'seeing an Iranian behind every tree'," said Ali Shihabi, director of the pro-Saudi, Washington-based think tank, Arabia Foundation.
"But… one by one the Saudis watched as (Iran's) proxy forces captured their neighbours: Lebanon, Iraq, Syria," he told *AFP*.
Iran's position has its own contradictions.
It says it will never initiate conflict with Israel, but its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned the "Zionist regime" will not exist in 25 years.
Marandi, at the University of Tehran, says this is not a threat of military action.
"Iran has never, despite all the Western media misinformation, threatened to initiate conflict with the Israeli regime, despite the fact it sees it as illegitimate in the same way as apartheid South Africa," said Marandi.
That was rejected by Dore Gold, Israel's former United Nations ambassador, who said Iran's leaders amounted to a "really aggressive ideological movement" with a "very difficult attitude when it comes to Jews".
Iran has "been building bases in Syria for ground troops," he said. Combined with Tehran's Lebanese ally Hezbollah, that represents "a permanent direct threat to Israel".
Adding to uncertainty over each player's intentions are their vastly different military capabilities.
Saudi Arabia has the latest Western hardware and spent five times more than Iran on defence in 2016, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Israel also has the ultimate deterrent: nuclear weapons.
That has forced Iran to use proxy forces in the hope that they can attack its opponents without triggering a direct conflict. But this has only added to the perception that it is quietly destabilising its neighbours from within.
Finding a way to rebuild trust looks near-impossible when the key players lack any forum for discussions or even basic diplomatic relations.
On a trip to Washington this week, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for a "regional dialogue forum… so we can talk to each other, not about each other".
But Iran's opponents dismiss him as the friendly face of a regime that is complicit in mass slaughter in Syria and is masking its true intentions.
Nonetheless, many feel that continuing to exclude Iran from regional decision-making is unsustainable.
"Iran should recognise that the more its military doctrine promotes expeditionary warfighting, the more it will prompt aggressive pushback by its adversaries," the ICG report said.


In search of a cleaner motorcycle, Lihang Nong, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, developed the PicoSpray. This all-in-one electronic-fuel-injection system could be used in mowers, generators, bikes, and ATVs.
The size of the intake and how it bolts on to the engine will vary between applications. Nong says the first PicoSpray model will work on single-cylinder engines with displacements from 90 to 300 cc.
The built-in Engine Control Unit (ECU) includes sensors for air temperature, manifold absolute pressure, and throttle position. For something simple, such as a portable generator, the system requires fuel and power connections alone, but it can accept outside inputs.
A positive-displacement pump replaces the fuel pump, pressure regulator, and injector of a traditional EFI. The pump squirts high-pressure fuel into the intake on demand in precisely metered amounts.


Sweet Jesus, Spring can't come soon enough.
And so, Strong Arm Bindery is going to have a booth at the Portland Flower Show (March 6 -9). A couple years now we've been watching this event across the way and talking trash about making flower presses and botanical specimen notebooks that'd sell like hot-cakes. HOT CAKES.
Now we get to find out if Portland's the kind of town that likes to flatten it's flowers.
Actually, this is Ellen's swinging pad.
First 100 lb cover stock and binder's board is cut into 2-1/2 x 2-1/2" squares.
The corners get rounded, including the boards.
I mix watercolor with PVA. In this case it's Dr. Marten's watercolor. There is actual "padding adhesive" on the market---but it just seems like watered-down PVA. And with paper this heavy I think you need a fairly beefy adhesive.
Spines get glued out under pressure. If these were any bigger, I'd have them on their sides, on the edge of the bench with a heavy weight on top. But these are small enough for the press. And they stay in the press or under weight until dry.
They get a hole from the paper drill.
And there it is: Ellen's amazing tag pad. You just peel off a tag whenever!
There's actually two versions; the other has the hole drilled in the corner. It's very stylish and I wish I'd taken a picture of it.
This thing is huge and is hanging about 3 feet over the edge of the roof, 3 stories above the alley with a very sharp front edge.
We're all walking under it and there's at least 20 feet of more massive snow and ice behind it.
In addition to the very real possibility of decapitation, the shop got sprayed by a skunk over the weekend. I think it happened between Friday night and Saturday morning. I can't imagine it got inside; Dirty Girl didn't get hit, nor did she seem out of sorts. Some exterior wall must have been sprayed. That's what I keep telling myself.
I'll get back to book stuff this week.
We got a big dump of snow last night.
And it was unusually quiet at the shop today.
There's a couple big projects that have come in. One's a larger-than-usual order for over-sized dropspine boxes. There'll be more on that in the coming days---plus a special guest star boxmaker.
A little like Unknown Pleasures.
I'll be revisiting this project quite a bit over the next month or so.
I've been doing a lot of hinge repair on old leather books this week. The joint where the book opens is one of the weaker spots on most bindings and it's not a rare event to find boards broken or detached along the hinge area. A lot of fine 19th century bindings have particularly weak joints, as the leather was pared very thin for the sake of aesthetics. A quick, non-invasive repair for these bindings uses toned Japanese tissue to hinge the board back to the spine at the joint.
When I make a Japanese tissue match for leather, I mix acrylics with methyl cellulose and water. If I was making the same repair on a paper or cloth binding, I'd probably use acrylics with just water. You'll see images of the two different sets of books I've been working on this week.
Once I get the right match, I brush out the color on the Japanese tissue with a piece of mylar or wax paper underneath. I usually let that air-dry, but there's no crime in getting the blow dryer out again. I cut the hinges to the width of the joint, and include a small flare at either end for where the tissue will wrap around the board edge.
