LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Are you hoping to get a new job? Or maybe, you hope to become a more appealing candidate to employers.

The Livingston Parish Library and Goodwill Industries of SELA want to help.

The organizations are partnering to offer a free intensive job readiness training program, known as the Goodwill Education Advancement Readiness (GEAR) Program.

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The three-part program is designed to prepare individuals for the workforce and to enhance their employability skills.

It’s happening January 8-10, 2024, from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. daily at the Denham Springs-Walker Branch Library inside of the East Meeting Room.

The program is for ages 18 and up and you must register to participate.

Organizers say full attendance on all three days is required for certification.

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Gestalt therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that helps clients focus on the present to understand what is actually happening in their lives at this moment, and how it makes them feel in the moment, rather than what they may assume to be happening based on past experience. Along with person-centered and existential therapy, it is one of the primary forms of humanistic therapy.

The term “gestalt” is derived from a German word that means “whole” or “put together.” Gestalt therapy was developed in the 1940s and 1950s by Fritz Perls, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and his then-wife, psychotherapist Laura Perls, as an alternative to traditional, verbally-focused psychoanalysis. Their foundational premise is that people are best thought of as a whole entities consisting of body, mind, and emotions, and best understood when viewed through their own eyes.

The gestalt philosophy rejects the notion that any one particular trait, episode, or indeed a diagnosis could define a person. Instead, their total self must be explored, discovered, and confronted. As they encounter and gain awareness of other parts of themselves, individuals can take greater responsibility for themselves and hopefully gain a greater sense of what they can do for themselves and others.

Instead of simply talking, clients in gestalt therapy are often encouraged to engage in intellectual and physical experiences that can include role-playing, re-enactment, or artistic exercises like drawing and painting. In this way, clients can learn to become more aware of their thoughts and actions, of how negative thought patterns and behaviors may be blocking their self-awareness and making them unhappy, and how they can change.

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SHANGHAI, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WPC began the Soft-Launch certification testing from November 2023. This phase is primarily open to early participants who actively took part in the MPP Plugfest and made contributions to the standard technology. Products that pass the certification will be included in the Qi2 compatibility test resource pool and serve as benchmarks for subsequent certifications.

NuVolta Semiconductor, as a leading company in the wireless charging industry, has actively participated in the promotion of the Qi2 standard and has been fortunate to be invited to the first batch of certification testing. Currently, the Nu222 module has successfully passed the Qi2 certification and received the certificate on December 7^th, with certificate number 14391 (Pic 1).  The Nu222 module is now ready for shipment to customers in the Apple ecosystem and is expected to be launched during this year's Christmas season, providing MPP 15W fast charging for the latest Apple iPhone 15 series and old iPhone 12 to 14.

NuVolta pioneered module subsystem certification approach

Customers can quickly stack new products like building blocks using NuVolta Semi's module subsystem certification approach. Customers incorporating Nu222 module products can opt for subsystem certification, which exempts them from ATL (Authorized Test Lab) and IOP (Interoperability) testing. This approach allows for direct registration, shortening the development cycle, eliminating certification fees, and NuVolta also provides registration services.

The Nu222 module is the only module in the industry that supports subsystem certification for Qi2. You can find more information about it on the WPC official website.

Nu222 Module from NuVolta

The Nu222 module supports multiple power specifications for input, including USB PD 9V2.22A, 5V3A, and DC protocol 9V2.22A. It also supports a maximum 15W fast charging output. The standby power consumption is less than 300mW, and the efficiency exceeds 78%. The module supports both BPP (Basic Power Profile) and MPP (Medium Power Profile) charging modes.

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The Nu222 module is equipped with various protection measures, including OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP (Under Voltage Protection), OCP (Over Current Protection), OTP (Over Temperature Protection), and OSP (Over Short Protection). It also incorporates multiple foreign object detection technologies to ensure the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the charging process.

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A draft Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services, seen by EURACTIV, moved the requirement excluding non-European companies into a new subcategory.

