Analysts may still be negative about the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, but UK customers are thinking positively. A survey of HP and Compaq buyers suggests most users support the combination...
An integral role that sits at the intersection between business, information systems and the outside world, says Dr Debra Paul, Chief Examiner for BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and MD of Assist Knowledge Development
The FT's Angelique Vu on how she switched from the creative arts to software engineering
Time to stop just talking the talk, says commercial director Dominic Harvey. More diverse companies do better
Diversity is not economics - you need to start from the top, says Pitney Bowes' Sheryl Battles
And three things they don't, writes Holly Brockwell


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One of the most divisive debates about the Internet has been the future of Napster. The fight featured new and old technologies battling over big dollars.
Napster is a Web site that allows users to download music at no cost. The Web site, which has 38 million users, gives users who download its software access to the music on the computers of all the users who are willing to share. Users type in a song title and Napster generates a list of other users who already have the song. Clicking on the selection copies the file from one user’s hard drive to the other’s. Once users save the downloaded song on their computers, they now “own” the tune. They can email the song to friends or burn their own CDs.
Artists like Metallica joined with media giant Bertelsmann and sued Napster, claiming the technology not only violated copyright laws but was really was tantamount to stealing, since they received no royalties for any Napster downloads. The technology has coined the term “to napster,” which means being able use things for free that you would normally have to pay the owner for.
On November 1, Bertelsmann announced it would work with Napster to develop a fee-based service for the music exchange; in return for an undisclosed sum to Napster, it agreed to drop the lawsuit.
Despite the resolution of the Napster controversy, the proverbial barn door is still open. TrustData Solutions, a software outsourcing provider based in San Jose, California, offers an outsourcing solution that makes it impossible to napster any digital file. Its software protects digital information both on and offline by allowing the owner of the data to determine exactly who can see the information, which can be a simple Microsoft Word document to an application service provider’s (ASP) executable program.
Enabling “Trusted” Ecommerce
Protected digital information in today’s connected world has a host of usages. First, it may remove a major barrier to ecommerce. In Europe, Jeffrey Baumgartner, a European Internet marketing executive, reports a lack of consumer trust and confidence have been identified as key reasons why many people do not buy online. “If more people are more confident about buying online, that means more customers for all of us,” he wrote in the Iconoclash.
“We enable trusted ecommerce,” says Carrie Walton, executive director, marketing, for TrustData.
TrustData is zeroing in on ASPs. In fact, the company’s original name was ASPSecure Corporation. The same customer wariness applies here. “Many businesses are cautious about utilizing the ASP model due to the concerns about the privacy of their data,” says Larry McArthur, chairman of TrustData. The company’s software helps dispel that concern.
In addition, ASPs want to make sure one branch of a company, which has paid them, doesn’t share the application with other branches who haven’t paid, a la napster. According to the Software and Information Industry Association, revenue lost to software piracy for business applications during 1998 reached $11 billion worldwide. That translates to four out of every 10 copies are pirated.
The TrustData software has tracking capabilities that tell the ASP how many times the software is being used, who used it and when. The audit abilities provide an impartial history of performance, which both parties can use to track service level agreement (SLA) compliance. Walton adds that the audit data allows ASPs to learn how their buyers actually employ their applications.
Approval Becomes a Marketing Decision
And TrustData’s application will help both U.S. health care providers and† financial institutions comply with new federal laws mandating privacy. Health care providers have to worry about HIPPA, a U.S. rule that requires all health care transactions remain secure and confidential. The Gramm-Leech-Bliley Act guarantees the same in the financial world. The program’s audit trail helps these companies prove their compliance with the laws.
The key to the program, according to Walton, is to control the data once the user disconnects from the Internet. “This is the time the document is at risk,” she explains. Once a document sits on a hard drive, users are free to email it or print it and then share it with non-paying friends and colleagues. TrustData’s software, which features digital rights management, allows the security to stay with the data; documents can not be shared unless the owner of the data grants permission.
Determining who can see the document then becomes a marketing decision. Walton uses Garth Brooks’ fan club as an example. The popular country singer has a large fan club; membership allows the fans to hear his new music before the public release. Using the TrustData technology, the fan club can download the tunes but they can not share them with friends. Or, Brooks can allow radio stations to download the new CD but only hear the songs twice before the official release date. The singer can sell his work as well since the software has a payment module.
“The owner of the data sets the rules, online and off,” Walton says. The software, which resides on the customer’s site, maintains a roster of authorized users.
TrustData uses technology developed by InterTrust Technologies. The company has a license to market the application. TrustData, which was incorporated in November, 1999, then develops software solutions using the InterTrust platform.
TrustData has signed a partnership agreements with Fasoo.com, which is marketing this privacy solution to the Asian ASP market. Fasoo.com is a spin-off from Samsung which is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Forming a JV with Magex
The company also formed a joint venture with Magex, a British company that acts as a financial clearing house. Initially, the partnership is focusing on Magex’s current clearing services customers. “Our partnership with TrustData means that players in all levels of the software market will have access to global Magex service as well as the added benefit of being able to consistently track product usage and revenue streams,” says Glen Jennison, head of IT and operations at Magex.
Regardless of what the federal judge decides, TrustData customers don’t have to worry about napstering.
Lessons from the Outsourcing Primer:
- Software privacy is a costly problem for ASPs.
- Controlling data after disconnection from the Internet is the key to controlling unauthorized usage.
- Controlling document usage can become a strategic marketing decision.
- Privacy and security will create trust in ASP customers who worry about the security of their data when using an ASP.

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Organic Solutions, Basecom post wins
By Jerome S. Galunan, Jr.
Organic Solutions recently defeated JSY Transport, 83-81, while Basecom beat Silver Dragon Transport, 95-83, in the ongoing Fil-Sino All Asian Countertrade, Inc. (AACI) Inter-Company Basketball Tournament game at the St. John’s Institute Msgr. John Liu Activity Center. The tournament previously held games at the Bacolod Tay Tung High School Po Hang gym.
JSY Transport took a 49-42 lead at the half; however, Organic Solutions pulled ahead and went into the final period up 66-63. Despite a last ditch rally, seven straight points from Dante Ma kept Organic Solutions ahead.
Kendrick Deloria led the victory with 18 points, followed by Ma scoring 14 and Lito Dumdum adding 10.
Despite the loss, Shinley Uy managed to score 20 points for JSY Transport, alongside Jappy Cuaycong adding 18.
In the other game, Ruel Bahian led Basecom with a massive 39 points, followed by Jeff Maningo scoring 24 and Jolly Castillo adding 20.
Meanwhile, Marc Jalapa also contributed heavily to Silver Dragon Transport’s effort, notching 41 points./JSG, WDJ


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Senators have appealed to the government to encourage people to take part in community pantries instead of making moves to stop or vilify the initiative.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III joined his colleagues Tuesday, April 20, in lamenting the reported profiling and red-tagging of organizers of community pantries.
“Gov[ernmen]t is having difficulty in distributing help, why make it more difficult for others to help? I don’t believe this!” Sotto said in a text message sent to reporters.
In a separate statement, he told government officials to instead learn from the efforts of private individuals.
“We should learn from the concept of community pantry, it’s simple and easy. I appeal to our officials not to make it difficult for those who want to help. This is the true spirit of bayanihan, so please leave them alone,” he appealed.
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said that instead of censure, the government should commend and support the volunteers who only sought to help families hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Let them bloom wherever they sprout, regardless of who planted them. Bureaucracy has no business throwing a shade over this pure expression of people’s power,” he said after an official of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) said in a television interview that organizers of community pantries must first apply for permits.
“Community pantries require no state franchise, nor government permit, nor police clearance. The business of helping your neighbor, as God commanded, requires no business permit from man,” Recto pointed out.
Officials, he said, should reflect on their actions against the organizers of community pantries.
“Those who see red in these bayanihan projects should have their hearts examined,” Recto said.
Echoing her colleagues, Sen. Grace Poe said: “Let’s not taint the initiatives to help stem hunger with suspicions of communist links. It puts their lives in peril, which is not the way to treat our people doing good for their countrymen.”
She stressed that law enforcers “must fulfill their duties of protecting the citizens, not intimidate them.”
“Community pantries should draw official support, not government suspicion,” Senator Joel Villanueva also said.
“May I gently remind them that in times when food is scarce and aid is sporadic, it is the worst kind of ‘social distancing advice’ that could come from a public official,” he told public officials.
Later, DILG Secretary Eduardo Año clarified that permits are not necessary to put up community pantries, but said organizers must coordinate with local governments amid the threat of the coronavirus infections.
He also denied ordering the Philippine National Police (PNP) to profile community pantry organizers, directing them “not [to] interfere except to ensure that minimum health standards are complied with”.


