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Make money on YouTube. People who love the spotlight and have other online hustles should consider creating their own YouTube channel. If you’re interested — and interesting — you can use the platform to market affiliate products, sell products you create yourself, or receive ad revenue for your informal tutorials or entertaining videos. Once you get the ball rolling, YouTube offers a partner program that can help you monetize your business further.
Just be sure to put a lot of care into your product listings. Everything from the titles you use, to how effective the description is at convincing potential buyers your product is better than the rest, and even taking care to shoot high quality product photos can have a dramatic impact on your sales. I recommend using photo editing tools like Fotor, which gives you the ability to edit your images, create captivating graphic designs and more.
Outside of starting your own business, investing in the stock market has been one of the most consistent ways to create wealth over the past 100 years. In fact, since its inception in 1957, the S&P 500 has consistently returned 8% per year on average. A far higher return than savings accounts, CDs, money markets, or any number of other vehicles for saving and investing your money.
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Etsy is the most popular online marketplace for handmade goods and crafts. From bracelets to phone cases, rings, furniture, and more, Etsy is perfect for anyone who is creative and wants to sell their handmade creations. As long as you have the space, this can make for one of the best ways to make money online that can be started with a very limited investment. Consider these 5 steps to starting an Etsy store, from Handmadeology.
Photos of people can only be sold for commercial use if they've signed a 'model release' that gives you permission to use their image (children need a parent/guardian to sign). Without a release, these photos can still be sold for editorial use, as long as they were taken in a public place – eg, if you submitted a 'breaking news' shot with people in the background. If there's any doubt, always ask permission.
Now, it’s time to plan out your show. If you’re doing an interview-style show, you’ll now want to start getting some guests involved. You can use your existing social network to reach out to people you already know or are connected with on Twitter or Facebook. You can also head to Medium or Amazon to find authors or experts on topics specific to your niche.
If you started university between 1998 and 2012, or since then in Scotland and Northern Ireland, you'll have a Plan 1 student loan. While much is written about whether those with savings should overpay the current English Plan 2 student loans, there's little out there about Plan 1. I wanted to change that, so here's a video explaining how to decide...
There's a proverbial gold rush happening today, of people trying to launch chatbots for their businesses to help automate some of their sales and marketing efforts that are needed to properly grow and scale in today's market. However, similar to California's Gold Rush, those that will likely get rich are the ones that sell the picks and shovels. For that reason, why not launch your own chatbot business? Sure, there's some effort involved here, but this is definitely worth the steep learning curve.
Get paid to search the Web. Zoombucks.com will pay you to use their online interface to search the web. To qualify, you need to be willing to download their search bar and use it for everyday Internet use. The only caveat that comes with this “gig” is that you might be paid in gift cards instead of cash. If you can parlay those gift cards into items you need to buy anyway – like groceries or gas – searching online can be a lucrative way to spend your free time.
Need more ideas on how to make money online? Another strategy is using webinars to market your product, service, or course. I’ve done webinars to promote my financial planning practice and to drum up interest in my online course for financial advisors. With a webinar, you’re basically offering a lot of tips and advice for free — usually in a live format. At the end though, you pitch your paid product or service with the goal of securing a few deals.
If you have “extra” money sitting around or want to get serious about building wealth for later in life, consider investing it in the stock market with Ally Bank (whose investing branch is included on our list of best investment apps). If you don’t have immediate debts and aren’t currently living paycheck to paycheck, investing can be a powerful tool for generating passive returns.
MyPoints is one of my favorites. You can earn up to 40% back on all your purchases at 2,000 top retailers like Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, and Amazon. They also offer promo codes at tons of online stores. One of my favorite things about MyPoints is that you can redeem your points whenever you want. All you have to do is can cash out and get gift cards, or you can transfer the cash to your PayPal account. It’s actually very easy.
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Create a killer course experience: With your course validated and in the works, you need to figure out how people will take it. Most course creators choose to host their courses (after going down the path of learning how to make a website) on their own blogs. This way, they get all the value of bringing customers back to their site on a regular basis. I host my own courses from a subdomain on my own site so I can easily add more. The course experience is incredibly important as well. And after trying most of the solutions, I highly recommend Teachable—an online platform designed specifically for courses.
If you wish you had a little more money in your pocket, you’re not alone. Fortunately, you have a variety of options when it comes to making money. Doing odd jobs is a quick and easy way to earn money. Similarly, reselling items or selling items you make can earn you extra cash. As another option, earn money online by writing a blog, freelancing, or doing online surveys.
If you want to clear some space out in your house and have a big stack of books you’ve been holding onto for too long, you can make money selling your books and textbooks online. Stores like Half Priced Books and others will give you cents on the dollar for each of your current books while you can check what your book is worth by simply entering the ISBN number on Book Scouter.
Etsy: While Etsy's popularity has declined recently, it's still a great resource for selling handmade items online. No need for complex ecommerce sites or merchant accounts or any sort of automation. The company takes a commission of every sale and charges a small listing fee per item. But many still use Etsy as their primary source of income. The best part is that you can also sell digital products such as poster designs.
If you have a great deal of business experience and knowledge, why not create a business that helps aspiring entrepreneurs find success? As a business consultant, you can use your skills to help new business owners get off to a good start and help experienced entrepreneurs keep up with demand. Your chances of success may be greater if you focus your strategy on a niche aspect of business consulting. You can start this process by following this 18-step checklist for becoming a small business consultant.
Hey Mia! That’s so great to hear, can’t wait to see what you come up with. Starting right away with both a blog and podcast might be a bit ambitious if both things are new to you… my advice would be to begin the blog first, because it’s much easier to launch a podcast once you’ve already gotten a little bit of an audience (on your blog). Happy to help out with answering some more questions for you, of course. Just send me an email to [email protected] 🙂
I really don’t want to chat, receive or make calls (I have a kid and baby I don’t have no silent place to work and also because I’m not a calm person I get mad easily fast), I don’t want to go out at my home because of doing a “job”, don’t want to do survey, I don’t want to write or share my thoughts or anything like that, I don’t want sell anything either.
23. Affiliates – There are many affiliate networks, such as FlexOffers and CJ Affiliate that allow you to promote other people’s products and services. You simply put a link or a banner on your page and then you get a percentage if someone clicks through and buys the product/service. You’ll want to select products that are specifically within your blog’s category.This is an effective way to earn money once you have the traffic coming to your blog.