The European Cloud Services scheme is a voluntary certification under the EU Cybersecurity Act that might become mandatory for the numerous entities deemed essential or important under the revised Networks and Information Security Directive (NIS2).

Last year, a leaked draft of the scheme generated significant backlash due to its inclusion of sovereignty requirements that would have effectively excluded foreign companies from a large chunk of the European cloud market.

Since then, the scheme has fallen below the radar as two camps of European member states quietly confronted each other.

In January, EURACTIV revealed on option paper signalling a mediation attempt between the Netherlands, leader of the open market faction, and France, which pushed for the sovereignty criteria via its Commissioner, Thierry Breton.

At last, the European Commission pulled the draft provided by ENISA, the EU cybersecurity agency, out of the drawer and shared it with the members of the European Cybersecurity Certification Group on Monday (8 May).

The technical group will discuss the draft on 26 May in Athens at the margins of ENISA’s Cybersecurity Certification Conference.

The draft, dated May 2023, maintains the sovereignty requirements “to provide some guarantees about the independence from non-EU law” but puts the strictest requirements on a new subcategory.

The Cybersecurity Act provides three levels of assurance: ‘basic’, ‘substantial’ and ‘high’. The initial idea was to put the sovereignty requirements at the high level. However, the option paper floated the idea of creating a ‘high+’ category, which seems to have stuck.

Control

The most significant difference between the levels ‘high’ and ‘high+’ refers to legal control on the cloud company.

‘High+’ requires the cloud service to be “operated only by companies based in the EU, with no entity from outside the EU having effective control over the CSP [cloud service provider], to mitigate the risk of non-EU interfering powers undermining EU regulations, norms and values.”

The cloud company’s head office and global headquarter would have to be established in an EU country. The cloud providers should also not be subject, directly or indirectly, to the effective control of foreign companies.

Effective control is defined per the EU regulation on controlling concentrations between undertakings. It refers to a relationship constituted by rights, contracts or any other means that might confer the possibility of directly or indirectly exercising a decisive influence.

Primacy of EU law

Additional safeguards have been introduced to put EU data outside the reach of third countries’ jurisdictions with extra-territorial application laws that might conflict with the EU or national law of a member state.

For all the levels of assurance, the draft certification requires that the contracts would have to be governed by the law of an EU country, and only EU courts, tribunals and arbitration bodies would have jurisdiction for disputes related to the contract.

The level of assurance ‘high’ requires the cloud services to include the risks related to non-EU legislation with extra-territorial application in their global risk assessment, covering at least the potential access to commercially sensitive information and trade secrets in the customers’ data or derived data.

Furthermore, the cloud providers would have to inform their customers about any residual risk and provide all the relevant information upon request from the customers to allow them to perform their own risk assessment.

The scheme also bounds the service provider to include in the contract with the customer that it will only consider investigation requests issued under EU law or the national law of a member state.

The extra requirement for the level ‘high+’ mandates providers to put technical and organisational measures in place to ensure that investigation requests from other jurisdictions are not considered.

Data localisation

Data localisation measures are required for the level of assurance ‘high’ and above, covering the whole life cycle of the relationship with the cloud providers, from pre-sales and operations to maintenance and exit.

For the level of assurance ‘high’, the cloud providers would have to include at least one option in their contracts to locate all data processing activities in the EU.

‘High+’ goes one step further, requiring all the data processing activities to take place in the EU unless the customers agree to some limited exceptions. The cloud providers would have to list all support activities performed outside Europe.

In both cases, to build and maintain their digital infrastructure, the cloud companies would have to only rely on a trusted service provider based in an EU country.

Internal controls

For both ‘high’ and ‘high+’, specific safeguards have been introduced for exchanges between the cloud service and its employees or its suppliers.

The draft requires that the employee with direct or indirect access to the customer data, including via support operations, be located in the EU and undergo a special screening or be supervised by an EU-based employee who passed an appropriate review.

In cases of supervised access, the access would have to occur using a secure solution whereby the supervisor can authorise or forbid individual actions and ask for explanations in real-time.

[Edited by Nathalie Weatherald]

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