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Best Ever Festival Line-ups
Published on 26 June 2019
With festival season upon us, we thought it would be quite fun to look at some of the most incredible line-ups that have occurred over the years. Whilst it’s true that there is much more to a festival than just its line-up of bands, the music does still play the most crucial part: after all, who would pay good money to go into a muddy field and tolerate three days of average-to-bad music?
So, with that in mind, we’ve searched through the annals of history to find the best line-ups ever. This is, of course, completely subjective and in no way defining. How could it be? We don’t have any particularly stringent rules in place here either, and we have simply picked the festivals we believe to have had the most significant and exceptional groups of artists involved.
Read on and see if you agree with our selections!
It’s an obvious one but the Woodstock line-up was pretty epic! There was a great mix of styles as well, with Funk, Jazz and Folk artists mingling with Rock and Psychedelic acts. The three-day festival, one of the most famous in history, saw an estimated half million attendees make their temporary home in upstate New York for what turned out to be an epoch-defining weekend.
For all the right reasons, the weekend was owned by Jimi Hendrix and his band ‘Gypsy Sun & Rainbows’. We mentioned in our Festivals that Changed the World blog about Jimi’s heroic summoning of all the hells of the Vietnam war through his screaming Stratocaster, and how he was the last act onstage after the sun rose on Monday 18th August, 1969.
Before Hendrix re-wrote the world’s perceptions of what was possible with an electric guitar, several other bands throughout the weekend made history for themselves, too. Santana is often spoken of as one of the defining acts that weekend, as is Alvin Lee’s Ten Years After. On top of this, sets by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Band, Ravi Shankar, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ensured that the quality of music that weekend was ineffable.
Isle of Wight 1970
The Isle of Wight, located a few miles off the South coast of England, is the location of many things: hovercraft & space rocket factories, the Dinosaur Isle museum, conspiracy theorist David Icke, supernatural encounters (indeed it is known as ‘Ghost Island’ due to the proliferation of spectres) and of course, the Isle of Wight Festival.
The first festival was in 1968, a year before Woodstock, but the line-up that amazes us is from the 1970 festival. As we noted in our previous blog, this particular weekend saw between 600k and 700k revellers decamp for the time of their lives. ‘A huge influx of hippies and freaks’, as one disgruntled islander put it cheerfully! Being that this was roughly 50% of the island’s entire population, we can understand his ire!
The festival, already a major event on the world music map due to its successful previous years, drew a line-up almost unmatched in its quality. Spread over five days, the diverse line-up included Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Procol Harum, Joan Baez, Free, Leonard Cohen and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. On top of all this talent, Jazz legend Miles Davis played, the Who performed a gigantic 32 song set, Jimi Hendrix made one of his last ever performances and the immortal Doors played one of their very few UK performances!
Jim Morrison, unhappy about film cameras shooting the weekend, demanded the Doors’ stage be shrouded in darkness, adding to their already sinister demeanour. Despite Morrison’s complaints, the show was filmed regardless. Look for ‘Message to Love’, a feature-length documentary released in the mid 90s. As a cross section of the best popular music from the late 60s, that’s a pretty tough line-up to beat!!
Us Festival 1983
This festival doesn’t get spoken of enough, in our opinion. Started by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the Us festival (as in ‘you and I’, not ‘United States’) was designed to get communities enjoying a blend of technology and music, whatever that meant. The first Us festival occurred in 1982 and was headlined by The Police, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac. Sounds good, but not as good as what came the following year...
The Us festival was a large outdoor affair, held over three days in San Bernadino, California, and in May 1983, saw a superb yet strange line-up split between 80s Metal acts like Ozzy Osbourne and New Wave bands like a Flock of Seagulls.
These were merely the appetizers, though. Further up on the bill, you’d find U2 (on pretty early on the last day, shocking!), Oingo Boingo (whose frontman Danny Elfman later went on to score Batman and Edward Scissorhands), Judas Priest, INXS, Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh and the Scorpions.
Topping the bill throughout each of the nights were acts so supremely good, yet so supremely different from each other, that truly everybody in the audience would find something to like! The headliners were The Clash, Van Halen and David Bowie! Another night the following weekend added a Country-tinged line-up headed by Willie Nelson to throw some extra awesome to the people of greater Los Angeles.
Van Halen apparently broke records for their reported fee ($1.5m) and around 670,000 attended the event. Way to go, LA!
Perry Farrell’s travelling tribe of freaks and weirdos was (and is) one of the most influential festivals of our times. We’ve chosen the second-year line-up from 1992 as the most special. Why? Well, it isn’t just the absurd numbers of iconic bands playing in one place, it’s more that these world-famous names could all be caught on smaller stages, as they made their way up the ladder of Rock royalty.
The Side Stage, is the second stage was known, was filled with acts including the following: Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Hill, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Ice-T and House of Pain. This is in addition to Main Stage performers Pearl Jam, Ministry, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, the Jesus & Mary Chain, Ice Cube and headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Best line-up ever? Maybe so, especially if you were a teenager in the 90s! Lollapalooza was notable in mixing Rap artists with Rock artists, some half a decade ahead of the crossover Nu-Metal revolution.
Many of these bands are still around and touring today, though we doubt well ever see this number of them together in the same place!
As we noted in our blog about Life-Changing Festivals, Coachella has developed a reputation for being the place where bands of cult-and-above status levels would reform to surprise and applause. As we noted in our previous blog, Coachella is where Bauhaus climbed out of their gothic coffins and treated everyone to a hair-raising performance with vocalist Pete Murphy hanging upside down from the rigging like the vampire we all know he is!
2012 brought no less than 4 previously great bands back into the present tense: Britpop legends Pulp, New Yorkers Mazzy Star, Swedish game-changers Refused and Post-Hardcore sensation At the Drive-In. Each of these bands carved out significant swathes of modern-day musical history, and any one of them would have been a talking point. All four together? Now that is something! Ever the most vacant of selfie-ing ‘influencers’ would not have failed to feel the magic in the air.
However, there was something else in store for Coachella’s 2012 audience. Headliners for each night of the weekend were as follows: Friday night was The Black Keys, Saturday night was Radiohead and, closing the festival on the Sunday night was Snoop Dogg with Dr Dre. So far, so legendary (well, maybe not the Black Keys...), but to top it off, Snoop and Dre were joined onstage by a very ghostly figure.
It was their old friend Tupac Shakur, rapper, writer and actor. Hip-hip legend and icon of the West Coast scene.
