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As we close in on the Nittany Lions’ opening game, a couple of suspensions could get in the way. Well, not in the way of winning against Indiana State, but remember that on Week Two the Lions’ opponent will be Alabama, to whom Sports Illustrated has given the #1 on da cover kiss of death this season. Surely, both of the suspensions, namely RB Stephfon Green and P Anthony Fera, will be detrimental to the PSU effort in that game.
At Media Day, Joe Paterno said that he “doubted” whether Stephfon Green would be coming back.
He should know. That sounds pretty much like a typical Paterno response when he throws someone off the team but doesn’t want to say so. Green has been known to be in Joe’s infamous doghouse for a while. Problem is, now how will we celebrate Christmas without Redd and Green on the team together? And who will back up and supplement Silas Redd?
Oy, so this we need in addition to the much ballyhooed quarterback controversy? (This Turkey prefers the term quarterback competition to quarterback controversy. The actual controversy is usually among a bunch of fat old guzzlers sitting at a bar each asserting which quarterback is better when a short lived fight breaks out, quenched when the bartender reminds them that they’re over 65, that they all have heart conditions, and then “cards” them just to prove it. Medicare card, not draft card — oops, I mean driver’s license. I’m showing my age. Hey, I’ve got a Medicare card. But I digress.)
Anthony Fera, the first string punter, had an off-field incident, the kind involving booze and people who don’t have enough brains to let their friends who are of age buy it for them. This, of course, means that Fera is an idiot. It is this Turkey’s hope that the multiple game suspension plus the $700 or so in fines and costs will drum some smarts into his damn kicker head. (You know, with all the ethanol our federal government pays corn farmers to produce, surely they could give free corn liquor handouts to needy punters.)
Sophomore Alex Butterworth will fill in for the shamed punter. Alas, Butterworth isn’t all that great. Last year as a freshman, he punted 12 times for an average of 38.1 yards. That’s what happens when you are born to a lady who is made of glass and filled with syrup.
So, I’m overdue for a pre-season pontification. I’m kind of like Phil Grosz of BWI — if any part of my prediction turns out to be true, I brag that “I was right!” next year; if it’s all wrong, I don’t talk about it at all. I’ll get around to posting some thoughts on another mediocre season ahead (that’s a hint — you may quote me on that) shortly, after I read everyone else’s sanguine projections and stop laughing. Now, who amongst you thinks Penn State will beat Alabama in Beaver Stadium? Tawk amongst yaselves. Discuss. |
Riverside County Trucking Accident Lawyer
Big Rig/18-Wheeler Accidents in Riverside County, CA
An accident with a big rig is typically very devastating. The sheer size and weight of these large trucks can cause serious injury and damage to a vehicle. With more 18-wheelers on the road these days, it is inevitable that there will be more accidents involving large trucks than ever before.
Have You Been Involved In an 18-Wheeler Truck Accident in Riverside County?
If you or a loved one have recently been in an accident involving a commercial truck, you should know that the matter will likely be more complicated than it would be in a simple traffic accident involving commuter vehicles. There are more people involved with commercial trucks, including both the owner and driver of the truck, and you often need to have some knowledge of the industry to fully understand the intricacies of the case. The knowledge of the common reasons for trucking accidents, relationships between those involved with the truck, trailer and load, will all be helpful in presenting your case.
Laws Pertaining to Truck Accidents in Riverside County, CA
In the United States, the trucking industry is mandated by federal regulations that establish a set of standards and can determine the responsible party in a truck-related accident. Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations contains most applicable regulations. Fortunately, the Duque Law Group can put years of expertise in your corner to understand your rights under the law.
Who Is Responsible?
There is a large number of potential responsible parties in any commercial truck accident. These include: the owner, whoever leased the truck from the owner, the driver, shippers and loaders, the manufacturer of the vehicle or any parts, etc.
Avoidance of Liability by Trucking Companies
In recent years, trucking companies have found loopholes that have allowed them to avoid liability for accidents by distancing themselves from the drivers, vehicles and equipment. While they are the holders of the required permits to operate the vehicles, they often do not own the equipment itself. They also hire drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. These practices have enabled them in the past to shift the responsibility over to the truck owner and driver.
Fortunately, federal regulations have closed some of these loopholes and have made it so that any company who owns a trucking permit is liable for any accident that involves a truck with its name or placard on the vehicle.
Accident victims historically had to rely on police reports and witness statements to prove the specifics of an accident. Now, data from high tech devices and information from government agencies are also available for greater understanding.
Common Causes of Truck Accidents in Riverside County
The most frequent causes of truck accidents are driver error, mechanical failure, weather conditions, road design and traffic signal failures.
- Driver Error
- Mechanical Problems
According to FMCSA, 88% of trucking accidents are caused by a driver’s action or failure to take action. Sleep deprivation and driver fatigue are by far the most common causes of big truck-related accidents.
Closely following driver error, the second leading contributor to truck accidents is equipment and mechanical issues. These can be design mistakes within the vehicles, manufacturing errors, or some other issue that interferes with the truck running smoothly. The vast majority of mechanical causes of these accidents are a result of a failure to maintain the equipment properly. These can include the following: jackknifing of a truck which is caused by the de-powering or removing of the front brakes, failure of the brakes as a result of inadequate adjustments, blowouts of the tires because of wear and tear, truck rollover because of improper securing of the load distribution, defective steering, transmission failure, incorrect trailer attachment, defective lighting on the rears or sides of vehicles, and many more.
Getting Legal Help in Riverside County, California
Truck accidents can be quite overwhelming due to the number of individuals involved. It can be quite difficult to navigate through the events and responsible parties without the help of someone who is knowledgeable and skilled with trucking law. If you have been injured in a truck accident in the state of California, the Duque Law Group has the expertise and experience to be able to help you figure out who exactly is responsible so that you can proceed with a strong case and get the reparations that you deserve for your suffering. You will want a Riverside County Trucking Accident Lawyer to help you in your case after a truck accident, and the Duque Law Group is here to help you. Call our office today or leave a message for us online. |
St.Michael's Sr Sec School, New Delhihas advertised in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES newspaper for recruitment of Teachers - PGT / TGT / Librarian / Office assistant job vacancies. Interested and eligible job aspirants are requested to get application form from 18th Feb. 2021. Check out further more details below.
Name of the School: St.Michael's Sr Sec School, New Delhi
School Profile: Any accomplishment requires vision and efforts of many people and St. Michael’s is not different.It was the vision of late Archbishop Angelo Fernandes which led to the establishment of the school in 1980 based on the concept of “SAHODAY SYSTEM” (RISING TOGETHER) where the rich and the poor are able to live and study together which is the National Objective as envisaged in the Preamble of our Indian Constitution.
Name of the Posts:
PGT -Physical education (Male)
TGT-Weatern Music (Male)
Librarian - Male/Female
Front desk cum office assistant(Female)
Qualifications:(Preference) Proficiency in computer and excellent communication skills is must Two years experience preferred. (B.Com with Computer Tally & letter drafting must) Qualification, Age & Salary: As per Govt. Rules. Candidates should have Proficiency in English, Basic Computer
Job Location: NewDelhi, Delhi[Search tip: Search in Google as FacultyON Delhi to find latest faculty teachers vacancies in NewDelhi city alone]
Salary Package: Salary as per school norms
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How to Apply: Candidates can gat application form from school to 18th Feb 2021 on working hours.
Postal Address: St Michael's ar sec school, 3, Pusa Rd, Old Rajinder Nagar, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110005
Last Date: 18th Feb. 2021 Email: firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com |
Maca Ado About Something!
So, you’ve probably heard about Maca Root. Walking down the health aisle or while shopping online, you’ll see this plant pop up in any wellness search. So what is Maca? It’s a plant that has been cultivated as a vegetable crop in Peru for centuries. Known as “Peruvian Ginseng,” Maca has gained reputation due to its ability to balance hormones.
Maca powder is rich in minerals, sterols, antioxidants, fiber, protein, carbohydrates, amino acids, and essential fatty acids. The root is most frequently recommended to individuals with adrenal fatigue. The plant reduces stress hormones while providing nutrients in the process.
Beyond this, maca powder is known to increase energy levels, improve fertility, enhance mental clarity, reduce depression and also help with managing menopause symptoms. It can also improve blood circulation, strengthen bones and teeth, even skin tone, and promote hair growth.
How To Use Maca To Boost Your Health
If you’re ready to give your health status a good boost, check out the simple ways to use maca powder below!
#1 Add It to Smoothies
Make your favorite smoothie more nutritious by adding one teaspoon of maca powder to it. You can also add chia seeds and raw cacao nibs to reap additional benefits! Keep in mind that in the process you should always opt for organic ingredients.
#2 Make Maca Pancakes
Start your day right with this gluten-free, paleo friendly, and dairy-free breakfast. When making pancakes, you can add one tablespoon of maca powder in the mixing bowl for additional nutrient boost.
#3 Simple Maca Milk
If you just want to secure the health benefits of maca without taking too much time on preparation, you can add two to three teaspoons of maca powder in one cup of rice or almond milk. Then, add ½ teaspoon of cinnamon for extra taste and drink the solution.
#4 Maca Hummus
Add some maca to your favorite hummus recipe to give it an extra boost! You can use up to three teaspoons of maca powder with the chickpeas. Combine it with other ingredients and enjoy.
#5 Raw Maca Treats
We all love something sweet, and we can always make our snacks healthier by choosing the right ingredients. Consider adding some maca powder when making chocolate truffles, vegan blondies, durian pudding, ice creams, homemade snack bars, and more! The addition will prove a healthy worthwhile proposition!
Maca is an excellent source of essential nutrients and can help you improve your overall health. While this superfood is safe for most people, some may need to keep control of their intake.
Fortunately, there are infinite ways to incorporate maca powder into your diet, and the suggestions mentioned above offer only but a few of them. Get your maca powder today and begin harvesting its numerous benefits!
– Amit Vaidya
Amit Vaidya is the best-selling author of the memoir Holy Cancer and the upcoming Food Is Medicine cookbook series. He is the in-house health & wellness expert for Kapiva Ayurveda, advocating for the empowerment of all individuals to be in the driver’s seat of their own lives. He chronicles his life on Instagram under the handle @live4todayamit.
Also check our blog on Amaranth: Superfood Through The Ages |
Setting up any sort of retainer or regular payments seems to be a great business model. Subscribers to software-as-a-service are auto-billed or auto-renewed regularly, funding any updates to the product and keeping cash flowing. The challenges arise with missed payments or non-paying customers.
If your business has sent bad debt accounts off to a collections agency, you likely have questions about recovering that debt. Typically, commercial collections agencies only charge a fee if they're able to collect. The agency should also be transparent about the collections process and the documentation along the way. But you may also be wondering how long they'll work on your behalf before you take the case to court.
How Long Can a Collection Agency Attempt to Collect Business Debts?
Defining 'startup' isn't as simple as it would seem. To some, your business is no longer a startup when you begin turning a profit. To others, 'startup' is a state of mind, like always chasing or hustling to push out new ideas. If your company has been calling itself a 'startup', what have you determined pushes you past that startup idea?
When is a startup considered a real business?
Chasing down an unpaid invoice can take away time and resources that could be better served elsewhere in your business. It's important to understand when and how to follow-up on invoices. Obviously you don't want to appear too needy but you don't want your clients getting away with paying late or not at all, either. And when should you get help from a professional collections service?
When exactly is the best time to send an invoice to third party collections?
If you're in sales, and we all are, you've heard the expression that it's cheaper to retain a customer than to get a new one. Sales and marketing is expensive and retention is easier because the relationship has already been established. Instead of losing customers, especially SaaS customers that have been working with you for months or years, let's try to understand why they're leaving.
Is there a way to reduce churn among SaaS customers?
If you've agreed to contract with another business, you are providing valuable products and services that benefit their company's success. Likewise, their payment to your business is cash flow that keeps your company running smoothly. When your business fulfills its obligation but your client doesn't pay, it could sour the relationship and put your cash flow at risk. There are steps that your business can take to ensure payment prior to taking legal action. Or you can work with an professional agency that takes these steps with you.
Get yourself a partner who does accounts receivable, bad debt collection and helps with litigation. B2B Debt Collections in 1...2...3.
As we move into the new year and look back on 2020, we are able to get a clearer picture of what topics to cover in 2021. The mission of this blog is to inform our readers, whether they're our clients or not. It's important for us to help tech entrepreneurs, startup businesses, small businesses, freelancers, independent consultants, manufacturers and other business-to-business organizations build better relationships with their clients. We believe better relationships mean better cashflow.
Here are the Top B2B Debt Collections and Client Retention Blogs of 2020.
The internet allows for businesses to sell the use of software (and hardware) and revenue is collected either yearly or monthly as a subscription service. The as-a-service or subscription business model is sustainable as long as payments are received. Because client retention is very important to this business model, debt collections must be handled with business relationships in mind.
Here are four things to consider when sending SaaS clients to debt collections.
As if the month of December isn't blurry enough, your accounting department is working on year-end activities. Whether your business is a single-person shop or an enterprise corporation, the end of the year may also be the end of your fiscal year. Common activities during this time will provide insights into your business' financial situation including:
- Reconciliation of A/R
- Closing entries and journal adjustments
- Bad debt write-offs
It's time to take a closer look at some of these numbers to figure out exactly how well you're following up on those accounts receivable invoices.
Here are 5 end-of-year activities for your accounts receivable department.
As if it's not challenging enough to deal with late paying clients, the pandemic and the holiday season can add more stress. Your business may be working to resolve late payments to close out your year. Your clients may be struggling with cash flow shortages due to the pandemic. Is there a gentle-yet-firm way to ask that your invoices are paid on time? |
A serial burglar called the police from inside prison to confess to 10 break-ins in Derby.
Simon Brown telephoned officers to tell them he was responsible for smashing his way into nine takeaways and a bookmakers during a two-month crime wave in the summer of 2016.
He admitted to them that he would use a brick or another implement to break windows or doors to gain entry before stealing cash and alcohol.
And Derby Crown Court heard how he chose to own up to the offences while serving a 21-month jail term as he “has realised at the age of 44 enough is enough” and when he is finally released he wants to love “a crime-free life”.
Handing Brown a fresh 14-month jail term, Judge Robert Egbuna said: “I have to sentence you for 10 commercial burglaries totalling just over £4,000 in takings that were all committed around the same area of Derby.
“It is quite clear you targeted these premises because they were easy pickings for you.
“However, it is fair to say that, but for your admissions, many of these offences would never have made it to court.
“Putting it bluntly, but for you opening your mouth you would not be here.”
Lucky Thandi, prosecuting, told the court how Brown, of HMP Peterborough, has 26 convictions for 87 offences between 1985 and 2016, 24 of which are for burglaries or thefts.
She said between May and July last year he broke into the nine takeaways in the Normanton, city centre and Littleover areas as well as the Ladbrokes, in Normanton Road.
She said he would use either a brick or another items to smash his way in before searching for money and booze.
Miss Thandi said: “The defendant has been in custody since November last year when he was handed a 21-month prison term for an unrelated offence.
“He telephoned the police to ask them to come and visit him in custody saying he wanted to confess to a number of burglaries that he committed.”
Brown pleaded guilty to one burglary when he smashed his way into Mumbai Chilli, in Stenson Road, Sunny Hill, on June 10, 2016 and stole £600.
He asked for the other nine burglaries to be taken into consideration.
Elisabeth Evans, for Brown, said: “This was not a situation where the premises were ransacked.
“People were not inside and the premises were empty when he entered.
“I accept that Mr Brown would use a brick or another implement to gain entry so was effectively going equipped (to steal).
“But the reason why he is being so frank, he tells me, is that he is now 44 year of age and enough is enough.
“He wants to have a crime-free life when he is released from prison.”
The premises Simon Brown admitted to breaking into and stealing from in 2016 were:
May 13: Royal Fast Food, Pear Tree Road, Normanton: Money taken.
May 23: Maryland Chicken, Pear Tree Road, Normanton. Cash stolen.
May 25-26: Pear Tree Balti, Balaclava Road, Pear Tree. Money taken.
June 10: Mumbai Chili, Stenson Road, Sunny Hill. £600 and a bottle of whisky were stolen.
June 10: Cavendish Kebabs, Stenson Road, Derby. Nothing taken.
June 14: Ladbrokes, Normanton Road. £90 in cash and lottery cards taken.
June 27-28: Momo’s Grill, London Road, Derby. £70 in money taken.
July 21: Derby Grill, Friar Gate, Derby. Money and a charity box containing cash stolen.
July 22: Pizza Hot and Chicken, Pear Tree Road. £1,600 in money taken.
July 27: Mount Everest Ghurka Restaurant, London Road, Derby. Cash stolen. |
Finding Self Storage in Altoona, IA: Everything You Need To Know
If you're searching for self storage in Altoona, there are a few things you should keep in mind. Storage unit prices and availability in Altoona are determined by many different factors, including real estate, population growth, the wealth of the local population, the current economic climate, and more. We used US Census data on Altoona to give you a better idea of these factors.Altoona, IA Self Storage and Moving
Many people use storage as part of their move, so if there are many people moving to Altoona, you might expect storage prices to be higher and unit availability to be lower. By looking at population changes in Altoona, we should be able to get an idea of how many people are moving to or from the city. The US Census tells us that the metro area population of Altoona grew from 14,615 in 2010 to 16,105 in 2014, which is a rate of 10.2% growth over four years.Real Estate and Self Storage in Altoona, IA
Vacancy and occupancy rates in the Altoona housing market can help us gauge the demand for living space and thus self-storage space in Altoona, and may hint at storage availability and pricing. High occupancy rates can indicate a lack of housing supply in Altoona, which may correlate to a lack of storage unit inventory and thus higher rental rates for self storage in the Altoona area. Altoona is estimated to have a 95.7% housing occupancy rate, while the vacancy rate is at 4.3%. The average occupancy rate in US cities is 89%, so it's likely the case that storage facilities in Altoona also have higher than average occupancy rates. High occupancy rates in Altoona will make it more difficult to find a good deal on a storage unit.
There are 21 self storage units in Altoona, IA in a 15 mile radius to choose from with over 21 units available for rent
Using $1.00/sqft as a national average, the average price for a self storage unit is $1.30. This is 30.35% higher with $0.30 net increase in cost per square foot. You'll be paying more in medium to large cities as storage prices are generally higher in densely populated areas.
Choose from multiple self storage facilities in Altoona including:
If storage near Altoona, Iowa is not close enough to you, you may be interested in the 15 nearby cities including Ankeny, Bondurant, Clive, Cumming, Des Moines, Grimes, Huxley, Johnston, Mitchellville, Norwalk, Polk City, Prairie City, Urbandale, West Des Moines, Windsor Heights.
We also have specialized storage to choose from in Altoona. If you require a climate controlled unit where temperature and humidity are important, please check out our Altoona, IA Climate Controlled Storage, page. If you need to store a boat, car, or RV near Altoona, IA, please visit our Altoona, IA Car, Boat & RV Storage Storage page. |
How could ‘normal’ people become victims or supporters of ‘abnormal ideologies? What were the causes of the First World War? How did Lenin and Stalin rise to power? These are the kinds of questions that students will investigate while studying A-Level History.
What is History?
History provides an opportunity to look at the behaviour, ideas and attitudes of people in the past, and to interpret them using secondary information and the materials produced at the time. It allows students to see the impact of government decisions on all levels of society, and see how societies developed both through slow evolution and more revolutionary stages.
These skills are primarily assessed by means of essays, giving students a sound understanding of how to create and support arguments and counter-arguments to reach a clear and convincing conclusion. Contemporary sources are compared in order to see where agreement and disagreement occurs. Students learn a range of historical interpretations of a contentious issue and become able to locate views in the context of the wider debate among practising historians.
How is it studied?
CIE A-Level History is taught within the two-year and five-term A-Level programmes.
Tutors encourage students to explore and use knowledge in class debate, analysing contemporary sources and historians’ interpretations of the past. This means that students are regularly encouraged to cement their knowledge, but also to challenge it by being offered alternative perspectives and interpretations. Essays, source analysis and an understanding of historiography all form part of the overall assessment.
OCR, AQA and Edexcel A-Level History are available as two-term or one year retake programmes.
How is A-Level History assessed?
|1||Liberalism and Nationalism in Italy and Germany 1815-1871||20% (40% AS)||External Exam: Source-based analysis|
|2||Modern Europe 1789-1917: The Origins of World War I, 1900-14 / The Russian Revolution, 1894-1917||30% (60% AS)||External Exam: Short essays|
|3||The Holocaust||20%||External Exam: Interpretations (source-based)|
|4||Depth Study: Europe of the Dictators: Lenin’s Russia 1918-24 / Stalin’s Russia, 1924-41||30%||External Exam: Essays|
Exam Board: CIE
What do I need?
5 GCSEs grade 5 or above including Maths and English or equivalent international qualifications.
For international students who have taken IELTS, we require an overall score of 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 for each of the reading and writing components.
For international students who have taken IGCSE English (Second Language), we require grade 5 or above.
You do not need to have studied GCSE or IGCSE History, although familiarity with interpretation of sources will help. To do well in History, you need to have a strong interest in the past and a willingness to read and take notes effectively. Success relies upon building up sound knowledge and using this to analyse events thematically, so an organised approach is helpful, as is an awareness of how to build and support arguments. As the course involves interpreting the content, style and tone of sources, it is useful to have a strong command of English.
What should I study with History?
History combines well virtually any other subject. The skills learned are applicable in many other areas, including the sciences. There are no wrong combinations with History, so you can be extremely creative in your options!
What can I do with A-Level History?
History at A-Level is a traditional and highly valued course. Many universities look upon it as showing a sound academic preparation in the humanities. The ways in which History builds an ability to question, argue and counterargue make it a very good preparation for courses in law, politics, philosophy and business. It can also support science applications as it shows the ability to argue critically at length in an essay format.
Questions about the course
Can I take History in one year?
As an A-level History retake student, yes. |
The movement for women’s rights and gender equality began with Evelyn Cunningham an activist of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA during the 20th century, at last, found expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 under the sponsorship of the UN. One of those principal rights stresses the requirement for gender equality and non-discrimination based on sex. Subsequently it is universally recognized that the empowerment of women and gender equality is imperative for the socio-economic development of a nation, building steady, democratic societies, protecting human rights, furthering international harmony and security, developing dynamic market economies, addressing health and education challenges. The level of women empowerment and gender equality determines the contrast between developed and developing countries. Any country trying to change its economic fortunes and building a melodious society needs to embrace this comprehensive approach. It is easier said than done, particularly in the developing countries with social inequalities, traditional prejudices against women, urban and rural divide, and the lack of opportunities for women to become part of the national working force.
Progressive governments in Pakistan have been showing commitment to women empowerment and gender equality by taking managerial and legal measures to guarantee that the women joining the workforce were given an honorable workplace. Because of these tireless endeavors, Pakistan today can boast of being a reformist entity where women are making their contribution in each field of national life. Women have a 10% quota in the Central Superior Services (CSS). Pakistan’s parliament has over 100 female members who apart from adding to other national efforts are likewise zeroing in on issues related to women, for example, fair access of women to assets, knowledge, and institutions. The significance that Pakistan joins attaches to women development and gender equality can be gauged from the way that it declared 22 December as National Day of Working Women in 2010 to recognize their role in the nation-building, sharpening the society about their respect and to energize their investment in each field of work. |
Research Support Officer, MRC WIMM
My primary role is to manage all funding applications on behalf of NDCLS researchers based at MRC WIMM. It is my responsibility to ensure that all applications are costed appropriately, that the documentation is complete and the submission complies with funder requirements. I liaise with funding bodies during the application stage. I work with the University's Research Services Office to process applications with Research Accounts and Contract colleagues to ensure the timely set-up of newly award grants and the fulfilment of stipulations of research related contracts.
I circulate new funding opportunities to our PIs and postdoctoral researchers as they arise and, when appropriate, suggest specific calls which might suit particular individuals, and applications to initiatives, where these are congruent with the strategic objectives of the MRC WIMM.
I provide support to applicants in planning research funding applications, assisting in identifying appropriate awards and Fellowships, and with the non-scientific elements of research funding applications, including:
- explaining the application process
- advising on eligible costs, and
- ensuring that all of the required documentation is in place
Before joining the WIMM in 2019 I worked in research support in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at Oxford, and prior to this in administration and non-clinical research roles at King’s College London.
For any grant queries, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Please note that although I welcome general questions from any WIMM researchers, I can only give application support to the following groups: Buckle, De Bruijn, Fulga, Gibbons, Goriely, Higgs, Hughes, Iotchkova, Jacobsen, Morrissey, Mead, Milne, Nerlov, Porcher, Rabbitts, Sahakyan, Sauka-Spengler, Taylor, Vyas, and Wilkie. For researchers in other groups, your local Departmental Grants Office can provided application support.
Economic impact of early intervention in people at high risk of psychosis.
Valmaggia LR. et al, (2009), Psychol Med, 39, 1617 - 1626
Virtual reality and paranoid ideations in people with an 'at-risk mental state' for psychosis.
Valmaggia LR. et al, (2007), Br J Psychiatry Suppl, 51, s63 - s68 |
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a discredited Jewish pressure group, has called on US President Donald Trump to “instruct the FBI to establish a special task force to tackle the upsurge” in so-called “anti-Semitism”.
This is an ill-defined category which often includes mere criticism of, or political opposition to, Israel, and which always includes criticism of Jews as an organized group.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, boss of the SWC, said that there has “never been a more dangerous time in US history” for Jews than now — this despite the unparalleled wealth and power of Jews, unequaled by any other ethnic group. Observers note that the real concern of Hier and other influential Jews is that their massive wealth, their control of the US political process, and their overwhelming control of finance and media are all becoming more and more well known — and they wish to shut down and, if possible, criminalize those who are telling the truth about them.
“We’ve reached a danger point in American history,” says Hier. He said that the way to combat the “outbreak of anti-Semitism” was to establish a special task force within the FBI to “deal with anti-Semitism alone.”
He said this would lead to more arrests and prosecutions of “attackers.” His phrasing was chosen to suggest to the public that those who commit acts of violence against Jews would be the only targets of the desired “task force” — but the history of the Jewish lobby suggests that the real target will be dissidents, whistle-blowers who expose Jewish criminality, and non-Jewish nationalists.
“The longer we ignore it, the harder it is to solve the problem. If we don’t take this seriously it will get worse. These perpetrators need to be brought to justice and they need to know there are serious consequences,” Rabbi Hier added.
Hier said that the responsibility for “tackling anti-Semitism” was “outside the responsibility of US states and local governments,” and that the FBI should “tackle the problem” on a national level.
Hier also said that an “educational effort was also needed to help combat the rise of anti-Semitism in the US,” and, in an incredible and risible blaze of hubris and chutzpah, lamented what he said is the “near absence of Holocaust education in public schools.” (The so-called “Holocaust” is the Jewish claim of six million losses at the hands of the Germans in World War 2, and the claim that Jewish losses were somehow unique. Many historians and researchers put Jewish losses during that war at around one-twentieth of what Jewish groups claim. Other nations’ loss of life in World War 2 was far greater than that of the Jews, yet get almost no media attention.)
When leaders and others in the New York City Black community recently complained about Jewish complicity in illegal organ harvesting and trafficking, as well as about Jews caught bribing elected officials, Jewish activist and former Assemblyman Dov Hikind said that “there is a problem with many young people in the Black community, and not just young people.” Hikind later added, “This is unreral.” It’s hard to interpret Hikind’s remarks as anything but a condemnation of free speech — when that free speech is disapproved of by Jews. This is exactly the kind of speech that would be targeted by the FBI task force wanted by the SWC.
Another extremely wealthy Jewish pressure group, the ADL (“Anti-Defamation League”), also chimed in. Alexander Rosemberg, the Anti-Defamation League’s Director of Community Affairs for the New York and New Jersey Region, said that “rhetoric from high levels of leadership on the right and left have created a permissive atmosphere for “individuals to speak and act in a certain way.” What else can this man be talking about but restricting free speech?
Rosemberg added that some of the tensions between Blacks and Jews “are a result of the Jewish and Black communities living together side by side,” as well as of “online and social media hate” which he said was “a cocktail that has fueled anti-Semitism.”
Source: Jerusalem Post and National Vanguard correspondents
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It is okay to make mistakes in everything that we do because sometimes, the best lessons we learn in life are from the mistakes we make. But when it comes to making an investment, it is best to do some research so that your money won’t go to waste. The same goes when buying a gaming PC tower.
Whether you plan on buying a gaming PC for fun or intend to start a career as an eSports athlete, there are things you need to consider before buying one. Know that there is no one-size-fits-all computer for your gaming needs. To help you make the best decision, you may consider using the following dos and don’ts:
Consider your gaming needs
Some gamers play games only during their free time. Others spend hours each day playing and honing their skills for tournaments. Some like all their games downloaded and ready to play on their computers, while others are contented with playing one game at a time. By considering such factors, you can find the best PC that can accommodate your gaming needs.
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They say that the more features a gaming computer has, the better. But this is not always the case. For one, there is no point paying for an additional feature if you won’t be using it in the first place. Why spend money on other components if you can invest in other parts that can make your gaming experience more memorable? To make sure that you get the most out of your investment, spend on only the things you need and intend to use.
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Quantum computing is different than conventional computing and makes use of quantum mechanical phenomena such as entanglement and superposition to perform computation. The quantum computer provides high computational power due to which it is gaining popularity. Rising awareness about quantum computing among various industry verticals such as BFSI, automotive, and government among others is driving the growth of enterprise quantum computing market.
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Peterman JE, Morris KL, Kram R, Byrnes WC. Pedelecs as a physically active transportation mode. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2016;116(8):1565-1573.
Open, single arm study
To determine if use of pedelectric bicycles for real-world commuting improves cardiometabolic risk factors
Twenty sedentary individuals (14 female, 6 male) who did not perform regular exercise and commuted to work by car and/or public transit participated in the study. Participants engaged in less than 150 minutes of exercise per week (prior to study start) and were employed in occupations that do not require significant physical activity. The average age was 41.5 years (range 22-55 years).
Participants were supplied with 1 of 2 models of pedelectric bicycles (either a Trek T80+ or a 2013 E-Motion City Wave) and were instructed to commute using the supplied bicycles for at least 3 days per week, for a minimum total of 40 minutes per day on each of these days. They were free to ride the bicycles as much as they liked for additional commutes, errands, or pleasure. Participants wore heart rate monitors and GPS devices whenever they rode the bicycles.
Pre- and post-intervention evaluations and physiologic testing included a medical history, physical examination, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) bone scan, graded exercise testing (GXT) on a cycling ergometer, maximum heart rate, and resting blood pressure. Respiratory gas exchange and energy expenditure were measured along with heart rate and maximum oxygen consumption during exercise testing. Blood samples were obtained to assess levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose (fasting and 2-hour post glucose), and insulin. Fasting plasma glucose and insulin levels were used to calculate homeostatic model assessment (HOMA), a measure of insulin sensitivity.
During the 4-week intervention participants rode an average of 318 kilometers, averaging 4.9 ± 1.2 metabolic equivalents (METs) when riding. This activity significantly improved their 2-hour glucose tolerance test and their power output. There were nonsignificant trends toward improved mean arterial blood pressure and decreased fat mass.
As the impact of a sedentary lifestyle on health becomes more apparent, the value of even incremental increases in physical activity also becomes clearer. This study demonstrates that using an electrically assisted bicycle to commute to work for even 1 month has measurable health benefits.