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Learn how to make an all-natural lip balm at home and protect your lips with the nourishing power of coconut oil.
All-natural beauty often starts in the kitchen and what you put on your body is as important as what you put in it so I’ve invited some friends to share their favorite healthy homemade beauty products with you over the next couple weeks to show you just how easy it is to make your own personal care products from scratch. Please welcome Carrie from Deliciously Organic today with her recipe for a homemade lip balm.
I love making quick and easy skin care products at home. I learned to create my own homemade lip balm over 5 years ago and I love it! Commercial lip balms often contain harmful ingredients like soy, petroleum, and dyes.
Even though what we put on our lips may seem insignificant, the body can absorb small amounts of these chemicals, potentially causing harm over time.
If you want to keep things really simple, all you need is beeswax and coconut oil. To take things up a notch, you can add a bit of honey for sweetness, vitamin E oil as an additional preservative, essential oils for fragrance, or ground hibiscus flowers for a little ruby color on your lips.
I order all my items from Mountain Rose Herbs, and one batch makes eight half-ounce pots of lip balm. They’re perfect for carrying in your purse or giving as fun small gifts.
Easy All Natural Homemade Lip Balm
An easy all-natural homemade lip balm made from coconut oil and beeswax.
- For the Balm:
- 1 ounce beeswax
- 3 ounces coconut oil
- Place beeswax and coconut oil in the bowl of a double boiler.
- Heat slowly, whisking occasionally until beeswax is melted and ingredients are combined and smooth.
- Pour into small pots and let sit at room temperature to cool.
Don’t miss the other homemade beauty recipes in the series:
Part 1: Homemade Skin Cream
Part 2: Chocolate Oatmeal Face Mask
Part 3: Lavender Lotion Bars
Sylvie Shirazi is the recipe developer and food photographer behind Gourmande in the Kitchen. For the last 10 years she's been making eating more healthfully easy and accessible with gluten-free, grain-free, paleo and vegan recipes that are free from processed ingredients.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Michelle Patterson says
What great gift ideas! What oils do you prefer to use?
Jen @ Jen's Favorite Cookies says
I love lip balm but have never made my own. Thanks for the idea, I think I'll try it with my daughter!
Jen @ Savory Simple says
I'm really enjoying this series. I have a book full of homemade beauty product recipes that I've never done anything with. I'm inspired!
Kitchen Belleicious says
you mean I can actually do this at home? AWESOME!
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen says
I love lip balm- this looks most perfect! I would adore someone who gifted me this homemade version!
So simple - absolutely love it!
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Golf4Midland is the Michigan Golf Industry's way to give back to help our fellow Michiganders after the devastating flood that happened in Midland on May 20. Golf is a key driver of charitable giving in the U.S. estimating $3.9 billion a year. Philanthropic contributions, including those from professional tournaments, are a huge part of the golf industry with the majority of funds going to causes outside the sport. Michigan golf course owners, operators, and golfers are always giving back to the communities they serve so stepping up to help our neighbors in Midland is natural.
The golf industry in Michigan has felt deeply for the Midland area as they have dealt with the devastation from the flood. “I can’t imagine how our neighbors in this area are dealing with this clean up in addition to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our Michigan golf industry wants to help,” said Michigan Golf Course Association President Gilda Johnson with Lake Forest Golf Club in Ann Arbor. “Golf always gives back to the communities we serve. Giving back to our friends and neighbors in Midland during this time is the right thing to do.”
The Golf4Midland fundraiser will provide relief throughout Midland County. Golf4Midland will partner with the Midland Area Community Foundation to bring help to the residents in these areas.
To kick start the fundraising, four of Michigan's leading golf industry associations have pledged a total of $2000. Golf Association of MIchigan, Greater Michigan Club Management Association, Michigan Golf Course Association and the Michigan Section PGA will urge their members and their industry as a whole. “Just think of the ripple effect if every golfer donated $10.”, said Jada Paisley, Executive Director of the MGCA.

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The Alaska Marine Highway System has confirmed that the Ro-Pax Columbia will be taken out of service from September 4 up to the end of winter as a cost-saving measure under an ongoing financial restructuring programme.
Alaska Marine Highway spokesperson Aurah Landau told local reporters that the Ro-Pax has a higher operating cost compared to smaller vessels in the operator's fleet that could serve the same Lynn Canal and Inside Passage routes.
The plan to substitute other vessels for Columbia could result in monthly savings of around US$400,000, Ms Landau added.
At 127 metres long, Columbia is the marine highway system's largest vessel. It is also one of the oldest in the fleet, having been completed and delivered in 1974.
Under the same restructuring programme, Alaska Marine Highway had already sold one vessel for scrapping and is currently negotiating for the sale of two more.
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More Information A Greensburg woman was arrested on a warrant for an allegation of auto theft, a level 6 felony. 32-year old Stephanie Quinlan was charged in Decatur County Superior Court on March 7th. According to court documents, a Greensburg Police Department officer responded to a call on March 3rd requesting help in locating a rental vehicle that had not been returned. The suspect rented a vehicle, paying with a credit card, with a return date of February 9th. According to the police report, the suspect allegedly paid for 2 additional days with cash, but did not return the vehicle. The complainant had been unable to make further contact with the suspect, despite numerous phone calls and visits to the suspect's residence. A Decatur County Sheriff's Department officer went to the suspect's residence but was unable to locate the suspect or the vehicle. The complainant contacted dispatch requesting an officer for follow up on the case on March 7th. When the officer arrived, he was told that the suspect had called in and stated that she heard the complainant was looking for her. She allegedly told the complainant that she would return the vehicle by 4:00 pm along with the money she owed. The suspect provided the complainant with a new phone number. The suspect failed to show up, but said she would be there by 7:00 pm and again failed to show. Since the vehicle was 3 weeks past due and the suspect was unwilling to return the vehicle, the complainant requested the vehicle be reported as stolen and for charges to be filed.


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A statement of the invention of sunglasses, sunglasses was first invented by the Chinese. Mentioned this story before, we have to first mention the invention of glasses. The pro who knows glasses what name it was called in ancient China? Yi cloudy sky (aidai) is the ancient name of the glasses in China. Chinese literati & T. Hu, written in 1240, "Cave clear record", this period of record "Yi cloudy sky (love homonyms), similar with the big coin, color, like mica. Elderly vertigo and vision loss can not be read, so Yi cloudy sky wearing on the eyes, then they can focus again on the line of sight, the stroke is even more clear. Glasses in China, the earliest documented record of Italian literature as early as half a century. Therefore, there is a saying that: the glasses are invented by the Chinese (proud of it). So what kind of sunglasses in China, the earliest records it? According to current data, colored glasses, sunglasses, China's ancient invention, the record is this: the 12th century, written by Liu Qi Gui Qian, "it reads, Cheap Oakley Squared Sunglasses
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Microsoft's Phil Spencer delivers a grounded message about 8K gaming on the Series X, saying that it won't be a standard for console games for quite some time.
8K gaming takes and absolutely ridiculous amount of power. Technically it's possible, and our massive NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 review shows just how demanding gaming actually is--it chews through VRAM and processing power like it's nothing. The world's most powerful dedicated GPU can belt out 8K games at playable FPS, but shines with DLSS on.
The Series X's 12TFLOP GPU is powerful, but it doesn't come close to the RTX 3090. There's very little hope in 8K gaming being feasible on the console; if anything, expect to watch films at 8K resolution. In-game frame rates on 8K displays might dip tremendously and be complemented by big resolution upscaling to match. Thankfully, Microsoft knows 8K is a long ways away for consoles, and Phil Spencer tells consumers and gamers not to expect anything crazy from the next-gen Xbox on 8K TVs.
In fact, Spencer thinks higher refresh rates is a more noticable enhancement and improvement.
"I think 8K is aspirational technology. The display capabilities of devices are not really there yet. I think we're years away from 8K being-if it ever is-standard in video games," Spencer told Wired.
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Next tonight here, Carrie fisher's personal battle. The autopsy report reveal what was in her system when she died. Her daughter saying her mother struggled with drug addiction her entire life. Here's ABC's kayna Whitworth. Reporter: Tonight the los Angeles corners report revealing a mixture of drugs in Carrie fisher's system at the time of her death. Toxicology tests showing cocaine, methadone, heroin, ecstasy and alcohol in her system when the actress went into cardiac arrest aboard an l.a.-bound flight six months ago. It's unclear exactly when fisher took the drugs. The coroner telling ABC news sleep apnea caused cardiac arrest, and that drug use and heart disease could have played a role, too. In life and in her art -- Somebody has to save our skins -- Reporter: -- The "Star wars" actress spoke candidly about her struggles with addiction and mental illness. I'm Carrie fisher and I'm an alcoholic. Reporter: Often with fearless honesty and humor. Over the weekend, fisher's daughter speaking out, saying "I know my mom. She'd want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles." Fisher's daughter sails her mom ultimately died of mental illness and addiction, but points out her mom was always willing to tackle the stag ma of those diseases publicly. David? That's for sure. Kayna, thank you.
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The human body is constantly being impacted by various toxins which are everywhere, in the food we eat, in the air we breathe, in all household products, and so on. As a result of that we have many toxins accumulated in our body that can impede the functions of many body organs and as well as hinder the weight loss process.
Our body has its own defenses against toxins through organs like the liver, lungs, kidneys and skin. They remove the present toxins and release the body from the negative effect of them. However, when the body is overwhelmed with toxins these organs cannot at the fullest perform their tasks and thus the toxins start to accumulate in our body triggering many diseases. Therefore, we should start to introduce certain methods that will help in the removal of toxins like for instance the detox tea that has been highly recommended by the traditional medicine Auyrveda.
In order for your body detox to be successful you need to know that there are two types of waste: exogenous toxins, which come from our external environment and endogenous toxins, which are produced inside our body.
How the body detoxifies itself?
After the last meal the body needs 8 hours to digest, absorb and assimilate the consumed food. The body will start to detoxify naturally, and if our diet is based on healthy foods, this process will last only for 4 hours. This period is enough for the body to clean itself and remove all of the toxins from the body provided that is healthy and consumes natural ingredients. In case of stress, poor lifestyle, high exposure to toxins this process lasts longer since the self-sufficiency of our body is significantly weakened.
Dr. Alejandro Junger, a cardiologist and follower of alternative healing and body regeneration, advises fasting of 12 hours after our last meal. This period would be enough for the body to process food (8 hours) and detoxify (4 hours). However, due to the modern way of living this is very difficult to achieve and because of that we need to introduce certain detox treatments.
Ayurvedic doctors highly recommend the use of the following drink that will offer body detox.
A Recipe of a Detox Tea
- 4 lemons
- 2 teaspoons of ground ginger, organic
- 2 teaspoons of ground turmeric, organic
- A quarter teaspoon of cayenne pepper
- 5 drops of stevia (for better taste)
- 8 cups of mineral water
Method of Preparation:
You should squeeze out the juice out of the 3 lemons and then add it in a blender along with the juice with ginger and turmeric. Transfer the resulting mixture into a large pitcher, and then include the stevia, cayenne pepper and the 4th lemon but nicely sliced. Combine all the ingredients and put it in a fridge for around 10 minutes, and after that serve it. You can keep this drink for 5 days in a fridge.
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It is an incredible detox food that improves the digestive health of the body and also enhances the work of the metabolism thus helping you in losing weight.
This root reveals powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties due to which it can battle the germs and inflammation in the body. Plus, it is great for the digestive system as it can alleviate indigestion and detoxify the body. In fact, it is beneficial for the overall body and health.
This root is also an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agent. It helps in the fight against chronic inflammation and free radicals that are accountable for the occurrence of many diseases. The intake of this spice will help your liver to detoxify the body more effectively.
This spice contains an active ingredient known as capsaicin that can stimulate the work of our metabolism and help in the weight loss. Plus, this spice can enhance stomach’s defenses by elevating the production of digestive fluid and in that way promoting body’s digestion.
People that suffer from citrus allergies, biliary or gastric disorders, and stomach ulcers should not use lemon. The high intake of lemon peel can promote the formation of kidney stones.
Pregnant women should not use ginger after the first trimester of pregnancy due to possible contraindications. Likewise, people with blood diseases should not use it at all.
The use of cayenne pepper is not advised for people with irritable bowel syndrome or hemorrhoids.
Turmeric should not be used by people that are following an anticoagulant therapy and for the ones that have recently undergone surgery.