I use straight PVA to glue out the hinge. I've also used Lascaux, another acrylic-based adhesive with slightly more reversible qualities. Wheat paste just won't work here. The hinge goes down, and is pressed lightly along the joint and around the turn-ins.
Japanese tissue is particularly well-suited to this repair. It's very strong, and because it's so thin it picks up the contours and surface texture of the leather below.
So finally, when it's dry, the hinge, along with the leather, is dressed with SC-6000 and buffed with a soft cloth.


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Chicago's Web.com Event Moves to The Glen Club
October 31, 2018 by Greg Miles
Chicago sports fans are an informed bunch. Chicago Bulls' fans know that turnovers are bad. Chicago Bears' fans know that takeaways are good. Next season it will be a neutral position, a 'give and take' scenario for Chicago golf fans who enjoy viewing the Web.com Tour. In 2019 we're giving up the Rust-Oleum Championship and taking its place will be the Evans Scholars Invitational.
The Web.com Tour and the Western Golf Association are partnering to conduct a new tournament, the Evans Scholars Invitational, which will make its debut on the Tour in 2019. The Evans Scholars Invitational will be managed by the WGA and will be contested the week of May 20-26, 2019, at The Glen Club in Glenview, Illinois. The new partnership calls for a four-year agreement to run through 2022. All proceeds will benefit the event's sole charity, the Evans Scholars Foundation. For the Web.com Tour, this partnership offers the opportunity to expand its charitable reach in golf to help send caddies to college on Evans Scholarships.
The tournament will mark a return to The Glen Club for the Web.com Tour, which contested the Bank of America Open at the course from 2002 through 2008. The tournament produced an impressive list of champions, including 2013 PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner (2006) and 2015 Senior Open Championship winner Marco Dawson (2002).
"We're very excited and pleased to be expanding our championship operations to include an annual event on the Web.com Tour," said WGA Chairman Frank Morley. "This new event will feature the future stars in golf, including many who have competed in our Western Junior and Western Amateur championships. Combined with our annual BMW Championship, this allows us to be a part of these players' development throughout their competitive years."
The event also provides the WGA with another major fundraising opportunity for the Evans Scholars Foundation, which offers full tuition and housing scholarships to deserving caddies across the nation. This fall, 985 Evans Scholars are enrolled at 18 universities. Since its founding in 1930, 10,830 caddies have graduated as Evans Scholars. "Our goal is to have 1,000 caddies in college in 2020," Morley noted. "To reach that number and provide for future growth, we need to expand our fundraising opportunities. This event will help us do that, while also building further awareness of the WGA and our focus on championships and scholarships."
"The Evans Scholars Foundation has provided a tremendous avenue for kids to benefit from the game of golf, and we are excited to partner with the WGA to help those efforts through this new event," said Web.com Tour President Dan Glod. "With the excitement of Web.com Tour golf and the incredible work being done by the Foundation, we are confident in our ability to leave a meaningful footprint in the greater Chicago community."
"Anything the Western Golf Association does is first class," said KemperSports President Josh Lesnik, who manages The Glen Club. "It's an honor for us to host the Evans Scholars Invitational at The Glen Club to showcase the next generation of great golfers and help raise money to send deserving caddies to college."
Evans Scholars Invitational
The Web.com Tour and the Western Golf Association are partnering to conduct a new tournament, the Evans Scholars Invitational, which will make its debut on the Tour in 2019.
Starts: 05/23/2019
Ends: 05/26/2019
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Greg Miles has been a writer following golf in Chicago since 1990. For the past 25 years he has been a member of the Golf Writers Association of America and currently is classified as a GWAA "Life Member". He played his first round of golf on his 11th birthday, and since then has played more than 6,650 rounds of golf in his lifetime at 508 different courses. He has interviewed more than 260 golfers across all the professional tours along with famous celebrity golfers. Additionally, he is a member of several other competitive and honorary golf associations, as well as the Golf Nut Society.
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Kenji Kaido, a Team Ico member and producer of both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, is leaving Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. He dropped a casual tweet to let the world know that he is leaving SCE this month. According to Game|Life, Kaido has yet to decide what he's doing next other than continuing his summer vacation. Talk about peace-ing out!
Those following the development of upcoming (hopefully!) game The Last Guardian know that Team Ico frontman Fumito Ueda and producer Yoshifusa Hayama have also recently jumped ship. We've been told that the game is still in the works, but at this point who will be left to work on it?


November 30, 2015 By Jennifer M.
As a busy mom I often forget how important it is to provide myself with self-love. We often place ourselves last in the family food chain, and we just don't take the time we need to make sure we're building ourselves up on a daily basis.
Let's face it. Most women go through a phase in their life when they don't love themselves. Whether you feel like you have a few extra pounds you need to lose, feel like you need to gain weight, don't like the way a certain body part looks, worry too much, fear something, the list could go on and on…every woman should be comfortable in her own skin.
I was recently given the opportunity to read Cheryl Bridges' new book, Me, Myself, & I – 28 Days of Creative Self-Love.
This book is so much more than just another self help book. Me, Myself, & I, is a multi-dimensional exploration of how we can learn to love ourselves, each and every part, even those that may be hard to love, through 28 days of self-love creating exercises. The idea of creative self-love is brought to life through stories filled with inspiring images and includes creative exercises, affirmations, resources, music links, and journaling for each day to help bring more self-love to your life.