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An anime adaptation of The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World gentle novel sequence is about to premiere in January 2023. Employees and solid particulars haven’t but been revealed.
The sunshine novels written by Nana Mikoshiba and illustrated by Riko Korie started in 2020, a 12 months after the story started publication as an internet novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou. A manga adaptation by Sasaki Nobuhito started the identical 12 months.
Each the sunshine novels and manga are printed by Kodansha, with the previous printed underneath the Kodansha Mild Novel Bunko label. There are 5 gentle novel volumes of The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World as of April 28, 2022.
Kodansha describes the manga as:
The Arnold Academy of Magic is a faculty for the elite…and Ray White is simply your abnormal man. In actual fact, he does not appear notably expert with magic in any respect, and is a little bit of a klutz. Which is why he has nothing to do with the rumors that one of many nice magicians, the Iceblade Sorcerer, is a member of the incoming class…proper?

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The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, is named after him.
Sousa's musical education began when he was seven years old. At the age of 13, he was enrolled as an apprentice with the United States Marine Corps Band. He left it after several years to join a theatrical band. He soon began conducting, and returned to the Marine Band as its head in 1880. During this time Sousa also led the marching band of Gonzaga College High School.
Sousa organized his own band in 1892. It toured widely, and in 1900 represented the United States at the Paris Exposition before touring Europe. Sousa repeatedly refused to conduct on the radio, fearing the lack of personal contact with the audience; he was persuaded to do so in 1929, and was very successful.
In addition to hundreds of marches, Sousa wrote ten operas and a number of musical suites.
Sousa exhibited many talents aside from music. He authored three novels and a full length autobiography as well as a great number of articles and letters-to-the-editor on a variety of subjects. As a trapshooter, he ranks as one of the all-time greats and his skill as a horseman met championship criteria.
These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
One year after the 1882 transit of Venus, Sousa was commissioned to compose a processional for the unveiling of a bronze statue of American physicist Prof. Joseph Henry, who had died in 1878. Henry, who had developed the first electric motor, was also the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
A Freemason, Sousa was fascinated by what the group considered mystical qualities in otherwise natural phenomena. According to Sten Odenwald of the NASA IMAGE Science Center1 (http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/TransitFAQs.html), this played a significant role in the selection of the time and date of the performance, April 19, 1883, at 4:00 P.M. Dr. Odenwald points out that Venus and Mars, invisible to the participants, were setting in the west. At the same time, the Moon, Uranus and Virgo were rising in the east, Saturn had crossed the meridian, and Jupiter was directly overhead. According to Masonic lore, Venus was associated with the element copper, and Joseph Henry had used large quantities of copper to build his electric motors.
The 'Transit of Venus March'2 (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010997/default.html) never caught on, and went unplayed for more than 100 years, after Sousa's copies of the music were destroyed in a flood. As reported in The Washington Post3 (http://transitofvenus.org/sousa.htm), Library of Congress employee Loras Schissel recently found copies of the old sheet music for 'Venus' “languishing in the library's files.” The piece was resurrected recently, in time for the 2004 Transit.
67 Bugle Calls (as practiced in the Army and Navy of the United States). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). For Trumpet. This edition: New Edition. Collection. Standard notation. 8 pages. Published by Carl Fischer
A Sousa Collection (A Canadian Brass Quintet Score and Parts). By The Canadian Brass. By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Howard Cable. Brass quintet. Brass Ensemble. Hal Leonard #THCB78. Published by Hal Leonard
The Stars and Stripes Forever (NFMC) "By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Kevin Olson. For 1 piano, 4-hands. The FJH Piano Ensemble Series. Patriotic. Late Intermediate. Single sheet. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc"
The Stars and Stripes Forever "(Arrangedfor Organ (with Optional Piccolo/Flute Version in Trio)). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by E.Power Biggs. For Organ, Piccolo, Flute. Solo part. Standard notation. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 45 seconds. Published by Theodore Presse
Sousa's Great Marches In Piano Transcription By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). For solo piano. Piano Collection. Dover Edition. Americana. SMP Level 6 (Late Intermediate). Collection. Introductory text and illustrations (does not include words to the songs). 111 pages. Published by Dover Publication
The Stars And Stripes Forever "By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl. For 2 Trumpets, French Horn, Trombone And Tuba. Brass Quintet. Patriotic, Americana. Grade 5. Published by Kendor Music Inc"
The Stars and Stripes Forever "(March). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Keith Brion & Loras Schissel. Concert band. Grade 4. Extra full score. Composed 1996. Duration 3 minutes, 26 seconds. Published by C.L. Barnhouse"
The Stars and Stripes Forever! By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Allan Small. For Piano. Piano Solo; Solo. Simply Classics Solos. 20th Century; Patriotic; Romantic. Late Elementary. Sheet. 4 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
The Stars and Stripes Forever "By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by David Marlatt. For 5 Clarinets. Woodwind - Clarinet Quintet. Eighth Note Publications. 20th Century, Patriotic. Duration 00:02:20. Published by Eighth Note Publications"
The Liberty Bell March "By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). For marching band. Marches; Original Works. Marching Band. Romantic, American. Grade 3. Condensed score and set or parts. Composed 1893. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Edwin F. Kalmus"
The Washington Post "(March). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Keith Brion & Loras Schissel. Concert band. Grade 3.5. Extra full score. Composed 1997. Duration 2 minutes, 35 seconds. Published by C.L. Barnhouse"
Sousa's Famous Marches (Adapted for Student Bands). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Samuel Laudenslager. Concert band. For Baritone (Bass Clef). This edition: Baritone (bass clef) part. Classical. Part(s). Standard notation. 14 pages. Published by Theodore Presser
Semper Fidelis "(March). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Arranged by Keith Brion & Loras Schissel. Concert band. Sousa Centennial Series. Audio recording available separately (items CL.WFR137 & CL.WFR343). March. Grade 3.5. Score and set of parts. Composed 1995. Durat
Aviators "(March). By John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Concert Band. For Db Piccolo, Flute I, Flute II, Flute III, Oboe, Bb Clarinet I, Bb Clarinet II, Bb Clarinet III, Eb Clarinet, Eb Alto Clarinet, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Eb Alto Saxophone, Bb Tenor Saxophone,
"Concert Fantasy On ""the Stars and Stripes Forever" "(For Flute, Alt. Piccolo (Flute Only, Opt.) and Piano (Opt. Piano, 4 Hand Version Included)). By John Philip Sousa Mark Starr. For Piccolo, Flute, Piano. Solo part with piano reduction. Standard notation. 24 pages. Published by Carl Fischer"

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Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in Germany have discovered a weakness in the bacteria Helicobacter pyloriwhich can be used to develop new drugs.
H. pylori, a pathogen responsible for widespread diseases such as peptic ulcers and gastric cancer, has weak points, which can be exploited to create new drugs. This was discovered by a research group led by LMU biologists Rainer Haas and Wolfgang Fischer of the Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology. The results have been published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology.
More than four billion people worldwide are infected with stomach bacteria, causing more than 800,000 cases of stomach cancer each year. Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to current drugs. This has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify it as a high priority pathogen for research and development of new antibiotics. New approaches and therapies are urgently needed to replace or complement existing treatment methods.
New studies have taken an important step in this direction.
“We were able to show that the bacteria are very sensitive to certain substances that inhibit cellular respiration,” said Haas.
Fighting helicobacter while protecting the gut microbiome
The researchers were able to identify several compounds from different groups of substances that paralyze the respiratory chain H. pylori, even in small concentrations. For other beneficial bacteria, including representatives of the normal gut microbiome, these substances pose no problem. These bacteria tolerate substances in larger quantities.
The study authors used a broad spectrum of biochemical and microbiological methods and molecular modeling techniques to find out why H. pylori react very sensitively to this group of substances. They identified the cause in a slightly modified structure of the so-called quinone binding pocket in respiratory complex I.
Researchers say this ‘Achilles heel’ offers great potential for the development of specially designed novel active agents that can be used as inhibitors of pathogens against H. pylori.
“Our results reveal a surprising weakness in the metabolism of these bacteria, which are otherwise well-adapted, to unusual environments,” said Fischer.
The research team at LMU was also able to identify possible mutations that make the bacteria less sensitive to the inhibitors. However, this mutation also weakens the metabolism of the pathogen. This means that less resistance is developed to the complex I inhibitor.
“Overall, our results are very promising,” Haas said.
“We were able to identify a whole group of inhibitors that did not show cross-resistance with current therapy. They are less susceptible to the development of resistance and have little impact on the gut microbiome.”
In addition to scientists at LMU, the German Center for Infection Research and researchers from the University of Ghent, the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt, the Technical Universities of Munich, Helmholtz Munich and Helmholtz Braunschweig, Goethe University Frankfurt, and BASF Ludwigshafen all made significant advances contributing to the study.
In the fight against helicobacter, last year French pharmaceutical company Juvisé bought the worldwide commercial rights to Pylera from US biopharmaceutical company AbbVie. Pylera is a tri-therapy antimicrobial that helps treat H. pylori infection.


