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4 Yoga Moves to Strengthen Your Core and Pelvic Floor

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Yoga is an all-star for building flexibility and strength, and that includes the muscles in your pelvic floor. “Doing poses that engage the pelvic floor and the muscles surrounding it can help those muscles better support the organs in the pelvic area, including the bladder,” explains Kristin McGee, Peloton yoga instructor. And that can mean a lower risk of embarrassing symptoms like leaking. In fact, research has shown that women enrolled in a yoga program designed to strengthen pelvic muscles had a 70 percent decrease in symptoms of stress incontinence.

RELATED: This 30-Day Plank Challenge Will Transform Your Core in 4 Weeks

Try these four poses to help strengthen your pelvic floor muscles (and lots of other muscles too!)

Bridge

Lie flat on your back with your feet hip-width apart, facing forward, arms at your sides, palms down. Bend your knees. Inhale, then as you exhale lift your hips, pressing into your feet. Keep your thighs and feet parallel. You can squeeze a yoga block between your thighs to activate the adductors (upper thighs), which also support the pelvic floor and core. Repeat 3–5 times.

RELATED: 5 Ways to Torch Your Core in Every Workout

Cow/Cat

Position yourself on your hands and knees with your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips. Inhale and lift your chest, head, and ‘sitting/sits bones’ so the of your middle back dips in like a hammock. Focus on relaxing your pelvic area. As you exhale, round your back, lifting your abs. Feel your pelvic floor muscles lift as you bring your chest to your chin, rounding your back like a cat. Repeat the cow/cat sequence 8–10 times.

RELATED: 3 Basic Yoga Poses You’ve Been Doing Wrong—and How to Fix Your Form

Goddess Squat

Stand with your feet a little wider than hip-width apart toes turned out. Bend your knees so they go a bit over your ankles. (Make sure they don’t roll in). Engage your outer hips, buttocks, and inner thighs, which help and support the abs and pelvic floor muscles. Inhale, hold for 5–8 counts, focusing on lifting pelvic floor muscles on the exhale. Return to a standing position and repeat the squat 2–3 times.

RELATED: Why Cork Yoga Blocks Should Be Your Next Workout Gear Investment

Mountain Pose

Stand in front of the mat with feet together, pressing all four corners of each foot into the ground. Lift and spread your toes, then lower them back down. Tense your thighs so you feel the lift up of the fronts and backs of thighs and the inner thighs leading to the pelvic floor. Imagine you’re lifting the crown of your head to the sky. Inhale and relax your pelvic area, then as you exhale, engage the pelvic floor and feel the lift.

With these easy but effective poses, you can strengthen your core and pelvic floor, and decrease incontinence. You can also wear a pair of Depend Fit-Flex Underwear for additional protection. Want more ideas? Try these beginner-friendly yoga moves.

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Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Environmental Science (Grahamstown)

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Remuneration: R567661 – R937650 per month 
Benefits: Medical Aid, Pension Fund, 13th Cheque
Location: Grahamstown
Reference: #CPT002644/JES
Company: Intelligent Placement

An exciting career opportunity exists in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape for a professor/senior lecturer/lecturer in environmental science within a higher education environment. If you have the following behavioural competency and experience, we look forward to receiving your application.

Requirements:

  • PhD in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies or equivalent cognate discipline
  • Experience in teaching in the following disciplinary areas:
    • Natural resource/biodiversity governance and management, land issues, livelihoods and rural development, values and environmental behaviour, and/or climate change governance.  
  • Knowledge of social-ecological system thinking and approaches will be beneficial.
  • Research supervision of at least Masters’ degrees required.
  • Track record of administration, management, and/or leadership roles (leadership roles may be informal) 

Behavioural competency

  • Management of large classes
  • An ability to translate practical experience into curricula
  • Ability to relate theory to practice
  • Integration of own research into teaching
  • Ability to develop a positive rapport and promote an affirming relationship with students
  • Ability to teach in a field setting
  • Integration of own research into teaching
  • Ability to develop a positive rapport and promote an affirming relationship with students 

Duties include the following, but not limited to:

  • Engaging in curriculum development
  • Facilitation of learning
  • Assessment of learning
  • Evaluation of teaching
  • Support students in their studies
  • Supervision of post-graduate students (where the person has the appropriate qualification to do this)
  • Assume leadership responsibilities as they relate to teaching and learning 

Salary: R567,661 – R937,650
Vacancy reference no:  CPT002644    
Closing date: 15 September 2019 
To apply for the above-mentioned position, please visit our website www.intelligentplacement.co.za/vacancies 

If you don’t hear from us within three weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful

Posted on 02 Sep 17:04

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2 September 2019 – SARS to help persons with hearing impairments

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PRETORIA, MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019  – To celebrate Deaf Awareness Month (September), SARS will work together with different organisations and municipalities that support persons with hearing impairments in South Africa, to assist them with their tax affairs at specific SARS branches around the country. 

The initiative involves conducting a once-off tax education workshop and availing a South African Sign Language (SASL) interpreting service on each Friday of the month at the designated SARS branches throughout the country.