I love that the book starts with an invitation to love yourself which reads as if the author is writing a personal letter directly to you.
We'll be talking about every aspect of self-love, so bring your best self, your worst self, and every self in between.
I started my personal journey of creative self-love a couple weeks ago, and I am amazed at how much better I have felt about myself since I picked up the book. Did I change overnight? No, but the journaling exercises have helped me really analyze my own life and truly open myself up to the possibility of loving certain parts of myself again.
As someone who struggles with anxiety, my hardest battles involve worrying and how my anxiety affects my life each and every day. When I made it to Day 11 I hadn't faced my biggest challenge yet, the constant worrying about how others perceive me, if I'm doing things right as a mother, and all the other little worries that engulf me each and every day thanks to my anxious mind.
How do I pull myself out of that rut my mind constantly seems to wander to? How do I stop worrying so much and put my mind at ease? Is it possible to break both the worrying habits that were ingrained in me through family situations as well as those I have created for myself?
The journaling exercise for Day 11 focuses on writing down the habits of your mind that play a major roll in your day to day life. What would my worries look like on paper? What habits have I created that have continued because I have allowed myself to let my worries control me? I honestly spent almost 2 hours with my journal and realized many of my day to day worries fall in a pattern that I have created myself.
When my anxiety gets the best of me I have taught myself to repeat this affirmation from Day 11.
Even when my head is a jungle of thoughts and feelings, I allow myself to be at peace.
As the days go by it is easier and easier to break the worry with those simple words, and as time moves on I realize I am happier each day just because I have less worry in my life. Many of the little worries I have dealt with for a long time don't seem so big anymore, and I'm beginning to feel much more self-love. I will not let my anxiety and worries control me!
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You can also hear Cheryl speak about why she wrote Me, Myself, & I- 28 Days of Creative Self-Love in this interview.
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Q: Show that $(0, 1)$ fails Heine-Borel. So I think I understand the Heine-Borel property, but I want to make sure I've wrapped my head around it. With the help of @C Squared I was able to come up with the following, but I want to make sure it's okay. Thanks!
Let $I_k = (\frac{1}{k}, 2)$. Observe that $\bigcup_{k=1}^\infty I_k$ covers $(0, 1)$. Let $x\in (0, 1)$. It follows by the achimedean principle that there exists some natural number $k$ such that $\frac{1}{k} < x$. We may now conclude,
\begin{equation*}
0 < \frac{1}{k} < x < 1 < 2
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
x \in (\frac{1}{k}, 2), k \in \mathbb{N}^+.
\end{equation*}
so,
\begin{equation*}
x\in\bigcup_{k=1}^\infty (\frac{1}{k}, 2).
\end{equation*}
therefore,
\begin{equation*}
(0, 1) \subset (1, 2) \cup (\frac{1}{2}, 2) \cup  (\frac{1}{3}, 2) \cup \dots = \bigcup_{k=1}^\infty I_k
\end{equation*}
Now, Heine-Borel insists that there exists a finite subcover for every cover of $(0, 1)$ that also covers $(0, 1)$. So to show that $(0,1)$ is not compact we must show that the finite subcovers of $\bigcup_{k=1}^\infty I_k$ do not cover $(0,1)$.
Suppose a finite subcover ($\bigcup_{k=1}^n I_k$) of $\bigcup_{k=1}^\infty I_k$. Then we have,
\begin{equation*}
(0, 1) \not\subset \bigcup_{k=1}^n (\frac{1}{k}, 2),
\end{equation*}
because $\frac{1}{n+1} \in (0, 1)$ but $\frac{1}{n+1} \not\in (1, 2) \cup \dots \cup (\frac{1}{n}, 2)$ (by the definition of this set).
There exists a finite subcover that does not cover $(0, 1)$, so the set fails Heine-Borel and is not compact.

A: Using the Heine-Borel theorem, you need only show that $(0,1)$ is not closed. Since $0,1$ are limit points of $(0,1)$, and $0,1\not\in[0,1]$, then $(0,1)$ is not closed, therefore it cannot be compact.
Alternatively, if you suppose that $(0,1)$ is compact, then consider the cover $$\mathcal{U}=\bigcup_{k=1}^{\infty}(\frac{1}{k},2)$$ By assumption, $\mathcal{U}$ admits a finite sub-cover, $$\mathcal{U}'=\bigcup_{k=1}^n(\frac{1}{k},2)$$ for some $n\in\mathbb{N}$. Now, notice that $(\frac{1}{n},2)=\mathcal{U}'$.
We claim that $(0,1)$ is not a subset of $(\frac{1}{n},2)$.
Fix $n\in\mathbb{N}$. Since $\frac{1}{n+1}\in (0,1)$ and $\frac{1}{n+1}\not\in(\frac{1}{n},2)$, then $(0,1)$ is not a subset of $(\frac{1}{n},2)$, so $\mathcal{U}'$ is not a cover of $(0,1)$. Since $n$ was arbitrary, then no finite sub-cover exists.
Because we have found a cover of $(0,1)$, namely $\mathcal{U}$, that does not admit a finite sub-cover, then $(0,1)$ cannot be compact.

A: As a subset of $\mathbb R$, $(0,1)$ is not compact.  That is because $\mathbb R$ has the Heine-Borel property and $(0,1)$ is not closed and bounded.  And you successfully gave an example of an open cover with no finite subcover.
But that is not what the question is asking.  The question is asking to think of $(0,1)$ as a space in and of itself, does not have the Heine-Borel property (which means that in $(0,1)$ as a space that the Heine-Borel Theorem is FALSE).
