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November 8, 2017
2017 Charlotte General Election Report
Charlotte welcomes a new mayor and a host of new faces on the city council later this year, following the general election held Tuesday, November 7. Voter turnout was higher than recent off-year municipal elections with 21 percent of registered voters casting ballots.
Democrat Vi Lyles defeated Republican Kenny Smith in the mayoral election and is set to become the first African-American woman to serve as Charlotte’s mayor. The election also ushered in a number of millennials and political newcomers to the Charlotte City Council. The city will have two new at-large council members and four new district representatives. Both Lyles (at-large) and Smith (District 6) will be rolling off the council.
Although there will be a number of new members around the dais, the political makeup of the council remains unchanged. Democrats retained the mayor’s office and again swept the four at-large seats. District representation also remains consistent with five Democrats and two Republicans.
Charlotte’s mayor-elect and city council are scheduled to take the oath of office December 4.
Voters also cast ballots for Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board and approved a $922 million school bond package.
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Charlotte City Council 2018-2019
Vi Lyles (D)
Julie Eiselt (D)*
Braxton Winston (D)
James Mitchell (D)*
Dimple Ajmera (D)
District 2: Dr. Justin Harlow (D)
District 3: LaWana Mayfield (D)*
District 4: Greg Phipps (D)*
District 5: Matt Newton (D)
District 6: Tariq Bokhari (R)
District 7: Ed Driggs (R)*
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Vi Lyles led early-voting and continued to gain steam with early returns on election night, never relenting the lead to Kenny Smith. She won with 59 percent of the vote.
Lyles brings city government work experience to the mayor’s office having previously served as a budget director and assistant city manager. She currently serves as the mayor pro tem.
Although some pundits expected a closer race, Democrats outnumber Republicans in Charlotte nearly two-to-one. As the number of unaffiliated voters continue to grow in Charlotte, they will remain a key voting bloc in local elections.
Democrats remain in control of all four city-wide seats, with two incumbents and two newcomers elected at-large. Julie Eiselt was the top vote-getter and enters her second term as the likely mayor pro tem. First-time candidate Braxton Winston came in second. Longtime councilman James Mitchell and Dimple Ajmera round out the at-large seats.
- Eiselt enters her second term as the highest vote-getter for the second time. Traditionally, the winner of the at-large race is elevated to serve as mayor pro tem.
- Winston, a millennial and political newcomer who gained attention as an activist following the Keith Scott shooting, edged out longtime councilman Mitchell for the second seat.
- Mitchell will be serving his second at-large term and will be the longest tenured member on council, having previously represented District 2 for 14 years.
- Ajmera will fill the final at-large seat following her first election to city council. Ajmera was appointed to serve a partial term as the District 5 representative when John Autry vacated the seat in January 2017.
- Democrat newcomer Larken Egleston will represent District 1 after unseating longtime councilwoman Patsy Kinsey in the primary.
- Incumbent Democrat Gregg Phipps returns to the northeast District 4.
- Newcomer Democrat Matt Newton will represent east Charlotte’s District 5 after defeating Darrell Bonapart in an October 10 runoff.
Democrat newcomer Justin Harlow beat out Republican Pete Givens to represent District 2. Harlow won his primary by just 13 votes, but was a decisive winner against Givens.
Incumbent Democrat LaWana Mayfield secured her District 3 seat against Republican challenger Daniel Herrera. This marks Mayfield’s third term on council as the district representative.
Republican Tariq Bokhari was elected to his first term, defeating Democrat Sam Gunderson and Libertarian Jeff Scott in District 6. Councilman Kenny Smith vacated this seat to run for mayor.
Incumbent Republican Ed Driggs defended his District 7 seat against Democrat Sharon Roberts. This marks his third term on council as the district’s representative.
- Rhonda Lennon – District 1 (incumbent)
- Thelma Byers-Bailey – District 2 (incumbent)
- Ruby Jones – District 3 (incumbent)
- Carol Sawyer – District 4
- Margaret Marshall – District 5
- Sean Strain – District 6
- 10 new schools ($481 million)
- Seven replacement schools ($305 million)
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Prince approached the piano, a purple baby grand. He landed a single chord, resonant and bassy. He stood. He walked away.
As we could have guessed, Prince’s first-ever (first ever?) solo show last night at Paisley Park, his home compound in suburban Minnesota, was no simple, straightforward affair. The 57-year-old funk-pop wizard approached the performance as a challenge, an opportunity to prove that he could deliver a full Prince show without much of anything we expect from a full Prince show: No powerhouse band, no impossibly lithe dancing, no masterful guitar fireworks. Just, as the show’s official title put it, “Piano & a Microphone.” And a lot of Prince. Maybe more Prince than he’s ever shared before.
Prince framed the evening as an autobiographical struggle, the story of how he mastered the piano and emerged from the shadow of his father, a jazz pianist. The set moved chronologically (with a few exceptions) through the first decade of Prince’s career, including at least one song from each of his first 10 albums. Familiar melodies splintered into virtuosic cascades for a dreamlike effect, as though Prince was remembering the birth of his career in real time.
The night began with some introductory psychodrama. Elegantly casual in his mauve pajamas, that enormous afro dominating his slim frame, Prince took a stage decorated sparsely with candles, befogged by a smoke machine, his personal glyph looming from behind, illuminated by kaleidoscopic patterns. His voice was doused in heavy echo as he expressed the dreams and doubts of a child who sneaks down without permission to play his father’s piano. “I can’t play piano like my dad. How does dad do that?” he wondered, while attempting improvisations that, at one point, suggested Thelonious Monk teaching himself the theme to Batman.
Then it got sexy. Prince’s fingers were everywhere during “Baby,” a ballad from his 1978 debut For You that served as foreplay to the full-body workouts “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “Dirty Mind” before the ecstatic squeals of “Do Me, Baby” provided the climax. Multiple climaxes, even.
Prince moved between songs fluidly. He introduced the moving ballad “Free” by celebrating “the freedom to say no,” later interrupting the song to wipe a tear and briefly mourn David Bowie: “I only met him once. He was nice to me. He seemed like he was nice to everybody.” Before we knew it, he was in the middle of a gorgeous take on a longtime Prince favorite, Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You,” which transformed into a bluesy vamp that Prince used as a lesson in musicology. “The space between the notes that’s the good part,” he said. “How long the space is that’s how funky it is or how funky it ain’t.” And just like that, he was was moaning the spiritual lament “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”
The intimate setting was ideal for falsetto-wrenched ballads like “Sometimes It Snows in April” and “The Breakdown,” one of a handful of newer songs inserted into the set. But Prince never forgot that the piano is a rhythm instrument. If the old-time boogie-woogie masters didn’t need drums to rock a party, well, neither did Prince. He remade “Paisley Park” as a bluesy, gutbucket romp, and his pumping left hand recalled Ray Charles, a debt he made clear when he ripped into the soul legend’s “Unchain My Heart,” a song he recalled playing with his father.
“I Wanna Be Your Lover”
“Do Me, Baby”
“Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)”
“A Case of You” (Joni Mitchell)
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (Traditional)
“The Beautiful Ones”
“U’r Gonna C Me”
“Condition of the Heart”
“Sometimes It Snows In April”
“I Love U, But I Don’t Trust U Anymore”
“The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”
“Unchain My Heart” (Ray Charles)
“Rock and Roll Love Affair”
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After nearly five years of growth, the tablet market has officially stalled. According to research firm IDC, tablet sales fell 3.2% year over year in the 2014 holiday quarter, with even bigger drops coming from market leaders Apple and Samsung.
The tablet’s biggest problem? The smartphone. The tablet’s older, smaller cousin has quietly started doing all of the tablet’s jobs—and in some cases, the smartphone is just flat-out better. So let’s run down six reasons why 2015 is a great time to trade in your old tablet for a modern, big-screen smartphone.
1. We now know the 6-inch screen is the ideal size for reading
Back in the days of 10-inch tablets and 3.5-inch smartphones, the tablet was the obvious choice for books. Sure, a tiny iPhone 3GS was more portable, but the diminutive screen was too small for everyday reading.
Swipe ahead five years, however, and the average smartphone screen size has risen from 3.5 to 5.2 inches. While that’s only about a 50% increase in diagonal, it translates to nearly twice the screen real estate—a true game-changer for smartphone-equipped bookworms.
A small increase in diagonal screen size can nearly double total display area.
And when you consider that the world’s most popular e-readers almost all sport 6-inch screens, the smartphone is right on track to take over the tablet’s reading duties.
2. All the best apps are on smartphones, not tablets
With the first wave of tablets in 2010 and 2011, manufacturers promised a parade of made-for-tablet apps, each designed to take advantage of the device’s bigger screen size. Then the market realities set in. Tablets were hot, but not as hot as the mighty smartphone, which by 2012 had claimed over a billion users.
Today, there are a few hundred million tablet users, but nearly two billion smartphone owners, a market mismatch that means all the best games, apps and new ideas show up on the phone first, and the tablet (maybe) later. Add in the fact that the biggest phones look a lot like small tablets, and many mobile developers are simply upscaling their existing phone apps to fit the tablet’s larger screen.
So much for special tablet apps. All the action is on the phone.
3. Smartphones have better battery life
While average battery life in smartphones has nearly doubled over the last five years, juice on the average tablet still lasts a stubborn 10 hours.
This makes sense from a technical perspective—it takes more juice to power those giant screens. But that doesn’t change the fact that a 5.5-inch Galaxy phone will last over twice as long as its 7-inch Galaxy Tab counterpart. With a smartphone, you’re simply getting far more juice per inch of screen real estate—and it’s not close.
4. Smartphones have better cameras
Smartphones are the perfect size for snapping photos, something that can’t be said of most bulky tablets. But even once you go beyond comfort and convenience, the average smartphone still destroys the average tablet on image quality.
From a spec perspective, consider that the average megapixel (MP) count in a tablet camera has stalled out around 8 MPs, while the average flagship smartphone now boasts over 13 MPs.
Megapixels aren’t everything, and they tend to get overhyped in mobile marketing. But the megapixel march among smartphones shows just how camera-obsessed the phone industry has become, compared to the relative apathy among tablets, where the camera is often an afterthought.
5. On the web, tablets are still caught between mobile and desktop
In a perfect world, every web page would be optimized for every device size. In practice, many sites only have two versions: the classic desktop look, and a mobile look specifically for the smartphone.
This is a problem for tablets, where your favorite webpages will often have to choose between a scrunched desktop version or a blown-up smartphone interface—effectively making the tablet the worst of either world.
Granted, some tech-forward sites feature responsive displays, smart enough to make use of the tablet’s unique size. But this sort of flexible page is far more rare than it should be in 2015. The smartphone simply provides a more consistent web experience.
6. The line between the devices is blurring
Even with all the tablet’s flaws, it’s at least a unique device, right? Won’t the tablet always offer a certain experience you can’t get anywhere else?
Not necessarily. If anything, the tablet and smartphone are quickly becoming the same device.
Based on data from SpecOut, we charted the number of small (under 4.5”), medium (between 4.5” and 5.2”) and large phones (over 5.2”) released each year since 2010. We then did the same for tablets (under 9”, between 9” and 11”, over 11”).
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Here we go again. And this time it wasn't on purpose, unless you consider that we know it's a strong possibility every time we take in new puppies. We've got parvovirus again. The signs go up in the lobby, the low-cost vaccine clinics for the public get cancelled, and the shelter gets broken up into three levels of quarantine, like we're in the middle of the movie The Hot Zone.
Clayton, one of the West Virginia puppies in isolation with parvo.
This is the hard part of bringing in animals who have "nowhere else to go." Which is more than our motto at the Washington Animal Rescue League; it's an everyday reality. And rescuing puppies. Puppies that act completely nuts (like puppies do) and who look perfectly healthy at the overwhelmed shelters we travel to every week to lend a hand and bring home the animals who have no time left. Truth is, the 42 healthy-looking, energetic puppies we brought back from two separate shelters in West Virginia last week, were already as much as dead at their shelters because the clock had run out. Not because those shelters were bad places and their staff didn't care. Quite the opposite. They were already doing all they could to save an ever-increasing number of animals whom the public has essentially discarded by overbreeding, under-spaying, never neutering, and rarely vaccinating.
And we don't have to go far to run into this. We open our doors to puppies who prance in with their owners from our own neighborhood, or we get them from our partner shelters who also want to save every last one. Unfortunately, it's a never-ending river of homeless, "throw-away" animals. The world -- at least the developed world -- has been well-educated in spaying and neutering and the tragedy of companion animal overpopulation. And vaccines have been around since the turn of the last century. So if it's not ignorance (which it's not), why is it that we still have too many puppies and kittens, and far too many discarded dogs and cats? And why such poor preventive medical practices when the most easily avoidable animal disease, parvovirus, is so rampant in our shelters?
I have a one-word answer: accessibility. Or lack of it. This country -- and the world, too, but let's stick with the U.S. for now -- is critically lacking in accessible veterinary care. And it's not the vets' fault. It costs a fortune to run a practice. And most new vets are in extreme debt to the tune of several hundred thousand by the time they get out of at least eight years of higher education. But if it costs you $100 to get a puppy examined and vaccinated or, heaven forbid, $600-800 if your dog starts vomiting in the middle of the night and you have to go to an emergency hospital, that's very hard -- if not impossible -- for many, many people. And never mind that spaying a dog can cost hundreds of dollars. Again, not your vet's fault. Try doing any of these things (well, not spaying) at a human hospital, and veterinary medicine will seem like the best bargain in the world.
We need accessible veterinary care in this country. Last week, I asked my medical director to come up with a list of veterinary hospitals in the U.S. who offer subsidized or reduced cost services to low-income populations. She found only four. And of those, none of them offered the kind of discounts that we offer here at our shelter. Because they can't. It simply costs too much. But when we look into the faces of our clients who are bringing in the one thing they haven't lost in this exhaustingly tenacious recession, it's clear they can't afford even the 80 percent reduced costs we offer. So how can people do it in rural West Virginia, or bayou Louisiana, or central Missouri? No wonder these shelters are so full. And it's the innocent who suffer -- the puppies and kittens no one ever had space or money for, with diseases that are wholly preventable, except they never got a vaccine. Life is already hard enough for people who are just making it as "working class," never mind the poor or the ill.
The result is all around me as I walk through the shelter, where we have forty pppies quarantined for at least ten days because they've tested positive for parvo. We lost one of them to the disease last week, but we hope we will save the rest, who will go on to wonderful new homes with families who want them and can take care of them. But who is going to save those thousands, ten thousands, millions, all across the country, who will never get that chance unless animal health care is supported, subsidized and prioritized, as it should be in a truly civilized society? For those of us trying to staunch the flow, that question is the toughest pill of all to swallow. | <urn:uuid:39015a29-a71a-4e09-afb8-76f4fed1e4bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-weitzman-dvm/affordable-veterinary-care-_b_978405.html | 2016-07-01T10:38:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971835 | 1,024 |
How to be mere minutes away from a tasty crusted salmon
It seems like mere moments after I get the last dish dried and put away, it's time to make dinner again. Is it me or are the days actually getting shorter, whizzing by in a blur and then coming to a screeching halt at 6 p.m. when every person in my household starts wandering into the kitchen, casually asking what's for dinner, usually while opening up a cupboard to peruse available snacks?
The solution is to have a small repertoire of dishes that require hardly any prep, and that use ingredients you have on hand. And, then of course, keep these ingredients on hand! Stock your pantry with frozen wild salmon filets and Dijon mustard and you will never be more than a few sheet-pan minutes away from a tasty crusted salmon. While the ingredients might change up a bit depending on your mood and your pantry, the basic strategy is the same: Stir a few
Today's recipe for Mustard and Dill Crusted Salmon is but one example of this recipe blueprint. Once you've mastered it (which won't take long), you can venture out on your own on a given Tuesday night and create your family's own version.
I'll share a few best practices based on many years of mustard-crusting salmon. Add a little something sweet, like a touch of honey, pure maple syrup or agave. Also, include one or two aromatic ingredients, like minced shallot, garlic, spices or dried herbs. If you don't mind a little extra fat, a tiny bit of olive oil or even mayonnaise will keep the dish juicy and tender, for just a few extra calories a person. But, don't fret if you want to skip the oil and keep things super lean. Finally, you can add a little texture if you want by topping with breadcrumbs or crushed nuts, but this is totally optional.
MUSTARD AND DILL CRUSTED SALMON
Start to finish: 30 minutes
2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
4 fillets of salmon, about 5 ounces each
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons mayonnaise
2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 teaspoons dried dill (or 1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped)
Freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place the soy sauce and lemon juice in a shallow bowl, and dip both sides of each salmon fillet in the mixture and let the marinade soak into the salmon for a few minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, mix together all the ingredients for the mustard crust and set aside. Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Gently pat any excess liquid off the salmon fillets. (They do not need to be completely dry; just not dripping.)
Divide the mustard mixture among the fillets, and use your hands to coat the fish entirely in the mustard mixture. Place the fish on the parchment-lined baking sheet and bake just until fish is cooked through (about 135 F internal temperature). This will take between 10-15 minutes depending on the thickness of the fish. If the fish is frozen, add about 5 minutes. In general, the salmon will be ready a few minutes earlier than you think. Serve with vegetables and brown rice for a quick weeknight meal.
Chef's Note: This recipe can be prepared with frozen fish fillets. Let sit on countertop for 15 minutes to thaw the outside just enough for the soy sauce and lemon mixture to soak in a little. Proceed with recipe, adding cook-time as needed.
Nutrition information per serving: 247 calories; 97 calories from fat; 11 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 79 mg cholesterol; 635 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 29 g protein.
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Consumer Reports reveals the ten most hyped kitchen products
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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CR’s August Kitchen Package also features What to Buy Instead & ratings of countertops, flooring, cooking appliances, refrigerators, dishwashers, sinks, faucets and more
Yonkers, NY — Consumer Reports’ latest tests reveal that many of the most loudly hawked products (and often most expensive) delivered less than they promised and several were beaten by the old standards that cost far less.
The 2007 August issue is CR’s largest kitchen package to-date with over 30 pages of advice and comprehensive Ratings that will help consumers decide which appliances, countertops, sinks, faucets and flooring offer the best combination of style, performance, and value based on our independent lab tests.
Consumer Reports cooked up 850 pounds of ground beef in tests of appliances and used over 40 stain-producing materials including red wine and ink to test the stain-resistance of flooring, countertops, and other materials.
10 Most-Hyped Products and What to Buy Instead
- Pro-style ranges. Spending more on pro-style appliances doesn’t guarantee better quality. Consumer Reports’ tests continue to find that $4,000-plus professional-style ranges perform no better than less-expensive, conventional models. Some pro-style ranges still lack common features and have high repair rates.
CR Advice: Consider faux pro-style ranges from mainstream manufacturers that combine stainless-steel style, performance, and reliability for thousands less.
- Speed cooking. Faster doesn’t mean better. Found in some microwaves, ranges, and ovens, speed cooking combines microwaving with convection or baking and broiling to cut cooking time. CR found the performance of speed cookers to be spotty in tests; some foods came out great, while others were undercooked.
CR Advice: Look for ovens and ranges with convection, which uses a fan to circulate hot air so food can bake and roast at lower temperatures for shorter times.
- Steam ovens & ranges. Steam didn’t melt the fat away. According to CR tests, food cooked in some of these types of ovens, which all cost more than $1000, had just as much fat after steaming as before.
CR Advice: Skip them.
- Multimedia Refrigerators. Side-by-sides with TVs and calendars promise to help consumers organize their lives and their leftovers, but none of the models CR tested out-cooled the best conventional fridges.
CR Advice: Save $2,000 or more by buying a top-rated refrigerator and a capable flat-panel TV.
- Turbocharged Dishwashers. Despite claims of maximizing “washing pressure to ensure superior cleaning for the toughest jobs,” CR tests revealed that most regular dishwashers including ones without a turbo cycle do very good job of cleaning dishes, even with baked-on food.
CR Advice: Choose a lower-priced dishwasher that blends top cleaning with quietness and shorter cycle times.
- Appliance Drawers. Although touted as flexible, space-saving, and stylish, CR tests of drawer versions of refrigerators, dishwashers, and microwaves show that their lower capacity, efficiency, and overall performance, plus their higher prices, negate those perks.
CR Advice: For style and accessible storage, choose a good French-door fridge. Run the rinse-only cycle on a regular dishwasher for small loads. Consumers who can live without a range hood’s better venting can free up counter space with an over-the-range microwave. Each costs a fraction of what a drawer costs.
- Pricey Faucets and Sinks. CR found few performance differences between the least and most expensive versions of faucets and sinks from major brands.
CR Advice: Faucets in chrome or with physical vapor deposition (PVD) finishes performed best regardless of price. All of the stainless steel sinks CR tested resisted dents, stains, scratches, and heat similarly, whether they were thick or thin.
- Trendy Counters. CR tests found concrete to be fragile and susceptible to scratches, chips, and hairline cracks. Limestone may start out smooth, but it scratched, stained, and chipped in CR tests.
CR Advice: For a stone look, go for granite or quartz.
- “Green” Flooring. Bamboo, cork, and linoleum are all considered renewable alternatives to standard hardwood and vinyl flooring. However, some did not hold up to the usual spills, scratches, dropped plates, and sunlight in CR tests.
CR Advice: For high traffic areas, consider plastic laminate and vinyl; both proved toughest overall in CR tests, generally for less money. Also, solid wood floors can be sanded and refinished several times.
- One-Stop Shops. Shop around. Consumer Reports latest surveys reveal that no one retailer was impressive for design help, installation services, product quality, selection, and price.
CR Advice: Check out CR’s Ratings for the stores with the attributes that matter most. Check retailer’s return policies before buying. Consider local independent stores and personal references as highly as preconceived notions about price, quality, and convenience.
The kitchen package also features CR’s
expert advice on picking the perfect cabinets, where to buy appliances, home centers versus independent contractors, and financing options for consumers interested in updating or remodeling their kitchen.The full report and Ratings are available in the August 2007 issue of Consumer Reports
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I am just a regular guy. I am married, have 2 children, own a house and have several pets. I can afford to pay all of my bills most of the time, and when I cannot I get them paid anyhow. In other words I am doing okay financially, but it is in the cards that unless I hit the lotto, or come up with some hair brained scheme, I will never become a millionaire.
I guess becoming a millionaire has always been one of my dreams ever since the show 'The Millionaire' was on television many years ago. In said show, a multi-millionaire would assign his flunky to go out and give million dollar cashier's checks to people the rich guy had selected at random from a telephone book. I knew, even at my young age back then, that this was just never going top happen to me. So I went to school,did my best, then got a job that turned into a career, and wound up making a respectable living as a federal government employee. Still though, I am no millionaire, and am not even close. Since I am not good at creating things, have no high demand skills, am not in show business, and have no to very little talent in money matters, I figured I would try something new for me. So, I decided to become The Humble Beggar.
My goal as The Humble Beggar will be one thing and one thing only, to become a millionaire through Internet
As to the legality of this, I could find no rules against it; however if anyone is aware that this is illegal or anything like that please let me know at once with references, and I will cease and desist. As far as I am aware the NY state courts hyave upheld the right to beg as being one of free speech.Now for exactly what I am asking of my readers. That is pretty simple and in order to live up to the name of The Humble Beggar I will keep it on the humble side or in another word -inexpensive. What I would ask is that, if you are over 18 years of age, and have a PayPal account, you send me one dollar toward my goal of becoming a millionaire. I will set a deadline of one year from today for this goal to be accomplished, so my quest will end on June 7, 2008. If I reach the million dollar mark by that time, and I mean after PayPal deducts their fees - so I mean a million dollars clear sent into my PayPal account, I will donate one half of the million dollars to the charity for which I get the most suggestions with each donation. What you would do is send me $1.00 via PayPal, and along with the dollar you would also leave a comment on
this post and in the comment suggest the name of a single charity you believe to be a worthy one. I would tally up the suggestions, and donate half the money to the charity with the most votes. If I do not reach the million dollar mark by the end of one year, I will simply take half of the money I received and donate that to the charity with the most votes.
As for the remainder of the money I receive: I will pay off my mortgage, my daughter's college bills, put money into an account for my son's anticipated college bills, will take my wife on a nice but fairly modest vacation ($3,000.00 or less), buy a new car (nothing extravagant by new car standards, $25,000.00 or less), and pay any taxes I owe on the money you gave me. If anything is left over after that, I will also donate it to the charity as above, and I imagine there would be plenty left over because the mortgage is not all that high.
What do I have to offer to you to give you an incentive to do this, and to trust me that I will do as I say? Basically nothing except my word of honor.
What do I have to gain by cheating anyone? Probably time in a jail for some type of fraud.
What do I have to lose by cheating anyone? My integrity, my self esteem, and likewise the respect of my family, friends and all of you.
What do you have to lose if anything? Basically $1.00, and the time it took you to read this and donate; and if you are especially nice then also the time it would take you to pass on info about my site to others.
What do you have to gain by sending me a dollar? If my goal is reached, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you helped fulfill my dream of becoming a millionaire, and that anything is possible via the Internet with the help of others. If I reach the million dollar goal, you will also have the satisfaction of knowing that a half of a million dollars will have been donated to a charity by me, but that it was only possible because of each of you who gave me a dollar, and because each of you voted as to which charity the donation should be made.
What do I have to gain by all of this? Well I will have become a millionaire if it works, and I will have made a substantial donation to charity, and I will have a nice chunk of change left over to spend as I mentioned above, with probably some left over for an additional donation to charity.
Will this idea take off and fly, or is it just so much craziness on my part to have even thought it up? Well I figure I will get at least 1 dollar, gifted to me, and it will come from me. After that it is all up to you.
My PayPal link is tothe left near top of the page. (Actually there is no link to paypal for this because this was just a fantasy project sort of a blog, I do not intend to actuially do any internet begging.)
Have a nice day,
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She stretched her legs out on the bed, curling her toes and watching the light reflect off her purple nail polish. Her legs were bare up until the frayed ends of her jean shorts. Her midnight blue fitted top criss-crossed in the back. Outside of the hotel window, the rain poured down in torrents. It had been raining for three hours, with no signs of slowing. She flipped through the channels on the video stream, bored and impatient, until she began cycling through them a second time. She threw the remote to the bed and sighed, rubbing her eyes.
What was she doing here? She had work the next morning, and so many errands she should have been running... She was going to be behind for days.
That note, she thought, if she weren't so curious about that stupid, cryptic note, she would have been curled up in her own bed by now, sleeping. Enjoying the few hours of sleep she was no longer going to be getting. But that note, she thought, there was just something so unrelenting about the way it stormed through her thoughts. She couldn't shake it. Like cobwebs accidentally walked through, it covered her, haunted her. The clock on the bedside table read 11:16, the neon blue light glowing from the darkness of the corner stand.
She lifted the note from the pillow beside her, a small, scribbled message on the back of a worn out postcard, and read it for the hundredth time.
Code word Grendel. Tonight; 11:25.
Tell no one.
She didn't want to look up at the clock again. She knew the mounting weight of agonizing seconds, pregnant with pretense and expectation, and wanted none of it.
She re-read the note. Who knew that nickname? Who knew their code system? She shook her head, one hand buried, knuckle deep, in the roots of her hair as she mulled over her endless sea of questions. What did they want from her?
Wasn't it enough that she may never see him again? Must someone torment her? Provoke her?
Was it all a trap?
Feeling vulnerable, she pulled her feet in, tucking them beneath her thighs and curling against the headboard. She hated not having the answers, hated feeling helpless. Thunder cracked outside, spooking her further. Beneath the pillow behind her, she kept her Walthers 22, just waiting for her to grab it up.
Her stomach was twisted into knots, tight and pulsating with worry. She almost felt she would be sick, but the moment passed and she continued trying to ignore the clock.
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With one hand, she unlocked the door and swung it open quickly, synchroneously swinging her pistol to follow her step, aiming before her eyes even focused completely.
The hood was a dark grey, soaking wet and dripping water onto his face. He was scruffy looking, unshaven, battered, and dirty, but she knew him on sight. Her Walthers clattered to the carpet and she flung herself through the doorway, her arms around his neck before he even looked up from the gun on the floor.
"Oh my God!" She was crying, she didn't know when it had started, but with every word she blubbered out, the choking sobs got louder and stronger. She repeated his name over and over again, desperate to convince herself she wasn't seeing things. He was real this time. She could smell the dankness of his sopping clothes, feel the rough hair on his chin against her neck, feel the press of his weight against her. He was flesh and bone, not a pile of pillows and loneliness, that was his heartbeat pounding in his ribcage. She clung to him and cried, cried for the first time since she'd received his last video. All the unshed tears escaped, swallowing her whole in the ocean of them, consuming her. Every suppressed moment of terror, of swelling desolation, of burning, ceaseless longing, rushed over her. Filled her until she was bursting, almost exploding out of her own skin with the force of this one small moment.
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Staying ahead of the technology curve means strengthening your competitive advantage. That is why we give you data-driven innovation insights into the food & agriculture industry. This time, you get to discover 5 hand-picked startups developing solutions for food security.
Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Top Food Security Solutions out of 502
The insights of this data-driven analysis are derived from the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 2.093.000+ startups & scaleups globally. The platform gives you an exhaustive overview of emerging technologies & relevant startups within a specific field in just a few clicks.
The Global Startup Heat Map below reveals the distribution of the 502 exemplary startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. Further, it highlights 5 food & agriculture startups that we hand-picked based on criteria such as founding year, location, funding raised, and more. You get to explore the solutions of these 5 startups & scaleups in this report. For insights on the other 497 food security solutions, get in touch.
EatWell provides Affordable Meal Kits
Over 460 million people have limited access to affordable and nutritious food. The problems of these communities are unaddressed, due to, amongst other reasons, a lack of connectivity. Startups tackle these issues by providing plans and options to allow low-income families to have a supply of healthy nutrition.
Through meal kits, Boston startup EatWell makes healthy eating available to all families. Providing a set of fresh ingredients and recipes for creating meals, their meal kit is a box complete with recipes and ingredients to cook meals for four. These ingredients are bought fresh, with the help of donations and contributions from the community which is why EatWell is able to distribute the kits at a lower price point. The recipes and ingredients are nutritionally balanced, culturally calibrated, and priced to suit the needs of communities that face food security.
Nilus develops Solutions to Redistribute Food
Despite food insecurity being a rising risk for people, 33% of the world’s food is wasted annually. Besides contributing towards global greenhouse (GHG) emissions and putting massive pressure on water usage, wasting food also wastes resources that could be used by other individuals. Therefore, startups & scaleups globally address the need for solutions that redistribute food from being wasted.
Argentinian startup Nilus provides a platform to design and implement food solutions for low-income communities. Through its projects, the startup approaches different methods that tackle food security. These range from partnering with corporations to donate food, to the rescue and redistribution of surplus food to people who need it the most. For instance, Nilus partners with the Government of Mexico City to provide redistributed food in community canteens.
Brevel advances the Cultivation of Microalgae
Traditional cultivation methods, which are land-, water-, and energy-intensive, are not suitable to handle the global food demand any longer. As a result, startups develop alternative techniques to cultivate foods that are both sustainably grown and nutritious. Microalgae come as one option to address the food needs of the world, being both water- and energy-friendly while serving many proteins, fatty acids, carotenoids.
Brevel is an Israeli startup that produces microalgae solutions to address the rising global food demand by advancing its cultivation. The startup’s solution uses automated, sterile indoor photo-bioreactors, which are illuminated from within, to cultivate microalgae at high light intensity. Because the cultivation systems are independent of uncontrollable external stimuli, the bioreactors grow more microalgae at lower costs.
OneFarm provides Vertical Farming Solutions
Traditional farming practices are not optimized in terms of land use and, with the growing food demand, optimal land utilization is essential to the agriculture industry. Vertical farming is one option that achieves this goal by spreading the area used for cultivation into vertical dimensions. Startups further supplement vertical farming solutions with artificial intelligence and data analytics to increase crop yields.
Dutch startup OneFarm develops vertical farming technologies and solutions. It builds large-scale vertical farms and combines this infrastructure with data on crops, pharmaceutical, and medicinal plants to increase the efficiency of planting patterns. Additionally, real-time analytics prevent diseases and pests to protect the crops. OneFarm’s AI-based management system maps decisions on crop cycles and allows for farms to be managed free of manual intervention.
AGPharm Bioinnovations develops Crop Protection Solutions
An estimated 30% of global crops are lost due to infections and diseases. Traditionally, crops are treated with synthetic pesticides and herbicides, but the usage of these results in lower crop quality. Biopesticides and bioherbicides, on the other hand, are natural pesticides, developed from plant and flower extracts. These treat plant pests and diseases, while maintaining their quality.
AGPharm Bioinnovations is an Indian startup that delivers crop disease prevention solutions. Its product, Sancontrol-II, is a mycoherbicide formulation that controls the growth of the weed Lantana, a predominant weed in more than 14 cash crops. The startup also offers mono-herbal formulations SCS4 and SCS7 which are effective against multidrug-resistant infectious microorganisms. Moreover, AGPBI offers solutions that extend the shelf life of fruits & vegetables.
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Startups such as the examples highlighted in this report focus on gene editing, 3d printing, artificial proteins as well as precision farming. While all of these technologies play a major role in advancing both industries, they only represent the tip of the iceberg. To explore more technologies, simply get in touch to let us look into your areas of interest. For a more general overview, you can download our free Food & Agriculture Innovation Reports to save your time and improve strategic decision-making. | <urn:uuid:0ad0e88d-84e7-4cc2-b994-ce84babb3b68> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/discover-5-top-startups-developing-food-security-solutions/ | 2022-01-18T03:45:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300722.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118032342-20220118062342-00338.warc.gz | en | 0.915456 | 1,194 |
Tonner 1999 Dolls - Tyler Wentworth collection!
Don't miss the pictures below of the New Tyler Wentworth Millenium Doll & her two new outfits! See below for new promotional package! Taking orders now!
|NEW MILLENNIUM DOLL Go
Ball" - the 2nd Limited edition in the Collection for 1999.
Classically styled ball gown made out of tre' modern ice blue metallic
silk. Futuristic crystal jewelry. Who do you think will kiss Tyler when
she drops the ball on times square? More information to come on this. Two
new outfits - see bottom of page for bigger photos!
#99803 "Party of the Season" - the First limited edition in this collection for 1999. Ltd to 2500. Sold out nationally to dealers.
PARTY OF THE SEASON
|New Limited Edtion Tyler Wentworth Millennium Doll! Just gorgeous in Ice Blue Metalic Dress, high neck, sleeveless. Blonde hair - $124.99. Limited Edition of 3,000 only! Almost sold out nationally! Two new outfits - Urban Sport (Jersey Mock Net & Leggings - $59.99) Ltd 3000, Central Park Benefit Luncheon (Silk suit with Rhinestones and hat - $69.99) Ltd 3000. SOLD OUT|
Promo Offer: New & Preferred Dollery Customers who wish to order the Millennium Doll Package - which includes the New Tyler Wentworth Millennium Doll (Ltd 3000) (Reg. $124.99) & two new Limited edition outfits both ltd to 3,000 each - Urban Sport outfit (59.99) & Central Park Luncheon ($69.99) - Normally Suggested Retail price for a total of $254.97 - Order now for just - $229.99 plus $10.00 shipping. Save about 10%! Estimated delivery Jan/Feb 2000. 25% down, $60.00 - balance due when in. We are now selling the New Millennium Doll package individually.
New Customers who wish to purchase the Party of the Season & New Millennium Doll packages - which includes the Party of the Season doll & 6 ltd outfits plus the Tyler Wentworth limited Millennium doll & 2 new outfits for a total of 2 limited dolls and 8 outfits - Valued at sugg. retail of - $834.90 - Promo Offer - $729.98 Save - $104.92! 25% down ($182.50), balance due when dolls come in. First Estimated Delivery - Oct/Nov 1999 for Party of the Season & first six outfits. Estimated Delivery for Wentworth Millennium doll & 2 more outfits - Jan/Feb 2000. Add $10.00 shipping and handling for each delivery. $20.00 total.
New Customers who wish to purchase just the Party of the Season package only may still do so - This includes the Tyler Wentworth Limited Party of the Season doll plus the initial Collection of Outfits. 6 Outfits in total. 99810- Cashmere Noir Ltd. 2500 - $84.99,99811 - Collection Premiere - Ltd. 2500- #69.99,99812 - Gallery Soiree - $64.99,99813 - Fragrance Launch - $59.99,99814 - Wake up Call - $49.99,99815 - Fashion Design Weekly Awards - $79.99,Package with limited edition doll - $169.99,Total - $579.93 - Special Promotional offer - $499.99! Save! Plus $10.00 shipping and handling. 25% down, balance due Oct/November when items come in. Again this includes the limited edition doll "Party of the Season" and the six limited edition outfits for Tyler Wentworth. That's right - just $145.00 down. Don't miss this First In a Series Limited Edition!
Tyler Wentworth's Two Brand New Limited Edition Outfits modeled below.
|99817 - Central Park Benefit Luncheon Outfit Only Ltd 3000 - $69.99sold out||99816 - Urban Sport Outfit Only Ltd 3000 - $59.99 sold out|
Tyler Wentworth's First Six Limited Edition Outfits modeled below. See bottom of page for closer look at the individual outfits! Four are show below in full detail!
|99810- Cashmere Noir Ltd. 2500 - $84.99 sold out||Collection Premiere - Ltd. 2500- #69.99 sold out||99815 - Fashion Design Weekly Awards - $79.99 Purple sold out|
|99813 - Fragrance Launch - $59.99 SOLD OUT||99812 - Gallery Soiree - $64.99 SOLD OUT||99814 - Wake up Call - $49.99 SOLD OUT|
Non-limited Tyler Wentworth Dolls - Any-one may also order the Tyler Wentworth non-ltd. doll at any time for $79.99 each. Avail. in Brown Hair, Blonde Hair or Red hair. Estimated delivery Oct/Nov. 1999 subject to manufacturer's delivery dates.
|Tyler Wentworth - Play Doll -
Non - limited version. SOLD OUT
You can also order the Tyler Wentworth non-ltd. doll at any time for $79.99 each. Avail. in Brown Hair, Blonde Hair or Red hair. (See below)
Tyler Wentworth non-limited is Avail. in Brown Hair, Blonde Hair or Red hair.
BLOWN UP PICTURES OF SOME OF THE TYLER WENTWORTH CLOTHING LINE -
Premiere - Ltd. 2500- #69.99, (outfit in pink)
99810- Cashmere Noir Ltd. 2500 - $84.99 (immediate left - black)
OUT 99814 - Wake
up Call - $49.99
SOLD OUT 99815 - Fashion Design Weekly Awards - $79.99 (immediate left - purple)
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With no ban, conversion therapy, by other names, still goes on in SC
TAYLORS, S.C. (WIS) - While “conversion therapy” is rarely the phrase now used to describe attempts to change or modify someone’s sexual orientation, it’s happening in South Carolina, one of 26 states the Human Rights Campaign says has no laws addressing the practice.
At-Large Columbia Councilwoman Tameika Isaac-Devine requested that Columbia City Council ban the practice in the city, which would make the state’s capital the first city in the state to do so.
The council gave unanimous first approval to an ordinance outlawing professional therapists working with minors from trying to, “change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”
However, state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, R-Spartanburg, wants to block the ban if it ends up passing because he says the ordinance would infringe on someone’s religious freedoms.
Two hours northwest of Columbia, Pastor Peter Hubbard is planning to lead a “Same-Sex Attraction” forum at a church in Taylors at the end of June.
Hubbard said the term “conversion therapy” is most often used by opponents of the practice. While he works with people who identify as gay transition to being in a heterosexual relationship, he doesn’t consider the work he does “conversion.”
“We are more malleable than previously understood, so we want to walk that journey with someone and ask, ‘how can I honor Christ with this palate of attractions,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard wrote a book titled, “Love into Light: The Gospel, The Homosexual, and The Church.”
He says his approach is based on transforming someone using the power of love and the Gospel, and he says his methods work and help people.
The pastor views homosexuality as an attraction like infidelity or premarital sex.
“I can point to many examples of men in our church who lived a gay lifestyle and are now happily married with children honoring Christ, loving life. That doesn’t mean they are never tempted, but every heterosexual man is battling as well to stay pure or committed to his wife,” Hubbard said.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says some of the terms Hubbard uses, in particular, the name of his forum, can be described as masking language.
Hubbard believes that his approach is more loving than others that are built around coercion and force; therefore, he says he is more successful.
“We want to be able to help them begin to look at what they are experiencing through the scripture rather than just the lens of their cravings and culture,” he said.
However, even someone who has first-hand experience in this world believes all forms of conversion therapy can be harmful.
McKrae Game used to lead a conversion therapy organization, but now publicly speaks out against their practices.
“It’s now basically talk therapy, aversion therapy. No one is making anyone straight,” Game said.
Game was forced out of the group he led, “Hope for Wholeness,” in 2017. He then came out as gay himself and made headlines across the country for his strong stance against the organization he once led.
Hope for Wholeness disbanded in 2020, but Hubbard says some of the group’s methods are still around.
Conversion therapy has been discredited by the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, among other medical groups.
“These interventions are provided under the false premise that homosexuality and gender diverse identities are pathological. They are not; the absence of pathology means there is no need for conversion or any other like intervention. Further, there is evidence that “conversion therapies” increase risk of causing or exacerbating mental health conditions in the very youth they purport to treat.” wrote the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in a policy statement.
A study from the UCLA Williams Institute found that people who have gone through conversion therapy are “twice as likely to attempt suicide.”
“That’s essentially what you have is extremely religious shame-based people who hate themselves,” Game said.
Hubbard insists shame is not what guides his work and he is not trying to change anyone.
“Historically, the church has said homosexuality is a choice and the world has said, the culture has said you’re born that way, and I think both of them are wrong,” Hubbard said when asked if being gay is a choice. “It’s more complex than that. We are born broken in a myriad of different ways. And our goal is not to throw condemnation on anyone because I need Christ’s transforming power as much as anyone else.”
In fact, Hubbard says he has heard stories of people who have undergone conversion therapy at other places across the state that he thinks are “harmful and horrific,” but that is nothing like his teachings and forums when he is “walking a journey with someone.”
He says in the past couple of years so many of the other people who take his same approach are not as public about what they do.
“It’s too strong to say it went underground, but that’s really the case. They continue to see lives changed but you’re not going to hear that story because they have eliminated the negative methods, the harmful methods but they continue to want to tell the power of Jesus to change lives,” Hubbard said.
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Stepped-up basis is a tax provision that allows heirs to reduce their capital gains taxes. When someone inherits property, real or personal, businesses, and investments, the IRS resets the market value of these assets to their value on the date of the original owner’s death. Then, when the heir sells these assets, capital gains taxes are applied based on this reset value. The result is a situation that allows investors to pass assets to their heirs virtually tax-free. If you need help reducing capital gains tax or with any other financial issues, consider working with a Qualified Legal Advisor.