While electric bicycles remain relatively rare in our country, they have become a phenomenon in much of the rest of the world. Sales in China increased during the 12 years from 2000 to 2012 from 300,000 units per year to 30 million. The vast majority—95%—of these bikes remain in Asia. At this point only a tiny fraction of the bikes manufactured (0.5%) reach North America. Nearly 4% reach Europe; over 1 million electric bikes were sold in Europe in 2012. In Germany over 6,000 electric bikes have been provided to postal employees.1 Sales in Europe are increasing by about 30% per year. The United States lags behind on adoption of the electric bike but the assumption is that we will soon follow these international trends.1
While electric bicycles remain relatively rare in our country, they have become a phenomenon in much of the rest of the world.
Electric bikes vary in the way the electric assist is activated to make pedaling easier. The main division is whether they use a throttle or a pedal assist. Throttle-activated assist is similar to how a motorcycle or scooter works. Activation of the throttle engages a motor to provide power and propel the bike forward.
In contrast, pedal assist bicycles, referred to a pedelecs, provide power only when the rider is pedaling.2 The participants in this study all used pedelec bikes. The riders had to pedal in order to activate assistance from the electric function to propel the bike.
The reasons that these bikes are popular in developing countries are obvious. Pedelecs are inexpensive, selling for less than 200 US dollars in China. The models sold in the developing world are typically compact; their frames fold in half for storage and they use small tires.
In 2009 Monique Simons from the Netherlands suggested that pedelec bikes might serve “…as a novel tool for meeting the physical activity guidelines in terms of intensity.” She tested 12 active adults riding various types of bicycles on a track course while wearing portable gas-analyzing equipment. Some of the bikes had electric power assist while others did not. Obviously it took less effort to pedal the pedelec bikes but Simons concluded that riding any of the bikes provided a level of exercise intensity “… sufficiently high to contribute to the physical activity guidelines for moderate-intensity health-enhancing physical activity for adults…”3,4
In 2012 French physiologists reported that riders of pedelec bikes were confused by the experience; their perceived exertion was significantly less than their actual exertion. In other words, they were expending more energy than they thought. The authors concluded that “by reducing the perceived sensation of effort while maintaining a sufficiently high energy expenditure, the electrically assisted bicycle has a great potential to promote physical activity in industrialized societies.”5
This current study is notable in part because it demonstrates significant improvements in health status over a short period with only moderate use of these pedelec bikes, but also because of the study’s location, Boulder, Colorado. Boulder is the home of many elite athletes, including some of the top bicycle racers in the United States. This has influenced local culture so that a high percentage of the city’s population consists of ultra-fit athletes. Colorado has the fewest overweight people of any state, but here in Colorado, Boulder stands out as having a population that is super-fit. The number of bicycles in Boulder nearly equals the city’s population.6 This reader found himself impressed that Peterman et al could even find 20 sedentary individuals in the city to participate in their study.
Using pedelec bikes appears to overcome some of the deterrents to bicycle commuting, in particular long distances and difficult hills, reducing the level of exertion so that one can commute without necessarily needing to shower and change on arrival. The participants did not experience increased fatigue to the degree that they reduced or curtailed other physical activities. Participants were able to “…incorporate physical activity into their day without requiring them to set aside time specifically for exercise and thus limit some of the barriers associated with meeting the physical activity recommendations…”
One downside of these pedelec bikes is that it is easy to go fast. While power assist speeds are limited to 25 km/h, Dutch research suggests riders of pedelec bikes are more likely to be treated for injuries sustained in accidents than riders of traditional bikes.7 A second downside is cost. While inexpensive in Asia, these pedelecs sell for significantly higher prices in the United States. Time, increasing popularity, and market competition may change that.
What doesn’t get reported in the research is that riding these bikes is apparently fun, even described as “a blast.” In the words of one of the study authors, William Byrnes, “It’s exercise that is fun.”8
It might serve our patients if we, their naturopathic physicians, were to be early adopters of this technology and were to model commuting to work by pedelec bike.
- Projected sales of electric bicycles in the United States from 2014 to 2016. Statista, Inc. website. http://www.statista.com/statistics/326124/us-sales-of-electric-bicycles. Accessed August 17, 2016
- Understanding Electric Bike Modes: Throttle vs. Pedal Assist (Pedelec). Electric Bike Report website. http://electricbikereport.com/electric-bike-throttle-pedal-assist-pedelec. Accessed August 17, 2016.
- Simons M, Van Es E, Hendriksen I. Electrically assisted cycling: a new mode for meeting physical activity guidelines? Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009;41(11):2097-2102.
- de Geus B, Kempenaers F, Lataire P, Meeusen R. Influence of electrically assisted cycling on physiological parameters in untrained subjects. Eur J Sport Sci. 2013;13(3):290-294.
- Louis J, Brisswalter J, Morio C, Barla C, Temprado JJ. The electrically assisted bicycle: an alternative way to promote physical activity. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2012;91(11):931-940.
- Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau. Boulder Trivia. Bolder Colorado USA website. http://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/about-boulder/boulder-trivia. Accessed August 17, 2016.
- Schepers JP, Fishman E, den Hertog P, Wolt KK, Schwab AL. The safety of electrically assisted bicycles compared to classic bicycles. Accid Anal Prev. 2014;73:174-180.
- Reynolds G. The Surprising Health Benefits of an Electric Bike. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-an-electric-bike-2/?_r=0. Published July 6, 2016. Accessed August 17, 2016. |
The effectively-worn internet pages on lease-verses-get in organization textbooks makes considerably of a meal of gear and motor cars but leaves manifestly absent the software to true estate. Maybe the omission is the end result of the specialised nature of real estate, which tends to make it difficult to offer basic illustration of rules. This provides us to Ruby Tuesday. Huh?
Dependent on your generation or where you reside you may know that Ruby Tuesday was a track recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966. The tune, was a number-a single strike in the United States and arrived at variety three in the United Kingdom and five in South Africa.
But Ruby Tuesday is also an American multinational cafe chain, named following the Rolling Stones hit, that owns and franchises the eponymous Ruby Tuesday eateries. Whilst the name and concept of Ruby Tuesday was established in 1972, the corporation was formed in 1996 as a reincorporation of Morrison Dining establishments Inc. The centre of functions is in Maryville, Tennessee, and from there 800 websites are operated throughout the world.
Heading again a few a long time, analysts were inquiring if Ruby Tuesdays was the Canary in the Coal Mine with regards to the Entire world Economic Crisis. Experiencing default on its loans back in 2008 the cafe chain seemed established to drop off its perch. Then started a programme of sale leasebacks which arguably saved the working day. So what about sale leasebacks? Should organizations possess their very own actual estate to offer and lease back again in the very first spot?
Many firms have massive sums tied up in commercial real estate that it owns and employs for its company, whether or not that is warehouses, retail merchants, head workplace or dining establishments. In the US, section shops like Dillards and Sears personal their own premises. Several restaurant chains like Ruby Tuesdays and Cracker Barrel very own their very own retailers. Zynga, the on the internet gaming company lately acquired their headquarters creating in San Francisco for above $200million. Google bought its new headquarters in New York in 2011 for almost $2 billion. Microsoft and Wal-Mart also own a good deal of their possess property nonetheless they are also illustrations of businesses that have made much use of the sale leaseback.
Industrial actual estate is considered a cash intensive asset and involves, among other people: workplace buildings, retail centres and industrial warehouses. The qualities are matter to a lease deal that usually has a base hire, added ‘rent’ covering the property’s working charges like prices and routine maintenance, a expression of a few to 10 a long time with the selection for renewal. The base rental rate differs relying on the credit rating of the tenant and the location and age of the creating.
There is an argument that it isn’t going to make financial and expense sense for a community running company to sink massive quantities of money in its own true estate. In fact the argument is that a company need to not personal, or be in the organization of leasing out its own true estate. Businesses and in specific community companies need to not be tying up cash in commercial true estate. Also, proudly owning actual estate may be deemed a distraction from what need to be the main focus of the business.
In fact because the arrival of the Entire world Fiscal Disaster, the companies that have invested in industrial actual estate are currently being encouraged to offer these assets and do a sale/leaseback unless the belongings are of a ‘strategic investment decision worth.’ The argument is that cash tied up in genuine estate ought to be reinvested into the firm’s main organization in which the price of return is greater than in a real estate expenditure. And there lies the rub: The anticipated return from investing in an functioning business is predicted to be increased than a true estate investment decision.
So if what the investment firms’ have locked up in property is not producing a return other than that which is becoming saved on lease by owning the house, what is there to display for it? The amount saved is modest in comparison to the lost money expense. It could be concluded then that to multiply returns there ought to be a disposal of real estate belongings and a reinvestment of that funds in the company to make expansion.
Just a reminder as to what a sale-leaseback is: a sale leaseback choice allows a business to market its assets and lease them back again at the same time. This can be beneficial for companies that are in require of an influx of funds. As opposed to a traditional home loan, which usually funds 70% to eighty% of the residence worth, a sale-leaseback makes it possible for a business to get 100% of the benefit from the actual estate.
Bringing us back to Ruby Tuesday. Although as a covert technique, purists could argue that the accumulation of true estate as a “wet working day fund” is a relatively archaic concept, a single cannot help admire in hindsight Ruby Tuesday’s desire to own substantial sum of actual estate for their places as ahead pondering. As a ‘rainy day fund’ the notion is a fly in the ointment of the non-possession faculty of believed.
Ruby Tuesday has introduced ideas to acquire Lime Refreshing Mexican Grill. It has launched a new tv advertising marketing campaign and increased projected annualized price savings to $40million. The organization has also begun utilizing its sale leaseback strategy to increase $50million via the sale and leaseback of nearly thirty outlets ending the 1st quarter of 2013. By quarter’s end, the organization accomplished a sale-leaseback offer on eight houses, ensuing in nearly $eighteen million in gross proceeds.
So who’s to say, in the midst of seem fiscal common sense, which is what a single might contact the school of imagined that would have companies personal as little real estate as achievable, we experience a manifestly excellent instance of rewards of obtaining real estate belongings like Ruby Tuesday. A single stage is that Ruby Tuesday could not have been capable to dig itself out if it were not for sale leasebacks, a potential answer for several medium to massive enterprises to purchase significantly essential company expense capital.
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Having already joined the fun with a Tundra pickup packed with off-road goodies engineered under the TRD Pro banner, Toyota is now giving the Sequoia SUV the same treatment.
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Key to the vehicle's off-road chops is the custom suspension with TRD-tuned Fox shock absorbers, which are designed to become firmer the more they are compressed to resist bottoming over rough trail surfaces.
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The sole powertrain is the Sequoia's 5.7-liter V-8 which generates 381 horsepower and 401 pound-feet of torque. The engine is mated to a 6-speed automatic and an all-wheel-drive system with a locable Torsen limited-slip center differential and a two-speed transfer case for low-range mode.
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Moment Indian pilot is savagely beaten by locals after Pakistan shoots down jet
This is the moment an Indian pilot who's jet was shot down appears to be brutally attacked by villagers in Kashmir.
Members of the Pakistani military can be seen trying to stop the locals from attacking the man, wearing a flight suit, who is now being held as a prisoner and has been paraded in public.
The brief clip shows the cameraman approach a group of people huddled around the stricken pilot in what appears to be a small creek.
The pilot, whose arms are being held above his head, is struck in the face twice before being kicked in the back of the head, with someone behind him appearing to attempt to knee him.
The footage has not been independently verified, however, the man looks very similar to captured pilot Commander Abhinandan - with a bloody face - publicised in Pakistan earlier today.
India has confirmed the loss of one MiG21 fighter and said its pilot was missing in action.Pakistan claims to have shot down two Indian jets and has not mentioned the loss of any of its planes.
Both India and Pakistan claim all of Kashmir as their territory, but each control only parts of it.
Pakistan's information ministry published but subsequently deleted a video purporting to show one of the Indian pilots that the Pakistani military says it has captured.
In the video, the pilot - who is blindfolded and appears to have blood on his face - identifies himself as Wing-Commander Abhinandan.
In India, Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Raveesh Kumar acknowledged the loss of a jet and its pilot.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday called for talks with India and hoped "better sense" would prevail to de-escalate the dispute."History tells us that wars are full of miscalculation. My question is that given the weapons we have can we afford miscalculation," Khan said during a brief televised broadcast to the nation. "We should sit down and talk."
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has also said that her country will act "with responsibility and restraint".
"India does not wish to see further escalation of the situation," she said, speaking from a meeting with Russian and Chinese foreign ministers in China.Both countries are nuclear powers.Pakistan has closed its entire airspace, its civil aviation authority said. International flights are also avoiding the area.
Indian and Pakistani troops have been shelling across the LoC (Line of Control).
Four Pakistani civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in shelling yesterday.
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Teamsters Local 727 Business Agent Zach Frankenbach directly represents members working at Osco pharmacies across the Chicago area. Any Osco member who has any issue at work, including possible questions about the contract, potential grievances or private matters, do not hesitate to contact Zach or the Local 727 union office immediately via phone or e-mail.
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06.08.15 — Teamsters Local 727 continues its efforts to help improve working conditions and standards for pharmacists and ensure patient safety across Illinois through important legislation. Union representatives prepared proposals to introduce as legislation that addresses the concerns of Teamsters Local 727-represented pharmacists. Local 727 President John Coli Jr. and union representatives also held meetings with State Rep. Lou Lang and industry groups to discuss the union’s efforts. CONTINUE READING
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Based on suggestions from Teamster pharmacists, Teamsters Local 727 is in the early stages of planning a live continuing education seminar that would be free of cost for union members in good standing.
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Q. I felt like the pacing of the show has gotten faster – shorter scenes between people and more cutting back and forth between several stories. Is this really the case? If so, could you talk about how you decided to do it this way? | Thor
You’re right, Thor. If you go back and watch season one of The Office, it’s a pretty different show. It has a lot more in common with its British predecessor than what you see now.
I think what happened was eventually we realized that if we took out that third shot of the copier making copies or people yawning, we could fit another joke in there.
We have so many characters to service, that it’s hard to justify that slower pace. I mean, we’re still like the slowest paced show on television, but it’s slightly less glacial these days.
Q. Someone pointed out that Jim’s line about going to put up some shelves may have been a reference to the fabulous Mr. Roper of Three’s Company. Any truth to this? | nemme
Gene: No, that’s insane.
Q. Did Mindy do her own stunt work when Kelly fell off the scale? I loved that part. | jmj
Gene: Not only does Mindy do all her own stuntwork, she also does all the stuntwork for the other characters, as well as some of the stunts on Knight Rider.
One time, there was a dangerous stunt and when Mindy was told she couldn’t do it (for insurance reasons), she flew into a rage, and threw Justin Spitzer down the stairs. True story.
Q. Was there a cold open for this episode? I didn’t catch it on tv and the online version on NBC.com doesn’t have a cold open. It goes directly to the theme song. | Melissa
Gene: Originally, there was a cold open, but, through the editing process, the cold open got absorbed into the first act. But, yes, now that I think about it, it has been a long time since the show started right with the opening credits.
What was your favorite scene from the episode and why? Did you do any “research” into office weight loss initiatives to prepare for writing this episode? | Angela Bernard Schrute
Gene: My favorite scene was probably Phyllis storming back after Dwight kicked her out of his car. I just thought both Phyllis and Rainn were so funny. I remember trying to control my laughter so I wouldn’t ruin the take.
As for research, we didn’t do any “official” research. But in our writers’ room, there are usually two or three different diets going on at any one time.
One of the best things about working in the entertainment industry is that there is always so much food around. They really push this stuff on you. But the dark side to all of this is that we gain weight throughout the season. I know, boo-hoo, right?
Thanks for all your questions, Tallyheads!
Thanks, as always, to Tally Nation for submitting questions, and a big thanks to Gene Stupnitsky for answering them! It was a great premiere!
Check out more Q&As in the Episode Q&A Archive. Essential reading for every Office super fan! |
Consumer Reports Scores Tesla Autopilot “Distant Second” to GM Super Cruise
In total, 17 driver assistance systems were tested
Tesla has been able to dominate the conversation around both electric and autonomous vehicles, for good and bad reasons. In terms of its Autopilot driver assistance system, which is somewhat deceptively named, the general consensus is that Tesla is leading the auto industry in the technology. A new comprehensive evaluation begs to differ.
On Wednesday, Consumer Reports released its findings from a wide-ranging test of 17 different vehicles with active driving assistance systems (ADAS). The result? Tesla Autopilot is “now a distant second” to Super Cruise from General Motors.
The test follows one the nonprofit conducted in 2018 in which they compared vehicles from just four automakers, including Cadillac (a GM brand), Nissan/Infiniti, Tesla and Volvo. This new report features ADAS from Porsche, BMW, Ford, Volkswagen and others — and being able to compare the 2018 test to today gave Consumer Reports more incisive insight.
“Even after two years, Cadillac’s Super Cruise remained our top-rated system because, when turned on, it uses direct driver monitoring to warn drivers that appear to have stopped paying attention to the road. General Motors told CR that Super Cruise will be on 22 GM vehicles by 2023,” Consumer Reports explained. “Of the other systems we tested, we saw minor improvements in lane keeping performance for the Tesla and Volvo.”
The testing organization is clear to note that these are driver assistance features and not “self-driving” vehicles. While Tesla released a beta version of its self-driving functionality last week, Consumer Reports did not include that in this test, though they do have thoughts on it.
Consumer Reports goes into great detail about its scoring system, which included categories like “capability and performance” and “unresponsive driver,” which you can read in full here.
The final score, however, put the Cadillac Super Cruise from GM in first with 69 points out of 100, Tesla Autopilot in second with 57 points, and Ford Co-Pilot 360 in third with 52.
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Complete Semester Withdrawals
Students may submit withdrawal requests online in CentralLink's Course Search and Registration or by contacting the Registrar's Office.
Please see the Registrar's Office website for withdrawal deadlines and policies about tuition credits.
Contact your Residence Hall Director or the Office of Residence Life to discuss termination of your housing and/or meal plan contract. A contract breakage fee may apply.
Students utilizing any form of financial aid should be sure to understand both the current-term and continuing eligibility implications of a withdrawal from classes.
Title IV Funds
Title IV funds include Federal Student Aid programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Initial eligibility is determined annually with filing of the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid).
Title IV sources of financial aid and loans include:
- Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans
- Graduate PLUS Loans
- Parent PLUS Loans
- Pell Grants
- Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants
- TEACH Grants
- Iraq Afghanistan Service Grants
As a Title IV recipient, you must complete >60% of the length of the semester for which you received federal grant and/or loan money in order to retain full eligibility. A withdrawal prior to that point in your semester will require a recalculation of eligibility for the term.
If you are considering a withdrawal from classes, follow this link to book an appointment with an advisor that can summarize the considerations unique to your circumstances:
SASUB Withdrawal Counseling
Title IV Policies & Procedures
Unofficial Withdrawals / Unofficial Enrollment Adjustments
Title IV regulations mandate that last dates of attendance are reported for courses where unsatisfactory grades (E, NC) are assigned. To comply with this regulation, professors are required to include your last date of participation in an academically-related activity* whenever submitting an unsatisfactory grade.
If it is determined in a review of this information that a Return of Title IV Funds is necessary (see below), CMU will return amounts determined by regulations to the Department of Education, and one or more charge(s) for the same will appear on your student account.
*An introductory post in an online course does not qualify as attendance.
Return of Title IV Funds:
Title IV sources of financial aid and loans are most commonly reduced or cancelled when:
- A student ceases attendance (either officially or unofficially) before completing >60% of the length of the term for which funds were disbursed.
- Example: Jane's fall semester dates are September 1 - December 15th. Jane withdraws from all classes on October 20th, at 47.2% of the length of the period for which financial aid disbursed. Title IV eligibility will change because Jane completed less than 60% of her semester.
- A student is reported as having "never attended" one or more classes. Any classes reported or confirmed as such will not count toward a student's enrollment status.
- Example: Jane is enrolled in a Fall I course and a Fall II course and has received an unsubsidized loan. Jane completes her Fall I course but then does not participate in Fall II. When the course concludes, the professor reports a grade of E and "never attended". Because this class can no longer count toward Jane's enrollment status, she is reclassified to less than half-time and no longer has loan eligibility. Jane's loan must be cancelled in full and returned to the Department of Education.
Post Withdrawal Disbursements
In cases where a student withdrew from Central Michigan University prior to receiving the full amount of financial aid they were eligible for, they may be eligible to receive a post-withdrawal disbursement. The amount of aid a student is eligible to receive as a post-withdrawal disbursement is determined by the Return of Title IV (R2T4) calculation.
To receive a post-withdrawal disbursement, students must meet the conditions for late disbursement (34 CFR 668.164(j)). Additionally, a post-withdrawal disbursement cannot be made under the following conditions:
- Second or subsequent Direct Loan disbursement to, or on behalf of, a student who did not graduate or successfully complete the loan period.
- Direct Loan or Perkins Loan disbursement to a borrower who has not signed their promissory note.
- TIV Funds disbursements for students that do not have a valid ISIR or SAR with the University by deadline published by the Department of Education (34 CFR 668.164(j)).
Post Withdrawal Disbursements – Grants
In accordance with Federal regulations, post-withdrawal disbursements will be made from available grant funds before available loan funds (34 CRF 668.22 (a)(6)). Central Michigan University may disburse post-withdrawal disbursements of grant funds directly to student accounts, without obtaining confirmation from the student.
Post Withdrawal Disbursements – Loans
In accordance with Federal regulations, post-withdrawal disbursements from loan funds will only be disbursed to students or parents (in the case of PLUS loans) after obtaining confirmation from the borrower that they wish to receive the loan (34 CRF 668.22 (a)(6)).
If a student or parent is eligible for a post-withdrawal disbursement of loan funds, a letter will be mailed to them within 30 days of their withdrawal, providing the borrower the opportunity to accept all or part of a post-withdrawal disbursement of their loan funds.
Timeframe for Return to Title IV Adjustments
Central Michigan University must return any unearned TIV funds the university is responsible for within 45-days of determining the student withdrew (34 CFR 668.22 (j)).
Post withdrawal disbursements of loan funds (If applicable) must be made as soon as possible but no later than 180 days after the date school determined student withdrew, in accordance with required for disbursing Title IV funds (34 CFR 668.164 (j)). Post withdrawal disbursements of grant funds (If applicable) must be made as soon as possible but no later than 45 days after the date school determined student withdrew, in accordance with required for disbursing Title IV funds (34 CFR 668.164 (j)).
Order of Return
In accordance with Federal regulations outlined in 34 CFR 668.22(i), R2T4 funds are returned in the following order:
1. Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans
2. Subsidized Federal Direct Loans
3. Federal Direct PLUS (Grad)
4. Federal Direct (PLUS) Parent Loan Program
6. Academic Competitive Grant
Satisfactory Academic Progress
Your withdrawal - whether official or unofficial - may impact your satisfactory academic progress.
Federal regulations (HEA Sec 484(c)) require that Central Michigan University monitor the satisfactory academic progress (SAP) of all students regardless of whether they have received financial aid in previous semesters. These financial aid requirements are separate from students' academic requirements. To maintain eligibility for federal student aid, as well as most state and institutional aid programs, there are three distinct criteria that must be monitored and met.
SAP is measured utilizing the following criteria every semester (including summer):
Quantitative Standard: Students must complete 67% of all CMU credits attempted each semester of enrollment.
Qualitative Standard: Students must maintain a 2.00 cumulative GPA as an undergraduate student and a 3.00 cumulative GPA as a graduate student.
Maximum Time Frame Standard: The number of attempted credits in which a student is expected to finish a program cannot exceed 150% of the published length of the program. |
Upon opening a wedding invitation, it’s not unusual for party panic to set in, and for the anxiety-filled "What do I wear?" question to be the one that pops into your mind. After all, this is a very special day in the lives of the bride and groom — and it's important to celebrate the occasion in style. Bobbie Thomas, TODAY style editor and author of the Buzz column for In Touch Weekly, offers advice on everything from deciphering the dress codes to considering frocks from your friends’ closets.
Don’t be afraid to bargain, borrow or trade
Your first stop should be your own closet. Adding accents may be all you need to update an old favorite. No luck? Then remember, a woman makes the dress. Ask a girlfriend to borrow, trade or even buy a special-occasion dress she may have worn in the past. Chances are it's been collecting dust in the back of her closet, and she'll be happy to recoup some of the original cost while you score a deal. Just be sure to add your own twist with accessories — and attitude. If you’re still searching, don't forget about discount department stores. Bridesmaids dress retailers are also a hidden resource for guests. And last but not least, it's important to keep the option of alterations in mind, as a small change can make a dramatic difference.
Now, for help deciphering the invitation’s dress code:
Department stores offer a wide range of styles and price points, and many of their Web sites have special shopping sections to help you navigate. Nordstrom.com's "Dress Shop" presents options by category from Guest to Mother-of-the-Bride.
What you saw on TODAY for this look: Soroya wearing JS Collections Laser Cut Dress with Matching Shawl, $186, Nordstrom.com; Galica sandals, $99, NinaShoes.com
What you saw on TODAY for this look: Jenny wearing silk taffeta Lorelei dress, $215, JCrew.com; Kenneth Jay Lane's large enamel flower ring, $88, (877) 953-5264
What you saw on TODAY for this look: Jasmine wearing Simply Vera by Vera Wang for Kohls skirt, $58, jacket, $88, Kohls.com; sleeveless ruffle blouse, $49, expressfashion.com; shoes from DSW.com
What you saw on TODAY for this look: Daniella wearing Butter by Nadia signature satin wrap convertible dress, $270, ButterbyNadia.com; Kolhapuris sandals, $25, Indomix.com |
Many Faces of Compassion
“Walking In Each Other’s Shoes”
Join Us April 22, 2021
Talking to Young People About Dying & Death
“How to Talk to Young People About Dying & Death” is about how to help young people understand that death is a part of life and helping the ones who have experienced loss through death understand their grief and how to grieve in a healthy way. It’s about helping adults understand the Developmental Stages of the brain during youth and how that impacts how young people see the world and the events happening in their lives. And finally, it’s about how to listen so kids will talk about their feelings and ask questions. This presentation is part “spilling forth of information” and part conversation. Hope you can join us!
Meet your workshop Presenter Terri Viola-Wilson
Chapter Champion Home Hospice Association Hamilton - Halton
Program Manager C.A.N.D.Y. Cafe
(Creating Awareness and Normalizing Death for Youth)
Terri grew up in a family of six, on the east side of the mountain in Hamilton, Ontario. She acquired her B.A. (Hons.) at Queen’s University and, after working full time in banking for a couple of years, returned to Queen’s to earn her B. Ed. in Junior/Intermediate education. Throughout her career, Terri was an avid coach of volleyball, basketball, and track and field as well as student choir director, lead teacher for various social justice and environmental student organizations, and a frequent Mentor for Student Teachers from various Teachers’ Colleges. She served on writing teams at the Board level and at times, took on the role as School Division Leader.
Shortly after retiring in 2017, Terri connected with Home Hospice Association and has taken on different roles at different times within the organization including Hamilton-Halton Chapter Champion, Executive Director for Hamilton-Halton, and now, Program Manager for C.A.N.D.Y. Café. Creating Awareness and Normalizing Death for Youth is a special, proactive program that puts the concepts of Dying, Death, and Grief, in front of young people before they experience of loss through death. “Forewarned is forearmed” is never more true than when we can talk to young people about inevitable life situations and help them to understand why they will happen and how they might deal with them. The death of a loved one can be one of the most difficult life events to deal with as a young person. The more a young person understands before facing that, the better the chance that they will be able to grieve in a healthy way.
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Many Faces of Compassion is an educational series aiming to provide valuable information and resources for volunteer, family and professional caregivers supporting someone with a life-threatening illness.
Compassion is what motivates us to go out of our way to help the physical, mental, or emotional pains of another and ourselves…. Do you consider yourself a compassionate person? Would you like to learn more about how to be the most compassionate person towards others AND yourself?
Our days are busier and busier it seems. Each Many Faces of Compassion event is a time for you to “breathe” and through that sense of peace learn, practical ways to care for ourselves and others. Will it make our days less busy? Likely not. It will however make us more aware of how to make time for compassion in the middle of that busy-ness.
Who is Many Faces of Compassion for: Volunteer, familial and professional caregivers will all benefit from this event.
Who is Many Faces of Compassion for: Volunteer, familial and professional caregivers will all benefit from this event. “One in four Canadians aged 15 and older (7.8 million) provided care to a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, a physical or mental disability, or problems related to aging” (Statistics Canada, 2018). Further “over half (55%) of caregivers felt worried or anxious as a result of their caregiving responsibilities” (Statistics Canada; Portrait of Caregivers, 2012).
The theme, “Walking In Each Other’s Shoes”, portrays an important message: “you are not alone”.
Why your business's in-kind donation or sponsorship is needed: Funding through cash sponsorships or donations for items will allow us to have a small suggested donation amount as admission instead of a registration fee.
Your expertise matters: Now recruiting participants for our entire series. If you offer resources or solutions for caregivers we invite you to have a table display. Perhaps you would like to host an activity room or facilitate a workshop. Let’s work together to find a way for you to offer your expertise to our audience. |
Have you been injured at work? Has a workplace accident caused you to be out of work? Is your employer dragging its feet filing your claim with its insurance company? Do you have questions about the workers’ compensation process in Florida? Below are five important things you need to know about Florida’s workers’ compensation laws if you have been injured at work.
When people think of work injuries, they often think of factories, remote job sites, and construction jobs. An office job rarely comes to mind when thinking about a workers’ comp claim. However, there are dangers in the office that you may not be aware of until too late. Here are some of the more common office job-related injuries that may result in a Florida workers’ comp claim.
You can fall anywhere, even in an office setting. A wet floor or trip hazard can cause you to lose your balance or slip and fall. A fall can lead to long-term injuries and time off from work. Employers should repair loose or worn carpeting or other floorings, remove trip hazards, and secure things like cords and wire. Spills should be cleaned up immediately. […]
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious condition that can render a person unable to work or function normally in daily life. First responders can suffer PTSD because they see horrific sights and deal with traumatic and heartbreaking situations. Unfortunately, first responders diagnosed with PTSD are not eligible for workers’ compensation under Florida’s Workers’ Compensation system unless they also have a physical injury. […]
According to a report in Clay Today, a principal of an Orange Park pizzeria was arrested on felony charges for allowing his workers’ compensation insurance coverage to lapse two times in the past five years. The report states that an investigator conducted a compliance visit at Infield Pizzeria and Sports Bar late last year. […]
Florida has a statute of limitations that applies to workers’ compensation claims filed after January 1, 1994. The statute is located within Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Act. Below is a general, broad discussion of the statute of limitations for a Florida workers’ compensation claim. We urge you not to assume your claim falls within any certain category or scenario. There are always exceptions to every rule because each case is unique. […]
Many individuals are working two jobs to make ends meet. Because of this situation, the question of how to handle two jobs when you are hurt at one job is coming up more often in Florida workers’ comp cases. Our West Palm Beach workers’ comp attorneys have experience handling claims involving concurrent employment. […]
According to information provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are approximately 18 million workers under the age of 24 years in the United States. This number represents about 13 percent of the total workforce, but these workers have some of the highest occupational injury rates. The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) reports that 80 percent of teens are employed at some time during their high school years.
In 2004, more than 38,000 teen workers suffered an injury at work, and 134 teen workers died from on the job accidents and injuries. Each year, it is estimated that 70 teen workers die from work-related injuries and another 77,000 teen workers are sent to the emergency room for work-related accidents and injuries. […]
If you are injured at work, you have the right to have your medical bills paid and receive other benefits pursuant to the Florida workers’ compensation laws. In many cases, your claim is approved, you receive medical care, and you return to work without any issues. However, in some cases, you may need the assistance of an attorney if your employer or its insurance company is not paying your claim or denying your claim unfairly.