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Nara Koen has the city's popular tourist sites. Even so, it is wide enough to accommodate thousands of giggling schoolchildren and other Japanese tourists, yet still feel spacious and quiet. Be warned that it is home to many divine messengers of god—the tame deer seen just about everywhere.
Nara-machi is a maze of lanes and alleys lined with old warehouses and machiya (traditional wooden houses) that have been converted into galleries...

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Gov. Tim Walz is urging President Donald Trump and Congress to end the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, saying Minnesota taxpayers are shelling out millions of dollars a day to prop up programs and pay salaries during the impasse.
“End this damn thing,” Walz said Tuesday, surrounded by elected officials, faith leaders and activists in his crowded reception room at the state Capitol. “Let’s get a compromise and move on.”
Walz, who gave up his seat in Congress to run a successful campaign for governor in 2018, said this shutdown is different than previous ones because of the stark policy divide between the president and Democrats over funding for a border wall. Asked who he blamed for the impasse, Walz hesitated before assigning more responsibility to President Trump.
Minnesota gets an estimated $1 billion a month from the federal government. During the 25-day partial shutdown, when one-quarter of the federal government isn’t operating, the state has paid up to $100 million and counting to maintain programs and keep some workers on the job, state budget director Myron Frans said. The move has avoided layoffs for 3,000 state workers who normally are paid with federal dollars.
The state can maintain the spending into February and possibly March, Walz said. Starting March 1, the state would need to step in and provide $42 million in monthly payments so 400,000 Minnesotans on food stamps could continue receiving benefits.
Attorney General Keith Ellison left the door open to suing the federal government over reimbursement for Minnesota’s costs.
“We’re prepared to take legal action,” said Ellison.
In a state where all statewide elected officials are Democrats, Walz pointed out that Tuesday’s news conference included a handful of Republican state lawmakers. He gave a cautious answer when asked whether he blamed President Trump or Congress for the shutdown.
“When these things happen, the person who’s asked to have the job as executive bears the brunt of the responsibility to bring people together,” Walz said in a reference to Trump – albeit not by name. “I don’t think it helps our situation right here [to assign blame].”
The Republican Party of Minnesota criticized Walz for holding a news conference, but not valuing border security, the flashpoint at the center of the shutdown.
“Maybe it's time for Walz and Ellison to listen to their constituents and call their Democrat friends in Washington to come back to the table and stop putting our national security at risk,” Minnesota GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan said.
The statement failed to mention the Republican lawmakers who attended Tuesday’s news conference. Among them: House Republican Leader Kurt Daudt, who stressed the relative stability of Minnesota government.
“It was pretty important for me to be here,” Daudt said, when asked why he came to Walz’s event about the controversial shutdown. “Number one, because I think when we do agree on things, it’s important for us to stand together and show Minnesotans that doing the right thing isn’t partisan.”
Frans said 6,000 of the estimated 17,000 federal workers who live in Minnesota have been furloughed or forced to work without pay during the shutdown. Unlike state workers, Minnesota is not paying their salaries. At least 1,059 federal workers have filed for unemployment benefits, a spokesman for the state’s unemployment insurance office said Tuesday.
The federal impasse has also shuttered some agencies that businesses and farmers rely on, Frans said.
“A 25-day shutdown starts to have serious, negative economic consequences,” he said.

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Have you created your cannabis batches, but still need to establish a system to accurately document and comply with regulations? The idea of a batch tracking system may seem like a simple concept, but it is not always done correctly.
The problem with conventional batch number tracking practices is that many companies do not have the proper batch tracking system in place for their cannabis products. This can lead to problems down the line if your product does not meet certain quality standards or if there are any issues with the supply chain and a recall is required. We explore the importance of cannabis batch numbering and how you can create a batch number for tracking purposes.
What is batch number tracking?
Batch numbers get assigned to a set of plants of the same variety that are grown together at the same time, location, and conditions. Professional cannabis growers need to have systems for documenting and tracing their products from start to finish. Assigning a number to each set of plants helps organize records and attribute them to a specific set of plants.
A simple batch number tracking system like “Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3…” is not sufficient to trace batches of plants. This is because it does not differentiate (at a glance) between the batches. If a batch tracking system is too simple, it will be very difficult to organize related data and reference batches over time.
Importance of efficient a cannabis batch system
No matter where a grower is doing business, having a cannabis batch tracking system is an important practice. All states and countries with cannabis programs have regulations requiring products to be traceable. It makes investigating reported product issues so much easier. For growers, it can mean the difference between recalling and scrapping a single batch or more of their product than necessary.
In addition to state or national tracking and reporting systems, professional growers will often use in-house batch tracking software system like a seed-to-sale to keep track of the data. Streamline systems and organize day-to-day work by using barcodes and labels to easily identify and track batches.
Data and documentation
From the time a seed germinates, or a cutting is made for cloning, to final drying and curing – record all information.
- Record everything. From the time and number of plants initiated, to the treatments applied during growth, and the final processing and distribution.
- Lost a plant? The batch track records get updated to document the amount lost and the amount remaining.
- Planned and unplanned events are all documented. Therefore, batches of plants always get kept together.
- Problems can be easily traced to their causes by keeping these records, ensuring that there is a record of the grower complying with applicable regulations.
- If unplanned events occur, like applying the wrong mixture of nutrients to a set of plants, you can conduct risk assessments.
- Some deviations may result in lost products. But, if a deviation gets supported with a sound risk assessment and corrective actions, it can prevent the need to scrap product that varies from standard production practices (in a way that will not pose harm to the end-user).
How to create a meaningful batch number
Here is an example of a batch number tracking system that captures the variety, growing conditions, and age of a crop:
- Each batch gets a batch number that consists of 6-7 digits and letters.
- A strain like Baba Kush would have a batch number that starts with “BK” to indicate the strain.
- The next digit indicates which grow room the batch gets raised in.
- To capture the plant’s age, the next digits can indicate the week of the year and the initiated year of a batch of plants. (For example, 1-19 for the week of January 1st, 2019, or 52-19 for the week of December 30th, 2019).
- The final batch number for a batch of Baba Kush initiated the first week of 2019 and grown in grow room #1, would be BK-1-1-19.
Just by looking at this batch number, growers and workers can tell all of the relevant information for the plants. Then, they can easily refer to records associated with that grow room and those particular plants. This is especially helpful when growing multiple varieties in the same room, or when the same variety is growing in another room. In this way, good batch number tracking helps prevent day-to-day confusion and reduces the potential for errors.
Batch tracking software and benefits beyond compliance
Beyond the cannabis industry, almost all retail products have batch tracking and traceable batch numbers. It may seem like a small detail, but being able to trace products and organize production records goes beyond compliance – this supports successful businesses. Investors, regulators, and workers all benefit from well-organized and consistent systems.
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SYMPTOMS & CAUSES
Systemic candidiasis, as a separate disease, was not recognized or defined until the 1980's, mostly because its symptoms were so varied and duplicated those of other illnesses, leading doctors to conclude that the patient was suffering from, for example, sinusitis instead of yeast infiltration of the nasal passages. Additionally, since one of the main causes of systemic candidiasis are doctor prescribed antibiotics, which kill the intestinal bacteria that control candida, the medical profession was probably not too eager to admit the existence of this disease. Diagnoses of candidiasis were limited to its visible manifestations, e.g., a vaginal or oral yeast infection. Treatment was directed towards eradicating these conditions alone without addressing the reality of a more serious, but hidden, infection.
The symptoms of candidiasis, and their severity, vary from person to person but the main ones are: chronic fatigue, especially after eating, depression, craving for breads and sugars (yeast eats sugar), extreme mood swings, feelings of rage, especially after eating sugary foods, feeling "drunk" after eating a meal high in carbohydrates (candida's waste is alcohol), hypoglycemia, excessive mucous of the throat, nose, and lungs, chronic fungal infections of the skin (jock itch, athlete's foot) or vaginal/oral thrush, diarrhea, anal itching, short-term memory loss, feeling "spacy," and bloating or gassiness after eating.
In addition to these, lymphatic swelling, difficult PMS, night sweats, chest and joint pain, memory loss, incoordination, blurred vision, intense, random headaches, intermittent vertigo, insomnia, sneezing fits, and increased food allergies are also fairly common. A person tends to get extremely sensitive to damp, mildewy environments and, sometimes, to extreme humidity as well as perfumes, colognes, and smoke. Since candida can infiltrate the urinary tract, acute kidney infections, cystitis, and prostatitis are possible.
While these symptoms can indicate other illnesses, if certain factors are present in one's personal history the symptoms are likely to indicate candida overgrowth. These factors are:
•Prolonged, or repeated, use of antibiotics, corticosteroid drugs, and/or birth control pills, at any time in the past,
•a diet high in processed sugars which encourages candida growth, and
•preexisting immunosuppression caused by drug or alcohol abuse, multiple blood transfusions, debilitating illness, organ transplants, or chemotherapy. All three are NOT required to bring on a case of candidiasis: excessive "sugar binging" can cause it just as surely as antibiotics can. Pregnancy also predisposes women to the condition since pregnancy alters the body's delicate hormonal and pH balance: candida thrives in an alkaline environment.
Contributing factors are:
•low stomach acidity leading to poorly digested food and
•improper bowel movements leading to prolonged retention of fecal matter in the colon: these conditions promote yeast overgrowth.
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San Matteo Panuozzo couldn’t cut it on St. Marks Place. Literally. The pizza-dough-sandwich shop has closed (and, contrary to a sign in the window, won’t be reopening) because it wasn’t allowed to serve proper pies.
Vincenzo Scardino, an owner of San Matteo Pizza and Espresso Bar on the Upper East Side, said that he and is two partners decided to close its downtown spin-off at 121 St. Marks because the landlord wouldn’t allow them to sell pizza, fearing it would interfere with the business of his other tenant, Nino’s, a couple of doors down.
“They thought it would take business from the guy on the corner, even though our product is completely different,” said Mr. Scardino. The restaurateur added that San Matteo had always planned to start serving pizza, just like its uptown location does, once it obtained its liquor license. But when the owners went back and asked their landlord about it, he put the kibosh on the plan.
Apparently, that came as a surprise. “In the beginning, when we signed the lease, they said pizza wouldn’t be a problem,” said Mr. Scardino. “But [when] we spoke to them again after we opened, we asked them after we got the liquor license, they said no.”
The landlord is singing a different tune. Eric Mohan, property manager of Avenue A at St. Marks Association, said the owners of San Matteo Panuozzo never voiced plans to sell pizza, and instead said they would stick to the oversized panini, made from pizza dough, known as panuozzi. “When they took the place, they knew about it,” Mr. Mohan said, referring to the pan ban. “They were trying to just open a sandwich shop, which they did.”
Mr. Mohan believes the owners of San Matteo decided later in the game they wanted to sell pizza. The landlord put its foot down because tenants are not allowed to sell competing products.
Mr. Scardino said some folks from Italy will be signing the lease within the next two days and plan to open a cafe. Meanwhile, the owners of San Matteo are looking for another spot, but definitely not in the East Village. It’s safe to say the ordeal has left them feeling a little bit burned.