And to do that we consider the the set $(\frac 0, \frac 12]$.  This set is CLOSED in $(0,1)$ because it contains all its limit points (note $0$ does not exist in $(0,1)$ so $0$ is not a limit point of $(\frac 0, \frac 12]$).  And the set is bounded.
But it is not compact. Let $I_n = (\frac 1{n+2}, 1 - \frac 1{n+2})$.  $\{I_n\}$ is an open cover of $(\frac 0, \frac 12]$.  (For any $x \in (0, \frac 12]$ there is a $k\ge 3$ so that $\frac 1k < x$ so $x \in I_{k-2}$).  But it has no finite subcover as for any finite $\{I_n\}$ there is a $m= \min n$ and so if $0< x < \frac 1{m+2}$ we have $x$ not being covered.
So $(0,1)$ doesn't have the Heine-Borel Property because in $(0,1)$ the Heine Borel theorem is FALSE.

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Auckland Queens Wharf Cruise Port Upgrade Approved
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CLIA Australasia Launches Advisory Group to Support Australian Return to Cruise
Aaron Saunders
(10:30 a.m. EDT) -- CLIA Australasia has created a new Cruise Suppliers Advisory Group in response to Australia's current ban on cruises, which is scheduled to run through until at least December 17, 2020.
The Advisory Group will include representatives from Australia's transport companies, food and beverage providers, local farmers and wholesalers who provide provisions, services and goods for the Australian cruise industry.
The goal of the Advisory Group is to support a phased return to cruise operations in Australia. CLIA Australasia managing director Joel Katz had said the Advisory Group would meet regularly and would play a part in the organizations efforts to lobby governments at all levels.
The Australian cruise industry injects approximately $5 billion AUD into the local economy. CLIA Australasia estimates that more than 18,000 jobs are at risk across the country due to the current ban on cruise.
"Many of these suppliers have been devastated by the suspension of cruise operations in a similar way to members of the travel and tourism industry," Katz said.
Katz notes that even with extensive health measures in place, a phased return to cruising involving local Australians only would be a way to restart the local cruise industry safely.
CLIA Australasia notes that local businesses have, in some cases, lost a significant portion of their revenue due to the loss of the cruise lines. Cruise ships calling in Australia routinely provision using local suppliers, providing everything from food and beverage needs for hotel operations to local pilotage, bunker fuel, and other technical requirements.
Australia has banned most cruise operations through December 17, 2020. Many cruise lines already have canceled their Australian cruise itineraries through the end of 2020.


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Tony-winning TheatreWorks continues to inspire the future with 50th season
By StoryStudio June 21, 2019 7:42 am

For half a century, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has entertained millions of patrons, produced hundreds of new plays and musicals that have been performed across the country, and sown the seeds for future artists and art enthusiasts through innovative education programs that reach thousands of students every year. In recognition of this legacy, TheatreWorks received the 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the industry's highest honor.
But TheatreWorks and Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley have never been content to rest on their laurels. Kelley was a recent Stanford grad when he launched the company in 1970 with a world premiere musical, and he remains committed to making its 50th season as ambitious and innovative as the first. The 2019 season, which begins with a stellar summer slate, features triumphant revivals of cherished favorites; bold premieres, including the company's 70th world premiere, the musical Pride and Prejudice; and outstanding works from the nation's celebrated playwrights.
Linguist George (Jomar Tagatac) is so focused on preserving dying languages that he fails to communicate with his wife Mary (Elena Wright) in "The Language Archive," presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley July 10 – August 4 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne.
The season kicks off at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on July 10, with The Language Archive, a whimsical tale by Julia Cho. The quirky comic drama tells the story of a linguist so obsessed with preserving dying languages that he fails to communicate in his own. This delightful parable for our own times, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Women Playwrights, features a star-studded cast led by TheatreWorks and TV veterans Francis Jue (Madame Secretary) and Emily Kuroda (Gilmore Girls).