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A man died Saturday morning in Kensington, Cape Town, after being shot in the head several times.
The officers found the man's body, 34, early in the morning at the corner of Ventura / Vliegtuig Avenue, said Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana.
She said that no arrests had yet been made, and the police were tracking the clues to get those responsible to book.
Cheslyn Steenberg, secretary of the Community Policing Forum (CPF) in Kensington, said it looked like violence related to gangs.
The CPF condemned the incident and condoled the family and friends of the man.
"We note with sadness how the male victim was shot several times in the head, alerting us to the anger and frustration that rest in our room."
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Newswise — This November 11, and every Veterans Day, Americans organize parades and ceremonies to honor all veterans who have served, and those currently serving, in the U.S. military.
But Julie Donohue paid tribute to one veteran in her own special way - she donated a kidney to Army veteran, Mark Klayman.
“I was touched by Mark’s military service,” said Donohue, who also noted that Mark was the same age as her husband. “I thought, I’m healthy, why not, I’m going to do this.”
Julie heard about veterans in need of kidney donations through the non-profit organization, Donor Outreach for Veterans or DOVE, which matches living donors and veterans awaiting transplant. DOVE paired Julie, who lives in Florida, with Klayman, living in New Jersey, and in desperate need of a kidney.
"I lost my ability to walk, I had to use a cane, I had no strength whatsoever,” said Klayman.
Within a few weeks of connecting with DOVE, Donohue’s kidney was removed in Tampa and flown to Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey, where Mark and his doctors were ready and waiting.
“It’s one of the most selfless acts a person can do, donating an organ,” said Michael J. Goldstein, MD, Director, Division of Organ Transplantation, Hackensack University Medical Center. “Julie’s gift to Mark, a veteran who served our country well, will allow him to enjoy his life with his family for many years to come.”
Klayman, who works for Freedom Mortgage, a leading VA & FHA lender, said before he got the call about Donohue’s donation - he was ready to give up - but today - he has a whole new lease on life.
"My wife and I are so happy. My children and grandchildren are so happy. I can do things again. I can walk any distance. I feel fantastic and I can even chase after my great grandchild," Klayman said.
Klayman was feeling so fantastic he and his wife recently flew to Florida to meet Donohue and thank her in person.
"It became real when I saw him, I felt how he felt and it was the best hug ever when I met Mark,” said Donohue.
The families have become fast friends and are now hoping their story will encourage others to consider donating a kidney. Currently, more than 100,000 Americans are in need of a kidney transplant, including thousands of U.S. military veterans.
“I can’t think of anything more gratifying than to support this special group of men and women who have sacrificed so very much for our country,” said Dr. Goldstein.
Hackensack University Medical Center provides top-notch organ transplant care from a dedicated team of organ transplantation experts, with shorter wait times and outcomes that exceed the national standards. At Hackensack University Medical Center, the transplant surgery team performs kidney and pancreas transplants using the latest donor matching protocols and advanced techniques that are only available at the world’s leading transplant centers.
Typically, once recovered from surgery, donors resume their normal, active life with no restrictions. Donors often feel heightened self-esteem and seem healthier after their donation.


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Amidst concerns by the industry stakeholders about the possible impact on digital economy, the government has already worked out fresh amendments to be incorporated into the recently introduced Online Safety Act.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena gave his ascent to the new law passed in Parliament. The government proceeded with the enactment of the new law despite criticism from various corners including the industry stakeholders who argued that the new law borders on the infringement of freedom of expression and will have an impact on digital economy in the future.
The Act provides for the establishment of a Commission which is empowered to issue directives to persons, internet service providers or internet intermediaries, who have published or communicated or whose service has been used to communicate any prohibited statement. It can notice any internet service provider or internet intermediary to disable access to an online location which contains a prohibited statement by the end users in Sri Lanka or to remove such prohibited statement from such online location.
In the backdrop of mounting criticism, an official of the Public Security Ministry said new amendments had been worked to be referred to the Cabinet for approval in another two weeks’ time.
The official said the government completed the consultation process with the industry stakeholders- Google, Yahoo, Meta, X, Amazon etc.
“We will proceed with the incorporation of the new amendments after Cabinet approval,” he said.
The government can no longer disregard the industry's viewports, it means. According to the UN, digital advances can support and accelerate the achievement of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals – from ending extreme poverty to reducing maternal and infant mortality, promoting sustainable farming and decent work, and achieving universal literacy.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation and changed the way societies and businesses function forever. Digital platforms mainly with support from social media and tech companies, including Meta, Google, AWS, Microsoft etc helped businesses in Sri Lanka during the pandemic, enabling them to overcome lockdowns through remote work and online operations.
Therefore, Sri Lankan businesses, especially SMEs benefitted from digital platforms to carry out their sales and operations during this period. Currently, the digital economy in Sri Lanka is estimated to be around US $ 3.5 billion or 4.37 per cent of GDP, with exports at around US $ 1.25 billion. The Government plans to elevate this figure to 15 per cent of GDP by 2030 and thereby increase the digital economy contribution from US $ 3.5 Billion to US $ 15 billion.
However, the digital economy targets can only be achieved if there are mechanisms to make Sri Lanka an attractive destination for digital investments. Since we cannot provide tax breaks and other financial incentives, the only option is to make it attractive through policy initiatives which are compatible with global standards.
Over the years, Sri Lanka has adopted digital laws and policies, which are compatible with international standards. The Electronic Transactions Act was amended in 2017 to align with the UN Electronic Communications Convention (the gold standard for digital transactions & digital commerce), making Sri Lanka the first country in South Asia to achieve this standard.
In 2015 Sri Lanka was able to join the Budapest Cybercrime Convention because our Computer Crimes Act (2007) was formulated in line with International standards. The Payment and Settlement Systems Act (2005), which is the framework governing digital payments, is also based on a global standard, enabling Sri Lanka to become the second in Asia to adopt real-time online payments and settlements. All these laws were drafted adopting an open transparent process.
The Computer Crimes Bill (2005) was referred to a Special Standing Committee of Parliament after the debate (without putting it into second reading), which resulted in the Bill being comprehensively reviewed with stakeholders and experts.
Most recently the Personal Data Protection Act (2022), the first legislation of its kind to be adopted in South Asia, followed an open and transparent process. The Drafting process which started in January 2019 ensured that every version of the Bill was published online.
However, concern is raised that the Online Safety Act is not based on a global best practice and does not follow a transparent consultation process. Therefore, the Act requires further review by experts, not only from a legal perspective but from a Technology perspective.
According to the experts, the basic amendments proposed by Public Security Ministry and the Attorney General does not make it implementable and workable, because the SC determination does not address implementation aspects.
Some of the offences in the Act violate Articles 17 & 19 of ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).
Even if those provisions are amended, it must be noted that the evidence required to successfully prosecute those offences are not in Sri Lanka.
Therefore, electronic evidence needs to be obtained from tech companies. This requires Sri Lanka to have a successful international cooperation regime with tech companies. Therefore, it has to be amended in cooperation with tech companies.
Making amendments to the Act in a rush without a consultative process will not create a conducive framework, where digital platforms and other tech companies will have the confidence to invest in Sri Lanka to enable us achieve the digital economy targets.
This bill also impacts the implementation aspects of the Data Protection Act No 9 of 2022 given the sweeping powers vested in the new Commission.