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They were a cross-section of Americans living it up at an Orlando club — professionals who plied their trades in the city's gleaming towers, 20-somethings who worked in nearby amusement parks. They were tourists passing through town and regulars greeting old friends.
Then, suddenly, gunfire ripped through the gay nightclub and turned them into something else — victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Here are their stories.
REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS
Alejandro Barrios Martinez left Cuba for a new life in Florida just last year only to be slain in an Orlando nightclub.
The 21-year-old was a regular at Pulse and despite his limited English he didn't lack for friends, a grieving pal told The Orlando Sentinel.
"He's the type of person [who would] see you in a parking lot and he'd have a whole conversation with you,"Sarai Torres told the paper.
Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez was getting used to being king of his castle. The hard-working 27-year-old check cashing store manager bought his first house in KIssimmee, Florida, three months ago, according to property records.
"He was just a caring, loving guy — just like a big teddy bear," one of his best friends, Ivonne Irizarry, told the The Orlando Sentinel.
Rodriguez, 27, had been working since he was 15. He started at a McDonald's and quickly became a manager.
"He wanted to be the best at what he did, and he would work very hard to achieve that," Irizarry said. "So if he had to put in the long hours to get it right, he'd do it. If he had to stay to work a double [shift], he did it. That's why whatever job he went to, he became a manager."
Originally from Puerto Rico, Rodriguez was devoted to his family and friends.
"He cared more about others than about himself," his sister, Valeria Monroig, told the paper.
Paul Terrell Henry was a loving father of two and a devoted boyfriend. The 41-year-old worked as a sales representative at Orange Lake Resorts, but was a wonderful musician on the side, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Henry frequently played the piano and organ and could sing. He was a strong proponent of dancing and having fun, spending a lot of time at the Bear Den at Parliament House where he excelled at pool. He is remembered by his loving boyfriend Francisco Hernandez and his two daughters, the oldest of which just recently graduated high school.
"I miss him. I love him,'' Hernandez said in an email to the Sentinel. "I took care of him, and he took care of me. Such a loving spirit. I'll always have him in my heart."
Juan Chavez-Martinez was known by his co-workers and friends for his extreme friendliness. He worked for APDC Services, which is a staffing company of Reunion Resorts in Kissimmee. As a housekeeping supervisor Martinez became known for his kind and loving personality along with his dedication to his work.
Co-worker Jose Crisantos had gotten to know Martinez well during his time working at the Reunion Resort.
"I was a housekeeper and he was a supervisor,” Crisantos told the Orlando Sentinel. “He was very well known among us as very kind and loving. … There was nobody else like him. It is a devastating loss.”
Martinez had several brothers and sisters, two of whom also live in Central Florida. His hometown is listed as Huichapan, Mexico, on his Facebook, and a Go Fund Me page under “Funeral Juan Chavez Victima pulse,” has been set up to help raise money to return Martinez’s body to Mexico.
Drayton was in the process of turning her life around when she was shot and killed at Pulse.
"She was doing better," Ashleigh Alleyne, Drayton's ex-girlfriend, told The Orlando Sentinel. "She was still on probation, but she wasn't getting in trouble, she was actually working with her cousin, I believe."
She had been contending with what the paper described as "several legal infractions involving drugs."
"I know that she didn't leave this earth doing wrong," Alleyne told the paper. "She was actually putting in effort, because we both hit rock bottom at the same time. She pushed me to get through her issues and I always tried to do the same for her."
Drayton was working at the nightclub when she was killed. She was raised in Eastover, South Carolina, according to The State newspaper.
Honorato was a married father of three small children and a soccer fan who had gone to Pulse with a group of friends.
When the shooting started, his friends managed to escape, The Orlando Sentinel reported. He was not as lucky.
Honorato lived in Apopka, Florida, and worked for FajitaMex Mexican Catering in Orlando. A Mexican citizen, he rooted for the Mexico City-based Club América.
His brother Jose posted a farewell on his slain sibling's Facebook page.
“R.I.P Brother Miguel Honorato,” he wrote. “I can’t face the fact that my Blood Brother is gone."
Just hours before he was gunned down at Pulse, Tomlinson performed with his band at another Orlando nightclub.
"I've never met anyone like him," Carey Sobel, an Orlando resident who hired Tomlinson's band to play his upcoming wedding, told the paper. "He was really special."
Tomlinson, who lived in Orlando, was a 2003 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He earned a degree in communications.
Flags were lowered to half-staff in his hometown of Concord, North Carolina in his memory, the Charlotte Observer reported.
“Our hearts are broken to learn that Shane's was one of the young lives lost in this senseless act of violence," Concord Mayor Scott Padgett said in a statement. "We lift up his parents as well as the entire Tomlinson family in prayer and support. There are many people in our community who loved and remember Shane from his youth and we join his family in grief."
Wright was quiet but knew how to treat guests at Walt Disney World, where he worked as a seasonal employee, a former co-worker said.
"He was one of the kindest people you could meet," co-worker Kenneth Berrios told the Orlando Sentinel. "We had students from the London program . and Jerry was always willing to give rides to them and show them around town."
Wright "was a great guy to work with," former co-worker Scott Dickison said. "He was quiet but really wonderful with all the guests. He always had a smile on his face."
Dickison said Wright had worked most recently in merchandising on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom, but also had worked in Tomorrowland and at Universal Studios in Orlando.
Sanfeliz was always friendly and outgoing, "the most positive guy I've ever known," friend Josh Palange said.
They became friends during middle school, and in high school, took honors classes and band together - Sanfeliz on trumpet. Though they didn't see each other much after graduating in 2010, "we stayed friends on Facebook," Palange told the Tampa Bay Times.
Sanfeliz's family moved there from Cuba in the 1960s, family friend Mike Wallace said. Sanfeliz took business classes at a community college and was hired as a bank teller and worked his way up to become a personal banker, Wallace said.
"He (was) a wonderful person and this is such a tragedy," said Wallace. "He was cut down in his prime."
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35, had a humor and warmth that made him a great salesman - and helped him find love, a co-worker said.
"He laughed with the people and would make jokes," said Claudia Agudelo, who worked with Perez at a perfume store. "He was always happy."
Mendez Perez met his longtime partner, Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, about a decade ago when he sold him the fragrance Declaration by Cartier, Agudelo told the Orlando Sentinel. Wilson-Leon also died in the nightclub shooting.
Mendez Perez moved to the U.S. from Puerto Rico when he was a teenager, and made friends quickly, father Angel Mendez said.
"He was a real dynamic kid," he said.
Sister-in-law Katia Mendez said Mendez Perez also was a fun-loving and doting uncle who would buy her three children candy and ice cream.
"He was like a little kid when he was with them," she said.
Paniagua moved to Florida from Mexico in the early 2000s in search of a better life.
He went back to his home state of Veracruz for several years but returned to Tampa less than a year ago, relatives and friends said.
"We came because here in the United States there are many opportunities here and because we were fleeing because in our country there was a lot of crime, violence and death ... and we expect it should be more peaceful here," his cousin Jose Paniagua told Newsday.
The construction worker was looking forward to meeting friends at Pulse for another night of dancing - something he loved to do, friend Lorena Barragan told the Orlando Sentinel.
"He was the best," said Barragan, who met Rayon Paniagua at church. "He was loyal. He was always trying to do stuff to make you feel better."
Candelario-Padro moved to Orlando from Chicago in January to be closer to family. The nurse and National Guard member soon found a new job and a new love.
"He was a humble boy, a good student. He liked to work and wasn't too much into partying," his aunt Leticia Padro told Univision.
Candelario-Padro's boyfriend, who was shot several times, told her that after hearing several shots he turned to Candelario-Padro and asked if he was OK.
"He told him he was OK, but in that instant he fell to the floor," Padro said.
Candelario-Padro loved music and had played the clarinet in a band in his hometown of Guanica, Puerto Rico, according to uncle Efrain Padro.
"We're waiting for his body to be brought home," he said, "We will welcome him with music."
Fernandez recently had found a job as a leasing agent for an Orlando apartment complex, said his friend, Jennifer Rodriguez.
"He had finally found something he liked. He was taking care of his mom," she said of Fernandez, who was also her hair stylist and one of her best friends.
"He was like a brother," she said. "He was just really very spirited and always happy, you know?"
Fernandez recently had been dating an older man, a dancer known by the stage name Eman Valentino, who also died in the shooting.
Torres had recently moved to Orlando and was working to become a pharmacy technician.
Benitez was a student at a Tampa satellite campus of the Ana G. Mendez University System, based in Puerto Rico, where he was born. In a university statement, one of his professors called him a "diligent and extremely hardworking student."
Benitez was "thankful for the opportunity to advance his career and hopeful to make his dreams a reality," said Carla Zayas, a Spanish professor.
He posted several photos and videos on his Facebook page in the days before the shooting, including one in the kitchen cooking with family members.
The cover photo on his Facebook profile includes a quote in Spanish: "If God takes away my eyesight, it's because I've been allowed to see everything that's beautiful in the world."
Crosby had a drive for success, which was reflected in his inspirational Facebook posts — "2016 will be the best year ever."
"Whatever goal he had in mind, he worked hard. Whether alone or on a team, he worked on that goal," Chavis Crosby told the Orlando Sentinel.
Tevin Crosby was director of operations for a Michigan marketing firm who'd recently visited family in Statesville, North Carolina, to watch several nieces and nephews graduate.
Then, he traveled to Orlando after passing along some brotherly advice about business and setting goals. He loved to travel for work and fun, Chavis Crosby said.
"He was definitely a good person and a good brother to me," he said.
When the shooting started at Pulse, Jonathan Camuy tried to protect young mom Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan.
But the bullets got them both, The Orlando Sentinel reported.
Solivan's brother-in-law William Borges, who was at the Orlando gay nightclub with them, poured his grief out in a Facebook posting, the paper reported.
“I swear, my heart has a ladder tall enough to reach you both,’’ he wrote. “Mary, you leave me with a pain that I never thought I would feel.’"
Solivan was 24 and lived in Kissimmee, Florida. She was married to race car driver Juan Borges and her youngest was a 3-month-old son named Sergio. She worked at a Wendy’s in Puerto Rico before moving to Florida.
Camuy was also 24 and listed as Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega on the City of Orlando's website. He was a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and worked for a Spanish language show called La Voz Kids, which airs on Telemundo and is produced in Orlando.
"The NAHJ familia is heartbroken and offers our condolences to Jonathan’s family in Florida and Puerto Rico," the NAHJ said in a statement. "We also keep his work family at Telemundo in our thoughts and prayers."
Brown, 29, was a captain in the Army Reserves who had earned numerous awards and medals. He had been a member of the reserves since 2004 and was deployed once to Kuwait, according to the Pentagon.
During his time in the service, Brown attended Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, according to a statement from the school.
Brown "is being remembered fondly by classmates and fellow alumni on social media," the statement said.
He graduated with a criminal justice degree in 2008.
Velazquez traveled the world performing Puerto Rican folk dances known as Jibaro.
Velazquez, 50, had been at the gay nightclub with two pals, his friend Sara Lopez told Orlando Weekly.
They didn't realize they were under fire "until they started seeing people fall down," Lopez told the magazine.
Velezquez's friends tried to get him out of the way, but the gunman pushed him and the others "up against the wall" and resumed shooting, Lopez said.
The slain dancer was born and raised in Puerto Rico and worked as a merchandiser for the Forever 21 clothing chain.
His sister, Bernice De Jesús, told The Orlando Sentinel her brother was not a big club-hopper.
"He was the kind of person who likes to have a good time in the house with family and friends," she said. "But that night he wanted to go because it was a Latin night. That is what one of his friends told me."
His friends survived the massacre, she said.
"It's going to take a lot for them to recover," she said. "They were three amigos."
Ortiz-Jimenez was the last of the Pulse victims publicly identified by Orlando city officials.
A 25-year-old Dominican who lived in Puerto Rico and went by Drake Ortiz, he was an aspiring actor and lawyer, according to a Facebook memorial page.
Ortiz-Jimenez was also a Selena Gomez fan. There were pictures of the singer on the Facebook page — along with some selfies.
The last photo Ortiz-Jimenez posted was off himself at the gym at 9 p.m. on Saturday — just hours before he was killed.
Akyra Monet Murray was an 18-year-old Philadelphia phenom — a high school basketball star who scored more than 1,000 points during her career and was bound this fall for Mercyhurst University on a full athletic scholarship.
Now her former classmates at West Catholic Prep are in mourning.
"Akyra was a superstar who was a leader among her classmates and teammates," the school said in a statement. "She was an honors student whom graduated third in her class, and a 1,000 point scorer on the Lady Burrs basketball team."
Murry was in Orlando on a family vacation to celebrate her graduation and visit her brother when she found herseft at Pulse with her friend Patience Carter, a New York University student who was shot in the leg, according to Philadelphia Magazine.
"Losing Akyra is heartbreaking, we are currently in the process of healing as a community," her former coach, Beulah Osueke, said in the statement. "This is a very difficult day, not just for the Murray family but for the West Catholic family and all that were touched by Akyra's warmth and magnetic embrace. There is no possible way to prepare for a moment like this."