Dead since 1996.
Tupac’s spooky, glowing image addressed the audience, moved around on stage and rapped, filling in the gaps between Snoop’s rhymes. Nobody had ever seen anything like this before. Yes, it clearly wasn’t real, no matter what you were smoking, but the ‘Tupac Hologram’ (in fact, a two-dimensional projection onto glass) was an impressive and poignant trip into the Uncanny valley. It was his likeness, his voice, his charisma, distilled into a two song piece of footage made by James Cameron’s company Digital Domain. After his ‘performance’, Tupac’s likeness (let’s not call it a ghost) faded away into sparkles, leaving the stage for Dre and Snoop to finish their set.
However you feel about this strange resurrection, whether you were a fan or not, it stands as a truly iconic piece of modern performance. We are glad to note that other departed legends have not followed in Tupac’s wake, we have to say. We don’t really want the future to be filled with projections of Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse or whomever else ‘singing’ along to live bands, no matter how much we love the music. Tupac at Coachella was an amazing moment that should perhaps never be repeated.
Desert Trip 2016
Our next choice eschews smoke & mirrors to trade purely on old-school talent. Desert Trip, organised by Goldenvoice, the same team as Coachella, took place in the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Coachella Valley on two separate weekends during October 2016. The line-up was the same each weekend, giving more people the chance to lap up the talent.
Instead of filling up the roster with dozens of anonymous indie bands, Goldenvoice instead opted for quality: a mere two bands each night, six in total over the three-day weekend.
So, who played?
How many legends can you fit on one stage?
Try this: Friday night had The Rolling Stones followed by Bob Dylan; Saturday brought Paul McCartney and Neil Young; and the Sunday evening acts were Roger Waters and finally The Who. As a bonus, Macca brought Rihanna on for a song. As you do.
There isn’t much more you can add to that line-up without digging up graves! It’s immense, and importantly, a line-up that almost everybody can enjoy. ‘Oldchella’ stands as one of the best festivals line-ups seen since the heyday of the early seventies. We’re looking forward to seeing what they’ll come up with next.
Live Aid, 1985
Was Live Aid truly a ‘festival’? Maybe, maybe not. Who cares? This is the single biggest and best line-up of musical artists ever. Of course it is! Leaving this out would be insane.
Live Aid was a response by Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and friends to the horrifying images of starvation and famine being brought across to the Western World from Ethiopia via reporters like Michael Buerk. Morally repelled by the horrors of famine, especially when the world was more than rich enough to spread the wealth, they decided to use the universal language of music to put the agenda of addressing famine front and centre.
First up was the charity single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, a huge success and 1984 Christmas Number One in the UK. It was a start, but for Geldof and Ure, it wasn’t enough. They needed an event that would get the attention of the planet. The idea of having two concurrent shows was partly to extend the scope of potential audiences, but also to keep up momentum: careful set times meant that organisers could televise one band performing in the US, whilst the next UK band could set up and prepare to play as soon as the US band was finished. Everyone would get to see everything.
The world certainly paid attention. 1.9 billion people, almost 40% of the world’s population at that time, tuned in to watch Live Aid, which took place (almost) simultaneously in both London and Philadelphia. Phones rang off the hook with the public rushing to donate to the cause: a phone number flashed up every 20 minutes on screen and by the end of proceedings, some $127 million had been raised for Ethiopia.
But what of the music? Who was there?
Each band had roughly between 16 and 24 mins to play, not long by anybody’s standards! As we know, Queen gave a quite immortal performance within their allotted 21 minutes, distilling a career’s worth of genius into 6 songs and being rated by numerous journalists as the best live music performance ever. David Bowie’s performance was also highly rated, as was U2’s two song set (one of the tunes was 14 minutes though!), with Bono famously taking to the crowd to rescue a girl from being crushed against a barrier. It’s an incredible moment.
Over in the States, Black Sabbath re-formed with Ozzy for the event, Madonna brought her charisma and Bob Dylan took to the stage with Ron Wood & Keith Richards. Mick Jagger who also performed, bizarrely didn’t share the stage with his fellow Stones. In other comedy moments, Duran Duran’s Simon le Bon let out a classic yelping voice crack (get it on YouTube, it’s class) and Led Zeppelin performed a set so terrible, they’ve vetoes the footage from inclusion in official broadcasts ever since. Once again, two seconds on Google will get this dreadful footage! We don’t want it on here!
Special kudos goes to unlikely 80s legend Phil Collins. The ex-Genesis drummer and solo megastar performed not only with Sting (on vocals and keys no less) in London, but also, by jumping on an awaiting Concorde (this was in the days before carbon footprints were a thing), managed to perform his own solo set in Philadelphia AND jump on the tubs for Led Zeppelin straight after! He may well have regretted that one. Page blamed Collins for their lacklustre performance, which isn’t really very nice. We’ve seen the footage. We don’t blame you, Phil!
Live Aid will forever be owned by Queen’s masterful performance, though. To be fair, when Queen were ‘on’, who could possibly hope to top them? Live Aid stands, in our estimation, as the greatest line-up of musical talent that has ever happened.
So, those are our picks for the greatest festival line-ups. Do you agree with these? Would you have had Glastonbury in 2000, for David Bowie’s triumphant return? We would have two, if the rest of the headliners were of similar quality. Did we miss some incredible festivals and moments? No doubt, but we fully stand by each of these choices as being representative of the best that festivals have to offer.
We hope you enjoyed this brief jaunt through the years of festival greatness, and we also hope you will witness plenty of your own incredible festival moments in the future.


A new research note from Barclays reported on by MacRumors has seemingly confirmed a report earlier this year that Apple will be omitting its Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter from this year’s iPhone lineup. Back in April, Barclays lowered its revenue guidance for Cirrus Logic — the supplier of the audio components in the adapter — on what appeared to the speculative belief that Apple was planning to exclude the dongle this year.
Although the company’s analysts accurately predicted that the adapter would be included with Apple’s 2017 iPhone lineup, they noted that it would take until later in the year until they know for sure. It appears now, however, that Cirrus Logic has confirmed that the dongle won’t be bundled with any of this year’s iPhone models.
The removal of the headphone adapter — which Apple sells separately for $9 — may not come as much of a surprise considering Apple’s continuing push toward wireless headphones, including its own current AirPods and its Beats models as well as rumours of new on-ear headphones. However, even though the headphone adapter was included with all of Apple’s 2016 and 2017 iPhones, it remains a popular accessory, with MacRumors reporting last month that it’s Best Buy’s second-best selling Apple product in terms of unit sales; although Apple’s AirPods still remain in first place, unit sales of the Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter reflect only users who are replacing or supplementing their original adapter.