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In 2006, Masako Katsura was an unknown pastry chef in Japan. But that changed when she won the gold medal for her chocolate cake at the World Culinary Olympics. Since then, Katsura has become a worldwide sensation, with her cakes appearing in magazines and on television. She’s even been featured in a documentary film! This blog post will look at Katsura’s fascinating story and how she went from being an unknown chef to a world-renowned cake artist.
Katsura’s early life and her passion for fashion
Masako Katsura was born on October 10th, in the year 2000. She was raised in a small town in Japan until the age of six when her family moved to Hawaii. It was there that Katsura discovered her passion for fashion. She would often watch fashion shows on television and dream of one day becoming a model herself.
Katsura began modelling at sixteen and has since gone on to walk the runway for some of the world’s most prestigious designers. Her unique style and natural beauty have made her a favourite amongst fashion insiders and everyday people.
There is no doubt that Masako Katsura is one of the most successful models in the world today. However, she remains humble and down-to-earth, always thankful for her many blessings.
How Katsura’s unique style caught the attention of the fashion world
Katsura’s unique style combines traditional Japanese design with a modern, edgy twist. She often incorporates interesting patterns and textiles into her clothing, which has caught the fashion world’s attention.
Her use of colour is also unique, and she often mixes different shades to create a one-of-a-kind look. Katsura’s style is not for everyone, which makes her so popular. She doesn’t follow trends; she creates her own.
If you’re looking for something different in your wardrobe, Masako Katsura is the designer for you. With her unique designs, you’ll be sure to stand out from the crowd.
Katsura’s breakout moment at Paris Fashion Week
It was Paris Fashion Week, and Masako Katsura was on the catwalk. She had been modelling for a few years, but this was her big moment. She was about to walk in the Givenchy show, one of the most highly anticipated shows of the season.
Katsura stepped out onto the runway and instantly commanded attention. She looked confident and powerful, striding down the runway with an aura of greatness. The audience was mesmerized by her presence, and she quickly became the talk of Paris Fashion Week.
This breakout moment propelled Katsura to international stardom. She went on to walk in shows for some of the biggest fashion houses in the world and grace the covers of major magazines. Today, she is one of the most sought-after models in the industry.
Katsura’s continued success in the fashion industry
Katsura’s continued success in the fashion industry is largely due to her unique and innovative designs. Her use of traditional Japanese fabrics and techniques has gained her a loyal following among fashion-savvy consumers worldwide. In addition, Katsura’s commitment to quality and customer service has helped her maintain a strong reputation in the industry.
Katsura’s clothing line includes casual and formal wear, making it ideal for many customers. Her garments are well-constructed and stylish yet remain affordable for many consumers. Katsura offers a variety of sizes and styles to suit different body types and personal preferences.
In recent years, Katsura has expanded her business to include accessories and home goods. Her line of products now includes everything from handbags and jewellery to bedding and towels. This expansion has allowed Katsura to reach even more consumers with her unique vision.
Katsura’s continued success is a testament to her talent, hard work, and dedication to her craft. She inspires aspiring designers everywhere and proves that anything is possible with passion and determination.
Katsura’s impact on the global fashion scene
Katsura’s impact on the global fashion scene is undeniable. She has been featured in some of the most prestigious fashion magazines, and some of the most respected retailers carry her clothing line. Celebrities and everyday people alike have worn her designs, and she has even been featured on the cover of Vogue.
It is evident that Masako Katsura has had a very successful career as an artist, and her work has been enjoyed by people all over the world. She has a great passion for what she does, and this comes through in her paintings. Her unique style and ability to capture emotion in her work set her apart from other artists and made her a worldwide sensation.


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We have one glass window display to highlight your special message to the campus community, including advertisements for your programming, events, or activities. The display is located on the left as you enter the 24 hour study lounge on the first floor of Falvey Memorial Library.
It contains six glass shelves in the middle two sections of the display, each shelf measures 12” deep x 39” wide.
Each has space on both the right and left of the shelves to hang posters that have been mounted on foam board.
For display purposes posters should be no wider than 30”. Posters are generally 22” wide x 36” long but may be taller.
All materials are displayed for a month
The content of the window display as well as the text being displayed is the responsibility of the person/department booking the display.
We will help with the details
We support a wide variety of displays using books, and other items such as baskets, clothing, props, etc.
All posters for hanging must be mounted on foam board as this prevents them from warping.
Tape is not permitted on the glass
We encourage your creativity!
The windows for the display
These windows are double sided so they can be viewed from both the library and Holy Grounds. This might be something you want to keep in mind as you design your display.
Book holders/stands which can be used to display books & matted or foam board mounted images/artwork.
Books can be checked out from the library for use in the display
We have a modest selection of fabric to cover the bottom of the case and some “wall hangings” from IKEA that can be used in the side bays.
Hardware to hang the posters, including a ladder.
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While the windows are locked, they are still accessible from the 24 study lounge; therefore we cannot support the inclusion of valuable or rare items
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Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Distillery whiskey tasting from Belfast
Activity: Sightseeing, Walking Tours, Countryside Tours, Distillery Tours
Languages spoken: English
Duration: 9 hrs
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- Take a picture of Dunluce Castle
- Enjoy three whiskey tastings at the distillery
- See the beautiful Dark Hedges at Gracehill Manor
- Tour around the incredible Giant's Causeway and witness the basalt formations
All about the trip
Come join us on a day trip around the North of Ireland including the Bushmills Distillery, where you can experience the taste of a 10-year-old and 12-year-old whiskey as well as the Distillery Reserve.
The tour begins in Belfast City, from which we will head to the oldest licensed distillery in the world, Bushmills Distillery. You will get to learn about the history of the distillery and the whiskey itself. Passengers also get to taste test the various whiskey they have described by the whiskey expert.
Next, we will bring you to the Dark Hedges. The infamous Dark Hedges is a driveway planted 270 years ago with hundreds of beech trees that lead up to the home that was once owned by the Stuart family, Gracehill Manor. Don't miss the opportunity for the perfect picture in this driveway.
The next stop is a 5-min bonus stop at Dunluce Castle. Dunluce Castle is the most gorgeous castle ruin in Ireland. The last stop we will visit is the Giant's Causeway. This is also known as the 8th World Wonder and branded a UNESCO World Heritage site. You definitely do not want to miss this amazing attraction which consists of tens of thousands of hexagonal basalt columns, some of which reach 12 feet in the air! There are many stories about the origin of the Giant's Causeway with some saying Finn McCool himself created the Giant's Causeway by creating a pathway from Ireland and Scotland. Come on our tour and find out for yourself!Old Bushmills Distillery Wikipedia
What is included in the price
- Photo stops
- Entrance fees
- Professional guide
- Luggage compartment
- Transport by A/C coach
- Taste 3 different whiskeys
- Live commentary on board
What is not included in the price
- Personal expenses
- Roundtrip hotel transportation
- Food and drinks (except whiskey tasting)
Please dress according to local weather conditions.
Not suitable for children under 8. If your child is used to traveling, please book 1 seat per child and bring own child seat.
This tour starts and ends in Dublin. Belfast is the second stop of the tour. If you are planning to go to Dublin on the same day after this tour, you can pay an extra £15 per person to get a ride to Dublin. Drop off in Dublin is around 7:30 pm/8:30 pm, on the top of O’Connell Street, around a 5-minute walk to the Spire. You can bring your luggage. There is a storage compartment underneath the coach.
Please note that all times are approximate. The locations might be visited in a different order, depends on traffic and weather.
Please arrive 20 minutes before the tour begins, the bus starts loading passengers at 9:20 am outside the "Top Shop" entrance on Chichester Street.
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Sunday, June 4th 11AM
Meet at NORTH LAWN in Cadman Plaza Park
Survivors, Parents and Children
Walk to Protect the Next Generation
Child Sex Abuse
Join us as hundreds of survivors of child sexual abuse cross the Brooklyn Bridge. One in five children will be sexually abused and we need to protect them by passing the Child Victims Act.
“Governor Cuomo promised to pass the bill this year,” states Andrew Willis, founder of Stop Abuse Campaign. “In New York State 43,000 children a year are sexually abused, the Child Victims Act protects kids.The Senate Republicans are blocking the bill. Why protect predators rather than kids? We’re walking to demand the law is passed. Isn’t one child one too many?”
Last year’s event highlighted New York’s Statute of Limitations for child sexual abuse, the worst in the nation. They deny victims justice and prevent the identification of predators who belong on sex abuse registries not on our streets. The Child Victims Act (S 809) will eliminate statutes of limitations and allow victims one year to publicly identify their abusers in court.