“But for the Grace of God” has definitely put Keith Urban on the map as a major artist in the country music industry. Released in 2000 as the third single from Urban’s self-titled American debut album, the song became the country singer’s first No. 1 hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart just a few months after it was released – it remained in that position for a week.
Interestingly, Urban ended a two-and-a-half-year streak in which no artist from the Capitol Records label achieved a No. 1 hit on such a chart. The song was also a crossover success, peaking at the 37th spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Song That Touched So Many Hearts
Keith Urban wrote the touching song “But for the Grace of God” with Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey of the band The Go-Gos. It tells the tale of a man singing his praises to God for blessing him with a beautiful life and a great relationship with the woman he loves.
“But for the grace of God go I, I must’ve been born a lucky guy. Heaven only knows how I’ve been blessed with the gift of your love. And I look around, and all I see is your happiness embracing me. Oh Lord, I’d be lost, but for the grace of God,” the song goes.
But did you know this beautiful song may not have been made possible? Urban was originally unenthusiastic with his collaboration with The Go-Gos that he thought “it was a disastrous idea, to begin with.”
“Theoretically, it looks pretty bad. They had these ideas, and they were tossing out these ideas, and they were just so not me. It was so mismatched, and I was uncomfortable and squirming in my chair, and I was like, ‘Oh, wow! (laughs) whatever,'” Urban recalled. “And it was it. We decided this was a complete waste of time, let’s go get something to eat, and then Charlotte said, ‘Well, I’ve got this title called ‘But For the Grace of God,’ and boom, the song came out.”
Today, Urban has gathered up a wealth of other No. 1 hits, but even after this time, “But for the Grace of God” is still a fan-favorite.
Tune in and watch Keith Urban’s breathtaking performance of “But for the Grace of God” – you will absolutely understand why this song has touched so many hearts.