Running from August 9–18 is the 18th annual New Works Festival, dedicated to developing new voices for the stage. Thousands of new theatre lovers will descend on the Lucie Stern Theatre for this extraordinary 10-day event, which features three new plays and two musicals in the early stages of development. In one Festival highlight, the playwrights, composers, and directors from across the country will discuss their creative process and answer audience questions during a special "Meet the Artists" program. And with multiple performances allotted to each work, the authors can refine their shows throughout the Festival, offering a unique, exciting window into the creative process.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Photo credit: Mark Kitaoka.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "Once Upon A Rhyme" in a staged reading at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "Once Upon A Rhyme" in a staged reading at TheatreWorks ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: The Bennet sisters (Adrienne Kaori Walters, Monique Hafen, Melissa Wolfklain, Hannah Corneau, and Shannon Rietkerk) meet Mr. Collins (Brian Herndon) in a reading of "Pride and Prejudice" at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival. "Pride and Prejudice" by Paul Gordon will make its World Premiere, the company's 70th World Premiere, as a part of TheatreWorks's 2019-2020 season. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: The Bennet sisters (Adrienne Kaori Walters, Monique Hafen, Melissa ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "3 Farids," written by Ramiz Monsef, presented in the 2017 New Works Festival. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "3 Farids," written by Ramiz Monsef, presented in the ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is Dan Hiatt and Sarah Mitchell in a reading of "They Promised Her the Moon" at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival. "They Promised Her the Moon" will make its Northern California Premiere as a part of the 2019-20 main stage season. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here is Dan Hiatt and Sarah Mitchell in a reading of "They Promised Her the ... more
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Seen here, the cast from the musical "Norman Rockwell's America" in a previous ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 7-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding," written by "Come From Away" duo Irene Sankoff and David Hein and presented in the 2017 New Works Festival. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 7-18, 2019. Seen here is the cast of "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding," written by ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: Brian Herndon, Adam Shonkwiler, Sean Allan Krill, Dani Marcus and Hannah Corneau in a reading of "Pride and Prejudice" at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival. "Pride and Prejudice" will make its World Premiere as a part of TheatreWorks's 2019-20 Season. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: Brian Herndon, Adam Shonkwiler, Sean Allan Krill, Dani Marcus and Hannah ... more
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: The Bennet Family (Monique Hafen, Adrienne Kaori Walters, Shannon Rietkerk, Heather Orth, Hannah Corneau, and Christopher Vettel) in a reading of "Pride and Prejudice" in TheatreWorks' 2018 New Works Festival. "Pride and Prejudice" by Paul Gordon will make its World Premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as a part of its 50th Anniversary Season. Photo Credit: Kevin Berne. less
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present its 2019 New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 9-18, 2019. L-R: The Bennet Family (Monique Hafen, Adrienne Kaori Walters, Shannon Rietkerk, ... more
The Olivier Award-winning Hitchcockian spoof "The 39 Steps" will be presented August 21 – September 15, 2019 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Seen here is (L-R:) Rebecca Dines, Mark Anderson Phillips, Dan Hiatt, and Cassidy Brown in TheatreWorks' 2011 production of "The 39 Steps." Photo Credit: Mark Kitaoka.
TheatreWorks' summer schedule closes with the Olivier Award-winning comedy The 39 Steps at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, August 21–Sept. 15. This outlandish comic thriller, a TheatreWorks favorite, turns the classic Alfred Hitchcock film on its head in an uproarious mash-up of murder, espionage, secret agents, and a nefarious plot to destroy England. Its dozens of characters, played by just four actors, race to avert disaster with hilarious results.
Six more productions will follow through June 2020, when Artistic Director Kelley will retire, ending one of the longest, most distinguished tenures in American theatre. To purchase subscriptions or individual tickets to TheatreWorks' spectacular 50th Season, call 650-463-1960 or visit theatreworks.org. Special pricing is available for seniors, educators, and patrons 35 and younger.


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Frontier Territories and the Weight of Violent Inequality: Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in the Colombian Frontier, 2000-2015
Diego Andrés Lugo Vivas, University of MiamiFollow
International Studies (Arts and Sciences)
Elvira María Restrepo
Bruce Bagley
Santiago Olivella
Ieva Jusionyte
Fifth Committee Member
Lilian Yaffe
This dissertation examines phenomena of land concentration, land grabbing, and intensive uses of soil in peripheral regions in Colombia designated as New Frontiers of Land Control between 2000 and 2015. Land distribution has been one of the mechanisms linked to the armed conflict in Colombia either as a cause, as a consequence or as a parallel condition. Following that, different struggles around land have evolved since 1990s when this country entered the hardest era in the escalation of the conflict. Although peripheral regions share a number of economic, social, political and to a lesser extent cultural conditions (regarding the presence of minorities), phenomena of land concentration and land grabbing have followed different paths during the last sixteen years. Theoretically, this dissertation adheres to political ecology and institutional geography perspectives that prioritize processes of accumulation in transitional periods, which in the Colombian case have gone from the escalation of the conflict (1998-2006) to the implementation of the two most important peace processes in contemporary history (2005 and 2016). The Ceasefire Transitionality (with a number of political and land conflicts still evolving) is the theoretical lens by which phenomena of land concentration and land grabbing have been analyzed. By employing Maximum Likelihood Estimations (MLE), and Spatial Data Analysis in a 181-municipal- and a 14-year panel data sample, as well as Semi-Structured Interviews in three departments, I argue that the combination of 1) a semi-institutional approach to territorial control by armed actors, 2) the existent land regime and its parallel uses of soil (with a focus on lootable resources such as mining, coca, new prairies and palm), as well as 3) a fragile State presence that has been subjected to processes of cooptation and corruption, have produced different scenarios in terms of land accumulation. This goes from 1) likely cases of land grabbing via criminal bands –in the middle of an ongoing conflict– while promoting extractive illicit industries to 2) cases of land concentration and land grabbing under ceasefire economies due the implementation of strong Military-State alliances.
New Frontiers of Land Control; Territorial Control by Armed Actors; Ceasefire Economies; Land Concentration; Land Grabbing
Lugo Vivas, Diego Andrés, "Frontier Territories and the Weight of Violent Inequality: Land Concentration and Land Grabbing in the Colombian Frontier, 2000-2015" (2017). Open Access Dissertations. 1841.
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Our First Home
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Move To South Keys
Taggart Construction Limited outgrows its Tunney's Pasture location and relocates to its current home on Albion Road, in Ottawa's South Keys.
Ottawa's 1st Blast License
Harold Taggart receives the City of Ottawa's 1st blast license, signifying the beginning of a long history in deep and complex excavations which continues to this day.
Taggart Family Invest in Concrete Pipe Company Ottacon
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Kingston Operations Begin
Taggart Construction Limited operations begin in Kingston after a successful tender for a new subdivision. After operating out of what is currently a motorcycle repair shop, it moved to its current location after construction was completed in the early 1970s.
Founder Harold Taggart Retires
Harold Taggart retires. His sons Jim & Ian, along with son-in-law Dave purchase the company and lead its expansion.