Aggressive use of craniectomy keeps Ranger and others like him alive
March 18, 2013
BETHESDA, Md. — For the second time, Staff Sgt. Dominic Annecchini’s brain was exposed under the harsh lights of an operating room.
It was early on a January morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, eight months after the Army Ranger was shot at close range in Afghanistan. Doctors at Bagram Airfield there had removed his entire forehead to save his life.
Now doctors were going to make him whole again.
Tracing along his scar across the top of his head from ear to ear, two neurosurgeons spent 48 minutes slicing through Annecchini’s scalp, and slowly, centimeter by centimeter, peeling back the skin to reveal the gaping hole in his skull.
On a tray behind the doctors was a yellow, life-size model of Annecchini’s skull and the titanium prosthesis that would replace his forehead. The doctors held the piece over Annecchini’s head, assessing the fit onto the bumpy, uneven skull where the bone had been sawed out.
His orbital bandeau bone — that long ridge of the face that runs above the eyes — is “peppered with metal and bone fragment,” lead surgeon Col. Rocco Armonda said when they started that morning. “What we need to do is create a clear and crisp point of attachment.”
As they prepped the area for the prosthesis, Armonda quizzed the other, less experienced neurosurgeon about Annecchini’s personal story — “know your patient,” he tells the residents — but he ended up having to answer his own questions.
“How long has this guy been in the Army?”
“How many deployments has he done?”
10; six to Iraq and four to Afghanistan.
“How many months was he deployed?”
“What did he have on that protected him [when he got shot]? I’ll give you a hint: It was a night raid.”
This one gets a reply; it’s an easy guess.
“Night vision goggles.”
Rescuing the brain
Annecchini’s platoon with the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment was in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan training Afghan soldiers. In the dark of night on May 16, 2012, like he had on hundreds of other missions, the staff sergeant led a group to clear a house on a last-minute raid.
He opened the door for an Afghan counterpart, who then crossed into the entryway and was immediately taken out by AK-47 fire, falling into the room with the enemy. As Annecchini stepped into the line of fire to pull the Afghan out of the kill zone, a bullet bore through his night vision goggles and fragments studded his skull and brain above his right eye.
When he arrived at the combat support hospital in Bagram, the mounting pressure inside his skull threatened his life.
Think of the skull as a cathedral — the brain’s sanctuary. The top of the skull is like a cathedral’s arched ceiling, and the bones along the base of the skull and in the face are like the flying buttresses and pillars that support the vaulted structure. With this construction, the skull is formidable, providing excellent protection for the brain.
But after a severe trauma like a gunshot wound, that very protection becomes the brain’s greatest adversary. The skull turns from sanctuary to prison.
An injured brain like Annecchini’s swells dramatically, pressing into the skull. Expanding upward and out with nowhere to go, the brain is pushed downward on the brain stem.
The brain stem, which rests at the base of the skull on top of the spinal column, is the control center for vital functions, passing messages between the body and the brain. Breathing, heartbeat and consciousness are regulated by the brain stem. Too much pressure on it causes coma and paralysis; any more pressure is lethal.
To rescue the brain, neurosurgeons cut open Annecchini’s head and excised his entire forehead.
Team Skull Cracker
In May 2003, not long after the invasion of Iraq, doctors deployed in the war zone started seeing serious head traumas — the kind that before these wars would have never made it off the battlefield. Armonda and another doctor, the only two Army neurosurgeons in Iraq, realized quickly that men would die without a new way of dealing with the trauma. They looked to a technique that doctors for decades had used to treat stroke patients: decompressive craniectomy.
It wasn’t part of the repertoire to treat penetrating brain injuries — and certainly hadn’t been done with injured soldiers so close to the battlefield.
“I have to say that first patient, I was disappointed because the decompression was too small and because of a terrible sandstorm it was too late,” Armonda said.
First lesson: “We need to go earlier and go larger.” They made the craniectomy the first emergency procedure and doubled the size of the bone removed. Patients have the best chance if the operation is done within one to four hours, Armonda said.
As the war worsened, they started doing five to six craniectomies a month. It didn’t take long for the two neurosurgeons to develop a reputation. An Army Ranger said, “You’re the guys who crack skulls,” and their radio call sign was born: Team Skull Cracker.
Combat medical teams based their evacuation plans for injured soldiers on the location of the neurosurgeons, and the Army gave Team Skull Cracker a cell phone.
“We’ll call you when we have casualties,” Armonda recalled being told. “We want to make sure you know about us. We’re coming straight to you guys.”
Team Skull Cracker “almost went to the extreme,” aggressively and immediately treating every penetrating brain injury with a craniectomy.
“We realized there would be a subset who you can’t save, despite being right there,” Armonda said, referring to, for example, through-and-through gunshot wounds. “Their injury is too profound.”
Even for those who did survive, the stateside military doctors questioned whether such intervention was a good thing.
“They didn’t know what to do with them when they first got to Walter Reed,” Armonda said.
Even today when a new doctor shows up at the hospital and “sees a patient when they first roll the doors, sees them in the first 72 hours, they’re like, ‘Why would you put a human being through this operation?’ It’s hard to explain to them, because the conventional thinking is that you’re saving a patient for a life not worth living.
“And we were worried about that as well when we first started,” he said. “Then when we went back and looked at our patient population, and found that wasn’t true. It was not just survival that was higher, but functional independence.”
About 60 percent of patients had functional independence versus about 10 percent of head trauma patients in the civilian world, he said. “These were huge differences.”
The best practices for treating the patients once they made it out of Iraq evolved over emails swapped between Walter Reed doctors and Team Skull Cracker. Fever, for example, played a greater role than they originally thought and arteries would spasm two to three weeks out from the craniectomy. So they identified patterns of danger during recovery and figured out when best to intervene to keep the soldier alive and his brain healthy.
That first year in Iraq, they did about 70 craniectomies.
“We definitely realized as we left we had identified the best way to do this operation,” Armonda said.
With two battles in Fallujah in 2004, the number of craniectomies tripled that year to more than 200.
Nine years later, an immediate craniectomy is standard procedure to treat penetrating brain injuries downrange. So much so, Walter Reed is developing a 3-D virtual trainer for the procedure, much like a flight simulator, for doctors to use before going to Afghanistan.
“When they get deployed, we want them to feel very comfortable with craniectomies,” Armonda said. “If you’re a neurosurgeon in the military you are familiar with it. It’s part of the general indoctrination for active-duty doctors.”
An unwelcome reflection
After his craniectomy, Annecchini was in a medically induced coma for three days.
“I remember pulling security on the door and the next thing I remember I woke up in Germany,” he said.
Confused and looking around the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center hospital room, wondering where he was, a nurse leaned over and told him the news.
When he was first given a small hand mirror in the hospital bed, he didn’t look long.
“Oh, man,” he thought, quickly putting his reflection away.
He knew then his high speed life was over.
His right eye was swollen shut and his forehead was so massive from swelling, he thought he looked like the animated character Megamind, who has an oversized, alien-like head. He could barely speak and he couldn’t move his right arm or leg. Forty percent of his right frontal lobe had been damaged by bullet and bone fragments.
“The night vision goggles probably absorbed the majority of the gunshot blast, because otherwise he would probably be blinded and in a much worse state,” Armonda said.
Annecchini’s speech came back quickly, but it was as if he was paralyzed on his right side.
“He was pretty frustrated,” his wife Melanie Annecchini said. “He’d get annoyed trying to feed himself and get aggravated with me, because I wouldn’t let anyone help him. I made him do it on his own.”
She said he often tried to cheat by using his left arm to lift his right, which she shut down immediately. “He’d tell everyone, ‘She’s so mean to me!’ ”
He spent 10 days at Walter Reed and then went to the Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center in California for intensive, daily therapy. From June through August, he did speech, language, physical, occupational and recreational rehab every day.
During initial testing, a therapist put a pen in his hand and asked him to write his name.
“I didn’t know for sure if I’d be able to do it,” Annecchini said. “It was a relieving experience when I could still write.”
As the swelling subsided, the staff sergeant got a better picture of what he looked like without a forehead. His face was sunken above the eyebrows with his hair hanging down over the ridge along the top of his forehead. That area of his face would become more concave from atmospheric pressure as the months went on.
Annecchini spent a month in a wheelchair. At first he’d veer to the right because he couldn’t move his arm well enough to keep himself in a straight line as he pushed along. The first time he stood up, he blacked out. It took a couple of days to relearn how to stand.
“Walking the 100 meters to PT was a big deal,” he said.
Still, he never complained, his wife said.
He powered through with the thought that has driven him most of his life: “If it’s not hard, it’s not worth doing.”
The Ranger’s recovery was also helped along by previous life experiences.
Education and intellectual pursuits build redundant pathways in the brain, giving it horsepower to use as reserve after an injury. Think of the brain as a muscle. For example, if an athlete and a couch potato were both hurt in a car crash, the athlete, with more muscle and physical fitness, would have an easier, quicker time healing.
Annecchini, Armonda said, is “a thinker, very erudite, so he’s able to do quite well.”
A daily reminder
For eight months, the first thing Annecchini did every morning, before even getting out of bed, was put on a helmet to protect his brain.
He loathed it. It was an extra step in his life he couldn’t get used to, and he thought it made him look stupid. Anytime he sat down, he immediately took it off.
Strangers would often stare or ask him if it was for bicycling. The helmet brought about situations that reminded him how little most Americans were connected to the last decade of war.
Last year Annecchini was at the Marines Memorial Club hotel in San Francisco and had just found the names of two of his fallen brothers on a wall dedicated to servicemembers who were killed in combat post 9/11, the same names he wears on a bracelet on his right wrist.
On the way down to the lobby, this man he describes as a long-haired hippie came into the elevator, took a look at Annecchini’s helmet and asked: “Hey, what’s that for? Skateboarding?”
Then he knocked his fist on it.
“I just unbuckled my helmet and looked at him,” Annecchini said, anger swelling at the memory. “I mean, the audacity.”
He knew about a dozen soldiers on the KIA wall, and here was this guy, at the Marine Corps hotel to promote a reality TV show, seemingly oblivious to the sacrifices of America’s troops.
The day he was shot, Annecchini earned a Silver Star trying to save his Afghan partner who died.
“I can picture his face. I drank tea with him. I ate with him,” he said. “I cleared a lot of buildings with him.”
Annecchini said every once in awhile he thinks about how he could have gone into the room first that night.
“I opened the door for him,” he said. “He could have just as easily opened the door for me.”
Rescuing the brain
Therapists were surprised that given the injury to Annecchini’s frontal lobe — the brain’s center for decision making and personality — that he still had normal impulse control and was the same laid-back Californian he was before the injury.
His wife, though, said she, along with his older sisters and parents, have noticed some minor personality changes.
“He’s quicker to jump your cage,” Melanie Annecchini said. “If something gets on his nerves, he doesn’t sugarcoat it or put up with it. He’ll say, ‘You’re driving me nuts, go away.’ ”
Before this last fateful deployment, the couple had weathered three tours together since their marriage in January 2009.
“You never think you’ll get that phone call,” she said.
For his part, Annecchini insists he hasn’t changed at all. He and his wife simply spend much more time together now, so she’s seeing for the first time emotions that normally only came out at work.
Annecchini’s physical limitations are more easily noticed.
Strong scents like the menthol in his shaving cream still register, but he largely lost his sense of smell.
“There’s nothing they can do,” he said. “Sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn’t.”
To his great relief, though, it hasn’t affected his ability to taste — a fate he says would have been too much to bear.
His right eye doesn’t see as perfectly as it did before. Lines come across a little crooked and his pupil stays dilated, which means daily eyedrops to constrict it.
The biggest thing holding him back is his right foot. He regained all the movement in his right arm, starting in his shoulder and moving down to his fingertips. His leg followed suit, recovering in his hip, then his leg and down to his ankle — but progress has stalled there. He can’t wiggle his toes or bend his foot much.
His gait is slightly stilted; he walks as if his right foot is encased in a heavy boot.
A nerve stimulator is implanted in his lower leg to help with movement, but he still has trouble lifting and bending his foot to strike the ground heel first. He lost what’s called dorsiflexion: lifting up the foot at the ankle joint. So his toe catches on the ground as he steps.
If he concentrates he can lead with his heel but only for a few steps, and then he fatigues and goes back to slapping the ground toe first.
“You think it’s a simple thing, walking, but it’s actually a lot of muscle and nerves involved. You don’t think about it until you lose it,” he said. “You don’t realize how blessed you are until it’s gone.”
Armonda said it’s too early to say how much of the impairment is permanent.
“The function will continue to improve for almost three years after injury,” he said.
There is one narrow strip along the center of the brain that has point-to-point mapping for certain movements. One spot along the strip controls the feet, for example. Damage to those areas often permanently results in loss of movement, because there’s not as much redundancy in the pathways.
So Annecchini is “never going to be 100 percent normal,” Armonda said.
Progress with his foot has been slow and frustrating, and the uncertainty of how much improvement he’ll make is difficult to live with.
“I’m used to being able to do whatever I want physically,” Annecchini said. “I’m not He-Man or anything, but I’ve done a few things and not being able to do those things anymore is kind of tough.”
The missing piece
The titanium prosthesis doctors would screw into Annecchini’s skull is eight times stronger than bone.
When they first started doing these large craniectomies, Team Skull Cracker tried to preserve the bone flap in the patient’s abdomen so it could be replaced later. But the doctors learned that in a war zone, the bone is so grossly contaminated with dirt, shards of metal, kevlar and the like that even if it’s well scrubbed it still causes infections. They moved to using a plastic and acrylic prosthetic before settling on titanium since it holds up better and is more resistant to infection. Computer-assisted modeling ensures the piece is a perfect fit.
Nearly two hours after they first started Annecchini’s reconstructive surgery, Armonda began to attach the Ranger’s new forehead. One by one, he and the other neurosurgeon placed the self-tapping screws into the anchors of the prosthesis and applied short, strong turns, using an ordinary screwdriver, much like the ones somebody would have in their garage. They alternated screwing in each side a little at a time, the same way as tightening the lug nuts on a car tire.
The gray prosthesis quickly became stained with blood, taking on a red cast that humanized the metal replacement part. Thirty minutes later, they were ready to close him up.
His skin sagged down the back of his head, looking like the wrinkles of a Shar-Pei. The doctors pushed the two sides of the scalp together and stapled it shut.
Annecchini was whole again.
That kind of reconstruction is key to a servicemember’s recovery, not just physically but mentally, Armonda said.
“A lot of it has to do with who they see themselves as in the mirror,” he said. “From a reconstructive standpoint, they don’t see significant disfigurement and don’t stand out in the crowd, which is a major inhibitor to reintegrating into the workspace, to education, to life.”
Armonda said the goal of such aggressive intervention like a craniectomy is to have a level of recovery so that they can “not just work at Walmart as a greeter but be back to something that approximates who they were before their injury, as closely as possible.”
“The important thing is where the patients go from here. What they do with the rest of their lives.”
Finding a new speed
Up out of bed just days after his surgery, Annecchini looked in the mirror and counted 50 staples across the top of his head. One about every half centimeter. It was a “slice across his peach,” as an Army chaplain had put it in May to his wife when he had his first cranial operation.
Despite the Frankenstein row of staples and a little swelling, he assessed that he looked like his old self again — and he was thrilled to be walking around without a helmet.
He’d soon be back to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga., with the 75th Ranger Regiment, but he didn’t know for how long. The staff sergeant re-enlisted in the Army at the VA center in Palo Alto, knowing he had to give up life as a Ranger. He is hoping to stay in the special forces community to contribute however he can.
Last year he did a 5k race in Savannah using a cane and came in dead last. It was a far cry from life before his injury when he could sign up for an adventure race on a whim and win. But he hasn’t given up running again.
“That’s something he’s very motivated to do,” Armonda said. “He’s a Ranger, so he’s going to set his sights pretty high, and [running is] part of their vision of themselves as having completely healed.”
For now, with his brain’s cathedral repaired, Annecchini is unleashed from some of the physical limitations, and he’s enjoying going out with his wife on the new bicycles they recently bought.
And for that, he doesn’t mind wearing a helmet.
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You take care of your iPhone well, however, after a long time use, you feel that it becomes weak apparently though it still looks perfect from the outside.
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On October 16, the L.A. City Planning Commission will discuss a possible moratorium on the conversion of conventional billboards to digital boards with brightly-lit, rapidly-changing advertisements. Despite serious concerns about visual blight and traffic safety, the city council two years ago approved a lawsuit settlement that gave billboard companies the right to convert almost 900 billboards throughout the city. That closed-door deal denied the public the right to be heard on a matter of important public policy. But now we have an opportunity to demand a halt to these conversions until all the issues regarding them are thoroughly studied. Everyone who believes that the many billboards already converted are having a seriously negative impact on our city’s streets and neighborhoods should voice their concerns by sending an e-mail to the commission at email@example.com and/or by attending the Oct. 16 hearing. (Exact time and place will be posted soon)
Because a moratorium would take the form of an Interim Control Ordinance (ICO), the commission must make a finding that there is an emergency/urgency requiring such action. If the commission votes on Oct. 16 to initiate such an ordinance, it will hold a hearing at a future meeting to vote on the ICO itself. It is important that public comments sent to the commission not only point out the negative impacts of the digital billboards, but also stress that it is highly urgent that the conversions be halted pending study of those impacts. Here are some points to emphasize:
• SAFETY: These billboards are designed to distract, and that may in turn cause drivers to misjudge traffic conditions or misinterpret a traffic signal, thereby increasing the potential for accidents. A study on driver behavior by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that distractions in which a driver spends more than two seconds looking elsewhere than the road contributed to 22% of accidents. The Federal Highway Administration is now undertaking a study of these issues, and two states—Montana and Kentucky—have declared moratoriums on digital billboards along state highways pending the outcome of such studies.
• LIGHT POLLUTION AND VISUAL BLIGHT : The intense, constantly-changing light from these billboards is having a negative impact on residential neighborhoods. Even with shades drawn, some residents have suffered from the spill of light into their windows throughout the night. The billboards are often much brighter than anything around them, and seeing them is a jarring visual experience.
• ENGERGY CONSUMPTION: Even though digital billboards with their thousands of LED’s use far more energy than conventional billboards, the city has been exempting conversions from any review required by the California Environmental Quality Act. Allowing this in an era of climate change and the need for energy independence is completely irresponsible. At the very least, it is contrary to the mayor and city council’s stated goal of making Los Angeles a “green” city.
Please send your own comments to the planning commission as early as possible, so that commissioners will have the opportunity to fully hear the public’s concerns. If you live near any of these billboards, or drive by them regularly, please describe the impact they have on you. And if at all possible, plan to attend the Oct. 16 hearing. Many, many people are concerned about this issue, and with a strong showing we can make our voices clearly heard.
If you cannot write a letter, please copy and paste the following letter and e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.org. If possible, add some comments of your own. Be sure to put the following in the subject line of your e-mail: Moratorium on Digital Billboards
I am writing to support a moratorium on converting conventional billboards to digital in Los Angeles. I am concerned about questions of traffic safety, light pollution, visual blight, and the energy used by these signs. Until these issues have been thoroughly studied, it is irresponsible to allow more conversions to take place.