Brock Osweiler Leads Denver Broncos To Win Over Colts
With Trevor Siemian injured, Brock Osweiler came into the game for the Denver Broncos. His performance led the Broncos to a second straight win.
Who would have thought that a quarterback other than Trevor Siemian would lead the Denver Broncos to a win this season? Well Broncos Country, Brock Osweiler came off the bench to do that.
After Trevor Siemian left the game with a shoulder injury, some of Broncos Country, including myself, were a bit skeptical. But Brock Osweiler proved the doubters wrong. He led the Denver Broncos to their first road win of the season.
It only took seven road games to do that. But at least the Broncos avoided another bad historical feat. It has been since the 1960s since the Broncos lost every road game of the season.
C.J. Anderson and Cody Latimer also get my game balls for the game. Anderson went over 100 yards rushing for the first time this season. The running game was rolling on all cylinders since Brock Osweiler took over.
Cody Latimer had himself a game too. He had some spectacular catches. One of them went for a touchdown that looked like a Madden game. He has quietly had a solid year and could be considered for a new contract during the 2018 offseason.
Next: Broncos vs. Colts First Half Reactions
The Denver Broncos now sit at 5-9 on the season. Earlier it was reported that Vance Joseph’s job was safe, but it would depend on how the final three games went as well. This win on the road could really help his chances of staying. He was able to adjust after falling behind and get the win.
Denver travels to Washington for their final road game of the season as they take on the Redskins on Christmas Eve. Ten days to prepare. But what a win tonight! Go Broncos!


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Kathmandu, October 17:
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav today inaugurated the First Diabetes in Asia Study Group (DASG) 2008 conference in Kathmandu.
The conference with the theme of ‘Implementation of Primary Prevention Strategies for Type 2 diabetes’ is expected to draft guidelines for the prevention of diabetes in view with local factors.
Experts from different parts of the world have been attending the conference to exchange their experiences and seek ways to jointly fight the disease. According to the organisers, over 246 million people are currently affected by diabetes across the world and the number is predicted to rise to 380 million by 2025. More than 180 million diabetics will be from Asian continent and more than 80 million from the South East Asia.
“On this backdrop, it is very necessary to fight against the disease and prevention is the primary step to cure diabetes,” said Dr DL Sing, president, Nepal Diabetes Association (NDA).
Professor Samad Shera, Diabetes in Asia Study Group and honorary president of International
Diabetes Federation (IDF), said the earth would not be able to bear the burden of more diabetic patients.
He said change in lifestyle was a must to prevent the disease. In the October 17-18 conference, organised by DASG in collaboration with NDA and IDF, leading physicians and diabetologists from Asia and outside will present research papers and lectures.

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The blood thinner Lovenox®—active ingredient enoxaparin sodium injection—has been prescribed more than 2.3 billion times worldwide, often to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Complications from DVT kill more Americans annually than AIDS and breast cancer combined.
When Momenta Pharmaceuticals and its business partner Sandoz, Inc. were ready to pursue FDA approval on a generic version of Lovenox®, they turned to Zuckerman Spaeder for assistance.
Punch and counterpunch
In 2010, Lovenox® manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis sued for a preliminary injunction to block FDA approval of the Sandoz/Momenta generic version of Lovenox®. A district court denied the injunction request.
Sanofi-Aventis subsequently moved for summary judgment against the FDA, which cross-moved for summary judgment. Sandoz, represented by Zuckerman Spaeder, intervened as a defendant at the preliminary injunction stage and also cross-moved for summary judgment after Sanofi’s injunction request was denied.
Cleared for market
In February 2012, in Sanofi-Aventis v. Food and Drug Administration et al., the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld FDA’s approval of the Sandoz/Momenta generic product, ruling that the FDA acted within its authority to approve the generic drug.
The District Court granted FDA’s and Sandoz’s cross-motions for summary judgment, dismissing the Sanofi lawsuit and clearing the way for the Sandoz/Momenta product to go to market.
On behalf of Momenta, Zuckerman Spaeder partners Bill Schultz and Carlos Angulo advised Sandoz with food and drug and administrative law matters related to the briefs and oral arguments at both the preliminary injunction and summary judgment stages.

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Cast members from Syfy’s horror series Van Helsing will once again make the trek to the San Diego Comic Con to promote the popular series. The just-announced panel will feature a first-look at the show’s upcoming fourth season along with a Q&A with the cast, executive producers, and showrunner.
Among the cast expected to participate in this year’s Comic Con are Kelly Overton (“Vanessa Van Helsing”), Jonathan Scarfe (“Axel Miller”), Christopher Heyerdahl (“Sam”), Tricia Helfer (“Dracula”), Neal McDonough (“Hansen”), Aleks Paunovic (“Julius”), Jennifer Cheon Garcia (“Ivory”), Keeya King, and Nicole Munoz.
The stars of the series will be joined on the panel by showrunner Jonathan Lloyd Walker and executive producers Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes.
Van Helsing fans attending the 2019 San Diego Comic Con will get the scoop on the new season during the panel scheduled for Thursday, July 18th. The panel will be held at 11:15am to 12:15pm in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel next to the San Diego Convention Center. Per Syfy, panel attendees will receive a season four cast poster.
The cast is also scheduled to participate in autograph signings on July 18th from 2pm to 3pm in the autograph area of the Convention Center’s Sails Pavilion.
The Van Helsing Plot, Courtesy of Syfy:
“Van Helsing is a total re-imagination of a timeless brand, set in a world dominated and controlled by vampires. Season four continues the story of Vanessa Van Helsing and her band of heroes as they fight to reclaim the world after vampires took over during ‘The Rising’. The series will delve deeper into the iconic lore of the vampires and their ultimate goals for this world. New villains will rise along with unexpected heroes joining the fight.”
More on Van Helsing:
- Kelly Overton Season 3 Interview on Vanessa’s Transformation
- Tricia Helfer and Richard Harmon Join Season 4


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How did you spend your last day of 2008? Furiously racing to receive a blow job after spending the evening in da clurb with Steve Urkel? No? Well, Charles Barkley, who used to play basketball, probably ended the year in a more fantastical fashion than did you, reports the Associated Press.