What Is the Stepped-Up Basis?
The stepped-up basis (sometimes known as the step-up cost basis or raise in basis) is a way of adjusting the capital gains tax. It applies to investment assets passed on in death.
When someone inherits capital assets such as stocks, mutual funds, bonds, real estate, businesses, and other investment property, the IRS “steps up” the cost basis of those properties. This means that for the purpose of capital gains tax, the IRS sets the original cost basis of any given asset to its value when the asset is inherited. When the heir sells this asset, they only pay money on profits calculated from the day they inherited it.
The result of the stepped-up basis loophole is that heirs save significant money on investment assets that they inherit. Moreover, this loophole is crucial for estate planning. When individuals prepare their wills and trusts, they can minimize how much the IRS takes by handing down securities rather than cash.
Example of the Stepped-Up Basis
Once again, Bert owns 10,000 shares of XYZ Co. stock. He bought those shares at $20, leading to an original cost basis of $200,000. Bert is planning his will and he wants to hand this stock down to his son. At this time, XYZ Co. is valued at $30 per share. Bert has two options.
Option A – Cash Transfer
For simplicity’s sake, let’s ignore any other tax issues.
Bert sells his shares in XYZ Co. His proceeds are $300,000 and his profits are $100,000. He pays a standard 15 percent capital gains tax on this transaction, coming to $15,000. As a result, Bert passes $285,000 down to his son.
Option B – Stock Transfer
Instead of selling his stock, Bert hands his shares of XYZ Co. down to his son entirely. When Bert dies, XYZ Co. is still worth $30 per share. His son inherits all 10,000 shares and sells them immediately upon receipt.
At the moment Bert’s son inherits these shares, the IRS resets their original cost basis to $30. Bert’s son sells these shares for $300,000. He owes no taxes on this sale because, as far as the IRS is concerned, he didn’t make a profit off this sale.
The stepped-up basis loophole allows someone to pass down assets without triggering a tax event, which can save estates considerable money. It does, however, come with an element of risk. If the value of this asset declines, the estate might lose more money to the market than the IRS would take.
However, keeping that in mind, the stepped-up basis is still an important part of estate tax planning.
How Do Capital Gains Taxes Work?
Capital gains is a special, generally lower, category of taxes imposed at the time a security is sold and based on the amount by which that security has gained value. This is distinct from income taxes, which are imposed on money earned from salary and wages. (Put another way, the income tax is imposed on labor, the capital gains tax is imposed on investments.) For example, when someone sells stocks, the money that they earn off that sale triggers capital gains taxes.
The capital gains tax applies only to the profits by selling assets. The value of the asset when you first bought or acquired it is called its “original cost basis.” The IRS then calculates your profits by subtracting the proceeds of the sale from the asset’s original cost basis. Capital gains taxes are then applied to those profits.
Example of Capital Gains
Bert owns 1,000 shares of stock in XYZ Co. When he bought the shares, they were valued at $20 per share, leading to a purchase price (original cost basis) of $20,000.
A few years later Bert sells his investment in XYZ Co. When he sells the shares, they are worth $35 each. As a result, Bert gets $35,000 from his sale (the proceeds).
Bert pays capital gains taxes on his profits from this sale, and his income bracket makes his tax rate 15 percent. As a result, he pays the following in taxes:
- Profit = Proceeds – Original cost basis = $35,000 – $20,000 = $15,000
- Capital gains tax rate * Profit = 15 percent * $15,000 = $2,250
Bert pays $2,250 in federal taxes on his sale.
If however, Bert were to die before he sells his shares and his Wife (depending upon the jurisdiction) or Children sell the stock, the basis would be stepped-up from $20,000 to $35,000, thus, there is no capital gain, in that the stock sold for the new stepped up value.
Stepped-up basis is a tax law that applies to estate transfers. When someone inherits investment assets, the IRS resets the asset’s original cost basis to its value at the date of the inheritance. The heir then pays capital gains taxes on that basis. The result is a loophole in tax law that reduces or even eliminates capital gains tax on the sale of these inherited assets.
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Professor Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard PhD FRCGP is a general practitioner and Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Here she reflects on the recent commitment to make personalised care ‘business as usual’ for 2.5 million people by 2024.
It’s been a particularly hectic start to 2019 with the announcement of the NHS long term plan, and confirmation of the next five-year GP contract – both of which promise to be positive for general practice, and in turn the care we can deliver to our patients.
A key element of the long-term plan is a commitment to delivering Universal Personalised Care to 2.5 million people by 2024. This approach aims to support people to make informed decisions about managing their health, so they can live the life they want to live, based on what matters to them, as well as the evidence-based, good quality information from the health and care professionals who support them.
As GPs of course we already aspire to deliver holistic care, but this even more personalised approach along with additional resources should help us to better co-ordinate care around a patient’s individual circumstances, as well as support them to connect with digital and/or community resources.
One part of this is ‘social prescribing’ – and whilst the term itself is recent, it’s just a natural evolution of something that good GPs have always done in one form or another.
Often, as we all know too well, the underlying reason for someone visiting their GP is not medical, and for these patients a recommendation or encouragement to join an exercise class or community group or learn a new skill can be hugely beneficial – more so than a traditional prescription for medication.
I’ve spoken before about Enid: my 84-year-old patient who suffers from hypertension and type 2 diabetes and has intermittent flares of osteoarthritis pain in both her hips, and who was recently widowed.
I noticed that Enid was visiting the surgery more often, and becoming irritable with the team, but whilst she did have health problems, they really weren’t the reason for her behaviour: she was lonely and lacking purpose. I was able to connect her to a local social programme that worked for her and led to a massive improvement in her wellbeing.
We hear wonderful stories – like Enid’s – about how social prescribing is transforming people’s lives, and whilst we recognise that we need more robust, systematic review into the efficacy of formal social prescribing initiatives, there is some evidence that they can free up GPs’ time for patients with complex health needs who really need our medical expertise. A College survey also found that 59% of GPs believe that social prescribing can help reduce their workload, and therefore alleviate pressures across the NHS.
This is why we are supporting NHS England plans to introduce 1,000 ‘link workers’ as part of the NHS long-term plan. Ensuring GPs have access to social prescribers is something the RCGP has called for, and something that is being received well in Scotland, particularly in terms of reducing health inequalities.
Social prescribing is just one of five ‘components’ that make up the Universal Personalised Care – and together they signal the intention to forge a fundamental new relationship between people, professionals and the health and care system. The other five components are shared decision making; personalised care and support planning; supported self-management<>; enabling choice and personal health budgets.
Evidence shows that people will have better experiences and improved health and wellbeing if they can actively shape their care and support in this way. We know that a one-size fits all health and care system simply cannot meet the increasing complexity of people’s needs and expectations.
Many of you have been using good collaborative care and support planning for some time and the recent developments will help others to also start implementing some of these ways of working.
The RCGP recently hosted a briefing about UPC where I heard first-hand experiences about the impact that a more personalised care approach can have on clinicians and patients. These are often simple things like being able to order a wheelchair that comfortably fits the person; having ongoing carers who you trust knowing about your condition coming into your home; patients having a better understanding about their condition; and patients – like Enid – connecting with local community groups to help them manage and improve the conditions that are affecting their long-term health and wellbeing.
Personalised care is part of the essence of good general practice. The ability to deliver holistic care is one of the main reasons why we choose this profession – taking into account the physical, psychological and social factors potentially impacting on a patient’s health when making a diagnosis and formulating a treatment plan.
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Where can I get paper copies of the petition?
You can download a copy to print off right here.
Where do I hand them in?
Greenock - You can drop them off at The Volunteer Centre in Westburn Centre, 175 Dalrymple Street, (right across from Tescos car Park)
Port Glasgow - You can drop them off at 7 1/2 John Wood Street.
We do not currently have a pick up / drop off in Gourock, we'd love to hear from you if you can help us out there.
How can I help?
Mostly by helping us keep awareness up by sharing the page, petition and blog.
You could also volunteer to take a stack of petitions away to get them signed. (we will provide these for you). To arrange that, you can contact us at [email protected]
You could email your local councillor or MSP and let them know how you feel, politely and in your own words.
If you are a performer, you could enter our Celebration Ode online battle of the bands
Who is running this campaign?
The campaign was initiated by local heritage group Magic Torch, we first came together in 1999, at the time of the last Tall Ships and have worked to promote and celebrate local heritage ever since. Our News Archive charts the story of the Sheds over the last ten years, we have certainly voiced our opinions on alternative uses many times over that period. Many more local people have been helping us since the start of this campaign.
What do you hope to achieve?
Aim:To explore an alternative development strategy for regeneration of the Sugar Sheds in order to provide the maximum community benefit for the people of Inverclyde.
1. To work collaboratively with Riverside Inverclyde and all key stakeholders- including the local community- to explore alternative uses for the Sugar Sheds beyond the current outline planning permission.
Is there a sound business case for this proposal?
Nope. Not yet. Is there a sound business case for the current regeneration proposal? If so, how is that any more definitively workable than what we are suggesting here. Frequently changing financial markets and economies mean that investment opportunities are more challenging to pin down. This is the difficulty facing all regeneration initiatives. Some have chosen to grapple with this by more actively involving community groups and organisations, as this opens up avenues for funding, tax and rate relief which may not be available to developers. We would want to work with the URC on being part of a sound business proposal.
Isn't the new Arts Guild (The Beacon) going to be our new community venue?
The Beacon is an excellent development, and in fact it is a good example of local agencies and a community organisation working collaboratively to make something happen. However first and foremost, it is a theatre space. It would not offer the sorts of opportunities for bands, markets, large scale gallery installations etc. We do not see the two spaces as mutually exclusive, however we do think they could work brilliantly together. There are many towns and communities which are able to support more than one single solitary arts venue.
Who would run the building?
Well as it stands, the building is owned by James Watt Dock LLP. We are optimistic, upbeat folk...but we are not naive enough to hope that the building would just be given to the community or Magic Torch to "do things" with it. Certainly, there are many successful examples and legal models for community ownership of buildings...but at this stage, what we are asking for is for the community to be actively involved in the current regeneration proposals, that the space be given over to some community usage over the next few months, and that longer term this would lead to dedicated community space within the Sugar Sheds. There are many formal structures community groups and organisations can adopt to help them manage and resource themselves effectively, these could be explored as appropriate, involving a wide range of community membership.
How could you afford to do anything with the building?
There's no point in pretending this isn't a challenge. It is. A massive, long-term challenge. The building has already had almost £4million spent on it to ensure it is wind and watertight, renovating and developing the rest would cost even more. This is why the key to the building's future is likely to be mixed use and require activities with the potential to generate some income. However, by involving the community, other sources of funding other than straightforward private investment can become available. Every area in the country has the potential to get back a percentage of the money we spend on National Lottery tickets to be used to fund community projects which will make a positive difference to the area. Inverclyde does not do this, as such, we are a Lottery Funding "cold-spot", which means that both Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland and Big Lottery would welcome new project submissions from this area, including capital projects. It is not a guarantee, but it's a good start. And that's before you start looking at the many other funders and trust funds available across the UK, or exploring the investment opportunities of developing social enterprises. None of this money will simply fall into our lap, effective funding takes time...but there are many doors to knock on. | <urn:uuid:5f5e78c7-10a3-44ca-a279-0ca6c2074433> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://keepsugarsheds.blogspot.com/p/faq.html | 2017-07-21T06:32:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423723.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170721062230-20170721082230-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.963837 | 1,089 |
Let’s start this review off with a truth: I’m not a fan of celebrity fragrances. I’m like, really, really not. So, a lot of the time, I’ll receive one to review and it’ll just waste away in my product closet, waiting for its moment…
Today, that moment has finally come for these scents. Will I love them? Will I hate them? Only time (or simply skimming this review) will tell.
The couple’s duo: Calvin Klein CK One Shock EdT
Calvin Klein’s CK One Shock for Her is described as a “sensual floriental,” with notes like passion flower and poppy giving way to chocolate, blackberry, jasmine, and musk. It comes bottled in the iconic CK One flacon — but with an opaque white coating & the word “SHOCK” scribbled on in bright pink. (It’s meant to look like lipstick, which I think is silly — the guys get dripping spray paint!)
This design is echoed in the “bold oriental” for him version as well, which lists notes including clementine, cucumber, osmanthus, black pepper, tobacco, and patchouli. Both scents were created by Ann Gottleib and IFF, and retail for $45 CAD/50ml (100 ml bottles pictured here) at Shoppers Drug Mart and Pharmaprix locations across Canada.
These come with both caps and atomizers, which I love — I always get too much perfume with a single spritz, and caps store better, too. CK One Shock for Her is sweeter than I had expected, and kind of makes me think of a clothing store – soft, powdery kind of sweet. But CK One Shock for Him is the one to watch: it’s peppery and masculine with modern-oriental undertones, and gives an interesting “suggestion” of fruitiness despite not containing any fruity notes (probably due to the osmanthus).
The big, big box: Vera Wang Lovestruck Floral Rush
My bottle of Floral Rush contains a mere 50 ml, but you’d never know it from the size of the box it came in. Lovestruck Floral Rush has a large plastic “bouquet” lid, and its box could easily contain four boxes of Heidi Klum Shine within its depths.
Created by Pascal Gaurin, Lovestruck Floral Rush is comprised of notes like champagne, apricot blossom, white freesia, and cashmere wood. It comes wrapped with a floral-print bow, which, well — it’s not a purple and green camouflage bandana, as I had originally thought.
A bright and shimmery “fizzy floral” (my words, not theirs), Floral Rush is a little sharp, but I think it’s more interesting than a lot of celebrity fragrances out there. It smells a bit too clean, which is really too bad, but I think it’s a good scent for its target demographic — there’s nothing aggressively sexy about this perfume, in its notes or in its advertising.
The model moment: Heidi Klum Shine
Lauded by bloggers and perfume fanatics as one of the best budget scents at the drugstore, Shine lists fruity top notes of pear, mandarin, and pink peppercorn set against a floral heart and a sweet dry down. This is easily the one I was the most excited about, and it’s not bad — it’s not terribly unique, but it’s clean and very fruity, and I think it’s well-done for the small price tag.
Shine was created by Aurelien Guichard, Jean Guichard and Olivier Pescheux (Pescheux is the nose behind many of Diptyque’s scents, and Guichard is the man behind Issey Miyake’s Pleats fragrances and the Robert Piguet line), and is available for $35 CAD/30 ml.
The Beyoncé effect: Beyoncé Pulse
I’m not a big Beyoncé fan, but I do love the way she’s created her image – while she’s far from perfect, you could do so much worse than telling young girls (and young minority girls in particular) that they can be both popular and powerful.
Her fragrances, though, are one area where I think she could do better. Pulse is described as a “citrus, floral gourmand” (which is cause for alarm on its own), with make-believe notes such as pear blossom, blue curaco, bluebird orchid, and midnight blooming jasmine. Created by Loc Dong, it’s available at Shopper’s and Sears for a rather alarming $59 CAD/50ml. (You didn’t hear it from me, but you can snap this one up easily for under $20 online.)
I think this is one of the better Beyoncé scents out there, but it’s still much too sweet for me. I’d recommend spritzing in-store if you’re a big fan of Queen B, and waiting to smell the drydown before buying — while I can definitely see why someone could fall in love with this, I think many will find it to be too pushy!
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Everybody knows what graphic design is, but most people don’t know exactly what graphic designers do. Don’t feel bad… even my own parents don’t fully understand my job. My mom once told all her friends that I’d designed and animated the holiday graphics airing on ION Television. Nope. Not me. I had come up with ION’s holiday slogan and had designed some print work for them, but I’m not an animator. Sorry, mom. Some people also assume that I’m a web developer. While I’ve built some sites from scratch before and enjoy designing in Squarespace, I'm no coder, so that’s not me either.
So here’s a behind the scenes look at what I actually do — mom, this one’s for you! (Disclosure: while some of this applies to other graphic designers, no two designers are the same. Some do focus on web development or motion graphics. Just not me.)
More Than Just a Pretty Picture
As you learned from this post, graphic design is way more than just making things look good. Little Jenny down the street could go on Canva.com, drop in a pretty picture (that she probably stole from Google), add some words, and call it graphic design. Today more than ever it’s easy for people to create their own graphics… but are they effective? Unique?
As a trained graphic designer, I’m a visual communicator with a goal of translating your vision and purpose into graphics that drive results. I love a good brainstorm session and often will spend hours researching and sketching before I even open my computer. Nothing excites me more than working with someone who wants a powerful design and trusts me with the creative freedom to design something awesome.
The Design Magic
So how do I make the magic happen? Contrary to popular belief, I do not own a black top hat. Or a rabbit. Ideas and graphics don’t just appear onto the page when I pick up a stylus. It’s a process of trial and error: moving things around, testing different photo filters, saving out a million different versions and switching between the different Adobe programs. With fonts and text, I often manipulate the kerning by hand (spacing between letters), so that every letter is perfectly spaced out. I have a drawing tablet that allows be to draw directly on the screen, which is so helpful for creating hand-drawn logos and doing photo retouches. A client once asked where the design in their logo came from, to make sure they had the rights to use it as their logo. Legit question. Simple answer: I drew it!
Behind the Designs
If I were stranded on a desert island and had to choose only three computer programs (supposing I had my Mac and electricity, of course), hands down I’d choose Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Similar in function, but oh so different.
Photoshop lets me edit — wait for it — photos (wow, you’re learning a lot right now). I spend a lot of time removing blemishes, enhancing colors, swapping out backgrounds, and faking limbs (yes, I have to add arms or legs to people quite often… think the Walking Dead in reverse). Combine the tools in Photoshop with my electronic drawing tablet and I can sketch or paint directly onto the digital canvas to create things like this:
- Web headers, buttons, game designs & page layouts
- Webinar or digital offerings banners
- Photo-heavy flyers or advertisements
- Photo collages or mood boards for Pinterest
- Storyboard drawings or sketches
- General photo editing & touchups
Now Illustrator is where the magic happens for logos and other illustrative or typography-heavy designs. What makes Illustrator different is that everything is done in vectors. What’s the vector, Victor? Great question! Vectors use points, lines and curves to form shapes, rather than pixels (little dots). So while Photoshop files can get pixelated (blurry) when blown up large scale, vectors can be stretched to an infinite size without losing resolution. Illustrator was my first love in the design world and I use it mostly for:
- Non-photographic flyers or advertisements
- Wedding invitation suites
- Baby & bridal shower invites
- Business cards & stationery
While Illustrator is my favorite platform for arranging cool typography, don’t confuse that with setting type. If I’m designing a brochure, PDF document or other text-heavy graphic, InDesign is my jam. The great thing about the whole Adobe Suite is how the programs work together. I can stylize an image in Photoshop and drop it into InDesign, then bring in vector icons from Illustrator. Thus, InDesign makes for beautiful layout designs or graphic such as these:
- Packaging & product labels
- PDF design
- Brochures and menus
- Text-heavy advertisements
- Business cards
Design is awesome
What I love even more than these programs is my job. I innovate. I create. I communicate. And I get to conceptualize ideas and make them come alive visually! On any given day, you may find me sketching ideas on paper, painting on a digital canvas, folding paper mockups or brainstorming fresh ideas. It doesn’t get any better than that!
Let me know what other designer secrets you may have that I could answer!
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Sleep deprivation has become a badge of honor in our modern society. Competitions break out in coffee shop lines over who is functioning on the least number of Zzzzzs and living the most fast-paced life. Bragging rights come with ordering the eye-opener with a triple shot of espresso. Close our eyes and we risk missing a culturally shocking tweet or a groundbreaking news update. We know that not getting enough sleep can impair our memory, make us a hazard at the wheel, and contribute to anxiety, but according to recent research, sleep impairments may also contribute to amyloid plaque build-up in the brain and our risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
In a recent publication in Science Translational Medicine, the Holtzman laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis set out to examine why the amount and quality of sleep declines in Alzheimer’s patients. The first piece of evidence the researchers had was from reports that Alzheimer’s brains have accumulations of amyloid-β plaques in regions of the brain critical for memory, including the Structure in temporal lobe that has many functions but is es.... These aggregations begin to form approximately 10 to 15 years before memory impairments occur. In this “pre-clinical” Alzheimer’s phase, neural networks have impaired connections in regions affected by amyloid deposits.
Using a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease, the team found that the formation of plaques was accompanied by deterioration in the sleep-wake cycle. The team took advantage of the ability of Aβ to be secreted by neurons into the interstitial fluid (ISF). ISF is the solution in the extracellular space that bathes cells. In normal mice (called wild-type) or young mice with Alzheimer’s mutations that do not have plaques, Aβ levels increase in the ISF during wakefulness and decrease during sleep (Roh et al., 2012). The big question on the researchers’ minds was how do these changes in Aβ metabolism contribute to deteriorations in sleep.
Interestingly, in both young adult humans with mutations for Alzheimer’s disease and older mice with genetic mutations leading to the build-up of Aβ plaques, it was discovered that Aβ levels in the ISF stopped fluctuating; eliminating the Aβ plaques in mice through an immunization for Aβ42 normalized the sleep-wake cycle and restored the fluctuations in Aβ in the ISF. These data suggest that sleep-wake behavior and fluctuations in Aβ may be a preceding event to Alzheimer’s disease and a biomarker to give clinicians a clue as to which individuals may be at risk for developing the disease. So the next time you find yourself staring at the clock past 3:00 AM, leave the party early with the excuse that disrupted sleep has the potential to lead to Aβ aggregation, and do your sleep-wake cycle a favor!
Roh J.H., Huang Y., Bero A.W., Kasten T., Stewart F.R., Bateman R.J. & Holtzman D.M. (2012). Disruption of the Sleep-Wake Cycle and Diurnal Fluctuation of -Amyloid in Mice with Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology, Science Translational Medicine, 4 (150) 150ra122-150ra122. DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3004291
Images via Saito T., Suemoto T., Brouwers N., Sleegers K., Funamoto S., Mihira N., Matsuba Y., Yamada K., Nilsson P., Takano J. & Nishimura M. (2011). Potent amyloidogenicity and pathogenicity of Aβ43,Nature Neuroscience, 14 (8) 1023-1032. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2858 and made by Jooyeun Lee.
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Early this April, My lovely niece Zhafira Khalifa Laiqa along with her mother “MaZha”, father “PaZha”, grandfather “atuk” and aunty visited me for about a week. We had joyful holiday..
Day 1 after their arrival, we went to Ragunan Zoo, I’ve asked them to go early in the morning because it will be sunny that day, but we arrived there around 11am, when the sun shines so brightly.. It was very hot in Ragunan, we have to walk to see the animals and after Atuk feel so exhausted, we ride the tram to see around the Ragunan and it is really a big zoo. Zhazha was so happy to see many kinds of animals like elephant, birds, monkey, lion and others, She called them all “Mauw”. 😆
After we all so tired and the tummy was really empty, we went to Daeng Naba’s Restaurant in Ampera Street. We were treated by my Cousin, Bg Dody “Zhazha’s Pak Long”.
Day 2 of the journey, around 8 am we were off to Sea World in Ancol Dream Park. Traffic jam was our best friend that day. We arrived there around half past ten. We took some pictures with the fish, Aunty was being so brave that she participated in a contest and got Sea World Sticker. What a lovely day. Zhazha keep calling the fish as “Mauw” :rolling:
Finished the journey at Sea World, Ambassador Mall was our next destination, but became “me”, we lost in our way there, took so long route and finally we parked at Kuningan City. We went to Ambas on foot from Kuningan City, bought some cds, and then had dinner at Kuningan City. Zhazha was so happy walking in Kuningan City, it might be because the mall is so bright and almost empty that she felt like she was at home. Back to home after Maghrib prayer, through the friday night traffic of South Jakarta and Depok. *be right back massaging my feet*
Day 3 is Aunty’s day. Aunty went to Kidzania at Pacific Place, accompanied by Mr. J “Anji as Zhazha call him” and PaZha. They spent almost 3 hrs in Kidzania. Atuk was Watching GI JOE at Blitzmegaplex while Mazha and me “Bubun or Baboh as Zhazha call me” were busy to keep Zhazha busy. Aunty was so happy after she went to Kidzania, she baked cookies there, she became a journalist and she kept talking about it in our journey back to home.
Day 4 was Sunday and it was supposed to be Atuk’s day. Around 9am I accompanied Atuk to one of his nephew’s wedding. The problem was he hardly ever met his cousin even more his nephew (the last time Atuk met his cousin was when he was a junior high school student!) and the other problem was I hardly know the route. We made it after all but we weren’t stay long there because of there was too many person and Atuk was seating so bad. We went home and in the afternoon Atuk stayed at home while the others left to ITC for some shopping. Teheee
Day 5 was when Bubun have classes to teach in her campus. I left early in the morning but I came home in my lunch break between class to pick Zhazha and the ganks to see beautiful scenery around my campus. In the night we had dinner reservation at Bumbu Desa, Margo City, invited by Anji’s family. The dinner went very well, what didn’t go well was that Zhazha was crying when we went home, she still wanted to be in Margo City. I guess that my cute niece has been a mall girl. :p
Last Day 😦
We left home around 10.30am and was heading to Grand Indonesia Shopping Town to see the Fountain Show. We stopped in Majesty Bakery to buy cakes for people in Pekanbaru and we also stopped at some Padang Restaurant in Blok M for lunch. Finally around 13.30 we arrived at GI but unfortunately we missed the Fountain Show. We just took some pics there and then off to the airport at 14.30
My heart is broken when I see them waving good bye… 😦
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East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA and Bangalore, India – February 23, 2018: Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham have jointly won the Aegis Graham Bell Award 2017 in the ‘Innovation in mHealth’ category. They were recognized for their joint initiative – ‘Redefining primary comfort using mHealth’ at the eighth edition of the Aegis Graham Bell Awards. The awards honor innovation in the ICT domain in India.
The Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) recognize organizations that have made a significant contribution to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in the fields of telecom, social, mobility, analytics and cloud.
The Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration with Wipro has developed a mobile health solution using a novel glucose monitoring system integrated with a cloud-based monitoring application for providing more efficient and effective diabetes care. The initiative was supported by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Government of India.
The jointly-developed Wipro-Amrita Diabetes Management Solution will provide a cost-effective, non-enzymatic glucose sensing solution for diabetes care, while promoting a healthy diet and active lifestyle, which are vital to manage diabetes. The solution will also enhance health screening and early diagnosis, contribute towards better adherence to drug and dietary regimen, encourage diabetes self-care activities and help prevent complications in patients with diabetes.
This end-to-end diabetes management solution requires a robust digital backbone and is based on proven algorithms that leverage the expertise of Wipro Digital.
Jeffrey Heenan Jalil, Senior Vice-President and Global Head, Healthcare, Life Sciences & Services, Wipro Limited said, “We are delighted and honored to receive this award as it reinforces our commitment to helping organizations improve peoples’ lives. At Wipro, we are focusing time and research on technological innovations that will help health systems in treating the most prevalent disease states. By offering the ‘mHealth’ solution in collaboration with Amrita, we are helping accelerate and optimize diabetes prevention and care to all people, including those who live in the most remote areas.”
“We congratulate Wipro and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for this breakthrough innovation in diabetic health care which will offer millions of diabetic patients an easy to use mobile app. This initiative also exemplifies industry-academia collaboration for research and innovation in healthcare,” said Bhupesh Daheria, Trustee, Aegis Knowledge Trust and Founder and CEO, Aegis School of Business, Data Science & Telecom, mUniversity, Aegis Graham Bell Awards & Data Science Congress.
Dr. Bipin Nair, Professor and Dean, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham said, “We are honored to receive this award. It is a testimony to not just the novel, first-of-its kind diabetes management solution that has been developed, but also underscores the potential of what can be achieved in the healthcare sector through unique partnerships such as the one we have with Wipro. We are grateful for the support provided by BIRAC and happy to be recognized for our efforts to address the growing issue of diabetes in India, and help patients avail treatment at an affordable cost.”
About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 160,000 dedicated employees serving clients across six continents. Together, we discover ideas and connect the dots to build a better and a bold new future.
About the Aegis Graham Bell Awards
The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the largest innovation award for the ICT domain in India. The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Convergence India and Deloitte as a knowledge partner. | <urn:uuid:415bc675-f156-4817-b03e-5e5404d83532> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://businessfortnight.com/wipro-and-amrita-vishwa-vidyapeetham-jointly-win-the-aegis-graham-bell-award-2017-for-innovation-in-mhealth/ | 2019-08-17T18:13:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313436.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817164742-20190817190742-00245.warc.gz | en | 0.920555 | 997 |
Winter can be a dreary time of year color-wise. Maybe you’ve got blankets of white snow, or maybe you’ve got the dull browns of leafless trees and dormant foliage. Whatever muted color palette you may have in the winter, I find that exploring the science behind color is a surefire way to brighten things up. Here are the details of a recent Color Science preschool program that I offered at my library. As with my previous preschool science program plans, I hope you’ll copy this one to share with your own kiddos.
First, we read our story. There are many great color concept books out there, but one of my favorites in terms of length, simplicity, and retell-ability is White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker. White Rabbit is a curious little bunny, and when he finds himself with access to buckets of red, yellow, and blue paint, he can’t help but test what happens when he combines the colors. This story offers a great introduction to primary and secondary colors.
Next, we retell the story together and talk about the science. I turned White Rabbit’s Color Book into a stick puppet story, and with the help of my young scientists, we narrated what would happen when, for example, White Rabbit jumped into the yellow bucket followed by the blue (“He turns GREEN!”). I introduced the terms primary colors and secondary colors, and we talked about what those terms mean.
We always have plenty of time to explore the science with hands-on stations. I set up three activities for our experiments with color. They were all easy, inexpensive, and–based on the excited chatter in the room–enjoyable:
- Our first activity station was an exploration of how regular white light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow. I set out flashlights and old CDs at this station, and I gave caregivers instructions to have the children shine the light on the shiny side of the CDs. The result is a reflected rainbow that the children can manipulate by moving their tools.
- Our second activity station used an activity I found on the Prekinders website that helps demonstrate how colors can mix together. Each child had a small bowl with about an inch of water in it as well as a cup with one of each color of Skittles candy. The children could pick any three (or more) of their Skittles to put in their bowls of water. After about twenty seconds, the colors of the Skittles really start to run off into the water. I had crayons and paper at the station so the children could record what they observed during the experiment.
- Our third activity station reinforced the concepts of how primary colors combine to create secondary colors. Before the program, I had mixed small bottles of vinegar with red, yellow, and blue food coloring (I ended up with four small bottles of each). These bottles were set on the activity station table along with rimmed plates with a good scoop of baking soda on each. Children were instructed to choose one color of vinegar and pour a bit of it on the side of their baking soda pile; the soda pile fizzed and turned the color of the vinegar. Next they chose another color and guessed what would happen to the baking soda when the vinegar was added to it. Then they could add that second color of vinegar to the soda pile to see if they had guessed the correct secondary color. This station was particularly exciting because of the controlled eruption of baking soda and vinegar, but I also heard lots of great discussion between children and caregivers regarding what color the substance would turn and why.
Everyone gets to take something home to reinforce our STEM topic. I had a number of books about color and experimenting with colors that program-goers checked out after the program. I also had a one-page (front and back) take-home sheet with activities for reinforcing color science at home. The activity sheet included a coloring activity, instructions for dying celery or white carnations with colored water, and a how-to for making colored slime. I have extra activity sheets available at the library’s check-out desk for two weeks after each program so that all interested families get a chance to try them out at home. It’s a great way to move discussions of color beyond simple point-and-recite or pronouncements about favorite color.
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What are strength efforts and why should you be doing them?
Strength efforts (SE) deliver a range of performance and physiological benefits for all levels of rider
Strength efforts (SE) are vital because, as the name suggests, they build on-the-bike strength, albeit once an aerobic foundation’s been laid during the general conditioning phase, which takes around six to eight weeks.
SE intervals stimulate the development of type-I slow-twitch muscle fibres but, because most of the session is relatively low intensity the intervals continue to build on the aerobic adaptations gained from your base training. These adaptations include mitochondrial proliferation, muscle capilliarisation and cardiac hypertrophy. In short, you’re more efficient at breathing in oxygen and delivering it to working muscles. SE intervals will continue this aerobic development while laying a base of strength for harder, more intense work in a few months’ time. In this sense SE are an intermediate step in your development as a road cyclist.
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Essential SE Session
Here’s a 2hr SE session to boost strength and stamina…
30-35mins 1 x 5mins SE @ Z2/Z3 @ 50rpm
35-50mins 15mins easy
50-55mins 1 x 5mins SE @ Z2/Z3 @ 50rpm
55-70mins 15mins easy recovery
70-75mins 1 x 5mins SE @ Z2/Z3 @ 50rpm
75-90mins 15mins easy recovery
90mins 1 x 5mins SE @Z2/Z3@50rpm
95-120mins Easy riding
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
SE can be anywhere from 5 to 30mins depending upon your goals and experience.
PERFECT YOUR PEDAL TECHNIQUE
Focus is key with SE work. Each revolution of the crank must be completed with the utmost concentration while your postural muscles remain fully engaged for the duration of each interval. Here’s how professional riders maximise SE intervals with the focus on the right leg…
- Find a hill that’s not too steep and has minimal distractions.
- Select a gear that’s big enough to force you into 50-60rpm. If you’re new to SE intervals or are in the early phase of your training programme, don’t be too over-geared. Also, stop if you experience knee pain.
- At the top of the pedal stroke, where your right thigh is closest to your chest, activate (squeeze) the muscles of your right buttock. Then push down on the right pedal.
- As you move through the pedal stroke, consciously feel the transfer of work from your right buttock to the right thigh.
- At the bottom of the pedal stroke, drop your heel and squeeze your right calf muscle. The action you’re looking to replicate is similar to wiping mud off your shoe. This is not a ‘flick’ of the right calf muscle, more a controlled and forceful contraction. It’s this phase that most riders neglect so pay close attention to the force you’re transferring from calf muscle to pedal.
- After passing the bottom of the pedal stroke and with the work of the right calf almost done, it’s time to activate your hamstrings and pull up on the pedal.
- As you once again near the top of the pedal stroke, your right buttock will reactivate and the next revolution will commence.
Obviously, the opposite is happening with the left leg at all points of crank rotation. To synchronise such fine motor control in both limbs, under load, requires practice. This is part of the reason why the example training session prescribes 5min SE intervals.
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PERFECT YOUR POSTURE AND GRIP
Your posture, handlebar grip and upper body position are also important to maximising SE work, though the key coaching point is simple: maintain the lightest grip possible on the handlebar at all times. Professional riders can do SE for 20-30mins with an open palm. All they do is rest the very base of their palm (just above the wrist) on top of the hoods. For the rest of us it’s good enough, and safer, to open the fingers and form a cage around the handlebar, touching the bar intermittently.
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Guterres in Ukraine: War is 'evil' and unacceptable, calls for justice
28 April 2022 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine on Thursday, where he condemned the "evil" acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability.
The UN chief's visit to the Kyiv suburbs of Borodianka, Bucha and Irpin comes nine weeks since the Russian invasion began. Mr. Guterres urged Russia "to accept to cooperate" with the ongoing investigation launched by the International Criminal Court, the ICC.
"When we see this horrendous site, it makes me feel how important it is [to have] a thorough investigation and accountability," Mr. Guterres said, speaking from Bucha, where disturbing images of dead civilians lying in the street sparked worldwide outrage earlier this month.
He added: "I fully support the International Criminal Court and I appeal to the Russian Federation to accept to cooperate with the International Criminal Court."
Surveying destroyed buildings in Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv, the Secretary-General also called the war "an absurdity".
"I must say what I feel. I imagined my family in one of those houses that is now destroyed and black," he said. "I see my granddaughters running away in panic, part of the family eventually killed. So, the war is an absurdity in the 21st century. The war is evil."
In Irpin, where Mr. Guterres visited the destroyed Irpinsky Lipki residential complex, he said that the "horrific scenario demonstrates something that is unfortunately, always true: civilians always pay the highest price".
Earlier this month, UN rights chief, Michelle Bachelet said that she had been "horrified" by images showing the bodies of dead civilians lying in the streets of Bucha, and in improvised graves.
"Reports emerging from this and other areas, raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes as well as grave breaches of international humanitarian law and serious violations of international human rights law," the High Commissioner said in a statement.
Speaking to UN News after the Secretary-General had returned to the capital Kyiv, UN Spokesperson in Ukraine, Kris Janowski, said that it had been "a sad and shocking experience to visit these places, they are very damaged, and the people traumatized by what has happened to them.
"The Secretary-General was visibly affected - personally affected by it. He saw his own family hypothetically in this same situation. It's a terrifying thought for us all.
"You have villages, malls, mundane suburban scenery, suddenly disrupted by war, and littered with destroyed vehicles. There are signs of terror and destruction everywhere", he added, but residents are clearly returning.
"You see little market stalls, the people are resilient, and life is returning as best it can. The future is unknown everywhere here, but life goes on, and people are going about their lives.
Mr. Janowski said that in Borodianka, the UN chief had spoken to the governor of the area, who said that although people were trickling back, they are still looking for bodies in some of the houses.
"You find yourself in a quite ordinary suburban environment, but you don't know how many are dead - it's a very traumatic experience for everyone", said Mr. Janowski.
"For me, what I saw, brought back memories of my time working in Bosnia for the UN (in the wars following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s).
"The UN security driver who took us there (to the three suburban areas), also happens to be from Sarajevo, and it brought back all the bad memories for those of us who were there. After the war in Bosnia and various conflicts, I never thought I would see this sort of destruction happening again in my lifetime, so close to the heart of Europe."
Global justice must be served
Echoing the Secretary-General's call for justice for the victims of atrocities in Ukraine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that he favoured neither Russia nor Ukraine, in the search for the truth.
"This is not really a time for talking, it's a time for action. International law can't be a passive spectator. It can't be sedentary, it needs to move with alacrity and to protect and to insist on accountability," said Karim Khan, speaking to journalists on Wednesday evening outside the Security Council at UN headquarters in New York.
"The law is above us, and if the law is not above us, there's nothing below us, except the abyss."
ICC Prosecutor Khan launched an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity on 2 March, after referral of a request by 43 States Parties.
The focus of the investigation is "alleged crimes committed in the context of situation in Ukraine since 21 November 2013". Since the investigation opened, a team of analysts, anthropologists and investigators has already examined several locations in Ukraine, including Lviv, Kyiv and Bucha, Mr. Khan said.
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Something about the human psyche prefers the path of least resistance, the easy way, the course that requires the smallest investment of blood, sweat and tears. But history teaches that “quick and simple” is rarely the avenue for achieving lasting success and significance.
In the realms of entertainment and art, we often hear about the “overnight success,” the person that was a virtual unknown one day whose name was on the lips of everyone the next: the breakout star of a major motion picture; a singer soaring to the top of the music charts; an author whose book gains widespread public acclaim, turning her into an instant celebrity.
But we all know that even though a person may go from being unnoticed to stardom in the blink of an eye, much effort, struggle and preparation were invested to make that “overnight success” possible.
My friend, Gary Highfield, is a great example. In his book, When “Want To” Becomes “Have To!”, Gary details a very difficult childhood, including some heart-wrenching experiences. As a young adult with a wife and three children, he had a dead-end, hourly wage job, barely scraping by. He wanted a better life for his family, and then his “want to” became “have to,” starting an ambitious self-improvement program.
Gary’s book not only tells his personal story, but also presents many of the principles and wisdom he gained over the years through hard work, determination, a refusal to quit – and the grace and timely provision of God. His path was difficult, but he refused to accept failure and the seemingly easier alternative of resigning himself to being a “victim” of his circumstances.
In the process, Gary’s career transformed from frustrating, unfulfilling manual labor to great success in sales and entrepreneurship. Today many disadvantaged people are being promised “entitlements,” but he understood his true entitlement was to utilize the talents and abilities God had built into him to realize his personal and professional goals and dreams. Today he seeks to help others in similar circumstances. The Bible speaks a lot about this, both in workplace and spiritual terms. Here are some examples:
Sufferings serve to strengthen us. Hardships can build endurance, just as years of training equip top athletes to perform at championship levels, far beyond their peers. “…but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us …” (Romans 5:3-4).
No such thing as a “quick fix.” Many people want instant success, rewards without the struggle. But often formulating a plan, even if it takes time and overcoming challenges to carry out, can serve as a reward in itself. “Steady plodding brings prosperity; hasty speculation brings poverty” (Proverbs 21:5).
Struggles shape and refine us. A caterpillar faces great difficulty escaping the cocoon after turning into a butterfly, but its struggle is rewarded as it flies majestically through the air. Similarly, hard work refines us into who and what we are to become. “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything” (James 1:3-4).
Robert J. Tamasy is vice president of communications for Leaders Legacy, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. A veteran journalist, he has written Tufting Legacies (iUniverse); Business At Its Best: Timeless Wisdom from Proverbs for Today’s Workplace (River City Press); and has coauthored with David A. Stoddard, The Heart of Mentoring (NavPress). For more information, see www.leaderslegacy.com or his blogs, www.bobtamasy.blogspot.comand www.bobtamasy.wordpress.com.
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1. Are you inclined to take the “easy way” whenever possible? Think of a time when you discovered the seemingly easiest approach was not the best. What did you learn from that?
2. Can you think of someone that overcame great adversity to accomplish great success? In your view, were they simply “lucky” or fortunate, or did they earn and deserve their noteworthy achievements? Explain your answer.
3. Is it always wise to choose the more difficult approach to a task or goal? How can one discern times when the “quick fix” is not the best solution?
4. Many in society encourage us to pursue pain-free, problem-free living. Why then should we submit to struggles and hardships when they present themselves, whether at work or in our personal lives? What, in your opinion, is a value of perseverance?
NOTE: If you have a Bible and would like to read more about this subject, consider the following passages:
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Holy smokes things are getting intense already! Taking into account the first episode for this season being recap, we’re jumping into some pretty intense fights almost right out of the gate. This was Deku’s biggest challenge to date. In terms of the difficulty and danger it’s almost incomparable to what he’s been through before. There was no help coming for him. If he couldn’t protect Kota and win the fight himself then they would both die. It was that simple. And he rose to the occasion spectacularly. Yeah, he once again had to seriously wreck his body to come through it but there just wasn’t any other choice. What else could he do except everything he could? Dying isn’t exactly a better alternative to doing some self-harm.
The biggest WTF moment though may be the info drop that one of the goals of this attack is…Bakugo!? I suppose he must have caught some attention from his win at the sports festival and he was a threat that saw through the warp guy’s quirk. But it is still a surprising revelation that they are specifically targeting him. Sure Deku and the other students are on the list of targets, but Bakugo is being singled out as a top priority. Luckily he is out there with Todoroki so it isn’t as if Bakugo is unbelievably isolated. They have run into one of the villains…but the two of them are pretty capable in terms of any pair out there.