When you need an attorney for a workplace injury, will a personal injury attorney be okay to hire? […]
The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) issued a News Release last week announcing it has updated its Drug Impaired Driving: A Guide For States because of the continued increase in the number of drugged driving fatalities. According to information by the GHSA, 43% of fatally-injured drivers in 2015 tested positive for some type of drug, a much higher percent than alcohol-impaired driver fatalities for that year. The GHSA is urging states and lawmakers to take steps to crack down on drugged driving incidents. Introducing new programs, providing additional resources, training for law enforcement officers, and empowering a state-wide task force are some of the suggestions provided to states by the GHSA. […] |
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Blog posts are the personal views of Letty Hardi and not official statements or records on behalf of the Falls Church City Council
After this week’s historic moments and collective sigh of relief, I know there is still some anxiety around, especially over the prospects of vaccinations to finally end COVID-19. Thanks for all the good questions about vaccines from my post last week. We are continuing to advocate for our residents, and I am heartened that new federal leadership has already taken action. In the meantime, the Fairfax Health Department currently has much greater demand than available supply of vaccines. If you are 65+ or a high risk adult and are already registered, you’re urged to be patient – the Health Department will contact you as soon as there is supply. There is a new round of FAQs published by the Health Department (in addition to my post last week that had various links too).
This week’s work session was a productive one, with topics that will likely pique most everyone’s interest: Broad and Washington (aka Whole Foods project), which will be up for a final vote next Monday, affordable housing in that development, Founders Row, traffic calming, the noise ordinance, and the latest on our financials. I’m happy to hear any questions or comments from you.
PS – Thanks to the high volume of public comments, many of which were from you (thank you!), on Virginia’s electronic meeting participation policy, HB1931 is making its way through the General Assembly, now in session. Last November, I wrote about urging Richmond to lift the cap of 2 electronic meetings per year so those with families, aging parents who need care, less flexible jobs, transportation issues, etc can more readily volunteer or run for office. The cap is now proposed to be 25% of a body’s annual meetings, a decent compromise. You can provide your support of HB1931 before the full House votes; if passed, it will head to the Senate after crossover in February. ICYMI from December, this priority is one of many others within our annual Legislative Program we advocate with our delegation.
What Happened this Week:
(1) Broad and Washington Project
We had a final work session based on the last submission on the Broad and Washington project, which will be up for a second/final vote next Monday. There are over 25 documents in Monday’s agenda package – from board and commission comments to architectural renderings to the latest redline of voluntary concessions – too many to link here. The staff report is a good summary.
The project is proposed to be a 339 unit mixed unit development, anchored with a 56k square foot Whole Foods and a new home for Creative Cauldron, yielding between $1.1M-$1.5M in net annual revenue and other voluntary concessions. If the project were to be approved, the city would sell the adjacent public parking lot that currently houses 64 public spaces, which would be replaced with 64 public spaces in a new garage built on the footprint. Last year, after addressing interim parking plans, the project received support from neighboring businesses, Clare and Dons and Thompson Italian.
Among other final negotiations this week, we encouraged the developer to get similar support from The State Theater and neighbors and strengthen the language for a Whole Food commitments in spite of having a signed lease.
(2) Affordable Housing
A large part of our Broad and Washington discussion above was on affordable housing units within the new development, a topic I last wrote about in December and last October following the most recent affordable housing study. Our current policy proposes 6% of new units be set aside as affordable for people earning 60% AMI (area median income). For reference, 60% AMI for a family of 4 is roughly $75K/year – these are households who have jobs that are critical in our community: teachers, restaurant workers, health assistants. Below is a helpful chart of sample occupations at various AMI levels.
With the current deficit in affordable housing stock and impending expirations of other units on top of a pandemic that is exacerbating affordable housing, we should treat this as a crisis – the need for more affordable housing is greater than ever. We need a step change from the 6% set aside if we want to be the welcoming and inclusive community we espouse and aspire to be.
Mixed use development in the city has traditionally brought in a large basket of voluntary concessions, including cash proffers that are meant to help offset a variety of capital needs in the city. Given the large capital investments for schools, library, city hall, and parks the past few years – our future capital needs are much smaller. Among other policies, we should be willing to evolve our concession model to shift those developer dollars toward more affordable housing as a more pressing need and secure more affordable units.
With Broad and Washington, we have an option to increase the affordable housing from 6% to 10% of the total building, serve households between 40-80% AMI, and set a higher bar going forward. While there are many stakeholders in this decision, ultimately the City Council has the tough responsibility of prioritizing dollars against our needs and values. If you have thoughts on this topic, I’m happy to hear from you.
(3) Founders Row
Another casualty of pandemic is the bankruptcy of the theater that was to anchor the under-construction Founders Row project. This week, we reviewed a request from the developer, Mill Creek, to revise the voluntary concessions in response to economic conditions.
The original commitment connected the issuance of certificates of occupancy (COs) for a portion of the apartments to the construction of the theater. Mill Creek assures us they remain committed to finding a replacement theater and proposes putting in $3.6M into an escrow account if there is no signed lease at the opening of the apartments. The cash will remain in escrow until tenant improvements for a movie theater are underway.
Much like the renegotiations we had to complete recently with the West Falls Church project, this is a difficult decision in front of us. I’d welcome ideas for alternate mechanisms of ensuring the developer opens a theater as planned.
(4) Neighborhood Traffic Calming
Staff shared an informative update on the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program. As part of our request to “clear the queue” in 2020 – out of 11 projects in total, 6 were complete, 2 have minor work left, and 3 are underway. The good news is that there has been no new projects petitioned or added to the queue, but I believe this may be only temporary since car traffic waned during the pandemic. I know this will continue to be a priority for residents of Falls Church.
Of note is the most ambitious and largest geographic area for traffic calming we’ve undertaken to date – the Greenway Downs project – that will kickoff soon with neighborhood surveying and engagement. Since we were receiving multiple requests for traffic calming concerns from the streets off Rt 29, the requests have been bundled into 1 big project to create a holistic solution and avoid creating solutions on one street that would divert traffic onto another parallel street.
(5) Noise Ordinance Update
Updating the current noise ordinance has been on the to-do list for awhile. The current/old ordinance is based on a “reasonable person standard” which is a more subjective standard and was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court. The city now has a noise meter and can more objectively address noise complaints, so the ordinance is recommended to be updated. It’s quite detailed and covers everything from barking dogs to lawn equipment to construction noise and daytime vs nighttime hours. As proposed, the new ordinance is comparable to neighboring localities and makes distinctions for various zoning districts.
During work session we shared feedback for revisions that will be made before it’s back on an upcoming agenda.
(6) Financials Update
With the first half of Fiscal Year 2021 complete, the no news/good news is that financials are coming in mostly as expected.
Overall, revenues are slightly over budget but key revenue indicators still show mixed results – for example: sales tax remains strong with grocery and internet sales, while dining and hospitality businesses are still hurting – meals tax revenue met the budgeted target for the year which is at 75% of pre COVID-19 levels and hotel taxes were budgeted at 65% of pre COVID-19 level and came in at 35% (#shoplocal) More details here.
For broader context, Virginia is working through the state budget process as well. The good news is that Virginia is one of the few states with increased revenue growth even during a pandemic, and things don’t look as grim as feared several months ago.
As the FY22 budget process kicks off soon, there is still much uncertainty ahead and we will keep monitoring the data.
What’s Coming Up:
Current draft schedule of meetings and agenda items: https://fallschurch-va.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1408
City Council Meetings start at 730 pm, unless otherwise specified. You can access the agenda and livestream here, including recordings of past meetings including virtual Board & Commission meetings: http://www.fallschurchva.gov/471/Watch-City-Council-Meetings |
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The University of Manchester Library recently acquired a slim pamphlet bound in blue board with a grubby white spine and a label stuck on the front cover. While small and nondescript – a mere 13 cm x 21cm – its impact is massive. The first clues of what lies within are the printed label which reads ‘The Relief of the Manchester Sufferers’ and the title page: Report of the Metropolitan and Central Committee, appointed for the relief of the Manchester sufferers; with an appendix, containing the names of the sufferers, and the nature and extent of their injuries. It is only as you turn the pages of the tabulated appendices that you get a sense of their full meaning; a poignant and powerful alphabetical list of injuries received by people attending a political meeting in 1819. It is a shocking record of violence inflicted by the state on its own people.
On 16 August 1819, civil and military powers viciously dispersed a peaceful Manchester meeting of around 60,000 people, held to discuss parliamentary reform. That afternoon at least 15 people lost their lives. Several others, in the days and weeks following, died of their injuries. A further 700 people were injured by mounted yeomanry brandishing sabres or battered by the truncheons of special constables. Others were trampled underfoot as the crowd panicked and fled. The shocking drama of St Peter’s Field soon became known as ‘Peterloo’ in mocking reference to the heroic battle of Waterloo some 4 years earlier.
Across the country money was collected to help the injured and the families of the dead. The report’s authors, the Metropolitan Committee, met regularly at the Crown and Anchor Pub on the Strand and worked closely with Manchester radicals. On 5 November 1819 they sent a deputation to Manchester which operated alongside the local committee to coordinate the best distribution of aid. In an era before the welfare state, this fund offered vital support, saving many of those hurt in the massacre and their families from complete destitution. Many victims hid their injuries from unsympathetic employers and parish officers who refused to support destitution caused by political activity. Alongside graphic accounts of injuries, the appendices of the pamphlet record the names, addresses, occupations and amount of compensation paid to those caught up in the violence.
It should be noted that, in addition to this printed volume, the Library holds a manuscript relief book recognised by UNESCO as having world history significance. The Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book records the names of 350 people who received payments from the fund. As with the Metropolitan Committee Report it gives descriptions of their injuries and the circumstances in which they were hurt. While information is duplicated between the printed and manuscript volumes, they are tantalisingly different. Take, for example, Mary Fildes, a leading figure in the Manchester Female Reform Group. In the printed list she is described as: ‘Beat about the head and face by Constables when escaping from the hustings’. The manuscript states that she ‘was much beat by Constables & leaped off the Hustings when Mr Hunt was taken, was obliged to absent herself a fortnight to avoid imprisonment’. This would suggest that, while the respective relief committees shared information, they each made their own investigations into the injuries and personal circumstances of those injured at St Peter’s Field.
On a personal level I can still recall the horror of opening the Metropolitan Committee Report and reading the names and personal circumstances of the victims and the descriptions of their injuries. It made me understand the anger of contemporaries – that these unarmed men, women and children were attacked and butchered simply for attending a peaceful meeting that called for political change. There was no official enquiry into the massacre and no redress for the victims. And yet, with uncanny prescience, page 4 of the report predicted that historians will provide some redress. Therein lies the power of this radical object. Two hundred years on, this slim pamphlet (and its chunkier manuscript companion) exposes the lies of Manchester magistrates and authorities who carefully downplayed the number of dead and injured and tried to pass off the event as a riot. Not only does it reinforce the scale of the massacre, the printed list of ‘the Manchester Sufferers’ humanises the story of Peterloo. It moves our thoughts away from numbers to actual people and, in doing so, gives voice to the victims.
After the Manchester massacre the Government retaliated with the Six Acts which effectively closed down the reform movement. Yet, in the longer term, reaction against the tyrannical response to Peterloo confirmed the right of free speech, assembly and peaceful protest in British politics. The relevance of Peterloo resonates through the centuries and across nations and political cultures. In 2019 the City of Manchester is focussing much attention on Peterloo, notably through the work of the Manchester Histories Festival and the installation of Jeremy Deller’s public memorial. And yet, while all bicentenaries shed new light on historical episodes, in practice they often tell us more about contemporary preoccupations. When revisiting Peterloo it is hard to avoid drawing parallels with today’s political climate where politics is again riven into two antagonistic camps. Brexit, like Peterloo, is causing a generation to think carefully about the meaning of democracy and political participation.
Janette Martin curated the exhibition ‘Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom’ at The John Rylands Library (21 March 2019 – 29 Sept 2019) and worked on the project to identify and digitise collections relating to the Peterloo Massacre held at The University of Manchester Library. Her research interests include nineteenth century radical politics, political oratory and public history. She is a long-serving member of both the Society for the Study of Labour History and Huddersfield Local History Society. She tweets as @hisjlm. (Photo credit Jill Jennings) |
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The blind oversight of the auto industry
That’s how many vehicles were recalled by automakers in the United States in 2014. To put that in perspective, that’s about one car for every five on the road. And while GM holds a significant stake in that total with more than 80 separate recalls affecting close to 27 million automobiles just in North America, the Takata airbag issue also had a significant role in pushing this frightening number to its record breaking total.
We should have asked ourselves “why so many recalls?” back in 1999 when we reached our previous record of more than 55,600,000 vehicles and items of equipment recalled. But now that we’re sliding into 2015 with little hope of setting to right the torrential number of 2014’s recalled vehicles by the end of this year, let alone by 2016, it’s time we took a good, hard look at how our nation handles vehicle safety regulations as a whole.
The series of recalls for vehicles containing defective Takata airbags is not only the most recent but also one of the most glaring examples of safety oversight failure.
Leaving the Fox to Guard the Henhouse
In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) dated Jan. 30, 2015, U.S. Senators Bill Nelson, and Ed Markey of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Subcommittee on Consumer Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security made several excellent points and relevant requests as they both welcomed new NHTSA Administrator Dr. Mark Rosekind and requested some long-overdue information.
Upon learning of another death in a vehicle equipped with Takata airbags where the airbag may have ruptured, the Senators correctly noted that “millions of unrepaired cars like this one remain on the road today, posing an imminent risk to the drivers and passengers riding them.” Not only should these vehicles be removed from the road as quickly as possible, but only about six percent of all recalled vehicles have been repaired to date. The Senators proposed a logical solution, suggesting that Takata share information with other airbag manufacturers to help expedite the repair process, which is currently projected to take more than two years. In fact, NHTSA has the authority to compel Takata to do so, but this all-too-important tool has yet to be implemented. Why? We’re still waiting on an answer.
Another critical unanswered question is why NHTSA has to date neglected to conduct any independent testing of the defective Takata airbags. Despite the fact that more than 24 million vehicles with Takata airbags have been recalled worldwide since 2008, NHTSA is nonetheless allowing “all inflators that are removed as part of these recall efforts [to be] shipped directly from the dealers who repair the recalled vehicles to Takata’s facility.” As the Senators eloquently informed Administrator Rosekind, this situation “is a classic example of the fox guarding the henhouse.”
If Takata airbags are exploding with too much force and possibly shooting shrapnel at vehicle passengers – a very real possibility and one that our independent researchers were able to capture on film – then why is our government’s agency tasked with monitoring automotive safety entrusting what amounts to potentially crucial evidence of Takata’s design and manufacture of the airbags to Takata, the very entity that has the most to gain by minimizing the importance of that evidence?
“Millions of Americans are currently waiting on replacement inflators – and need to know that the new parts are safe and that they fix the problem. That assurance can only be given if NHTSA or other independent parties can test defective inflators, as well as the new replacements, and verify that the replacements actually fix this very serious defect,” the Senators conclude. “The American public is counting on NHTSA to do the right thing and use all of the authority at its disposal to prevent more avoidable deaths, injuries and damages.”
The Bitter Truth of Lemon Laws
The situation with Takata lends itself to another ongoing issue with vehicle safety as a whole. If you’ve ever purchased a used car from a dealership, you might have noticed that the vehicle’s history is scant…if it’s even provided. One of the reasons for this is a lack of any overarching federal laws requiring auto defects be disclosed to used car dealers and after-market salvage parts dealers. Each state, in fact, has its own set of “lemon laws” that vary so dramatically that it’s difficult to find one common thread. Because of this, there’s a strong chance that you could purchase, say, a vehicle being recalled for the Takata airbag issue and not even know it – and you would have little, if any, legal recourse when and if you found out about it down the road.
If the Takata situation teaches us anything, it’s that we need to speak up with those calling for a reform, if not a total overhaul, of our current vehicle safety regulation system. From GM looking to save 57 cents a part for a defect that is now attributed to at least 50 deaths, to Takata using a violently combustible gas that has been described as “unbelievably cheap.” It’s time to change how things are done.
To read the full letter to the NHTSA from Nelson, Blumenthal and Markey, click here.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday said President Donald Trump should demonstrate his rejection of the white supremacists’ agenda by shutting down his commission on voter fraud, saying the panel’s real aim is to “disenfranchise voters.”
If Trump fails to rescind his order creating the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Congress should bar it by adding a measure to must-pass pieces of legislation this fall, Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an essay he published on Medium, the online publication.
Schumer said the commission was a “ruse” based on Trump’s claim that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in last year’s election. Schumer also said the panel’s intent was similar to the KKK’s: to limit the voting rights of black and other minority voters.
“In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, President Trump’s refusal to promptly and unequivocally denounce the radical, white-supremacist movement in this country was disgraceful,” he wrote.
“If the president wants to truly show that he rejects the discrimination agenda of the white supremacist movement, he will rescind the Executive Order that created this [election integrity] commission,” Schumer wrote.
“And if the president does not act, the Congress should prohibit its operation through one of the must-pass legislative vehicles in September,” he added.
Schumer also called for a public debate on the status of voting rights in America, including issues such as same-day registration and voting fraud.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is leading the commission, dismissed Schumer’s essay.
“It’s idiotic to suggest that a commission studying an issue from 30,000 feet looking at statistics and numbers is somehow going to cause a voter in some far-flung corner of the country to decide not to go to the polls some Tuesday,” he said.
Kobach acknowledged that black people and other minorities were barred or discouraged from registering and turning out to vote during the years of segregationist Jim Crow laws. But he said, “This [commission] bears no relationship or semblance to any of the discrimination laws of the Jim Crow South.”
The commission stirred widespread alarm when it sent a request to all states for publicly available voter registration data, but also asked for confidential information such as partial Social Security numbers and party registration.
After a federal judge ruled the commission could proceed with its data collection, Kobach scaled back his request for just publicly available voter registration data. New York State initially refused to comply, but in July gave the panel its publicly available registration file. |
State of the Shirt
I am not uncommon in that I spend a great deal of time online, absorbing visuals and information at rates that I find alarming. In those feasts of ones and zeros I come across inordinate amounts of sites selling shirts, either as their primary function, or as a side dish to some other main protein component.
Most of these sites are digested quickly, their nutrient value fairly thin. Some cause various mind-bowel irregularities, depending on how they fall on the range from puerile to just vile. There have been many that stand as points of interest over the years. I remember the first time I naturally arrived at threadless. This must have been years ago now, and I remember immediately dismissing it as a “myspace of shirts”. Distantly watching references from media and persons over the years, I kept my distance. Recently, chance brought them back into pervue,. Going to threadless now, it is obvious that the first visit is not demonstrable of how it has evolved. Designers of high talent have taken up there since my first visit, resulting in some visual feats that satisfy me even if they do not victoriously call me to log into paypal.
But there seems to be a grand majority of shirt designs that fall into the clever trap. I’ve owned and made my fair share of shirts that people have called clever. I’ve developed a rather large bias against clever. One thing that boggled me at first, is that clever doesn’t stick. It is not amazing enough to really get in there and stay there. And it seems that even most shirts at threadless fall into this, which to me is such a low level algebra. a+b=c. I know we might not need to be doing clothing calculus here, that shirts may be to people only so much laundry or a disposable article of fashion.
But it seems to me that we are capable of so much more. |
No matter what field you may work in or where you’re at in your life, turning on the creative switch in our minds is not always that easy. And no matter how many inspiring books you read or classes you may take, sometimes, the answer to how to be more creative lies within. But you see, many of us are still navigating life working remotely and staying closer to home, so days can tend to run together and make us feel uninspired. So to make things a little easier and give you a little motivation, I’d like to share with you some easy ways to stay creative and inspired, no matter what is going on around you.
ESTABLISH A HAPPY PLACE
What is your happy place? What or where is that moment for you when you can just sit back and bask in gratitude? Perhaps it’s at the beach? Or spending time people-watching in a park? My happy place is overlooking the view from my balcony while enjoying a nice warm cup of tea. This is about 20 minutes of alone time I dedicate to myself to get the creative juices flowing.
Often when we are in a calm, quiet, and relaxed place, we can better receive the clarity we need to thrive. When you are in your happy place, you are giving yourself a chance to hear and process all of your innermost thoughts and feelings. This is when you can also use visualization and mindfulness to gain a better understanding of what it is that truly makes you happy. And it’s that joy and happiness that has the power to unlock our most creative selves.
So if you don’t have a happy place, now is the time to find one! And if you already have a happy place, you can unlock even more creativity and inspiration by establishing a new or different happy place. You may be surprised at what you discover simply by establishing a new place or routine to call your own.
SHAKE UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT
In addition to establishing a new happy place or healthy routine, changing up your environment is another great way to awaken creativity when days feel monotonous. Whether it’s rearranging furniture, decluttering your work environment, or bringing home some new house plants, changing up your space can provide an instant dose of much-needed creativity and inspiration.
When you move things around (or clear things out) in a space that you’re used to, you gain a brand new perspective from your surroundings. Something as simple as moving a work desk to face outward toward a window has the power to breathe new life into not only your environment but into you and your productivity. A lot of the time, days can feel the same because everything looks the same, so our brains know what to expect. By stirring things up a bit, you are welcoming new life, new energy, and more creativity into a once dreary environment.
START SOMETHING NEW
Oftentimes it’s the newness of life that forces us to shift and even react differently. Perhaps it’s a new job or a new pet or even having a child that forces us to get creative and think differently, whether we’re ready for it or not. That’s why starting something new is another great way to keep creativity flowing when life feels like Groundhog Day.
Perhaps it’s starting a new book or a gratitude journal or even listening to new music – there are so many different ways to engage your creativity muscle. But the key here is to be intentional about it. It’s one thing to start something new, but don’t forget to give yourself deadlines or checkpoints. Having something new to start for yourself is a great way to spark creativity and hold yourself accountable and on track toward your desires.
SPEND TIME DAYDREAMING
Can you remember the last time you daydreamed? Well, daydreaming isn’t just for kids – we can daydream well into adulthood (and I highly encourage it!). When we constantly feel like we’re on autopilot day in and day out, we rarely have time to unplug. But when you daydream, you are allowing yourself to get lost in your thoughts and think about all of your wildest dreams and desires. Some may even consider it a form of visualization or meditation! So don’t be afraid to get lost in your thoughts because you never know what you may think of when you take a little time for yourself to unplug.
CONNECT AND COLLABORATE
Sometimes we can be so stuck on collaborating upwards when many of the best collaborations happen across. What I mean by this is, it’s okay to seek out your peers and the people in your inner circle to collaborate on new projects or ideas. Of course, working with those we admire or who have reached a level we aspire to get to is ideal, but you may find even more creativity and inspiration comes from those that are right in front of you.
And I’m not just talking business or career. This can happen in friendships, relationships, and even with family members. Maybe it’s deciding to start a fun blog with a friend or learning about a new topic, like the stock market or a foreign language, with your significant other – collaboration is one of the easiest and most fulfilling ways to get those creative juices flowing again when you’re feeling stuck.
TAKE A WALK
Walking is something that not only benefits our health and wellbeing but our creativity and brain function as well. If you find yourself sitting behind a computer screen or stuck on Zoom meetings most days, you may not always feel creative or inspired. That’s why taking a break to go for a walk and get fresh air can work wonders for our mental health. The improved concentration and reduction in stress that you get from walking outside and breathing in the fresh oxygen nature provides can be used to invigorate our personal power.
When you think of going for a walk as a way to ignite creativity, instead of just moderate exercise, you are boosting your ability to think outside the box. This is an incredible way to combat those creative blocks and even bouts of brain fog from burnout. This kind of relief tends to allow us to spend less time worrying about our insecurities or challenges and more time on inspired action with each step.
Hopefully, this list will send you on your way toward a more creative, inspired way of life and get you out of that stubborn creative block! But if you’re still feeling stuck, consider adding our Free Flow Energy Clearing System into the mix. It’s an immersive guided meditation that is specially designed to clear your energetic blueprint of all blocks and negative charges. So if you’re ready to activate those creative juices, start with Free Flow today to harness the inspiration and motivation you need to thrive!
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Crossett School District
219 Main Street
Crossett, AR 71635
June 24, 2020
Dear Parents and Community Members,
I am writing you to provide information regarding the opening of schools in August. Governor Hutchinson announced the plan to return to onsite instruction during his daily press conference on June 11, 2020. He stated, “When it comes to education, as I’ve said before and we want to emphasize today our plans are to go back to school next year in the school year in regular classroom fashion supplemented by online learning as needed.” What this means for Crossett School District and schools across the state is that we plan to open as normal with additional precautions in place to provide a safe environment for our students and staff. It also means that we will have “Blended Learning” available for those who wish to utilize that option.
Blended Learning is the use of virtual access for our students to connect with their teacher while at home. This option allows students to continue their course work from home if the parent feels it is best for their child. We feel that onsite instruction in the presences of our teachers is the most effective learning environment and are excited to hear Governor Hutchinson announce the plan to return to school in August. However, we also realize the concerns regarding COVID-19 and that some may wish to not return to campus for school when we reopen. It is for this reason that we are excited about the work our staff are doing to prepare for both onsite instruction and remote instruction. As more details about the options for parents become available, we will share them at that time.
If you have any questions, please call your child’s building principal and he or she will be glad to help in any way. In closing, we want to again say how excited we are to be able to provide our parents the option of having their child back at school or the option of utilizing our virtual access to continue school from home. We wish you a safe and fun filled summer!
Gary Williams, Superintendent |
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Glen Edward Daley, 79, of Montecito, passed away peacefully on 2/19/2015 after a lengthy illness surrounded by his loving friends and family. He is survived by his wife Sally Daley of 27 years, 5 children and 8 grandchildren.
Glen was born on April 18, 1935, in Turlock, California, and graduated from Hilmar High School in 1953. Glen was an honorary member of the Oxnard High School Class of “57”, as he and his wife Sally loved to socialize with their many friends and classmates at class reunions and annual Christmas
Glen moved to Santa Barbara in 1962 where he practiced as a barber. He was president and founder of Daley’s Barber and Beauty Supply, originally in Carpinteria, before moving the business to Oxnard. In 1998 Glen sold the business to Maley’s Beauty Supply and semi-retired. But because of his love for people and his passion for work, Glen continued to do sales from his home and car for many years thereafter.
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Most importantly Glen Daley was a loving husband, a generous and caring father and an amazing friend to so many. He will be greatly missed, but we honor his wonderful life and incredible spirit. May he rest in peace.
A graveside service will be held at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, Friday, February 27, at 11 am with reception to honor Glen’s life to follow at the Elks Lodge 613 – 150 N Kellogg Ave, Santa Barbara CA, 93111 – (805) 964-6859. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Silverado Hospice at Silverado Senior Living Facility and The Alzheimer’s Association of Santa Barbara. |
A gang who plied two teenage girls with alcohol and drugs before they were raped and sexually assaulted have been jailed for a total of 42 years.
The five men – all from Coventry – groomed their victims on Facebook before driving them to locations in the city where they were attacked.
One of the girls regained consciousness while she was being attacked on the back seat of a car.
Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne, Marcus Woolcock, Kenan Kelly and Zahid Chaudhary - whose addresses cannot be published for legal reasons - were found guilty of a total of 18 offences following a six-week trial which ended in December.
All five men appeared for sentencing at Warwick Crown Court today.
The heaviest prison sentence was handed to Khan, 24, who will serve 14-and-a-half years after being found guilty of two counts of trafficking and three of rape.
Bourne, 23, was found guilty of two counts of trafficking, three of rape and one of sexual assault and was jailed for 13-and-a-half-years.
The youngest in the group, 18-year-old Kelly, was convicted of two rapes, one sexual assault and one count of trafficking, and was jailed for ten years.
He also pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply drugs.
Marcus Woolcock, 22, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for one count each of trafficking and sexual assault, while Chaudhary was given 18 months for one count of trafficking.
The group were charged in connection with offences against six girls, but were only found guilty of offences relating to two of them.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told them: “You five are all here because of what happened between you and two teenage girls.
“You, as older boys and young men, each in different ways, took advantage of the naivety of these teenage girls in order to sexually exploit them.
“You, Waqaar Khan, used the fact that through social media it is easy to get in touch with girls and to exploit their desire to be grown up and rebellious in order to persuade them to get in to cars with you, and to then sexually exploit them when they have no realistic chance to escape.
“All of you played a part in that exploitation that then happened.
“These two girls suffered horrific experiences.”
Judge de Bertodano told the five defendants that they all come from supportive families and they must all have “younger sisters or cousins who you would be horrified for if anyone treated them in the way you treated these girls”.
She added: “Your families have had to sit and listen to what you have been doing which bears no reality at all to the person they have brought up.”
The gang were led by Khan who contacted teenage girls via Facebook in May 2015 and groomed them before arranging to meet them with the promise of gifts and shopping trips.
Once they had been picked up and driven elsewhere, they were attacked, with one girl having her ordeal recorded on a mobile phone.
Khan, Bourne and Kelly were all ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life, while Woolcock must sign for five years.
The court heard how a number of references and letters had been sent to the court by family and friends of the defendants.
Three letters were sent on Khan’s behalf - from his mother, sister-in-law and a neighbour – which his barrister David Jackson said showed “another side” to him.
A trio of references for Bourne were also been sent to the court, which Tim Sapwell, Bourne’s representative, said showed the offending was “out of character” and that he had “expressed deep regret”.
Mr Sapwell had urged Judge de Bertodano to pass a sentence which “punishes [Bourne] but recognises the need not to crush him”.
The court also heard from Zahir Afzal, for Chaudhary, who said that Chaudhary’s involvement was the “most limited” of all the defendants.
Judge de Bertodano interrupted him to say: “He drove the car while a girl was assaulted by two men and videod by a third.”
Mr Afzal replied: “He did not verbally encourage any of the others to do anything during that journey.”
Graeme Simpson, on behalf of Kelly, made reference to a letter written by Kelly’s mother to the court and stated a line which read: “I know he is aware of the pain he has caused but wants nothing more than to make amends for his actions.”
Mr Simpson said that Kelly can go on to become a “useful member of society”.
The court also heard that Woolcock “a follower rather than an instigator in this passage of his life”, according to his barrister Peter Cooper.
He added that Woolcock “can rebuild his life” and his girlfriend had stood by him. |
The Lady of the House had told me about the ladders.
On some of the trails she’d hiked during her family vacation in Utah, visitors had to climb up or down (or up and down) ladders to get to different levels of the trail. Today I would experience my first ladder.
We were in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. We’d just hiked Pothole Point Trail, and now we were on our way to Cave Spring Trail.
It was early afternoon and warm. I was glad it was early April and not full-on summer because despite the mild temperature, the sun was beating down. The last hike had mostly been in direct sun, and even with long cotton clothing covering m body and my big hat covering my head, I knew the sun would wear me down. Hiking in the sun and the heat—well, that’s not my idea of a good time. But as I said, the heat wasn’t so bad, and I was enjoying myself.
The Lady had read a description of Cave Spring at the visitor center or maybe in the informational newspaper about Canyonlands she’d picked up during her last visit to the park. She knew this was the hike with the ladder. I was calmly excited to climb a ladder on a hike because it’s not something everyone had done. Climbing a ladder on a hike would probably make me a little tougher, gave me a little extra trail cred. Lord knows I need all the trail cred I can get.
The first interesting stop on the trail was the cowboy camp. According to the sign at the trailhead, this first alcove served as an open-air bunkhouse. I’m not sure when this particular area was in use, but the sign says cowboys lived in isolated camps like this one from the 1890s until cattle ranching was discontinued in Canyonlands in 1975.
I don’t know if the items in the alcove are the actual items left in this particular spot by actual cowboys or if they were set up here to represent what a cowboy camp might have looked like. The sign alludes to the fact that this is the real deal, but doesn’t come right out and say so. When I believe real cowboys left these actual items in this particular place, I feel real lonely. Did the cowboys know they would never return and decided these items weren’t even worth taking out, or did they think they’d be back someday to pick up their things? Did anyone ever miss the blue bowl left on the table?