Barkley was pulled over by police in the wee hours of Dec. 31, 2008 in Scottsdale, Ariz. after running a stop sign, the AP reports. But the Arizona Republic does the crack reporting the AP will not, digging up the police report to reveal Barkley’s excuse for the hurry: Oral sex, the very activity in which all the kids you know are engaged!
While being processed at the East Valley DUI Taskforce command post, Barkley told police, “I was going to drive around the corner and get” oral sex, the report states. He explained he had engaged in oral sex with the same woman last week, the report added.
He then told civilian employee, “I’ll tattoo your name on my ass” if it would get him out of the DUI, according to the report.
Yes, and Urkel is somehow involved in this!:
Barkley was returning from the Dirty Pretty Rock Bar near Camelback and Miller roads where he spent about three hours with a large group of 40 people, said owner Ryan Jocque. The party included actor Jaleel White, who played TV nerd Steve Urkel from the 1990s sitcom Family Matters, and football player Michael Strahan.
In a statement, Barley said only that the Scottsdale police were “fantastic.”
Photo via AP.

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In recent posts, I have elaborated on some of the differentiators between Organization Development and Change Management in coping with the implementation of complex organizational change. This post will illustrate provide a short case illustrating the differences.
Change Management approach is mechanistic. CM believes that change has a beginning and end, and the transition between the two is “manageable”. Change management focuses on delivering predefined changes to managers more than happy to in-source their woes. CM provides well documented and rational road maps on how change management delivers. CM uses a wide of tools, many of them mechanistic to the extreme.
OD views “changing” as ongoing and constant state, not a project with a beginning and end which can be managed like a software release. OD has a dynamic approach to the way events unfold in an organization. OD address underlying dynamics which impact the ability of organizations to adapt, such as power struggles, poor teamwork, lack of engagement, detached leadership and pissing contests. Professional OD consultants are suspicious about constant change programs and futile reorganizations.
The basic approach of OD is that “change” is likely to be subverted unless the underlying dynamics are dealt with. CM often blames underlying dynamics for screwing up their well drawn up plans.
OD focus is on achieving ongoing systemic flexibility and agility, not a one time hit and run change.
Let’s look at this real case which shows the difference.
MBK, a small Israeli firm with a cutting edge technology, buys an American competitor with an older and out-dated version of the MBK’s technology in order to gain access to their former US competitor’s install base. The CEO wants to realize these synergies quickly via rapid integration, so he calls in both an OD consultant and Change Manager to get their cut on how this can be achieved as fast as possible.
The CEO wants the propagate the vision of “our wow new technology to our new US install base-all leveraged and done in 6 months”.
A realistic (aka pessimistic) OD consultant confronted the CEO that the transformation cannot be done that quickly; he suggests a 3 year year period adjustment time is more of less what is to be expected. The OD consultant claims that a vision of “our new technology to our new install base” means nothing very practical to the leadership and troops of both organizations. Each and every individual is worried about “what happens to me” and that is the issue which needs to be addressed, claimed the OD consultant.
The OD consultant wanted to start the integration by developing the framework of a flexible planning platform with a very small group of key people from both the US and Israeli organizations . This group is to be tasked with making (and re-make) plans and managing the integration activities which go on. The “plan will probably changes tens of times”, as it takes into account the goals of the acquisition, factoring in ways to deal with the massive resistance, fear, anxiety, and political agendas of all. The OD consultant called this plan a “a rolling out plan”, which changes all the time based on obstacles encountered and the derivative adjustment of the integration goals.
The CEO thinks the OD consultant has no business focus and that he is negative.
The CEO chooses to work with a user friendly and less argumentative Change Manager!
The optimistic Change Manager draws up a plan (with his bare hands) that creates synergies to leverage the newer technologies in the large US install base, creating huge revenues. The Change Managers’ plan, covered in 70 slides, takes 6 months to fully implement. The plan consists of redrawing roles, responsibilities, creating new processes and some team building (via cooking classes and golf tournaments.)
The CEO is impressed and the CM is hired.
3 months into the the plan, the CEO and his change manager look at the organization, and all they see is resistance and push back: The US team had blocked access to their clients, and the Israeli team works directly with clients, causing friction. Sales are down and the organization is inwardly focused.
The CEO and his CM have stormed ahead, but the troops ain’t there. There are three months left to go and the integration has yet to begin.
The Change Manager and the CEO agree that a motivational speaker will be brought in. The cost of the motivational speaker is $9000.
PS. Naturally, CM and OD have their place in the current marketplace. For commercial reasons, CEO’s prefer the quick and often very ineffective CM fix. OD, caught up in its past, has yet to adapt itself to being relevant in global change.
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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum:|
reindeer knew exactly what was expected of them, and dashed along so
swiftly that their feet scarcely seemed to touch the snow-covered ground.
Suddenly a strange thing happened: a rope shot through the moonlight
and a big noose that was in the end of it settled over the arms and
body of Santa Claus and drew tight. Before he could resist or even
cry out he was jerked from the seat of the sleigh and tumbled head
foremost into a snowbank, while the reindeer rushed onward with the
load of toys and carried it quickly out of sight and sound.
Such a surprising experience confused old Santa for a moment, and when
he had collected his senses he found that the wicked Daemons had
pulled him from the snowdrift and bound him tightly with many coils of
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More than just a job.
It’s about providing the highest quality patient care by placing the needs of our patients first. At PHSA, you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, mutual respect and, most importantly, a life-changing career. Find yours now.
Floating Support Clerk, Specialty Pediatric Medicine - BC Children's Hospital
Floating Support Clerk – Specialty Pediatric Medicine (0.8 FTE)
BC Children’s Hospital
You are an administrative whiz who has excellent keyboarding skills and enjoys interacting with others in person and by phone. You’re known as a “gets things done” person, who is skilled at organizing your work in an efficient manner, and is also flexible to adapt to incoming requests from a variety of sources: phone, email, mail, and your coworkers. You love to support a busy work environment and be a part of the team who maintains work flow and ultimately provides timely care and service to patients and their families.
What you’ll do
The Floating Support Clerk provides clerical support to the Pediatric Specialty Medicine Divisions by performing duties such as scheduling clinic appointments, typing, transcribing, sorting and distributing related documents, inputting, sorting and retrieving data into/from database, and obtaining patient information utilizing computerized software applications. Duties will vary between Divisions, but will typically include:
- Reception duties including receiving and directing patients, answering, screening and redirecting phone calls, including calls from pharmacies for refill prescriptions and verification.