The scary thing though is that it appeared that villain…was eating someone!? It might not mean death though since Shoji was out there with Tokoyami and he does have several arms. Now I have no idea how his quirk works in detail so not sure if he can re-grow a lost limb. But if anyone could lose an arm and still be alive to tell the tale…it would be Shoji. No telling though what has happened until we get to another episode and maybe find out.
Things are really bad though. This puts USJ on a lower scale of terror for the students. There is no All Might or army of teachers coming to the rescue this time. Everyone has to find a way to get through this on their own. The big issue is being scattered from the start. They may not (I think) have brought a Nomu along, but even still the general threat level is much higher this time around. There aren’t many if any pushovers going to attack the class. Some of the Pussy Cats are already down (worried about Ragdoll especially) and Aizawa might also be. He did take a powerful hit there, but not sure what state he is in afterwards. Hopefully he can battle through because they really need as many individuals up and fighting as possible.
The highlight of course was Deku’s fight. I mean holy crap that was awesome on so many levels. The whole thing just unfolded in spectacular fashion. Deku took some hard hits early on and was overwhelmed by someone with somewhat similar quirk. Of course that guy has no clue what kind of monster Deku could become in the future. An inferior version? Please. Once Deku’s body is able to handle more and more of One for All’s power…he’s going to be as scary if not way more so than All Might in his prime. It’s just a question of getting to that point. At this point in time Muscular is generally stronger and faster than Deku. The only way Deku could stand a chance was giving everything he had. There was no time to worry about control or the effect on his body.
Honestly this fight just blew me away. You could see the creepy way this guy’s muscle fibers grew out from his body and made him into a fleshy monster. Deku also tried everything he could think of. Getting his arm stuck in that guy’s shoulder so he could try to hit him from point blank range was a solid tactic. Sure it didn’t finish this guy off, but it was the kind of crazy tactic you expect from Deku. The best part really was Kota stepping up to help Deku and then seeing Deku unleash his absolute best hit. Now I’m sure his body couldn’t actually handle something like 1,000,000% without blowing up, but it did show Deku pushing past his limits. If he wants to be like All Might that’s the kind of thing he has to be able to do.
This episode was just awesome. It was a lot of fun watching Deku rise to the occasion during a real crisis. Of course this situation isn’t remotely resolved. Bakugo is apparently in danger and frankly so is everyone else. The pro heroes are trying to handle things as best they can, but being caught offguard and being outnumbered is a serious issue. The various students from both A and B will have to rise up and hold their ground. This isn’t a situation they can simply run away from.
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At 20 months old, Ebony is starting to assert her independence. She is pushing boundaries, setting new limits, and trying to find her place in the world.
She wants to do everything herself now. When we wake up in the morning, she wants to get herself dressed. This often means that for the first hour of every day, until I can coax her into something more suitable, she wears a jumper on her bottom half, three socks on one foot (and none on the other), a cardigan, and a knitted hat. And putting together that unique and daring ensemble, can take anything up to an hour in itself.
She wants to stand at the sink, and select her own toothbrush (which usually means mine gets chewed heartily before being discarded at her excessively socked foot). She wants to clean her own teeth, which she does terribly. She wants to wash her own hands, which seems to consist of pushing the plug down, filling the sink up and then miming washing her hands while making a “wooosh” noise to compensate for the lack of actual handwashing.
She wants to decide what we do each day, “Mummy? Shoes. Park!”. She wants to choose which shoes she wears to the park (wellies, whatever the weather), and she wants to zip up her own coat (which she can’t do, and this often ends in a frustrated wail; “Mummmmmy! ZIPS!” She wants to walk out of the front door by herself. She wants to open the garden gate, and stride confidently down the pavement, all by herself.
She will, usually, hold my hand while we walk near roads, but not always. Sometimes she will sit still on the pavement to avoid holding my hand. Other times she will walk only on tip toes, or backwards, or run as fast as she can (not very) next to the road, as I work out how quickly I could intercept her should she choose to run for the road.
She doesn’t always want to get in the carrier now, she likes to walk herself. She wants to sit on her own seat on the bus, and press the button, “Beeps, mummy!” She wants to make her own friends now, “Hello, boy!” she confidently announces to every passing child, regardless of their sex.
She wants to explore things by herself. She doesn’t want to be helped up the slide, or to be shown how something works, she wants to conquer her own world.
But she wants to do all of this, with me in her sight. She wants me to stay close, but stand back and not interfere. She needs to know I’ll be there to kiss her better when she falls, or carry her home if she is tired, or procure food for her if she’s hungry. She will march off at playgroups, but will turn to me with a look of indignation, “Mummy! NO! Muuuummy!” should another child dare to treat her unfairly. I am summoned to help each time someone gets in her way, or steals her turn on the slide.
She is proud of her independence. When she does something new, she looks for me, so we can share in her moment of triumph. “Eba,” she says, nodding, each time she does something herself, “Eba.” And, if she feels she is being cheated of her independence, “EBA? EBA!” she shrieks while trying to fasten herself into the car seat, hold her own umbrella or cook dinner.
There are some things, of course, that she can’t do yet. And those things are a struggle, with Ebony fighting for her independence, and me fighting to keep her safe. She wants to walk down the street, but must do so holding my hand. She wants to cook dinner, but can only cut soft vegetables with her own knife. She wants to climb, higher and higher, but can only do so in safe(ish) places.
I want to give her her independence, and let her explore the world - but safely, as I watch from a distance. I want to be there to help her when she discovers she doesn’t yet have the fine motor skills to zip up a coat. I want to let her walk the whole way to the greengrocers, even if it turns a 20 minute task into a two and half hour round trip. I want to let her walk free from hand holding, even if that means we have to travel everywhere by country paths and back streets.
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Who: Norwich City FC at Chelsea FC
What: English Premier League
Where: Stamford Bridge, (Fulham, Greater London, England, UK)
When: Saturday, October 6, 2012
Weather: The Weather Channel Forecast
Time: 15:00 (3:00) p.m. GMT/10:00 a.m. ET/7:00 a.m. PT
Television: Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Deportes (USA)
Worldwide Live Streams and TV Channels: LiveSoccerTV.com link
Radio: SiriusXM Satellite Radio Channel 92
Referee: Anthony Taylor
3-Way Odds: Chelsea -400, Norwich City +1050, Draw +450
Total: Over 2½ -200, Under 2½ +140
Decimal Odds: Chelsea 1.25, Norwich City 11.50, Draw 5.25
Fractional Odds: Chelsea 1/4, Norwich City 21/2, Draw 9/2
Decimal Total: Over 2½ 1.60, Under 2½ 2.20
Source: sportsbook.com (Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles)
To say that Norwich City has gotten off to a slow start in the English Premier League this season probably wouldn’t be fair to the expression “slow start.”
Currently sitting in the relegation zone in 18th place (0-3-3), the Canaries are tied for the league’s worst goal differential (-9, four goals for, 13 goals against) with Queens Park Rangers and have scored just four times in six games—two of those in their last game, a 5-2 loss to Liverpool last weekend at Carrow Road in the Reds' first win of the season.
On the other end of the spectrum, European champions Chelsea still stand alone atop the EPL table with an undefeated 5-1-0 record (11 goals for, three against) and have now compiled an impressive 13-2-1 home record under manager Roberto Di Matteo.
When these two clubs met last season at Stamford Bridge, the Blues won 3-1 as Juan Mata scored in his Chelsea debut in a match that saw Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy accidentally knock Didier Drogba unconscious with his left elbow in an aerial dogfight for the ball, while in their last meeting on January 21 at Norwich City, the two sides played to a scoreless draw.
Chelsea is undefeated in its last seven games against the Canaries, with its last loss to them coming almost 18 years ago—on December 10, 1994 at Carrow Road (3-0). The Blues are 21-16-9 all-time versus Norwich City in all competitions, and are 12-8-5 against them at home in west London.
For manager Chris Hughton’s Canaries, the trick will be to try to keep the ball away from new-look Chelsea, but after losing the possession battle by a gaudy 67-33 percent to Liverpool, that plan could turn out to be an exercise in futility.
And with Norwich City having only four goals—one each by Robert Snodgrass, Grant Holt, Simeon Jackson and Steve Morison—Chelsea defenders have as many scores (Branislav Ivanović, two goals; Gary Cahill, one; Ashley Cole, one) as the entire Canaries team does heading into this contest.
Expect Norwich City goalkeeper Ruddy to be thoroughly tested by the likes of Fernando Torres (team-high three goals in the EPL), Frank Lampard (two goals), Mata (two assists, one goal) and Eden Hazard (four assists) on the Blues attack.
What will the result be between Chelsea and Norwich City Saturday?
One guy who definitely won’t be in the Canaries starting XI versus Chelsea is 19-year-old striker Harry Kane—on loan from Tottenham Hotspur—who injured his ankle in Norwich City’s 1-0 Capital One League Cup win against Doncaster, and who is expected to be out for six weeks.
For Chelsea, goalkeeper Petr Čech has his usual brilliant self; he has registered four clean sheets in six league starts and may be in line for his fifth in this fixture on Saturday.
With just nine setbacks in its last 163 games at Stamford Bridge—a 5.5 percent loss
rate over that span—the Blues should cage the Canaries in this one and hold on tight to their first-place home in the Premiership.
With four likely tough matches all coming up on the schedule—Tottenham at White Hart Lane (October 20), Manchester United at home (October 28), Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine in the UEFA Champions League group stage (October 23) and again versus Alex Ferguson’s Red Devils in the fourth round of the Capital One League Cup at home (October 31)—securing three points and getting out of this game injury-free will be of utmost importance to Di Matteo and Chelsea.
So Torres notching another goal, Mata getting another assist or two, Victor Moses getting his first EPL tally and Čech shutting out another opponent are all distinct possibilities for the Blues who have now won four straight after Tuesday’s 4-0 Champions League win at FC Nordsjælland.
Chelsea is now 4-2-0 since their last loss, that 4-1 embarrassment to Atlético Madrid and Radamel Falcao in the UEFA Super Cup final in Monaco on August 31.
With Norwich City’s poor current form and Chelsea’s overwhelming track record at home, combined with the fear of those four challenging games coming up on the horizon later this month, expect an easy win for the Blues in this match at The Bridge.
PREDICTION: Chelsea FC 4 Norwich City FC 0
BETS: Over 2½ -200, Chelsea -400
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Everyone, attending the capital of Hungary at least once, will completely visit heroes’ square Budapest to discover its hidden treasures, to get some knowledge of Hungarian history and culture or explore the beautiful place in order to take part in some actual programs organized.
What should you know about the wondrous Hero’s square budapest as a guest?
One of the main basic emblems of the capital city and the most well-known and most visited square, the so-called ‘crown decoration’ of Andrássy avenue is Heroes square budapest. This one is placed in the 14th district of Budapest as probably Hungary’s most famous and most attended square.
As we stand on the square, we could amaze how many young people enjoy skateboarding or roller skating to the City Park next to the square, or we could visit the Museum of Fine Arts on the square, and of course, we can also take advantage of the space doing many programs organized by seasons. So, if Budapest hero’s square and its attractions were not enough, we could visit some great events near there such as the Budapest International Half Marathon, the SPAR Budapest International Marathon and Running Festival or the Vienna-Budapest Super marathon and destination. The National Galloping venue or the Parade Square are waiting for the entire country, hosting presentation of masterpieces of contemporary art, the so-called ARC Exhibition and organizing one of Europe’s largest free concerts.
What is about the surroundings and an excursion in the City Park?
Therefore, whether it’s winter or summer, weekends or weekdays, Heroes’ Square is always offering something, providing its wonderful atmosphere, its significant historical statues which are worth visiting here, having the possibility to relax and feel the buzz of Budapest.
Many tourists, as well as local people from Budapest, prefer to visit the City Park in order to get some pleasure in the Heroes’ Square or just take a stroll in the shade of the millennial trees of the park, being equal with the nature, gaining spiritual wealth from the environment in the middle of the busy city. There are so many activities and entertaining facilities to do here in addition to the sights: in summer, boating on the city park lake is a perfect romantic or family program; in winter the ice rink and ice-skating and its surroundings provide wonderful views. The romantic atmosphere of the ice-skating rink and its cozy restaurant will surely impress you in the cold winter times, too, and it is worth a visit during your journey.
Some details and data about the square you need to know are the followings:
The history of the square dates back to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. At the center of the 85-meter-wide and 25-meter-deep semicircular column hall there is a 36-meter-high Corinthian column. This statue of Archangel Gabriel can be amazed in the 36-meter-high statue in the centre because King Stephen is said to have crowned himself and taken up the Christianity since he had a dream with angel Gabriel who requested him to act. So, the crown and the cross in the hands of the statue could indicate this dream – having a five-meter-high statue of the Hungarian royal crown.
Furthermore, there is a 4.7-foot-tall statue of seven conquering leaders. A bronze statue symbolizes war and peace inside, work and prosperity on the outside, and knowledge and glory. Between the columns, a 2.8-meter-high statue of 7-7 famous personalities of Hungarian history was placed on both wings on the right and the left side, too. The statues of leaders and its creators in Hungarian words are the followings: on the left peristyle Szent István – Senyei Károly, Szent László – Telcs Ede, Könyves Kálmán – Füredi Richárd, II. András – Senyei Károly, IV. Béla – Köllő Miklós, Károly Róbert – Kiss György, Nagy Lajos – Zala György and on the right peristyle Hunyadi János – Margó Ede, Mátyás – Zala György, Bocskai István – Holló Barnabás, Bethlen Gábor – ifj. Vastagh György, Thököly Imre – Grantner Jenő, II. Rákóczi Ferenc – Kisfaludi Srobl Zsigmond and Kossuth Lajos – Kisfaludi Srobl Zsigmond.
Heroes’ Square… some thinks of a place as the City Park, some knows Budapest has some large statues somewhere in a square, others will visit at once while staying in the city. Undoubtedly, it is the most spacious area dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries and nowadays, popularly photographed and visited one as the venue of so many events. | <urn:uuid:24e909af-9ed4-4814-a94c-1db9704447f5> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://shuttlesfrombudapest.com/budapest-the-heroes-square/ | 2021-07-25T22:54:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046151866.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20210725205752-20210725235752-00382.warc.gz | en | 0.925043 | 1,063 |
As the Super Smash season unfolds, the Wellington Firebirds are gearing up for their 4th home game, determined to maintain their position atop the points table. Their campaign kickstarted at the Basin Reserve with a resounding victory against Otago, but a subsequent washout halted their momentum.
In their last outing at the Basin Reserve, facing the Central Stags, the Firebirds faced early setbacks, making the upcoming clash crucial to secure their standing.
On the other side of the pitch, the Northern Knights have encountered a challenging season marked by consistent batting failures. Despite a recent exception where they posted a commendable 169 against the Canterbury Kings, the Knights suffered their 4th consecutive loss. With their batting lineup struggling, they face an uphill battle against the in-form Firebirds.
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The Firebirds find themselves in need of a swift turnaround after a disappointing performance with the bat in their last encounter. Opting to bat first, they lost half of their side for just 72 runs against the Central Stags. Muhammad Abbas, a batting all-rounder, has been a standout performer, scoring a crucial 72 off 38 balls earlier in the season.
The depth in the batting lineup, featuring Troy Johnson, Callum McLachlan, and Logan van Beek, provides optimism for a stronger showing in the upcoming game. With key players like Nick Greenwood and skipper Nick Kelly, and the potential return of Tim Robinson and Michael Bracewell, the Firebirds aim to dominate the struggling Knights lineup.
The Knights, despite their challenging season, still harbor hopes of a turnaround. With 16 points up for grabs in the remaining 4 matches, they aim to finish strong and potentially secure a top spot. However, their inconsistent batting form remains a significant hurdle.
With key player Tim Seifert joining the Blackcaps for the Pakistan series, the onus falls on Katene Clarke and Henry Cooper at the top. Skipper Jeet Raval, though struggling, remains pivotal in the middle order.
The Knights need a consolidated effort from their batters, including promising players like Joe Carter and Brett Hampton, to put a competitive total on the board and give their bowlers an opportunity to make an impact.
Probable Playing XI
|Northern Districts Predicted Playing XI
|Wellington Firebirds Predicted Playing XI
|Jeet Raval (c)
|Nick Kelly (c)
|Peter Bocock (wk)
|Callum McLachlan (wk)
|Logan van Beek
Please note that the predicted playing XI is based on available information and is subject to change based on team management decisions and player fitness.
The Basin Reserve wicket, known for its equilibrium, provides an enticing prospect for the players. Batsmen can exploit the conditions to score big in the first innings, but bowlers won’t be left empty-handed, finding assistance from the surface to challenge the chasing team.
With a light rain forecast on the match day and a maximum temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, the players will need to adapt to the ever-changing Wellington weather.
The Basin Reserve stands as a historic battleground for cricket in New Zealand, having hosted numerous international clashes. It’s a venue where the balance between bat and ball is delicately poised. The average 1st innings score hovers around 160 runs, but to set a match-winning total, teams should target scores over 185-190. The teams will be keenly aware of the pitch dynamics as they strategize for the upcoming contest.
Toss: To Bat
While the hosts may have faced a setback in their previous game after opting to bat, the statistics favor batting first at the Basin Reserve. Out of the 39 matches played here, teams batting first have emerged victorious in 21 encounters. Despite a recent loss, the Firebirds are likely to consider batting first, aiming to capitalize on the home advantage and set a formidable total.
WEL vs ND: Winning Prediction
The Wellington Firebirds enter this crucial clash with the upper hand, boasting a strong overall side with a deep batting lineup and variety in the bowling attack. On the flip side, the Northern Districts are grappling with batting woes, struggling to post competitive totals. As the Wellington Firebirds aim to extend their dominance, they emerge as clear favorites in our match prediction.
Prediction: Northern Knights to Triumph
In the picturesque setting of the Basin Reserve, cricket enthusiasts can anticipate a thrilling encounter between bat and ball. The Northern Knights, with their formidable squad, are poised to secure a victory and strengthen their position in the competition.
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C.J. WILSON'S JOUNEY THROUGH AGONY AND ECSTASY
Despite missing more than a year due to elbow surgery, pitcher C.J. Wilson spent less than five seasons in the minors and was a World Series starter last season.
Ups and Downs
C.J. Wilson began his professional baseball career where all 5th round draft choices go—the instructional league. He made eight starts in the Appalachian League, was promoted to the Single A South Atlantic minor league, and then opened the 2002 season pitching in the Florida State A+ League, finishing the year in Double-A Tulsa.
In two seasons, Wilson jumped four levels of minor league ball. He wasn’t a dominant pitcher, but as a left-handed starter he was making steady progress, one step at a time.
“I try to do something new every year. I try to get better at everything,” Wilson said. “Like this year, I’ve tried to work on my change up so it would be better than last year. Next year I have better control than I have this year. It’s the evolution of things.”
However, in the 2003 season Wilson took a step back. He allowed more home runs (11) that he had the previous two seasons combined, according to Baseball America, and he allowed more runs that he had in any season. As it turned out, Wilson had been pitching with a sore elbow and had Tommy John surgery in August that year.
After a year away from baseball, Wilson returned to the mound in 2005 and picked up where he had left off. Despite some early struggles, Wilson still had pinpoint control and was throwing harder than ever, so Texas promoted him to the big leagues. He made his major league debut on June 11 and finished the season with 48 innings pitched, including six starts, to solidify himself as a top prospect for the Rangers.
The 2006 season was his last in the minor leagues. After 13 innings of pitching in the Double-A and Triple-A level, he converted 24 of 28 save opportunities and found a permanent spot in the Rangers’ bullpen for the next four seasons. Despite missing an entire year, Wilson reached his goal of playing in the majors within five seasons.“I really believe in the evolution of things,” Wilson says. “You can shave off little bits of inefficiency and make yourself more creative, or make yourself more talented, with an infinite amount of time. That’s what I’ve been able to do my whole career.”
In 2010, Wilson was moved into the starting rotation and his pitching began to flourish. Over the next two seasons he made 67 starts, won 31 games and had a 3.14 ERA. In the 2011 season, Wilson finished with a 16-7 record, 206 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.94, ranking him third in the American League behind Justin Verlander and Jered Weaver. He also was named to the American League All Star team.
Wilson started five postseason games for the Rangers, and although he pitched well in two World Series starts last season, he took the loss in both games. Still, he had pitched well enough during the season to become the most sought-after free agent pitcher on the market this past off-season.
Wilson had a short list of places he’d like to play, and the Angels were near the top, along with the Rangers and Marlins. He didn’t have long to wait. Wilson met with Angels’ executives in November, and by the time the Winter Meetings were held in December, Wilson had received a contract offer from the Angels.
“I was very curious to see how interested they were in me,” Wilson says. “When my agent told me (they were interested), the first thing I thought of was, ‘Wow, this is going to be an unbelievable starting staff.’ With Ervin (Santana) and Jered (Weaver) and Dan (Haren) already there, and then with me, it was like, ‘Wow, this could be a really fun place to play.’”
On December 8, 2011, a date that Wilson and every Angels fan will remember forever, both he and St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Poulos signed multi-year contracts. Poulos signed a 10-year, $240-million deal while Wilson agreed to a five-year, $77.5 million deal.
“They (the Angels) were the first ones on the scene. They were the ones who worked the hardest to get me. That’s why I signed with them,” Wilson says.
Asked if the signing of Poulos made a difference in where he signed, Wilson didn’t hesitate to answer.
“Of course,” he said. “I talked to my agent about that, and there was a lot said during the season and at the end of the season. There were a lot of questions. If Poulos stayed in St. Louis, then St. Louis would have been a place I would have liked to play. I had no idea the Angels were going after him, so it was kind of a surprise.
“I told my agent, ‘Wait, they are going to go after him (Poulos) and go after me? They really must be (committed to winning). That was a fun evening.”
Wilson went back to Texas that night and packed his bags. He was going home.
In Part 3, C.J. Wilson talks about his life away from the ballpark and his expectations for this season.
By Mike Casey
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When Brandon Smith stripped down to his undies to perform the haka in front of the other players in New Zealand’s ANZAC Test squad, the 21-year-old Melbourne Storm rookie tried to emulate Kiwis hooker Issac Luke.
It is something that Smith, who last weekend made an impressive NRL starting debut for the Storm in place of Australian and Queensland captain Cameron Smith, has been doing almost since he began playing as a junior for the Waiheke Rams.
"I am pretty much identical to Bully in my style of play," Smith said of Luke. "I have looked up to him as a player all my life.
"I was 12 when I watched him first run out for the Kiwis in 2008. I just love everything about him, his aggressiveness and the way he runs the ball. That is exactly how I play the game."
The selection of a player who was then yet to have played an NRL match in the extended Kiwis squad for the ANZAC Test in May surprised many but not those who had watched Smith’s development at the North Queensland Cowboys and in Melbourne.
The New Zealand selectors see Smith as a potential back-up to Luke at the Rugby League World Cup and their view was vindicated when he and Brodie Croft led a youthful Storm team to a 23-22 victory over the Cowboys last Saturday in the absence of Cameron Smith and Cooper Cronk.
Smith scored a try, set up another and made 26 tackles, while Croft calmly landed the match winning field goal to spark claims that headline writers in Melbourne would only need to alter two letters when Smith and Croft take over from Smith and Cronk.
"Cameron Smith is a master of the game, he has got all the mental aspects sussed out and I am really enjoying learning off him."
"I have gone from never kicking the ball in a game to kicking it probably three or four times in a game.
"It won’t be perfected for a lot of years, I reckon, but I am working on it and Cameron has been showing me a few things. He has been showing me goalkicking as well so hopefully I can wrap my head around that."
Playing for the Storm against Sydney Roosters in Adelaide on Saturday or wearing the New Zealand jersey at the World Cup is a long way from where Smith ever thought rugby league would take him when he first began playing at three years of age.
It was only after he moved to Townsville as a teenager when brother Dylan landed an under 20s contract with the Cowboys that Smith seriously contemplated a career in the game.
"I went to Kirwan State High and played a bit of school footy," he said. "I never thought I would kick on but I got the opportunity to play for Queensland.
"Last year I got the call up for the Junior Kiwis. That was the biggest honour for me and after that game my manager told me there was some interest from the Storm.
"Throughout my life the two players I have always looked up to are Issac Luke and Cameron Smith so to get the opportunity to train and play with one of them was something I had to jump on."
It is a decision that has paid off and after recovering from a broken patella suffered in a pre-season training collision with fellow Kiwis prospect Nelson Asofa-Solomona, Smith had hoped his form for Melbourne’s feeder club Sunshine Coast Falcons would earn him representative honours – although he never imagined being selected for his country.
"I was pretty filthy I didn’t make the Queensland Residents team when they announced it at the club," Smith said. "Then at the very last moment they said I would be going away with the Kiwis team for the camp. It was a real shock to me but very pleasing."
Not that Smith would every consider swapping a New Zealand jersey for the chance to play State of Origin for Queensland or represent Australia.
"The way I see I was bought up in New Zealand so that makes me a New Zealander, my parents are both Kiwis and I am a proud Maori so I would wear black and white over maroon or green and gold any day of the week."
"For me, there is nothing better than doing a haka in front of the friends and family, and especially before a big game like a Kiwis game."
Smith hopes to one day lead the haka for New Zealand as Luke now does and stripped down to his undies for the role with the Junior Kiwis before the ANZAC Test in Canberra.
"At training we had all the Junior Kiwis boys and they were all in their undies as well so I led that and I thought I would go hard because Bully always puts a lot of mana and spirit into his hakas and I wanted to do the same," he said.
"It really lifts the spirit but you need to calm down because it can get you firing before the game and you don’t want that too early."
After being given a taste of camp with the Kiwis, Smith hopes to gain selection in David Kidwell;’s 24-man squad for the World Cup at the end of the season.
"My first goal is obviously to play first grade," he said. "I want to focus my energy on the NRL before I think about the Kiwis jersey but it is always going to be in the back of my mind. I just want to try to keep some consistency so I can hopefully put on the back and white jersey at the end of the year."
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R&B is so rare these days, and so is Trixie music. She may not be the most popular pony ever, but she does tend to roll with some great music for whatever reason. I swear I'm not biased! It just keeps happening!
And following that, we have a bit of that crazy warped robot voice style from Sim Gretina. For whatever reason, that style is growing on me pretty quick. What would we do without the future?
We finish with yet another Feather collab, this time rolling with a bit of a dancy electronic theme. I don't think there is genre of music she can't sing to.
Check them out below!
1.) d.notive - The Apology
2.) Sim Gretina - Where Rich Ponies Go
3.) 'Pilot Light' by The Combine (feat. Feather)
There isn't an image available yet, USAopoly appears to be rolling out a My Little Pony version of the game some time in July according to a Big Bad Toystore link found here. It's clocking in at $39.99 currently, with a $2.00 "Collectors grade" addition.
If you want an example of what the company usually releases, check out the Brave version here! Or the Doctor Who edition below.
Thansk to Todd for the heads up!
(Update: Apparently they have collectors grade of everything. The only difference is they make sure there aren't any little blemishes on the packaging)
The Fluttershy theme from Fighting is Magic has been split off over on RainbowCrash88's channel and given a DL link for those of you that heard it yesterday and were begging for one. Hit up his Youtube Page to grab it!
About two or so weeks ago, Hasbro tossed a few episodes up on Youtube for sale at $1.99 a pop. It looks like they dumped a whole bunch of extra ones up over there, finishing off all of season one and two.
Hopefully we will see season 3 sneak on soon! Check out their channel here.
Thanks to Moj1989 for the update heads up!
Head on down below the break for the full gallery. We have a week off in terms of episodes, so see you all on the Tuesday following the 9th for the next round!
Right up there with Luna I'd have to say that Fluttershy has some of the best plush versions of her around! Almost every compilation there is at least one Fluttershy that almost kills me from sheer cute.
Anyhow, time for some plushies you guys! Gawk at them after the break.
Fluttershy Plushie 3rd edition
Source: Master Ontenko
My first reaction is the medium sized ones seem to be the best looking. That twilight up on the shelf looks amazing.
I'm not too sure about the large one though. I guess time will tell if this is the finalized model on it !
Look forward to these if you live in Germany or around it! Sadly the rest of us will need to fork over piles of cash to get them shipped.
Tara Strong has hopped on the We Love Fine artist list, with a full set of swag for you all to buy. Each purchase will contirbute a bit of funs toward the Kiki charity. Her store can be found here!
And in other news, ordering any two items from a pile of music focused shirts will land you a promo LED Scratch mark pin. The full listing can be found here, with a preview of the pin below! Happy purchasing!
Effects PMV Time! Loads of flashyness, ponies being awesome, and way too much dubstep. Seriously that's a lot of dubstep. Check them all out below!
(Did she just vaporize Trixie...? Poor Trixie...)
1.) Dubstep Duel (PMV)
2.) Shy [PMV]
3.) [PMV] Come Home Soon / Regresa pronto
The audio issues on the iTunes Sleepless in Ponyville have finally been fixed, and the episode added to the list! How they derped all of these to begin with is a mystery to me, but you can now re-download it for the much better quality version.
The iTunes pony store can be found here!
Netflix recently tossed the list of season 3 episodes (including future episodes) up on their Xbox Live app. Unfortunately none of them currently work, but this may be a sign of an early release for the show. It wouldn't be too surprising considering all the other crazy stuff going on this season.
Thanks to Wesley for the heads up!
One of the first pony songs I ever listened to when I joined the fandom was shuffled into my playlist tonight and considering someone last night suggested Chief Thunderhooves I thought it was a good time to take a trip back to season 1.
We've come an amazing long way since those early days my friends. We've seen ourselves rise from darker times when we were unsure if our little show would make it to a second season and whether or not the community would survive during the first great pony drought. While there have been tumultuous periods in our history the community has pushed on optimistically, if cautiously, forward! With us on the cusp of the end of another season of pony I am confident in the future ahead and the community I have grown to love.
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Scrum for SharePoint
August 3, 2010 Hinterlasse einen Kommentar
Aus aktuellem Anlass: ich beschäftige mich zurzeit mit den Möglichkeiten agiler Softwareentwicklung und der dazu benötigten Umsetzung als SharePoint 2010 Lösung. Das Thema ist also Scrum. Nach der Behandlung verschiedener Entwicklungsmethoden während des Studiums ist Software Entwicklung und Projektmanagement meine tägliche Arbeit. Scrum und User Stories sind dennoch nicht Bestandteil der von uns im Unternehmen eingesetzten Methoden. Vielleicht kann sich das ja mit der Bereitstellung einer SharePoint 2010 basierten Lösung ändern. Erste Tests sind vielversprechend. Aber lest am besten selbst:
PS: ihr benötigt eine englische Basis Umgebung um die Solution zu deployen. SharePoint 2007 wird zum Zeitpunkt des Schreibens noch nicht unterstützt – das Team um MVP Andrew Woodward arbeitet jedoch am 2007 Support!
Having been an advocate of SharePoint and Agile development for some time I have always found it disappointing that there has not been a decent solution for managing my Agile Projects in SharePoint. I initially floated the idea of a scrum tool for SharePoint just under a year ago and have at last managed to dedicate some time in order to make this idea a reality – internally this is called Project Aberdovey.
Today we announce two things
- Project Aberdovey will be called „21Scrum – Scrum for SharePoint„
is a Sandboxed solution that works with all editions of SharePoint 2010 including SharePoint Foundation.
The solution is made of up 3 key areas
- Sprint Planning
- Burndown Chart
- Story Board
All of your backlog items are maintained in a SharePoint list, you are free to extend the list to add additional metadata and views to make management of the backlog easier. Planning your sprints is done using the Sprint Planning board where you plan as you would with a white board moving stories between the backlog, current and next sprints.
Visibility is central to Scrum projects and the Burndown chart provided gives you a real time view of how you sprint is progressing against the ideal.
The story board is what the team uses during the Sprint, ideally this is a big white board in the team room – with distributed teams this is not viable. The 21Scrum
story board provides this white board view and, like the Sprint Planning, allows the team to drag and drop stories as they progress through the stages from Not Started to Done.
A quick guide to getting started with 21Scrum
1) Download the 21Scrum Sandboxed solution – rename the file from .zip to .wsp
2) Navigate to the Solution Gallery in the Site Collection you want to deploy 21Scrum
and click upload solution (in the solutions Tab)
3) Upload the 21Scrum solution and activate it
4) Activate the Features
21Scrum is divided into two part
- * Site Collection Feature which has things like the WebPart definitions
- * Site Feature which enables the lists to support the team
This split allows you to have multiple independent Scrum teams working in the same site collection.
At the root site collection activate the Site Collection Feature
And activate the Site level feature in the site that you want to manage your Scrum team
5) The Burndown Chart is provided as a web part, add this web part to a page.
As you haven’t started doing any work yet your Burndown chart will look like this. To make testing of the beta easier we have provided another web part. The „Populate Demo Data“ web part will create sample data as if you were half way through a sprint. Simply add this web part to a page and click „Populate Demo Data“ and have a play with the Sprint Planning, Story Board and Burndown.
Having used a lot of scrum tools and often found them trying to do too many things we have kept 21Scrum
very focused, the ability to be able to get up and running quickly and for the tool to add value and not become an overhead was crucial. However we may have missed something that you can’t live without!
The beta release of 21Scrum
is available to anyone to download and use, it is not restricted in time-boxed so please feel free to use this on real life projects.
All we ask is that you provide feedback so we can make sure that when we release 21Scrum
it is the best Scrum tool available.
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Giorgio Albertazzi, Michele Placido e Renato Giordano
Durante le prove di “Satyricon”.
Renato Giordano is a theatre director, playwright and musician.
As a director, he has put on stage over 100 classical (Shakespeare, Goldoni, Marlowe, Plautus, Aristophanes, Cechov, Ariosto, Maupassant etc.) and modern (Fassbinder, Sartre, Pirandello, Bellezza, Svevo etc.) plays.
His latest works include Shakespeare “A midsummer night’s dream” with Pambieri e Caprioglio in 2004, “Il dolce canto degli dei”, with marked Giancarlo Giannini’s return to theatre at Taormina Arte in summer 2005, the “Decameron” with Peppe Barra and Andrè De La Roche in 2006, the “Satyricon” with Giorgio Albertazzi and Michele Placido in 2007, and very successful “The History of Love and Psyche”, in 2008.
He wrote 30 comedies, the most famous being “Doppio gioco” (Double dealin’),
“Alle donne piacciono le canzoni d’amore” (Women like love songs), “L’ultimo
rock all’inferno” (rock’n roll Hell) and “Quattro Stagioni” (Four Season).
His plays have been performed in the most important Italian theatres and festivals.
He has also worked as a director abroad (in the USA, Russia, Romania, etc,) and his comedies have been staged in New York, Moskow, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Bucharest, Los Angeles, Kalingrad, Brussel, Mexico City, Bogotà, etc.
He has been the director of the Tordinona Theatre in Rome since 1980, and was the director of the Italian Theatre Festival from 1982 to 2006. He was also the artistic advisor of the “Istituto Nazionale del Drama Antico” for the series of classical plays staged in Siracusa in 2003. From 1993 to 1995, he contributed to the artistic direction of the Nazional Theatre of Rome (Argentina) with regard to the planning of the production of Italian authors and has been, since 2007, a member of the authors directs and Antipiracy Committee of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and of the Committee art.21 of the SIAE.
A former member of the National Council for the Arts, he is the Secretary
General of the National Union of Playrights (SNAD) since 1994, as well as a
member of the board of directors and president of the Technical Committee of the
ENAP (National Social Security of Performers) and a member of the
Artistic-technical Council of the ETI (Italian Theatre Board).
He also works as a TV director and writer, and has participated as a columnist in several RAI programmes.
He created “La Kore- Oscar della Moda”, RAI 1’s annual programme on fashion.
Particularly engaged in the study of Casanova, Renato Giordano has discovered and edited the publication of 2 unpublished woks written by the famous Venetian, “La calunnia smascherata” and “Lana Caprina”.
He has translated a numbers of works, expecially from English. He has also
written several articles published in newspapers and magazines.
He is the Péresident or member of several panels, and has received many awards in Italy and abroad. As a playwright and director, he has won nearly every Italian theatrical award: IDI, Flaiano, Under 35, Vallecorsi, Fondi La Pastora, Enap Calendoli, Studio 12, Rosso di San Secondo, Vittorio Gassman, etc.
He has appointed first Ufficiale and then Commendatore of the Italian Republic for Artistic Merits.
As a music and lyrics composer , he won the Critics’ Award at the “Sanremo Festival” , and wrote several music scores for movies and plays. More recently , he has been very active in the field of world music.
He is also a doctor specializing in endocrinology and diabetology.
brindisi fine repliche Spoon River.
Melato, Placido, Giordano.
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Co-host of “The View” Meghan McCain sparred with Joy Behar on the show for the second time this week as she pushed back on claims Behar made about vaccine hesitancy among certain demographics.
The exchange resulted in McCain trending on Twitter as she responded to Behar’s argument that conservatives are not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to “own the libs.”
The episode included a clip of chief medical advisor to the president Dr. Anthony Fauci on CNN discussing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent update in guidance last week regarding mask-wearing for vaccinated individuals, which sparked widespread confusion across the country.
As reported by The Daily Wire, under the new guidance, the CDC says Americans who have been fully vaccinated — those who received their final dose more than 14 days prior — don’t need to wear masks for most indoor or outdoor activities. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the guidance update reflects new data and scientific literature.
Whoopi Goldberg asked Behar if she thought that Fauci was trying to clear up confusion for people. Behar answered that “for some reason” Fauci has to be diplomatic, but she doesn’t have to be.
She continued, saying, “It’s not that complicated, people. It’s not nuclear physics, alright? All you have to do is get the d*** vaccine. When you go inside, wear a mask. Even if you have the vaccine, there might be variants around.”
She continued, “What is the complicated problem here with people? I don’t understand. This is just to own the libs? Maybe they’re not seeing enough on television the way people suffer when they get this disease. Even though the numbers are going down, people are still dying from it. … You’re not owning the libs by not getting the shot.”
When asked when she thinks the situation will change, McCain said, “The messaging is absolute garbage coming from Fauci, and it’s not just about owning the libs. The demographics on who is vaccine hesitant, it crosses the gamut. There’s still a lot of hesitancy in the African American community.”
McCain added, “I think that, again, the White House and the CDC has done a terrible job in just saying, ‘What, do you wanna own the libs and that’s that?’ Like, it’s not productive,” she said. “That’s why people keep going into their corners, and this is coming from a place of fear, I don’t think it’s coming from a place of politics. People just don’t understand and don’t know, and I don’t like to judge people who aren’t accessible to the same kind of resources and education I am. But this is a serious, serious problem in this country.”
Behar pushed back against McCain, replying, “A lot of people of color have every right to be skeptical of the government. They have been burnt for generations … that’s different.”
McCain said, “I’m not saying they aren’t,” adding that Republicans have reasons to be nervous, as well. She added, “I’m not trying to judge. I want as many people vaccinated in as many ways, but I think when you come on the show and just say, ‘Oh, we’re owning the libs,’ it’s just — it’s just factually inaccurate about the demographics who are not getting the vaccine. It crosses the gamut. I just gave you anecdotal evidence.”
“A lot of these people that you’re talking about, Meghan, are watching Sean Hannity … and Tucker Carlson, who are telling them that it’s dangerous,” Behar said as McCain tried to speak.
McCain responded emphatically, “They’re not. They are not. Some of these women that I know are highly educated women.”
Behar kept attempting to speak up before Whoopi Goldberg took the show to a break.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, and the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine.
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Need for Speed: Shift is a racing simulation game known for a driver’s perspective on some of the world’s most famous racing tracks. The game also features the most extreme performing cars such as the Pagani Zonda F, Porsche 911 GT2 and Lotus Elise.
Through a blend of perception-based G-forces, the hyper-reality of cockpit vision and the all-new brutally disorienting crash dynamics, players experience the noisy, intense and athletic characteristics of racing a vehicle from the driver’s point of view.
The game comes with a career mode with a wide variety of race types, including head-to-head races, time attack challenges, and rivalry competitions where similar cars from different manufacturers compete against each other.
What makes the game so great is that players get points based on their driving style, so it’s your choice whether you want to win the race cleanly or aggressively. The game is the thirteenth chapter in the Need for Speed racing game series. It is available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable.
Need for speed shift had many excellent and powerful vehicles, but let’s see which one was the best.
Even if it wasn’t the fastest vehicle, the Porsche Carrera GT is the best vehicle in the world Need for Speed: Shift
The Porsche Carrera GT is a tier 4 car in the game. It has a performance rating of 15.00 and a price tag of $700,000. It is based on the Porsche Carrera GT, a mid-engine supercar that debuted in 2004.
The Carrera GT is more focused on handling than on power. It has excellent traction and is responsive at any speed. The handling is comparable to the Porsche 911 and the Pagani Zonda Cinque.
However, its responsiveness comes at the expense of acceleration. The Carrera GT accelerates moderately and slowly compared to vehicles with similar overall ratings, but can still keep up. The car has a maximum speed of 201 miles per hour.
The car has also appeared in many Need for Speed franchises such as Need for speed: most wanted, Need for speed: carbonNeed for Speed: World and Need for Speed: Undercover.
What made the Carrera GT so special
At the 2000 Paris Motor Show, Porsche shocked the press with the unveiling of the Carrera GT, a mid-engined supercar inspired by the Ferrari Enzo that was more exotic than any other Porsche ever produced for the road.
Porsche said they would only make 1270 GT units. At the time, the GT had a suggested retail price of $410,000, and its outstanding performance and recognizable design make it an icon loved by enthusiasts around the world.
Another reason for the popularity of the car was the power unit. It comes with a powerful 5.7 liter DOHC V10 engine. The V10 engine is amazing in power, producing 603 horsepower, which allows the car to reach 205 mph at top speed.
The Porsche Carrera GT is one of the company’s most extreme road cars. And it was the fastest of its time. The mid-engined car ensures an even weight distribution, which improves road holding.
It can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds. The Carrera GT can be considered a high-performance vehicle, despite being a road car. It can do pretty much anything a driver desires, making it a popular collectible among enthusiasts.
Jerry Seinfeld, the popular comedian, has a 2000 Porsche Carrera GT prototype, which is even rarer than the production model. Ken Griffey Jr., a baseball player, also owns a Porsche Carerra GT and has his own Porsche store.
While the Carrera GT was the best car in the game, Need For Speed Shift had some amazing vehicles
The McLaren F1 is a tier 4 car in Need for Speed: Shift, with a price tag of $850,000 and a car rating of 15.50. It is faster than the Carrera GT and is unlocked once the player has earned 180 stars.