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Lok Sabha elections 2019: PM Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar share dais after a decade at NDA Sankalp rally
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar shared the dais at a political rally on Sunday for the first time since 2009 at NDA’S “Sankalp” rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on March 3.
This was PM Modi’s second visit to the state within a fortnight, the first being on February 17 in Begusarai, from where he inaugurated and launched projects.
The rally comes days after air strikes at terror bases in Pakistan and the release of IAF officer Wing Commander Abhinandan from Pakistan on Friday. “We welcome his return and want to thank and congratulate the PM over the manner in which he raised the matter at world forum. The world has united against terrorism,” said Bhupendra Yadav, BJP MP and the party’s in-charge of Bihar, on Saturday.
All union ministers from Bihar, including Ramvilas Paswan, will share dais with Modi.
Modi and Kumar had last attended a rally together in Ludhiana ahead of the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Kumar’s party JD (U) left the NDA in June 2013 and formed a Grand Alliance with the RJD and Congress before the 2015 Assembly elections.
In July 2017, he joined the NDA again. On Friday, Modi greeted Kumar on his birthday and referred to him as “my friend” and praised him for pulling the state “out of the shadows of years of misrule”.
The ‘sankalp’ (resolution) rally, which will be a show of unity for the NDA, will also kick off the alliance’s poll campaign in the state for the Lok Sabha elections likely to be announced soon.
“This rally is not only important for Bihar, but will also send a message to the nation that Modi has shown how to work under crisis,” said JD (U) state president Bashistha Narain Singh.
“It will also send a message that Bihar has changed under the present regime,” he said.
“It’s a rally to show unity, reiterate our resolve for all-round development, to vow for a developed India, developed Bihar and to vow take India into a front ranking nations,” said BJP state president Nityanand Rai.
Rai rejected suggestions of the opposition to cancel the rally in the wake of heightening tension between India and Pakistan. “The rally was planned two months back,” he said.
LJP’S state president Pashupati Paras praised PM Modi for his dynamism. “He is a revolutionary PM and NDA will return to power with two-third majority,” said Paras.
Huge billboards, hoardings and posters with pictures of the NDA leaders have sprung up along Patna’s main roads and lanes.
Party leaders and legislators have been asked to arrange accommodation to enable people from their constituencies to come to the city for the rally.
State presidents of BJP, JD (U) and LJP have appealed people to come to the rally to make it “historic”.


Teaching used to be a job that people look up to a lot. In fact, back in the day, professors are treated the same as individuals with important positions in politics. Because knowledge equals power and equips them to become better leaders. Women have been fighting for the right to be on the same leveled field when it comes to education.
They could literally make or break the future of millions of children.
Yet, so many teachers are losing the passion they once had. It’s more than just about making ends meet.
Abby Norman is a teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, who recently switched careers into bartending. The mother-of-two admitted on Twitter that despite “loving the students and the learning,” she makes way more on a job that doesn’t take up as much time as teaching does.
Her story resonates with other teachers.
National Center for Education Statistics shows that the average annual earning for teachers across the states between 2019 and 2020 is $63,645. The lowest is $45k in Mississippi. The shocking part is how this is only around $100 more than teachers used to make in 1989.
They are considered middle-income class, but the mental burden and stress associated with the work are often disregarded. Particularly when instead of gratitude, they are only sent with a barrage of complaints from parents.
Teachers are not getting the same facilities other essential workers do.
When a part-time, automated job pays you better, you know it’s time to quit.
Health insurance doesn’t matter if you’re burned out all the time.
Devoted teachers don’t like half-baked jobs, but the pay is just not worth it.
They are literally the second people kids spend the most time with after their family. But people don’t care about them.
The education system has since long stopped caring about its teachers.
CNBC reported that 1 out of 4 teachers are thinking about quitting after 2020. A 32-year-old teacher who was interviewed shared that he “wanted to help” but decided to resign in September 2020. But his observation of how his state, Louisiana, attempted to deal with the pandemic made him conclude that it wasn’t worth the risk.
He remembers getting called back to the classroom a month before a major spike in cases and said, “I felt like I was being experimented on.”


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*“American Idol” is facing a class action lawsuit filed by former staffers and show contestants.
The Blast obtained the court documents filed by the Plaintiff against “American Idol” on behalf of herself, “Class Members” and Aggrieved Employees”. According to the complaint, the employees were unpaid or underpaid for their contributions to the non-scripted show. The lawsuit claims that the production company behind the music competition show “illegally and willfully classified them as uncompensated volunteers and not as employees.”
The lawsuit also alleges that Class Members had strict a schedule — one that controlled where they slept and when they could eat. The contestants were allegedly told, “eating doesn’t look good on camera,” according to the Plaintiff.
The lawsuit claims Class Members worked “14 hours per day or more, for up to eight days in a row, while refusing to pay them at all, for any of this work performed.”
An illuminated American Idol sign is displayed during the American Idol Live! 2018 tour at the Orleans Arena on July 29, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
The Plaintiff refers to a Season 20 contestant named Normandy who wore a carrot-shaped purse during her audition. According to the lawsuit, she was told to drive home to retrieve the purse and show it to the judges. Normandy was allegedly never reimbursed for mileage or other expenses.
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Normandy wasn’t the only contestant who had to “purchase or provide additional business-related resources or services without reimbursement,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is reportedly seeking financial compensation, including unpaid overtime, unpaid wages, attorney fees, and more.

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Some lawmakers, judges and regulators are trying to rein in the U.S. debt-collection industry's use of arrest warrants to recoup money owed by borrowers who are behind on credit-card payments, auto loans and other bills.
More than a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers who can't or won't pay to be jailed. Judges have signed off on more than 5,000 such warrants since the start of 2010 in nine counties with a total population of 13.6 million people, according to a tally by The Wall Street Journal of filings in those counties. Nationwide figures aren't known because many courts don't keep track of warrants by alleged offense. In interviews, 20 judges across the nation said the number of borrowers threatened with arrest in their courtrooms has surged since the financial crisis began.
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Nene Leakes' Boyfriend Says To 'Not Allow Negative People To Bring You Down' After His Wife Sues Reality Star
Nene Leakes' boyfriend, Nyonisela Sioh, is speaking out after she was sued by Malomine Tehmeh-Sioh — his current wife.
"The best u can do to urself in life’s not to allow negative people to bring u down to their level; just maintain ur self respect and keep away from them. Know that u can’t hangout with negative people and expect to live a positive life. Don’t forget that the less u respond to negative people, like my separated ……the more peaceful ur life will become. Always surround urself with people who value ur worth and if someone doesn’t appreciate ur presence, the best u can do is to let them appreciate ur absence," he captioned a photo of himself with the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum, 55, which has since been deleted from his account.
He continued, "Avoid the ingrates, those who complain about one thing u haven’t done for them instead of being appreciative for the thousands of things u’ve done for them. Leave them to stew in their ingratitude, but don’t hate them. Just maintain ur focus and don’t stress. #stayfocused."
According to the documents, which were obtained by TMZ, it claims that the reality star was intimate with Sioh while he was still in a relationship with Tehmeh-Sioh. She also alleged that Leakes broke up their marriage, and she's seeking over $100,000 in damages. (In North Carolina, it's a legal reason to sue.)
- Nene Leakes Sued By Boyfriend's Wife For Over $100K: Report
- Nene Leakes Alleged Secret Lover Temper Boi Claims He Was With The Reality Star '2 Days Before She Went Viral' With New Boyfriend
- NeNe Leakes 'Very Happy' With New BF Nyonisela Sioh Following Husband Gregg's Tragic Death: He Puts 'Her Needs First'
The pair were first linked in December 2021, just a few months after her late husband, Gregg Leakes, died from colon cancer. Now, it seems like the Bravo fan-favorite, who was introduced to her new guy by Cynthia Bailey's ex-husband Peter Thomas, is happier than ever.
"She can't stop smiling around Nyonisela. It's still very new but she's almost like a teenager with him, just light and giggly and feeling those new relationship butterflies," a source said.
"Nyonisela treats her like a queen. He's constantly fawning over her, showering her with compliments and putting her needs first," they added. "She couldn't have found a better guy to be with after her loss."