Doran Contractors Limited Is Acquired
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Harold Taggart began transforming streets in Eastern Ontario into new homes for returning war veterans in 1948. That proud legacy and dedication to excellence continued through the hands-on efforts of his family, culminating in the formation of Tamarack Homes.
Taggart Realty Management Launches
Taggart Realty Management specializes in property and asset management, acquisition, disposal, and development of commercial and residential real estate.
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Taggart Construction Limited Celebrates 50 Years
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Taggart Group of Companies Launches a Sustainability Committee
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RASHED AL-QAOOD
Saudi Arabia 2021 | ECONOMY | VIP INTERVIEW
TBY talks to Rashed Al-Qaood, Director General of Adaa, about new priorities, the effects of the pandemic, and the outlook for the coming year.
What was your specific mandate upon joining Adaa, and what were your opening priorities?
When I joined Adaa, I fully reviewed the center's strategic direction and operations, mainly to determine its successes and what needed to be updated from 2016, when the center was established. Part of my mandate was to connect with Adaa's main stakeholders and identify their needs and challenges. This involved holding interviews with ministers and the heads of government agencies to determine how Adaa can support them in improving their performances. In addition, I reviewed Adaa's product portfolios and performance reports in order to enhance the government's performance-based decision making. I also wanted to learn about the measurement of performance from mature governments that have much experience with the process. In my efforts to shape Adaa's new strategic direction, I greatly benefited from the experiences of the UK, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the UAE. One of the main performance management takeaways from such benchmarking was that government agencies in mature countries measure their own performances and report them to central government performance agencies. Today, Adaa reports on the performances of government agencies, and we will continue to do so; however, our aim is to enable these agencies to measure their own performances. Adaa found it challenging to assess 582 government agencies; this horizontal spread was causing the analysis in Adaa reports to suffer. Therefore, to ensure the accuracy of Adaa's reports, I agreed with the board of directors that Adaa should focus on measuring national priorities and gradually let go of measuring the performances of agencies. Furthermore, to promote transparency in this process, beginning in 2021, I plan to publish the performance data. One of Adaa's major new measurements is the national satisfaction index of public services, and the baseline value of this index will be generated, also in 2021. This index is the result of evaluations of beneficiaries' satisfaction with several journeys. Finally, I wish to mention one of Adaa products—an app called "Watani." This app allows beneficiaries, including citizens, visitors, and business owners, to evaluate government services. The data collected helps us to evaluate public sector performance from the perspective of beneficiaries. In conclusion, I aim to create a more focused agency, one that helps government agencies to improve their performances and build their internal performance management capabilities.
Did you have to change how you measured organizations and the progress on the vision as a result of the pandemic?
COVID-19 has had several positive effects. Financially, it made us reprioritize our project initiatives at the governmental and organizational levels. At the governmental level, we looked at the vision's initiatives to reprioritize our work and determine the most important initiatives. As a result of the pandemic, we had to review the government's affected KPIs. Some were positively affected, such as the massive growth in mobile payments, while others were negatively affected, such as international tourism. It should be noted that most KPIs related to digitalization and the IT sector did well.
How have digitalization efforts like "Watani" helped you measure the government response to the virus?
Watani opened a great gate for us to measure beneficiaries' experiences with public services. As the app's success depends on a large number of beneficiaries participating in the evaluation of a service, we added a push feature to nudge users into giving us their feedback immediately after using a service. For example, if a person obtains a service from the Ministry of Commerce, when they are finished, they receive a message from Watani asking for their feedback. We are also targeting the integration of the Watani app with other successful apps, such as Absher, to obtain more accurate and timely data. Today, we can access many services online; therefore, next year, we plan to give Watani a new dashboard that will integrate with governmental electronic platforms. Last December, we celebrated the integration of the first government agency, the Saudi Red Crescent Authority, with Watani, and we look forward to receiving the feedback. Our strategy is to evolve our mission and approach. We plan to shift every three years, from now until the end of 2022; then every three years from 2022, we will revise our strategic plan. For the first three years, we will focus on measuring the general performance and contributions of a limited number of major government agencies to the national plans and Vision 2030. We chose these agencies carefully by looking at their budgets, beneficiaries, number of services they offer, and whether they are members of CEDA. At the end of the final year, they will graduate as government agencies and can then measure themselves. This is part of our strategy to ensure that we have a mature performance measurement environment.
After the pandemic, what will be different this year for your organization?
During the pandemic, we learned much that was new, such as an increased reliance on technology, how to save time, and how to think about our current products and initiatives. We looked at how these things contribute to our achieving our strategy, and we revisited and prioritized our strategy so that we learn new things. The pandemic taught us many lessons, the most important of which are the uses of technology. Although we had technology before the pandemic, we did not use it to its full potential. We have used this moment as an opportunity to modernize and reassess our strategy. Despite the challenges, I am confident we will emerge stronger.
Rashed Al-Qaood has been the director-general of the National Center for Performance Measurement (Adaa) since 2019. He has over 18 years' experience in multiple leadership roles in the public sector. Before joining Adaa, Mr. Al-Qaood was an advisor to the minister of commerce. He led the establishment of the Beneficiary Experience Department in the Ministry of Commerce as well as multiple initiatives that have contributed to Saudi Vison 2030. Mr. Al-Qaood has also worked in leadership positions in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, Crown Prince Private Affairs, Saudi Food and Drug Authority, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Mr. Al-Qaood holds a master's degree in software engineering from Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, and has attended many executive programs, such as the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School.