The F1 has good acceleration and high peak speed compared to other tier 4 vehicles in the game. It also has excellent traction, but is prone to oversteer. In corners, however, it competes with four-wheel drive cars such as the Lamborghini Reventón.
It is based on the 1994 McLaren F1, designed and produced by McLaren Automotive. The McLaren F1 was the company’s first road car, which had previously focused entirely on racing, particularly in Formula 1.
The Zonda F is another incredible car. It is a tier 4 vehicle with a car rating of 16.50 in Need for Speed: Shift† It costs $900,000 and can be unlocked after achieving 180 stars.
Handling is adequate for most corners, but can be a little difficult to steer at high speeds. On straight roads, it can outperform cars with a higher top speed, such as the Pagani Zonda R and CCX.
It is based on the Pagani Zonda F, a limited edition supercar released in 2006. Pagani produced 25 units between 2005 and 2009, making it one of the rarest supercars on the road. The Zonda F comes with a 7.3L V12 engine developed by the division of Mercedes-AMG Benz.
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Can the British Museum Recover Their Lost Items?
by Lisa Scheffert
At the end of August, Björn Schöpe of CoinsWeekly reported about a red alert incident at the British Museum. The largest museum in the world announced at the end of September that thousands of small objects had disappeared, and that most of the items had not been inventoried or recorded. A curator is now under investigation about the missing items.
In the meantime, 60 objects have since been returned and another 300 identified, which are also expected to find their way back into the collection soon. No further information on these objects has been published, and this has led The Art Newspaper to assume in its reporting that the 60 objects were either returned to the museum by the curator under investigation or by persons who were perhaps involved in the discovery of the theft.
Dedicated Website For Recovery Programme of The British Museum
As part of the so-called Recovery Programme, a departmental website “Recovery of Missing Items” went online at the end of September 2023 to provide information about stolen artworks and cultural treasures. The aim is to make it easier for the public to check whether they have been in contact with any of the stolen objects. What differs from the usual practise in the case of art thefts is that the British Museum have not included any photos on the website nor do they offer details about the objects in question. The website only provides basic information about the types of pieces stolen and as we already know, they are smaller objects. The British Museum speaks mainly of gems and jewellery, which is described in generic detail as follows:
Classical Greek and Roman gems
Gems, cameos or intaglios are small objects, often set in rings or other settings, or left unmounted and unfinished. They can be made of semi-precious stone (for example sard, sardonyx, amethyst) or glass; they may be cast from a mould or engraved by hand. The majority of gems are from the Hellenistic and Roman world, but some may also have been made in modern times and as imitations of ancient gems. They may feature images of famous individuals from the Classical past, of mythological scenes, animals or objects. These gems are of varied quality. Some will be fragmentary and damaged.
Golden rings, earrings and other pieces of jewelry
These date from across antiquity, especially from the late Bronze Age (around 1500-1100 BC) and the Hellenistic and Roman era.
On the website, the museum shows some objects from the collection, which, according to the museum, are similar to those who are missing.
International Task Force Comprised of 14 Specialists
In addition to the official website of the British Museum’s Recovery Programme, an international taskforce consisting of 14 members is working on the search and recovery for the objects. They include James Ratcliffe, Director of the Art Loss Register, and Lynda Albertson, Director of the Rome-based Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
Participation of the Art Loss Register
Even before the new website was implemented and the taskforce began its work, the Art Loss Register was consulted and brought in to search for the objects. The Art Loss Register is the world’s largest private database of lost, stolen and looted art and antiquities. Every year, more than 400,000 objects are checked against the register. This ensures that stolen pieces are identified when they turn up on the secondary art market.
Why Aren’t There More Pictures?
The British Museum decided not to provide more photos and details. James Ratcliffe, head of the Art Loss Register, explains why in a press release published on the British Museum’s website: “The British Museum’s approach has carefully balanced the need to provide information to the public to assist the recovery efforts with the fact that providing too much detail risks playing into the hands of those who might act in bad faith. Thanks to our position as the principal due diligence resource for the art market, and experience in the recovery of stolen art and cultural property, the Art Loss Register has an unrivalled ability to assist with the Museum’s recovery programme. We are delighted to provide our assistance on a pro bono basis to the excellent team at the Museum to support their efforts.”
Press reports which are critical about this approach such as The Art Newspaper have voiced their suspicion that there are other reasons behind this explanation. They summarise that the alleged thief chose the objects primarily because they were poorly recorded or not inventoried at all and as such, no records exist of the artefacts. In other words, there are probably no pictures or additional information of the kind needed to put a detailed database of the stolen objects on the internet and to prove conclusively that certain objects were stolen from the British Museum.
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Is it really possible to stop weeds without spraying harsh chemicals?
The answer is a resounding YES!
In fact, eliminating weeds from gardens, flowerbeds, patios and driveways is easier than you think. And it can all be accomplished without resorting to commercial weed killers!
Let’s face it – battling weeds can be a never-ending nightmare for many.
And, they are more than just an eyesore.
Weeds in walkways and driveways can expand cracks. In the process, they accelerate damage to concrete and asphalt that is expensive to repair.
And in gardens and flowerbeds, weeds rob the soil of vital nutrients. Nutrients that your flowers and vegetable plants need for healthy growth.
But before you lose hope and start reaching for those commercial weed killers – there are safe, all-natural methods to manage it all.
And that includes solutions for every single part of the landscape.
How To Stop Weeds Naturally In The Landscape
Controlling Weeds In Flowerbeds And Gardens
Mulch – The All-Natural Approach
Weed control for gardens and flowerbeds begins and ends with mulch. And most importantly, how to use it correctly to be effective.
When it comes to weeds in these areas, bare soil is the enemy. And mulch is THE answer to keeping that soil covered and protective!
But, how you apply, use and maintain that covering of mulch is extremely important to how effective it is in stopping weeds.
First, lets cover the mulch applications.
We use mulch as our exclusive weed control method in the vegetable garden. And that includes in both the growing areas and walking rows.
For walking rows, we apply a deep 4 to 6″ layer of inexpensive hardwood bark shavings. It means that we never have to maintain that space. No tilling, no weeding. No work! See: Creating A Simple No-Till, Weed Free Garden
Around plants, we use a 4″ thick combination of straw, compost and shredded leaves. It keeps them virtually weed free through the entire growing season.
In our flowerbeds, we use a thick 4″ layer of pine bark or hardwood mulch to do the trick.
The key is to apply it thick enough to be effective.
But that leads to the biggest tip of all in using mulch to stop weeds in gardens and flowerbeds. Don’t touch that mulch once it is down!
The biggest mistake you can make is to flip or turn mulch over. And that is at any point of the growing season.
It might make the mulch look a bit fresher – but turning or raking the mulch allows weed seeds that have been dormant to find a way to the soil below.
If you want to freshen up your beds, simply put a new light coat on to keep the protection in tact.
How To Stop Weeds Naturally In Driveways, Sidewalks and Walkways
When it comes to driveways, walkways and sidewalks, there are plenty of all-natural solutions that really work!
Here are 3 that we use with big success:
1. The All-Natural Vinegar Solution
Forget scary, man-made chemical-filled weed killers.
Good old’ natural vinegar works equally well for concrete, brick and other non-soil surfaces.
Especially when you use a stronger version called horticultural vinegar.
To be fair to the purists, vinegar is a chemical compound. However, it is all-natural, using its natural acidity to kill weeds.
Although standard vinegar found in the grocery store can be used, horticultural vinegar is the better choice.
It has a higher acidity content (20% to 30%) than the typical 5% found in common vinegar. Product Link : Horticultural Vinegar
It is the perfect solution for taking care of weeds in sidewalk cracks, brick walkways, or gravel pathways.
One thing vinegar weed killer solutions won’t do is discriminate between weeds, plants and flowers. So it is not an effective solution to use on or near lawn and garden plants.
In addition, when using the higher strength vinegar, be sure to take precautions to prevent burns to the skin and eyes (goggles, gloves, long sleeves) in case of accidental contact.
You can find our complete recipe here for using Vinegar to control weeds: Vinegar Weed Killer Recipe – Old World Garden Farms
Boiling Hot Water
You can’t get much more natural than boiling hot water!
And believe it or not, scalding hot water works incredibly well to stop weeds.
Just heat up a pot or two on the stove, and pour on the weeds in your driveway or patio.
The scorching water kills weeds instantly.
It is a great solution when you have just a few weeds to eliminate.
Want to have a little fun against weeds?
Then a weed-burning torch is the answer.
There are a variety of models on the market. Most attache to a propane canister or tank to provide the fuel for a hot flame.
And that flame kills and shrivels weeds on contact.
We use a small, hand held, inexpensive Red Dragon model for simple weed control.
It’s perfect for knocking out stubborn weeds in the driveway or that find their way into cracks in our rock edging.
It goes without saying that these should be used with caution. And never in dry areas where there is a danger of starting a fire. Product Link : Red Dragon Weed Torch
There you have it. A few of our favorite all-natural ways to stop weeds and eliminate all hard work! Happy Gardening – Jim and Mary.
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Wiley Rein’s Kirk Nahra Comments on Delayed Health Care Privacy Rules
Kirk J. Nahra, chair of Wiley Rein’s Privacy Practice, was quoted extensively in a Compliance Week article on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) delayed implementation of health care privacy rules.
HHS was expected to finalize changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) privacy rules by the end of last summer, but the agency has yet to do so and hasn’t issued a projected timeline, according to the article. The revisions are required under the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
“I can't give any explanation for why it has taken so long,” said Mr. Nahra, who specializes in health care, and privacy and information security issues. “It really is astonishing at this point.”
The final rule is “overwhelmingly clerical” in nature, making the delay all the more befuddling, Mr. Nahra told Compliance Week. “It is a regulation implementing a statute, but the statute didn't just create a rule, it explicitly said, ‘Here's what the rule needs to say.’ It is impossible at this point to explain the delay except that it just isn't a priority.”
One controversial change requires health care providers’ business associates and subcontractors to comply with HIPAA rules. The biggest impact of that policy will be on “companies that don't think of themselves as being in the health care industry, they just happen to have clients in the health care industry,” Mr. Nahra said.
“The reach is potentially enormous if it is going to apply to everybody downstream from a company that contracts with the hospital,” he said. “If you are three tiers downstream and you aren't really in the healthcare industry, I don't think you even know about this.”
For example, an accounting firm hired to conduct an information technology (IT) company’s audit could be affected by the rule change if a hospital turns out to be among the IT company’s clients, and the accounting firm is exposed to patient information, Mr. Nahra explained.
“The reality for a sophisticated hospital is that they have hundreds, if not thousands, of business associates they work with,” Mr. Nahra told Compliance Week. “You are asking someone else to comply and that becomes a point of tension. Service providers are saying they will do it when they have to, but they are not going to agree in advance.”
The Compliance Week article also featured the following excerpt from “HIPAA’s Unanswered Questions,” a September 2012 client advisory authored by Mr. Nahra:
One of the key “new” provisions of the HITECH statute involved marketing and the desire of Congress to preclude marketing that involves “remuneration.”
While written in a convoluted manner, the statute appeared to alter the existing marketing provisions of HIPAA by imposing a new restriction in situations where the previous rule permitted individual information to be used or disclosed in connection with marketing. Under HITECH, if the entity received “direct or indirect remuneration” for the marketing, now an authorization would be required.
This statutory provision cried out for a regulatory interpretation, primarily as to the meaning of “direct or indirect” remuneration. However, the proposed regulation did little to clarify the statutory terms. The language of the final rule will be important to significant segments of the health care industry (including pharmaceuticals and wellness programs), by defining the scope of these new limitations.
The HITECH law also included similar language about the “sale” of protected health information. As with the marketing provisions, while HHS “clarified” some exceptions to this prohibition, it did not address some of the statutory ambiguities. While there is little blatant sale of information that is permitted today, consistent with the current rules, this provision does have an impact on certain practices that involve cooperative treatment efforts, research and other adjacent activities to core treatment and payment actions. Again, to the extent that HHS clarifies or expands on this language, this provision will have an important impact on a wide range of health care activities. | <urn:uuid:3b1326f1-a1cb-4dbc-a079-a02ffb37ffc6> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.wileyrein.com/newsroom-media-906.html | 2018-11-14T11:08:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741979.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114104603-20181114130603-00517.warc.gz | en | 0.949767 | 940 |
How does the artist registration work?
If you are an artist, fill out the operator / artist form and wait for the activation of the profile. Enter all the data you are asked for. Once you have activated the access, fill in the tab of the shows and your artistic biography (max 500 characters), which will compose your public profile.
How does the city registration work?
Fill out the form for citizens and you are immediately online. In addition to following your favorite artists and discovering new ones in your travels through the municipalities of the network, you can contribute through the alerts, indicating useful places or events and offering discounts for the artists (a dinner, a sofa to sleep, a ride to discover the city ...) that we will punctually insert in the map
Is my registration valid throughout Italy?
Registration in a municipality allows you to act in all the territories that are part of the network. So, in the future, also in Europe.
What happens if you forget your password?
You can retrieve forgotten or lost passwords in the REIMPOSTA PASSWORD: they will be automatically sent by e-mail to the e-mail address provided during registration.
How can I show in one of the municipalities of the network?
Municipalities can choose between 3 options to adjust their territory. The scope A allows you to perform freely without any other obligation, if not the registration and compliance with the code of ethics of the artist. The scope B also requires the obligation to register at the location I choose, directly on the spot when I start. The scope C regulates only those places that have particular characteristics (such as overcrowding of artists and noise problems), and requires to book in advance and to comply with the maximum expected acoustic class.
Is the station fixed?
Each municipality is autonomous in its choice. Our guidelines guide the administration in considering the location as an area, more or less wide, in which the artist can choose the best location for type of show or for environmental conditions. Always read, for safety, what the personal page of the Municipality says
How long can I occupy a workstation?
Also in this case every municipality is autonomous in the choice. By default the system is released with a limit of 2 hours, even non-continuous. Beyond these the artist will have to change site.
Do I have to ask for other permits?
Municipalities that join the network agree to use the platform to replace any other procedure, in order to streamline the bureaucracy for both (municipalities and artists) and ensure the artists risk from fines for not knowing the regulation. It is always a good idea to check first what the public page of the municipality says
Do all municipalities adopt the same regulation?
Each municipality remains free to organize itself in its own way. If they are in the network, however, it means that their regulation meets our guidelines or have given the willingness to modify it in a virtuous way, including through forecasts in derogation from their current legislation. In any case we are setting up a public page for each administration. They will keep the information up-to-date with official documents and other useful information that we advise you to read.
What is the difference between scope B and C?
The C area is a place that can be booked even with a certain amount of time. The scope B is more like the practice of the road. The station becomes free to book half an hour before the time allowed and can be taken on the fly by those on the street at that time.
How can I score in a location to do my show?
You can get there from two different ways. From the menu on the left you can select the "Reserved Spaces" tab or select the location directly on the map and click on "check availability". Then follow the instructions.
What happens if I find a reserved seat defective?
Soon there will be a georeferenced (or other instrument) control of the presence of an artist in the booked position. Otherwise the station will unlock and become free again. Until the functionality is developed, it is possible to proceed directly from the site with a real-time alert with a photo of the defected station. As soon as we receive the report, we will proceed to unlock the station.
What risk if I do not respect the rules of the network?
The network has a series of internal measures as follows: first recall, second recall, suspension for 2 months, suspension for 6 months, deactivation of the account. We can send it to us on the alert or the local person in charge of the Municipality.
And if I go down to show the same despite an internal measure?
If you have received only recalls nothing happens. In case of suspension or deactivation, go down the street at your own risk, because if you get the penalties are those provided by the municipality where you are.
Can I challenge a provision?
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I am feeling that two awards in less than one week is something to celebrate. To celebrate that I am so much feeling like The Bomb, and it is worth celebrating. Absolutely a celebration! And so to that end, I am announcing both awards in one post.
It’s a party!!
The two bloggers who awarded me these awards have helped me feel like I am the Bomb. And frankly my blogging audience it is something that rather perked me up. Of course, saying I am the Bomb are my words. They neither one really said that. 🙂
The fact that I was honored twice in less than a weeks time is pretty special in my world. So I will take every ounce of esteem these awards give me and run with it. Letting the spirit in which they were given shine over my life and my writing. I think that these two special women who gifted these different awards to me should be celebrated. And I should shine my light on the two of them and their blogs.
So in that light, I am going to do kust as I want. I am going to shine my light on each of these women and their blogs. I encourage to visit both, you will find the content of each blog fascinating and so very different from one another. I like this. Diversity in blogging is what it is all about I believe.
Shining my light on the first award of my week. ~
My first award The Sunshine Award was given to me by a very lovely & crafty lady. She creates some of the most incredible needlework pieces with her passion of crosstiching. She is fast too! Blows my mind how quickly she can get an idea, find or create the pattern which is not easy to do. An FYI for those of you who may not be familiar with crossstitching
ThisistheCraftyone surprised me completely out of the blue with awarding me with the Sunshine Award. I had been wondering for a few weeks off and on why I was not getting any email alerts for new postings. I actually was starting to wonder if she was okay because I thought she just was not posting anything. Then last week I find a message from her. She has been blogging all along while being the busy creative craftier that she is. It was on my end the reason I was not receiving alerts regarding her blog. I had apparently and inadvertently changed a setting that stopped me from receiving alerts when a new post was published. Go Figure.
This amazing and talented blogger can be found at http://thisisthecraftyone.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/a-little-bit-of-sunshine/ I am honored and I am touched that she thought of me. And to be remembered by being awarded this striking award is extremely kind and thoughtful. Thank you!
A note from Your Baroness: There are of course typical guidelines that come with the awards that I should be required to follow through with. I say should because I am making an executive decision. And like all good executives I will not explain why but just that it is so. 🙂 I am making the choice that although I am accepting these awards with so much gratitude I am not going to comply with the guidelines. I do hope with each word I write that this choice of mine will not offend anyone,
and drum roll for # 2 please………
THE BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER AWARD~
My # 2 award comes to me from a blogger that has in some odd way feels much like a virtual little sister. Shining my light for Judith; who writes her story as a complete open book on her blog which can be found at http://diabeticredemption.com/2012/06/07/beautiful-blogger-award/
Judith is a truth teller and a truth seeker. She also is one of the most intelligent women I communicate with on a blogging basis. I appreciate her raw honesty, and the journey that she is traveling on. In so many ways the paths with which she takes small treks on are very similar to those of my own when I was about the same age in life. I have the gift and treasure of enjoying Judith’s unconditional support for my own journey. She is very much an Old Soul and her wisdom and advice that she brings to me are treasured gems. Just as this award is to me. A treasure.Thank you Judith!!!
Both you two ladies have very much let me feel like I Am The Bomb Of The Week How could two awards almost at the same time not? With that being said, I The Bomb, would like to send you the biggest squeeze of a thankful and grateful hug that I can~
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" The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why."
"Considering that the McGraths are dealing with someone they describe as 'one of the most successful and skillful scientific popularizers' in the world, the authors of The Dawkins Delusion? prove themselves to be worthy opponents . . . The authors do not write a defense of theism, but of reason and fairness. While refuting the claims of Dawkins, they teach the valuable lesson that we must also take care in the arguments we use."
"The McGraths make refuting Dawkins look easy. In a text of less than one hundred pages, they systematically dismantle each of Dawkins' major assertions. The Dawkins Delusion? is well-written and easy to read, and it gives the reader a clear understanding of why Dawkins need not be taken seriously. It will give even the initially neutral reader the opportunity to see that real science is not the enemy of religion and that the religiously oriented interpretation is superior to the atheistic one."
"McGrath identifies Dawkins' flawed arguments with surgical precision. McGrath spotlights Dawkins' embarrassing biblical ignorance and exposes his religion-as-virus-of-the-mind theory as sociological naivete. This intelligent, yet accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the subject or for those with friends sucked under by the new current of atheist literature."
"One could hardly think of a better apologist for theism than Alister McGrath. This atheist-turned-Christian, also of Oxford, is a professor of historical theology. But as a student of molecular biophysics, he possesses the dual credibility in science and religion that Dawkins lacks. Like watching one schoolboy do another's work, McGrath's true gift is pointing out what Dawkins is obliged to show in order to make his case."
"This book will be warmly received by those who are looking for a real assessment of The God Delusion."
"Combining scholarship with a popular style, the McGraths examine Dawkins's arguments and find them wanting. They show the inadequacy of his argument on the major points, contending that Dawkins's critique of religion is based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence rather than on hard research and that he employs rhetoric rather than rationality."
"The McGraths expeditiously plow into the flank of Dawkins's fundamentalist atheism, made famous in The God Delusion, and run him from the battlefield."
"Richard Dawkins's utopian vision of a world without religion is here deftly punctured by the McGraths' informed discourse. His fellow Oxonians clearly demonstrate the gaps, inconsistencies and surprising lack of depth in Dawkins's arguments."
"With rigorous logic and exquisite fairness, the McGraths have exposed Dawkins's very superficial understanding of the history of religion and theology. Because he is so 'out of his depth' in these areas, Dawkins uses his fundamentalistic scientism and atheism to constantly misjudge the possibilities for dialogue between religion and science. Thank God for scholars like the McGraths who are committed to finding truth in both."
"Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism."
"In this crisp and cogent book, Alister and Joanna McGrath note, among other things, how fundamentalist scientism fuels antiscientific Christian fundamentalism. They also remind us of well-documented associations between an active faith and measures of health and well-being. A must-read contribution to today's debate other whether religion spreads dangerous falsehoods or benevolent wisdom."
"McGrath has distinguished himself . . . as an historical theologian, [and] a generous, . . . witty writer who brings to life topics that would turn to dust in others' hands."
"This book will be warmly received by those looking for a reliable assessment of The God Delusion and the many questions it raised--including all the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning."
"Alister McGrath invariably combines enormous scholarship with an accessible and engaging style."
"[H]elps theistic people respond more intelligently to the current religion-bashing that has become a source of schadenfreude for some (though certainly not all) nonbelievers."
"While not exhaustive (by design), the McGraths have offered us a well-reasoned critique of the atheistic arguments of Dawkins, and left us with a cogent description of the inherent weaknesses in The God Delusion. I recommend it to my friends on both sides of this debate."
"[T]he McGraths' book is an effective response."
"Alister McGrath provides an excellent rebuttal to Dawkin's arguments against God and religion. Scholarly, yes but also very readable for lay people."
"You cannot argue with the McGraths' credentials or the content of this book. It is very well done."
"You cannot help but be impressed with the depth of scholarship which the McGraths bring to this discussion--something markedly different than Dawkins."
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(From the February 2013 issue of Inside Nationwide Children's)
Employee of the Year
Bobby is known throughout the hospital, not just by the nurses and doctors, but also by our patients and their parents. Bobby greets the patient and explains where they will be going, and also assures the parents that they are in good hands while he is their transporter. No matter if Bobby is scheduled first thing in the morning or the last one to leave at night, Bobby’s positive attitude is contagious.
Physician of the Year
Venkata Jayanthi, M.D.
The Physician of the Year award was established to honor and recognize one physician at Nationwide Children’s for providing the highest quality family-centered clinical care, supporting and demonstrating Zero Hero principles and behaviors, demonstrating excellence in teaching, contributing to new knowledge through research and practicing One Team Values.
Dr. Jayanthi is committed to the hospital’s mission – to providing the highest quality care to patients – and puts the needs of his patients and his colleagues first. Dr. Jayanthi played a critical role in the development and reputation of the Urology Department and pioneered the hospital’s use of urologic laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgery. He is also one of the only surgeons to conduct elective surgeries on Saturdays to better serve our patient’s needs.
Manager of the Year
Manager, Pharmacy Patient Services
Julie always puts patients and families first and she makes decisions in everyone’s best interests. When working on the new main hospital project, she expertly communicated and aligned resources and worked tirelessly to prepare our facilities and our staff. In the midst of tremendous change, Julie has managed to dramatically improve staff satisfaction and has kept morale high. She embodies “team player” as well as anyone can. Julie is a partner at work, not just a boss.
Manager of the Year
Director, Supply Chain Operations
Craig has transformed his department to better prepare our organization for the future.He also successfully led his team through several major initiatives, including Lawson and the new main hospital project. Craig has managed to save Nationwide Children’s Hospital more than $2.5 million a year over each year of his tenure. He is described as diligent, devoted, persevering and thoughtful.
Family Centered Care Award of Excellence
The Family Advisory Council of Nationwide Children’s Hospital presented their Partners in Care, Partners in Hope award to Beth Mohler. Nominations are made by patient families who want to recognize excellent practice of family-centered care by any employee, health care provider or department.
Erin Groff’s 3-year old son Ben has hemophilia. Erin nominated Beth for the Family Centered Care Award of Excellence. “Being the parent of a son with hemophilia can be a very stressful job. Our experience with Beth has been a great gift, as she's made an amazing impact on Ben's health and our family's happiness and well-being. Before Beth started her weekly visits we lived on pins and needles, worried that Ben would fall and get hurt. It was such a relief when Beth visited our house for the first time and efficiently found Ben's vein in one stick. Beth has created a reliable Tuesday routine in our home. Ben has become so comfortable with Beth that he asks when she's coming and gives her a hug when she leaves. I credit Beth for treating Ben and allowing our family some space to recover from early experiences with hemophilia care. She "fixes Benny" but a lot of things in our lives feel fixed because she comes over on Tuesdays.”
Singing Orderly Award recipient
Michelle Majher, RN
This annual award is given to one of the service from the heart award winners. The recipient receives $1,000 and gets to designate $4,000 to an area of need within the hospital. The award is named for Charlie Roberts who used to sing to patients as he transported them to surgery. When Mrs. Pauline Kahn made her $100,000 gift to Nationwide Children's, she remembered the orderly and wanted to honor the exceptional care our staff provides.
Each day we applaud the skilled and compassionate service of members of the Nationwide Children's team. But this service is usually provided in an environment which affords things like: state-of-the-art equipment, modern surgical supplies, easy communication, and personal safety. Imagine providing such service in a setting where modern equipment is not available, communication with one's team members, patients, and their families is difficult or impossible, and your personal safety is at risk. Yet when asked if she would join the Casa Azul America/Nationwide Children's team on a mission to provide cleft lip and palate surgery to the underprivileged children of Northern Mexico, Michelle Majher leapt at the opportunity. She assumed the responsibility as OR lead and during the mission, performed health screenings on surgical candidates, organized surgical supplies and first-assisted on all cleft lip and palate repairs. In short, she truly gave service from her heart. | <urn:uuid:ee182288-6957-4e37-bb57-4a46c3edad89> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/medical-professional-publications/you-make-it-possible-congratulations-to-the-winners-from-the-58th-annual-employee-recognition-dinner?contentId=113372&orgId=11930 | 2015-11-24T22:14:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398444047.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205404-00095-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969045 | 1,044 |
Former Reagan administration deputy U.S. trade representative and longtime trade-remedies attorney, Robert Lighthizer, is President-elect Trump’s choice for United States Trade Representative. Considered in conjunction with the appointments of Peter Navarro to head the newly-created National Trade Council at the White House (my take) and Wilbur Ross at the Commerce Department (my take), Lighthizer’s selection seems to confirm fears that U.S. trade policy is descending into darkness. At the very least, it is reasonable to assume that for the foreseeable future trade policy will be overwhelmingly enforcement-oriented, while trade agreements and other forms of liberalization will be relegated to the doghouse.
For many years, Lighthizer has represented U.S. steel companies, America’s most trade-litigious industry, filing dozens of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions to keep foreign steel out of the United States. Some of the cases in which he was involved were brought before WTO dispute settlement, where the panels and Appellate Body ruled that the United States was administering its antidumping law in ways that violated U.S. commitments under the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
Perhaps, as a result of those experiences, Lighthizer has been a strident critic of the WTO’s dispute settlement body, which he accuses of overreach and usurpation of U.S. sovereignty. (Here is a debate from 10 years ago between Lighthizer and me on the merits of the WTO.) The fact is that there may be somewhat of a pro-complainant "bias" at the WTO because governments don’t bring cases to dispute settlement unless they are reasonably certain of victory. There is a selection bias. When the United States is the complainant, it wins most of the issues in most of the cases. When the United States is the defendant, it loses most of the issues in most of the cases. It just so happens that the United States has had to defend its indefensible antidumping regime many times at the WTO, and in most cases it has lost. Antidumping litigation is Lighthizer’s bread and butter.
Lighthizer has advocated for the formal establishment of a committee composed of retired federal judges to review WTO dispute panel and Appellate Body findings that are adverse to the U.S. government’s position. While that is not, in and of itself, necessarily provocative, the ultimate purpose of such a committee would be to collect evidence that the WTO has an anti-American bias, which might be used to advocate WTO withdrawal. The Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1994, contains a provision that effectively requires Congress to vote every five years on whether the United States should remain a member of the WTO.
From Lighthizer’s view, this process would send a signal to the WTO and its members that if the United States doesn’t get its way, it might bolt the system. And that would give the United States some extra leverage, which might deter the filing of formal complaints and add a corrupting political dimension to dispute settlement determinations. Or, perhaps worse, Lighthizer could use his perch at USTR to lobby Congress to vote for WTO withdrawal.
Lighthizer fancies himself a conservative, although he is more aptly characterized as an economic nationalist with deep disdain for free trade. He has argued that true conservatives throughout American history have been suspicious of free trade and favored protectionism. He proudly notes that Ronald Reagan – often pegged as a free trader – imposed all sorts of protectionist measures against imported cars, motorcycles, steel, textiles, and sugar. And all of these measures were “successful,” he claims.
Despite conclusions reached after the appointments of Ross and Navarro, USTR’s role in formulating trade policy won't be diminished, but dramatically altered. Enforcement will be the mantra and, I suspect, much of the enforcement effort will be directed at China, Mexico, and developing countries alleged to be the destinations for massive amounts of U.S. outsourcing. But the targets may change when the Trump administration comes to realize that most U.S. outward investment goes, not to China or Mexico, but to Europe. Actually, the EU is likely to come under greater scrutiny because Trump and the GOP Congress want to overhaul the tax code, and some of the changes being considered may run afoul of U.S. WTO obligations, possibly prompting complaints from Brussels. Having added leverage to suppress formal EU complaints about border tax adjustments seems like it would dovetail neatly with Trump’s approach.
Whether and how long the imbalance between enforcement and liberalization persists will be determined, in part, by how provocative and unilateral U.S. enforcement efforts become. Raising import barriers will have an immediate and deleterious impact on the U.S. economy, especially on manufacturers who rely heavily on imported intermediate goods and capital equipment. Raising those barriers unilaterally – or in circumvention of WTO rules – would likely spark retaliation, which would reduce export revenues and exacerbate the economic damage.
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If you are interested, you can read last year’s experience at the New Orleans Half Ironman by clicking here.
Yesterday was such an important day for me. From the second I woke up that morning, I had no clue how it would all play out. When my alarm went off at 4:45 a.m., I could hear the wind howling outside the RV. My first thoughts were of the swim, and they weren’t pleasant. I pushed those fears aside and got ready with Girl Talk blasting over my iPhone. :D I was pumped, excited, and nervous. My mom eventually got up and took me over to the transition area around 6 a.m. There’s nothing more exciting than a race morning. I live for it.
As I was organizing my transition area in my own little world, a voice came over the speakers to make a few announcements. I don’t even remember what he said until… he announced that the swim was canceled. I remember popping my head up, looking around to see if anyone else was shocked, then asking my neighbor if I had heard correctly. It was confirmed – the swim wasn’t going to happen due to dangerous currents in the water. They couldn’t get the rescue teams out there in place to help us if we got into trouble. While I was extremely relieved, I surprisingly a little sad b/c I had worked so hard to be able to finish that portion this year. But honestly, if you had seen the conditions of the water that morning, I’m not sure even the best swimmers would have faired very well… much less me. The life they saved could have very well been my own. So, I took it all in stride and started to focus on the bike. Now the Half Ironman had officially turned into a duathlon.
I ended up having to wait around until 8:20 (race time was supposed to be 7 a.m.) to start my bike leg. I must have visited the port-o-potty a thousand times in anticipation. Once I got started though, I felt strong & confident. We fought strong headwinds and a slow incline for the first 30 miles or so, but the last 26 miles were fast & fun. I had so much more energy compared to last year’s experience… not sure if it had something to do with my weight-loss or the fact that it was about 10 degrees cooler than last year. Either way, when I got off of the bike after 56 miles I felt really good about the 13 mile run ahead, while last year I didn’t even know how I would take the first step. The first 2.7 miles were fabulous and I felt like I could do all 13 without having to stop. Then, I started to get pain in the outside of my injured knee. By mile 3, it was very obvious that I wasn’t going to be able to run the whole thing… and if I could walk it I would be very lucky. I got very upset really fast, and called my future brother-in-law David, a PT, for advice. He told me that I should just listen to my body and walk if I had to. He said walking wouldn’t reinjure my knee, but pushing through pain could set me back again. At that point I still had about 10 miles to go… a very daunting amount to have to walk. I would have much rather suffered through it with speed. I played with a little run-walk for a mile or two and I quickly realized that running was out of the question for me. If I was going to finish, then I was going to have to swallow my pride & my ego and just walk the whole damn thing. So, I did. I walked and walked and walked. And then, I finished! :D I did jog the last quarter mile through the French Quarter just for joy’s sake. :D My mom and dad were there to see me cross the finish line, and it was a very happy moment.
There is even better news behind all of this – my knee will continue to get better, and I can add about a mile a week from here on out to my run training program. I WILL build back up and be better than I’ve ever been before. Also- I’ve decided that I have unfinished business with the Half Ironman (70.3), so instead of pursuing a full Ironman later in the year I’m going to do another half. I have yet to have the opportunity or ability to finish all three events with success and I know it’s close within reach if I focus & try hard enough. I’m going to sign up for the Augusta 70.3 on September 25, so that gives me plenty of time to finish healing my leg and build up to an ideal physical strength. I could visualize so clearly on the bike yesterday my capabilities of doing this distance in a very success way… even on a competitive level. Nothing brings me more joy than racing!!! | <urn:uuid:06a84756-abe0-454c-9471-ce360b1083d7> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://thejenwestquest.com/tag/duathlon/ | 2015-01-30T21:30:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121569156.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124174609-00044-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987007 | 1,066 |
Awaiting a colonoscopy in a Tri-Cities, Wash., emergency room was the last place Angie Neal expected to find herself. The 33-year-old Olympia native was the epitome of health: she exercised regularly, ate healthy foods and had never been overweight. She even held a degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Washington State University. But when a concerned gastroenterologist ordered the additional exam, she knew it was serious.
“It was shocking,” Angie says of the test results. “I had never heard of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or, my official diagnosis, ulcerative colitis (UC).”
With her characteristically dry humor, Angie adds, “I receive the Merriam Webster Word of the Day by email every morning. I’ll never forget the word that day was eupeptic which means: of, relating to, or having good digestion.”
At the time of her diagnosis, Angie was working in the toxicology department of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Generally unfamiliar with UC, she began to read up on her condition and explore the limited available online resources. Her prescribed treatment was a daily anti-inflammatory enema containing mesalamine.
For nearly a year, Angie was symptom free ̶ the mesalamine having put her condition into remission. Then, unexpectedly, she experienced a flare with new, and much worse, symptoms. But even after weeks of increased enemas and steroids, her symptoms worsened.
Angie remembers, “I had continued to make it to work but my coworkers were actually scared for me. I was severely dehydrated and stopped counting after 16 trips to the bathroom in one night. I lived alone at the time. And the night before I was finally admitted to the hospital, I was afraid to go to sleep for fear of dying.”
Over the next few months, Angie’s body was ravaged by her UC. On multiple occasions she was admitted to the hospital for weeks at a time where she received blood transfusion and IV fluids to combat her dehydration. Her new treatment regimen required taking 16 pills each day. For much of the next year, with her symptoms back in remission, Angie worked to rebuild her body. But, as is the nature of this cyclical disease, she eventually experienced another severe flare.
Unbeknownst to her, Angie’s gastroenterologist had been communicating about her condition with doctors at Virginia Mason. Ultimately, he presented Angie with two options: she could begin receiving a monthly IV infusion of a drug called Remicade, or she could travel to Seattle to have her colon surgically removed. It was a difficult decision that, in the absence of a clinical trial, many UC patients must make.
“I had to think long and hard about it,” Angie says. “I felt I just couldn’t live through another flare like that again.” Ultimately, she chose the surgery, adding, “it was an undertaking.”
Angie’s procedure, called a colectomy, involved two major surgeries spread out over two months. The first operation removed her entire large intestine, connected her small intestine to her rectum and created a temporary ostomy to divert waste until everything healed. Two months later, in the second operation, her ostomy was removed. It was during this time that Angie learned about the clinical research being conducted at Virginia Mason and Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) and joined the BRI Biorepository.
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Biorepository is a confidential list of people with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, who are willing to donate a blood sample and provide health information to support scientific research. Donated samples and personal and family health information are used by scientists in the laboratory and in analysis to help researchers better understand the causes and long-term health effects of gastrointestinal and immune-mediated diseases, as well as to explore better treatment options that can be used by physicians in patient care.
Angie’s recovery was long and challenging requiring her to establish a completely ‘new normal.’ With the support of her Virginia Mason team, she was successfully able to modify her hydration, diet and exercise routine in a way that worked for her. In fact, Angie was so impressed by her Virginia Mason experience she moved to Seattle with the hope of working there. And in 2016, she joined the Digestive Disease Institute at Virginia Mason as a clinical research coordinator on the IBD research team.
“Having lived the experience, my work is both interesting and personally meaningful,” Angie says. “I know exactly what my patients are going through and they truly appreciate that I’ve been there.” She adds, “And while it was the right choice for me, I understand most of my patients are trying to avoid colectomy. That’s why it is a privilege to be part of research I’m passionate about at an institute that is so highly regarded.”
Ten years after her diagnosis, Angie is thriving. Beyond her clinical research work, she wants to be the IBD resource and patient advocate she never had. “All I ever wanted was to talk with someone who had lived through this,” she remembers. So, for the last five years she has volunteered with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation as a mentor for newly diagnosed patients.
Her best advice to a new patient?
“Stay positive and don’t harbor resentment. Take comfort in knowing you can do the things you want, but they may have to modified now. You can maintain control of your life. And, yes, you can do this.”
April 12, 2018
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All our dogs are tested for mediterraniean diseases, but please ensure your dog is kept fit and healthy by taking him/her to the vet every year for a full check up, lungworm is becoming common in the UK so it is really important to keep up to date with flea and worming treatments, for natural treatments please see: http://www.naturalmedicinecentre.net/index.html
What is Leishmaniasis (leishmania)?
Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease transmitted to dogs by a tiny sandfly. The sandfly is active between dusk and dawn and is common in all Mediterranean Countries, (unfortunatley as climate change increases we will be seeing more cases of sandfly over in the UK so it is important for the future we are all made aware of current treatment). When an infected sandfly bites a dog, the dog is in danger of contracting the disease, unless it is protected by an insect repellent collar, called a ‘scallibor’ collar. All SOS dogs wear scallibor collars but if you would like to donate them as they are very costly we would be very grateful, please contact us for information on where to purchase.
What happens if a dog is diagnosed with Leishmaniasis?
Leishmaniasis cannot currently be cured, but it can be treated. A dog with leishmaniasis can live a happy and healthy life for many years. The usual treatment is with Allopurinol tablets, which are cheap and readily available as they are used for treatment of gout in humans. Vets in countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, routinely treat infected dogs rather than euthanise them. The sooner the condition is diagnosed, the more successful the treatment is. An owned dog, who is well fed and nourished, is of course likely to respond to treatment better than a stray dog who lives on scraps scavenged from the streets.
What other precautions should be taken in dogs who have Leishmaniasis?
The dogs need regular monitoring via blood tests. At least once a year a test should be done to measure the level of Leishmaniasis antibodies in the blood. This test can be done in the UK. A general blood test should also be done to ensure that the dog’s kidneys and other organs are all functioning well. This can be done by any veterinarian.
Can Leishmaniasis be transmitted to other dogs or humans?
There is NO danger of Leishmaniasis being transmitted to other dogs in the UK and there is no danger of the disease being transmitted to humans. The sandfly that transmits the disease does not exist in the UK and canine Leishmaniasis is not the same disease that affects humans in some parts of the world.
Are SOS’s dogs all tested for Leishmaniasis?
Yes, ALL dogs we bring into the UK are blood-tested for Leishmaniasis before they leave Spain (and we DON’T give infected dogs for adoption, unless the potential adopter insists on adopting the dog they have chosen). However it is wise to blood-test the dogs at least once a year for a couple of years. The test should be done sooner, of course, if any symptoms of Leishmaniasis are noted.
What are the symptoms of Leishmaniasis?
Sometimes there are no symptoms and the dog seems perfectly fit. However, common symptoms are:-
- Weight loss
- Anemia and lethargy – your dog may not be “just lazy”
- Hair loss and skin lesions – particularly around the face and ears
- “Dandruff” noted in the coat
- Long and thick claws
Most UK vets have little or no experience with Leishmaniasis and will welcome our input. It is imperative that you contact us before you take your dog to the vet, should you worry that he/she may be infected.
If you have any questions or concerns about this issue, either before or after you adopt a dog via SOS please contact us immediately, especially if your dog is unwell and if you are uncertain about what to do. We all want your dog to enjoy a long and happy life and we are here to help and support you. PLEASE NOTE WE CANNOT ANSWER GENERAL EMAILS ABOUT THIS CONDITION. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR VET OR A SPECIALIST.
Please also see our Facebook support group for more information:
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Villanova Wildcats (13-5) +7.5, 137 O/U at Pittsburgh Panthers
(16-4) -7.5, 137 O/U, Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, 7 PM Eastern, Wednesday
by Badger of Predictem.com
Two Big East Conference teams that have been doing more losing than
winning of late meet for a crucial game Wednesday, when Villanova
travels to face No. 18 Pittsburgh in the Petersen Events Center.
Pittsburgh suffered a rare and embarrassing loss at home their last
time out, a stunning 77-64 defeat at the hands of the below .500
Rutgers Scarlet Knights. It was the second loss for the Panthers in
their last three games (lost at Cincinnati 62-59 on Jan. 19th), and
was just the ninth loss on the Petersen Events Center floor since it
opened in 2002 (their home record is now 91-9). The loss also ended
their 13-game home winning streak.
Villanova also finds themselves in the midst of a two-game losing
streak, with the last loss being a similar tough one at home when
they lost to Notre Dame, 90-80, on Saturday. The Wildcats previous
loss was also to Rutgers, in New Jersey, by the score of 80-68 back
on January 23rd.
These two schools have already played once this season, with
Villanova walking away with a slim 64-63 victory at home in Philly
when Dante Cunningham nailed two free throws with 11 seconds left.