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Time Warp Cruises to Victory at the Hong Kong Cup Time Warp, the former Sir Mark Prescott trained gelding was given the ride of his life as he took the ….
Great Shot Upsets Australian Favourites at Railway Stakes Local galloper Great Shot upstaged some of Australia’s best to win the Group 1 Railway Stakes this past weekend. Trained by Rhys ….
Silverstream Will Battle Outside Railway Stakes Draw Perth’s Railway Stakes, the first of three Group 1 races every summer at Ascot, is a traditional double with the Gr. 2 Lee ….
The 2017 Prince of Wales and Asian Beau Stakes The 2017 Prince of Wales Stakes and the Asian Beau Stakes are both coming up this Saturday the 4th of November. ….
2017 W.S. Cox Plate It’s that time of the year again, every Australian and international horseracing enthusiast’s annual dream come true: we’re referring to the W.S. Cox Plate, of course. ….
Boom Time Causes Upset at Caulfield Cup Former top galloper, Boom Time has produced a stunning upset at the $3 million Group One Caulfield Cup. Trained by David & Ben ….
Formality Runs Perfect Blue Sapphire Stakes On Wednesday, David Hayes-trained filly Formality lived up to the promise she showed returning from a spell with two consecutive Group 2 wins over ….
Redzel Impresses at Inaugural Tab Everest The inaugural TAB Everest 1200m race created a media hype weeks before the event even took place. For the 33500 odd spectators at Randwick, ….
Here’s To The One Who Missed Out Newcastle trainer Ben Smith had had high hopes ahead of The Everest but they were all smashed to bits when it became apparent ….
Randwick Hosts Saturday’s Spring Champion Stakes Day This year is the fifth in which the Spring Champion Stakes gets its own meeting at Royal Randwick, after being split from Epsom ….