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Wireless mobile X-ray kits that make use of tablet computers have been deployed by Japanese medics who are treating victims of the Philippines typhoon, making it the first time that such a technology has been used in a disaster zone.
The technology, which was developed after the huge tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, allows doctors to take a look inside patients instantly, and even lets them enlarge the image with familiar iPad gestures.
Joji Tomioka, coordinator of the Japan Medical Team for Disaster Relief, said the system had been created in response to what doctors needed in the aftermath of the Japanese disaster.
At the partly air-conditioned clinic in the ruined city of Tacloban on Leyte island, a radiologist placed a camera on the chest of 72-year-old Carlos Llosa as he sat in his wheelchair.
The X-ray image was instantaneously transmitted through a wireless router to an iPad and to a nearby laptop.
With a thumb and a finger, the doctor was able to zoom in for a more detailed view of the problem area.
"It looks like he has tuberculosis," Tomioka said after looking at the image as the patient was wheeled out.
Japan's 26-strong medical team includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, cardiologists and medical technicians. The outfit is able to provide medicine and carry out minor surgery.
Tomioka said Japanese medical experts are seeing about 200 patients a day as part of a large international aid effort to reach the estimated 13 million people affected by one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in the Philippines says 3,633 people are now reported to have died when the ferocious storm hit.
The United Nations said Saturday that 2.5 million people still "urgently" need food.
"The Philippines helped us during our hour of need in the tsunami," Tomioka said, referring to the global outpouring of sympathy in the aftermath of a catastrophe that cost 18,000 lives.
"Now it's our turn to give back."
Japan said Friday it was tripling its emergency aid package for the Philippines to more than $30 million, and was sending up to 1,000 troops to help with relief efforts.
It is expected to be the first time that Japanese troops are active in Leyte since the island turned into one of the biggest battlegrounds of World War II, when US forces counter-invaded in 1944.
Tacloban was the first Philippine city to be liberated from Japan's occupying forces.


A letter from the guest editor highlights the important work that remains for provider organizations to integrate digital advancement as a key strategy to address some of the most pressing challenges transforming the healthcare landscape.
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When The American Journal of Managed Care® published its first special issue on health information technology in 2012, the healthcare sector was on the verge of widespread digitization. The following decade saw a dramatic increase in the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the attestation of use of defined documentation practices and features that are essential to realizing the value of data-based healthcare. technology. Targeted policy-driven efforts, combined with market forces, have resulted in great progress. And yet, despite the many challenges encountered and described by researchers and practitioners along the way, we realized that digitization was the easy part. True digital transformation – the reinvention of healthcare to leverage technology seamlessly in the pursuit of safer, more accessible and higher value care – remains ambitious. Significant work remains to be done for provider organizations to embrace digital advancement as a key strategy to address some of the most pressing challenges transforming the healthcare landscape. These include prioritizing performance within a value-based contract, committing to a new understanding of patient care as a whole, and finding a sustainable organizational approach to engagement. virtual patient.
Performance under value-based contracts
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and other value-based payment redesigns rely on a data infrastructure that supports more efficient care coordination and advanced analytics to address cost and quality issues unsustainable. Apathy et al demonstrate in their work that hospitals do indeed expand their health information exchange efforts after joining an ACO, but the response is delayed and has less effect in markets where ACO penetration is low. weak. This finding underscores the interdependent nature of organizational investments in data sharing and highlights the need for continued policy efforts to more directly incentivize, support and regulate interoperability in the context of value-based payment agreements. Perloff et al’s investigative work describes a different but related ACO challenge emerging from continuous data silos. Their work demonstrates, on average, a high number of different EHR development products used concurrently within a given ACO and the distinct challenges of integrating, managing and analyzing this data to generate performance data. . These issues, if left unaddressed, hamper the advanced performance monitoring necessary for organizational learning and improvement.
Commit to a new understanding of holistic patient care
The information that providers use to make decisions about patient care and that informs more structural investment in population health is changing rapidly. Organizations must have the ability to identify and act on patients’ social needs and risk factors, such as food or housing insecurity, that critically shape their well-being and interactions with the system health care. Given the challenges of collecting this data, Vest et al convened a group of experts to identify and assess the quality of routinely collected structured data that could be used to impute and characterize social risk. The authors highlight the data elements that can be most useful in today’s data environment, and they also outline plans for the continued development of methods and approaches that mitigate the current limitations and biases with which these data is often recorded. Walker et al also focus on tackling social risk, analyzing a regional effort to promote the referral of patients from the health system to community-based services when food insecure. The results illustrate the challenges of implementing the data sharing that is necessary to support cross-sectoral partnership. The authors offer key insights into how we might address the technical capabilities and resource limitations, as well as the characteristics of the regulatory environment, that impede these critical efforts.
As we examine advances in data-driven healthcare decision-making, the use of predictive analytics is also a priority for healthcare systems. The exponential acceleration in the volume and types of data available for advanced analytics, and the sophisticated methods for doing so, far exceed our knowledge of how to integrate predictive insights into supplier decision-making. Nong et al use user-centered design to determine the information providers need to evaluate these tools and incorporate them into care decisions. Given growing concerns about caregiving biases that are reflected and amplified in the design and use of these tools, the authors highlight key ways to integrate equity considerations into the development of models and in communicating the results of predictive tools to end-user clinicians.
Finding a Sustainable Organizational Approach to Virtual Patient Engagement
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and accelerated health system planning around virtual care offerings. The data suggests that telehealth services have plateaued at levels significantly lower than spring 2020, but still well above pre-pandemic volumes. As a result, provider organizations continue to grapple with how to implement and sustain more strategic hybrid care delivery models. This includes, first, the offer of telehealth visits. Friedman et al suggest in their work that telehealth holds great promise for reaching patients with mental health and chronic disease management needs, including in older, more racially diverse neighborhoods. The work presented by Tan-McGrory et al offers policy recommendations for advancing virtual care services for equity, including improving access to technology, addressing immigrant patient concerns about privacy, and improving the integration of interpretation services.
Organizational efforts must also consider how best to integrate and support the use of online communication tools to increase patient engagement and provider access. Work by Fareed et al suggests that patients who use patient portals have higher satisfaction scores. However, Escribe et al offer insight into the organizational challenges of managing the communication that flows through a practice through these online access points. The authors use a new detection approach to categorize the types of tasks that providers handle through their email inbox and find a high variation in clinical as well as administrative demands. These methods could have future application to help provider organizations develop clear expectations and team workflows for how virtual communication should be used to best meet overall patient needs.
Digital advancement is not the end goal, but rather a strategic approach to organizational learning, optimizing care processes, and improving data-driven outcomes. The areas of research targeted in this special issue and the specific insights offered by the authors’ analyzes help us chart a course towards integrating and leveraging our ongoing commitment to digital healthcare.