The next point of interest was Cave Spring itself. Located in more of an alcove than an actual cave, the trailhead sign calls it “one of the area’s few year-round water sources.” No wonder the cowboys wanted to camp nearby! There wasn’t a lot of water there—barely a pool—but enough for people to live off of when other sources were dry. I love the vivid green of the plants growing by the spring, especially against the browns and tans of the rock and dirt.
We soon saw that cowboys weren’t the only people who utilized this place. The sign at the trailhead says the area “contains evidence of almost 1,000 years of human use.” Past the cowboy camp, near the spring, we saw cave paintings.
We saw the handprints first. They’re not actually paintings, but the outlines of hands held up against the wall of stone while some white pigment was thrown or blown around the fingers. Who was this person who centuries ago decided to lean an “I was here” mark on the stone? Were there two people leaving evidence of their lives on that wall? (Only while looking at my photo of these hand outlines months later did I realize the outline on the left is that of a right hand—well, unless the person had the back of the hand pressed against the rock and not the palm as I’d first supposed.) Why is the outline on the right not very good? Was the wall too bumpy there for a good outline? What is the white pigment and how has it lasted for centuries? Did the person who left this mark imagine someone so far in the future would see it and wonder about it? Some of these questions may be answerable (how I wish I’d been able to attend a ranger talk at this site!) but the thought process that went into these marks will forever remain a mystery.
We saw more prehistoric art by the spring, these pieces produced with a rusty orange pigment. Most of the figures appear to me to be humanoid—I could see what I thought were meant to be arms and legs—but I have no idea what the figures are supposed to represent. Gods? Shamans? Aliens from outer space? Mom and Dad? Were these figures religious representations or the equivalent of a child’s drawing of the family fastened to the refrigerator door? Again, I doubt we’ll ever know with certainty.
The last of the rock painting we saw depicted hands again. I’m not sure if these were actual hand prints or paintings of handprints. The bright orange one to the far right looks most like an actual handprint done by someone who wasn’t very good at making handprints. (The outline of the thumb is barely there.) The others that look more spirally in the palm—was that from slightly different positioning in repeated printings? I wish now I had paid attention to the size of the hands, perhaps taken a photo with my own hand close by for comparison. I also wish I had seen the trail guide the sign at the trailhead describes as offering “more information on the human history of the area.”
The first part of the hike had been mostly in the cool of the shade. Especially near the spring, the air was damp and almost chilly. Soon after we saw the last of the rock paintings, we moved out into the open and back into the sun. It wasn’t long before I was climbing my first ladder!
There were actually two ladders on the tail. The trailhead sign says, “Past the spring, two wooden ladders lead to views of the surrounding terrain.”
The ladders weren’t as rickety as I had feared. I thought they’d be more rustic, but they were held together with modern metal bolts and washers. (Not to worry, I’d get my share of rustic and rickety ladders at Natural Bridges National Monument.)
Why ladders? I wondered. Did the native people of the area use ladders to get to different levels of the land? Were ladders less cost prohibitive than were metal or wooden stairways? Did wooden ladders blend into the landscape better than other options did? I have no answers to these questions.
Past the spring, this is not a trail for people with serious physical limitations. I made it down the ladder ok, but I went slowly and carefully. I gripped the rung in front of me before I moved to place my feet carefully on the rung below. I wouldn’t say I was scared, but I would say I was definitely cautious. I certainly felt tough once I had my feet back on the ground. Oh, yeah! I do hikes that involve climbing ladders! I’m a badass!
As someone who enjoyed studying anthropology, the human history aspect of Cave Spring Trail made it one of my favorite hikes. I was fascinated by what’s been left behind there by humans of the past. And did I mention I climbed down two ladders while hiking that trail? Did I mention I’m a badass?
I took all the photos in this post. |
The Holidays With A Loved One That Has Memory Loss
The holidays can be a tough time to get through when you are caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or dementia. To help maintain not only your loved one’s health but also your own mental health, here are some tips to help de-stress during the holidays and hopefully make things manageable.
1. Keep The Holidays Simple (Or As Simple As They Can Be): A key to planning holiday events with someone with dementia is to keep things as simple as possible, but find ways to include them. Whether you are hosting or visiting from out of town with your loved one try to plan ahead to identify some things your loved one can do at home or at the location you are visiting. Then try to make sure they are included in these opportunities. Can they mix up cookie dough or decorate cookies? Can they chop vegetables? Can they fold the table linens or set the table or arrange the food on trays?
2. Plan Activities That Everybody Can Join In. Consider taking walks, icing cookies, telling stories, making paper airplanes and then flying them, playing board games, doing chores together, making a memory book or family tree, or keeping a journal.
3. Structure and routine are important for a person with dementia. Plan ahead. Have an outline for the day, minimize the rules. If there is any change – like attending a gathering at another home – he or she could be out of sorts for the next few days, adding stress to the caregiver. Unexpected changes in routine can be tough for the person to adapt to. Sometimes, it’s best for the loved one to stay at home and receive visits of 30 minutes or less from a small number of guests stretched out over a period of days. Keep the number of guests to a minimum; sometimes even having two extra people in the room can be too much stimulation.
4. Prepare yourself and loved ones in advance: If the person with dementia has been experiencing changes and the guests have not seen the person in a long time, talk to them in advance about what to expect. Familiarize family and friends with behaviors and condition changes. Let everyone know that Grandma or Grandpa might forget things but that they will remember the way they feel around you.
5. Ask your family for help. Caregivers should try to ask for help when they can. If you are the primary caregiver, select things others can do for you and ask specific people to do them. Try not to be shy, it’s possible others may want to help but don’t know how. Share activities of the day, from laughter to clean up, which will allow everyone to help you. Sharing creates caring.
6. Self care is important. Pace yourself so you can be present with your loved one, family and friends. Also, you may need to shift your mental perspective and resolve to be alright with however the holidays turn out. Remember that your priority for your event is to love and have fun. Everything else that occurs is incidental. Remember to enjoy yourself. Although you may have a schedule going into the holidays if things don't happen as you expect, try to be flexible and open so you don't become overstressed or take things personally.
7. What can you give to someone with memory issues and their caregivers? Try practical and useful gifts, such as ID bracelets, easy-to-remove clothing, art supplies, or favorite music/books/movies. Caregivers usually appreciate anything that makes their life easier, such as gift cards for take-out food or a promise to help with a project around the home that they haven’t been able to tackle. You can offer to stay with the person so the caregiver can attend a family gathering or take time for him or herself. Extend the gift of yourself throughout the year. If you’re an adult child of someone with dementia, offer to stay with a parent each weekend for a few hours to provide relief to a caregiving parent or sibling. Develop new family traditions that has everybody involved. |
Queen of Sheba’s Sword is a side quest in Kingdom Come Deliverance. You can start it by talking to a particular blacksmith, but only after you’ve already acquired one of the sword’s pieces. The blacksmith will ask you to gather the remaining shards, so that he can reforge the blade. The game won’t tell you where to find them, though, which is exactly what you’ll find in our Kingdom Come Deliverance Queen of Sheba’s Sword quest guide.
You can start the quest by talking to the swordsmith in Sasau after you’ve obtained one piece. He can be found in the south part of town, as soon as you cross the river.
Where to find Queen of Sheba sword pieces?
You can get one piece by assigning Pickman work as a water carrier during the Aquarius quest. Afterwards, talk to him and he’ll give you the sword piece. Keep in mind this piece is missable. If you complete the quest without giving Pickman work, you won’t be able to obtain the sword.
You can get the second piece from Zach, the Sasau blacksmith. His workshop is in the northern part of town, right next to the monastery, and he’s the one with the yellow cap. You can either pickpocket him, or knock him out and steal it. If you choose the latter, you can either follow him home after hours, or wait for his apprentice to leave the shop (around noon).
The third piece is in Ledetchko, owned by the local blacksmith. You’ll find his shoppe on the south bank of the river – he’s the only one who lives there, so you won’t be able to miss him. If you’re feeling particularly generous, you can buy his piece for 200 groschen. Otherwise, simply pickpocket or choke him.
The next piece is in Rattay. You’ll find it in the home of the local swordsmith. He works and lives in the western part of town. The shard is in a trunk on the second floor, next to the inner staircase. You’ll need a key for it, or the ability to crack a very hard lock. The swordsmith himself has a key, but we got ours from a woman who entered the house for some reason – presumably a member of his family.
The last one is in Talmberg, in the blacksmith’s house. He lives in the center of the village, near the place where the two rivers converge. When you enter the house, you’ll see two doors on your left. Go through the second one, and you’ll see the piece on a barrel in the corner. |
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GroundFloor Media, a Denver communications firm that is a The Civic 50 Colorado honoree, established a site to help the community support Colorado’s smaller nonprofits that may need assistance during this volatile time. Opportunities to contribute are updated daily and can include distributing food, volunteering remotely, making an in-kind donation or providing corporations with a way to give back to their Colorado community.
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Interesting Twitter thread about the following question: If you plot the US state-by-state COVID infection rates since Sept 1, 2020–i.e. the recent and now receding surge–which is a better predictor:
The percent of the population infected before Sept 1, or
The margin of Biden’s victory in the state?
You might expect that states which had lots of COVID before Sept. 1 would have more of it after Sept. 1 for the same reasons they were getting it earlier. Or, I suppose, you might expect the reverse: states learn from their mistakes, and if infection rates were higher earlier then more people have immunity, so there’s a negative relationship between earlier infection rates and later infection rates.
According to Youyang Gu, both of those expectations are broadly wrong:
Instead, the single variable with the most predictive power is how strongly states voted for Biden.
As commenters in the thread note, at an R-squared of about 0.5, this is not a fully explanatory variable–there’s a lot going on, no doubt. Youyang Gu’s suggestive claim is only that as single-variable explanations go, this is the most powerful.
Florida is dismissing a recent warning from federal regulators about the accuracy of a popular COVID-19 test from one of the state’s largest testing providers — and continuing to use the test in a way the FDA has advised against.
Meanwhile, the state’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, is reconsidering how it uses the test.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning last month alerting the public to “the risk of false results, particularly false negative results,” with the test made by an enormous San Dimas, CA-based testing start-up, Curative, noting that false negatives can mean people unknowingly spreading the virus to others. The risk of false negatives is higher, the FDA noted, when the test isn’t used correctly.
Looks fairly dramatic to me, but of course I’m not a scientist.
The increase in cases has not been matched, yet, by as great an increase in deaths, although that number is also rising quickly.
I suspect this is because deaths lag cases by several weeks, and because treatment has improved. In addition, perhaps, a smaller fraction of the new cases are in the most vulnerable (e.g. elderly) population compared to the earlier peaks. But if the lag claim is correct, then expect the weekly deaths number to go up for some time before it goes down. |
When it comes to music streaming services that you subscribe to, Spotify is without doubt one of the popular services on today's Internet.
The service is available for a variety of platforms, including desktop computers, the mobile platforms iOS and Android, and also as as web-based version.
The company behind Spotify made an announcement recently that introduced a free version of the service for mobile devices and tablets.
This new version provides unlimited (meaning no time limit) access to music on Spotify if you are using a tablet or mobile for the connection and are a free user of the service.
While you can only experience shuffle play this way, it effectively means free access to Spotify's vast database of music.
What Spotify did not mention in the announcement, or anywhere else on the official website, is that it also removed the 10 hour limit for free Spotify accounts.
The free accounts were limited to 10 hours of ad-interrupted playback in the past. Apparently, that is a thing of the past, so that desktop and web users can listen to Spotify for as long as they want, even if they use a free account and not one of the premium accounts.
There is no official confirmation for that, but you find positive responses to that on the official forum, and if you browse the Terms of Service, you will also notice that a time limit is not mentioned here anymore.
So how do the free mobile, free desktop and premium version of Spotify differ from each other?
If you are using a free account on a mobile device, you get access to shuffle play any playlist or artist catalog, and to create your own playlists.
Desktop and tablet users get the same experience, and on top of that, an option to play any song on-demand.
Premium account owners get all of those features, plus access to the highest quality audio, an ad-free listening environment, and options to download music for offline listening.
And Spotify Unlimited users? Those users get the same experience as desktop users it semms, but with uninterrupted playback added so that they can listen to music that is not interrupted by advertisement.
Free users will certainly appreciate the removal of the time limit, while premium users will have one of the features that set their accounts apart from free accounts taken away from them.
It is likely that at least some paying users of the service have only upgraded their accounts to premium for the ability to listen to Spotify music for as long as they like.
Why did Spotify make the change? It is likely that the company is trying to increase the user count of the service this way.
Are you using Spotify or another music streaming service? What's your take on this?Advertisement
Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in 2005 by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. |
Omar Hariri named chairman of SkyTeam Cargo
Saudia Cargo is the newest member of SkyTeam Cargo’s 12 member airlines after joining the air cargo alliance in April 2019.
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Air freight alliance SkyTeam Cargo has announced the appointment of Omar Hariri, CEO of Saudi Airlines Cargo (Saudia Cargo) and Saudi Arabian Logistics (SAL), as new chairman of its executive board.
He replaces Shawn Cole, VP of Delta Cargo, who chaired for the last three years.
“It will be an honour chairing the executive board of SkyTeam Cargo, the largest alliance in the cargo industry accounting for nearly 20% of the global air cargo movement. SkyTeam Cargo with its two decades of formulation has come a long way and with its 12-member airlines reaching every corner of the globe, enjoys a vast geographic reach and connectivity between the east and west and vice versa,” Hariri expressed in a statement.
“With the growing demand for pharma and e-commerce, our aim is to continue exploring new markets while enhancing connectivity and efficient deliveries, further grow and strengthening the core business of our 12-member airlines,” he added.
Hariri joined Saudia Cargo as CEO in February 2018, with extensive experience in air freight and logistics management from previous roles with DHL Express and FedEx Express.
Outgoing chairman, Shawn Cole, commented, “Our true character was revealed in the face of the many unprecedented challenges brought upon us by COVID-19. I know that Omar Hariri will serve our alliance well as we continue to navigate through the crisis, rebuild network connectivity and contribute to support the transportation of vaccines”.
Saudia Cargo is the latest member of SkyTeam Cargo after joining in April 2019. The air cargo group, which marked its 20th anniversary last September, counts Aeroflot Cargo, Aerolíneas Argentinas Cargo, Aeromexico Cargo, Air France-KLM Cargo, Alitalia Cargo, China Airlines Cargo, China Cargo Airlines, Czech Airlines Cargo, Delta Cargo and Korean Air Cargo as its members.
Collectively, the alliance of 12 member airlines is working together with more than 3,337 aircraft, including 63 full freighters to 159 destinations. |
The Parable of the Two Toilet Paper Rolls: An Opinion Piece
Although in the photo it may look like there is still some paper on roll number two, there, where it stops hanging, is where the glue starts. There is not even one full sheet left on it!. Now, before we start, please be aware that the re-stock toilet paper rolls can be reached without even lifting a single cheek off the toilet!
Therefore, we have three pre-wipe/pre-flush scenarios:
- Roll number one has paper, but roll number two is effectively empty. A person came in and ran out the rest of roll one, but, since there were scraps on roll two, “technically” they did not use the last of the toilet paper without refilling it. I can understand (not condone mind you, but understand) that perhaps this is the result of a bit of apathy combined with being in a hurry.
- Roll number one is empty, but roll number two has paper. This is the next step along the path toward an abject lack of consideration. Some horribly lazy person came in to poop and roll one was already empty. So, they used up the last bit on roll two, essentially using the last of the paper. This person probably rationalized their laziness by thinking, “The last person did not refill the empty roll, so why should I have to refill both rolls?” This is scarier than the first scenario because it required actual thought to be neglectful.
- Roll number one has paper; roll number two has paper: What if there was paper on BOTH rolls? This monster sat down and emptied the last of roll one, and, since that was not enough to accomplish the mission, moved on to roll two and cleaned that one out too! If this is the case, we have a real sociopath on our hands. To actively empty both rolls and refill neither of them while sitting at arm’s length from the resupply really requires total disdain for your co-workers and yourself. This is beyond some sort of personality quirk—this is a life disorder.
Regardless of which scenario actually took place, this is no way to go through life. You don’t necessarily refill the toilet paper for other people; you refill the toilet paper because that is the type of society and world you want to live in.
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Wheat Yeah! Jimmy John’s Unveils New 9-Grain Wheat Sub
Sandwich Giant Announces The Menu Addition With A Pop-up Store In North Dakota Wheat Field
September 05, 2018 // Franchising.com // CHAMPAIGN, IL - One of America’s fastest-growing sandwich franchises is adding a new bread to its lineup for the first time in over 20 years. The new 9-Grain Wheat Sub features a delicious blend of wheat, rye, flaxseed, quinoa, millet, oats, barley, amaranth and spelt, as well as honey, coconut and molasses. It is available with any Jimmy John’s sandwich at no extra charge.
The addition is part of Jimmy John’s Freak Yeah™ campaign which celebrates the extreme lengths to which their employees go to make the perfect sandwich. To introduce the new 9-Grain Wheat Sub, the freaks at Jimmy John’s opened a pop-up store made from a grain bin in a wheat field in Binford, North Dakota - a farming community known for its vast wheat fields.
“The new 9-Grain Wheat Sub has a taste so inspired, we introduced it in the place that inspired it.” said Jimmy John’s Chief Marketing Officer John Shea.
Local farmers and residents were among the first to taste the new sandwiches.
“Over the last year, we have been listening to our customers to better understand exactly what they want and how we can offer additional high-quality products,” explained Shea. “The new 9-Grain Wheat Sub is a direct result of those conversations.”
Like the traditional French bread, the new 9-Grain Wheat Sub will be freshly-baked in store every day. It is the latest in a series of new products that Jimmy John’s has rolled out this year, including the popular Kickin’ Ranch®, the 16” Giant Sandwich, and a sliced version of Jimmy John’s World-Famous pickles, all of which can be applied to the new 9-Grain Wheat Sub.
Founded in 1983 by Jimmy John Liautaud in Charleston, Ill., Jimmy John’s has built its reputation on serving up fast and fresh sandwiches in communities across the country and is one of the fastest growing franchises in the U.S. with nearly 2,800 Jimmy John’s locations across 43 states.
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Freaky Fast! Freaky Fresh!™ Jimmy John’s makes fresh, fast, tasty sandwiches. Homemade bread is served freshly baked and locally purchased veggies and all-natural meats are hand sliced daily. For more information, visit jimmyjohns.com or check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at facebook.com/jimmyjohns, twitter.com/jimmyjohns, and instagram.com/jimmyjohns/.
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Darlington Classic Car Show
Want to take part in the first ever Darlington Classic Car Show? Register now.
On Saturday 3 September, the town centre will welcome cars, military vehicles, bikes and even old-fashioned fire engines, from across the decades – and organisers are calling on anyone who still wants to take part to sign up now. The show will be the centrepiece of a day of free, family entertainment at the town centre’s Joseph Pease Place, West Row and Market Square and organiser, Distinct Darlington, said places are still available for classic car exhibitors.
“We really want as many types of vehicle, from as many different eras, as possible,” said Alex Hirst, manager of Distinct Darlington, which was formed to promote business in the town centre. “So, I would urge any owners, or car clubs who haven’t already registered, to do so as soon as possible.”
Along with the chance to get up close to vehicles from days gone by, visitors will be able to chat to exhibitors and enjoy a variety of automotive-themed entertainment throughout the day.There will be the chance to help a local graffiti artist transform a scrapped car into a community art installation and Darlington business, Hole in the Wall Market Tavern and Kitchen, will be on hand to provide refreshments and musical entertainment and the UK’s leading freestyle mountain bike stunt team, Savage Skills, will provide a dare devil show, suitable for all ages.
Spitfires and Stags, Morris Minors and Midgets are all making their way to Darlington next month for the town’s first ever classic car show.
On Saturday, 3 September, the town centre will play host to dozens of vintage vehicles, from a 1930s Austin 10 Cambridge and a 1950s Singer Roadster to a 1960s Ford Anglia and a 70s Mercedes.
And with cars coming from across the country to attend the free event, organiser Distinct Darlington said families are in for a great day out.
“The response from car clubs and owners has been incredible,” said manager, Alex Hirst.
“More exhibitors are getting in touch every day and the number – and variety – of cars just keeps growing. It’ll be great to see them all and the atmosphere should be brilliant.”
The show will take place at the town centre’s Joseph Pease Place, West Row and Market Square and a wide range of entertainment is planned throughout the course of the day.
Favourite children’s character, Bumblebee; an ‘autobot’ Chevrolet Camaro from the Transformers films, will be making a special appearance and there will be the chance to help a local graffiti artist transform a scrapped car into an artwork.And Darlington business Hole in the Wall Market Tavern and Kitchen will be on hand to provide refreshments and musical entertainment.
Darlington’s Classic Car Show will take place between 10am and 4pm and exhibitors must register no later than 26 August. Registration is free and forms and further information can be found at www.distinctdarlington.co.uk/eventsBack to News |
At a time when digital transformation is an imperative for organizations to stay in the race, Capgemini and MuleSoft have been partnering to increase the success rate of going digital. Jeroen van Essen, Hybrid Integration Expert at Capgemini and Gaurav Chopra, Lead Solution Consultant with MuleSoft throw light how Capgemini, along with MuleSoft, ensures that customers can be on top of their game!
Pursuing Digital Transformation
Businesses are pursuing digital transformation to achieve a step change in their speed, agility, and ability to innovate. This largely rests on their ability to access data in a seamless manner, across the breadth of their organizational ecosystem, as well as their customer and partner and vendor database.
Hybrid Integration approach
Jeroen explains how Capgemini offers customers with an assessment to understand their current positioning and then develop and deploy a digital strategy towards becoming a game-changer. “Let’s say our client wants to offer customized services to their end-customers and are focused on customer-centricity: their key areas of interest would then be creating new apps and new web portals, new ways of marketing, and new business cases, new ways of delivering business value. Or, for that matter, let’s assume our client is in the agricultural market: their area of interest would center around be providing the farmers with the weather data and data about the soil they’re farming on in combination with the products they are using to enable them to optimize performance. In both these cases, what is striking is the fact that various data systems are involved, which need to work together in a seamless manner – which is what we call “hybrid integration!”
This has triggered the need for an API and hybrid integration approach, which according to Capgemini’s latest client research, Unlocking the Hybrid Integration Dividend, reduces time to market, accelerates the adoption of new technologies, and creates new revenue streams, thereby enabling superior revenue growth. Towards this end, Capgemini offers clients an end-to-end suite of hybrid integration services, in collaboration with MuleSoft, which provides one of the most widely used integration platforms.
Agility, speed and innovation
Gaurav Chopra, spoke about how Capgemini and MuleSoft have been collaborating since 2015 to offer clients with an on-premises, cloud, and hybrid integration platform based on open-source API connectivity. This, not only enables them to can connect applications and data but also to adapt agility, speed, and innovation in developing and deploying new products, systems, and processes.
300% productivity increase at Unilever
Both Jeroen and Gaurav spoke about a brilliant example of how our collaboration went on to offer one of our leading retail clients, Unilever, with a solution that enabled a 300% productivity increase!
“In a fast-moving agile world, where innovative disruptors were gaining ground, Unilever decided to focus on product development as well as a ramp up of their technology. While new product development, right from innovation to research and development, and build and test could be achieved in a matter of six months, the rollout of the new product would often take 12 to 18 months owing to the multitude of disparate systems at work. At this stage, MuleSoft introduced a unified platform and in collaboration with Capgemini offered Unilever a is fast and agile framework that included everything from designing APIs or integration framework, to testing them (mock testing and unit testing both) and then doing a complete roll-over into production,” pointed out Gaurav.
Jeroen further emphasizes the need of a rationalized integration landscape and a flexible API strategy, and stated how Capgemini’s Center for Enablement approach was key in API management. “We work in collaboration with the customers’ architect team and business analysts and via the C4E provide guidelines and a central point of contact for all projects, and also evangelize the concept of putting an integration platform at the center of all IT projects.”
Focus on impact for customers
An ideal digital strategy for organization rests on gaining competitive advantage by unlocking business value from new technologies. And Jeroen signs off by underlining that “Most organizations are focusing on the technical capabilities and functionalities that each platform provides, but to have real impact with customers it is also important to change the way of working and start perceiving the integration platform as the central part within your application landscape. And it is thanks to MuleSoft that we are able to offer our clients with an end-to-end solution around the integration activity that enables them to be two steps ahead, digitally!”
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Top Ten Best Offensive Tackles of the 2020 NFL Season
Bakhtiari was named to his second first team all-pro team after being arguably the best lineman on arguably the best offensive line in the NFL. Unfortunately, he tore his ACL before Week 17 and may miss a few games to start 2021. Still, Bakhtiari had one of his finest seasons in 2020.
Ramczyk still has not made a Pro Bowl, and yet is a three time all-pro. I guess that’s what happens if you’re a right tackle. The Saints have to extend this man. He should be there for the long run protecting their new starter, whether it’s Jameis Winston, Taysom Hill, or a free agent or draft pick.
Earning his second career first team all-pro nod, Conklin headed a top Browns offensive line. It was a home run signing for Cleveland that led to their first playoff appearance since 2002.
After sitting out the 2019 season and finally getting traded to the 49ers, Williams didn’t miss a beat. Being named to his 8th Pro Bowl, Williams provided the perfect replacement to longtime 49er Joe Staley. In fact, Williams might even be better than him.
There’s just something interesting about how Bolles flipped the script in Denver. He went from a liability who holds on every play to a premier left tackle in the NFL and a second team all-pro. The Broncos didn’t give up on him, and Bolles rewarded them for their patience. The Broncos have a pretty underrated offensive line, and Bolles is the anchor of it.
Wirfs had an elite rookie season protecting Tom Brady. I think he only allowed one sack. That’s a Pro Bowl number. The Buccaneers have found their tackle of the future.
Before getting injured, what Whitworth was going approaching age 40 at left tackle was absolutely insane. The Rams are lucky to have a guy like him starting there. If he comes back for another season, he will turn 40 during it. Time will tell, but if he play was any indicator, he has a good chance of returning to protect Matthew Stafford.
The Saints have the best tackle duo in the NFL, and Armstead is a major reason why. The Pro Bowler has done an amazing job over the years at left tackle. He and Ryan Ramczyk are a great duo.
With Ronnie Stanley going out with injury, Brown continued his steady play at right tackle and made his second straight Pro Bowl. He will be getting paid soon, either with the Ravens or someone else.
On a terrible Texans team, Tunsil was a bright spot. He is their best lineman on a middle of the road offensive line. He might be protecting a different quarterback next season. |
Liverpool youngster Rhian Brewster has gained attention from a trio of English Premier League clubs, with Aston Villa believed to be leading the chase for the talented youngster. The Englishman is available for either a loan deal or even a permanent transfer in this summer.
The youngster joined Liverpool's academy when he turned 14 after many years at the Chelsea academy. During his six years stay on Merseyside, Brewster has made only four first team appearances, but he impressed while on loan with Swansea City in the second half of last season in the Championship.
Aston Villa player Ahmed Elmohamady has urged his players to stay motivated and face Everton in their next match with the same spirit and positive outlook. With the win against Crystal Palace, they ended their winless run in Premier League. They are still on the same spot and is still facing the threat of relegation. But they are only four points away from the safe zone with 30 points from 35 matches.
Aston Villa was able to end their long stream of defeats with the victory against Crystal Palace for 2–0 and the star of the match is Mahmoud Trezeguet who scored the two goals by ending the misery of Villa. He joined the club on 2019 for £8.5 million and has been doing great on the team. He has contributed well to the team during the crucial points in the season. The player will be receiving more attention from many clubs as the summer transfer window is approaching.
Darren Benthas said that Grealish will be worth of £80 million by the next transfer window. Grealish has made a better impact than the Harry Maguire who was transferred to Manchester United in 2019 for a record transfer fee of £85 million.
United is looking forward to making another huge amount of transfer and with the performanceof Grealish in Aston Villa, he has the chances of becoming the most expensive defender in football. After taking away Maguire from Leicester City Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now targeting Grealish for another big move and is bringing many considerable changes in the game.
Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has said that he is excited by the availability of John McGinn following his long-term absence because of an ankle fracture. The Scotland international was an influential figure for the west Midlands outfit on their top-flight return and he bagged three goals and two assists from the centre of the park before being sidelined with the injury in late December.
Jermain Defoe urges Alfredo Morelos to move to Aston Villa, as he believes that the player has enough talent to play in the Premier League. The player was constantly linked with Aston Villa when they have shown interest towards the player during the January transfer window. The forward has scored 29 goals by appearing for 46 games in this season for Rangers.
Dean Smith says that if the football season was to resume, it would feel like a new campaign with Aston Villa. The manager was speaking for the first time since the league was suspended. It is not clear if the campaign would resume and this would leave Aston Villa in a deep disappointment considering that the club find themselves in the bottom three. After just winning promotion on the back of a huge spending spree, Villa have had a disappointing season under Dean Smith. In the last match that the club played, Leicester City were able to get a 4-0 win and this was the fourth consecutive loss.
Former Aston Villa forward Darius Vassell believes Jack Grealish will make the move to an elite Premier League when the transfer window reopens at the end of the season. The 24-year-old has been the standout performer since the Villains’ promotion to the top-flight last summer and he has contributed seven goals and five assists to date.
Former Manchester City star Joleon Lescott believes Jack Grealish should turn down the chance to join Manchester United during the summer transfer window. The 24-year-old had been an influential leader for Aston Villa since their Premier League comeback and he has contributed seven goals and five assists from 23 appearances.
Despite this, the west Midlands outfit are languishing within one point off the relegation places and reports have emerged that Grealish would part ways with the club regardless of their league status next season. Speaking on TalkSPORT, Lescott said that United are definitely a big club and Grealish would surely be tempted with the prospect of joining them.
Former Premier League star Darren Bent believes Aston Villa should stick with manager Dean Smith and back him with fundsfor the January transfer window. The west Midlands outfit have slumped to seven defeats from the past nine league games and this had dropped them into the relegation places. |
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What was that!
Oh, that was 2020 and we’re sure glad it’s in the rearview mirror and that we can look forward to 2021 and maybe start to a better roaring 20s.
Or can we?
One thing we know is that privately held businesses are going to face challenges in 2021.
- Higher taxes
- More regulation
- Foreign trade uncertainty
- Pandemic issues
Those are certain as we change federal administrations and the accompanying differences in the philosophical approach to business.
One thing about small business is that it’s nimble and can “pivot” (that seems to be the catch word of the 20s) quickly.
The nimble adapt and survive.
One only has to look at the way businesses adapted to the lockdowns and the stay-at-home work force to see that small business will find a way to survive.
CBI decided to pivot early in 2020 when we saw the handwriting on the wall with the pandemic. Our forte has been and will always be selling businesses. We set the curve for that.
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HP has a revealed a host of new fifth-generation ZBook mobile workstations, including a convertible which the firm claims is the most powerful ever made, and also boasts the world’s brightest 4K laptop display.
The notebook in question is the HP ZBook Studio x360 G5, which is a 2-in-1 with a 360-degree hinge that runs with powerful Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia graphics.
As mentioned, HP reckons it has the brightest 4K display in any notebook around (as measured by HP in nits), and the anti-glare touchscreen benefits from HP DreamColor technology and 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity when used with a stylus.
HP also unveiled the ZBook Studio G5 which is targeted at creative professionals, and also boasts that same bright 4K display, which is measured at 600 nits, and is thus around 20% brighter than Apple’s MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina model.