- Take phone referrals from doctor’s offices to have child seen by the physicians, request appropriate information to be sent such as x-rays and reports, lab work, stool cultures, etc.
- Book, schedule and confirm outpatient appointments, process appointment changes, retrieve records, as required, for patients coming for follow-up appointments.
- Transcribe and type correspondence such as histories, consults and physician reports for the Medical Director or physician from dictation and/or written draft.
- Send, receive, sort and distribute all incoming mail, faxes, reports and documents and processes all outgoing mail; complete and send requisition forms for stationery and supplies.
What you bring
- Completion of Grade 12
- Graduation from an approved program in medical transcription
- 1 year recent, related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- 60 w.p.m. keyboarding skills.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, using good interpersonal skills to work with others in a positive manner.
- Ability to organize work and use systems, processes, and as equipment required.
What we bring
Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.
- Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth and development.
- Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
- Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
- Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
- Perks include access to fitness classes and discounts to 350 BC-wide recreational programs, travel, technology, car and bike sharing, and more.
Job Type: Regular, Part-time (0.80FTE)
Wage: $24.20 per hour
Location: 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 2N9
Hours of Work: Monday to Thursday; 0730-1530 / 0800-1600
Requisition # 129883
As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA as of October 26, 2021.
What we do
BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) provides care for the most seriously ill or injured children and youth from across British Columbia. BCCH is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).
PHSA plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.
Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services
PHSA is committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize that our ability to provide the best care for our diverse patient populations relies on a rich diversity of skills, knowledge, background and experience, and value a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.


MARTYNA BASTA – SLOWLY FORGETTING, BARELY REMEMBERING
Though she was classically trained in guitar, Polish composer Martyna Basta ‘escaped academia at the age of 18, replacing her native instrument with a synth’. Her music is described as ‘balancing hush and haunting’ – and that is a perfect description.
Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering is her third album, the second for Bratislava’s Warm Winters label, following 2021’s Making Eye Contact With Solitude – she definitely knows how to come up with a captivating title.
Using guitar, voice, manipulated field recordings, and zither, she carefully creates an atmosphere ‘approaching what remains lost or unknown’. ‘Basta plays with the voice’s limits and potential: hers interjects on a spectrum from pure, claustrophobic breath to tense muttering to an even hum’. (The autotuned voice on It Could Be As It Was Forever is not Basta‘s, by the way, but Claire Rousay’s).
There are two tracks called Podszepnik, which is Polish for ‘one who secretly whispers, an intimate confidant’. These tracks ‘act as the album’s two-part centerpiece, between them tracing an arc from a child’s murmurs to a full-fledged chorus of open-throat singing that soars above the weight of an electric guitar’.
Martyna Basta may ‘make a strong case for the beauty of uncertainty’ here, as the liner notes state, but with its reference to dementia in the title it is rather scary at the same time. This music probably won’t leave you unaffected.
FLOS – SONGS / SIGNS
Flos started in 2011 when Stefano Castagna and Luca Formentini met. They decided to work with self-made instruments (‘Flos Boards’) in their search for ‘new composition processes that could facilitate improvisation, electronic treatment and the emission of unplugged, analogue and unconventional sounds’.
Flos Boards were built ‘assembling strings, microphones, recycled materials (violin bows, pipes, pens, guitar
pick-ups). They were wired to two computers for the elaboration and editing of the outcoming sounds’.
This already tells us that we can’t expect music from trodden paths here. Flos exists ‘to generate sounds that could bring the audience back to the mystic, the wonder and the well-being of interplayed, unusual live music’. This usually resulted in playing live improvisations – Songs/Signs is their first album release. (Apart from Il Sogno Blanco (2014) that is, which was the music recorded for an 8-hour action painting performance by Luccio Pozzi in Milan).
The double CD (and/or cassette) release of Songs/Signs is a real two-headed beast. Each part of this set requires a different mindset to be fully enjoyed. On Songs, ‘the Flos Boards are tamed to speak the more popular language of the song’, with added contributions of various voices and instruments from guests like Laurie Amat, Markus Stockhausen, Steve Piccolo and Claude Voit. By nature, this part of the album has no specific ‘ambient’ content: it is an adventurous vision on ‘popular’ music.
While Songs does not particularly aim at the ambient-inclined listener, Signs will definitely appeal to those that can appreciate a varied cinematic instrumental soundscape. Signs ‘includes improvisation work coming from the various sessions recorded through the years, rearranged and mixed so as to create an uninterrupted suite of 44 minutes, divided in 15 parts’.
This evocative set of instrumentals spontaneously invokes imaginary visuals.
Unfortunately, there is not much information about the Flos boards itself. I would have loved to know some more details about the ‘Tavola di Flos’, the ‘Saucillator’, and the ‘Magic drainpipe’, and whatever else whas used in creating these fascinating sounds.


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While you are in braces, you may have to forget some of your favourite foods for the duration of the treatment. This means that once the braces come off, you can get right back to munching them, but while the braces are on, they are off limits. Below I wish to mention some of the foods, in categories, that are off limits, and also provide a reason why they must not be eaten with braces. Hopefully this will avoid any and all confusion, and give satisfactory answers to what kinds of food cannot be eaten, and why.
Taffy, caramels, sticky candy
Sticky foods have a relatively big traction, and can remove and dislodge brackets from the teeth, or the wire can get stuck in it and can be pulled out of the bracket, too. Aside from this, it can stick on the device and the tooth surfaces as well, causing cavitation and gum disease, as this sticky mess cannot be removed and feeds bacteria as well. Gum, liquorice and other such things are also off limits, for the same reason.
Although healthy and delicious, raw veggies need to be foregone until the braces come off. This also includes bread with hard crusts and any fruits that are hard. The reason is that the hard surfaces may push the brackets off of the tooth, thus dislodging them and complicating treatment. However, if you chop them fine, make them into a smoothie, or find some creative way to liquefy them, fruits and veggies are always recommended.
If temperatures rise or fall very suddenly, they may cause problems for braces, which is why eating ice cold foods and piping hot beverages may be a bad idea. The teeth and the gums around them are very frequently sensitive during the course of orthodontic treatment, and the sudden change in temperature may be quite painful. The sudden change in temperature may also cause the tooth enamel to crack, and may cause the metal to expand or shrink, and thus damage the tooth surface or the adhesive that is sued to bind it to the tooth.