The Oddsmaker has opened the rematch game with Pittsburgh as a 7-point
favorite, with an over/under total of 137. The moneyline bet varies
from book to book, but most offshore sportsbooks are listing
Pittsburgh as a -340, with Villanova as a +300.
Pittsburghs offense has suffered since the loss of two key players,
Mike Cook and Levance Fields. Cook and Fields combined for 22 points
per game and 8 assists before they were injured, and the Panthers
have struggled to get those numbers back from their replacements.
Forward Sam Young has been steady for Pitt all season (18.3 ppg), and
freshman forward DeJuan Blair is averaging close to a double-double
per game (11.9 ppg, 9.3 rpg), but without steady guard play in the
absence of Cook and Fields opponents have been sinking into the lane
and forcing the Panthers to hit shots from outside. The Panthers have
struggled to do that.
Villanova is led on offense by guard Scottie Reynolds, who averages
17.2 points per game. Reynolds has struggled in the Wildcats past two
games (just 1-of-14 from 3-point land) which explains the teams
Guard Corey Fisher (11.4 ppg) and forward Dante Cunningham (10.4 ppg,
7.2 rpg) are the Wildcats best scoring options after Reynolds, but
their play has been inconsistent of late too. Forward Antonio Pena
had a breakout game versus Notre Dame last time out (17 pts., 9
reb.), and the Cats will need him to step up more down the stretch to
stay competitive in the tough Big East.
Pittsburgh is usually able to turn up the defensive intensity in big
games, especially at home, and is allowing 63 points per game. The
allow a 40.6 shooting percentage from the floor, but are better at
closing out to the 3-point shot as they allow opponents just a 31
percent average from behind the arc.
The 90 points Villanova allowed to Notre Dame in the last game was
the most they have allowed in over a year. Defense has been a weak
spot for this team, as they allow opponents to shoot 44.7 percent
from the floor and 39.7 percent from 3-point range, both extremely
high numbers for potentially top-25 team.
These teams are exact opposites for sports bettors this year. While
Pittsburgh has been good to bettors (10-5 ATS), Villanova has been a
cash drain (5-10 ATS). In fact, the Wildcats are an ultra-weak 1-8
ATS in their last nine game overall. Pittsburgh has struggled of
late, covering just once in their last three, but they had covered in
four straight prior to that including a cover as 3-point underdogs
the last time they played Villanova on January 6th.
While the head-to-head matchup has been even overall (3-3 SU in last
6 meetings), Pittsburgh has covered three straight since the 2005
season. The home team is a strong 7-3 ATS in the last 10 head-to-head
The under has cashed in for bettors in five of the last six matchups
between the two, including the last four in a row. Another strong
under betting trend is the fact that the Wildcats have come in under
the total in eight of the last nine games they have been an underdog.
Badgers Pick: The Panthers are a strong homecourt team, so how in
the world can you explain their loss to Rutgers last Saturday? You
cant. But dont let one game scare you off the Panthers. I still
think 7.5 is borderline too big of a number, but Im willing to give
Pitt the benefit of the doubt. I also like the under in this game. I
see a typical Big East game with tough defense, so the scores will
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Environmental science is a hot field right now, with more and more companies going green and attempting to develop more eco-friendly products. With an education in environmental science, you can take a number of different career paths.
The information below is your guide to learning about environmental science careers so you can find the path that is right for you.
Your career options depend on the exact specialty within the environmental science field that you’d like to pursue. Every college has different education options available, but some common topics include ecology, chemistry, and biology.
Some education programs also allow you to double-major. For example, you double major in environmental science and communications if you’re interested in doing advertising for a green company or you could double major in environmental science and engineering if you’re interested in designing green buildings or communities.
There are many areas of specialization to choose from. Here are just of few to consider when researching schools:
Each school is different and not every school offers the same programs. If you’re interested in one particular area of environmental science, make sure your school of interest offers the right training to secure a job in your field. If you’re not sure what area of environmental science is your passion, you might want to take a variety of classes to explore your options and widen your search parameters or secure an internship to gain work experience and industry knowledge.
Now let’s talk about some of the specific jobs you could take with a degree in environmental science. This is a field where you can allow your specific passions to lead you! Here are just a few options:
Many students who earn a bachelor’s degree in environmental science later go on to pursue a master’s degree in order to specialize and gain more knowledge of the specific career they hope to pursue. Lots of government programs and employers are willing to help financially in order to have employees with a higher skill level. Further, the best way to remain competitive is to acquire certification in your specific field. This can help prove your knowledge and dedication to The National Registry of Environmental Professionals is an accredited organization that offers certification in a variety of specified fields. Some of these can include:
Check out our degree guide, Choosing an Environmental Science Degree, to find out what you need to do to start your career in environmental science.
|BA - Environmental Studies MBA - Environmental Mgmt||Ashford University — The Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies at Ashford University explores cultural, social, and environmental issues at the local and global level. The Environmental Management MBA program features a greater emphasis on business management of environmental organizations. Ashford University is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), 985 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100, Alameda, CA 94501, 510-748-9001, wascsenior.org.|
|MS - Environmental Sciences and Policy MS - Energy Policy and Climate||Johns Hopkins University — Johns Hopkins University offers numerous degrees in the environmental science field. The school's MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy degree features an interdisciplinary curriculum in the basic sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Courses review the ozone layer, greenhouse gases, nuclear waste, and acid rain.|
|BSBA - Green & Sustainable Management||Liberty University — The Bachelor of Science in Green & Sustainable Management from Liberty University features a curriculum that reviews federal EPA and state environmental rules and regulations, explores environmental principles, and examines environmental protections. Courses study industrial waste, solid waste and hazardous waste management along with solutions for minimizing air, soil and water pollution.|
|BS - Environmental Policy and Management||Purdue University — The Purdue University Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy and Management degree program provides for an interdisciplinary approach to environmental science. Courses study environmental issues and policies and examine relationships between public and private sectors. The MS in Environmental Policy dives deeper into the field, by questioning current trends in the industry.|
|MS in Environmental Science||Rochester Institute of Technology — The MS in Environmental Science from Rochester Institute of Technology is a great degree for those venturing out into the green industry. Upon graduation, students will be able to utilize project management skills to achieve performance objectives, demonstrate a working knowledge and leadership of an array of renewable energy sources, and prepare sample bids and sample project development plans.|
|BS in Environmental Science BS in Environmental Science - Geospatial Technologies||Southern New Hampshire University — The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science degree from the Southern New Hampshire University helps students prepare for a teaching career in secondary schools, colleges, and universities. Courses include Principles of Biology, Introductory Chemistry, Principles of Environmental Science, Physical Geology, and Conservation Biology.|
|DMgt in Environmental and Social Sustainability||Colorado Technical University — "CTU’s Doctor of Management - Environmental and Social Sustainability degree program is designed for professionals passionate about making a positive difference in the world. As more organizations recognize the need to conserve energy and other resources, this doctorate degree can help you acquire the credentials to guide organizational policy and action in a direction that shows concern for profits, people and the planet."|
|MS in Environmental Science||Stockton University — "The PSM is built around a solid core of required technical and non-technical courses that provide common baseline knowledge. This core is supplemented by a broad selection of electives tailored to an individual’s specialty area. In combination, the core and associated electives form a curriculum that can easily adapt to the needs of individual students."| | <urn:uuid:cce5332c-3d48-44f6-b4f8-14d6e7df5304> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.environmentalsciencedegree.com/environmental-science-career-guide/ | 2021-10-26T03:28:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587794.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026011138-20211026041138-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.911255 | 1,135 |
comfort food – rocket, mushroom and bacon quiche.
5 Nov 2012 § 2 Comments
Here’s a quick and easy recipe from Gordon Ramsay (via BBC’s Good Food) for a lovely bacon, mushroom, onion and rocket quiche that I made over the weekend. I omitted some of the ingredients and replaced the crème fraîche with light cream instead, but the quiche still came out beautifully light with loads of flavor…makes for a lovely weekend meal!
I’m posting the original recipe with my comments in brackets and italic:
For the pastry:
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 125g cold butter , diced
- 1 tbsp thyme leaves (omitted)
- 1 egg , beaten
- 1 tbsp olive oil , to brush the tin (I used leftover butter)
- 1 egg yolk , to glaze
For the custard:
- 3 eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 200ml crème fraîche (I used light cream)
- 200ml milk
- small handful tarragon leaves, chopped (omitted)
For the filling:
- 200g smoked streaky bacon , roughly chopped
- 5 tbsp olive oil (I only needed about 3 tbsp)
- 1 large handful red onion , chopped
- 250g flat cap mushrooms , sliced
- 200g wild rocket (I chopped this up into small pieces)
- 100g cheese
1. To make the pastry, rub the flour, salt, butter and thyme into fine crumbs.
(Make sure the butter is slightly soft, else your fingers will be aching after a while!)
(Once mixed, it’ll start to resemble breadcrumbs)
2. Mix in the beaten egg and 1 tbsp ice-cold water, then draw together to a moist pastry, kneading lightly. Wrap with cling film and chill for at least 20 mins.
3. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Brush a deep, loose-bottom, 24cm tart tin with oil, then season it. Set a small ball of pastry aside and roll out the rest on a lightly floured surface to a large round, 38-40cm. Lift the pastry into the tin using the rolling pin and press into the sides. Press any cracks together and let the excess overhang. (I used a round, flat-bottomed Pyrex bowl instead as I didn’t have a tart tin)
4. Use a small ball of pastry to press the tart case into the flutes. Prick the base lightly with a fork and chill the tart case, preferably in the freezer, for at least 30 mins.
5. Cut out a circle of baking paper larger than the tart, scrunch it up, unravel and press into the case. Fill the case with baking beans, stand on a baking sheet and bake for 20 mins. Remove the paper and beans and brush with the remaining yolk. Return to the oven for 5 mins, brush again and return for a final 10-15 mins until glazed and golden. Remove from the oven. Turn the oven to 140C/fan 120C/gas 1. (I did not use baking beans, and didn’t have a problem with the pastry puffing up in the oven)
6. To make the custard, beat together the whole eggs, yolks, crème fraîche (or cream), milk and tarragon and season to taste.
7. For the filling, sauté the bacon in 1 tbsp oil until browned and beginning to crisp, about 5 mins. Add 2 tbsp oil to the pan and sauté the onion and chicory with the bacon, stirring until lightly cooked, about 5 mins. Strain any juices through a sieve, then tip into a big bowl.
8. Heat 2 more tbsp oil and stir-fry the mushrooms over a high heat for 3-5 mins. Strain and mix into the bowl. Wilt the rocket in same pan over a high heat and leave to cool.
9. Mix the cheeses and rocket into the custard and whizz with a hand blender until well mixed, then stir in the rest of the filling ingredients. (I did not use a hand blender, so both my cheese and rocket leaves were in pieces instead which was fine)
10. Put the tart case back into the oven. Leaving the shelf slightly out, ladle as much filling into the case as you can. Try to ladle the solid filling in first, then top up with custard. Push the shelf in and bake for 50 mins-1 hour until the quiche is set in the middle, turning for even baking. (I left it for 1 hour without turning, and checked that the quiche was set by poking a wooden skewer in the middle – as with all Gordon Ramsay’s recipes that I’ve tried, the timing was spot on)
11. Remove and trim the pastry edge so that it’s in line with the top of the tin. This is easiest with a small, serrated knife. Cool the tart for at least 1 hour before removing from the tin and serving in slices. | <urn:uuid:ec44f723-2958-43c1-bff4-a714c8853c9d> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://lovechanceandchoice.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/comfort-food-rocket-mushroom-and-bacon-quiche/ | 2018-01-18T13:32:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887414.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118131245-20180118151245-00422.warc.gz | en | 0.901457 | 1,091 |
My holy grail shampoo!! I havent been keeping up with the care of my hair was a while and kept using things thats not suitable, as a result my hair becomes extremely dry with alot of breakage…but this shampoo transformed my hair…!!! Everyone notice the improvement and hair has become much softer and manageable…i have gone through half a bottle before i write this review and my hair will take a while to recovery…but its working!!! The only complain i have is the smell…its just really sweet and fruity like some cheap perfume…for now i will just suck it up and keep using it!! Highly recommended!!!!!!
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A little disappointed it has dimethicone and amodimethicone in it but I clarify about once a month and my hair loves -cones. The thing that grabbed my attention most is that it has no sulfates. The smell is terrific, it lathers nicely, and it gives my hair an overall feeling of shine and bounce without weighing it down or making it feel greasy. I usually just shampoo my bangs on my in-between days and it seems to work for me.
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This shampoo made my hair shiny, clean and soft. I looove the smell of it! Its just not very long lasting.
I would recomend this to someone with thick long hair though, as it weighs down hair a little bit.
I love this product! It smells really good like some kind of sweet candy. It has a golden color and slightly runny consistency. A little goes a long way and it will clean you hair without out stripping it and leaving it dry. I highly recommend this to anyone with dry and/or curly hair. I use it with The Herbal Essences The Sleeker The Butter Conditioner. Great combo for my dry 3c hair.
Love this bought it at cotco with conditioner and oil spray works great for my frizzy hair from the hard water here in calgary.
I have fine and oily hair. For the first few weeks, this shampoo worked great for me. My hair was soft and manageable. However, its effectiveness wore down. I suggest alternating shampoos so your hair won't get 'used to' the shampoo. Paid $13aud at chemist warehouse sydney.
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After a car accident, victims with devastating injuries are rushed to the nearest hospital in an ambulance, while victims without visible or immediately detectable injuries are left to decide whether they need medical attention. Unfortunately, many such accident victims make the mistake of delaying medical evaluation, refusing to complete the prescribed treatment, or failing to follow up with their doctor after a crash.
Oftentimes, a delay or gap in medical care is due to an accident victim's busy work schedule, a hope that any potential problems will resolve themselves, a denial that anything's actually wrong, or financial concerns, such as a lack of health insurance coverage. Sadly, regardless of the reasons for delaying medical care, failing to follow the doctor's orders, or not showing up for follow-up visits or treatments, doing so can jeopardize an accident victim's ability to recover a full measure of damages required to compensate for the injuries.
Don't Trust Insurance Companies to Do the Right Thing
Whether it is the victim's own insurance company or the opposing party's liability insurance company, simply trusting that the insurance company, through its adjusters, will do the right thing and handle the claim fairly is a huge mistake. Accident victims shouldn't consider insurance companies—or their adjusters—friends or allies. Insurance companies are not in the business of giving money away. Like most businesses, an adjuster's ultimate loyalty is to the company's bottom line, not to the payment of all damages to an injured person. Additionally, each adjuster has his or her own biases and motivations to evaluate a claim for a lower value than it is really worth. In most instances, in a third party liability claim, an accident victim's best interests is not a priority and often not even a factor in the insurance company's decision.
Insurance companies often deploy a number of shady—but legal—tactics in an effort to reduce their financial obligation to accident victims. Sadly, delays or gaps in medical care are used by insurance companies to instill doubt in the claim of injury or the extent of the injury. Insurance companies will do all they can to discredit an accident victim's injury claims.
The Importance of Seeking Immediate Medical Care
Seeking a medical evaluation immediately after a car accident is absolutely vital, even if the victim doesn't think they're seriously injured—or even injured at all. Doctors, especially those who frequently treat car accident victims, are trained to spot injuries that the victim might not notice, such as those masked by the release of adrenaline during the crash.
Also, receiving a thorough medical evaluation after a car accident starts the documentation of evidence that may end up playing a central role in a future personal injury insurance claim or lawsuit. Victims who initially thought that they weren't injured or that their injuries weren't “that bad” may have late-appearing injuries or injuries that worsen with time. Without medical documentation connecting these injuries to the accident, the other party's insurance company or defense attorney may claim that they are completely unrelated to the crash or made up after the fact.
Follow-Up Medical Care After a Car Accident Is Crucial
There are a number of reasons why follow-up medical care is so important after a car accident:
- Not all car accident injuries are immediately detectable—some may be masked by the rush of adrenaline, while the effects of other injuries may over power other injuries which are not so noticeable, even other injuries are only detectable when the injury victim attempts to resume his or her normal activities days later. Following up with a treating physician or a primary care doctor can help accident victims ensure serious injuries aren't overlooked, and that late-appearing injuries are documented as being related to the accident.
- Waiting too long to have a medical evaluation or failing to follow up with the doctor can damage an accident victim's case. The more time between that passes between an accident and timing of the treatment for the alleged injuries, the greater the doubt will be in the seriousness of the injuries and the connection between the collision and the injuries. If an accident victim develops accident-related injuries and that individual does not treat those injuries in a timely manner, the victim loses the ability to have a third party document the injuries, loses the ability to argue the seriousness of the injury and increases the likelihood that the insurance company or defense lawyer will claim that those injuries were caused by something other than the accident.
- Seeking an immediate medical evaluation, adhering to the prescribed treatment plan and following up with the doctor shows that the accident victim is doing their part to recover from their injuries.
- Nearly all accident victims who secure early and consistent care recover from their injuries at a much more rapid pace than those who hope they will get better.
- Fewer long term side effects or consequences result from the injuries when early and consistent treatment is sought.
Consult an Experienced California Car Accident Lawyer
If you were seriously injured in a car accident caused by another person or entity's negligence, you may be entitled to compensation. Seeking prompt medical attention and following up with your doctor can help you build a strong case. Do you have questions about your car accident case? Contact the Inland Empire Law Group today at (909) 481-0100 or toll free at (888) 694-3529 to schedule a free, no-obligation initial consultation. | <urn:uuid:7f5cd98f-7045-4bc4-ad5d-cf31b614af2e> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.davidrickslaw.com/library/importance-of-medical-care-following-an-automobile-collision.cfm | 2021-08-02T01:35:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154302.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802012641-20210802042641-00328.warc.gz | en | 0.957611 | 1,083 |
b3shine (8875) - Indiana, USA - OCT 9, 2012
Draft to tulip. Looks good; a transparent burnt-orange with off-white head. Smells solid; pumpkin and appropriate spices. Tastes like it smells with an average mouthfeel. Solid. Ibrew2or3 (8614) - Tempe, Arizona, USA - NOV 10, 2010
Thanks James (Mr. Tampa Pourhouse). Bomber pours clear copper with off white head. The aroma has nice fresh and organic smelling pumpkin pie and graham cracker to go along with a modest amount of cinnamon and faint nutmeg spices. The taste is pretty smooth with notes of sweet pumpkin, a nice layer of graham cracker and growing sharp spicy notes. To midway it picks up a sense of brown sugar and malty sweetness. Well done pumpkin. radagast83 (8072) - Alexandria, Virginia, USA - NOV 8, 2009
On tap. Pours a dark transparent orange color with a very thin white head. Aroma is of pumpkin pie - completely pumpkin and spice. It is very smooth and the alcohol is quite hidden. JaBier (7973) - Capital City, Ohio, USA - NOV 1, 2009
22oz bottle. Clear amber pour with a thin off-white head. Malty aroma with brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Spicy and malty flavor up front that is fantastic, but quickly turns a bit boozy and has a weird finish. Aside from the finish, very good beer. PorterPounder (7970) - Tallahassee, Florida, USA - OCT 29, 2014
Conyers, Ga. - Sigman Bottle Shop - 22 oz bomber. Pours a slightly hazy medium copper with a light off-white head that sticks around a while. Aroma has some nice spicy hints with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon. Bold flavor with some boozy notes mixing along with the autumn spice flavors - cinnamon, nutmeg, you know the drill. Some pumpkin notes in the back end. Mouthfeel has a nice thickness to it. A little on the heavy side, but a good sipper.
drfabulous (7948) - Lexington, Kentucky, USA - FEB 12, 2012
22 ounce. Big pumpkin aroma and spice. Heavy carbonation. Given that it was probably bottled last October, it’s held up really well and the spices are all dominant. BMan1113VR (7931) - Los Angeles, California, USA - NOV 6, 2009
Bottle via a trade from Cletus (I think). Pours with a white head and a hazy orange body. Aroma of pumpkin pie, spice, nutmeg and bready notes. Taste is a bit of a let down. Sweet over all with light spice and a large vegital note. Light bubbles and a dry mouthfeel. FROTHINGSLOSH (7796) - GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA - NOV 23, 2011
One of the better pumpkin beers I have had in quite a while. +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy orange-caramel color with a medium sized orange-white head that left good lacing. The aroma was moderately strong sweet caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. The flavor was strong sweet caramel, cinnamon sugar, nutmeg and clove. There was a lightly boozy undertone. The finish was long with cinnamon sugar, caramel and nutmeg lingering. Fairly full bodied. Well done. blankboy (7689) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JUN 18, 2012
My bottle [660ml] shared with HogTownHarry, garthicus, GregClow, jerc & mabel. Pours a hazy orange-amber with a small semi-lasting frothy off-white head. A good amount of sediment in there. Aroma of pumpkin, spices and light alcohol. Slightly sweet flavour of pumpkin, spices and a bitter finish. Medium bodied. Not overly complex but very good nonetheless. chriso (7533) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - JAN 22, 2010
On tap at the 2009 Great Pumpkin Festival, Cambridge Brewing Company, Cambridge MA on 31 October 2009. Orange colour. Falls into the "not outrageously spiced but not enough else going on to maintain my interest" category of pumpkin ales. Which is to say, for me, acceptable but uninspiring. Aroma is spicy but relatively restrained. Less spice on the palate. Could use more hops. Sweetish. Did I say I’m not a big fan of pumpkin ales? | <urn:uuid:b858568c-8a8e-4ad6-9b58-eabf81b54ba4> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/heavy-seas-mutiny-fleet-the-great-pumpkin/106363/2/4/ | 2017-07-26T11:09:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549426133.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170726102230-20170726122230-00544.warc.gz | en | 0.883176 | 971 |
"The issue are being explored in a new documentary which features Campbell. "I had depression, also I talk about in the 1980's I had a psychotic breakdown," he said.
The former Downing Street communications boss explained the ripple effect that mental health issue can have on sufferer’s families. “The issue are being explored in a new documentary which features Campbell. “I had depression, also I talk about in the 1980’s I had a psychotic breakdown,” he said. “I think that sometimes its harder for […]
New documentary Me and My Mental Illness airs on Tuesday November 1.
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BY: Hannah Jane Parkinson @ladyhaja ‘Hunt has the gall to tell us that mental health services are failing children and adolescents.’ Photograph: Con Tanasiuk/Design Pics Inc Actions speak louder than words is perhaps the maxim that governments should live by; that governments should have as their desktop screensavers or written on Post-its on ministerial fridges. […]
Why is there so much stigma attached to mental health? It's time to treat mental health sufferers like normal human beings.
BY: GEORGIA ELIZABETH WILLIAM “Watch out! The killer Bipolar zombie is back at work” said no one, ever. But, how come you feel you can’t talk to Mary, who’s back to work after a long battle with depression? Imagine. You trip whilst playing a sport, breaking a leg that was already pretty tender. You blatantly can’t […] | <urn:uuid:61583a1a-87a8-42e1-bebd-9da68571f6a9> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.manchesterusersnetwork.org.uk/2016/10/ | 2021-06-22T23:46:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488525399.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622220817-20210623010817-00038.warc.gz | en | 0.963272 | 958 |
OTTAWA — Help with paying for education, job creation and even the health of Canada's political system were among the issues young Canadians asked the nation's federal parties to address at a youth debate Wednesday night.
Nearly 100 people filled the Canadian Museum of Nature for Youth Debate, 2011, hosted by canada.com and iPolitics.ca, to grill young representatives from each party.
Discussion over the best approach to ensuring young Canadians had a promising future with a stable job market and assistance with escalating tuition fees dominated the 90-minute debate moderated by Mark Sutcliffe, an Ottawa Citizen columnist and CPAC talk-show host.
Elizabeth Dubois, chair of the campus political action committee for the Young Liberals of Canada, reminded young Canadians of the Liberals' Learning Passport, which would provide $1,000 of financial assistance to post-secondary students each year for up to four years.
She said the platform promise was designed to ensure youth had access to "tools to build our future."
Alykhan Velshi, who is working a second election in the Conservative party war room, insisted that the Liberal plan isn't the best option for youth.
"It's very deep in their platform . . . but they're also taking something away. They're going to raise taxes on students," he warned, referring to the Liberals' plan to eliminate current textbook tax credits currently offered to students.
The pair was joined by Isaac Cockburn, who has worked at NDP headquarters in Ottawa and as an assistant to the NDP's Nathan Cullen, and Jonathan Halasz, co-president of the Carleton University Green party. Each party representative is under the age of 30.
The Bloc Quebecois declined to join the English-language debate.
Cockburn immediately echoed his party leader Jack Layton's message that "Ottawa is broken."
"This type of back and forth is what he's talking about," he said, promising he wouldn't join "rigorous partisan stuff" as his peers poked at their opponents' policies.
Cockburn said Layton was the sole leader who would address rising tuition fees, while other parties have said the concern is not a federal responsibility.
Youth are believed to be among the most under-represented demographics on election day.
An estimated 70 per cent of eligible first-time voters case a ballot in the 1965 and 1968 federal elections, according to a recent Elections Canada study on declining youth voting.
That number decreased to 34 per cent for the 2004 and 2008 elections, according to the report.
But the trend is not necessarily a consequence of being disinterested in politics; it's a result of youth having trouble finding anything appealing in mainstream politics, observers say.
One audience member said that attack ads and political mudslinging has left her, and young Canadians "disillusioned" about the electoral process.
Cockburn said his opponents' parties have resorted to fearmongering, something Canadians shouldn't tolerate, he said.
Velshi agreed, telling the audience that voters shouldn't be "duped" into voting for a party they didn't support because Ignatieff has insisted Canadians only have two options from which to chose.
His peers suggested it was the Tories who brought attack tactics to Canada, but Velshi shrugged off the criticism.
"We just play a clip of Michael Ignatieff and let the voters decide for themselves," he said, adding that the Tories aren't apologizing for their ads.
Opinions differed when the panel was asked about various methods — such as online voting or lowering the voting age to 16, a suggestion Velshi immediately opposed.
He said the country should focus on increasing turnout for those already eligible to vote and noted that Conservative leader Stephen Harper has already made stops at MTV to reach out to youth.
The parties agreed that young people need to have access to a healthy job market following graduation. Velshi said that offering corporate tax cuts would promote job creation but Halasz told the audience there is no evidence to prove that.
Dubois said the Liberals were invested in making living costs affordable for Canadians today.
"Families are more important than fighter jets and mega prisons . . . it's the Liberal party saying seniors deserve better . . . and youth deserve better," she said.
Velshi said Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is "trying to make people make a false choice" because the Conservatives' proposed federal budget, turned down in the House last month, was prudent and fulfilled Canada's needs.
"If you make modest promises, you can support the troops, you can support seniors and you can support young people," he said.
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On Monday, Dr. Anne Bradley, IFWE’s vice president of economic initiatives, and Elise Amyx, IFWE’s academic outreach manager, went to the Cato Institute to speak to some Christian college students about individual calling and how that applies to important policy issues such as income inequality.
At the end, the students asked some great questions, a few of which we’d like to address in more depth.
How can you jump from a conversation about income inequality to income mobility when people are so wary of free markets?
That’s a tough question, and there are two things to keep in mind when trying to answer it.
1. What you make is not what you are worth.
The fact that we are in different professions and are receiving different incomes has no reflection on our value as individuals nor the importance of our work.
God created us in his image and that gives us each intrinsic worth. We are all equal in that sense.
But that does not make us the same. God made us all unique, with different strengths, interests, and ambitions. This individuality is important because it means that we can draw on each other’s strengths to bring about flourishing and improvement in the world.
Our incomes reflect the market worth of what we do, which is based on how much value customers put on different resources. It’s important to remember that incomes are just one way of measuring the value of what we do. As Anne Bradley says,
We are created differently, and some of us will earn higher incomes than others. Income is not the only earthly reward either. It’s just the only reward bestowed by the market. Scripture is clear that some will earn more earthly rewards for efficient stewardship over the resources with which we are endowed.
You might not be earning a high income, but perhaps you are in a position where you have a lot of influence, are able to do what you love, or are able to travel. These are all important factors to keep in mind.
2. Income inequality is not the same as poverty.
If we want to increase flourishing and fight injustice in our world, it would be helpful to focus less on income inequality in order to spend more time on this question: Are the poor getting richer?
Anne Bradley notes,
All levels of income, particularly those of the poor, are constantly increasing in a prosperous society, a phenomenon known as income mobility. This means that if you are born poor, you are not necessarily destined to stay poor.
How are the poor faring in today’s society? Do they have opportunities to improve their situations? When we shift the conversation from income inequality to income mobility, we focus less on comparing ourselves to others. Instead, we begin to ask important questions about how to empower more people to achieve flourishing for themselves.
How can you apply the concept of fulfilling work to poverty reduction?
Poverty is more than just a lack of material goods. It is the inability for someone to reach his or her full potential.
That means that while it might be necessary to help people by providing them with food, shelter, and clothing, we ultimately want to empower them to become independent and realize their full potential through work.
As Peter Greer says,
There is a new movement rising…A movement that sees the immediate need, but works to empower long-term change. A movement that recognizes that a job is superior to a handout. A movement that sees that although [a person] is financially poor, she still has hidden talent and dreams waiting to be uncovered. A movement that seeks to empower and unleash by giving [people] the dignity of meaningful work.
Even the most impoverished people have something unique to contribute to the world. We want to help them find opportunities that allow them to share their gifts with the world through meaningful work.
Sometimes that involves more than simply providing them with a handout.
How do you help those who can’t work?
Some people cannot support themselves through work due to disability or age. These people are no less the image-bearers of God; they are just facing circumstances that keep them from earning a sufficient income through their work.
In this case, it is perfectly appropriate for institutions and individuals to provide perpetual support if necessary.
Christians did not only take care of their own poor. They ministered to the sick and dying, purchased slaves to set them free, clothed the naked, and fed the hungry whether they were Christians or not. This was recognized by Julian the Apostate, the Roman Emperor who attempted to re-paganize Rome after Christianity was legalized. Julian complained, “These impious Galileans [i.e. Christians] feed not only their own poor, but ours as well.”
As we celebrate our uniqueness and think through these questions, we will realize there is no one solution to poverty. How we help depends on the needs, situations, and cultures of the individuals and communities we are trying to minister to.
It’s an approach that requires us to acknowledge that we don’t know what’s best for everyone, and it requires the humility to listen to and learn from those we are trying to help.
What could an individualized approach to poverty look like in your community? Leave your comments here.
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“It is almost like winning the lottery,” Meewind Director Willem Smelik says when reflecting on how a group of small investors have managed to participate in three major offshore wind farm projects. “We are now investing in a third wind farm ‘Nobelwind’ and raising funding of €25 million a year!”
Meewind is an umbrella investment fund, which specialises in offshore wind and other renewables projects. “Meewind now has 6,500 participants, has raised funds of over €87 million and we are seeing high returns on their investment.”
The organisation was established in 2007 and just two years later it took a participation in Belwind, which is located at Bligh Bank, 46 kilometres from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Belwind has 55 Vestas turbines producing 165MW. The first phase was finished in December 2010. “We have been very lucky with Belwind, I still can’t believe it. We have managed to achieve a large, industrial project with a group of small investors.”
A consortium of Belgian retail giant, the Colruyt Group and the Flemish investment fund PMV is the majority shareholder of Parkwind, the developer of Northwind and Nobelwind, with a 41% stake, while Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has 39% and Meewind 19.9%.
Willem comments: “Belwind has been in operation for more than four years now with the availability of turbines standing at more than 95%. We originally thought that we would manage 92% availability for five years but currently, availability is 95% for the next 15 years, which is fantastic and much better than we ever expected.” Since 2010, Belwind has delivered electricity to some 170,000 households.
Following Belwind, Meewind carried out its second major investment in Northwind, which lies on the border of the Belwind concession some 40 kilometres from the coast of Zeebrugge. Meewind has invested €5.8 million in Northwind.
A second phase of the Belwind/ Bligh Bank project was always planned and is a totally separate concession. Meewind is currently raising funds to realise Nobelwind, the second phase of the project, which will also have 165MW.
Because the two phases were always planned many elements of the new wind farm have already been completed and with all of the contracts signed, construction is planned to start in spring next year. When Northwind was built the developers already laid the cable for Nobelwind for example.
The new wind farm will comprise 50 3.3MW Vestas turbines. The export cable, by Nexans, will connect Nobelwind’s offshore high voltage substation (OHVS) to the existing 220kV Northwind OHVS. Bladt Industries AS and Semco Maritime are responsible for the substation and Ramboll for the foundations. Marine contracting will be coordinated by Jan De Nul, while Belwind was carried out by Van Oord.
DeepOcean Group is installing Prysmian array cabling. Some 14 kilometres of export cable goes between Nobelwind and Northwind and 43 kilometres from Northwind to the shore. Meewind is seeking financial close of Nobelwind between 15 October and 10 November. The fund’s total investment represents €37 million. “With Nobelwind we wanted to create a special purpose vehicle separate from Belwind to isolate the development risks.”
Mr Smelik highlights some of the major changes that have taken place since Belwind, which involve both construction changes and in the shareholding structure when, in October 2014, Sumitomo Corporation bought a part of the shares in Parkwind.
“While on the construction side, the major changes from Belwind are that the export cable is 220kV, increasing from 170kV, and that there are now two offshore high voltage stations.”
“And of course we – as Parkwind/ Meewind – have much more experience now. Our technical director is now working on his seventh wind farm, as are many of the team. We must have the most experienced team in the sector and this is combined with one of the richest investor groups.”
Experience made the company decide to install the OHVS right at the beginning of the construction process in spring 2016 “We expect the first turbines to produce electricity in October. It is quite expensive to install the station immediately but this is deemed the best way to get all the turbines producing at the same time.
“It is also important that we have all Vestas turbines at the three wind farms. This gives a lot of advantages for operations and maintenance. Additionally, the biggest risk with any wind farm is always the cable and that is already installed.”
There is also good news for the investors, which typically invest an average of €12,000. They can still expect interest of around 7 to 10 per cent a year and they will see a cash return on their investment much sooner than they did with Belwind, he points out.
Waiting for a homeplay
And with Nobelwind well on track in Belgium, Meewind is turning its attention to developments in the Netherlands. Certainly, there is a sense of frustration that this Dutch organisation has not yet been able to participate in a domestic wind farm, as projects have been slow to come to fruition.
Mr Smelik emphasises: “The next challenge is in Dutch waters. The government has the ambition to have 4,450MW by 2023 and I hope we can join one of developers there. They are also interested in citizen participation, so I hope that the fact that more than 6,000 people want to participate should be taken into account in any tendering process. However, at this stage I think Nobelwind will complete sooner than Gemini in the Netherlands.”
In the meantime the focus is on Nobelwind. “There is a lot of interest – the fund is growing by €25 million a year. We have seen some €5 million raised in just the last month. Looking ahead, I am certainly optimistic with the project expected to complete mid 2017”
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I am pleased to announce that I am considering early retirement as the Olympic Freestyle Vomiting Champion. Although I am still making regurgitated food offerings to the Tyd-D-Bol man once a day, the nausea is not quite as ferocious, and I am beginning to feel like a human being again. I think my husband Teddy is even more relieved than I am. Between the projectile vomiting, the volatile mood swings, and the subhuman moans I made while lying in bed wearing food stained pajamas, poor Teddy didn't know whether to call a doctor or an exorcist.
I can honestly say that I don't know how I would have survived
the past two months without Teddy's vigilant pampering. Teddy
made or bought me breakfast, lunch, dinner and post-midnight
snacks every single day. As a screenwriter who works from home,
he does have a pretty flexible schedule. But my sickness fell
during a time he was under a strict deadline to turn in his
script, and he had to work day and night to finish in time. Yet
he still did all my errands for me, put up with my crankiness,
comforted me when I cried, and gave me back rubs. These past
eight weeks have reminded me that I have the best husband in the
world, and that having a baby with this man isn't sheer folly!
For someone who has been mostly home-bound, a return of some semblance of normality is insanely exciting. This week I resumed my Taekwondo training and even attended a pitch meeting at Warner Brothers for a script that Teddy and I are writing together. Yet now that my nausea has subsided somewhat, I am more acutely aware of how retarded I have become. I alluded to this in my last entry and I thought maybe it was just lack of food or exhaustion. It's not.
In fact, I have coined a new term for this insidious condition. I call it the Dumbness Induced by Pregnancy Syndrome or D.I.P.S., if you want a cute acronym. The symptoms are subtle yet potentially humiliating, and if left unchecked could lead to full-blown moronic behavior.
Symptoms include glazed eyes, general confusion, complete inability to retain any information or learn new skills, low tolerance for frustration, forgetfulness, and -- oh yes, my favorite -- drooling. The technical term is "hyperpitalism." Basically, it means overproduction of saliva and it is a well-known pregnancy sign. Can you believe there's actually a medical term for too much saliva? Anyhow, the pregnancy books theorize it has something to do with nausea and vomiting and affords a measure of protection for our teeth from stomach acids. I beg to differ.
Have you ever seen a movie where the really dumb person didn't have a drooling problem? There's a connection between intelligence and saliva production. Don't ask me why, it's just an observation. So far, I have found D.I.P.S. to be the most frightening side-effect of pregnancy. Everyone has a basic identity, perhaps branded from high school. There's the Party Girl, The Pretty Girl, The Popular Girl, The Nerdy Girl, The It Girl, or The Nice Girl. I'm oversimplifying, but you know what I'm talking about. While I may not have been considered any of the afore-mentioned, it's safe to say I was considered The Smart Girl. Now I'm no Mensa Goddess, but the synapses in my brain were known to crackle and fire on a regular basis. But no longer. In three short months I have become the pod person formerly known as Minsun. The Smart Girl has been replaced by Drooling Village Idiot Girl.
Smart Girl used to read classic literature and appreciate good character development and intricate plotting. But Drooling Village Idiot Girl watches children's programming and Animal Planet. Her particular favorites are "Crocodile Hunter" and "The Planet's Funniest Animals." Her startled husband is agape with mute horror as Village Idiot Girl watches the home videos of animal high jinks and claps her hands in glee, chortling "I like all the funny animals!"
Smart Girl has actually been on a game show. Drooling Village Idiot Girl sees them on TV and becomes mesmerized by all the pretty flashing lights. Smart Girl used to write screenplays, and Drooling Village Idiot Girl... well, still writes screenplays. Not a ringing endorsement for the movie industry, huh? Not to mention rambling on in this journal.
As you can see, I am the poster child for D.I.P.S. I'm not exactly proposing we hold a telethon or anything (besides, Jerry Lewis won't return any of my calls), but I do want to raise awareness for this mysterious and little-recognized condition so that maybe women everywhere can stand up and say, "I'm not stupid, I'm just pregnant!" Some of you have already shared your own tales of stupidity on my message board, but can anybody tell me when and if D.I.P.S. goes away? In the meantime, I frantically play word games and do crossword puzzles in a desperate attempt at rehabilitation. I think it'll be a long road to recovery and another few months before I'm utilizing both hemispheres of my brain again. | <urn:uuid:5fbe58fb-6981-486e-9290-2582812484c3> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.pregnancyandbaby.com/pregnancy/articles/937487/week-14-dumbness-induced-by-pregnancy-syndrome | 2014-03-07T14:08:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999643993/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060723-00032-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965 | 1,125 |
CELTIC SPIRIT was originally christened BEAGLE.
She was conceived for high performance, extended cruising with a young family in remote locations such as Antarctica. It was therefore important that she was very strong and that her systems offered her the highest levels of reliability and long range.
Built to designs by Dubois, she achieved a passage speed of 9 knots during extended builder’s trials from Falmouth to Cowes. This exceeded expectations.
The interior was designed by Mark Whitely; and successfully achieves a ‘Super Yacht’ feel and good volume for the owner’s party of 6 plus 2 crew. A floating interior was used to reduce noise and improve shipboard life.
During her original ownership CELTIC SPIRIT sailed to Antarctica and circumnavigated the globe twice. All this without fuss, and proving that a fast sailing yacht can also be rugged enough to withstand all the world’s oceans without compromising style and comfort.
In 2002 the yacht changed hands in the Caribbean. She was sailed back to her build yard and she underwent an 8-month rebuild to upgrade the yacht hugely. During this rebuild the main systems were replaced and she was restored internally. Her communications and navigational systems were also replaced, as well as her sails. Of course the game has moved on since 1993, and there was the opportunity to up-date and improve on many of the systems that she had when built.
She then cruised the Mediterranean before returning to the UK to be sold. Her current owner purchased her in 2005 with the idea in mind of serious high and low latitude cruising. After commissioning, she cruised to Greenland before returning to Berthon with a work list that was long. During this refit work included new paint to the hull and superstructure and replacement of the teak decks. At that time many technical improvements were also actioned including a review of the hydraulic systems, and the rig including a water catchment membrane internally for the main mast which is keel stepped. Her hydraulic door system was also rebuilt and the anchoring system re-designed and rebuilt for world cruising.
After her refit CELTIC SPIRIT sailed to Portugal and the Azores and then across the Atlantic arriving in Argentina and then cruising the Antarctic and South Georgia. She then made her way back to the Caribbean to Trinidad and thence to Antigua where she put up a spirited showing in Antigua Race Week prior to sailing back to Western Europe.
Since then she has cruised extensively in the Mediterranean sailing as far east as Greece and Albania and she has also crossed the Atlantic 6 times in order to spend winters in the warmth of the Caribbean. Throughout the current ownership she has had the same Captain aboard.
CELTIC SPIRIT has sailed around 100,000 miles with her current ownership safely and with great style. Throughout the period she has been meticulously maintained and she has touched the hearts and minds of her crew and all who have been involved with her. A book and documentary follow and describe her remarkable story.
Since the 2005 refit, CELTIC SPIRIT has enjoyed a series of refits carried out in Europe. Work includes:
CELTIC SPIRIT is now available for trouble-free World sailing in totally operational condition. Her classic Dubois good looks are still as contemporary as they were when she was first launched in Falmouth in 1993. Because of the need for complete independence, the yacht is sold with a very complete inventory of spares and replacement parts. All spares are stored in custom built storage areas and are all inventoried for ease of location. The yacht has been managed by a qualified surveyor to ensure that the maintenance schedule is always maintained to a very high operational standard. Although she does not charter, she is maintained in class with the MCA at Category 2.
CELTIC SPIRIT is a most beautiful yacht and she is admired wherever we sail. Not only does she have beautiful lines but she looks and is, a most seaworthy craft which has taken her crew joyfully and safely on more than 100,000 miles of ocean sailing during our various adventures. She is maintained to exacting standards irrespective of budget and rewards us with a go anywhere attitude of spirit and bravery.