The Studio G5 can be specified with a six-core Intel Xeon processor, Nvidia Quadro graphics and up to 6TB of storage.
Moving on to the new HP ZBook17 G5, this model claims the title of the world’s most powerful mobile workstation, with a processor that boasts 50% more cores than the previous generation, backed with up to 64GB of memory and Nvidia Quadro P5200 graphics.
It can be specified with up to a whopping 10TB of storage, and this notebook has much better cooling than the previous model as well, with HP claiming it boasts 20% better thermal performance in comparison. A dizzying array of customization options are also available here, with up to 50 million different configurations possible, no less.
HP also revealed the ZBook 15 G5, which offers a 4K HP DreamColor display (with the same 600 nits brightness as the aforementioned ZBook Studio). It offers tool-less access and can be specified with up to 6TB of storage (with potentially up to 4TB of PCIe storage). It also runs much cooler than the previous generation, with 30% better thermals according to HP.
There’s also a ZBook 15v G5 spin aimed at small businesses and engineering students, which packs in suitably powerful components, but at a more affordable price.
The ZBook 15v runs with a six-core Intel Xeon processor and 32GB of memory, with Nvidia Quadro graphics and up to 4TB of storage.
Finally, HP showed off a new monitor, the DreamColor Z27x G2 Studio Display, a 27-inch IPS screen with super-accurate colors, boasting 98% Adobe RGB coverage and 99% DCI P3. It also has an integrated pop-up sensor that can be used to calibrate the screen on-demand.
Also worth a mention is the fact that HP said its ZBook x2, launched late last year, now utilizes Intel’s 8th-gen Core processors.
The HP DreamColor Z27x G2 monitor is expected to go on sale in Europe later this month priced at €2,299 (around £2,000, $2,800).
All of the aforementioned ZBook laptops should be available in May, with the ZBook Studio x360 starting at €1,349 (around £1,180, $1,650). The HP ZBook Studio will have a starting price of €1,199 (around £1,050, $1,470).
HP’s ZBook 17 will start from €1,299 (around £1,130, $1,590), with the HP ZBook 15 costing €1,249 (around £1,090, $1,530), and the more wallet-friendly HP ZBook 15v starting from €849 (around £740, $1,040).
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A no-deal Brexit will see more bureaucracy and taxes on trade, government preparedness papers have revealed, potentially causing increase in prices for the hospitality sector and hurdles to operation for small and medium sized suppliers.
As part of preparations for a no-deal Brexit scenario - where the UK is unable to establish an agreement with the EU before 29 March 2019 - the government has issued advice on several sectors of the UK economy including import and export, organic produce, and farming.
While the reports note a no-deal scenario "remains unlikely given the mutual interests of the UK and the EU in securing a negotiated outcome", the technical notices set out "information to allow businesses and citizens to understand what they would need to do in a no-deal scenario, so they can make informed plans and preparations."
The documents note several bureaucratic hurdles for UK imports, including licences suppliers may need to apply for. Trade between the EU and the UK would operate under Most Favoured Nation rules, which means the EU and the UK would offer the same tariffs as they do to similar countries where they do not already have a trade deal in place, which could cause an increase in prices along the supply chain.
Te reports repeatedly advise businesses consider whether to employ "a customs broker, freight forwarder or logisitics provider" - potentially incurring further costs and hurdles to operation for SME's in the supply industry.
Further impact could be felt by organic focused operations that depend on trade with the EU.
Leaving without a deal will mean the UK can no longer use the EU's organic certification and logos - even if they have previously been used by companies. As such the UK would have to apply a new organic standards authority, and issue new logos which must be printed on packaging.
And while UK businesses who trade organic produce must apply to operate under the EU's organic certification, the report notes "UK control bodies are not permitted to make these applications until the UK becomes a ‘third country'.
It adds: "Approval [for the UK to become a third country] can take up to nine months so we are exploring alternative approaches that should speed up this process."
This could mean a potentially catastrophic delay in the ability of organic based operations to trade produce in the EU.
UKHospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said: "A no-deal Brexit would cause serious problems for many UK businesses, not least of all the hospitality sector. These initial announcements will provide some small measure of reassurance, but we need to see the rest of the proposals and a great deal more detail on how the Government proposes to mitigate the impacts of a no-deal exit.
"There are still major concerns about food and drink imports upon which hospitality businesses rely to a large degree and we still need substantially more clarity on the exact terms for current EU citizens as well as an idea of what the future immigration system will look like.
"We will be looking forward to the future publications for more certainty and detail and, hopefully, proactive plans for the support of the hospitality sector in any Brexit scenario." |
As runners, you know your body better than most people do, and running through aches and pains is a “normal” thing. Although not always the best thing. When your instincts fail you and you learn that there may be more going on in your body than you realize, all you know about yourself goes into question.
A couple of years ago, I was running strong and had just completed my first 100 miler earlier that spring. That November, I started to notice some changes that should have been warning signs. My energy levels began to decrease, and I began to have tightness in my chest when I was running. By January, my runs had gotten so difficult I couldn’t run a quarter mile without struggling to breathe and my heart rate was higher than normal. Finally, I saw my doctor who thought it was a lung infection or a virus. As a runner your heart rate is usually pretty low, during my exam, mine was “within normal limits.” He put me on some medicine and an inhaler but by the next week, I couldn’t tell much of a change.
One morning I went for a run and got a sharp pain in right calf so I stopped and did all the runner things – stretching, foam rolling. I thought I just pulled something. The next morning I was to have a checkup with my GI doctor who sent me straight to the ER. The ER doctor found I had two blood clots in my leg, Deep Vein Thrombosis, and multiple bilateral pulmonary embolisms. She told me how lucky I was to be there and that my lungs were sprinkled with small clots.
They immediately put me on IV blood thinners and eventually transitioned me to an oral blood thinner. The doctor’s initial thought was that this was caused by my birth control, which I was taken off of immediately, but the doctor also did some genetic testing to confirm whether I had any blood disorders. After almost a week in the hospital, I was sent home, and recovery began.
The genetic testing came back all clear so the cause was confirmed that it was due to my birth control and I could go off the blood thinners after about 6 months. After given “all clear” from my doctor I was allowed to start running again. It felt amazing to be able to run without having trouble breathing.
I eventually began training again and set my sights on my second 100 miler that fall. But on blood thinners, this was new territory. Recovery time increased, I had to carry a first aid kit at all times in case I fell due to increased chance of bleeding, and compression socks became my norm.
In my June checkup, my right calf was still noticeably larger than my left. More tests showed new clots along with the old clot from January. I was put on blood thinner shots for a month and switched to a different oral blood thinner. Additional genetic testing still showed normal. It was frustrating to be told the cause was more than likely the birth control but still not know for sure since I was still producing clots. I was allowed to run as long as I had no pain but I needed to stay on the blood thinners.
There’s not many studies out there on runners with a history of blood clots doing ultramarathons. I saw a sports medicine doctor who did testing on my lung capacity, which was normal. I was training strong and all my tests showed I was doing well. So there wasn’t anything saying “I shouldn’t do it”. I went over all possible scenarios with my race crew – I needed to take my medication at certain times, wear compression sleeves, carry a first aid kit. I was able to finish my race thanks to my great crew, my supportive family, my doctors that ensured I was in the best condition.
Throughout this experience I learned I need to be an advocate for my own health. I couldn’t trust my instincts. As a runner, sometimes your stubbornness to push through pain can override your instincts that something isn’t right. I also learned that despite these hardships with my health, I wasn’t going to let these things keep me from being the runner I used to be. Blood clots can go untreated in athletes due to the adaptations their bodies have made to their sport. When you compound that with the risk of clots from birth control, women need to know what to look for. I had been on birth control for over fifteen years and never had an issue. The chance of a woman getting clots from their birth control is very low, but know your risks and educate yourself. I learned a lot from the National Blood Clot Alliance website. |
WWE Champion Sheamus, a.k.a. the Celtic Warrior, joined Bautista for a cardio workout with MMA coach Josh Rafferty last summer. As it was the six-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion's first time back in the gym after a layoff, though, they're taking things easy. But the 50-year-old (at the time, he's since turned 51) actor's 'easy' is a lot tougher than most.
Bautista warms up using an exercise ball to get blood flowing and loosen up his shoulders, and some ladder drills aimed at "firing up" his left leg, which needs extra attention due to some slight nerve damage from his back surgery. He'd also undergone knee surgery the year before, and says these were the kind of exercises he would use to get back in shape and retain his agility.
Warmup all done, Bautista and Sheamus do some boxing work on heavy bags, then hit the elliptical machine and battle ropes. Bautista talks a little about getting massive for Avengers: Endgame by lifting weights, but adds: "That's not the kind of training I really prefer. It's kinda boring, it's very monotonous, and I just don't care to be muscle-bound, I get muscle-bound pretty fast."
In fact, when he's not getting stacked to play Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and now that his career in the ring is at an end, Bautista has dropped some muscle. He believes this is an asset when it comes to staying in shape and recovering from injuries: "I've varied my training and trimmed down a lot, and I think it's really helped my overall health."
And not every workout has to be a rager; for Bautista, it's about consistency. "Sometimes you can't go as hard as you would other times," he says. "But if you come in, just do a little bit, it goes a long way... it's a marathon."
This article originally appeared on Men's Health |
Sony a1 Overview
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The Sony Alpha 1 (a1) is a high-end full-frame mirrorless camera with a 50MP Stacked BSI-CMOS sensor and in-body image stabilization. The a1 offers blackout-free shooting on its giant 9.44M-dot (240 fps) EVF at burst rates of up to 30 fps. It has Sony's latest autofocus system, with fast processing and face/eye/animal detection. The electronic shutter is designed to eliminate flicker and offers a flash sync of 1/200 sec (it's an impressive 1/400 sec with the mechanical shutter).
A 'Pixel Shift Multi Shooting' mode combines 16 exposures into a 199MP image, which must be processed on a PC. Speaking of which, the camera can be controlled over dual band Wi-Fi, or tethered to a PC via USB or Ethernet. In addition to supporting the standard HEIF format, Sony has added a 'Light HIEF/JPEG' option for smaller file sizes.
The a1 captures oversampled 8K/30p at a bit rate of 400Mbps as well as oversampled 4K at up to 120 fps. The camera can record 10-bit 4:2:2 video, and supports S-Cinetone, S-Log2/3, and HLG Log formats. 16-bit Raw recording to compatible external recorders is also available. The a1's body is designed to allow 30 minutes of continuous 8K recording.
The a1 uses the NP-FZ100 battery with up to 530 shots/charge with the LCD and 430 with the EVF. A battery grip is optional.
|Body type||SLR-style mirrorless|
|Max resolution||8640 x 5760|
|Effective pixels||50 megapixels|
|Sensor size||Full frame (35.9 x 24 mm)|
|ISO||Auto, 100-32000 (expands to 50-102400)|
|Lens mount||Sony E|
|Focal length mult.||1×|
|Max shutter speed||1/8000 sec|
|Format||XAVC S, XAVC HS, XAVC S-I, H.264, H.265|
|Storage types||Dual SD/CFexpress Type A slots (UHS-II supported)|
|USB||USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 GBit/sec)|
|Weight (inc. batteries)||737 g (1.62 lb / 26.00 oz)|
|Dimensions||129 x 97 x 81 mm (5.08 x 3.82 x 3.19″)|
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The little church is in a valley. After the funeral service the whole town joins the long dusty train of vehicles out to the cemetery. The body is taken on ahead, along with the family, and we all follow at a distance. There are not enough cars to go around really; the community is poor. So cars and trucks are overloaded, and the being packed in together adds to the discomfort of the dust from the road.
The trucks and cars are stopped a little distance from the burial ground. There is grief numbed confusion as we climb out. It has all happened before so many times, yet there is a sense of unsureness about what to do now.
From some indefinable signal the whole mass of us move as a body to the grave. There, behind the raw wound in the earth stand the family. Kunmanara's family. Kunmanara who has died. As we look around the atmosphere and presence of the place strike us with an indelible memory. Presence with a capital P.
There is nothing you can see here. Nothing but trees and mountains. No sign of the power of humanity, only the vastness of nature. The sound of a hundred people walking is swallowed up in the dust and the acacias. In some absurd mental aside we notice that it's all Acacia victoriae- that thorny one, and then even that is swallowed up in the vast oppressive silence of the place.
For a precious moment which we will often remember, we see this place from the perspective of heaven. Everything is turned upside down. Our flat valley is lifted up high and runs down into the range, it hangs here. The steep slope of the ridge, scarred with gullies plunges to meet it. .... Psalm 121..."I will lift up my eyes to the hills..".... and poised over the valley in the misty air is a huge boulder. It lies across a couple of others; all three together form a hole socketing into the hill. They hang there, a great eye of God, looking down upon us. God somehow close, watching over us. We know the rocks are not that close, but today they are.
And then as we walk, the vision is all gone. Devoured by dust and heat and flies. Death has brought us out into the wilderness. Our crowd of people is a small knot of mourners in the wasteland. The service begins.
It's hard to follow the strange language. The elder's voice is eaten away at the edges by the very vastness of the place. The carking of crows drowns out syllables. Whimpering toddlers increase our irritation, mixing with sweat and flies. There is a sense of unreality in all this. The discomfort drones on, and some of us don't hear the reading begin: "Ka wati kutjupa pikatjara ngaringi, ini Lazarusanya Bethanynya-ngurara...." We are in John, chapter 11.
In the end it becomes a mixture of boredom and anger. Boredom because we hardly knew this person, and we're strong and healthy, so what does it matter, so why are we out here in the heat? But anger because we know it is wrong, people shouldn't die. And we know we will, too, one day, and it seems just now there is nothing we can do but wait.
Do not go gentle, said Dylan Thomas......... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
But you still have to go.
It's hard trying to work in another language, painfully linking syllables together, trying to hear what has been said. But just sometimes everything works. There is no translation by us, the words echo alive in our minds..... We know.....
Munu nyangatja watjara wangka katu mirangu, "Lazarus! Ngalya pakala! Ka wati miru panya paluru ngalya pakanu mara, tjina kulu mantarangka karpintja, mulya kulu tjutuntja. Ka Jesulu tjanala watjanu, "Aralaya, munuya walatjura." And in that peculiar miracle of hearing we know Lazarus has been raised. And into our gloom and despair God sends a small shaft of hope. "Lazarus, come out!" And life comes back alive from the dark cave of death.
Just now the shaft of hope is lost in the final acts of the funeral. We file past the grave, shake hands with the family, look down at the chip-board box, and join the subdued procession back into town. And we go back to our work, and life goes on.
Perhaps then it hits us. Life goes on! People are grieving, but life goes on! Death is not the end! There will be a concrete slab laid over the grave. And in the summer heat the slab will crack. Someone will cut across all the laws of science, and ignorant of good doctrine will be happy that Kunmanara's spirit has escaped to be with Jesus. And we will see very clearly the limitations of time, and science and good doctrine, and we will see the sign in the cracked cement, too. Life goes on.
The Australian vulture is the crow. Perhaps we have heard tales of the eyes being pecked out of lambs still alive. The black crow feeds on the dead and preys over the lost and weak.
I used to run in the early mornings. Out in a waste area of land, in a flat bottomed valley, on a road going nowhere. And they would come and watch me. First one crow and then many... thirty or fifty. Wheeling and crying a few feet above me, sensing my vulnerability alone out there. It was as though they were trying to call death down upon me. Sometimes, despite myself, I would stop and hurl stones at these horrible heralds of death pursuing me.
There will come times for us when we are in the wastelands, if we have not been there already. Despair, depression, exhaustion, or some other thing will bring us to a halt. It will be very hard to see how we can go in life beyond this point. Even as a teenager, paralysing fear or other emotions can slam our life to a halt. And for some of us in these situations death will seem to threaten us. It will be like the crows in waste places circling overhead, waiting for us to weaken. Waiting to pick the life out of us. And if we are very old, or very sick, then we may know that it is not just fear that we are facing, but that this might be our time to die.
When we are in the wastelands, this story of Lazarus being raised to life is a sign to us of Jesus power. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He conquers the power of death. So John tells us with the story of Lazarus. And then in a few weeks time all is lost. The Master Healer himself is claimed by death. But like Lazarus, he too is raised by the power of God. When we are in the wastelands, even in the presence of very death itself, we can stand.
The power of God can reach in and touch us in the face of death at a funeral, or a death bed. And the power of God could reach into the tomb and bring Lazarus out. We know this because on Good Friday, , God submitted to the power of death and then overcame it. Even after God the Son dies on the cross, he is raised again. We feel him now.
Let us see that when we are in the wastelands the harsh cries of the crows are not the victorious cries of death. They are the bitter cries of frustration. Jesus lives. Death has lost its power.
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10 Ways to Become a More Mindful and Financially Savvy Traveler
Making these small changes in your lifestyle could make you a smarter and happier traveler in the future.
How does someone travel successfully in 2019? With social media occupying so much of our time, it’s easy to define a successful trip as one that pulled in all the likes. But while taking advantage of your Instagram-worthy destination isn’t a bad thing, there’s definitely more to an incredible vacation. To get the most out of your travel, you want to experience things you’ve never encountered before. You want to immerse yourself in a new culture, and visit a combination of “must-see” spots and off-the-beaten-path destinations.
You also want to be appropriately prepared in order to get the most out of your trips. Boosting your income and saving up in advance for your travels can only help. Knowing that you’re spending money you’ve saved comfortably, rather than racking up a credit card bill, can go a long way to helping you unwind and enjoy your vacation. Finally, you want to focus on being present throughout your trip—that’s probably the most straightforward answer to getting the most out of your travel. Allowing yourself to unplug, and not worry about work or money, will help you get to that point. Here are 10 ways to get more out of your travel by boosting both your funds and your awareness:
Travel slowly, and get to know the turf better as a result
“Rather than hopping on a plane or train to a new city or country every other day, spend more time in fewer places,” says Alex Reynolds, who runs the travel blog Lost With Purpose. “Don't be afraid to take four or five days to explore an area. Transportation costs add up quickly, and staying put can cut costs like you wouldn't believe.”
Use the “ATM budget” for a few months before you leave on your trip, so you can stash away some extra money
Alexandra Talty, who currently lives abroad in Beirut and writes about how to travel often in a financially responsible way, uses the “ATM budget” so she can avoid spending unnecessarily on credit cards. “Basically, I decide how much money I can spend per week and just take that out in cash. I used this tactic to save $15,000 to move to Beirut,” says Talty.
Don’t capture every minute on camera
Reynolds is a photographer, and even she doesn’t feel the need to photograph everything. “Sometimes I put the camera down and enjoy the moment while I can. Not every stunning landscape makes for an epic photo, and not every plate of food needs to be snapped for the 'gram,” says Reynolds. “When traveling, we should look at the world with our own eyes, not on a screen or through a viewfinder.”
Get comfortable with the idea of being more flexible when you’re traveling
For every type-A planner, it’s hard to let go of your daily schedule. But allowing yourself to go with the flow is part of what takes a trip to the next level. “If you have a very strict itinerary with no wiggle room, there's no chance for you to be spontaneous and take opportunities as they come,” says Reynolds. “Many of my fondest memories from my travels were unplanned; They began with my taking the time to talk to a random person on the street, or saying ‘yes’ when people invited me to join them on an outing. Don’t be afraid to scrap your plans, and you'd be amazed to see where you end up!”
Live below your means so that when you travel, you don’t have to worry about money
David Rosell is a financial planner and an author, and he’s traveled to 65 countries so far. Stretching your money so you can get the most out of your travel is his specialty. He says it’s crucial to save and invest wisely in order to travel better and more often. “Rather than always working for money, make your money work for you by living below your means and investing the difference for your future travel,” says Rosell.
Eliminate inconsequential purchases—both at home and abroad
There are so many things we buy “just because,” whether it’s grabbing something special for lunch, or picking up a souvenir you don’t need in a foreign country. In order to effectively live below your means, you need to cut those purchases from your lifestyle. You might just find that you don’t miss them. Rosell says we could all probably save about $10 a day if we took away our inconsequential purchases. Where could you travel if you saved $10 a day (which is $300 a month)?
Skip your coffee today so you can enjoy one abroad tomorrow
To motivate yourself to get rid of your inconsequential purchases, start thinking about what you stand to gain, rather than what you’re giving up. Rosell says that if you’re giving up your daily latte to save, you can ultimately “have the financial freedom to not only make a specialty coffee part of your daily life in the future, but to experience an espresso in places like Venice, Barcelona, Amsterdam, or wherever your heart desires.”
Reserve a log-off week this year to increase your presence
Being present when you travel isn’t something that comes naturally when you step off the plane. It’s a skill you have to cultivate in your daily life, and then you can use it to your advantage even more so when traveling. “One thing I try to do every year is take at least two weeks with a total break from the Internet and my phone,” says Talty. “This means no communications whatsoever. Whenever I do this, I am more engaged with wherever I am visiting and also have more energy for my creative projects.”
Travel somewhere that will open your eyes and increase your awareness
Don’t spend your time in a destination behind the walls of a resort. Go see how the residents are living, and learn about the local culture. Rosell took his children to Cuba and says they fell in love with it, but also gained a new appreciation for their life at home. Their focus shifted from “vacation mode” to what they were grateful for, which was amazing to witness as a parent, Rosell says.
Make your own travel luck
Rosell says experiencing good travel is all about “putting ourselves into positions where we can be lucky. Luck has less to do with what happens to you and more to do with how you think and act.” How will you put yourself into travel situations where you’d consider yourself “lucky”? That’s where saving before you leave and traveling slowly come into play. Set yourself up so that you can truly relish the trips you’ve planned |
Covid care centres for cops to come up at Santacruz, Marol
With help from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai Police is setting up two Covid-19 care centres specially dedicated to police personnel. This is aimed at reducing the pressure on civic-run Covid-treatment centres.
A 300-bed Covid care centre is being set up in police housing quarters in Santacruz and another Covid care centre, with a capacity of 250 beds, will be set up at Marol. This was confirmed by Naval Bajaj, joint commissioner of police (administration) and nodal officer designated by the state for the healthcare of Mumbai Police. The Covid-care centres in Santacruz and Marol are for asymptomatic carriers and those with mild cases of Covid-19. Family members of police personnel would also be eligible to stay at these centres.
Deputy commissioner of police (operations) and spokesperson for Mumbai Police Pranay Ashoka said on Friday that 309 police personnel are infected with Covid-19, which is 59 more than the number that commissioner of police Param Bir Singh had announced on Thursday. Across Maharashtra, between March 22 and May 8, 618 (547 constables, 71 officers) police personnel have tested positive. Five constables have succumbed to the disease.
Cops test positive
On Friday, eight constables and four officers from Nirmal Nagar police station in Khar (East) tested positive for Covid-19 and nine others were been quarantined. A constable, assigned to the joint commissioner of police (economic offences wing), also tested positive and was admitted to Seven Hills Hospital.
On Thursday, 52 first information reports (FIRs) were registered in the city against 105 people for lockdown violations and 73 were arrested. Twenty FIRs are from the central Mumbai and 18 in the western region. Seventeen cases were for gathering in public and 17 for not wearing masks. Fourteen cases of illegal use of vehicles were registered. Bandra police also booked seven autorickshaw drivers and two taxi drivers.
Four cases against operating shops selling non-essential services were filed on Thursday. On May 6, two wine shop owners in Vile Parle and Juhu were booked for operating their shops in violation of the order issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to shut down shops selling liquor.
Between March 22 and May 8, Maharashtra Police has registered 98,774 FIRs against over 1 lakh people for lockdown violations across the state and 19,082 have been arrested. In the same period, 54,148 vehicles have been seized and fines amounting to Rs 3.66 crore have been collected.
10,000 stranded people get permits; 1 lakh on ‘waiting list’
Mumbai Police has given permits to 10,000 people — mostly migrant labourers, tourists, pilgrims and students — allowing them to return to their home states. Another 1 lakh people have been given permits and are on the “waiting list” till trains and buses are arranged by the state government.
Gutkha worth Rs 53.48 lakh seized
On Friday, Mumbai Police arrested three men for illegally transporting gutkha and tobacco products — which are not listed under essential products — in Govandi. The arrested accused are Gaus Zahur Khan, 38; Shaizad Kutchi, 31; and SN Khan, 27. All three are from Shivaji Nagar, Govandi. The total value of the seized material and tempo is Rs 53.48 lakh.
Newborn girl dumped in nullah, parents booked
Kurar police filed a case against the unknown parents of a baby girl whose body was found in a nullah in Shivaji Nagar, Malad (East) on Friday morning. The police were alerted by a citizen who tweeted about the body to Mumbai Police. A case has been filed under section 318 (concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body) of the Indian Penal Code.
Dairy owner booked for flouting lockdown rules
Bhoiwada police booked a dairy owner for violating lockdown rules by not maintaining social distancing among his customers. On Thursday morning, the police saw a crowd outside the dairy in Dadar (East) and booked owner Manish Tiwari under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
(With inputs from Jayprakash S Naidu, Manish K Pathak, Faisal Tandel and Suraj Ojha)
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- With 54 deaths on Tuesday, Maharashtra’s death toll reached 52,238.
- Deshmukh on February 8 ordered a probe to check if Indian celebrities were forced to tweet by the BJP to counter the tweets posted by international celebrities who tweeted criticising the government’s handling of the farm laws. |
Generally speaking, high school football games feature a lot more running than passing.
Occasionally, programs will get a good quarterback and flip the script, but it’s usually easier to just put the ball in the best athletes’ gut on handoffs and let them go to work.
It’s a different story for the Cleveland coaching staff, which always features a pass-happy attack.
“Playing late in the year certainly doesn’t benefit us,” Clippers coach Erik Hermanson said of trying to run that passing attack in the cold.
The Clippers never got the passing game into high gear on a below-freezing night, but an early score was all it took, as they topped Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton 8-0 Friday on the turf at Janesville.
“Playing on the turf sure did (help),” Hermanson said. “If we would’ve played at Cleveland, we would’ve played on the wettest field in the state, probably.”
After the Bulldogs went 3-and-out on the game’s first possession, the Clippers got the only score of the game on the ensuing possession.
Clippers quarterback Alex McCabe connected with Isaac Mueller for a 33-yard completion, before finishing off the drive with a 23-yard strike to Carter Dylla for the touchdown. McCabe scrambled into the end zone to add on the 2-point conversion.
In the first half, McCabe went 6 of 14 for 127 yards, with most of that coming in the first quarter.
As the cold started to take its toll, the game turned into a slog, as the Clippers went to their ground game.
“It’s tough to pass when it’s 30 degrees,” McCabe said with a laugh. “Especially with the size of my hands.”
The JWP offense struggled to establish the run throughout the night. The Bulldogs only got five first downs in the game and turned the ball over four times. For the Clippers, Mueller and Dylla each had interceptions.
JWP’s best chance to score came when Jack Morsching got behind the defense on a deep pattern out of the slot, but the ball from Bulldogs’ quarterback Karson Lindsay was slightly underthrown.
For the Clippers, it’s been struggle all year from a numbers standpoint. In the summer, Hermanson’s roster size was in the 40s, but that slowly shrunk throughout the fall. Against the Bulldogs, it was down into the 20s, something that made the win even more sweet.
“They’ve gotten better every week,” Hermanson said. “This is their payoff against our absolute arch-rival”
The Clippers (1-2) host Waterville-Elysian-Morristown on Friday. JWP (0-3) plays Friday at Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity.
Follow Kevin Dudley on Twitter @Dudley7Kevin. |
This month, owner and operator of First Class Accounts Vermont, Carol Girvan, talks us through the highs and lows of running a bookkeeping firm while travelling the country.
Having worked in financial services for 30 years, Carol Girvan has witnessed plenty of change in her time.
Starting out in a payroll software company, where she worked for over a 15-year timespan, Girvan eventually decided to buy into the First Class Accounts franchise in 2003. She opened the doors to her Vermont, Victoria-based firm the following year. Fast-forward to today, and Girvan is into the fifth year of enjoying a nomadic lifestyle, managing her business as she travels the country at leisure.
With a wealth of knowledge across payroll and bookkeeping at her disposal, we were excited to hear from Girvan regarding her opinions on business management and the industry at large.
What do you see as the big pros and cons of your job?
The positives of working in my own business are many: the opportunity to work with like-minded people, both clients and other franchisees; the opportunity to strike my own work-life balance (well, nearly!); the ability to work from wherever I am at the time.
To give you an indication of the flexibility I’ve enjoyed, four years ago my husband and I left Melbourne with our caravan and have travelled the highways and byways of Australia. What could be a greater ‘positive’ than that?
And the downsides? I’m really hard-pushed to find any. EOFY is currently at the forefront of my mind, so I guess I would have to comment that the quarterly BAS times and EOFY can be somewhat stressful. But a look out of the window of the van at a beautiful Australian landscape or seascape and stress levels immediately diminish.
How would you describe your job in a Tweet (as in, 140 characters)?
A job for those who enjoy people, life, laughter, choices, travelling and a challenge.
What does an average day look like?
Due to the distractions available on a daily basis when we’re travelling, I have to be self-disciplined in regard to maintaining a ‘to do’ list and keeping to it.
When organising where we’re going to head next, access to the internet is imperative and at the busy times, we tend to stay longer in one spot.
In short, to define an ‘average day’ is not an easy task. Most days offer something new, and no two are the same.
Tell us something surprising about your job that people may not know about?
The majority of people imagine that a bookkeeper sits in an office and works with figures all day. This is so far from the truth. With the advent of ‘cloud’ software the traditional office has, for me, become a thing of the past and has allowed me the freedom to live my dream.
Has your client base decreased, increased or remained steady over the past 12 months?
When we decided to leave Melbourne, I was concerned about maintaining my client base.
Apart from natural attrition (businesses closing and so on) all the clients I had when I left are still with me. I had my caravan sign-written and, although this has not attracted many new clients, it can be a source of conversation when we’re not on the move.
New clients have been referred to me through existing relationships, but overall my client base has remained steady.
Does your business provide advisory, and if so, do you have any learnings?
This is a side of my business I would love to develop and expand.
On client visits, it’s always front of mind and, as all my clients are small business owners, it’s an area sadly lacking in the world of many of them.
I try to make a visit to each of my clients a couple of times a year where discussing their management reports, budgeting and cash flow forecasting has become an integral part of those visits.
What new technologies is your business using and trialing to stay efficient, client-focused and relevant?
What a great era we work and live in! The introduction of apps to capture receipts, accounting software making payments by card so easy, the lodgement and payment of superannuation streamlined and it’s little wonder efficiency in business is growing exponentially.
To assist clients in staying up to date, compliant and informed, First Class Accounts send franchisees a monthly newsletter template that we’re able to email to our clients. The judicious use of Facebook pages and LinkedIn are also recommended.
Are there any finance or accounting memberships that really add value for you?
I have been a member of the Australian Bookkeepers Network (ABN) since 2004 and have found them to be a highly valuable source of information and support. The resources available on their members’ website are second to none.
What prompted you to join the MYOB Partner Program?
As far as I was concerned it was a ‘no-brainer’. I’ve always used MYOB in my business and also my husband’s business. When I joined First Class Accounts, membership of the Partner Program was included in my purchase price. From there, a love affair developed between MYOB and I, and some years later I made the decision to become a Certified Consultant – what a great move that was!
What advice do you have for new members on how they can maximise their membership value?
My advice would be to take advantage of everything their membership has to offer. The webinars, the online training, the partner seminars available in each State and, of course, Partner Connect.
How do you stay abreast of legislative and technological changes within the industry?
Every three months, First Class Accounts hold a one-day Regional Training day in each State. This is where new software and any legislative changes are introduced. \
Each September, we also have a three-day conference where, again, the latest information is presented as well as consolidation of the ‘old favourites’.