Nuts and hard candy
Nuts are off limits because they break into tiny, difficult to remove pieces that get lodged in the teeth and the device, and the gaps between them, and this can damage the teeth and the braces as well. Hard candy is off limits because it feeds bacteria and breaks into tiny pieces that are difficult to remove, and the eating of which creates suction that can remove the brackets.


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He married a lady he could not keep,
she in turn detested the guy she could keep.
And both stared at fate,
refusing to arrange life's love puzzle,
because the word 'sorry'
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Phase 1 of the East Africa Permaculture Project in Makuyuni, Tanzania, concluded in June 2019. It was a huge success!
Plans soon began for Phase II to begin in March 2020.
The plan would see the cultivation of an additional 7 acres of farmland. This 7 acres is next to the land developed for the community’s use in Phase 1.
Thirty workers spent days clearing and breaking up the land. They collected manure to improve soil quality and dug swales for water flow. The swales and planting areas are designed to follow the natural contours of the land. This ensures maximum water retention.
Raised vegetable beds where created. Walkways are laid out to protect the crops. Thus, foot traffic does not compact the soil when plants are being watered.
A large reservoir was dug next to Makuyuni village. This will capture water during the rainy season to water the crops in the dry season. In addition, two new 3,000 litre water tanks were installed on large concrete platforms. These will catch rainwater from the roof and gutter system.
Fencing was erected using concrete footings, metal poles and wire. This will deter grazing animals from wandering into the newly planted areas to eat the developing plants. Madras thorns got planted as a natural fencing for future garden expansion plans.
With the ground prepared, planting began mid March. The crew planted three hundred trees of various species and many field crops. This included – banana, mango, avocado, watermelon, maize, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cow peas, sugar cane and yams.
A crop nursery developed in Phase 1, had seedlings ready for transplant. This reduced the need for the purchase of new plant material. The fruit trees act as a windbreak and provide shade and soil stability.
The school garden from Phase 1 now provides more food than the school needs to feed its students! The goal is that surplus food will fund school projects such as rearing chickens and goats.
Parents said their children’s health improved from regular meals. Since the farm’s development, school enrollment has increased. A food storage building was completed to hold the surpluses. Farm workers get paid with produce from the farm.
As the fourth week of this project drew to completion the world changed. A new virus was now known worldwide, COVID 19. Sadly, the hopes of selling surplus produce to local businesses and tourist resorts will not happen for some time. Lack of tourists means no food sales to local restaurants and resorts. However, we can look at the bright side of this project. We have a group of wonderful Maasai people who have food security, and access to water. And, most important, the knowledge of the practice of permaculture. This will carry them far in adapting to their changing environment.

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The Resistance Report is a trusted and growing outlet for movement building news, analysis, interviews and editorial commentary. Creator and host Dennis Trainor, Jr was active in the Occupy movement and helped plan the Occupation of Washington, DC at Freedom Plaza. He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed documentary, American Autumn: an Occudoc, and is currently working on a documentary for Move To Amend. Produced by Acronym TV in conjunction with Popular Resistance, you can find The Resistance Report right here every Saturday at noon (EST). A full archive of episodes is below.
AtPeace Makita is a single mother of five, a life long resident of Detroit, and the Creative Director of the Detroit Water Brigade. She wants you to know that the push for the privatization of the water supply in Detroit could be coming to an area near you soon. “If Detroit can be used as a prototype,” asks Makita “why can’t it happen in LA, Chicago, or New York? On top of the bankruptcy, on top of the foreclosures, on top of the mayoral issues and emergency manager, on top of all of it – now you want to take our life source?”
After five hours of rallies and marches on justice for Palestine and Ferguson, 1,500 protesters were in Union Square park in Manhattan, all with their hands up for Mike Brown. When the crowd took their hands down, a voice from the crowd told them “Mike Brown never took his hands down. The dead children in Gaza did not get to take their hands down.” And so it was on this dramatic ending to a long day of complimentary marches in New York Wednesday: the NYC Solidarity with Palestine March over the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hands Up/ Turn Up march in remembrance of Mike Brown energized activists and community members who stood up to racism and oppression “from Ferguson to Palestine.”
Atpeace Makita, a single mother of five children who turned to activism after her water was shut off by the Detroit Water and Sewage Department, talks with Dennis Trainor, Jr. about the Detroit Water Brigade and what it is like to living during the current push for the privatization of the water supply. Only the Polar Ice Caps contain more fresh water that The Great Lakes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, The Great Lakes are the largest surface fresh water system on the Earth, providing 84% of North America’s surface fresh water and 21% of the world’s supply.
While Benjamin Netanyahu has practically been given an anchor chair at CNN during Operation Protective Edge to pound home a narrative that almost everyone else in the world (save for 100% of US Senators) has rejected; namely that Israel is a victim of terror and not a perpetrator, telling the counter narrative is left to media outlets without ties to major corporate interest and/or ties to the duopoly here in the United States. In this interview with Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TV, Mnar Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press news says she sees the role of journalism as protecting the people from the State. “The role of journalism is to inform he public and hold those in power accountable. (What we have today) is a journalism outfit that does not work in the interest of people, it is working in the interest of the government, corporations and these lobby groups.”
Mnar Muhawesh is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News. Ms. Muhawesh is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She is also regularly interviewed on nationally and internationally syndicated networks like RT about the need for independent journalism and neoconservatism in the media. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today.
That was before Operation Protective Edges. On August 2, The National reported: “Soros Fund Management, the family office of the billionaire investor George Soros, has sold its stake in SodaStream, the soda making appliance producer that profits from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and was made popular by actress Scarlett Johansson’s endorsement. The decision comes as a number of big international investors, including the fund linked to the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, join in a burgeoning financial boycott of Israel amid a push by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and other groups seeking more rights for Palestinians. SodaStream, headquartered in the Israeli city of Lod, has its main factory in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.
Take a long look in our eyes, we are the insect in your ears, the rust upon your gears, the resistance you fear, the faith you smear, the justice you want to disappear We are the Palestinian mothers who continue to send their children to school amidst gunfire, children they gave birth to behind a checkpoint, take a long look We are the shame on the face of a Zionist at the point of realization, the crux of courage to refute the support of a gangster nation, take a long look We are the tears of a father holding his mangled child in a hospital about to be set to the fire, take a long look We are the soldier turning against his battalion, the drone operator turned freedom fighter, take a long look
“What once was maybe a Christian-Fascist movement against women’s right to abortion really got elevated and brought into the halls of power,” says Sunsara Taylor of Stop Patriarchy. “Starting with Ronald Reagan, continuing under Bush, escalating Bill Clinton (quiet as it is kept: Bill Clinton who signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which became the foundation for the recent Hobby Lobby decision).”