We have had so many special times on board and it is truly difficult to identify any particular destination above the so many fabulous places we visited but a few come to mind which may deserve more visits. Isafjordur in north west Iceland where the whole village partied all night aboard CELTIC SPIRIT. Great Skellig island in south west Ireland where we climbed to the summit and observed the beehive structures previously inhabited by monks. The island of Fernando de Noronha 200 miles off northwest Brazil where we surfed our dinghy ashore on enormous swells and observed their unique Spinner Dolphins, and of course the isolation of the rugged Beagle Canal in Patagonia and Antarctica but especially the most magnificent South Georgia with its abundance of wildlife.
With family now demanding a slice of this life we are seeking a larger yacht and we are therefore reluctantly allowing a new owner continue with CELTIC SPIRIT and her unique spirit of adventure.
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Sequential quarterly growth for banks expected to be weak; vehicle-finance NBFCs to show improved growth
(Image:REUTERS/Adnan Abidi.The image is for illustrative purposes only.)
India’s banks will brace themselves for another tough quarter (January to March 2017), as weak loan growth and no clear resolution to the stubborn problem of high levels of non-performing assets amongst both state-owned and private banks. Credit growth for the industry continues to the tepid as banks remain risk averse, due to high levels of stressed assets and still subdued business activity. Due to the lag effect of demonetisation late last year, banks will continue to see a rise in deposit growth.
The Q4FY17 quarter will see some of the heavyweights such as HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank and Yes Bank in coming days.
Sequential earnings growth from state-owned banks is expected to be weak for the March-ended quarter, due to lower trading revenues and higher provisioning towards bad loans. But on an year ago basis, the earnings numbers are likely to read better, due to the base effect of Q3FY16, when all banks were impacted by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) asset quality review.
“The RBI AQR in FY16 led to high NPAs, and due to weak recoveries till date, provision levels are likely to remain elevated (ageing of NPAs),” say Alpesh Mehta and Shubham Banka, analysts at Motilal Oswal Financial Services.
Asset quality will, thus, continue to be the most spoken about for the last financial quarter of 2016-17. One could expect heavyweights such as State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank to continue in their effort to clean up their balance sheets. The commentary and the resolution of NPAs from the top management at all these banks will be closely watched.
The RBI, in its last policy statement on April 7, had urged banks to deal with the issue of NPAs themselves. “Creeping forbearance in the treatment of bank losses is untenable and costly for the rest of the economy,” the RBI governor Urjit Patel had told the media, after the monetary policy statement.
It has last week issued new guidelines to resolve the bad loans problems. The RBI has said that: “A bank will be placed under PCA framework based on the audited annual financial results and the supervisory assessment made by RBI.” All banks in India will now be monitored on the matrix of capital, asset quality and profitability and divided on the basis of three levels of “risk thresholds.”
“We expect pressure on asset quality to continue due to factors such as: expected resolution in the steel sector is delayed; some large accounts may be recognized as NPAs, and the lag impact of demonetisation results in slippages from small value accounts,” the Motilal Oswal analysts said.
“We factor net slippage ratio of 2.5 percent (2.4 percent in 3QFY17) and provision-to-operating profits of 82 percent (79 percent in 3QFY17) for state-owned banks and 33 percent (37 percent in 3QFY17) for private sector banks,” they added in the report to clients.
Last week, DCB Bank reported a weak set of numbers, where net profit slid 24 percent to Rs 52.86 crore and gross non-performing assets rose. So while asset quality will remain a real concern, fund managers and research analysts will watch for the commentary relating to the resolutions on stressed assets.
“Some of the concerns in the sector persist. Credit growth will continue be slow,” says Dhananjay Sinha, head of institutional equities of Emkay Global Financial Services, who added that large and small companies continue to face contraction in their businesses.
The non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) segment are expected to see a divergent set of earnings data. Select NBFCs could witness improved growth, particularly those in the retail or vehicle loans space. But those lending to pure small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could see slower growth, says Sinha from Emkay Global.
“In a seasonally-strong quarter, vehicle finance (VF) NBFCs are expected to report sequentially better earnings, led by strong business growth and better recoveries,” say HDFC Securities’ analysts Darpin Shah, Vishal Rampuria and Pranav Gupta in a report to clients.
In the case of SBI, investors will also look for any observations from the SBI management on the integration of five of its subsidiaries -- besides the Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) -- with itself, from April 1 onward. | <urn:uuid:cf9b6bb4-868e-4622-b20d-b4fce971a09e> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://www.forbesindia.com/printcontent/46735 | 2019-05-21T01:30:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256184.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521002106-20190521024106-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.950171 | 1,007 |
Shea Hembrey: 100 Artists
Shea Hembrey: 100 Artists
One artist invents one hundred to create a truly unique biennial
After attending a massive biennial, contemporary artist Shea Hembrey found himself dissatisfied with the work presented there. In response he decided to host his own biennial called "Seek." Originally planning to seek out a selection of artists whose work he agreed with, Hembrey had trouble finding an appropriate amount of accessible artists and decided to create all of the work himself.
Hembry's biennial is the upshot of his pure genius as an artist. More than a collection of his own works, the show includes 100 fake artists that he conceived, each with their own persona and body of work. This monumental project was first introduced at the TED 2011 conference, where we had the opportunity to learn about Hembry and his project.
A native of rural Hickory Grove, AK, Hembrey worked as a licensed breeder of migratory waterfowl with the U.S. Department of the Interior before getting involved in the art world, which began with nine years of formal art education, including an MFA from Cornell. His study of Maori Art during his time as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar to New Zealand definitively altered his take on the craft. Heavily conceptual but with an advanced understanding and mastery of varied materials and techniques. The inspirations for his works, such as "Nizdos," a series of eleven pieces in which the artist duplicates bird nest in various illuminating installations, derive from his strong interest in and involvement with animals, especially birds, as a child. Hembrey notices patterns in nature and mythology, and attempts to imitate those patterns to comment upon the human appropriation of the natural world.
Cool Hunting recently caught up with Hembrey and got the scoop on how all these personas came to life and the challenges of composing such a challenging project.
What made you decide to fabricate a biennial instead of simply curating one?
Making a biennial seemed the easiest option once I developed a detailed vision of the final exhibition that I desired. Once I had that initial, audacious idea of actually creating all the art myself, I couldn't not take on that challenge.
Have you always made up characters or stories about strangers?
Coming from the rural South, I grew up with a rich storytelling tradition. And, the quirky, colorful characters that I grew up around made me see the world as a place filled with fascinating individuals. Then as an undergraduate, I was also an English major toying with the idea of becoming a novelist. So, yes, I have always been fascinated by narrative and strong individual characters.
Were any of these personas imagined before the idea for the biennial came up?
No, but many of the personas are versions of me—and therefore several projects were based on what I might one day eventually get around to in the studio. So, this biennial allowed me to shop around in my warehouse of potential artistic directions and explore roads never taken.
Where did your inspiration for the different artists originate from? Are they based on people you know in any way?
The various artists came about in a myriad of ways. I didn't want the artists to be formulaic—so sometimes the art ideas preceded the artists while other times a strong artist character developed and then I determined what they would create. Many details about me and my friends and family eventually did, of course, become part of this project.
How long did the project take to complete?
It was two years in the studio making the pieces—a true biennial of art. Then I spent about five months on artwork documentation, writing, and design of the catalogue.
How has this project helped you grow as a person and an artist?
Perhaps the biggest lessons came from when I'd work as an artist quite different from me. I'd make some plans for a work and then ask, "What is the opposite of what I would choose to do? Now, how can I create that polarity AND make it still be a work that I respect and am enchanted by?" Those quandaries and solutions were unspeakably enlightening.
Does it get confusing being so many different people?
Yes. The sheer number of artists was hard to manage, so I had to focus on just a few people at a time to stay organized and productive. Once I understood an artist and had his or her voice, then they were largely autonomous and then after making their work, I spoke about and thought of them as individuals separate from me.
Do you consider their art personal to you, or are you detached from it?
Since I also played the role of two curators (I made 106 artists and curated 100 into the final biennial), I had to often be detached. But, I believe in all of these artists and in the value in all of their work. I'm certainly personally invested as if they were all close artist friends of mine.
What was the most difficult project to complete?
I can't pin down any particular project. I love a daunting challenge and I relish a struggle to suss an enigma out, so I guess I really embrace work that many others would not enjoy...the word 'difficult' excites me. I adore hard labor, and tedium, and working on questions that do not have a solution. But, I certainly know that the most unpleasant work was painting Jason Birdsong's snake piece because it was days of my stomach being in a twisting knot because of my fear of snakes...I was so happy to finish that image and then promptly hide it away.
Which is your favorite art work?
I made nearly four hundred artworks for this biennial, and I really cannot even begin to single out favorites because of the diversity of the works. Really, this is just one big, multifaceted singular work of art. So, the catalogue is my favorite work. | <urn:uuid:5a2d52a5-6e53-45bb-8216-066ab2e3a954> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coolhunting.com/design/shea-hembrey-seek | 2017-01-16T15:07:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00520-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980849 | 1,228 |
"Cross Bike, A Moron and a Douche Bag". Isn't that the title of a Tom Wolfe novel? Or maybe Hemingway.
This morning’s ride could not have been more pleasant. The sun is up by 5.50am so the need for bike lights is almost gone. I have been braving Downtown San Anselmo without a front light simply for the ease of not worrying that the lights will get stole off my bike in the new garage. It is not quite regular short-sleeves weather yet. But I can feel it around the corner. The winds are crazy at this time of year. But that just gets me a little more exertion and exercise.
The Cross bike is holding up as a fantastic replacement bike while the new bike gets built up. It is amazing how comfortable this cross bike is compared to the old race/road bike. I don’t know enough about bike geometry to tell you whether it is the wheel base or the angle of the fork or the 28mm tires or whatever. But I can tell you that I am flying downhill these days. For some reason, it is just feels safer to go faster downhill. That said, it is also a slug going up hills (even harder than normal) and a significant effort to keep the bike moving at the same speeds that the road bike can achieve.
I have not mentioned one of my road girlfriends on this blog before. But Johnny and I saw her this morning again. We have bumped into this moron several times over the last 12 months, always in the same place ... Battery Street (the very end of our commute) between 6.50 and 7.10am. She drives a white, older model Nissan Altima with the license plate starting with a 6 and ending with 567 (I’ll get the full plate one of these days). Anyways, on our first memorable encounter with the moron, we were merging from the Embarcadero onto Battery. There is a bike lane that on the left of the car traffic on the Embarcadero which allows bikes to turn and ride on the left hand side of Battery.. As we start to turn, out of nowhere, this moron starts honking, yelling and revving her engine. She got inches from our rear wheels and then sped off around us. Johnny caught up to her to give her a talking-to and all I caught was the end of the exchange; the woman screaming the F-Word and waving her coffee in one hand and cell phone and cigarette in the other. After seeing her a few more times, Johnny and I vowed to get the better of her in future exchanges. Another time, I was riding in the left-most lane with a lot of other car traffic when this moron sped up a bit too close to me. I gave her a look that probably was not too nice, and before I could say a word, she busted out with some serious F-Bombs, and called me both the C-Word and the N-Word (I have been called a lot of things in my time, but never the N-Word. I have been previously called the C-Word). Note to self … this moron is crazy. This morning, we saw her again. Being the jerk that I am, I rode up past her as she was stopped at a red light (surprising that she even stopped) and got right in the middle of the lane in front of her. Johnny followed me to do the same. As the light changed, I lead out and she blasted by us ON THE LEFT IN THE LANE FOR METERED PARKING. As she swerved back into the correct driving lane, she jerked her wheel in our direction and would have hit us if we had not slowed down to avoid her aggressive move. Catching up to her again at the next red light, the smoke from her marijuana joint was as obvious as day. She threw out a few cuss words and we opted to let her go without further issue. One of these days she is going to kill someone on Battery Street. Even without my provocation, we've seen her fly at 50 miles per hour down that street. She must do the same thing even on the days that we don’t see her. So much for San Francisco’s finest.
And then the Douche Bag … As I was hanging up my clothes in the gym locker, preparing to get in the shower, cooling down from the moron interaction, a fellow bike rider walked up to the locker next to mine. He was dressed in all black gear, full pants, jacket, bike hat under his helmet, all matching with Colnago labels everywhere. But the thing that caught my fancy was the fact that he was still in his bike shoes and booties (booties also matching Colnago brand). I couldn’t resist. I said, “Booties in May? That’s pretty aggressive. Where are you coming in from”. He response was classic. He looks at me with his nose turned up and says, “Its pretty windy where I ride. It gets cold. Gotta protect myself. I come in all the way from Sea Cliff.” I just giggled and nodded having just ridden in five times the distance of his commute in a tornado ... wearing just a long sleeve under top and mountain bike shoes. Douche Bag. | <urn:uuid:413082e3-944a-42df-9da5-75d544329fb5> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://fatguyrides.blogspot.com/2012/05/cross-bike-moron-and-douche-bag.html | 2017-12-14T15:15:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948544677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214144324-20171214164324-00305.warc.gz | en | 0.979596 | 1,114 |
Hon. Nikki Haley, Governor South Carolina, Hon. Beth Van Duyne, Mayor of Irving City, and India’s Consular General from Houston, Hon. Mr. Parvathaneni Harish and many other dignitariesattended the ceremonies.
“The 7 foot tall 30 inch wide Bronze statue was cast in Andhra Pradesh, India and will be installed on a 6 foot tall pedestalwith a big flatform, and a granite wall in the back will be adorned with inscriptions from Gandhi’s quotations and sayings from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein, President Obama etc., Grand Opening ceremonies are set for October 2nd(Gandhiji’s Birthday) and are expecting Mahatma Gandhi Family, Martin Luther King Family and Nelson Mandela Family members besides many other invited dignitaries form the USA and India”. said, Dr. Prasad Thotakura, Chairman of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas (MGMNT)”.
The estimated total project around $700,000 is borne entirely by the community and not a dime will come from the Irving City funds. However, people can donate generously and more information can be obtained from www.mgmnt.org or from the project Chairman, Dr. Prasad Thotakura at 817-300-4747 or [email protected]
Nothing ever happens in the world without the drive of an individual and his or her supporters. For the last years, under the leadership of Dr. Prasad Thotakura, Chairman, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas (MGMNT) the entire team has been working very hard to have an iconic representation of Mahatma Gandhi in Dallas area.
MGMNT team is led by Dr. Prasad Thotakura, Chairman, Mr. Taiyab Kundawala, Co-chair, Mrs. Swati Shah, Co-chair, Rao Kalvala, Secretary, Dilip Patel, Treasurer, and Directors – Piyush Patel, Shabnam Modgil, Jack Godhwani, Paul Pandian and Fundraising Chairs – John Hammond, Sudhir Parikh, Kuntesh Choski and Advisory Board of Directors like Padmashri AK Mago, Prof. Caroline Brittle, MVL Prasad etc.,
The event was graced by her Excellency Gov. Nikki Randhawa Haley. She is the first woman Governor of South Carolina, the youngest Governor in the United States, and the first Indian American female Governor.
The Governor said, “ that there is no reason we cannot have peace and love with everyone, and one thing he constantly said was if we want to truly have peace and love, we have to start with Children. By putting this statue in this park, we are starting out with children, reminding them who he was, reminding them what he was about, and reminding them of the celebration he wanted his life to live on”.
She then turned to Dr. Prasad Thotakura and said, ” Prasad, there is nothing you could not do.” Indeed, that is the truth.
She continued, “When I look at the statue, I see a man of the peace. To walk in the state house of South Carolina as a first India American woman as Governor, I hoped that’s exactly what he wanted for all communities, for all people, and for all minorities to be able to be free as they wanted to be, as peaceful as they wanted to be, and to get to contribute to the world, and that is what we are celebrating today”.
She said, “Indian American community is the least dependent community on receiving aid from the state, most affluent and the most educated communities in America.”
Mayor Beth Van Duyne appreciated the community for funding it entirely on their own and she asserted that Zip code 75038 in Irving had the most diverse population in America.
Consul General of India Mr. Parvathaneni Harish attended the ceremonies as a Special Guest of Honor and congratulated the MGMNT Team and the Dallas area community for planning to make one of the greatest monuments in the USA.
Mahatma Gandhi’s soul would be smiling at the people gathered in the park today. He lived and sacrificed his life for the unity of people of the Subcontinent. As Indian flag colors like orange, white and green and also US flag colors like red, white and blue balloons were released into the bright sunny blue skies. It was beautiful sight to see with an imagination of smiling affectionate face of Mahatma Gandhi – seeing the community members from all regions, religions and races joining hands to get the memorial built as a reminder of unity. Indeed it is a great accomplishment for the people of Dallas. | <urn:uuid:cdbc3dc0-4ddb-44a8-a2b3-54f0bc426f7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.123telugu.com/mnews/ground-breaking-ceremony-of-mahatma-gandhi-memorial-plaza-in-irving-tx.html | 2017-01-16T17:25:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959674 | 1,001 |
The NSW Relationships Register commenced operation 1 July 2010. It provides legal recognition for a couple, regardless of their sex, by registration of the relationship.
Who is eligible to register a relationship?
Adults who are in a relationship as a couple, regardless of sex, can apply for registration of their relationship, provided at least one of them lives in NSW. Adults in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships are eligible to register.
People under 18 years old are not eligible.
A relationship cannot be registered if either person is:
- in another registered relationship,
- in a relationship as a couple with another person, or
- if they are related by family.
A couple does not have to live together to be eligible to register their relationship.
How do I apply for registration?
To apply, partners make a statutory declaration stating they:
- wish to register the relationship,
- are in a relationship as a couple with the other person,
- are not married or in a relationship as a couple with anyone else and that they are not related to each other by family,
- are not in another registered relationship whether in NSW or in another Australian jurisdiction, and
- do or do not reside in NSW (as at least one member of the couple must reside in NSW).
In applying, proof of identity is required for each person along with payment of a fee.
Couples making an application to register a relationship will not have to provide any further documentary evidence or proof of their relationship. However, it should be noted that it is an offence to wilfully make a false statutory declaration knowing its contents to be untrue or to provide false and misleading information in such a context. Penalties of up seven years imprisonment may be imposed for making a false declaration for material gain.
Once an application is made, there is a 28-day cooling off period in which either party can withdraw the application. After that time, the Registrar will register the relationship and issue the couple with a certificate recording the event if the appropriate application has been submitted and the fee paid.
What is the effect of registration?
Couples in registered relationships will be recognised as de facto partners for the purposes of most legislation in NSW.
This will mean people in registered relationships will be able to rely on their certificate of registration to access various entitlements, services and records under NSW law. Registered couples may be able to access more easily, key benefits and rights under NSW legislation. Additionally, in situations that are not necessarily governed by legislation, service providers may choose to accept registration of a relationship as proof of the legitimacy of that relationship.
Couples in registered relationships will also be subject to certain obligations or restrictions under NSW law.
The NSW Government is currently working with the Commonwealth as to whether registration will also enable NSW couples to be recognised as de facto partners under Commonwealth law.
Will a relationship registered in another Australian jurisdiction be recognised under NSW law?
The legislation provides for the Government to make regulations recognising interstate registered relationships in NSW.
For more information, please refer to Clause 4 of the Relationships Register Regulation 2010.
What if the relationship breaks down?
Either or both parties can apply to revoke the registration of a relationship. It is not necessary for both partners to agree to revocation.
If only one partner is revoking the registration, they must provide proof they have served notice on the other. If the partner cannot serve notice, the Registrar has discretion to dispense with the notice requirement.
There is then a cooling-off period of 90 days before the registration is revoked by the Registrar. This ensures that people do not lightly make a decision to end their relationship. As this is an administrative procedure there will be no need to engage lawyers or go to court. A fee is charged for making an application to revoke registration. If either couple requires a copy of the certificate showing the revocation details, then standard certificate fees apply.
Registration of a relationship may also be revoked by law on the death or marriage of a person in the relationship.
A registration is considered void (having no legal effect) if:
- the agreement of one or both persons in the relationship to registration was obtained by fraud, duress or other improper means,
- when the relationship was registered either party was mentally incapable of understanding the nature and effect of registration, or
- the relationship was prohibited (ie one of the persons was married etc).
Withdrawing a Relationship Registration or Revocation
There is no fee for withdrawing either a Relationship registration (within the 28 days cooling off period), or a Relationship revocation (within the 90 days cooling off period). There is no refund of application fees.
Please contact the Manager, Registration Development Services on (02) 9035 6545.
Download the application form, print it off, and complete. Then mail it to the Registry along with the required proof of identification.
- NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages
GPO Box 30
SYDNEY NSW 2001
You can also deliver your application form in person to a:
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Holiday break for many Capital Region children runs this year from December 22 – January 1. If your family is having cabin fever or you’re looking for something to do with your children, there are quite a few activities going on throughout the week that are good for children of varying ages that are low cost, educational and fun!
Children’s Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)
GE Kids in Free Day | Saturday, December 22, 2018 | 10 am – 5 pm
Sensory Play Thursday | Investigate the A in STEAM Fridays | Thursday, December 27, 2018 | 10 am – 11:30 am
Investigate the A in STEAM Fridays | Friday, December 28, 2018 | 11 am
GE Kids in Free Day | Saturday, December 29, 2018 | 10 am – 5 pm
Children’s Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST), 250 Jordan Road, Troy, NY 12180
CMOST is closed from December 24 – 26, 2018 in observance of the holiday. However, children under 12 receive free admission every Saturday at CMOST as part of GE Kids in Free Days. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am – 5 pm during the school year. Regular admission is $8 per person for children ages 2 and older. On Thursdays, children ages 2-6 can improve motor skills with hands-on sensory science activities. On Fridays, children of all ages can participate in creative art activities. Here is more information.
miSci (Museum of Innovation and Science)
GE Kids in Free Day | Sunday, December 23, 2018 | 12 pm – 5 pm
15 Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY 12308
As part of GE Kids in Free Day, all children under 12 are admitted free to MiSci. All other days, admission is free for members, $8 for children (3-12), $12 for adults (13+) and $10 for seniors (65+). The museum is closed on December 24 and 25. Here is more information.
Holiday Vacation Week at the New York State Museum
Sunday, December 23 – Saturday, December 29, 2018 | 11 am – 4 pm
New York State Museum, 222 Madison Avenue Albany, NY 12230
The New York State Museum is free to attend and they have a few special exhibits to check out for some educational family fun. Programs highlight the 1920s, early 1900s New York City for immigrants, the Erie Canal, a Starlab, whales and the history of whaling in New York State, fire engines, and a New Year’s Mid-Day Celebration. Here is a full schedule and more information.
Kids Day Off Bowling Specials
Wednesday, December 26 – Friday December 28, 2018 | 9 am
Saratoga Strike Zone, 522 Ballston Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Did you know that Saratoga Strike Zone has ‘Kid’s Day Off’ specials? They have dates posted through April 2019, including three days during this upcoming winter break. For $14 per person, you get two hours of bowling, shoe rental, two slices of pizza, soda, bumper card rides and ballocity. Here is more information.
Palace Theater Movie Series: A Muppet Christmas Carol
Thursday, December 27, 2018 | 12 pm
19 Clinton Ave, Albany, NY 12207
It’s Family Fun Day at the Palace Theater; all children ages 12 and under are admitted for free. There are pre-film games and activities followed by a showing of The Princess and the Frog. Here is more information.
A Very Mabee Christmas
Thursday, December 27, 2018 | 12 pm
Mabee Farm Historic Site, 1100 Main St, Rotterdam Junction, NY 12150
The Capital Region has a rich Dutch heritage. The Mabee Farm, fun by the Schenectady County Historical Society, offers a program for families to learn about and participate in these traditions. The cost is $8 per person. Here is more information.
Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center & Thacher State Park
Paint a Snowy Owl Workshop | Thursday, December 27, 2018 | 2 pm – 4 pm
Evergreen Walk | Saturday, December 29, 2018 | 10 am
87 Nature Center Way Voorheesville, NY 12186
If the weather is not too cold this winter break, then try some nature activities. The Paint a Snowy Owl Workshop is a guided painting class, recommended for children ages 8 and older with a fee of $10 for materials. The evergreen walk for adults and children ages 5 and older. Both events require registration. Here is more information.
We also recommend checking with your local public library to see what events they have each day. Enjoy your holiday break and time spent with your families! | <urn:uuid:99403067-290f-44dd-af69-a469c211ed79> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.burdettbirthcenter.org/blog/parenting-tips/2018-capital-region-winter-break-activities/ | 2019-03-26T15:12:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912205534.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326135436-20190326161436-00379.warc.gz | en | 0.941519 | 1,000 |
Our goal here is to help you make sense of what women are saying. Things aren’t always clear and simple; it’s very easy for people to send mixed messages. Then there are some messages that are pretty self-explanatory in most cases. Usually, this describes the words “I hate you.”
Good things rarely come from a girl saying those three words or any other variation on the theme. But if you came searching for this article you must have some reason for thinking that there’s more than meets the eye. So that’s what we’re going to try and find, every possible meaning that this message might have.
Just a heads up, don’t get your hopes up too much. Still, it is worth taking a deeper look. We’re going to ask you to look at your situation from a few different angles. Try to be as honest as possible with yourself, and you will come away with a better understanding.
Conversation is never just about the words being used; it’s also about how the words are being used. The words “I hate you” look incredibly harsh on their own but we’ve all seen someone use those words playfully.
Hang out with good friends long enough, and you’re almost certain to hear one friend saying that he hates the other. The key is that they say it with a smile on their face, or they start laughing soon after they say it.
If you’re communicating via text things can get more complicated. Ask yourself, what were you talking about before she told you she hated you? If you were joking and teasing her, there’s a chance she’s just teasing you back. But be careful, you’re always walking a bit of a tightrope when you’re teasing a girl and chances are.
When a girl says she hates you with a smile on her lips and a laugh punctuating her remark, then it’s not a bad sign. If she says it with an even tone and grim expression, then you need to drop to your knees and beg forgiveness.
Commitment changes things
If you’re on your first date with a girl and she lets you know that she honestly dislikes you, then you’re pretty much screwed. There are some true Don Juans out there who look for this sort of a challenge, but for most men, it’s a relationship death sentence.
Think of your relationship like a stock and think of time and energy like money. If you buy just one stock at a cheap price, you’ll have no problem selling it if things like even the least bit bad.
But if you’ve invested your life savings into a stock you’ll have trouble letting go of it even when things look dire because you don’t want to feel like you’ve wasted everything. People think about relationships in a similar way, if we haven’t really invested much into one it’s easy to drop it and move on, but once we’ve really dug in we find it hard to leave even when it’s clearly the right thing to do.
The longer you’ve been with a woman and the deeper your commitment is, the less likely it is that one “I hate you” will end things. Every relationship goes through ups and downs; those harsh words could signal the latest down for you and her.
What you need to be careful about is a pattern of anger and disapproval that can arise. One “I hate you” might be a freak occurrence, but if she keeps saying it then it’s probably the way she feels deep down.
Take a moment to think about where your relationship stands. Did this come out of nowhere or have things been rocky for a while? Think carefully, many men become complacent in relationships and allow them to drift apart. If this has happened to you then her hate might be terminal, but if you catch yourself early on you can make things right.
Things to look up for
Hate is a strong word, and a complex emotion. It comes in many different varieties. You might hate someone because they have harmed you and seem to have no redeeming qualities or you might feel like you hate them because you care about hem deeply and they’ve let you down. You have to look beyond the words themselves to see how your girl really feels. See the way she acts.
Is she always talking about you? It’s not a good thing if she’s complaining to all of her friends about you. Still, it means that you’re in her mind. You have to worry when she stops talking about you until then you might be able to salvage things.
Is she still in contact with you? Until a girl completely breaks things off with you, there’s an opening. She clearly still wants you in her life, even if it’s just so she can vent her emotions to you directly. What you need to do is catch her off guard and try to convert that hate into love. Or at least dull its heat.
This article hasn’t been terribly positive so far and for good reason. It’s hard to spin a message as strong as “I hate you.” But with that being said, there is one upside. Even if a girl hates you at least, she cares about you.
People tend to think as love as the opposite of hate, but that isn’t necessarily the case. The truth is that indifference is the farthest you can get from hate. Everyone in a friendship, family, and relationship spends some time wavering between love and hate. The blood runs hot when love is involved.
If you’ve been with your girl for a long time then hearing that she hates you isn’t the end of the world. That doesn’t mean that you can ignore it, it simply means that if you start trying to make things up to her now, you might be able to salvage the situation. | <urn:uuid:be004fca-6f11-459b-ae12-e9aad7f49bc4> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.everydayknow.com/what-does-it-mean-when-a-girl-says-she-hates-you/ | 2020-07-10T22:29:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655912255.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710210528-20200711000528-00114.warc.gz | en | 0.966309 | 1,280 |
It is common in the business-to-business world for firms to think that brands are a very important competitive factor in the consumer market but less crucial in their own market. There is a general trend to dismiss brand loyalty as an emotional facet of consumer-product buying decisions and not nearly so decisive in the purchasing of products and services in the B2B world, where buying choices are ostensibly much more rational and objective. Indeed, B2B purchasing decisions are assumed to be based solely on objective data, largely ignoring more subjective factors like the brand of the supplying firm. Is this really true?
Let’s look for a moment at the main features that distinguish the B2B market from the consumer market. Firstly, the market is made up by a much smaller clutch of clients, sometimes boiling down to only a score or so of companies or institutions. This is the case, for example, of GMV, which is world leader in the telecom satellite control center market, comprising a small number of space agencies and satellite operators. The size of each sales operation is also much greater, sometimes adding up to tens or hundreds of millions of euros. Moreover, the purchasing operation is very unwieldy and ideally governed by purely objective and rational criteria that aim to obtain the best possible price-value ratio. Theoretically, this would be determined solely by playing off technical requirements against the characteristics and performance of products and services, economic terms and conditions, delivery times, service and warranties and the company’s track record and certified references. Another standout feature, finally, would be the forging of long-term relations between supplier and client, mainly held in place by the cost of change for the client.
In view of these component features we might well indeed conclude that the tendering firm’s corporate brand plays no important part. B2B markets are very complex, however, and the human factor is upfront in all of them. This means the brand is much more influential than might be thought at first sight.
Firstly, getting through to target clients is tricky. Secondly, the portfolio of products and services offered to clients is fiendishly complex not only in terms of characteristics but also the sheer technical diversity of the products and services offered. Finally, the purchasing process itself is time-consuming and unwieldy, involving as it does several people within the client’s set-up, many of whom have to report their decisions to third parties (unlike the end consumer).
Ideally the purchasing process is open to the whole supply on offer and is objective, rational and very technical; in practice, however, the situation is very different. This process is conducted by people subject to all human virtues and failings, so the final process may not be as open and objective as might at first be thought. Decision stakeholders are often very chary of the risk involved in assessing the field: a good bid is not enough. Decision-makers might well eschew good bids from companies with little reputation or recognition, to cover their backs if things go wrong in the future. They might often choose to minimize their personal risk within the organization and would prefer to “make a mistake” with a worse bid from a recognized firm than take the plunge with a better bid from someone barely known. The more complicated is the product or service at stake, the greater is this hedging effect. It should also be borne in mind here that internet has opened up a much wider B2B supply for clients: the whole available supply is just one mouse-click away and brands help clients cherry-pick their way through this glut of information.
In sum we can safely claim that supply-side proliferation, globalization and complexity, time pressures and risk aversion all weigh heavily in the search and assessment phases, cutting down the possibilities of any bids not backed up by brands with instant purchaser recognition.
Just as Kotler says, brands serve exactly the same purpose in B2B markets as in consumer markets. They provide a distinctive sign of the attributes, benefits and values of any bidding firm, cutting down the perceived risk and complexity while simplifying the whole decision-making process. They create a sense of trustworthiness, dependability and predictability in the product or service in question, bringing out its advantages and, above all, endorsing the decision maker.
Author: Miguel Ángel Martínez
Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer
Las opiniones vertidas por el autor son enteramente suyas y no siempre representan la opinión de GMV
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White bedroom designs are a classic option that will never date. With the right accessories and soft furnishings, a white bedroom can still be a warm and inviting space for you to enjoy.
A white colour scheme creates a calming backdrop that will become a tranquil haven for you to relax and sleep in, but you need to pay attention to the little details to make sure you avoid designing a stark and sterile room.
More expert advice: The best white paint – how to choose the right shade for your walls
Looking for a more elegant take on an all-white look? Subtle accents of grey, blue or black will lend a softer touch to your bedroom and still be in keeping with your neutral theme. Add mirrored furniture and chic lamps for a clever twist on this classic style.
White furniture can still look warm in a white bedroom. Just make sure you choose a focal point, such as a fireplace or a four-poster bed, to create something grand and luxurious, rather than clinical and cold.
Texture is another great way to mix-up an all-white bedroom design. Knitted cushions, woolen throws and thick rugs will make a white room look cosy. Think Scandinavian bedroom ideas meets minimal Boho design and you will nail your new look.
Mixing two styles together is a great way to achieve a unique look in a white bedroom. If you love country-style design, or vintage accessories, you can incorporate these into your room with ease. A pine bed frame, a patchwork quilt or coloured cushions on a white chair will all lift your white space and inject some of your own personality into the bedroom.
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Perk up a white bedroom in an instant with some painted monochrome storage units. Inexpensive and easy to update, a minimal shot of colour like this gives a cool and contemporary edge.
In a simple white bedroom a gallery-like wall is the perfect foil for pretty artwork and wall stickers. For a minimal bedroom keep things simple but interesting by bringing in a few carefully placed accessories, such as a vintage industrial-style light hung from a wooden peg hook and an old tea chest as a low-level bedside table.
The wood-effect wallpaper in this loft bedroom blends with the chunky throw and cushion. It’s all about celebrating natural materials and textures in an elegant way. The deep-pile carpet is a quiet statement.
Piet Hein Eek at Rockett St George
Keep a bedroom calm with a pale palette and a touch of glamour – choose a deep-pile carpet and sparkly Moroccan bridal blankets.
Sweetpea & Willow
Pleated bed upholstery and super-thick curtains create an organic origami theme in this pale pink bedroom. Pick furniture with a modernist twist, designed along sleek, minimalist lines, and mix broad stripes on walls with swirling geometric shaped lighting, all in pale, pastel shades, to spark the imagination.
Bed cover fabric
Ciara O’Neil at John Lewis
Bare brick walls have a rough and rugged style that looks cool, but can overwhelm, especially in the bedroom. Soften the textured feel with a coat of white paint.
Holman Specialist Paints
White walls create an ideal backdrop for collections of distinctive pieces such as these beautiful carvings. The soft grey furniture adds a further, subtle layer.
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This cohesive arrangement of white furniture creates the perfect backdrop for a distressed vintage chair.
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A splash of a vibrant pink creates a striking look as demonstrated in this very pretty bedroom. Rockett St George sells a wallpaper that will re-create the look of the ceiling.
Rockett St George
This layered scheme is a great example of a very sophisticated use of white. The headboard adds a sleek hotel-style feel.
Not on the High Street
This all white scheme is lent a distinctly Martha?s Vineyard feel with the addition of tongue and groove panelling to the walls.
Feather and Black
This distressed, French-style cupboard makes a great statement in this vintage bedroom.
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Sweetpea & Willow
This is a classic, calming white scheme that creates the perfect bedroom sanctuary. Touches of pale blue add a discreet hint of colour. The fitted valance creates a neat, tailored look.
The White Company
Adding a couple of striking patterns to an otherwise all-white scheme can have impressive results.
Martyn Lawrence-Bullard rug
The Rug Company
Create a colonial feel by setting furniture in rich hardwoods against a white backdrop.
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Customers in the Resort de Paris check out on the since Valtteri Bottas posts his method as a result of Gambling enterprise Square. Charles Coates/Getty Pictures
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You really have read that V6 turbo engines try hushed, and additionally they is. Not here. From tunnel, the vehicles feel just like they are on your own skeleton. You might tune in to the brand new music handling in early stages, following they rips prior your, echoing and you can reverberating. When there are multiple coming compliment of during the quick succession, the area are an insane blend of songs at various other levels, moving near you. Funnily sufficient, to my walking back into the newest paddock at the conclusion of FP2, We bumped into a colleague just who explained that a classic person in the british F1 press corps qualities a good foolhardy, pre-V6 turbo point in time visit to the fresh tunnel rather than earplugs towards the lingering hearing issues he’s got given that. I can realise why — my personal ears were still consuming after your day.
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Even though medical trials have been almost unprecedented in psychiatry for a few years, they're now the best for judging no matter if medicinal drugs are secure and important. yet may still they be? what's the actual prestige of scientific trials? even if they ostensibly show a good thing about a definite therapy, the stern sufferer choice standards, negative compliance and excessive drop-out fee depart the conclusions open to query. Are the recent remedies particularly higher or less expensive than the outdated? have they got fewer uncomfortable side effects?
during this e-book the authors take a severe examine fresh advancements and current a chain of trenchant and demanding observations. part I examines the numerous adjustments in legislations and the regulatory atmosphere that experience happened prior to now ten years. Has fossilization handicapped the USA nutrition and Drug management in selling therapy advances? How can the plethora of findings be regulated? this is often rather pertinent in genomic stories and there are chapters addressing the impression of genomics on psychiatric examine. This part additionally addresses the function of girls in drug trials – a bunch lengthy excluded yet now hard an element, for with no checking out how can optimum remedies be devised?
the following Sections spotlight medical trials within the significant components of psychiatric pharmacological remedy, together with temper issues, in particular Bipolar, anxiousness problems, and addictions. Chapters on pharmacological remedies for consuming issues, consciousness Deficit disease, Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, and Impulse keep an eye on sickness symbolize the newest pondering on those matters.
the ultimate part encompasses a consummate instance of out-of-the [Western]- field considering, specifically attention of natural drugs – utilized by loads of sufferers, without or with scientific supervision. We finish with a detailed examine the matter of unwanted side effects, then chosen concepts approximately technique.
sincerely written, the textual content offers fast entry to new advancements around the spectrum of drug trying out. Clinical Trials in Psychopharmacology: a greater Brain is provocative interpreting for psychiatrists, pharmacologists and all these drawn to stronger medicines for sufferers with psychological sickness.
- Raises questions about the behavior of trials and the credibility in their results which are suitable not only in psychiatry yet all parts of drugs
- Discusses the moral difficulties in assessing results in people, together with kids
Chapter 1 FDA Reform: Deja Vu Encore (pages 1–30): John J. Cohrssen
Chapter 2 Do Antidepressants reason Suicide? (pages 31–41): Marc Hertzman
Chapter three The Genome, Genes and mind – adapted medicines (pages 43–59): Lawrence Adler
Chapter four Patenting and Licensing issues in Psychiatric Genetics (pages 61–85): Jorge A. Goldstein and Karen R. Markowicz
Chapter five Women's concerns in scientific Trials (pages 87–101): Mary V. Seeman
Chapter 6 matters and Clues within the Pharmacological remedy of temper problems (pages 103–124): Fabrice Jollant, Adela Ionita and Philippe Courtet
Chapter 7 Bipolar sickness (pages 125–147): Alberto Bocchetta
Chapter eight unique problems with examine method in Bipolar ailment medical therapy Trials (pages 149–177): Robert M. Post
Chapter nine The software of Low?Dose Antidepressants (pages 179–188): Monica L. Zilberman, Clarice Gorenstein and Valentim Gentil
Chapter 10 scientific Trials for nervousness problems (pages 189–206): Marco Mula and Gionata Strigaro
Chapter eleven Pharmacological Trials for the remedy of Substance Use problems (pages 207–232): Lisa J. Merlo, Julia Arana and Amanda M. Stone
Chapter 12 medical Psychopharmacology of sufferers with consuming problems (pages 233–249): James E Mitchell, Kristine Steffen, Scott Engel, Ross Crosby and James Roerig
Chapter thirteen ADHD medical Trials (pages 251–272): Ann Childress
Chapter 14 Autism and Asperger's Spectrum problems (pages 273–287): Marc Hertzman
Chapter 15 Pharmacological remedies of Impulse regulate issues (pages 289–308): Helga Myrseth and off Pallesen
Chapter sixteen power merits of natural drugs for Schizophrenia: from Empirical Observations to medical Trials (pages 309–335): Zhang?Jin Zhang, Qing?Rong Tan, Xue?Chu Zhen and Yao Tong
Chapter 17 adversarial results of Antipsychotics (pages 337–380): Pierre Landry, Anne?Marie Rousseau and Leila Skalli
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Quitting Publix over a bill that doesn’t even exist. Yikes.
Welp, Jack Petocz does say he’s a ‘student activist’ so maybe he hasn’t learned a whole lot just yet? Otherwise, this is just painfully sad, quitting a job he had for four years because he bought into some line of propaganda some other Leftist spewed to try and hurt DeSantis for protecting children 4-8 at school. It looks bad when you read the actual law and see what it actually does and see someone like Petocz proudly say he quit over it.
Maybe he should’ve read it before he quit?
Today, I resigned from @Publix.
After 4 years of service, I was so disheartened when the company failed to even make a statement following more than $200,000 in donations to the sponsors of the Don't Say Gay bill.
Let's all call on Publix to #StopFundingHate.
— Jack Petocz (@Jack_Petocz) April 24, 2022
It’s hate to give parents a say in what their kids do and don’t learn about in school? Especially when they’re really young?
And yes, the mockery and dragging have been fairly monumental.
LOL @ talking about "4 years of service" like you were in the military instead of stocking Rice Krispies on the night shift.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 24, 2022
Hey man, those Rice Krispies aren’t going to stock themselves.
You’re a high school student who worked as a cashier on weekends.
— max+ (@MaxNordau) April 24, 2022
BUT HE’S TAKING ON PUBLIX AND STANDING FOR HATE AND STUFF.
No one will ever bag my groceries the way you did…
Thank you for your service.
— Vincent Charles: Ordinarius Et Mediocris (@YesThatVCharles) April 24, 2022
Thank you for your service and all that, but who's gonna handle the cleanup on aisle 5 right now?
— G (@stevensongs) April 24, 2022
Show me…specifically….where in the bill it says "Don't say gay." This has exactly nothing to do with any ACTUAL cause, just a baseless cause celebre and your desperate aspiration to public martyrdom. Tiresome…🙄
— CarolinaConservative2 (@real1776CC) April 25, 2022
@Publix is a grocery store. Their job is to provide fresh produce and quality prepackaged goods to customers. It's not their job to validate who you have sex with. And it certainly isn't their job to promote a sexualized curriculum for elementary school children. Grow up.
— Tea Party Barbie (@laurahollis61) April 25, 2022
Your on the wrong side of wanting to talk to K-3 kids about sex.
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) April 24, 2022
There's no such thing as a Don't Say Gay bill in Florida. I'll give you $100 if you can find the word gay ANYWHERE in that legislation.
— Mark Gess (@MarkGess) April 25, 2022
Sounds like @Publix actually read the anti-grooming bill.
— Mandy ✝☕ (@SpringSteps) April 24, 2022
Most people who do actually read it agree with it.
Crazy, we know.