ABN run a series of ‘Bookkeeper Radio’ programmes – usually monthly. These sessions are also very informative.
Finally, MYOB present webinars and online training, which assists in maintaining up-to-date knowledge.
What are some of the opportunities and threats facing your industry?
The greatest opportunity at the moment is to assist in the implementation and provision of Single Touch Payroll (STP). Many small business owners need help in the STP arena – both in understanding the legislation and learning to use software.
The major threat would have to be the resistance of many business owners to change. In this ever-changing world, it’s essential that we educate our clients in regard to the multitude of changes occurring and expose them to the benefits which will become available through acceptance.
Is there anything you’ve learned that you wish someone had told you 10 years ago?
Listen to your heart as well as your head. Whether it’s about the software to use or where you choose to work and live. Let go of the restrictions placed on you by social norms and conventions.
The adage “Live your dream” is usually relevant.
What does success look like to you?
One of the most ‘successful’ moments in my business life was to be inducted into the First Class Accounts’ ‘Hall of Fame’. To be acknowledged by your peers is hugely rewarding.
In my personal life, the most recent highlight was reaching our 50th wedding anniversary.
What’s one industry buzzword you’re sick of hearing?
One buzzword? What gets to me more than anything is the ever-present use of acronyms!
Unfortunately, many people using acronyms forget that half the world doesn’t know the meaning of the abbreviation and neglect to give an explanation. ATO? STP? TPAR? It never ends!
Do you have a secret talent?
I make a great lemon meringue pie.
If you could have a special power what would it be?
To teach people that a mobile phone isn’t for texting or Googling when they’re dining out in restaurants!
Got any good bookkeeper jokes?
Don’t know that it’s good but:
A bookkeeper is having a hard time sleeping and goes to see his doctor.
“Doctor, I just can’t get to sleep at night,” he says.
“Have you tried counting sheep?” the doctor asks.
“But that’s just the problem,” the bookkeeper cries. “I make just one mistake and then spend three hours trying to find it!” |
“Kathleen, I like your new OOL format (and webpages) and think it will help readers find info more readily.
“We are doing well in Belize (the rains have brought the cool weather back!), but we still look at other places. Kudos on all your efforts and thanks again for your help getting us to where we are now.”
–Bill O., Belize
“Kathleen, I enjoy your articles. And you’ve motivated me for adventure…I’m almost there.
“But I am baffled by how you and others describe the airport experience in the United States. In your recent article, you actually use the terms ‘excruciating’ and ‘horror stories.’ Why? I just don’t see it.
“I travel extensively throughout the United States and have for many years. Sure, occasionally, long lines. But I plan for that. But I never find the process invasive, difficult, demeaning…it is just a process. Body scanners are quick, simple, and painless (and for the life of me cannot see why anyone would find them embarrassing). The questions are predictable. And since I follow their simple rules, I never have a problem…”
–Don R., United States
“Kathleen, your analysis of Belize is spot on (I have been to Belize four times). However, why do you think the U.S. or British governments will not eventually compel this small country to violate its current privacy laws, just as they compelled Switzerland (a much richer country) to do?”
–Bruce S., United States
They could. That is, Belize could find itself under pressure from the United States and others. So far, it hasn’t, primarily because it’s so small. Not enough there to fuss over.
Belize is a small, under-the-radar, insignificant-in-the-scheme-of-things place. In today’s world, that’s not a bad thing to be.
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For the Oilers first, and the Senators second.
As Dorion looked on, Nugent-Hopkins’ time on Connor McDavid’s left wing continued into a third game, and the pair delivered on a goal and a second straight night of copious scoring chances.
It’s hard to say that two similar players — one all-world speedster who can pass and score, and another distributor who does both at a lesser level, but has developed a stout defensive game — aren’t fitting nicely together in another garbage-time spring in Edmonton.
“They’re beginning to read and react off each other well. There is some chemistry developing,” head coach Todd McLellan said. “They both skate well and have good lungs, so they can get caught out there and still defend, which is good for us.”
Maybe, this is how it works in Edmonton, as the organization takes steps to right this listing ship over the summer. Perhaps this is the alignment that provides general manager Peter Chiarelli with his preferred setup: McDavid as the first-line centre, and Leon Draisaitl running a second unit.
Having Nugent-Hopkins makes for three centremen in the Top 6, which pleases the coach. Having that trio — plus the $6-million Milan Lucic — gives you four forwards earning $33 million beginning next season. That’s plenty.
And that’s what has Nugent-Hopkins auditioning for the Senators as well. Because, by the time this run on McDavid’s wing ends, if the coach and GM decide that Nugent-Hopkins is not the prototypical winger for this prodigal centreman, then they might decide that Mike Hoffman is.
Hoffman makes $5.2 million for the next two seasons. He’s roughly a 25-goal man who, we would guess, could do much better than that in a season spent on McDavid’s flank. Chiarelli has already mused about the problem of having $27 million wrapped up in three centremen.
If Chiarelli makes a run at Hoffman, Nugent-Hopkins’ salary simply has to be in the deal, because Ottawa won’t relieve Edmonton of Lucic’s onerous contract — have no doubt about that.
But do you ever trade a well-rounded centreman like Nugent-Hopkins for a winger in Hoffman? That’s a tough deal to swallow for Edmonton — unless you get a little something more in the deal and Hoffman comes in and scores 35.
So really, the question becomes this: What kind of player does McDavid need on his wing, if it’s not going to be Draisaitl?
Can two similar players like McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins produce at the level required? Or does McDavid need a pure shooter like Hoffman to bury pucks, with a speedy puck retriever on the other wing?
“I don’t really think so,” Nugent-Hopkins said after a 4-3 overtime loss to San Jose. “Connor can put the puck in the net — he has over 30. When I get a chance I should be able to score, and Pontus (Aberg, on right wing) can fire the biscuit too. We have a good mix. Me and Connor, maybe we’re not just shooters, but we read each other well.”
We asked the coach to describe his dream winger for McDavid. His reply?
“That’s a good question,” McLellan said.
“It depends on the night, on the opponent. It depends on the type of game,” he continued. “In a fast, free-flowing game you like to have the pace with him. You always want to have someone who can finish, because you never know when you’re going to get the puck from Connor.
“There are other nights, and I think of some of that playoff series last year against Anaheim, where you like to have that big, heavy deterrent with him. Yet, someone who can finish, like, Patty Maroon.
“I still like Leon up there on any given night because they connect so well… It varies. We’re still looking,” he said. “It’s still evolving.”
Up in the press box, Dorion looked down. Nugent-Hopkins had jump and was productive Wednesday, with a deft tip of an Oscar Klefbom point shot for a goal. Klefbom, too, was at his most offensive, scoring once and assisting on the Nugent-Hopkins goal.
The Senators are in need of a shakeup. So too are the Oilers.
There is a deal to be made here, but the question remains: Do you really want to make it? |
If you happen to have had a particularly good onion and you want to save it for seed do remember that if you plant it now in a pot, it will need room to grow and it certainly means growing it indoors. After the risk of frost the heads can be moved outside for a while but they must be brought indoors again before the flowers start to open up.
This year I had some marvellous seed heads off the large exhibition onions that I re planted for seed production towards the end of December last year. The resulting seed from these heads, although excellent in every sense, they were somewhat late in ripening and it was early October before I could take the heads off. This year I intend to speed things up a bit and plant the onions this coming weekend. If you happen to have had a particularly good onion and you want to save it for seed do remember that if you plant it now in a pot, it will need room to grow and it certainly means growing it indoors. When the heads are fully developed the plant needs considerable space as they can easily be over 4 feet in height and each head will need a cane to support it
Avoiding cross pollination
After the risk of frost the heads can be moved outside for a while but they must be brought indoors again before the flowers start to open up. This will ensure that should there be another onion gone to seed in close distance to your garden, cross pollination could take place which could result in some rogue seeds the following season. If you think you are going to have some spare space in a greenhouse which has a border of soil, then the easiest way would be to plant the onions direct into that soil which would give the emerging root system an unhindered root run.
Last year I only saved two of my best onions and they were planted just as they were, no outer skins were removed and even though one onion that I had from Mel Ednie was over 27 inches around it never went rotten on me and produced two marvellous seed heads. If you are suspicious that your onions will rot on you before they seed, then you can remove some of the outer layers of flesh, because after all these are mainly made up of water and at a later stage I would remove them anyway before they rotted away.
I thoroughly check each onion before planting them to makes sure that the area around the root plate is solid and healthy as well as the area around shoulder of the onion. Gentle pressure with you thumb around the shoulder will usually give you an indication of it’s condition. If the onion is soft then the probability is that it will rot before producing any leaves. The best onions will probably have been at flower shows and once they were brought back home, the raffia would be removed and a thin pointed split cane would very carefully be pushed into the neck to open up the dried layers of tissue that have been squeezed together to form the thin neck. This will have allowed the onion to breath and inevitably they will keep better as well.
Prior to planting remove this shrivelled neck so that when the emerging shoots develop they won”t have any problems in pushing themselves out of the onion.
Every onion is planted up into nine or ten inch pots and I have actually used florist buckets which you can usually pick up cheap from a large florist shop. Drainage holes will have to be inserted into them and I drill six holes with a 10mm bit spaced evenly around the perimeter. The onions that I select will have a rounded base, I prefer not seed from flat bottomed onions as I feel that this will produce even flatter onions which don’t really catch the judges eye in the same way.
The pots are filled up with fresh compost, I use Levington M3, this has some slow release nutrients which will sustain the plant growth right through to seed harvesting time. Plant the bulb on top of the compost and water it in, after this point it”s important to place the pot in a position inside your greenhouse where it won’t be moved. Any movement at all once the new roots are emerging could snap them off, hence the need to really think through where the onions are going to be grown so that you won’t have to move them around all the time.
As I had a number of well shaped deep bulbs this year I intend to plant them all so these will be taken to the University College commercial cold greenhouse at Bangor where they will have ample room for development. |
There were reports that the company might launch its phones in India next after former Google VP and Xiaomi CEO Hugo Barra visited the country. However, while speaking at an event in China, Barra said the company wants to pull a significant portion of Southeast Asia under its belt as a platform before jumping into India.
In India, the company will set up an office and partner with telcos to sell its devices. Barra had said that it will also sell its devices here through its website. The company makes most of its money from its online ecosystem, which according to Barra, allows Xiaomi to maintain its strategy of selling its smartphones at a price that is almost close to cost. However he says that the company is not targeting low end of the market when its products are released in India.
In August last year, Xiaomi was already China’s third-largest e-commerce company, with more than $3.2 million in revenue per month. The company expects revenue to reach $21 million-$24 million per month this year. The company’s co-founder Lei Jun had said earlier this year than the company intends to sell 40 million devices this year. Xiaomi had announced annual sales of $4.5 billion for 2013 and is valued at over $10 billion. The company had sold 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, up 160% year-on-year and above its initial target of 15 million devices. In December alone, the company sold 3.23 million smartphones.
In India, the company will compete against devices by Micromax, Karbonn and Lava in the low end; Motorola, Lenovo, Gionee and Nokia in the mid-range and against Samsung, Sony, LG and Apple in the high-end. In terms of shipments, Samsung is the biggest player in India with 32.9% marketshare, followed by Micromax with 17% and Karbonn with 11%. |
A new Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California names both the plan sponsor and various financial service providers as defendants, including NFP Retirement.
The plan sponsor involved in the case is the Wood Group, which is an international business involved in the U.S. oil and gas sector. According to the complaint, filed by plaintiffs under the representation of the well-known law firm Schlichter Bogard & Denton, the plan’s in-house fiduciaries and various service providers with functional fiduciary status failed to operate the Wood Group’s retirement plan for the exclusive benefit of participants and beneficiaries. The defendants are further accused of failing to ensure that all plan expenses are reasonable and that all plan investments are prudent.
“Instead of acting in the exclusive best interest of participants, the Wood defendants and NFP caused the plan to invest in NFP’s collective investment trusts [CITs] managed by its affiliate flexPATH Strategies, which benefitted the NFP defendants at the expense of plan participants’ retirement savings,” the complaint states. “The Wood defendants and NFP also failed to use their plan’s bargaining power to obtain reasonable investment management fees, which caused unreasonable expenses to be charged to the plan.”
As is common in these cases, the text of the complaint speaks at length about the general principles underpinning the fiduciary duties of prudence and loyalty mandated by ERISA. Much of the text of the complaint is also dedicated to detailing the reduction in the average fees paid by large U.S. retirement plans for both investments and administrative services.
“Fiduciaries must be cognizant of a service provider’s self-interest in maximizing fees, and cannot simply accede to the provider’s desires and recommendations to include the provider’s proprietary funds and services that will maximize the provider’s fees without negotiating or considering alternatives,” the complaint states. “In order to act in the exclusive interest of participants and not in the service provider’s interest, fiduciaries must conduct their own independent investigation into the merits of a particular investment or service by considering alternatives.”
The complaint goes on to suggest that, in recommending the placement of the flexPATH funds in the plan, NFP acted under “a profound conflict of interest between acting in the exclusive best interest of plan participants as the plan’s fiduciary investment adviser while also seeking to grow its collective investment trust business through flexPATH Strategies and maximize its revenue through investment advisory fees collected from the flexPATH funds.
“NFP had an incentive to recommend investment vehicles offered by flexPATH Strategies because it receives additional compensation when its clients invest in those vehicles, such as in the form of bonuses and other incentives for the individual NFP investment advisers whose clients invest in affiliated products or services,” the complaint continues.
Lawsuits including similar allegations have so far met mixed outcomes across the federal district court system, based on the facts of each case and on the varying degrees of willingness of individual judges to grant standing to plaintiffs and permit discovery. For example, a ruling filed in September by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia permitted the case to advance, though it carved out two service providers as defendants. In short, the court granted motions to dismiss filed by Alight and Financial Engines, in which the defendants argued they are not, given their contracted roles and inability to set their own compensation levels as service providers, liable for the fiduciary breach claims alleged in the broader suit. The dismissal motion filed by the in-house fiduciary Home Depot defendants, on the other hand, was denied.
Asked for comment on the lawsuit, NFP provided the following statement:
“NFP Retirement and flexPATH Strategies have two central goals: to enhance retirement processes for our clients and improve outcomes for their participants. Our respective companies have years of experience and work with outside counsel to ensure that the services and processes offered are compliant with all state and federal regulations.
“The allegations of fiduciary breaches asserted against NFP Retirement, flexPATH, and one of our largest retirement plan clients in a lawsuit filed recently in California are without merit. The lawsuit contains numerous inaccuracies pertaining to our fees, services, and processes.
“NFP Retirement and flexPATH Strategies intend to defend against plaintiffs’ allegations vigorously, and are confident that the compliance protocols and business processes that are currently in place not only meet all state and federal statutes and regulations but also drive better outcomes and value for our clients.”
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The Ranger EA has a very long forward track record of 12 months!
The EA also has a long backtest history of 10+ years using 99.90% modeling quality!
Ranger EA V3.61
- Backtesting data shows no losing months in 10 years!
- Projected monthly profit of 2.5-10% a month (default settings)
- Trades every week
- Trades the GBPCAD & AUDCAD like a pro.
- Uses a corrective trading technique to turn losing trades into winners
- Makes a profit every month
- Finds the best places to range trade the market
- Trades better than most humans!
- FIFO compliant
Ranger EA LIVE account signal
Ranger EA DEMO account signal
Join the free discord group for live trading results and backtests from users of the Ranger EA.
Trades the GBPCAD M30 ONLY
Trades the AUDCAD H1 timeframe ONLY!
The Ranger EA has been optimized for these 2 pairs. It's not recommended to trade other pairs.
The default settings are best for the AUDCAD!
Download the GBPCAD set-file "Ranger_V3.61_Preset_files.zip"
You can also download the presets in the "presets-manuals" section in our free Discord group found here!! https://discord.gg/Ryx9sC8jYQ
- Recommended starting account size is now $2000. $1000 can still be used but keep in mind, the higher your balance above $1000, the safer you're trading profits will be over the long-term.
- The Ranger V4 now trades profitably on both the AUDCAD and GBPCAD as far back as data will go will allow. We now have 14 years profitable backtest data on both our trading pairs!
Visit out free discord group for backtest results!
- Audcad take profit has been lowered to 30 pips each profitable basket of trades.
- Audcad trades slightly more now than V3.6 now.
- Default AUDCAD "Risk Factor" set to "1"
- Gbpcad lot size risk (each trade) has been decreased. The "Risk Factor" setting has been lowered further.
- Default GBPCAD "Risk Factor" set to "0.5"
- Please download the free GBPCAD setfile from our discord group when trading the GBPCAD pair!
“Show BUY/SELL buttons”
This input is for advanced traders ONLY! It’s for traders wanting to add extra trades to the Ranger’s grid money management. If this option is set to “true” the Ranger will give you “BUY” and “SELL” buttons to add trades to the Ranger’s risk management. It can also be used to catch missed trades related to slightly different broker price feeds. If no Ranger trades are currently in the market, you have the option to force start the grid MM using these buttons. If the Ranger has trades in the market that were placed automatically by the EA, you can add specific trades at the levels you please and the take profit will adjust accordingly. Keep in mind, this does change the involved risk and should only be used by Ranger users with at least 3-6 months experience. This input can be backtested and I suggest you try it in the mt4 strategy tester or demo before going LIVE with real money.
"risk factor" was set to "1.5". It has been changed to "0.75"
Please replace the old Ranger V3.6 with V3.61!
- FIFO rule now works correctly at all brokers!
- GBPCAD set-file released & available in the "files-downloads" section in our FREE discord group found here!
The GBPCAD was missing a crucial setting that caused it to trade -50% less than intended. It's CRITICAL you use the set-file for best GBPCAD performance! |
Hestercombe is currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic ~ please read our updated opening information
This remarkable donation has enabled Hestercombe to acquire land totalling 320 acres, securing the world-class, Grade 1 heritage landscape, gardens and buildings for future generations.
A vision to completely restore Hestercombe is one step closer thanks to a £1.5 million grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
The purchase of the land by the Hestercombe Gardens Trust, which boasts a unique combination of four complete period gardens spanning four centuries of garden design, affirms the Trust’s ambition to become a national Centre for Arts & Landscape.
The newly acquired land includes the site of a rare, early 17th century Water Garden which it is planned to restore together with other historic features within the park. The purchase also allows for the possibility of extending the current contemporary art gallery in the house to include outside spaces for the display of art.
Planted to its original design, Hestercombe’s Formal Garden is considered the finest example of the famous collaboration between garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and architect Edwin Lutyens. Popular TV gardener Monty Don, who has filmed at the site several times, considers Hestercombe one of his very favourite gardens.
Hestercombe Gardens Trust chairman, Sir Andrew Burns KCMG, said: “This is a tremendous vote of confidence in Hestercombe and recognises Somerset’s leading heritage garden as a site of outstanding national importance. We are enormously grateful to the National Heritage Memorial Fund and our other funders for their most generous and timely assistance in securing the future of Hestercombe for public enjoyment”.
The total cost of acquiring the land, following the Crown Estate’s decision to sell off its agricultural holdings, together with a picturesque gate keeper’s lodge, which was acquired separately, was £2.7 million. Substantial and generous partnership funding to complete the purchase was received from three private trusts and the Garfield Weston Foundation.
Philip White MBE, Founder and Chief Executive of Hestercombe Gardens Trust.
Philip White MBE, Founder and Chief Executive, said that this had been a remarkable and possibly unique opportunity to put back together a nationally important historic landscape when so many are broken up, that had been made possible by the vision shown by Hestercombe’s trustees and its generous supporters.
The Hestercombe Gardens Trust is very grateful to the leaders of both Somerset County Council, Cllr David Fothergill, and Taunton Deane Borough Council, Cllr John Williams, for their strong support and also to Taunton MP, Rebecca Pow, a long time champion of Hestercombe, who was able to promote the application at a national level.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) is a resource of last resort used to save some of the UK’s finest heritage which is at risk of being lost to the nation. The NHMF was launched in 1980 as a “memorial to those who have died for the United Kingdom”. Its fund was to be used for grants to help acquire, maintain or preserve for the nation any land, building or structure, or any object or collection, which is of outstanding scenic, historic, aesthetic, architectural, scientific or artistic interest.
Find out more about Hestercombe's history. |
Community Liaison Job Description
A community liaison serves as a human link between organizations and the people they serve. These liaisons work in a variety of industries, such as social services, healthcare, education, banking, and government. Community liaisons can be found in a diverse range settings, including schools, police departments, hospitals, nursing care facilities, and community centers. Advocating for others is key responsibility. Individuals who love speaking with different kinds of people and making a difference in the lives of others at the grassroots level will thrive in this role. During their workday, community liaisons normally split their time between offices and traveling to meet with individuals in the local community.
Community Liaison Duties and Responsibilities
No two community liaisons are exactly alike, as specific duties vary from employer to employer. However, after analyzing online job postings, we identified several core duties and responsibilities common to the job:
Serve as a Point of Contact
The community liaison is a personal contact for an organization’s clients or customers. They help orient people with new programs. For example, community liaisons in schools might make phone calls and home visits to students and families. In other settings, they meet clients individually and offer them advice or provide referrals to services. Reinitiating contact with employees, community members, or clients that need follow-up is another key responsibility.
Connect Special Populations with Services
Many community liaisons work for healthcare agencies that cater to the needs of specific populations, such as the disabled or the elderly. In healthcare, liaisons provide help by connecting patients with long-term care. They also connect special populations with government services or community support programs.
Hold Community Outreach Meetings
Community liaisons schedule outreach meetings with local community members to discover their issues and concerns. Following a community meeting, a liaison will often write reports to share insights with the organization they work for. They may conduct further research and organize follow-up meetings with certain community leaders – like politicians, businessmen, police, doctors, and local neighborhood influencers – to spread their message.
Handle Marketing and Fundraising Activities
Promoting grassroots marketing initiatives is a key task for community liaisons. They perform marketing and sales-related functions such as hosting events, making presentations, calling clients. Their marketing activities help develop strong and lasting relationships on behalf of their organization.
Manage Community Public Relations
Interfacing with communities and openly representing an organization among pubic officials, businesses, other agencies, news outlets, and the general public is another responsibility of community liaisons. They also take charge of planning, preparing, and distributing written press releases. Overall, a community liaison’s goal is to increase public awareness of their organization’s activities in favorable way.
Community Liaison Skills and Qualifications
Community liaisons have a passion for helping others and speaking with groups. Employers typically seek candidates with a minimum of two years’ experience conducting community outreach and coordination. The following skills are essential to getting the job done:
- Community relation management – knowledge of a local community’s needs and the ability to interview others to get needed information are essential qualities
- Conflict resolution – community liaisons are often responsible for identifying the root cause of disputes and using negation tactics to encourage resolution
- Public speaking – community liaisons need strong public speaking skills to present at public and private meetings
- Marketing – promotional skills are essential for community liaisons to effectively share their organization’s message with a local community
- Interpersonal skills – a critical duty of community liaisons is building trusting and effective partnerships to facilitate engagement and outreach. To do this, they must be able to quickly relate with many different types of people
- Administrative skills – it is common for community liaisons to perform general administrative duties as assigned
- Writing skills – creating documentation and written reports is common for community liaisons
Tools of the Trade
Community liaisons are comfortable using the following software in a typical workday:
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Computers (Windows PC or Mac)
Community Liaison Education and Training
It is common for community liaisons to have a bachelor’s degree; however, many employers accept candidates with a high school diploma and relevant experience. Related bachelor’s degrees for this field include sociology, political science, social work, or public administration. Many community liaisons start their careers as administrative assistants and work their way up to higher positions.
Community Liaison Salary and Outlook
The median annual salary for community liaisons is $40,261. The lowest 10 percent of earners make less than $28,000, while the highest 10 percent of earners make more than $58,000.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of community workers (such as liaisons) will grow 18 percent through 2026. Increasing populations of elderly individuals and those suffering from various addictions will fuel this demand.
We searched the web to find the best industry resources to help you continue exploring a career as a community liaison. From industry groups to well-known books, this list is packed with opportunities to learn, connect, and engage:
Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World – discover how to run engaging community meetings, raise funds, and recruit and motivate people as a community liaison with this practical, step-by-step guide
Public Relations Society of America – sharpen your public relations skills as a community liaison alongside 21,000 of the nation’s leading public relations and communication professionals
National Organization for Human Services – this national network for community service professionals offers educational tools, events, and grants to help you further your career
American Public Human Services Association – this membership network for human-serving organizations provides community service workers with career opportunities
The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources – gain community liaison skills and learn how to bring people together to make change from a 20-year community relations veteran
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Micromem Technologies is pleased to announce its Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is a highly probable candidate for the universal memory, characterized mainly by high speed (read/write), high density and non-volatility. Micromem has designed a new process architecture for MRAM. We are pleased to announce that our foundry tests have demonstrated a number of valuable advantages for a magnetic-based sensor and memory device: including high sensitivity, thermal stability and simplicity and low cost manufacturing.
"We demonstrated that hysterisis -free operation can be expected for systems incorporating our technology, dynamic range and linear field response is now characterized to depend upon material and geometry and the active element of our Hall cross sensor is the intersection of the Hall bars which can be miniaturized to the lithography limits. No change in sensitivity was detected with the line when reduced from 10 to 0.1 micron."
Micromem now has a new and highly sensitive Hall device fabricated via a simplified process. The comp any has demonstrated that a unique shape of the device design represents the optimum concentration of the sensitivity of the sensor, the measurement range and the overall size of the chip. Initial testing indicates a sensitivity of 2.2 V/T with a minimal bias voltage; the lowest detectable field is 0.2 micro-T, and the linearity of better than 1% in the measurement range. Micromem has patented the unique shape of our sensor with particular emphasis on magnetic yoke form factor and its orientation relative to the Hall sensor.
In addition Micromem announces today that it has released to a third party the design and manufacture of a high-density magnetoresisitve sensor array. This design will focus on the innovative use of magnetism, electronics and nanotechnology. The company believes this sensor has market value in military, medical, forensic and human interface applications. The 256 x 256 sensor array is planned as a demonstration of the flexibility of non-invasive capabilities of magnetic anomaly detection, combined with the ability to measure absolute field strengths in Oersteds/Gauss. |
People with a propensity toward digestive problems should refrain from eating “trigger” foods – foods that can cause a digestive response ranging from heartburn, to indigestion, abdominal pain and cramping, constipation or diarrhea. Anyone can come up with their own list of foods to avoid, but here are four food types that are on most people’s lists.
While consuming milk and dairy products is a great way to get calcium, it can also cause diarrhea, gas, cramps and abdominal pain for those that are lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance happens when the body doesn’t produce enough of the enzyme lactase – the enzyme needed to break down the milk sugar lactose. People with Crohn’s disease, celiac disease or have undergone chemotherapy may become lactose intolerant due to damage caused in the intestines.
Many who are lactose intolerant can still eat yogurt and hard cheeses because these two dairy products do not contain lactose. And of course there is always lactose-free milk.
People with a sensitive stomach, IBS or who are susceptible to chronic heartburn should avoid spicy food. A digestive response from the capsaicin in peppers can range from indigestion to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
High Fat Foods
High fat foods include red meats, butter, creamy sauces, full-fat ice cream and fried foods. Because fat takes the longest to digest of all the macro-nutrients, it tends to stay in the digestive tract longer thus giving it more time to ferment and cause gas and bloating. People with IBS especially need to limit their intake of high fat/fatty foods.
While fiber is good for the digestive tract, too much of it too soon can cause digestive problems of its own… in the form of gas and bloating. The right amount of fiber is 25 to 30 grams per day; people eating considerably less than this amount should slowly up the amount they are eating, giving their body time to adjust between each increase.
Sometimes digestive problems can occur if the good bacteria in the digestive tract get overridden by the bad. To keep the “good guys” in control:
Avoid detoxes as they usually get rid of the good bacteria.
Don’t use antibiotics unless necessary as they kill off good bacteria.
Eat foods with #probiotics as they help promote good bacteria.
By avoiding foods that are known to cause digestive problems and doing things to promote the growth of healthy bacteria, digestive issues should be avoided for the most part. Listen to your digestive tract and learn how it reacts to certain types of foods. Then set up your own list of things to avoid eating. |
The story of Olympic marathoner and South Sudanese refugee Guor Marial is set to be told on film.
A documentary called “Runner Without a Country” profiling the professional runner is in the early stages of production, according to the film's director, Bill Gallagher.
Gallagher first learned about Marial last summer when international news reports covered the runner’s quest to find a way to run in the Olympics.
“I was sitting in a coffee shop in Spain and I read the story online and it was one of those things where I literally shut my computer and was like, 'I’ve got to talk to this guy,'” Gallagher told Runner’s World Newswire.
Gallagher contacted Marial immediately and told him he was interested in telling his whole story.
“I think people thought the end of the story was just him getting to the Olympics,” Gallagher said. “But if you talk to Guor, his goals are bigger.”
Marial fled from a refugee camp in South Sudan in 1994 at the age of 8 during the Sudanese Civil War. Marial was able to seek refugee status by the United States when he was 16 and attended high school in Concord, New Hampshire, where he started running.
Marial, who became a U.S. citizen in February, competed in the Olympic Marathon last summer under the Olympic flag because his country of origin, South Sudan, hadn’t yet been recognized by the International Olympic Committee. Marial came in 47th in 2:19:32. His personal best is 2:12:55.
According to Gallagher, who has spent much time with Marial in the past year, Marial’s goal is to run in the 2016 Olympics under the South Sudan flag.
“He has this super noble mission,” Gallagher said. “He wants to go back to South Sudan and try to get the government and the people who deal with athletics and the government to cajole them to join the world athletic community.”
Gallagher says production is in its early stages and he has done most of the filming out of pocket. To help fund the documentary, Gallagher started a Kickstarter campaign. Gallagher’s fundraising goal is $12,000; so far, he's raised more than $5,500.
“The cool thing about Kickstarter is it doesn’t just provide funding. It sort of launches your film into another dimension,” Gallagher said. “It enables you to engage with your film’s audience from the first moment. If you can engage the audience that soon there’s this sort of limitless potential.”
Gallagher has until April 18, three days after Marial runs the Boston Marathon, to reach his fundraising goal. If he doesn’t reach it, he won’t receive any of the money raised.
“I think one of the main reasons I’m interested in it is it conveys this message of hope,” Gallagher said. “If a refugee, who didn’t know if he was going to survive, can become an elite athlete, then really anything is possible.”
To view the film teaser, visit the "Runner Without a Country" Kickstarter page. |
Kitchari (pronounced kich-uh-ree) is the traditional cleansing food of Ayurveda. It is a combination of split mung beans and white basmati rice (which creates protein) with plenty of different spices.
Kitchari is very easy to digest, nourishing, and gives strength and vitality. This is a great balanced food if you would like to give your digestive system a little rest or when you follow a detoxification program. It not only helps remove the toxins out of your body, but it is also very delicious.
Kitchari is low in fiber, so if you are planning to eat kitchari for several days make sure to add other fibers to your diet during the day or get instructions from a certified professional.
I love to eat kithari when my tummy needs a little break or as a meal part anytime. It is very delicious.
There are lots of kitchari recipes with different spice variation. Here is my favorite recipe from K.P. Khalsa.
½ tsp coriander
½ tsp cumin
½ tsp cardamom
¼ tsp ground fennel seed
¾ tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
¼ cup of white basmati rice, rinsed well
½ cup of mung beans or lentils soaked overnight
3 ½ cups of water or vegetable broth
Ghee or oil
Cover the bottom of the pot with ghee or oil.
Add spices to the oil and heat them until fragrant
Drain the beans and rice and add them to the pot
Stir until coated with the spice mixture
Add the water or vegetable broth and bring to boil
Lower heat and simmer for 30-45 minutes
This will be a bit mushy texture but that is okay.