Focus: National Transformation Program 2020
Next Stop: 2020
Though all sights are set on Vision 2030, achieving the more concrete targets of the Kingdom's National Transformation Program 2020 will be a litmus test for the long-term Vision's success.
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Los Angeles Times' Journalism in 'Smoking Ruins'
By: Tamar Sternthal June 13, 2021
At The Los Angeles Times, journalism is in smoking ruins, to borrow from the language of the June 7 page-one headline: "Gaza's economy in smoking ruins." The Times article, with the online headline of "In war-ravaged Gaza, it's no business, as usual," is not journalism as usual.
Journalism as usual mandates that reporters provide context. It also calls on journalists to "[d]iligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criticism or allegations of wrongdoing." In addition, journalism as usual compels media outlets to "[a]cknowledge mistakes and correct them promptly and prominently. Explain corrections and clarifications carefully and clearly." (See Code of Ethics of Society for Professional Journalists.)
But the "Gaza's economy in smoking ruins" article, by Nabih Bulos and Hana Salah, does not abide by any of these criteria.
Featuring specific Gaza businesses harmed by the latest round of fighting between Hamas and Israel, the article fails to provide any information about the Hamas infrastructure that Israel's military targeted in the Al Shorouq tower, the Karni Industrial Zone, and other locations identified in the story which were hit (or allegedly hit) by Israeli airstrikes. Without any information about the Hamas targets, the article leaves the false impression that the businesses themselves were the target. As one businessman quoted in the story tells it: "The Israelis targeted this place specifically. It makes you wonder why. This must be economic punishment and environmental destruction."
Even as the article broadly acknowledges "Israel blames Hamas for embedding its bases and infrastructure near civilian areas," it fails to identify the Hamas targets at the specific sites mentioned in the story. (In addition, contrary to the article's suggestion, it's not merely an Israeli charge that Hamas embeds its infrastructure in civilian areas. It's a fact acknowledged by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.)
Moreover, the article gives a selective account of the airstrikes' results, stating:
For its part, the Israeli military said its air and artillery strikes on Gaza hit more than 1,500 targets, a wave of devastation that has left hundreds of buildings as well as more than 1,800 commercial units destroyed or damaged, according to initial estimates from the economy and public works ministries in Gaza.
The May 21 statement by the Israel Defense Forces spokesman (as reproduced by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center) detailed that "During Operation Guardian of the Walls Israel destroyed more than 1,500 terrorist targets, severely damaging the strategic and tactical capabilities of Hamas and the PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]." (Emphasis added. While the IDF referred to 1,500 terrorist targets, The Los Angeles Times dropped that key word.) The IDF's statement detailed the Hamas targets that were hit:
• Hamas' tunnel system (the "metro") in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Yunis: The IDF destroyed more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) of tunnels used by the Hamas leadership and terrorist operatives as hideouts, and command and control centers. Several attack tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip were also hit.
• Terrorist operatives: An estimated 50 senior Hamas and PIJ terrorist operatives were killed including brigade commanders, and about 20 lower-ranking commanders and about 200 terrorist operatives.
• Rocket launching capabilities: The IDF carried out about 340 attacks on high trajectory rocket launchers, 230 attacks on surface-to-surface rocket launchers, and about 35 on mortar shell launchers.
• Weapons-manufacture capabilities: The weapons-manufacturing and military buildup capabilities of the terrorist organizations were hit hard, research and development operatives were killed, and small facilities for the manufacture of weapons, development centers and weapons storehouses were hit.
• Hamas administration structures: Dozens of administration offices, 11 building belonging the internal security forces, and five banks used to transfer funds for terrorist activities were attacked. A senior source in the Hamas police force said that between 15% and 25% of the police management offices and most of its headquarters were partially destroyed (al-Aqsa, May 22, 2021).
• The terrorist infrastructure: The Israeli Air Force attacked dozens of bases, posts, command centers and nine multistory buildings where terrorist activity was coordinated. Prevention of attacks: Terrorist invasions were prevented, as were attacks from antitank missile squads, seven aerial threats (armed UAVs) and two naval threats (including attacks by unmanned submarine vessels).
Indeed, some of the targeted terrorist infrastructure was located in Al Shorouq tower, which repeatedly appears in The Los Angeles Times story, in both photographs and text. (One of the four Al Shorouq-related images appearing in the digital article is at left.) About the Al Shorouq towers, Bulos and Salah report:
On Rimal Street, the Al Shorouq tower and its environs were home to dozens of smaller businesses, including Mutaz Khaled Ismail's dental clinic. Believing in the power of location, the 27-year-old Egyptian university graduate bought an office unit in Hasniya, the building adjacent to Al Shorouq.
"I watched missiles bring down the first two parts of Shorouq. Then I went to take a shower, came back and saw the middle was destroyed," he said.
When Al Shorouq was collapsed, it sheared off the wall of the Hasniya building, like a knife cutting through a layer cake, Ismail thought of the brand-new 600-pound dentist's chair he had bought and would never use.
"I took a risk, and now the war destroyed everything," he said. "I don't know if I'll stay or not. . . . "
Although the article dedicates four paragraphs to Al Shorouq's destruction, it includes not one word about what Israel targeted at the site. According to the Israeli military, Al Shorouq
was a 14-story building which housed Hamas military intelligence offices and communications equipment for transmitting tactical military information to and from the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip
Indeed, the building housed Hamas' Al Aqsa TV, which passes messages to terrorists and recruits them, and which airs calls for murder, including the broadcast days before the airstrike featuring Hamas leader Fathi Hammad urging viewers to buy 5 shekel knives and cut off the heads of Jews. Why is the information about Hamas' activity at Al Shorouq omitted?