This is the beauty of working in our republic. You can say "I'm not cool with what my employer does" and get another job. In totalitarian and communist systems, you don't have that luxury. Do what your conscience tells you. But the law isn't what you think it is
— An unrefined gentleman (pronoun: I have a penis) (@FrozenChaps) April 25, 2022
Thank you for your brave service.
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) April 24, 2022
So you quit over a bill that doesn't exist, outside of Twitter? You have quite a future as a functioning adult human male ahead of you!
— Investigation Suspended Indefinitely (@alyssasaridvaj) April 24, 2022
David Hogg is very upset people are calling this young man out … especially at Christina Pushaw.
Guess she should just let this very outspoken activist lie? Not inform him that he just quit his job over a lie?
Regardless of your political views a public official who is paid with our tax dollars should not be harassing a minor on Twitter.
This is wrong and everyone left and right needs to be demanding this post to be taken down. https://t.co/xRHBm204tS
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 25, 2022
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It sucks getting old.
It probably sucks just as much when you’re watching someone you love grow old. It can be frustrating. It can be angering. There are days where you just feel like curling up into a ball and sobbing, and then conversely, days when you sit back and chuckle. This is what Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is about.
The film revolves around elder Woody Grant (Western veteran Bruce Dern) and his son, David (Former Saturday Night Live star Will Forte). Starting in Billings, Montana, a police officer brings in Woody after finding him walking alongside the highway. Why was Woody walking on the highway? He was on his way to Nebraska to collect his million dollars.
David inspects the slip of paper alerting Woody of his “winnings:” it’s a marketing scam to get people to sign up for magazines. Nevertheless, David’s father keeps attempting to leave Billings. Eventually, David packs up his car and drives his father to Nebraska against the wishes of his salty mother, Kate (June Squibb) and more level-headed brother, Ross. (Breaking Bad’s Bob Odenkirk) All four of The Grants eventually arrives in Woody’s hometown of Hawthorne, Nebraska to spend some time with relatives and friends, and things get more screwed-up and dark.
Nebraska possesses some of the dark wit that Payne is known for, but this is more of a straight-up drama with funny moments sprinkled throughout. Payne in a lot of ways reminds me of a low-key, mellow Wes Anderson, or a Wes Anderson that doesn’t traffic in quirk by the truckload and never frames up actors dead center in the shot. Both are good directors who do comedy and drama in a similar fashion, but Payne in general is much more reserved and realistic than Anderson. Here with Nebraska though, Payne pulls back even further in terms of style and story.
It works though. Given the subject matter of Nebraska – I mean, let’s be honest, this is about a guy with early stages of Dementia or Alzheimer’s, even if they don’t outright say so – there really is no way you could make this funnier. It’s a rather dark movie about a son dealing with his troubled father – who’s really quite a prick – and all the shit that gets stirred up within their family when the rest of their relatives find out one of their own is a “millionaire.” The black-and-white photography of the film just adds to the underlying fruitlessness of David and Woody’s quixotic quest.
It’s not miserable, though. When the film decides to be funny, it’s funny as hell. June Squibb owns quite a few of those moments as Woody’s beleaguered wife, a woman who overshares with David about how everyone in Hawthorne wanted to get in her pants. Dern also owns quite a few funny bits, such as a search for his dentures by the railroad tracks where David finds them, and Woody doesn’t recognize them at first.
Forte and Odenkirk, on the other hand, are in drama mode here. With Odenkirk, who’s spent the last couple years working on Breaking Bad, this isn’t all that surprising. Forte, though, is a bit of a shocker. Who would’ve thought fuckin’ MacGruber could act like a normal person who you relate to? Forte is excellent as David, relatively put-upon by Woody and only really doing this trip to Nebraska to escape his own issues in Billings, but still is the only truly good character in this film. I really dug him in this; it’s awesome to see Will Forte do low-key acting.
Going back to Dern’s Woody, despite his more prickish tendencies, he is also surprisingly sympathetic. While his lucidity is often in question and his other actions (implied or otherwise) don’t help his case, you can’t help but feel a little sorry for the guy and root for him a little throughout his struggle to get his million dollars. Dern was great.
I must confess, this film did hit a little close to home. Without going into detail, my own family has been dealing with issues going on with my grandmother the last couple years, and while she is not scatterbrained like Woody, the general struggles made it somewhat difficult to watch Nebraska. It’s more accurate than you would think. But because of that, I cannot do anything but recommend Nebraska. This is a great film about what its like growing older, and what that is like for those around the elderly who do their best to make their remaining time worthwhile. | <urn:uuid:477490ab-30d8-45f9-bbe5-4554b6f010a7> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://bandwagmag.com/2014/02/film-review-nebraska/ | 2020-11-30T22:42:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141515751.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130222609-20201201012609-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.974341 | 1,017 |
by Patrick Bromley
Jerry Lewis passed away this week at the age of 91. While it's not a shock, it's always sad when people pass (sometimes it's less sad) because they have family that love them, and, in the case of Jerry Lewis (and, for the purposes of this site, a few other recent artist deaths), had a massive impact on this thing that we love and which brings us to this site every day. Jerry Lewis helped change the movies.
From the moment it was announced, news of his death became a contest to see who could be the fastest to ask when we would get to see The Day the Clown Cried (stay classy, internet), or to mention that he could often be a cantankerous sonuvabitch who said terrible things about female comedians, or who could make the first "Flavin!" joke, or who could reference the fact that he was beloved by the French. The more good-hearted movie fans -- the people I tend to follow and pay attention to online -- brought up his years of dedication to charity or his role in The King of Comedy, presumably the most significant entry point in Lewis' career for a certain generation of film lovers. Some critics and writers told stories of the times they interviewed him, unsure of which Jerry they would be meeting. What I did not see many of were appreciations of his 1960s comedies -- the ones made after he split from longtime stage and screen partner Dean Martin. So I've spent the last day or two asking myself: why is that?
Today I rewatched The Ladies Man, Lewis' comedy from 1961 and the second feature he directed following The Bellboy. Whereas that movie was something of a low-budget quickie, heavily improvised and shot in a hurry so that Paramount would have a Jerry Lewis film for the summer of 1960, The Ladies Man is a much more ambitious outing. Lewis actually speaks, for one, here playing brokenhearted doofus Herbert H. Heebert. The middle H. stands for Herbert. I don't care what Roger Ebert said about funny names; I will never not laugh at Herbert Herbert Heebert. On the day Herbert graduates from college, he catches his girlfriend with another man. Devastated, he swears off women forever and commits to a lifetime of bachelorhood -- a commitment that is tested when he's hired to work as an errand boy in a women's boarding house.
Mugging aside, The Ladies Man deserves to be recognized for its terrific construction. From the opening sequence, a long take in which a single noise sets off a chain reaction of physical comedy right out of a Buster Keaton movie, to the extended dance number that nearly ends the film, The Ladies Man is the rare comedy that manages to be both gag-driven and formalist -- it gets laughs not just from what happens on screen, but from the way that Lewis chooses to frame it. The movie's most impressive achievement is its set design: a massive mansion with multiple levels but the fourth wall removed, just as you might see in live theater. Lewis had the gorgeous set built to the tune of $350,000 but uses it to brilliant effect, with the camera moving from room to room and even up and down floors on a crane. It's almost impossible to watch certain sequences in The Ladies Man and not think that they inspired the filmmaking and aesthetics of Wes Anderson.
If nothing else, Lewis deserves to be recognized for helping to pioneer the use of video playback so that he could see himself while he was performing on camera. Though he has taken credit for inventing the technique, a reporter for CNET discovered that patents for similar technology were filed as early as the 1940s, though it continued to be refined over time. So while he wasn't the originator of the practice, it was Lewis who helped popularize the video assist and eventually made it more commonplace on movie sets. He was an innovator and a filmmaker who thought big, as evidenced by the set and the production design of The Ladies Man. Despite already being a huge star by the time he began his solo film career, Lewis didn't coast on his success. He wasn't lazy when he easily could have been. Because of his reputation as the mouth breather's comedian of choice, it's a misconception that his output of this period is slapdash -- the 1960s equivalent of contemporary Adam Sandler comedies. You may not find him funny, but few comedians worked harder or were more dedicated to filmmaking. | <urn:uuid:6c143e07-0531-436e-8163-5c9fbed8c53f> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.fthismovie.net/2017/08/remembering-jerry-lewis-ladies-man.html | 2019-08-24T10:17:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027320156.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824084149-20190824110149-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.982002 | 919 |
How to Buy Gifts for Your Grandfather and Father
I have read that some people are already shopping for Christmas presents! That is incredibly organised, but with shopping still not the experience we are used to due to social distancing, it is understandable that people want to get their shopping done early, and online. We have Father’s Day coming up in September in Australia so I thought I’d make a list of gifts that would be suitable for the older gentleman (father/grandfather) in your life. They are notoriously hard to buy for, because they either have everything or are stuck in a time-warp and not keen to try new gadgets or technology. But I have some ideas that might hit the spot, having shopped for my father, father-in-law, brothers and husband who all fit the description.
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Choose gifts for older men with the following in mind: comfort, safety, convenience and love
As my father and father-in-law have aged, their mobility and dexterity have decreased. Gifts that can help them with tasks like reaching or picking things up, removing lids etc. would be much appreciated. Try these ideas:
- Long handled brush
- long handled shoehorn
- jar opener
- long-handled loofah
With age, many people suffer back pain and poor circulation. Add some comfort to their days with the following:
- Lumbar support pillow
- Wheat hot pack – please avoid buying if he has problems with his memory or sensation. Leaving heat wheat packs on for long periods, heating them too high or placing them on an area of the body with reduced sensation can lead to serious burns. Use with caution
- Throw rug
- Tray table
- Portable fan, heater or air conditioner – ensure they have a safety cut-off switch if they are knocked over. Avoid heaters with a naked flame or gas fuel.
- Foot stool
The safety of your older loved one is important, so make sure you look at the design of slippers and shoes. They should be non-slip and fit snugly to their feet so that trips and slips are avoided. Try these:
- Non-slip slippers
- Non-slip socks
As my parents and parents-in-law have aged, they spend more time at home. In order to keep their mind active, and improve their quality of life, the following gifts would be appreciated:
- Kindle e-reader loaded with his favourite books
- Subscription to their favourite magazine or newspaper
- Weather station – for his obsession with the weather
- BBQ set (long handled) and gourmet sauces
- Valet stand to keep all their necessities in one place
- Puzzle books to keep his mind young
- Keyring locator so he never loses his keys again.
What Not to Buy For Older Men
After many years of buying presents for older men, I would recommend that you avoid buying the following:
- T-shirts and shirts. They usually don’t fit well, and are not to your loved one’s liking. For example, they may only wear crew neck, a certain colour or style, or spend their days wearing old t-shirts and not the beautiful button-up dress shirt you lovingly chose for them. Most shirts end up in the back of the wardrobe or as oil rags.
- Shoes or slippers that are poor fitting or not safe e.g. scuffs. Slippers and scuffs are the cause of many falls which is detrimental to their health – elderly men don’t bounce, they break.
- Anything to do with their hobbies, or a hobby that you think would be a good idea for them to try. For example the men in my family all love fishing and gardening but they have very specific requirements when it comes to equipment for their hobby. Likewise tool organisation – I bought my husband a work bench and tool organisation system and I have never seen him use it. The shed still looks a mess.
- Lotto tickets or gift cards. One of my relatives buys these for every birthday, Christmas etc. as gifts – I personally think it’s a cop-out with very little thought put into it. The one actual present she bought us – a beautiful soft baby blue blanket – is memorable and very special.
- Alcohol – This falls into the same category as lotto tickets. Alcohol is neither special nor memorable and why feed a bad habit?!
- A coffee mug – he will still drink out of his coffee stained, chipped mug because it’s his favourite one.
- Anything that is too technical, for example a smart phone. My in-laws both went back to their old mobile phones because they couldn’t get used to a smart phone.
I hope you can find something suitable from my gift guide for older men – feel free to comment if it has helped you choose a gift, or if you can suggest any other gifts that he would like. You may also like to read Gifts that Inspire a Healthy Lifestyle. | <urn:uuid:6c87ec4c-04d0-4c90-861f-e5d004d2c282> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://midlifestylist.com/2020/08/08/gift-guide-for-the-older-gentleman-in-your-life/ | 2022-01-16T19:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300010.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116180715-20220116210715-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.970035 | 1,083 |
'There are good divorces': Calgary lawyers say ending marriage doesn't have to be messy
Mediation, arbitration and collaboration all beat litigation, say two Alberta family lawyers
Is there such a thing as a good divorce?
That was the question as a pair of Alberta lawyers addressed the question from Alberta@Noon host Judy Aldous about whether or not a good divorce is possible.
"There are good divorces," said Edmonton family lawyer Marie Gordon.
"Sometimes I think we're drowning in horror stories and bad stories," she said, "but I guess as a family lawyer, I've had the privilege of seeing people do it well — [some] people do it right."
What a good divorce looks like
"A couple of things that would characterize a good divorce," Gordon said, "is people being able to adapt to their new lives, people being able to achieve some emotional closure, people being able to leave their spousal relationship behind, but maintain and sometimes even strengthen their parenting relationship.
"A good divorce involves people honouring their kids' needs over their own," she added, "and really being aware and alert of how their actions, their conduct, their issues, their sets of personal trauma can affect children for a lifetime — and affect even the physiological development of their children's brains.
"A good divorce allows the parties to maintain some control over the process," she said, "and not allow the systemic adversarial narrative that is on TV and pop culture and in magazines to overtake it — because there are so many people doing good divorces. They are like poster children."
Essentially, both guests stressed that there are four ways to get divorced, each with a different price point — and pain point, too, perhaps.
Calgary lawyer John-Paul Boyd is the executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family. The organization surveyed 166 family lawyers in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia to determine their preferred method for obtaining a divorce for their clients.
"What was interesting," said Boyd, "is that although more than four-fifths of the people who answered our survey litigate, they also do extensive work in all these other non-adversarial processes [such as arbitration, mediation and collaborative negotiation].
"From the point of view of the lawyers themselves," he said, "litigate is what they like to do the least."
Boyd said that litigation is too stressful — even for the litigators, let alone for the divorcing parties.
"As a lawyer myself, I can tell you it's anxiety provoking, a lot of work, a lot of sleepless nights as you worry about what's going to unfold the next day," he said.
"Lawyers also said that collaboration and mediation were far faster, far more cost efficient and far more effective than litigation," he said. "In fact, the length of time required to resolve both low- and high-conflict family disputes was twice as long when you litigate than when you use any other kind of process."
Gordon acknowledged that while many couples go into the process hoping for a good divorce, the whole thing frequently goes off the rails.
"Everybody wants to do it right," she said. "Everybody says, to a person, I'm interested in my children's outcomes most of all."
'It takes a village'
The problems tend to start because of fear.
"There are little crevasses people fall into," she said.
Gordon says friends or family are often so fearful of the outcome that they push people into a more adversarial situation.
"Sometimes people behave quite badly at the beginning, frequently fuelled by fear," she said. "Bad behaviour is wanting to get the upper hand or the advantage on things, and that just defaults into a domino effect of building up the adversarial — and it's really hard to catch. It's hard to pull out of that.
"It takes a village to do a good divorce," she said, "and what it takes is sometimes is the outside angels being supportive and not transferring their own terrible divorces on [to the divorces of] their friends or family."
With files from Alberta@Noon.
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This issue we have more links than you can poke a stick at! (I think that's an Australian term). Very exciting! Thank you so much Xamarin Community.
Speaking of community, we are introducing a new section into the newsletter called "Xamarin Introductions" where we get to find out more about the amazing members of the Xamarin community. The idea is each week we will have a "interview" with a Xamarin hero, so we can learn more about them and the tools they love. Hope you like it.
Have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for reading
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Xamarin Introductions - Ryan Davis
We are excited to have the first of the Xamarin Introductions series with Ryan Davis, who is a developer based in Brisbane, Australia. You may have seen some of his amazing UI works highlighted in the recent Community Challenges run by the Xamarin.Forms team and featured during the //Build 2019 conference. Let's learn a little about Ryan.
Tell us a bit about yourself?
A hobbyist-turned-professional developer with a penchant for .NET and mobile 📱
Tell us one thing we probably don't know about you?
Nintendo over Sony, iOS over Android, Azure over AWS, code over XAML, and tabs over spaces (not sorry)
How did you first get into Xamarin development?
I started out in mobile writing silly apps for iOS back when (after having been a staunch Apple holdout) - I got my first iPhone, a 3Gs. I used to alternate between writing objective C and googling things like "How to write iOS apps in Windows" or "How to write iOS apps using C#".. and here we are. I like to say I came to Xamarin for the C# and stayed for the community, which is what helped me take things from 'dabbling in mobile for fun' to doing it professionally.
What has been the most enjoyable project you have built using Xamarin?
I'd have to go with AR Bound - the demo app I use for my Introduction to ARKit talk: https://github.com/rdavisau/ar-bound. I decided to theme it after one of my favourite old video games - EarthBound - so in addition to playing with all the cool AR bits that ARKit offers, it gave me the opportunity to learn about how various game-related effects can be implemented - things like audio, progressive/typewriter text display, and my favourite - the crazy EarthBound battle background animations.
What advice would you give someone looking at getting started with Xamarin development?
My personal suggestion would be tap into the Xamarin community - that might mean following people on Twitter and Planet Xamarin in the first instance, which will give you an idea of what some of "the pros" are thinking, saying and doing. If you want to become more involved, participating in the various Xamarin challenges is a great way to dip your toes in and the community is very welcoming to newcomers. Getting along to a local meetup can a good option too.
From a learning perspective, the docs experience is first class, there's a bunch of quality content on Microsoft Learn and a growing number of Xamarin streamers on Twitch - spoiled for choice! I also have a (relatively opinionated) talk, "Starting out Right with Xamarin", that you might take tips from: https://ryandavis.io/starting-out-right-with-xamarin-2018-edition/
What are the MUST HAVE tools, resources and libraries that you use when building Xamarin apps?
There's a great newsletter I really like - 'The Weekly Xamarin', you should definitely check that out. Twitter, community blog posts and the docs serve me for resources.
For tools, I just use the basics - VS4Mac for apps, VS for the backends, and Parallels/VMWare to go MacOS->Windows and Windows->MacOS respectively.
For packages - Akavache for storage, DryIoC for DI, Essentials for the essentials (and of course, the interfaces 😇) are all staples.
And of course I am still quietly sitting here using @praeclarum's Continuous. It's the only package that truly ends up in every one of my projects, big or small.
Where do you think mobile will be in 5 years?
I won't claim to be a visionary, but I am excited to be along for the ride!
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HAVANA, Jun 27 2012 (IPS) - Cabbage, broccoli, carrots, onions and other resistant vegetables are being grown by researchers in Cuba, who for decades have been working to design plants adapted to the tropical conditions in the Caribbean region.
“We are now focused on trying to develop new varieties, with a view to climate change,” Laura Muñoz, the researcher who heads a crop improvement team in the “Alejandro de Humboldt” National Institute for Basic Research in Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT), a government institution, told IPS.
The task involves extreme dedication and long hours of work. Depending on the species, coming up with a resistant variety can take from five to 15 years. The characteristics sought in the new plants are “growth, resistance and vitality,” Muñoz explained.
In the meantime, the climate continues to change. A 2009 report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecasts mild consequences in the region from global warming by 2020, but says they will become especially acute after 2050.
As a result of global warming, extreme events will become more frequent in the near future, such as forest fires, floods, drought, and more intense storms and hurricanes. This makes changes in all spheres of life necessary in developing countries and island nations like Cuba.
The ECLAC report, Climate Change and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Overview 2009, says “Adaptation also brings with it some opportunities to pursue more sustainable development, such as better infrastructure, (and) crop variety research and development,” to help sustain food supplies.
Some steps in that direction have already been taken in this Caribbean island nation. Since the early 1960s, Muñoz’s team has identified “five annual planting seasons, with different conditions,” a finding that “did a great deal to improve understanding of the climate problem.”
Today, they are studying more than 30 species of vegetables, to develop resistant varieties. These include tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic and cucumber, some of the most widely consumed vegetables in Cuba. Others are melons, watermelons, carrots, beans, aubergine and lettuce.
Muñoz said that thanks to the work carried out over the last few decades, Cuba now has varieties that are more resistant to pests and drought, and which can be produced outside of the normal growing seasons. The idea is to develop plants that are adaptable to the climate of the future, when both winter and summer will be warmer.
A good part of the vegetables on Cuban tables are the product of urban and suburban agriculture, grown in backyards and empty lots in and around the cities. This kind of agriculture has grown by leaps and bounds over the last two decades, in response to an effort to promote sustainable, agroecological agriculture and boost food production.
“Between 40 and 45 percent of fresh produce comes from urban and suburban agriculture,” a sector in which 300,000 people work, Nelson Companioni, the national executive secretary of agriculture, told IPS.
INIFAT also coordinates the development of urban farming in the country, he said.
“Those crops that were adapted to periods when it didn’t rain and relative humidity was low are now facing the opposite conditions. So they are attacked by fungal diseases, caused mainly by excess moisture,” said Companioni, who is also the director of urban farming in Cuba.
He said the challenge faced by the programme is to achieve “an adequate web of crop varieties and livestock breeds, and methods adapted to each territory, taking water availability into account.”
The programme’s “organoponic” crops – a term coined for organic production in reduced spaces – have been moved to eastern Cuba, he said, because the sources of water where they were previously located dried up.
The “marien” variety of cabbage is now grown by urban farmers. It took 12 long years of work in genetic improvement to produce this new drought-resistant variety, designed by INIFAT researcher María Benítez. The cabbage is more “compact and more resistant to pests,” she said. It also has a higher yield.
Marien, named after its designer, is also the first species of cabbage that produces seeds in Cuba. Until it was introduced to the market, all cabbage produced in this country was grown from imported seeds.
Every year, Cuba buys five tons of cabbage seed, but in 2011, it produced one ton of marien seed.
Benítez is now working on genetic improvement of arugula, a salad green that is not well-known in Cuba.
And Caribe 71, a variety of onion developed by Muñoz, was included this year in the national plan for replacing imports – one of the priorities of the government of Raúl Castro.
This purple onion can be stored at room temperature for up to eight months, which makes it possible to put it on the market when onions grown with imported seeds run out.
And a variety of broccoli, Tropical F8, adapted by INIFAT to grow in dry tropical conditions, is now produced in some parts of the country.
* With reporting by Patricia Grogg.
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General Motors (NYSE:GM) said on Tuesday that its U.S. sales rose 5.7% in December, capping a year in which Detroit's largest automaker saw sales in its home market rise 5%.
That was well short of the roughly 10% gain expected by analysts polled by Bloomberg, and GM shares were down about 3% in mid-day trading on Tuesday.
But GM was quick to point out the silver linings in Tuesday's report, and there were several.
Behind a drop in rental-fleet sales, a solid gain in retail market share
GM's retail deliveries were up 8% in December and 8% for the full year. That was good for a gain in market share of 0.4 percentage points in the United States, a big win for the General.
GM also did well with profitable commercial-fleet sales, up 12% in 2015. Unlike rental-fleet sales, commercial-fleet sales include many high-profit trucks. They're good business, and GM and Ford (NYSE:F) battle hard for customers in this space.
So why were GM's overall gains less impressive? Over the last couple of years, General Motors has been gradually reducing its sales to rental-car fleets. In the past, those sales have accounted for 15% or more of GM's total U.S. sales. That number was down to about 7% in December, or just over 20,000 vehicles, and GM said on Tuesday that the percentage will drop further in 2016.
The reduction makes GM's overall sales gains seem less impressive than they otherwise might be. But from a shareholder's perspective, it's good news. (Read why here.) And there was more good news behind the headline numbers.
Once again, strong sales of pickups and SUVs should power good profits
Like rival Ford, GM posted huge sales of full-size pickups in December. Its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra combined to sell over 90,000 units in the month, a tremendous number. While Ford's F-Series won the "best-selling model" title once again, GM noted that its share of the retail full-size pickup segment rose more than one full percentage point to 39.2% in 2015. That's big for shareholders: These are very profitable products.
GM's new-for-2015 midsize pickups, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, also had a strong year. The two now have a 32.5% share of the mid-size truck market, up from less than 5% in 2014, GM said. That represents an expansion of the category: Far from declining, the GM twins' biggest-selling midsize rival, Toyota's (NYSE:TM) Tacoma, posted a 16% sales gain in 2015.
GM also did well with crossover SUVs in 2015. The Chevrolet models combined for a 23% year-over-year sales gain, while the small Buick Encore posted a 38% increase.
The upshot: Profitable trends continued for the General
Like many rivals, GM's car sales were mostly not so good in 2015. But again like many of its rivals, the evidence suggests that many of those lost buyers are buying crossovers instead -- and GM is certainly capturing a good share of those buyers.
As shareholders, we like that trend: Generally speaking, crossover SUVs are more profitable than comparable sedan models. Fold in the very strong sales of GM's pickups and big truck-based SUVs, and the stage has been set for a very profitable fourth quarter for GM in North America. We'll find out for sure when GM reports its earnings results later this month.
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Celebrating a 30th birthday at a bar isn't the most original idea in history. But if it's the bar you work at, that your band plays at, your friend's bands play at, and that serves as one of several pseudo-official clubhouses for the Broward punk scene, well, that's a little different.
Dirty Ol' Stayouts drummer Johnny Miller celebrated three decades of life Saturday night at PlayByPlay Sports Bar in Pompano with a crowd of his friends and family that doubles as the people you expect to see at punk shows around the county. "It's cool having our friends play a show for a birthday," Miller said. "These are our friends. We're all a close, tight crew here... We're just playing good music that we all grew up on and enjoy listening to."
PlayByPlay hosts two or three shows a week, with bands setting up in the corner stage of the self-described divey neighborhood bar. The stage is actually the back half of the dance floor, allowing the crowd to form an actual circle around the band while they play. Putting the crowd on literally level ground with the band bridges the rock star gap, despite the lack of rock star bullshit anywhere in the building.
Miller, who can be found manning the bar at PlayByPlay many nights of the week, describes himself as "the new guy in the band." He's been filling in for drummer Lowercase J since a car accident last year that left him incapacitated.
Though he's been a bassist since he was a teenager, Miller, who was handling recording duties for the Stayouts at the time, jumped behind the kit and has kept the band moving.
Dirty Ol' Stayouts spent 2012 accomplishing a lot, releasing a live album and two EPs, and going on a couple tours of the Sunshine State. Between regular sets at PlayByPlay and around Broward, longtime promoter Jessica Kross's tireless efforts, deep ties to South Florida punk, and Miller himself booking shows, the band has found itself helping to push a revival of what was once an active local scene.
"Our scene is basically our friends and family," said Stayouts bassist Jamie Naked. "All the kids that come out to the shows are their brothers and sisters and extended family and friends that we all grew up with in Pompano. We're all Pompano kids. So, to have our little bar in Pompano, and put Pompano on the map, it's really cool."
The PlayByPlay crowd started to fill in Saturday about two hours after the announced start of the show, as if they knew things would run late, when Riot Act frontman Christian Clarke walked in with the drum set all five bands used through the night.
After a casual load-in, the Secretors bashed out the hardcore for the last time with their pink-haired front-woman Vladimir Mellons. Planned or not, the last appearance wasn't announced until Sunday morning on their Facebook page.
Halfway through the set, when someone off to the side requested something funky, she suggested they start their own band. While the Secretors are on hiatus now until they find a new vocalist, maybe Mellons will make that guy's funk dreams come true.
The night moved quickly from there with the Riot Act getting set up quickly. The closest the duo, singer/guitarist Clarke and drummer Sean Chesal, get to punk is Clarke's Ramones T-shirt. They can be found somewhere in South Florida at least once a week carrying the garage rock flag of screeching guitar solos and lyrics about girls who won't give it up. Saturday night was no different.
The punk got faster and the pit actually moved once Suburban Swamp Kids hit the stage -- pausing only to sing "Happy Birthday" to Johnny over a cake that got halfway past the bar for the song and disappeared just as quickly.
There was talk that the Stayouts would play before Dead Cat Lounge, but with it, already after 2 a.m. the Tampa quartet with fast and faster songs about politics and societal outcasts, took over.
DCL bassist Jimmy Roach said the band had to come down for Miller's birthday, returning the favor for shows the Stayouts played on their recent trip up and down the state with Broward ska crew Stop The Presses.
By three, as equipment started disappearing and invitations to hit the road were being screamed from behind the bar, nobody noticed the lack of a set from the Stayouts themselves.
Though they are far from being the only band leading the once again growing punk scene in Broward, the Dirty Ol' Stayouts intentionally are dragging as many bands around as they can and putting them in front of the punk fans they know are starved for it, Naked said.
If it wasn't clear just how tight this scene is, the number of members of other bands in attendance, all of whom have played together at some point over the last decade and a half, is proof that their "family" line isn't just the equivalent of a mohawked drunken smile for the sake of being nice.
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Also, beginning this year, scientists are allowed to name plants in English, freeing us from the tyranny of tongue-twisting trinomials, says Natural Garden columnist Valerie Easton.
Our Olmsted history
finds a home
Seattle is rich in parks, private gardens and boulevards designed by the influential Olmsted Brothers firm responsible for New York’s Central Park, among other iconic landscapes. Now the National Association of Olmsted Parks has received funding for an interactive, online database cataloging the Olmsted heritage here in the Northwest, with the hope it’ll serve as a pilot project for the entire country.
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Information on Washington’s Olmsted landscapes (there are more than 220 of them) has been hard to track down, available only from the Library of Congress or the Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Mass. Funded by $230,000 from the Washington Department of Transportation, Olmsted Online will make correspondence, drawings, maps and photos available to all.
It’s hoped that this knowledge will inspire preservation of our own treasures, such as Seward and Volunteer parks, and landscapes open to the public like the Dunn Gardens, the University of Washington campus and the state Capitol grounds in Olympia. Project manager Linda Keenan would love to hear from people with letters, stories, documents and photos about Olmsted landscapes, at [email protected]. Olmsted Online is just getting under way; the plan is to go live by January 2013.
Botanical Latin headed
Ever since the Renaissance, botanists and taxonomists have used Latin to describe plants and differentiate global flora. But the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia, voted to relax the rules.
Starting this year, scientists are allowed to name plants in English, freeing us from the tyranny of tongue-twisting trinomials. Not only can scientists skip the Latin names even in scientific papers, they can publish electronically in an attempt to speed up the process of getting newly discovered plant species on record.
flowers for all
Last May saw the launch of the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market, our first-ever, fresh-from-the-farm flower market. Based on the Portland model, it was a big success from day one.
Now the market is open to all of us on Fridays. For the first time, we can choose from the dazzling variety of flowers, greens, pods, cones and branches ourselves. The public is welcome to shop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (with a $5 day pass) or just stop by to stroll the aisles and meet your local flower farmers. The market is in a historic Georgetown building at 5840 Airport Way S., Suite 201. For fresh sheets and farmers’ bios, see www.seattlewholesalegrowersmarket.com.
A food forest beckons
Seattle is making national news with plans for a unique community food garden. The concept came from a permaculture project, with the idea of mimicking a natural woodland ecosystem using perennial and self-sustaining edibles.
Friends of the Food Forest hope to plant seven acres supplied by Seattle Public Utilities adjacent to Jefferson Park on Beacon Hill. From strawberries and vegetables to chestnut, apple and pear trees, every plant will be edible. It’s hoped that the neighborhood will forage for berries, plums and grapes, and perhaps tend individual plots in the forest.
Will the Beacon Hill community be able to manage a complex, living landscape for the good of all? The answer will determine if other projects go forward here and around the country.
Beacon Food Forest will start with a 2-acre trial plot; the rest will be planted if all goes well. For more, see http://beaconfoodforest.weebly.com/.
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Because Cloud Bigtable is typically used for large, high-volume workloads, it has the potential to generate an extremely high number of logs. Before you enable Data Access audit logging for Cloud Bigtable, you should estimate and understand the Cloud Audit Logs ingestion and storage costs that audit logging can incur each month.
Your Data Access audit logging costs are directly related to the number of Bigtable requests that you choose to log each month. The following table shows rough estimates of the Cloud Audit Logs costs that you can expect based on your average requests per second and the length of time that you store your logs, assuming that you log all data requests. See Calculating your costs for a detailed explanation of how these estimates are calculated.
|Average requests per second||Log retention time||Approximate monthly cost|
Calculating your costs
Start with the following assumptions:
- The number of seconds in an average month is about 2,628,000.
- The average audit size is around 1 kb.
- You are not charged for the first 50 GiB of audit logs that are ingested per month, and after you pass that amount, you're charged $0.50/GiB.
- Storage is free for 30 days; after that you're charged $0.01/GiB for storage.
The method described on this page provides a gross estimate based on all traffic. In production, you are encouraged to restrict service account logging.
Calculate your monthly log volume
First, estimate the average amount of logs your traffic will generate in an average month.
- Gather the average number of requests per second that your
application sends to Bigtable over the course of a month.
- If you use client-side metrics, you can use them to determine your average queries per second (QPS) for the last month.
- If you prefer to use your instance's Monitoring page in the Cloud Console, use it to determine the average values for Read requests and Write requests per second over the last month, then add those two values together.
- Multiply the requests per second by 2,628,000 to get the average requests per month.
- Divide that number by 10e6, or 1,000,000. The result is the estimated monthly log volume in GB that you might generate each month.
- Multiply the monthly log volume in GB by .93 to get the approximate monthly log volume in GiB.
Calculate your ingestion costs
- Subtract 50 GiB from the monthly log volume in GiB that you calculated. There is no charge for the first 50 GiB.
- Multiply the remainder by $0.50 to arrive at your estimated monthly ingestion costs.
Calculate your storage costs
- If you plan to let your logs expire after 30 days, your cost for storage is $0.00.
- If you store your logs for longer than 30 days, your storage costs can be estimated by multiplying the monthly log volume by $0.01. These costs start to incur after the first month.
5,000 request per second, logs retained for 90 days
In this example, suppose that your average number of requests per second is 5,000 and you plan to keep your logs for 90 days. Using the steps on this page, you calculate the following estimates:
- Multiply 5,000 by 2,628,000 to arrive at 13,140,000,000 requests per month.
- Divide 13,140,000,000 by 10e6 to arrive at roughly 13,140 GB of monthly log volume.
- Convert that number to GiB by multiplying it by .93 to arrive at 12,220.
- Subtract 50 GiB from your monthly log volume to get 12,170 GiB.
- Multiply by $0.50 to get $6,085 in ingestion costs.
- For the first month that your logs exist, the storage cost is $0.
- The second month, the log storage cost is 12,170 multiplied by $0.01, or about $122.
- Every month after the second month, the monthly storage cost is double that, or $244.
- After the second month, your estimated Data Access audit logging costs would be around $6,329 per month.
Presented in equation form, this looks like (((((5,000 rps * 2,628,000 sec)/1,000,000) * .93) - 50 GiB) * $0.50) + $122 = $6,207.
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Journalist Selena Roberts makes the case that Alex Rodriguez likely used steroids in high school and may have taken HGH while with the Yankees in her new biography of the MVP, a portrait of a deeply insecure man trying to cope with being abandoned by his father and obsessed with becoming a superstar.
The release of "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez" has been moved up to Monday because details of Rodriguez' possible drug use as a teenager and as a Yankee leaked out over the past week. Rodriguez has refused comment, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi questioned Sunday why the book was even written.
In the book, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Roberts traces much of the slugger's behavior to his father's decision to separate from the family when Alex was 10.
"I think like any child, you never want to be abandoned again. In order to sort of keep people near him, people close, please people, I think he always felt that he had to be better than good," Roberts said in a telephone interview Sunday.
"I think in some ways he felt he had to be, you know, not just a great story, but a tall tale, something that was too good to be true in so many ways."
For her, a key insight into A-Rod's character comes with what some might call a fib: He tells people he hit with wood bats in high school because that's what the pros use, even though she found photo evidence he used metal.
The pattern of embellishment and outright deceit continues through his admitted used of steroids in the major leagues, Roberts contends.
Following Roberts' article on SI.com in February that said Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 as part of baseball's anonymous survey, Rodriguez admitted using drugs from 2001-03 while with Texas. Roberts concludes he likely had to have used steroids while in high school, before Seattle selected him with the top pick in the 1993 amateur draft.
"I've talked to players who say he was using in high school, but if you want to discard that, you look at the physical evidence," she told the AP. "You look at a player who by his own coach's account was unrecognizable his junior year because his body had changed so much. Scouts didn't recognize him. In his sophomore year he could barely bench press 100 pounds. By his junior year, he was bench pressing 300 pounds."
She writes that after Rodriguez joined the Yankees, "a player told me he had witnessed a strange scene: (Kevin) Brown and Alex had ampoules of HGH in their possession at Yankee Stadium." Brown denied that account through his lawyer.
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former trainer, as part of its follow up effort to check the veracity of statements Rodriguez made to the sport's investigators in March, a baseball official said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the disclosure wasn't authorized.
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But more interesting than the drug accusations is the psychological portrait of a needy Rodriguez desperately trying to create a lovable image yet wrecking it by running around with strippers, going to a "swingers' club" and to illegal poker venues. Roberts called it "a battle he is waging" that's made him a staple of the gossip pages.
"He went through a phase where, I think, and maybe he's still going through the phase, I don't know, where he really I think felt as if he had transcended baseball and reached a different level with the public, on a higher celebrity level, than he was as a ballplayer," she said.
That celebrity only has increased in the past two years as he got interested in Kaballah, became friends with Madonna and divorced his wife Cynthia. While most Yankees who live in Manhattan take apartments on the East Side, convenient for traveling to the ballpark, Rodriguez has rented a $30,000-a-month apartment two blocks from Madonna's Manhattan residence on the West Side.
"I think it is a mystery in so many ways but I think what is not a mystery and what is in fact true from the teammates I've talked to and from the people around him is that he was infatuated with her," Roberts said. "I think a lot of people want to write it off as publicity and dismiss it easily as something that was manufactured, but you have to remember that real people did get hurt. There was divorce that was filed afterwards. There were a lot of changes in his life that were, you know, not about a publicity stunt."
For much of his career, Rodriguez has shown what Roberts says is "a well-honed, very orchestrated personality. ... years in the making of trying to create a persona that would mesh well with the corporate world." At the same time, she writes "the abandoned boy within Alex Rodriguez made him particularly gullible to the influence of successful, authoritative men, so it was easy for (agent) Scott Boras to manipulate him like a sock puppet."
Roberts said she remains hopeful for Rodriguez, who likely will rejoin the Yankees within a week following his recovery from hip surgery.
"I do think there's a very good Alex in there," said Roberts, who spent six months reporting and writing the book. "I think the good Alex has a very good shot at winning. I think the good Alex is there for all of us to see for the next nine years. ... No matter what stage he seems to go through, what sort of incarnation he seems to go through, I think that he is at heart a pretty tenderhearted person." | <urn:uuid:7d1b25f5-145f-430d-9529-551c4d092795> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.kolotv.com/sports/headlines/44266707.html | 2016-08-31T23:41:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982954852.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200914-00016-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990739 | 1,175 |
The BRICS Chamber of Commerce & Industry in association with Sashakt- The Ovarian Cancer Foundation, organized a virtual panel discussion on World Ovarian Cancer Day. The prominent speakers of panel discussion were Rajeev Khandelwal (Actor &Advisory Board Member, Sashakt) Dr. Harit Chaturvedi (Chairman, Max Institute of Oncology),Nishtha Gupta (Cancer Survivor) and Mayshree Bhim, Founder & CEO, GNETWORK108. Panel discussion on World Ovarian Cancer Day was inaugurated by Dr. BBL Madhukar,Director General, BRICS CCI and Chairman, FORE School of Management and Mr. Sameep Shastri ,Vice-Chairman, BRICS CCI. Panel discussion was moderated by Megha Ahuja,Founder- Sashakt- The Ovarian Cancer Foundation.
One in seventy-two women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in their lifetime. Unfortunately, most cases are diagnosed in later stages, when the prognosis is really poor. However, if diagnosed and treated early, when the cancer is confined to the ovary, the five-year survival rate is over 90 percent. That is why it is imperative that women, their families and the healthcare community recognize the early signs and symptoms of the disease. It is important that women listen to their bodies and watch for early symptoms. There is currently no early detection test for ovarian cancer. The Pap test does not detect ovarian cancer. That’s why generating the awareness about the subtle symptoms is of paramount importance.
The session was inaugurated with the welcome address of Dr. BBL Madhukar (Director General, BRICS CCI and Chairman, FORE School of Management), who said, “I am delighted to be part of today’s session. Ovarian cancer is emerging as one of the most common malignancies which are affecting women in India. Through this webinar BRICS CCI wishes to sensitize and spread awareness about the growing fatality risk about ovarian cancer. Also, I would like to congratulate Sashakt foundation for their efforts and commitment in supporting women battling the hazardous disease. I hope with this webinar we will be able to help and drive improvements for ovarian cancer on all fronts – awareness, diagnosis, treatment and quality of life.”
Rajeev Khandelwal said, “The younger lot have a lot to bring to the table. Men don’t like discussing things about women issues at home, hence it is very important that youngsters talk about it as well as identify symptoms. You have to observe symptoms and be pushy.”
Dr. Harit Chaturvedi said, ” Globally more than 80% ovarian cancer is diagnosed in stage III or IV. While there are several tools in breast, colon, lung and few other cancers. Somehow ovarian cancer has remained elusive and no amount of awareness effort has made a difference yet. I am very happy to learn that Sashakt- The Ovarian Cancer Foundation has adopted this orphan cancer. I am very hopeful that your efforts would help bring renewed knowledge and fresh direction in this crusade. We are with you at every step in this cancer war. I want to congratulate you for taking this initiative.”
Nishtha Gupta said, “It is a sly monster, and you cannot imagine what it actually it is. For me personally, I was told almost everything in diagnosis except that I was having Ovarian Cancer. For people who don’t keep a check on their bodies, it comes extremely surprising.”
Mayshree Bhim said, “In south African we are doing a lot to change this status quo, to make change and bring change. Somehow because we feel that man are shamed to be a part of it.That’s why we are working towards raising more awareness amongst men through this initiative“
This session was moderated by Megha Ahuja(Founder- Sashakt- The Ovarian Cancer Foundation) said “If we listen to our bodies when it whisper, we won’t have to hear it scream.”
In the closing remarks, Mr. Sameep Shastri (Vice-Chairman, BRICS CCI )stated that, “I on behalf of BRICS CCI wish to thank the panelists and team Sashakt for their time and insights. I believe the session will create awareness among women and eliminate the prevailing myths in the society. And hope that the upcoming technologies, methodologies & advance treatment options backed by strong support of family members, women diagnosed with ovarian cancer can lead quality life and continue reaching for stars and being an inspiration to all around you.”