Make it a special meal:
Sautee onions and add them at the beginning so they cook together or top the kitchari with it
Garnish with cilantro, lime, and fresh ginger
Add minced garlic
Add sauteed broccoli or sauteed spinach on top
Top it with toasted sesame seeds
Make it spicy: mix in pepper flakes or add a hint of cayenne pepper
Get creative! The variations are endless |
New Delhi, May 3
India has announced a 35-member junior girls probables list for the FIFA Women’s U-17 World Cup coaching camp, which began in Goa on Thursday.
A selection committee meeting was held in Kohlapur after the junior girls National Football Championship to analyse the performances of the players.
The girls will be reporting to coach Alex Ambrose, who was earlier in charge of the under-19 national team. — PTI
List of probables
- Goalkeepers: Tanu, Thoudam Devi, Adrija Sarkhel, Manisha, Manju Ganju
- Defenders: Purnima Kumari, Phanjoubam Devi, Sudha Tirkey, Antrika, Kritina Devi, Nisha, Daisy Crasto, Naketa, Kamna, Vaishnavi Chandrakant
- Midfielders: Martina, Aveka Singh, Priyanka Devi, Astam Orain, Anju, Poonam, Salomi Minj, Drishti Pant, Manisha, Priyanka Sujeesh.
- Forwards: Kiran, Amisha Baxla, Mariyammal, Sumati Kumari, Manisha Naik, Lynda Kom, Shilky Devi, Sai Sanke, Lalnun Siami, Karen Estrocio.
- Goalkeepers: Anjali Barke, Anshika
- Defenders: Gia Sundaram, Lhingneilam Kipgen, Saraswati Kri, Shilpaben Thakur, Ritu, Fulmani Oran
- Midfielders: Ishita Mathew, Gladys Zonunsangi
- Forwards: Sanika Patil, Malavika P, Santoshi Kumari
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Sherry Kosnaski is an American Twitch star and social media personality. She is very popular for her gaming content. She has her biggest fan base on Twitch. She is known for streaming popular games like Minecraft, The Sims 4, as well as Stardew Valley. She has over 72,000 subscribers on YouTube, and over 250K followers on Twitch. According to Sherry Kosnaski, she started streaming because she likes to spread positivity and make others smile. Along with her video streaming, she is also a student, pursuing her studies. Stay Tuned and explore Twitch star Sherry Kosnaski‘s Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Onlyfans account, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Career and her life’s Facts.
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|Real Name||Sherry Kosnaski|
|Famous As||Youtuber, Twitch Star|
|Height||Approx 5 feet 5 inches|
|Weight||Approx 55 Kg|
|Body Measurements||Approx 34-24-37 inches|
|Bra Cup Size||34 b|
|Eye Color||Dark Brown|
|Shoe Size||5 US|
|Net Worth||Approx $100,000 (USD)|
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- She has bold and classy personality. |
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Looking Back on 2019
2019 has been another fantastic and busy year for us, with over 7000 visitors from all over the world. Year on year we have seen our visitor numbers increase, and we hope that this upwards trend will continue into next year and beyond.
We were excited to be able to return our beautiful ‘Stuart Chair’ to permanent display for the first time in years following its conservation last year. Dating to c.1660, this chair reputedly belonged to Bonnie Prince Charlie, and has been a highlight of our extended Jacobite exhibition this season! The conservation work was carried out by the wonderful Younger Conservation Ltd, and was very generously funded by the Association of Independent Museums and the Pilgrim Trust.
Our temporary exhibition ‘Wha’s Like Us?’, which celebrated Scottish culture around the world, has also been a hit this year. As part of this, we invited visitors to share information of their Scottish ancestry, and were amazed by how many people from all over the world trace their roots back to our little country.
Another exciting development this year was David joining the team as our Redevelopment Manager. David will be taking us through the initial stages of a long-planned project to expand and improve the museum and the services that we offer. The redevelopment will include the addition of much-needed facilities such as toilets and a fit-for-purpose reception area, improve our exhibition spaces, make our building accessible to all, and ensure long-term sustainability. We are thrilled to have David on the team, and can’t wait to see our dreams become a reality! More redevelopment updates coming you way in the new year!
We had some great family events this year as well: a very busy Highland Archaeology Festival saw nearly 50 people – locals and tourists alike – dropping by the museum to try their hand at soap-carving, Pictish painting and targe-making, and our annual Easter and Halloween crafts brought in some familiar faces.
We also visited the local Cubs to run history sessions on the Jacobites and the First and Second World Wars – the children particularly enjoyed getting the opportunity to hold and touch some of our objects and dress up!
Once again, our small group of volunteers have proven to be the beating heart of the museum, and have been absolutely invaluable to us this year. Officially, they man the front desk, run events and catalogue our collections…but unofficially they provide a warm welcome and some good conversation, they answer questions, give out information, personal recommendations and advice, and generally make sure that our visitors have the best experience possible in Glencoe. Our Trip Advisor reviews are testimony to how much this means to visitors, and what a difference volunteers can make to your organisation.
Finally, a definite highlight of the year for us was a visit from Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, two of the stars of the TV show Outlander. You can read all about their visit on our previous blog post, Outlander Comes to Glencoe!
Though the museum has closed for the season, it doesn’t mean that we stop; we are already busy organising exhibitions for next year, continuing with our collections cataloguing project and planning for redevelopment, and you can keep up to date with everything through our social media pages (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) or on here.
We hope to see many of you in 2020! |
EA SCOUT the last line of defense for buying on Steam's Early Access
by Sean Martin
previewed on PC
ROKH by Nvizzio Creations is a sandbox space building/survival game in which you play as one of a second wave of Mars colonists landing to settle the planet. Your objectives are manifold: with other players or by yourself, you must harvest resources and use these resources to build and achieve sustainability. You must also explore, searching the sites and habitations left behind by the previous wave of colonists, to discover why their initiative failed. Also as in most survival games, while you build towards sustainability, you must also look after your well being, finding supply caches of food, oxygen, water and suit batteries to keep yourself alive. You have a selection of tools to achieve your objectives: a pick-axe for mining, a crowbar for breaking down, a screwdriver for building and a hammer for crafting. You also have a jet-pack which can launch you short distances.
THE JERKY HARVEST
I really enjoy building/survival games that allow you to actually use tools: itís one of the many reasons I love Donít Starve so much. I think in survival situations, building, farming and hunting are some of the very few forms of preoccupation and solace that must keep a person sane. So when players are adopting that persona, I think itís important the game offers them those same occupations. ROKH tells you your objective is sustainability, but from the outset, you get all of your food (mostly jerky) and oxygen from supply caches: you canít build farms, or hunt, or harvest some kind of space flora. The same goes for oxygen. Even the buildings you make arenít life giving: the ruined colonies of the failed expedition (presumably when the jerky ran out) are what your buildings come to resemble more than anything.
ROKH sends a mixed message. Itís trying to be a building game with realistic survival thrown in, whereas in actuality itís currently a realistic survival game trying to be a building game. You may think that sounds like absolute nonsense, but hear me out. ROKH is a realistic survival game: you traverse ruined, sparse surroundings, scavenging the means to survive (as you do in The Long Dark). Yet it also says its goal as a building game is sustainability, but thatís a complete contradiction: how can you build sustainability when you are completely reliant upon scavenging? These occupations of building farms, of animal husbandry, of hunting, are necessary in a sandbox building/survival game. These life-giving constructs are needed to occupy a player/give them a reason to build, otherwise, in the case of ROKH, it feels like youíre simply adding more ruins to the landscape.
But we must remember this is still an early access game with a little way to go yet. And I think there is a solution to the problem. ROKH should add buildable options to create complete sustainability, but most important of all, there should be an option to break down the ruined colony buildings and use their resources. Tonally, realistic survival and sandbox building are often very different: one is about decay, sparse and lonely, surrounded by ruins and the other is about rebirth, hope, the complete opposite in many ways. I think being able to recycle the ruins left by the previous initiative would add that element of hope and rebirth that it is sorely missing for a game about colonists. ROKH is currently a great foundation for a game, but is stuck as realistic space survival and sandbox building obstruct each other, making it both but neither. If the game falls down on either side of the fence though, it could be really great.
I didnít accomplish much during my time in ROKH: I tried to build a habitation, but failed and took shelter with another explorer, I did a lot of mining, and I contemplated the possibility of creating some form of sustainable jerky farm using my fellow colonists. ROKH is set to land sometime later this year.
The game has potential, but we're not ready to jump in with both feet. If the game interests you, look, but don't touch - yet. |
FOR the week of 4 to 10 May 2009, the Chinese press highlighted the possibility of Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek switching camps, the chaotic Perak assembly sitting, and the meningitis outbreak in Malacca.
The Chinese press reported that MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat responded coldly to the news that Chua might defect to the PR.
Ong, who is also the transport minister, said he only found out the news from media reports but would not be contacting Chua to ask about it.
“Is it necessary [to contact Chua]? I’m not going to respond to people who create news for their own personal agenda … You all (reporters) should go and ask the newsmaker instead,” a testy Ong said on 4 May, which was reported in all major newspapers.
Chen Li Liang from Oriental Daily immediately pointed out the differing responses from Umno leaders on the issue in his article No 2 may leave, beginning of MCA’s unrest on 4 May.
Prime Minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak on 2 May refuted claims that Chua might cross over, and said he believed Chua to be a loyal Barisan Nasional (BN) leader.
On the same day, Home Minister and Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said he would be sad if Chua really intended to defect to the opposition as he had known the politician for a long time.
Guang Ming Daily, in its editorial on 5 May titled Don’t go to the extreme, advised Ong to be more diplomatic when dealing with Chua.
Ong“Since the MCA elections in October 2008, [the concept of] working together has remained only a slogan because Ong and Chua have been at odds with each other … It is for all to see that Chua is his (Ong’s) enemy, not colleague.”
The article also said if Ong continued to ignore Chua, not only would Chua strike back, but the grassroots might be angry or unhappy.
House in disorder
The chaos at the Perak state assembly sitting on 7 May also generated a lot of coverage in the Chinese media.
Sin Chew Daily commented on the historic sitting in its editorial Chaotic assembly affects social stability on 8 May.
The editorial said a state assembly loses its function to serve the people when the assemblypersons, regardless of political affiliation, are too busy fighting for political power. They are all guilty of betraying the trust and support given to them by voters.
“In the beginning of the crisis, many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) called for the assembly to be dissolved so that fresh elections could be held. However, their calls were not heeded. The voters lost their right to have their voices heard in this entire episode; this has ridiculed our democracy.”
Sin Chew Daily also criticised the police for arresting people dressed in black, describing it as an “over-reaction” that created unnecessary panic. The whole episode was generally viewed negatively by the public.
Sin Chew Daily columnist Lin Rui Yuan also commented on 8 May that the Perak crisis had not come to an end with the state assembly sitting, but would likely end up being prolonged.
“If the process of electing a new speaker was flawed, the PR could challenge the new speaker’s place in court, and this would evolve into another time- and energy-exhausting political case,” he wrote in his piece Perak’s drama yet to end.
“Regardless of the High Court’s ruling on 11 May on who the rightful menteri besar is, the loser would surely appeal … The PR might also challenge the legality of the 7 May assembly sitting.”
Lin said the BN could therefore claim it has changed the speaker and taken control of the state assembly, but the PR would never recognise this and would fight till the end.
He added that if this crisis could not be resolved amicably, it would end up becoming a political burden for the BN. Even if the BN waited for the courts to decide, they would be distracted from governing the state, and Perakians would be the ones affected.
Ruckus during the Perak assembly sitting
China Press commended the Health Ministry for their efficiency and transparency when dealing with the meningitis outbreak in Malacca in their editorial Everyone to help prevent pandemic on 10 May.
“Not only did they immediately quarantine the officers and trainees [from the Road Transport Department’s Tiang Dua training academy], they also called for a press conference at once, and informed the public about the details.”
The editorial also urged the public to remain calm, find out more about the disease and its symptoms, and take care of their personal hygiene.
“As children are the most susceptible, parents should be alert and reduce their children’s exposure to public places, and strengthen their immunity systems to prevent them from being infected.”
China Press also reminded readers to seek treatment immediately if they discovered any suspected symptoms of meningitis. |
57 major library systems have so far added and many others are in the process of adding 'The Broken Silence' to their circulating collection including: British Library, U.K; The Library of Congress, U.S.A; Library & Archives Canada [photo credit: www.ctvnews.ca]. Herein below are the links and you have an exciting free offer. Borrow the book, leave a review and get a free signed copy of the book - you could reach me through my website:
1. Library & Archives Canada - 4th largest library in the world with 54 million items
2. Ottawa Public Library - Ontario, Canada - 2.3 million items
3. Mississauga Public Library - Ontario, Canada -
4. Whitby Public Library - Ontario, Canada - 1.4 million items
5. Wood Buffalo Regional Library - Alberta, Canada -
6. McGill University Library - 4th ranking and a prestegious university in Canada
7. Edmonton Public Library - Alberta, Canada - 16.6 million items
8. Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library - North Carolina, U.S.A - 6.3 million items
9. Guelph Public Library - Ontario, Canada
10. West Vancouver Memorial Library - British Columbia, Canada -
11. New Orleans Public Library - Louisiana, U.S.A -
12. Indianapolis Public Library - Indiana, U.S.A -
13. Jacksonville Public Library - Florida, U.S.A - 3 million items
14. Pickering Public Library - Ontario, Canada
15. Cape Breton Regional Library - Nova Scotia, Canada
16. Phoenix Public Library - Arizona, U.S.A - Circulate over 10 million items a year
17. Western Counties Regional Library - Nova Scotia, Canada
18. Sacramento Public Library - California, U.S.A - nearly 2 million items
19. Kingston Frontenac Public Library - Ontario, Canada
20. Nashville Public Library - Tennessee, U.S.A - partners a program that offers access to approximately 1.5 million information resources
21. Alameda County Library - California, U.S.A - more than 1 million items
22. Toronto Public Library - Ontario, Canada - largest public library system in Canada with over 12 million items
23. Surrey Libraries - British Columbia, Canada - more than 790,000 items
24. Yukon Public Libraries - Yukon Territory, Canada
25. Coquitlam Public Library - British Columbia, Canada
26. Churchill Public Library - Manitoba, Canada
27. The Library of Congress - Largest public library in U.S and 2nd largest library in the world with 167 million items
28. Winnipeg Public Library - Manitoba, Canada - Circulation of 4.88 million (2018)
29. Louisville Public Library - Colorado, U.S.A
30. Kitchener Public Library - Ontario, Canada - 580,000 books
31. Halifax Public Libraries - Nova Scotia, Canada - almost 1 million items
32. San Antonio Public Library - Texas, U.S.A - Central Library: 580,000 volumes
33. Waterloo Public Library - Ontario, Canada
34. Montreal West Public Library - Quebec, Canada
35. Hawaii State Public Library System - 19th largest library in U.S.A with over 3.4 million items
36. Vancouver Public Library - British Columbia, Canada - 3rd largest public library systems in Canada
37. Barrie Public Library - Ontario, Canada
38. Okanagan Regional Library - British Columbia, Canada - 3.2 million items (2013)
39. North Bay Public Library - Ontario, Canada
40. Greater Sudbury Public Library - Ontario, Canada
41. British Library - United Kingdom - Largest library in the world with 170 - 200 + million items
42. Peterborough Public Library - Ontario, Canada
43. Buffalo & Erie County Public Library - Buffalo, New York, U.S.A - collection consists of hand-written manuscript of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Burlington Public Library - Ontario, Canada
45. Metropolitan Library System - Oklahoma, U.S.A - size: over 1 million
46. Santa Fe Public Library - New Mexico, U.S.A
47. John M. Cuelenaere Public Library - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
48. Central Arkansas Library System - Arkansas, U.S.A - The largest public library system in Arkansas
49. Thunder Bay Public Library - Ontario, Canada
50. Library & Archives Canada (hard cover) - 4th largest library in the world with 54 million items
51. Windsor Public Library - Ontario, Canada
52. Regina Public Library - Saskatchewan, Canada
53. Dover Public Library - Delaware, U.S.A
54. Saint Paul Public Library - Minnesota, U.S.A
55. Brooklyn Public Library - New York, U.S.A - 16th largest library system in U.S.A with a collection of more than 3.66 million items
56. Belleville Public Library - Ontario, Canada
57. Montgomery City County Public Library - Alabama, U.S.A
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The book is on Goodreads (U.S Social Cataloguing website with a user base of 20 million) and Indie Ontario too.
On May 4, 2020 Robin Vasquez, Special Advisor to the President of 'Holland America Line' wrote to me, “We recently received the gift you sent, your book, “The Broken Silence” at our Seattle office. We are truly grateful that you have shared such a thought provoking and insightful literary work with us.
Indeed, the relevance of this memoir along with what is happening with the world today, provides a special perspective. We are honored that you have chosen to share this with us.”
I am also pleased to let you all know that the book is now with Library, Archives Canada and also with Ottawa Public Library. And a number of libraries in U.S and Canada are in the process of cataloging it.
Justin Trudeau is listening - it is about terrorism! For details about conversation, see my book 'The Broken Silence'.
So pleased to share that I had a chance to do another Book reading. Here are some pictures from the event.
Here's another picture of a reader with his set of books he is about to read.
Q: How substantial reader interest was generated?
A: A simple comparison between the book cover and its contents!
Book signing event at Indigo Barrhaven, Ottawa on 15 February 2020
January 29, 2017 was a sad day after Alexandre Bissonette opened fire in the Quebec City mosque killing 6 innocent worshippers and injuring 19 of them who were all engrossed in remembering the CREATOR. My book takes up the alarming issue of terrorism and the rising tide of Islamophobia - the editorial writer points out, "The Broken Silence explores the real causes of terrorism and its remedies. It also seeks to help non-Muslims to better understand this ancient religion and calls out to Muslims to explore the real values of Islam and regain its true spirit."
Photo credit with thanks: cbc.ca
These 6 pathetically perished for no fault of theirs! How sad!
These days, when we open up major news outlets on internet, we see in very bold headlines the news about US President's Senate trial - it's loaded with partisan bickering and a sickening state of affairs wherein truth may not prevail! But I am glad that simultaneously a sponsored Ad pops up showing some wonderful collection of newly launched books and among them it shows the bright, sunny cover of 'The Broken Silence' exhibiting hope, struggle and movement - a flowing waterfall moves on undeterred by obstacles. Generally the Ads are not pleasing but this time they are! You may check out the contents of the page by clicking on the link:
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It is my pleasure to inform you all, the dedicated readers wanting to "Enrich your Life" that I will be doing a book signing of 'The Broken Silence' on Saturday, 15 February, 2020 at Ottawa's Barrhaven Indigo Stores from 12 - 5 pm. All are welcome! Visitors from outside Ottawa are welcome to be my guest free of charge - air ticket is yours :) |
Gloria Estefan had owned Noelle, a brown-and-white bulldog, for only a day when a veterinarian told her the new pet was just too sick to live. But despite her vet’s suggestion that she put the puppy to sleep, Estefan felt rescuing her friend was in order.
“I said, ‘Try to save her. This dog’s a survivor,”’ said Estefan.
Estefan knows a little about survival herself. In 1990, she overcame long odds to restart her singing career after a bus crash left her paralyzed and wondering if she would ever walk again.
Now the five-time Grammy winner is again talking about overcoming obstacles to kids — but instead of putting the focus on herself, Noelle has become the focal point. “Noelle’s Treasure Tale” is the second installment in a series of colorful children’s books featuring the curious Noelle and her adventures. The book teaches about history and the animal world while imparting life lessons.
“There’s a bit of metaphysics in there for the kids,” she said in a recent Associated Press interview. “There are very subtle morals and ideas that get into the spiritual realm.”
The first book in the series, “The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog,” was a best-seller among children’s books. The books are available in English and Spanish.
“There was no ghosting here — I wrote every word,” she said. “I told them look, ‘I’m going to edit myself. I’m used to doing a three-minute song, I can certainly edit down to 31 pages of a children’s book.”
The new book follows the release of “The Essential Gloria Estefan,” a greatest hits collection Sony BMG Music from her days with Miami Sound Machine and her solo career. Included on the double-CD set is the 1984 smash “Dr. Beat,” which brought Miami Sound Machine’s fusion of Latin and pop to the American masses. Other hits like “Conga” followed, as did her multiplatinum pop career.
Choosing the songs for the album proved challenging for Estefan — who planned a career in psychiatry or international law before meeting her musician husband, Emilio, and joining his band in 1975.
“It was tough for me because the songs that I would pick would not be the songs that were singles,” she said. “I wanted it to be like a journey in somebody’s past, if they’ve been fans, that these songs remind them of certain time period and what they were going through.”
One song on the CD, “Coming Out of the Dark,” is from her 1991 album “Into the Light,” released a year after the Pennsylvania bus crash that nearly killed her and left her paralyzed. Slowly she rehabilitated and did what many thought she couldn’t — walk, dance, perform. She received inspiration from fans during her recovery and afterward.
“I would think to myself ‘OK, I’m a public figure and ... maybe this is the reason, besides the opportunity to communicate to people,”’ she said. “Maybe I’m supposed to be showing people how you can change your life.”
Estefan’s life in the United States began when her family fled Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution when she was 2. She quickly learned English, and started playing guitar and singing to her grandmother’s old Cuban records. That formed a musical base that she would rely upon.
Estefan not only has written songs for herself, but also has helped with the emergence in the mid-1990s of Latin music crossover stars. Her producer husband, Emilio Estefan, has produced for Ricky Martin and Shakira and Gloria wrote a song for Jennifer Lopez.
Through it all, Estefan says she has remained grounded. Fans are likely to see her at Miami Heat games, and she goes to her 11-year-old daughter’s basketball games and picks her up from school (she also has an adult son).
She hasn’t recorded an album since 2003’s “Unwrapped,” but she is staying busy. She is working on another all-Spanish language CD and a screenplay about singer Connie Francis, which she plans to star in the leading role.
And Estefan continues to write, with a third book planned featuring Noelle the bulldog.
“My favorite process is writing, from day one,” she said. “The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think that’s my prime objective on this planet.” |
Press Release: July 03, 2020
FrSky pilot MIJABA has been lucky and is in the betatesting program with an early access to the Horus X12S and is sharing with us all his experiences and sensations about this new and revolutionary radio that we think will provide people with a lot to talk about. The analyisis will consist of two parts: in the first one we'll talk about it's technical aspects and hardware, and in the second one, about the software and the operating system, along with some live tests and other features you might find interesting.
Without further delay, let’s introduce all the details of this fantastic and innovative radio.
Horus packs a huge amount of changes and new specifications that might really interest any style or skill level pilot.
The transmitter’s carry case, of very robust aspect and crash resistant, houses our treasured transmitter. It can be firmly closed through a couple of dead-bolt locks.
Once you open the case for the first time you’re greeted with the transmitter itself, very well protected, with its protective films on the screen. We can also find the charger with a European plug (selected by the customer on purchase), and a 2-point neck strap, as well as the keys to lock the case. Everything is perfectly fitted in its foam slot. That will avoid any movement inside the case while transporting it.
Once the transmitter is in your hands it seems smaller than it looked in the first pics that appeared on the internet, even though it’s still quite bigger than the Taranis. Anyways, at first sight you can already tell this is not a Taranis, it’s serious business.
The sides of the Horus incorporate a rugged and slip-resistant rubber, right where we place our hands. Furthermore, at the back of the transmitter there’s a metallic support, which is ideal for when you want to put the transmitter on a table. Some small rubbers avoid scratching the transmitter when on the table. The already mentioned metallic stand can also be used to carry the transmitter more comfortably.
The front panel is made of perfectly mechanized aluminium with a matte texture that houses the two huge gimbals, surrounded by multiple controls, detailed below. At the top, a huge full colour screen with a 480 x 272 px resolution. Aside from the screen size and colours, this new screen positioning is an upgrade to the old Taranis, as you don’t have to look down as you had to do in the Taranis in order to see the info on the display.
Right in the middle of the front panel we can find a metallic strap base, where we’ll be able to link our neck strap. If we lift this metal part we can find the power button to turn on and off the transmitter, which was hidden at first sight! |
Nov 2, 2018, Cork Evening Echo: Cork parents protest at lack of autism services https://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/Cork-parents-protest-at-lack-of-autism-services-12830ecf-3c95-4484-90ae-cb79a4235ba5-ds The HSE has been accused of not listening to parents of autistic children, who say their children are suffering due to a lack of services in Cork. A crowd of parents met yesterday at Chuckies Play Zone in Wilton to discuss their struggle to gain access to much needed autism services in the region. Cork woman Suzanne O’Flynn said children are waiting months or longer for services and some even struggle to get on waiting lists for vital services. … “Our children are being left behind.” Luke has also been denied access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, because he cannot access a multidisciplinary team. “The HSE are just not listening and our children are suffering,” said Suzanne. The latest figures show that the between August 2017 and August 2018, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare received a total of 1,120 referrals for assessment under the Disability Act…. The figures also show that the number of children seeking an ASD assessment has risen by around 100 in two months, from 900 to more than 1,000. … The HSE admitted this represents a significant challenge in terms of their capacity to respond to the need for ASD assessments. Accessing Autism services in Cork is a constant, daily struggle which can span decades, according to Cork woman Tracy Doyle, who has five children, two on the autism spectrum…. As well as increased staff and services, Suzanne said providing training to parents who are new to autism would be a huge help. “We’ll do anything to help our kids but we need more support. “More staff, more services, they’re crucial but if there was classes to help us deal with it, we’d all be there, we’d do anything,” she added. |
Essays by a pre-eminent Old Testament scholar on the biblical emphasis on the material life and its implications for social, political and economic issues.
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Published: January 2017
Published: January 2017
Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its emphasis. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator God loves the creation and summons creation to be in sync with the will of the creator God. This collection of essays is focussed on the bodily life of the world as it ordered in all of its problematic political and economic forms. The phrase of the title "all flesh" in the flood narrative of Genesis 9 refers to all living creatures who are in covenant with God – human beings, animals, birds, and fish – as recipients of God's grace, as dependent upon God's generosity, and as destined for praise and obedience to God.
The insistence on the materiality of life as the subject of the Bible means that the difficult issues of economics and the demanding questions of politics are front and centre in the text. So the Pentateuch pivots around the Exodus narrative and the emancipation from an unbearable context of abusive labour practices. In a similar manner, the prophets endlessly address such questions of social policy and the wisdom teachers reflect on how to manage the material things of life and social relationships for the well-being of the community.
This emphasis, pervasive in these essays, is a powerful alternative and a strong resistance against all of the contemporary efforts to transcend (escape!) the material into some form of the "spiritual". All around us are efforts to find an easier, more harmonious faith. This may be evoked simply because of a desire to shield economic, political advantage from the inescapable critique of biblical faith. Such a temptation is a serious misreading of the Bible and a critical misjudgment about the nature of human existence. Thus the Bible addressed the most urgent issues of our day, and refuses the "religious temptation" that avoids lived reality where the power of God is a work.
Foreword by K.C. Hanson
1. The God of All Flesh
2. The Creatures Know
3. Jeremiah: Creatio in Extremis
4. Israel's Sense of Place in Jeremiah
5. Imagination as a Mode of Fidelity
6. Psychological Criticism: Exploring the Self in the Text
7. Psalm 37: Conflict of Interpretation
8. The "Us" of Psalm 67
9. Authority in the Church
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is a prolific author, whose works include The Role of Old Testament Theology in Old Testament Interpretation (also published by James Clarke & Co Ltd).
... this volume highlights some of the collected essays written between 1974 and 2009 as Festschriften by famed biblical scholar, Walter Brueggemann. ... This reviewer's first exposure to the thought, work, and writing of Professor Brueggemann came in graduate school with his remarkable book, The Prophetic Immigration. That work opened up a very different and helpful angle in understanding the phenomenon of prophets, and as a result, there has always been a deep indebtedness to him. Likewise, the reader will remain grateful and indebted to Walter Brueggemann for the many insights provided by The God of All Flesh and Other Essays. Clifford Chalmers Cain, in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol 25, Issue 1 |
Do you like coffee? If you do, where do you go to get your coffee? Most people tend to visit a coffee shop for their daily caffeine fix – you can get a lot of different options. Alternatively, you get those people who make do with whatever they can get in the shopping.
However, you might not know that there is a third option. If you’re looking for something a little bit different, then you might be a good pick for a coffee subscription. Let’s take a look at how our coffee subscription might change your lifestyle for the better. If what you read interests you, feel free to head over to Presto Coffee and go to /pages/coffee-subscription.
The important thing to remember when it comes to a coffee subscription is that it really helps to enhance the overall experience of drinking coffee. If you are a real caffeine enthusiast, someone who loves coffee, then a coffee subscription is the best way to experience a brand-new way of drinking your caffeine.
With a coffee subscription, your experiences with the caffeine-filled good stuff becomes enhanced. You don’t have to stand around in line for a Starbucks anymore if you don’t want to. Instead, you can kick back at home on the sofa with a steaming cup of an artisan coffee that’s been delivered to your door. It’s your coffee, your way.
Appreciate the Little Things
Let’s be honest here – coffee is a lot like a metaphor for life. Generally, you’re a busy soul, rushing around from one place to the next. Life is a confusing mess of deadlines, meetings, business calls, and awkward dates. You don’t have time to enjoy the little things. Your coffee reflects that. It’s picked up from a coffee shop to go, with no thought put into it.
It doesn’t always have to be that way, however. A coffee subscription, where luxury coffee is brought to you? Well, that might just help you to slow down and really take a look at the little things in life. You might find that you’re more inclined to sacrifice your Starbucks for a chance to sit in your kitchen and enjoy that coffee before heading out to work.
You’ve gained a new appreciation for the small, precious moments, and that’s something that can’t be taken away from you, no matter how much the meeting about the fourth business quarter makes you want to scream.
So, can a coffee subscription change your lifestyle? Absolutely. It takes you from being someone who has to rush around all the time to someone who stops and appreciates the small moments. Everything is precious and intimate when you can enjoy it, and a luxury coffee from a subscription can help you to do just that. Coffee subscriptions are for those who want something more than just a caffeinated beverage. They want an experience, and they’re going to get it in the form of a subscription to luxury coffee. |
Serving Minneapolis And Other Areas: Early Neutral Evaluation Attorneys
Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) is a process that originated in Hennepin County Family Court. This includes Financial Early Neutral Evaluations (FENE) and SENE or Social Early Neutral Evaluations. Today, most Twin Cities counties offer some sort of the early neutral evaluation process to divorcing parties. At Terzich & Ort, LLP, our ENE certified attorneys have helped hundreds of Minnesota litigants through the ENE process.
With a settlement rate approaching 80 percent, litigants are afforded an opportunity to save tens of thousands of dollars in fees and costs that would otherwise be paid to lawyers. For that reason, we at Terzich & Ort, LLP, in Maple Grove, strongly encourage our clients to participate in ENE. To learn more about ENE, including FENE and SENE, contact our office or call us at 763-391-7354.
How Does FENE Work?
At the Initial Case Management Conference (ICMC), the court may recommend that the parties and their attorneys participate in the financial ENE process if they have one or more outstanding financial issues. Cases referred would be cases that would be helped by informed recommendations by an evaluator.
What Is The Purpose Of A FENE?
The purpose of a FENE is to provide parties with an early neutral evaluation of one or more financial issues with the expectation that if the parties have the neutral information, they will be better able to reach an early settlement before the parties’ financial resources are expended on litigation. When parties are able to weigh the costs of pursuing adversarial evaluations and litigating financial issues versus an efficient, economical settlement early in the case, most parties favor the early settlement. Often, settlement can occur before significant time and money has been spent.