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Vv Magazine’s West Coast Editor, Alexandra Gill gives us the low down on why you need to hit up this year’s 13th Annual EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival…
Go to EAT! Are you kidding? For years, we’d rather choke on shoe leather than be herded into BC Place with thousands of ravenous festival goers and their unruly children, all scrambling for free bites and sips.
The EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival is now in its 13th year. And for the first time, we’ve actually enjoyed the newly extended festivities and are looking forward to attending the stadium events this weekend.
What changed? Alan Fogel of Fulcrum Events (the publisher of Flavours Magazine) took over three years ago and has been slowly turning things around. This year, the local weekend festival was expanded into an eight-day smorgasbord with national appeal. During the week, there were a series of star-studded dinners that saw visiting chefs (Susur Lee and Mark McEwan, among them) collaborate with Vancouver restaurants, in addition to hands-on workshops, panel discussions, a hospitality symposium, and a red-carpet gala.
The BC Place portion (running today until Sunday) will no doubt be a zoo with its 250 exhibitors, free samples, and stage demonstrations. But a slew of new features, including the limited-ticket VIP chef experiences and pre-stage-show minglers, should offer a bit more intimacy for those willing to pay. There will be more food (and less grabby fingers to fight with) at the Canadian Food Artisan Pavilion, where luxury samples can be tasted for nominal fees. There will be more to drink at the new Craft Beer Alley, and more excitement with Speed Rack, an international cocktail competition that’s come to Canada for the first time, featuring top female bartenders from coast to coast. (We’ll tell you more about this one next week.)
So yes, we’re going to EAT! this weekend and we’re actually excited about it. It’s been a fun, dare we say, educational week so far. Here is just a smattering of the fascinating foodie facts we learned.
Butchery Is Sexy
At The Art of Butchery with Sebastian & Co. Fine Meats, one of several intimate workshops in the hands-on series, we watched a talented team break down an entire hindquarter of beef with handsaws and a long, curved boning knife that looked like a scythe. Did you know that there is creamy, sperm-like fluid above a cow’s kneecap that drips out thick and stringy? (Humans have it too!) It was an elegantly gruesome evening.
Charcuterie Is Best Left To Professionals
It’s one of our biggest beefs — restaurant chefs who like to dabble in salumi. Come on, guys. Nine out of ten times, your cured meats are tough, grainy, and over salted. We wish every wannabe charcutier had the opportunity to hear John van der Lieck of Oyama Sausage Company speak at Beyond the Chop, one of the four panel discussions at the EAT! Hospitality Symposium, about his long years of apprenticeship and training. He’s travelled all over the world and learned several languages to hone his trade. The art of great charcuterie can’t be taught with a few YouTube videos and a tricked-out mini-fridge. Leave it to the professionals.
Whoopie Pies Are The New Cronut
We obviously don’t eat nearly enough dessert. When the talk turned to current trends at the Pastry Tasting & Panel Discussion, we learned that “time” is actually the hot new ingredient now that all the cool pastry chefs, including Dominique Ansel and Jacques Genin, are making custard mille feuille and lemon tarts to order. Whoopie pies are the rage in Paris. Kouign anman, a sticky Breton cake, is apparently taking Vancouver by storm. And in poor, stodgy Switzerland, they’re finally catching up to the cupcake. Wow, we’re definitely going to have to pack on some pounds to get current.
Lanyard Wine Glass Holder
What a genius invention. Instead of juggling your tasting glass with plates and spoons, you can actually hang it from your neck with a handy yoke. We saw a gentleman wearing one at the gala and we definitely need to get one before our next grazing event.
They’re Make Uni Bottarga In Calgary
We attended Wild Things, a collaborative dinner featuring Chef Andrew Winfield of Calgary’s River Café and Chef Chris Whittaker of Vancouver’s Forage, and tasted many delicious creations, including a triple chocolate cremeux with pine mushroom ganache (another new dessert trend). But the most interesting dish we devoured was Chef Winfield’s Sunshine Coast sturgeon with iberico consommé and shaved sea urchin bottarga. This Mediterranean delicacy is usually made with cured fish roe, which the chef apparently has trouble sourcing in Cowtown. So he took some uni, a fantastic Canadian product that is vastly underappreciated, and mixed it into a steamed pudding with egg yolk and tapioca. After burying the pudding under salt for three weeks, he lightly smoked it and hung it a curing room for three months. Then he brought it to Vancouver and shaved the salty, cheesy goodness all over our plates. Thank you very, very much. This single, mouth-watering bite made EAT! a festival worth attending.
What are you most excited to see at the EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival? Let Vv Magazine know in the comments below or tweet us @ViewTheVibe.

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The Center for Integrative Psychotherapy was founded to promote psychotherapeutic methodologies that integrate the mind, body and spirit and to support health practitioners in their own journey of self-integration.
The word "qi" in Chinese means "energy." According to traditional Chinese philosophy, qi is a form of fundamental life energy that is found throughout the universe and is responsible for health and vitality. "Gong," meanwhile, means "skill." Qigong (the skill of attracting energy) is an ancient system of healing that combines postures, exercises (also known as "movements"), breathing techniques and meditation to improve and enhance the body's supply of qi, and to increase one's sense of well-being.
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I have been training with Master Nan Lu and his Grandmaster Xi-Hau Xu in medical qigong. This training is teaching me about Traditional Chinese Medicine and how to look at dis-ease - including anxiety and depression - from an energetic point of view. I am in the process of developing groups to teach simple qigong movements and theory for anxiety and depression. Check back for more details.
The Center for Integrative Psychotherapy is the home for the Albany Center for Humanity in Unity. Each Tuesday from 6-7:30 pm we come together for a meditation group, where we might listen to a video or audio discourse from Her Holiness Sai Maa, meditate, and offer each other an energy blessing called Diksha. This is an evening of calm and peace in a community of others who feel drawn to spreading love and light around the planet. It is not religion! All are welcome. Read More...
Over the past several years, initially though the Humanity in Unity Mentoring program, I have been providing spiritual mentoring. I consistently receive feedback from my mentees that because I am so honest and authentic they are able to understand complex spiritual teachings on a pragmatic level. Because I have done my own work to release my own fears, I can recognize and appreciate the culture of America and the common blocks we have about who we really are. Some people go through the Humanity in Unity program, while others prefer to talk to me individually to coach them.

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It is the most prestigious event of the entire season, the CIK-FIA KZ World Championship.
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It is the most prestigious event of the entire season, the CIK-FIA World Championship reserved for the KZ category. There is no doubt that the race that will take place next weekend on the Kristianstad Swedish circuit, is the most exciting and engaging event for the whole international karting.
On the 1,231 meters of the demanding Swedish, we will get back on track for the world fight, relying on our formidable Racer 401 chassis powered by the RKZ Vortex engines, material which has just allowed us to win our second consecutive European title in KZ class.
The twin drivers will be the new European Champion KZ, Marco Ardigò, and the young New Zealander talent Marcus Armstrong.
The same weekend world champion will also award the CIK-FIA KZ2 International Super Cup title, the most important trophy reserved for the other category with the gear. Even in KZ2 class we will have well-tested material, able to show off winning performance, which will be given to the young Italian drivers Luca Corberi and Alessio Piccini.
In both categories, KZ and KZ2, there will also be other drivers and teams who have chosen to compete in the most difficult world challenges with our material.
To follow the world championship event of the Tony Kart Racing Team do not lose sight of our social, Facebook and Instagram.
The event gets underway on Friday afternoon with the dispute of the qualifying, while on Saturday (3rd September) the qualifying heats will be run, necessary to define the starting grids of the respective pre-finals, which will take place on Sunday morning (4th September).
The very Final awarding the world championship of KZ class will start at 3:45pm on Sunday and can be followed live streaming on the official cikfia.tv channel www.cikfia.tv .


The political left has an uncanny knack for placing ideology ahead of reality. Though this phenomenon is seen in virtually all progressive policies, it is perhaps most pronounced in the left’s blind allegiance to the theory of man-caused global warming.
Though global temperatures did increase modestly during the 1990s, that trend has since leveled off, ultimately resulting in record cold temperatures across the U.S. in recent years. Despite the fact that NASA satellites recently reported the coldest temperature ever measured on the face of the earth, global warming proponents continue to castigate “deniers” as a group dedicated to destroying the world.
In reality, the only denial taking place is on the part of activists who refuse to recognize basic meteorological facts.
This trend was highlighted this week as the White House hosted the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. The group headed to Washington, D.C. to discuss a plan of action against the perceived threat of global warming just as a massive winter storm struck the nation’s capital.
One of the participants, Gov. Pat Quinn of Obama’s beloved Illinois, made the trip Tuesday after Chicago experienced its coldest night in nearly 20 years. Everyone on the task force got a taste of reality as D.C. was largely shut down due to inclement weather.
Though government offices were closed, the global warming summit continued as planned. This delicious irony was apparently lost on these cult-like adherents to a flawed climatological hypothesis.
Barack Obama seemed to usher in the cold front when he established the task force last month. Since then, states that rarely experience frigid storms have largely been brought to a standstill due to deep deposits of ice and snow.
No matter the bevy of empirical evidence disproving their faulty logic, however, those with a predilection toward blaming humans for raping the planet will never realize the error of their ways. God-given resources populate this planet in abundance; and, provide we do so responsibly, humans can make use of such materials without having a detrimental — or even noticeable — effect on the planet.
In their pursuit of control and moral superiority, these radicals claim that any weather-related anomaly proves their point. The truth, though, is that their predictions have failed so often and completely that any adherence to man-caused global warming in entirely faith-based.
–B. Christopher Agee
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