This intervention is to break the barriers faced by Sign Language users that are challenged by lack of access to basic services across the country. The objective is also aligned with SARS’ objective this tax season, that is, migrating taxpayers, including persons with hearing and visual impairments, to the digital platforms.

The public is requested to disseminate the message to all persons with hearing impairments in their respective communities, and to note that this service will also be extended to other members in the community that will need assistance with migrating to eFiling and the SARS MobiApp.

SARS remains committed to providing education to improve tax compliance and accessibility to taxpayers with hearing and visual impairments.

To see the detailed schedule, click here. 

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Continuous Improvement/Growth Analyst (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: R25000 – R35000 per month 
Location: Cape Town
Type: Permanent
Reference: #2405
Company: Recruit Digital

Continuous improvement and growth analyst R25,000-R30,000 per month

The position of food operations analyst reports to the food delivery performance manager

Responsibilities will include:

  • Analysing, understanding and prioritizing tasks according to core business or project objectives
  • Creating reports with focus areas for business improvement
  • Identifying important variables and focus areas in the business
  • Analysing data to answer strategic and operational questions posed by the business
  • Provide information to various stakeholders
  • Collaborate with TDT managers and Franchise Managers to establish project plans while accounting for the trade-offs between operational practicality and overall performance

Some specific responsibilities:

Daily Food Operations Metrics Management

Provide significant support to the Food Delivery Team according to weekly goals and targeted metrics.

Manage Food delivery support tools i.e. QlikView, Branch Dashboards, Weekly reports to inform operational decisions and improvement

Construct weekly reports for improvement and new target areaa

Use weekly targets to manage day-to-day performance and inform operations for best impact

2) Product reviews and complaints tracking:

  • The role will interface frequently with the Food and TDT operations teams and engage somewhat in the specifications of PaLM releases and new product features
  • Furthermore, the role will cover SOP reviews and complaints management from a driver behaviour and training aspect where relevant

3) Process Improvement:

  • Regularly review and analyse key metrics in Food delivery operations to identify root causes and formulate solutions to improve performance
  • Ability to develop and set up reporting for metrics.
  • Managing customer, branch and driver feedback into continuous performance improvement processes
  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and improvement of new and existing food support processes & tools

Leading small project improvement initiatives as required.

Attributes required:

  • A Solutions-oriented and attention to detail – qualitatively (written SOP’s and email structure) and quantitatively (charts and tables)
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to interpret and inform decisions that are pragmatic and operationally practical
  • Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
  • Versatile and with an appetite to learn from the experience of others and independently through experimentation and research
  • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, but also maintain a focus to ranked priorities with the highest strategic impact

Interested in:

  • Operations and Tech mix – enjoys tech and how to use tech solutions such as automation to improve performance
  • Development of others – can lead others, delegate tasks, and develop a team if necessary

Qualifications and experience required:

  • Relevant Undergraduate degree/diploma/certificate (i.e. Sciences, Statistics, Operations)
  • A minimum of three years’ experience in business analysis, operational management or a related field
  • Experience defining solutions for internal and external customer networks
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals

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Recruit Digital; leading recruitment agency for the Digital, Media, IT & Advertising sectors in South Africa.

Covering both Cape Town and JHB roles, Recruit Digital provides staff for Media firms, Digital Agencies, Corporates, Startups, E-commerce retailers, and all other Internet related businesses.

Recruit Digital fills vacancies within Client Services, Creative & Design, Development & Technology, Sales, Copy-writing, Social Media, SEO, Planning & Strategy, Marketing, Senior Management & Executive positions.

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26 August 2019 – SARS section 69 confidentiality clause

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PRETORIA, Monday 26 August 2019 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS)  has noted media reports and speculations on the passing on of Bosasa CEO, Gavin Watson.

In terms of the confidentiality clause, Section 69 of the Tax Admin Act 2011 SARS does not share or divulge confidential information on taxpayers affairs.

This would include investigations into taxpayers and traders.

SARS will not be making any comments on the matter.

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27 August 2019 – VAT fraudster sentenced to 15 years imprisonment

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Pretoria, Tuesday 27 August 2019 – A Welkom businessman who defrauded SARS by using trust instruments and other legal entities, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday 23rd August 2019.

Mr Recado Williams Davids pleaded guilty to 404 counts of fraud for submitting 404 fraudulent Value-Added Tax (VAT) returns to SARS, declaring false outputs and inputs. The fraud, committed between 2007 and 2015 was enabled through the use of 12 legal entities, including their representatives and members.

Mr Davids pleaded guilty in terms of a plea agreement reached with the state.

The counts were taken together for purposes of sentencing. He was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment of which 6 years is conditionally suspended. Thus an effective imprisonment of nine years was handed down.

In another case, the Kimberly Magistrate’s court handed a five year suspended sentence to a Kimberley businessman for 32 counts of VAT fraud, and 47 other crimes including forgery and uttering and contraventions of the VAT and Tax Administration Acts.