If you participate in the financial early neutral evaluation, your first meeting with the evaluator will occur within seven days of the Initial Case Management Conference, unless for extraordinary circumstances, the court permits a later start.
At the initial meeting held within seven days, the evaluator will initially ask for presentations by counselor with the parties to learn more about the issues. The evaluator will then determine what other information needs to be exchanged and provided to the evaluator. The evaluator may also ask questions of the parties or seek data from third parties.
The early neutral evaluation process must be completed within 60 days. Within that 60-day period, you will either reach a settlement or inform the court that no agreement has been reached. If an agreement is reached, the attorneys will cooperate with the evaluator and the court to draft the necessary documents to make sure that the agreement is enforced.
Other Aspects Of FENE
- Anything that is said or done within the context of the evaluation is confidential and cannot be admitted into court. This does not mean, however, that if there are documents that would otherwise be available to the parties, that they cannot be provided to the court. Solely because a document is presented at the Initial Case Management Conference or early neutral evaluation stage does not mean that it can never be used, if it were otherwise be available to the parties. The recommendations of the early neutral evaluator and any statements of settlement or compromise made in the process cannot be admitted into court. Similarly, settlement conference discussions, which may be revealed at an early neutral evaluation, remain confidential.
- The early neutral evaluator will not report the content of the evaluation to the judge. The communications that the evaluator has with the judicial officer will be for the purposes of informing the court that the case is not appropriate for early neutral evaluation. Also, with the written consent of the parties, the evaluator may inform the court that an additional ADR process, such as mediation, will be helpful to facilitate the ENE process. With the written consent of the parties, the evaluator may also identify any issue that, if resolved, would facilitate settlement.
- If the early neutral evaluation process is unsuccessful, then the matter will be returned to the judge assigned to your case, who will set a discovery timeline and schedule the matter for pretrial and trial.
- You will be entitled to choose an evaluator from a recommended list provided by the court. You will need to agree with the other party on who will serve as the evaluator or the court can appoint an evaluator. The evaluator must also be a certified mediator.
- Typically, the evaluator’s fees are paid one-half by each party. Evaluator’s fees are set on a sliding fee scale depending on the assets and income of the parties.
Contact Our Office Today
To schedule an appointment at our firm, contact our Minneapolis early neutral evaluation lawyers online or call us at 763-391-7354. We meet with clients during regular business hours, and evening consultations are available upon request. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.
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Buzz: Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.
Obviously, it was all a little too close for comfort, but just imagine if Shakespeare had been able to write about this period in history: Henry VIII parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Oh, the speeches! The introspection! The misunderstandings and betrayals would be writ large, and there’s enough action to power through in full drama-mode. It would have been phenomenal. But it would also have been rather different, perhaps, to The Mirror and The Light and its predecessors Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies.
High drama is clearly not Ms. Mantel’s style.
In theory, plenty happens in The Mirror and the Light. It covers the span of time from May 1536 to July 1540; key years at a time in history considered so dramatic it’s dominated the history curriculum, and the public perception of British history, for years. And yet, reading this book, it’s very easy to feel that very little happens at all, despite the hefty 882 pages.
This is because Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy is concerned with minutiae rather than the big picture. As is (her version of) Thomas Cromwell himself. One moment in the book when he’s truly emotionally stricken, for example, is when the daughter of his beloved old master, Cardinal Wolsey, accuses Cromwell of betraying her father. His grief is expressed through obsessively recounting precisely remembered data, and is somehow all the more powerful for it.
He thinks, I tried by every means to save my master…I tried by accountancy. Riche is wondering at him, but he cannot stop. ‘He said to me, this fellow, “The cardinal has owed the merchant Cavalcanti the sum of eighty-seven pounds, standing over these seven years, for richest cloth of gold at thirty shillings a yard, 311 1/2 yards: and of the lesser quality, 195 1/2 yards.” He said, “The whole order was left at York Place — I have the delivery note. The cardinal claims the king will pay,” he said to me — “but I think we shall see doomsday sooner than that,”’
‘Sir,’ Christophe says, ‘sit down on this chest. Using that handkerchief you may wipe your eyes.’
The devil is in the detail, of course.
And The Mirror and The Light is an experience of living in that detail. Like the best kind of foreign language course, this is a full immersion experience. You live alongside Cromwell; in his pragmatic world, sharing his perspective so convincingly it feels part of you. You can’t not feel a deep affection for him.
Even if Mantel did have a taste for high drama, it might not have worked so easily. When you’re writing about a time in history that’s so well known, there are obvious constraints on the normal story directions. Hilary Mantel couldn’t just whip this plot into a more dramatically satisfying shape. It’s not like the semi-fictionalised bio of some unknown that can be altered to fit a fail-safe narrative arc. (Add a marriage! Give him a near-death experience! Blend five characters into one, then make them a girl!) This whole Henry VIII bit is well known stuff, and every single character is meticulously in place and listed at the start. Besides, Mantel is on record saying how much she hates that kind of thing: like Cromwell, she’s a stickler for accuracy and detail.
But even with all that in mind, even given the constraints of recorded history, this could have been played more to hit the easy emotional notes. Cromwell’s eventual and inevitable betrayal and demise is…understated. Marvellously so. It somehow feels more like he was worn away than executed. (Although do I dare admit that my history is so poor, I’m one of the few —only?— readers upset by a spoiler of the end?) The emotional note it does hit is a low resonant one, rather than a high chime, and it lingers all the more because of it.
What’s even more amazing, is that while we’re knee deep in detailed historical occurrences, Mantel somehow makes this overwritten period of history suddenly feel wonderfully timeless — or even contemporary.
It’s not just about the choice of present tense, although that helps. It’s also thrilling to sit in a Covid lockdown, that Mantel could never have predicted, reading about the plague flaring and Amazon drivers — I mean “delivery people” — having to drop their packages at a safe distance. In The Mirror and the Light there are also drunken crowds that cause havoc in the name of getting England back to how it used to be in the good old days:
Now they go rattling through the streets, proclaiming the ballad of Worse-was-it-Never. There was a former age, it seems, when wives were chaste and pedlars honest, when roses bloomed at Christmas and every pot bubbled with fat self-renewing capons. If these times are not those times, then who is to blame? Londoners, probably. Members of parliament. Reforming bishops…Rebel ballads sung by our grandfathers need small adaptation now. We are taxed til we cry, we must live til we die, we be looted and swindled and cheated and dwindled…O, Worse was it Never!
And no, it’s not about pro-Brexit campaigners, however familiar it may sound.
As a forward thinking and deeply pragmatic statesman, it’s interesting to speculate on what Thomas Cromwell may have made of modern politics. But his concerns could have been just the same now as then — while we read about how 2021 is a record year for the UK beaver population, it seems Cromwell got there first; he too brought beavers back to British rivers, the original re-wilder.
There is so much to love in The Mirror and the Light, but its the whole, not just the parts, that make the full Cromwell trilogy the most satisfying, and beloved set of books I’ve read. I’m not sure I can pin down precisely why I love it so much, but I do. Is it the minutiae? The immersion? The understatement? The timelessness? Cromwell himself? Certainly, in its slow burn, deeply resonant and thoughtful way it sweeps you into Thomas Cromwell’s world, and that’s a fascinating place to spend time. A part of me wishes that Mantel just started writing at his birth and kept going, then I could happily live in his life, in real-time, in parallel to my own!
This brick of a book could be intimidating, and my main experience of books this length is often a wish that they were more brutally edited. I’m sure some will feel this is the case with The Mirror and the Light too, but I don’t think it could ever be too long. The sadness now, is that the saga is over and we don’t get to step inside this meticulous world again.
I came to this YA book from Twitter, where author C.G.Drews is something of a phenomenon; with 38k+ followers and a modest, quirky charm that makes you want her to succeed.
The story follows teenager Beck, a gifted pianist with a violent and abusive mother, in a love story with a hippy, love-filled, funny girl, August, who you can’t help feeling is a version of the author herself.
Parts of the book are quite cliched, but Drews portrays Beck with all the aching tenderness August is supposed to feel for him. It’s a very sweet portrait of a boy damaged by domestic abuse.
The Mercies is a bleak, cold, tale that chills you through and makes you grateful for modern comforts and the distance we’ve come in female autonomy.
It’s set in the most remote northern corner of Norway in 1617. At the start, the island’s male population are all lost in a freak storm, leaving the women of the island to get by alone. But 1617 is the time of witch trials and independent women are suspicious in the eyes of a puritanical church.
It’s the kind of book that made me pour over maps and want to train up in some basic skills. The writing is wonderfully sparse to reflect the nature of the content, and there’s also a pleasing gay love story to keep the chill from becoming too unbearable. |
“It is April 2011. In my hands is a book. A book with a grey cover and a white stripe. A book published in 1997 by Publications Orientalistes de France. On the title page is written N° 204790, in pencil. It is the prison admission number for Paris-La Santé prison, the prison admission number of Issei Sagawa, who gave me this book in April 1982; this date is written over traces of rubbing out, above a date perhaps signifying when the book was bought: October 1981.
It is to Issei Sagawa that I owe my reading of a literary masterpiece that would determine my aesthetic and logical sensibilities, that is, Éloge de l’ombre [In Praise of Shadows] by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from Japanese into French by René Sieffert.
The 11th June 1981, my university classmate Issei Sagawa, born the 26th April 1949 in Kobe in Japan, a thirty two year old student, murdered and then carried out acts of cannibalism on our Dutch, twenty three year old classmate Renée Hartevelt, who he had invited to his apartment at 10, rue Erlanger, Paris 16th arrondissement, to record a German reading of a poem by the Expressionist writer Johannes Becher.
This page opens Nicole Caligaris’ most recent book Le paradis entre les jambes [Paradise between the legs] (Verticales, December 2012). I first opened it on the high-speed train from Paris to La Rochelle and I couldn’t put it down. Thirty years after an extremely disturbing event, reduced by the media to the “Japanese cannibal” affair, Caligaris goes back down the “narrow canal towards a point in her past when she saw both literature and death produced by the same hand”. She knew Issei Sagawa, watched him, wrote to him after his arrest, owes her reading of Éloge de l’ombre to him and has barely spoken about the experience since.
What about us? Have we ever been mixed up in a nasty event? Have we ever crossed paths with someone who would or would have committed an unspeakable crime? Have we ever crossed paths with one of these dark celebrities who we are less likely to admit we were once friendly with than boast about having had a drink with a famous person – just like Jacques Roubaud who so ironically had three affairs with Jacques Lacan? Judging by my circle of friends this is often the case. As for me, I am certain that my girlfriend and I had a near escape from the “Monster of Florence”. Generally speaking, we don’t like to linger on these memories. But nevertheless they follow us and shape certain aspects of the way we lead our lives. Would you venture back down the “narrow canal” of memory and writing to revisit one of these events? Or would you, in contrast, prefer to remember meeting a sparking celebrity? Write and send us one page, for fun or to rid yourself of a nasty memory once and for all.
Le paradis entre les jambes is Nicole Caligaris’ sixth book to be published by Verticales, after Barnum des ombres [Barnum of Shadows] (2002), Les Chaussures, le drapeau, les putains [The Shoes, the Flag, the Whores] (2003), L’Os du doute [The Bone of Doubt] (2006), Okosténie (2008) and Dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche [During the Night of Saturday to Sunday], (2011). She has published several other works, notably with Cheyne (Trèfle à quatre [Four-leaf Clover], 1993) and with Mercure de France (La Scie patriotique [The Patriotic Saw], 1997; Tacomba, 2000; Les Samothraces [The Samothraces], 2000). Her prose is demanding and confronts our experience of difficult situations: our current passion for work, exile, war, torture and tourism. If you like rose water or a well organised plot, then this probably isn’t for you. “I wrote”, said Nicole, “to upset the rhythm of my crotch. It’s possible that this doesn’t really produce an integral type of literature. It is my only way out.” You have been warned. Me too: when I see one of her books I buy it. I have liked them all, even when they stubbornly rub up against difficult subjects: they make us work to discover the contemporary. |
Non-stop flights to Zamboanga City (ZAM)
Zamboanga International Airport is a small airport in Philippines. It is a domestic airport. Currently, there are 5 domestic flights to Zamboanga City.
Zamboanga City is mainly known for sightseeing & culture and its nature.
Most tourists come to Zamboanga City to visit Basilan.
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This month, there are 82 flights arriving at Zamboanga City Airport, which are 21 flights per week or 3 flights per day.
The most frequently departed flights to Zamboanga City are routes from Manila (MNL) in Philippines and Cebu (CEB), also in Philippines. These two routes together are operated 67 times this month, and make up for 82% of all monthly arrivals at Zamboanga International Airport.
The longest flight to Zamboanga City ZAM is departing from Manila (MNL). This non-stop flight takes around 1 hour and 40 minutes and covers a distance of 529 miles (851 km).
List of all direct flights to Zamboanga City
Below you can find a list of all cities and countries that have direct flights to Zamboanga City, ordered by popularity.
Airlines flying to Zamboanga City
Currently, there are 4 airlines that fly to Zamboanga City. Most flights to Zamboanga City are operated by Philippine Airlines, as they connect 5 airports to ZAM. Below you can find the list of airlines that operate all ZAM flights:
International flights to Zamboanga City
Currently there are no international flights to Zamboanga City. The only flights to Zamboanga City are domestic flights within Philippines. To get to Zamboanga City from another country you will need a flight with a stopover, for example through Manila or Cebu.
Domestic flights to Zamboanga City
Flights from Philippines to Zamboanga City
There are 5 airports in Philippines that have non-stop domestic flights to Zamboanga City.
From Butuan City, direct flights are offered by Philippine Airlines. This route is recently announced though, and not operational yet. It will start in March 2021.
From Cebu, direct flights are offered by Cebgo, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines.
From Davao City, you can fly non-stop with Cebu Pacific or Philippine Airlines.
From Manila, direct flights are offered by AirAsia, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines.
From Tawi Tawi Island, you can fly non-stop with Cebu Pacific or Philippine Airlines.
Alternative airports near Zamboanga City
Flying to an alternative airport near Zamboanga City could give you other options to reach your destination. For example, the possibility to fly with a different airline or alliance, or finding a cheaper airfare. The only alternative airport to Zamboanga City (ZAM) within a range of 125 miles (200 km) is Pagadian (PAG).
Frequently asked questions - FAQ
How many airports are there in Zamboanga City?
There is 1 airport in Zamboanga City: Zamboanga International Airport (ZAM).
What is the best airport to fly into Zamboanga City?
The most convenient airport to fly into Zamboanga City is Zamboanga International Airport (ZAM).
How many airlines fly to Zamboanga City?
There are 4 airlines flying to Zamboanga City from 5 airports around the world, as of March 2021.
Which airlines fly to Zamboanga City?
Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and AirAsia operate most flights to Zamboanga City. To get a full overview of all operating airlines, please use the airline filter.
Which alliances are flying to Zamboanga City?
There are no alliances flying to Zamboanga City at the moment.
How many nonstop flights are there to Zamboanga City?
There are roughly 82 flights arriving at Zamboanga City every month (or 21 flights each week), from a total of 5 airports - all within Philippines.
What is the official name of Zamboanga City Airport?
The official name of Zamboanga City Airport is Zamboanga International Airport.
What is the airport code of Zamboanga City Airport?
The airport code of Zamboanga City Airport is ZAM.
What are the most popular flights to Zamboanga City?
Manila, Cebu and Tawi Tawi Island are the 3 most popular routes to Zamboanga City. For a complete overview of all flight routes to Zamboanga City, please use our flight map. |
"We had Robert Wagner play Hugh Hefner in the movie," says Trevor Moore, who along with Zach Cregger wrote, directed, and stars in Miss March, the sex comedy about a road trip to the Playboy mansion that opens today. Of course, for some of the younger folks out there, the question might be who is Robert Wagner? (Hint: He played Number Two in Austin Powers.)
The film is about two buddies, Moore's sex-crazed screwball and Cregger's virginal coma survivor, who head out west in search of the latter's girlfriend who has become the Miss March of the title in Hefner's famous magazine. Spend a few years in a coma and your hot abstinence-preaching girl becomes a centerfold, J. Geils Band style. Isn't that always the way it goes?
"Originally, from a writer's standpoint, we didn't want Playboy involved in the movie," continues Moore. "The feeling was when you're dealing with a corporation as iconic as Playboy, you don't know how seriously they're going to take their image or how much they're going to micromanage the script. So we intentionally never went to them and we shot the movie without Playboy's involvement whatsoever."
The guys insist that Wagner did a great job as the legendary Hefner (Wagner himself is a bit of a renowned playboy, in fact). But when they test-screened the film, they found that they had a problem.
"The problem was it tested really great throughout [the running time] until the very end when [Wagner as] Hefner came out, and then there was just this disconnect," says Moore. "And the audience just kind of shut down. The kids specifically aren't as familiar with Robert Wagner and they also know who Hugh Hefner is because of the Girls Next Door show."
The result was that the former Mr. Natalie Wood wound up on the cutting room floor and Moore and Cregger -- who are also two members of the sketch comedy group (and TV show of the same name) The Whitest Kids U' Know -- had to go to Playboy "with their tail between their legs." As it turned out, the real Hefner actually liked what he saw, so the guys were given permission to do reshoots in the Playboy mansion and get real-life Playmate Sara Jean Underwood to cameo in the film. Oh, and Hef himself redid Wagner's scenes. |
By Linda Bordoni
During the flight bringing Pope Francis back to Rome after his two-day apostolic visit to Morocco, Francis spent over half an hour chatting to reporters and answering questions on different subjects.
Asked what he thinks the consequences of this visit will be for world peace and dialogue between different cultures, Pope Francis said “I will say that now there are flowers, the fruits will come later”.
He expressed satisfaction for having been able to talk about peace, unity and fraternity during the visit to Morocco and also during the previous one to Abu Dhabi, during which he recalled the important Document on Human Fraternity that he signed together with the Grand Iman of Al-Ahzar.
He upheld the religious freedom he witnessed in Morocco and the respect with which all brothers and sisters are welcomed.
“This is a beautiful flower of coexistence that promises to bear fruit. We must not give up!” he said.
The Pope acknowledged there are still difficulties because, he said, “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear”.
But he reiterated the need to continue to work for fraternal dialogue, pointing out that dialogue can only flourish when there is a human relationship at various levels.
“If it is human, it is with the mind, the heart and the hands, thus agreements are signed” he said.
And he referred to the signing in Rabat of the common appeal for Jerusalem, which he said, was “a step forward made not by an authority of Morocco and by an authority of the Vatican, but by brother believers who suffer to see that this city of hope is still not as universal as we all want it to be: Jews, Muslims and Christians”.
“We are all citizens of Jerusalem, all believers” he said.
Build bridges, not walls
Speaking of those who prefer to build walls instead of bridges he said “they will end up imprisoned by the walls they have built” while those who build bridges will go a long way.
Pope Francis conceded that building bridges takes a great deal of effort. He revealed he has always been touched by a phrase from Ivo Andrich's novel "The Bridge on the Drina" in which he says that the bridge is made by God with the wings of angels so that men can communicate... “.
Instead walls, he said, are against communication, they are for isolation and those who build them will become prisoners.
Freedom of worship and of conscience
Regarding the question of Muslims who convert to Christianity and who are not safe in all countries, the Pope noted that the Catholic Church removed the death penalty for heretics from the Catechism 300 years ago, because, he said, the Church has grown in consciousness and in the capacity to understand its own faith which in turn promotes respect for the person and for religious freedom.
Acknowledging that in some countries there continues to be a problem of conversion he upheld the example of Morocco where, he said, people of all faiths are protected.
But he also highlighted limitations of freedom of conscience in some Christian countries where, for example, some doctors are deprived of the right to conscientious objection when it comes to euthanasia.
“How has it happened?” he asked “that the Church has gone forward and Christian countries are going backwards?”
Today, we Christians, the Pope added, are in danger of some governments taking away from us the freedom of conscience: that is the first step towards freedom of worship.
Regarding the situation of French Cardinal Barbarin who is under investigation in France for allegedly covering up clerical sexual abuse, Pope Francis reiterated the juridical principle that at present there is the presumption of innocence and the case is open.
He invited the journalists to think twice before issuing a media condemnation until the Court gives the final judgement.
Underscoring Pope Francis’s repeated appeals to policy-makers and government leaders to protect and help migrants, one journalist highlighted the fact that European politics are going in the exact opposite direction and that populist policies reflect the opinion of mostly Christian voters. “How do you feel about this sad situation?” she said.
"I see that so many people of good will, not only Catholics, (…) appear to be gripped by fear” that is the fodder of populism, he said.
Fear, the Pope continued, is the beginning of dictatorships.
He recalled the fall of the Weimar Republic and the birth of Nazi Germany and expressed his belief that we must not forget the lessons of history.
“To sow fear is to make a collection of cruelty, of closures and also of sterility. Think of the demographic winter in Europe. Even we who live in Italy are below zero” he said.
The Pope decried the lack of historical memory pointing out that Europe “was made” by migrations and this is its wealth.
He noted that European nations sell weapons to Yemen to kill children, calling on it to be consistent as it continues to preach the need for “safety”.
“I say this as an example, but Europe sells weapons” he said.
“Then there is the problem of hunger and thirst. If Europe wants to be mother Europe and not grandmother Europe, it must invest; it must intelligently try to help growth through education, through investment”.
You cannot prevent emigration by force but by generosity, education and economic investment, he said.
And reflecting on how to receive and distribute migrants who come to Europe, the Pope said that it is true that a single country can't receive everyone, “but there's all of Europe to distribute migrants” and he reiterated that the reception must be with “an open heart, that accompanies, promotes and integrates". |
A novel method to sample earwax could be a cheap and effective way to measure the hormone cortisol, according to a study led by researchers at UCL and King's College London.
The findings, published in the academic journal Heliyon, could point to new ways of monitoring depression and stress-linked conditions.
The new device can be used at home without clinical supervision, facilitating medical check-ups while maintaining social distancing due to COVID-19, and may also have the potential to measure glucose or COVID-19 antibodies that accumulate in earwax.
Cortisol sampling is notoriously difficult, as levels of the hormone can fluctuate, so a sample might not be an accurate reflection of a person's chronic cortisol levels. Moreover, sampling methods themselves can induce stress and influence the results.
But cortisol levels in earwax appear to be more stable, and with our new device, it's easy to take a sample and get it tested quickly, cheaply and effectively."
Dr. Andres Herane-Vives, Lead Researcher, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
Cortisol has been considered as a possible biomarker, or objective biological measure, for depression, but researchers have been stymied by challenges in accurately measuring cortisol levels. The most common technique is with hair samples, but they are more subject to short-term fluctuations in cortisol, and not everyone has enough hair for a reliable sample.
It is also more time-consuming and expensive to analyse hair samples, compared to earwax, but until now there has not been a reliable and non-stressful method to sample earwax.
To develop the new device, Dr Herane-Vives was inspired by another natural wax, honeycomb from bees, as it is known to be well-preserved and resistant to bacterial contamination. Earwax has similar properties, making it well suited for home sampling, as samples can be sent to a lab by post without much risk of contamination.
The novel earwax self-sampling device is similar to a cotton swab, but with a brake that stops the swab from going too far into the ear and causing damage. The tip is covered with a sponge of organic material, with a solution that has been tested to be the most effective and reliable at taking samples.
In their pilot study, Dr Herane-Vives and a team of researchers from the UK, Chile and Germany brought in 37 study participants to test different cortisol sampling techniques. The research team sampled participants' earwax using a standard syringe procedure, known to be somewhat painful, and then followed up a month later by using the same sampling in one ear, and the novel sampling technique in the other ear, which the participants could administer themselves. The researchers also analysed hair and blood samples from the same participants.
The researchers found that earwax samples yielded more cortisol than hair samples, and the new technique was the fastest and potentially cheapest method. The novel technique was the least influenced by confounding factors such as stressful events or alcohol consumption contributing to cortisol fluctuations over the previous month. In another recent study, participants rated the new self-sampling device as more comfortable than traditional methods.
Dr Herane-Vives is now setting up a company, Trears, to bring his earwax sampling device to market, with support from the UCL Hatchery startup incubator.
He and his team are also investigating whether the device could be useful to measure glucose levels from earwax samples, for monitoring of diabetes, and potentially even COVID-19 antibodies.
Dr Herane-Vives said: "After this successful pilot study, if our device holds up to further scrutiny in larger trials, we hope to transform diagnostics and care for millions of people with depression or cortisol-related conditions such as Addison's disease and Cushing syndrome, and potentially numerous other conditions."
Herane-Vives, A., et al. (2020) Measuring Earwax Cortisol Concentration using a non-stressful sampling method. Heliyon. doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05124. |
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) And other senior Republican Party representatives on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to « resubmit the previously proposed rule on the reporting of the Confucius Institute without delay « to forge solutions to the » CCP’s threats to education and research integrity. «
« Addressing the generational threat from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a preeminent national security concern for the United States, » McCarthy said in the statement.
« Among the multitude of threats we face from China, the CCP’s abuse of the US academic system to steal sensitive research and technology, limit freedom of expression and propaganda for our students is of particular concern. »
The Confucius Institutes advertise themselves as places to learn Mandarin, study Chinese culture, and win a scholarship. They are funded and largely run by Hanban, a nonprofit that claims to be nongovernmental, but is in fact directly controlled by the Beijing CCP, according to a report by the Senate National Security Committee’s Investigations Subcommittee (pdf ).
« Among the multitude of threats we face from China, the #CCP abuse of the US academic system to steal sensitive research and technology, limit freedom of expression and propaganda for our students is of particular concern. »
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– Homeland GOP House (@HomelandGOP) February 17, 2021
McCarthy referred to the rule presented by the Trump administration to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on December 31, 2020.
Under the rule, universities and K-12 schools would have to disclose their financial ties to Confucius Institutes (CI) and affiliated Confucius Classrooms.
McCarthy noted that ICs currently operate in at least 60 universities and around 500 Confucius classrooms in elementary and middle schools across the country.
In 2009, a member of the standing committee of the CPC Politburo and « czar of ideology » said that the CCP ICs are « an important part of China’s propaganda structure abroad, » McCarthy added.
« China wants to infiltrate every part of American life with its communist propaganda, » McCarthy wrote on Twitter. « We must stop them. »
The Confucius Institute building on the campus of Troy University in Alabama, USA on March 16, 2018 (Kreeder13 via Wikimedia Commons)
Customs and Immigration Control Service confirmed to Fox News that the rule was withdrawn on January 26.
However, Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department, said in a press conference on February 11 that the Trump administration had never submitted its rule to the Federal Register because the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had not yet completed its review. . of the draft rule.
Price said the recall occurred due to a widespread regulatory freeze instituted by the Biden administration on inauguration day.
Price noted that the CIs would continue to be treated as a foreign mission of the Chinese regime. «[T]hat stands, ”he said.
However, Republican lawmakers want the Biden administration to urgently support the previous administration’s efforts to protect the « integrity of the academic system of the United States » and take its « first step in recognizing that the CCP threat ultimately derives from hostility to our fundamental democratic values and attempts. ‘ to legitimize its own authoritarian system, which has its roots in Marxist-Leninist doctrine ”.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had written a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 11 asking why the rule was withdrawn.
« US government agencies, including within the intelligence community, have clearly asserted that the Communist Chinese government uses the Confucius Institutes embedded in our academic institutions as a propaganda tool within the United States, » Grassley said in the letter ( pdf). « Consequently, withdrawing the rule is of great concern and weakens our ability to detect and deter foreign influence efforts by the Chinese Communist government. »
The White House did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for further comment as of press time.
There has been a global pushback against CCP CIs, especially in Australia, Canada and the UK. In 2013, McMaster University of Canada became the first university in North America to close its CI.
The National Association of Scholars (NAS), an education advocacy group, reported that 64 CIs have closed or are in the process of closing as of February 17.
Representative Virginia Foxx (RN.C.), Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and Representative John Katko (RN.Y.) jointly signed the statement.
Frank Fang, Cathy He, and Petr Svab contributed to this report. |
A classic Kiwi childhood treat reimagined in the modern day is an exciting feature of New Zealand cuisine – and this week we discovered some of the very best adult-ised nostalgic treats in a popular little spot in Takapuna on the Auckland's North Shore.
Enter Franc's. Known for their comforting diner dishes such as their Louisiana Fried Chicken & Waffles and Chilli Caramel Pork Belly, Franc's is the place to head when you're in need of a warm hug via food.
As part of the Joylab Network, who have brought us gems including The Lula Inn and Goode Brothers, it goes without saying Franc's is a place of high-quality service, atmosphere, and food, parallel with their Joylab counterparts.
On to the menu, we caught wind of a few special items nestled into the menu at Franc's that we simply couldn't take our minds off.
The Takapuna diner is now serving up delicious treats in the ways of Fairy Bread milkshakes, Fried Chicken Burgers, a Peanut Butter & Jelly Old Fashioned, and Deep-Fried Mars Bars – YES, the old fish & chip shop classic!
Taking the gooey caramel chocolate bar and coating it in a delicious crumb, the bar comes out crunchy on the outside and absolutely hot and melted on the inside, paired perfectly with chocolate and vanilla ice cream and plenty of caramel to tie it all together.
This is one generously packed dish you'll want to split.
Wash it down with an equally sweet fairy bread shake. Taking the classic Kiwana treat of plain white bread smothered in butter and topped with hundreds and thousands sprinkles, Franc's has blitzed it into one of their famous freak-shakes, packing in all the elements and creating a drink you'll wish was bottomless.
If you're looking for something somewhere in the middle of a freak-shake and deep-fried Mars Bar, the Mars Bar hard-shake is a clear winner.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Franc's has taken their decadent dessert and turned it into a shake, complete with a dash of alcohol to amp it up.
All these treats and much more can be enjoyed in Franc's beautiful beachside eatery, overlooking the magnificent Takapuna Beach seating you just above the hustle and bustle of the crowds.
Don't waste any time getting yourself to Franc's, their specials only stick around for a limited time before you've missed your chance to taste them. You can book your table right here to ensure you don't miss out! |
Ross County midfielder Michael Gardyne claims the Dingwall club has been transformed since he first signed for the Staggies nine years ago.
The 29-year-old joined the Staggies on loan from Celtic in 2006, a move he made permanent two years later, before his performances caught the eye of hometown club Dundee United in 2012.
Gardyne’s move to Tannadice did not work out however, and he returned to Victoria Park on loan last season, before re-signing on a free transfer this summer.
Gardyne believes the facilities are a huge benefit in attracting new players to Dingwall.
Gardyne said: “I was speaking to the chairman last week about it. In my first season up on loan from Celtic, there was nothing wrong with the place, but it was a club in progression.
“Year-on-year, every time I’ve come back, it’s just got better and better.
“Every time I speak to a new player who comes here, especially the English players, they say they can’t believe the facilities. We’ve got training pitches and an indoor hall.
“Most players and teams don’t know it’s like that. There’s been a bit of a revamp at the reception area, and we’re in new changing rooms now as well.
“It all just makes the club feel a bit bigger and it definitely rubs off on the players. There’s a new atmosphere and it makes us feel good.”
The Highlanders are now in their fourth successive season in the top flight, and Gardyne is intent on making sure they consolidate their position. Although County finished ninth last season they only secured survival on the penultimate day with a 2-1 win against Saturday’s opponents Hamilton Accies.
Gardyne wants to better that finish, and believes a top-six finish can be achieved.
He added: “We’re a Premiership club again and want to be for years to come.
“I’ve been here before in the Second Division and the First Division.
“But we’re in the Premiership now so we’ve needed other players to come in.
“With the strength in depth of having two players in near enough every position, it shows what the manager wants to do this season.
“This season there will probably be 11 teams thinking they can finish in the top six.
“We are no different. We want to go out and win as many games as possible, and see where it takes us.” |