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JAPAN TECHNICAL JACKETEcoalf
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The Japan technical jacket protects you from the rain both in the city and in nature. Extremely light, its fabric made 100% of recycled polyester from recycled plastic bottles, allows you to fold it and keep it in small spaces.
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Combating sexual violence against children through specific legal instruments and comprehensive awareness-raising actions are two of the strategic objectives of the programme "Building a Europe for and with children".
On 29 and 30 November the programme launched a campaign to stop sexual violence against children. The campaign launch was held in Rome, Italy.
The main goals of the campaign are to:
- achieve further signature, ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention)
- to equip children, their families/carers and societies at large with knowledge and tools to prevent and report sexual violence against children, thereby raising awareness of its extent.
The Lanzarote Convention contains all the measures needed to prevent sexual violence, to protect children and to prosecute the abusers.
To promote these measures, the campaign will target:


Benzimidazole resistance is a common problem in parasitic nematodes of ruminants and early detection is vital if its spread is to be monitored and controlled. Real time PCR offers a fast and reliable method for rapid detection and measurement of resistance allele frequencies. In Haemonchus contortus a single nucleotide polymorphism at codon 200 of the P-tubulin gene (TTC to TAC), causing a phenylalanine to tyrosine amino acid substitution, has been shown to be involved in many cases of resistance. Locked nucleic acid (LNA) Taqman probes have been used in this work to detect and measure the frequency of resistance alleles in individual and multiple H. contortus. Detection of resistant genotypes using LNA Taqman probes in individual H. contortus is simpler and more reliable than with previously described assays. Measurement of the frequency of resistant alleles in populations of H. contortus was achieved by using the cycle threshold (Q values and a standard curve derived from populations with known allele frequencies. Results using the LNA probes on individual and multiple worms gave similar results to the allele specific PCR. The sensitivity of the LNA assay on multiple nematodes allowed reliable detection of >= 10% resistance allele frequency. Using the final fluorescence method, it was possible to differentiate populations with similar to 0, 5 and 10% resistance allele frequencies. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