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The rib eye is a cut that any steakhouse worth its salt will have on its menu. The cut gets its name from the inner muscle strand of the prime rib – the muscle meat is encased by the fatty tissue of the prime rib cap, giving it the appearance of an eye. It is often claimed that the name is derived from the cut’s famous fat eye, but in reality, the derivation comes from the longissimus dorsi – the “eye of round”.
What is the difference between the rib eye and entrecôte?
The terms entrecôte and prime rib sometimes cause confusion, as they are mistaken for additional cuts – in fact, all three titles denote, in principle, one and the same cut. The rib eye is simply the American cut, which is more oriented towards the prime rib area. While the French cut is made on the intermediate rib (“entrecôte” consists of the “entre = between” and “côte = rib”). The differences are minimal and have converged increasingly in recent years. Essentially, it can be said that entrecôte usually refers to the back section and thus the piece as a whole roast, while rib eye is the name for the steak that is cut from it.
The international terms
- Germany – Entrecôte/Rib Eye
- Austria – Rostbraten/Hohe Rippe
- France – Entrecôte
- Italy – Costada/Controfiletto
- UK – Rib Eye/Fore Rib
- USA – Rib Eye
Where is the rib eye steak located?
The entrecôte or rib eye is found in the front section of the saddle. This name itself is no coincidence, as it essentially denotes the end section or “sirloin tip”, which sits towards the back section of the saddle.
It comprises four large muscle groups in the saddle. Two, in particular, catch the eye of meat connoisseurs – the previously mentioned longissimus dorsi and the spinalos dorsi.
The latter has also recently come to be considered a separate rare cut among meat fans. To do this, either the muscle is removed from a steak that has already been cut and tied compactly together with twine, or the entire prime rib cap is separated from the whole entrecôte to create a flat steak that is similar to the flank steak. This so-called rare cut is also referred to as the ribeye cap by people in the know. However, many butchers and steak fans alike turn their noses up at this technique, as it basically destroys the flawlessness of the noble entrecôte and makes it difficult to resell when cut to this size.
How does the rib eye become a tomahawk?
The decisive feature of a tomahawk is the rib bone – this is what turns the noble entrecôte into a glorious tomahawk steak. Essentially, the same cut is used here as for the classic rib eye steak, with the subtle difference that the entire bone remains intact with the meat. In doing so, it serves primarily as an additional flavour enhancer that gives the meat’s own flavour a real boost. At the same time, it also determines the thickness of the steak – an advantage when you consider the daunting amount of meat on offer. In some places, the tomahawk is also called the cowboy steak.
How can I recognise the perfect rib eye steak?
The main characteristics of the rib eye are, above all,
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- and the famous fat eye, which has been much praised for decades.
And rightly so – because the high fat content of the steak ensures, among other things, its juiciness and stunning texture. That is why the fine strands of fat should always run through the entire cut and should be clearly recognisable as marbling. To ensure that there is also enough of the cone-shaped tenderloin with your entrecôte, the cut should be made by the butcher between the eighth and tenth rib.
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Rib eye and tomahawk steak love to be cut very thick – this requires some practice in terms of cooking. A digital thermometer, which measures the meat’s core temperature, is an enormous help here. First, the steak must be seared until brown, by applying very high direct heat on a preheated grill. A thick-cut rib eye can easily withstand temperatures of around 800 or 900°C and is, therefore, perfect for the sear burner that comes with the Professional PRO Line gas grills. Once the Maillard reaction has created those pronounced seared flavours on both sides, the steak is then placed in an indirect, lower heat zone. Once there, the core temperature must now be allowed to rise to approximately 53°C. During the subsequent resting phase on a preheated wooden board, the temperature in the core rises to roughly 55-56°C – this is how the steak should be served. | <urn:uuid:295b4816-55fe-4b71-be9b-c37fe4b10016> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.charbroil.co.uk/tips/rib-eye/ | 2021-04-17T02:22:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038098638.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417011815-20210417041815-00311.warc.gz | en | 0.950417 | 1,053 |
The Czech Senate has voted unanimously on a motion labelling the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities as amounting to Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The move comes as the Belgian Parliament prepares for a showdown on a resolution condemning human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region tomorrow.
The motion, approved by 38 votes to 0 on Thursday the 10th of June, noted with concern the “massive violations of human rights and freedoms, genocide and crimes against humanity, ethnic discrimination, and the suppression of cultural, religious and political identity in the PRC,” with particular reference to the Xinjiang region. The motion also called for the Czech Government to stage a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, arguing that their presence could be “misused to legitimize further discrimination, violence and suppression of fundamental rights”.
The result comes ahead of a key vote in the Belgian Parliament on a motion led by Samuel Cogolati MP, which if passed would declare Uyghurs to be victims of Crimes Against Humanity and at “serious risk” of Genocide. The supporters of the motion claim that this would require the Belgian Government to act to prevent these abuses in accordance with its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention. If passed, Belgium would be the sixth parliament to make similar declarations of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity against Uyghurs following the parliaments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Czechia, the Netherlands, and Lithuania. The United States government has also declared Uyghurs to be victims of Genocide.
Pavel Fischer, Czech Senator and Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, said:
“We cannot stay silent while the Chinese Government carries out the most brutal persecution of Uyghurs, Tibetans and other groups.”
“I hope that all democratic states will use the Beijing Winter Olympics to signal the strength of our horror at what is taking place in the Uyghur and Tibetan Regions. This isn’t about petty politics. This is about preventing an industrial scale atrocity. Any political leaders that accept invitations to the games risk tacitly condoning these abuses.”
Samuel Cogoalati, Belgian MP and Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, said:
“The world is slowly waking up to the horrific abuses committed by the Chinese Government against the Uyghurs and other minorities. The Czech vote is further proof of this. Tomorrow the Belgian Parliament has an opportunity to signal to the world that we too will not stand idly by while this suffering continues. We have an unavoidable moral and legal responsibility to prevent the Crime of Genocide wherever we see it at risk of developing.”
OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Adopted at the 12th plenary session held on 10 June 2021
On the 2022 Olympic Games in the People’s Republic of China and the commitments of the host country
I. Recognizes the ideals of the Olympic Charter, which includes among the fundamental values and principles of Olympism the respect for the preservation of human dignity and the prohibition of discrimination based on race, color, gender, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other beliefs, nationality or social origin, property, origin or other status;
II. Notes with concern, that
1. There are massive violations of human rights and freedoms, genocide and crimes against humanity, ethnic discrimination, and the suppression of cultural, religious and political identity in the PRC, in particular in the Autonomous Regions of Tibet and Xinjiang;
2. The Government of the PRC, despite repeated official requests from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, refuses to grant access to independent missions of the international community;
3. The Government of the PRC, contrary to its commitment to hold the Olympic Games as “free and open”, misused the Olympic Games as early as 2008 to further suppress human rights and freedoms, which was also reflected in massive repression of minorities enjoying special protection under the Olympic Charter;
III. Appeals to
1. The Government of the Czech Republic to evaluate the fulfillment of international human rights obligations by the PRC, to systematically comment on the human rights situation in the PRC at the UN Human Rights Council or the UN General Assembly and to actively support similar initiatives of other states;
2. The Government of the Czech Republic and other political representatives of the Czech Republic to reject the invitation to participate in the Olympic Games in the
PRC, as their presence could be misused to legitimize further discrimination, violence and suppression of fundamental rights;
3. The Czech Olympic Committee, when selecting the organizers of the Games, to ensure their readiness to comply with the principles of the Olympic Charter and their other international obligations and to prevent the abuse of the Olympic Games for political propaganda;
1. The criticism faced by the International Olympic Committee in 2008 for failing to anticipate violations of freedom of expression and of the press by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, which had a negative impact also on the work of the international media and participants in the 2008 Olympic Games;
2. Resolution of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic No. 131 of 20 March 2019 on the Petition for an End to the Genocide of Falun Gong Practitioners Committed by the Chinese Regime;
V. Authorizes the President of the Senate to present this resolution to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, the Chairman of the Czech Olympic Committee, and the Chairman of the National Sports Agency.
Miloš Vystrčil m.p.
President of the Senate
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Immune cell infiltration of solid tumors is one of the hallmarks of cancer and plays a vital role in disease progression. Through the recognition of the important role of Immune cells in cancer, immunotherapy strategies have been introduced. Cells of the myeloid lineage are the main cell source for tumor immune cell infiltration; however, current immunotherapy only involves the adaptive immune system. The tumor microenvironment may reprogram immune cells that infiltrate the tumor, thereby changing their properties to promote tumor growth. What’s more noteworthy is that cancer can cause changes in bone marrow production, which in turn promotes the increase in the production of myeloid cells including monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils. These cells then accumulate on the tumor, and Usually move towards promoting a specific phenotype of the tumor. However, the process of tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells is complex and dynamic, and certain tumor types and innate immune cells may also be transformed to continue to exert anti-tumor activity. Therefore, immunotherapy aimed at reversing the pre-tumor phenotype in innate immune cells or promoting its anti-tumor phenotype represents an attractive anti-tumor method that can work synergistically with current immunotherapies for adaptive immunity.
Existing clinical data indicate that fungal-derived polysaccharide β-glucan or Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-Bacillus vaccine (BCG) can promote the continuous enhanced response of bone marrow cells to secondary infection or inflammation. The process mediated by transcription, epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming is called “trained innate immunity” or “innate immune memory”. Recently, scientists have discovered that by regulating the progenitor cells of myeloid cells in the bone marrow (BM), they have discovered that the trained immune system can exhibit long-term anti-cancer effects. In addition, agonist agents that help train the immune system exert anti-tumor activity. For example, BCG can be used to treat bladder cancer, and β-glucan is related to the efficacy of tumor immunotherapy. However, its specific role in tumors is still not clear. It is not well understood whether the potential tumor-modulating effects of agents such as β-glucan involve the induction of innate immune memory. In order to clarify the mechanism, scientists have recently explored the induction experiment by pretreatment of mice with β-glucan.
Studies have shown that neutrophils infiltrating solid tumors (called tumor-associated neutrophils (TANs)) can exhibit phenotypes with cytotoxic and anti-tumor properties (widely referred to as TAN1) or with Phenotype related to tumor progression (TAN2). Type I interferon (IFN) promotes TAN1, while transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is related to the differentiation of TAN2. In the context of anti-tumor immunity, neutrophils and granulocyte progenitor cells are the main cellular effectors of training immunity induced by β-glucan. Further studies have found that the anti-tumor effect of training immunity induced by β-glucan is related to the transcriptome and epigenetic rearrangement of granulocyte production, as well as neutrophil reprogramming and anti-tumor phenotype. This process is related to granulocyte production mediated by type I IFN signaling. Studies have shown that type I interferon plays a central role in granulocyte production and promotes the anti-tumor phenotype of neutrophils. Mice lacking IFN-β showed hindered bone marrow hematopoietic progenitor cell maturation, reduced blood neutrophil counts, and more aggressive tumor growth. After immune training, neutrophils can achieve subsequent anti-tumor properties through the generated ROS. The results showed that the adoptive transfer of neutrophils from β-glucan-trained mice to naive receptors inhibited the tumor growth of the latter in a ROS-dependent manner. Therefore, the anti-tumor effect of the trained granulocytes induced by β-glucan can be transmitted to unimmunized mice through bone marrow transplantation. | <urn:uuid:24298cba-1605-4980-b3e5-1a9aa0976233> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.blogarama.com/medicine-and-remedies-blogs/1282497-creative-diagnostics-blog/37129818-beta-glucan-trains-immune-system-attack-cancer | 2021-01-21T10:58:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703524743.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121101406-20210121131406-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.932066 | 877 |
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Shannon Tweed, who is of course incomparably better that Tanya Roberts (the star of the first "Night Eyes") in every possible way, spices up this erotic thriller that is a sequel only in the sense that Andrew Stevens plays the same character. Tweed has some really steamy workout scenes, and her sex scenes are very well-photographed, but eventually get a little boring through overlength. The plot is minimal, though the film tries to "pump up" the thriller aspect in the last 20 minutes, by including some unexpectedly brutal and raw violence. (**)
Night Eyes II is another one of those movies filled with erotica that I like many others will watch many times to view the sexy and hot Shannon Tweed. This is one of the early works of Tweed and one of her sexy movies of all-time. Shannon stars as the unhappy wife of a wealthy diplomat who starts up a hot and passionate love affair with a security expert (Andrew Stevens) who's hired to protect her. Andrew is a lucky man. I hope most of you all know that Shannon Tweed is the fantasy of every man! It's proven by watching Night Eyes II watch and see for yourself.
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Andrew Stevens is a security expert hired to put in a surveillance
system for Shannon Tweed and her husband, a foreign dignitary who's
recently been attacked. The relationship between Mrs. and Mr. Tweed is
strained, Stevens starts eyeballin' her, and, well, one thing leads to
another. I don't especially find Tweed attractive, but she's not a bad
actress, and is relatively believable as a fragile, unloved woman. The
plot makes sense, more or less, rare for this genre -- there's some
slow spaces but there's actually a couple of good fights at the end.
The love scenes are pretty silly. Although a bit with a bowl of raspberries (a takeoff of 9 1/2 WEEKS?) was funny.
Not bad, as far as these things go. Which for this genre is a big thumbs up.
I recently became a fan of Tweed for some reason i don't know of.
because she is hot. Anyway, I finally got up enough balls to go to
blockbuster and rent a movie of hers (i didn't want people thinking I was
perve or something). That movie was Night Eyes II. This is the one
that many sites Ive looked at said this was her best work, and based on
reviews here, I was expecting a decent movie. I was dissapointed to say
Shannon is no doubt one of the sexiest women alive, but she couldn't make this movie work. The plot (or lack there of) was about a night security guy who is hired to survey an ambassadors property after an attack on them. The ambassador's wife then hires the security guy to be her personal bodyguard. That wasn't a good idea. They make love twice after that, and thats it. The sex was slow, boring, and involved an excersize machine and some berries. Real exciting. Not very erotic if you ask me. But, then again, this movie wasn't about intercourse, it actually wanted you to be thrilled at the plot. There was nothing "thrillish" about this movie. I knew what the ending was 10 minutes into the movie.
The acting in general was OK. Shannon Tweed isn't gifted but most of the time gets the job done. Andrew Stevens is pretty bad, but i wasn't expecting much anyway. Everybody else did their part well.
The action sequences are probably the worst you'll ever see. Dont watch any gun fight or fist fight because you'll die laughing at how awful it looks. The sound was dreadful as well. The music sucked and the guns sounded like a cork being popped out of a wine bottle.
Since I cant recommend any better Shannon Tweed movie because this is my first, I'm pretty sure there are better ones out there. If you watch this looking for Shannon Tweed like I did, you will likely be dissapointed. She does get naked but she is not seductive like she is known to be. 2/10 for the two times you see her nude.
Well, I said it all. Pretty much what's in the one-line summary. And,
no, I don't think Shannon Tweed helped.
Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens), star of Night Eyes I, has found a new job: protecting Marilyn Mejenes (Shannon Tweed), an American-born woman, and her husband, Hector. Hector is some kind of diplomat I think, and is running for President. Anyway, a mysterious attacker has been stalking over Marilyn's mansion. It isn't long before Will and Marilyn fall in love. And the usual trouble ensues...
I found this movie to be a RATHER inferior step-down from the first. It wasn't a complete waste, but the action (and I mean the violence, with guns), didn't help it. The sex scenes, I suppose, bring to us creative uses for gym equipment and how to use berries as an aphrodisiac. I LIKED the movie a little. This doesn't in any way, shape or form measure up to the first. Also, I thought the whole thing with Mejenes being some Spanish diplomat who has fallen from grace rather silly.
**Review based on R-version**
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Gram Pradhans Tried to Disrupt the Citizen's Social Audit
By Dr. Sandeep Pandey
The Miyaganj block development office had earlier provided documents related to NREGS after one and a half years struggle at UP State Information Commission under Right to Information Act. These documents are being verified by the citizens themselves in the ongoing social audit.The Gram Pradhans had spread the rumour that high court has granted a stay-order against the social audit. In many Gram Panchayats including Bhadua, Barha Kala, Kulha Ataura and Korari khurd, the social audit work remained suspended for few hours owing to the rumour. However when people demanded a copy of the High Court stay-order, the Gram Pradhans couldn't produce any copy. The people thereby decided that unless they get to see a copy of the stay order, they will not stop the social audit.The resistance put up by the Gram Pradhans in some gram panchayats on the pretext of a rumour to disrupt the social audit, slowly started giving way to the mounting public pressure to continue the social audit. Only in one gram panchayat, Korari Khurd, the social audit remained paralyzed for the entire day because of never-ending arguments between the gram pradhan and the social audit team. Interestingly enough, the people we could speak to in this village, reported that their 'job cards' are with the Gram Pradhan. Job cards under NREGS should be with the worker at all times.
|Gram Pradhans, the elected representatives at the village level, attempted to disrupt the ongoing social audit in Unnao (India).|
Gram pradhans are resistant to the social audit because it will potentially expose the gross-irregularities, corruption and in-discrepancies in the work done under NREGS. NREGS is playing a phenomenal role in empowering the weakest sections of the society to hold the 'mighty' accountable. Many gram pradhans have accepted verbally that irregularities have taken place in the NREGS work. It is only a matter of few days now when findings of the social audit will expose them all in a public hearing on 28 May.It is evident from the stiff resistance of Gram pradhans to the citizen's social audit that despite of the legal provisions under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and Right to Information Act (RTI) that empowers a common citizen with the right to hold those-in-power accountable and increases transparency, the ruling class is trying unsuccessfully to derail the process because of its vested interest.The social audit team met 108 people in Gram Panchayat Kulha Ataura who wanted to get work under NREGS but their job cards were not made. Annat Ram (son of Bhola) said that he had submitted his photograph 3 times for the job card in past two years and the job card was finally delivered to him this morning. Upon further investigation, the social audit team discovered that just few hours earlier that morning, most of the job cards were distributed in this village. These job cards already show an entry for 10 days work to dig a water body 'Chaptenwa Talaab' further deep. Ram Baran (son of Madhav) said that although he didn't get a single day of work, still his job card shows 24 days of work. Muster Roll obtained through RTI application, didn't show his name even.The job card of Bhaiya Lal (son of Ram Prasad) shows 68 days of work although in reality he got work only for 4 days. About 65 people in this gram panchayat are below the poverty line (BPL), possessing a BPL 'rashion' card to get food grains and sugar from the public distribution system (PDS). But in the last 5 years, none of these 65 people got even a single grain from PDS. Antyodaya 'rashion' cards do show some distribution but in reality it hasn't taken place.Despite of the 'High Court stay order' rumour and stiff resistance put up by the Gram Pradhans and other vested interests, it gives me hope that the steely resolve of the people to conduct the social audit related to their own development and welfare, could prevail. The social audit, as expected, is exposing gross-irregularities.
|This social audit is being carried out by the citizens on the development work done under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).|
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The Socceroos have maintained their 100 percent record on the road to Russia 2018, seeing off a stubborn Tajikistan 3-0 in Dushanbe on Tuesday night.
Second half goals from stalwarts Mark Milligan and skipper Tim Cahill – who finished with a brace - ensured all three points for Australia, to maintain their spot on top of the group after three games.
It was a far tougher assignment for Ange Postecoglou’s side than they faced against Bangladesh last week but they did what was required against the 158th-ranked East Asian nation.
Aaron Mooy produced another exceptional performance in midfield, while the back-four were again solid and disciplined for the entire 90 minutes.
Postecoglou made three changes from the side that crushed Bangladesh just five days ago.
Tom Rogic, Nathan Burns Tarek Elrich all dropped to the bench, replaced by Matt McKay, Ryan McGowan and Cahill.
And it was Cahill that had Australia’s best opportunities early on, missing the target with three separate headed chances.
The artificial surface at the Central Republican Stadium clearly affected the speed of the Socceroos game but they were still fizzing the ball around with confidence.
Mathew Leckie’s pace was causing problems as well, but every time the visitors created a shooting-chance, a Tajik body was in the way.
The Socceroos' best chance of the first half came on the half hour mark with the home side somehow surviving a double scare.
Massimo Luongo’s close-range effort was brilliant kept out by ‘keeper Alisher Dodov, before the rebound eventually found its way into the path of Leckie at the top of the box, with his goal-bound effort cleared off the line.
Despite having almost double the possession and attempting 15 shots to the Tajiks three, the Green and Gold had to be content with being on level terms at the break.
Only the width of the crossbar denied the Socceroos and Mooy five minutes after the restart.
The Melbourne City star let rip with a powerful free-kick from 30 metres out, the ball dipping wickedly but only hitting the woodwork with the ‘keeper beaten.
Mooy’s next involvement seven minutes later was more telling, playing in the corner which fell to Milligan to poke it home from a couple of metres out.
The result was made safe 17 minutes from time with Cahill finishing off a brilliant move for his 40th Socceroos goal.
Milligan chipped the ball out to substitute Burns on the right, the FC Tokyo man rewarding Ryan McGowan’s lung-busting overlapping run with an exquisite pass before the fullback found Cahill for a simple tap-in.
After Luongo and Burns both squandered glorious opportunities soon in the latter stages, Cahill put the icing on the cake in the final minute with a superb header from Tommy Oar’s centre.
That’s three wins from three for the Socceroos sets up a top-of-the-table clash away in Jordan next month.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Perhaps it was inevitable considering what has transpired this season for the Seattle Mariners.
When they failed to score a run in the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th innings, the possibility of yet another walk-off loss grew exponentially with each batter.
It was only a matter of time.
Mike Moustakas took advantage in the 13th off a poor pitch from reliever Chance Ruffin on a 0-2 count, crushing it well over the fence in right field to give the Kansas City Royals a 7-6 victory in the dying sunlight at Kaufmann Stadium.
“It was supposed to be a fastball off the plate, and I just left it right down the middle,” Ruffin said.
It was the 11th time this season the Mariners have lost on a walk-off hit. It was the first time Ruffin had to endure the scene of another team celebrating at home plate.
Ruffin pitching in that situation was indicative of the Mariners and their bullpen issues. Mariners’ manager Eric Wedge wasn’t able to use normal setup men Yoervis Medina and Oliver Perez in the game because of excessive use during this road trip and the season.
With starter Joe Saunders not making it out of the fifth inning, the Mariners were forced to use Brandon Maurer, Charlie Furbush, Tom Wilhelmsen and Lucas Luetge before calling on Ruffin in the 12th inning, who worked a quick 1-2-3 inning leading up to the 13th.
“The solo shot got us, but I thought Ruffin pitched well,” Wedge said.
Ruffin hadn’t been on a big-league mound in a Mariners’ uniform since the 2011 season, when he was acquired as part of the trade that sent Doug Fister to the Detroit Tigers. Ruffin pitched with Class AAA Tacoma in 2012. He began this season in the starting rotation at Class AA Jackson, before switching back to a reliever in Tacoma in July.
But he would use none of it as an excuse.
“I felt good,” Ruffin said. “I had command of all four pitches. I love those situations. I love pitching in a tight game like that. I’ve been comfortable pitching in tight games since college. It was a lot of fun being out in that situation. I just made a mistake.”
Seattle rolled to a 5-0 lead after four innings. The Mariners jumped all over Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie, scoring three runs in the first inning. Kendrys Morales delivered an RBI single and Justin Smoak crushed a two-run homer to right field, his 15th of the season.
The Mariners tacked on another run in the third when Kyle Seager took advantage of a mistake by first baseman Eric Hosmer on a throw from the outfield.
Brad Miller made it 5-0 in the fourth with a sacrifice fly to left field to score Michael Saunders.
And yet, it felt like there should have been more runs.
“We had some chances to break it open,” Wedge said. “I like the five runs we scored. We had some other opportunities we didn’t take advantage of. That’s the difference for us offensively.”
The five runs weren’t enough for Seattle starter Joe Saunders, whose outing fell apart in the fifth.
After getting the first out of the inning, Saunders gave up three straight hits, including a two-run homer to Alex Gordon. Saunders struck out Hosmer for the second out of the inning, but never got the third out. Billy Butler, who had five hits in the game, singled to right and Salvador Perez followed with an RBI single to left to cut it to 5-3. Saunders walked Justin Maxwell and Wedge had seen enough.
“Joe made it tough for himself in the fifth inning,” Wedge said. “We tried to give him every opportunity to get that final out.”
Brandon Maurer came in and struck out pinch hitter Carlos Pena to preserve the lead and then pitched a 1-2-3 sixth inning.
“Maurer came out great,” Wedge said “He got the big strikeout there. And then ran through the next inning.”
But Maurer couldn’t sustain the success in the seventh.
He gave up four straight hits to start the inning, including an RBI double from Hosmer and RBI single from Butler to tie the game at five.
“You expect Maurer to get somebody out in that situation,” Wedge said. “He’s going to have to learn how get over that hump.”
Charlie Furbush replaced Maurer and gave up a sacrifice fly to Justin Maxwell to allow the Royals to take a 6-5 lead.
The Mariners appeared to be done.
The Royals turned to lefty Will Smith, who mowed through the Mariners in order in the eighth.
In the ninth, Royals closer Greg Holland, who has been close to perfect all season, had two outs and pinch hitter Raul Ibanez down 1-2 in the count.
Ibanez ripped a hanging slider into the right field stands to tie the game at 6.
“I was just trying not to do too much,” Ibanez said. “I got enough of it.”
The Mariners weren’t able to get much more off the Royals bullpen over the next four innings, despite having runners in scoring position in three of them.
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Impacts on Vegetation and Wildlife
Most native animals in the Flinders depend on grasses, trees and shrubs for food. So do sheep and cattle. As the numbers of introduced grazing animals increased, native species found it harder to compete for food and water. By the end of the nineteenth century, the effects of over stocking, ploughing the soil for crops combined with recurrent drought had changed the country forever.
– Six species were extinct: the Tammar Wallaby; Rat kangaroo (or bettong); hairy-nosed wombat; Marsupial cat and the Stick-nest rat.
– Goats, rabbits, house mice and cats had all been all introduced. Rabbits and goats eat any plant they can reach.
– Otto Bartholmaeus of Arkaba was one of the first in the ranges to tackle the dingo problem. He built 2 metre high dingo proof fences around one paddock after another. His six children shepherded sheep and laid strychnine baits
paddock by paddock. 100 dingoes died in one paddock alone.
– Gum trees were felled and used for fence posts, sleepers for railway lines and as fuel for steam trains and mining engines. Native pine was used to build homes.
- Rabbits were well into the Flinders by the 1870s. It is likely that they spread north from places like Anlaby Station near Kapunda, where they had been introduced for sport.
- Rabbits are a menace in farming and grazing country. They eat plants right down to the ground, and many species die as a result.
- Within a few years of rabbits appearing on Callabonna ‘the sandhills began to drift; wells filled with sand; dingoes thrived and increased prolifically on a diet of rabbits’. The Ragless brothers, experienced pastoralists, were forced to abandon in 1896.
- Rabbits were well into the Flinders by the 1870s. In good years they bred prolifically, and provided ample food for dingoes that in turn bred prolifically. During droughts, rabbits died and the dingoes that had relied on them moved into the ranges looking for food. Wilpena Pound was badly infested with dingoes, and so was Arkaba station.
Controlling Rabbit numbers
- The old saying goes ‘Three rabbits, three years, three million’ (ABC News 2012).
- Drought was the only thing that controlled their numbers in the early years, along with dingoes.
- Later on, different methods were tried to kill them in large numbers.
o Poisoning with strychnine or phosphorus-laced baits
o One method that worked well when water was scarce was to fence off an area around a water hole. The only entry was through a funnel shaped tube of wire netting –and once the rabbits were in, they couldn’t get out.
Up to 3,000 rabbits were caught in one night in this sort of trap in the 1930s (Quorn 1978:51).
o Rabbit-proof fencing around properties (wire netting)
o Professional rabbit trappers used up to 300 traps a day, and this helped keep the numbers down slightly. Rabbits were skinned, frozen and sent to market as a cheaper source of meat.
o In the 1950s, the Myxomatosis virus was introduced into the rabbit and killed millions. Eventually they developed resistance to it, and calicivirus was released to help control rabbit numbers.
o In February 2012, ABC News reported that rabbits are becoming resistant to calicivirus, and that landowners are resorting to shooting them and ripping their warrens.
Scientists predicted it would take 4-5 years to develop a new strain.
The first fox was killed in the Hawker area in 1907. Mr Graham ‘very kindly cut off its tail and brought it in for examination by the members’ of the Cradock Branch of the Agricultural bureau (Mincham 1980:117-8). Foxes soon spread throughout the Flinders.
Mincham, Hans 1980. Hawker … Hub of the Flinders. Hawker Centenary Committee. Adelaide.
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An appeal has been launched by one of Wales’s leading literary festivals to find poets to take part in a unique relay around a shopping centre.
To kick of this year’s festival the Carnival of Words will be staging a Poetry Baton event at Eagles Meadow in Wrexham on Saturday, April 29.
The poetry relay will travel around the shopping centre with the poets being spread out across the shopping centre.
It will be one of a number of events being held at Eagles Meadow during the week-long festival.
Organisers are keen to hear from any poets from the area who want to have their work heard.
According to festival director Dylan Hughes, a former librarian the festival has grown in popularity since its launch three years ago.
He said: “The Poetry Baton event at Eagles Meadow will be on the first day of the festival and will involve poets reading their work before passing on the baton to the next poet to read theirs.
“Poets will be spread around Eagles Meadow Shopping Centre. Any poets that want to take part should get in touch through our website.
“Our aim is to get the most poets taking part in one continuous reading in Wrexham. And the language the poetry is written in isn’t important. We want to hear Welsh, English, Polish, Spanish or any other language. It isn’t the language but the words that matter.”
He added: “Then, also at Eagles Meadow on Monday, May 1st between 11am and 3pm we will be holding a new Voices event at Eagles Meadow. This will be an opportunity for new literary voices to share their writing journeys with the audience.
“The event will be introduced by bestselling author AD Garrett and will offer the chance for a Q and A session with the new authors, all of whom live within a 25 mile radius of Wrexham.”
“The festival’s packed programme will see events taking place right across the town with leading authors such as Joanne Harris, who wrote Chocolat, Barbara Erskine, who wrote Lady of Hay and Ben Kane, who wrote The Eagles of Rome all attending the festival and on hand to discuss their work.
“We also have the former Labour Government Minister Alan Johnson who will be discussing The Long and Winding Road, the latest volume of his autobiography at Gwersyllt Community Resource Centre.”
Patrick Cox, Coleg Cambria’s Library Services Manager and a festival committee member, added: “We also have the acclaimed local poet and author Aled Lewis Evans presenting a retrospective account of his work at the Catrin Finch Centre.
“And the Saith Seren pub and Welsh Centre will be hosting a popular open mic for poets and writers featuring Alys Conran.
“There will also be a collective effort to write the 2017 Wrexham Workers’ Poem in local workplaces with the final version being performed at Gwersyllt Community Resource Centre.
“Crime writing will be featured with a behind-the-scenes look at real life murder investigations with Lisa Cutts, a police officer with the serious Crime Directorate, and Simon Booker who has written extensively for television series such as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.”
Paul Jeorrett, of Glyndwr University Library and a festival committee member said: “The popular Murder Mystery event will be taking place again this year at Wrexham Library with a script from award-winning crime writer Anne Cleves based on the latest Shetland novel Cold Earth.
“The comedy drama Bothered and Bewildered by Gail Young will present a moving insight into the realities of dementia whilst local walkers will not wish to miss Ramblers and Readers.
“Award winning graphic novelist Karrie Fransman will explore why comics are entering a new golden age.
“Historical fiction provides one of the highlights of this year’s Carnival when a panel of authors who know their eras inside out will try to convince you that if you were to step back in time, you’d choose their period. Come along ready to vote and then be prepared to change your mind!
“Lucienne Boyce, author of The Bristol Suffragettes will also show how the establishment tried to turn the tide against the campaigns of the Suffragettes.”
Fellow committee member Gwyneth Marshman, a web designer, said: “It’s a packed and really interesting Carnival and we are delighted the event is gaining in popularity.
“There really is something for everyone and the Carnival is going from strength to strength. We don’t want the festival to grow too commercial, we want to keep that local feel and celebrate and do justice to Wrexham’s literary roots.”
She added: “We are really pleased with the support of Eagles Meadows shopping centre and the other venues around the town that are pulling out all the stops to ensure the success of the event.
“It’s going to be a wonderful festival and I’d encourage people to visit our website and see what’s going on and how they can get involved or check out the programme at local libraries and other community venues.”
Eagles Meadow manager Kevin Critchley said: “We are thrilled to be involved with the Carnival for a third time. Previous events here at Eagles Meadow have been very popular with our shoppers and visitors and it’s an event we are keen to help promote.
“I’m certainly looking forward to seeing the Poetry Baton and New Voices events here at Eagles Meadow. It is something different and any event that highlights literacy, books and learning is worth getting involved with.”
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via press release:
Highest Overnight for Sugar Bowl Since 2007; Combined Overnight Rating for Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl & Sugar Bowl Rises over 2013
Birmingham Top Market with 50.1 Rating
ESPN’s telecast of the Allstate Sugar Bowl on January 2 garnered the highest overnight rating for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Bowl since 2007. The game – No. 11 Oklahoma over No. 3 Alabama 45-31 – averaged a 9.3 overnight rating for a 45 percent increase over ESPN’s 2013 January 2 BCS matchup, which was also the Allstate Sugar Bowl (a 6.4 overnight rating for No. 21 Louisville beating No. 3 Florida 33-23).
ESPN’s first three Bowl Championship Series telecasts of 2014 – the Rose Bowl Game Presented by VIZIO, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and Allstate Sugar Bowl – combined is averaging a 9.1 metered market rating, according to Nielsen. The three-game average marks an increase of 21 percent over a 7.5 average overnight rating for the first three BCS bowls in 2013 (Rose Bowl Game Presented by VIZIO, Discover Orange Bowl and Allstate Sugar Bowl).
Fans also turned to WatchESPN to follow the matchup, spending 17.8 million minutes on the game (up 206 percent), the highest amount for a college football game on the platform this year. The bowl also garnered an average minute audience of 76,000, a 158 percent increase over last season. Combined, the three games averaged 15.8 million live minutes viewed ( up 72 percent) and an average minute audience of 71,000 (up 54 percent).
Birmingham led all markets for the telecast with a 50.1 rating, marking the fourth highest overnight for a bowl game on ESPN in the market (the other three were BCS Championship matchups). Oklahoma City was the second highest rated market with a 34.7 followed by Tulsa (33.5 rating – which is the highest rating for a bowl on ESPN in the market), New Orleans (23.9), Nashville (18.7), Austin (17.8), Knoxville (17.6), Memphis (17.4), Atlanta (16.6) and Jacksonville (16.2).
Rose Bowl Presented by VIZIO & Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Based on Nielsen’s Fast National ratings, the 2014 Rose Bowl Game Presented by VIZIO stands as the most-viewed program on cable television since the 2013 BCS National Championship. ESPN’s telecast of No. 4 Michigan State over No. 5 Stanford averaged 18,636,000 viewers based on a 10.2 US HH rating. The coverage is up 9 percent (vs. 17,024,000 and 9.4 US HH rating) over the 2013 Rose Bowl in the same window.
ESPN’s Tostitos Fiesta Bowl telecast of No. 15 Central Florida State vs. No. 6 Baylor was the most-viewed program of the night – broadcast or cable – with an average of 11,235,000 viewers and a 6.6 US HH rating. The 2014 game showed viewership and ratings increases of 6 percent (vs. 10,562,000) and 8 percent (6.1 US HH rating) over ESPN’s 2013 New Year’s Day prime time BCS bowl, the 2013 Orange Bowl, No. 12 Florida defeating No. 15 Northern Illinois 31-10.
ESPN & the BCS
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Published: Feb 12, 2013
EMI are proud to announce the highly anticipated release of the Double Disc DVD MAIDEN ENGLAND ‘88 on 25 March. Now available for the very first time on DVD, this live show was filmed across two sold-out nights at Birmingham N.E.C Arena, UK in November 1988 during the band’s “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour”. Disc one contains the concert which has been specially upgraded and extended from the existing 1989 longform VHS release and now includes three previously unreleased encores: Running Free, Run To The Hills and Sanctuary thereby completing the full concert with a total running time of 110 minutes . Maiden’s own Film Producer and Director Andy Matthews went back to the 1988 edit and painstakingly remastered each shot digitally; colour correcting and grading to give the image the best possible look from that time. As well as the VHS stereo sound track by Martin Birch, the band’s producer between 1981 and 1993, the DVD also includes a brand new 5.1 audio surround mix by Maiden’s current producer Kevin Shirley. The concert was meticulously directed and edited by bass player and founder member Steve Harris, so as to capture the performance from a fans-eye view of the stage, focusing fully on the music, the elaborate stage production and the lighting. Add into the mix an electrifying set list and of course Eddie, and Maiden England now offers a snapshot of a bygone era in which the band, as they continue to do today, devote their all in delivering the ultimate live experience for their fans.
Disc two is an extensive bonus disc featuring an exclusive documentary charting Part 3 in the History of Iron Maiden. This 40-minute film comprises recent interviews with the five band members and manager, Rod Smallwood. Picking up the story in the aftermath of the ‘84/85 World Slavery tour, this interesting and insightful documentary sees the band speak candidly about their memories of an exciting and occasionally turbulent period from which would emerge the albums Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. As the Eighties began to draw to a close, so did another chapter in Maiden’s compelling history.
Other special extras on the bonus disc include Twelve Wasted Years. First released as a longform VHS in 1987 and available for the first time on DVD, this documentary runs for 90 minutes and includes archive interviews and dynamic live footage from the band’s beginnings in the now legendary Ruskin Arms pub, via London’s Marquee club and three World Tours. Five promo videos for the singles from the aforementioned albums are also featured and have been carefully restored and improved upon from the original films using the very latest software with the audio remastered in digital stereo.
Manager Rod Smallwood comments “We’ve been busy upgrading this concert footage for a long time, with our in-house Film Producer and Director Andy Matthews working tirelessly to weave his magic yet again!. The 1989 VHS video has been largely unavailable for many years and we know how eagerly our fans have been awaiting the new version so we wanted to give it the best possible treatment. The current Maiden England World Tour which continues later this year revisits much of the set list and production from the initial 1989 VHS release so it will be interesting to compare just how much has changed in terms of our 2013 live show production, especially with all the advances in modern technology and the improvements we’ve been able to make to the set”.
The Maiden England ‘88 concert soundtrack will also be made available on 2CD album, Limited Edition double vinyl picture disc and Digital Download formats. The audio had previously only ever been available before on CD as part of EMI’s 1994 Sound And Vision Series packaged alongside the VHS, but with two tracks fewer than the video contained. Can I Play With Madness and Hallowed Be Thy Name were not featured as there was no space on the 1CD disc. Now with the three encores also included the double disc offers a total of 5 tracks previously unavailable on CD making this the first full and complete audio recording release of this historic tour.
DISC ONE – MAIDEN ENGLAND ’88
The Evil That Men Do
Die With Your Boots On
Can I Play With Madness
Heaven Can Wait
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
The Number Of The Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Run To The Hills*
DISC TWO – THE HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN PART 3
The History Of Iron Maiden - Part 3
12 Wasted Years
Wasted Years promo video
Stranger In A Strange Land promo video
Can I Play With Madness promo video
The Evil That Men Do promo video
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DETROIT (AP) -Manny Legace wanted to play much better than he did the last time he faced his former team.
He did, making 31 saves for his 20th career shutout to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 2-0 win over the NHL-leading Detroit Red Wings on Monday night.
It was the first time Detroit, winners of 14 of its last 16 games, was held scoreless this season. The Red Wings hadn't been shut out at home since a 3-0 loss to Boston on Jan 7, 2004.
|Jay McClement, left, collides with the Detroit Red Wings Brett Lebda during the second period of the Blues' 2-0 win in St. Louis on Monday. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)|
Erik Johnson and Lee Stempniak scored for the Blues, who snapped a four-game losing streak.
They dropped a 5-0 decision to the Red Wings the day after Christmas. Legace was pulled midway through the second period after giving up four goals on 16 shots.
"The guys played phenomenal for me," said Legace, who played with Detroit from 1999-2000 until 2005-06. "I was awful after Christmas ... You have to bring your A-game (against the Red Wings) or you'll look bad."
Legace stopped Jiri Hudler on a breakaway with 8:05 left.
"Goaltending was the key to the game," St. Louis coach Andy Murray said. "Manny had a very good night tonight."
Dominik Hasek made 21 saves for the Red Wings.
"At times we did some good things," Detroit's Kris Draper said. "But from start to finish, it wasn't our most complete effort."
Johnson, a rookie defenseman, opened the scoring 5:41 into the third period when he beat a screened Hasek with a slap shot from the high slot after picking up a loose puck and skating from inside the right circle. It was Johnson's third goal of the season.
The first overall pick of the 2006 NHL Draft had gone 14 games without a goal.
"I was getting a little frustrated because I've been in a drought," Johnson said. "But tonight I was saying 'feed me the rock, feed me the rock and I'll pound it."'
All three of his goals have been game winners.
When informed of that stat, Legace said: "Well, he should score more often."
He did something that Blues' goalies haven't been able to do often: Shut out the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. The last St. Louis goaltender to do so was Guy Hebert on Jan. 11, 1993.
It was Detroit's fourth game in six days.
"We had no juice in the tank, it's pretty obvious," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "I thought we did all right for about the first 10 minutes at the start of the game. We tried to push, but we didn't have any jump. Give them credit. They played hard."
Stempniak scored into an empty net with 22 seconds left.
|Erik Johnson (3) Slapshot - ASST: Brad Boyes (11)|
1 - 0 STL
|EN - Lee Stempniak (8) Snap shot - ASST: Jamal Mayers (6), Jay McKee (2)|
2 - 0 STL
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|Bryce Salvador Interference against Dallas Drake|
|Chris Chelios Cross checking against Ryan Johnson|
|Johan Franzen Hooking against Keith Tkachuk|
|Aaron Downey Fighting (maj) against Matt Walker|
|Matt Walker Fighting (maj) against Aaron Downey|
|Eric Brewer Cross checking against Valtteri Filppula|
|Jay McClement Holding against Tomas Kopecky|
|Valtteri Filppula Interference against Matt Walker|
|Jamal Mayers Slashing against Pavel Datsyuk|
|Mark Hartigan Holding against Ryan Johnson|
|SA: 31||TOI: 59:47|
|Saves: 31||EV: 21 - 21|
|PIM: 0||PP: 8 - 8|
|SV%: 1.000||SH: 2 - 2|
|SA: 22||TOI: 59:24|
|Saves: 21||EV: 11 - 12|
|PIM: 0||PP: 9 - 9|
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