“There is a big difference between being anti-pornography and anti sex worker,” says Taylor. “Stop Patriarchy does stand firmly against pornography, against the sex industry, against the commodification of women’s bodies, against the sexualized degradation of women, and just to be real: what is going on in pornography today is exactly part of this whole revenge against women. I don’t understand how anyone could claim to be for women’s rights and find (pornography) empowering or something we should celebrate.” Taylor sums up her argument by saying: “There is no difference between the Pope and the pornographer. Both reduce women to objects. You could be a breeder or you could be a sex object.”
Stop Patriarchy’s highly theatrical, non-violent yet confrontational style has not endeared them to all activists in Texas fighting for reproductive justice. In fact, a coalition has formed whose sole purpose is to oppose Stop Patriarchy. Texans for Reproductive Justicehas published a Letter of Concern, opposing “Stop Patriarchy’s messaging, tactics, dishonesty, and racism.” Stop Patriarchy has seen this type of resistance before.
Diane Derzis runs the only remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. Speaking to Acronym TV on background for this episode, Dianne told us she was “warned about Stop Patriarchy” before they came to defend her clinic during the 2013 Abortion Rights Freedom Ride. Derzis, who now sits on the Abortion Rights freedom Ride advisory board noted that one reason people fear Stop Patriarchy is because their leader, Sunsara Taylor, is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Texas Governor Rick Perry is on the record with his objective to “make abortion a thing of the past.” Looking at the evidence, it is hard not to come to any other conclusion than the war on women is being won by a radical and regressively religious agenda. Six states in the nation have only a single abortion clinic left. By September 1st of this year, Texas is likely to have only six abortion clinics operating. The group End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women is embarking on an Abortion Rights Freedom Ride across the state of Texas this August, and the freedom ride has set high expectations for itself, including: 1. To forge a national strategic counter-offensive to what is a national war on women. 2. Radically reset the political, moral, and ideological terms of this fight so that millions understand that this fight is about women’s liberation or women’s enslavement and; 3. Mobilize all people of conscience to wage massive, independent, political resistance. Relying on politicians, and the courts, has not halted the barrage of attacks. Not all pro-choice advocates are warming to the idea of Stop Patriarchy non-violent, yet highly dramatic and confrontational style and their oft-repeated slogan “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology.”
In this clip from the full-length Acronym TV program, Gaza Solidarity Grows as Israel Continues Massacre (http://bit.ly/1ALhy5l) Kash Nikazmrad, an organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine, discusses the current siege on Gaza with host Dennis Trainor, Jr. Nikazmrad echoed the statement issued by Palestinian civil society organizations (http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-orgs-justice-delayed-justice-denied/992) on 3 October 2009, which reads in part: “Justice delayed is justice denied. All victims have a legitimate right to an effective judicial remedy, and the equal protection of the law. These rights are universal: they are not subject to political considerations. In the nine months since Operation Cast Lead, no effective judicial investigations have been conducted into the conflict. Impunity prevails. In such situations, international law demands recourse to international judicial mechanisms. Victims’ rights must be upheld. Those responsible must be held to account.
Jason Leopold, in the clip from the full length Acronym TV episode, How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Guantanamo Prison, talks about the most shocking thing that struck him about visiting Guantanamo Bay Prison: The surrounding is like any small American town. An Irish pub, swing sets in the back yard of houses where American kids are growing up, a McDonalds, a high school proudly graduating the class of 2014, and other pedestrian businesses all going about their business while up the road, a facility that has the air of a concentration camp.
Citing President Obama’s major 2013 counter terrorism speech, wherein he acknowledged that a US drone had targeted and killed a U.S. citizen (Anwar Al-Awlaki) and where the President was forced to discuss GITMO because, “it was the height of a hunger strike and it attracted attention around the world.” In that speech, Leopold notes, Obama lifted a moratorium, “that he put into place and here we are year later and there have been no Yemeni’s released. As we saw with the swap with the Taliban of the five prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, that was a fight he was willing to wage with Congress.”
According to Kash Nikazmrad of Students for Justice in Palestine, one should view passages from the Hamas charter like the one above as hyperbolic political rhetoric meant to stoke a political base, and not, he says, as something to be taken literally. The focus, he says should be on the genocidal conditions imposed by Isreal that give birth to the resistance. “The UN recognizes Genocide as anything deterring the progression of human life,” says Nikazmrad, “and that is what (Israel) does in Gaza. They don’t allow them to fish. Settlers come and cut down Oliver trees and put concrete on the olive trees. And (Israel) is all outside, and they blame Palestinians for building tunnels to try to bring medical supplies in. What do you think will happen when you build a prison (Gaza) and you prevent people from having any kind of right to life? They are going to try and build tunnels and they are going to try and resist the occupation that is there.”
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Meet two country women shining a light on how far we still have to go for gender parity in government.
Helen Dalton expected a bit of ‘rough and tumble’ entering politics. But she always assumed that respect was a given.
“I never thought about it because I just thought everyone would be respectful. I knew you had to bare your soul a bit and you were under public scrutiny… but I didn’t expect to be called so many names,” she explains.
Mrs Dalton’s 2019 campaign saw her smash 35 years of National Party incumbency to be only the second woman to represent the electorate in its nearly 160-year history. However, she realised early on that her gender made her a perceived target in the parliamentary bubble.
“They like to strip you down,” she said, explaining how she has tolerated many offensive verbal attacks that she believes, never would have been directed at her if she were a man.
Helen Dalton is not your polished, Julie Bishop-esque, career politician. She reflects the no-nonsense attitude that she no doubt inherited from her farming family heritage. But what is clear speaking to her is the unfeigned commitment she has to regional communities.
“I hate seeing people not getting a fair deal. I think everyone should get a fair deal,” she says.
“I want to see good education, good health outcomes and I don’t want us to be disadvantaged out here.
“I’m not interested in maintaining the status quo. I want change for the better.”
However, Mrs Dalton says the odds are stacked against women getting into political representation. From working hours that are not ‘woman-friendly’, to tolerated alcohol consumption mixed with sexist behaviour and zero accountability; many women confess to her that they would not willingly sign up to be a leader for their community.
And then there are the verbal sprays she has copped.