We’re excited, and so should you be – the world’s biggest gaming show E3 kicks off on Wednesday, when some of the best and worst kept secrets of the next-gen gaming war will be announced to the world.
Our gaming general Tom Dunmore will be out on the frontline to provide the best live updates on the web, but here are our top ten things to look out for from the show:
1. Nintendo Wii launch. It’s time to stop sniggering like schoolboys about the name (well, almost) – Nintendo will be talking at length about its gaming eccentric on Tuesday 9th May, with pricing and release dates likely, and demos of its ‘Wii wand’ controller.
2. PS3 details. Sony will be taking to the stands later today to talk up the PS3, with the new controller and pricing (will it break the $500 barrier?) likely to be the biggest news.
3. Halo 3 revealed. Bungie’s been posting tantalising hints of big news in the next few days about the next-gen Halo – rumours suggest there’ll not only be a trailer but also in-game footage.
4. Sony shows off Blu-Ray. E3 will be the explosive battleground for the Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD wars, so expect Sony to show off the high-def movie capabilities from its integrated player.
5. HD-DVD add-on for Xbox 360. Microsoft is likely to counter-punch Sony’s talking up of Blu-Ray with a separate HD-DVD drive for the 360.
6. Games, games and more games. This is when we’ll really get to see the true face of next-gen gaming – Splinter Cell: Double Agent, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Prey and possibly a new Grand Theft Auto are likely to be on show. Along with…
7. Madden NFL on the Wii. Electronic Arts are expected to show the Wii Wand in all its waving glory with this new version of its American footie sim for the console.
8. Sony and Ninty take on Xbox Live. Online gaming will take centre stage at E3, with Sony’s Playstation Network Platform and the Wii’s unknown zone ready to reveal themselves.
9. Nokia showcases next-gen N-Gage. Last year the Finnish giant revealed its N-Gage gaming platform for smartphones – will this year see some new devices? Its site suggests something is in the pipeline.
10. PC gaming holds its own. Call of Duty 3 and Command and Conquer 2 will show these young console upstarts how it’s done.


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Data from 23 occurrences (22 museum vouchers).
- 9 museum vouchers > 30 yrs.
museum vouchers < 30 yrs.
20 unique localities.
Date Quartile Plot:
4 - DOR
4 - AOR
3 - Active, off-road
Public Lands Records:
2 - Cimarron National Grassland
CHECKERED GARTERSNAKE Thamnophis marcianus,
(Baird & Girard, 1853)
Kansas State Threatened Species
The Checkered Garter Snake is found along the southern Kansas border west of the Chikaskia River, in the Permian Prairie and southern Cimarron Plains.
Smith (1946) considered KU 5434 (from Meade County) to be a natural hybrid of T. marcianus and T. radix. Herein, KU 5434, is used in the account of T. marcianus.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences)
Barber (6), Comanche (5), Harper (1), Meade (2), Morton (3), Seward (1), Sumner (3)
Growth and Longevity:
A male (KU 158493), Comanche County, total length 846 mm (33.75 inches), Stanley Roth, Joseph T. Collins, and Ray E. Ashton, 10 May 1975.
Not known from Kansas.
Perhaps the rarest snake in Kansas, this species is known only from a few widely spaced records along the Kansas/Oklahoma border from Sumner County west to Morton County.
Miller (1987) summarized our knowledge of this species in Kansas, and little information has been obtained since then. He was especially successful in discovering this species in southwest Barber and southwest Sumner counties; however, he has subsequently reported that they are encountered less frequently in these areas (Larry Miller, pers. comm. 2005). Ball (1992) reported observing 16 specimens in Morton County during the period 1985-1991. He considered them to be locally abundant; however, he collected no specimens and no specific localities were mentioned. The only existing records for Morton County are two specimens collected in 1926. The most recent verified records in the state are from southwestern Barber and southwestern Sumner counties. Additional work is needed to determine optimal searching techniques for this serpent in Kansas.
1937. Tihen, J. A.. Additional distributional records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas counties. Transactions Kansas Academy of Science. 40: pp. 401-409.
1946. Smith, Hobart M. Hybridization between two species of garter snakes. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History. 1(4): pp. 97-100.
1987. Miller, Larry. An investigation of four rare snakes in south-central Kansas. Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission. Final Report: pp. 24.
1992. Ball, Robert L. High plains serpents: Results of a long-term study in Texas County, Oklahoma and Morton County, Kansas. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter. (88): pp. 16-17.

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In Orange County, a diverse group of women leaders are actively engaged in philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy—with the goal of making lasting change in our community.
United Way’s Women United is a vibrant, diverse community of 70,000 women leaders across the world leveraging their time, talent and resources to build stronger families within local communities.
In Orange County, Women United is a force of nearly 400 women dedicated to creating a community full of opportunities for everyone. Women United members invest $1,000 or more annually – with a minimum of 25% invested in United Way’s Community Impact Fund.
The benefits of being part of this powerful group of United Way ambassadors are many:
- Access to a network of committed, passionate philanthropists
- Collaborating with key women business and community leaders
- Exclusive invitations to fun and inspiring member events, luncheons, and speaker series
- Volunteering with other like-minded women changing conditions in our community
WOMEN UNITED COUNCIL MEMBERS
- Ellen Bartholemy, Hally & Company
- Antonella Castro, Real Estate and Business Lawyer
- Christina Henderson, Merrill Lynch
- Ayla Kalani, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
- Aparna Mehta, UPS
- Demetria Moore, Douglas Elliman Real Estate
- Haunani Nakabara, KPMG LLP
- Trina Norman, UPS
- Terri Pattillo, Advantage Solutions
- Yuliya Poutkaradze, Ernst & Young LLP
- Shiva Sattar, First Republic Bank
- Michelle Trogdlen French, Sunday Sol Events
- Nisha Verma, Kading Briggs LLP
- Linda Vites-Whiteman, Fluor
- Sarah Yoder, Edwards Lifesciences
Local, Global & Me:
A women’s empowerment series inspired by Bank of America
A Year-long Journey Promoting Holistic Health
and Well-Being with Dr. Mahtab Jafari
Check back soon for the upcoming event details!
Dr. Mahtab Jafari
Women’s Philanthropy Fund
One of the most powerful voices of philanthropy for women in Orange County, this network of passionate women make an investment to build resources and lead change so that every woman and child in Orange County can achieve her full potential. When you join Women’s Philanthropy Fund, you automatically become a member of the Tocqueville Society.
By strategically investing in place-based initiatives, the Women’s Philanthropy Fund is able to positively impact outcomes for women and children facing high poverty, employment and housing instability.
Women United Co-Chair
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Women's Philanthropy Fund Co-Chair
Taking a leadership role to transform lives
The loyalty of the members of Women United is unparalleled. As a member, you give voice to transformative change in our community. Meet some of our women leaders in philanthropy:
Longtime leaders in philanthropy Artyn Gardner, Karen Conlon and Muff Tennyson form a powerful trio to make a measurable difference in the lives of local children and families.
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A serene, forest landscape is portrayed in this hand painted artwork on canvas. Each piece showcases some abstract elements and features shades of light green, powder blue, and white. The frameless canvas is stretched and attached to wooden stretching bars. Due to the handcrafted nature of this artwork, each piece may have subtle differences.
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The Minnie 1st Birthday Decoration Kit provides you with everything you need to put together a fun and festive birthday party. You'll receive confetti cutouts, a swirling hanging decoration, a banner, centerpiece, curling ribbon, and 20 balloons. Ten balloons are yellow, while the other ten are a light pink and you can tie them down with the yellow curling ribbon. The confetti cutouts feature images of Minnie and the banner spells out 'Happy 1st Birthday.' Lastly, the centerpiece featuring Minnie and a cupcake can add a colorful accent to your decorations.

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