Mr Joseph Thabo Modupe, who is the chairperson of the Droogfontein Community Property Association and owner of a taxi business, committed the VAT fraud through two of his businesses. He was also fined R50 000 and was ordered to pay back to SARS the money fraudulently obtained.

In a plea agreement reached with the state, he acknowledged that he had defrauded SARS with approximately R550 000 by under-declaring income and submitting false input claims. The two businesses also failed to submit 30 VAT returns between 2013 and 2017.

Mr Modupe furthermore pleaded guilty to 8 counts of forgery and 8 counts of uttering for providing false invoices to SARS in support of input tax claimed, and for failure to submit a personal income tax return for the 2014 tax year.

He has already repaid SARS a significant amount and the rest will be paid as instructed by court order.

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.Net Core/Cloud – AWS/Azure (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: R900000 – R1600000 per year negotiable 
Location: Johannesburg, Sandton
Type: Permanent
Reference: #GD47468
Company: E-Merge IT Recruitment

Interesting job this one

You’d be replacing a core Technologist moving onto another project within the business. The gig is perfect for leaders of developers who want to code – this is hands-on work.

The role is within the R&D and development arm of a major end-user. You would (amongst other things) be consulting back to the business on technology, identifying gaps or opportunities, conceptualising technical products/platforms that evolve the business, leading those initiatives and then jumping into more vanilla execution teams to teach them how to do what you do.

This is a role that blends the respect for compliance that the large financial institutions legally must obey with the fearlessness in tech needed for a Fintech shop. You will find yourself in a high influence gig; in a business that wants your opinion; working with a team of very strong specialists. You will find yourself playing a mixed hand of futurist with infrastructure optimisation.

You’ll need some heavyweight experience behind you to be able to deliver in this one:

  • You’ll need those years you’ve spent as a technical architect in other environments.
  • You’ll also find yourself needing the technical leadership skills you’ve gained; to be fair this role will demand project leadership skills as well.
  • You’ll find that your colleagues/peers are stereotypically people who got bored in operational leadership roles because they’re tech geeks themselves.
  • Without a doubt, you will find yourself needing to manage business people who don’t grasp your world.
  • I’d expect you to need some sales skills as you drive your own concepts back into the environment.

You will need absolute confidence in your own tech skills:

Imposter syndrome exists; it’s fine to not know things but you’re core technical pain short term will be:

  • .NET Core – C#
  • ASP.NET Core with Razor
  • Azure – a variety of elements within the platform
  • You’re going to need either enterprise experience in that tech OR serious depth in your own personal work

It would help you immensely if you already understood:

  • Banking generally – at least, you will need some understanding of the challenges legal compliance brings
  • Continuous delivery
  • Agile – Safe or Scrum
  • API Architecture or full-on Micro Services – Docker/Kubernetes
  • OOP/DDD/Service Fabric
  • Broader Cloud experience outside of just Azure (not really NB but it would help you)

I’m comfortable having a confidential chat with you about this, I’m easy to find at

az.oc.egrem-e@mdegroeg

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Reference number for this job is GD47468 Based in Sandton, salary is negotiable up to R1.6m CTC

Posted on 02 Sep 11:13

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UCT names next chancellor

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Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe has been elected as the next chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT), effective 1 January 2020.

She takes the reins from Graça Machel, who was first elected in 1999. Machel’s second term will finish at the end of 2019. The chancellor is elected for a 10-year term. Moloi-Motsepe was elected by an electoral college consisting of holders of UCT qualifications, academic and PASS (professional, administrative support and service) staff, and students on Friday, 30 August.

In making the announcement, UCT’s chair of council, Sipho Pityana commented: “The university is privileged to have Dr Moloi-Motsepe serve as the chancellor of one of the leading institutions in the country and on the African continent. On behalf of UCT, I would like to thank the outgoing chancellor, Mrs Graça Machel for serving the university with remarkable distinction and great commitment for two 10-year terms, which spanned complex moments and incredible milestones.”

Moloi-Motsepe is a businesswoman and philanthropist who started her career in medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She worked in various public hospitals in South Africa as well as at the Medical College of Virginia in the United States. Together with her husband, Dr Patrice Motsepe, she founded the Motsepe Foundation in 1999, and in 2013 they became the first couple from Africa to join The Giving Pledge.

In addition to its development work in South Africa and across the African continent, the foundation has international partnerships with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Milken Institute and various other philanthropic organisations. Moloi-Motsepe established African Fashion International (AFI) in 2007. AFI’s mission is to aggregate the fragmented fashion and clothing industry on the African continent in order to make it commercially viable and sustainable.

The chancellor is the titular head of the university and presides at graduation ceremonies, confers degrees, and awards diplomas and certificates in the name of the university. The role of chancellor requires an individual of stature with exceptional personal qualities and integrity.

Moloi-Motsepe holds an MBBCh and a diploma in child health from Wits, as well as a diploma in women’s health from Stellenbosch University. She authored a resource guide for women across South Africa, The Precious Little Black Book, and has produced the Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative South Africa.

Her professional associations include the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board and Centre for Public Leadership Council, the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council, and the Cancer Association of South Africa (past president).