The correspondents likewise do not report what the Israeli military was targeting when businesses in other areas were harmed. For instance, was the agricultural pesticide factory hit when the Israeli military targeted a Hamas anti-tank missile launching post which earlier that day fired at an Israeli bus? Or was the target the Hamas tunnel shafts, which had also been hit in that area? Alternatively, were the businesses in the Karni industrial zone hit by one of the hundreds of errant Hamas rockets? The article does not investigate the latter possibility, and does not give any information about what the IDF was targeting had it indeed hit the industrial zone.
False Claim That Crossing Is Closed
Furthermore, in a grossly misleading passage, The Times falsely implies that Israel's Kerem Shalom into the Gaza Strip crossing is closed, with no goods passing through:
"Now we can't export or import. There's been no mention as to when the crossing might reopen," [businessman Ibrahim] Hassouneh said, referring to the Kerem Shalom crossing between Gaza and Israel, which normally allows a limited amount of goods to flow through.
In addition, the article notes:
This week, dozens of Egyptian trucks bearing aid containers entered Gaza, and Cairo has already pledged $500 million for reconstruction, with Egyptian firms expected to take part. That would require at least a partial lifting of the blockade, and would allow Egypt to monitor where materials were being used.
Contrary to Hassouneh's statement, the crossing is very much open. In the same time period that dozens of trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt, hundreds of trucks bearing aid entered the coastal territory via Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing. Israel's COGAT, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, confirmed for CAMERA that just in the first week of June, 767 trucks crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel through Kerem Shalom. As the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in late May:
The Kerem Shalom Crossing for goods remains open for the entry of specific basic commodities, including fodder, medical supplies, and supplies and fuel for the private sector and UNRWA.
Why does the article note dozens of trucks from Egypt while ignoring several hundred trucks from Israel?
Furthermore, while the article ostensibly spotlights the difficulties facing Gaza's businesses, it egregiously overlooks the fact that Hamas repeatedly fired rockets at the crossings upon which the businesses depend.
״Hamas tries to create a false picture to the intr.arena by blaming Israel for not opening the crossings for aid. On one hand, Hamas shoots rockets at Kerem Shalom and Erez Crossings, and on the other hand, it enables the entrance through Rafah Crossing"said Col. Elad Goren > pic.twitter.com/npEHrAkCLf
— COGAT (@cogatonline) May 20, 2021
Unemployment Uncorrected
As previously noted, journalism as usual also requires that media outlets acknowledge mistakes and correct them promptly. Yet, editors failed to correct a straightforward, clear cut factual error in the story about unemployment in the Gaza Strip, despite CAMERA's correction request last week. Bulos and Salah err: "The unemployment rate hovers around 69%."
The latest available statistics, published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, show that in the first quarter of this year, unemployment in the Gaza Strip stood at 48 percent, not 69 percent.
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CAMERA Author
Tamar Sternthal Tamar Sternthal is director of CAMERA's Israel Office. She monitors both U.S. publications and English-language Israeli publications, and heads up CAMERA's "Haaretz, Lost in Translation" project. Her columns have appeared in numerous American and Israeli publications, including the Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet, Algemeiner, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Petersburg Times, and the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Sternthal is interviewed on radio about the media's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and regularly participates in panels about the media, hosted by universities and think tanks in Israel.
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Steffen Radochla (born 19 October 1978, in Leipzig) is a German former road cyclist, who was professional from 2001 until 2013. He last rode for the  team.

Major results

2000
 1st Rund um Berlin
 1st Stage 1 Sachsen-Tour
2001
 1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges
 3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
2002
 1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
 1st Henk Vos Memorial
 1st Stage 4a Hessen Rundfahrt
 1st Stage 5 Sachsen-Tour
 4th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
2003
 1st Stage 1 Österreich Rundfahrt
 3rd Scheldeprijs
 5th Rund um Köln
2005
 4th Neuseen Classics
 5th GP Herning
 6th Scheldeprijs
 6th Nokere-Koerse
 9th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
 9th GP Aarhus
2006
 1st Stages 3 & 5 Giro del Capo
 1st Stage 3 Tour du Poitou Charentes
 1st  Points classification Tour de Langkawi
 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal
 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
 5th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden
 6th Neuseen Classics
 7th Ronde van Drenthe
2007
 1st Dutch Food Valley Classic
 1st Stage 2 Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
 2nd Neuseen Classics
 4th Ronde van het Groene Hart
 5th Sparkassen Münsterland Giro
 6th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
2008
 1st Neuseen Classics
 1st Stage 5 Szlakiem Grodow Piastowskich
 3rd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt
2009
 8th Neuseen Classics
2010
 1st Stage 4 Volta ao Alentejo
 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 2nd Neuseen Classics
 3rd Rund um Düren
 4th Ronde van Noord-Holland
 7th Beverbeek Classic
2011
 2nd Neuseen Classics
 4th Overall Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques
1st Stage 4
 6th Ster van Zwolle
 7th Sparkassen Münsterland Giro
2012
 1st Puchar Uzdrowisk Karpackich
 1st  Mountains classification Bayern Rundfahrt
 3rd Memoriał Henryka Łasaka
 5th Neuseen Classics
 9th GP Stad Zottegem
2013
 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
German male cyclists
Sportspeople from Leipzig
People from Bezirk Leipzig
Cyclists from Saxony


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