Mrs Dalton has been called a ‘disgusting human’, ‘aggressive’, and comments on her physical appearance have been flung at her with the goal of what she believes is to remind her to stay in her ‘place’.
“I think as women, we get so used to (sexism) that we think that’s just the way life is,” she said.
“Sometimes things are done and said and I think no, we should be pulling them up on that. But I think we have been down-trodden and this has been the behaviour forever. This is not good enough.”
However is simply ‘pulling them up on it’ enough to achieve lasting, long term parity?
Wagga City Council representative Vanessa Keenan came forward in May with a statement regarding her treatment by a male councillor throughout her term.
In the statement made to her community on Facebook, she stands by her decision to attend Council meetings remotely after enduring ‘disturbing’ behaviour, inappropriate comments about her personal life and constant attacks on her character from the male colleague.
This is not about a “few bad apples” she says.
“We’ve got a culture that is accepting of this kind of behaviour.
“I think it’s starting to change and we are starting to realise that it’s not okay. But in saying that, it’s not going to change if it’s only women that are standing up to this. We really need men to stand up as well. If it’s just women, nothing is going to change.”
Councillor Keenan, like Helen Dalton are ‘firsts’: the ones that make the first cracks in the glass ceiling that limits women’s upward movement. They willingly paint targets on their backs to beam a spotlight on the gaping chasm of experience between men and women’s paths to representation.
The question is, what's it going to have to take in order to finally shatter it? What other women see, those watching from the sidelines, is that the glass ceiling seems unbreakable.
The result is that women represent less than 30 per cent of seats in local and state government nationally, and in the Riverina, it’s even worse. Of the 83 Council seats across the Murray electorate only 21 are held by women.
We need to listen to the experiences of women like Helen Dalton and Vanessa Keenan chipping away at that glass ceiling. They are showing us just how much more work still needs to be done to achieve leadership reflective of its population.
If we truly value equal gender representation, systemic and cultural change must be the priority.
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What exactly is individual education loan forbearance?
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How long might you put private college loans into forbearance?
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Introduction: Evolution of Cyber Security
In today’s world, for most organizations, if not for all, information together with the underlying information system is the most important asset. Thus, it is critical that these critical assets be protected against any type of incidents, whether malicious, accidental or natural. In essence, this is what cyber security is about. But, we also come across some terms such as Computer Security, Information Technology (IT) Security or Information Security. Then, how is cyber security different from these terms and is there a better or more comprehensive definition of cyber security?
In this article, we explain what cyber security is by providing a broad definition of it that discuss the protection goals and the full environment of cyber security and the corresponding security measures.
In order to explain what each of these different security terminology means, the evolution of the field of cyber security should be discussed.
In the early days of computing, computers were rare, massive and very expensive for the organizations. In other words, computers themselves were of utmost importance for the organizations as their critical assets that needed to be protected from any harm, thus the term of computer security showed up initially.
As computers became cheaper and widespread in the organizations, thanks to the advent of personal computers and improvements on the network technologies, the term of IT security gained widespread usage, since it was the responsibility of the IT departments to protect computers and its underlying hardware and software components.
In time, computer hardware became significantly cheap and information itself emerged as the most valuable asset for the organizations. As a result of this, the term information security was coined to describe the protection of both information and the computers. The below figure depicts the evolution of the computers historically and the corresponding security terminology.
Today, information security and cyber security is used interchangeably. However, cyber security focuses on protecting information in digital form, while information security is a broader category that deals with the protection of information in any form, whether in hard copy or digital.
What is Cyber Security?
After giving a brief overview of the related terminology, let’s try to define cyber security in more detail.
“To choose a definition is to plead a cause.”Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908-1979)
In the past, a number of definitions were introduced to describe what cyber security really is and what it deals with. But these terms mostly had a predominant perspective only on the technical aspect of the cyber security rather than capturing its multidimensionality. Only recently, cyber security has started to be regarded as a multidimensional discipline taking into account the components of people and processes in addition to the traditional and fundamental component of the technology.
In this respect, a comprehensive definition of cyber security can be given as follows:
Cyber security is the protection of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, whether it’s in transit, in processing or at store, and the underlying information systems (both hardware and software), in a cyber space where people, processes and technology are involved, through the application of policy, training & awareness and technology.
To really grasp what the above given definition means, let’s dissect it to smaller units as depicted in the below figure and try to digest it.
What Are We Trying to Protect?
The ultimate goal of cyber security is to protect the information itself together with its underlying components of computers, network and the software.
What Are The Protection Properties?
For proper security, both the information and the underlying information system need to be protected against unauthorized access and disclosure (confidentiality), unauthorized modification (integrity) and denial of use (availability).
Confidentiality: Preserving authorized restrictions on information access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information. (1)
Integrity: Guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity. (1)
Availability: Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information. (1)
In addition to these, some sources also mention that protection with respect to authentication and non-repudiation must be achieved as well.
Authentication: A mechanism to prove who the subject claims to be, by checking the provided credentials.
Non-Repudiation: Assurance that the sender of information is provided with proof of delivery and the recipient is provided with proof of the sender’s identity, so neither can later deny having processed the information.
Asset Forms to be Protected
Ideally, information should be protected in any form, whether it is being processed, sent over a communication channel or when it is not in use and stored.
What Are the Threats?
Threats could arise from malicious actors such as black hat hackers, malicious insiders or inadvertently due to undereducated or under trained users. Moreover, threats could possibly occur due to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes etc. rather than having a human origin.
Cyber Security Protection Environment
Most importantly, the cyber space does not consist of only technology. People and the processes are at least equally important components of cyber security. This is because, humans are the core components that interact with the technology and this interaction is defined as the process component of the cyber space.
Cyber Security Protection Controls
Since, we are dealing with three different dimensions in the cyber space, we should have matching controls/measures for each of them. People need to be educated and trained against cyber threats. Technical countermeasures are traditionally indispensable in protecting information and the IT systems. And, policies should be prepared to define how the technical controls are managed and how people interact with the technology.
As a final remark, the takeaway is people and processes are at least equally important in addition to the technical aspect of the cyber security. Since, humans are the weakest link, we should take them into account more seriously while designing our security mechanisms.
A system is as secure as its weakest link and the humans are the weakest link.
If you think you know-it-all about cybersecurity, this discipline was probably ill-explained to you.Stephane Nappo
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- 44 U.S.C., SEC. 3542 Definitions
To learn more about fundamental cyber security terminology, you could also read our article What is Identification, Authentication and Authorization?